A quick, mostly non-spoilery summary of the first two Madoka Magica movies ( Read more... )

I'm thinking tonight about two of my favorite scenes in anime, and some of the associations they have, and I felt like rambling (quite a bit more than I initially intended, as it turns out).

They aren't necessarily the best scenes I've watched in anime. I mean, I do think both of the scenes I'm going to talk about really are great (though one also ( Read more... )

Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Good: This show has a reputation for being overrated, and as such I went in with extremely high expectations, so it seems wrong to say that the show wound up meeting them. But it kind of did, at least in its technical excellence. It is a really, really good series in many different ways. If you can adapt to the stylized, ( Read more... )