I've been going with gg since they do good subs, and the quality is really good, but be warned that they include some of the commercials. I find the commericals to be kind of hilarious so I don't mind, and I like their translations, but I would guess the Chihiro ones are probably not bad (have not downloaded them directly, though, so I can't say for sure). Also, gg is a reliable subber and theirs come out the quickest.
I gave a try to the first episode as soon as it got out, but I just...Couldn't... Get over the character design... And I didn't like the dark haired girl But I keep reading it's an awesome series everywhere... But... ;A;
Ahh, I can totally understand that! The dark-haired girl turns out to have Reasons for why she's like that, but I'm sure you could have guessed that already, and it's frustrating why she's not more candid and forthcoming from the very beginning. WHY COULDN'T SHE JUST TELL MADOKA HER CONCERNS?
Love this review! This anime is stunningly beautiful (that's how I roped a girl I know into watching it), and despite the...somewhat predictable storyline once it gets kicking, I think the writers do a very good job of taking a lot of key elements that should be but aren't addressed in your usual magical girls anime, and runs with it. Wildly. Like a bat out of hell. It's very interesting to see how far these people are willing to push the envelop and make a magical girl anime seem...well, harshly realistic (by way of choice of the characters).
Didn't know you were watching it too! It's totally a feast for the eyes, and yeah... I love how it TOTALLY DECONSTRUCTS the whole magical girl genre, in the most brutal way imaginable. XDDD
Okay, I'm sold. I've been consuming a lot of shounen/seinen stuff lately (aside from Star Driver and Hourou Musuko, that is) so a dose of serious and/or devastating shoujo/josei sounds good to me.
And some of those caps remind me of the use of color and texture in Gankutsuou and Mononoke, which makes me excited.
And you know, reading this made me realize that stories where ordinary people do ordinary things are often shaken up by tension that they don't know about but that the reader/viewer is aware of (the graphic novel I'm writing my MA thesis about begins very much as an ordinary story about ordinary people living relatively ordinary lives, but because it's set in the Weimar republic, it generates a lot of tension because the reader knows that the only possible end to the story is that Hitler will rise to power and the characters' lives will be thrown off-track [or back on track, ouch] because of the beginning of WWII).
Okay, so I just finished episode two. Can I say that the animation on the witch in that episode is gorgeous? Because it is. With her hair covering her face and full of roses, and the butterfly as the bow on her obi, and that kimono that at first made her look like a slug-creature... that was awesome.
Homura-chan is already pulling my heartstrings, though.
... Also, this show is full of lesbians. And that's awesome. But seriously, will there be any male presence other than Madoka's brother and father? Normally in shows like this, even when the girls are the focus, boys are a major influence on the characters. There are plenty of shounen shows where there is no female presence or influence at all (Akagi, for example, where a woman is mentioned in passing in the first episode but none are ever seen or heard). I'm finding the gender balance in Madoka so far pretty interesting because of that - especially since Madoka's dad appears to be a housewife (and therefore functions to shift gender-balance paradigms) and her little brother is
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Watch it! IT'S SO AWESOME!!!!
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Where to acquire? (I AM STARTING TO FEEL LIKE EVERY COMMENT I LEAVE IN YOUR JOURNAL HAS THIS QUESTION IN IT)
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Can you torrent? If yes, here's the link to a site with torrent links to all the episodes.
If you can't, let me know! I can always upload them to Megaupload or something so you can d/l directly XDDD
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But I keep reading it's an awesome series everywhere... But... ;A;
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That being said, I love this series.
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And some of those caps remind me of the use of color and texture in Gankutsuou and Mononoke, which makes me excited.
And you know, reading this made me realize that stories where ordinary people do ordinary things are often shaken up by tension that they don't know about but that the reader/viewer is aware of (the graphic novel I'm writing my MA thesis about begins very much as an ordinary story about ordinary people living relatively ordinary lives, but because it's set in the Weimar republic, it generates a lot of tension because the reader knows that the only possible end to the story is that Hitler will rise to power and the characters' lives will be thrown off-track [or back on track, ouch] because of the beginning of WWII).
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Homura-chan is already pulling my heartstrings, though.
... Also, this show is full of lesbians. And that's awesome. But seriously, will there be any male presence other than Madoka's brother and father? Normally in shows like this, even when the girls are the focus, boys are a major influence on the characters. There are plenty of shounen shows where there is no female presence or influence at all (Akagi, for example, where a woman is mentioned in passing in the first episode but none are ever seen or heard). I'm finding the gender balance in Madoka so far pretty interesting because of that - especially since Madoka's dad appears to be a housewife (and therefore functions to shift gender-balance paradigms) and her little brother is ( ... )
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