Puella Magi Madoka Magica
overview
She has a loving family and best friends, laughs and cries from time to time... Madoka Kaname, an eighth grader of Mitakihara middle school, is one of those who lives such a life. One day, she had a very magical encounter. She doesn't know if it happened by chance or by fate yet. This is a fateful encounter that can change her destiny. This is a beginning of the new story of the magical witch girls.
reviews
pretty good throughout the main section, definitely can see how it's attained the status it has. however i didn't really like the conclusion. i dunno, maybe i don't love when the rules of the game are broken because i feel like they lead to really unsatisfying results and tend to make things a little incoherent when they try to do it on such a large scope. for example, throughout the show it seems like kyuubey is granting wishes not out of some metaphysical necessity but just because it's beneficial... so then why grant the wish that runs exactly contrary to energy extraction? or at least have second thoughts? and then predictably what results is a lot of abstract nonsense and things like the third movie where everything is scuffed on too grand a scale. would have loved to see more focus on personal character like kyouko's and kept on that scale. overall, rly rly cute concept and i liked where it was going before the climax.