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Mar. 18th, 2011 11:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elabyIt's after 11:00 and I've stayed up all night watching anime! And I would be staying up even later if the next episode hadn't only aired in Japan last night. And it's probably the last episode. GIANT FREAKING CLIFFHANGER.
I'm watching Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica (Magical Girl Madoka Magica, translated in the title as "Puella Magi" instead of "Magical Girl") and holy cow, this ain't your usual mahou shoujo anime. It's superficially teeth-rottingly cute, but by the third episode there's enough blood and death and decapitation and mind-bending psychological craziness that it turns the genre purposefully on its head. AND I LOVE IT.The fact that it's all about adorable girls who are besty best friends and love each other and are constantly holding hands and hugging and crying on each other has NOTHING to do with it.
I have, to date, never been watching an anime series as it comes out in Japan, so this is a new and exciting experience for me. I'm kind of glad I spoiled myself on Wikipedia as to the general gist of the show and a few "what's-really-going-on" details after watching the first three episodes, because they were weird enough that I'm not sure I would have mainlined the rest otherwise. The animation at the very beginning (there are only 10 episodes out so far) is not as good as the second half, and the battles are all done in this weird applique-like, paper cut-out style that makes me think of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". But it grows on you, and the plot is so full of OMGWTF twists that it makes up for it.
:D :D Episode 11 can be translated now plz?
I'm watching Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica (Magical Girl Madoka Magica, translated in the title as "Puella Magi" instead of "Magical Girl") and holy cow, this ain't your usual mahou shoujo anime. It's superficially teeth-rottingly cute, but by the third episode there's enough blood and death and decapitation and mind-bending psychological craziness that it turns the genre purposefully on its head. AND I LOVE IT.
I have, to date, never been watching an anime series as it comes out in Japan, so this is a new and exciting experience for me. I'm kind of glad I spoiled myself on Wikipedia as to the general gist of the show and a few "what's-really-going-on" details after watching the first three episodes, because they were weird enough that I'm not sure I would have mainlined the rest otherwise. The animation at the very beginning (there are only 10 episodes out so far) is not as good as the second half, and the battles are all done in this weird applique-like, paper cut-out style that makes me think of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". But it grows on you, and the plot is so full of OMGWTF twists that it makes up for it.
:D :D Episode 11 can be translated now plz?
