This is the post I've been wanting to read about Madoka. The comments on a co-opted genre, on co-opted women, are the ones that really stuck with me as I was watching the show. I read the ending similarly to you, in Madoka being a god who subscribes to the essence of the mahoujo. She cannot destroy the essential need for mahoujo (and what they represent) so she recreates them as they should be - as girls fighting together, girls able to rely on one another.
But in saying that, I felt the show overall was, as you said, a message for the creepy men who have corrupted the focus of a genre so much that someone actually had to sit down and make a fucking show about it. WHEN YOU MASTURBATE TO MAHOUJO YOU'RE MASTURBATING TO CONFUSED, BROKEN LITTLE GIRLS WHO ARE STRUGGLING TO CARVE OUT AN IDENTITY IN A WORLD THAT IS INTENT ON HURTING THEM. WHAT KEEPS THESE GIRLS GOING IS BELIEF IN THE PURITY OF LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP, A PURITY THAT HAS BEEN CORRUPTED BY YOUR CREEPY RE-APPROPRIATION OF THEIR PURPOSE AND MESSAGE.
Homura was totes amazing, wasn't she?
Omg I did comment on the main character in Blood+! I'm sure if you go back far enough you'll find my reaction posts from the first arc where I was "WOW THIS SHOW IS GREAT!!! ^_^_^_^" before said reaction posts spiraled into a sea of frothing hate. The Plot is about omg poor Saya learning she has to fight omg creepy bat monsters, ew! Hagi is made of cardboard and idk, at one point we get to see Rasputin try to get lesbian fresh with Saya? In all honesty though, The Plot is really just "there are monsters and we have to kill them by capitalism and an overabundance of assholes makes this difficult."
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Date: 2011-05-23 04:27 am (UTC)But in saying that, I felt the show overall was, as you said, a message for the creepy men who have corrupted the focus of a genre so much that someone actually had to sit down and make a fucking show about it. WHEN YOU MASTURBATE TO MAHOUJO YOU'RE MASTURBATING TO CONFUSED, BROKEN LITTLE GIRLS WHO ARE STRUGGLING TO CARVE OUT AN IDENTITY IN A WORLD THAT IS INTENT ON HURTING THEM. WHAT KEEPS THESE GIRLS GOING IS BELIEF IN THE PURITY OF LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP, A PURITY THAT HAS BEEN CORRUPTED BY YOUR CREEPY RE-APPROPRIATION OF THEIR PURPOSE AND MESSAGE.
Homura was totes amazing, wasn't she?
Omg I did comment on the main character in Blood+! I'm sure if you go back far enough you'll find my reaction posts from the first arc where I was "WOW THIS SHOW IS GREAT!!! ^_^_^_^" before said reaction posts spiraled into a sea of frothing hate. The Plot is about omg poor Saya learning she has to fight omg creepy bat monsters, ew! Hagi is made of cardboard and idk, at one point we get to see Rasputin try to get lesbian fresh with Saya? In all honesty though, The Plot is really just "there are monsters and we have to kill them by capitalism and an overabundance of assholes makes this difficult."