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pmmm rewatch live notes: ep 5

this is the ep w the convo/fight between kyoko and sayaka and wough is there a lot to unpack from that. kyoko talks abt the food chain of magical girls and witches here which makes me fucking feral bc she's so right there is a food chain but she doesn't realize that she's not at the top. she doesn't realize that the entire being of magical girls and witches is cannibalism all for the sake and benefit of kyubey. just. ugh. kyoko thinks she's figured it out and sayaka is naive and in the dark but in reality neither of them understand what's going on. anyways also i think they should kiss. or at least hold hands.

When sayaka makes her contract with kyubey the lighting is red

Kyubey is entirely backlit and a black silhouette

Kyubey pulls a ball of light out of sayaka’s chest and she collapses in pain

Foreshadowing how the soul gems contain the literal souls of the girls and the bodies are just empty shells

Hence sayaka collapsed bc her being left her body

Sayaka is laughing and in a good mood the day after making her contract

Not thinking at all about the weight of her decisions

Madoka is concerned and voices this but sayaka is determined to stay in her idealistic naive world

Madoka, dispute being the most naive seeming, is actually the one out of the two of them who is maturely able to grasp the severity and reality of the choice to become a magical girl

Red lighting on the hospital building as sayaka approaches to visit kyosuke when he first knows his hand is healed

Why are there so many chairs around kyosuke’s hospital bed?

Maybe he used to have a lot of people cheering him on for recovery since he was a genius but they slowly left until only sayaka remains

Kyosuke apologizes for lashing out at sayaka and we see a yellow flower petal

Lots of yellow lighting and yellow flowers on the roof scene when kyosuke plays again for the first time

Kyosuke is a backlit black silhouette when he first takes the violin in his hands again

And all the people are like this when he plays again (him, his family, sayaka)

Sayaka says that kyosuke playing again is the happiest moment of her life

And like yeah it sure it bc making the wish that allowed that is what made your life go downhill so fast afterward and led to your death

Kyubey reveals that he doesn't know who homura is and he can’t predict her actions

Kyoko is unbothered by things in an overconfident snooty way that is distinctly different from how mami tried to protect and how sayaka tries to stay blind to the truth

Homura says “No matter how hard you try there is no thanks” ouch yeah no matter how hard homura tries to save madoka no one ever thanks her

In fact they all curse her and say she’s the villain

This is the reason that sayaka is a bad magical girl, because her whole reason for being a magical girl is to get kyosuke’s wish fulfilled which she is in denial about wanting thanks for

Sayaka is a bad magical girl bc she doesn’t understand something which is so integral to homura’s experience

Madoka is told by homura to give up on sayaka but we know that is not at all what she does

Because madoka is unable to ever give up on her friends or the people she loves her strength lies in the lengths she will go for her loved ones

Madoka asks homura if she’s given up and homura says yes

OUCH

Homura had to give up on the life with madoka that she yearns for and is now fighting for madoka’s life with no regard for where it will leave her

Yellowish orangish lighting as madoka meets sayaka on her way to begin her first witch patrol

Madoka asks sayaka to let her come with her even though she knows she won't be of any help and might even get in the way

As long as it’s not a bother let me stay with you

Literally me fr

Kyubey says he doesn't mind madoka coming on patrol w sayaka bc sayaka thought it through but his real reasoning is bc he knows sayaka is likely to get in an emergency and if madoka is there when that happens he can get her to make a contract

As they go into the labyrinth sayaka has kyubey on her shoulder and his tail in the shadow of her silhouette makes it look like she has long pigtails like mami did

Kyoko is jaded from the reality of the world while sayaka is still living in her delusion of an ideal world

Kyoko equates using grief seeds to eating witches

Calls it a food chain

Kyoko instigates sayaka by asking her incredulously if she really believes in things like justice

She knows just what to say bc she used to be sayaka

And that’s why sayaka ticks her off so much

There is yellow lighting during kyoko and sayaka’s fight that barely filters into the alleyway

It glints off of sayaka’s sword

When kyoko and sayka’s weapons come head to head in a stalemate the energy formed is yellow

Madoka can’t understand why they are fighting since they’re both magical girls on the same side and begs kyubey to stop them

He just uses this as another excuse to push her to make a contract

Shows her genuine concern for all living beings

Cries as she is about to make the decision bc she knows how much she is sealing herself in a miserable fate

When homura interferes with the fight there are water droplets frozen in time around her that go in slo mo which foreshadows her power being time manipulation

#puella magi madoka magica #pmmm #madohomu #madoka magica #holy quintet #madoka kaname #homura akemi #mahou shoujo madoka magica #homura telling madoka that she has given up is so devastating #also the madohomu conversation at the restaurant in this ep is so AAAA #homura saying no matter how hard you try there is no thanks literally shooting me would hurt less

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goji-pilled · 2 years

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MK-S: Guess I was reading a little too far into that. Here’s an idea inspired by that miscommunication: Outside of Mitakihara, the rumored story of Mitakihara’s Executioner has a variation with Oktavia referred to as “Mitakihara’s Butcher”, with implications that Oktavia is responsible for most murders in the city; this isn’t true, and is just a product of the rumor mill (or a game of Telephone). However, Incubators are quick to pounce on these rumors, with their usual half-truths:

“I’ve *heard* a witch in human form is roaming as a serial killer.”

“*They say* the Butcher of Mitakihara skins her victims first.”

“She’s killed dozens of Magical Girls (That we manipulated to attack her first.)”

Exploiting existing rumors to both propagate them further, and manipulate magical girls into trying to attack Oktavia and other domesticated witches. They could also use these rumors to trick children into becoming magical girls, using a “hypothetical” serial killer (clearly alluding to Oktavia) as their motive for wishing. In fact a tragedy could emerge that it was these rumors that prompted some magical girls to attack Oktavia in the first place.

Ohhhh that has to be one of the most interessting things I've heard,,, because like Kyubey absolutely would tell them just enough of the truth to manipulate girls into going to Mitakihara or making contracts with him.

He'd especially do that to younger kids, like I'm talking about Nagisa age, because those kids can easily be perusuaded and sweet talked into making contracts to be heros. And because they're so young they're also much more prone to turning into witches themself.

Imagine Kyubey leading that kind of girl he just contracted through Mitakihara, telling her about the evil witch that supposedly uses a human face to kill people left and right, only for him to get stabbed through the skull by a cutlass.

So there's this like 8 or 9yo kid being approached by someone who she assumed killed Kyubey for good, and that someone's Oktavia, not that the girl knows that mind you. She first assumes it's just an older magical girl.

But the stranger doesn't seem threatening at all (just a bit intimidating considering how tall she is) despite what she just did. She really just kneels down in front of the girl. "Never trust a word the Incubator says," she says.

And when asked why Oktavia explains carefully and slowly how soul gems works, what witches really are, how witches are domesticated and how over the years Mitakihara has built a sort of second-secret-magical-society. Full of magical girls snd witches that work together, she even hands the girl a card with the number of the soul gem cleaning seevice.

And then Oktavia tells her that she's the Executioner. She tells her that its not a job she enjoys doing, she prefers to keep killing as a last resort, how it's her way to keep their little part of the world from hurting anymore (Always without any of the gruesome details of course) and that she has no intention of hurting her.

In fact, Oktavia offers to take her home. To which of course the girl is incredibly unsure now. And Oktavia decides to hand her something small and cold, and it's her grief seed.

"Why?"

"Because I trust you and want you to trust me."

(And if this is how the mermaid witch shattered Kyubey's plan by accidently emotionally adopting a child then that's fine too.)

#felix answers #domestic witches #oktavia adopts kids that are planning to murder her the movie #/hj

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