i’ll get around to a proper anime post for this season. but want to hear something odd? one of the best, if not the best this season is a mahou shoujo (magical girl) anime…puella magi madoka magica. yea…don’t laugh, it’s true. albeit it’s not a traditional mahou shoujo…but sort of a post-modern take on mahou shoujo, where everyone is seriously fucked up. the main protagonist hasn’t even been made a magical girl by the eighth episode (she’s the “madoka” of the title). instead, she’s frantically trying to save her friend, who did, and is now really a walking zombie because in order to become a magical girl, she had her soul torn out of her. and the cute little cat/rabbit familiar who grants wishes…he’s probably evil.

i started watching puella because it was animated by shaft (who did bakemonogatari) and honestly…wondered aloud why they were even doing a mahou shoujo. but i can see why now…the series is all kinds of disturbing. i wonder if sailor moon ever had a similar existential crisis…