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12 Days Day 4: The Wheel of Time

Lolikitean Christmas had a hick-up, but I’m going to catch up, like no one ever has. The anime of the 17th is Magical Girl Madoka Magica.

Madoka (2011-01-06)

Description

After experiencing a bizarre dream, Madoka Kaname, a kind 14-year-old girl, encounters a magical creature named Kyube. Madoka and her friend Sayaka Miki are offered the opportunity of gaining magical powers if they agree to make a contract with the strange little being. He will also grant them one wish, but in exchange they shall risk their lives by accepting the responsibility of fighting witches. Invisible to human eyes, witches are catalysts of despair in the areas they inhabit. An ally of Kyube, a magical girl named Mami Tomoe, befriends and encourages the two girls to accept the contract. For an unknown reason, another magical girl named Homura Akemi is determined to prevent Madoka from accepting the deal.

Genre: adventure, horror, psychological, science fiction
Theme: evil being, magic, magical girl, mind break, tragedy, wishes, witches
Length: 12

Links: Official Official Official ANN

There’s been a lot of temporal recurrence, recursion, and other re-words in recent times. I guess Endless Eight is two years old now, but in these fists, and on this back, it lives in eternally proximate memory. Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu is probably the closest thing to an anime backbone this fucking blog has.

Anyway, there’s been time traveling, sliding, and general alien bullshit in a good deal of 2011′s haul. Madoka in particular had an impact on me, however.

Homu Homu done fucked up

This image just resonates somewhere in my fantasy fanboy database for some reason. Gears are kinda like wheels, and, well… Brian Saunderson’s got you covered.

it is moist & delicious meta

and it's not even a lie!

lolikitsune penned this last love song at 0:00 on December 17, 2011.

It's categorized as Anime, and it's tagged over nine thousand things, including: 12 days (22), abuse of abbreviation tags (17), azuma hiroki, brian saunderson, database, endless eight, robert jordan, wheel of time. What a slut.

At least it only has 4 comments and 1,309 views.

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At 4:16 pm on December 18, 2011,
ghostlightning said:

Time manipulation in fantasy and science fiction is… ugh. I tolerate it more than I enjoy it, but yeah… Endless Eight is interesting in how it executed it. Of course recursion is boring, if you were actually looking forward to a future.

If Phil had to deal with Haruhi and the SOS Brigade in Groundhog Day, he wouldn’t have been anywhere as entertaining.
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  At 4:39 pm on December 18, 2011,
  lolikitsune said:
  
  Yeah… E8 coulda benefitted with some heists and suicides!
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At 6:55 am on December 20, 2011,
Ryan A said:

Gears and time, automatic watches!

And Homu’s time-slipping to save Madoka kind of parallels Phil’s attempt at saving that one homeless man on the brink.. kind of. But Phil did do more exploring, which was fun. Homu basically dove in ready to enumerate all the fates. Yar.
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  At 9:08 am on December 20, 2011,
  lolikitsune said:
  
  Phil was definitely more fun than Homu.
  
  And that’s why we need fan-made things like Ask the Pervy Homu Homu to spice things up!

Madoka (2011-01-06)

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