Lolikitean Christmas continues with yet more Madoka (click for yesterday’s). I warned you guys: I like revisiting things multiple times!

So in the end, Kaname Madoka writes herself out of history, out of memory, and out of time itself. Seems an awful lot like the martyrdom of a particular shoujo hologram. Homura plays the role of Alice. She retains the strongest imprint of the now-absent God. Of course, Alice has the pleasure of meeting a second IP 7 bug (tiny Lain on the bridge), though she doesn’t recognize Lain beyond the impression of familiarity. Then again: who’s to say what Homura will or won’t encounter in the Final Fantasy 9esque monster-spawning mist?

Hope springs eternal.

“I have decided on my wish, Eiri. I want to erase every IP 7 bug before it’s born! Every bug from every network, from the past and the future. With my own hands.”

“That wish… if your wish is fulfilled, it’ll surpass even Wired-Meatspace interference! It’s a treason against the internet itself! Do you really want to become a god?”

In case you’ve yet to guess the gimmick, it’s called Spot the Quotation.

Madoka, necessarily in being a deconstruction of magical girl anime, is of course the least original thing ever^[1].

Footnotes

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1. Let’s see how many people this infuriates before I’m forced to explain how it shouldn’t be infuriating… [↩]