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⌈ Secret Post #2690 ⌋

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[My Little Pony: Equestria Girls movie]

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[Star Trek: The Next Generation/Reginald Barclay]

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[Call the Midwife]

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[The Thing. Inception. EverymanHYBRID. Adventure Time]

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wait WHAT about Anne Frank? WHAT?

Anne Frank was a magical girl.

Edited 2014-05-15 22:59 (UTC)

argh.
To be honest, the thing in Madoka Magica about how every girl who ever did something only managed because she suffered for magical powers kind of annoyed me (that, and "humanity never did anything on its own"). But this is.... no.

And you know what? If somebody WAS a magical girl (I can hardly type this, it makes me so angry because there was no magic to save any of us) it would have been somebody like Hannah Szenes or something.

Fuck you, Japan. Just because the only thing you know about the Holocaust is Anne Frank.

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DA

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Wow.

WOW.

You have got to be fucking shitting me. Holy fuck. That is appalling beyond words.

MTE

you should see Disneys Ann Frank. it's only on tvtropes.

anon what did I ever do to you that you felt it necessary to make this thing known to me ;^;

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ketita - 2014-05-16 03:51 (UTC) - Expand

Can... can we not have Anne Frank be a magical girl? You know, for respect and decencies sake?

I agree. Wasn't there that well-meaning fanfic by some kid which crossed Dragon Ball Z over with Anne Frank (!) and gave her a happy ending and that fic got pilloried.

This sounds a lot worse and more disrepectful. And someone somewhere actually got paid to do it.

I remember hearing about that. Wasn't she a Saiyan?

IIRC, the DBZ/Anne Frank story was a trollfic.

And tbh, this (the 'Anne Frank was a magical girl' thing) actually kind of makes me upset. Ughhh.

Edited 2014-05-15 23:16 (UTC)

Reminds me of how I recently saw a Kuroko No Basuke fanfic that was a Schindler's List AU. :/

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It's tasteless as all Hell, true, but it's also kind of tasteless to turn a saint and martyr into a doomed magical girl empowered by evil aliens. Following up on the Anne Frank implication would be maximum tastelessness, rather than the medium sort of tastelessness that doesn't actually lose you paying customers. I'm pretty desensitized to medium tastelessness at this point (hello, Modern Warfare 2!), so maximum tastelessness would at least draw my attention briefly.

It's always more tasteless when Jews are involved

The whole bit about mashing it together with history was tasteless as hall hell, but overlookable. Though it did make me like the story less.

If you're talking about Jeanne d'Arc, IIRC she is not considered a martyr.

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But if anything, it's a huge nod to how strong she was? Maybe that's just my reading of it, but I always got the implication that her and the other girls shown in that one sequence who we didn't see rescued by Madoka were ones who never reached their threshold of despair and thus never became Witches--because they could handle what they were given. They never become their enemy, which is especially amazing in Anne Frank's case given she couldn't have left to hunt down Witches for Grief Seeds to cleanse her Soul Gem and thus had to survive that entire time off of what she already had or with nothing.

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I liked Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne. That was a cool series, and I wish it got more attention nowadays.

In fact I wish the same thing about all of my quasi-obscure old favorite magical girl shows.

I actually tried rereading the manga after making this secret. It's a bit too fluffy to really hold up on a reread, but it was good for a first read. (Call it appropriation if you want, but I think writing about the religious traditions of a culture you don't belong to allows some interesting latitude in adapting and repurposing them--the reinterpretation of Genesis in Jeanne is pretty dang clever, comparable only to the one in The Legend of Koizumi.)

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You may be getting your wish. I have the old run of volumes (haha, and several issues of it in old RIBONs, actually) but when I was at the comic store I noticed a copy of volume 1 on the "new stuff" shelf with new cover art and everything. I guess it's getting a re-release?

I agree, it is pretty fluffy and Tanemura-san needs to keep her motif count down to under 5 per series, but I enjoyed the heck out of it. :)

leikomgwtfbbq - 2014-05-16 14:22 (UTC) - Expand

Phooey, I saw the picture and got so hyped up for an Oriko Magica secret. Am... am I the only one who actually liked the spinoff manga in all their ridiculous fucked-up psycho-lesbian-teenagers glory?

Yes. Despite your lack of taste, we still love you very much.

I liked Juubey's design.

Does that count?