[ SECRET POST #7010 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #7010 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

What are some magical girl shows that have done this besides Madoka?* I see the "Edgy magical girls are overdone" complaint so much but I only see more Madoka spinoffs, not new series copying it.

*Which post-Madoka edgy series, I should add, because that device has been used even in some of the classic, for-girls series that everyone says are the good, happy ones that Madoka ruined the genre for. (Not always with the cute mascot necessarily,but it's a pretty normal thing for the magical girls to be pawns in someone's game and not told the full story until they can't turn back.)

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, or just the whole "being a magical girl isn't all it's cracked up to be" theme. Like, does no one remember Pretear anymore?

[(Anonymous)]

DA. Yeees! A Pretear mention in the wild! <3

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt and I loved Pretear! But it's part of why I laugh whenever people act like Madoka was the first magical girl show to ever be dark and edgy.

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[(Anonymous)]

A lot of the edgy magical girls aren’t in shows, they’re in independent webnovels like Magical Girl Mechanical Heart.

[(Anonymous)]

I think there's room for a lot of kinds of dark magical girl shows. Madoka, Yuki Yuna, and Magical Girl Raising Project (to name three that I enjoyed) all tackled the concept of 'the girls are being used/duped' in very different ways.

[(Anonymous)]

*sigh*

a dark take on a trope does not mean people are saying stories with the trope shouldn't exist. That's one hell of a leap to make

[(Anonymous)]

Especially when the dark take in question is a completely logical interpretation of a genre that's based around the premise of cute, innocent-looking magical creatures giving teenage girls magical powers with the stipulation that they use those powers to fight supposed evil.

Like, of COURSE there are going to be people who go "But what if the cute magical creatures were the real evil?"