2013 · magical-girl · psychological · shaft
Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Rebellion
Directed by Yukihiro Miyamoto, Akiyuki Shinbo1h 57m2013
Following Madoka's rewriting of the universe, sacrificing herself and her happy normal days to save all magical girls from the cruel fate that awaited them by wiping witches out of existence, the despair still manifest into creatures known as nightmares. Magical girl Homura Akemi continues to fight alone in the hope that she will be able to see Madoka smile again.
Our read: Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Rebellion (2013) reads as a heavy, kinetic, surreal magical-girl · psychological · shaft entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme magical-girl / psychological, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- surreal
- twisty
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