madoka what if you wished to be god

This mail service contains spoilers for Puella Magi Madoka Magica.

Puella Magi Madoka Magica (Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica in Nippon) is a 12-episode anime released in 2011. It's also a subversion of archetype Magical Girl anime, like Crewman Moon or Cardcaptor Sakura, where teenage or pre-teen girls get magical powers and change into cute outfits during magical transformation sequences.

In Madoka, the eponymous graphic symbol considers condign a Magical Girl to fight witches, who are invisible to humans and cause natural disasters, suicidal ideation, and a general miasma of despair. In commutation for condign Magical Girls, immature women are offered a wish past Kyuubey, a deceptively adorable rabbit-cat creature whose grin face becomes more than sinister as the show goes on. Madoka's friend Sayaka, upperclassmen Mami, and mysterious transfer student Homura all brand contracts with Kyuubey, with Madoka being the last holdout.

This is the confront of death, Kyuubey.

Unbeknownst to the girls, almost every part of this bargain is a deception. The girls receive beautiful gems, called Soul Gems, which are the source of their power. The gems are also their bodily, literal souls ripped from their bodies, leaving them substantially as walking, fighting zombies. When they use too much energy from their Soul Gems they become tarnished, and when the gems are fully corrupted past despair, the Magical Girls become the very witches they'd been fighting. Finally, as is often the case in these stories, their wishes often backfire and brand things worse for themselves or their loved ones than they were before.

But Madoka discovers she is able to modify this. Kyuubey tells her that she has the nearly potential he's ever seen and could become the most powerful Magical Girl who e'er existed. She decides to become through with information technology and makes an incredible wish: to stop all witches from the past, present, and future from e'er beingness born from Soul Gems. Every bit Madoka begins her transformation into a Magical Girl later making a wish that will rewrite the laws that govern her reality, Kyuubey asks her, nonplussed: "Do y'all truly intend to become a god?!"

While Madoka brushes the question off, it's hard to deny that she does go a god. That is to say, she becomes an ineffable, omnipresent force that guides the lives of all Magical Girls of the past, present and future. Merely there are many kinds of gods. Specifically, Madoka becomes a goddess of mercy, redemption, and expiry.

Madoka's goal is to convalesce suffering. She doesn't want Magical Girls to terminate their lives in a state of torturous despair, which they have up till now. This is consequent with what nosotros've seen of Madoka since the very first scene in the series — all she wants is to help other Magical Girls, whether it's Homura in a losing battle against the unbeatable witch Walpurgisnacht, Mami living an isolated and lone existence, or Sayaka succumbing to despair. Her greatest regret, and the reason she beginning considers beingness a Magical Girl, is that she isn't able to help with anything.

Just it's impossible to completely terminate the suffering of Magical Girls. No matter what, they will have their souls removed from their bodies and fight until they're killed or turned into witches. Madoka, however, finds a fashion to remove the greatest sources of their suffering: fighting witches, and transforming into witches when their Soul Gems become tainted.

"I won't let your prayers end in despair," Madoka promises. Until Madoka makes her wish, all other wishes accept indeed ended in horrible tragedy for those who fabricated them. Either they die trigger-happy deaths or they alive long enough to go witches and destroy as many lives as they've saved, or more. The latter fate is the cruelest option. The Magical Girls we've met brand wishes to help others or salve their own lives, and are prepared to fight witches indefinitely. Madoka finds it unacceptable that those altruistic and hopeful urges should end in the girls condign monstrous parodies of themselves who only curse and kill others. Madoka redeems their wishes, acknowledging the value of their sacrifices and rejecting the idea that they were foolish to have hope in a meliorate future. Madoka makes her viewpoint articulate, saying: "If someone says it's incorrect to have promise, then I'll tell them they're wrong, every unmarried time."

Madoka's final role is that of a goddess of decease. Equally each Magical Daughter throughout fourth dimension and infinite is about to become a witch, Madoka appears before them, removes the corruption from their Soul Gem, and allows them to die. The expect of relief and comfort on their faces indicates that Madoka has achieved her goal. "All those who accept fought against witches, who believed in hope as Magical Girls — I don't desire to see them cry. I want them to be smiling to the very end."

When the dust clears, Puella Magi Madoka Magica depicts the horror of an unjust universe where bad things happen to practiced people both intentionally and arbitrarily. Merely it also depicts a god who guides that universe and who rewrites the laws that have forced suffering on its citizenry. But Homura knows how much worse existence was for Magical Girls earlier, and peradventure to the others this new world seems capricious and barbarous as well. Simply Madoka has given them these gifts: no witches to fight or to become, redemption and validation of their wishes, and comfort when they ultimately run across their deaths. She is non worshipped, but she is fighting for them. And she will continue fighting forever.

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