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>>6328
mahou shoujo isn't actually that popular with people past the age of ten and who are male, aside from a few such as nanoha that somehow landed a hit, and Pretty cure now that it included males into their demographic.
but everyone knows about the concept of mahou shoujo, we see parodies of it everywhere in anime, example being the recent yuru yuri, or the classic welcome to NHK.
I think most people view mahou shoujo as being something only for little girls and the more hard core otaku.
But then you get this show that comes along and makes it cool to like a mahou shoujo.
and I do mean that in an ironic sense, much the same as people that play supermario in public on their laptop and call themselves nerds.
They're not really nerds, they're not interested in the lifesytle or anything like that, they enjoy partaking in pretending to be part of an underground culture while remaining in a protective bubble that is the popularity of that product among other normal people.
There is a term for these people, but becuase it's been so overused no one can use it without looking like an idiot.
It's upsetting because it trys to lure people in with a false cute exterior, and still does.
The official published art work, merchandise and op falsely present it as being something nice and or cute.
From what I've heard, the ratings of the show dropped 30% by episode 3. (which is about when I also dropped it)
I've also heard the artest that worked on this has been under a grate deal of stress, over the idea of falsely luring people into this show only to be disgusted by what they saw.
I have no idea if this is true or not, but maybe he should be.
This show is pretty much everywhere now, and with it's false sense of innocence it portrays on it's exterior, who's to say parents aren't out there letting their kids watching this as they become scared for life?
I've heard some people compare it to how so many mecha fans dislike EVA
In that it's a 'DEEP' and very different take on what was already a established genre.
But you know, mecha anime was never exactly happy innocent fun to start with.
What I enjoy most about mahou shoujo is it's purity and innocence.
The safety in knowing those pretty little girls will always without fail cast away the bad things in the world threaten all things good and nice, it's nice when not even the bad guys die and they just go away after a fight.
If I wanted death distrocsion and violence there's plenty of other anime to get this from, I like mahou shoujo because it doesn't have any of this.
I believe it's very clear people that like madoka don't care about this in the slightest bit.
What is the point to madoka if it doesn't belive in these things?
Clearly it's made as a mockery of the genre, why else call it a 'mahou shoujo' anime? there's no reason why they couldn't make this show without calling it a mahou shoujo and presenting it as one.
Although I can't speck for all, I would like to say yes, mahou shoujo fans do tend to dislike modaka and the other way around.
Of course there are going to be exceptions, people that want to have their cake and eat it too(or in this case stab it to death over and over)
(spoiler for off topic.)
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