2013-09-08, 11:59 AM
æ¡å±±å* Wrote:I honestly don't recommend Madoka. It's basically one of the most overrated anime to ever exist, not kidding you. I watched all of it when my girlfriend asked me to and it's incredibly disappointing. Most of the episodes are just them meeting up with each other and talking about the most uninteresting BS. There were maybe 3 episodes that had any action in it. It's not "dark" whatsoever, I promise you. It's not dark, or violent, etc -- it's just bland. It tries too hard to focus on the characters but the characters honestly don't have any interesting personalities. It's supposed to be this pseudo-serious anime too so don't expect any comedy from it. If you do end up watching it try not to expect very much since the hype played it up WAY too much. It was popular in Japan because of the female characters, and unfortunately whatever is popular in Japan is inherently popular here in the anime/manga subculture since there's almost this hivemind.
Also, Basilisk is probably too violent and stuff now that I think about it. There's also some nudity and whatnot here and there.
i found the characters annoying (mainly madoka) and the designs horrible almost to the point of not watching the series, but even so i think you missed the main point of the series, which is the deconstruction of what it means to become a magical girl. this is what the dark thing was.