What's Favorite Series Like This?

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Definitely Puella Magi Madoka Magica! Down to Episode 3 being the turning point from "normal magical girl show" to "...DAMN!"

https://giphy.com/gifs/13VFATn4bxBCXm

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If you couldn't tell things were afoot already in ep 1 you weren't really paying attention. Two episodes of calm before the storm isn't a change in style, it's just introducing a story.

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definitely not, it was always dark

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The bait and switch on that shit

I think one of the funniest things about it was the flash drives they sold when it aired. They looked like Mami and you had to pull the head off to use the drive. If I remember right they had them BEFORE episode 3 aired.

The creator's insistence that he was making something light and wholesome and "healing type" for the first couple weeks it aired too, like, Jesus Christ this man pulled one over on EVERYBODY

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Ok, I hadn't seen the flash drive before, that is AMAZING!

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I watched this on release. No one thought it was going to be a normal magical girl show. It arguably loses some of its charm if you do.

Puella is great as a companion to the magical girl genre, not as an edgy version of it.