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@@lockaltube hi!! okay okay you have a lot of good points and thank you for your comment! A lot of what you mention is something that highlights a critical flaw of mine; I have always had the bad habit of rambling in my writing, and going off track. Because of that, I tend to overcompensate by cutting and leaving a lot of my thoughts as inferences. So thank you for helping me see that I should have rambled a bit more at times! 🙏🏻 I wanna answer your points one by one so my answer will also be a bit long too - sorry!! Side note: a lot of what I am about to mention made me realize I either need to get quicker and write many shorter essays and actually release them into the wild in a timely manner, or just write a 6 hour one and get all my thoughts out in one go LMFAO LONG RAMBLE AHEAD!! About Nagisa: honestly that’s on me for being in the fandom for too long and mixing up her lore. Before magireco revealed her actual backstory, the story I mentioned in the video was the most popular theory for years. For some reason, while writing, I mixed up the fan theory with the Magia Record version, and I was so sure of it I didn’t check it 😭. Critical mistake 101: not checking your references. rip. tbf though, I don’t truly consider magireco to be 100% canon, but yeah, a semi-canonical spin off made by inucurry said that that’s her backstory so that’s the one I should’ve mentioned, thank you for pointing it out! About German literature: I guess probably worded myself wrong in the essay but I did NOT mean there’s only German references in the show! My insistence with German was to showcase how deep-rooted the Faustian narrative is, and how much German literature and philosophy pervade the text. German is pushed in our faces so often that I can’t help but think it’s to force us to think of Faust (though this is my personal opinion). I actually have a segment on the Nutcracker and Swan Lake in my other video essay, because those are ballets and fit with my comparison to Princess Tutu. In general, the show has a lot of literary references, to theatre, ballet, and even religious texts. I can see a lot of Western philosophy (Nietzsche, Freud, Kant, amongst other), Western literature (with Goethe, but also Ancient Greek myths, Paradise Lost and more), ballet (Homulilly and the Nutcracker, the Concept Movie and Swan Lake, among others), and Christian, Islamic, and Buddhist themes. And even more tbh. And about Swan Lake; that is actually another key text other than Faust imo; I have actually written a small piece on Madoka/Homura vs. Odette/Odile but it is nowhere near done and needs a lot of work + I will incorporate it in the video with Ptutu because well. We have Odette and Odile there too. But in this video essay I wanted to laser focus on German literature to keep it on track with the Goethe comparisons, as I feel they offer the most obvious and direct approach to understanding where the narrative is headed. Though this is my personal opinion of course! About the Cherry Orchard: I remember learning about this play but never looked into it, thank you for mentioning it! Will research it :) About the Clara Dolls: Again, I wish I had worded myself better but the reasons and scenes you mention are exactly why I said the Clara Dolls are the equivalent of a Greek chorus (similarly to the Shadow Girls in Utena)! Yes they act as the audience but as they represent Homura’s feelings and exist within the narrative (to an extent), they are more akin to meta-commentators, aka a Greek chorus. I should have included all the examples I noticed their interference, though I will admit I never noticed a couple that you mentioned! I feel like I just explained what a Greek chorus is, and then called the Clara Dolls a Greek chorus later in the essay without making the connection obvious 😭 But yes, I love love looove them and I remember mentioning somewhere in my first video essay (either in the description box or at the end) that I wanted to make a whole video just about every instance of the Clara Dolls interfering, how they show Homura’s feelings and their meta-narrative role.

@@mimikyuno ​ ha-ha, it's absolutely impossible, it's absolutely impossible not to go off track when talking about Madok (51:46) :) Regarding magireco to be canon: am I right that at 1:19:44 we have the first moment where PMMM reuses frames from magireco at 20:59? You see something like "watashi no yuujin/hito" (My friend/someone dear to me). I’m not asserting this with 100% certainty, but do you perhaps recall if these scenes were used somewhere before? The truth might be close by perhaps around 2:05:33 - And it literally shows the "City of Books" from Umineko. Sayaka is in this "library" for the same reason Lambdadelta went there-to protect the true timeline. And ultimately, the plots will converge! Ah, I always end up drifting into another topic too! Also: "die Bestie" means beast in German. But I like "the legendary bestie" more :) Unfortunately, I’m not familiar with Princess Tutu or Shadow Dolls... Oh well, everyone has their own background. But I’m absolutely in awe that you made the connection between Madoka and the Eternal Feminine on your own. Sure, the words DAS EWIG WEIBLICHE are explicitly written beneath the Madoka sigil in Runes:Rebellion, but to arrive at that conclusion independently… you’d have to be much smarter than I am!

@lockaltube oh wait. are you being sarcastic / mocking me 😭 i dont get it im sorry 😭😭😭 i struggle with reading tone, both irl and online 🥲 I. Uhm. I don’t really know how to reply to this tbh. This comment is kinda playing with my biggest fear/insecurity about my video essays which at some point prevented me from continuing my script; the fear of people accusing me of plagiarism/parroting others with no real insight. It is why I made sure to include ALL my sources in the script and in the description, and why sometimes I didn’t double check certain things. And that Eternal Feminine thing was actually a big obstacle for me. I truly connected it while I was writing my other video essay; embarrassingly, I did not know about it! And when I researched Goethe, I happened on the Wikipedia page for it and went a bit insane and got very excited. And when I found that blog post mentioning it I felt quite dejected - I played it off as a joke in the video, but it truly demotivated me, as I was scared to even mention the Eternal Feminine for fear of being accused of just repeating what I read around (even though it was the starting point of my essay). Because of this, I made sure to include a link to the blog post even though I found it after coming to a similar conclusion, and I read it fully only AFTER writing my thoughts. This happened to me many times throughout the writing process; I’d think of something, and find someone already noticed it. Which led me to avoid fact-checking a lot of things, which I guess is why I missed a lot of stuff you’re mentioning right now. For example, right now I’m feeling pretty dumb for not noticing the runes underneath Madoka in Rebellion, and can assure you if I had, I would have included that in the video like 100% like. wow. That’s so cool. Eventually I got over my fear of being accused of parroting others by thinking about it as “that’s the beauty of media analysis, different people can notice the same thing”. I still hope I managed to say something original or thought-provoking in my video. If I didn’t, I still hope I brought light to all the sources I listed in my script and led others to discover them. But uhm. Yeah. I might stop answering bc this is really playing with my insecurities and I’m feeling really bad. Sorry if I didn’t credit something properly or if I said something dumb or arrogant, and thank you for bringing a lot of points to my attention (like, I have been meaning to look into Umineko!)

@@htht4rhu65u Yes! The Nutcracker is a ballet and Homulilly’s familiars are based off it (the Clara Dolls, as a reference to Clara, and Lilia, the teeth that are literally nutcrackers). Moreover, Homulilly is cursed to forever be walking towards her execution, without ever reaching the execution site, and has a hat with a broken record. Overall, lot of references to her aimless repeating of time. And wouldn’t it be interesting that the Walpurgisnacht, “the fool who continuously spins in circles” would be an aberration of Homuilly (or Homulilly + Gretchen)? 👀 i hate this series lmao

@mimikyuno The walpurgis spinning in circles is actually a metaphor for the fans spiraling waiting for the movie

@@CorruptedMapping Aah thank you so much!! I’m glad you enjoyed the analysis 🥹 And I honestly have considered that before tbh!! It’s a really good idea but I’m not sure if that would work for me because I’m soo so bad at keeping in touch and kind of disappear for weeks/months 😔 really bad habit of mine But knowing there are people who are interested in this sort of thing makes me consider it again, I’ll give it some more thought! 🫶🏻

@ Yippe!!! Well if you ever need someone to talk to about things I’ll always be here to listen! And I’m glad you’re taking the server idea into consideration! Can’t wait for the next video!!! ^^

@@Nothing-gw5xo I usually just write on Microsoft Word! then I copy-paste the essay on Google Docs for easy sharing :)

Do you have discord! I’d love to discuss Homuras character with you :D

@@memoryofsalem4474 “the nature of her original wish shows that Homura isnt a good person” 2:43 i have a whole chapter on her wish + idk man they’re all 14. and they all made “selfish” choices. sayaka saving kyousuke saying she doesnt care if she gets rewarded but actually does. kyouko telling sayaka to let familiars kill people till they become witches so they’re worth the trouble. and if we’re comparing wishes made in traumatic circumstances, why wouldnt mami ask for her whole family to survive the crash? she’s clearly selfish and evil for asking kyubei to only save herself. and what about madoka asking homura to keep repeating the past to save her? what about homura? what a selfish psychopath, asking someone to keep reliving a traumatic past so YOU can be spared 🙄 if we look at the series in black and white, right and wrong, good and evil then. they’re all psychopaths :) so like. is it that farfetched that none of them are actually Good or Evil, but that everyone has good and bad side, and everyone does good things and bad things…? including homura…? and as i said in the video… the categories of “good” and “evil” are too simplistic. the show is about the shades of grey that make up reality. literally. like, textually. it’s not even reading between the lines they say it multiple times, “the balance between hope and despair keeps itself at zero”. for every good action, an opposite bad action. all girls embody “Good” (as magical girls) and “Evil” (as witches) bc that’s literally the point. reality is not that simple, “oh this girl is a psychopath and this one is a saint”. and urobuchi has CLEARLY read nietzsche so take that as you will. but all his shows are very philosophical, so i think there is more to homura than what she herself says at the end of rebellion. SHE says she’s evil, bc she’s 14 and has a childish view of the world, that doesn’t mean she is. but hey i mean if you wanna see homura as an evil psychopath go ahead..? make it simple and easy to digest, this show has no deeper meaning. but i personally enjoy having nuance and seeing depth and meaning in the media i consume, without reducing it to childish black and white terms. (sidenote: i never engage in debates online bc you can never really sway someone’s opinion online but. homura slander is my exception. i might stop engaging though just fyi! still, thank you for watching and expressing your opinion! i appreciate it even though we disagree)

ooh that’s a great interpretation of what the needles may mean! especially since madoka is represented by a spool of pink thread in rebellion! 🪡🧵

! 10 out of 10 video! And I truly love appreciate it will be forever grateful that you’ve analyzed and condensed Paul’s more renaissance works for those who don’t know them… So often I hear people saying something like a Faustian bargain but never attributing anything else beyond that and the deal was Qyube into the literature that truly obviously and clearly did inspire the series… So now I’m glad that there is a place for more people to learn that so we can ALL appreciate this story for every ounce of beauty it truly does have the offer past present in future… It is hard to explain to people when ““ theory crafting lol… But now I can just refer them to this video… Especially like when you have someone that you FINALLY gotten to enjoy Madoka Magica, Having the option to be able to refer them to a video like this is SUCH a blessing. You’re a saint for all this hard work! 🤍And good luck with all your school stuff I hope we get this movie soon

Well more like 10 million out of 10… I also wanted to say! That I highly highly highly appreciate your acknowledgment of the relevance of Junko! I believed that the scenes with her in the original show -all the way like a decade ago lol- We’re so important. And that she was so much more than ‘just a side character’ She’s someone who could’ve been adult Mami, adult Kyoko adult Sayaka… And I would’ve loved more focus on her so I like that you mention her… 😅 I believe she is a highly underrated amazing female role model…