Homura vs Walpurgis Night (Bluray)

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When you think about it, Homura had mad mental fortitude to avoid becoming a witch for such a long time.

walpurgisnacht: homura: You are not a clown. You are the entire circus.

Gotta admit, one of the saddest parts of this is that their hope lies in Homura. So with all the times she's done this, if she falls into despair and turns into a witch, it's over. She needs to muster up her courage and keep going. Because if she doesn't stay alive and turn back time if it gets too hard, they're fucked.

“Magical girl anime are boring, shonen is the only anime with action!” Homura: “Hold my entire military arsenal.”

The feeling when You realize Walpurgisnacht is actually crying...

Something I just thought of: This is the first time Homura has gotten this far. She has fought Walpurgisnacht before but never got to use the explosion before. She seems genuinely surprised that the explosion didn't work and she gets attacked by those familiars. She doesn't have a plan, no ambush, no weapons for after that explosion. She thought it would work.

Homura has every rights to snap as hard as she did in Rebellion. I mean, look at what she did here, preparing all that!

Here's a thought: Every time she jumped, she returned to her original body in the hospital bed, and never aged a day despite the fact that mentally she's at least in her early twenties, meaning the effects of her actions do not carry over as she turns back time. That means she couldn't have gradually accumulated the weapons over eight years. Every single jump back she had to re-gather all these weapons from scratch for use in another (probably futile) attempt to defeat the Walpurgisnacht. If she lost and had to reset, she would then have to gather these bombs and artillery pieces all over again, AND THEN position them all in one place for when the Walpurgisnacht arrived at her predictable ground zero.

This is hauntingly sobering when you consider that Homura's magical ability has nothing to do with guns, only with time manipulation. That means all those tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of pounds of explosive material and weapons arms weren't just made from nothing like Mami's guns were- they were individually tracked down and gathered, one after the other, by one little girl. How many hundreds of repetitions did it take to find them all, every time making a new doomed timeline? How many thousands of hours did she spend looking for where to get them from, and how many failed attempts finding the most effective way to arrange them? It's these thoughts which give this fight such emotional power. As every new cannon or battleship shows up, it's clear this isn't something she's been trying to finish for just months, or even years- she's likely been trapped in this single month for decades. This isn't just a girl fighting some crazy monster- this is a girl trying to fight against a prison of time and responsibility that stops her from even being able to have a future.

Remember when Homura used to get exhausted after hitting a barrel with a golf club? Yeah.

Homura repeating trauma over and over again, yet still having the mental fortitude to keep fighting is a testament to how much she truly loved Madoka. Knowing that in each timeline she resets, the one person she loves the most, is further drifting apart, is truly heartbreaking. Hope and despair are entangled in a never ending cycle, and no one knows this better than Homura.

The saddest part is how mistreated Homura is in the series and even by the audience themselves. Homura never gets a thank you for her efforts, only a verbal or literal beatdown by everyone around her ever since timeline 1. She has been secretly carrying everyone out of necessity, doing and withstanding things that no regular human could ever hope to achieve, and yet she is always held to such an unfair standard by everyone around her. The only person in Homura’s travels who has never done this was Madoka, so it’s no wonder her attachment to Madoka. People criticize her for being selfish, but Homura is simply being realistic, how can you blame her for selfishness when you ever consider the circumstances she is in? It’s not easy to change the fate of multiple lives and best a LITERAL PLANETARY THREAT (Walpurgisnacht would have stopped the planet from spinning once its main body reached the gears on top, it is slowly spinning ever so slowly to the top of its gears). Oh and who is willing to throw her life away for all of eternity in hell so that the incubators cannot get an upper hand on Madoka and control her in rebellion? Homura, even though Madoka left her alone to go save everyone in the entire multiverse. Who is the one that subjugated the entire Kyubey race so that they would hopefully never interfere again with magical girls? Homura. Homura’s back should be broken at this point from the amount of carrying. You never see people hold Kyoko, Sayaka, or Mami to the same standards as Homura. I just went on a tangent rant about how stupid people are.

When you try to beat a really difficult boss and you are level 3 but really good at dodging

Homura is like that one player in an MMO trying to beat a raid boss on her own just because she can

fun fact,walpurgis is actually crying,not laughing.

Walpurgisnacht is like Sisyphus' boulder to Homura. An impossible-to-overcome challenge that she has no choice but to engage again and again. Futility is the highest form of tragedy and the Stage-Construction Witch is futility incarnate: an indestructible fool rotating round and round, with a cog attached to her just like Homura.

Consider the timelines where she stole all those weapons. Some JSDF security guard has to call in his boss. "Sir? All the bazookas are gone." "What do you mean gone?" "I mean gone, sir. There are no bazookas in the armory." "Well where did they go?" "No idea, sir." "So the bazookas just disappeared?" "That's what the tapes show, sir." (both men turn pale as they realize that the absolute /best/ ending for this day involves getting fired.)

Is this what a year's final exam looks like?

I never thought in a million years I would end up watching a show like this. I'm a grown ass man and I'm way too old to be reading about school age dramas about girls getting magical powers. Yet, here I am, having completed the series, and I gotta say, that was some INSANE levels of kino. I was floored repeatedly by plot twists and the time loop gimmick in this series is so good, it absolutely redefines the entire series upon rewatch, I can't believe I thought Homura was the villain at first. 9/10, and I only docked 1 point because how am I supposed to tell my friends and family about this without looking like a massive weirdo???