You may be wondering, "Paraturtle, why did you rate the artwork so low? 6/10? Bogus!" Let me clarify: If you hadn't seen the film, so much of this doesn't make any sense!įor instance, there's a fight scene that is virtually shot for shot of an event within the film. Like the original story, we don't learn much beyond characters, even less so in this story. On the lighter side, but still negative, the story itself is ridiculously contained. This isn't necessarily offensive, but, as someone who loves a contained narrative, I find this to be incredibly irritating. Rather than tell a complete story and tie a bow, this one tells an obscure origin story and leaves a teaser. This, most likely, is due to preference, but I find that the open-ended nature is nothing more than a recognition of the mere market value that Madoka Magica has earned over so many years. It disrupts the flow of the story and is clearly an afterthought.))Īnd, even in that final chapter, very little is explained, unlike the final chapter of the previous story arc of Madoka Magica. ((Interjection: There's one entire event in this story, an entire section of dialogue that makes zero sense and only takes place to have an event later that, again, makes little to zero sense. Many may be reading this and going, "Well, Paraturtle, you're just an idiot!" Perhaps, but when your first story, Madoka Magica, is unbelievably clear and clearly states everything from beginning to end, it seems out of character for a narrative to pursue an open-ended way of storytelling, especially when you read the final chapter. There's an entire conversation that's left to conjecture and poorly translates any intended reasoning for its inclusion in the story, and there's another that has a line which climax's with more confusion than clarification. However, as things transition into the final part, everything seems to fall apart.Ĭertain lines imply certain things that people should already understand, while other lines seem completely incorrect to the established lore. and third parts, the second is when things begin to pick up and you, as the reader, start learning things about this new world our favorite Magical Girls have been cast into. While the first third properly lays a foundation for the second It's a mystery that treats it's reader as intelligent, never revealing the mysterious nature of the work until a specific point, that point transitioning into the second third. The first third of Rebellion is fairly good. That said, there are still points that I find bogus, unnecessarily complex, and unfortunately barren within the Rebellion narrative, both the film or the manga. As a sequel, but also as an adaption of the animated feature, Rebellion is a strange project to critique in that it's already a very understood story due to many rewatches of the film.
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