Hey this is Mami reporting for duty!
This video was brought to you by viewer's like you so essentially I got a request by
one of my viewers that goes by the name of MahouShoujoMaisoon who essentially requested
that I make a video taking about why the Madoka Magica clones meaning why did the dark magical
girl anime's that came after Madoka failed in relationship to being a madoka magica clone
now I essentially decided to take on this request and I wanted to use it as an opportunity
to talk about why Madoka Magica is superior to the other dark magical girls that came
after it so I decided to start with Mahou Shoujo Site which is a magical girl anime
that came out in 2017 which is essentially edge lord on steroids in relationship to the
way that they go about the dark aspects of what goes on in the series in relationship
to this main character who gets bullied uh by essentially every person in plain sight
and I had originally attempted to watch this anime back when it first aired with the intent
of reviewing it on this channel however after I saw the first few minutes of the first episode
I decided to drop it cause I didn't' like it and so when I got this request by MahouShoujoMaisoon
I had intended to essentially make a series in which I basically on all the magical girl
anime's that came after Madoka which are dark but whats really interesting is that I decided
to watch magical girl site cause I decided to start with this one first and I watched
it um thinking that I was probably going to make a video trashing it but after basically
watching most of it likeI essentially have seen 6 episodes of mahou shoujo site during
the time of this recording and to be quite honest with you
after actually taking the time to watch it I kinda realize its not really a bad anime
and it feels weird to say this because my first impressions of mahou Shoujo sight is
that it was terrible but after taking the time to actually watch it I realize I can't
really make a video in which I'm on it and saying that its a terrible show I also don't
think its fair to compare it to madoka magica because its a completely different anime I
mean you could make the argument that it is copying Madoka because there are various things
within this show that remind me of Madoka but at the same time I don't necessarily think
this show is trying to be like Madoka at least this is kinda of the perspective that I have
gained as I've taken the time to watch it now I will say this though the very first
episode of Mahou Shoujo Site does do something very wrong that I think is a big part of the
reason why people don't like this show and why it uh
what it probably gets on by a lot of different people and the one issue that I think mahou
Shoujo site has is that this anime opens up literally in the very first episode and were
seeing this girl who is constantly being treated poorly by everyone around her now the reason
why I feel like this is an issue is because now if you think about and I will make a little
comparison to Madoka in order to put this into better perspective now it goes without
saying that Madoka Magica does have what you would consider to be tragedy that befalls
the characters within the anime however the way that the tragedy is set up within Madoka
they essentially introduce us to a bunch of different girls and we get an opportunity
to understand who they are as people meaning when you think about the fact that we see
Madoka and Sayaka at the beginning we essentially see these two characters as well as the other
characters within the series go through essentially there daily life in the idea that we learn
about who they are we see them happy we see them sad we see them go through different
struggles we see them having to deal with each other what I'm trying to say is that
Madoka Magica does a really great job in showcasing these characters for who they are and were
able to learn over time that these characters are very human its just like with Sayaka for
example Sayaka starts off the anime as being ya know very outgoing very happy very cheerful
she essentially develops this ambition to want to help her childhood friend and also
save people that's essentially a big part of what makes her who see is ya know she's
been protecting Madoka for basically there whole life and she really likes the idea of
being a hero of justice in the form of a magical girl that fights crime uh fights the bad guys
and essentially ya know does everything she can in service of people but obviously after
Sayaka makes her wish were able to kind of see that ya know things don't necessarily
go as smoothly as she originally thought that they would its like she has the issue with
Hitomi she ya know she she really loves this boy and she has ya know confident issues in
relationship to Hitomi because of what Hitomi says to her and what Hitomi try's to do and
we see Sayaka sort of fall into slow despair over everything that happened but what I'm
trying to say is that when I use Sayaka as an example um Madoka really took time to flesh
out her character so that we were able to understand and sympathize with her by the
time ya know things happened in episode 8 its like a lot of us might not have necessarily
gravitated toward sayaka but this series presented her in away where we could understand her
story because logically it makes perfect since why Sayaka fell into despair given everything
that we learned about her leading up to it happening its like when your a teenager and
your dealing with a boy that you like and you find yourself ya know comparing yourself
to someone else and if you don't have confidence in yourself and ya know what I'm trying to
say is that Sayaka goes through a lot of things that all of a lot of us can relate to and
her despair makes perfect since it makes since why she would be depressed in a situation
that she was in in relationship to Hitomi and in relationship to the wish that she made
in discovering all the things about soul gems so what I'm trying to say is that there was
a very slow build uh from Sayaka how she started off and where she ultimately goes now one
thing about Mahou Shoujo site that it definitely does not do well in relationship to Madoka
is the fact that before we even get a chance to learn anything about the main character
within the series the anime opens up with this character being bullied it opens up with
tragedy in the idea of this one girl who who's life is terrible because every single person
from her brother to all the kids at school she is essentially targeted and is just being
ridiculed in pretty much every way that you can think of now now the reason why I consider
this to be an issue for this character and this show is that were not really made to
understand why she's being bullied were not made to understand this character upon seeing
her be treated poorly we don't know anything about her we don't understand why she's being
treated this way we don't understand the nature of the world that she's living in now again
if I compare this to Madoka Madoka did eventually move into the idea of making characters suffer
but that really did not happen until we began to learn something about who they were in
most cases what I'm trying to say is that there was always a certain amount of build
up to the tragic events that happened which by the which by the time they did happen for
each character we were essentially able to learn something about them which is why when
something bad did happen to them we were able to sympathize and connect with it in mahou
Shoujo sites case we didn't get that we essentially got this girl and the series doesn't bother
to explain to us why this girl is being bullied why this girl is being treated poorly and
we can't really see anything in relationship to her character that would suggest why she's
being treated the way that she does its almost as if ya know they wanted to make a story
about a girl being ya know treated bullied for the sack of doing it and not give us any
rhyme or reason so there for at least in my case I wasn't able to really sympathize as
much as I did in relationship to the Madoka characters so that's why I personally could
not get into it now I just want to clarify that I do know that Mahou Shoujo site does
technically explain things later down the track and I'm going to make another video
were I sort of get a little more in depth on my feelings in relationship to this anime
because I do feel like the first episode can give the impression that this anime is terrible
because as I said rather than take the time to develop its characters like its main characters
and helping us to learn who they are and helping us to understand ya know why things are the
way that they are within this world it essentially just
jumps straight into the tragedy dark aspects of the show seemingly for the sake of just
being dark now again I know that this is something that can throw people off it through me off
it wasn't until I got passed these episodes like I essentially had to watch it with a
friend and it wasn't until I got to episode 4 that I began to understand and I guess slowly
start to like this show a little bit more because over time you start to learn more
about the characters but I still think that even though this anime begins to solve this
problem later on I still feel like that they should have uh fond away to help us to understand
and learn about uh the main character before we saw her going through her tragic moments
I believe that if they had did this first it probably would have helped this show
a lot more in other words it would have we would have it would have been more impactful
to see this girl go through um what she goes through if we had the opportunity to get to
know who she was as a person like if we leaned about maybe what her dreams were or if we
learned about ya know why she is the way that she is and why shes being treated at the very
beginning I think that it could have solved a lot of the issues that people had with this
anime and Yuki Aya to be quite honest with you doesn't even have any characteristics
with her as a character that help us to understand why she would be treated this way when we
first watch the anime ya know its just like one thing about bullying is that a lot of
times people get bullied because something about them makes them standout in relationship
to society its just like how ya know you might be
somebody that gets bullied because you look a certain way that happens to be different
from how most people might look or because you might like a certain thing and other people
don't like the thing that you like and they think that its weird you like what you like
what I'm trying to say is that people normally get bullied because there's something about
them that might stand out in relationship to the status Que that's usually how it starts
like for example I was bullied in my life when I was a kid because I was overweight
and most of the people in my life in my school basically weren't so I feel like that ya know
if your somebody who's ya know this is why people who are overweight can sometimes be
targeted um by people who may not be when your in school that was something that I personally
wen't through but in Yuki Aya's case as a character like if you look at her character
design and her personality there's noting about her physical appearance or the way that
she is as a person which really would explain why she's being bullied in this particular
anime at the very beginning I mean you can say that she was bullied because she was shy
or quiet I don't feel like that is enough of a reason for someone to be bullied um personally
now which is a little bit of a contradiction because I do understand that when your shy
some people can kinda take that and interpret the wrong way but I don't feel like its justifies
the type of treatment that Aya wen't through so yeah um as I said I wanted to make a video
talking ya know trash about why Mahou Shoujo sight was not a good anime uh in relationship
to madoka but after I and after I watched the first episode I was prepared to do that
but as I got further into it I realize this is actually not a bad show and I don't even
think its fair to compare it to madoka in the first place um ya know to be quite honest
with you I feel like if people can get past the first three episodes of Mahou Shoujo Sight
and I think that as long as they don't try to compare it to madoka I think that there
are ways you probably could enjoy this show um ya know Mahou Shoujo Sight tends to focus
a lot on on the plot more so than the characters like the characters in Mahou Shoujo Sight
are only in this anime to drive the plot to where it needs to go unlike a show like maybe
Madoka that that really puts a lot of emphasis on its characters I mean obviously the plot
is important the story is important but the characters play a very big role in why things
happen the way that they do ya know its just like Madoka Magica has little mini arcs were
its really focusing a lot on the main characters like you could say the first Arc was the Mami
arc then after that it became the sayaka arc and then after that it became a little bit
of the kyoko arc and then it became Homura and madoka essentially got her time at the
end so this was a very character driven story in many ways Mahou Shoujo Sight is definitely
not that but I don't necessarily feel like it needs to be um I think that how Mahou Shoujo
sight goes about its anime is perfectly fine maybe maybe not for everybody but I can at
the very least I can watch that show and kind of see ya know uh the ya know that its not
bad for what its doing and I don't and again I don't think its a madoka copycat though
I will acknowledge that it does take some aspects of madoka like for example um the
whole idea of of why the girls have there powers because Mahou Shoujo Sight is essentially
a magical girl survival battle royal were characters are made to fight each other eventually
they discover that the powers they were given its just basically some kind of a conspiracy
plot where there being made to fight each other for the sake of this Organization that
is working behind the scenes that made them have these powers in the first place and they
essentially have this dark reveal of this being the case which is kind of similar to
the reveal of soul gems and kyubey in relationship to Madoka so that is one aspect that's a little
similar the fact that there is this really strong character that they have to eventually
face that is going to be like the strongest within the city its kind of similar to the
idea of Walpurgisnacht and the fact that the girls have to fight it within Madoka Magica
so that's obviously a similarity um you could essentially say that the main character is
similar to madoka in the idea of them being timid and weak at the beginning of the series
ya know being not so confident being unsure of themselves and you could essentially say
the character that ends up helping them is very similar to homura in the idea that Homura
was essentially madoka's protector and the one that had who could do time magic with
is similar to how the secondary girl in mahou Shoujo sight is cbause she can also use time
magic just like Homura so what I'm trying to say is that you could look at Mahou Shoujo
Sight and Madoka and that there are a lot of similarities which is probably which might
be the reason why people compare these two together which makes perfect since but again
I just feel like if you go into this show trying to compare it to Madoka and try to
rip it apart for being a show that didn't meet your expectations because you wanted
it to be like madoka then of course your going to be disappointed because comparison is the
greatest thief of joy the moment that you start to compare something you start to not
you start to no longer be able to take it for what it is and see the value within the
show itself cause your to busy wanting it to be something else that it essentially is
not so so mahou Shoujo Sight in my opinion should not be compared to madoka I feel it
should be taken for what it is it technically is a show that could have been better in relationship
to how it starts but at the same time its not terrible for what its able to do now if
I was in control of Mahou Shoujo Sight rather then starting it off with the main character
being bullied I would have uh created a situation for us to be able to sympathize with the character
by building up who she is and helping us to learn about ya know why she's being bullied
why she is the way that she is why the world that she lives in is filled with crazy people
I would if I had creative control over Mahou Shoujo sight I would create a situation in
which were able to learn about the main character so that we can sympathize with her so that
by the time that the bullying came it would actually have an impact on us it wouldn't
just feel like it was kinda shoveled in for the sake of ya know shocking us or surprising
us ya know that's what I would have done and I think that the show would have been infinity
better had they did this so yeah that's essentially my take on Mahou Shoujo sight in the idea
of it being a fail dark magical girl show I was going to on iy then I realize its not
a terrible show and I actually kind of like it its feels weird to say that because for
the longest time I had a very negative bias toward this show but after taking the time
to watch it I realize its not that bad so uh if you watch Mahou Shoujo sight try to
go into it with an open mind don't make a comparison of it being like madoka because
its not madoka it does definitely take a lot of what madoka did but I still think that
the show is good for what its trying to portray its basically a plot centered anime which
only uses the characters within the show to advance the plot its not a show where your
going to get a whole lot of understanding and depth in relationship to these characters
uh because that's not what this show is trying to do its not trying to help us its not trying
to create a situation where were made to really sympathize and feel a connection with these
characters its meant to present a scenario of these girls in this environment were they
have to fight each other and ultimately work together in order to deal with the issues
of uh the conspiracy behind there powers and whoever created the very nature of the uh
survival game that they have to go through that's what this anime is essentially about
so if you take it for that rather then taking it for what you think it should be or what
you think it should be trying to do then I think you will probably enjoy it a lot more
so that's basically it um ya know I'm probably going to do more videos on the subject of
other dark magical girls I don't necessarily know if I'm going to compare them to Madoka
I may attempt to try to look at what these shows have done and I might try to whatever
points I try to make about the show because I do think that a lot of people like to give
other dark magical girl anime's a bad rep um now I'm not saying that I'm gonna review
the other dark magical shows and feel the same way about them as I did about Mahou Shoujo
sight but I definitely will watch these shows and try to give some type of review or analysis
on what I think of them and i there is away I think they could be improved and maybe I
can dispel why some people might think that these shows are trash compared to madoka or
I might or maybe I'll come up with a way to justify it I don't know but I'm probably gonna
make more videos uh talking about other dark magical girl shows so yeah if you enjoyed
this don't forget to like comment your thoughts and I'll catch you in the next video I also
want to thank maisoon for requesting uh that I do this video because um if it wasn't for
that I probably wouldn't have ever attempted to watch Mahou Shoujo sight and I would've
just walked away thinking oh this is a terrible anime but because of her request I was able
to spend more time ya know really trying to understand this show which in turn has helped
me to gain more appreciation for it um though I do apologize if this video wasn't what you
necessarily wanted it to be Maisoon cause as I said I came into it thinking I was going
to trash it and then after I tried to understand it I realize this is not a bad show its just
uh people making comparison to it is probably why they don't like it um I don't feel like
you should compare this show to another I think its better to try to see what there
doing now again I did mention acknowledge in this video what I consider to be some fatal
flaws as to why people tend to give this show a terrible rep um so yeah that's basically
it I hope you enjoyed this video and I'll catch you later peaceee out
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