The Like/Hate Thread

[Anzekay]

[spoiler]Yeah, it was. It's just, from the entire series before it, I was expecting to need some prozac by the end of the final episode.

But Madoka becoming Magical Girl Jesus, leading all the previously screwed Puella Magi to magical girl Valhalla? Still being remembered by at least that ONE precious person (and maybe her little brother, too)? There being a hope that Homura could see her again someday? Fixing the entire system where Kyubey and his kind farmed misery?

For me, it's definitely more on the sweet side of bittersweet. It just really, really wasn't what I was expecting XD[/spoiler]

[spoiler] There was still a lot of bitter, though. She couldn't do anything to save Sayaka, she was forgotten by pretty much everyone but Homura (and that, in and of itself, is suffering incarnate for Homura). Maybe seeing her again someday is still a pretty slim thing and afaik probably not probable (though the manga has a pretty different ending in this department, but I wont spoil it) [spoiler] she takes Homura with her into godesshood.[/spoiler] Even though she solved the issue of Kyubey farming energy from misery, she couldn't fix entropy and there was still something that would continue to plague humanity that would feed him the required energy, it just didn't require such horrific sacrafice from the people who fight them.

I found it to be a roughly 50-50 split. Which is sort of the best kind of split. Chrono Crusade is the only other recent one I can think of that got it that good. [/spoiler]