Magia Record S3 Episode 1 REACTION1
Added 2024-07-21 17:20:52 +0000 UTCOh it's all coming together now
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Now that I'm seeing this "season" for a second time, the end of this episode is macabre as hell. "We Failed" as an episode title opens the doors for endless sorrow and regret. I love it.
Harley Burnie
2025-08-15 06:18:24 +0000 UTCDamn. I got caught up in life being stupid, and just realized that I never finished this reaction, which sucks, because I never watch "season" 3 myself. Now, 14 minutes into episode 2, and I come to find it's a bit too upsetting to handle right now. Despair is a terrifying emotion. I'm super regretful I couldn't finish this with you, but I'll get there. I look forward to your final thoughts. Now that the Magia Record game is gone and over, I'm a bit heartbroken that an series that I cherish so much is now gonna be stagnant, waiting on a movie, waiting on a game. One day, we'll have even more to talk about with PMMM.
Harley Burnie
2024-08-10 08:18:05 +0000 UTCWell.....fuck. Just finished episode one, and Magia Record pulled a Madoka episode 3 on me. I actuneed a break. I missed you saying the thing about Little Kyubey being Ui, but I was 100% convinced of that by the end of S2. However, seeing what happened to Ui made my stomach turn. I have noticed, as I get older, the sight of someone having their freedom, their control, their dignity taken makes me feel almost ill. Still, I am excited to see where this goes!
Harley Burnie
2024-07-28 14:46:55 +0000 UTCByw, I can't remember how many years it's been since I watched a reaction to a season I've never seen. Kinda trippy, and I am a dub watcher, when possible. But, I ain't gonna put off watching this reaction. I reqlly enjoy your content dude, and I'm elated to see season 3 with you.
Harley Burnie
2024-07-28 14:28:48 +0000 UTCOkay, finally finishing S3E1, and...12:37 that drawing of Kyubey showing that "melting/bleeding" effect probably ruined my day! Little bastard. They only way I handle it is knowing of that universe where both Madoka and Homura each take a shot at putting "them" in their place.
Harley Burnie
2024-07-28 14:27:04 +0000 UTCWow.......I managed to avoid and forget the third season. Wtf, me?!? I am a little upset at the moment. I guess I'm damn glad that you ended up reaching to this series.
Harley Burnie
2024-07-24 14:01:42 +0000 UTCThat makes a lot of sense, thank you for the explanation! I think I understand it pretty well now thanks to this.
Mat
2024-07-22 04:18:27 +0000 UTCAt minute 0:50. In the previous episode, Madoka and Iroha actually destroyed the mechanism that was attracting the witches to Kamihama, they didn't destroy the Embryo Eve. Since I recently watched the anime again, I realized that in the following episodes they don't finish explaining the doppel system with the new information from this episode, but if we connect everything we can understand how it works. So what I'm going to mention wouldn't be a spoiler but rather an explanation putting together everything that has been learned so far, since I think there is a detail that they are not going to explain (at least that's what I think, I watched the anime in Spanish and in my subtitles they didn't explain it like that in the following episodes). So the following is just to put together all the information so far and clarify a few things. The objective of Ui, Touka and Nemu in this episode is to create a self-purification system so that magical girls don't become witches. Ui was supposed to collect those impurities so that Touka could transform those impurities into energy and then Nemu could transmit them to the universe, that is, what Kyubey does but without the Grief Seeds. Since now Ui's soul is inside baby Kyubey, now the one who indirectly collects those impurities is Embryo Eve (this is the important part, which I at least noticed they don't explain, I think because it could be deduced since Ui couldn't stop absorbing impurities, therefore Embryo Eve shouldn't either). According to what we know about doppels, when a magical girl is about to become a witch, a part of her body is the one that transforms and the doppel appears, and when it disappears the impurities are absorbed by Embryo Eve. Initially, since Embryo Eve is small, it can only absorb impurities from a small area, that's why they want it to grow by eating witches to cover a much larger area. The other thing that they don't explain much either, although it can be understood, is the barrier that Alina Gray created around Kamihama in this episode, I think it serves to contain the impurities and not escape beyond the range of what Embryo Eve can absorb and I think also so that impurities do not enter from outside (in reality this concept is shown first in this episode when it helped contain Ui so that she does not receive more impurities), that is why the doppel system only works in Kamihama despite the fact that Embryo Eve has grown and can cover a larger area. Apart from that, Alina Gray's barrier makes it so that Kyubey cannot enter the city of Kamihama (in season 1 it is shown that if Kyubey tried to enter his body would stop moving and that is why he sent Mami to investigate what was happening). Now about Touka, it could be said that when UI's existence disappears, that void would be filled in her mind making her believe that Embryo Eve is the self-purification system that they had initially planned.
Joshua
2024-07-21 22:00:28 +0000 UTC
