Magical Girl to Witch- What's Really Changed?
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Magical Girl to Witch— What’s Really Changed?
Humanity and monstrosity are two subjects that go hand in hand. On one hand, humanity is separate from the monsters who proliferate in our world and cause destructive chaos all over, it on another humanity is that monster. Whenever one considers a human monster, one would like to believe that that person must be an adult that, overburdened with the troubles of daily human life, becomes a monster through terrible circumstance or simply just is horrible without regard to anything. It is a much more comfortable idea than a younger human monster as children and sometimes adolescents are symbols of innocence and purity. In the anime movie series for Puella Magi Madoka Magica, due to various circumstances, adolescent girls physically turn into creatures known as Witches that wreck havoc on reality. These monsters, however, are human monsters through and through.
Witches are made from Magical Girls. In summary, Magical Girls are young girls who have been offered the ability to make any wish by a creature known as Kyubey but must then battle Witches, who in a sick twist of trickery are actually Magical Girls who’ve had their souls corrupted. When a girl gets her wish, Kyubey removes their souls from their body in the shape of a gem the girl must carry to allow them easier fighting and magic usage, but seems to open up the possibility of corruption caused both by the use of magic and deterioration of mental health. When corruption overrides the soul, the soul gem turns into a grief seed which spawns the Witch. From this explanation, Witches are Magical Girls that have become corrupt within their souls, but even if someone has a corrupt would doesn’t make them no longer human.
Witches are culmination’s of their Magical Girls emotions. For instance, the wiki for Puella Magi Madoka Magica details the Witch of Sayaka Miki, Oktavia von Seckendorff:
The mermaid witch; it is in her nature to fall in love. Looking for the feeling that moved her so long ago, she moves with the entire concert hall. Her fortune only turns under the weight of memories and no longer moves toward the future. Nothing will reach her any longer. She will come to know nothing more. She simply allows no one to disturb her minions' playing. (The Puella Magi Wiki)
Humanity and monstrosity are two subjects that go hand in hand. On one hand, humanity is separate from the monsters who proliferate in our world and cause destructive chaos all over, it on another humanity is that monster. Whenever one considers a human monster, one would like to believe that that person must be an adult that, overburdened with the troubles of daily human life, becomes a monster through terrible circumstance or simply just is horrible without regard to anything. It is a much more comfortable idea than a younger human monster as children and sometimes adolescents are symbols of innocence and purity. In the anime movie series for Puella Magi Madoka Magica, due to various circumstances, adolescent girls physically turn into creatures known as Witches that wreck havoc on reality. These monsters, however, are human monsters through and through.
Witches are made from Magical Girls. In summary, Magical Girls are young girls who have been offered the ability to make any wish by a creature known as Kyubey but must then battle Witches, who in a sick twist of trickery are actually Magical Girls who’ve had their souls corrupted. When a girl gets her wish, Kyubey removes their souls from their body in the shape of a gem the girl must carry to allow them easier fighting and magic usage, but seems to open up the possibility of corruption caused both by the use of magic and deterioration of mental health. When corruption overrides the soul, the soul gem turns into a grief seed which spawns the Witch. From this explanation, Witches are Magical Girls that have become corrupt within their souls, but even if someone has a corrupt would doesn’t make them no longer human.
Witches are culmination’s of their Magical Girls emotions. For instance, the wiki for Puella Magi Madoka Magica details the Witch of Sayaka Miki, Oktavia von Seckendorff:
The mermaid witch; it is in her nature to fall in love. Looking for the feeling that moved her so long ago, she moves with the entire concert hall. Her fortune only turns under the weight of memories and no longer moves toward the future. Nothing will reach her any longer. She will come to know nothing more. She simply allows no one to disturb her minions' playing. (The Puella Magi Wiki)
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Sayaka Miki is a protagonist for the films, eventually turning into a Witch under the pain of love. She used her wish to heal the body of a talented musician and childhood friend named Kyōsuke whom she loved, but never telling him her feelings, her braver friend Hitomi who was also in love with him confessed first and was reciprocated. Slowly but surely, Sayaka feel into despair, feeling as though she wasted her wish and angered at a world that refused any easy path. Wallowing in her suffering, she became the mermaid witch, dulled in emotion and no longer capable of seeing forward. Though Oktavia von Seckendorff, like any other Witch, kills people, there are fragments and possibly the entirety of Sayaka still resuming within it.
Witches, in nature, represent the ever-destructive nature lying within the hope of humanity. As Kyubey explains to Madoka, the transformation from Magical Girl to Witch sets off an amount of energy that is capable of battling entropy, however, the cycle doesn’t seem to truly reciprocate to the girl herself. As seen within addition timelines with Homura, when Madoka becomes the most powerful Witch capable of destroying the earth in mere days, Kyubey decides to leave as it is no longer its problem, but humanity's. Humans, however, are not capable of perceiving Witches unless they are Magical Girls, making the process a cycle in which humanity has destroyed itself by making wishes. The truth behind the cycle of violence in Puella Magi Madoka Magica resides within the cliché of magic always coming with its price and also equal and opposite reactions.
In the anime series Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Witches are monsters at the same time that they are merely adolescent girls. Witches are girls who have made a wish in an underhanded exchange for eternal torment and thus became symbols of humanity’s self-destructive nature. The crux behind the problems of the films are the power of wishes, but are the wishes that we make, wishes that likely can’t be granted, are they as dangerous as ones that could be? Is the nature of wishes to be one of internal grief? I believe that the characters youth is a reflection of this question, that the look of children was used for to highlight the dark themes by making the show seem like a more typical love-filled children’s anime while actually having deep messages, violence and horror. It could also be to relay how youth alongside the inexperience that comes without wisdom becomes an affliction. Regardless of the message, the wishes we make should be careful.
Witches, in nature, represent the ever-destructive nature lying within the hope of humanity. As Kyubey explains to Madoka, the transformation from Magical Girl to Witch sets off an amount of energy that is capable of battling entropy, however, the cycle doesn’t seem to truly reciprocate to the girl herself. As seen within addition timelines with Homura, when Madoka becomes the most powerful Witch capable of destroying the earth in mere days, Kyubey decides to leave as it is no longer its problem, but humanity's. Humans, however, are not capable of perceiving Witches unless they are Magical Girls, making the process a cycle in which humanity has destroyed itself by making wishes. The truth behind the cycle of violence in Puella Magi Madoka Magica resides within the cliché of magic always coming with its price and also equal and opposite reactions.
In the anime series Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Witches are monsters at the same time that they are merely adolescent girls. Witches are girls who have made a wish in an underhanded exchange for eternal torment and thus became symbols of humanity’s self-destructive nature. The crux behind the problems of the films are the power of wishes, but are the wishes that we make, wishes that likely can’t be granted, are they as dangerous as ones that could be? Is the nature of wishes to be one of internal grief? I believe that the characters youth is a reflection of this question, that the look of children was used for to highlight the dark themes by making the show seem like a more typical love-filled children’s anime while actually having deep messages, violence and horror. It could also be to relay how youth alongside the inexperience that comes without wisdom becomes an affliction. Regardless of the message, the wishes we make should be careful.