Puella Magi Madoka Magica  (魔法少女まどか☆マギカ) is a Japanese anime produced in 2010, which is one of my favorite anime.

You may ask: “what this anime is about?” Well, it is about the life of magical girls. Have no ideas about “magical girls”?  Literally, it tells stories about young girls to use magical powers (from cute animals) to save the world. If you still cannot understand, here are some examples.

Sailor Moon, known in Japan as Pretty Soldier Sailormoon, is most famous anime in Magical girls genre. The story is about a cute little animal Luna (a black cat), who appears to a young girl Usagi, bestows on her magical power to defeat evil and save the world.

Card captor Sakura, also known as Card captor, tells a story focusing on Sakura Kinomoto, an elementary school student who discovers that she possesses magical powers after accidentally freeing a set of magical cards from the book they had been sealed in for years. She is then tasked with retrieving those cards in order to avoid an unknown catastrophe from befalling the world.

Now, let us come back to Madoka Magica.  It is about Madoka Kaname, an eighth grader who lived a peaceful life until she met a transfer student named Homura and saved a cute animal called QB.                                                      (QB→ →

So, in this vein you may think Madoka Magica is about a cute animal QB who appears to Maduka and gives her magical powers to fight the evil witches and saved the world.   Well, it is true, but it shows more than this.

It asks the some questions that others won’t mention. Like: Where does the QB come from?  What is its purpose?  Why it appears to Maduka? Where do the evil witches come from? Why do they become evil? What drives the young girls to make contracts to QB  to get the magical powers? And what is it that the girls have to give up to get the magical powers since nothing is ever free?

Everyone and everything serves a purpose and has a reason to be there. If you look carefully, you can find a lot of foreshadowing in the episodes. Each episode adds to arching storyline. The anime also makes people think about the problems in reality, like: the conflict of the ideal and the reality, the definition of justice, and etc.  

In all, it is definitely not for children, it is mature and worth thinking about it. Even though, it is not a happy ending in the end and most main characters do not achieve their aspersion, it is still an ending with “hope” which gives me great satisfaction.