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Is the "Madoka Treatment" All Played Out?

Fall 2020’s Talentless Nana starts out in much the same way as any anime about a school for young people with superpowers – there’s a shy kid named Nanao who’s constantly bullied for supposedly being powerless, but when a new transfer student named Nana helps him out with her ability to read minds, he proves himself in front of the others by revealing that he can cancel out other people’s abilities. Then... Nana pushes him off a cliff and he dies. It turns out that she’s actually the talentless one – a normal human (with exceptional deductive skills) who’s been sent to the school to covertly take out each student before they can unwittingly wreak havoc on the world with their unnatural powers.

5 Haunting Scenes in Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story

This spinoff of the Madoka Magica series, based on the mobile game of the same name, is a bit of a mixed bag when it comes to plot and characters. However, one thing that it’s absolutely amazing at is creating a haunting atmosphere that really gets you into the minds of the magical girls and reveals tidbits of information that give you more insight into their lives. Studio Shaft has really outdone themselves this time, so let’s take a look at the best haunting scenes from Magia Record!

The History of "School Wonders" as Seen in Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun and Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story

In the Winter 2020 anime season, two different anime have given a spotlight to the strange Japanese phenomenon known as “School Wonders”. You may have come across these whispered rumors in other anime like Attack on Titan: Junior High, where they’re used as pranks to make a test of courage more frightening, or even in Ghost Stories, where they’re actually shown to be real. So where did the idea of “The Seven School Wonders” come from? and how do Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun and Magia Record use the concept in their narratives? Let’s investigate!

Does Magia Record's Story Suffer from Being a Mobile Game Adaptation? - Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story

When Puella Magi Madoka Magica exploded onto the scene back in 2011, it shook up the entire magical girl genre by deconstructing its usual tropes and telling a surprisingly dark, insightful tale about what would really happen if young teenage girls were forced to fight monsters every day. It spawned many manga and game spinoffs, perhaps chief among them being the mobile gatcha game Magia Record and its anime adaptation that began airing this season.

Top 10 Female Leads in Psychological Anime

Anime with complex psychological themes are difficult to come by, but once you find one, you’re pretty much guaranteed a wild ride from start to finish. We love Neon Genesis Evangelion and Paranoia Agent, but today we want to showcase some of our favorite anime that star female protagonists. Whether they’re just normal girls thrown into extraordinary circumstances or they’ve been part of this crazy world since the very beginning, these ladies are our guides through the mind-bending stories they inhabit. Let’s get to know them better!

The Evolution of Deconstructed Mahou Shoujo Anime Part 2: A New Baseline

In Part 1 of this series, we took a brief look at how mahou shoujo (magical girl) anime grew from its cutesy, harmless origins into a full-fledged genre about realistic girls who kick ass and control their own destinies. But even though certain anime like Mai-HiME (2004) and Heartcatch Precure (2010) incorporated some very dark subject matter, it wasn’t until the release of Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica (2011) that the magical girl genre got its big gut-punch deconstruction.