250https://i.ur.com/FFsHr3o.png 60https://i.ur.com/eblt3Q7.png 270https://i.ur.com/KwDrjNM.png 1https://i.ur.com/wnpzmEd.png 185https://i.ur.com/piaehKi.png 1https://i.ur.com/wnpzmEd.png DE: Die Details von Madoka Magica Rebellion ENG: The details of Madoka Magica Rebellion https://anilist.co/anime/11981/MahouShoujoMadokaMagicaHangyakunoMonogatari THIS IS OBVIOUSLY SPOILER The spoiler tags only show the images/scenes I am referring to 8595 8595 8595 8595 8595 8595 8595 8595 8595 8595 8595 1https://i.ur.com/wnpzmEd.png 1https://i.ur.com/wnpzmEd.png 1https://i.ur.com/wnpzmEd.png 1https://i.ur.com/wnpzmEd.png 1https://i.ur.com/wnpzmEd.png 1https://i.ur.com/wnpzmEd.png If you havent already I highly advise you to check out my previous post. In that post I covered the runes and how to decipher them along with a bunch of references of the serieshttps://anilist.co/anime/9756/MahouShoujoMadokaMagica/. LINKhttps://anilist.co/activity/60632219 https://i.ur.com/dZaSStA.png Bubbles 00:01:08: JP: Yume ENG: Dream Right at the beginning of the movie we are greeted with a few words that appear in bubbles. The most important word is Dream since it foreshadows the entire first half of the movie. Everything we see is a dream. Homuras dream. Another hint that everything is a dream is this another bubble at the start of the movie: DE: Es ist schon morgen ENG: Its morning already These bubbles are also screen captures of a particular scene further in the movie. https://i.ur.com/dZaSStA.png Opening 00:09:00: Homulilly This is the earring that Homura wears at the end of the movie. Homulilly is the name of Homuras witch form. This is just a classic opening spoiler :P. I also found a clearer picture of the wasteland I mentioned in my previous post. https://i.ur.com/dZaSStA.png Hands 00:17:37: JP: Homulilly Yagi no kono yume ENG: Homulilly The dream of a young goat Unfortunately I can not tell you what the bottom part means dream of a young goat. The only thing I could find about this is that dreams about goats can mean: A reminder to ones inflated egohttps://www.spiritanimals.com/goatsymbolism/. But take this one with a grain of salt. I am not sure about this one. But what I am sure about are the 2 other major things in this picture. The hands and the text at the top. The text at the top says Homulilly in a similar style like all those witch cards we have seen in the series. Meaning this should actually be a introduction to Homuras Witch and not the Nightmare. To confirm this we also have those 2 hands in the screen. These make multiple appearances throughout the movie. The most note worthy ones are these: They both show that Homura is in fact the one that pulls all the strings. The second picture is during the talk where Kyuubey explains that Homura was the one who build the labyrinth. https://i.ur.com/dZaSStA.png Holy Quintet 00:18:33 00:21:20: I advise you to rewatch the particular transformation before and after reading what I had to say about them This is a big one Mami: Mamis transformation starts out as a soft and gentle dance that reminds of ice skating. Followed by a rough breakout out of her shell that is displayed as a silhouette/shadow of her. Immediately followed by a split frame of her name. Notice how this is displayed as soon as we see her true self without the silhouette. Symbolizing that she is breaking out of the fake image revealing her true nature a Magical Girl the Magical Girl Mami. Kyouko: Kyoukos transformation is a rather hypnotizing one. Which is directly referencing the wish she made to become a Magical Girl making the people listen to her father aka hypnotizing them to make them listen. This theory is further supported with the seemingly out of place screen tearing eyes followed by a split frame of her soul gem symbol. Since thats exactly how the hypnotized people were displayed in episode 6 of the series. Sayaka: Sayakas transformation starts out with a LIT break dance. Seriously Shaft is incredible by showing us that they can animate a rather smooth looking break dance with the 12 fps limitation that they have. Okay lol back to topic. After the break dance that should probably symbolize her daredevilish nature she throws her soul gemhttps://youtu.be/TrgxHDoe8gA?t=84 towards her magical girls self. Showing that she gave up her human self gave up her soul to be a Magical Girl. Right afterwards we see something that Sayaka showed us to late in the show See previous post: 5 Stages of Grief. Her facing herself by charging head ahead into herself. Her magical girl form and human form mold into one. Showing us that she accepted herself and to further proof this point they did the same thing they did with Mami flashing a frame of her name onto the screen. Like its saying: THIS is Sayaka Homura: The main character of the show with probably the most important transformation of them all. Her silhouette that unlike any of the other girls changes textures in a very unstable way. Her dance is a very very cheerful form of ballet which references her witch form Homulilly. Homulilly is also called the The Nutcracker Queen and as we all know The Nutcracker is a russian ballet. She finishes her dance with a very amateurish Grand Jet Ballet leap that stops mid leap into a rewinding cassette effect probably symbolizing the time loop she went trough. The effect transitions into an image of what I think is supposed to be Mitakihara city. Since the image of the city fades into another outbreak scene it probably IS Mitakihara city but the fake one Homura created. We see Homura reaching out for something that is probably Madokas hand as we see later in the movie. Before we get to see what she is trying to touch the image quickly changes into a blurry sequence of Homuras hands we know that its her hands because of the embedded Soul Gem on one of her hands swirling around her Soul gem. Which I think symbolizes that she in the end is just trying to protect herself. Doing stuff out of egoism. Like later in the movie. Throughout her whole transformation we also see 3 flashing texts that appear in random intervals. DE: Zu meistern wir sind gelangweilt ENG: To master we are bored Ill be honest with you. I speak German but I have no clue what this supposed to mean. As you can see the grammar is a bit off in the translation but that is literally how it is written down. If you have any idea let me know 1https://i.ur.com/wnpzmEd.png DE: Ich tte mich ENG: I kill myself This is foreshadowing the end since Homura gives up literally everything to become the being named evil. In other words she sacrifices being a part of the world. 1https://i.ur.com/wnpzmEd.png DE: Sie verherrlichen den TodV ENG: They glorify deathV Its very likely that this is a thought that Homura has. She feels guilty for not doing anything even though Madoka sacrificed her life to protect others. I also think that the V is a roman numeral. That means the 5 stands for the quintet. Which could also mean that this was her first indicator that something is off since Madoka is included. Madoka: Madokas transformation is based on the eternal feminine archetype a concept I will talk a little about later in short magical girly. There are a few interesting parts in her transformation. For example: Notice how she points 4 times and then shows herself off. And every two points the background changes. In other words Mami Kyouko Sayaka Homura and me Madoka. Mami and Kyoukos background is a big keyhole while Sayaka and Homuras is a blurry close up of Madokas silhouette. I think this should show that Sayaka and Homura arent the same as we think they are as we clearly see later on Sayaka being Madokas assistant and Homura being the witch of the Labyrinth. I think the actual picture if Homura and Sayaka were normal would be all 4 would have the keyhole background while Madoka would have her usual background the key background. Symbolizing that Madoka is Homuras Key or Madoka is the key for breaking the barrier of the labyrinth as we see later in the transformation where her hand shatters the glass. After the pointing we see another cassette effect meaning the same thing as in Homuras transformation since both were the main characters of the time loop. And both gained a high amount of fate. This cassette effect is directly followed by a shot of Madoka where she has an older art style. Looking more like an traditional Magical Girl again this has something to do with the eternal feminine archetype since its also an older archetype 19th century. https://i.ur.com/dZaSStA.png Clara Dolls 01:00:31: The big text: 1https://i.ur.com/wnpzmEd.png DE: Ich mchte unseren Kunden danken ENG: Id like to thank our customers Text on the packaging: JP: Hitoribocchi ni oniai ENG: Being all alone suits her well The big text is just simply thanking us for watching the movie. There are two similar occurrences of this. But what is really important is the text on the packaging. This is one of many instances where the Clara Dolls Homulillys minions tease her. In this case the tease is on a package description of one of the Clara Dolls. But since Clara Dolls are part of Homulilly or in other words part of Homura. This description is actually addressed towards Homura. Showing us that the witches are the ones that truly suffer by constantly fighting their own sinister emotions. Fort Da: Another occasion is where the Clara Dolls shout Fort Dahttps://www.encyclopedia.com/psychology/dictionariesthesaurusespicturesandpressreleases/fortda Click for the explanation. This is referencing Sigmund Freudhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SigmundFreuds observation and the question he then put up. Is the child literally taking revenge for the treatment visited upon him by redirecting it onto the other or onto himself?https://www.encyclopedia.com/psychology/dictionariesthesaurusespicturesandpressreleases/fortda Which Homura does both she redirects it onto herself and onto the Incubators as we see later. To further proof that this is indeed a reference to Sigmund Freuds observation we also have this scene. The spool of thread was one of the common items that his grandson Ernst used. 1https://i.ur.com/wnpzmEd.png Gott ist tot: And yet another occasion of the teasing is the famous Gott ist tothttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godisdead reference. This is referencing the famous quote of Friedrich Nietzschehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FriedrichNietzsche which starts like this: DE: Gott ist tot Gott bleibt tot. Und wir haben Ihn gettet. ENG: God is dead God remains dead. And we have killed him. In our case this is referencing the relationship between Homura and Madoka NOT Ultimate Madoka The god in this quote is referring to how Homura sees Madoka as a god in the series since she was basically the sole reason why she stayed alive. As I mentioned before this is the guilt that Homura feels. The guilt that states that she is the reason that Madoka sacrificed her life. You might wonder how I came to this conclusion even though we actually have a god in this franchise Ultimate Madoka. Well there is a clue that gives it away. If you look at the fruits closely you can see that those are actually pomegranates. Another shot of the Clara Dolls eating them: As recent researches show the pomegranate was the actual forbidden fruithttps://edibleparadise.com/homepagestories/pomegranatetheoriginalforbiddenfruit/ not the apple in the first testament of the biblehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OldTestament. That should symbolize us that this current scene is about the first testament of the law of the cycle. Which is before Madoka became Ultimate Madoka. She first created the second testament of the law of the cycle by becoming Ultimate Madoka and rewriting the universe rewriting the law of the cycle. You might have also noticed that this scene contains runes: JP: Shmetsu Kysai Sore ga mah shjo Enkan no kotowari Kiseki ENG: Annihilation salvation This is a magical girl Law of Cycles Miracle In my opinion they all just further proof the point I just mentioned. So there is no need further explaining them. But feel free to ask if you want me to These are also the runes that were displayed right at the beginning of the movie in those bubbles. https://i.ur.com/dZaSStA.png The eternal feminine: DE: Das ewig Weibliche ENG: The eternal feminine The eternal femininehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternalfeminine is a concept that was particularly present in the 19th century. In it women are often depicted as angelic responsible pure delicate polite etc... Basically what we think of when we mention magical girl. The important part for us is angelic since the pictures above appear when an angelic act happens. The first one appears when Sayaka and Nagisa show the incubators that they are in fact Madokas assistants or in other words Madokas angels. The second one appears when Madoka and Homura destroy the barrier so right before Madoka is trying to turn Homura into an angel by letting her free. So in other words this is the symbol of Ultimate Madokas assistance/angels which is further proven by the symbols that are around the main symbol. Those are from each of the witches we see throughout the series. We can also see the minions of those witches in the final fight. https://i.ur.com/dZaSStA.png Eternal recurrence 01:41:02: The concept eternal recurrencehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EternalreturnFriedrichNietzsche a concept that was often times used in the writings of Friedrich Nietzschehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FriedrichNietzsche. The idea of it is everything will happen if time is infinite and it will happen infinite times. Similar to the number Pihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PiInfiniteseries or anything infinite. This is referencing Homuras time loop and that she is actually experiencing it again. Since now she is a being that is infinite. https://i.ur.com/dZaSStA.png Dream?: DE: Wer trumt? ENG: Who is dreaming? 1https://i.ur.com/wnpzmEd.png DE: Wer hat getrumt? ENG: Who has dreamt? These two are just referencing the fact that the first half of the movie was actually just a dream and that she now has woken up. https://i.ur.com/dZaSStA.png The Window: There are many many more appearances of this window I just took a few that are the easiest to connect to Madoka. This windows should symbolizes Madoka or rather her god form Ultimate Madoka. And as we can see the window at the end is shut and sealed. The same counts for the windows we see in the background of the Homulilly picture. But they werent closed by Homura like in the last one but by the Incubators. The one with the Clara Dolls just shows the Clara Dolls listening to a music box that has a window attached to it symbolizing Homuras preaching towards Madoka in other words they are listening to a story of Madoka. https://i.ur.com/dZaSStA.png BOOM Finished Thank you all for reading this far It took me a while to make 13h. Hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did making it The movie and series has A LOT MORE to it I havent even touched the music But I think this post was long enough so I hope you are satisfied with what you got. : But then again feel free to ask me anything Oh and I should also mention that I can be completely wrong since everything is based on my own interpretation. Anyway THANK YOU And sorry if anything was a bit hard to understand or had off grammar I just suck with words. But I tried my best 3