She[Sabrina] has maybe three or four actual friends (one is mentally broken, one likes everybody anyway, one is insane, and one is a little girl).
Okay. I'll bite. Nagisa is the obvious person for the little girl slot, but is Mami the one who likes everybody, or the broken one? Is Homura the broken one or insane? Is Kirika insane or does she like everybody?
Why Kazumi Magica Is the Next Best Thing to Heaven and the Key to World Peace? 45 volumes?
When it first came out I read the first chapter of
Kazumi Magica and promptly ignored all the
Puella Magi X Magica books because
Kazumi had that rank smell of 'slapped a franchise on an unrelated story for a cash grab.'
I'm for the "Pistol for Antimagic, Grief aim-botting gun with real bullets for Range" idea. Plus, you know, most rifles use a .22 caliber, same as many pistols, so we won't even have to carry around two different types of ammo.
Egad. I'm coming at this as a player of RPGs set in modern day, rather than any sort of actual gun nut, but even I know that .223" Remington (aka 5.56mm NATO, such as an AR-15/M16 uses, and the only slightly plausible .22ish round for 'most' rifles) is not even
vaguely the same round as the .22" rimfire cartridges that the wimpier pistols use. They're also both relatively small/wimpy cartridges.
Now that 7.62mm NATO round used by the 'pistol' Homura gave Sabrina is something else again. There are real-world sniper rifles chambered for that round, as well as battle rifles and straight up machine guns.
Sayaka is being portmaneaued with Michael, the highest angel in modern biblical canon who cast Lucifer out of Heaven. The symbolism should be obvious, there.
Huh. Did not see that connection. I just took the -el ending as the common 'of God' you see at the end of most angel names. Since she did the whole angel sent from on high thing in
Rebellion. So 'Miki-el' apparently comes out as something like 'God's Pretty Tree.'
... Sakura's weapon is a katana, doesn't she?
Ought not that be '...Sakura's weapon is a katana, isn't it?' or '...Sakura fights with a katana, doesn't she?'
...
You're assuming that rather unsubstantiated theory of Homura being our "mom" to be true.
Or we're just following up casting Homura as Tuxedo Kamen.
Your interpretation might be correct. After all, Mami did have a serious emotional breakdown this afternoon and that could have been caused by the witchbomb (either due to Kyuubey or else because Mami put the clues together and/or stopped lying to herself). Mami was pretty bad off, and while I would have expected the witchbomb to cause more anguish than that, it is possible. If that's the case, then (in a twistedly amusing reversal) it means that Mami has been hiding the truth about the witchbomb from Sabrina. Or maybe Mami's breakdown was due to something unrelated, but Homura was worried that it was the witchbomb: that's possible, too.
It was less
'I think this is Mami
finally cluing in to all the witchbomb hints scattered around her' and more '
Homura thinks Mami is on the verge of the witchbomb.' Which, honestly, she is. And has been for a while now. Never occurred to me that
that might be what set Mami off at school, though. Although further reflection makes me suspect that Homura was just as concerned that Mami had decided Sabrina was a witch, and worried about how Mami might react to
that instead.
Also, kinda thinking part of that whole dealie is that Homura was just as frightened of the idea of losing Sabrina as a friend as Sabrina was during/after the confrontation outside Mami's Tuesday.
It was just... disconcerting... that the one big issue I saw at the end of the update, the one that screamed 'This is why Firn stopped here,' had absotively no one talking about it. I've never seen that in
PMAS before. That said, just continuing on as if it wasn't a thing was probably one of the most effective responses the thread could do there, at least short term.
Also, egad. Finally caught up. That means I get to vote! Well, meaningfully.
[x] Kinematics
The worst thing about this option is that it guarantees at
least one more update before resolving this. On the other hand, if it weren't for previous commitments I'd be totally ok with camping outside Megane's home to make sure Sabrina got that talk in. And that's been Sabrina's problem with Megane all day, really. So many other demands on time.
