Sayaka and Kyouko have met.
Ooor the animators simply didn't want to do big crowds. I distinctly remember there being a few shots of some of the girls in big, dense crowds here and there, but mostly, it feels like SHAFT just wanted to spend their budget on the important stuff.
Maybe Kyouko can train Sayaka by having her hunt witches, and the two of them can form the core of our anti-witch team? But we kind of want Sayaka for our meguca police force, too... which will probably have to break up fights started by Kyouko on a regular basis.
Going by Sayaka's comments, it sounds like they did some "training" at that meeting, which is to say that they sparred and Kyouko beat the crap out of her.
Another thought on this: as in our reality, there would have been a strong impetus to rebuild the Japanese infrastructure and economy after the war (so they could fight the commies), so they could have recovered a great deal. South Korea was also a warzone (technically is still a warzone), and has recovered quite well in a similar amount of time.
I know, but that doesn't mean "Sayaka is training with Kyouko". She seems amenable enough, but we really need to ask Yuma to tell us everything that's happened.
Good point. But, while a post-Downfall Japan would likely have proper infrastructure and not be in the economic dumps, I don't think it would look like modern Japan at all. In a post-Downfall Japan, it's likely that the occupation would have lasted decades as the US/Allies completely dismantled and rebuilt the country, so the entire society and government would be totally Americanized. All of the reading I have done on Downfall suggests one thing: that it would have resulted in the total and utter destruction of Japan as a country and a culture.
You forgot? We got Sayaclones now.
I would accept that explanation if her apartment was the only example, but then we've got Homura's apartment, Madoka's house with the huge empty fields around it, the rows of trees and decorative stream leading up to the school... living space doesn't seem to be in short supply in Mitakihara.
Would MacArthur still have been in charge of the occupation? Because he's largely responsible for the Japanese government being kept relatively intact after the war. (And for letting a few thousand war criminals off the hook.) It was an unconditional surrender, and he could have reorganized the whole country, but he thought it would be easier if he didn't and blamed the war on the actions of a few bad apples.
The concern was more about the conflict of interest that might arise if Sayaka's duties ever required her to keep Kyouko in line.
And a bunch of related areas, yes.
...it is? I recall cell tech in the original show being stuff like flip-phones and maybe a smartphone here and there. The original iPhone came out in 2007, and the iPhone 4 was released in mid-2010, so an upper-middle class schoolgirl having a smartphone in early 2011 isn't all that strange.
I forgot about the desks. Although those are a bit impractical. If they retract into the floor then you have to include a shit-ton of space between floors to accommodate them, which is very inefficient design. If it's just that they're removable and then have a digital display on the floor where the desk used to be, then it's just kind of pointless.
Given that Mitakihara is Mitakihara, is that completely out of the question?
Maybe someone wished that the internet was free and made commercial streaming services impossible?
Looking at that picture, the music store does not appear to contain any actual CDs, which makes me wonder how Sayaka bought the one she took to Kyousuke there. Are they kept behind the counter or something?
Maybe you select which songs you want and they burn a custom CD with your selection for you.
An entire store specializing in mixtapes?
...huh, you're right about that. I definitely got my animes mixed up there; for some reason I was thinking there were girls in PMMM with folding touchscreens on their phones, but that's a different anime entirely.
