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Raiseth said:
That's actually more plausible to me than a bunch of insane architects trying to outcompete each other.

Something would have stopped them: money, safety regulations, sanity regulations, budget of the animators drawing the fucking scene.

But all these concerns fly out the window if we consider Magic.

So, my theory is:
Mami's lived long enough in her apartment it's started warping the laws of reality to appear as a cozy smallish Japanese flat on the surface, but also have infinite rooms for friends to stay over who would never come.
Homura's always rented the same apartment over the timelines, so now it's karmically connected with her by strings of fate and becomes more and more sci-fi with each iteration. She hasn't noticed, because the same reasons as Madoka; the change was gradual and she wasn't paying attention.
Kyouko's father (destitute!) church probably started warping into a big-ass gothic cathedral sometime during her Megucaing.
Madoka's house is a giant fucking upside down chair. Nuff said.

The bigger buildings, like schools, malls, mug shops(?) are the result of all human visitors' Potential coalescing into one distinct theme.

We just need to wait for a while to confirm this theory. If, after a few months ( read decades irl ), Mami's apartment starts coloring itself in iridescent sheens of all hues, becomes detachable from the rest of the building or starts sprouting signs forbidding visitors to leave unhugged or microwave tea inside it, then I can smugly say I told you so.
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Or maybe QBs little brother Cuthulu woke up and since the bunnycat won´t let him warp the planet into a surreal hellscape he is now trying to be sneaky about it.
 
You know, ages ago I made a joke theory about how the more Magical Girls spend time in one place, the more it becomes ambiently magical, causing warps in the architecture or spatial dimensions that nobody notices, so that schools and residences are hit the hardest, with Homura being hit so hard by all her looping her apartment is just straight up a Labyrinth.

Taking this to its logical conclusion, Kamihama is SUPER FUCKED because it has literally hundreds of meguca all over the place who just won't fucking witch out already, and that's BEFORE all the migrants.
 
AuraTwilight said:
Kamihama is SUPER FUCKED because it has literally hundreds of meguca all over the place who just won't fucking witch out already, and that's BEFORE all the migrants.
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Kamihama but god has left the architecture.

Also what is it with anime schools having parks on them? Is it because Japan has no more room for expansive parks like in the US, so It has the desire to place them atop their learning institutions?

Anyway, at least it's not a hotel shaped like a guitar.
 
Angrygenius said:
Kamihama but god has left the architecture.

Also what is it with anime schools having parks on them? Is it because Japan has no more room for expansive parks like in the US, so It has the desire to place them atop their learning institutions?
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Well, not all Kamihama schools are like that. Behold the school in a ghetto part of Kamihama. This is not a club building or supply closet or some remote dorm. No, this is the ENTIRE SCHOOL.

 
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eduard said:
Well, not all Kamihama schools are like that. Behold the school in a ghetto part of Kamihama. This is not a club building or supply closet or some remote dorm. No, this is the ENTIRE SCHOOL.

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New theory:

The entire universe is so running abundant with resources and architects that that goddamn beauty of a building counts as poor.
 
eduard said:
Well, not all Kamihama schools are like that. Behold the school in a ghetto part of Kamihama. This is not a club building or supply closet or some remote dorm. No, this is the ENTIRE SCHOOL.

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Ah yes, a ghetto anime school fancier and better-looking than the best school in my fucking hometown.

These poor souls, having to study in this dilapidated hellhole.

I mean, look at their hopeless faces. Fuck Witching out, that's what true despair looks like.
 
eduard said:
Well, not all Kamihama schools are like that. Behold the school in a ghetto part of Kamihama. This is not a club building or supply closet or some remote dorm. No, this is the ENTIRE SCHOOL.

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Oh. My. God.

Are those Palm Trees?!



That's amazing how do they grow in that climate
 
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Angrygenius said:
Speaking of poverty, I wonder what passes as poor in this world?
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Food insecurity is a thing, it's why Kyoko is so intense about wasted food. Homelessness is also a thing, refer again to Kyoko. The broad strokes of world history are the same and the economy is still structured about the same. We know some stuff is better, but enough is the same that we can expect "poor" to mean about the same thing.
 
Shadowhisker said:
Eh, there's probably at least few places where it's as bad as OTL. Kyubey's gotta people desperate for contracts (and pre-primed for grief spirals) from somewhere.
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I'm gonna expand on this little. There've been arguments in this thread that the world of PMMM is probably more social democratic than ours- meguca wishing their parents coming home earlier from work leading to shorter hours, for example. And sure, that might be true.

But things are still bad. Kyoko's driving motivation for her wish was that the Sakuras didn't have enough to eat. Homura was supremely fucked up by the orphanage system. The Japanese work culture exists, judging by how Grandma Junko spends her nights drinking with her coworkers.The Arab Spring is happening, which means the underlying factors for that are there.

Wishes have done some great stuff, there's no doubt. But it's, but like magical girls themselves, it's disorganized. The idol industry is longer a toxic mess, but there are probably a hundred other industries that still are. Hell, I wouldn't it past the coobster to try deliberately avoid people who would likely wish for something that would make the world noticeably better on a deep level, unless the output of that contract outweighs the loss of general despair affecting general meguca. Like, say, Madoka.

(As a side note, I wonder if there was ever a sweet spot in the loops where Madoka was powerful+informed enough to make a wish that would cut into QB's profit margins in the general meguca population, but not powerful enough that the payoff from Madoka's own contract+witchout would negate that.)
 
Spectral Waltz said:
You do know that Japan's Southern regions are practically tropical right? There are Palm trees outside my workplace in Fukuoka, it's really not that strange.
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For comparison with US cities, Okinawa is at the about the same latitude as Miami (26N), Fukuoka is around Los Angeles and Atlanta (34N), Tokyo is near Las Vegas, Nashville, and Raleigh (36N), Mitakihara (in PMAS) is near San Francisco and Richmond (38N), and Sapporo is near Milwaukee (43N).
 
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New vote, join project between Redshirt and I.

Focuses on retaining all the good qualities of previous standing vote while also giving Homura strategies for using her abilities.


[X] Just being willing to try is huge. If she's convinced she can't get anyone to believe or trust her, she's never going to really try to make those things happen.
-[X] The last time she really tried to convince people and get them to trust her, she was missing information and advantages that she's since gained, and the repeated failures made her believe it wasn't doable. But at this point, that belief is harmful.

[X] As a survival mechanism, she's become extremely guarded about her emotions. Emoting is central to many ways of handling social interaction, and her guardedness hobbles it. She can only fix that gradually by engaging with others in friendly settings.
-[X] Allying and interacting with others changes a lot - instead of her lack of emoting being seen negatively as uncaring, people - you, Mami, and Sayaka for sure - can see that she's seen so much pain in her years and years of fighting that she's been forced to be this way.

[X] When somebody knows that this is why Homura is so guarded, Homura can ask questions and make requests without offering detailed reasons. Citing relation to her pain is enough. "Because this is hurting me," or, "I'm asking because of something painful in my past."
-[X] Referencing her pain as the reason for requests is the best way for her to do things like... Ask Sayaka what she should say to a hypothetical Alt!Sayaka in order to get Alt!Sayaka to trust her. It is also the single best route to Kaname Madoka swearing off a contract permanently.
 
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