Off the top of my head? Sailor Moon, Pretty Cure, CCS, Mermaid Melody - to name some of the obvious picks (that have all at some point done the same plots that Madoka regurgitated - magical girls are conflicted and being a magical girl can suck, magic corrupts and magical girls go insane, magical girls have to fight/kill members of their own team, time travel to prevent grimdark future, untrustworthy mascot character, etc.).
Because my impression was that a lot of male otaku do watch the girly Magical Girl shows (like Sailor Moon and CCS),
They do.
hence why producers eventually started making MG shows that actively cater to the male otaku audience (like Nanoha, Precure, Moetan, Uta Kata, Puni Puni Poemi, plus all those Magical Harem shows).
Exactly.
Which is why we now have a generation of male otaku who teethed on the magical-girls-for-guys shows, which coincidentally tends to be the same group of male otaku for whom Madoka Magica is suddenly the most revolutionary thing ever.
I've found in general that the male fans who are the most vocal about Madoka being "revolutionary" will often admit to having never seen an episode of Sailor Moon or Pretty Cure before. Remember that the former is old-school and the latter of for girls, hence why a lot of the annoying Madoka fans - who coincidentally tend to be younger and a bit newer to anime, the same as the "annoying" fan contingent in any fandom - haven't seen them.
I'm not talking about the fandom as a whole here, just the small but vocal contingent who are incredibly persistent in bleating the idea that Madoka is actually doing stuff that has totally never been done before.
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Off the top of my head? Sailor Moon, Pretty Cure, CCS, Mermaid Melody - to name some of the obvious picks (that have all at some point done the same plots that Madoka regurgitated - magical girls are conflicted and being a magical girl can suck, magic corrupts and magical girls go insane, magical girls have to fight/kill members of their own team, time travel to prevent grimdark future, untrustworthy mascot character, etc.).
Because my impression was that a lot of male otaku do watch the girly Magical Girl shows (like Sailor Moon and CCS),
They do.
hence why producers eventually started making MG shows that actively cater to the male otaku audience (like Nanoha, Precure, Moetan, Uta Kata, Puni Puni Poemi, plus all those Magical Harem shows).
Exactly.
Which is why we now have a generation of male otaku who teethed on the magical-girls-for-guys shows, which coincidentally tends to be the same group of male otaku for whom Madoka Magica is suddenly the most revolutionary thing ever.
I've found in general that the male fans who are the most vocal about Madoka being "revolutionary" will often admit to having never seen an episode of Sailor Moon or Pretty Cure before. Remember that the former is old-school and the latter of for girls, hence why a lot of the annoying Madoka fans - who coincidentally tend to be younger and a bit newer to anime, the same as the "annoying" fan contingent in any fandom - haven't seen them.
I'm not talking about the fandom as a whole here, just the small but vocal contingent who are incredibly persistent in bleating the idea that Madoka is actually doing stuff that has totally never been done before.