Also highly relevant re: anybody freaking out over the popularity of My Little Pony. Super-duper highly relevant re: the mouthbreathing male otaku contingent's continual insistence that Madoka Magica is groundbreaking/original/revolutionary for doing the exact same things that magical girl shows for girls have been doing for the past twenty years, but not that they would know that because heaven forbid any of them ever actually watch that sparkly pink girly stuff.

Amen.

Madoka just crammed all the generic magical girl tragicness into 12 episodes. Funny thing is how when I ask people WHY they think its so revolutionary and whatever, most of them either say "its grimdark" or "episode 3". I dont even.