Why are all magical girl anime these days set in brutal deadly

>>150872499
Aren't Madoka and MGRP are pretty much it though?

The problem is that you're watching magical girl anime made for adult men instead of ones made for little girls.

>>150872499
Blame Christopher Nolan and Joe Abercrombie

>>150872536
Even fucking flip flappers this season has the MC girl running into the brutal fake friendships and fake family setting, her grandma was even a robot.

>>150872551
Where can I find anime for little girls then.

madoka was a deconstruction of the genre and since it was succesfull it breeds imitators
Im sure theyll make a show that goes back to the roots soon enough.

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>>150872499
>What happened to card captor sakura and sailor moon type of magical girls?

Erm... Hotaru's body was possessed by a lovecraftian horror and she was reborn after her body was destroyed

>>150872629
A single dark plot arc VS entire running dark theme of an anime

>>150872578
You say that like it wasn't obviously ominous from the start. If you want magical girls for little girls go watch Precure

>>150872698
No I want magical girls for magical adventure

>>150872499
>What happened to card captor sakura and sailor moon type of magical girls?
Precure happened.

>>150872499
Did you watch Fantasista Dolls? That's basically a 2013 version of a show that spiritually belongs in 1996.

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>>150872499
They're still doing PreCure every year.

>>150872823
>Fantasista Dolls
No and I can't find a torrent for it

>>150872857
Stop recommending precure
It has so many seasons I can't find all the original ones and start from the beginning

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Is this a Vivid Strike thread?

>>150872920
No, piss off.

>>150872685
you haven't watched sailor moon

>>150872886
If you're okay with DDLs: http://anime.thehylia.com/downloads/series/fantasista-doll

>>150872499
But in Sailor Moon everyone died.

>>150873027
Thank you very much

>>150873036
>>150873020
Cardcaptor Sakura

>>150872499

Except not at fucking all outside of late night trash anime for human trash. Watch some Precure or something more mainstream I guess.

That's because you're living in the post-Madoka era. Suck it up and wait for the mahou-shoujo version of Gurren Lagann.

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>>150872499
Because juxtaposing cutesy anime girls with dark themes is like super deep, man. It's hard not to envision the conception of such brilliant, completely original masterpieces as much more than a contrarian gook dickrider sitting around watching classic mahou shoujo with his arms crossed saying "Hmph, this is so lame, it's all cutesy and sparkly and shit. You know what, I'm gonna make my own magical girls series except instead of being really gay it's gonna be all dark and brutal and fucking badass, with guns and blood and death and lesbians. I can't believe no one's ever thought of this before, I must be the smartest writer ever."
And that's how literally every "dark" mahou shoujo ever was conceived.

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>>150873402
Didn't Sakura end up dying too? I seem to recall Tsubasa Chronicle mentioning it.

>>150873710
> I'm gonna make my own magical girls series except instead of being really gay it's gonna be all dark and brutal and fucking badass, with guns and blood and death and lesbians
>And that's how literally every "dark" mahou shoujo ever was conceived.
yup pretty much

>>150873640
Got it, I'll hold out for Cardcaptor Sakura 2018.

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>>150873777
Not him, but man I didn't know something like this existed. This will be extremely useful, thanks for posting it.

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>>150873752
If it'll help wiggle the stick free from your ass at least a little I could just post this, or really a hundred thousand different WHOA THAT WAS SO VIOLENT BET YOU DIDN'T SEE THAT COMING BECAUSE OF ALL THE ADORABLE ANIME GIRLS BUT WE TOTALLY WENT THERE BECAUSE WE'RE HARDCORE LIKE THAT scenes instead.

>>150873710
He's not wrong.

>>150874012
being doggo is suffering

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>>150874012
MGRP really doesn't hide how fucking bloodthirsty it is though. The first scene was of Cranberry's botched selection test. Neither did Madoka for that matter (first scene was a dream sequence of what was basically the apocalypse). How people mistook either show for something more lighthearted, I'll never understand.

>>150874012
I really wanted to like this anime but it was so boring.

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>>150872920
>that is related to nanoha somehow

>>150874636
It's not.

Ignore it.

It didn't happen.

The movie will retcon it anyway.

>>150873777
this is awful.

>>150874675
>It's not.
Sure it is. That's Nanoha's adopted daughter's teammate's childhood friend.

>>150874875
Shut the fuck up.

>>150874563
Arc 1 serves as a bit of a prequel anyway, considering everything important happens after it. The best part is is that there's a magical girl in one of the later arcs who literally has the power of friendship.

>>150874675
>>>u/2210692
>C91 Nanoha Reflection drama CD where Vivid Strike cast appear.

>>150875088

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>>150875088
>>>/u/2210692

>>150872499
literally the whole point of the magical girl genre is juxtaposing dark themes with overwhelmingly cute girls and colorful designs in order to create a sense of unsettling mystery and mysticism

this is how it's always been

>>150873799
No. I'm pretty sure shes still alive in the sequel manga going on right now. You know the one with her as that main character that's going to get an anime adaption

>>150872499
Isn't that what flip flappers is basically?

Magical Girl shows have always been big on suffering though, Madoka and it's followers just turned it up a couple of notches and cuts out the fun/feely good bits that 50-100+ episode mahou shoujo shows had.

>>150875783
the first scene has a dead girl

>>150874854
You are awful.

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havent all you fucking newfags learned? being meguca is suffering

WIXOSS, Yuki Yuna, Daybreak Illusion (ew) are some others.

I would say it's cause these are all late night anime. If you want normal magical girls ,watch the saturday morning shit or daytime shorts.

>>150872499

because now they know that magical girl is seen by neets and wizards, so its ranged for them and not for the female children

>>150874563
It's literally all setup for future shit in the novels

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There's always Nurse Witch Komugi-chan.

>>150873777
>Korean Zombie Desk Car on the list
>Fucking Natsurium harem show on the list

>>150872499
Madoka happened.
Sailor moon wasn't without it's dark moments either, particularly in the manga

>>150878399
>>150872685

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Well, its only the recent ones that really turn up the suffering.

Like, Madoka and Yuuki Yuuna, for example had suffering for everyone.

Mahou shoujo having some suffering is a thing since very long ago, but having so much suffering is a fairly recent thing.

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>>150872499
There's one every few seasons. They just don't get get much attention.

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>>150878575
Even when they are fantastic shows.

>>150872551
>madoka
>made for adult men

Madoka was based on a live action series made for <10 year old boys.

>>150872499
>Sailor Moon
>Season 1: The girls literally all die in the final battle
>Season 2: The main villain is a horrifying skeletal embodiment of death who turns the main character's daughter into a corrupted villain
>Season 3: A frail innocent girl gets possessed by an otherworldly monster that temporarily makes her lose control and attack others, and gets hunted down by the sailor soldiers for it
>Season 4: The villains are macabre circus freaks, and the main villain turns out to be a hideous decrepit old woman who was driven mad by having been unjustly banished into eternal darkness
>Season 5: The sailor soldiers betray and kill eachother

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>>150873777

>recommending almost anything on that disgusting right side
>just a single show from before 1990

anon pls

>>150873710
You fantasized about how something may have happened, and then immediately reached the conclusion that it did in fact happen that way with no means of logic or rationale. This is seriously one of the stupidest posts I've ever read. Like, I'm fucking angry and what a total insult to thought your pretentious abortion of textual content is, and it worries me that no one else has called it out. Go fuck yourself.

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>>150874636
Nanoha enough.

>>150874854
>>150878735
make a better chart, nerds

>>150873710
Nigger that's not even how Madoka was conceived.
Butcher literally went
>I love Kamen Rider Ryuki. Lets copy that formula except change the guys to girls and make it animated
>look how rich I've become!
>oh shit they actually hired me to do Kamen Rider
>lets do the exact same shit again for Gaim!

>>150878912
>and it worries me that no one else has called it out.
>the first reply it got

>>150878912
If that's the stupidest post you ever read then you're even more of a retard for replying to it seriously. At least you have the presence of mind to admit what an irrationally butthurt faggot you are, even if it does destroy your credibility.
>>150879161
He got told to blow it out his ass anyways so it evens out well enough.

>>150873777
I love the summarization of Utena to le deconstruction of mahou shoujo.
:)

>>150878093
>WIXOSS
>magical girl

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>>150878932

here you go, i just patched it up a bit

>>150879472
mugen no shoujo
suffering no shoujo

>>150880590
>go ask /ai/ what to watch next
That general is cancer, and inviting recfagging will only make things worse.

Please think before you post next time.

>>150872721
You can watch little witch academia then anon

>>150880836

new blood actually improves those kind of threads, since it can invite topical discussion rather than the usual roleplaying/imagedumping and reply chains. you won't find many other places with the autistic knowledge of magical idol shows you need on the internet

plus if you make it down the chart that far you're already more of a seasoned watcher than 95% of /a/ and have surely learned how to recfag responsibly

>>150880590

How is Nadja similar to Stars?

>>150872578
Nothing on Flip Flappers is as edgy as some of the shit in Sailor Moon

>>150881702

Same director, same studio, same network, same demographic.

Basically if you feel a connection with it over other seasons, you should be interested in who made it that way, and check out what they've done in the same/similar genres. And Nadja's a very good show anyway.

>>150873640
That would be Heartcatch wouldn't it?

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>>150873777
>I went from Madoka to Nanoha to Precure without ever seeing this
Huh

>>150881311
>recfag responsibly
That's what >>>/wsr/ is for. Use it.

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>>150872578
>her grandma was even a robot.
Well thanks for spoiling that shit nigger I'm not fully caught up.

>>150883948
>I'm not fully caught up.
>i'll still browse a show's thread
What a stupid person.

>>150883948
>>150884272
Oh wait, I mixed up my tabs, this isn't the Flip Flappers thread. Whoops.

Still, you shouldn't be browsing the web at all if you're worried about spoilers. They can get you when you least expect them, and I'm telling you from experience.

>>150878982
But anon, Gaim is a better Ryuki