Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica 5

With Sayaka's recent debut as a Mahou Shoujo, things do not go her way through protecting the people of the city after the interference of the other mahou shoujos as well. This time, the cunning Kyubey, had too, showed how much he had wanted Madoka to become a mahou shoujo and had took hold of any chance given to him to lure Madoka into signing the contract with it. Now now, it's nearly half the series and our little protagonist has yet to become one. Don't fall prey to Kyubey's enticement!!!



Now i do start to see Madoka as a little irritating. Not particularly due to her being powerless to protect the one's she love around her, but due to her kindness. Overloaded kindness. It is supposed to be a plus point for any person but being overly caring over another could lead to a negative impact that could endanger both herself and others and yet, Madoka does not realise this. Requesting Sayaka to bring her along in witch hunts could show that she wanted to stay with Sayaka through her fight which Sayaka feels better with Madoka's accompaniment. But, what Madoka fails to realise, is that she's exchanging accompaniment with Sayaka risking her life. With Madoka being all powerless, it would mean that Sayaka would have to deal with the witch and watch out for Madoka at the same time. Didn't Mami died protecting the powerless bystanders? I really do not wish to see another casualty like that.



Madoka even went to the extent to convince Homura to protect Sayaka and work together with her, which she coldly rejects and regretted not keeping an eye on Sayaka as tightly as she had on Madoka. What has happened cannot be changed and the contract once signed, would mean that one would have to risk her life in exchange for a single wish. And in Sayaka's case, she isn't even fighting for her own wish but for others. It wasn't really all that bad, since her wish did contribute to her regenerative ability while fighting. Madoka's speech on the plus points of Sayaka to persuade Homura to protect her backfired and Homura feels that the qualities of Sayaka that she was told were all major flaws of a mahou shoujo:

1. With kindness comes naivete
2. With bravery comes recklessness
3. With dedication comes no rewards



"i've wasted your time, i'm sorry..."

After Sayaka got to talk with Madoka about her own debut, she did showed hints that she could have used the wish on Mami's revival instead (maybe it's left to Madoka to do it!) but was extremely happy to see Kyousuke being able to play music once again. Not that Kyousuke knows that the miracle was brought by Sayaka but if he did find out someday, i doubt he'll be happy to know that Sayaka was risking her entire life just to grant him his wish.

Meanwhile, the hot-headed red mage, Kyouko, was definitely itching for some combat and went to face Sayaka in their search of a witch familiar.



To Sayaka, eliminating all threats to protect the people was her aim, but to Kyouko, she would let the familiar go, wait for it to become a witch before killing it to obtain a beneficial grief seed. To Kyouko, the grief seed seems more important to her than the lives of others and she doesn't like Sayaka's way of doing things. The Life Cycle leads Kyouko into her actions, where the witches feed off people and the mahou shoujos feed off the witches. Sayaka does not approve of her actions as well and the two clashes with Madoka and Kyubey as bystanders.



Seeing Sayaka in danger, Kyubey took the chance to entice Madoka into becoming a Mahou Shoujo to stop the fight between the clearly overpowered Kyouko and Sayaka. Before Kyubey's evil plan hatched, Homura cut into the match and prepares to engage Kyouko.

Sayaka's skills as a mahou shoujo isn't really up to Mami's standards yet considering that she had just become one.



I did find her blade stances to be rather similar to Mami's but an unlimited gun works definitely look nicer than unlimited blade works in terms of a range attack. If Sayaka could deploy her blades in midair and using them to cut instead, i bet that would look darn cool.



Not forgetting Kyouko as well, her spear does look cool. Maybe we'll get to see some Homura action next episode? or maybe it's about time Madoka gave in to Kyubey...