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The 3rd movie to the Puella Magi series really served as a beautiful sequel to the already popular series and its remake into 2 individual movies. After watching the 3rd movie, I can say that the whole movie was like a mini roller-coaster ride, plot twists and unexpected series of events really make the whole movie shine. For fans of the series itself, you'll definitely be surprised to see how far the movie carries the series forward and not forgetting the many jaw-dropping moments as well. For non-madoka fans, it is really time to pick the series up :)
WARNING! MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD!
Ever since the movie was announced, the title always kept me in suspense. "Rebellion" and the various PV of the movie has quite shown that there was going to be a battle between the 5 magical girls, and perhaps including the 6th character, Nagisa. But nothing much was known about the whole "Rebellion" portion. Who exactly was rebelling, and for what reason?
So here's a brief summary of the whole movie itself before I head into 3 main focus of the movie itself:
It all begins in a magical barrier where Mami, Sayaka, Madoka and Kyoko are all fighting a Nightmare, a new kind of evil in the world that they are in where witches no longer exist due to the Law of the World. However, the witch Charlotte exists in their world and is Mami's best buddy. The whole fighting sequence was later revealed as just a dream but most of the facts such as the four of them being in the same school except Homura, even the existence of Charlotte was real. Akemi Homura then transfers into the school but this time, she was already a Mahou Shoujo and was already friends with Mami who had planned her transfer into the school. The team of 5 Mahou Shoujos then started to hunt down Nightmares, which are manifestations of an individual's nightmare itself. (Just like the name itself suggests). One of the highlighted fight with a Nightmare was with Hitomi's Nightmare. In this world, Hitomi and Kamijo were already a couple but due to various reasons, Hitomi couldn't spend much time together with Kamijo and that resulted in her Nightmare being born and had to be taken down by the Mahou Shoujo team.
After many fights later, Homura finally senses that something is quite wrong with the world that they are in. She asks Kyoko out and discusses her suspicion on the world and that she didn't quite feel that Kyoko was supposed to be with them. Homura questions the history of Kyoko in transferring to the school and made a bet with Kyoko to see her old hometown. However no matter which bus they took or attempted to walk there, they never made it out of their town of Mitakihara. That is when Homura realises that they must be in some sort of a witch barrier that restricts their movement to be only in Mitakihara, or in other words, they are being locked up in the town itself. But according to the Law of the World, witches shouldn't exist due to Madoka's wish in another timeline. From there on, Homura directed her target to BB, which was what Charlotte was called in their world. She headed to Mami's apartment with Madoka, used her time control magic to remove Charlotte from the apartment and attempted to kill it. BB however has no clue on what Homura was going to do and at the same time, Mami catches up with Homura and a fight breaks out between them as Mami wasn't going to allow BB to be killed by Homura. With Homura's time control magic, Mami had to leave a constant thread contact with Homura in order to be not be frozen in time. After an intense fight that seemed to end with a draw, Homura tried to commit suicide which Mami then tries to stop her, releasing contact with Homura for that moment which Homura then attempted to turn the table around on Mami. While being frozen in time, Homura aims a bullet into Mami's legs to restrain her but her plan was seen through by Mami and she had to be saved by Sayaka instead.
It does seem to Sayaka that she knows what exactly is happening in the world. To Homura, no one should know that witches exist except her as according to the Law, witches do not exist at all, but this case, Sayaka does seem to know. As Homura started questioning Sayaka's existence, she somehow saw a replica of Octavia appearing behind Sayaka. After they parted ways, Homura was found by Madoka and the duo had a heartfelt talk with each other, where Madoka reveals her true feelings that no matter what, she would never leave her friends nor family behind, and that there would definitely not be a reason to do so since she loves everyone so much. That confession made Homura regret her own decision of allowing Madoka to make a contract with Kyubey and should have stopped her after all. Thanking Madoka, she leaves her behind and moves forward to finally break free of the whole barrier itself. Homura then started to piece everything together and started solving the puzzle by calling Kyoko. She asked her if she knew about the witches which she replied "No." and that was the correct answer since witches aren't supposed to exist. The next question was whether or not she knew Madoka to which Kyoko replied a "Yes." and that was the wrong answer, since Madoka ceased to be an existence but instead she became a Law. That was when Homura finally confirms the true mastermind of the whole witch barrier. The only person that could create this world is someone who still retains the memories of Kaname Madoka. And the only person was Homura, her own self. It is then, that she realises that she was no longer a Mahou Shoujo and was a witch herself.
In her own witch barrier, Kyubey reveals itself to Homura, which obviously suggests that it was all its plan all along. Kyubey then shows Homura what the real world was like, which appears to be Homura lying down with her extremely tainted Soul Gem in some sort of a barrier that Kyubey had created. It turns out that Kyubey had become extremely interested in what will become of a Soul Gem that was at its limit as due to the Law, the Soul Gem would just disappear which to the others, it was Madoka who was purifying them, preventing the existence of witches itself. However Kyubey became obsessive on the term "witch" that Homura had previously used and thus contained Homura's Soul Gem in a barrier that breaks free from the Law itself. At the same time, Kyubey wanted to confirm with the existence of Madokami which Homura tends to call the Law instead. Without the usual interference, Homura's tainted Soul Gem was allowed to reach it's final stage and thus Homura became a full fledged witch herself. But as the Soul Gem was still in the barrier, Homura as a witch can only exist in the barrier of Mitakihara that she had created and not in the real world since the barrier was not removed. At that point in time, Homura realises Kyubey's objective, which was to have control over Madoka.
With Homura now awakened as a witch in the fake Mitakihara, the rest of the girls assemble and together, they take down Homura, who initially refuses to be saved, possibly due to her regret of not stopping Madoka from making a contract with Kyubey while her true feelings was to remain with everyone instead of sacrificing herself. With Homura's witch form being taken down, she reawakens in the real world with her own tainted soul gem now no longer within Kyubey's barrier and thus is now vulnerable to the Law itself. At that moment, Madokami appears as according to the Law of the World, Homura's Soul Gem would be purified before she turns into a real witch which of course shouldn't exist due to Madoka's wish. As she approaches Homura and apologises for having made her wait so long, Homura smiles and grabs Madokami's hands tightly, telling her that she had been waiting for this moment to come. A different kind of darkness starts to envelope the surroundings that comes from within Homura and even her Soul Gem started to become tainted with some other colour other than the usual colour that we normally see. The darkness then consumes Madokami and somehow tears Madoka away from her God form and the universe and reorganised once again.
At that point in time, Homura no longer possess a typical Soul Gem but rather something similar but more oval in shape. She acknowledges herself that she was no longer a Mahou Shoujo, nor a witch, and since she was able to even trap Madokami, she calls herself a Devil and then, Kyubey finally realises how dangerous it was to harvest energy from human emotions. Homura tells Kyubey that her Soul Gem was no longer tainted with the usual hatred nor despair but something much bigger to her which was "Love". With her "Love" for Madoka, she recreates a new world where humans and even witch familiars live together and only Sayaka realises that the world was yet another fake Mitakihara created by Homura. Sayaka however has no power in this fake world as it is now governed by Homura herself and at the same time she was already altering Sayaka's memories to suit the fake Mitakihara that she had created. It is known that Homura has stolen a piece of the Law, which was the memories of Madoka itself, making Madoka a real existence once again before she had made a contract with Kyubey. In this fake Mitakihara, Madoka becomes the transfer student and Homura took the lead to guide her around school. However in midst of walking along the school corridor, Madoka suddenly feels that she was part of something larger and started to regain a little of her Madokami form before Homura rushes in to stop her transformation. Homura questions Madoka if she treasures the Law more or desires to which Madoka surprises her by saying that she feels that the Law is more important. It is then that Homura acknowledges that sooner or later, she and Madoka would become enemies one day. With the fake Mitakihara going along peacefully day by day, Homura observes the new world she had created from afar, together with Kyubey, whose eyes begin to start filling up with despair.
The End.
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Now let's take a closer look to 3 main parts of the story itself:
1. The first fake Mitakihara
What confuses me upfront was when Homura transferred in to their school as a Mahou Shoujo already and the existence of Kyoko Sakura in their school as well. Referring to the first point being made, what I thought was that Homura had became a Mahou Shoujo due to her wish to protect Madoka, which in this case, would mean that she has indeed come from the future and leaped back into a different timeline where Madoka still exists. However if that was the case, as seen in the TV series, Homura should've retained her memories before she went to a different timeline which wasn't actually the case in the movie. Another reasoning I believe could be possible was that Homura had made a different wish for this scenario and had came into this timeline just like any other Mahou Shoujos, not using her wish to save Madoka and perhaps for some other reasons. But due to her own powers, she thus had a "memory-flashback" from other timelines, which ultimately made her able to remember herself. If it was the former, it could also mean that she just took a longer time than usual to regain her own memories.
It was a nice touch after all those "power ranger" style fighting against the nightmare and all those weird moments with singing a song right before they finish the nightmare off, the story directly leaped back into the topic of "inconsistency" that was lingering around the movie from the very start. Just another though: the henshin sequences were kinda unique though, seems like they have a liking to dancing or ballet in this movie yea? Everything started to roll out part by part after Homura seemed to have regained part of her memories, when she starts to questions Kyoko about her history. It is that moment that you feel that you are going to see the old Homura soon and no longer the twin tailed girl that we have been watching for more than 30mins in. From that point on, we could see that the story begins to unfold when Homura's prediction that everything was a result of a witch became spot on and then we got the old Homura back! Woo!
Following that was an extremely fast paced action sequence of the fight between Mami and Homura. It was a rather detailed fight since each of their powers were taken into account, with Homura's power being able to freeze time for anything that wasn't in her contact, which Mami, to counter that, leaches onto Homura's legs with her yellow thread constantly to prevent herself from being stopped in time. The fight was great to watch too with all those bullet tracks being shown due to Homura's powers. It was a pity that Homura lost though, would've actually thought that Mami would be on the losing end.
What comes as a next confusing question was Sayaka's existence in the world. If Homura's suspicions were right that everything was caused by a witch, the Sayaka shouldn't exist due to her becoming a witch in the TV series, or in the past in the series context. There are visual proof that Sayaka somehow is able to hold Octavia's powers within her so her existence in the fake world is definitely questionable. Everything fell into place shortly after when Homura begins to ask Kyoko if she knew about the witches. It then hit me that Homura was trying to pinpoint the culprit through eliminating possible inconsistencies in this world, where some things that shouldn't exist, exist. Since Kyoko still didn't know about the existence of witches, it would mean that Madoka's wish had come true and was still somehow holding through, then it was the existence of Madoka. It was already pretty obvious at that point in time that the witch was Homura herself since the only person who remembers Madoka is Homura herself.
2. Homura as a witch
It was an interesting turn of events when I saw Homura turning into a full fledged witch. At that point, I was thinking that hey, so this was the rebellion? Wow. I was pretty much speechless about the development, I wasn't expecting the story to actually turn another of the group of 5 into witches after Sayaka but hey, if this was going to be the climax of the story itself, I wouldn't mind since I'm pretty interested in seeing how this plot would continue and end. And finally, the return of the Incubators. It does seem that they actually had a plan all along to try and dig into the mysteries of the law itself. Perhaps it was the curiosity of the Incubators after hearing Homura talk about the witches and acknowledging the law as an existence known as "Kaname Madoka" that they decide to isolate Homura's tainted soul gem from the influence of the law and from there did they thus discover the existence of witches, but not quite existing in the real world, just in the dream world that Homura's witch form had manifested in.
It could also be due to the reason that the world was a make shift town that made Homura not be able to regain her memories as she wasn't exactly travelling through time but was instead more similar to a form of "travelling" into a deeper realm, disconnected from the world and the influence of the law. But somehow she does manage to influence other existence into her own fragmented world such as Hitomi. This is still a part that I didn't fully understand so I guess I'll have to wait for more proper subs to actually be able to get it. Same with the part with Homura being taken down by the others, it was a nice thing to see everyone working together, especially with Kyoko and Sayaka working together once again since the two would never be able to see each other in the real world any longer...
3. The true rebellion
When Madokami finally arrives to clean out Homura's tainted gem, it is shown that Sayaka and BB were following Madokami from behind, which makes me think that their existence might be just a special inject into the fake Mitakihara that Homura had created and in the real world, they don't actually exist but "exist" in a form similar to Madokami itself. More of a theory of non-existence rather than an actual one. And when I thought that everything would be over and we'd get a happy ending, the plot says "nope". And the rebellion story is back up, with the true rebellion taking place. I was definitely surprised when Homura grabbed hold of Madokami's hands and things started to turn nasty.
We see ominous colours flowing out of Homura's soul gem and the real world being slowly de fragmented, including Madokami's "existence" as well. Homura somehow manage to split Madoka out from Madokami and the end result? We get a 2nd fake Mitakihara, this time complete with Madoka and the rest, and Homura, who now calls herself a "Demon". What could have driven Homura to that point was definitely the answer that she had heard from Madoka in the 1st world, that no matter what, she would never choose to leave her family nor friends behind. That perhaps sparked a huge sense of remorse for Homura who feels so much regret that she wasn't able, or actually, willing, to stop Madoka from making the contract in the end. It all felt that she was forced to do it since she had no choice when her own true feelings was that she would never wish to leave everyone behind. Homura then sees her actions of taking Madoka back, a form of "love" for her best friend. It kinda seemed like a more "atonement" kind of action by Homura, who forcefully splits Madoka's existence from Madokami, allowing Madoka to gain a proper existence in the 2nd Mitakihara. Now in the 2nd world, Homura now have control over the world and its movements, including forcefully getting help from Kyubey, whom in the end we got to see the Kyubey's sense of despair. Homura might have made a wrong choice in deciding to break Madoka away from the law after she asks her on which she treasures most and what she got was a conflicting answer as compared to the one she got on the 1st world. Homura might have started thinking that the 1st world Madoka might be a make belief one created for the sake of her own existence? But nonetheless, she seems quite positive that she wouldn't be able to keep Madokami's powers in check even though she had became a demon so the only thing she could do was to observe the world that she had created from afar preserving it as long as possible.
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Overall, I would say this movie was pretty darn good. It was absolutely a great sequel to the TV series as it now shows Homura's regret on not being able to save Madoka in the end and all those plot twists in the movie just makes it twice as exciting. Even though some parts were quite expected, the animation quality, coupled with the storyline just makes the movie even more worthwhile to watch. Now the only problem that remains is: so when is the next sequel coming? :)
Definitely wouldn't mind more Madoka! :D
So here's a brief summary of the whole movie itself before I head into 3 main focus of the movie itself:
It all begins in a magical barrier where Mami, Sayaka, Madoka and Kyoko are all fighting a Nightmare, a new kind of evil in the world that they are in where witches no longer exist due to the Law of the World. However, the witch Charlotte exists in their world and is Mami's best buddy. The whole fighting sequence was later revealed as just a dream but most of the facts such as the four of them being in the same school except Homura, even the existence of Charlotte was real. Akemi Homura then transfers into the school but this time, she was already a Mahou Shoujo and was already friends with Mami who had planned her transfer into the school. The team of 5 Mahou Shoujos then started to hunt down Nightmares, which are manifestations of an individual's nightmare itself. (Just like the name itself suggests). One of the highlighted fight with a Nightmare was with Hitomi's Nightmare. In this world, Hitomi and Kamijo were already a couple but due to various reasons, Hitomi couldn't spend much time together with Kamijo and that resulted in her Nightmare being born and had to be taken down by the Mahou Shoujo team.
After many fights later, Homura finally senses that something is quite wrong with the world that they are in. She asks Kyoko out and discusses her suspicion on the world and that she didn't quite feel that Kyoko was supposed to be with them. Homura questions the history of Kyoko in transferring to the school and made a bet with Kyoko to see her old hometown. However no matter which bus they took or attempted to walk there, they never made it out of their town of Mitakihara. That is when Homura realises that they must be in some sort of a witch barrier that restricts their movement to be only in Mitakihara, or in other words, they are being locked up in the town itself. But according to the Law of the World, witches shouldn't exist due to Madoka's wish in another timeline. From there on, Homura directed her target to BB, which was what Charlotte was called in their world. She headed to Mami's apartment with Madoka, used her time control magic to remove Charlotte from the apartment and attempted to kill it. BB however has no clue on what Homura was going to do and at the same time, Mami catches up with Homura and a fight breaks out between them as Mami wasn't going to allow BB to be killed by Homura. With Homura's time control magic, Mami had to leave a constant thread contact with Homura in order to be not be frozen in time. After an intense fight that seemed to end with a draw, Homura tried to commit suicide which Mami then tries to stop her, releasing contact with Homura for that moment which Homura then attempted to turn the table around on Mami. While being frozen in time, Homura aims a bullet into Mami's legs to restrain her but her plan was seen through by Mami and she had to be saved by Sayaka instead.
It does seem to Sayaka that she knows what exactly is happening in the world. To Homura, no one should know that witches exist except her as according to the Law, witches do not exist at all, but this case, Sayaka does seem to know. As Homura started questioning Sayaka's existence, she somehow saw a replica of Octavia appearing behind Sayaka. After they parted ways, Homura was found by Madoka and the duo had a heartfelt talk with each other, where Madoka reveals her true feelings that no matter what, she would never leave her friends nor family behind, and that there would definitely not be a reason to do so since she loves everyone so much. That confession made Homura regret her own decision of allowing Madoka to make a contract with Kyubey and should have stopped her after all. Thanking Madoka, she leaves her behind and moves forward to finally break free of the whole barrier itself. Homura then started to piece everything together and started solving the puzzle by calling Kyoko. She asked her if she knew about the witches which she replied "No." and that was the correct answer since witches aren't supposed to exist. The next question was whether or not she knew Madoka to which Kyoko replied a "Yes." and that was the wrong answer, since Madoka ceased to be an existence but instead she became a Law. That was when Homura finally confirms the true mastermind of the whole witch barrier. The only person that could create this world is someone who still retains the memories of Kaname Madoka. And the only person was Homura, her own self. It is then, that she realises that she was no longer a Mahou Shoujo and was a witch herself.
In her own witch barrier, Kyubey reveals itself to Homura, which obviously suggests that it was all its plan all along. Kyubey then shows Homura what the real world was like, which appears to be Homura lying down with her extremely tainted Soul Gem in some sort of a barrier that Kyubey had created. It turns out that Kyubey had become extremely interested in what will become of a Soul Gem that was at its limit as due to the Law, the Soul Gem would just disappear which to the others, it was Madoka who was purifying them, preventing the existence of witches itself. However Kyubey became obsessive on the term "witch" that Homura had previously used and thus contained Homura's Soul Gem in a barrier that breaks free from the Law itself. At the same time, Kyubey wanted to confirm with the existence of Madokami which Homura tends to call the Law instead. Without the usual interference, Homura's tainted Soul Gem was allowed to reach it's final stage and thus Homura became a full fledged witch herself. But as the Soul Gem was still in the barrier, Homura as a witch can only exist in the barrier of Mitakihara that she had created and not in the real world since the barrier was not removed. At that point in time, Homura realises Kyubey's objective, which was to have control over Madoka.
With Homura now awakened as a witch in the fake Mitakihara, the rest of the girls assemble and together, they take down Homura, who initially refuses to be saved, possibly due to her regret of not stopping Madoka from making a contract with Kyubey while her true feelings was to remain with everyone instead of sacrificing herself. With Homura's witch form being taken down, she reawakens in the real world with her own tainted soul gem now no longer within Kyubey's barrier and thus is now vulnerable to the Law itself. At that moment, Madokami appears as according to the Law of the World, Homura's Soul Gem would be purified before she turns into a real witch which of course shouldn't exist due to Madoka's wish. As she approaches Homura and apologises for having made her wait so long, Homura smiles and grabs Madokami's hands tightly, telling her that she had been waiting for this moment to come. A different kind of darkness starts to envelope the surroundings that comes from within Homura and even her Soul Gem started to become tainted with some other colour other than the usual colour that we normally see. The darkness then consumes Madokami and somehow tears Madoka away from her God form and the universe and reorganised once again.
At that point in time, Homura no longer possess a typical Soul Gem but rather something similar but more oval in shape. She acknowledges herself that she was no longer a Mahou Shoujo, nor a witch, and since she was able to even trap Madokami, she calls herself a Devil and then, Kyubey finally realises how dangerous it was to harvest energy from human emotions. Homura tells Kyubey that her Soul Gem was no longer tainted with the usual hatred nor despair but something much bigger to her which was "Love". With her "Love" for Madoka, she recreates a new world where humans and even witch familiars live together and only Sayaka realises that the world was yet another fake Mitakihara created by Homura. Sayaka however has no power in this fake world as it is now governed by Homura herself and at the same time she was already altering Sayaka's memories to suit the fake Mitakihara that she had created. It is known that Homura has stolen a piece of the Law, which was the memories of Madoka itself, making Madoka a real existence once again before she had made a contract with Kyubey. In this fake Mitakihara, Madoka becomes the transfer student and Homura took the lead to guide her around school. However in midst of walking along the school corridor, Madoka suddenly feels that she was part of something larger and started to regain a little of her Madokami form before Homura rushes in to stop her transformation. Homura questions Madoka if she treasures the Law more or desires to which Madoka surprises her by saying that she feels that the Law is more important. It is then that Homura acknowledges that sooner or later, she and Madoka would become enemies one day. With the fake Mitakihara going along peacefully day by day, Homura observes the new world she had created from afar, together with Kyubey, whose eyes begin to start filling up with despair.
The End.
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Now let's take a closer look to 3 main parts of the story itself:
1. The first fake Mitakihara
What confuses me upfront was when Homura transferred in to their school as a Mahou Shoujo already and the existence of Kyoko Sakura in their school as well. Referring to the first point being made, what I thought was that Homura had became a Mahou Shoujo due to her wish to protect Madoka, which in this case, would mean that she has indeed come from the future and leaped back into a different timeline where Madoka still exists. However if that was the case, as seen in the TV series, Homura should've retained her memories before she went to a different timeline which wasn't actually the case in the movie. Another reasoning I believe could be possible was that Homura had made a different wish for this scenario and had came into this timeline just like any other Mahou Shoujos, not using her wish to save Madoka and perhaps for some other reasons. But due to her own powers, she thus had a "memory-flashback" from other timelines, which ultimately made her able to remember herself. If it was the former, it could also mean that she just took a longer time than usual to regain her own memories.
It was a nice touch after all those "power ranger" style fighting against the nightmare and all those weird moments with singing a song right before they finish the nightmare off, the story directly leaped back into the topic of "inconsistency" that was lingering around the movie from the very start. Just another though: the henshin sequences were kinda unique though, seems like they have a liking to dancing or ballet in this movie yea? Everything started to roll out part by part after Homura seemed to have regained part of her memories, when she starts to questions Kyoko about her history. It is that moment that you feel that you are going to see the old Homura soon and no longer the twin tailed girl that we have been watching for more than 30mins in. From that point on, we could see that the story begins to unfold when Homura's prediction that everything was a result of a witch became spot on and then we got the old Homura back! Woo!
Following that was an extremely fast paced action sequence of the fight between Mami and Homura. It was a rather detailed fight since each of their powers were taken into account, with Homura's power being able to freeze time for anything that wasn't in her contact, which Mami, to counter that, leaches onto Homura's legs with her yellow thread constantly to prevent herself from being stopped in time. The fight was great to watch too with all those bullet tracks being shown due to Homura's powers. It was a pity that Homura lost though, would've actually thought that Mami would be on the losing end.
What comes as a next confusing question was Sayaka's existence in the world. If Homura's suspicions were right that everything was caused by a witch, the Sayaka shouldn't exist due to her becoming a witch in the TV series, or in the past in the series context. There are visual proof that Sayaka somehow is able to hold Octavia's powers within her so her existence in the fake world is definitely questionable. Everything fell into place shortly after when Homura begins to ask Kyoko if she knew about the witches. It then hit me that Homura was trying to pinpoint the culprit through eliminating possible inconsistencies in this world, where some things that shouldn't exist, exist. Since Kyoko still didn't know about the existence of witches, it would mean that Madoka's wish had come true and was still somehow holding through, then it was the existence of Madoka. It was already pretty obvious at that point in time that the witch was Homura herself since the only person who remembers Madoka is Homura herself.
2. Homura as a witch
It was an interesting turn of events when I saw Homura turning into a full fledged witch. At that point, I was thinking that hey, so this was the rebellion? Wow. I was pretty much speechless about the development, I wasn't expecting the story to actually turn another of the group of 5 into witches after Sayaka but hey, if this was going to be the climax of the story itself, I wouldn't mind since I'm pretty interested in seeing how this plot would continue and end. And finally, the return of the Incubators. It does seem that they actually had a plan all along to try and dig into the mysteries of the law itself. Perhaps it was the curiosity of the Incubators after hearing Homura talk about the witches and acknowledging the law as an existence known as "Kaname Madoka" that they decide to isolate Homura's tainted soul gem from the influence of the law and from there did they thus discover the existence of witches, but not quite existing in the real world, just in the dream world that Homura's witch form had manifested in.
It could also be due to the reason that the world was a make shift town that made Homura not be able to regain her memories as she wasn't exactly travelling through time but was instead more similar to a form of "travelling" into a deeper realm, disconnected from the world and the influence of the law. But somehow she does manage to influence other existence into her own fragmented world such as Hitomi. This is still a part that I didn't fully understand so I guess I'll have to wait for more proper subs to actually be able to get it. Same with the part with Homura being taken down by the others, it was a nice thing to see everyone working together, especially with Kyoko and Sayaka working together once again since the two would never be able to see each other in the real world any longer...
3. The true rebellion
When Madokami finally arrives to clean out Homura's tainted gem, it is shown that Sayaka and BB were following Madokami from behind, which makes me think that their existence might be just a special inject into the fake Mitakihara that Homura had created and in the real world, they don't actually exist but "exist" in a form similar to Madokami itself. More of a theory of non-existence rather than an actual one. And when I thought that everything would be over and we'd get a happy ending, the plot says "nope". And the rebellion story is back up, with the true rebellion taking place. I was definitely surprised when Homura grabbed hold of Madokami's hands and things started to turn nasty.
We see ominous colours flowing out of Homura's soul gem and the real world being slowly de fragmented, including Madokami's "existence" as well. Homura somehow manage to split Madoka out from Madokami and the end result? We get a 2nd fake Mitakihara, this time complete with Madoka and the rest, and Homura, who now calls herself a "Demon". What could have driven Homura to that point was definitely the answer that she had heard from Madoka in the 1st world, that no matter what, she would never choose to leave her family nor friends behind. That perhaps sparked a huge sense of remorse for Homura who feels so much regret that she wasn't able, or actually, willing, to stop Madoka from making the contract in the end. It all felt that she was forced to do it since she had no choice when her own true feelings was that she would never wish to leave everyone behind. Homura then sees her actions of taking Madoka back, a form of "love" for her best friend. It kinda seemed like a more "atonement" kind of action by Homura, who forcefully splits Madoka's existence from Madokami, allowing Madoka to gain a proper existence in the 2nd Mitakihara. Now in the 2nd world, Homura now have control over the world and its movements, including forcefully getting help from Kyubey, whom in the end we got to see the Kyubey's sense of despair. Homura might have made a wrong choice in deciding to break Madoka away from the law after she asks her on which she treasures most and what she got was a conflicting answer as compared to the one she got on the 1st world. Homura might have started thinking that the 1st world Madoka might be a make belief one created for the sake of her own existence? But nonetheless, she seems quite positive that she wouldn't be able to keep Madokami's powers in check even though she had became a demon so the only thing she could do was to observe the world that she had created from afar preserving it as long as possible.
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Overall, I would say this movie was pretty darn good. It was absolutely a great sequel to the TV series as it now shows Homura's regret on not being able to save Madoka in the end and all those plot twists in the movie just makes it twice as exciting. Even though some parts were quite expected, the animation quality, coupled with the storyline just makes the movie even more worthwhile to watch. Now the only problem that remains is: so when is the next sequel coming? :)
Definitely wouldn't mind more Madoka! :D
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