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eightbowlsofspaghetti · 11 months

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color symbolism in madoka magica

Obviously colors are important in PMMM, each soul gem is assigned to each girl based on a color, and the girls have very prominent color schemes, but why each color scheme for each girl? And does it go any deeper than that? I am going to pick it apart one color at a time going in rainbow order, first by analyzing what each color means to each magical girl and their wish, and then applying that to where else the color can be found in the series. (this is my first meta post pls be nice to me)

RED - PASSION

Red is Kyoko’s signature color, representing her passionate and abrasive nature. Her association with red represents her attitude and fiery energy, as well as her wish. Her wish was for people to respect her father, and listen to his teachings and passions. She’s a veteran, and a very powerful magical girl.

In addition to Kyoko, Kyubey has disturbingly red eyes because it’s super creepy, but also because he’s a very powerful figure in the show. Only his eyes are red, representing power and a strong will to achieve a goal, but not a true passion.

At the very beginning of the series, there is a scene with Madoka and her mother about choosing which hair tie. Her choice is between a yellow one and a red one, and ultimately Madoka chooses the red one, encouraged by her mother. Madoka’s mother is also associated with the color red, being a powerful businesswoman and role model.

In Madoka and Homura’s scene together in between worlds, Madoka gives Homura her red hair tie. Homura keeps the hair tie and wears it in honor of Madoka’s sacrifice in the new reality. Homura, now having the hair tie, adds a red element to her purple and black color scheme that was not present before. Madoka, on the other hand, loses all red in her color scheme. The hair tie serves to ask the question: did Madoka really choose her passion? Madoka wanted to live, we see that frequently in the series. She hesitates to become a magical girl all throughout the series because of this desire to live. She wants a normal life, but she puts the well being of others over her own. That being said, her desire to help others does not erase her desire to live. In a perfect world she would be able to do both, but instead, she passes the baton (or more literally the hair tie) to Homura, who only ever wanted to save Madoka from her cruel fate. Homura then gets to live her life free of becoming a witch. Power, true power, is in living your life the way that you want to. Kyoko lives her life the way she wants. Madoka’s mother lives her life the way she wants. But not Madoka, who gives up her red hair tie in hopes that Homura can live her life the way she wants.

Rebellion takes Homura’s desires to the absolute extreme, and the color red is not absent in showing it. Homulily dons red spider lilies, and Homura wears the red hair tie all throughout Rebellion, except for the very end when she gives it back to Madoka. When Homura has the hair tie, she follows her passion, which is to save Madoka and give her a normal life. At the end of the movie she accomplishes this goal, and gives the hair tie back to Madoka. Homura gives up her chance at a normal life so Madoka can have one. Akuma Homura also has plenty of red in her color scheme, further enunciating that Homura’s devil form is the epitome of her desire to give Madoka everything she deserves.

ORANGE - ACCEPTANCE

Okay red was a long one I promise they’re not all this long this color is a lot less complex. Orange is Nagisa’s soul gem color, and most likely represents acceptance, but I’d love to hear someone else’s ideas on what orange might represent. Nagisa’s wish was to finally do something to impress her mother and to be loved by her. However, after her mother’s death she accepts that her mother treated her horribly, and instead seeks acceptance in other people and eventually finds it in Mami Tomoe.

YELLOW - SELF SACRIFICE

Yellow is Mami Tomoe’s soul gem color. Mami, as her name suggests, is a very maternal figure in the show specifically for Nagisa, Sayaka and Madoka. She protects them, advises them, and cares for them. The color yellow represents self sacrifice. Mami puts herself in harm’s way and ultimately perishes for it in order to show Sayaka and Madoka the gruesome nature of being a magical girl. This is in stark contrast to her own wish, which was to save herself. Her guilt over this wish drives her selflessness. She couldn’t save her family, but she can save others.

Madoka’s eyes turn yellow in her goddess form because she has made the ultimate self sacrifice for the fate of all magical girls. In the very beginning of the series, Madoka is encouraged by her mother to wear the red hair tie over the yellow one. Her mother opposes her decision to sacrifice herself, just as she opposed the yellow hair tie. At the very end of Rebellion, Madoka arrives at the school wearing the yellow hair tie, representing her past self sacrifice. As discussed earlier, Homura switches out her hair ties, replacing her self sacrifice with the desire and passion to live the way she wants. Madoka does not want to die, she wants to live the way she wants to, but ultimately when given the choice she will always choose to save others over herself. Without the influence of others, Madoka will choose to sacrifice herself. She will choose the yellow hair tie even if she doesn’t want to.

It’s worth mentioning that in color theory, yellow is the opposite of purple. I’ll get to purple later but it’s interesting that Homura’s signature color, which represents love, is the opposition to self sacrifice.

GREEN - NORMALCY/THE REST OF THE WORLD

Green is Hitomi’s color, and it represents normalcy. Green is the rest of the world outside of the magical girls. Green is the color of nature, and nature opposes magic.

BLUE - REGRET

Sayaka Miki’s signature color is blue, and it represents regret and sadness. Different from the despair represented by the color black, blue represents sadness as a natural part of life. Regret is inevitable, everyone makes bad decisions, but ultimately the goal is to not fall into despair and lose control of your life because of it. (Sayaka actually comments on this in Rebellion while fighting Hitomi’s nightmare!)

PURPLE - LOVE

Homura Akemi’s signature color is purple, representing love. Homura’s wish is based on her love for Madoka, and everything she does is for Madoka’s benefit. In Rebellion, in the flower scene, the flowers turn purple as Homura tells Madoka how important she is to her. Purple represents her original wish, while black represents what she becomes, which I will explore later.

PINK - HOPE

Madoka Kaname’s signature color is pink, representing hope. Madoka becomes the manifestation of hope, in contrast to despair. I forgot where I read this but in the original timeline Madoka uses her wish to save a cat. To save someone else is to hope that they will be okay. Madoka has hope for everyone around her, almost to a fault.

Pink is also a secondary color on Kyubey, representing the false sense of hope he gives to magical girls.

BLACK/WHITE - CONTROL

Black and white are interconnected in their symbolism so I’ll group them together. White is Kyubey’s color, while black is the color of grief seeds and witches. Black represents despair over a lack of control, while white represents overwhelming control. Witches are magical girls who have succumbed to despair, and the blackness that clouds a soul gem represents this despair. Magical girls have no control over this destiny, and often when finding out about this fate they succumb to despair anyway. White is both Kyubey and Goddess Madoka’s color, and it can also be found on each of the color schemes of every magical girl. It represents the control that Kyubey has on each of their lives. Madoka as a goddess replaces Kyubey as the controller of the fate of all magical girls, with a primarily white color scheme.

The reason I grouped these two together is because of Homura. While Homura’s soul gem color is purple, her color scheme differs from the rest of the magical girls in that it doesn’t contain much of her soul gem color. She wears a black and white outfit, representing her control over time, and her lack of control over Madoka’s fate. Homura is in a constant struggle of how much control she is allowed to have over her and Madoka’s lives. She’s controlled by Kyubey and knows it, and she knows of her eventual fate. As Akuma Homura, the white in her color scheme is completely gone. She has accepted her lack of control over her own fate. She knows that eventually Madoka will realize her fate and they will inevitably be enemies because of Madoka’s overwhelming need to sacrifice herself for others. She accepts the fact that she cannot control Madoka’s fate, but the least she can do is attempt to give her a normal life for a little while. She is free from Kyubey’s control, but has also lost all control over herself and her desires. Homura acts only on her wants, while Madoka does not act on her wants at all. This push and pull dynamic is represented through the colors black and white.

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pokemonpo · 6 months

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pmmm vtuber au ramble (apologising in advance if its really incoherent)

I got encouraged to brainrot jnfajkgnj (this is directly copied from my google doc so its really messy sorry ;;)

Mami, sayaka, kyouko and madoka all vaguely knew each other in their streamer past lives

(all youngish adults in college, Mami has graduated tho) 21-23

Sayaka and madoka are childhood friends

Madoka used to run a youtube channel called KNM Ch, where she would post vlogs and challenges (mild ones). She would also occasionally try to do advice videos. She got fairly popular (kind of), then started to do craft videos with Sayaka and Hitomi occasionally making guest appearances. She later sold these online for her 2k celebration. She starts streaming after entering highschool, but stops uploading and streaming entirely to take entrance exams, after which she announced that she would no longer be uploading.

The vtuber agency KYUBEY inc. has had several waves before Magia Quartet, including an earlier food themed wave, with a few members, who unfortunately ended up graduating due to real life commitments. The only one left being Charlotte.

Magia Quartet debuted when Madoka entered college, with Candeloro, Ophelia, Oktavia von Seckendorff and Kriemhield Gretchen. The next wave, Homulily debuted alone, but had lore so tied to the Magia Quartet that most fans consider them the same wave. It reached the point where the company ended up officially combining both waves, renaming them to Holy Quintet. Homura is a long-time fan of KNM Ch, and started watching Madoka since she only had about 20 subscribers. She found Madoka at a low point in her life and this kept her keep going. To donate to Madoka, she used the online name devil_AKM, and this name became widely known as Kaname’s insane fan after Madoka started streaming for a week, and they kept donating max supas. Homura’s grades dropped drastically after Madoka announced her departure from the channel, but she somehow managed to bring them back up before it was too late.

While Madoka released several pieces of handmade merch for her 200k celebration, Homura ended up only getting like 2 pieces of jewellery. She wears one religiously, and the other is kept safely in a ziploc bag at home.

Homura still has poor health in this au. Alot of the wishes made in the original PMMM dont come true, except for Mami’s. So she’s still very much an orphan, but she isn’t as lonely due to the support of her online friends.

Kyouko and Mami are longtime online friends due to being in the same content creator circle. They later broke away due to some disagreements, but did tell each other that they were probably going to stop creating content on their current accounts due to reasons.

They later met during a zoom call, and after a while they reconciled.

Homura applied for the role of homulily after seeing Kriemhield Gretchen’s debut. Her own cute ditzy debut left a big impression.

After sayaka’s debut alot of people would frequently put ‘hazukashi.. Low hp’ in the chat whenever she dies in a game. She later made an emote with this.

When they had their first off collab, they ended up showing each other’s faces beforehand so they would be able to recognise each other in public. Homura has an awful sleeping schedule, so she only ended up sending one in at around 12, but forgot to remove her KNM Ch earring. She quickly deleted it but Sayaka saw it and immediately cornered her. They got weirdly close after that.

Sayaka streams alot of rhythm games and occasionally plays music. She plays other games too, but once in a while she does mixing streams for fun. In the beginning, Madoka and her collab alot, occasionally doing handcam streams together, but after getting close to the rest, Kyouko and her end up streaming together alot more.

Mami does alot of handcam baking/cooking streams, as well as cake and tea reviews, to the point where alot of people are like you might as well be an irl streamer instead. Afterwards, she started playing games like cooking mama, and more mainstream family games like mario party, but alone. She streams at weird times due to her full time job, and it makes it difficult to coordinate with the rest of the girls. She ends up streaming alot with Homura after the official merge.

Homura and Madoka are both variety streamers, in that you can never predict what’s going to be on their schedules. Homura starts off tame at first, but alot of her streams end up being wild as time goes on. Once, she started giving such detailed information about bombs, her manager ended her stream immediately and took it down. Plays fps with Mami alot. Once, Sayaka and Homura had an off collab guerilla cooking stream together for cream stew. Madoka joined and said wow cream stew my favourite! The stream’s audio then immediately cut out for 10 full minutes, and then ended. It later came back on and neither Sayaka or Homura addressed it, and the vod was later heavily edited. Till today some people still bring it up, some people assuming they’re lying due to the low amount of concurrent viewers at the time.

Alot of the content of Madoka’s streams is very similar to what she did for KNM Ch, but now equipped with a bigger budget, she does even more stuff. Her main content is still craft streams though.

Kyouko does alot of just chatting streams, and alot of food reviews. She gives alot of good advice, but most people don’t realise because when you open her channel all you see are fighting game streams and food reviews. Plays alot of two player games with sayaka like we were here, and river city girls. They bicker alot.

Sayaka and Homura hang out alot offline secretly after the earring incident. They often go to arcades and do karaoke together. Once Sayaka uploaded a pic of their maimai scores accidentally onto her Oktavia von Seckendorff account instead of her sub account and the rest of the quartet replied with stuff like damn yall hanging out without us? + fans went wild Sayaka tried to play it off because too many people saw it and said she was hanging out with another friend, but opened her discord and got bombarded. Homura bought another aime card after that, but it didn't change much.

Timeline of events is as follows

Magia Quartet > Mami and Madoka both hit 100k subs > Magia Quartet off Collab > Domain of the Devil solo wave > Plans for a MQ + DD off Collab, along with Nagisa > Plans fall through, second MQ off Collab > Homura is free, they plan another meet up > Homura hits 100k > Homura second lore video drops > Company announces merge, Holy Quintet is formed > Homura sends the wrong photo > off Collab > Homura passes out at the end of the day after everything

In a wild turn of events, Kyouko ends up moving to the same city for uni. After the first year, Sayaka and Madoka end up rooming together. They realise they all live in the same city after planning the first HQ off Collab.

Sayaka calls Homura transfer student after the merge.

Sayaka and Homura play project sekai and taiko tatsujin together at some point, and they start hanging out offline to go to the arcade. Homura starts to destroy sayaka's sleeping schedule. At some point, Madoka goes over to Mami's house for a tea time cake baking off Collab, and Sayaka mentions something along the lines of Yea Madoka loves cream stew, and Homura goes over to Sayaka and Madoka's house to learn it. Sayaka off-handedly mentions it would be good content and so they stream it.

It was both their first handcam stream, and it was extremely terrifying for everyone watching. There were multiple times where parts of Homura and Sayaka's hair and arms got into frame, but they got the hang of it by the middle of the stream.

Some more intense fans caught a glimpse of Homura's earring, but most people didn't know where it was from due to Madoka not keeping up the 2k merch announcement after everything got sold, and the fact that Madoka used to be an irl cc.

Homura wears the earring accidentally to the first day of the offcollab, but her hair is so long Madoka doesn't realise. She takes it off after Sayaka teases her about it.

Homura appears in Madoka's chat all the time, but in reality they don't collab much or talk much. Once, Madoka invited Homura over for an off Collab zatsu. Homura was so nervous she came off as super stiff and awkward, to the point where alot of people stopped watching an hour in, and several fan theories came out that they hated each other. Most people missed the little chat they had after saying their goodbyes where they hadn't realised they were still live and had a heart to heart, and the vod was later taken down. Since then Homura has been genuinely in love with Madoka.

They start talking more after Sayaka posts the maimai photo on the wrong account.

There are multiple Oktavia bickering compilations on YouTube. Oktavia's top shipping tags are ChurchPiano/Oktphelia and Lilvia , especially after the wrong photo incident, and how much they collab. Alot of people theorise that Homura and Sayaka are together

This changed after Homura, Kyouko and Mami's drunk zatsudan though, where Homura got super hammered and started rambling about a super cool YouTuber she used to watch that changed her life and how much she loved her. Kyouko said something like lol parasocial and Homura said it's not if we are friends. This vod got taken down and edited shortly after, but it was clipped to hell.

They have an offline meetup to go to a dessert buffet together with Kyouko, and Kyouko has never felt more like a stranger than in that moment.

Unnecessary detailing

KYUBEY Inc. calls their talents Puella Magi. Originally marketed similarly to hololive in that they’re supposed to be idol type characters. The theming started to change overtime as the company got bigger, so now the idol rules aren’t as enforced anymore. Magia Quartet was originally advertised as a 90s weaponry branch, but this was never fully confirmed. Magia Quartet is the second branch to no longer require the members to be able to dance and sing, though Connect was released a month after Holy Quintet was announced.

The company prioritises efficiency over effectiveness, and started releasing waves closer to one another after the initial success of the Kamihama branch. They later stopped this after the Holy Quintet merger.

Each branch is separated by city.

Following nijisanji type rules, on their anniversary the girls get second outfits, which are usually their witch forms. A few exlivers have come out to say that usually after receiving them, they don’t know when to use them due to them being so different compared to their first outfit. Due to this, competition for a third outfit is rough. Every graduation from this company has always come at least in pairs. A few exlivers have offhandedly mentioned working for a black company after leaving, but this has never been confirmed. There’s never been a termination. Once, they released a limited edition line of energy drinks themed after certain livers. The backlash was immense, but they went through with it anyway. These drinks are now heavily scalped online for thousands of dollars. The taste has been said to be indescribable.

Live interactions between full waves (with most members still active) are rare. However there’s an annual competition between all waves held at the end of the year. After the Holy Quintet merger, due to Nagisa’s wave only having her left, for the first Holy Quintet 3D live performance Nagisa was considered part of their wave. The reception was good, and collabs between the Holy Quintet members and Nagisa increased.

#pmmm #needed to combine the two things i was excited about together #technically three but you know.. yea...#i have not proofread this i just wordvomitted really hard one day and this thing happened sorry if i clog the tag #anyway. i hope u see my vision...#gorseramble #puella magi madoka magica #madoka magica

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