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Madoka 5

Well I was expecting a longer fight, but it's fine. Some interesting bits of information revealed this episode.

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Magical girls get abilities based on the wishes they make. I was thinking this before, but now I kinda have more confirmation of it based on a few additional clues in this episode. Homura's ability is probably time manipulation/super speed. It goes with the theory that she's from the future and came back to prevent something from happening. The scene that originally made me think she had such an ability was in the Charlotte fight, where she got eaten but mysteriously appeared on the table in front of Charlotte. If you look at the scene frame by frame, Homura vanishes before Charlotte even bites the table.


At first I was kinda just thinking "SHAFT was just too lazy to animate a frame of her jumping off the table in a blur or something" but I was also thinking that was pointless to do because the scene goes by so fast that they could easily keep her in the same spot until the moment it's chomped and still pass it off as her just doing a super fast dodge. But in this episode we see drops frozen in the air as Homura runs to stop the battle, and Sayaka is also moved from the place she originally was (could be a case of QUALITY though). By this point I'm taking it as SHAFT giving hints about her ability. So, I wonder what Mami's ability was, given that she wished to survive the crash/wished to be revived. ZOMBIE MAMI CONFIRMED.

I also got confirmation that she didn't make a contract with Kyubey, but at the same time Kyubey was being cryptic about it (maybe something like "I didn't make a contract with her yet, but in the future I do").

And Homura really seems to be there to prevent Madoka's wish. By this point I'm thinking thew only way Madoka will be come a magic girl is if Homura and the others are about to die as well, which probably fits in with the theory of Sayaka becoming that witch that Homura is fighting in the first episode.

All speculation though. Possible SHAFT was just throwing in SUPAH COOL FX and being lazy with animation.