NewType 2011-07

for promise

Source: NewType, July 2011.

The names of the characters Madoka, Homura, etc. and the key staff who worked on Madoka (Shinbo, Urobuchi, etc.).

Sayaka

Source: NewType, July 2011.

Translated by symbv from evageeks forum.

SHE FOUGHT ALL BY HERSELF. And that was before I knew about mahou shoujo. One wish will be granted no matter what it is. When I heard that, well, right away I thought of the patient ward. The room with those 2 people, with curtains gently swaying under the orange color of sunset. Wise people may say that making a wish for somebody else is a foolish thing. But to her, probably there was no other option. It was not necessarily putting buttons in the wrong holes. It did not necessarily mean a flag for BAD END was stupidly set up. Before her friends she behaved in easygoing and cheerful manner; Before the person she has fallen in love she was timid and meek; When a love rival appeared, she got crushed by worries. Every single one is her true self. And more than everybody else, she deserves to be called “an ordinary girl”. “I do not regret praying for somebody else. And I decided to make a point of not regretting so as not to turn this feeling into a lie. This will stay the same from now on.” She raised the spirits who were shuddering, but the end that she reached is the burst up of the feeling of “an ordinary girl”. What was lost are the days she spent with friends and love, and her life. Although this looks close to the shape of lost hope, but this just means the hope that was embraced by Sayaka is just a little bit bigger than this world. And those who can laugh it off something baka (silly) are...that's right...only the mahou shoujo.