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<div><div style="border:1px solid #c0c090;padding:10px;background:#FDFFEE;margin:-0.4em 0 0.6em;">'''Previous discussions are archived at''':<br />
*[[Talk:Main Page/Archive 1]] (January 18, 2011–February 27, 2011)<br />
*[[Talk:Main Page/Archive 2]] (February 28, 2011-April 25, 2011)<br />
*[[Talk:Main Page/Archive 3]] (April 25, 2011-March 14, 2012)<br />
*[[Talk:Main Page/Archive 4]] (March 15, 2012-April 27, 2017)<br />
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== Wiki cleanup ==<br />
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There seems to be a discussion in [http://walpurgischan.net/meduka/res/12934.html Meduka thread] about cleaning up the wiki (and little discussion in [[User talk:Sondenise]]). I think we better continue the discussion here. My idea is that if we want to cleanup the wiki and turn it into something more formal (e.g. less fan content and speculah, more confirmed/official info), we better archive this Wiki as read only and start a new. The reason is that the wiki in its current form is a mix of fan content, speculation and official info, and many parts are not exactly well-organized. <br />
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In case we archive the wiki, this will be what happen:<br />
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* The current wiki content is frozen as read only, and put to oldwiki.puella-magi.net<br />
* New wiki is setup at wiki.puella-magi.net (MediaWiki? Something else?)<br />
* "Not found" page in a new wiki contain a link to suggest to look at the same article name in oldwiki.puella-magi.net<br />
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I would love to see an opinion from the community on what would be the best way going forward. <br />
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Thanks! — [[User:0x99|0x99]] 14:39, 27 April 2017 (UTC)<br />
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: For a reference current wiki size is 14GB because all the images. Backup in Tarsnap contains about 21GB of unique data. — [[User:0x99|0x99]] 14:43, 27 April 2017 (UTC)<br />
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::As long as certain pages won't be locked and the sidebar can be updated, I'm up for it. In retrospect, it's quite a hassle to edit every single page here and remove all irrelevant speculation and fanart. It'd be best to start anew and put up some new rules on the wiki so we don't have this issue in the future when new Madoka stuff comes out and everyone goes nuts:<br />
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::* No fan art on character pages or episode pages or etc., we don't need to have people upload individual pieces to show off, people need to search for them on their own. Keep most fanworks to a minimum. The most notable such as Grief Syndrome are permitted to have a page. No joke pages either.<br />
::* No shipping nor speculation, the latter especially whether it be what everyone generally agrees on or not (such as whether Kyubey is evil or not) and/or what people think/predict what will happen in newer works. This should be discussed and kept to /meduka/ or elsewhere. -- [[User:The Witch&#39;s House|The Witch&#39;s House]] 19:13, 27 April 2017 (UTC)<br />
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::: I certainly agree with getting rid of fanarts; they're the source of hotlinking and take up the most space. Most fan artist do not like that we reprinting them without their permissions, etc. As for speculation, I think if it's still in the area of in-series observation and not a crazy theory (e.g. A may have something to do with Y) it should be OK. Page locking have something to do with preventing spam and edit wars (but that was from 2012), so we could definitely relax on that.<br />
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::: Sidebar is another story though as it's locked by permission in MediaWiki (wiki software) rather than manual lock like other pages. Granting permission to edit sidebar equals to editing all system messages which is a little scary (e.g. you can put up a side-wide persistent banner with the permission). I will see if there is an extension capable of allowing user-edited sidebars without affecting other parts of the wiki. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] 05:10, 28 April 2017 (UTC)<br />
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: The wiki definitely got cluttered over the years and could use a tune up. My primary concern is whether we have enough (wo)manpower to trim everything down to size. Over the past year, wiki activity has slowed tremendously, with only occasional bouts of individual, herculean efforts. Going through all 666 pages will take a lot work. Either way, I'm going to miss all the fun stuff. - [[User:Prima|Prima]] 05:31, 28 April 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:: I hear you. But at the same time, we will have a lot more content coming up thanks to Magia Record (story, events, characters, etc.) If we want to those stuff in the wiki, a cleanup is definitely needed. For the fun stuff I think Walpurgischan can still be used (I plan to keep it running as long as I could) although I understand that it's not the same kind. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] 05:47, 28 April 2017 (UTC)<br />
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::: If we're doing this, I'll help when I could. Any goodies we can get if we're starting afresh? How about languages? Webm? Do we have to manually migrate over all the media? - [[User:Prima|Prima]] 05:55, 28 April 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:::: Multilangual is definitely one (so we can have en:Pages, ja:Pages, fr:Pages, etc). Setting up wiki-family for supporting multi languages wiki with common assets (photos, etc.) require a bit of work, in which doing with current wiki state is rather difficult (but a lot easier when start anew). WebM/HTML5 video is likely yes because we can upgrade MediaWiki without breaking a lot of stuff (and can set $wgHtml5 to true). Media have to be manually migrated though, but I think uploading files in newer version of MediaWiki is a lot easier than what we have. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] 06:04, 28 April 2017 (UTC)<br />
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::: Is it really safe to assume we should delete stuff because we have a lot more content? Kirara is defunct and Magia Record isn't going to be any different from your average region locked mobile game.[[User:Trowa199|Trowa199]] 06:42, 28 April 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:::: I understand your concern. However, my idea was at we leave the current wiki in read only mode at the different URL and start migrating stuff. The existing content would still be there with nothing deleted, and we would have a clean canvas to start reorganizing stuff. If we're not sure whether the effort is going to be successful, we can even leave the current wiki as-is for the time being (at wiki.puella-magi.net) and start a new wiki at different URL until we're satisfied with it before switchover, e.g.<br />
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::::* Create new.puella-magi.net as a new wiki (leave wiki.puella-magi.net running as-is)<br />
::::* Start importing stuff from wiki.puella-magi.net to new.puella-magi.net<br />
::::* Once we're OK with the content in the new wiki, perform a switchover:<br />
::::** wiki.puella-magi.net -> old.puella-magi.net<br />
::::** new.puella-magi.net -> wiki.puella-magi.net<br />
::::* Make sure not found pages in new wiki have a link to old wiki.<br />
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:::: This way works too, but may be a little bit confusing on switchover. But either way: no content will be deleted. I plan to keep everything up as long as I could. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] 07:13, 28 April 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:: I have the time (mostly late night or early afternoon) to help migrate to a new wiki. I am down for the effort. Also, I was considering starting the content for Magia Record but I'll hold off for now until we start a new wiki from scratch and then add that particular batch of content. Here's my couple of cents:--[[User:Sondenise|Sondenise]] 06:56, 28 April 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:::* No speculation unless it's something with really strong evidence (and that kind of discussion can be done on walpurgischan.net rather than clutter up a wiki with things that aren't canon). "In-series observation and not a crazy theory (e.g. A may have something to do with Y) it should be OK." Completely agree with this.<br />
:::* No fanart. It seems like a big waste of space, bandwith, and hotlinking as mentioned above. Also, much of it ends up being pretty irrelevant or non canon (yuri shipping or theoretical magical girl forms of witches)<br />
:::* Languages would be fun to have as well. Especially since the show has a dub in several languages (and I speak spanish :3) ---[[User:Sondenise|Sondenise]] 06:56, 28 April 2017 (UTC)<br />
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::Ah I see what you mean 0x99. Main reason why I asked about the sidebar is to reorganize it and be able to rename/add new works as they come such as Magica Record to keep everything up-to-date. I'm willing to help with the new wiki as much as I can. Should we divide up the work load like userA adds News related pages/media, userB adds stuff related to Tart, etc., etc.? -- [[User:The Witch&#39;s House|The Witch&#39;s House]] 07:08, 28 April 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:::Also, I know we've gone over the fact that fan art needs to go, but should we limit that in user pages too? (since I do have my own fan made content there...) --[[User:The Witch&#39;s House|The Witch&#39;s House]] 07:23, 28 April 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:::I'm not against it as long as it doesn't go crazy overboard (like 20+ images) [[User:Sondenise|Sondenise]] 07:41, 28 April 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:::I'm personally OK with posting them in user pages, as long as you have the permission to use them. (I know few fan artist who don't like us because all the reprinting without permission, resolving that would be a good thing too.) -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] 08:19, 28 April 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:::::I meant stuff you made yourself (in my case, my fan witch on my page). I clearly mark them as fanwork so they don't clash of course. --[[User:The Witch&#39;s House|The Witch&#39;s House]] 08:58, 28 April 2017 (UTC)<br />
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::::::In that case I think it should be fine! -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] 04:51, 29 April 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:::::Did the whole yuri page had to be deleted? --[[User:Mutopis|Mutopis]] 03:04, 29 April 2017 (UTC)<br />
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::::::That was me. My apologies. I was trying to scrub off the speculation and mostly unfounded pages from the wiki before we all decided to get a proper discussion going. I think 0x99 said that the wiki is archived periodically so we should be able to revive the page for the purposes of this soon-to-be archived wiki and then we can better decide what analysis/speculation pages would be best to transfer to the new wiki (for example, the deciphering the runes / notes pages would probably be good to have, but a page of debunked theories not so much) [[User:Sondenise|Sondenise]] 03:25, 29 April 2017 (UTC)<br />
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::::::I've rollback the page to the version before blanking. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] 04:51, 29 April 2017 (UTC)<br />
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::I think dividing the workload for the transfer to a new wiki might work best. It would help to prevent us from tripping over each other in the beginning and then after the bulk of that is transferred we can then assign people/pairs/teams for the new content pages that will need to be created on the (new) wiki. 03:25, 29 April 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:::There's also the template tags stuff that need to be migrated. I can work on that although we need to list what templates are still needed and where (e.g. [[Template:Runes]], [[Template:Box]]). -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] 04:57, 29 April 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Here's the migration plan I have right now after feedback from above discussion and from Meduka thread:<br />
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:# Create a new wiki at en.puella-magi.net on a new server.<br />
:# Put up a banner in wiki.puella-magi.net call out for help migrating the wiki.<br />
:# Migrate the wiki up to the point where most important pages are up (series, characters).<br />
:# Put up a banner in wiki.puella-magi.net that it will become read-only in few weeks.<br />
:# Make wiki.puella-magi.net read-only with a banner that this wiki is archived, please use a new wiki.<br />
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:In this plan, the old wiki would still remain at wiki.puella-magi.net in order to not break any existing links to the wiki. No further edits can be made after step 5, but the wiki will remain accessible. There will be a banner on top of page (similar to Google's Cached Pages) with a wording among the line of "This wiki is archived and the information may be out of date. For recent updates, please see en.puella-magi.net" directing the user to the new wiki. Under this scenario, there are few things that need to be considered/decided:<br />
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:* I'm not sure if migrating user is possible. In the worst case, you may need to re-register.<br />
:* Should there be a new wiki theme to tell apart the new wiki from the old one? (Colors, etc?)<br />
:* Replace talk page with [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Flow Flow]?<br />
:* Contribution guidelines? (see below)<br />
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:Would love to hear what you think about it. Thanks! -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] 19:05, 1 May 2017 (UTC)<br />
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I think the new wiki should have a new theme (not exactly sure on colors, maybe (slightly) darker tones?) Maybe use one of these as the new theme instead of one of the end cards?<br />
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I like that discussion page more so than the talk page; feels more organized and easier to read. [[User:The Witch&#39;s House|The Witch&#39;s House]] 22:58, 1 May 2017 (UTC)<br />
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: So what's the status of the wiki reboot initiative? Sorry if my questions happened to kill the momentum. - [[User:Prima|Prima]] 06:07, 20 May 2017 (UTC)<br />
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::It's either a reboot or we go through all the pages one by one and start deleting fanart images that take up space. The wiki itself isn't so bad, so for me it's a toss up between clean up or a reboot. [[User:Sondenise|Sondenise]] 05:03, 22 May 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:::Either way, cleaning up the fanarts make a lot of sense. Thanks for the hard work! - [[User:Prima|Prima]] 19:44, 22 May 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Any word on the cleanup progress? I've marked several pages for deletion, but as far as I'm aware the one thing we've agreed on is no fanart since it leads to too much hotlinking and the artists getting upset. [[User:Sondenise|Sondenise]] 03:06, 31 May 2017 (UTC)<br />
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: Switched job, turns out the new one managed to get me more busier than ever. I have the server deploy script ready, now waiting to coordinate things. Sorry for taking so long :( -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] 14:46, 19 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Guidelines ==<br />
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Before doing anything, we should figure out exactly what guidelines the new wiki will follow first. [[User:Sondenise]] suggested trimming away fanart, fanwork, and speculation. If we're going with that, we should nail down exactly what fit into those categories. Should [[Science]] and [[Architecture]] be trimmed because it's fanwork? Should [[Population Dynamics]] be trimmed because it's speculative? We have a great selection in [[Articles]] that are all various degrees of fanwork, will they have a place in the new "formal" wiki? <br />
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At the minimum, I feel well written and edited analysis has a place in this wiki. Pages like [[Math]] are among the most popular pages on this wiki, what got it the respect worldwide and in Japan. It'll be a terrible mistake to remove them all in a rush to act formal. This wiki was an authoritative source, not because it was official or up-tight, but because it was comprehensive and in-depth. Let's avoid throwing the baby out with the bath water here. - [[User:Prima|Prima]] 03:45, 29 April 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Personally, I love the math stuff and analytic stuff in the wiki and think they should still be fine. Population dynamics is an amazing analysis work, an even the runes decryption actually are speculative (because official never actually give us an answer for that). I think the primary concern should be where to draw a line. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] 04:51, 29 April 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Some of the pages need cleaning up in terms or reorganization or cosmetic editing for ease of reading but overall I think the pages listed in Articles should stay. They're important contributions and much of it is strongly relevant to the series overall. I think the stuff that primarily needs to go would be more of the Category:Speculah stuff than anything. [[User:Sondenise|Sondenise]] 07:55, 29 April 2017 (UTC)<br />
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::What about [[Theories]]? Some pages like [[Speculah:Let's Predict the Ending]] may be interesting to look back at in hindsight, even when wrong, as such worth preserving. The problem here is without explicit standards, what's "strongly relevant" is vary from editor to editor. - [[User:Prima|Prima]] 13:06, 29 April 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:::FWIW, since we will be starting anew, content from old wiki (i.e. current wiki) would still be accessible from a different URL even after migration. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] 14:07, 29 April 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:::We won't lose the pages, they'll still remain here for anyone to see how fans reacted to Madoka when it was first coming out. But for the new wiki, are all those speculah pages really necessary? And which of those pages do we want to keep that we could consider as still relevant?[[User:Sondenise|Sondenise]] 17:12, 29 April 2017 (UTC)<br />
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::::Documenting Speculah during the initial TV airing was an important to the wiki's growth and popularity. I can see a case to archiving the old ones at the current interregnum, but are we just not going to allow speculah permanently? What about if/when the Madoka sequel airs, will new speculah just be ignored? I'm less worried about preserving specific pages, but more that we'll get started with the new wiki without a clear consensus and explicit standards on what will the new wiki cover. This entire process came about because of editor conflict. We're going to get a lot more of that if we don't work out some clear guidelines first. - [[User:Prima|Prima]] 23:15, 29 April 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:::::Just thinking out loud; if we use wiki-family, we can have separate wiki but with shared user accounts and assets to support speculation and fandom content. It would be treat in similar way to linking between languages. (Or similar to how Wikipedia - Wiktionary works.) -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] 04:43, 30 April 2017 (UTC)<br />
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* What is the line between Analysis and Speculah?<br />
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::* Well analysis has fact based evidence behind it and speculation sounds more like theories based on personal opinion. I suppose a good way of keeping both would be to put speculation about say, a new character, on it's own page marked speculation rather than add paragraph after paragraph of what later becomes clutter on the character's biography. [[User:Sondenise|Sondenise]] 00:53, 30 April 2017 (UTC)<br />
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* What criteria mark a [[Fanwork]] as sufficiently notable to be worthy of a wiki article?<br />
* How much fanon belong in the new wiki? <br />
* What roles should the wiki play to help preserve history of the fandom?<br />
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::*If we keep the speculation and analysis on it's own page then it would be easier to archive those particular pages later when they're no longer relevant. Just an idea. [[User:Sondenise|Sondenise]] 00:53, 30 April 2017 (UTC)<br />
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==Yuri undertones page==<br />
Like I've stated before, the wiki should not be propagating content that demeans and degrades the show itself. Crack shipping content does just that. I've also explained how people who support crack are factually not fans of the series by the very definition of the word, so the argument you made about the wiki being both "fan" and official is not valid.<br />
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It would be redundant to just repeat all the arguments here when they've been had at other places on this site. No one has addressed the arguments I've made that factually proof crack shipping is wrong and damaging to the fan base, so it's pretty rude and unfair to just undo what I did without giving any reason.<br />
Please revert the changes back to how I made them, as it is now, you are supporting Darkblader, who is by far one of the worst people in existence. Notice how he screams at people that they're "ack" and how he never actually gives proof for anything he says? He's the only person who does this, and you can see in this thread where he's spamming porn on the girls from Madoka getting fucked by faceless men, he is also calling people "ack" with no proof and never explaining anything he says. WARNING THIS THREAD IS VILE, DO NOT OPEN UNLESS YOU WANT TO SEE PROOF https://archived.moe/h/thread/4655180/#4655188 I can give tons more evidence at proof of who this person is, but it's not really relevant to the site. I just want people to understand what kind of person he is.<br />
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Now, if you'd please be so kind, tell me exactly what it will take to convince you that rabid shipping crack nonsense has no place here and damages the fan base. Tell me exactly what you need, and I will build my argument around that.[[User:EditingWizard|EditingWizard]] 19:57, 19 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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0x99, can you please reply to your e-mails.<br />
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: Like I said before: please don't remove contents from pages without discussing first. I didn't replied to your email because I was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(software_development) sprinting] for the whole week, and less prioritized stuff like getting into arguments is the last thing I wanted to do. To answer your question: No. I don't buy into your arguments. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] 06:23, 24 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:: I removed it to see if you would actually do something. Looks like I was right. I sent you multiple e-mails and you just flat out ignored them all you had to do was acknowledge them and just ask to wait. Ignoring people is rude. Literally a five word reply (after you tell people to discuss things) would have been enough. You tell people to discuss things, and then you refuse to do it. What do you expect other people do it.<br />
:: And for the record, you're objectively wrong and it's actually insane how you think you can prove me wrong by just saying "you don't buy it". You didn't address a damn thing I said. How is that fair? Why do you get to shit up damage the fandom with no contest?<br />
:: P.S. Just deleted something off the front page, because you clearly have some kind of warning sent to you when that happens.<br />
:: Also, if you don't discuss this rationally with me and address my argument in full (when you have time), I will DDoS this site forever. Better than letting you be biased and damage the fanbase.<br />
:: I want you to see the kind of person you are protecting.<br />
:: http://desuarchive.org/a/search/text/mado%2A/ghost/only/<br />
:: http://desuarchive.org/a/search/text/homu%2A/ghost/only/<br />
:: http://desuarchive.org/a/search/text/mami%2A/ghost/only/<br />
:: http://desuarchive.org/a/search/text/saya%2A/ghost/only/<br />
:: http://desuarchive.org/a/search/text/kyou%2A/ghost/only/<br />
:: This person and been spamming crack shit for literally years, and thousands and thousands of posts for the sole purpose of attacking other people. And you want to let him have his way and spread that cancer as much as he wants.<br />
:: I don't get it, what makes you think you're in the right? Why do all mods abuse their power?<br />
:: One more thing. I never asked if you buy my argument or not. I asked you to tell me exactly what it would take to convince you that crack shit is damaging to the fan base. I can see how you don't actually read anything. So, you are straight up psychotic, huh? You assume you are always right unconditionally. How insane is that.<br />
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::: Are you literally threatening to DDoS attack a ''wiki'' over a ''pairing'' you dislike? -- [[User:The Witch&#39;s House|The Witch&#39;s House]] 09:01, 24 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:::: No, that's not what I said. Maybe you should try actually reading.<br />
:::: Also, what's funny is that I scan and translate guide books and other official content that all gets hosted here, and you people would rather just harass me than have civil discussion and try and prove your stance correct. Of course, you're objectively wrong, so it's more like this is all about you stubbornly refusing admit you're wrong about anything, and throwing fits while abusing your power.<br />
:::: And I'm not threatening, I promise I will do it if the admin doesn't actually talk and have civil discussion. I give drastically more to the fan base than he does, and I'm not going to just let him harass me. It's not like the wiki is actually serving any good if it's just being used a platform for people to shit on the series itself. I get that you're not a fan, but some people are.[[User:Temptemp|Temptemp]] 09:11, 24 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
:::: It's insane how I go out of my way to fully explain and detail my arguments, explaining every step of my thought process, you won't even pretend to address, what's worse, you hand wave it away and don't say a thing.<br />
:::: You are just disgustingly rude.[[User:Temptemp|Temptemp]]<br />
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::::: I'm going to explain why I don't buy into your arguments.<br />
::::: 1. As stated on the second sentence of [[Yuri undertones]] page, that the page is ''fanon-emphasized and should be taken with a grain of salt''. The plan to cleanup the Wiki into something more fact-centric is already discussed '''above''' (really, just scroll up to the Wiki cleanup section in this very page). Anything here in this Wiki should be leave alone for archival purpose. It will be put to read-only once the new Wiki is ready.<br />
::::: 2. Hurting fanbase is a very blanket statement in my opinion. I don't really see how those information are hurting fanbases (given that it does exists in fanon) and how removing them from the wiki is going to make that fanon goes away. You seems to back your hurting fanbase with archive links, which I don't really see how it's related to the content in the wiki. Would removing content from Wiki make those spamming goes away? I don't think so.<br />
::::: 3. Name calling, DDoS threatening, etc. are unneeded.<br />
::::: 4. Please read 1.<br />
::::: No, really, please read 1. There's already a plan to make the wiki more formal and that might as well achieve what you wanted (even if the reason of doing so may be different). It's a lot more productive to put efforts into that process and discussion, rather than arguing here. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] 13:55, 24 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Saying '''you will''' DDoS attack the wiki '''is''' a threat. You are threatening to do it if 0x99 doesn't listen to you.<br />
If you do scan and translate guide books and other official content for the wiki, why do you have separate accounts then? Why did you state you made your account to only edit the Yuri undertones page? -- [[User:The Witch&#39;s House|The Witch&#39;s House]] 23:41, 24 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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::As stated multiple times through out my posts on this site, calling it a "fanon" page doesn't actually change the real problem. What's in question here is the quality of the fan base, and obviously the fan base is a collective whole. Any community (e.g. fan base) at all is in essence a container, and what you put in that container effects the quality of area inside the container, either positively or negatively. Put good things in the container and it's good quality, and obviously the vice versa for bad. In the case, "objects" that are being put into the container (this fan base) are the crack images/fics./"theories"/etc. Those objects are low quality, thus effect the fan base negatively. I explained this in much more detail on Cf's talk page, but I'll just copy and paste the key points here.<br />
::1. Base line value comes from the original source of the series.<br />
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::2. Canon and third party made art work have separate values.<br />
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::3. To find out what is degrading (objectively bad) to the characters, you compare the two previously mentioned values.<br />
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::4. The aspects you compare are how the characters are portrayed in said settings, canon vs third party, with canon obviously being the base line value.<br />
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::5. The characters are portrayed in canon as having strong and meaningful relationships with their respective partners.<br />
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::6. In order for a crack setting to exist in a third part art work it MUST imply that the in canon relationships are weak and disposable. Because if that canon relationships were not weak and disposable in the crack art work setting then it wouldn't be crack, it would just be a canon pair art work again.<br />
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::7. Thus, because the third party art work is portraying the characters in a lesser state than how they are shown in canon, and implying their positive aspects are actually weak, it is low quality content. Thus, they are being degraded.<br />
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::Like I also explained, people who support crack content which degrades the characters are, by the very definition of the word, are not fans of the series, so it's not "fan"on. A fan is someone who appreciates the subject in question. And to appreciate something means to recognize its full worth. The full worth of the characters is not to be used as shallow disposable shipping fodder. Plus, you really can't call yourself a fan of something if you're degrading it.<br />
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::The reason I point out all that spam, is because that's the kind of person you are catering to you when you support crack content. "Darkblader" (http://wiki.puella-magi.net/User:Darkblader) is the one doing that spamming, by the way. While removing crack from here may not make him stop spamming, it will make him have one less place where he can feel validated and self important. Thus maybe making him realize his behavior is not acceptable.<br />
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::I absolutely hate the idea of DDoS attacking sites, but when you replied to everything I said, which was quite a lot, with "I don't buy it", it was really, really rude and dismissive. I don't know any other want to make a person rethink their stance of being reasonable and having civil discussion. You asked people to discuss things first, then you didn't reply for a week. Like I said before, a simple "busy at the moment, I'll get back to you in a few days" is literally all it would take. As opposed to pure radio silence and people just trying to figure out if you're ignoring them or not.[[User:Temptemp|Temptemp]] 01:27, 25 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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::@The Witch's House, you really need to work on your reading and reasoning skills. I said I would DDoS the site if he refused to have civil discussion about it instead of just hand waving it away with thinks like "I don't buy it", not if he doesn't listen. I also never said I scan/tl things FOR the wiki, I scan and translate context for the fan base as a whole. And it gets hosted on other normal sites first, then someone else eventually ends putting it here on the wiki. If you want proof of some sort, say so, and I'll take physical photos of some of the guide books I've scanned, and you can see how they are all debinded taken apart for the sake of scanning.<br />
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:::You have my apologies for being rude. I was extremely exhausted at the time, pulling a 60-hours work week, the last thing I wanted was to get into arguments. Either way, regarding your point and to repeat my point (and the point Witch House made in Cf's talk page): a formal Wiki is in the plan, and this very Wiki will be put in an archival mode. That should solve the problem you have about fanon in the Wiki. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] 06:20, 25 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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::::To add a bit more about starting a new Wiki: this Wiki was first created with as a spun-off of discussions in /a/, and major contributors at the time were from there. Now that the community has become a lot smaller than what it had been, but with a lot more contents than we started, and we are expected to have more contents coming in upcoming months (Magia Record, etc.) I think it is a good time to finally formalize the Wiki. However, removing content would be a disrespect to those who made contributions in early days, so the plan is to start a new one and put this one in archive mode. Regarding the "I don't buy it", now that I read it, it is indeed sounds a little rude. It would be much better if I replied "I don't think your argument justify removing contents from the page" which was the original intention of the message. You have my apology for this one too. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] 07:03, 25 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Not sure if there's a better place to put this, so I'll put it here: 0x99, can you add [[Magia Record]] under the "Official Games" section of the side menu? Thanks in advance.[[User:Sevv|Sevv]] 06:34, 25 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Yup this is the right place. Thank you and done. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] 06:54, 25 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
:: There is no point in having the word “Official”, because there is no unofficial games section in menu (as well as there is no unofficial manga section and so it is listed as simply “Manga”). --[[User:Kinsho Mokuroku|Kinsho Mokuroku]] 09:32, 29 June 2017 (UTC)</div>Kinsho Mokurokuhttps://wiki.puella-magi.net/w/index.php?title=Tomoe_Mami&diff=15803Tomoe Mami2011-05-30T17:18:04Z<p>Kinsho Mokuroku: Redirected page to Mami Tomoe</p>
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|Top:<br>[Archaic]<br /><span style="font-size:large">{{Runes|OSHIMAI}}</span><br/>Oshimai<br><br>Bottom:<br><span style="font-size:large">{{Runes|PUELLA MAGI<br>MADOKA MAGIKA}}</span><br/>Puella Magi<br>Madoka Magika<br />
|{{Nihongo|Fin|おしまい|oshimai}}.<br><br>Also, note that "Magica" is written with a "k" instead of a "c" here ...<br />
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<div>{{Infobox_episode<br />
|name = My Best Friend<br />
|jname = わたしの、最高の友達<br />
|script = [[Gen Urobuchi]]<br />
|storyboard = Shinsaku Sasaki<br />
|director = Yukihiro Miyamoto<br />
|adirector = Jun'ichirō Taniguchi<br />Mika Takahashi<br />
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== Summary ==<br />
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The episode starts with Madoka comforting an injured Homura, telling her that she finally understands what Homura had gone through and promising to take care of everything, despite Homura's anguish at the prospect of seeing Madoka become a witch. Madoka then stands up and, at Incubator's urging, finally [[Wish_theories#Madoka.27s_Wish|makes her wish]]: {{spoiler|"I wish to erase all witches from existence before they're even born. Every witch in the universe, from the past and the future, with my own hands"}}. As promised by Kyubey, her wish is granted and she becomes a goddess, breaking the Incubators' system at the same time. The next half of the episode is an in-depth animation of said transformation.<br />
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The first sequence is a short discussion with [[Kyouko]] and [[Mami]]: Mami warns Madoka of the consequences of her wish, while Kyouko encourages her in her usual forceful way. Madoka is then seen travelling through space and time, healing defeated magical girls (among which we can see historical figures such as [[:File:Ep12 Anne Franck.jpg|Anne Frank]], [[:File:Ep12 Cleopatra.jpg|Cleopatra]], and [[:File:Ep12 joan of arc.jpg|Joan of Arc]]).<br />
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The consequence of her becoming a Magical Girl quickly follows the "rescue" of the other magical girls: due to her wish, the laws of nature have been altered, and the old world will be put to an end in order for a new one to take its place. Homura witnesses the Earth being swallowed in despair from the moon, where she also sees Madoka's soul gem, now the size of an asteroid, travelling through space.<br />
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The gigantic soul gem collapses into a Grief Seed and Madoka's new planet-sized Witch form is unleashed: However, true to her word, she erases her own Witch self from existence. The resulting paradox removes Madoka from the universe.<br />
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The cosmic sequence continues with Madoka losing her physical humanity to become a force of nature, detached from mankind; however, she is now suspended in interdimensional space, in contact with everyone and everything. After a sequence highly open to interpretation, she finally parts with a tearful Homura, giving her her ribbons as a souvenir with the promise that they may meet again.<br />
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The scene cuts to an audition where Kyousuke is playing Charles Gounod's ''[[:wikipedia:Ave_Maria_%28Gounod%29|Ave Maria]]''. In two of the seats in the audience are the spirits of Madoka and Sayaka. Madoka apologizes for causing Sayaka trouble, and says that she believes her sacrifices were not in vain. Sayaka responds that she only wanted to hear Kyousuke play one last time, as many more would come to see him in many years to come; she states that she has no regrets and that she believes Hitomi (who is hiding behind the curtain watching the performance) and Kyousuke will be a happy couple, and that while it still hurts a little to see them together, she cannot hold it against them anymore. The two get up and depart, and the scene cuts to Kyousuke as a famous violinist; as the audience applauds for him, he is struck by a memory of the hospital and says Sayaka's name.<br />
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Mami and Kyouko, now alive, fight a creature together (revealed later to be a "demon"), and find that Sayaka had used the last of her magic to help Kyousuke and thus disappeared from existence. Mami reflects on how the fate of a magical girl is to disappear before they can cause grief; Homura, wearing the ribbon and thinking of Madoka, says her name and starts crying, and it is revealed that nobody in this world remembers Madoka but her. Homura later sees Tatsuya drawing a picture of Madoka in the sand; she talks to Madoka's parents and find that they also have no memory of their daughter, though she seems to manifest as Tatsuya's imaginary friend. Junko comments that the name Madoka feels nostalgic.<br />
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Homura then discusses her story with Kyubey, who says that it's possible everything Homura went through could be her imagination, and there would be no way to prove otherwise. However, he remarks that the concept of harvesting witches for energy would be more efficient than the new method: because there is still grief in the world, it manifests in the form of demons that the magical girls must fight, who upon defeat drop cube-shaped pieces much like Grief Seeds. Homura reflects on the new universe, thinking that this corrupted, grief-filled world is what Madoka seeked to protect -- but she will never forget Madoka's wish. She then leaps upon the demons, extending wings of light from her back and carrying a bow and arrow.<br />
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After the credits, Homura walks through what looks like either a wasteland or a barrier towards a bunch of demons. Black wings sprout from her back, containing distorted images that resemble those of a witch's barrier; Madoka's voice encourages her, and Homura springs upon them to fight.<br />
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And with [[:File:Madoka Christ.jpg|some hopeful words]], Puella Magi Madoka Magica [[Runes:Episode_12|comes to an end]].<br />
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== Runes ==<br />
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See [[Runes:Episode 12|Runes of episode 12]]<br />
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== Observations ==<br />
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* Once again, this episode used [[Connect]] as an ending song. However, there was no animation sequence, as instead the credits rolled in black on a white background.<br />
** This episode doesn't have a proper opening either.<br />
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*This episode ends with a sequence showing first the backs of Madoka, Kyouko, Sayaka, Homura, and Mami followed by the silhouettes of all Puella Magi which appeared in the anime -- even those which were only shown in their witch forms. After that, Madoka´s ribbon falls, and her soul gem is shown for a second.<br />
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* {{spoiler|According with some fans the end of Episode 12 is considered a "[[:wikipedia:Serial_Experiments_Lain|Lain]]" ending. Madoka is the Jesus figure, Homura is her prophet, and Kyuubei is the Devil (analogous to the Temptation of Christ). Others have dubbed the ending a "Reverse Evangelion" ending. In ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'', all of humanity becomes a higher being except the protagonist(s), while in ''Madoka'''s ending, the protagonist becomes a higher being while everyone else maintains a regular existence.}}<br />
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*{{spoiler|Even if there are no witches in the world, the Puella Magi have to fight against demons now. Therefore Kyuubey can still gain energy to fight against entropy.}}<br />
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*{{spoiler|The Incubators have been on the earth since the stone ages. According to Kyuubey, humans would still live in caves if his species had not granted girls' wishes over time.}}<br />
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*{{spoiler|Madoka has changed the laws of the universe, thus changing the Puella Magi system and humanity's relationship with Incubators: Witches do not exist on that world as spent Soul Gems disappear mysteriously before they can curse the world. However, curses continue to haunt humanity in the form of Magical Beasts or demons of unknown origin; it is the role of Puella Magi to defeat these monsters, gather their curses in the forms of small cubic fragments, and have them harvested to slow the effects of entropy. Puella Magi who overexert their magical powers will die (or disappear), so they must use the dark cubes to purify their Soul Gems before that happens. Apparently, Homura and Kyuubei now have a better relationship in this new reality because of the new nature of the universe. Since Incubators cannot harvest Grief Seeds (as they do not exist), they cannot harvest despair for it has no effect on fixing entropy; Kyuubei admits that if it was the opposite, the nature of Incubators would be totally different.}}<br />
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=== Other Puella Magi ===<br />
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File:Mother Theresa.png|A girl with her head covered, praying with her Soul Gem in her hands in the middle of a modern battlefield. Identity unknown, but speculated to be Mother Theresa or Florence Nightingale -- despite the fact that both were in their early thirties when they first encountered heavy warfare.<br />
File:Anne Frank.png|A girl wearing a yellow star holding a Soul Gem, we see she is riding a cargo train with other people. Fans believe she could be the Jewish-German writer [[wikipedia:Anne_Frank|Anne Frank]].<br />
File:Himiko.png|[[wikipedia:Himiko|Queen Himiko]] A girl with long black hair and robes similar to those used by Shinto priestesses in modern Japan. Himiko was the head shaman and queen of Yamataikoku, one of the first realms in what would later become Japan, and a controversial figure in Japanese history ever since the Edo period.<br />
File:Cleopatra.png|Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt.<br />
File:Joan of Arc.png|Joan of Arc before she is burned alive.<br />
File:Green haired girl.png|Madoka's first rescue. This girl is from a far away village.<br />
File:Girl on savanna.png|This girl is located on a savanna.<br />
File:Bear girl 2.png|a girl wearing a bear costume located in a futuristic city or theme park.<br />
File:Viking girl.png|A girl in a viking costume on some island.<br />
File:Purple girl.png|A girl in a purple dress located in a volcanic region.<br />
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=== Production errors ===<br />
Even though Shaft had an extra month to check the quality of the episodes, the TV broadcast had at least one production error.<br />
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File:Six-fingered Homura.jpg|Don't you see anything wrong here?<br />
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== Speculations ==<br />
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*{{spoiler|Cleopatra and Joan d'arc were magical girls. ...perhaps Anne Frank too? }}<br />
**{{spoiler|There is one sequence where a girl inside a train cargo is wearing a yellow star, fans assume she could be Anne Frank as she shares some similarities.}} ([[Episode_12#Other_Puella_Magis|See Above]])<br />
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*{{spoiler|There are many speculations regarding the ending. One camp says that Homura is living in an apocalyptic future after a thousand years has passed (the actual year is unknown), whereas another says Homura is actually inside a barrier. Another theory maintains that Homura is about to die, as she can feel Madoka's presence and hear her voice; this would mean that Madoka has come for Homura's Soul Gem before it can cause harm on the world. (However, as Homura was with Madoka during the destruction and recreation of the new world, Madoka may simply be using their special bond to encouraging Homura to do her best.) There is also speculation that Homura is carrying Madoka's spirit with her, as indicated by the strange wings she possesses and her new magical bow (similar to Madoka's magical weapon). Some suggest that the epilogue was left open ended for the possibility for a second season or maybe an entirely new series.}}<br />
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*{{spoiler|According with fans Madoka has become a [[wikipedia:Bodhisattva|Bodhisattva]]. Instead of a deity, she is a person who abstains from potential Buddhahood and perfect enlightenment in order to help others attain Nirvana. Another way to see it is that Madoka has become a type of Valkyrie for the Puella Magi, collecting their Soul Gems to be purified so she can led them to their final rest in Valhalla. Because of Madoka's white wings she looks like an archangel; it is possible she fits the role of the angel of Death. In the Roman Catholic tradition [[wikipedia:Michael_%28archangel%29#Christian_tradition|St. Michael]] is both an archangel and the angel of death, whose role is to carry the souls of all the deceased to heaven.}}<br />
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==Platonic Love or Yuri End?==<br />
[[File:Yuri evidence madoka.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The Yuri subtext is strong on this one]]<br />
Just like the ending with Kyouko and Sayaka, there is speculation with fans regarding Homura's relationship with Madoka and her willingness to sacrifice it all for her. {{spoiler|On this new world Sayaka dies but she has no regrets, and Kyouko laments her death just when they have become friends (fans have interpreted this in many ways).}}<br />
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In Episode 10, we learn that Homura was willing to create new timelines for all eternity just for Madoka. {{Spoiler|Once she learns that each new time line she creates only makes Madoka's fate into becoming a witch stronger, Homura starts to have doubts, but also becomes more resolute to save Madoka from her fate. Kyuubeu contests that Homura's hope is a trap, and that it is only a matter of time before despair consumes her. In Episode 11 Homura and Madoka have a conversation in which Homura confesses everything to Madoka: she professes her love for her, as well as how important Madoka is to her (this has been interpreted as a love confession, but others see it as a sign of deep friendship). At the end of Episode 11, Homura is tempted to travel back again for a "do-over," but she stops and gives up, knowing that it was her fault that Madoka now carries such a heavy cosmic karma. She realizes that the more she travels back in time the more certain it is that she will fail, as Homura has created a powerful reservoir of despair-based energy from different timelines -- all of them concentrating on Madoka. To end Madoka's suffering and her own, Homura comes close to becoming a witch; however, Madoka stops her and tells her to never stop hoping.}}<br />
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{{Spoiler|Once Madoka defeats the Witch version of herself, she creates a paradox: Madoka has become a deity of sorts, but at the cost that Madoka the person ceases to exist in her own world. Homura is not happy with this outcome, but Madoka promises to Homura that she will always be there for her, and that she hopes that one day they would meet again.}}<br />
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File:KnM Madoka ver.jpg|Similarities between Kannazuki no Miko and Madoka<br />
File:Homumado ep 12.jpg|<br />
File:Wewillmeetagain.jpg|<br />
File:Lilies.jpg|Lily petals. Can't get more yuri than that.<br />
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==The New World==<br />
The new world is the same as the old but with few changes: {{spoiler|there are no more witches, Puella Magi don't become witches when they die, and despair won't transform them into witches. The whole Puella Magi system used to collect energy to stop entropy has been altered. Now Puella Magi are "girls of justice" fighting demons to stop spreading curses; conveniently, those curses become dark energy cubes, which recharge Soul Gems and slow down entropy. Madoka has become a deity whose role is to collect and purify spent Soul Gems before they become Grief Seeds, thus allowing magical girls to die without cursing the world. However, while she now shoulders the burdens of Puella Magi, she does not shoulder those of the world, which is why curses are still rampant: human nature has not been altered, and to do otherwise would have required the eradication of all human emotion to erase all evil. The issue of entropy has not been fixed, either, but the new system solves it without sacrificing the souls of the girls or forcing them into a contract that will cause them despair and regret. Because of these new changes the relationship between humans and Incubators has been radically altered: for one, they are more friendly and respectful toward each other.}}<br />
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== Initial broadcast and delays ==<br />
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This episode was scheduled to air on 24 March 2011 but has been pulled due to the [[Wikipedia:2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami|2011 Sendai earthquake and tsunami]]. On April 10, 2011 it was announced that Madoka was scheduled to resume its broadcasting [http://www.animenewsnetwork.co.uk/news/2011-04-10/madoka-magica-anime-to-resume-on-april-21 on the 21 of April 2011] and it would air the last two episodes back-to-back.<br />
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*MBS (Kansai area): 11th & 12th episodes on Thursday, April 21 at 26:40 (effectively Friday, April 22 at 2:40 a.m.) <br />
*TBS (Tokyo's Kanto area): 10th, 11th, and 12th episodes on Thursday, April 21 at 27:00 (Friday, April 22 at 3:00 a.m.) TBS had preempted its airing of the 10th episode due to its news coverage of the earthquake. <br />
*CBC (central Japan): 10th, 11th, and 12th episodes on Sunday, April 24 at 26:45 (Monday, April 25 at 2:45 a.m.). <br />
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*{{spoiler|The fact that this episode aired during Good Friday, and the similarity between both events, led to jokes and far-fetched speculation from the fanbase.}}<br />
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== Images ==<br />
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File:Madoka the Ultimate Witch.jpg|Madoka's Ultimate Witch form wearing a mask<br />
File:Madoka the Ultimate Puella Magi.png|Madoka's Ultimate Puella Magi form<br />
File:Ultimate Madoka 2.png|close up<br />
File:Ultimate Madoka 3.png|Madoka with wings<br />
File:Madoka Christ.jpg|Accept Madoka into your heart, for she has died for our sins.<br />
File:HiymV.jpg|from 4chan<br />
File:Madoka 12 goddess.jpg|Remember kids, Jesus Madoka died for our sins.<br><br>Our prophet is Homura, she is our leader and our Saviour.<br><br>Join the Church of Madoka now.<br />
File:Thank you for watching the end.jpg|Thank you for watching<br />
File:Madoka magiccircle.jpg|The magic circle (?) that Madoka uses to destroy witches.<br />
File:Puellamagis.png|All the Puellae Magi of the show, including the girls that only were shown as witches.<br />
File:MadokaAndAnthony.png|Madoka petting an Anthony <br />
File:Homura archer ep 12.jpg|Homura's new (?) magical weapon.<br />
File:Homura Angel Wings.png| Homura with angel-like wings. <br />
File:Homura wings 1.jpg| Homura with witch-like wings. <br />
File:Homura wings 2.jpg|<br />
File:Homura and Madoka God.jpg| A fan's interpretation of Episode 12.[http://wiki.puella-magi.net/File:Creation_of_Adam_reflection.jpg]<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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[http://imperialx.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/madoka-doesnt-need-a-sequel-to-explain-itself/ A FAQ about the ending]<br />
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</gallery></div>Kinsho Mokurokuhttps://wiki.puella-magi.net/w/index.php?title=Template:Lowercase_header&diff=9816Template:Lowercase header2011-04-23T09:31:36Z<p>Kinsho Mokuroku: Created page with "{{DISPLAYTITLE:{{#if:{{NAMESPACE}}|{{NAMESPACE}}:|}}{{lcfirst:{{PAGENAME}}}}}}"</p>
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<div>{{DISPLAYTITLE:{{#if:{{NAMESPACE}}|{{NAMESPACE}}:|}}{{lcfirst:{{PAGENAME}}}}}}</div>Kinsho Mokurokuhttps://wiki.puella-magi.net/w/index.php?title=Meduka_meguca&diff=9814Meduka meguca2011-04-23T09:27:59Z<p>Kinsho Mokuroku: lowercase test</p>
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==meduka meguca episodes==<br />
*[http://green-oval.net/cgi-board.pl/a/thread/45652095 Meduka Meguca Episode 1] -- [[:File:Meduka 1 cleaned.jpg|Clean version]]<br />
*[http://green-oval.net/cgi-board.pl/a/thread/45821991 Meduka Meguca Episode 2] -- [[:File:Meduka 2 cleaned.png|Clean version]]<br />
*[http://green-oval.net/cgi-board.pl/a/thread/46378774 Meduka Meguca Episode 3] -- [[:File:Meduka meguca epiode3.png|Clean version]]<br />
*[http://green-oval.net/cgi-board.pl/a/thread/46919632 Meduka Meguca Episode 4] -- [[:File:Meduka 4 cleaned.png|Clean version]]<br />
*[http://green-oval.net/cgi-board.pl/a/thread/48542254 Meduka Meguca Episode 5] -- [[:File:Meduka_5_cleaned.jpg|Clean version]]<br />
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Episode 5 with images expanded to full size: http://www.mediafire.com/?j3wpje8o6izrvf1<br />
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Original files and scripts used to create meduka meguca: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=F54EXDI4<br />
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Anime: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbMQHvikKK0&feature=player_embedded<br />
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[[:File:Meduka cosplay cleaned.jpg|Meduka Meguca Episode 1 Cosplay Edition]]<br />
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===All 5 episodes in one image===<br />
*Combined png, 3930px version: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=S3AFLFKG<br />
*Combined 2.8m jpg 3930px, postable on 4chan: >>48546721 (to do: upload to somewhere that won't 404)<br />
*Combined 797k 4008px: >>48544989<br />
*Combined 1.2m 4008px: >>48546289<br />
*Combined png, 4008px version: http://www.mediafire.com/?q8hpvbajdf9cwy0<br />
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===To do===<br />
*Find an episode 1 cleaned version with no jpeg artifacts, archive it here, and add it to the high quality combined image<br />
*Save the medium quality combined images somewhere that won't 404<br />
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=meguca is pronounced with a soft g=<br />
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File:Meduka_meguca_1-5_lowquality.jpg|1-5 combined in low quality<br />
File:Meduka 1 cleaned.jpg|1 Needs a png version.<br />
File:Meduka 2 cleaned.png|2<br />
File:Meduka meguca epiode3.png|3<br />
File:Meduka 4 cleaned.png|4<br />
File:Meduka_5_cleaned.jpg|5 png was too large to upload.<br />
File:Meduka cosplay cleaned.jpg|Cosplay Episode 1<br />
</gallery></div>Kinsho Mokurokuhttps://wiki.puella-magi.net/w/index.php?title=Ume_Aoki&diff=8637Ume Aoki2011-04-07T10:37:44Z<p>Kinsho Mokuroku: </p>
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<div>[[File:Ume.jpg|right|thumb|Ume-sensei in [[wikipedia:Metapod|Metapod]] form]]<br />
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{{Nihongo|'''Ume Aoki'''|蒼樹 うめ|Aoki Ume}} is a Japanese mangaka born August 3. She illustrated under the pennames {{Nihongo|'''Apply Fujimiya'''|藤宮 アプリ|Fujimiya Apuri}} for the visual novel Sanarara (Nekoneko Soft) and Apricot+ for most of the doujinshi that she writes. Ume's most well-known work is Hidamari Sketch, also known as Sunshine Sketch. She is also the voice of the little caterpillar creature in the anime for Hidamari Sketch. Most notably, Aoki provided the original character designs for [[Main Page|Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]. She is from Hyōgo Prefecture.<br />
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==Works==<br />
*{{Nihongo|Hidamari Sketch|ひだまりスケッチ|}} (2004, ongoing) (manga, original creator)<br />
*[[wikipedia:Hidamari_Sketch|Hidamari Sketch]] (2007) (anime, original creator)<br />
*Hidamari Sketch x 365 (2008) (anime, original creator)<br />
*Hidamari Sketch x ☆☆☆ (2009) (anime, original creator)<br />
*{{Nihongo|Tetsunagi Kooni|てつなぎこおに。|}} (manga, original creator)<br />
*{{Nihongo|Sanarara|サナララ}} (visual novel by Nekoneko Soft, illustrator)<br />
*{{Nihongo|Two Smiling Faces|笑顔ふたつ|Egao Futatsu}} (manga, original creator)<br />
*Puella Magi Madoka Magica (anime, original character design)<br />
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==External Links==<br />
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*[http://ap.sakuraweb.com/ Apricot+ Website]<br />
*[http://aokiume.blog21.fc2.com/ Aoki Ume's Blog]<br />
*{{pixiv_tag|うめ先生}}<br />
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[[Category: Staff]]</div>Kinsho Mokurokuhttps://wiki.puella-magi.net/w/index.php?title=Gekidan_Inu_Curry&diff=8557Gekidan Inu Curry2011-04-04T12:41:14Z<p>Kinsho Mokuroku: fixed wikipedia link</p>
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<div>'''Gekidan Inu Curry''' (''劇団イヌカレー Theatrical Company Dog Curry'') are an animation team duo that often works with studio SHAFT. They are credited with the animation design of the Witches and the Witches' otherworld. Their techniques draws inspiration from [[wikipedia:History of Russian animation|Russian animation]] and utilize stop-motion animation and coloring that resembles hand-drawn illustrations.<br />
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==Works==<br />
*Universe (promotion video for Maaya Sakamoto's song)<br />
*Gurren Lagann (ep 8)<br />
*Goku: Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (OP)<br />
*Maria Holic (ED)<br />
*Bakemonogatari (eps 1, 5, 7, 11, 15)<br />
*Zan: Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (ep 8)<br />
*Zan: Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei Bangaichi (OP)<br />
*Puella Magi Madoka Magica<br />
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==Further Reading==<br />
*[http://uchu-kibo.chu.jp/ Official site of Gekidan Inu Curry]<br />
*[http://aninomiyako.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/zan-sayonara-zetsubou-sensei-8-c-part-gekidan-inu-curry/ A short biography of Gekidan Inu Curry]<br />
*[http://disp.cc/b/21-ZqQ Other animations by Gekidan Inu Curry (Chinese Language)]<br />
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[[Category:Staff]]</div>Kinsho Mokurokuhttps://wiki.puella-magi.net/w/index.php?title=End_Cards&diff=8387End Cards2011-03-30T20:10:22Z<p>Kinsho Mokuroku: wikipedia links</p>
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<div>==Episode 1==<br />
[[File:EC01.jpg|350px|]]<br />
*Hanokage<br />
==Episode 2==<br />
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*Hekiru Hikawa<br />
==Episode 3==<br />
[[File:EC03.jpg|350px|]]<br />
*Tsuji Santa<br />
==Episode 4==<br />
[[File:EC04.jpg|350px|]]<br />
*[[:wikipedia:Jin Kobayashi|Jin Kobayashi]]<br />
==Episode 5==<br />
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*Yuupon<br />
==Episode 6==<br />
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*[[:wikipedia:Hajime Ueda|Ueda Hajime]]<br />
==Episode 7==<br />
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*Tensugi Takashi<br />
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==Episode 8==<br />
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*Fujima Takuya<br />
==Episode 9==<br />
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*Namaniku ATK<br />
==Episode 10==<br />
[[File:EC10.jpg|350px|]]<br />
*Mura Kuroe</div>Kinsho Mokurokuhttps://wiki.puella-magi.net/w/index.php?title=Kyouko_Sakura&diff=8143Kyouko Sakura2011-03-26T11:59:43Z<p>Kinsho Mokuroku: /* Platonic or Yuri Love? */</p>
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<div>{{Infobox_character<br />
|name=Kyouko Sakura<br />
|image=[[File:RedHairedGirl.jpg|300px]]<br />
|jname=佐倉 杏子 (Sakura Kyouko) <br />
|seiyuu=[http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=creator&creatorid=347 Ai Nonaka]<br />
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|weapon=Spear<br />
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As of [[Episode 3]], Kyouko Sakura only appears in a shot in the opening and as a silhouette in the ending. She appears first at the end of [[Episode 4]].<br />
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==Official Info==<br />
{{spoilers}}<br />
*A Puella Magi who came from another town, going after Mami's turf. <br />
*She's always eating something.<br />
*An egoist who doesn't take heed of damage to her surroundings.<br />
*A girl with a foul mouth who appeared after [[Mami_Tomoe|Mami]]'s death. She is a callous Puella Magi who doesn't even mind sacrifices, no matter how much, if it's to gain a Grief Seed.<br />
*A Puella Magi who simply has supernatural powers and abandoned the premise of justice and benevolence. In short, she doesn't hesitate in any sense in using her magic powers for her own selfish benefit and desires. Kyouko debuts as an ultra selfish character<br />
*Her regular clothes are the active type and leave a delinquent impression somewhere. She seems to be the type who doesn't mind her navel peeking out.<br />
*She seems to have a rather sadistic side. This is shown in episode 6 when she approaches Sayaka when Sayaka is about to visit her friend Kyousuke. Kyouko scoffs at Sayaka's wish, then says that if she wanted him that badly, she should just go in and break his hand and legs, leaving him crippled and they could be together.<br />
*Kyouko was the daughter of a preacher. Her father started to deviate from regular doctrine and was excommunicated for it - Kyouko used her wish to get her father more followers; however, upon finding this out, her father went insane and killed the entire family but Kyouko, then commiting suicide. From there on, Kyouko only uses her magical powers for herself.<br />
*Kyouko values food and chastises those who waste it. After her father lost supporters, Kyouko and her family (parents, Kyouko herself, an unnamed little sister) nearly starved.<br />
*While Kyouko was initially cold toward Sayaka, she grows to like her. This is because Kyouko sees Sayaka making the same mistakes as her. During the end of episode 7, Kyouko even monitors Sayaka's witch hunt. While it is unknown if Sayaka needed her help, Kyouko does protect Sayaka against one of the witch's attacks.<br />
*Kyouko, as revealed in episode 9, liked Sayaka because Sayaka reminded her why she became a magical girl: Kyouko loved stories where love and courage prevail.<br />
*Kyouko tries to help return Sayaka to normal by using Madoka to reach her. However, after sustaining many blows in the battle with the Witch Sayaka and seeing Madoka's failure to reach her humanity, Kyouko sacrifices herself to not only kill Sayaka, but make sure Sayaka didn't die alone. Also allowing Homura and Madoka to leave safely.<br />
*In a previous timeline, Kyouko is killed by a mentally broken Mami after the fight with Octavia. Having gone mad after learning what happens to Puella Magi with time, Mami shot and destroyed Kyouko's Soul Gem, killing her in what she saw as a mercy kill that would save Kyouko from becoming a witch.<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
*Before her name was officially revealed, she was nicknamed Condom-chan by Western fans because of the suggestive-looking ice lolly she had flapping in her mouth in the Opening animation. She is nicknamed Anko by Japanese fans due to an initial misreading of her name when she was first revealed in a magazine.<br />
*Her last name can also be used as a first name.<br />
*Her first name Kyouko (杏子) can also be read as Anzu (あんず)–apricot. Apricot+ is [[wikipedia:Ume_Aoki|Ume]]'s circle name [http://ap.sakuraweb.com/].<br />
*The first character of her name (杏) is the implied real first name (An) of Kafuka Fuura from [[wikipedia:Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei|Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei]]. Both characters are voiced by [[Wikipedia:Ai Nonaka|Ai Nonaka]]<br />
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==Speculations & Observations==<br />
*Her behavior and character hint to next possible past of hers. In episode seven, it is revealed that she too made a selfless wish for her father, and ended up losing her entire family due to her wish's repercussions. Thus, she eats gratuitously because her family never had enough to eat before she made her wish. Kyouko states that she has learned from this experience that using magic to help others is a mistake, and that magic should only be used to make one's own wishes come true.<br />
*It's speculated by some fans that her unnamed younger sister may have secretly been turned into a Magical Girl, only to become the witch [[Elsa Maria]] in the end.<br />
*In Episode 9, she stores Sayaka's soulless body in an expensively decorated room. Some viewers believe that this is her true home, but there has been speculation that it is merely a hotel room that she managed to somehow commandeer using her magic.<br />
*Her spear could be a reference to the scorpions spear.<br />
**The spear appears as linked pieces during combat , like the scorpions tail .<br />
**She uses a warding spell in battle . Scorpions often associated with protection/warding spells ,in Egypt and Tibet the Scorpion is made into an amulet - signifying protection and warding off evil.<br />
**The scorpion character who appears in Goethe's Faust is caught between the extremes of heaven or hell. Kyouko commits sins like letting people die and (likely) steals food , but in the same time she's seen as praying and she never allows wasting food.<br />
***Kyouko offers an apple to Sayaka while she advises her to live a life of selfishness but Sayaka refuses both of them. Sayaka believes that Kyouko's self-centered philosophy is just wrong and also rejects the fruit because she apparently believes it was stolen. Her attempt to tempt Sayaka with an apple and her suggestion to follow a path of selfish survivalism could be interpreted as Kyouko acting as the snake advising Sayaka to abandon the path of justice.<br />
***Kyouko refuses to abandon Sayaka's soulless body in Episode 9 even after Homura told her it was hopeless, she even sacrifices some of her Soul Gem's purity to keep Sayaka's body warm at her own expense. Kyouko even admits to Madoka that one time she used to be an idealist just like Sayaka, that she used to believe in stories where love and courage could overcome anything.<br />
*Her spear could be a reference to a Snake in it's elongated form or the Lance of Longinus.<br />
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===Platonic or Yuri Love?===<br />
It is common to find yuri subtext on the Mahou Shoujo genre, sometimes it develops into shippings or pairings created by fans, even if it was not part of the creators original intention. The creators of the show may have been aware of this phenomenon so they decided to exploit the same yuri subtext phenomenon when it came to the relationship between Kyouko and Sayaka. However, the yuri subtext mostly comes from Kyouko making it one-sided; while it is officially recognized that Kyouko has feelings for Sayaka, it is uncertain what types of feelings they are. Fans would argue that Sayaka just never had the chance to return these feelings, and Kyouko was never really good in articulating them.<br />
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These pictures seems to indicate that the relationship between Kyouko and Sayaka may have not been accidental or a tease but created to heighten emotional investments by the viewers. It is possible that this was part of their intention to emotionally move groups of hardcore fans who support a SayakaxKyouko pairing, thus making their demise in Episode 9 more tragic (or as fans put it a "Yuri Tragedy" ending).<br />
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*'''The Melusine Legend and Kyouko's Soul Gem:''' There is a Melusine legend that indicates that ''"a Melusina surfaces briefly every seven years as a beautiful woman or as a serpent, holding a small <u>golden key</u> in her mouth. Whoever takes the key from her will set her free and may claim her as his bride."'' In Episode 9, Kyouko undoes her hair and then uses her hairpin to pray, it is uncertain but it seems that her Soul Gem and her hairpin were fused together to create a new hairpin with a shape that resembles that of her father's religious symbol. After Sayaka's prayer she kisses the newly formed hairpin and tosses it into the air (before she destroys it with her spear), maybe as an offering to Sayaka to free her from her Witch form by sacrificing Kyouko's soul. The shape of the normal hairpin and of the Soul Gem fused hairpin looks like of a golden key.<br />
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*The double-suicide is considered typical in romantic endings for two tragic lovers in Japanese storytelling. Many fans would point this fact as evidence for making this couple canon.<br />
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File: Sayaka kyouko pocky game Nitroplus.jpg|From Nitroplus's Staff Blog: ''If they were to try to settle things peacefully, things would have gone more like this.''<br />
File: Sayaka kyouko spinoff.jpg|Episode synopses: ''Kyouko comes to town, falls in love with Sayaka at first sight, unable to be honest with her, can do nothing but clash with her constantly.'' Some sources say these were produced by a staffer.<br />
File: Kyoko sayaka more spinoff ova.jpg|Kyouko pretending to be a boy and a new transfer student, tries to get closer to Sayaka as a new classmate. Also produced by the same staffer.<br />
File:Revolutionary Girl Utena and Madoka.png|The image on the left is from Revolutionary Girl Utena, the image on the right is from Episode 9 with Sayaka and Kyouko <br />
File:Kyouko last words to Homura protect.png|Kyouko's last words to Homura. Kyouko later admits she failed to do that, maybe an admission that she failed to protect Sayaka.<br />
File:Melusine hairpin key 2.png|There seems to be a connection between the Melusine legend and Kyouko's hairpin/soul gem and her father's religious symbol [[Kyouko_Sakura#Platonic or Yuri Love?|(see above)]]<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
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File:Kyouko character art.png|Official character art (from a magazine scan). <br />
File:Kyouko_print.jpg|Comparison of Kyouko's chain barrier emblem and a print of the Gojū-no-tō at [[wikipedia:Kōfuku-ji|Kōfuku-ji]]. <br />
File:Kyouko_high_eight.jpg|Kyouko's binoculars seem to be based on the High Eight Chocolate by Furuta Confectionary Co.<br />
File:Kyouko soul gem.jpg|Kyouko's soul gem.<br />
File:Shaft ramen.jpg|Transcription of the package label on the instant ramen Kyouko eats at Homura's home, according to 2ch. Accuracy unconfirmed, but the label says that the manufacturer is SHAFT.<br />
File:Prayer and kiss.png|Kyouko prays and then kisses her soul gem (It is customary for Catholics to kiss their rosary beads as a part of their prayer).<br />
File:Oktavia Spear snake scorpion tail.png|Kyouko's ultimate attack looks snake-like, could also be interpreted as a scorpion's tail<br />
File:Kyouko last stand.png|Kyouko's final battle with [[Oktavia von Seckendorff|Oktavia]]<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{pixiv_tag|佐倉杏子}}<br />
*{{booru_tag|danbooru|sakura_kyouko}}<br />
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[[Category:Characters]]</div>Kinsho Mokurokuhttps://wiki.puella-magi.net/w/index.php?title=Charlotte&diff=6887Charlotte2011-03-16T05:11:55Z<p>Kinsho Mokuroku: /* Trivia */</p>
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'''Charlotte''' ({{Runes|CHARLOTTE}}) is a [[witch]] appearing in [[Episode 3]] of the anime.<br />
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{{Card<br />
|name = Charlotte<br />
|runes = CHARLOTTE<br />
|image = File:Card Charlotte.png<br />
|japanese_desc = お菓子の魔女。その性質は執着。欲しいものは全部。絶対に諦めない。お菓子を無限に生み出せるが大好物のチーズだけは自分で作ることができない。チーズさえ持っていれば簡単に隙をつくことが出来ただろう。<br />
|english_desc = The dessert witch, with a tenacious nature. She desires everything. She will never give up. Though she is capable of creating infinite amounts of any dessert she desires, she is unable to make the cheese that she loves most. One could easily catch her off-guard with a piece of cheese.<br />
|type = Dessert witch<br />
|nature = Tenacity<br />
|episodes = [[Episode 3]]<br />
}}<br />
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==Minions==<br />
{{Card<br />
|name = Pyotr<br />
|runes = PYOTR<br />
|image = File:Card Pyotr.png<br />
|japanese_desc = お菓子の魔女の手下。その役割はチーズを探すこと。しかし過度な期待は禁物。<br />
|english_desc = The dessert witch's minion. His duty is to search for cheese. However, one shouldn't expect much from him.<br />
|type = Dessert witch's minion<br />
|task = Searching for cheese<br />
|episodes = [[Episode 3]]<br />
}}<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
*A [[Facts_and_Observations#Witches_and_desserts|charlotte]] is a type of dessert.<br />
*The head of her first form is shaped like piece of candy in wrap.<br />
*Watching carefully one can see that when Charlotte's second form gets injured a new Charlotte comes out of the mouth replacing the old as if the layers are being blown away.<br />
*Her second form may have been inspired by [[wikipedia:The Very Hungry Caterpillar|The Very Hungry Caterpillar]].<br />
*[[:Wikipedia:Pyotr|Pyotr]] is a Russian form of given name Peter.<br />
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==Speculation==<br />
*Charlotte might have been a cancer patient. Patients undergoing chemotherapy are unable to eat certain foods such as cheese. This would explain her hospital-based labyrinth theme and the location of her grief seed. Kyuubey is likely to target terminally ill girls.<br />
*In that case, her caterpillar-like second form would represent unlimited reproduction of cancer cells.<br />
*It is possible that she was designed around the theme of bulimia nervosa, which involves restrained food intake, periodic binge-eating, and frequently the purging of consumed foods through vomit. Issues of self-image may be involved.<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
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File:Card Charlotte 2.png|Alternative form of Charlotte.<br />
File:Charlotte_initialform.jpg|Charlotte as she first appeared.<br />
File:Charlotte_and_bomb_that_blew_her_up.png|One can see a bomb stuck to Charlotte's tongue, which she then swallows. This and other bombs Homura laid down during her game of leapfrog made the series of explosions which killed Charlotte.<br />
File:Charlotte-manga.jpg|Alternative form of Charlotte in manga canon.<br />
File:Charlotte_seed.png|Charlotte's grief seed.<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{card_link|id=6}}<br />
*{{card_link|id=7|name=Pyotr}}<br />
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[[Category:Witches]]</div>Kinsho Mokuroku