Nico Anime Character Seminar by Kazuo Koike

Translation courtesy of symbv of evageeks forum

On August 21, 2011, the highly respected mangaka and author Kazuo Koike held one of his Nico seminars on anime characters. This particular seminar featured his thoughts on the Madoka Magica anime. The combination of his reputation and his high praise for Madoka resulted in much discussion over this seminar by fans on 2ch.

Here are the highlights of some of Kazuo Koike's comments made in this Nico video, as reported by 2ch:

Kazuo Koike Comments

Original text	English translation
数十年描いてきた漫画生活の中で まどかのシナリオは考えられない、想像の上行った	In my decades of experience writing manga I have never thought about a scenario like Madoka. It went beyond my imagination.
まどかマギカを見ていてもジーンとなるようなことが何度かあります そのような感動を作っていくことがいいことだと思います	There were many times I felt my heart rending when I watched Madoka Magica. I think it is a great thing to create such touching work.
虚淵玄、その発想はなかったわ。負けた	Gen Urobuchi, I could not have such ideas. I admit defeat.
初音ミクも好きだったけどまどかで吹っ飛んだ ここまでキャラにのめり込むのはそうそうない	Although I love Hatsune Miku but Madoka just blew that off. I could not imagine I could get so deeply devoted to these characters.
エヴァンゲリオンの消化不良感を まどかマギカが決着つけたんじゃないかとまでぽろっと言ってるんだな	I could even say that with Madoka Magica the indigestion feeling of Evangelion has now finally ended.
超能力や魔法設定が支持されるのは世間の閉塞感から生まれるメタモルフォーゼ願望の現れである	The fact that super power and magic settei got so popular could be a manifestation of a wish for metamorphosis born from the feeling of entrapment by the world.