Hurdergaryp wrote:Tsaraine wrote:Today I've been reading To The Stars, a Madoka Magica fanfic set four hundred years in the future during a war with aliens. It feels like the author read and re-read the works of John Scalzi while simultaneously watching and re-watching Madoka Magica. The main appeal is the surprisingly robust worldbuilding, though the author does have a tendency to infodump.
Before that I tried reading Fargo, also a fanfic based on Madoka Magica, in which excessively dysfunctional magical girls try to kill each other based on the interactions of their various horrible psychological problems. I stopped reading it because it was super dark.
I've never actually watched Madoka Magica, since I've heard it described as "magical girls plus crippling depression" and I have to say reading the fanfic certainly seems to reinforce that impression. Reading this is actually making me want to watch it less, since it seems like the show just went grimdark for the sake of grimdark, and grimdarkness for its own sake is tedious.
Though now I'm picturing magical girls + Warhammer 40,000 and it seems like that might work quite well, since WH40K is more of the heavy metal skulls'n'spikes sort than the emo "everything is miserable forever" kind.
Fascinating. The real question, however, is the following: are there mecha?
It seems not, though it's been implied that the ordinary infantry have powered armour.
If you want magical girls and mecha, Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-Ne is the anime for you.