Puella Magi EPISODE FOUR

PROBABLE SPOILERS AHOY!

I currently have two main theories about what the hell is going on.

Theory the first: the wishes, without fail, end up backfiring on the person that made the wish, or otherwise go horribly wrong.  Mami (apparently) wished to survive the car accident she was in, and was left with a lonely, empty life completely consumed by the witch hunts.  Sayaka has (apparently) wish for that Kyousuke guy to be healed, but her statements at the beginning of the fourth episode suggest things go bad.  I'm guessing Kyousuke ends up hating and despising Sayaka before he ultimately dies horribly.  We still don't know what Homura's wish was, but we do know that she's apparently dedicated herself to "saving" other people from making contracts with Kyubey.  I think Homura might have some sort of power that lets her see the future, in part.  This new Kyouka doesn't exactly seem like a nice person, either.  Likely caused by some terrible trauma of her own.

Theory the second, which is now going into crazy person land: the real final villian of the series will be Kyubey.  Whatever it is, it's creating the Puella Magi and causing and/or creating the Witches in order to further some own goal of its own.  Kyubey is also fucking creepy as hell.  Although some of the edge is taken off because I know it's voiced by Kagamin~, which is conjuring some odd imagery.

I have a feeling this will lead to Modoka shouldering the responsibility of what to do about the whole situation, with everything hinging on the wish she ends up making.

Normal ending: Modoka manages to dismantle the whole system and possibly destroy Kyubey, possibly using the wish as a weapon against itself (not unlike the ending of Inuyasha).
Best ending: Modoka manages to dismantle the whole system and destroy Kyubey, and all of the damage done by the conflict is undone (Mami brought back, etc.)
Bad ending: Modoka fails to end the cycle, everyone else close to her (Sayaka, Homura, her family) all die.

Also, when the unnamed Witch in episode four (assuming it was a Witch and not just a familiar, though there was no indication of a Grief Seed) attacked Modoka and started putting her through her own personal Hell, the art shift she went through seemed similar to the way "Charlotte" looked in episode three.  I wonder, then, if that's how Witches get made, and if Modoka was actually on verge of being turned into a Witch herself.

Worst ending: Modoka becomes a Witch, kills everyone close to her herself, destroys the world.

I wouldn't leave it out of the realm of possibility.

God damn this show is crazy and awesome.



I also started watching Amagami SS finally, as I normally don't watch harem shows.  But hey, at least that means I can start from the beginning with the Blu-ray rips!

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