Madoka Magica | Brutus PMV

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Spent a long time woring on this. Quite excited for the new madoka magica movie to come out 😼🫶

Can this be considered an Animatic? (actually probably not lol)

Programs used:
Ibis Paint X
CapCut
Song: Brutus - The Buttress

[moonsinrivers]

Y'ALL I did not expect this to do so well 😭

I'm really glad that you guys enjoy watching this 🐀💖

Also, keep leaving comments of how you guys interpret this lol. I like reading them, and seeing what y'all thought of it.

Might do another Madoka Magica Pmv in the future if I find a song that clicks. Might even do an AU, where the roles are swapped 👀

[humanhoodie]

"Instead of you, it should be me." God, that line fits so well with Homura's self loathing or self-sacrificial tendencies that we see again and again. Her desire to be the one who faces the reprocussions of Madoka's wish.

[jaydinotjd]

Homura wanting to BE Madoka is such an interesting take because initially Madoka was everything Homura was not. Madoka’s qualities are the qualities Homura values in a person and she likely wants to be just like her.
This paired with the ending of Rebellion is a masterpiece.

Madoka Magica fans be eating good this year >:)

[Upstairs_Insect]

God you can just FEEL Homura’s desperation and anger, how the fact she resettled the timeline so many times just so Madoka didn’t die changed her and not in a good way to the point her goal only just became ‘SAVE MADOKA’. Homura is a prime example on why you do NOT give literal children the power to time travel as this is the result, she genuinely did want to help but at this point was at the reach of her breaking point that she closed off her emotions, afraid of being hurt.
This animation was great and Brutus fits Homura really well!

[tommie]

THIS TAKE MAKES SO MUCH SENSE!!

If you consider the fact, that in Homura's first timeline, she was a shy transfer student who met the out going sweet class president Madoka and thus her fate changed.

In the movie ending scene, in Homura's created world for keeping Madoka, she made herself the popular graceful class president while Madoka was the shy new transfer student.

Even though, Homura made friends with everyone else too in the series, her eyes are always on Madoka, it's what Madoka chooses to do or what Madoka's actions are that prompts Homura again and again to change her actions. Maybe it wasn't her obsession with Madoka herself but more to her obsession with saving Madoka as a form of saving herself that drove her insane. Maybe she didn't see Madoka as her one and only first friend but more of a, Madoka was what she wants to become or what she could become, had faith not messed them up so hard.

[WompwompNom]

This is a perfect way of describing how obsessed she was for Madoka. She loved her so much she turned herself into the devil to keep her forever whatever part of madoka she wanted her so much. Seems cute but extremely dangerous.

[AlwaysTuesday]

Originally I just left a comment excited to see a Madoka Magica animation that came out relatively recently, but the way this interprets Homura is *so* interesting actually. it's always "oh she's in love with Madoka" "oh she's obsessed with Madoka" and yeah these things are true, but I've never once seen or thought "she wants to BE Madoka" and that's a legitimately refreshing take on Homura. If I listened to this song I probably wouldn't have thought of Homura, but you made it work INSANELY well. Thank you for making this the art is beautiful.

[lauraf.]

"My name is Homura and my name means 'flame.' So with a flaming heart I'll guide this bullet into the heart of my enemy."

[LTg]

I love how homura to this day is still very complex and there could be mutiple ways to interpret her actions/emotional state of mind.

[kairussell]

THIS IS PERFECT.
"I don't want what you have, I want to be YOU." Proceeds to dethrone both Kyubey and Ultimate Madoka to create her own magical girl system.

[DeadFanbases]

Homura did absolutely nothing and everything wrong, but you, my newly beloved artist, did EVERYTHING SO RIGHT ❤❤❤

[Pudding]

I small detail, but the dark, sunken, sleep-deprived eyes really are amazingly used here.
They say the eyes are the windows to the soul, and we can't see the despair any more clear.

[Taztot]

"Instead of you, it should be me."

This reminds me of the ending of Rebellion where Madoka is the transfer student. There are so many parallels.

This entire animation gives me chills "That the people would see me too as a poet and not just the muse" is also accurate in my opinion, almost as if she wants to be everything Madoka is.

"I don't want what you have I want to be you."

This again brings me back to the clip where Madoka is the one transferring in. This time, Homura is the one who is well liked and well versed.

Can't wait for Movie 4!

[ChaosGummyBears]

as a buttress fan this showed up in my recommendations. u did her justice. art recognizes art

[lavendrrrboygrl]

This makes me look at the song in a completely different perspective. The expressions of torment you did for each magical girl are so genuine too

[NostalgiaArtist]

THIS VIDEO IS SO HEARTBREAKING... it's sooo good and rlly aligns with how i understood how in my mind homura "became the devil" and conquered death at the end of rebellion... how i like to read it is that the "karmic fate" tied to madoka also applied to homura because of how many times she had ran through all those timelines and remembered it all, but kyubey or anyone else had no way of being aware of it because she made her wish before the timeline loop started and magical girls can't make second wishes. so at the edge of death she overcomes the rules of magical girls through sheer karmic fate, creating her own wish and rewriting the universe, like a pendulum swinging ^ ^ becoming like madoka

[Angrycheesepizza]

Haven’t see a madoka magica animation in a while but i love this so much. Homura’s eyes here 0:32 show how she fell into so much despair

[muniohnarutobiggestkinnie]

I never thought of homura wanting to be madoka, but it's a great interpretation and it makes sense. Madoka is everything madoka isn't after all. I've always thought of homura being obsessed with madoka, homura loving madoka, but I never thought of homura wanting to BE her. Great vid!!

[onixiage]

GOD THIS IS SO GOOD GGRGRR. The idea of homura being so hell bent on saving madoka because she needs her desperately and madoka being just the human embodiment of good, makes me think that maybe part of the reason homura is so determined is that by saving her maybe that would prove her to be good as well in a way. If she could save good would that also make her good? Brutus works so well with this, this is awesome, i'm eating this

[leamon_]

Man the way she puts her on that pedistal and that final shot 1:29 her eyes with the spaced lines for strain and the red curl in thos lips. She looks a bit entranced. Nice animation. The color was well used and the song choice fits