Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Rebellion - Homura vs Kyubey

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[ZahnwehZombie]

You know, I think about how Homura's witch familiars are supposed to be antagonistic and cruel to their master, but at the same time I see all of this as another aspect to her world and her familiars. They deeply care and love Madoka so much that the only moment Homura and her familiars are unified and working together towards is protecting Madoka. Everything in her world trying to repeatedly kill Kyubey before finally deciding to accelerate the curse and kill herself. In the end, she wants to die, and her familiars reflect her cursing herself for her own weakness in being unable to both save Madoka and protect her.

[FrozenCampbellSoup]

The line “all of you magical girls should fulfill your existence by transforming into a witch” is the most haunting to me.

Suffer for eternity because it benefits /us/ and we decided it’s your purpose.

[konata]

You've got to admit, this is one of the darkest moments in the series when you contemplate just how much Homura threw away to instead suffer in Hell for eternity if it meant saving Madoka.

[Kana-mfqk]

1:15 まどかを支配するつもりね！！！
っていう、愛と怒りの感情がすごく好き

[darkbeetlebot]

I think the scariest part of the scene was when Homura yelled "Damarinasai" at Kyuubey. Not just because of the tone of her voice, but because the form of the word that she used is one only used when you're in a position of authority above the subject. That is, Homura believes herself to be more powerful than the incubators, and is actively subjugating them out of what could only be described as vindictiveness. It's as if she's speaking like an angry god to them.

Also, I think the most powerful part was the entire sequence of the white Homuras dancing and stumbling around like a crowd of worshipers during an apocalypse, some even hugging and trying to comfort each other before their demise from the black, falling ones. It's like the physical manifestation of the pain that raising the curse is causing. She knows she doesn't want to do this to herself, and knows it will destroy everything she used to be, but she does it anyways because the alternative is even worse.

Witches are fucking horrifying.

[Maddinhpws]

Kyubey is such a good character.

He truly is an entirely eldritch being. Far above anything humanity can conceive. Devoid of all emotion, solely using them to manipulate people. All the while fully immortal, just appearing over and over again no matter how much they are killed.

[Spica-vsoi]

4:26 キュウべぇ「どうして人間の思考はどうも理不尽なんだい？」
お前の思考も理不尽だからだよ (　˙-˙　)

[NRobbi]

"I'll never let you incubators touch Madoka again."
"Would you give up your only salvation because of that?"

Turns out, the answer was yes.

[ちょこ-kv]

まどマギ見る前「なんだこの可愛い小動物は」

まどマギ見た後「なんだこの小動物は」

[zibsidian]

Oh my god, 0:52 to 1:18 is just an amazing sequence. The moment Kyubey says that his goal was to confirm the existence of the Law of Cycles Homura's familiars start stomping their staffs and start cracking the glass meaning she knows that he's lying and that she's angry, and as she starts to connect the dots in her head and starts seeing Kyubey's real plan her anger starts building up and the glass cracking symbolizes that, you can even hear the anger in her voice. Once she finally figures everything out Kyubey realizes what's about to happen and he looks away. The glass shattering symbolizes Homura's breaking point and all hell breaks loose.

[jaredknight]

This scene shows the reason Kyubey is so despicable, he cannot even begin to comprehend the concept of sacrifice. All he could think about is why Homura, who's dead one way or the other, would make that choice. He couldn't grasp that she was doing it to honor Madoka and protect all the magical girls who would come after her.

[shadowwriter]

This scene is the very reason I can understand why Homura became a demon and why to this day I'm not entirely upset with her or condemn her actions. It's a shame the incubators decided to get greedy and now they're going to pay for it

[Smartphone]

I think the black dress Homura was wearing is lovely.

[chay-aarts]

the way she said "DAMARINASAI" was so dark.

[LovelyCinccino]

If you think about it, if Homura didn't do what she did at the end, it would had been an endless conflict. As the Incubators now know that Madoka exisits, they would be doing all sorts of things to capture her so they can control her, including trapping other girls and driving them into despair. Madoka, with her omipresence, would know what is going on, and consistently have her girls fight back. Worst of all, the losers in the conflict wouldn't have been her or Kyubey: It would had been the victimized girls, especially if they end up meeting the fate Homura nearly did here.

[PiradoXIX]

Kyubey is highly intelligent because he doesn't feel emotions and can analyze everything without being biased but at the same time that's his biggest flaw.

He couldn't conceive how Homura could throw herself to hell just to save Madoka because "LOVE" was never in his vocabulary.

This movie is a masterpiece, we need the sequel right now.

[arenon]

Kyube is one of the best villains ever.. his ideals, the way he speaks, it’s just so good..This episode in particular brought darkness to a twisted twisted meaning ..Animation was amazing

[Appilesh]

This is one of the most beautifully artistic scenes ever. Every single illustration serves as a metaphor for Homura's state of mind. There is so much meaning under all of this sensory madness crammed into such a short amount of time.

[SuzukiSyun]

The reason why Homura yelled "Damarinasai" at Kyuubey not just because she finds him annoying, but also, deep in her heart there's the tiny bit of "regrets" of what she is doing. Just like Kyuubey said, if she follows the normal routine, ignoring what could have happen in the future, she could just go with Madoka and get into the Meguca Heaven.

[tomastredinick]

4:15 It is interesting to see that the Clara Dolls in this attack, they impale and twist Kyubey's body by spinning, which reminds me a lot to the hands of a clock spinning, which makes sense since one of Homulilly's overall themes is time itself.