#soulcat

maybe it’s unfair to keep comparing them because certainly there’s nothing that ties them together fundamentally aside from them both being anime with i guess some lesbiannical overtones. but i feel like online i see people comparing them a lot which. i understand the urge because they definitely both feel very invested in exploring systems of power, what it means to have power, what it means to exercise power over others, how do these systems become abusive. and they both also seem. invested in challenging the audience’s immediate aesthetic associations by forcing a contrast between idealized beauty and harsh reality. and of course kyubey and akio are like. i guess i would say somewhat analogous characters.

all that being said, madoka is very very obsessed with explaining the rules of this world, and giving every kind of behavior a point value in a way that is very common of anime in general and the absence of which made rgu and it’s somewhat hallucinatory approach to logic so compelling.