If you loved Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part II: Eternal, try Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part I: Beginnings
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
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What they share
Both films are directed by Akiyuki Shinbo, Yukihiro Miyamoto, and they both carry the dread, foreign gem mood tags, and they sit in Animation / Fantasy / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part II: Eternal, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part I: Beginnings is
The last cicadas of summer, a vending-machine hum in a dead mall. Kyubey slides a contract across the counter; Sayaka’s fingers smudge the ink before Madoka signs. A fever-dream of bullet-time runs backwards.
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