Your "don't knock it tell you try it" moment.

[K12]

Puella Magi Madoka Magica.

I had no idea what it was. I'm not a connoisseur of anime. Seeing it on netflix i dismissed it as another magical girl anime a la Sailor moon.

After watching bojack horseman ( a second time) i was in the mood for something a little dark. I googled something in that vein and Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Curious as i am, i gave it a shot this week. And holy shit is it good. It took the magical girl trope and turned it on its head. I went through the anime, the third movie and then the first and second movie ( in that order). All this week. And i don't regret it at all.

Also i had my butt fingered. I mean why do women get to have all the fun?

I hate how much I love that show because I would never ever be able to justify it to anyone I know. I watched it out of curiosity after seeing it's ridiculously high praise and almost gave up part way through the opening titles, very glad I didn't. I'm not an anime person generally and the "magical girl" genre is something I know nothing about but I love really light happy stories with a dark underbelly that gradually seeps through.