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Originally Posted by Alchemical Night
My detractors may rightly feel I am over analysing these trends and tendencies, though the possibility of a deciding clash between these respective natures to decide primacy could very well be the sombre, or off road conclusion to this story, as is so often the case with Jekyll/Hyde narratives. A potential which Arina has not shied away from when dealing with some of the darker, haunting aspects of her stories with transformation, identity and the existential bind which defines them.
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I don't think you are over analyzing, but then again I spent a few hours reading several threads in a discussion of Madoka Magica that went into Utilitarianism and threw in Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill and others.
http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Talk:Phi..._human_race.21
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I wonder where this the story may be going since it does have the possibility that if the medicine ever proves to be ineffective or harmful to her, could she even go permanently back to 'normal' life again. Most magical girl stories go from a younger girl to an adult standpoint but rarely go the other way around. So, yes, this IS quasi mahou shojo with a twist built in.
I started watching mahou shojo anime when I started watching anime in the first place and the pattern is you usually get to see the main character ultimately lose her powers in the end and the reader can see how they have matured in some way from when they got their magic in the first place.
For Chikage maybe it would be the reverse and she will get some youthful enthusiasm back. At 31, she's already surprisingly cynical and fatalistic, so what is happening to her as an idol will hopefully effect some positive change in her adult life. I'm a sucker for slice of life stories with happy (just not overly sweet or contrived) endings, since that's what keeps me reading this stuff anyway. >.<