Kieron Gillen (writer of The Wicked + the Divine and Darth Vader comics) joins co-hosts merritt k and Eric Thurm to discuss Magical Girl Madoka Magica, a dark, depressing deconstruction of the magical girl subgenre. They discuss how the show explores gender, femininity, the treatment of queer characters, and how archetypes are used in all of the above.
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