Kuroe Hot Take

“If Kuroe were to be taken by The Law of Cycles, to live her life as a Magical Girl eternal, she would see that fate as one worse than hell.”

So right off the bat, I want to say this is a rather hot take. I haven’t fully mulled it over, and I think I’d need to really go over all of Kuroe’s scenes in the show in more detail to finalize my thoughts on this. But I wanted to get these initial feelings out before then because that’s going to take a while.

Kuroe, is simply put, a transgression against Magical Girl ideals. She is someone who has become trapped by becoming a Magical Girl, and rather than learning to accept it, come to terms with it, or try to find new meaning in her life, she just wants to escape. She wants to do the one thing a Magical Girl should never do, stop being a Magical Girl.

There are lots of ways that Magical Girls in Madoka Magica and Magia Record did this. They would view themselves as protectors, view fighting as the price to pay for the wish they traded their souls for, or learn to cope in their own special ways. The alternative was to become a Witch and die.

In the scene leading up to her death we have Kuroe basically exposit how her death spiral started. How she never felt strong enough to truly help others. She saved that random Magical Girl from the immediate threat of the Witch, but she was unable to save her from the looking threat of the darkening of her Soul Gem. However, seeing her still keep a positive attitude, or at the very least forcing herself to, to aspire to be better than what she was. I feel it was something that made Kuroe feel disgusted with herself. She could no longer blame her own weakness for how she acted.

Magical Girls who don’t want to be Magical Girls

Apologies

Even as adult women, they’re still Magical Girls

Feeling like a hypocrite