Disclaimer: this post is made of spoilers.
Homura is in a time loop trying to save Madoka, her only friend, from becoming a puella magi.
It happens that this is not only her own wish, Madoka herself in one of Homura's many attempts asked to prevent her from making a contract with Kyubei.
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| The wish that started all |
We all knew Homura was a time traveler and many already speculated she was in a time loop. After all, this would have gone well with her cold attitude. For her, this life is not the only one. She has made many attempts already and she doesn't care if something goes wrong. She can always restart if she doesn't like the outcome. She became cold after all her incredibly sad experiences... the fact she hasn't become a witch yet shows her determination.
She was close once, she was ready to give up and condemn the world to destruction, but Madoka saved her and gave her the strenght to continue, the will to not give up.
Homura will go on trying and trying until she finds a way out of the loop. Until she finds a way to save her only friend.
It also turns out Madoka's dream at the beginning of the series was Homura's last failed attempt, the one where Madoka defeated the Walpurgis Night with one hit and was on her way to become the incredibly strong witch who would destroy the world. It seems Madoka keeps some faint memory, at least she knew Homura's name.
One thing said by Kyubei makes me think that the world they live on might not be Earth, but only one of the many worlds used as power plants by the Incubators. He said even if this world is destroyed he didn't care since he collected energy already in excess of his quota. So they probably went the industrial way and increased the entropy-independent energy collection efficiency by planting humans in many worlds...
Above all this, and even if we were mostly expecting this development by now, I think the execution was awesome.
The way Homura trasformed from an extremely weak and shy girl to the powerful and cold puella magi she is now is told via her experiences. She saw her friend die so many times.
Her reaction in the last episode, all her behaviour until now makes sense. Including her hate for Kyubei.
She started out as an extremely weak puella magi. Her weapon? A golf bat :). She grew from a weak girl to this:
Her real strenght was her ability to stop time and she took advantage of it by preparing bombs. She expanded her arsenal after Sayaka's comment that her bombs were dangerous also for her allies. She razed armouries for guns (stopping time it's quite easy to loot everything). She improved to the point of being far above all the other puella magi, yet this is not enough to face the Walpurgis Night.
I was so worked up about Homura, but we also finally get to see Madoka as a puella magi! Her weapon is a bow and she is indeed strong.
Exagerated specula 1: Kyubei is using Homura to repeat Madoka's transformations and harvest infinite energy from her. I doubt it's true since Kyubei seemed to have no memories about the previous timelines, but we all know how manipulator he is. The possible "good" end is for them to break the loop and possibly save themselves.
Exagerated specula 2: Homura is the Walpurgis Night. She becomes a witch in the last timeline, the current one, after defeating herself. She sends herself to the past just before becoming a witch knowing that she would be defeated by herself and saving Madoka. This would be awesome, the ultimate sacrifice to break the time loop! The fact that her witch form existed in all timelines would be a consequence of her time abilities making her transcend time.
This is supported by the gears on the Walpurgis witch. The same gears that activate everytime she uses her power.
If they manage to keep up this level of awesomenes until the end for me this is going to be one of the best anime ever.
Ah, and the title should be "Puella Magi Homura Magica" :)
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