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I Was Stupid, So Stupid (あたしって、ほんとバカ Atashi tte, Honto Baka?) is the eighth episode of Puella Magi Madoka☆Magica. It originally aired February 25th, 2011 in Japan.
Plot[]
Despite injuries, Sayaka keeps shredding the Witch in front of her. Thanks to healing magic, she wins without a scratch at the end. But she seems extremely exhausted. On the way back home, Madoka makes a comment about how Sayaka fights. Sayaka feels Madoka's comments are full of high-sounding ideas, gets upset, and leaves the place.
Madoka is in tears, yet she can't go after her. Sayaka hates herself and sheds tears of vexation as she runs in the rain. Her Soul Gem grows darker and darker.
Major Events[]
- Kyosuke and Hitomi start their relationship, after Hitomi confesses Kyosuke.
- Homura attempts to kill Sayaka. But Kyoko arrives in time to save her.
- Sayaka's Soul Gem transforms into a Grief Seed and passes away. She transforms into her Witch form, Oktavia von Seckendorff.
- Witnessing that, it means that Soul Gems transform into Grief Seeds once filled with too much impurities and then hatch Witches.
Summary[]
Sayaka finishes off Elsa Maria, but refuses to use the Grief Seed, giving it to Kyoko, and doesn't feel well afterward. Madoka helps her go back home. They are sitting on a bench with Madoka crying over Sayaka's actions. Sayaka tells that all that is left for her in life is fighting witches. Madoka tells that she wants to make Sayaka happy, but Sayaka runs away, telling Madoka not to follow her, while her Soul Gem is dimming.
Kyoko and Homura are talking about Walpurgisnacht in Homura's apartment, Kyubey appears uninvited and tells them about Sayaka's current condition. Madoka goes to Sayaka's apartment to find out that she's been absent since the day before. As Hitomi and Kamijo are walking home, the two of them stop in a park and have a lively conversation. Sayaka watches from afar.
Homura speaks with Sayaka, trying to get her to use a Grief Seed, but Sayaka refuses. Sayaka accuses Homura of putting up false pretenses and always lying to them. Homura admits she is just doing things for Madoka's sake and prepares to kill Sayaka, but Kyoko interferes. Homura uses a flashbang grenade and escapes.
Sayaka is riding in a train where two men are discussing and badmouthing their girlfriends and generally acting misogynistic. She interferes, asking them how they can speak this way about women who love them. Her train of thought grows progressively more fatalistic as she wonders why she bothered trying to save such a worthless world, and she begins to transform into darkness.
Madoka talks with Kyubey and he tells her about her apparent power. She seems to almost agree to become a Magical Girl, but Homura suddenly appears and shoots Kyubey before she can form a contract with them. Homura then breaks down in tears in front of Madoka, who has a strange moment of realization and asks if she has met Homura before. Before Homura can answer Madoka excuses herself and goes searching for Sayaka, ignoring Homura's calling out to her. Another body of Kyubey appears and eats their previous dead body. Kyubey realizes that Homura is a person from another timeline, and Homura says Kyubey's real identity is that of an "Incubator."
Kyoko finds Sayaka and sees that her Soul Gem is almost completely dark. Sayaka says that the hope and despair must always be in balance. Ironically she saved the boy who was in complete darkness, wishing for a miracle to get him out of this darkness, but by doing so she made herself fall into that same darkness that he was in, balancing things out, saying that this is the way Magical Girls are and calling herself stupid thinking that she could ask for a miracle for someone while remaining happy herself. In the end, she understood that you can't have a wish or miracle without giving something major in return, crying, her Soul Gem explodes, turning into a Grief Seed, creating a Barrier with Sayaka apparently becoming a Witch.
The episode ends with Kyubey noting that since girls who are on their way to become women are called "girls", girls who will become Witches should be called "Magical Girls".
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Trivia[]
- At the beginning of the episode, when Sayaka has defeated Elsa Maria, the Grief Seed she picks up and throws to Kyoko is Elsa Maria's. The scene then cuts to Sayaka. When it cuts back to Kyoko, she is holding Elly's Grief Seed.
- According to NewType May 2011 issue, the train conversation scene between the two guys and Sayaka is actually based on a real event that Gen Urobuchi witnessed.[1]
- One of the guys is named Sho and is furthermore revealed to be the boyfriend of Inui Itsumi, a Magical Girl introduced in Magia Record.
- The unnamed friend of Sho is voiced by Miki Shinchirou.
- In the scene, the boys refer to Inui as a dog, Inui's Witch form is revealed to be Uhrmann, who has the body of a dog.
- It is confirmed that in the anime that Sayaka did not kill Sho and his friend but in the manga, Hanokage confirms that Sayaka eventually killed them.
- According to the novel, Kyubey reports Sayaka's last thoughts to Madoka via telepathy. Her last words before her transformation into a Witch were "I'm sorry, Madoka".