In all seriousness, I actually loved the finale season for doing its own thing, I loved the music, I loved the characters (yes all of them even though some didn't make it to the end of the last episode) I loved the animation. It was gorgeous 😍. And overall I did love what I saw at the end. Did the pacing feel off, yes I can agree with that. The characters that died in this season to a lot of people felt either pointless of meaningless however that's not how I saw it, to me it was that they cared so much that they were willing to sacrifice everything to try and save people they loved or wanted to be okay. They cared to much and to me it shows the negative side to that point of view from Iroha's story. She cared to much for others that it caused a domino effect on the outcome. She was trying to save everyone and she only was able to save a handful of people, yet she chose to be strong and continue living. And instead of the hospital trio working together like the game they take a different path. I'm actually really happy, sad, and content with it all and I don't know if it's because I'm one of the older fans or what however I am chill with how it ended. Even though Kyubey threw all of Iroha's sacrifices back into her face at the end, she chose to keep moving forward instead of falling into despair. I can get behind that. Is this anime perfect, no its got flaws, could it have ended differently by doing a spin on the games ending of arc 1, yeah, yet I feel like they were more so trying to tie this anime into our next movie than continue it like the game is able to in its own right. From reading all the side magical girl stories(A different story, Tart Magica, Oriko Magica, Kazumi Magica, etc.) to playing the different games of Madoka Magica, I will say I personally loved this story and to me it opened up the possibility that Magica Record's universe also has split timelines now just like the original Madoka Magica series and I'm all for that~
