It’s that time of the year when all things dark, terrifying and horrific invades the halls and corridors of Through the Shattered Lens.

While many who hear the term magical girl and colorful-costumed girls fighting evil won’t think dark and disturbing well they’d be dead wrong. The magical girl genre of Japanese animation have always had that undercurrent of darkness which makes these so-called kiddie anime series more adult than that many people realize.

In 2011, the magical girl anime series Puella Magi Madoka Magica (aka Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica) came out and it finally explored that very undercurrent of darkness in the magical girl genre that people discussed about. The series was still cute, but also disturbing in how it explored the cost these teenage girls would incur in gaining magical abilities to fight evil.

The latest AMV of the Day takes Madoka Magica (especially the three films which followed the series) and it’s two lead character in Homura Akemi (girl with the dark hair) and Madoka Kaname (girl with the pink-hair) and their very complicated relationship that transcends not just their friendship, but time and divinity itself.

What better song to pair up with Madoka Magica but none other than “Seven Devils” by Florence + The Machine.

Anime: Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica

Song: “Seven Devils” by Florence + The Machine

Creator: Kinnsao San

Past AMVs of the Day

• Moonlight Requiem (Sailor Moon Crystal)
• Just Funkin’ Dandy (Space Dandy)
• Clarity (various)
• Skyfall (Cowboy Bebop, Fate/Zero)
• Chained (Princess Tutu)
• Breaking (Various)
• Another Fanny Service Video (Kemeko DX)
• Cosplay Bargain Bin (various)
• Can Can Pantsu (various)
• Warriors (Various)
• Sweet Dreams (Various)
• Carnivore (Tokyo Ghoul)
• Sweet Dreams (Another)
• Ship Happens (various)
• Evangelion 2.22 [Lights]
• Snowball Genocide (various)
• Iwatobi Weather Service (Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club and Attack On Titan)
• Otaku Paradise (various)
• The Breath of Spring (Bakemonogatari)
• Spiral Ascension (Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann)
• Strangers Like Us (Gargantia on the Verdorous Planet)
• The Gore Never Bothered Me Anyway (Elfen Lied)
• Valor (Kill la Kill)
• Time Falls Away (Tokyo Magnitude 8.0)
• Don’t Stop (Nichijou)
• Left Us Falling (Clannad and Clannad: After Story)
• Devil’s Game 2.0 (Puella Magi Madoka Magica Series and Films)
• Animegraphy 2013 (Various)
• See Who I Am (Various)
• Demons of the Past (Black Lagoon: Roberta’s Blood Trail)
• Ride or Die (Redline)
• Yurei (Another, Dusk Maiden of Amnesia, Mirai Nikki)
• Bloody Ayase (Oreimo)
• The End of My World (Clannad/Clannad: After Story)
• Life Is Fantastic (Nichijou)
• Event (Nichijou)
• Star x Crossed (Romeo x Juliet)
• Protectors of the Earth (Shingeki no Kyojin)
• Let Them Eat Rei (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
• Sorry for being Hercule, Sincerely Mr. Satan (Dragonball Z)
• Fidelity (Wolf Children Ame and Yuki)
• Nothing to Lose (One Piece)
• Affective Schoolgirls (Nichijou)
• RadioAkshun (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
• Danger Zone (Macross Plus)
• Maid to Kill (Black Lagoon)
• A Thousand Years (Clannad/Toradora!)
• Careful What You Wish (Black Lagoon)
• Ash vs Gary (Pokemon)
• Just Can’t Get Enough (Bakemonogatari)
• Our Miracle (Sword Art Online)
• Dead End (Mirai Nikki)
• Am I Not Human? (Another)
• Moves Like Jagger (NSFW)
• Mayoi Calling Araragi (Bakemonogatari)
• Troll of Hearts (The World God Only Knows)
• Written in the Spirals (Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann)
• The Way You Are
• Means to an Endgame (Code Geass)
• Azumanga Daioh 1985
• Safety Dance (Nichijou)
• Cherry – Chronicles of PHOTOpanic
• Remember My Name
• Futuristic Lover (Bakemonogatari)
• Sexy and I Know It
• Everytime We Touch (Toradora!)
• War (Valkyria Chronicles)
• Hold On To That Feeling
• Disco Heaven
• Hands Up! (Dragonball/Z)
• A Little Late
• Sexy
• I Heart Tsundere
• The New Era (One Piece)
• Fairytale of Lies
• Calling
• Alchanum
• This Is War (One Piece)
• Move Along (One Piece)
• Party Rock (One Piece)
• Remember the Name (One Piece)
• Imagica
• Maya and Company
• Who’s That Chick?
• Just The Way You Are
• My First Kiss
• Death Romance
• Furor (Oreimo)
• Highschool of the Dead Game
• Kobato – Ring A Bell
• Devil’s Game
• Mahou Shoujo Requiem
• A Prelude to Dreams
• A Thousand Miles (Macross Frontier)
• Instinct
• Hold Me Now (Princess Tutu)
• The Beautiful People of Black Lagoon
• SugardanSen & Attack of the Otaku
• Fairy Tail Teenage Dream
• Repeat (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)
• Toradora! Rough Love (Grow A Pear)
• Black Lagoon…To Be Loved
• This Is War (Fullmetal Alchemist)
• Danse De Raven
• Azumanga Daioh – Little Girls
• Something Fishy
• And Now, A Word From Our Sponsors
• Against All Odds (Macross Frontier)
• A Thousand Miles (Todaradora!)
• Toradora Fireflies
• Spinning Infinity
• Have You Got It In You?
• Azumanga Daioh Portal