User blog comment:QuasimodoBellringer/Quasi's NEXT Top 10 Favorite Characters/@comment-26198742-20171008161337/@comment-5808856-20171008170705

Honestly I didn't notice any form of tone shift until Mami's death, and after that when they kept killing character after character, it just felt a bit forced, and honestly made me unable to get invested in them knowing they were just bringing in new characters just to kill them. Homura's appearance honestly did not really feel like set up aside form giving Madoka a rival. So to me it was just happy and cute, until episode....three I think, where they just suddenly killed a character off. I feel it was just way to early to make such a change, and it came to sudden. On top of that, I don't think we got enough of Mami to really flesh her out, so it could feel as tragic as the writters wanted it. It's a show I want to like, but I just can't due to feeling like the show was rushed, the inability to connect with the characters, and my severe dislike of the main character.

On the other hand, I felt RWBY's felt natural as it was built up during the events of Volume 3. As Cinder slowly got ready to unleash her masterplan, I felt like something was about to happen, then when Penny was killed, is when it started to go into full swing. We already had Yang breaking Mercury's leg, so I already had a feeling someone would be getting killed at some poin in the volume. As the volume continued things escelated up to Pyrrha's death, which I feel caused it to feel much more natural. Plus it taking until Volume 3 let people get attatched to the characters like Penny and Pyrrha which in turn caused their deaths to feel much more tragic. Heck, even the first two volumes had build up as Cinder and her crew were clearly taking steps to take care of Pyrrha This is why it's second only to Sailor Moon as one of my favorite shows. It has characters I can connect with, and on top of that, I like how they take their time to let things occur naturally over the course of time.

Again, if people don't like RWBY or of they do like Puella Magi, that's fine. This is just my two cents on the issue.