What influenced your choice of character?

[Mami Tomoe]

I promised I'd write this a while back, but I didn't, so I'm writing it now even though I could have gotten by unnoticed without writing this.

I chose Mami Tomoe as my character, at first, because I was watching Madoka Magica and she seemed like the epitome of my expectations for the anime - A simple romp through girlyville with magic and rainbow hero-flavoured sprinkles on top. Then she got decapitated and I had to go to the bathroom and cry for a while.

Later on, she seemed like the only remaining shard of my expectations. She had managed to become arguably the most skilled Magical Girl featured in the anime (Homura doesn't count because she just knows the month like the back of her hand), while being oblivious to the evils and injustices of the world and her line of work in the process. This makes her stick out as a pillar of light among endless shadows, or at least that's the best way I can put it, and it also makes her the archetypal hero I've always dreamed of. Archetypal, yes, but I love the holier-than-thou-but-not-stuck-up-enough-to-outright-say-it type for some reason. Which might make sense, because I'm that myself minus the 'but-not-stuck-up-enough-to-outright-say-it' part.

In other words, I like Mami because she's the blundering veteran. She contradicts herself while being the (OPINION ALERT) best Magical Girl on the show, despite only getting three real episodes of screentime.