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And to the fantasy itself? Gen more than once cares to stress how gentle of a man he is, but in the fantasy he becomes savage, caring about nothing but getting off, and this manifests perfectly in Saya and Yoh: as to Saya, all about her empathises her defencelessness, starting from her physical appearance being that of a child who just entered puberty and her simple white one-piece and long hair nearly dragging to the ground, symbolising innocence and lack of a need to attend to practical matters, respectively, and ending with her childish manners and mistakes (and she was said to be more intelligent than any other life form on the planet); as to Yoh, well, I have little to say but the keywords 'rape' and 'degradation'. (As I drift back to my experience with Madoka, all the attempts at being considerate about the issues of girls and women in the show reeked fake to my perceptions, but with the above in mind they just seem like bitter parody.)
Drawing the end line, I cannot say I hated the writing, but that is because I can barely summon any emotion towards this worthless piece of power fantasy porn that does not deserve a thousandth of fame it has. Of Urobuchi's works save for Saya no Uta I've only became acquainted with Madoka and Fate/Zero, and towards both of these I have the same complaints: they do not have characters, they have plot devices; and they do not have plot, they have Urobuchi indulging in intellectual onanism. Saya no Uta does not escape the flaws of Gen's other works. You could say I am prejudiced, and I would not hesitate to admit it. But the question is, am I wrong?