I love how in each episode, the rose tinted shades of the life of a PM just gets bleaker and more fucked up. I almost feel bad for Sayaka... that's a big almost because both she and Madoka are actually starting to annoy me. Not because they're particularly annoying or are bad characters but just because Homura, Kyoko, and the belated Mami are clearly so much better and more interesting.
I didn't want Homura to be my favorite since it would've (for me) been typical to like her type of character but she just gets more awesome and intriguing with each episode that I just can't help it. Funny, I never considered Akemi to be a "mystery girl" until the moment Kyoko asked who she was and then I was thinking, 'As a matter of fact.... who IS she?!'. We're on episode 6 and still don't know much about her. Why doesn't Kyubey remember making a contract with her? Why did she become a PM? How she did come to know so much about the fate of PM's (even more so than Kyoko as seen when she immediately went after Sayaka's soul gem) that it's made her want to warn others against it? What exactly ARE her powers? So many mysteries.
Kyoko's definitely earn her self a spot as my second favorite. She's immensely entertaining, couldn't help but giggle at the way she taunted Sayaka about her 'boy toy'. A bit of a glutton too, luckily she has hunting witches and DDR to keep her shape. Even though she seemed pretty heartless at first, looks like Akemi was right in her assertion because even she wasn't okay with basically losing her humanity for the sake of power. I was also hoping when she picked Kyubey up, she'd throw him into traffic.
I'm beginning to wonder if Madoka is ever actually going to actually become a PM, which would be quite an interesting outcome for a MS series if she didn't but still makes her quite useless.
Got the feeling though, this is going to become my second favorite MS series ever right behind Princess Tutu (and yes, I'm saying it's better than SM and Nanoha
).