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This show is the best thing I've seen recently! I will admit in the beginning this show was a bit slow getting into but as each episode went on, it just got better and better!
The story is alright, I never saw the original Romeo and Juliet so I can't say how accurate it is to the original story but I still enjoyed it even if I haven't seen the original. I think this is an anime that almost everyone can find something in it. I really like the characters in this version and I think this is the first time I just loved an anime ... solely because of the characters. These are characters you can react to like Juliet might be my favorite female character in an anime or any media. I really got behind her pacifism and kindness attitude. And then there's my favorite villain in anime Montigue. He's evil but his motivation for being evil is unexpected I just never thought about it.
As for the art/animation/whatever I think it's okay but it never really wowed me with it's animation. As for the sound I think the music is good but like the animation it never really stood out either however what does stand out is it's excellent English Dub. I know this might sound crazy but I recommend watching the English Dub over Japanese with subtitles.The English dub did something neat and that's adding Ye Olde English to the mix and it's not just a gimmick the delivery of some of the lines are brilliant and adds a lot to the overall experience.
So yeah it gets 10 from me all around. Except in Art and Sound those get an 8

I just got through watching this anime. To say the bare minimum this is the most interesting anime I've watched.

The story ties together many ideas, concepts, themes and elements such as magical girls, logic vs emotions, sacrifice, good-intentions vs alterier motives, aliens, and a bunch of other stuff, but to me, the core theme was always the emotional side of things. Half way through the anime, the big twist reveals itself, I won't spoil anything but it has to do with both emotions and the lack of emotions. Now at that preteen age we fluxiuate between hope and dispear to the extremes to the point ... of extremes but I think this can speak to anyone really.
I think this is a great anime not because it's smart or clever but because I think it understands what it means to be over emotional and I think understanding counts for more than a clever, well-written story and it's presented in a really cool, imaginative and entertaining way.

I think the directing is great for this sort of thing. Yuki Kaijura did the music, you may know her work in Tsubasa Cronicles, .Hack//Sign and Nior. Her music really helped the show a lot, I don't think I'd enjoy the show if it had terrible music. This isn't Yuki's best work but it helps to make the scenes more interesting and when it does show off the best songs, it REALLY shows off.
The art/animation/cinematography is really worth noting. It works with the music, almost coregraphed to it at times. The action scenes are great, the dramatic scenes are beautiful, but what I was most surprised at is the talking scenes. I can't remember the last time I was entertained by listening to a plot twist being explained and lectured to me. The part I have in mind is in episode 9 (or was it 10?) The reveal, the secret exposed.

So with that, I have to say that Madoka is an amazing anime but I can't promise you'll like it if you lack sympathy, empathy or what-not and that's not a bad thing, also you'll probably won't like it if you hate melodrama because this series is chalked full of it but it is sort of nessesary to the theme of the show so you can't really blame it for that :P
But if you are looking for a very unique, cool, sad, emotional, epic, MODERN TRAGEDY check this show out.

Also, in my opinion, this is one of the best directed show out of any anime, movie, TV Show to come out since the year 2005.

My first review in a while, so a bit rusty in getting my point accross so bare with me a bit----

Princess Tutu is probably the best directed animes ever. It breaks the mold of what could be done with the anime meduim and directing in general. Unfortunately it seems as though it never really made a big impact on the meduim. Maybe there's a little problem here and I think I know what it is and I'm going to jump right into the problem right now

It's very typical to have ballerina's associated with classical music. I could potentially see Princess Tutu becoming a huge success ... if they just had a lot less of the ballerina school stuff and had more scenes taking place exploring the magical world a bit more because when I first glanced at Princess Tutu, I just mistook it for a School Drama about a girl going to a ballerina accademy,. What I see here is not really as much as a magical fantasy as let's say Hayao Miyazaki but rather the stereotype that classical music goes with Ballerina's. (Princess Tutu could have easily made a beautiful world like Hayao Miyazaki does is what I was thinking)
So the bottom line here is that Princess Tutu does not make a good first impression and is a bit stereotypical of classical music and shoujo (Though it does subvert it's Shoujo roots but that's about half way though the story.)
But I'm not saying Princess Tutu should ditch the Ballerina stuff, because that's clearly an important element to the story but just downplay it a bit.

So that directing I was taling about earlier, that's really what you should watch Princess Tutu for. Princess Tutu has some of the best scenes in anime history. The entirity of the soundtrack is orchestral and classical, and the animation is coregraphed to fit the soundtrack, beat for beat, melody matching the emotions and sometimes experimenting with how emotions and can match melody of the opposite mood. (Think of how Evangelion matches fear or sadness with a catchy pop song.) So it goes without saying that these scenes are brilliant, very beautiful. It warrents a special kind of emotion out of the viewer that's hard to describe.


So all in all Princess Tutu is a masterpiece but it isn't perfect. If it stepped out of the shoujo genre more, and kept the ballerina's in the surreal dance scenes instead of spreading it out way too fat (meaning half of the anime taking place in the dance accademy) than perhaps Princess Tutu could be called the greatest anime ever.