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On the trending topics list, #Real-time reaction of overseas audiences to episode 3 of "Puella Magi Madoka Magica"# climbed from the back row all the way up to the front row.

The first screenshot of overseas reactions that was widely shared by Chinese netizens came from a North American animation blogger with a large following.

He posted a series of updates during the airing of the third episode.

The first one appears at the end of the opening theme.

"Mami Tomoe's battle scenes are so elegant. I think she's my favorite character this season. Elegant, strong, and gentle, she's the perfect senior. I bet she'll survive to the finale."

The second post had several exclamation marks.

"WHAT?! What are they trying to do?! What are they doing?!"

The third one only has two words.

"NO!!!NO!!!"

The fourth point was released much later, and it consisted of a brief statement.

"This account will be temporarily suspending all content updates starting today. I need some time alone."

Chinese netizens lined up in neat rows in the comments section of this post.

"Welcome to the Land of Light Knife Victims Association. There is no membership fee, and the membership will automatically renew with each new release. The overseas branch is officially established today."

The second widely circulated video was a compilation of reactions from overseas video bloggers.

Someone edited these reaction clips into a short video and uploaded it to a domestic platform.

The accompanying title is "Global Heartbreak: A Compilation of Overseas Friends' Reactions to Episode 3 of Madoka Magica (Headphones Recommended)".

The scenes in the video are incredibly diverse.

Someone slid off the chair, covering their head with their hands.

Some people stare at the screen without moving for dozens of seconds, then slowly take off their glasses and start rubbing their eyes;

Someone shouted into the microphone, "SHE WAS MY FAVORITE";

Some people repeatedly rewound to the scene where the senior student transformed, as if they couldn't accept that the subsequent plot had already unfolded.

The comments scrolled across the top of the video, so densely packed that they almost obscured the image itself.

"Classic Reissue"

"Another Me in This World"

Welcome to A-Guang's world.

"Now you understand, right? We went through the same thing back then."

"Hilarious! They went back and watched the transformation scene, and it looked exactly like me back then!"

"The defenses were breached globally in unison; the Land of Light, you truly succeeded."

The third incident that ignited public opinion in China occurred on a well-known overseas animation forum.

A user with the ID "AnimeDetective".

He once pointed out various unusual details in the first two episodes of "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" in an analysis post.

At the time, it was ridiculed by the mainstream opinion on the forum as an overinterpretation.

This user reappeared on the forum today with the title of their post.

"I TOLD YOU SO!!!"

Exclamation marks and question marks were repeated in alternation for several lines.

The main text contains only three words: "I was right."

The reply section was filled with apologies in various languages: English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Korean...

They were lined up neatly.

One person's comment was so insightful that it resonated with Chinese netizens.

"There are two types of people in this world: those who trust A-Guang, and those who will learn to trust A-Guang.

(There are two kinds of people in the world: those who trust Ah-Guang, and those who will eventually learn to trust Ah-Guang.)

On domestic social media, the previously somewhat quiet "Madoka Magica" has become popular again due to the influence of the overseas version.

One netizen even wrote a long article titled "On A Guang's Light - Analyzing A Guang's Narrative Trap".

The article systematically outlines all the evidence against Yang Qian, from her first work to the present.

From Ultraman Tiga's Cigella Flower Field to the latest "Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day"...

Each point was written logically and with evidence, leading to the final conclusion.

"It's not that A-Guang doesn't torture, it's that he tortures with great patience. He will strike when you are least prepared, and when you think the main characters are in the bag, he will suddenly flip the table and tell you that this is just the beginning."

But the scariest thing is that even after you've finished cursing him, you'll still turn on the next episode.

Because you know, even the most grievous animations made by this person tell truly good stories.

This long article was widely shared, and someone in the comments section added a detail.

"And have you noticed that Hikaru never writes meaningless tragedies? The senior's death is not because the author wants to torture the audience, but because the death itself is part of the core setting of the story, the fate of magical girls."

Each of his knives has a structure, and each serves a larger theme.

This is the most despairing yet most admirable aspect.

Meanwhile, the technical teams of overseas streaming platforms are undergoing a stress test unlike anything they've ever experienced in their careers.

After the third episode of "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" aired, the number of concurrent requests to the comment section server broke the platform's historical peak in a very short period of time.

Less than half an hour after the technical team urgently expanded the capacity, a new peak was recorded.

The platform's contact person used a phrase rarely seen in formal business correspondence in the email sent to Su Xiaoran.

"Our cooperation with your Land of Light has shown us what a sweet disaster is."

Last week, we included your animation as a benchmark scenario for platform stress testing at our internal technical meeting. Could your operations team share some experience regarding server architecture?

When Su Xiaoran forwarded the email to the technical department, she copied Yang Qian.

Yang Qian's reply was only one line: "Tell them that the operations and maintenance team leader of Starlight Video is used to it. If their operations and maintenance mentality collapses, we can send them some hair growth tonic."

Domestic social media was now completely immersed in a joyful atmosphere of onlookers.

Whenever the third episode is released overseas in a new region, screenshots of the local audience's dismay are sent back to China.

It was widely shared with the hashtag "New victim reporting in".

Someone has compiled these screenshots into a global map arranged chronologically.

It marks the time when each region finished watching the third episode and the social media popularity index at that time.

The title is "The Land of Light's Global Depressing Roadmap, with the Senior's Decapitation as a Signal Flare".

On the map, it stretches from East Asia to North America to Europe to Oceania.

The red dots lit up much faster than any commercial company could expand its overseas business.

A Chinese netizen left a comment under this map.

"In the past, when people asked how influential the Land of Light was, I didn't know how to answer. Now I know. The influence of the Land of Light can be measured by my senior's severed head."

Every lit red dot is the sound of a heart breaking.

And amidst this symphony of sounds, we smiled with satisfaction.

Lunch break at the Land of Light's office area.

Yang Qian sat in her office chair, with a real-time scrolling page of the comments section for the overseas version of "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" on the screen in front of her.

The multilingual comments scrolled up at a speed too fast for the naked eye to discern.

Occasionally, I can spot a few familiar words.

"shock", "trauma", "cry", "why"...

He held a thermos in his left hand and scrolled the mouse wheel with his right, his expression calm.

When Su Xiaoran knocked on the door and came in, this was the scene she saw.

Her boss was looking at the screen full of wailing comments with a restrained, slightly upturned smile.

"Director Yang,"

Su Xiaoran handed him the tablet. "It's already reached number one on the domestic trending topics list."

Yang Qian glanced down at the tablet screen.

The top trending topic was clearly written there.

#The Whole World Is Feeling Depressed#

#Reactions of overseas friends watching episode 3 of "Puella Magi Madoka Magica"#

#Birth of A-Optics#

Three topics are listed side by side at the top of the list.

Next to the topic icon, there are two symbols, a crying face emoji and a smiling face emoji, placed side by side.

He clicked on the first topic, and at the top was a screenshot posted by a Chinese netizen.

The screenshot shows a post made by a new overseas viewer on a forum. The content is as follows:

"Finally, a wholesome magical girl anime without depressing twists!

(Finally, a healing magical girl anime without any heart-wrenching plot twists!)

Below the screenshot is an update posted by the same user a few hours later.

"What is wrong with this studio?"

Putting the two sentences together creates a hilarious effect.

Yang Qian picked up her thermos, took a sip of tea, and handed the tablet back to Su Xiaoran.

"Why not strike while the iron is hot?"