
and third parts, the second is when things begin to pick up and you, as the reader, start learning things about this new world our favorite Magical Girls have been cast into. While the first third properly lays a foundation for the second It's a mystery that treats it's reader as intelligent, never revealing the mysterious nature of the work until a specific point, that point transitioning into the second third. The first third of Rebellion is fairly good.


That said, there are still points that I find bogus, unnecessarily complex, and unfortunately barren within the Rebellion narrative, both the film or the manga. As a sequel, but also as an adaption of the animated feature, Rebellion is a strange project to critique in that it's already a very understood story due to many rewatches of the film.
