it feels very deliberate that the magical girls who contracted pre-series (mami, homura, kyoko) all have no family or support system to rely on. becoming a magical girl has forced them to “come of age” and become self sufficient, though they are still immature
mami tomoe is such a depressing ass character and not even just in the sense that she's killed off early 😭 she's a 15 year old orphan who lives in a huge apartment by herself, and fr has nothing going on in her life besides going to school and hunting witches