>>2617038It's a pretty common anime trope. It's best to just accept it. She's filling out her own school paper work and IRL Japan is not known to take care of it's orphan population. Not that any country really does.
>The effort put into characterizing madoka's family really makes it stand out like a sore thumb that we never see the othersThis is intentional. Magical girls are usually the worst off of society. Madoka, and by extension Sayaka, had no business being magical girls. It also makes Madoka's sacrifice in the end that much greater. When Homu became the devil, it doesn't really matter. She had nobody and she ended up with nobody. Her saving grace at this point is Madoka doesn't want to go off by herself and be alone.
