/r/ing how to watch madoka magica since there's multiple media, can I just watch the anime and be done with it?

I've said to myself multiple times that I would never watch it because it's just little girls doing god knows what and that isn't my thing at all, even if I know there's a dark twist or whatever at some point, but people have convinced me finally.

that OR recommend me some depressing mindfuck anime like evangelion and serial experiments Lain where the characters don't look like something from a 8yo girl cartoon