Zenobia
Zenobia (ZENOBIA) is a witch that appears as a boss in Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Magia Record. She also appears in Episode 1 of the anime fighting and killing Box Wood before being slain by Yachiyo Nanami.
Witch Card
こだわりが非常に強く妥協することを知らない魔女。満足できる砂の城を作ろうとしているが、納得できずに何度も切り崩している。今となっては、魔女自身もどういったものを作りたかったのか分からなくなってしまったただ、それでもそれなりに立派なお城が出来ると結局崩してしまうとはいえ一時的に機嫌はよくなるらしい年頃の女性を思わせる容姿に反し性格は幼稚そのもの。砂遊びを邪魔されると泣きわめいて大暴れする。
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The Witch of Sandboxes. Her nature is Immersion. This Witch has strong preferences and never compromises. She is trying to build an acceptable sandcastle, but she can never satisfy herself. She has destroyed and rebuilt her castles so many times she doesn't even remember what she wanted to create in the first place. When she does manage to make a nice castle, she feels much better for a while, but ends up destroying it again. She looks like a young lady, but acts like a little child. If she is interrupted when she is playing with her sand, she cries and goes on a rampage. | ||||||||||
Minions
いつも手下同士でじゃれあって遊んでいる。体質のせいか転がって遊び回っていると、その辺に落ちているものが体にくっついてしまう。その度に魔女に取ってもらっているが、手下たちはそのことに全く気付いていない。次の城について悩んでいる魔女を見ると手伝いには来てくれるただ、どう作っても魔女には満足してもらえないため、すぐに飽きて他へ行ってしまうことが多い。
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Minions of the Witch of Sandboxes. Their role is Toy Trains. These Familiars are always playing amongst themselves. A quirk of theirs is that as they roll around, all of the things on the ground stick to their bodies. As they do this their Witch collects the debris without them noticing. When their Witch is coming up with a plan for her next castle, they come to her aid. But soon they realize that it is impossible to satisfy her, no matter how hard they try, so they get bored and stray away. | ||||||||||
Memoria Card Description
Zabaii
A minion of the Sandbox Witch; its duty is pretending to be a train. They are always frolicking and playing with each other. Due to its physical makeup, when it rolls around while playing, anything on the ground that it rolls on will get stuck to its side.
Trivia
- Zenobia is a Greek name meaning 'daughter of Zeus'.
- Her name is a reference to Septimia Zenobia, a Syrian queen who held great power in her kingdom after her husband's death. She cultivated an intellectual environment in her court, governed a multicultural and multiethnic empire, and it was thanks to her that her kingdom greatly expanded its territory. In reaction to the campaign of the Roman emperor of the time, she declared her son emperor and assumed the title of empress for herself; after a heavy battle against them, the Romans were victorious, and she was then exiled to Rome where she spent the rest of her life. She has since been revered as a freedom fighter and a hero of the oppressed, and stands among the likes of Cleopatra and Boudica as a heroic queen with a tragic end.
- Zabaii's name comes from either Zenobia's birth name, Bat-Zabbai, or Zabbai (alternatively spelled Zabaii), considered to be the name of her unknown father or some other distant ancestor.
- In the anime, Zenobia was redesigned significantly, such as no longer having the shovels and bucket on her head and her colors were made to be duller.
Gallery
In the Game
Character card from Magia Record
Character card from Magia Record
Memoria card from Magia Record
Picture showing altered sprite.
A similar design is shown in Touka's lecture.
Zenobia's Labyrinth and Grief Seed in Yachiyo Nanami (Anime ver.)'s Four Star card art.
Barrier
Entrance to Zenobia's Barrier
Witch's Kiss
Anime Screenshots
Her labyrinth appears in Episode 1
Zenobia's name in Runes
Zabaii
Zenobia catches Box Wood
Then tears her apart, killing her
Zenobia's death
Zenobia's Grief Seed
Zenobia's Grief Seed being used in Episode 5
Zenobia's cameo from Episode 19
Manga
Zenobia in the manga
Zenobia's labyrinth
Zabaii
Books
TV Animation official guide book vol.1 12page
Memoria Cards
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| Sandbox Witch Minion. Role: Toy Train. Always playing with fellow Minions. Due to its texture and how it rolls on the ground, it always gets things stuck to itself. | 砂場の魔女の手下、その役割は電車ごっこ。 いつも手下同士でじゃれあって遊んでいる。 |
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