The scribbling witch, with an ignorant nature. She loves Hide and Seek. However, because none of her minions are very intelligent, none of them seek her out.
The witch of scribbles. Her nature is ignorance. She loves hide-and-seek. Her minions strive to play hide-and-seek every day, but because none of her minions are very intelligent, none of them seek her out. When this solitary witch sees a human, she runs up to them and tries to invite them to play. If you're unwise enough to humor her, she'll playfully pull your heart out, but if you ignore her, she'll try to get your attention by stealing something precious of yours.
The scribbling witch, with an ignorant nature. She loves Hide and Seek. However, because none of her minions are very intelligent, none of them seek her out.
Graffiti Witch. Nature: Ignorance. This Witch loves the game of hide and seek. Unfortunately, its Familiars are not so bright, so none ever come looking.
The scribbling Witch's minion, whose duty is to be naïve. She is a lost familiar who was separated from the witch while playing alone, absorbed in her daydreams. She possesses the ability to transform humans into balls; a human who has been transformed into a ball cannot revert to human form until he bounces against the ground once for each lie that he has ever uttered.
Rebellion Production Note: Minions of the Scribbling Witch (Rental ver.). Before anyone knew it, they had slipped into Sayaka's bag and stowed away from the Law of Cycles. Together with Nagisa, they were attached to the Shadow Witch.
叛逆の物語 PRODUCTION NOTE:落書きの魔女の手下(レンタルver.)。いつの間にかさやかのカバンに潜み、円環より密航。なぎさと一緒に影の魔女に貼り付いていた。
Graffiti Witch Minion. Role: Eternal Child. Separated from their Witch while playing alone. A human transformed into a ball by its powers must bounce as many times as lies they have told in their life if they want to regain their lost form.
While Albertine doesn't make an appearance in The Rebellion Story, her familiars the Anjas, do. They're seen in along side Nagisa and the Sebastian's fighting against Homulilly's familiars. They have a brief description, shown in Ulla's Rental Ver. Concept page.
Anja
Minions of the Scribbling Witch. Before anyone knew it, they had slipped into Sayaka's bag and stowed away from the Law of Cycles. Together with Nagisa, they were attached to the Shadow Witch. (落書きの魔女の手下。いつの間にかさやかのカバンに潜み、円環より密航。なぎさと一緒に影の魔女に貼り付いていた。)
Magia Record Anime
Albertine appears in Episode 5 against Momoko Togame, Rena Minami and Kaede Akino. She grows to an enormous size to fight Kaede, however Kaede defeats her with her doppel attack. She appears to have black and rainbow coloured blood.
During her boss fight she is shown to be able to create different Anja by drawing them on the ground. She occasionally hides herself in building blocks. To make her reappear, just attack the building blocks in her barrier. She may begin to cry when suffered attack. Your magical girl can't attack her when she cries without Negate Spec. Stat Effects(精神系異常状態無効) ability.
Her barrier resembles Anja's barrier from Episode 5 however the boss room has an entirely new design. Information from the Madogatari event describe her barrier in greater detail: Once you enter, you become smaller while everything around you seems big. This is shown during Albertine's boss fight and is shown again in the Magia Record anime. The boss room is described as a planetarium-like space with eyes, eyebrows and mouths on the ceiling. Only the eyes seem to appear in the final version however.
Magia Record
Albertine makes an appearance in Magia Record after her appearance in the anime. Her description stays the same as her original anime description.
Magia Exedra
Albertine and Anja appear in Magia Exedra. They appear in the Main Quest Grafitti Witch.
Events
Madogatari
Albertine
"The witch of scribbles. Her nature is ignorance.
She loves hide-and-seek.
Her minions strive to play hide-and-seek every day, but because none of her minions are very intelligent, none of them seek her out.
When this solitary witch sees a human, she runs up to them and tries to invite them to play.
If you're unwise enough to humor her, she'll playfully pull your heart out, but if you ignore her, she'll try to get your attention by stealing something precious of yours."
Barrier
Some notes on her barrier were shared during the exhibition. A summary is presented below:
Things that enter her Labyrinth become tiny.
This causes her minions to look large, and the witch to look gigantic, which cancels out the "little girl" impression you'd otherwise get.
The deepest part is a "planetarium-like area," with the bottom part resembling the minions' corridor areas.
Big, fluffy yellow blobs move around on the walls. Bouncy balls come out of them.
It is highly likely Albertine was a young child, judging by her mannerisms and how she is a scribbling witch as scribbling is something commonly associated with children all the same.
Anja may be named after a titular character of the play Anja und Esther by writer Klaus Mann, whose most famous work was Mephisto, an adaptation of the legend of Faust. In the play, Anja and Esther along with two men live in a strange house, where they "indulge in melancholy thoughs, projects, and hopes". When a male dancer arrives at the home, Esther falls in love and leaves with him, while Anja stays behind and "remains 'trapped and safe in the place of the old'." Anja and Esther's intimate, homoerotic relationship before Esther leaves caused a sensation when the play was first released.
Albertine's minion Anja has a crown on it's head whilst the name Anja comes from German origin meaning 'grace' which may fit its royal imagery.
The name Albertine is also of German origin. Meaning 'bright' or 'noble' it is an ironic name for the witch. As she is someone who feeds off despair instead of being someone noble.
After Walpurgisnacht, she is the second witch featured in an anime whose name was not introduced in runes at her debut.
Her crayons read "Anja" (ANJA) and "wachsmalstift" (WACHSMALSTIFT). Wachsmalstift is German for crayon.
Trivia
In BD commentary for Episode 5, it was explained that Anja was voiced by Aoi Yuuki (the voice actor for Madoka)
Albertine has two different designs, with one coming from Madoka Magica Portable and the other from Magia Record (which takes inspiration from her concept art in Portable).
Multiple Anjas can be seen hiding inside Albertine's hair (and her trolley toy) since Magia Record. When Albertine is defeated in said game, the Anjas flies off from her hair in an attempt to escape.
According to the Production Note, Anja was meant to be the Witch present in Episode 5 and does not have a specified barrier.
The different types of vehicle Anja from Portable have different nicknames in their profiles: the plane 'Puun', the car 'Puppuu' and the boat 'Pukapuka'. These are all onomatopoeia for each vehicle.
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Minion of the Scribbling Witch
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Graffiti Witch Minion. Role: Eternal Child.
Separated from their Witch while playing alone. A human transformed into a ball by its powers must bounce as many times as lies they have told in their life, if they want to regain their lost form.