Kimochi

Kimochi (キモチ, literally Feelings) are powerful Witch-like creatures that begin appearing throughout Kamihama in Arc 2. Kimochi can summon Rumors as minions within their own Barriers. According to an archive description from Magia Day 2019:

“A being that’s neither Witch nor Rumor, recently observed within Kamihama City. Out of a desire to return to the person they’re meant to dwell within, Feelings disturb and take control of their human visitors’ emotions, and attempt to impersonate them. Several Feelings appear to be scattered throughout town.”

Kimochi originate from gemstones Embryo Eve decorated itself with, formed from human emotions collected by Kamihama's Uwasa. After Embryo Eve's defeat near the end of Arc 1, these gemstones scattered across Kamihama City, while the core remained in Mizuna Ward.

There are eight Kimochi. Each has a glyph corresponding to a Bagua symbol and a name matching Plutchik's wheel of emotions. A ninth glyph on the bracelet holds it together and has no further significance.

Before their first defeat, most Kimochi initially summon an Uwasa and Familiars for defense. Once defeated, a Kimochi bonds to someone as a bracelet, transferable only to someone the owner trusts or through other, more extreme means.

Possessing all Kimochi grants control over Kamihama's Doppel field, also enabling its expansion due to the Kimochi's latent energy.

When its owner experiences heightened stress or emotion, a Kimochi may lend them its power, manifesting as a mask or clothing item corresponding to its body part, greatly enhancing the wearer's strength and magic.

Throughout Arc 2, the Kimochi frequently switch owners, each initially attempting to rejoin Embryo Eve.

In Chapter 11, the faction leaders unite to give all Kimochi to Iroha and Ui to reclaim the Doppel System from Kyubey. The Kimochi instead resonate with Lavi's resignation to the Will of the Universe, fusing into Kimochi Lavi. After attacking the others and planning to euthanize all Magical Girls, Iroha, Ui, and Lil' Kyubey reach Lavi and appeal to her lingering hope, as if she'd truly given up, she wouldn't even be fighting them to begin with. This changes her mind, and the Kimochi transfer back to Iroha.

During the battle against Winchester in Chapter 12, Iroha temporarily distributes them to allies before gathering them for her Infinite Iroha transformation.

After the end of Arc 2, the Kimochi are part of the Doppel System, only being briefly out of commission during the events of Puella Historia.

Kimochi Attributes

There are eight Kimochi. In the order they were discovered they are:

In-game Information

Kimochi	Body Part^[1]	Emotion^[3]	Defeated By	Puella Historia^[4]	Location found	Battle theme
Robust Opal Head	Head	Respect 敬愛	Juri Oba	Gunhild	Hokuyo (side street)	Opal
Joyful Sapphire Lips	Lips (mouth)	Ecstasy 恍惚	Iroha Tamaki	Ebony	Shinsei (abandoned construction site) Former location of Uwasa of the Friendship Ending Staircase	Sapphire
Beauteous Pearl Eye	Eye	Wonder 驚嘆	Ao Kasane	Tsuyu Mizuna	Minaminagi (Seaside Park)	Pearl
Oscillating Aquamarine Heel	Heel (foot)	Rage 激怒	Juri Oba	Toyo	Daito (Abandoned amusement park) Former location of Uwasa of the Chelation Land Ferris Wheel	Aqua Marine
Drifting Diamond Hair	Hair (thigh)	Fear 恐怖	Chiharu Hiroe	Amaryllis	Minaminami (Cargo port)	Diamond
Falling Turquoise Ear	Ear	Disgust 嫌悪	Felicia Mitsuki	Olga	Hokuyo Mountainous region Former location of Hotel Fenthope	Turquoise
Unmoving Garnet Pinky	Pinky (hand)	Grief 悲嘆	Ikumi Makino	Heruka	Daito (Kamihama Prison)	Garnet
Obedient Ruby Navel	Navel (belly)	Anticipation 期待	Shizuka Tokime	Chizuru	Sakae Park on the site of a demolished museum Former location of the Memory Museum	Ruby
↑ If multiple are specified, first is what Magia Record utilized as the Kimochi's name, and second is the traditional interpretation. ↑ Refers to the shape of the slot for the gemstone on the bracelet. As the bracelet has only ever been seen from merely two angles, many values cannot be determined. ↑ Refers to Spirit Enhancement upgrade material name - for every Kimochi, three types of materials were used - Fragment of [Emotion], Fragment of [Emotion] +, and Fragment of [Emotion] ++. ↑ In Puella Historia's Story menu, an image of Iroha's Soul Vessel was displayed. With every chapter about two Magical Girls completed, two stones would light up - for chapters about one girl, that would be one stone. The stones lit up in order from North (Pearl) to Northwest (Diamond).

Eight Trigrams Symbolism

Note that, while Kimochi indeed have inspiration in Bagua, the scope of inspiration might not necessarily follow each and every one of the listed elements.

Kimochi	Trigram figure	Name	Translation	Image in nature	Animal	Attribute	(Later Heaven) Direction^[1]
Robust Opal Head	☰	乾 qián	the Creative, (natural) force	天 Heaven, sky	馬 Horse	Strong, persisting	Northwest ↖
Joyful Sapphire Lips	☱	兌 duì	the Joyous, open (reflection)	澤 Lake, marsh	羊 Sheep / Goat	Pleasure	West ←
Beauteous Pearl Eye	☲	離 lí	the Clinging, radiance	火 Fire, glow	雉 Pheasant	Light-giving, humane "dependence"	South ↓
Oscillating Aquamarine Heel	☳	震 zhèn	the Arousing, shake	雷 Thunder	龍 Dragon	Inciting movement	East →
Drifting Diamond Hair	☴	巽 xùn	the Gentle, ground	風 Wind	雞 Fowl	Penetrating	Southeast ↘
Falling Turquoise Ear	☵	坎 kǎn	the Abysmal, gorge	水 Water	豕 Pig	Dangerous	North ↑
Unmoving Garnet Pinky	☶	艮 gèn	Keeping Still, bound	山 Mountain	狗 Dog	Resting, stand-still	Northeast ↗
Obedient Ruby Navel	☷	坤 kūn	the Receptive, field	地 Earth	牛 Cow	Devoted, yielding	Southwest ↙
↑ This is also the direction which the Kimochi spread after being released from Eve. On Iroha's Soul Vessel, the stones are placed in accordance to this, but rotated by 180 degrees (that is, with north downward).

Gallery

In-Game Gallery

A barrier containing multiple Kimochi
Kimochi stones reflected in Iroha's eye, as seen in Infinite Iroha's transformation video
Infinite Iroha's Soul Gem, as seen in her transformation video
See Lavi Himuro (Kimochi ver.)

Bracelet

Aquamarine
Turquoise
Opal
Pearl
Garnet
Sapphire
Diamond
Ruby
Opal, Aquamarine, Pearl, Garnet
Sapphire, Opal, Aquamarine and Diamond
All stones

Stone ownership

Magia Archive

Fanmade Analysis and Comparisons

Trivia

The eight Kimochi are derived from the Eight Trigrams and Plutchik's Wheel of Emotions.
- Each Kimochi gem is consistently associated with the most intense form of a primary emotion from the wheel, except for Fear, Disgust, and Anticipation which are represented at their base level on the wheel.
The Aquamarine Heel is the only Kimochi whose color does not resemble its real life gemstone equivalent. It may be called Aquamarine because the associated animal of the trigram is the Azure Dragon.
- In real life, Aquamarine is simply the name for cyan beryl. A yellow beryl like the Aquamarine Heel is called golden beryl or heliodor.
- Pure beryl is colorless and transparent, and it is instead called goshenite.
- In effect, heliodor and aquamarine are heat‑reversible color variants of the same mineral and can essentially transform into each other. Heliodor (yellow beryl) and aquamarine (blue beryl) are both colored by iron impurities, but in different oxidation states. Fe³⁺ produces yellow in heliodor, while Fe²⁺ produces blue in aquamarine. Heating heliodor to approximately 250–300 °C reduces Fe³⁺ to Fe²⁺, turning the stone colorless or pale blue. Conversely, irradiation can convert aquamarine to a yellow color.
The Opal Head, Pearl Eye and Aquamarine Heel in particular take a form vaguely reminiscent of the animal connected to their Bagua glyph.
According to Gekidan Inu Curry, Kimochi are inhuman manifestations of extreme emotions, and they know nothing but themselves.
- They are also both driven by and hunger for emotions, which explains why they bond with Magical Girls as bracelets after they're defeated.
The gems selected for the Kimochi are all in the modern birthstone list:
- Garnet - January
- Aquamarine (or Bloodstone) - March
- Diamond - April
- Pearl (or Alexandrite, Moonstone) - June
- Ruby - July
- Sapphire - September
- Opal (or Tourmaline) - October
- Turquoise (or Tanzanite, Zircon, Blue Topaz) - December
Sapphire and ruby are actually the same mineral of corundum (Al₂O₃), only differing in color. Pure corundum itself is completely colorless and transparent.
Diamond is the hardest among the eight, but also very brittle. It ranks 10 on the Mohs scale, making it unscratchable, but has perfect cleavage in four directions, meaning that a sharp blow can split it cleanly. The diamond being both the toughest to scratch and the easiest to shatter along crystal planes fits well with it representing the emotion of fear.
- Diamond is also the only gem from this group that possesses perfect cleavage, while the other seven either have none, or very poor cleavage. This means that if any of the other gems were hit, they would not split along flat planes but instead shatter irregularly (conchoidal or uneven fracture).
- The Kimochi also displays edges of blue and red, which do occur in diamonds, however both of these colors are extremely rare in diamond. Additionally, no natural diamond has ever been found that is simultaneously both as the natural processes of creating both types of diamond are very different.
Pearl is the only organic gem in the set, which is created by a living mollusk. Its hardness, or resistance to scratching (2.5–4.5) is so low that a fingernail can scratch it.
Opal is the lightest Kimochi stone, with a specific gravity of around 2.15, barely half that of ruby or sapphire. An opal gem of the same size of a ruby would feel hollow compared to it.
Turquoise is surprisingly brittle and cracks easily if dried too fast. Additionally, prolonged exposure to light, cosmetics, skin acids, or dehydration can shift the color from blue to green or even earth‑yellow. Some color changes are irreversible, which is why antique turquoise often looks greener than when it was first mined.
Garnet is typically red, but the Kimochi Stone is depicted as dark green, which exists as tsavorite or demantoid. Unlike yellow beryl to aquamarine, they are still considered to be types of garnet.
The eight stones’ specific gravity spans nearly a factor of two, from opal (2.15) to ruby/sapphire (≈4.0). A full bracelet would feel noticeably heavier on the side of the Ruby Navel or Sapphire Lips compared to the Opal Head or Pearl Eye, however the arrangement of the stones places them all next to each other and mitigates that issue.

External Links

Kimochi Raid Stories

Kimochi Magia Attacks

[1] If multiple are specified, first is what Magia Record utilized as the Kimochi's name, and second is the traditional interpretation.

[2] Refers to the shape of the slot for the gemstone on the bracelet. As the bracelet has only ever been seen from merely two angles, many values cannot be determined.

[3] Refers to Spirit Enhancement upgrade material name - for every Kimochi, three types of materials were used - Fragment of [Emotion], Fragment of [Emotion] +, and Fragment of [Emotion] ++.

[4] In Puella Historia's Story menu, an image of Iroha's Soul Vessel was displayed. With every chapter about two Magical Girls completed, two stones would light up - for chapters about one girl, that would be one stone. The stones lit up in order from North (Pearl) to Northwest (Diamond).

[5] This is also the direction which the Kimochi spread after being released from Eve. On Iroha's Soul Vessel, the stones are placed in accordance to this, but rotated by 180 degrees (that is, with north downward).

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