Madoka Magica Episode 5: There's No Way I'll Ever Regret It

"Once you become a magical girl, there’s no turning back. When we decide to make our contracts, we give everything up in exchange for one single wish." ~ Homura Akemi

There's No Way I'll Ever Regret It 後悔なんて、あるわけない
First airing	3 February 2011
Script	Gen Urobuchi
Storyboard	Shin'ichi Omata
Episode director	Takahiro Majima
Animation Director	Mino Honda Mayuko Matsumoto Kazuhisa Kosuga

Summary

Sayaka fulfills her contract with Kyubey on the hospital's roof. Her Soul Gem is forged and she makes her debut as a Magical Girl. Sayaka visits the newly healed Kamijou at the hospital, where he remains until his legs recover as his miraculous healing is investigated. He apologizes for being so rude to Sayaka earlier. She cheerfully escorts him to the roof, where his parents and the hospital staff present him with his violin. Sayaka, listening as he plays it beautifully, reaches the pinnacle of happiness.

Madoka is deeply worried about Sayaka, and fears that the new Magical girl may meet Mami's cruel fate. An optimistic Sayaka reassures Madoka that she's ready for anything. Nevertheless, Madoka arranges a date with Homura in the cafe to ask the veteran to protect Sayaka, or at least befriend and team up with her. Homura doesn't give Madoka the comfort she wanted, and instead declares that she won't make promises she can't keep. Explaining that Magical Girls have given up everything for their wishes and are beyond any hope of salvation, Homura tells Madoka to give up on Sayaka.

Still worried as ever, Madoka decides to accompany Sayaka on her patrols of the city. Sayaka tracks down a familiar, Anja, and engages it in combat. However, the rival Magical Girl Kyoko abruptly stops the fight, telling Sayaka that she shouldn't waste her power on a fight with a mere familiar. Kyoko reveals her technique of "farming Witches": she lets familiars attack civilians, and waits until they've fed on enough humans to become full-fledged Witches with Grief Seeds for her to harvest. Sayaka is outraged and refuses to tolerate such sinful behavior. Kyoko tries to beat Sayaka into submission, but that proves futile as the rookie heals herself and shrugs off wounds intended to put her out of commission for "at least three months." Kyoko swallows the last bite of her taiyaki and initiates a duel to the death. That is, until Homura suddenly appears to protect Sayaka...

Runes

See the Runes of episode 5 page for decryption of the messages written in runes.

Audio Commentary

See Also: Guidebook staff commentary from the Magica Quartet

There's No Way I'll Ever Regret It 後悔なんて、あるわけない
Commentary	Aoi Yuuki Chiwa Saitou Ai Nonaka

The fifth episode commentary features Nonaka Ai, aka Aipon, who plays Sakura Kyouko.

The commentary started out right away with Yuuki Aoi declaring that she wants to marry Kyouko-tan. The others said that it'd be tough with Kyouko as your wife given how much she eats, but... She's the sort who eats and eats and never gets fat... Now, back to the auditions again. Nonaka was given a script for all the characters and then asked to pick two to play, just like most of them. Except for Yuuki, who was told to do Madoka and one other.

(I wonder if that's partly why they did such a good job casting, given that they got to see more sides of each seiyuu to pick the best role for them...)

Nonaka thought that the anime would be much like the opening, so she decided she wanted to leave the main role to a newer seiyuu, instead trying out for Kyouko and Mami.

Then they talked about how Hitomi is the most wicked girl, though she's not seen as quite as evil by the guys as by the girls. They also start lamenting how the bad girls win and the good girls lose.

Her instructions when acting were to not be too scary. They did pick her for that role because she wouldn't be quite as scary though, given how she has that ultra-cute voice. Yuuki said that her impression was that she couldn't be completely bad because of that voice. (But she's probably biased...)

They then talked about the speech in episode 7. It's very long, so it was difficult to act. Yuuki said she became a fan during the big long story.

(They really talked about a lot of spoiler things. It's kinda hard for me here because I'm trying harder not to spoil the story than they were. It's such a good commentary, you just really have to wait until you finish the story before watching this.)

They then talked about how every once in a while, Madoka gets angry, just a bit. She's so realistic, they keep going over. Madoka has the most sympathy for the other characters, but at the same time she's selfish in that she never fights for herself. Yuuki sayid that Madoka would not really be a good girlfriend; she'd prefer Kyouko as a girlfriend.

Also, they pointed out that Kyubey has "ears coming out of his ears" but what if it's ear hair? Really long ear hair? It's hilarious. Think about the ear hair making Sayaka's soul gem... It's so funny.

The familiar in this episode was voiced by Yuuki Aoi, "Bbbbbuuuuuu bbbbbuuuu bu bu bbuuuuuububuuuuu" heh.

Gallery

Screenshots

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  Sayaka's Soul Gem ring
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  A view of her Soul Gem
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  The Soul Gem scene is done in a style that evokes a typical dramatic anime death scene
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  Kyousuke's family and the hospital staff present him with his violin to celebrate his recovery
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  Madoka tries to tell Homura to look after Sayaka but she refuses
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  Sayaka's transformation sequence
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  Anja
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  Anja's Labyrinth
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  Anja escapes
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  Kyoko is presented as a sinister villain
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  Sayaka fighting with Kyoko
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  Sayaka surrounded by notes
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  Homura interrupts Kyoko and Sayaka's fight
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  Sayaka knocked out by Homura

Analysis and Observations

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  OP in episode 3 (top) and episode 5 (bottom)

See Also

• Translations of the witch runes appearing in this episode.
• Revisions made in the BD version of this episode.

External links

• Madoka Magica Episode 5: There's No Way I'll Ever Regret It summary at official website (Japanese)

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