Sudachi Sawa (佐和 月出里,Sawa Sudachi) was a playable character in the 2017 mobile game Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Magia Record. She first appeared in January 2020 and was promoted to playable in July 6, 2020.
Damage to All Enemies [I] & Attack UP (All / 3T) & & Accele MP Gain UP (All / 3T) Blast Damage UP (All / 3T) & Charged Damage UP (All / 3T) & Guaranteed Provoke (Self / 1T)
★5
Damage to All Enemies [I] & Attack UP (All / 3T) & Accele MP Gain UP (All / 3T) & Blast Damage UP (All / 3T) & Charged Damage UP (All / 3T) & Guaranteed Provoke (Self / 1T)
Doppel:Breadman
★5
Damage to All Enemies [I] & Attack UP (All / 3T) & Accele MP Gain UP (All / 3T) & Charged Damage UP (All / 3T) & Guaranteed Provoke (Self / 1T)
Spirit Enhancement Data
Max Stat Bonuses
HP
ATK
DEF
Accele
Blast
Charge
4★
+6%
+4%
+8%
+6%
+4%
+6%
5★
+7%
+5%
+9%
+7%
+5%
+7%
SE
+7%
+5%
+9%
+13%
+8%
+17%
Spirit Enhancement
Morale Adept
MP Gain UP [II]
Doppel Adept
Doppel Damage UP [I] & Magia Damage UP [I]
MP Boost
MP Gain UP When Over 100 MP [I]
Doppel Adept
Doppel Damage UP [I] & Magia Damage UP [I]
Blast Adept
Blast Damage UP [II]
Charge Adept
Charged Damage UP [II]
Morale Adept
MP Gain UP [III]
Endure Adept
MP UP When Damaged [IV]
Morale Adept
MP Gain UP [III]
Technical Adept
Charge Disc Damage UP [II]
Endure Adept
MP UP When Damaged [IV]
Fast Mana Up
MP Gauge 25% Full on Battle Start
Shield Appeal
Guaranteed Provoke (Self) & Damage Cut [VIII]
CD: 8 turns
Summary
A Magical Girl who has arrived in Kamihama as a Puella Care (Traveling Coordinator) in a supporting role.
She is improving her skills as an Adjustor while studying at home without going to school. She continues to strive forward and has a friendly personality with a good reputation, but she often depends on her numerous relatives due to her age.
Doppel Description
Breadman, Sudachi's doppel
The Doppel of Nomadicism. Its form is a cookie. The master of this emotion is anguished by the sight of her Doppel innocently playing without a mote of hesitation, as she feels that it is both a symbol of freedom and of guilt to her. This Doppel acts out of pure instinct as it freely floats and drifts around. Everything it does– yelling loudly, eating food, wrapping itself in lively colors– it does simply for its own enjoyment. No matter who it causes sorrow or pain to, it remains unaffected by this world’s concept of sin. Perhaps because it seems like an unblemished child at first glance, it gives off the impression of a pitiful being that can’t grow up, so the older its victims are, the more likely it is for sadness to take precedent over their terror.
Side Story
Warning, this section contains spoilers.
The following is a summary posted on 4chan's /pmmm/ general
Sudachi was a loner in class who liked to avoid trouble. Then one day, her teachers' former classmate who was a victim of bullying rushed into class and took them hostage with a gun and knife. After torturing the teacher, he planned to escape, asking for a hostage to go with him. Since she had no friends, the whole class except the teacher, pushed Sudachi forward as the hostage with even the criminal noting they don't care if she were to die. The fearful Sudachi wonders why she was chosen and not any of the others and that she never caused trouble. Kyubey chose this time to ask her for a contract.
Out of anger and fear, Sudachi wished that only she be rescued. Kyubey informs Sudachi that he can grant ANY wish and asks her to think twice: Is this really her wish?
Since the guy is advancing towards her with a gun and combined with her initial anger, she says yes and Kyubey grants the wish.
Thanks to Kyubey's interference, the criminal suddenly claims to feel a kindred soul in Sudachi. She is like him, being outcast by everyone in class. So, he will spare her and only her, killing the rest of the class after cursing them to bear their sins to hell. It was too much for Sudachi and the experience along with her regrets gave her PTSD, making her unable to speak from then on.
After this Livia invited her along to Kamihama where their work, which will bring about even more good even though it might cause casualties, could give them salvation. Thus, Sudachi tags along.
There she met and befriended Mikage Yakumo who has overcome her own demons as a result of being Mitama's sister. Mikage still loves her all the same despite knowing the less glorious parts of her sister. She extends her hand towards Sudachi, who is reluctant to believe that she can have salvation. Mikage claims that she is giving her the benefit of the doubt, and this is after learning the truth.
Sudachi is touched by this, and Mikage became her first real friend in Kamihama, believing in her eventual redemption.
Costume Stories
On the week before Christmas, Puella Care hosted a special event, where they dressed up and offered free coordinations. For Sudachi, one particular experience stuck out the most from the campaign. While Yozuru was serving Akira, Sudachi tended to Emiri. The coordination went quick and smoothly, and an ecstatic Emiri begins to make conversation with Sudachi, where surprisingly, she seems to understand her responses. Emiri soon twists up Sudachi’s name into ‘Sudacheru’, her new nickname. Their pleasant conversation ranges from their similar age, their outfits, and how they were inspired by the three wise men.
On the way back home, Yozuru points out that Sudachi was unusually happy with Emiri, but despite her initial suspicions, Sudachi confirmed that she never used her telepathy to begin with. The two wonder if a potential ability that would allow Emiri to understand all the ‘fumu’s was involved. Sudachi acknowledges it as strange, and thinks that if she ever asked Emiri how she knew, she would just shrug it off as just a feeling.
Quotes
Warning, this section contains spoilers.
Sudachi's Christmas Quotes:
Warning, this section contains spoilers.
Personality
Prior to the incident which caused her to make her wish, Sudachi was kind, but also habitually withdrawn, keeping to herself and actively avoiding any kind of social conflict or trouble.
Her class unanimously selecting her as the disposable hostage, as well as the criminal's remark that no one cared if she died, inflicted a lot of emotional pain on her. She couldn’t comprehend why it had to be her when she’d never caused any trouble, so she impulsively made her wish to be the only one to be rescued.
After witnessing the massacre of her entire class while she alone is spared, the criminal's justification where he saw her as a "kindred outcast soul" drove the guilt deeper. The trauma shattered her psychologically and left her with debilitating PTSD, all-consuming guilt, and self-loathing. Her ability to speak was also severely impaired, either from aphasia or selective mutism, but as a Magical Girl, she sometimes communicates telepathically with other Magical Girls, but to ordinary people, she can only speak through nonverbal noises.
After meeting Livia, she follows her and Yozuru to Kamihama, hoping that if she worked as a Coordinator, she'd be able to compensate for the bad things she's done, however she herself doubts she deserves it. Though she still wants to connect to others, she is greatly scared of rejection if her past is known. Mikage's friendship after learning the complete truth about Sudachi's wish greatly touches her.
In her day-to-day life, she's shown to love cute things and activities such as playing games, cooking and baking.
During the events of Magia Record, she makes progress towards healing from her trauma in many ways. She makes a point out of not moving from Takarazaki despite the pain it caused her, instead determined to face her past. She is able to eventually recover from her mutism and begins to recover her speech over time.
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Magia Record
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Powers and Abilities
In Chapter 2 of Magia Record's 2nd arc, Sudachi takes Shizuka Tokime from Hokuyo mountains all the way to Livia Medeiros'Puella Care caravan. It is possible that in addition to her innate wish-given destructive magic, she has this form of mild teleportation, however she may have also taken Shizuka to the caravan by sheer agility and speed.
Like other Coordinators, Sudachi can "adjust" the Soul Gems of Magical Girls, including herself, to make permanent changes, such as making them stronger, or altering aspects about them, from their appearance, powers, and to some extent, their inner self.
In battle, she fights by extending the cloth from her cloak in may different ways. She can wrap opponents with it, hit them, wrap it around herself into a drill shape, as well as extend it from the ground as drill spikes.
Sudachi's unique ability is the power to "reorientate" people's emotions, making them think and feel differently regarding anything. It seems, because of her Adjustor nature, that her power is similar to one of a Witch's Kiss, however it can be applied to Magical Girls as well. With this power, she was able to make the Magical Girls in Takarazaki trust their Coordinator business when they previously were adverse to it. She even used it on accident when coordinating a girl, attempting to make her stronger, and also made her lose her feelings of gratitude for Kuroe and made her be loyal to and protect a Witch that she was previously attacking.
In her Valentine's Day form, Sudachi attacks by manifesting sweets, mostly cookies, and throwing them at enemies. She can also manipulate the ones in her outfit, such as the heart she carries around on her back, and make them float around, become bigger, etc.
Her Doppel, Breadman, is able to float and drift around freely as well as turn its ears into a mouth to attack with.
Observations
Sudachi's character design incorporates a vampire aesthetic, notably her cape and the styling of her hair when she's transformed, which resembles bat ears. This motif is a metaphor for her making her contract and becoming a Magical Girl, with it being as a negative sort of metamorphosis, or rebirth. Much like a vampire who sustains itself at the cost of others, Sudachi's wish ensured only her own survival, leading to the death of her classmates.
Her transformation sequence also begins with Sudachi crouched in a fetal position, a representation of being "reborn" into her new life as a Magical Girl.
Her Doppel is reference to the nursery rhyme "The Gingerbread Man," in which the titular Gingerbread Man was being hunted down and in an escape from the people and the animals chasing him down. As the line says, "Run, run as fast as you can, you can't catch me I'm the Gingerbread Man!"
Its form is also that of a humanoid cookie, and despite its cheerful, childlike appearance, it acts on pure instinct for its own enjoyment, unaffected by the concepts of sin or the pain it causes.
Sudachi, along with the other Coordinators, also have a magician aesthetic. Sudachi specifically due to her ears resembling a rabbit pulled from a hat, with her cape resembling the top hat, and Sudachi herself being the rabbit.
Etymology
The characters of her last name mean "assistant" or "help" (佐) and "harmony/peace" (和) respectively.
The characters of her first name mean "moon" (月), "exit" (出), and "village" (里) respectively.
Sudachi's given name is also the name of a sour Japanese citrus fruit, and her surname is a homonym of the Japanese pronunciation of the English word "sour". Together, her name can be read as "sour fruit" or "sour sour fruit", contrasting her candy-themed Doppel.
Trivia
Following her trauma, Sudachi only speaks unintelligibly through the game. When speaking to other Magical Girls she uses her telepathy to communicate. Her voice lines, however, are translated when checking them. It is possible to make her talk normally by buying a special item in the shop.
According to Nayuta's MGS, she can't enter the School building because of psychological trauma.
Her illustrator, Akio Watanabe, also illustrated the Monogatari crossover characters.
Her Doppel is not designed by the Inu Curry team, but by Akio Watanabe.
**Unique to Sudachi Sawa** The classroom, the classmates, their expressions were all pure white.
There was only the sound of the ongoing lesson, and the robotic movement of pencils.
But now, lit by the sunset, this scene flooded in red is scorched into memory.
**Unique to Sudachi Sawa (Valentine ver.)** When we met, we were downcast in despair... that's all there were of the three of us.
Their looks, ages, personalities, and the chocolates they prepared were all different from each other
And yet, feeling the love that was firmly put into them
Defense Up While At Max Health [IV] & Defense Up [III] & Regenerate HP [II]
Max Limit Break
Defense Up While At Max Health [V] & Defense Up [IV] & Regenerate HP [III]
"Woah woah woah! Oh oh oh, it flew away~! Sorry~"
"Fummumufumumun, funmuuumu!
(So sweet and yummy!)"
"Oh, I'm tasting it! You know what they say, 'as long as it comes out right'?"
「えいえいえいっ！わわわ、飛んじゃった～！ごめんね～」
「ふっむむふむむん、ふんむーむ！
（とっても甘くて、おいしいよ！）」
「あ、味見してる！結果オーライって言うんだっけ？」
Bitter & Citrus
HShield Adept
Normal
Passive
???
Max Limit Break
Damage Cut [III] & Defense UP [II]
I wanted to blame someone else and run away.
I wanted to be sympathetic and be protected by someone strong.
But we struggled just a little bit, and that's why we are where we are today.
This gentle light pried open the door of possibility.
誰かのせいにして、逃げてしまいたかった
同情を誘って、強い人に守られたかった
でも、ほんの少しあがいてみたから、今の私たちがある
この優しい光は可能性の扉をこじ開けた
Grassroots Valentine
Full Burst
Normal
???
? turns
Max Limit Break
Blast Damage Up [III] & Accele MP Gain Up [III] (Self / 1 Turn)
4 turns
The mission given was to promote the adjuster's shop.
Even if you can't use words, information can be conveyed with text.
Even if you can't use words, your thoughts can be conveyed by looking into their eyes
The sincerity of spreading hope is born of handwritten handouts.
