Timeline/Magia Record/Prelude

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This page documents the recent past of the Magia Record Universe, covering the events that lead directly into Arc 1. In the absence of contradictory context clues, the release date was used for their placement.

The timeline of this Universe continues with Timeline/Magia Record/Arc 1.

The Recent Past

  • While pregnant with Shi, her mother makes a contract with Kyubey to protect her unborn daughter from an unknown Witch that was in the hospital. She wished for her daughter to be someone who understands the pain and suffering of others. She dies trying to protect her daughter and her wish leads to Shi having the involuntary ability to know and feel the pain, agony, and troubles of other people, experiencing them as her own in her dreams. Eventually, Shi would get found by an organization that would take advantage of her power.[1]
  • Livia Medeiros becomes a Magical Girl.[2]

7 Years Ago

  • Yachiyo Nanami wishes to survive as her modeling unit's leader and becomes a Magical Girl. Mifuyu Azusa makes a contract with Kyubey to be free, at least in her dreams. The two meet at 12 after contracting as Magical Girls and they form a team together. They cope with their lives as Magical Girls by writing letters to preserve their dreams.[3]

5 Years Ago

  • In a chemical experiment to make herself taller, Hinano Miyako's experiment goes wrong and explodes. She is approached by Kyubey and makes a contract with him to save her life.[Citation needed]

4 Years Ago

  • Tasuke Satomi visits Kirimine Village to research about Magical Girls, but isn't allow there by the Mikoshiba.[Citation needed]
  • Lavi Himuro becomes a Magical Girl to restore the soil on her family's farm.[Citation needed]

3 Years Ago

  • The Blue Seas Family, a mutual aid organization once implicated in off-the-books dealings in Kamihama, is accused of murder. Meiyui Chun becomes a Magical Girl to protect them and fabricate evidence clearing their names.[Citation needed]
  • Yumi Yuuki most likely becomes a Magical Girl around this time and wishes for Ikumi Makino to meet someone who will allow her to become an idol.[Citation needed]
  • Juri Oba becomes a Magical Girl to get "a patient, stout heart".[Citation needed]
  • Kush Irina moves overseas, meeting and befriending an older girl named Aneka, due to her making a contract with Kyubey to "have a replacement for her little sister". Shortly after, Kush becomes a Magical Girl too, wishing for the morning to never come, which, due to her relatively normal potential, results in her always falling asleep during the day instead of the night. Eventually, Aneka turns into a Witch and Kush kills her.[Citation needed]
  • Nayuta Satomi becomes a Magical Girl to have her mom be as gentle as her dad is.[Citation needed]
  • Momoko Togame makes a contract to gain the courage to express her feelings to her crush, but fails due to another girl confessing before her.[Citation needed]

2 Years Ago

  • Livia realizes that her magic attracts evil to those she helps. After her teacher dies in an accident in front of her due to her magic, Livia changes and starts helping Kyubey in order to sabotage him. She also learns the existence of other magical girls with her condition and decides to look for these girls and teach them to survive like she does.[Citation needed]
  • Nayuta and Tasuke start to research Magical Girls together.[Citation needed]
  • Shizuka Tokime becomes a Magical Girl to prevent the release of a joint statement at the Trilateral Economic Summit. This wish was designated by Mikoshiba as part of a deal between her and the Japanese elites.[Citation needed]
  • Kanagi Izumi becomes a Magical Girl to learn the reason why everyone hates Daito. [Citation needed]
    • It's implied that Kanagi's friends, Nabiki Soyoho and Sumiha Takane also became magical girls around the same time as Kanagi.[Citation needed]
  • Yachiyo and Mifuyu become the leaders of the West.[Citation needed]
  • Kanae, a former delinquent, meets a younger girl in her school named Sumire Yoake, and they become friends. Later, Kanae becomes a Magical Girl to save Sumire from a gang.[4]
    • Due to Kanae's wish, Sumire forgets the event and Kanae, in order to protect her, starts to avoid Sumire.[4]
  • Kanagi meets Yachiyo and Mifuyu after a fight with Kanae, while she was chasing the man that almost hurt Sumire. Kanae is nursed back to health by Yachiyo and her grandmother, who help her change her lifestyle. Kanae joins Yachiyo and Mifuyu in the villa and Kanagi sends her a Grief Seed as an apology, which she accepts. [5]
  • Tensions between the West and the East starts when many magical girls from both sides start to hun witches in the others territories. Some of this girls were two rookie magical girls from the east, Nabiki Soyogo and Sumiha Takane were exposed by the veteran of the East, Juerii Hoshi.[Citation needed]
    • Kanagi decides to become the leader of the East after Juerii declines to take responsibility when confronted by Yachiyo and Mifuyu, blaming Nabiki and Sumiha.[Citation needed]
    • Kanagi becomes friends with Nabiki and Sumiha shortly after, and together the three girls decide to take the leadership of the East to stop the conflict between Kamihama Magical Girls and unite all the East, helping, negotiating and supporting other east magical girls.[Citation needed]
  • Juerii starts to run amok and intimidates other magical girls into attacking the West and Center Kamihama to interfiere with Kanagi, Nabiki and Sumiha's plans.[Citation needed]
    • A few weeks later, Nabiki writes a letter to Kanagi, reveling she wanted to chase our or take down Juerii and didn't expected to survive the match.[Citation needed]
  • The next night, Kanagi learns the truth of the system of magical girls:
    • Kanagi and Sumiha discover a fight is taking place between Nabiki and Juerii and both rush to stop the fight.[Citation needed]
    • Sumiha arribes first and tries to protect Nabiki from Juerii, resulting in Sumiha's death when her soul gem shatters from Juerii's attack. Kanagi arribes to find out what happen, and shortly after learning the truth of magical girl's soul gem containing their soul.[Citation needed]
    • Nabiki and Juerii's start to fall on despair due to Sumiha's death. Nabiki turns into a witch and Juerii let's herself be killed and eaten by Nabiki's witch, who is shortly killed by Kanagi.[Citation needed]
  • Kanagi recovers Nabiki's corpse and both she and Sumiha are officially considered to have "mysteriously died", while Juerii was considered to be missing. After this event Kanagi managed to unite the East, promising her friends to take care of all the East Magical girls like they wanted.[Citation needed]
  • Yachiyo’s grandmother is hospitalized.[Citation needed]
  • Sumire's grandmother is killed by a witch.[6]
  • Kanae makes a flower bookmark for Sumire infused with her magic as an apology.[4]
  • Momoko meets Sumire at an Idol Concert.[6]
  • A few days later, Momoko meets Yachiyo and Mifuyu after both save her from a Witch. Yachiyo and Mifuyu invite Momoko to join them and Kanae, but Momoko declines.[6]
    • According to Momoko, at this point on time she hasn't been a magical girl for a long time, maybe just a few months or even weeks.[6]
  • Jun Kazari helps Mikura and Temari find a lost book and uncovers a map leading to Ashita's. There, she overhears the owner having financial issues, which is when Kyubey appears and offers her a contract. Jun wishes to protect Ashita's, which results in the owner discovering her late husband's hidden treasure, a pot of gold coins which allows her to purchase the building.[7]
  • Mitsune Miwa, a shut-in, meets Jun and, after a series of Witch encounters over a few days, the two become friends. Jun encourages her not to rely on magic and has to move away a few days afterwards.[8]
  • While fighting alongside Yachiyo and Mifuyu, Kanae dies in order to defeat Oshiti, revealing the truth about Soul Gems to them.[9]
  • Fuka Higure, a girl from Toyozuru City, walks from her city until ariving to East Kamihama, where she meets and befriends Mel Anna. Mel who started to do divinations after being saved from an accident by a prediction, says that Fuka will "meet her destiny".[4]
  • Sumire's family moves from Kamihama City to Toyozuru City.[6]
  • Sumire meets and befriends Fuka, following Mel's prediction and lucky item. Later that day both are attacked by a Witch and both are approached by Kyubey. Fuka becomes a Magical Girl in order to protect Sumire, asking her not to make a contract until she was a genuine wish.[4]
  • Later, Sumire learns the truth of Kanae's death from Kyubey and blames herself for this, learning the existence from both Yachiyo and Mifuyu.[4]
  • Sumire and Fuka learn the truth of Magical Girls turning into Witches, and that Fuka's magic can be used to temporarily revert this. Sumire then decides to put Fuka's magic on test on different Magical Girls from Toyuzuru City that learn the truth, but as many of this girls were rookies like Fuka, Sumire decides to try to do this on Yachiyo and Mifuyu as she thinks them being veterans will take better the truth.[4]
  • Tasuke interviews Yachiyo and Mifuyu.[Citation needed]
  • Sumire approaches Yachiyo and Mifuyu to lure them into Toyuzuru City, lying them about a the missing girls of their city and "Near Witches" created by Fuka's magic.[6][4]
  • Momoko joins Yachiyo and Mifuyu's team, after they ask her to join them and Sumire to investigate Toyozuru City.[6]
    • Because Sumire befriends Yachiyo, Mifuyu and Momoko, she starts to feel guilty over using them, decides to save magical girls without involving them and cuts ties with them.[10]
  • As a child, Hanna Sarasa had a difficult homelife, with her drunkard father beating her and her mother pretending she didn't see it. Her father was eventually stabbed to death in an argument with someone, and her mother was later hit by a car and also killed while celebrating her freedom.[11]
    • Hanna ends up alone in an orphanage, where she faces bullies at school with no one to confide in, instead only writing her negative feelings in a notebook and fantasizing about revenge.[11]
  • Mikoto Sena lives in an abusive household with a violent, financially irresponsible father. At school, she pretends to be cheerful while her home life deteriorates. She avoids going home and declines social invitations she cannot afford.[12]
  • One day, Mikoto's mother gives her a crumpled one thousand yen note as allowance, her cheek visibly swollen from abuse. Mikoto suggests she gets a job to help her parents, but her mother refuses. Frustrated, Mikoto decides her father must disappear. She takes the money to buy a knife from a hundred yen store but hesitates after recalling a rare happy memory of her father at a festival. She flees without purchasing it.[12]
    • Later, near a train station, Mikoto considers running away but cannot decide whether to abandon her mother. Kyubey appears and offers to grant her wish. Mikoto contracts, wishing for her father to go away. Her wish is granted: her father leaves to live with another woman.[12]
  • Hanna is eventually approached by Kyubey, and she wishes her bullies out of existence, erasing them from everything but her own memories and becoming a Magical Girl.[11]
  • After her father's departure, Mikoto's mother begins neglecting the household, withholding money for food and frequently going out. Their financial situation worsens.[12]
  • Mikoto discovers her magic allows her to command others and, desperate for a normal family, she uses it on a neighbor, making the woman believe Mikoto is her daughter. The neighbor and her husband welcome Mikoto, though they treat her as their actual adult daughter rather than Mikoto herself.[12]
  • Mikoto throws herself into Magical Girl duties, fighting Familiars obsessively. One day she enters a Labyrinth and sees Hanna struggling against a Familiar. She uses her command magic and saves her, introducing herself afterwards. Mikoto attempts to befriend her, initiating conversations, though Hanna remains guarded and finds Mikoto's persistent efforts amusing rather than genuine. Despite their differences, they decide to team up.[12]
  • Hanna discovers her innate magic is copying the powers of other magical girls, though she could only use one at a time. Mikoto's mind control magic became her favorite due to its convenience, which made Mikoto proud and Hanna happy, allowing both of them to bond.[11]
  • With Hanna's help, Mikoto discovers her suggestion magic works on herself. She uses it to believe she has a loving family and happy school life, temporarily easing her pain. When Hanna offers to meet her parents, Mikoto, still under her own spell, agrees enthusiastically. After the suggestion wears off, she panics and decides to bring Hanna to the enchanted elderly couple's home instead.[12]
  • Mikoto confirms the couple remains under her spell and tells them a friend is visiting. At their home, Mikoto and Hanna help prepare dinner and the couple act as loving parents. While cooking, Hanna notices Mikoto looks sad despite claiming to be happy and offers to listen. Mikoto admits feeling unfulfilled and invisible, expressing a desire to be found and not abandoned.[12]
    • After dinner, Hanna gives Mikoto an exchange diary for sharing Witch information, mentioning Mikoto can also write her thoughts. Mikoto buys them matching pens but struggles with what to write, realizing her habit of lying has obscured her true self.[12]
  • Mikoto and Hanna continue hunting Witches and Familiars near Mikoto's apartment complex. Mikoto becomes obsessive, driven by fear that her Soul Gem will become too tainted and that Hanna will abandon her if she becomes useless.[12]
  • One day, while fighting a Witch on the rooftop of the Daito Apartment Complex where Mikoto lived, Hanna and Mikoto encounter Kanagi Izumi and work together to defeat the Witch. Kanagi invites the two of them to fight together in the future, as well as the other Magical Girls in Daito and while Mikoto is friendly to Kanagi, Hanna is more withdrawn. Inwardly, Mikoto is afraid of Kanagi's mind-reading magic and fears exposure, while Hanna fears losing Mikoto.[11][12]
    • Hanna later confronts Kanagi and urges her to not get involved with Mikoto and to forget about them. though she initially refuses, Hanna transforms and uses her copied Suggestion magic to erase her memory. Delighted by this, Hanna realized she and Mikoto could use their abilities to disappear from the world whenever they wanted, living like ghosts.[11] Unbeknownst to her, Mikoto had approached Kanagi with the same purpose as Hanna and sees her wiping Kanagi's memories, though she doesn't know why. Mikoto ultimately interprets this as protection and intensifies her Witch hunting going forward despite Hanna's concerns.[12]
  • Hanna writes a deeply personal exchange diary entry revealing her past of bullying, her parents' deaths, and her time in an orphanage. She describes meeting Mikoto as the first light in her dark life and offers support. Touched, Mikoto writes an honest reply confessing all her lies but tears it up and instead sends a false reply claiming she is fine.[12]
  • While hunting, as there'd been a drought of Witches, Hanna confronts Mikoto about her pretending to not be exhausted and suggests they run away together. Mikoto refuses, claiming she has things to protect, and resolves to change her situation before truly facing Hanna.[12]
    • Immediately after this resolution, Mikoto collapses on an apartment complex rooftop. Her Soul Gem, overwhelmed by corruption, transforms into a Grief Seed and she becomes a Witch as Hanna screams out her name. In her final moments, Mikoto experiences agonizing pain and hears Mitama's wish in her head, which she deeply resonates with. She regrets running from her real parents and classmates, never confiding in Hanna, and erasing her father. As she transforms, she sees the sunset behind Hanna and feels gratitude that Hanna is with her until the end.[12]
    • During this same time as Mikoto despairs, Mitama makes her own wish, affecting Mikoto and her Witch.[Citation needed]
    • After escaping Mikoto's Witch, Kyubey approaches Hanna and explains that Witches come from Magical Girls. Suffering a complete mental breakdown, Hanna bashes her head open on the ground and realizes happiness was never going to be hers. Declaring she would rebel against the incubators, she uses her magic to bind Mikoto's witch to the Daito Apartment Complex, telling it to spread despair and promising to visit.[11]
    • Unbeknownst to even Mikoto, Mitama's wish during the exact moment Mikoto became a Witch allowed Mikoto to gain the power of Transplant magic, thus transplanting her persona into Hanna and maintaining her sense of self as a parasite within Hanna's mind.[13]
  • Some time later, Hanna uses her copied Magic to stop a Witch from moving and tells it her entire story. Hanna thanks it for spending time with her and decides to mind control it to cause mayhem, rather than killing it for a Grief Seed.[11]
  • Asuka Tatsuki becomes a Magical Girl to have her cousin become a police officer.[Citation needed]
  • Mitama Yakumo becomes a Magical Girl after a huge backlash of bullying.[Citation needed]
    • On the same day that Mitama makes her wish, Mikoto becomes the Mirror Witch in front of Hanna. Due to her new transplant magic, before turning into a Witch Mikoto transplants her consciousness into Hanna's mind, but doesn't initially awaken. Hanna is devastated from the truth about Witches. She decides to rebel against the Magical Girl system, controlling Witches and spreading ruin in Kamihama.[11]
  • Likely during this time, Yumeno Yusa, or Yu, attempts a lover's suicide with her best friend Kei Seto by jumping off a cliff while strangling each other. Kei dies but Yu herself manages to live. Yu goes back to school, though depressed by Kei's death, while Kei's spirit gets tangled with that of a Witch.[Citation needed] Yu's approached by Kyubey and makes the wish to become so crazy, she forgets who she is.[Citation needed]

1 Year Ago

  • Sunao becomes a magical girl and starts working as an assassin for the Mikoshiba due to threats from her to kill her parents.[Citation needed]
  • Chika becomes a magical girl.[Citation needed]
  • Mitsune becomes a magical girl.[Citation needed]
  • Sana becomes a magical girl.[Citation needed]
  • Manaka becomes a magical girl.[Citation needed]
  • Rena becomes a magical girl and becomes friends with Momoko.[Citation needed]
  • Kaede becomes a magical girl and becomes friends with Momoko and Rena.[Citation needed]
  • Tsuruno becomes a magical girl and gains infamy for dueling magical girls until she’s beaten by Yachiyo and joins her team. Yachiyo also meets Rena and Kaede.[Citation needed]
  • Yachiyo, Mifuyu and Momoko, along side Tsuruno, Rena and Kaede, return to Toyozuru City to investigate Sumire's "disappearance" along side the disappearance of one of Rena's favorite Idol bands in Toyuzuru, meeting there a Magical Girl named Fuka.[10]
  • Mel becomes a Magical Girl and meets Kanagi.[Citation needed]
  • Mel joins Yachiyo’s team.[9][10]
  • Mikazuki Villa return again to Toyuzuru City after Yachiyo concludes that Fuka and Sumire are working together. Mel meets Fuka again and feels that she isn't a bad person, and after learning the truth of magical girls tunring into Witches and almost falling in despair, Sumire makes a contract with Kyubey to save them, erasing herself from their memories and the events that happened in Toyuzuru City.[4]
  • Tsukasa and Tsukuyo become magical girls.[Citation needed]
  • Karin becomes a magical girl on Halloween.[Citation needed]
  • Other magical girls known to be active by this point: Masara, Kanoko, Ria, Konomi, Ikumi, Yumi Yuuki, Rui.[Citation needed]
  • Kanagi serves as peacekeeper of the East Side while Yachiyo serves as peacekeeper of the West Side, with her partner Mifuyu helping maintain their system of sharing witches and respecting Central Ward as neutral territory. When a severe witch shortage leads magical girls from both sides to encroach on Central, conflicts erupt. After Momoko is attacked in a Barrier by someone claiming to be from the opposite side, Yachiyo and Mifuyu meet with Kanagi to negotiate. Kanagi reveals her own girls have been attacked similarly, and both incidents occurred in the same barrier. Using her mindreading powers, Kanagi confirms they are telling the truth.[14]
    • As tensions escalate with more attacks on both sides, Yachiyo and Mifuyu investigate the barrier themselves and discover it belongs to the Mirror Witch, which separates them and weakens Mifuyu's magic. They retreat, realizing something larger is at play.[14]
  • A few days later, stories of East and West fighting in Central spread. Yachiyo beats up girls from Sankyou and Sakae when they try to push past her.[14]
  • A day later, the stalemate continues as Westsiders want to incorporate Central into their territory, which Yachiyo warns would create greater conflict.[14]
    • The situation worsens with more fights and casualties. Mifuyu meets Hinano in Central, who berates her for allowing the chaos and agrees to help calm Central's girls only if Mifuyu takes real action. When Mel is accused of an attack she could not have committed, Mifuyu realizes someone is deliberately pitting both sides against each other. She spreads the word hoping to stop the fighting.[14]
  • At their next meeting, Kanagi confirms all attacked girls were in the same witch's barrier. They deduce the Mirror Witch is responsible and decide to return together.[14]
    • They find the barrier has grown, fed by the conflicts. Inside, they are separated and confronted by mirror duplicates. Mifuyu defeats her duplicate, which taunts her about losing her powers. She rescues Kanagi from a duplicate Yachiyo. After confirming identities using Kanagi's powers, they find the others and defeat more duplicates before withdrawing, exhausted.[14]
    • Outside, they realize they cannot simply prohibit entry to Central. Kanagi and Mifuyu devise a plan: they will require anyone who wants to negotiate with Central to first defeat the Mirror Witch, while guaranteeing Central's safety and establishing punishments for pact-breakers. As they part, Mifuyu asks Kanagi to help Yachiyo if she is no longer around. Kanagi promises.[14]
  • The Witch would eventually be lured to an abandoned building on the Eastside using Mirrors, with a supervisor keeping others away.[14]
  • After a while, Fuka turns into the Witch Raspberry. Sumire is unable to defeat her and the witch escapes into the West, heading to Kamihama City.[4]
  • Mel turns into the Witch Etteilla after protecting Yachiyo from the Witch Raspberry.[9][4]
  • Mikazuki Villa goes to an Amusment Park shortly after Mel's death.[Citation needed]
  • Sumire hunts down the Witch Raspberry in Kamihama and manages to kill her. After this, she starts to go to Kamihama to check on Yachiyo, Mifuyu and Momoko, as her parents start to work on Satomi Medical Center, although they don't remember her. On one of her visits, Sumire meets Iroha Tamaki.[Citation needed]
    • After this meeting is implied that Sumire decides to stop going to Kamihama City and remains on Toyuzuru City.[Citation needed]
  • Yachiyo dissolves Mikazuki Villa. Tsuruno starts to work alone in Sankyo Ward, Momoko makes a new team with Rena and Kaede and Mifuyu disappears.[9]
  • Due to Hanna's Witches, Nanaka Tokiwa's father, the head of a traditional flower arranging school falls ill. Due to his illness, the head students take over, turn their back on tradition and shut out the Tokiwa family. On his deathbed, he implores Nanaka with taking back the school.[15]
    • After his death, Kyubey appears to her. Nanaka wishes for the power to exact her family's revenge by her own hand. She gains the power to identify who her enemies are. This ability makes her realize the target of her revenge is not a student but a Witch. This witch behaves like a locust swarm, causing calamities in one area before migrating. The Locust Witch also controls the current head of her father's school via a Witch's Kiss, as well a being responsible for several issues in Kamihama.[15]
  • Alina Gray wins a Modern Art award for a self‑portrait. Students at her school spread a rumor that she could not think of anything to make, snapped all the wood in the prep room, and only got the idea to paint herself when she was about to break the canvas. She had a junior take a photo, then drew herself and coated the image in sand. Alina overhears this while at school. In the clubroom, she takes the strawberry milk from Karin, who says it is mean, but Alina says it is meaner to gossip. Karin reminds Alina that she was happy to win and was the one who took the photo, but Alina dismisses her and leaves, thinking she creates art simply to create.[16]
    • Alina is called to the teacher's room to meet a judge, but she refuses and runs away. A teacher scolds her, but Alina remains obstinate and eventually flees. Karin later finds her at a restaurant and gives her a letter from the judge. The letter says her work is beautiful and arcane enough to drive viewers insane, but it has no external theme and is like a powerful drug. It warns her to stop creating if she does not want to change the world, because her brilliance will probably run out by age fifteen. Alina does not understand the letter, but it affects her deeply.[16]
    • Alina visits an art gallery exhibiting her works. She reviews a poster of her past works, which explains that her parents ran an art gallery, and after her dog and grandparents died at age eight, she became fascinated with the boundary between life and death. She created her first artwork at eleven and later drew a picture using charcoal from carbonized corpses. She admits she does not know why she creates art. In the clubroom, she destroys a painting she worked on all week, saying it is not exciting or emotional enough. Karin tries to show her manga, but Alina asks what theme Karin has in mind, and Karin says she draws to make readers feel better. Alina realizes Karin has something she lacks.[16]
  • Alina decides her brilliance will fade at fifteen, so she plans a final artwork: destroying herself. Kyubey appears and offers her a contract, but she refuses to solve her problems with a wish, saying it would not be herself anymore. She wishes for "an area where nobody can disturb me," then jumps off a roof with a video camera recording. She lands in a field of flowers, but she survives.[16]
  • While unconscious, Alina realizes she always had a theme: her own beauty. She wakes up in the hospital and finds Karin crying. Alina admits she does not feel alive, but Karin grabs her hands and says she is alive. Karin gives her a copy of her manga and leaves.[16]
    • Touka Satomi and Nemu Hiiragi visit Alina in the hospital. They were the ones who found her. Alina thanks them. Touka asks if she is the famous Alina Gray, and Nemu says her artwork "Psychedelic Adolescent Hymn" had many young visitors. Nemu gives her a flyer about her art. Alina realizes it is a picture of her destroying her artwork. Touka and Nemu ask for her thanks and want to talk with her. Alina is confused but agrees.[16]
    • Afterward, Kyubey appears and says Touka and Nemu have the same potential she does. He explains that becoming a Magical Girl saved her life. Alina admits her final artwork failed, but she found her theme, and she will not stop creating. She transforms and enters a Witch's barrier, laughing as she fights. She declares that her next art will be made from Witches, and she will show everyone her beauty until they become drunk on it.[16]
  • At some point during this time, Touka Satomi reads a book written by her uncle titled “Magical Girls: Their Hope and Despair.” Her uncle asks readers to keep an open mind to all possibilities. He describes how civilization exists thanks to Magical Girls. This iss Touka’s first exposure to the world of Magical Girls. Touka loves the book, though her father disapproves. She wonders if the book had anything to do with her uncle’s disappearance. She reads about a creature called “Kyubey” and assumes the name is a code or acronym. She decides to search the internet for information.[17]
  • The next day, Touka is at the hospital. She learns that Ui is soon to be discharged as she had mysteriously recovered from her illness. Nemu is surprised at how quickly Ui recovered, and Touka is glad Ui is better, but sad to see her friend go. She would rather Ui be alive and well than close to death, as she was when she lost consciousness and her brain activity almost ceased. Touka says she would not mind becoming a Magical Girl if it were for Ui’s sake and hopes Ui will still visit them. Ui promises to visit when she returns for follow‑up tests. She swears she will not visit any of the places on their map until both Touka and Nemu are well enough to join her.[17]
    • Later that night, Touka awakens in a bizarre world: a Witch’s barrier. She calls out for Nemu and Ui, who were also pulled in. Ui points to a familiar nearby and Touka begins to hyperventilate. The familiar approaches, but they're saved by Iroha, in her Magical Girl form. Kyubey calls to Iroha, telling her the direction the Witch is heading. Iroha is more concerned about her sister and her friends and Touka recognizes the creature before her as Kyubey.[17]
  • Some time later, Touka is safe at home and Kyubey appears before her. Touka asks if she qualifies to be a Magical Girl. Kyubey asks what she would like to wish for. Touka has several questions first. She attempts to hack into the hivemind that all Kyubeys share. Before she can tap into the network, Kyubey teleports out of the room and severs the connection. Kyubey warns that if he had not severed the connection, all of her computers would have been fried. Kyubey offers to answer any questions. They talk long into the night.[17]
    • The next morning, Touka returns to the hospital and finds Nemu and Ui talking about Iroha. Iroha has not stopped fighting monsters since the barrier incident. Ui is worried it may be taking a toll on her sister. Nemu is not sure how they can help without knowing what is going on. Touka confidently declares that Iroha must be a Magical Girl. Nemu thinks Touka is joking, but she is serious. She relays everything she learned from Kyubey.[17]
    • Touka then explains her plan to save Iroha from her fate of turning into a Witch. The pros of being a Magical Girl are a healthy body with increased stamina. The con is that you must battle Witches until one day you become a Witch. If they can remove that fate, there will be no downsides to becoming a Magical Girl. This would also benefit mankind. If they can eliminate the need for Grief Seeds, no girl would have to become a Witch.[17]
    • Touka does not believe Kyubey would allow a wish to erase the fate of all Magical Girls. Instead, they will each wish to steal one of Kyubey’s powers. Ui will wish for the power to harvest impurities and pass them to Touka. Touka will wish for the power to convert impurities into magic that all Magical Girls can use. She will pass this magic to Nemu, who will wish for the power to manifest that magic into an automatic purification system. In theory, the three of them will create a system that gathers energy automatically and delivers it to outer space to combat entropy, just like Kyubey does. Ui understands the plan and agrees.[17]
  • The next late afternoon, in front of the hospital, Kyubey meets Touka, Nemu, and Ui. He asks for their wishes. They make their wishes for the different powers Kyubey possesses, where Ui wishes for his ability to absorb impurities, Touka for his power to transform energy, and Nemu for his ability to manifest. Kyubey warns they may not have enough karmic energy and that even he does not know what will happen. They agree to make the wishes for all their dreams. As their wishes are granted, Kyubey’s ear rings fall off. He shrinks into a small Kyubey, Lil' Kyubey.[17]
    • The girls stare at the shrunken Kyubey and Touka begins to commence their plan. Ui’s face contorts in pain and she screams. Her ability to harvest impurities automatically overwhelms her with the massive amounts of despair she is absorbing. If they do not hurry, Ui will become a Witch before they can act.[17]
    • Touka attempts to convert the impurities into magic, yet the amount of despair is too much and Touka cannot keep up without burning through all her magic. Nemu attempts to manifest some magic, but the despair is far too much for either of them. Alina appears, bothered by the large amounts of impurities gathering there. She transforms and uses her magic to create a forcefield around the hospital. This cuts off the impurities Ui keeps absorbing.[17]
    • However, Ui’s Soul Gem has already absorbed a disturbing amount of despair and it is at risk of becoming a Witch at any moment. Nemu decides to risk everything by manifesting one of her stories. Without their human personality and emotions, a Witch cannot be created, thus Nemu plans to take Ui’s soul out of her body. Touka points out that without a vessel, Ui’s soul will dissipate and Nemu spies the small empty Kyubey. Since Incubators have no emotion or personality of their own, she decides to house Ui’s soul there. She does not know what might happen, but this is the only plan that may work until they can figure out what to do and return Ui’s soul to her body. Nemu manifests one of her stories as an Uwasa and the process is completed.[17]
      • Ui's existence is wiped from everyone's memory, and so are all traces of her existence due to this process. Ui's body turns retains her unique magic to collect impurities and it turns into a Witch-like form.[17]
    • Once the transfer is complete, Alina finds she cannot remember why she came to the hospital roof. She recalls she came to check on Touka and Nemu, but she cannot remember the reason. She remembers jumping from the roof of the hospital and how Touka and Nemu were the ones to find her. She was checked into the same hospital as them. She told them about the many places in Kamihama. She saved them when a Witch attacked. She then discovered a Half‑Witch in the hospital lobby that was absorbing energy. She saved Touka and Nemu from it afterwards.[17]
    • They talked and came up with a plan to use the Half‑Witch to achieve their goals. Alina wanted to use Witches as material for her best artwork yet. Touka wanted to become healthy and make a deal with Kyubey to learn about the universe. Nemu also wished to become healthy and use the world as her parchment. With the automatic purification system in place, they could sustain the universe while also isolating their world from Kyubey and make all of their dreams a reality.[17]
    • The girls now believe they have successfully captured the Half‑Witch and contracted at just the right time. They turn to Alina and offer her some of their magic so she can extend the hospital’s forcefield to encompass all of Kamihama and keep Kyubey out.[17]
  • Some time later, inside Hanna, Mikoto experiences their shared memories and feels the warmth of their friendship, which softens the hatred consuming her from when she became a Witch. When Mikoto appears before Hanna as a sort of apparition only she could see, Hanna reveals she had always sensed Mikoto's presence and was overjoyed to see her again, though neither could touch the other. After they come to understand their situation, Hanna suggests they destroy the city together, seeking revenge against the system that betrayed them. Mikoto agrees, and they begin using enthralled Witches to sow chaos and make Magical Girls fight each other. They move constantly to avoid attachment, targeting families and schools while collecting Grief Seeds to sustain themselves.[13]
  • Nanaka meets with Meiyui, Akira, and Kako, asking for their help fighting the Locust Witch they all have a connection to. To explain, Nanaka tells them how she became a Magical Girl and what her magic allowed her to surmise. She explains the Witch is also behind incidents in Kamihama where people were forced to sell their land, which connects to Meiyui, as well as causing Kako's bookstore to burn down, and even Akira met Nanaka while fighting one of the Witch's Familiars.[15]
    • Akira and Kako quickly agree to help. Meiyui also agrees but says she cannot follow Nanaka's orders as a member of the Blue Seas family. Nanaka is fine with this, claiming the details are unimportant. Her plan is to investigate suspicious areas until they find the Witch's Barrier and then destroy it together.[15]
  • Soon, Nanaka's team are able to track down and defeat the Witch. Meiyui is impressed by how Nanaka reacted to her actions rather than giving orders, thus she also accepts Nanaka as her leader. However, Nanaka explains it is not over, as the Witch they defeated was only a copy created from a fully grown Familiar.[15]
    • Afterward, Nanaka speaks with Kyubey about a secret. In the past, she found a Soul Gem while chasing a familiar. She then found the seemingly dead body of a girl. She placed the Soul Gem in the girl's hands, and the girl started breathing again. Kyubey explains that Soul Gems are the extracted souls of magical girls.[15]
    • Kyubey asks if Nanaka will tell the other magical girls the secret. Nanaka says she is waiting for the right moment. Then she thinks about her true revenge target: Kyubey. Her power makes it clear he is her enemy. She is waiting for the right time to turn against him.[15]
  • Days later, Nanaka's team is still unable to find the original Locust Witch. Akira says she met a magical girl mercenary and as the girls plan their next move, Nanaka muses about how she is gathering the determination of magical girls, waiting for the right moment.[15]
  • While passing through a cemetery, Mikoto sees her mother crying before a tombstone with her name on it. She confesses to Hanna that she lied about her family and school. Hanna admits she suspected the truth from their exchange diary. To make Mikoto happy, they vandalize Mikoto's school together, also writing her honest feelings on a blackboard before escaping through a window, feeling truly free for the first time.[13]
    • Hanna uses Mikoto's pen from their diary and vows to prepare what Mikoto truly wanted.[12]
  • The Azalea sisters flee through the rain after being cornered by other Magical Girls, escaping using Ayame's magic but remaining on the run, accused of attacking their own kind.[18]
  • Days pass as the sisters hide in an abandoned house. Konoha explains she has been investigating the original incidents with Yachiyo, meeting regularly at a shrine to exchange information, though their investigation has stalled.[18]
  • The day before the confrontation, Nanaka's team visits Mitama. Nanaka theorizes a Magical Girl capable of controlling Witches is behind the incidents. Mitama recalls a girl with suggestion magic named Mikoto Sena and directs them to Kanagi, who had met her.[18]
    • Late that night, Kanagi meets Nanaka in a park. Kanagi confirms Mikoto's existence but reveals Mikoto and her family disappeared. She asks to investigate Mikoto herself.[18]
    • Around the same time, Reira learns from her mother about a strange girl asking questions at her apartment complex. Reira, Seika, and Mito investigate and discover the girl is Kanagi.[18]
  • The next day, the trio confronts Kanagi. Using Mito's power, they enter Kanagi's memories and learn about Mikoto's friend, Hanna Sarasa, who can copy a girl's unique magic.[18]
    • That same day, Ayame secretly meets Kako at a park. Both girls are manipulated by suggestion magic, causing them to argue. Nanaka intervenes, but Ayame runs off crying. Nanaka realizes an enemy Magical Girl is responsible.[18]
    • Meanwhile, Hanna's realized that Mikoto's persona consumes magic like fuel and will vanish permanently if she runs out. Her own Soul Gem deteriorates rapidly from sharing her magic, and her Grief Seed collection is nearly empty. Mikoto's hatred grows stronger as she has visions of Magical Girls becoming Witches, coming from her connection to her Witch, and she struggles to control herself. When she confesses she is on borrowed time, they have their first fight, and Mikoto disappears from shame.[13]
    • She soon returns to find Hanna's Soul Gem nearly black, with no Grief Seeds left and no power to hunt Witches. Hanna reflects on her life, admitting she no longer believes in her old wish to erase people she hated. She tells Mikoto that evil must be defeated or there will be nothing worth saving. Mikoto asks to die together, but Hanna refuses, saying she is happy.[13]
    • Back at the hideout, Konoha and Hazuki don't remember Ayame leaving. Ayame accuses them of tricking her. Konoha realizes they are being manipulated.[18]
    • Tsuruno bursts in, followed by Yachiyo, Nanaka's team, and the Mito trio. Reira reveals Hanna Sarasa as the culprit. As she speaks the name, Hanna reveals herself, admits everything, freezes everyone with her magic, and flees.[18] Hanna had deliberately made herself easy to find because she wants to be defeated, believing it will prove there are still good things in the world.[13]
    • The group splits up to search. The Konoha sisters find Hanna in an abandoned building. She admits she framed them because it was fun. Yachiyo and Tsuruno join the fight, but Hanna escapes again.[18]
    • The Mito trio waits on a rooftop. Hanna arrives and hints that Mikoto defeated a Witch but lost in the end. She prepares to kill Mito, but Akira blocks the attack. Nanaka's team arrives and fights Hanna.[18]
    • Nanaka appears and attacks, having used her team until then to wear Hanna down. Hanna reveals she knew Nanaka before she became a Magical Girl and deliberately ruined her life. Nanaka breaks free and attacks Hanna. During the battle, Nanaka targets Hanna's Soul Gem but hesitates to deliver the final blow.[18] Frustrated, Hanna grabs her own Soul Gem back from Nanaka as Mikoto pleads with her not to do what she intends. In the last moment, Hanna uses her magic to force Mikoto's persona into another Magical Girl nearby, then shatters her own Soul Gem while Mikoto screams.[13]
    • Mikoto falls into darkness until warm light surrounds her, and Hanna appears one last time. She explains her plan did not fail, telling Mikoto to look at the city that night. Hanna will bear their sins alone, but Mikoto has to live.[13]
    • Hanna'd copied Mikoto's Transplant magic and sends her to inhabit a Magical Girl on top of an observation deck. This girl ends up being Alina. Through Alina's eyes, Mikoto watches as building lights turn off and on one by one, forming a message visible from above: HAPPY BIRTHDAY. She realizes Hanna spent all their time together preparing this gift, marking every location so the city she hates will celebrate her existence. Though her hatred remains, Mikoto decides she will live, forever remembering this scene seared into her eyes as she whispers goodbye to Hanna.[13]
    • Later, the survivors gather at Mitama's. Nanaka tells most that Hanna used suggestion magic on herself. Only those who already knew learn the truth about her destroying her own Soul Gem. Nanaka and Yachiyo explain to Konoha that Soul Gems contain a Magical Girl's soul. Konoha cries, lamenting she caused her sisters to contract.[18]
  • Sometime later, life returns to normal. Asuka apologizes to Hazuki, who accepts. On a rooftop, Nanaka and Konoha discuss Hanna's final words about incoming danger they would all be facing. Konoha reflects that despite everything, Hanna brought them together. Nanaka fears similar darkness could emerge again.[18]
  • Alexandra becomes a Magical Girl.[Citation needed]
  • Hikaru and Yuna become Magical Girls almost at the same time.[Citation needed]
  • Yozuru and Sudachi become Magical Girls almost at the same time.[Citation needed]
  • Juri forms Ryuugasaki gang.[Citation needed]
  • Sakuya becomes a magical girl and shortly after joins Ryuugasaki, meeting her best friend.[Citation needed]
  • Kuroe becomes a magical girl and starts dating her boyfriend, leaving aside witches in her territory.[Citation needed]
  • In the Mitakihara suburbs, Mami Tomoe fights a Witch and Kyoko Sakura arrives and assists in the battle. They note the strange decline in Witch populations in their respective territories of Mitakihara and Kazamino and Kyoko states she will share any information she finds.[19]
  • Over the next several days, Mami investigates cities outside Mitakihara and Kazamino and she finds the Witch populations have declined in those areas as well. Kyubey confirms this is a widespread trend reported by other Magical Girls, though it has not verified every city.[19]
  • Several days later, Mami travels to Kamihama City and she immediately finds a powerful Witch, confirming that the city is an exception to the decline. She also detects strange, non-Witch magical traces throughout the city, but due to the late hour, Mami ends her investigation for the day but resolves to uncover the secrets of Kamihama.[19]
  • Iroha Tamaki lives a disconnected life in Takarazaki City, where she feels like an outsider among her classmates and only feels at ease with her family. However, a persistent feeling that her family is incomplete gnaws at her. She takes a train to Kamihama City to investigate the recurring dreams of a girl in a hospital and the strange emptiness she feels at home.[20]


My Diary With You

  • A few days before Ren's birthday, Rika notices the date on her student card while inviting her to a movie and decides to surprise her with a present.[21]
  • The next day, Rika and Ren visit a stationary shop, where Rika learns Ren draws in her diary with colored pencils.[21]
    • Later, at Emiri's consultation stand, Rika gets the idea to commission a decorated pencil case from Kanoko after seeing Emiri's phone case. Kanoko agrees to help, and her father allows them to use his factory's equipment.[21]
  • That weekend, Kanoko finalizes the material choice and makes Rika practice engraving on scrap metal daily until her skills improve.[21]
    • Ren and Rika team up to fight a Witch. Afterward, Ren comforts a victim, and Rika calls her kind. Ren reflects that she can live now because she met Rika.[21]
    • Later that day, Ren buys a cherry pink pencil, which is Rika's favorite color, continuing her tradition of buying a pencil each time she saves someone, hoping to become someone who can stand beside Rika.[21]
  • The following days, Kanoko deems Rika ready to work on the real gift. Ren sends Rika an invitation to a picture book exhibition, but Rika declines, needing time to finish.[21]
    • At Emiri's consultation stand, Ren defends Rika during a conversation with Akira. When Rika arrives, she calls them close friends and asks about Ren's drawings but respects that they're in Ren's diary.[21]
    • That evening, Ren's father gives her two tickets to a picture book exhibition. Thinking of Rika, she keeps both and emails an invitation. Rika replies she already has plans, shocking Ren.[21]
    • Ren later sees an advertisement for a teddy bear exhibition and invites Rika for the following Sunday. Rika must decline again due to gift work and supplementary lessons, leaving Ren devastated.[21]
  • The following Sunday, Ren walks through Kamihama, imagining being at the exhibition with Rika. She overhears Rika nearby, thanking Kanoko and Emiri for their help. When Emiri notices her, Rika stumbles over her words, and Ren runs off, saying it's fine.[21]
    • Later that day, Rika sends an apologetic email. Ren wants to respond but cannot, overwhelmed by envy and shame.[21]
  • The next day, Ren's mother asks if something is wrong, but Ren says nothing. In her room, she tries to write in her diary but cannot, sobbing as she realizes things cannot go back to the way they were.[21]
    • Later, Rika tells Akira that Ren has stopped responding. Kanoko and Akira advise her to talk to Ren directly. Rika heads to Ren's school, remembering her favorite place is the audiovisual room.[21]
    • At the audiovisual room, Ren receives a phone call from Rika. Rika explains she was making Ren a birthday present: twelve colored pencils in an engraved case with a Lily of the Valley motif, flowers which mean "Genuine" and "Pure."[21]
    • Rika asks Ren to open the door and gives her the present, wishing her a happy birthday. Ren cries, calling it the prettiest thing she has ever seen. As they walk home, Ren apologizes for the misunderstanding. Rika says she chose Lily of the Valley because it is perfect for Ren. Ren promises herself that one day, when she reaches the final page of her diary, she will tell Rika everything about it.[21]
    • Sometime later, Rika fights a witch alongside Hinano. Afterward, Hinano notes Rika's fighting style has changed—less reckless, more focused on helping others. Rika realizes she no longer fights to relieve stress but to help everyone, and decides she cannot change the past but can change the future.[21]
  • The next day, as Rika goes to see Ren, she reflects that she has changed because of Ren. In her mind, she tells Ren that no matter how long it takes, she will always be waiting for her.[21]

And So, The Azaleas Bloom

  • Years ago, Konoha, Hazuki, and Ayame live at Tsuzuji's House orphanage run by a kind Director. Hazuki arrived after her parents died in a car accident. Konoha arrived after her parents died. Ayame was found abandoned in an alley.[22]
  • One day, Konoha overhears the Vice-Director arguing with the Director about demolishing Tsuzuji's House. Konoha tells Hazuki. They decide not to tell Ayame yet and plan to speak to the Director.[22]
    • The girls speak to the Director. She explains a government program will integrate Tsuzuji into a larger system, meaning demolition and the children will be separated. She promises to fight it. Konoha and Hazuki research online and find rumors of political corruption. They later learn the Vice-Director colluded with the government and was behind the demolition. They discover this after the Director collapses.[22]
  • Shortly after, the Director dies and the girls mourn. Hazuki and Konoha tell Ayame about the demolition. They try to fight it, but it moves forward anyway.[22]
  • The night before they are supposed to leave, Hazuki and Ayame find Konoha talking to Kyubey. Kyubey offers to grant any wish in exchange for becoming magical girls. Ayame immediately wants to save Tsuzuji. Konoha is skeptical and suggests only one contract. Hazuki refuses to let her do it alone. All three decide to contract together.[22]
    • Konoha proposes they plan their three wishes: first, for Tsuzuji's House to continue existing indefinitely; second, to erase the main cause that tried to demolish it; third, to erase themselves from the memories of everyone involved with Tsuzuji so they can leave without causing trouble. Ayame wants to revive the Director but reluctantly agrees to the plan.[22]
    • Ayame wishes for Tsuzuji to continue existing. Konoha wishes to erase the main cause of its demolition. As a result, the politicians are punished and the Vice-Director leaves. Hazuki makes the third wish, erasing their memories from everyone at Tsuzuji.[22]
  • After becoming magical girls, the trio leaves and travels to different cities, hunting witches. Konoha has savings and invests in stocks. Hazuki handles cooking and cleaning. Ayame collects random things in her treasure box.[22]
  • Sometime later, they return to Kamihama City after hearing there are more witches there. They move into a new house Hazuki found. They pick a school that will help them avoid meeting children from Tsuzuji.[22]
  • One day, Konoha sees a vision: Nanaka saying they could have worked together, and Hazuki saying Ayame is going to die. She snaps back. Hazuki says she was spacing out. Konoha buys Ayame ice cream and tells Hazuki about the vision, asking her to keep it a secret.[22]
  • The trio meets Nanaka, Akira, Kako, and Meiyui in magical girl form. Nanaka asks them to join forces. The trio discusses telepathically. Konoha says they cannot trust anyone else. Hazuki wants more information. Ayame is suspicious.[22]
  • The next day, Ayame runs into Kako, who wants to talk and become friends. Despite Konoha's warnings, Ayame agrees.[22]
    • Hazuki runs into Ayame on her way to buy dinner. Ayame admits she was going to meet Kako. Hazuki is happy for her and tells her to keep it a secret from Konoha for now.[22]
  • Ayame brings Hazuki to meet Kako and Felicia. They get along. Ayame wonders if wanting to play with them is a bad thing.[22]
  • Rumors spread that magical girls are collapsing after fights. The suspects are believed to be magical girls using their powers to cause it. Another rumor claims Hazuki and Ayame's team is responsible.[22]
  • The following day, Kako and Felicia warn Ayame and Hazuki about the rumors. Kako says Nanaka believes they are being set up.[22]
    • The trio meets Yachiyo. She explains Momoko was attacked and briefly lost consciousness. Someone is blaming the trio. Yachiyo says she was present and their magical signatures do not match, so she knows they are innocent. She apologizes and leaves.[22]
  • The next day, Konoha suggests leaving Kamihama. Hazuki argues they should stay and clear their names. Ayame agrees with Hazuki. Konoha reluctantly agrees to stay longer.[22]
  • Several days pass and Hazuki investigates. She contacts Momoko and asks for help finding the real culprit. Momoko agrees after seeing Hazuki's sincerity.[22]
  • One evening, Konoha and Ayame go to buy bentos. At the store, Rena and Kaede confront them. Rena wants to fight to see the truth. Konoha fights Rena. Yachiyo arrives and tells them to stop. Suddenly Ayame collapses.[22]
    • Konoha accuses Rena of attacking her. Rena insists she did not. Konoha turns on everyone, screaming someone here attacked Ayame. She sees visions and becomes convinced they must crush all other magical girls. She transforms and prepares to attack.[22]
    • Ayame steps in front of her, saying this is wrong. Konoha tries to move past but is blocked by Yachiyo.[22]
    • Hazuki and Momoko arrive. Hazuki reveals she has been working with Momoko to find the culprit. Konoha is hurt. Hazuki says they need to trust others. Konoha cries, admitting she is scared of losing anyone else important.[22]
    • Ayame reveals she made friends with Kako. Hazuki admits she suggested keeping it a secret. Konoha flashes back to the Director telling them to support each other.[22]
    • Kako arrives. She properly introduces herself to Konoha and says Ayame is her precious friend. Konoha thanks her and asks her to look after Ayame.[22]
    • Hazuki and Momoko try to find the origin of the rumor, but the trail goes cold. Yachiyo and Konoha agree the attacker was not present when Ayame collapsed, so they vow to expose the culprit.[22]
  • After the incident, the teams develop a friendly rivalry, competing over witch hunts. Konoha tells the Director they may have found their new Tsuzuji's House.[22]
    • Kyubey speaks to the culprit, Hanna Sarasa, who attacked only Momoko and Ayame, spread the rumors, and hypnotized Konoha. She claims she did it on a whim and Kyubey notes that if witches are disasters, she is, for now, chaos.[22]

Reaching a Happier Height

  • Masara visits Mitama for a Soul Gem adjustment and notices her staring at a flyer for a hiking rally event. When Masara explains that Kokoro keeps talking about mountain climbing because it's tied to her last happy memory with her family, she leaves the flyer behind. Mitama reads that first prize is five kilograms of rice and decides right then to make sure they win it.[23]
  • The next day, Kokoro vents to Masara about how witch hunting always gets in the way of her climbing. When Masara asks why she loves it so much, Kokoro explains that it's her favorite memory, the last thing she ever did with her family before everything changed.[23]
    • Later that day, Kokoro stops by Mitama's shop for an adjustment. Mitama casually brings up the hiking rally and Kokoro is easily convinced to participate. Momoko pays for her own adjustment while they're talking, and when Mitama asks about hiking preparation, Momoko suggests bringing water.[23]
  • The following day, Mitama drags both Masara and Kokoro to the mall without giving any explanation. While they're distracted looking around, she buys supplies on her own: amazake, salt, chocolate, and supplements. She finds them picking out a bento box together and adds bear repellent to her cart.[23]
  • The night before the rally, Kokoro and Masara visit Mitama to review their preparations. Mitama has made an extensive list that includes lip balm and selfie sticks. When Mitama brings up the event itself, Kokoro initially tries to decline because of homework. Mitama suggests Masara could help her study, and Masara reluctantly says she wouldn't mind if Kokoro went. Kokoro finally agrees, and Mitama reveals that first prize is rice. Kokoro offers to make lunch for both of them.[23]
    • After they leave, Mitama prepares what she calls a special energy drink. Momoko takes one sip and immediately collapses. Mitama fills bottles with the mixture anyway.[23]
  • The morning of the event, Kokoro calls Mitama wondering where she is. Mitama reveals she never actually planned to participate and wanted them to win the rice for her all along.[23]
    • Masara and Kokoro begin the rally together, solving questions at each checkpoint. When Kokoro suggests they stop for lunch, they find a spot to eat. Masara compliments her cooking and Kokoro admits she's been cooking for herself ever since her mother left. They discover Mitama's energy drink stuffed in their bags and sip it, which ends up slowing them down considerably.[23]
    • After clearing ten questions, they discover they're in the lead. They search for the twelfth checkpoint without success. Masara deduces it should be to the right, but her Soul Gem reacts to a Witch on the left. They defeat the Witch and lose time, but afterward they spot the checkpoint hidden in an unexpected place.[23]
    • They reach the summit with an hour still left on the clock. Kokoro tears up, overwhelmed by the memory of climbing with her family. Masara apologizes for being there instead of them, but Kokoro clarifies they're tears of joy. She tells Masara she's glad she wanted to come with her.[23]
    • After Kokoro finishes crying, Masara offers her a handkerchief. The word tears gives Masara the answer to the final question. They turn in their answers and win the rice.[23]
    • After the event ends, Kokoro hauls the heavy rice into Mitama's shop. Mitama stresses again that she never intended to go, but Kokoro and Masara point out she pushed them into shopping for supplies. Mitama offers to make them lunch and Masara declines. Mitama tells Kokoro she should thank Masara, explaining that Masara was interested in the rally specifically because hiking was Kokoro's number one memory. Kokoro thanks her sincerely. She asks if they can go again sometime. Masara says her sneakers are worn out. Kokoro suggests they buy new ones together.[23]
  • The following day, Masara returns to Mitama for another adjustment. She describes how the lunch that day seemed especially delicious and asks if Mitama understands what that means. Mitama says that feeling is difficult to put into words, but that it felt special to her.[23]

Another Daze

This event and the accompanying Side Stories follow the main team of Kazumi Magica. Regarding Kazumi, this event takes place before Kazumi meets the rest of the Pleiades, while in Magia Record, it takes place sometime after the founding of the Doppel System.

  • Kaoru, Umika, and Kazumi chase a Witch to Kamihama City and a surge of magic gets Kazumi separated from them. Kaoru trusts Umika but worries about Kazumi. Before she can plan, her Soul Gem reacts to a nearby Witch and she enters the Barrier and finds Natsuki Utsuho fighting Familiars alone, so they team up and defeat the Witch together. They then introduce themselves and Natsuki offers to guide Kaoru through the city. Natsuki recognizes Kaoru as the soccer player who crushed her school's team and they become friends. As they search, Natsuki explains Witches have increased dramatically in Kamihama recently and mentions a cheer club member was Witch-kissed and attacked, leading her to intensify her Witch hunts despite lacking strength to fight alone.[24]
    • Meanwhile, Umika also defeats a Witch and encounters Kako Natsume, who realizes she's a Magical Girl too and invites her to Natsume Books to discuss the search over tea. Kako also realizes Umika is the author Umika Misaki. Umika asks Kako to contact her fellow Magical Girls for information about Kazumi and Kaoru. Kako admits her teammates asked her to investigate Umika due to rumors about outsider Magical Girls attacking others. She leads Umika to meet Akira Shinobu, who initially confronts Umika but accepts her after witnessing her dedication to fighting Witches and learning she was taught by Akira's father. They seek out Meiyui Chun for information from the Blue Seas Family network, encountering her fighting a Witch and assisting her. Meiyui trusts Umika after their conversation and shares information from Nanaka, who reports sightings of an unfamiliar yellow Magical Girl sprinting through four locations in the city.[25]
    • Natsuki admires Kaoru's strength, but Kaoru insists their teamwork made the difference and explains she never wished for soccer skill, valuing hard work instead. Their Soul Gems react to another Witch and Natsuki offers to fight alone so Kaoru can search, but Kaoru refuses to leave her friend. They head toward the magic together. Inside the Labyrinth, they face a different Witch that attacks Kaoru from above, however Natsuki creates a defensive barrier to protect Kaoru, who uses the opening to defeat the Witch.[24]
    • Kako theorizes Kaoru is following the Witch's route and that tracking Witch appearances will lead to her. The group deduces the next Witch will appear in Chuo Ward. There they sense a Witch being defeated, which Umika senses as being done Kaoru's magic signature.[25] Umika and Kaoru reunite and agree to search for Kazumi together. Before leaving, Kaoru asks Natsuki for one last cheer to get her fired up and Umika also promises to send signed copies of her next book to her new Kamihama friends.[24][25]
    • Kazumi sleeps on a park bench in Kamihama when Tsuruno wakes her. Kazumi only remembers her name and is hungry, so Tsuruno feeds her at Banbanzai. Soon afterwards, Kazumi's hair coil tingles, sensing evil, so she follows it and encounters Himika and Kanoko gathering mushrooms. A Witch's Labyrinth appears and quickly vanishes. They explain Magical Girls to Kazumi and at Himika's home, Kazumi remembers making beef stroganoff for two girls. Kanoko recognizes the novelist Umika Misaki from a saying of Kazumi's and cries after eating a Sobbing Shroom.[26]
    • Following Kanoko's advice, Kazumi visits Emiri's consultation office, where Emiri suggests searching her belongings. Kazumi finds a flyer for an Asunaro cafe and Emiri deduces she is from Asunaro. Suddenly, Sasara arrives seeking help for Asuka who disappeared inside a Witch's Labyrinth. Kazumi insists on helping and Sasara allows her to come but tells her to wait outside.[26]
    • At the Labyrinth, Kazumi transforms and destroys the Witch, freeing Asuka. From this, she remembers that she, Umika and Kaoru fell for the same Witch's trap. Asuka and Sasara suggest she find Yachiyo through Mitama to help and Emiri lends Kazumi a spare phone as well.[26] As she's hungry again, she stops at Walnut's, where she apologizes to Manaka Kurumi after eating a meal she cannot pay for. Manaka appreciates her honesty and, after insisting, Kazumi washes dishes and buses tables, noticing the restaurant's warm atmosphere and Manaka's hard work.[27]
    • Hinano Miyako enters, seeking Manaka's help to cure her writer's block through food and Kazumi offers to cook for her, remembering how Umika would cure writer's block. Manaka cooks alongside Kazumi and they serve a wiener, noodle salad, and cake to Hinano, who devours it and is struck by inspiration. Manaka urges Kazumi to find her friends and Hinano overhears and recognizes Kaoru's name, writing directions to a park where she saw her. Kazumi rushes to the park following Hinano's directions but still cannot find anyone.[27] She goes back to search for Mitama's place but cannot find it either and keeps returning to the same street. Her hair coil tingles. She is then found by Yachiyo inside the Uwasa and taken to Mitama's.[26]
    • Elsewhere, Umika and Kaoru are pursued by a shadowy doppelganger of Kazumi, and after asking for help from the local Magical Girls, Tsuruno leads them to Emiri's office. As Emiri is out, Ria offers to help and they seek Yachiyo, who does not answer. The doppelganger catches up and Ria fights it herself, while Yachiyo calls Tsuruno back and advises them to meet at Mitama's. Emiri also returns and uses her illusion magic to help them escape to Mitama's, where they find Kazumi sleeping. There, Yachiyo explains Rumors and the doppelganger road: if the doppelganger meets the original, the original will be replaced. She also reveals she escaped the road and found the real Kazumi, bringing her to Mitama's.[26]
    • The doppelganger Kazumi arrives outside. Yachiyo explains there are now two Kazumis and the fake must be destroyed. The Rumor scattered its mind in eight directions; they must capture the eight fakes in one place to reassemble Kazumi's psyche.[26]
    • The girls fight the doppelganger and Ria holds it off while the others retreat inside. Inside, Kazumi wakes in a cloud world and hears Umika and Kaoru's voices calling her as Mitama had linked their Soul Gems to reach her. The smell of food from her new friends guides her back and Kazumi awakens. Tsuruno brings fried rice and Himika brings mushroom hotpot, however Yachiyo explains the Rumor is not gone, so Mitama links their Soul Gems to gather the scattered parts. Together, they defeat the doppelganger permanently.[26]
    • Later, as Kazumi, Umika, and Kaoru prepare to return to Asunaro, they stop at a supermarket for ingredients. Kazumi thinks that she will think of this adventure whenever she makes fried rice or mushroom soup.[26]

Kazumi Magica

Afterwards, the events of Puella Magi Kazumi Magica: The innocent malice unfold as normal in Asurano. See the the Kazumi Magica section of the timeline for a detailed list. Detailed below are the deviations from the conventional timeline of Kazumi Magica.

  • During Satomi Usagi's rampage against the Kazumi Series, a few of them manage to survive.[28]
    • Clone 4, which was noted to be the most similar to the original Michiru Kazusa, manages to save and sneak off with Clones 2, 6, 7 and 10. She nurses them back to health by feeding them part of her body, which clones are able to do.[28]
    • Afterwards, Clone 10 makes a contract with Kyubey to "Make Number 4 into the real 'Michiru Kazusa'... Make her into a real, human Michiru." This causes number 4 to become a real human version of Michiru before she became a Magical Girl.[28]
    • Clone 2 then wishes for Niko Kanna's ability to reform and rebuild, which she then uses on the other clones to give them their appearances and identities. It is unclear if any of the other clones' wishes were involved, as the personalities of the original Pleiades were always at odds with those of the clones, and they would eventually succumb and turn back into their clone selves once time had passed, and they'd accumulated enough impurities. They plan to have Michiru re-enact the life of the real Michiru, by saving the clones of Umika and Kaoru, but this time with the intent of having a happy ending.[28]
      • Through this, Clone 2 takes the appearance and identity of Niko Kanna.[28]
      • Number 6 takes the identity of Umika Misaki.[28]
      • Number 7 takes Kaoru Maki's identity.[28]
      • Clone 10 is given the identity of Saki Asami.[28]

Suzune Magica

The events featuring the characters of Suzune Magica take place at some point after Mifuyu joins the Magius. The events do have spaces of time between them, however as the amount of time is impossible to discern in regards to other events, they're all listed in this section.

  • In Hohzuki, a classmate shows Chisato a social media post about one of her father's books, "The Adventures of Dumpling Boy," found in Kamihama City. Something about seeing the book triggers a deep curiosity she cannot let go, and she resolves to travel to Kamihama to find it. Arisa offers to come.[29]
  • In another city, Suzune Amano finishes killing all the Magical Girls where she lived and enrolls at Akanegazaki Middle School in Hozuki City, her next target. Kyubey finds her and tells her about Kamihama, a city no Incubator can enter where many Magical Girls are gathering. Suzune comes to investigate and eliminate any she meets, believing this will end the cycle of Magical Girls becoming Witches.[29]
  • Suzune arrives in Kamihama after learning from Kyubey that magical girls are being drawn to a city the Incubators cannot enter. She believes magical girls are eggs who hatch into witches and has vowed to kill them before they can transform, a mission born from personal tragedy: Tsubaki, a magical girl she cared for, became a witch, and Suzune was forced to kill her. While walking through the city, she stops to look at a Camellia flower, which are called "Tsubaki" in Japanese, and thinks of the girl who gave her fire magic. A magical girl named Kaede approaches and strikes up a conversation about the flowers, but their talk is interrupted by Momoko and Rena. After they leave, Suzune senses a witch barrier and finds a group of cloaked magical girls who allow her to fight the witch with them. Suzune destroys it effortlessly, and when they refuse to give their names, she attacks them.[30]
    • Mifuyu intervenes and blocks the attack, quickly deducing from Suzune's aim for Soul Gems that she kills magical girls before they turn into witches. Mifuyu reveals she is part of the Wings of Magius, a group trying to save magical girls from their fate, but Suzune dismisses this and attacks again. Alina Gray arrives and traps Mifuyu in a barrier to protect her, then fights Suzune herself. Suzune uses Tsubaki's fire magic to launch a surprise attack, but Mifuyu warns Alina from inside the barrier and she dodges. Realizing she has used too much magic and cannot continue, Suzune agrees with Mifuyu that the best she can do is take one of them down, then vanishes.[30]
    • Later, Suzune reflects that Kamihama has powerful foes and decides to be more careful on her next hunt. Sensing a new barrier, she asks Tsubaki to watch over her and notes that even in Kamihama, the cycle continues.[30]
  • Several days later, past midnight, Kokoro enters a Witch's barrier and finishes off a Familiar, only to be surrounded by countless more, but Suzune appears and destroys them all. Kokoro thanks her, and she introduces herself as Suzune, and after Kokoro gives her name, Suzune strikes at her Soul Gem. Masara thwarts her attack, as she was there following Kokoro in the Labyrinth while remaining invisible, and telepathically warns Kokoro to attack and run, while Masara strikes at Suzune from behind, allowing Kokoro to flee. Kokoro thanks Masara for rescuing her and they discuss the unknown attacker.[29]
    • Around the afternoon, Arisa and Chisato arrive in Kamihama. Chisato lectures Arisa about her attitude toward some high school students on the train, reminding her they represent their school as disciplinary committee members. They then notice Momoko scolding Rena for bumping into someone, and Arisa recognizes herself in Rena's defensiveness. Chisato compares the trio to her own friendship with Arisa, and Arisa admits Chisato saved her despite being annoyed at being made to think about the past.[31]
    • Chisato takes Arisa to a Sayuki Fumino live show, where Arisa cries during a song she likes. During a quiz event, Arisa and Rena become the final two contestants and tie, winning prizes. Chisato and Kaede suggest the two are becoming friends, but both deny it. Afterward, Arisa and Chisato go to look at picture books, their original reason for visiting Kamihama. Chisato says Arisa has changed, and Arisa insists they will stay together before immediately lashing out at someone again.[31]
    • Arisa buys them crêpes, though Chisato reminds her they came to find a picture book. Chisato explains she loved a particular picture book from before things went bad with her father, but she cannot remember its title, only its cover. While searching for Natsume Books, Chisato asks an older woman for directions, and the woman calls over Akira Shinobu, who happens to be in the area. She offers to take them to Natsume Books, and when they arrive, they meet Kako, the bookseller's daughter. Chisato asks for "The Adventures of Dumpling Boy," and Kako offers to check her files. While waiting, Arisa finds a book about a kindly Witch driven away by villagers who mistakenly blamed her. They search the entire store but do not find the book Chisato seeks.[29]
    • Suzune hides inside a Witch's barrier, waiting for another Magical Girl to appear. The Familiars force her to kill them all, and Akira approaches her as the barrier dissipates. She offers to help Suzune, who pretends to be injured, and Suzune accepts when she realizes she needs intel. Akira takes Suzune to Emiri's Consultation Services and Suzune finds herself genuinely enjoying conversation with Akira. Nanaka soon appears, and Suzune recognizes the fake smile on Nanaka as the same kind she uses herself. She quickly questions Suzune about how they met, where she is from, and why she is in Kamihama. After Suzune leaves, Nanaka tells Akira she sensed something bad might happen and knows Suzune is their enemy. Suzune herself decides to lay a trap near a Witch to confirm Nanaka is a Magical Girl.[29]
    • Chisato and Arisa finish their search, and Kako confirms the book is not in her files. Kako offers to help them search elsewhere, and Chisato accepts after Arisa urges her. Kako offers to call another bookstore her father knows. Outside, Chisato accuses Arisa of being inconsiderate for accepting Kako's help without thought. They argue, and Arisa returns to the bookstore while Chisato searches alone. Arisa thinks about her argument with Chisato and returns to Natsume Books. Kako has good news but notices Arisa's expression, and Arisa breaks down and tells Kako everything about her fight with Chisato. Chisato also returns looking dejected, and Kako tells her how serious Arisa is about the search, so they apologize to each other.[29]
    • Meanwhile, Suzune's trap lures Kokoro and then Nanaka appears, transformed, which confirms Suzune's suspicions. Akira is also hiding, and Suzune learns she too is a Magical Girl. Outnumbered, Suzune uses Heat Shimmer to disappear and Nanaka confirms to the others that Suzune is the enemy, and Kokoro and Masara introduce themselves as well. Elsewhere, Suzune realizes Nanaka's intuition or magic makes her a serious threat, having now failed to kill Kokoro twice.[29]
    • Kako explains her father's friend owns a secondhand shop nearby and offers to go with them to search. The three girls arrive and begin searching through piles of picture books, eventually finding "The Adventures of Dumpling Boy." Chisato buys the book. They return to Natsume Books to read it, and Chisato finishes with an odd look. The story is about a dumpling boy who meets other dumplings, fuses into a skewer, and gets eaten.[29]
    • Meiyui meets up with Nanaka and Akira and is introduced to Kokoro and Masara. Nanaka deduces Suzune uses Witches to lure and kill Magical Girls and proposes a plan, though Akira still wants to try talking to Suzune. Later, Suzune returns to Emiri's stand, where Akira is waiting. Suzune admits she would have attacked Nanaka if alone. Akira asks why she targets them, and Suzune says it is nothing personal. They agree to settle things in the alley where they first met, and they fight. Soon, Akira falls, Suzune stabs Nanaka, takes out Kokoro, and strikes down Masara. After Suzune leaves, Meiyui reveals herself, and the girls stand up unharmed, as Meiyui's magic had distorted what Suzune perceived. They staged their deaths to make Suzune believe she succeeded to see what her goal was, and they plan to spread an online post to pressure Suzune into leaving Kamihama.[29]
    • Meanwhile, Chisato points to the publication details, where her own name appears. She created the dumpling boy character as a child, and her father turned her scribbles into the book. She realizes her wish may have erased this part of her father and cries, but Arisa tells her to hold onto the good memories.[29]
    • Exhausted and low on magic, Suzune is photographed by two men who say she matches a post on a local forum. She demands they delete it, but feeling watched, she suspects Nanaka is setting her up and resolves to leave Kamihama. Arisa and Chisato walk home and discuss returning to Hozuki City. Suzune overhears and decides to let things cool down in Kamihama first, vowing never to forget Nanaka.[29]
    • Afterwards, Nanaka asks Meiyui to spread a rumor warning other Magical Girls about Suzune. Meiyui agrees, and Nanaka suggests something unnerving, like she rips out throats. Soon, the rumor spreads online, warps, and eventually becomes the urban legend of the "Ripper Girl" in Hozuki City.[29]
  • During one of the following days at school, Arisa notices Chisato worrying and presses her to explain. Chisato reveals she agreed to read a picture book to children, but the organizers want her to read from a book of her own creation, and she has no idea what to write. Arisa recruits Matsuri Hinata and Haruka Kanade to help. After school, Haruka proposes they each come up with a storyline and regroup in three days.[32]
  • Three days later, the girls share their ideas. Haruka's prince story has confusing foreign names, Matsuri's headless rabbit tale is too morbid, and Arisa's monster-slaying sorceress is too violent for children. Chisato has only a vague concept and asks for more time.[32]
  • A few days later, Chisato presents a completed story combining elements from all their ideas: four girls from different villages receive magic from a white rabbit spirit and unite to defeat a demon king. They refine it together, draw the art, and title it "The Four Girls and the White Rabbit." When Chisato reads it to the children, they enjoy it.[32]
    • Back at school, Arisa praises Chisato's presentation, but the process reminded Chisato of her father. He was once a respected picture book author whose popularity declined. After her mother died, he turned his resentment toward her. Kyubey appeared, and Chisato wished for a kind, perfect father. As a result, he stopped writing entirely, and she has borne the guilt of taking his dream. Arisa reminds her that the past and present are separate, and with her friends beside her, Chisato begins to believe things will be okay.[32]
  • The rumor of the Ripper has spread to Hohzuki, prompting Chisato and her friends to investigate its source in Kamihama, while Suzune travels there alone, unaware her classmate Matsuri is among the group.[33]
    • The group splits up to cover more ground, learning from children at the library that this Memory Ripper differs from the Coat Ripper they know—it changes forms, announces itself with a bell, and demands a name from everyone it meets. Arisa and Matsuri encounter it directly, and though Arisa gives a false name while Matsuri answers honestly, both are attacked. Natsuki finds Suzune but she flees when others arrive. Kanoko discovers the unconscious Matsuri and Arisa, and when Arisa wakes, she has forgotten her wish and reverted to her meek personality. The groups reunite and realize the severity of what they face.[33]
    • As they coordinate, Aimi calls with intel, but before they can meet properly, the girls are picked off one by one by Memory Ripper, each absorption costing someone their memories. Arisa barely escapes with two children after Ripper pursues her using the forms of her absorbed friends. The remaining girls analyze what they know and deduce that refusing to give Ripper their names causes it to absorb them instead. Using this knowledge and Natsuki's help, they systematically recover everyone, though Suzune remains trapped because Matsuri's scrambled memories mean no one knows her name. Matsuri lets Ripper cut her again, recovering her memories of meeting Suzune and freeing her. Only Ripper's original form remains, that of a random girl. Haruka recalls the rumor's details and deduces its true name is Suzunone.[33]
    • Suzunone thanks her and disappears. The barrier crumbles, but a mysterious voice interrupts, asking why they always bother her. Outside, everything has been rewritten: Arisa and Matsuri are back to normal, their memories replaced with those of encountering a Witch, and Suzune is nowhere to be found. The girls feel something is amiss but quickly dismiss it and go sightseeing.[33]
    • The girls decide to split up to pursue everyone's different interests before meeting at the taiyaki shop in the afternoon. Haruka ends up being shown around the Kamihama Museum of Contemporary Art by Natsuki and Aimi, but on the way they encounter two sisters who had a fight after their amusement park plans were postponed due to an art exhibition. When the younger sister angrily wishes her older sibling would disappear, the older sister receives a witch's kiss and vanishes into a barrier.[34]
    • Haruka, Natsuki, and Aimi pursue them, and while fighting the witch together, Haruka is haunted by memories of her own wish. She recalls wishing for Kyubey to erase her older sister Kanata from existence out of jealousy, only to wake up the next day as the sole person who remembers her. Haruka carries this guilt constantly, believing she must atone by becoming like her sister.[34]
    • After defeating the witch and reuniting the sisters, who apologize to each other, Haruka reflects on her actions as the group finally gathers for taiyaki. Though Matsuri asks if something is wrong, Haruka insists she is fine while privately acknowledging she will carry the burn of her wish forever, the only one who remembers her sister's smile.[34]
    • Meanwhile, as she's walking through Kamihama, Matsuri becomes fascinated by Kanoko's unique fungal hair scrunchies, and Kanoko invites her to see more designs at her home.[35]
    • On the way to Kanoko's house, they encounter Manaka Kurumi, who needs one of Kanoko's designs to win a bet with her senpai Ria Ami about whether Ria could pull off Kanoko's unconventional style. Matsuri offers Kanoko's scrunchies as a solution, and Manaka gratefully gives her ghost mushrooms in return. Kanoko is delighted by the mushrooms, and Matsuri notices the scrunchies have transformed into real ones.[35]
    • At Kanoko's home, Matsuri marvels at her extensive collection of creative designs. When Matsuri expresses interest in learning metalworking, Kanoko proposes making metal accessories for her in exchange for the mushrooms. Matsuri agrees, and at the family workshop, she struggles to choose a concept until inspiration strikes: she wants taiyaki-shaped earrings as lucky charms to guide her to the perfect taiyaki experience in Kamihama.[35]
    • Matsuri and Kanoko search for taiyaki shops but haven't found anything transcendent. They meet Ikumi Makino, a maid cafe worker who borrows Matsuri's earrings for an animal-themed performance. Afterward, Matsuri receives a dog-themed headband as thanks and asks Ikumi for a taiyaki recommendation. At the recommended shop, they encounter Ayaka Mariko, a magical girl comedian desperate for the headband to salvage her act at a contest without electricity. Matsuri gives it to her in exchange for an air circulator and dummy. Ayaka mentions hearing about legendary taiyaki but doesn't know where.[35]
    • After finally trying taiyaki that falls short of perfection, they run into Hinano Miyako and Emiri Kisaki. Hinano desperately needs an air circulator for a science class, so Matsuri gives her the one from Ayaka, receiving homemade detergent in return. Matsuri reveals she was born blind and wished to see, wanting independence and to experience the world. Moved, Kanoko decides to take her to Mitama Yakumo, the Adjuster, hoping she might have information about great taiyaki.[35]
    • At Mitama's, they find her cooking taiyaki. After Matsuri offers the detergent, Mitama accepts and promises unlimited taiyaki, but accidentally burns it. However, she gives them a poster with a ticket for free taiyaki at a unique cliffside location. At the "Taiyaki Shop Under the Cliff," they meet Himika Mao, who explains customers fish for bags of taiyaki in a small lake. Matsuri enthusiastically tries her luck. The others eventually join them, and everyone enjoys taiyaki while watching the sunset.[35]
    • Though Kanoko apologizes for not finding the perfect taiyaki, Matsuri disagrees—the sunset view made it perfect. She reflects on her first sunset after gaining her sight and her dream to keep experiencing new places and meeting people. She thanks Kanoko, knowing this day will remain a precious memory.[35]
    • That night, Kagari drags an unconscious Suzune out of Kamihama. She meets Kyubey and berates him for involving Suzune and nearly ruining her plan, calling Matsuri a nuisance. Kyubey notes she accomplished this with her ability to rewrite memories. Exhausted from affecting so many people, Kagari says she will return Suzune to Hohzuki after ensuring she has forgotten everything and asks Kyubey to remain quiet about her plan.[33]
  • Kagari arrives in Kamihama, sensing strange magic similar to what had overtaken Suzune and Matsuri previously. She is approached by the reorn Rumor of the Ripper Girl, now the Rumor of the May Bells of Happiness, smelling the overwhelming scent of flowers and hearing a voice offer her a gift of happiness. Upon Kagari's plea for Tsubaki, the reborn Rumor from the Ripper Girl mixes its magic with Kagari's and creates a world specifically matching her wishes. Those Kagari invites, as well as several people nearby, have their minds pulled into the dream, their memories rewritten in accordance, while their unconscious bodies remain in the real world. The most important person for this world, Tsubaki, has her own consciousness pulled from a point in the past before her death, collapsing in the middle of the street. The newly created world within the Labyrinth shifts to daily life, showing how Kagari, her twin sister Matsuri, their childhood friend Suzune, and their caretaker Tsubaki moved to Kamihama after their mother died. At school they befriend Aimi, Kokoro, and Masara.[36]
    • Tsubaki and her three adopted daughters, Suzune, Matsuri, and Kagari, move to Kamihama City. The three girls leave for their first day of school at Kamihama University Affiliated School while Tsubaki stays behind to unpack. Later, Suzune returns home alone as Matsuri and Kagari stayed to check out club activities. Suzune reveals she did not visit any clubs and intends to get permission to work a part-time job, not wanting to burden Tsubaki.[37]
    • Tsubaki shares a story from her past. She lost her parents to a Witch and was taken in by a distant relative, Yoriko Yanagi, who ran a kendo dojo. Under Yoriko's strict guidance, Tsubaki learned kendo and proper manners. She also met her first Magical Girl companion and rival, Ichika, at the dojo. Suzune asks about Yoriko but Tsubaki reveals that Yoriko is deceased, as she had followed Tsubaki into a Witch's Labyrinth and was killed. Tsubaki failed to protect her because she was too focused on the Witch that murdered her parents. Tsubaki shows Suzune a bell charm that is Yoriko's keepsake, which Ichika recovered from the Labyrinth. Tsubaki tells Suzune she wants her to join a club and offers to practice kendo with her once she receives her shinai. Suzune agrees.[37]
    • Matsuri brings Kokoro, a Magical Girl from Kamihama, to Tsubaki's home. Kokoro had rescued Matsuri from a Witch on the first day of school. Matsuri explains that Kamihama's Witches are much stronger than those in Hozuki. Tsubaki begins teaching kendo to Suzune, Matsuri, and Kokoro at a park, as Kagari wasn't interested and stayed home. Matsuri struggles against Suzune, who easily reads her movements.[37]
    • Tsubaki reflects on Ichika, her rival and fellow Magical Girl. She shares with Kokoro that she and Ichika did not start out with respect for one another but eventually became close friends who motivated each other. Tsubaki expresses her hope that Suzune, Matsuri, and Kagari will build a similar bond.[37]
    • Suddenly, they detect a Witch and the group stops practice to investigate. They find a woman under a Witch's Kiss near the Labyrinth. The woman expresses her despair, believing she is not fit to be a mother and that her adoptive daughter is better off without her. The woman falls unconscious and Tsubaki asks Kokoro to look after her.[37]
    • Tsubaki, Suzune, and Matsuri enter the Labyrinth, soon joined by Kagari who sensed a Witch and came to investigate. They find a child inside, the woman's adoptive daughter. The child is also under a Witch's Kiss and believes she cannot go home because she said terrible things to her adoptive mother. Tsubaki reassures the child that it is not too late to make amends.[37]
    • The Witch attacks. Suzune is knocked back, and Tsubaki takes a heavy blow protecting the child. The Witch attacks relentlessly. Matsuri and Kagari coordinate to intercept an attack, showing they have learned to read the Witch's movements while Kagari uses her magic to mask Matsuri's presence. This also allows Suzune to land a counterattack.[37]
    • Tsubaki realizes she was about to repeat her past mistake of becoming too focused on the enemy and neglecting her surroundings. She calms herself and asks the others to protect the child so she can concentrate on the Witch. Tsubaki succeeds in defeating the Witch. The child is unharmed and decides to go home and apologize to her adoptive mother, even deciding to call her "mom".[37]
    • Afterward, Kokoro receives a message that Masara and Aimi are coming to join them. The group returns to their practice spot to continue kendo, this time also having Kagari join along.[37]
    • Later, Tsubaki finishes unpacking and she hangs a photograph of herself with Yoriko and Ichika. She speaks to them, saying she is living well as the guardian of Suzune, Matsuri, and Kagari. She hopes she can protect and guide the children as Yoriko did for her. She calls Yoriko her mother and says she will show Suzune and the others the photograph when they return. Tsubaki also notes she must call Ichika to tell her the move is complete.[37]
    • After school the group defeats a Witch together using Tsubaki and Suzune's combined magic, then discovers May bells blooming out of season by the school gate. Kagari feels something is off despite their peaceful life.[36]
    • Tsubaki, Matsuri, and Aimi go shopping. Aimi hears someone call her name and smells the same floral scent, which Tsubaki cannot detect. They follow it into a Witch's Labyrinth, defeat the Witch, and find more May bells. When Aimi and Matsuri touch the flowers they wither, but Tsubaki still sees them in bloom. Aimi briefly glimpses her friend Natsuki before forgetting. Tsubaki hears a child's voice and decides they must investigate.[36]
    • The group discusses the flowers and realizes their perceptions are being blocked. After more investigation and touching flowers, they witness revelations: Aimi disappears when she tries to tell Tsubaki the truth about her death, Suzune and Masara see that Tsubaki died years ago, and Kokoro witnesses young Kagari making a contract with Kyubey to wish for revenge on Suzune for killing Tsubaki. The illusion begins unraveling as Suzune and Kagari fight to keep Tsubaki from learning the truth.[36]
    • Meanwhile in reality, Natsuki explains to Nanaka and Akira how she contacted them after finding Aimi catatonic at the school thirty minutes ago. Aimi wakes and explains she was trapped in the illusion. Nanaka theorizes Tsubaki's consciousness was brought from the past through powerful magic, maintained by someone who wants the real Tsubaki. She warns those in the illusion may vanish if they stay too long.[36]
    • Matsuri learns the full truth and finally remembers Tsubaki's last words to her before her death to never give up. She decides to help save everyone even if it means losing Tsubaki again. Tsubaki reaches the school roof and faces Suzune and Kagari, who beg her to stay. Tsubaki refuses, saying she believes they can achieve real happiness without her. With Matsuri's encouragement, Tsubaki tells them she loves them and believes in them. Kagari breaks down asking why Tsubaki didn't say this earlier, and Tsubaki says goodbye as the illusion collapses. Tsubaki awakens in her own time with no memory of what happened, but she feels warm inside. As a young Suzune is concerned, Tsubaki hugs her warmly.[36]
    • Everyone awakens on the school grounds in reality and Kagari quickly rewrites everyone's memories and disappears. Matsuri and Suzune feel warmth but cannot fully remember what happened. Matsuri returns to Hozuki City where her friends welcome her home. Kagari, alone, reveals her memories have fully returned and she was acting. She resents that Matsuri got in her way and that Tsubaki's words came too late, vowing to make Suzune suffer as she originally wished.[36]
  • What becomes of this version Kagari after this point is unknown, however the events of Arc 2 hint at these versions of Suzune, Matsuri and Haruka still being alive years later.

References

  1. ↑ Shown in Last Bird's Hope
  2. ↑ Shown in Arc 2 Chapter 11
  3. ↑ Shown in Deliver to the Beyond, A Piece of Hope and Yachiyo and Mifuyu's Side Story
  4. ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 Shown in Magia Record Crescent Memoria Part 3
  5. ↑ Shown in Kanae's Side Story
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 Shown in Magia Record Crescent Memoria Part 1
  7. ↑ Shown in Jun's Side Story
  8. ↑ Shown in Girls in the Hood
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Shown in Chapter 6: The Memories that Speak of the Truth
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Shown in Magia Record Crescent Memoria Part 2
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 11.7 11.8 Shown in Hanna's Side Story
  12. ↑ 12.00 12.01 12.02 12.03 12.04 12.05 12.06 12.07 12.08 12.09 12.10 12.11 12.12 12.13 12.14 12.15 Shown in Mikoto's Side Story
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 13.6 13.7 13.8 Shown in Sayonara Storage
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 14.5 14.6 14.7 14.8 Shown in Breakpoint
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 15.7 Shown in Nanaka's Side Story
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4 16.5 16.6 Shown in Alina's Side Story
  17. ↑ 17.00 17.01 17.02 17.03 17.04 17.05 17.06 17.07 17.08 17.09 17.10 17.11 17.12 17.13 17.14 Shown in Chapter 10: Dawn of a Shallow Dream
  18. ↑ 18.00 18.01 18.02 18.03 18.04 18.05 18.06 18.07 18.08 18.09 18.10 18.11 18.12 18.13 Shown in The Flowers' Lament / Scattered Flowers Melancholy
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 Shown in Another Story Chapter 2: Only this City is Different
  20. ↑ Shown in Chapter 2: The Rules of Friendships
  21. ↑ 21.00 21.01 21.02 21.03 21.04 21.05 21.06 21.07 21.08 21.09 21.10 21.11 21.12 21.13 21.14 21.15 21.16 21.17 Shown in My Diary With You
  22. ↑ 22.00 22.01 22.02 22.03 22.04 22.05 22.06 22.07 22.08 22.09 22.10 22.11 22.12 22.13 22.14 22.15 22.16 22.17 22.18 22.19 22.20 22.21 22.22 22.23 22.24 22.25 22.26 22.27 Shown in And So, The Azaleas Bloom
  23. ↑ 23.00 23.01 23.02 23.03 23.04 23.05 23.06 23.07 23.08 23.09 23.10 23.11 23.12 Shown in Reaching a Happier Height
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 Shown in Kaoru's Side Story
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 Shown in Umika's Side Story
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 26.2 26.3 26.4 26.5 26.6 26.7 Shown in Another Daze
  27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 Shown in Kazumi's Side Story
  28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 28.2 28.3 28.4 28.5 28.6 28.7 Shown in The Cuddly Despairs
  29. ↑ 29.00 29.01 29.02 29.03 29.04 29.05 29.06 29.07 29.08 29.09 29.10 29.11 Shown in Cross Connection
  30. ↑ 30.0 30.1 30.2 Shown in Suzune's Side Story
  31. ↑ 31.0 31.1 Shown in Arisa's Side Story
  32. ↑ 32.0 32.1 32.2 32.3 Shown in Chisato's Side Story
  33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 33.2 33.3 33.4 Shown in Rumors in Disguise
  34. ↑ 34.0 34.1 34.2 Shown in Haruka's Side Story
  35. ↑ 35.0 35.1 35.2 35.3 35.4 35.5 35.6 Shown in Matsuri's Side Story
  36. ↑ 36.0 36.1 36.2 36.3 36.4 36.5 36.6 Shown in Memorable Flower
  37. ↑ 37.00 37.01 37.02 37.03 37.04 37.05 37.06 37.07 37.08 37.09 Shown in Tsubaki's Side Story
Timeline
Main Timeline
Historical ➤ Prelude ➤ Scene 0 ➤ Final ➤ Law of Cycles ➤ Devil
Magia Record Timeline
Historical ➤ Prelude ➤ Arc 1 ➤ Arc 2 ➤ Magia Exedra
Other Timelines
Null ・ Magia Report ・ Original/Other ・ Magia Record/Other ・ Magia Record/Anime ・ Magia Exedra/Other
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