Whether some of the following like the Farewell Story may have occurred between Scene 0 and the Final Timeline, others such as Summer Magical Girl Training Camp are almost certainly not canon to them. Cases such as the latter are regarded as Alternate Universes altogether, where the circumstances of the characters are entirely different from the main continuity. In this case, the term canon refers to the continuity of the original anime, and non-canon often refers to a different version of Homura causing and experiencing them.
Also included are the Alt-Universe stories introduced in Magia Exedra, as well as several of the more comedic takes on the Holy Quintet, and the smaller stories released with Kirara Magica. As it stands, all the entries in this article are regarded as separate Alternate Universes.
For the proper timeline hub of the Original Universe, see Timeline/Original.
For the timeline hub, and the articles detailing Alternate Universes, see Timeline/Other.
The following is a summary of the major events and timelines depicted in Oriko Magica and its characters, including the backstories of the relevant characters and the different continuities explored across its spin-offs.
The Recent Past
Lina Hitomi's fraternal twin brother Mana is killed by a car while the two were on their way from school. As their parents had broken up before the two's birth, and that Lina had more of a resemblance to their father, their mother blames Lina under the false pretense that Mana had been protecting her. Their mother would grieve Mana's loss for many years and keep blaming her despite Lina's attempts to emulate him.[1]
Oriko Mikuni's mother, Yurako dies in a car accident and Oriko attends her funeral, where people gossip about her not crying. Oriko resolves to remain strong for her father, but this causes him to feel inadequate and focus instead on his political career.[2]
Erika Mamiya, Kirika Kure's childhood friend, shoplifts from a mall, flees and leaves Kirika, who was innocent, to be blamed by the cops instead.[3]
Around the same time, six girls in Kazamino become Magical Girls:
Kyubey approaches Lina, who makes a wish to erase Mana from her mother's memories.[1]
Mio Suzuna and Futaba get into an accident during a family trip, which has Futaba get a scar on her face, and leaves Mio comatose. A few months later, Futaba makes a contract with Kyubey to wake Mio up. Later Mio also makes a contract to erase Futaba's scar from the accident, giving her the power to eliminate sound and presence to stealthily blend in with her surroundings.[1]
Miyako Saki is approached by Kyubey to become a Magical Girl. Seeing as she liked dolls and Magical Girls herself, she struggles to come up with a wish until she settles on having her short hair to become long and straight like a typical Magical Girl's. She gains the power to manipulate inanimate objects, like the dolls she fights with.[1]
Mai Akane is a member of the kendo club at her school, and she is really close to her grandfather. As he has a terminal illness, Mai makes a contract with Kyubey to have her grandfather see her match despite his illness. The resulting power is the ability to extend range, which she utilizes by having the reach of her katana be larger than its actual length.[1]
Hating everyone who could be better than her, Sasa Yuuki makes a contract with Kyubey for those who are better than her to follow her every command. With the resulting magic of mind control, Sasa starts controlling Witches in Kazamino and feeding humans to them to farm Grief Seeds.[1]
One day, Oriko decides to investigate a rumored ghost haunting the school during festival preparations after the overwhelmed student council fails to act. She interviews students and collects testimonies of a pale apparition on video, a crying voice behind the gymnasium, a mysteriously tidied stage, and footsteps in an empty gymnasium. While investigating near the gymnasium, she encounters Komaki, who she assumed hated her, who is also looking into the ghost to stop the rumors from interfering with the festival preparations.[5]
The two team up and visit the hallway where the apparition was seen, and later they pass a friend of Komaki's who praises Komaki's acting, noting her performance has grown from shouting to sounding like real crying. At the yard where the crying voice was heard, Oriko notices Komaki acting suspiciously, and at the gymnasium they find sheet music left out by the choir, which Komaki insists on tidying while complaining about the choir's lack of morals. When Komaki tries to end the investigation, Oriko announces she has uncovered the mystery: the ghost is Komaki herself. The pale apparition was Komaki running to the school store in her white dress, the crying voice was Komaki rehearsing her lines alone in the yard, the footsteps were Komaki running away to avoid being seen practicing, and the tidied stage was Komaki cleaning up after other clubs. Komaki admits everything and begs Oriko not to tell her classmates, but Oriko laughs, finding it funny that the rumors were about a kind, hard working ghost. Komaki says she likes Oriko better this way, as she normally seems stuck up.[5]
Kirika runs a life where her days are dull and empty, filled with superficial conversations and fake friendships. One day, while picking up money she had dropped, Oriko is the only one to help her. Kirika wants to ask if they can be friends, but the girl's companion warns against associating with students from other schools, thus Kirika believes she is not good enough for that kind girl.[6]
Kyubey offers to grant any wish in exchange for making her a Magical Girl. Unsure what she truly wants, she initially considers wishing to become a different person. But she realizes that is not her real desire.
She makes her wish to change, as to be worthy of Oriko, but as a result forgets why she made the wish to begin with. Her personality changes and she becomes more cheerful and able to tolerate shallow conversations, yet she remains bored and directionless. Kyubey tells her that forgetting might have been what she needed, or perhaps a side effect of the wish.
Afterwards, while hunting Witches, Kirika begins provoking and attacking other Magical Girls for amusement.
At some point, Oriko's father Hisaomi Mikuni commits suicide after he is set up by Kenzaburo Yaegashi, with everyone believing he was embezzling funds from the government of Mitakihara City and Oriko fiding his body hanging in his study.[7]
Oriko's family's former image crumbles, and she loses her sense of purpose and will to live. She isolates herself in her room, also forgotten by her family.[7]
Sasa's actions prompt the other girls in Kazamino to form a group together, which is lead by Lina, and the last one to join being Miyako. The other girls fight Sasa and her Witches, and after they have her surrounded, she cries and pleads for sympathy as a weak Magical Girl. Mio is doubtful, but Futaba approaches her and offers friendship. Sasa then takes her hostage and runs away with her. Once they're far enough, Sasa takes her Soul Gem and breaks it, unknwingly killing her and leaving her body on the street. While Sasa decides to flee to Mitakihara until the situation calms down in Kazamino, Lina's group decides to pursue her for revenge and soon deduce she must've gone to Mitakihara.[1]
A timeline that shows Oriko, Kirika and Yuma's experiences without the involvement of Homura. Due to her absence, it is possible this is what happens to the group in the first timeline, or in every timeline prior to the one where Oriko sees Gretchen in her visions. For the sake of convenience, the details of this timeline are listed here.[8] It is depicted in:
Oriko makes a contract with Kyubey to know the reason why she's alive and receives the power to see the future, foreseeing the arrival of Walpurgisnacht.
The two meet properly and form a partnership together.
After defeating a Witch, Kirika sees Erika observing her.
Erika arrives in town with her stepdad following her parents’ divorce. Kirika and Erika accidentally run into each other, but Kirika panics, calls Erika a traitor, and runs away. Erika then wanders into a Witch's Barrier, and Kirika senses the Witch's signature. Kirika defeats the Witch, saves and forgives Erika for what she did in the past.
Kirika reads a letter from Erika, who’s doing well with her parents. Over tea, Oriko teases Kirika about her feelings and forcing her to admit that no one means more to her than Oriko.
Yuma's mother yells at a concerned neighbor and threatens Yuma, who is in bed covered in bruises. Kirika rushes back with a Grief Seed, collapses, and gives it to Oriko. Oriko predicts Walpurgisnacht's arrival in two weeks, and they team up to defeat it. Before Oriko can get more food, a rock with a threatening note smashes through the window. Late at night, Oriko sits in the park, haunted by her father's suicide. She meets Yuma, who was thrown out by her mother. Oriko cheers her up with tea and advice and then has a premonition of Yuma's death, with her mother as the prime suspect.
Sasa Yuuki surveys the city and declares she will take over by defeating the rookie Magical Girls.
Kirika fights Sasa outside an apartment complex when Sasa summons a Witch to help her. Oriko studies during lunch but is taunted by Komaki and her friends. Oriko leaves, warning Komaki about her risky nighttime activities. Outside, Sasa invites Oriko to eat lunch. Oriko worries about Kirika, who hasn’t sent her usual lunchtime texts, but Sasa reassures her.
At home, Yuma’s mother kicks her into a dresser, breaking a vase on her head. Meanwhile, Oriko fails to reach Kirika by phone and sees a vision of Yuma injured. She rushes out and finds her hurt in the park. Yuma refuses medical help and Oriko leaves Yuma with Sasa to instead search for Kirika. Sasa suddenly attacks Oriko but is knocked away by Kirika. Sasa reveals her brainwashing magic and the two fight her and her Witches. Sasa panics and tries to use Yuma as a shield, but Oriko tells her about Magical Girls becoming Witches. Sasa destroys her own Soul Gem, refusing to become a Witch, and dies. Kyubey appears and offers Yuma a contract, but Oriko stops him and comforts Yuma.
While walking through town, they overhear Yuma happily speaking with her grandparents, now away from her abusive mother and with Oriko's prediction of Yuma's death averted.
Oriko bakes a sponge cake for Kirika, Erika goes to visit her grandmother, and Yuma has a picnic with her grandparents when the radio announces a supercell warning and evacuation for Mitakihara. Yuma hopes Oriko wins her battle and Oriko asks Kirika if she is afraid before facing Walpurgisnacht. Kirika says she isn’t, as her wish has already come true. They head off together to fight, but the details of what happens afterwards are unknown.
One of the many timelines Homura may have created. Kriemhild Gretchen's potential for destruction has reached a point where it changes Oriko's destiny.[9][10] It is depicted in:
The Magia Exedra Event, Next Act: In Search of an Ordinary Life
At an unknown point in time, after her father committed suicide, Oriko Mikuni makes a contract with Kyubey, to know the reason why she's alive and gets the power to see the future. She tests her power for the first time and sees a vision of Mitakihara being destroyed by Kriemhild Gretchen. She distracts Kyubey by telling him of Yuma Chitose's potential to become a Magical Girl and oversells her power.
Oriko is attacked by a Witch and Komaki Asako saves her, revealing she is also a Magical Girl. Oriko pretends not to be a Magical Girl and after Komaki and Kyubey leave, she is attacked by Kirika, who reveals she doesn't remember what her wish was. Oriko manages to ambush Kirika and knock her down. Oriko introduces herself and offers to share the truth about Magical Girls if Kirika becomes her ally.
In Kazamino, Yuma and her parents are caught in a Witch's Barrier and Kyoko manages to rescue her. Yuma becomes attached to Kyoko and, when Kyubey approaches Yuma for a contract, Kyoko stops him and takes Yuma under her wing. The two go to a hotel to spend the night.
Oriko orders Kirika to attack Magical Girls and gather Grief Seeds for her. Komaki's friend Akira meets Koito, Komaki's younger sister, who suspects Komaki is sneaking out for late-night parties. Akira is doubtful but decides to investigate.
Sasa Yuuki has made a contract to be able to brainwash others and controls the Witches of Kazamino to cause many deaths. Lina Hitomi's team has lost their friend, Futaba, while chasing Sasa.
Komaki defeats a Witch and then encounters Kirika, who challenges her. Akira tracks Komaki using a phone app and finds her fighting Kirika as a Magical Girl instead of partying. During the fight, Akira panics and accidentally calls Koito while trying to reach the police. As Kirika moves to kill Komaki, Akira rushes in and is fatally struck, dying in Komaki’s arms. Kirika realizes she has accidentally killed a bystander and then accidentally kills Komaki too. As she's dying, Kyubey visits her and Komaki warns him of a Magical Girl dressed in black.
Kyubey tells Oriko about a Magical Girl and a normal girl who were murdered. Oriko realizes Kirika is responsible and forgives her. From that day, Kirika changes completely, no longer hesitating to kill Magical Girls for Oriko. Oriko also reveals to Kirika her goal to save the world by eliminating Madoka, though a powerful guardian protects her. Kirika decides to dedicate herself to removing every obstacle.[6]
Elsewhere, Sasa Yuuki arrives in Mitakihara, amused by rumors of a Magical Girl murdering others, and hopes to tame her to clean up the town.
At a later point, Oriko finds one of her old notebooks detailing how she found the "ghost" in her old school was actually Komaki. She reflects that ever since she forgave Kirika for accidentally killing Komaki, Kirika has become broken. Kirika retrieves something she forgot and leaves, and Oriko concludes that she cannot stop because saving the world is what gives her life meaning now.[5]
Lina Hitomi's team fight Sasa, who pretends to surrender and then escapes.
Oriko attends Komaki and Akira's memorial with Miyuki. Afterward, Oriko meets Kirika and tells her to focus on the future. This causes Kirika to remember her wish and Oriko gets a vision.
Sasa fights Mio, but she is killed by Kirika and Sasa realizes Kirika is the rumored Magical Girl murderer and tries to escape. Oriko arrives and tells Sasa to listen. Lina's group finds Mio's corpse and vows to stop Sasa to prevent more sacrifices. Sasa, meanwhile, lies to Oriko and Kirika about her past, claiming Lina's group unfairly attacked her. Lina, Mai, and Miyako note police activity over Komaki and Akira’s murders, and Lina suspects someone in Mitakihara is as dangerous as Sasa.
Sasa uses her Witches to track Lina’s group with Kirika’s reluctant help. Oriko has a vision of the world’s end and identifies Homura Akemi as Madoka's protector.
Lina and her group meet Kyubey, who warns them to be careful in Mitakihara and updates them about Kazamino being protected by another Magical Girl. Lina decides they need a new plan and they return to their room.
Sasa and Kirika track Lina's group and later, Kirika bursts into Lina’s room. From a distance, Sasa watches and Oriko reassures her that the surprise attack will reveal a weakness to exploit. Meanwhile, Madoka becomes lost in the same Labyrinth as them.
Sasa joins Kirika with a Witch under her control. As they fight, Oriko tries to talk to Miyako and reveals her wish to save the world. Lina defeats Sasa and Mai arrives to finish her off, but Oriko stops her. Miyako questions Lina's actions and accuses Lina of causing harm and indirectly causing Futaba's death. This causes Lina to transform into a Witch.
Miyako is decapitated by Lina, the girls defeat the Witch and Kirika kills Mai. Oriko and Kirika leave as Sasa rants. Madoka appears behind her and Sasa sends her Witch after her. Madoka then faints, but Homura uses a bomb to kill them and saves Madoka.
Oriko and Kirika go to Kazamino and indirectly help Yuma steal a pocky. After Kyoko defeats a Witch, Yuma gives it to her as a gift. As they head back, Kyubey follows them.
Oriko and Kirika find Sasa’s secret base and find her stash of Grief Seeds. Oriko is tormented by visions of Yuma being attacked by Cecil and quickly leaves. Kyoko and Yuma have a playful fight and fall asleep, over a pillow, unaware that the Witch from Oriko’s vision is near.
Kyoko wakes up sensing a Witch and goes to fight her. Yuma wakes up to find Oriko instead of Kyoko, who tells her Kyoko might be dead. Yuma panics and asks Oriko if she knows where Kyoko is, but Oriko challenges her. Yuma runs to the park to find Kyoko. Kirika finds Oriko and Yuma declares she’ll fight and change for herself for her. Oriko convinces Yuma to become a Magical Girl to save Kyoko. Yuma makes a contract and heals Kyoko. Oriko and Kirika leave and when Kyoko finds out Yuma became a Magical Girl, chastises her.
Day 15 - Tuesday, the 30th: Mami barely defeats Charlotte and senses another Magical Girl, who turns out to be dead. Kyubey tells Mami that there's a Magical Girl killer.
Kirika kills another Magical Girl in a Witch’s Barrier, glad that the girl won’t turn into a Witch. In a diner, Mami reads about unexplained deaths of junior high girls and is concerned about Magical Girl disappearances in Kazamino. Kyubey warns her that a Magical Girl may be targeting others, and Mami agrees to investigate. Yuma approaches Mami offering help for her headache, and Kyoko shows up, surprising them both.
Meanwhile, Kirika talks to Kyubey and denies knowing anything about the killings.
Oriko meets Koito and assures her that she isn’t at fault for Komaki's death. Koito apologizes for her feelings and thanks Oriko for her support.
Madoka talks to Sayaka about her strange dreams and unknown encounters with Witches. Mami approaches Homura, but Homura responds coldly. Later, Homura fights Chika Masumi, who mistakes her for the Magical Girl killer and Homura uses her time manipulation to escape.
During this time, as the online harassment and media intrusion for Koito's family has worsened, a tabloid journalist corners Koito after school and aggressively presses on about the fabricated claims about Komaki and Akira, which causes Koito to panic and flee. Unbeknownst to her, Kirika, under Oriko's orders, helps her escape. However, the encounter triggers a breakdown at home where Koito cries out that those who spread lies and her sister's killer should suffer instead of her. It was in this state that Kyubey introduces himself to her, but she could not yet voice her wish.
Kirika finds an old notebook belonging to Oriko's father and after reading it, declares Hisaomi an enemy of Oriko.
Chika tells Kyubey about her encounter with Homura. He plans to recruit more girls, including Chika, Kirika, and Oriko. Kyoko is uninterested until she learns about Oriko, and decides to help to meet her. Kyubey asks Oriko for help in hunting the Magical Girl dressed in black. He reveals that he thinks it’s Homura Akemi.
While cleaning, Oriko finds an old notebook after Kirika returns from a hunt.
Kirika happily holds the bunny charm from Oriko, but drops it when a woman bumps into her. Mami notices and helps her find her charm. When Mami mentions a crush, Kirika gets angry, saying that what she feels for Oriko is only love. A Witch appears, and Mami tries to avoid harming Kirika. However, Kirika transforms into the Magical Girl clad in black, who'd been killing other Magical Girls, and attacks Mami. Kirika uses her magic to make the Labyrinth not fade away so she can kill Mami. Mami sets a trap using what she learned of Kirika’s slowdown magic. Mami manages to successfully harm and crack Kirika's Soul Gem, but Oriko, having seen a vision, intervenes and takes Kirika away.
Kyoko and Yuma meet Kyubey, frustrated by the absence of Mami and Oriko. Mami arrives and explains her battle with Kirika and Oriko. At Oriko’s house, Kirika confesses her true feelings and how she wanted to change herself for Oriko, and Kyubey granted her wish, turning her into the person Oriko knows. Oriko demands Kirika make up for her actions, while Kirika agrees. After tending to Kirika’s wounds, she reads the notebook and finds out about Yaegashi manipulating her father into taking the fall for political reasons.
Kyoko and Mami discuss their plans and Mami reveals that Homura is not the murderer, but rather Oriko and Kirika. Chika, late to the meeting, meets Oriko, who kills her with an orb after a brief conversation. Oriko goes to confront Yaegashi and is about to attack him, but he insists that her father's death was caused by her own actions. Later, Oriko returns home and breaks down mentally over the revelations. Kirika insists that she will help Oriko hold on to who she is and promises to help fulfill her wish, as Oriko’s wish has been granted through Kirika’s own.
Kyoko, Mami, and Yuma break into the Mikuni Estate to stop Oriko and Kirika. They cautiously explore and realize Oriko might be using some form of prediction-related power. They only find a bloodied nail as Oriko and Kirika aren't there and instead are playing video games at Kirika's house. Later, Oriko's confronted by a delusion of her younger self, but admits to her own selfishness. In her sleep, Kirika agrees and the illusion fades.
Oriko visits her uncle Kimihide, discusses her estate with him and confesses on hating him and his aunt. Afterwards, Oriko meets up with Kirika. Kyoko insists that Yuma promises her that if she says "run," Yuma will. Kyubey then arrives and informs them that Oriko and Kirika are near the school.
Kirika forms a Labyrinth around the school and traps everyone inside. Elsewhere, Koito receives a message about the chaos at school and recognizes Oriko in the picture sent to her. Madoka is surrounded by Familiars, but is saved by Homura, and Mami is captured by the Labyrinth and is saved by Kyoko and Yuma.
At the Barrier’s center, Homura confronts Oriko and Kirika. Oriko reveals she plans to kill Madoka to prevent her from becoming a Witch capable of destroying the world. Kyoko, Mami, and Yuma arrive, but Kyoko focuses on defeating Oriko. Kirika's magic is about to run out and can't slow her transformation into a Witch anymore, so she lets go and fully transforms into Latria.
Mami, Kyoko and Yuma battle Kirika while Homura battles Oriko. Sayaka and Hitomi fight Familiars in a Barrier, and they find Madoka. Mami and Kyoko are injured by Kirika and refuse to let Yuma heal them, preferring to die than turn into Witches. Yuma, determined to live, heals them regardless, manages to convince them to keep fighting, and together they defeat Kirika. Oriko attacks again, but Homura warns her she'll run out of magic. Kyubey appears, revealing Oriko’s plans and her failure. He has found Madoka.
Koito, searching for Oriko, meets Miyuki and Kimihide, who are also trying to find her. Madoka, Sayaka and Hitomi head towards where Madoka thinks Homura is. Oriko is killed by Homura, but as she dies, she hurls a piece of Kirika's Witch form at Kyubey, killing him. Homura, after speaking to Mami, Kyoko, and Yuma, finds that the projectile Oriko threw wasn't meant for Kyubey, but rather Madoka. Yuma explains that Madoka is already dead, so she can't heal her.
Koito makes a contract with Kyubey so she can find out the truth about everyone's deaths and gains the power to detect lies that people tell. When a photo of Oriko at the school crisis is sent to her, Koito's wish reveals that Oriko was behind the disappearances and involved in Komaki's death.
Afterwards, Koito approaches Mami and introduces herself as a Magical Girl.
Sometime later, Yuma plays a game at an arcade with Kyoko, and she notes that Yuma has changed a lot from since they first met. Later, when Yuma asks Kyoko if she is more grown up, Kyoko says maybe a little, noting that Yuma almost cried after losing the game.
Kyoko, Yuma, Mami and Koito gather for a strategy meeting against Walpurgisnacht, and as Koito is a newer Magical Girl, Yuma offers to teach her everything she knows.
Koito explains Oriko's objective to the others, explaining that she aimed to prevent a world-ending Witch from being born by erasing Madoka Kaname, who would become that Witch, before she made her contract. She explains Yuma was led to make a contract to draw Kyubey's attention away. Mami assigns roles for Walpurgisnacht, having herself and Kyoko take the lead, have Yuma focus on healing, and Koito taking the rear.
During a practice battle against a weaker Witch, Koito defeats it quickly and Yuma is upset she did not get a chance to show what she can do. Kyoko clumsily says it's better if Yuma doesn't have to do anything, which Yuma misinterprets as being unwanted, so the others decide to give Yuma a chance to use her magic in the next battle to restore her confidence.
The next day, Koito tells Yuma that Mami and Kyoko are fighting a powerful Witch and need her help, so Yuma rushes to the scene. She finds Kyoko injured and unable to move, so Mami instructs Yuma to heal Kyoko. After Yuma does so successfully, Kyoko thanks her, saying it's great having her around when things get rough and Yuma is overjoyed.
The group counterattacks, during which Koito is knocked down by the Witch, but Yuma heals her as well. Kyoko pats Yuma's head and lets her attempt a finishing blow. Yuma successfully defeats the Witch and celebrates, asking if she's all grown up now. Kyoko relents and says she made her point. When Mami asks Kyoko why she let Yuma attack, Kyoko replies that depending on the situation, Yuma might need to watch their backs, to which Mami agrees that it's good to know Yuma can join the attack if needed.
Exhausted, Yuma falls asleep murmuring that Kyoko can always count on her.
Some time later, in Koito's first encounter with an unknown Magical Girl, where Koito helps her against a Witch, her power has her discover that the girl is lying about wanting to team up, so Koito flees again.
Day 32 - Friday, the 16th: When Walpurgisnacht arrives, Mami, Kyoko, Yuma and Koito fight against it together and manage to succeed.
In what might be a sort of afterlife or mind-space, Kirika encounters Oriko, who can't walk due to the burden of her actions. Kirika offers to help her by carrying half of it, and the two walk off hand in hand, smiling.
After Walpurgisnacht's defeat, the temporary team of Mami, Kyoko, Yuma, and Koito disbands, with Kyoko and Yuma returning to Kazamino. Koito declines Mami's offer to partner, stating she wanted to work alone for a while. Koito is still unable to process Oriko's betrayal, and hasn't been able to trust anyone since discovering the truth.
Koito travels to Kazamino City to investigate Oriko's other victims, hoping it might help her move forward. She visits the site where Futaba's body was found and meets a local girl who knew Futaba and Mio. From this girl, Koito learns that Futaba and Mio had been close childhood friends and deduces what their contracts could have been from the story, including that they both died due to Sasa Yuuki. Koito shares memories of Komaki in exchange, admitting the house feels quiet without her. Koito also investigates Mai Akane's disappearance and encounters her parents distributing flyers. She observes Mai's father pleading for information, and Mai's kendo club friends speaking warmly of her devotion to her grandfather.
Following a lead, Koito visits Lina Hitomi's house and speaks with a neighbor who reveals Lina's difficult family situation. Koito learns that Lina's mother was unmarried and favored Lina's twin brother Mana, who resembled their absent father. Mana died in a traffic accident. Though Lina was nowhere near the car, their mother convinced herself Mana died protecting Lina and blamed her. After the accident, Lina tried desperately to earn her mother's affection by acting like a good kid. The neighbor notes that Lina's mother eventually forgot Mana entirely, as if his memory was wiped from her mind, which Koito deduces as the work of a Magical Girl contract.
Suddenly, Kyubey appears and offers to tell Koito about the Kazamino Magical Girls from his perspective, not knowing what they felt. He recounts each girl's wish:
Lina Hitomi: "My wish? To erase my mom's memories of my big brother forever."
Futaba: "I can wish for anything? Then erase the giant scar on Futaba's face. I don't want her to be burdened with it."
Miyako Saki: "I want long, straight hair! How's that sound? That'll make me look more like a heroine, right?"
Mai Akane: "I want my grandfather to see my final match," as he was critically ill before the tournament.
Sasa Yuuki: "I wish to force anyone better than me to obey me."
Kyubey explains that Sasa's actions were what drove the other Kazamino Magical Girls to form a team, and after Sasa mistakenly killed Futaba, they followed her to Mitakihara. In the end, Koito comes to the conclusion that Oriko was both a hero who saved the world and a villain who killed her sister. Both statements were true, and she did not need to choose between them, but she believes Oriko's comfort to her was genuine.
On her way home to Mitakihara, Koito encounters a Witch and is overwhelmed, her Soul Gem almost darkening completely. She is saved by the same Magical Girl she had fled from previously and the Witch is defeated. The girl apologizes for not being honest in her original request, admitting she had been afraid of scaring Koito off, and sincerely asks her to become partners. Koito declines, stating she was not ready to trust others yet, but the girl tells her that she will wait for the day Koito learns to trust again.
Koito resolves that someday she hopes to forgive Oriko and her contradictions with the hope that when that say comes, she will be able to go back to normal again.
What happens to these characters in future loops of this universe is unknown. It can be surmised that Homura preemptively kills Oriko and Kirika early in the timeline to prevent them from causing trouble. On the other hand, Yuma is likely killed by her mother just like in Oriko's prediction in Puella Magi Oriko Magica: [extra story] .
One of Homura's timelines with an unclear placement. In this timeline, Kyoko and Mami confront each other on their shared past.[11] This timeline is depicted in:
At some point, Kyubey makes contact with Madoka and Sayaka, leading them to meeting with Mami and being introduced to Magical Girls.[12]
Day 15 - Tuesday, the 30th: Sayaka makes a contract to heal his arm after hearing Kyosuke's breakdown, helps Mami fight Charlotte and starts working as a Magical Girl with her.
Day 17 - Thursday, the 1st: Kyubey tells Kyoko that there's a new Magical Girl in Mitakihara, Sayaka. Kyoko watches Sayaka with magical binoculars, and later, Sayaka encounters her while attacking an Anja Familiar. They clash, with Kyoko mocking Sayaka's idealism, and Madoka notifies Mami with Kyubey's help. Mami and Madoka arrive and stop Kyoko before she can strike Sayaka. Kyoko tells Mami that she thought Mami had fallen in battle long ago.[12]
On the following days, Sayaka battles a fast-moving Witch but struggles to land a hit until Mami intervenes with Tiro Ricercare and helps her. Later, Homura approaches, who asks if Mami intends to recruit Madoka as an ally and Mami confronts her about teaming up with Kyoko. At Mami's apartment, the group discusses their distrust of Homura and Kyoko. That night, Kyoko and Homura discuss their plans, where Kyoko claims she wants to take Mami's territory.[13]
At some point following this, Madoka approaches Kyoko several times, asking her about her history with Mami and befriending her.[14]
Hitomi gives an ultimatum to Sayaka, to confess her feelings for Kyosuke in a day, or else Hitomi would.[15]
Later that night, Mami defeats the Witch Elly and saves Hitomi. Afterwards, Kyoko appears and taunts Mami, before Homura also shows up. Kyoko explains she chose to team up with Homura because Mami treats people like them as bad guys. Late that night, Madoka and Mami walk downtown; Mami tells Madoka to decide her own wish.[13]
The next day, Hitomi yawns in class, commenting on the odd situation she and many other people had found themselves in the previous night. Sayaka telepathically apologizes to Mami for missing last night's fight and Madoka tells her Hitomi was attacked by a Witch. Later that day, inside a honeycomb-like Barrier, Mami and Sayaka fight two Witches working together and Mami is captured by vine-like appendages.[13] Mami struggles free but is seriously injured and falls unconscious. Sayaka attempts to fight the Witch while Madoka tends to Mami and Kyubey urges her to make a contract with him. Homura intervenes with a bomb and Kyoko scolds Sayaka for being reckless and instead urges her to heal Mami. Sayaka uses her magic to quickly heal Mami, while Kyoko and Homura defeat the two Witches. Kyoko scolds Sayaka, then leaves alongside Homura, but when they're alone, Mami thanks Sayaka.[16]
The following day, Mami walks to the spot where she and Kyoko used to meet. She finds Kyoko there and Mami offers cookies, thanking her for saving her life, but Kyoko remains defensive and refuses to team up again. Kyoko warns that Sayaka's wish, similar to her own, will end in disaster, and Mami warns Kyoko to leave town. Later that morning at school, Sayaka also thanks Homura using telepathy.[16]
That afternoon, Mami receives a call from Madoka and promises to keep Sayaka safe. That evening, Sayaka encounters Kyoko, who tells her to stop teaming up with Mami and the two son part ways. Later that night in a park, Sayaka apologizes to Mami and asks to stop being partners, admitting she knew Hitomi was under a Witch's influence before Mami saved her, thus she is not worthy of being a Magical Girl alongside Mami.[16] Sayaka says she wants to stop teaming up because she feels she cannot return the favor and quickly runs off, apologizing to Mami. Kyoko later watches Mami and Madoka search for a Witch and dismisses Sayaka as a lost cause. Homura approaches Kyoko, suggesting teaming up with Mami, but Kyoko refuses.[15]
The next day at school, Sayaka feels unwell and Madoka confronts her on the roof, even though Sayaka dismisses her. Later, Madoka confronts her on the rooftop, urging her to reconcile with Mami. Kyosuke arrives with a gift for Sayaka, but she rejects it and tells him to spend time with Hitomi. Madoka reveals Sayaka is the reason his hands have been healed, which unsettles Kyosuke. Sayaka asks for one more day to explain it to him and leaves school early, while Kyubey watches from the shadows.[15]
The next day, Kyoko completes a Witch hunt on her own and Kyubey tells her about Sayaka. Kyoko confronts Sayaka in front of Mami's apartment, where Sayaka admits she wanted to be consumed by a Witch. Kyoko offers pocky, sits near her and tells her to live as she wants. The two end up commiserating, but Sayaka rejects Kyoko's morals and leaves to find a Witch. Mami, having been nearby and listening to their conversation races past Kyoko and goes after Sayaka.[17]
Inside Elsa Maria's Barrier, Mami rescues Sayaka, urging her to tell Kyosuke the truth, and explaining that she is herself weak, and had been putting up a facade to bear the loneliness. As she defeats Elsa Maria, Mami explains she cannot keep the ideal of a Magical Girl she presents to the world, and asks for Sayaka not to leave her. Sayaka thanks Mami for her honesty before becoming a Witch herself.[17]
Meanwhile, Homura warns Kyoko it is too late for both Mami and Sayaka. After escaping Sayaka's Barrier, Mami lies on the ground in disbelief, where Kyubey approaches and tells her that Homura, Kyoko, and Mami are all responsible for the shortage of Grief Seeds, and thus for Sayaka turning into a Witch.[17]
Alone in her apartment, Mami questions her life, remembering her parents, regretting not saving them, and recalling Kyoko leaving her alone. As she's walking alone, Madoka finds Mami in the rain, and Mami lies, saying Sayaka is fine and they were hunting Witches. Madoka leaves, happy that Mami and Sayaka are friends. Elsewhere, Homura explains that Magical Girls become Witches, and to not search for Mami and Sayaka, believing Mami is either dead or a Witch, but meeting her alive would also be fatal. Kyoko decides to search for them regardless.[18]
While tracking a Witch, Mami walks into Kyoko's lattice barrier and says she intends to die with Sayaka's Witch. Kyoko refuses to leave Mami alone and they start fighting to the death. Kyoko tells Mami it's not her fault Sayaka became a Witch, but Mami blames Kyoko for collecting Grief Seeds that should have been Sayaka's.[18] Homura declines to stop them, remembering past timelines. Mami and Kyoko fight fiercely, where Mami thins her ribbons into sharp threads to catch and restrain Kyoko. She apologizes, saying she didn't believe Homura's warning and regrets betraying Mami and tells her to shoot her if it will make her happy. Mami does so, and Kyoko's Soul Gem is seemingly shattered. Mami collapses, her own Soul Gem polluted, while Kyubey watches, waiting for her to become a Witch. In her mind, Mami is enticed to become a Witch, a younger version of herself telling her she could live happily with her parents and her friends but then she is awakened by Kyoko, who is alive.[19]
Kyoko reveals she used her illusion magic again, having gained a small portion of it back. Having given up, Mami admits she always wanted to be Kyoko's friend and begs for death, but Kyoko touches a Grief Seed to Mami's Soul Gem, cleansing it. In reality, Kyoko is using her own illusion magic again to delay Mami turning into a Witch. Mami asks Kyoko to promise never to leave her again and Kyoko leaves her ribbon and pendant, promising to return. As Mami falls asleep, Kyoko enters Sayaka's Barrier and the illusion magic which made Mami believe Kyoko used a Grief Seed falls apart.[20]
After defeating the Witch and getting her Grief Seed, Kyoko is close to reaching her end as well. She uses Sayaka's Grief Seed on Mami, and herself leaves to fight another Witch to get another Grief Seed. She either dies in the battle, or becomes a Witch herself.[14]
After having slept for more than one day, Mami awakens at her apartment. Madoka hugs her and Homura tells Madoka that Sayaka was killed by a Witch and that Kyoko's whereabouts are unknown. Telepathically, Homura asks Mami not to reveal the truth and after Madoka leaves, Homura asks for Mami's help with Walpurgisnacht.[14]
Homura admits she knew Sayaka would become a Witch, and Kyubey also appears, revealing how Kyoko saved Mami through her illusions and Sayaka's Grief Seed, then entering a Barrier where she was defeated. Mami aims a pistol at Kyubey, then collapses. Homura slaps Mami and scolds her, revealing how she traveled through time to save Madoka from Walpurgisnacht and becoming a Magical Girl. After learning this, Mami agrees to help her. That evening, Madoka visits Mami when she is alone and reveals she had secretly met and befriended Kyoko, learning about her history with Mami. Madoka announces she will become a Magical Girl to save Sayaka and let Mami live an ordinary life, to which Mami cries in her arms.[14]
At some point afterwards, Mami shatters her Soul Gem while lying on her couch, holding Kyoko's ribbon and pendant. She imagines setting up a tea party, where Kyoko sits at the table and Mami welcomes her parents home.[14]
Day 32 - Friday, the 16th: By Walpurgisnacht's arrival, Madoka has used her wish to bring Sayaka back to life and the two urge Homura to protect the town with them. Homura vows to never give up and after the battle, restarts time again.[14]
A likely non-canon trio of timelines, whose story revolves around Homura taking Madoka back in time with her, with Kyubey also following them.[21] This timeline is depicted in:
Day 32 - Friday, the 16th: Homura is defeated by Walpurgisnacht and begins to fall into despair. Madoka tries to make a contract, but Homura grabs her and travels back in time, taking Madoka with her.[22]
Second Timeline
Day 1 - Tuesday, the 16th: Homura wakes up in the hospital and worries she might have killed Madoka.[22]
Day 10 - Thursday, the 25th: While Homura introduces herself in class, Madoka jumps up, rushes to her, and says she remembers everything, likely due to having made contact with Homura when she went back in time. In the hallway, Homura confronts Madoka about becoming a Magical Girl, but Madoka suggests they try to save everyone this time.[22]
Later, Madoka and Sayaka go to a music store. Kyubey contacts Madoka with a different message than before. Madoka meets Kyubey at the abandoned area, where Kyubey reveals he remembers the previous timeline because he made contact with Madoka at the moment of the time loop. Homura shields Madoka and Kyubey agrees to go along with their plan to replicate the previous timeline. Homura kills that Incubator and Sayaka appears, sprays Homura with a fire extinguisher, and runs with Madoka. They then stumble into Gertrud's Barrier, where Mami appears and saves them.[22]
Mami kills the Familiars while Madoka hugs her. Homura tries to be kind to Mami, but Madoka explains that Homura's presence stomps on Mami's pride, so Homura leaves.[23]
Day 15 - Tuesday, the 30th: On the school roof, Homura asks if Madoka came up with a lie, but Madoka says Mami has already invited her and Sayaka on Witch hunts. Homura warns that Mami will be killed in her next fight and Madoka suggests Homura kill the Witch beforehand.[23]
Charlotte's Grief Seed appears on the hospital wall. Madoka secretly plans to avoid Mami, but Kyubey leads Mami to the hospital regardless. Mami enters Charlotte's Barrier and fights Homura, trapping her with ribbons. Homura tries to warn her about Charlotte, but Mami ignores her, so she and Madoka walk into Charlotte's room in the Labyrinth.[23]
Mami fights Charlotte and Homura frees herself. Mami hits Charlotte with a Tiro Finale, but the snake form emerges. Madoka tackles Mami, saving her from decapitation, and Mami ties down Charlotte again and fires another Tiro Finale. However, Homura barges in, distracting Mami, who is killed by the dying Charlotte. Homura fights and defeats Charlotte, then picks up the Grief Seed. In the end, Sayaka yells that Homura caused Mami's death.[24]
Day 16 - Wednesday, the 31st: Sayaka makes a contract with Kyubey, possibly with the added intent of revenge against Homura. While Madoka eats breakfast with her family, she realizes Homura must have grown used to seeing friends die.[25]
On the school roof, Sayaka blames Homura for Mami's death. Even though Madoka defends Homura, but Sayaka does not believe her.[25]
After school, Homura visits Mami's apartment in grief. Kyubey appears and asks if Homura plans to subject Madoka to the fate of a time traveler like herself. Homura leaves and runs into Madoka, who says they can loop as many times as needed to save Mami. Homura suddenly realizes today is the day Sayaka makes her wish, and she runs to stop her, but Madoka reminds her that Hitomi will be attacked today as well. They decide that Madoka will handle Sayaka while Homura deals with the Witch.[25]
Homura saves Hitomi and fights H.N. Elly. During the fight, Sayaka appears in her Magical Girl outfit, quickly kills the Witch, and declares Homura is now at the top of her list. Madoka jumps between them, which makes Sayaka leave and meanwhile, Kyoko watches from afar and says this will be fun.[25]
Day 17 - Thursday, the 1st: On a small hill, Madoka asks why Sayaka became a Magical Girl, to which sh responds is because she wanted to avenge Mami and calls Homura a threat. She leaves to visit Kyosuke, while Kyubey introduces Kyoko to Sayaka.[26]
At a café, Homura tells Madoka to distance herself to avoid worsening Sayaka's distrust, but Madoka refuses. Later, Madoka asks to join Sayaka on Witch hunts and Kyubey also says he has taken steps to ensure Sayaka's protection. They enter an Anja Familiar's Barrier, which Sayaka defeats quickly. While Homura watches, Kyoko puts her spear to her neck and attacks. Sayaka and Madoka appear and Kyoko puts up a Barrier, separating Madoka from the fight.[26]
Sayaka and Kyoko argue but agree to a temporary alliance. Homura stops time, fires a flash grenade, and escapes with Madoka. At the light fountain, Homura notes that Sayaka and Kyoko teaming up benefits them, as a strong Magical Girl can protect Sayaka until Walpurgisnacht.[27]
Day 22 - Tuesday, the 6th: While Madoka and Hitomi walk to school, Hitomi notices Sayaka has been absent for multiple days.[27]
That night, Sayaka and Kyoko fight Elsa Maria and Kyubey advises Sayaka to shut down her pain receptors to fight recklessly. After the Witch is defeated, Homura appears and warns Sayaka to stop fighting that way, but Sayaka summons multiple swords to attack Homura as her Soul Gem darkens.[27]
Homura is gravely injured during the fight. Despite stopping time and firing at Kyoko and Sayaka, Kyoko is able to block them and Sayaka stabs Homura. Before Homura can stop time again, Kyoko grabs her. Sayaka raises her sword but crumbles, her Soul Gem completely black. It becomes a Grief Seed, from which her Witch hatches and Homura quickly destroys it.[28]
Kyubey explains to Kyoko that Homura has been looping time and Kyoko ends up walking away with Sayaka's body. Kyubey reminds Madoka of the wish she nearly made in the previous timeline.[28]
Day 32 - Friday, the 16th: As Walpurgisnacht looms over Mitakihara, Homura changes her bandages and despairs that she has only caused Madoka more sorrow. Madoka visits her and Homura suggests starting another loop, telling her not to push all the burden onto herself.[29]
At the evacuation center, Madoka tells her mother she needs to talk to a friend and takes off.[29]
Kyoko decides to protect Mitakihara in memory of Mami and Sayaka, joining the fight alongside Homura.[29]
In a sheltered area, Madoka asks what will happen if they go back in time, but Homura does not answer. Madoka says she cannot leave the people of this Mitakihara to die, so she starts to suggest becoming a Magical Girl, but Homura shouts that would make everything pointless. Kyubey appears and says Kyoko has begun fighting Walpurgisnacht, making Madoka rush off. Kyubey asks Homura what purpose staying in this timeline would serve, as she and Madoka have different goals.[29]
Kyoko fights Walpurgisnacht but is overwhelmed until Homura appears and saves her. Madoka also arrives and Homura says she will defeat Walpurgisnacht even if it costs her life.[29] Kyoko yells at her not to say that, but Madoka tells Kyoko to fight with them.[30]
Homura uses her remaining time-stop magic to launch a massive attack. Kyoko also reawakens her Rosso Fantasma power, yet Walpurgisnacht shows no damage. Homura prepares to shoot her own Soul Gem in a suicide attack, but Kyoko grabs it, is hit by Walpurgisnacht and falls. Madoka runs to her, and Homura is also gravely injured and unconscious. Madoka calls out to Kyubey and contracts to save Homura.[30]
Homura wakes to Madoka in her Magical Girl outfit, and though Homura tells her that Madoka will become a Witch, Madoka says she could never despair as long as Homura lives. They combine their power and shoot down Walpurgisnacht, but Homura's Soul Gem turns black from sharing the burden.[30]
She asks Kyoko to destroy it, but Kyoko purifies it with Oktavia's Grief Seed. Homura asks if Kyoko will stay and Kyoko replies that she will. Madoka and Homura explain that Homura cannot protect Madoka if she comes along in the next loop. They embrace and say goodbye, before Homura turns her shield and goes back in time again.[30]
Third Timeline
Day 1 - Tuesday, the 16th: Homura wakes up in her hospital bed, repeating that she will keep going no matter how many times it takes. A silhouette of Madoka hugs her.[30]
Magia Exedra Events & Drama CDs
Most of these are self-contained, slice of life stories, thus delegating them to not being canon to the prime continuity.
This event depicts Madoka, the day after becoming a Magical Girl, in a timeline where everyone is working together, Sayaka is already a Magical Girl, Mami is alive, Kyoko has come to Mitakihara and Homura has also joined them. This timeline is depicted in:
Madoka arrives late to school, having been unable to sleep due to her joy at being accepted as a full-fledged Magical Girl. Her friends, including Homura and Kyoko had waited for her. Mami assigns Madoka her first official Witch patrol, partnering her with Homura. During the patrol, Madoka expresses her nervousness about her new responsibilities, but Homura reassures her, stating that everyone was once a beginner and that she can take her time. Encouraged, Madoka detects a Witch, and they engage it.
Madoka initially struggles in the fight, but after recalling advice from the others and calming down, she successfully defeats it. Afterward, she confides in Homura that her wish was to protect her family, friends, and the other Magical Girls, sharing her dream of one day becoming reliable enough to mentor others herself. Homura acknowledges that this is a good goal and suggests they move forward together, step by step. They return to Mami's apartment, where the group gathers for tea and cake. Homura tells Madoka that this is their daily routine and that she will get used to it.
While most of the event recounts Kyoko's past with Mami, which is the same in all timelines, the ending depicts a flash-forward to a timeline where Homura prompts Kyoko to work with her against Walpurgisnacht and the two form a partnership. Nothing else is known about the timeline in which this event occurred besides that it doesn't fit into any of the main pre-established ones. This timeline is depicted in:
After reflecting on her past partnership with Mami, Kyoko meets up with Homura to plan for Walpurgisnacht's arrival. Homura states her sole purpose has been to find a way to defeat Walpurgisnacht. Kyoko is reminded of her former partnership with Mami when Homura says they will defeat it "together," and Kyoko asks Homura to explain her strategy for beating Walpurgisnacht.
This event is a dream sequence experienced by Madoka. As such, the events are not part of the main story's continuity and do not affect the plot of any timeline. It is implied that at the point where this dream happens, Madoka has at least encountered Mami, Homura and Kyoko and seems to be in a good mood.[31] This timeline is depicted in:
Madoka has a dream where she and her friends are "Dancing Magical Girls."
In the dream, Kyubey is a producer and requests that Madoka make a contract to become a "Dancing Magical Girl," explaining that they use dance to cleanse impurities caused by people's negative emotions. Despite having no dance experience, Madoka agrees to the contract to help people.
Some time later, a rumor spreads about five Magical Girls in Mitakihara who dance for people who are feeling down. Madoka and Sayaka, who are part of the group, overhear Hitomi talk about the rumor and decide to inform the others.
The group, which also consists of Mami, Kyoko and Homura, is practicing. They discuss the rumor and conclude they cannot stop dancing, as people would suffer from unchecked impurities. Kyubey arrives and, upon hearing of the rumor, announces their "media debut" via a livestream the next day, which is April 1st. He explains it will amplify their ability to cleanse impurities by reaching more people.
Although initially shocked, the girls all agree to participate for the sake of helping others.
The next day, the five Magical Girls prepare for the livestream on the school rooftop, resolve to do their best, and begin the broadcast.
Waking up to the sound of her alarm, Madoka laughs at the strange dream about being a "Dancing Magical Girl."
Sunny Day Life
This event details a slice of life story where the quintet meets up at Mami's apartment after Madoka and Sayaka's Magical Girl duties cause them to fail a few tests at school. In this timeline, both Madoka and Sayaka have contracted, Kyoko is also joining the others in Mitakihara and everyone is on good terms with each other. It is unlikely to be canon to the original bundle of timelines, but does not directly contradict anything in them either. This timeline is depicted in:
After failing some school tests due to their Magical Girl duties, Sayaka convinces Mami to tutor her and Madoka. The study session at Mami's apartment quickly turns into a full gathering when Homura and Kyoko also arrive. While the group reassures a self-doubting Madoka of her capabilities, Kyubey interrupts to report that their classmate Hitomi is in distress.
Rushing to her aid, the girls discover the culprit is a "Panty Thief Familiar." They give chase into an abandoned building, where Mami confronts it with her signature Tiro Finale. The attack misses, revealing the "Familiar" to be a cat that had a white shirt wrapped around it, which was stealing underwear to build a nest. After resolving the humorous incident, Mami cooks pasta for everyone and the meal is a lively affair, with the girls attempting to eat with proper etiquette, ultimately leading to bickering between Sayaka and Kyoko.
Later, as Madoka walks home, she declines Homura's offer to use her time-stop ability to cheat on the test, instead being determined to pass on her own merit. Homura however, bluntly advises her to stop giving her attacks "lame" names and to just be herself. Madoka thanks her for the honest advice. Upon returning home, Madoka's mother is understanding about her failed test, encouraging her to enjoy her youth. Madoka resolves to study hard, ending her long day by angrily throwing a suddenly-appearing Kyubey out of the bathroom for being a "pervert."
This event is of Madoka celebrating her birthday with her friends and family. Due to Madoka's birthday being on October 3rd, this event is not canon to any of the known timelines. This timeline is depicted in:
On her birthday, Madoka is celebrated by her family and friends but is troubled because she cannot think of a gift she wants from her parents. After school, Sayaka, Homura, Kyoko, and Mami throw her a surprise party. They give her thoughtful presents: classical music CDs from Sayaka, a large bag of snacks from Kyoko, a custom box of her favorite teas from Mami, and a homemade cake from Homura, made with help from the others.
Overwhelmed with joy by the celebration, Madoka has a realization. The experience of being together with her friends helps her understand what she truly wants. She tells her parents that the greatest present she could receive is for the whole family to go out and enjoy time together the following weekend, valuing shared time over any material gift.
This event depicts the Holy Quintet training together at the beach during summer vacation, in a timeline where they're all working together and Homura's still wearing her glasses and braids. This timeline is depicted in:
Madoka, Homura, Sayaka, Mami, and Kyoko arrive at the beach for a training camp to learn to cooperate better as a team. They change into their swimsuits and while Kyoko is embarrassed by the frilly swimsuit Mami lent her, the others convince her it looks cute.
At the crowded beach, the girls play in the water while Kyubey observes the latent negative emotions of the crowd and a cat tries to court Kyubey, thinking it is a cat as well. Sayaka teaches Kyoko how to swim, but Kyoko playfully harasses her with sea cucumbers, causing Sayaka to swim away angrily, however she ends up accidentally swimming into the Barrier of Paola.
The other girls rush to save her, but the Witch's body repels physical attacks, so Homura devises a plan and while Mami restrains it with her ribbons, she kills it with a flamethrower. The group gives the Grief Seed to Sayaka to ceanse her Soul Gem.
That evening, the group stays at a hostel, where they bathe together, play with shampoo bubbles, and then share a meal. During dinner, Sayaka is horrified to learn she ate a vinegared sea cucumber. Before going to sleep, the girls have a conversation about love, where Sayaka mentions Hitomi's feelings for Kyosuke.
The next morning, they resolve to return to Mitakihara and use their improved teamwork to protect the city.
Puella Magi Madoka Magica Portable is an expansion of the original anime which explores the premise of Homura's time loops through a branching narrative structure, allowing players to experience numerous "what-if" scenarios. The game splits into six routes, most of which have different branching paths, however plausible canonicity of each route varies. While some present plausible timelines that do not conflict with the established story, others are clearly non-canonical alternate scenarios that explore how potential different choices might've looked like. The game is structured to be played in a specific order, with routes unlocking sequentially to reveal a more complete picture of Homura's struggle to save Madoka and providing alternate endings to the journey as well. These possible timelines are depicted in:
The first route available in the game. It only has one ending and it depicts a timeline which Homura ends early after Madoka contracts to save Sayaka. Madoka's actions are more timid and internally conflicted than in the timeline of the anime, and new character insights color the events.
Homura successfully prevents Kyubey from contacting Madoka and Sayaka before she starts attending school.
Day 10 - Thursday, the 25th: Madoka has a vivid dream of a previous timeline where Homura fought Walpurgisnacht alone. She remembers it in detail, including the city's destruction and Kyubey, and shares it with her parents at the breakfast table, who dismiss it as imaginative. Secretly, she is deeply afraid. At school, Homura cryptically warns Madoka against leaving her old life behind during a tour.
Madoka's uncharacteristic fear of Homura throughout the day alarms Sayaka, who begins to see Homura as a threat. Hitomi also notices and tries to approach Homura at lunch, but is coldly rejected.
After school, Madoka hears Kyubey's pleas for help as Homura hunts him. Madoka moves to help him, and Sayaka intervenes with a fire extinguisher, allowing them to escape. They are separately attacked by Gertrud and her Anthony Familiars but are saved by Mami. Having been pre-warned by Kyubey about Homura as a potential threat, Mami is immediately hostile and threatens her before taking Madoka and Sayaka to her apartment, where she and Kyubey explain Magical Girls.
Day 11 - Friday, the 26th: Mami takes Madoka and Sayaka along to demonstrate a Magical Girl's life, defeating Gertrud. Mami offers the Grief Seed to Homura, who was spying, but she refuses.
The following days, Madoka and Sayaka accompany Mami on her patrols. Sayaka admires Mami's outfit but wishes for a "cooler" costume for herself, believing "cute" doesn't suit her.
Day 14 - Monday, the 29th: Sayaka visits Kyosuke in the hospital and shares a CD with him.
That night, while patrolling with Mami and Madoka, they encounter an Ulla Familiar. Sayaka asks Mami about wishing for someone else, and Mami advises her to be clear on her real intention.
Day 15 - Tuesday, the 30th: Madoka and Sayaka fail to visit Kyosuke. At the hospital, Kyosuke, despairing over his hopeless prognosis, asks his father to throw away his violin. Madoka encounters him and talks him into keeping it.
They discover a Grief Seed about to hatch. Sayaka stays to watch it while Madoka runs to fetch Mami. The Grief Seed hatches before they return, trapping Sayaka and Kyubey in the Labyrinth. Mami, Madoka, and Homura enter, but Mami restrains Homura with her ribbons and proceeds with Madoka. On the way, Madoka promises to become a Magical Girl to fight alongside Mami, easing Mami's profound loneliness. Overjoyed and fighting carelessly, Mami is killed by Charlotte. Homura breaks free, arrives, and kills the Witch herself.
Day 16 - Wednesday, the 31st: After Mami's death, Sayaka confronts Homura on the way to school, accusing her of deliberately letting Mami die to get a Grief Seed. Homura does not refute the accusation, cementing Sayaka's misconception.
Later, Sayaka, having made a wish to heal Kyosuke's hand, is now a Magical Girl. Hitomi is Kissed by H.N. Elly and, under its control, attempts suicide with chlorine gas at a factory. Madoka saves her and several others. Sayaka arrives and kills the Witch, but is then chastised by Homura, who arrived late.
Day 17 - Thursday, the 1st: Madoka accompanies Sayaka on patrol. Sayaka gets in a fight with Kyoko, who sees Mitakihara as rich territory fit for a veteran, over an Anja Familiar. Homura breaks up the fight. Later, Homura finds Kyoko and makes a deal with her to leave Sayaka alone and prepare for Walpurgisnacht. Kyoko agrees primarily to understand the potential threat Homura poses.
That night, Kyoko challenges Sayaka to a duel. Madoka and Homura arrive separately to stop it. Madoka throws Sayaka's Soul Gem off the bridge. Kyubey reveals the truth about the Soul Gems, and Homura retrieves it to revive Sayaka. Sayaka confronts Kyubey, who informs her she can suppress all bodily pain.
Day 21 - Monday, the 5th: The day after learning the truth, Sayaka is extremely upset about the "zombie" revelation and refuses to see Madoka when she visits, unable to stand others' eyes on her. She skips school.
Kyoko, having heard Kyosuke's violin playing and learned about Sayaka's wish from Kyubey, takes Sayaka to her family's church. She explains how her own wish led her family to ruin, but Sayaka rejects her ideals.
Day 22 - Tuesday, the 6th: Hitomi informs Sayaka that she likes Kyosuke and gives her an ultimatum to confess within 24 hours or she will. Madoka follows a distraught Sayaka as she fights Elsa Maria. Kyoko tries to help, but Sayaka rejects her, turns off her pain, and kills the Witch herself.
Sayaka refuses to use the Grief Seed. When Kyoko is reluctant to take it, concerned for Sayaka's state, she only accepts it because Sayaka won't take it back. Sayaka then yells at Madoka, accusing her of being a terrible friend, before running away.
Day 23 - Wednesday, the 7th: Sayaka spies on Hitomi and Kyosuke. She is particularly hurt, thinking Kyosuke has a smile for Hitomi she's never seen before. Madoka, searching for Sayaka, interrupts them before Hitomi can confess; they agree to help find Sayaka first.
Sayaka fights more Familiars. Homura finds her and offers a Grief Seed. Sayaka refuses, and Homura threatens her to not make Madoka suffer. Kyoko intervenes and restrains Homura, allowing Sayaka to escape onto a train.
On the train, Sayaka overhears two sexist men talking about their girlfriends and, in a fit of despair, transforms in front of them.
Meanwhile, Madoka, having learned more about Mami's loneliness and fear from her diary, feels immense guilt. Kyubey approaches her as she searches for Sayaka. Determined to save her friend and atone for failing Mami, Madoka is about to make a contract to restore Sayaka.
Homura fails to arrive in time to shoot Kyubey before Madoka makes her wish and becomes a magical girl. Devastated by her failure, Homura shoots Kyubey and resets the timeline.
The second route, available after completing Madoka's route. This one has two possible endings, however it depicts an alternate version of the first timeline and thus it's certainly not canon to the original.
Day 1 - Tuesday, the 16th: Mami, feeling afraid and lonely before a hunt, enters Gertrud's barrier. She encounters Madoka, who has been lured inside, and saves her from the Familiars. Madoka passes out but retains a clear memory of Mami's appearance.
Day 2 - Wednesday, the 17th: The next day, Madoka sees Mami at school and recognizes her. Kyubey approaches Madoka that night, but Madoka doesn't make a contract yet.
Day 3 - Thursday, the 18th: Madoka makes a contact with Kyubey to become a Magical Girl, wishing to save the injured cat, Amy.
Day 4 - Friday, the 19th: Mami takes Madoka on her first patrol as a Magical Girl, beginning their partnership. They start a tradition of having tea and cake at Mami's apartment after fights, which brings Mami great happiness and alleviates her loneliness.
Day 10 - Thursday, the 25th: Homura, after missing out on school due to a heart condition, transfers into Madoka's class. Madoka takes a liking to her and tries to help her adjust.
Homura is lured into Izabel's Barrier on her way home and Mami and Madoka rescue her. They take the fainted Homura to Mami's apartment to recover, where they then explain the existence of Magical Girls and Walpurgisnacht.
During the following weeks, Homura grows to admire Madoka and they become close friends. At Kyubey's suggestion, Homura begins to accompany Mami and Madoka into Witch Barriers to observe.
Mami becomes visibly jealous of Madoka's closeness with Homura, as their post-mission tea parties are often replaced by Madoka walking home with Homura instead. Kyubey fuels this jealousy by commenting on how Homura's presence also improves Madoka's combat skills.
Sayaka, feeling Madoka's absence, begins spending more time with Hitomi, who seems aware of Sayaka's feelings for Kyosuke. Kyubey takes notice of Sayaka but she does not contract in this route.
Day 17 - Thursday, the 1st: Kyoko arrives in Mitakihara, ostensibly to hunt Witches but primarily to see Mami. Mami, still holding a grudge over a past betrayal, assumes the worst of her intentions about Madoka. She confronts Kyoko and tells her to stay away. The confrontation turns argumentative, and Kyoko, unable to convey her true feelings, leaves dispirited.
Knowing Madoka is with Homura, a lonely Mami goes to a park she has avoided, where she once failed to save a child from a Witch. There, she finds a woman with a Witch's Kiss attempting suicide. Mami knocks her unconscious and discovers the Barrier of Gisela, the very Witch from that past failure.
The route now splits based on Mami's mental state and the outcome of her encounter with Gisela.
Branch A:
This branch occurs if Mami's Soul Gem is overly tainted and her despair is too great after the encounter with Gisela.
Mami enters Gisela's Barrier alone. She realizes it is the same Witch she failed to defeat years ago. After a difficult battle where she can barely use her magic, she defeats it.
Exiting the Barrier, she checks on the unconscious woman, who wakes up and rages at Mami for saving her, revealing she wanted to die to be with her missing child. Mami realizes this woman is the mother of the boy she failed to save, plunging her into absolute despair over her perceived failures.
When Madoka and Homura arrive, Mami confesses her past failure, her constant fear in battle, and her loneliness, concluding she is unworthy of being a Magical Girl. Her Soul Gem fully darkens and transforms into the Grief Seed, creating the Witch Candeloro.
Kyubey arrives and reveals the full truth that Magical Girls become witches and that that Witch in front of them is Mami. Madoka is forced to defeat Candeloro when it attacks Homura.
Afterward, Madoka and Homura mourn at Mami's apartment and Madoka is wracked with guilt for not being able to save her.
Day 32 - Friday, the 16th: When Walpurgisnacht arrives, Homura tries to persuade Madoka not to fight, calling it suicide. Madoka refuses, stating she is the only Magical Girl left and must protect people to honor her feelings and avoid falling into despair like Mami. She fights and defeats Walpurgisnacht but dies from her injuries.
Overcome with grief and armed with the full truth, Homura makes a contract with Kyubey, wishing to redo her meeting with Madoka so she can save her. She vows to change fate, no matter the cost, and resets the timeline.
Branch B:
This branch occurs if Mami's Soul Gem is purified, or not tainted enough before encountering Gisela.
Before facing the Witch, Mami calls for Madoka and Homura's help. She has Homura take the unconscious woman to safety.
Mami and Madoka enter Gisela's Barrier together. Inside, they have a heartfelt talk where Madoka eases Mami's insecurities and promises to spend more time together before they defeat Gisela.
Day 32 - Friday, the 16th: Mami and Madoka face Walpurgisnacht together. They are afraid, but Mami feels a sense of contentment fighting alongside her partner. In a sequence different from the one in the first timeline, Madoka tells Homura she is happy she became a Magical Girl and was able to save and befriend her.
During the battle, Mami sacrifices herself to save Madoka from a fatal blow. Madoka, enraged and heartbroken, finishes off Walpurgisnacht before succumbing to her own wounds, her last words being about meeting Mami soon.
Witnessing this, a distraught Homura makes a contract with the same wish: to go back in time and save Madoka from this fate. She becomes a Magical Girl and resets the timeline.
The third route, available after completing Mami's route and achieving Branch B. This one has three possible endings, however it depicts an alternate version of the third timeline and thus it's certainly not canon to the original.
Day 10 - Thursday, the 25th: Homura begins attending school. Sayaka notices Madoka spending time with Mami Tomoe and the new transfer student, Homura Akemi, feeling left out.
After school, Sayaka's invitation to go shopping with Madoka is declined, as Madoka has plans with Homura. Sayaka goes to a CD store alone and upon leaving, she encounters Madoka, Homura, and Mami, who had just finished fighting Gertrud's Familiars. Kyubey reveals himself, and despite Mami's reluctance, explains the potential for Sayaka to become a Magical Girl.
That night, Sayaka visits Kyosuke in the hospital, where he teaches her to play the violin. On her way out, Kyubey calls to her, but she mistakes him for a ghost and runs away in fear.
Over the next few days, Sayaka feels increasingly lonely as Madoka continues to spend time with Mami and Homura, excluding her from their activities.
Day 15 - Tuesday, the 30th: During another hospital visit, Kyosuke, angry over his hopeless prognosis, damages his CD player and tells Sayaka he doesn't want to see anyone. As she leaves, Kyubey approaches her again and suggests making a contract, but she refuses.
Day 16 - Wednesday, the 31st: The next day, after again being excluded by Madoka and rejected by Kyosuke, Kyubey finds Sayaka and warns her that Kyosuke might be the type of talented person who chooses death when they can no longer excel. He urges her to see for herself and Sayaka finds Kyosuke on the hospital roof, ready to commit suicide. She stops him and, in that moment of desperation, makes a contract with Kyubey to heal his hand.
As a new Magical Girl, Sayaka patrols alone, unaware that Madoka, Mami, and Homura are also Magical Girls. She finds solace in Kyosuke playing his violin for her but struggles in her fights, finding it hard to defeat Witches like H.N. Elly.
Day 17 - Thursday, the 1st: While hunting an Anja Familiar, Sayaka encounters Kyoko Sakura, and they begin to fight. Madoka, Homura, and Mami intervene and stop them and Kyoko leaves, annoyed by the number of Magical Girls in the territory.
Sayaka joins the others' team and, realizing she is far weaker, decides to train alone to avoid being a burden.
Day 19 - Saturday, the 3rd: Sayaka and Kyoko confront each other again near a factory. Mami arrives to stop them, but they're interrupted by the appearance of Charlotte, who pulls them into her Barrier.
Kyoko, sensing the Witch's power, warns Sayaka to be careful. The three fight Charlotte, but it overwhelms them so Mami orders a retreat. Sayaka refuses to leave and in the battle, Mami is decapitated and killed by the Witch. Sayaka is traumatized and Kyoko helps her escape.
Believing her weakness made her unable to protect anyone, Sayaka throws her Soul Gem away, "retiring" from being a Magical Girl. The gem is then lost inside the receding Witch's barrier.
Madoka and Homura arrive to find Sayaka's soulless body. They initially accuse Kyoko, but Kyubey intervenes and reveals that Sayaka's Soul Gem must be retrieved within two days, or she will die permanently. Kyoko uses her magic to preserve Sayaka's body while Madoka and Homura go to search for her Soul Gem.
The story then splits into three possible branches based on the outcome of the search.
Branch A:
Madoka and Homura successfully locate Charlotte's Barrier and defeat the Witch. They recover Sayaka's Soul Gem and mourn Mami before the Barrier disappears.
They return to Kyoko and revive Sayaka. Upon learning the truth about Soul Gems, Sayaka is furious with Kyubey for his deception. She thanks the others before running away in confusion.
The next day, Sayaka sees Kyosuke going to school with Hitomi. Sayaka confesses her feelings to him, but her Soul Gem falls on the ground. After Kyosuke sees it, Sayaka realizes that a future with him is impossible, so she she leaves.
Sayaka meets Kyoko at an observatory. She confesses her pain and her desire to leave Mitakihara behind. Kyoko shares her own story of how her own wish led to her family's end, and the two mend their relationship with each other, becoming close.
They hear screams and find Izabel's Barrier, with Kyosuke and Hitomi trapped inside. Sayaka is initially hesitant, fearing their judgment, but Kyoko persuades her to act. They're able to defeat the Witch together without either Hitomi or Kyosuke seeing them.
Afterwards, Kyosuke and Hitomi recall hearing Sayaka's voice calling herself a "hero of justice," but dismiss it as a dream. Kyoko then decides to return to Kazamino, stating that Mitakihara has three worthy successors to Mami.
Day 32 - Friday, the 16th: During the battle with Walpurgisnacht, Sayaka fights alongside Madoka and Homura but chooses not to call Kyoko for help, wanting to keep her safe as an "insurance" for the city. Sayaka dies in the battle, and Madoka later succumbs to her injuries. Homura, alone again, resets the timeline, vowing to save Madoka and enlist Kyoko's help next time.
Branch 1B:
Madoka and Homura recover Sayaka's Soul Gem and revive her, as in Branch A. However, instead of going to the observatory, a depressed Sayaka meets Kyoko on the street.
They hear screams and find Izabel's Barrier. This time, Kyosuke and Hitomi are conscious and witness the entire fight. After the Witch is defeated, instead of gratitude, Kyosuke calls Sayaka a "monster." Devastated, Sayaka falls into deep despair.
Day 23 - Wednesday, the 7th: Sayaka begins fighting Familiars recklessly and, on a train, overhears two men speaking ill of women. She transforms in front of them and potentially ends up killing them.
Kyoko later finds her at the train station and calls Madoka and Homura, but it is too late. Sayaka's Soul Gem fully corrupts, and she transforms into the Witch, Oktavia von Seckendorff. Afterwards, Kyubey also appears and explains the truth of Magical Girls becoming Witches.
In a final attempt to save her, Kyoko sacrifices herself to destroy Oktavia and deeply depressed Madoka is comforted by Homura.
Day 32 - Friday, the 16th: Madoka and Homura fight Walpurgisnacht together, but they're defeated and Homura resets the timeline again.
Branch C:
Due to the lack of experience, Madoka and Homura fail to locate Charlotte's barrier and recover Sayaka's Soul Gem within the two-day limit.
Kyoko, blaming herself for relying on them, takes over the search herself. While also hunting Witches and searching for her Soul Gem, this causes Kyoko to not have enough magical energy to sustain Sayaka's body effectively. Sayaka's body begins decomposing as a result.
Kyoko eventually finds the Barrier, defeats Charlotte, and recovers the Soul Gem. As Kyoko returns the Soul Gem to Sayaka, she collapses from exhaustion.
While Kyoko is unconscious, Sayaka revives and returns home, unaware of her body's state.
The next day, Kyosuke visits to thank her with his violin but is horrified by her decomposing form and runs away, calling her a monster.
Madoka, Homura, and a recovered Kyoko arrive at Sayaka's home just as she sees her reflection and realizes her condition. She pleads for help, but the shock and despair cause her Soul Gem to corrupt instantly. Sayaka transforms into a Witch in front of them. The aftermath proceeds identically to Branch B, with Kyoko sacrificing herself to end Oktavia.
Day 32 - Friday, the 16th: Madoka and Homura fight Walpurgisnacht together again, are unsuccessful and Homura resets time again.
The third route, available after completing Sayaka's route and achieving Branch A. This one has two possible endings, and the events don't contradict any known timeline, making them both possibly canon if Film 13 is different from that of the original anime.
Homura fails to prevent Kyubey from contacting Madoka and Sayaka.
Day 10 - Thursday, the 25th: Homura transfers into school.
Day 15 - Tuesday, the 30th: Mami is killed in battle against Charlotte in front of Madoka and Sayaka, but Homura saves them by killing the Witch.
Day 16 - Wednesday, the 31st: Sayaka, feeling responsible for Mami's death, makes a contract with Kyubey to heal Kyosuke's hand.
Kyubey informs Kyoko of Mami's death, prompting her to return to Mitakihara. She is displeased to find Sayaka has already claimed the territory.
Day 17 - Thursday, the 1st: Sayaka visits Kyosuke at the hospital, with Kyoko observing from a distance. Later, while Sayaka is hunting an Anja Familiar by herself, Kyoko intervenes and challenges her. Kyubey instigates Sayaka to seek Madoka's help, but she refuses. Homura arrives to break up the fight. After Kyoko leaves, Homura thanks Sayaka for not involving Madoka but coldly warns that she will kill Sayaka if she ever brings Madoka on a hunt.
Homura seeks out Kyoko at the game center, proposing a temporary alliance to prepare for Walpurgisnacht. Though suspicious of Homura's motives and magic, Kyoko agrees.
Day 18 - Friday, the 2nd: Sayaka attempts to visit Kyosuke again but is delayed by Familiars, causing her to miss visiting hours.
Kyoko questions Homura to understand her better. Homura reveals she became a Magical Girl for one person's survival and doesn't care about the collateral damage, a philosophy that conflicts with both Kyoko's and Sayaka's.
Day 19 - Saturday, the 3rd: Kyoko visits Mami's apartment, reminiscing about their past partnership. She finds a stuffed teddy bear she once won for Mami, which Mami had kept.
After Kyoko needlessly kills a Familiar, Kyubey notes her unusual behavior and reveals that Sayaka has no Grief Seeds left. Astonished, Kyoko goes to stop Sayaka from hunting recklessly.
Kyoko asks Homura how she knows when Walpurgisnacht will arrive, but Homura's refusal to answer leads Kyoko to doubt her.
Day 20 - Sunday, the 4th:Kyoko creates a grave for Mami near the Sakura Cathedral, placing the teddy bear on it. She tells Kyubey the act helps calm her, admitting that deep down, she is still a priest's daughter.
That night, Kyoko asks why Homura won't cooperate with Sayaka. Homura states it's impossible and suggests Kyoko try herself, privately believing Sayaka is already doomed.
Day 21 - Monday, the 5th: As Kyoko observes Sayaka more, she begins to sympathize with her, not wanting her to end up like Mami. Kyoko advises Sayaka to be more selfish, but this leads to Sayaka challenging Kyoko on a duel on an overpass.
Madoka and Homura arrive separately to stop the fight before it happens. Madoka throws Sayaka's Soul Gem off the bridge, causing Sayaka's body to die. After Kyubey reveals the truth about how Magical Girls' bodies are just puppets controlled by the Soul Gems, Homura retrieves Sayaka's Soul Gem and revives her.
Furious at Kyubey's deception, Kyoko kills him, only for another body to appear and explain the futility of the act.
Day 22 - Tuesday, the 6th: Hitomi visits Sayaka's apartment, confessing her feelings for Kyosuke and giving Sayaka a 24-hour ultimatum to confess first. After Hitomi leaves, Madoka arrives to comfort a distraught Sayaka, who warns Madoka never to contract. Later, Kyubey almost convinces Madoka to make a wish before Kyoko intervenes and reinforces the warning.
Kyoko finds Sayaka and shares her past with her, about how her wish for her father's success led to him discovering the truth and murdering his wife and younger daughter before hanging himself. Kyoko suggests Sayaka fight only for herself, but Sayaka refuses, pointing out that Kyoko isn't truly selfish, just a victim of a backfired wish, and declares she would even fight for Kyoko's sake from now on too.
Day 23 - Wednesday, the 7th: Sayaka sees Kyosuke and Hitomi togetherm and at school, Madoka comforts her.
That night, Kyoko meets Sayaka at the train station. Kyoko tries to comfort her, but Sayaka declares it is too late and transforms into a Witch.
Homura arrives and pulls Kyoko away from the scene carrying Sayaka's body. They meet Madoka and Homura explains to her that Magical Girls become Witches.
Day 24 - Thursday, the 8th:The next day, Kyoko brings Madoka into Oktavia's Labyrinth in a desperate attempt to reach Sayaka and turn her back. Before they reach the center, the Witch vanishes. Homura appears and reveals she killed Oktavia to prevent Kyoko's planned sacrifice. This leads to one of two branches, determined by the condition of Kyoko's Soul Gem.
Branch A:
Kyoko, with her Soul Gem not yet critically dark, is enraged. She tells Homura that Sayaka was her last hope and wants to kill her, but Madoka stops her, saying Sayaka wouldn't have wanted that. Kyoko severs her alliance with Homura and leaves with Madoka.
At her father's derelict church, Kyoko tells Madoka to stop crying and to never become a Magical Girl for someone else's sake, as nothing good comes from it.
Day 32 - Friday, the 16th: When Walpurgisnacht arrives, Kyoko initially believes Homura has fled. Upon sensing the battle, she realizes Homura is fighting alone. Asking herself what Mami and Sayaka would do, she reluctantly joins the fight, insisting it is not for Homura's sake.
Homura and Kyoko are both overwhelmed and injured by Walpurgisnacht. Madoka arrives and, defying their warnings, makes a contract to destroy the Witch immediately. She succeeds, but instantly transforms into the planet-consuming Witch, Kriemhild Gretchen, and annihilates Kyoko in a single shot. Homura, devastated, resets the timeline.
Branch B:
Pushed over the edge by Homura's actions and the state of her Soul Gem, Kyoko questions why Homura killed Sayaka. Homura coldly corrects her, stating she only killed the Witch born from Sayaka's Soul Gem and that turning her back was impossible.
Realizing the utter meaninglessness of her efforts to save anyone, Kyoko begins to laugh hysterically. She declares that if she cannot save those she wants to, she will curse the world, and transforms into the Witch Ophelia. Homura is then forced to kill her.
With both Sayaka and Kyoko dead, a deeply depressed Madoka goes to Homura's apartment. Homura, in a calculated and cruel act, lies to Madoka, claiming she let everyone die as part of a selfish plan to claim Walpurgisnacht's Grief Seed for herself. She insults Madoka and threatens to kill her if she shows up to the battle, yelling at her to leave and never return. After a confused and hurt Madoka leaves, Homura breaks down in anguish, apologizing for her lies.
Day 32 - Friday, the 16th: When Walpurgisnacht arrives, Homura fights alone. Madoka, suspicious of Homura's true character and wanting to believe in her, arrives with Kyubey. Despite Homura's protests, Madoka makes a contract to save everyone. She defeats Walpurgisnacht but turns into Kriemhild Gretchen, and thus, Homura resets the timeline.
The fifth route, available after completing Kyoko's route, or either achieving Branch A in Mami's route, or Branch B, or C in Sayaka's.
If we take this route's multiple points where it can branch off into different routes, it can result in as many as 38 possible branches, though most of them are very likely not canon. The only constant in every possibility is that Madoka doesn't make a contract, at least not until Walpurgisnacht arrives.
In total, there would be:
Three Branches where the Magical Girls in Mitakihara defeat Walpurgisnacht together. (True Ending)
Twenty-two Branches where Madoka becomes the Law of Cycles, just like in the Final Timeline. (Anime Endings)
Four of which have Homura, Kyoko, and Sayaka fighting Walpurgisnacht. (Anime Ending One)
Eight of which have Homura, Kyoko and potentially Mami fighting Walpurgisnacht after they "avenge" Sayaka without knowing the full truth. (Anime Ending Two)
Eight of which have Homura, Kyoko and potentially Mami fighting Walpurgisnacht after they learn the truth about Witches from Oktavia. (Anime Ending Three)
Two of which have Homura and Mami fighting Walpurgisnacht alone. (Anime Ending Four)
Eleven Branches where Homura defeats Walpurgisnacht by sacrificing her own life. (Homura Alone Endings)
Three of which have Sayaka never contract. (Homura Alone Two)
Two Branches where Homura and Kyoko defeat Walpurgisnacht together. (Homura and Kyoko)
This route is much more detailed compared to other routes, and despite the multiple branching paths, there are only four endings. The events in all the branches of this route conflict with the events in other timelines, so their canonicity is highly unlikely, if not impossible even if Film 13 is a different timeline from that of the original anime.
Homura successfully manages to prevent Kyubey from making any contact with Madoka and Sayaka before she starts attending school.
Day 10 - Thursday, the 25th: Madoka has a dream where she saw one of the previous timelines in which Homura was fighting alone against Walpurgisnacht. Homura enrolls in school and while Madoka shows her around, cryptically warns Madoka against leaving her old life behind.
Choice 1: Homura can either shoot Kyubey at the mall (Option A), or capture him (Option B).
Branch 1A:
After school, Madoka hears Kyubey's plea for help as Homura hunts him at the mall and rushes to his aid. Homura appears, but Sayaka intervenes with a fire extinguisher, allowing them to escape. They are then attacked by Gertrud's Anthony Familiars, but Mami arrives to save them. Mami confronts Homura and then brings Madoka and Sayaka to her apartment, where she and Kyubey explain what it means to be a Magical Girl.
Day 11 - Friday, the 26th: Mami takes Madoka and Sayaka with her to demonstrate a Magical Girl's life and defeats Gertrud. She offers the Grief Seed to Homura, who was spying on them, but she rejects it.
For the next several days, Madoka and Sayaka join Mami on her patrols.
Day 14 - Monday, the 29th: Sayaka visits Kyosuke in the hospital and listens to a CD with him.
That night, while patrolling the city with Madoka and Sayaka, Mami encounters an Ulla Familiar. Sayaka asks Mami about making a wish for someone else, and Mami advises her to be certain of her true intentions before making such a wish.
Day 15 - Tuesday, the 30th: After being unable to visit Kyosuke, Madoka and Sayaka find a Grief Seed at the hospital. Madoka goes to get Mami while Sayaka stays to guard it. The Grief Seed hatches before Madoka and Mami can return, pulling Sayaka and Kyubey into the Labyrinth. Mami and Madoka enter, followed by Homura.
Choice 2: Homura can either let Mami go (Option A), or try to stop her (Option B).
Branch 1A-2A:
Homura lets Mami hunt the witch herself. Mami proceeds to fight Charlotte without restraining Homura. Homura follows and intervenes just in time to prevent Mami's death. Mami is shocked to be alive and thanks Homura. Homura confides that her wish is to save her only friend, and that magical girls are often lonely. She then teams up with Mami and tells her she is preparing for Walpurgisnacht. Later, Mami apologizes to Madoka and Sayaka for bringing them into such danger.
Choice 3: Homura can either call Madoka (Option A), or follow Sayaka herself (Option B).
Branch 1A-2A-3A:
Homura goes to Madoka's house and urges her to stop Sayaka from contracting. Madoka promises to contact Sayaka. Homura notices a drop in witch activity and discovers Kyoko is hunting in Mitakihara. Kyoko proposes they cooperate to defeat Mami for territory, but Homura refuses. Kyoko warns her off. Later, Homura finds Sayaka in a CD store acting suspiciously. The next night, she finds a factory barrier where Mami is with the newly-contracted Sayaka. Homura disapproves, but Sayaka is resolute. Madoka is surprised. Homura warns Kyoko not to fight Sayaka and reveals that Sayaka made her wish for others, just like Kyoko once did. Kyoko is astonished. The story now moves to the search for the missing Sayaka.
Choice 5: Homura can either search with Kyoko (Option A), or search with the others (Option B).
Branch 1A-2A-3A-5A:
Homura finds Kyoko at the observatory and they search for Sayaka together. They locate Sayaka, who is initially hostile. Kyoko, who has grown sympathetic to Sayaka, invites her over to the Sakura Church. Kyoko opens up about her past and convinces Sayaka to fight alongside them for the sake of Mitakihara. Sayaka listens and, for the first time, feels understood. She accepts Kyoko's friendship and agrees to fight alongside Mami, Kyoko, and Homura. Homura then finds Madoka about to contract with Kyubey, stops her, and tells her Sayaka is safe. They hold a meeting for Walpurgisnacht. Kyubey later explains the truth of magical girls to Madoka, but Homura reassures her. On the day of Walpurgis, all the girls fight together and win. Madoka prays for their safety. Later, they have a tea party at Mami's apartment, with Homura happy at having fulfilled her wish.
True Ending
Branch 1A-2A-3A-5B:
Homura searches for Sayaka with Madoka and Mami, but they fail to find Sayaka in time. After seeing Hitomi with Kyosuke, Sayaka is later found by Kyoko at the train station. Sayaka despairs and transforms into Oktavia after the others arrive.
Choice 6: Homura can either hide the truth (Option A), or tell them the truth (Option B).
Branch 1A-2A-3A-5B-6A:
Homura tells Mami and Kyoko that the Witch swallowed Sayaka's Soul Gem and that they can only avenge her. She, Mami, and Kyoko kill the Witch immediately and Madoka arrives; Homura tells her Sayaka is dead and uses this pain to warn her against contracting. They hold a funeral for her and Mami and Kyoko vow to defeat Walpurgis in Sayaka's honor. Kyubey later explains the truth of Witches to Madoka and Homura confirms it, which makes Madoka break down. When Walpurgisnacht arrives, even the three of them are overwhelmed. Madoka makes her contract, defeats the colossal Witch, and becomes the Law of Cycles.
Anime Ending Two
Branch 1A-2A-3A-5B-6B:
Homura reveals that the Witch is Sayaka. Kyoko desperately wants to save her, and Mami is shaken.
Choice 7: Homura can either follow Kyoko (Option A), or kill Oktavia before Kyoko (Option B).
Branch 1A-2A-3A-5B-6B-7A:
Homura follows Kyoko and Madoka into Oktavia's Barrier. They fail to turn Sayaka back, and Homura is forced to kill the Witch to protect Madoka. Mami is traumatized but is talked down from suicide by Madoka and Homura. Kyoko is devastated and leaves. Mami attempts suicide in the park, but Madoka stops her; Homura reassures Mami and refocuses them on Walpurgis. When Walpurgisnacht arrives, Kyoko joins Homura and Mami, but they're defeated. Madoka makes her wish to erase all Witches, ascending to become the Law of Cycles.
Anime Ending Three
Branch 1A-2A-3A-5B-6B-7B:
Homura shoulders the burden alone and kills Oktavia before Kyoko can intervene, apologizing to Sayaka. Madoka and Kyoko arrive too late and Kyoko, enraged, cuts all ties with Homura. Later in the park, Homura finds Mami's body and a suicide note detailing how Mami was unable to bear the truth about Soul Gems, and thus chose to end her life rather than become a Witch. During Walpurgisnacht, Homura fights Walpurgis alone and defeats her, however she dies from her injuries. Kyubey coldly remarks that he only needs to wait for the next crisis.
Homura Alone
Branch 1A-2A-3B:
Homura decides to follow Sayaka herself. She stops time and halts Sayaka just as Kyubey is about to contract. Sayaka hesitates and leaves. Homura later discovers Kyoko is hunting in the city and refuses her partnership offer. She then finds a factory barrier where Madoka and Hitomi are present amid a mass-suicide attempt; she saves them and fights the witch (with Mami if alive). She checks on Sayaka and Madoka, finding nothing unusual. Later, she follows Sayaka to the hospital and saves Kyosuke from jumping off the roof. Homura then decides whom to entrust with Sayaka's care.
Choice 4: Homura can either go after Sayaka herself (Option A), or call Madoka (Option B).
Branch 1A-2A-3B-4A:
Homura takes care of Sayaka herself. After pacifying Kyosuke, Sayaka runs into Homura and blames herself, but says she won't contract. Homura leaves, thinking it is safe. Soon after, Kyubey informs her that Sayaka made a contract that night to heal Kyosuke. Homura meets Sayaka fighting Familiars and is met with hostility. Later, Homura finds them in the Albertine Barrier where Sayaka and Kyoko are fighting, while Madoka was present. Homura separates them and Mami also appears. The following night, Sayaka and Kyoko fight on an overpass, with Mami, Homura and Madoka also showing up. Kyoko aims at Mami's Soul Gem and knocks it onto a passing truck, and Homura quickly retrieves it. Kyubey reveals their souls are now inside the Soul Gems, which makes Sayaka devastated. She eventually goes missing and the search for Sayaka begins.
Choice 5: Homura can either search with Kyoko (Option A), or search with the others (Option B).
Branch 1A-2A-3B-4A-5A:
Same as 1A-2A-3A-5A.
True Ending
Branch 1A-2A-3B-4A-5B:
Same as 1A-2A-3A-5B.
Choice 6: Homura can either hide the truth (Option A), or tell them the truth (Option B).
Branch 1A-2A-3B-4A-5B-6A:
Same as 1A-2A-3A-5B-6A.
Anime Ending Two
Branch 1A-2A-3B-4A-5B-6B:
Same as 1A-2A-3A-4A-5B-6B.
Choice 7: Homura can either follow Kyoko (Option A), or kill Oktavia before Kyoko (Option B).
Branch 1A-2A-3B-4A-5B-6B-7A:
Same as 1A-2A-3A-4A-5B-6B-7A.
Anime Ending Three
Branch 1A-2A-3B-4A-5B-6B-7B:
Same as 1A-2A-3A-4A-5B-6B-7B.
Homura Alone
Branch 1A-2A-3B-4B:
Homura calls Madoka to take care of Sayaka. Hitomi mentions that her father knows a U.S. doctor who might heal Kyosuke. Sayaka doecides not to contract but Homura continues to watch over her. Later, Sayaka confesses to Kyosuke and he accepts. Madoka feels left out and spends time with Homura. Homura visits Kyoko to request her partnership for Walpurgis and while Kyoko initially refuses, she ends up accepting. However, Homura fails to build a proper alliance among the other girls. When Walpurgisnacht arrives, they are not united enough to stop it. Madoka, witnessing the destruction, makes her contract and becomes the Law of Cycles.
Anime Ending Four
Branch 1A-2B:
Mami restrains Homura and proceeds to the Witch with Madoka. On the way, Madoka tells Mami she's decided to become a Magical Girl, and Mami confesses her own loneliness over the life of a Magical Girl.
When they reach Charlotte, Mami fights carelessly and dies in battle against her, but Homura arrives and kills the Witch herself.
The next day, Kyubey goes to the school roof to persuade Madoka and Sayaka to contract. Homura arrives and tells them that Mami is dead. They are shocked and Sayaka is disgusted by Homura's and Kyubey's coldness.
Choice 3: Homura can either call Madoka (Option A), or follow Sayaka herself (Option B).
Branch 1A-2B-3A:
Homura calls Madoka, but Sayaka contracts anyway out of guilt over Mami's death.
Choice 5: Homura can either search with Kyoko (Option A), or search with the others (Option B).
Branch 1A-2B-3A-5A:
Homura searches with Kyoko, who reveals her past to Sayaka. The two reconcile, forming a trio with Homura. However, without Mami's firepower, they are overwhelmed by Walpurgisnacht. Madoka makes her contract to save them and becomes the Law of Cycles.
Anime Ending One
Branch 1A-2B-3A-5B:
Same as 1A-2A-3A-5B.
Choice 6: Homura can either hide the truth (Option A), or tell them the truth (Option B).
Branch 1A-2B-3A-5B-6A:
Homura searches with Madoka, but Sayaka becomes a Witch.
Anime Ending Two
Branch 1A-2B-3A-5B-6B:
Homura hides the truth. She and Kyoko kill Oktavia and mourn Sayaka. Without Mami, the pair cannot stop Walpurgisnacht. Madoka contracts and becomes the Law of Cycles.
Choice 7: Homura can either follow Kyoko (Option A), or kill Oktavia before Kyoko (Option B).
Branch 1A-2B-3A-5B-6B-7A:
Homura follows Kyoko. They fail to save Sayaka, and Homura kills the Witch. They lose to Walpurgisnacht, and Madoka contracts.
Anime Ending Three
Branch 1A-2B-3A-5B-6B-7B:
Homura kills Oktavia before Kyoko can intervene. Kyoko abandons her. Mami is already dead. Homura fights Walpurgisnacht alone, defeats it, but dies.
Homura Alone
Branch 1A-2B-3B:
Homura follows Sayaka herself, saving Kyosuke from suicide and preventing Sayaka's contract for a time.
Choice 4: Homura can either go after Sayaka herself (Option A), or call Madoka (Option B).
Branch 1A-2B-3B-4A:
Homura keeps watching Sayaka, but Kyubey tricks her into contracting. Sayaka becomes a Magical Girl. Homura tries to save her from despair but Sayaka runs away.
Choice 5: Homura can either search with Kyoko (Option A), or search with the others (Option B).
Branch 1A-2B-3B-4A-5A:
Homura searches with Kyoko. They reach Sayaka's heart and reconcile. However, without Mami, their combined power is still not enough to defeat Walpurgisnacht. Madoka contracts to save them, becoming the Law of Cycles.
Anime Ending One
Branch 1A-2B-3B-4A-5B:
Homura searches with Madoka, but Sayaka becomes a Witch.
Choice 6: Homura can either hide the truth (Option A), or tell them the truth (Option B).
Branch 1A-2B-3B-4A-5B-6A:
Homura hides the truth and they kill Oktavia, and hold a funeral for Sayaka. With only Kyoko as an ally, they lose to Walpurgisnacht and Madoka contracts.
Anime Ending Two
Branch 1A-2B-3B-4A-5B-6B:
Homura tells them the truth and Kyoko and Madoka try to save Sayaka.
Choice 7: Homura can either follow Kyoko (Option A), or kill Oktavia before Kyoko (Option B).
Branch 1A-2B-3B-4A-5B-6B-7A:
Homura follows Kyoko, fails to save Sayaka, and kills the Witch. They lose to Walpurgisnacht. Madoka becomes the Law of Cycles.
Anime Ending Three
Branch 1A-2B-3B-4A-5B-6B-7B:
Homura kills Oktavia herself first. Kyoko abandons Homura and with Mami dead, Homura fights Walpurgisnacht alone. She manages to defeat Walpurgisnacht and then dies.
Homura Alone
Branch 1A-2B-3B-4B:
Homura calls Madoka to take care of Sayaka. Hitomi mentions that her father knows a U.S. doctor who might heal Kyosuke. Sayaka doecides not to contract but Homura continues to watch over her. Later, Sayaka confesses to Kyosuke and he accepts. Madoka feels left out and spends time with Homura.
Choice 8: While it isn't a choice, the future changes if Homura doesn't meet Kyoko on day XX and YY (Option A), or if she does (Option B).
Branch 1A-2B-3B-4B-8A:
Homura never visits Kyoko on the required days. When Walpurgis arrives, Kyoko is terrified and refuses to fight, leaving Homura to face the storm entirely alone. Homura is overwhelmed and dies.
Homura Alone Two
Branch 1A-2B-3B-4B-8B:
Homura meets Kyoko on the two following days and Kyoko agrees to be her partner. They fight Walpurgis together and defeat it. Afterward, Kyoko returns to Kazamino, saying that Mitakihara already has an excellent Magical Girl.
Homura and Kyoko
Branch 1B:
Although Homura shoots Kyubey, one of his clones appears soon after and is found by Madoka. The plot follows the anime closely for a while. Homura invites Mami to hunt witches with her instead of Madoka and Sayaka, but Mami declines. Later, at Charlotte's barrier, Homura must again decide whether to help or hinder Mami.
Choice 2: Homura can either let Mami go (Option A), or try to stop her (Option B).
Branch 1B-2A:
Homura lets Mami proceed and secretly saves her from Charlotte. Mami thanks Homura and later apologises to Madoka and Sayaka for bringing them to such a dangerous place. Mami and Homura begin to cooperate, though Mami remains slightly cautious. The subsequent events are similar to 1A-2A (Mami alive), with Homura either calling Madoka or following Sayaka, leading to either Sayaka contracting or not.
Choice 3: Homura can either call Madoka (Option A), or follow Sayaka herself (Option B).
Branch 1B-2A-3A:
Homura asks Madoka to look after Sayaka. She meets Kyoko, refuses her offer to become partners and warns her. Sayaka contracts and Homura witnesses the overpass fight between her and Kyoko. Madoka throws Sayaka's Soul Gem, Kyubey reveals the truth about Soul Gems, and soon Sayaka runs away.
Choice 5: Homura can either search with Kyoko (Option A), or search with the others (Option B).
Branch 1B-2A-3A-5A:
Same as 1A-2A-3A-5A.
True Ending
Branch 1B-2A-3A-5B:
Same as 1A-2A-3A-5B.
Choice 6: Homura can either hide the truth (Option A), or tell them the truth (Option B).
Branch 1B-2A-3A-5B-6A:
Same as 1A-2B-3A-5B-6A.
Anime Ending Two
Branch 1B-2A-3A-5B-6B:
Same as 1A-2B-3A-5B-6B.
Choice 7: Homura can either follow Kyoko (Option A), or kill Oktavia before Kyoko (Option B).
Branch 1B-2A-3A-5B-6B-7A:
Same as 1A-2B-3A-5B-6B-7A.
Anime Ending Three
Branch 1B-2A-3A-5B-6B-7B:
Same as 1A-2B-3A-5B-6B-7B.
Homura Alone
Branch 1B-2A-3B:
Same as 1A-2A-3B:
Choice 4: Homura can either go after Sayaka herself (Option A), or call Madoka (Option B).
Branch 1B-2A-3B-4A:
Same as 1A-2A-3B-4A:
Choice 5: Homura can either search with Kyoko (Option A), or search with the others (Option B).
Branch 1B-2A-3B-4A-5A:
Same as 1A-2A-3B-4A-5A:
Homura Alone
Branch 1B-2A-3B-4A-5B:
Same as 1A-2A-3B-4A-5B:
Choice 6: Homura can either hide the truth (Option A), or tell them the truth (Option B).
Branch 1B-2A-3B-4A-5B-6A:
Same as 1A-2A-3B-4A-5B-6A:
Anime Ending Two
Branch 1B-2A-3B-4A-5B-6B:
Same as 1A-2A-3B-4A-5B-6B:
Choice 7: Homura can either follow Kyoko (Option A), or kill Oktavia before Kyoko (Option B).
Branch 1B-2A-3B-4A-5B-6B-7A:
Same as 1A-2A-3B-4A-5B-6B-7A:
Anime Ending Three
Branch 1B-2A-3B-4A-5B-6B-7B:
Same as 1A-2A-3B-4A-5B-6B-7B:
Homura Alone
Branch 1B-2A-3B-4B:
Same as 1A-2A-3B-4B.
Anime Ending Four
Branch 1B-2B:
Same as 1A-2B.
Choice 3: Homura can either call Madoka (Option A), or follow Sayaka herself (Option B).
Branch 1B-2B-3A:
Same as 1A-2B-3A.
Choice 5: Homura can either search with Kyoko (Option A), or search with the others (Option B).
Branch 1B-2B-3A-5A:
Same as 1A-2B-3A-5A.
Anime Ending One
Branch 1B-2B-3A-5B:
Same as 1A-2B-3A-5B.
Choice 6: Homura can either hide the truth (Option A), or tell them the truth (Option B).
Branch 1B-2B-3A-5B-6A:
Same as 1A-2B-3A-5B-6A.
Anime Ending Two
Branch 1B-2B-3A-5B-6B:
Same as 1A-2B-3A-5B-6B.
Choice 7: Homura can either follow Kyoko (Option A), or kill Oktavia before Kyoko (Option B).
Branch 1B-2B-3A-5B-6B-7A:
Same as 1A-2B-3A-5B-6B-7A.
Anime Ending Three
Branch 1B-2B-3A-5B-6B-7B:
Same as 1A-2B-3A-5B-6B-7B.
Homura Alone
Branch 1B-2B-3B:
Same as 1A-2B-3B.
Choice 4: Homura can either go after Sayaka herself (Option A), or call Madoka (Option B).
Branch 1B-2B-3B-4A:
Same as 1A-2B-3B-4A.
Choice 5: Homura can either search with Kyoko (Option A), or search with the others (Option B).
Branch 1B-2B-3B-4A-5A:
Same as 1A-2B-3B-4A-5A.
Anime Ending One
Branch 1B-2B-3B-4A-5B:
Same as 1A-2B-3B-4A-5B.
Choice 6: Homura can either hide the truth (Option A), or tell them the truth (Option B).
Branch 1B-2B-3B-4A-5B-6A:
Same as 1A-2B-3B-4A-5B-6A.
Anime Ending Two
Branch 1B-2B-3B-4A-5B-6B:
Same as 1A-2B-3B-4A-5B-6B.
Choice 7: Homura can either follow Kyoko (Option A), or kill Oktavia before Kyoko (Option B).
Branch 1B-2B-3B-4A-5B-6B-7A:
Same as 1A-2B-3B-4A-5B-6B-7A.
Anime Ending Three
Branch 1B-2B-3B-4A-5B-6B-7B:
Same as 1A-2B-3B-4A-5B-6B-7B.
Homura Alone
Branch 1B-2B-3B-4B:
Same as 1A-2B-3B-4B.
Choice 8: While it isn't a choice, if Homura doesn't meet Kyoko on day XX and YY (Option A), or if she does (Option B).
The bonus route, available after completing Homura's route. It has two possible endings, and though both Branches are highly unusual, Branch A's canon status is technically possible if Film 13 isn't the same as the original anime.
At some point, both Madoka and Sayaka make contracts with Kyubey early in the timeline and form a trio with Mami.
Day 10 - Thursday, the 25th: Homura transfers into school and introduces herself with a strict, drill-instructor-like demeanor to the others, stating her mission is to teach them to be self-reliant Magical Girls.
Day 15 - Tuesday, the 30th: After a routine Witch hunt, as Mami, Madoka, and Sayaka exit the Barrier of Charlotte, Homura appears before them. She requests they brace themselves, then shoots Kyubey. When another Kyubey appears, it reveals the truth that he is an alien, hive-mind entity and the girls are shocked.
Day 16 - Wednesday, the 31st: Homura visits Mami's apartment. To combat Mami's profound loneliness, she creatively suggests Mami become an idol by competing so she can always be surrounded by fans and love. Mami is initially hesitant but is convinced to try and so she begins practicing singing.
Day 22 - Tuesday, the 6th: Hitomi gives Sayaka an ultimatum to confess to Kyosuke within 24 hours. A depressed Sayaka is approached by Homura, who urges her to confront Hitomi directly and fight for what she wants. Sayaka, empowered, agrees.
Day 23 - Wednesday, the 7th: Before the ultimatum expires, Sayaka presents Hitomi with a challenge letter, declaring she will not give up on Kyosuke. After class, the two girls have a confrontation. Homura suggests a dual confession, but both refuse. Sayaka states she has reassessed her feelings and a furious Hitomi slaps her, and Sayaka slaps her back. Admitting defeat, Hitomi gives up and Sayaka goes to confess to Kyosuke, who accepts. Homura meanwhile stays to comfort the crying Hitomi, who becomes deeply admiring of Homura afterwards.
With the Magical Girls distracted by their new lives, Homura needs someone to hunt Witches. She suggests to Mami that Kyoko, who desires Grief Seeds, be allowed to take over patrols. Homura approaches a frustrated and skeptical Kyoko and reveals the truth about Kyubey. Kyoko is convinced after seeing Kyubey consume one of his own discarded bodies and agrees to the arrangement.
Madoka, seeing everyone finding purpose outside of being Magical Girls, confesses to Homura that she feels useless. Homura visits her room, slaps her, and firmly requests that Madoka not change, and telling her that Homura values her pure and supportive nature.
Mami auditions and is scouted. She prepares for her idol debut with her first single, "Tiro Finale of Love," and is thankful to Homura for her life-changing suggestion.
Sayaka, now Kyosuke's girlfriend, is openly happy. She even tells him she is a Magical Girl, and he immediately believes and supports her. She also skips school to hunt Familiars, her Soul Gem remaining surprisingly pure.
Sayaka meets Kyoko while she is hunting a Witch within Kyoko's new territory, but surprisingly, Sayaka also befriends Kyoko based on Homura's advice, with Kyoko being honest about her emotions.
Kyoko, initially thinking the others are nuts, is very satisfied with the rich territory of Mitakihara. She hoards a mountain of Grief Seeds in her family's church, willingly showing them to Sayaka once they become close, and occasionally distributes some to the other girls too.
Madoka ultimately resolves to be content as a Magical Girl until she finds her own path.
Despite this newfound happiness and stability, Homura knows Walpurgisnacht is coming. She calls a meeting of all four magical girls and Hitomi at her home to prepare for the battle. However, during the strategy session, Homura realizes that even with a united and mentally stable team, as well as Kyoko's massive stack of Grief Seeds, their combined power is still insufficient against the overwhelming might of Walpurgisnacht.
Day 32 - Friday, the 16th: During Walpurgisnacht, the girls' power isn't strong enough to defeat the Witch. This route can go into two possible routes.
Branch A:
As the Magical Girls look to Homura for orders on how to proceed, Homura gives no answer. The hope she worked so hard to build is rendered meaningless by Walpurgisnacht's power and, acknowledging the absolute failure of this experiment, she silently activates her shield and resets the timeline, leaving the happy world she created to be destroyed.
Branch B:
Homura, having confirmed the futility of a direct assault, devises a final, desperate plan. She orders Mami, Madoka, Sayaka, and Kyoko to act as a diversion, drawing Walpurgisnacht's attention and attacking its periphery. Meanwhile, Homura uses the entirety of her stolen arsenal and all her remaining magic in a single, decisive strike against the Witch's core.
In a climactic moment, Homura's attack connects, shattering Walpurgisnacht's core just as her own magic is nearly depleted. The Witch is defeated and the city is saved. The timeline is allowed to continue, preserving the unique happiness Homura forged for the others, though she herself remains haunted by the knowledge of how close they came to annihilation.
Mobage depicted mostly smaller, slice-of-life stories, with a few exceptions. They seem not to be canon to the main continuity, and may even be not canon to each other either.
These timelines are explicitly stated to have been in a separate time axis from that of the original series. Here, another Magical Girl, Player (Madoka Magica Online), possibly named Suzuka Ando, also lives in Mitakihara and is an irregular variable in this Homura's time loops. Due to it being a different continuity, the rules and timeframes of the conventional timeline do not apply. For the purposes of this article, the Player character will be referred to as Suzuka Ando. Additionally, some of the smaller details in the Previous Timeline of this section are unavailable.
Homura transfers to Mitakihara Middle School again. Sayaka greets her warmly and Madoka does the same. Sayaka mentions Kyubey called about a Witch and they agree to meet after school.[32]
After the battle, they have tea at Mami's. Homura feels useless and thinks she is dragging everyone down, but Madoka reassures her and says she will get stronger with time. Homura reflects on how kind Madoka is in every world.[32]
Homura asks if she is a bother. Madoka says she should find her own fighting style at her own pace. Madoka admits she became a Magical Girl partly because she wanted to be like Mami.[32]
After a battle, Madoka seems pale and unsteady. Kyoko scolds her for not managing her health. Homura worries she is the cause.[32]
Homura later finds Mami shopping and asks if she is a burden. Mami says Madoka was happy when Homura joined and has been working hard to cover for her. Homura is grateful but still feels guilty.[32]
Homura sees Madoka looking seriously at a martial arts gym poster and fears Madoka is pushing herself to cover for her.[32]
Madoka tells Sayaka and Mami she will not come to tea parties for a while. Homura suspects she is secretly training.[32]
The group fights a Witch. Madoka seems distracted and is nearly hit. After the battle, Madoka collapses. Homura blames herself and begs Madoka to tell the truth, but Madoka does not respond. Sayaka and Kyoko rush to help.[32]
Mami says Madoka fainted because she skipped breakfast. Homura worries it is her fault because Madoka has been practicing to cover for her. Sayaka notices Homura is spacing out. Mami says they should ease Madoka's burden by having someone else step up. Homura decides she must become stronger to protect Madoka.[33]
Homura wonders how to get stronger. During a battle, Kyoko scolds her for spacing out. Kyoko says she never acted so carelessly when she fought alone. Mami says they should teach newcomers together. Homura realizes Kyoko might be able to teach her and follows her after the battle.[33]
Kyoko notices Homura following her. Homura admits she wants to get stronger, but Kyoko refuses. Homura starts crying and Kyoko comes back, telling her to stop crying and follow her.[33]
Kyoko asks why Homura does not ask Mami for help. Homura says Mami is too kind and she would rely on her forever. Kyoko says she got strong from fighting alone and cannot teach that. Homura says there is someone she wants to protect. Kyoko refuses again and leaves, but Homura continues following her.[33]
Homura tries doing push-ups and Sayaka finds her. Sayaka offers to ask Kyoko together, knowing Kyoko's weak spot. Sayaka threatens to tell everyone Kyoko asked Mami to be her disciple, and Kyoko reluctantly agrees to train Homura if she can beat her in a dancing game.[33]
Sayaka helps Homura practice the dancing game, but Homura struggles for hours. Kyoko asks why she is so desperate. Homura says she wants to be the one to protect someone precious. Kyoko agrees to train her, remembering she was like that once.[33]
Kyoko and Sayaka help Homura train by playing video games, saying it sharpens reflexes and teamwork. Homura questions if this is real training, but Kyoko says having fun together is the foundation of good teamwork. They play all night.[34]
Mami notices Homura is tired. Homura lies and says she stayed up late reading. Kyoko forces Homura to eat large amounts of dessert, saying she cannot fight on an empty stomach. Mami notices everyone is acting strange.[34]
Kyoko takes Homura to karaoke, saying it will improve her rhythm. Homura asks when they will do real training. Kyoko admits she never consciously trained—she got strong by fighting with her life on the line. Sayaka says she has an idea and will take over teaching.[34]
Sayaka has Homura practice swinging a baseball bat. Mami finds them and sees Homura's blistered hands. Homura admits she wants to protect Madoka. Sayaka says Madoka's condition has nothing to do with Homura being weak—Madoka has been on a diet and fainted from not eating. Homura is relieved and tells Madoka to stop dieting, saying she is plenty cute as she is.[34]
Madoka is still dieting. Mami warns that sudden dieting causes rebounding. Homura blames herself and decides to bake low-calorie cookies.[35]
Homura bakes low-calorie cookies with dried fruit and cereal. Madoka loves them. Homura is relieved they taste good.[35]
Homura brings cookies to the group. Mami notices they are too sweet and confirms Homura used too much sugar—they are not low-calorie at all. Sayaka says Madoka has been happily eating them all day. Homura panics.[35]
Sayaka calls Madoka over to stop her from eating the cookies, but Madoka says she already ate all of them. Homura asks the group for a better diet plan. Kyoko says eat hard and play hard. Homura gets upset and leaves to think alone.[35]
Mami calls Madoka aside and explains the cookie mistake. Madoka realizes she made Homura worry. They apologize to each other. Madoka says Mami will make safe sweets from now on.[35]
Madoka, Sayaka, Kyoko, and Homura plan a beach trip. Homura notices Mami has been acting strangely lately, as has Sayaka. Madoka and Sayaka realize Mami's behavior might be related to Sayaka wanting to give a gift to Kyosuke.[35]
Sayaka wants to give Kyosuke a gift for returning to school. Madoka suggests asking Mami for advice. Mami agrees but panics internally.[35]
Mami panics alone, regretting her promise. Kyoko visits and asks for food. Mami realizes she can make homemade sweets as a gift and rushes off.[35]
Mami suggests Sayaka make homemade sweets. Sayaka returns and says Kyosuke likes macarons. Mami struggles to bake them and buys store-bought macarons to pass off as her own. Madoka and Sayaka catch her at the pastry shop.[35]
Madoka and Sayaka explain to Kyoko that Mami bought store-bought macarons. Kyoko laughs but understands Mami tries too hard to meet expectations. Homura says Mami's behavior is still strange.[36]
Mami scolds Kyoko for lounging around and not being productive. She serves only vegetables and hides all the snacks and games. Kyoko is horrified.[36]
Mami makes Kyoko study with her and forces her to exercise. Kyoko complains but is forced to join. Mami admits she is worried about Kyoko's lazy lifestyle and does not want her to leave. Kyoko apologizes and says she does not actually want to leave, but Mami's methods are too extreme.[36]
The group meets for a Witch hunt. Kyoko arrives early but the others were late because they were preparing for the school culture festival. After the hunt, Kyoko invites everyone to the arcade, but they all have festival work. They go to Mami's place to work, but Kyoko slips away.[37]
Madoka notices Kyoko is missing. They need five people for their volunteer exhibit, and Hitomi is too busy. Non-students can participate if they are on the volunteer form, but nobody told Kyoko.[37]
They explain the situation to Kyoko and she reluctantly agrees to help. Sayaka calls her a tsundere. Kyoko gets defensive and storms off.[37]
The day they need to turn in the volunteer form arrives. Sayaka teases Kyoko too much. Madoka also teased her. Homura admits it is more Madoka's fault. Sayaka and Mami stare in disbelief.[37]
Mami takes charge and makes monster clothes. Kyoko is still giving the silent treatment but eventually tries on a red oni outfit. Mami tries on an unfinished outfit, but her bust busts it. Kyoko laughs and says the ghost is too sexy. Mami gets mad at Kyoko.[37]
The others arrive and ask where Kyoko went. Mami says she does not care. They send Kyubey to find Kyoko. Kyoko is angry that Mami likes to tease others but gets upset when teased. She tells Kyubey she is not going back.[37]
Kyoko tries to think of a place to stay. She considers a hotel but remembers Sayaka's anger about using magic for money. She decides to camp instead.[37]
The next day, Kyoko has not been seen. Homura suggests giving up on the festival. Homura shares a rumor about a ghost appearing at school at night. Madoka and Sayaka worry they will need Kyoko even more.[37]
Kyoko attends patrols but does not talk much. She is living at the school, using lockers for showers. Kyubey says living with Mami is more efficient, but Kyoko refuses.[37]
Sayaka finds Kyoko at the arcade and asks where she is living. She apologizes for teasing Kyoko and offers to let her stay at her house.[37]
At Sayaka's house, Kyoko makes herself comfortable. They argue and Kyoko threatens to leave. Sayaka says they chose to do a haunted house so Kyoko would not be left out. Homura suggested hiding her face with masks. Kyoko is surprised Homura cared and agrees to help.[37]
Kyoko works on props but uses a guitar string that was a special-order gift for Kyosuke. Sayaka gets into a fight with Kyoko.[37]
The next day, Sayaka tells the others what happened. Homura suggests giving up on the festival, but Madoka refuses. Homura takes charge of finding Kyoko. Kyoko is back at school and offers Kyubey candy, asking him to stay the night. Kyubey realizes Kyoko does not want to be alone.[37]
Homura finds Kyoko and asks her to go back to Mami's house and participate in the festival. Kyoko asks why Homura cares. Homura says it will make Madoka sad. Homura drags Kyoko to her house, but Kyoko still refuses to stay.[37]
Madoka invites Kyoko to Tatsuya's birthday party. Kyoko sees through the plan but cannot say no. She bumps into Madoka shopping and decides not to intrude.[37]
Madoka wonders why Kyoko did not come. Homura says it is not Madoka's fault and Kyoko's distance might be deeper than they thought.[37]
Kyoko has been giving snacks to Kyosuke at school late at night and they become friends. She complains about her friends to him. He says they sound like good friends. Kyoko says if she softens up, they will gang up on her again. Kyosuke shares that he yelled at a girl who visited him in the hospital and still has not apologized. Kyoko assures him she will forgive him.[37]
Kyoko visits Kyosuke again. He asks if she is ready for the festival. She says it has nothing to do with her. He says she is always at school late and asks if she is lonely. He says he does not want her to end up with regrets like his.[37]
The others cannot find any sign of a witch. The ghost rumors escalate. Kyoko has been appearing less for patrols. Kyosuke praises Kyoko for singing hymns perfectly. She decides to spend every night doing this with him and wants to cut ties with her friends and live alone. Kyosuke is disappointed and goes home.[37]
Sayaka investigates the ghost rumor with Kyosuke. He tells Kyoko that the ghost is probably her. Kyoko is relieved he is not mad.[37]
The others report empty results. Mami says they might have to cancel their festival entry. Kyosuke and Kyoko discuss her being the ghost. Kyoko says she will return to being a lone wolf. Kyosuke says she became reliant on her friends to distract herself from being lonely. He will not tell her to make up with her friends, but if she truly wants to be alone, she should stop visiting him. She sadly agrees.[37]
Outside the school at night, Kyoko tells herself she is strong and does not need friends. She hears the others sneaking into the school to work on the haunted house even though they cannot do it without her. Kyoko is stunned.[37]
Sayaka gets a call from Kyosuke. He tells her to come to school on the day of the festival before anyone else and says he figured out the ghost was Sayaka's friend.[37]
Kyoko works desperately to finish the festival preparations but falls asleep. The others arrive and find the completed set. Sayaka finds Kyoko and tells her to change for the festival. Kyoko apologizes for making everyone worry. Sayaka says it is okay as long as she finally understands. Kyoko says there is someone she wants to bring to thank for their advice. Kyoko says Kyosuke is definitely Sayaka's type.[37]
Sayaka and Kyoko go shopping for ingredients. Later, Madoka wins tickets for all the girls to go to a hot spring resort.[38]
Mami, Sayaka, and Kyoko discuss their excitement for the resort. Kyoko and Sayaka tease Mami about using her figure to seduce men.[38]
Sayaka and Kyoko are impressed by Homura's skills at video games. Homura says she learned because a certain group forced her to practice. Kyoko daydreams about when Homura asked them to train her.[38]
The girls track a Witch that keeps escaping. They narrow its location to an amusement park where Kyosuke is playing in a band. Homura, Sayaka, and Madoka go to investigate while the band is present. Sayaka says it would be a bother to ask Kyoko and Mami to come along.[39]
Madoka wakes up not knowing where she is. Kyoko and Mami receive a phone call from Sayaka—Madoka has gone missing in the amusement park. The girls set out to save her.[39]
They realize the Witch has been hiding in the stage props and band equipment, moving around town with the band. They find Madoka being held hostage by the Witch. If they attack, the Witch could drag her into its Barrier. Madoka tells Homura to listen to Mami. The Witch escapes with Madoka.[39]
Mami and Kyoko launch their plan. Mami had tied a ribbon to Madoka's ankle, allowing her to track her. Mami locates the Witch and Kyoko attacks, then Mami finishes it with Tiro Finale.[39]
Madoka apologizes for being a hostage. Sayaka apologizes for failing to protect her. Kyoko tells them to be more careful because "a certain someone" panics whenever something happens to Madoka. Homura has disappeared. Mami says Homura is embarrassed they saw that side of her.[39]
Timeline One
Suzuka, who used to be Madoka's classmate, makes a contract with Kyubey and gains powerful detection abilities.[40]
During Walpurgisnacht, Madoka calls out to Homura, who is injured. Madoka says Suzuka is fighting for them and tells Homura to rest. Homura protests, saying she cannot protect Madoka no matter how many times she repeats things. Madoka insists it is not Homura's fault and says she will defeat Walpurgisnacht to save Homura. Homura goes back in time to change their fate.[40]
Timeline Two
Madoka and Sayaka contract and form a team with Mami. Suzuka contracts as well, once again gaining detection abilities.[41]
While patrolling with Suzuka, Kyubey finds a Witch's Barrier and encourages her to enter. After Suzuka defeats the Familiars, she runs into Mami, Madoka, and Sayaka. Mami asks Suzuka to join their team.[41]
The next day after school, Madoka expresses surprise that Suzuka became a Magical Girl. She reveals Walpurgisnacht will descend on Mitakihara within a few weeks. Mami telepathically communicates that she found a Witch's Barrier and needs backup. They rush to help her.[41]
After battling inside the Labyrinth, Mami says the Witch fled. Sayaka asks why they do not chase it. Mami explains Witches hide to outsmart Magical Girls and suggests they prepare to fight it tomorrow.[41]
The next morning, Sayaka worries about the Witch Gertrud they left behind. Kyubey interrupts, saying he found the Witch's Barrier, and they run off to find him.[41]
After the fight, Kyubey apologizes for mistaking a Familiar for a Witch. Mami says it is good they killed it since it was about to become a Witch. Madoka suggests the Witch that birthed the Familiar must be nearby.[41]
Sayaka says she found a plan: since the Witch grows roses, it might get angry if they cut them. Mami says it is worth a shot.[41]
Sayaka shouts at the Witch. Homura appears and says she found the Witch's Barrier and will wait with Kyoko at the entrance. The group goes to meet them.[41]
At the entrance, Madoka introduces Suzuka to Kyoko and Homura. Kyoko warns the newbie not to slow her down and leaves. Homura is surprised to see Suzuka but says they should follow Kyoko.[41]
After the battle, Mami explains Grief Seeds to Suzuka, saying they are precious items that can clean Soul Gems.[41]
Mami tells Suzuka that fights have been breaking out among students. She asks if Suzuka senses anything and Suzuka detects a Witch's Barrier. Mami says Suzuka has the best detection abilities and asks her to treat all Familiars like Witches.[42]
After the fight, Kyoko tells Suzuka to ignore Familiars until they grow into Witches. Sayaka yells at her. Madoka wishes she could get along with Kyoko. Both Kyoko and Sayaka exclaim they are not getting along.[42]
Homura walks up to Suzuka and says she must have noticed the Witch's Barrier generating nearby. Suzuka decides to defeat the Familiar. Homura contacts the group.[42]
After they finish, Kyoko again says not to call her for a Familiar. Madoka thanks Kyoko for her devotion. Kyoko gets flustered and says they should find other Barriers.[42]
Madoka runs up to the group and exclaims she saw puppies taken into a Barrier. Kyoko reluctantly agrees to help save them. After the battle, Madoka runs off with the puppies. Mami warns it will be a long string of battles. Kyoko enters the Barrier to prove her strength.[42]
The battle ends with Mami performing a Tiro Finale. She says she might have gone overboard just to impress her juniors.[42]
After the next battle, Mami cleanses Suzuka's Soul Gem, which causes discomfort from Homura.[42]
After another battle, the Witch flees. Homura leaves, and Madoka wonders why they cannot get along.[42]
The group finds a crowd under a Witch's Kiss. After defeating Familiars, Madoka remarks the people have collapsed. Mami says they have only fainted and the police will arrive soon.[43]
Sayaka finds another group with Witch's Kisses. After the fight, Sayaka and Madoka talk about Suzuka's talent. Homura says they will have to keep fighting unless they find the Witch and warns someone will get hurt.[43]
The next day, Sayaka rants about Homura. Madoka says she thinks Homura is trying to look out for them. Mami telepathically communicates that she has found more individuals under Witch's Kisses.[43]
After the fight, Sayaka wishes that were the case for everyone. Kyoko says the Kiss cannot be erased until the Witch is killed. Madoka says they need to find the Witch.[43]
Later, Sayaka complains about patrolling every night. Kyoko says complaining will not solve anything. Mami says Sayaka is blessed to have people to fight alongside her and that because they are together, they should stay together.[43]
After a battle, Sayaka says she cannot take the fighting anymore. Mami says they have no other options until they find the Witch. Madoka spots more people under the Kiss and resolves to save them.[43]
Sayaka and Mami realize these are direct victims of the Witch. Madoka spots Hitomi in the crowd. Kyoko says they are currently the only hope these people have. Madoka snaps out of her stress and says they need to beat the Witch once and for all.[43]
After the battle, Madoka says she is glad she became a Magical Girl. Sayaka thanks Kyoko for saving her, but Kyoko says she will not give Sayaka any Grief Seeds.[43]
The group finds H.N. Elly, who has affected several people with her Witch's Kiss and led them toward a group suicide, including Hitomi. After saving Hitomi, Sayaka says she is all better. Mami interrupts with a telepathic warning that a Barrier has opened at the hospital. Sayaka rushes off with Kyoko and Suzuka.[44]
Arriving at the Barrier, Madoka talks about hospitals being scary at night. Kyoko jokes that Magical Girls are not afraid. She wonders why Sayaka rushed off and connects it to Kyosuke's hospital. Madoka says they should quickly enter the Barrier to help Mami and Sayaka.[44]
Kyoko comments the Witch seems tough. They hear Mami shout in pain and rush to help her. Mami thanks everyone. Kyoko says they are comrades, which makes Mami and Madoka go silent. Kyoko changes the subject to finding Sayaka.[44]
The group finds Sayaka and Kyoko tells her not to run off on her own. Madoka explains to Suzuka about Sayaka and Kyosuke's friendship.[44]
Madoka asks what they should do since Sayaka is too worried and Mami is injured. Mami orders everyone to patrol around the hospital and not give up.[44]
Sayaka tells Suzuka about Kyosuke and explains she wished to heal his hands. She asks Suzuka to help her defeat the Witch and keep Kyosuke safe.[44]
Madoka asks if Sayaka and Suzuka are okay. Sayaka admits the Witch is strong, but she cannot whine if she wants to protect Kyosuke. Madoka says she understands but they need to meet up with everyone first.[44]
Kyoko says they have found the Witch and asks if everyone is ready. Sayaka resolves to help Kyosuke no matter what.[44]
The Witch is defeated. Sayaka celebrates and goes to visit Kyosuke. Homura watches them silently.[44]
Homura confronts Suzuka privately. She says Witches are being defeated too easily because of Suzuka's existence. She explains she has seen these fights before and that Suzuka's presence allowed them to avoid Mami's usual death. Madoka interrupts with a Witch Barrier. Before they leave, Homura says she will be keeping a close eye on Suzuka.[45]
After the battle, Sayaka brags about being unbeatable. Kyoko reminds her they only defeated a Familiar. Homura apologizes and takes Suzuka aside, asking her not to tell anyone about their earlier conversation.[45]
The next day, Sayaka confirms Mami's suspicions about a Witch's Barrier. Reports of missing students lead them to conclude a Witch is the cause. Mami encourages everyone to hurry.[45]
After the battle, Sayaka complains it was only a Familiar and no victims were found. Mami pessimistically says they might be dead. Madoka suggests the Witch might be at their school. Mami agrees Witches gravitate toward places associated with their memories. Sayaka says they have to hurry to the school.[45]
At the school, Kyubey stops them, saying he is there to observe Suzuka. Mami runs off to find the Witch.[45]
After battling a Familiar, the kidnapped students are saved. Madoka asks Homura if she is happy too. Sayaka says Homura has no reason to care since she just transferred. Madoka says they are friends. Sayaka scoffs, but Madoka yells at her. Homura thanks Madoka for always being kind.[45]
While patrolling, Homura thinks about how kind Madoka is and resolves to protect her.[45]
Kyoko complains about not finding the Witch. Homura says the Witch likely has a connection to teaching. Kyoko asks why Homura keeps information to herself when people are in danger. Homura says she was just speculating and tells everyone to continue searching.[45]
Finding the Witch, Kyubey ambushes them and says the school has been taken into the Barrier. Madoka realizes there are people they need to save.[45]
After defeating the Witch, Madoka and Sayaka thank Suzuka and Kyoko. Mami reminisces about the way Kyoko used to be. Miss Saotome interrupts them and they flee.[45]
Mami tells Suzuka that Kyoko used to be more honest. She reveals they used to hunt Witches together, but something happened that made them part ways. A Barrier appears and they investigate.[46]
After defeating some Familiars, Sayaka wonders what they were gathering. Homura suggests the Witch has an agenda. Kyoko complains and leaves, saying not to call her for small fry.[46]
Sayaka and Suzuka patrol. Suzuka finds a Barrier and they call the others.
After the fight, Homura says the Witch has an agenda. Kyoko asks where Mami is. Mami telepathically says she and Madoka are chasing a Familiar that might lead to the Witch. Homura worries.[46]
Kyoko worries Mami is being reckless after their fight. Mami teases Kyoko, then screams. Kyoko rushes to help.[46]
The group finds Mami unconscious. Kyoko panics. Homura notices Mami's Soul Gem is missing. Kyoko accuses Homura of knowing more than she lets on.[46]
Kyoko angrily searches for Mami's Soul Gem. She vents about her past: she respected Mami, but when her family died, she felt it was her fault. Mami tried to encourage her, but Kyoko ran away and swore never to use magic for anyone else. She calms down and decides to wait for everyone.[46]
The group finds Mami's Soul Gem under the Witch's foot. They defeat the Witch and return it. Mami wakes up confused. Kyoko says she died. Homura says the case is closed and leaves. Kyoko and Sayaka demand an explanation. Homura says they should ask Kyubey.[46]
Kyubey reveals the truth: the Soul Gem is the real self and the body is just a shell. Sayaka is horrified. Mami tries to reassure her. Madoka says she does not regret her choice. Homura says Madoka is too kind. Kyoko says they have no choice but to keep fighting. The group resolves to continue together.[46]
Kyoko confronts Kyubey about Mami's near-death experience. Kyubey explains he extracted their souls. Sayaka is horrified, realizing she is no longer human. Kyubey says he simply omitted what was not relevant.[47]
Sayaka becomes increasingly reckless in battle. Mami tries to reach her, saying she lost a friend once before and does not want to lose another. Sayaka thanks her but says it is too late—her Soul Gem is pitch black.[47]
Homura reveals the final secret: when a Soul Gem becomes fully corrupted, it becomes a Grief Seed and the Magical Girl is reborn as a Witch. Sayaka has become a Witch.[47]
Mami preserves Sayaka's body with magic. Madoka asks if there is any way to save Sayaka. Kyoko decides to try saving her by calling out to her. Madoka agrees.[48]
The group searches for Sayaka's Witch. Homura reveals to Suzuka that her power is the amplification of synergies between Magical Girls, exponentially increasing their combat strength. She says this is their best chance against Walpurgisnacht.[48]
They find Sayaka's Witch. Kyoko sacrifices herself to protect Madoka and dies. Sayaka's Witch is defeated, but Sayaka is not saved. Homura realizes that even with Suzuka's power, the remaining four may not be enough against Walpurgisnacht.[48]
Several days later, the final battle with Walpurgisnacht begins. They are overwhelmed. Madoka tells Homura to rest and says she will defeat Walpurgisnacht herself. Homura activates her shield and rewinds time once again, determined to save Madoka.[48]
Timeline Three
Kyubey introduces Suzuka to the Holy Quintet. Homura has found a Witch Barrier. During the battle, everyone experiences unusual synergy—they can sense each other's thoughts and movements. Their Soul Gems begin glowing. Homura introduces herself to Suzuka with a smile, surprising Sayaka, Kyoko, and Mami.[49]
Later, the group splits for patrol. Madoka reports Suzuka has detected a Barrier from very far away. They fight and their Soul Gems glow again. Kyubey privately confronts Homura, suspecting she has been manipulating time to cultivate Suzuka's power. Kyubey says that with Suzuka's awakened power, they may defeat Walpurgisnacht—but warns that Homura's plan may not go as expected.[49]
Suzuka keeps finding Barriers. Mami worries she is pushing herself too hard. They fight a Familiar, then have cake. Homura does not attend, which annoys Kyoko and Sayaka. Madoka assures Suzuka that Homura is not a bad person.[49]
Homura calls Suzuka to the roof and reveals her time-loop power. She says Walpurgisnacht is coming and she needs Suzuka's power, but Suzuka's power is not what Homura expected. She asks if Suzuka has memories of past timelines, but Suzuka does not.[49]
Madoka notices Suzuka seems out of it. Sayaka tries to cheer them up. Kyoko reveals she is living with Mami now. Homura is surprised by this development. Kyubey confronts her, saying her plan may already be failing and that Homura's Soul Gem is the only one that does not glow.[49]
Homura calls Madoka to the roof and warns her a Witch will appear at the hospital today. She says they must keep Sayaka away from the fight. Mami reports a Witch at the hospital.[50]
The group arrives late. Sayaka is frustrated and wants to fight alone. Kyoko calms her down by sharing her own past: she became a Magical Girl to protect her family, but they died because of her wish. Sayaka calms down. Homura is surprised Kyoko would open up like this.[50]
The hospital Barrier is complex. Sayaka is worried about Kyosuke. They enter a room and find everyone dead. Sayaka despairs. Kyoko asks what Kyosuke means to her. Sayaka reveals she loves him and wished to heal his hands. Kyoko tells her to believe in miracles and fight. Sayaka resolves to save Kyosuke.[50]
The group splits into two teams. They fight but struggle. They regroup and find the Witch in Kyosuke's room. Mami tells Sayaka to confess to Kyosuke once he is safe. Sayaka agrees.[50]
They defeat the Witch. Kyosuke and the hospital are safe. Mami reminds Sayaka of her promise. Homura intervenes, saying romance leads to despair for Magical Girls. Madoka yells at Homura for being strange and hurtful. The group leaves and Homura is left alone, wondering why Madoka does not understand her concern.[50]
Kyoko complains about Homura's attitude. Sayaka agrees. Mami telepathically reports finding a Barrier and asks if Sayaka has decided on a day to confess. Kyoko says Mami is being persistent.[51]
After the battle, Mami presses Sayaka about her confession. Kyubey confronts Homura about being alone and asks if she has told the others what happens to Magical Girls. Homura accuses Kyubey of wanting to cause trouble. Kyubey says there is something more interesting and promises Homura will understand in time.[51]
Homura goes to regroup. Kyubey says she has rewound time several times but cannot change the one fate she wants to change. Homura says she will save Madoka this time.[51]
Madoka notices Homura seems down and asks if Homura has advice for Sayaka's confession. Mami suggests Sayaka make handmade sweets. They attempt to bake, but Sayaka struggles.[51]
Sayaka could not give the sweets to Kyosuke because she saw him doing rehab. Madoka suggests a love letter instead. Sayaka decides she wants to confess verbally.[51]
Kyoko offers to call Kyosuke out. Sayaka says she saw Kyosuke working hard toward his dream and wonders if it is right to interrupt that. Mami and Madoka say they need to be considerate of her feelings. Sayaka says she needs time alone to think.[51]
Sayaka ends up outside Kyosuke's hospital. He thanks her for cheering him up and reveals he plans to study abroad in Germany. He wants her to be the first to hear his music when he returns. Sayaka realizes she was thinking only about herself and no longer feels the need to confess. She thanks Kyosuke and leaves.[51]
Sayaka finds a Barrier and is unusually proactive. She admits to Suzuka she has been thinking about whether she has a purpose, like Kyosuke has his music.[52]
After the battle, Mami notices Sayaka seems cheerful. Kyoko and Mami bicker. Madoka tries to defuse the tension.[52]
Madoka asks Sayaka about Kyosuke. Sayaka says she has calmed down and is no longer fixated on confessing. She asks Madoka to smooth things over with Mami.[52]
Sayaka visits Kyosuke and listens to him play guitar. She says seeing him work hard and being surrounded by friends helped her realize there are things only she can do. She asks him to let her be the first to hear his guitar when he returns from Germany and he agrees.[52]
Madoka tells Homura that Sayaka seems happy but Mami is disappointed and keeps fighting with Kyoko. Homura says she is more worried that the group has been too lax. She warns that Walpurgisnacht is approaching. Madoka agrees they need to focus.[52]
Kyubey confronts Homura and says Walpurgisnacht is arriving sooner than usual. He says Suzuka's power will not work in the decisive battle and that Homura's Soul Gem is the only one that has never glowed—proving she is not connected. He says she will be a burden. Homura asks why he is telling her this now. Kyubey says he has his own purposes.[52]
Homura calls the group together to practice for Walpurgisnacht. During the practice, the others complain that Homura's attacks are dangerous and they cannot synchronize with her. Madoka invites Homura to tea, but Homura declines, saying she needs to think.[52]
Homura tells Madoka the truth about her time loops and that she has seen everyone die against Walpurgisnacht. She begs Madoka to leave the city. Madoka refuses, saying she cannot abandon her family and friends. Homura vows to protect Madoka even if she has to fight alone.[52]
The group notices an increase in witch activity. They agree to defeat as many as possible while practicing synchronization. Sayaka urges Homura to stop acting aloof.[53]
After a battle, Kyoko confronts Homura about her lack of synchronization. Madoka tries to defend Homura, but Kyoko says they have no time. Homura apologizes and says she will act alone. Madoka objects, but Homura leaves.[53]
Madoka tries to convince the others to stop Homura. Kyubey offers to follow her and report if she is in danger.[53]
Kyubey catches up to Homura. He says he was sent by the others. Homura tells him not to interfere.[53]
The group fights without Homura. Kyoko notes they are fighting better without her. Madoka insists Homura is trying her best. Sayaka says they should defeat the witches quickly so they can help Homura.[53]
Kyubey observes Homura's fighting. He comments that her reliance on weapons is a weakness and asks what she will do when her ammunition runs out. He reveals Homura still intends to challenge Walpurgisnacht.[53]
Kyubey offers to call for help when Homura needs it. Homura threatens him not to tell the others.[53]
The group defeats the final witch. Madoka tries to contact Kyubey about Homura but gets no response. Mami tries too. Madoka fears something has happened to Homura.[53]
Homura fights alone but struggles with weapon depletion. Kyubey suggests she call for help, but she refuses.[54]
Homura's weapon breaks. Kyubey asks if she really thinks she can win against Walpurgisnacht like this. Homura says she will just defeat it on her own.[54]
Madoka searches desperately for Homura. They find her broken handgun and realize she has been fighting alone. They feel guilty. Madoka reveals Homura is a time traveler who has repeated the same world over and over. Kyoko and Sayaka are skeptical, but Madoka begs them to understand Homura's true feelings.[54]
Kyubey asks Homura if her goal is to defeat Walpurgisnacht or to save Madoka. He says if it is the latter, it is impossible—that is the fate of Magical Girls. A Witch attacks and Homura is trapped under rubble. Kyubey leaves, saying he had hoped to collect a huge amount of energy from her despair. Homura screams.[54]
Homura is trapped and losing consciousness. Madoka and the others arrive, having defeated the Witch and rescued her. Homura is ashamed. Madoka says Suzuka found her. Homura says she will be a burden against Walpurgisnacht. Madoka says that is not true—Suzuka's magic found her, which proves she is connected. Homura is moved and thanks everyone.[54]
A news report announces an abnormal weather event. Mami confirms this is Walpurgisnacht. Unlike other Witches, it does not hide in a Barrier. Kyoko asks where Homura is. Madoka says Homura went ahead. Kyoko wonders why they did not all go together. Sayaka thinks Homura is shy. Mami tells them to focus and they head out.[55]
After fighting Familiars, Mami notes their coordination is still lacking. Homura glances at her Soul Gem. Madoka notices she is worried.[55]
Sayaka finds Homura waiting with the group instead of going ahead. She says she thought it would be better to work together. Homura tells her not to fuss over her. Sayaka apologizes and says they should work together from now on.[55]
Mami suggests a tea break. Sayaka asks Homura to join, but Homura declines. Sayaka asks if Homura thinks they have no chance even together. Homura says she just wants to prepare so she is not a burden. Sayaka tells her not to brood alone and says they are friends.[55]
Madoka and Homura talk. Madoka says she would be alone without Sayaka. She encourages Homura to get along with everyone. They approach the others, who are discussing worst-case scenarios. Madoka overhears and thinks they are planning to fight without Homura. Homura leaves. Mami explains they were just hypothesizing. Madoka realizes she misunderstood.[55]
Mami confronts Homura with ribbons to stop her from running. She says Homura is needed and is one of the most important friends. Homura admits she was worried. Mami says they are all friends who share the same sorrow.[55]
Kyoko gives Homura a madeleine and says not to worry about coordination and that she will match her technique. She says the only reason she has not fallen to despair is because Mami was there for her. Homura thanks her.[55]
The battle against Walpurgisnacht begins and Madoka is injured. Homura says Mami and Sayaka are down too. She apologizes for being a burden. Madoka says it is not over. She unleashes a tremendous magical blast that destroys Walpurgisnacht.[55]
After the battle, Homura's Soul Gem shines. Kyubey appears, surprised that a Magical Girl could defeat Walpurgisnacht. He says there is no such thing as a miracle without a cost, and that Madoka truly is the strongest Magical Girl.[55]
Manga Time Kirara Magica was often the publication place for many of entries into the franchise. Among the bigger stories, there were also smaller, more comedic stories which will be grouped in this section.
Magia Report and the Magia Record Anthologies are grouped in the Magia Record section of this article, while Magia Etc. is in the Magia Exedra Section.
These stories are framed as possible memories from within the vast tapestry of time and space. Their places in the timeline as well as their canonicity is ambiguous, so these stories are listed as part of the Magia Exedra Universe. The Nightmare and Bonus Stories are all introduced with the following:
Amidst the endless tapestry of time and space, this place was but one of a myriad of possibilities that may have existed. This story is a little memory quietly tucked away in a corner of that possibility.
Best Friend Required
Unlocked at the Nightmare difficulty of the Rose Garden Witch Part I Memory Window. It appears to be a possibility in a timeline reminiscent of the one in the Final Timeline after Madoka and Sayaka meet Mami and before their encounter with the Ulla Familiar. This event can either take place during Day 12, Saturday the 27th, or Day 13, Sunday the 28th.
Madoka and Sayaka travel to Kazamino City in search of a specific record store known for holding rare classical CDs as Sayaka wants to buy a gift for Kyosuke. While searching for it, they discuss potential things they may wish for, but admit they haven't decided on anything yet. They struggle to find it for a long time and Sayaka is ready to give up, but Madoka encourages her to continue for Kyosuke's sake. Using only a one-year-old blog photo as a reference, they finally find the correct shop discreetly located inside an office building, and Sayaka successfully buys several rare violin CDs. On the train home, a tired Madoka falls asleep on Sayaka's shoulder, and Sayaka expresses her gratitude, saying she would have given up if she were alone and was glad Madoka is her best friend.
High Five for Harmony
Unlocked at the Nightmare difficulty of the Rose Garden Witch Part II Memory Window. It appears to be a possibility in a timeline reminiscent of the one in the Final Timeline, and similar to the previous Nightmare Story, this event can either take place during Day 12, Saturday the 27th, or Day 13, Sunday the 28th.
While waiting to meet Mami for a patrol, Madoka and Sayaka notice a young girl with a lost dog, Kotaro. Sensing the girl is in trouble, they follow the dog and discover it is trying to lead them to a boy who has been kissed by a Witch and is in danger. Sayaka stays to keep watch while Madoka fetches Mami, who swiftly enters the Witch's Labyrinth and rescues the boy, who reunites with Kotaro.
Afterward, at her apartment, Mami praises the two of them for their actions, telling Madoka she is gentle and perceptive and commending Sayaka for her level-headedness. Mami expresses that she would be happy if Madoka became a Magical Girl and fought alongside her, and the three then enjoy a peaceful time together with chamomile tea and cake.
A City Ours to Defend
Unlocked at the Nightmare difficulty of the Darkness Witch Memory Window. This happens in a timeline where Madoka and Sayaka make contracts early and form a trio with Mami. Due to the appearance of Gertrud and Ulla Familiars, it is possible this story takes place between Day 10 to Day 14.
Day 10 - Thursday, the 25th: Madoka and Sayaka are overwhelmed in battle against Gertrud and her Familiars until Mami arrives and saves them.
Day 11 - Friday, the 26th: The next day, they notice Mami returning a book on chess strategy and mistakenly conclude it was the source of her skill. After borrowing the book, they dedicate themselves to learning its principles, applying concepts of psychological warfare and controlling their emotions to their combat practice. They develop a coordinated team attack based on feints and reading an opponent's moves.
Day 14 - Monday, the 29th: In their next battle, their new strategy proves successful. After they executed a perfect feint and finishing blow, Mami praises their improved teamwork and they reveal their inspiration was her chess book. Mami clarifies it was a misunderstanding and that she had merely been returning a book she found. Nevertheless, she affirms that the successful strategy they had developed themselves was what truly mattered. Watching the sunset over the city, the three Magical Girls stand together, with Sayaka resolving to grow stronger to defend it.
Cake Baking Challenge
Unlocked at the Nightmare difficulty of the Dessert Witch Memory Window. As they're in Charlotte's Labyrinth, this takes place on Day 15.
Day 15 - Tuesday, the 30th: Madoka, while shadowing Mami inside Charlotte's Barrier, confesses her desire to become a Magical Girl simply to be as helpful and admirable as Mami. Mami advises her to think carefully, as having a wish granted is a unique opportunity that shouldn't be wasted. She then joked that if Madoka didn't decide by the next Witch, they would simply wish for a giant cake to celebrate their partnership. Though their hunt is preempted by another Magical Girl, the conversation inspires them and instead of using a wish, the two bake a cheesecake together at Mami's apartment. After successfully baking and enjoying the cake they had made themselves, Madoka feels a true sense of accomplishment, which makes her decide against using her contract for something she could achieve through her own effort.
Futures Felt in Photographs
Unlocked at the Nightmare difficulty of the Box Witch Memory Window. This event likely occurs in most or every timeline.
Madoka and Sayaka look through a childhood photo album of the two of them and Hitomi. As they look at a middle school class photo, they notice an empty seat in the front row, which Sayaka jokingly calls the worst seat for being in the teacher's "firing line."
Day 10 - Thursday, the 25th: Several days later, the very seat that Sayaka mentioned is taken by a new transfer student: Homura Akemi.
In Blissful Ignorance
Unlocked at the Nightmare difficulty of the Graffiti Witch Memory Window. This story depicts Homura's actions between many timelines and how she keeps Madoka from contracting.
Day 3 - Thursday, the 18th: In the meantime, Homura, knowing where dangers will appear, has been meticulously redirecting Madoka's after-school path, from placing a construction sign to employing Amy, the cat to ensure Madoka meets with Sayaka in a safe location. With Madoka safely occupied, Homura proceeds to eliminate both a Familiar and a Witch. Her entire plan is designed to ensure Madoka has no reason to make a contract with Kyubey.
Day 4 - Friday, the 19th: The next day, Homura observes Madoka, Sayaka, and Hitomi happily making plans, content in the knowledge that she has successfully allowed Madoka to remain living in blissful ignorance.
We're So Similar?
Unlocked at the Nightmare difficulty of the Silver Witch Memory Window. It occurs in a timeline where Mami, Sayaka and Kyoko are working together as Magical Girls in Mitakihara.
In a joint battle against a Witch, Mami observes that the bickering Sayaka and Kyoko were surprisingly in sync, a notion they both vehemently denied. After the fight, Mami invited them to meet the next day to discuss the threat of Walpurgisnacht.
While waiting for Mami the following day, Sayaka and Kyoko find their stomachs growling in unison. Their attempts to get a snack are marked by repeatedly having the same thoughts, and with Sayaka actively trying to choose differently from Kyoko. Ultimately, they both end up wanting the snack the other had chosen.
The next time they meet, each had bought the treat the other had originally wanted, leading Mami to find them together. As Sayaka frantically tries to explain the situation was not what it looked like, Mami simply smiles at seeing them with their respective snacks.
One Time Team-up!
Unlocked at the Nightmare difficulty of the Shadow Witch Memory Window. It occurs in a timeline where Homura attempts to team up with Kyoko and due to the appearance of Elsa Maria, it likely occurs during Day 22.
Day 22 - Tuesday, the 6th: Homura approaches Kyoko with a proposition to team up and protect the city from the coming Walpurgisnacht, offering Kyoko control of the city if they succeed. Kyoko, suspicious of Homura's motives and secretive nature, refuses the offer, questioning what Homura stood to gain.
Immediately after their tense meeting, they're both pulled into a Elsa Maria's Labyrinth and are forced to work together. During the battle, Homura reveals her power and the two coordinate into a simultaneous attack to defeat the Witch in a single blow.
After the battle, Homura lets Kyoko keep the Grief Seed. Though Kyoko acknowledged Homura's power and the offer to team up, she ultimately declines, stating she could not work with someone who was still hiding their true intentions. However, she leaves the door open for future cooperation if Homura ever decides to tell her the whole story.
A Reluctant Coach Steps Up
Unlocked at the Nightmare difficulty of the Dog Witch Memory Window. It depicts an event in a timeline where Kyoko is in Mitakihara and Madoka still hasn't become a Magical Girl.
After rescuing a lost Madoka from a Witch, Kyoko is taken aback by Madoka's selfless desire to become a Magical Girl who protects others.
Their paths later cross again at an arcade, where Kyoko reluctantly finds herself coaching the determined Madoka through a difficult dance game and helps her train so she can win a prize for a friend.
When they meet after Madoka's successful event, Madoka and her friend, Sayaka, credit their win entirely to Kyoko's coaching and kindness. Overwhelmed by their genuine gratitude and Madoka's unwavering perception of her as a good person, Kyoko simply gives up on trying to correct them.
A Dream of a Little Mermaid
Unlocked at the Nightmare difficulty of the Mermaid Witch Memory Window. It references the ending song, And I'm Home and may thus be occuring in Sayaka's perspective as Oktavia, or after her death in a sort of afterlife.
In a quiet moment of reflection, Sayaka finds her own story painfully mirrored in the fairy tale of "The Little Mermaid." She grapples with the harsh reality of her existence as a Magical Girl, fighting alone with no happy ending in sight. Unlike the mermaid, she cannot even become a beautiful bubble, feeling instead that her soul is turning to stone and sinking into an abyss. Her despair is interrupted by the voice of Kyoko Sakura, who has come to find her. As Sayaka awakens from her troubled dream, the specifics fade, leaving behind only the heavy, lingering feeling of her sorrow.
Special Stage Persona
Unlocked at the Nightmare difficulty of the Artist Witch Memory Window. It depicts a timeline where the five girls form a band together, and it is almost certainly not canon.
Inspired by their teacher's theme of "new experiences," Madoka decides to form a band for the school festival with her friends. She recruits Mami, Homura, Sayaka, and a reluctant Kyoko. After assigning instruments they draw lots and fatefully select the nervous Homura and Madoka as their dual vocalists.
The band faces the task of learning three songs as complete beginners, so they dedicate themselves to individual and group practice and slowly improve as a unit.
On the eve of the festival, a last-minute suggestion from Sayaka leads Homura to remove her glasses and unbraid her hair, revealing a stunning new look that left everyone, especially Madoka, in awe.
New Specs to a New Perspective
Unlocked at the Nightmare difficulty of the Chairperson Witch Memory Window. It likely takes place during Timeline 2, where Homura, Madoka and Mami formed a team together.
After Homura's glasses break in battle, Mami and Madoka accompany her to buy a new pair. To make the experience more fun, they decide to each pick out frames they think will suit the others. Homura is deeply touched by their thoughtful choices and the enjoyable time they spend together.
A few days later, Homura shyly reveals that she has bought the glasses Madoka and Mami chose for her. Wanting to preserve them, she explains she plans to wear them only on special outings and hopes they can all go out together again. To her delight, Madoka and Mami reveal they have also bought the non-prescription glasses they tried on that day. The three friends happily agree to wear their new glasses together on their next outing, creating a shared, matching look.
Meeting Within a Dream
Unlocked at the Nightmare difficulty of the Birdcage Witch Memory Window. It is a dream sequence that Madoka has about Homura.
In a dream, Madoka finds herself in a strange, bright landscape where she witnesses a girl locked in a desperate battle against a monstrous entity.
The dream then shifts, and Madoka sees a brief, everyday encounter with Homura. This memory quickly transitions back to the spectral battlefield, where Madoka watches Homura, now clearly a Magical Girl, fighting terrifying creatures in secret. Overwhelmed by Homura's solitary struggle, Madoka feels a powerful urge to help her, considering becoming a Magical Girl herself to share the burden.
When Madoka awakens, the specific details of the dream fade, leaving behind only a profound and lingering feeling that the person she met, Homura, is deeply important to her.
What She Once Entrusted
Unlocked at the Nightmare difficulty of the Stage Witch Memory Window. It's a series of memories Homura has regarding Madoka's ribbons, which she reminisces about while attending school in the universe of the Law of Cycles, after the Final Timeline in the Original Universe has concluded. The memories themselves could have taken place in any of the early timelines.
The first memory is of Homura when she first noticed Madoka's signature red ribbons, which Madoka explains were a gift from her mother. Homura thinks they suit her very well.
One day, Sayaka urgently approaches Homura for help. Madoka has lost her ribbons to the wind, and while she acts resigned, Sayaka wants to find them. Homura agrees to help. They split up to search, but find nothing. Just as they are about to give up, Homura's cat, Amy appears and insistently leads them to the ribbons, which are caught on a low tree branch.
After they retrieve the ribbons, Homura insists that Sayaka take all the credit for finding them.
The next day, however, Madoka thanks Homura anyway, having heard the full story from Sayaka. Homura tells her not to lose them again, as they mean a lot to her.
In a later, solitary moment in the universe of the Law of Cycles, Homura holds the ribbons while attending school. She reflects that they only truly suit Madoka, but can perfectly imagine Madoka's cheerful voice insisting they look lovely on her, too. This memory strengthens her resolve to keep fighting to defend the precious world Madoka tried to protect.
This Was My Everyday
Unlocked as the Bonus Story of the Next Act: In Search of an Ordinary Life event.
Koito is on her way to meet Komaki for shopping. A stranger tries to pick her up but Komaki arrives and shouts at the man to leave, which makes him walk away. Komaki says Koito should have waited in the classroom, but Koito wanted to buy a fashion magazine for shopping ideas. They go shopping and buy clothes for Koito. Koito asks if Komaki wants anything, but she refuses. Koito teases her about liking cute styles and Komaki is embarrassed. After shopping, Koito wants to go to a cafe for a new drink and even though Komaki wants to study, she eventually agrees. She tells Koito to go ahead alone and Komaki sneaks off and returns just as the drinks arrive.
A few months later, after Komaki’s death, Koito returns to the same cafe alone. She orders two drinks and though she waits, Komaki never comes. Koito realizes Komaki must have been fighting a Witch as a Magical Girl that day. Komaki was always protecting her.
Endless Sweet Bliss
Unlocked at the Nightmare difficulty of the Corbeau Memory Window.
Melissa discovers that their group is almost out of hardtack and salted meat, though they still have plenty of flour. She blames herself for not keeping better track, but Darc and Liz reassure her that they have not been able to stop at settlements for weeks. Elisa suggests they simply obtain more food by hunting, so Darc goes fishing while Elisa and Liz hunt. Darc returns with fish, and Elisa brings back venison, thanking Liz for spotting it. Melissa cooks the meal, and everyone praises her skill.
During the meal, Darc mentions she learned to fish in Domrémy with her older brothers. Liz notes that Darc does not eat meat due to religious devotion, even on days when it is not forbidden. Elisa admits she could never emulate such discipline. When asked about her favorite food, Darc says she likes fish best but loves everything Melissa cooks. Elisa declares meat as her favorite but is cut off, then asks Liz about hers.
Liz reveals an enormous jar of honey that she had concealed among her belongings. She pours a massive amount over her pasta, creating what looks like a few scraps of pasta floating in a sea of honey, and declares it true bliss. Elisa is horrified, pointing out that such a meal could cost more than an entire court banquet. Darc explains that Liz has a real sweet tooth and even as a mercenary spent most of her pay on honey. Liz then pours honey onto everyone else's pasta, leaving Elisa and Melissa no escape. Darc eats it cheerfully, saying she loves any meal as long as she gets to eat it with all of them. Melissa and Elisa eventually join in, with Elisa exclaiming at the sugary assault to the senses. Liz, however, insists it is not nearly enough honey.
Sisterly Symphony
Unlocked at the Nightmare difficulty of the Crépuscule de la Reine Memory Window.
One evening, in a fortress on the outskirts of Orléans, Corbeau, Lapine, and Minou have defeated enemy forces. Soldiers flee in terror and Lapine wants to continue playing with the survivors, but Minou stops them. The battlefield grows quiet and Corbeau thinks about finding a place for her sisters to rest.
Lapine hears a flute and drums and follows the sound. Lapine and Minou are in a room full of instruments and Lapine plays drums while Minou plays flute. They perform “Deo gratias Anglia” (a song giving thanks to God for victory) and Corbeau also joins them with her singing voice. After the song, Lapine praises her sisters. Corbeau admits she cannot play instruments, but Lapine says the voice is an instrument too. They laugh together.
Lapine asks for one more song, but Corbeau says it is very late. They should rest to be fresh for tomorrow. Lapine reluctantly agrees. Minou reminds them of their objective: to set the stage and lie in wait for “the one born from the light,” as their mother ordered this. Corbeau says when that time comes, they will play with her to their hearts’ content. Lapine hopes she comes soon and sings “Veni, veni, venias” (Come, come, come to me). Corbeau responds with “Veni, domicella, cum gaudic” (Come, La Pucelle, with joy). She does not know what to expect, but she hopes the girl will entertain her. Corbeau sings “Veni, veni, pulchra, iam pereo” (Come, come, O fair one, I am dying for you). She wishes to dance madly until the very end if fate allows.
Trivia
Between the release of Sadness Prayer and Magia Exedra, Koito's Magical Girl design was changed for the latter.
While the event of Dance☆Magica does mention the date of April 1st, this is most likely a reference to the Event being released on April Fools and not an actual confirmation to the date of the timeline.
