Timelines/Magia Record/Arc 1

This article details the events and stories taking place in, during and between the chapters of Arc 1 of Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story. The narrative is structured to show the convergence of two distinct flows of action:

1. The first is the personal, undated journey of Iroha Tamaki within the anomalous Kamihama City, which is much longer than Homura Akemi's usual 32 day loop. Her story begins on its own internal timeline, where the sequence of events is more important than specific calendar dates.
2. The second is the dated countdown to Walpurgisnacht's arrival from the original series, which starts with Day 1, Tuesday the 16th and ends on Day 32, Friday the 16th. Only the latter half of Homura's timeline is able to be approximately dated.

As the arc progresses, these two timelines intersect, and due to this, the latter half of the story is much easier to date. It should be noted that the timeline of the Magia Record game is highly anomalous, and thus any attempts at dating it are an educated guess at best. Therefore, this chronology should be used primarily to understand the sequence of major events, rather than as a calendar. In lack of contradictory context clues, the release date, or order of release of the event were used for their placement.

First Day

• Iroha Tamaki arrives in Kamihama City, compelled by recurring dreams of an unknown girl in a hospital room. Believing this girl to be a key to a buried memory, Iroha begins searching the city's Witch Labyrinths for clues. During her search, she rescues another Magical Girl later identified as Kaede Akino from aggressive Familiars. The girl warns Iroha about the unusual strength of Kamihama's Witches and, upon learning Iroha is searching for a small Kyubey, mentions having seen it in a specific Labyrinth. Kaede notes that the small Kyubey has been the only Kyubey around recently.
• Iroha locates the Labyrinth and finds the small Kyubey who is incapable of speech, though Iroha can somehow understand it anyway, but is soon overwhelmed by a horde of Familiars. During the struggle, she has a vivid vision of the hospital room from her dreams. She is saved by Momoko Togame, who explains that the Witches in Kamihama are too powerful for most Magical Girls to handle alone. Momoko takes Iroha to meet Mitama Yakumo, the "Coordinator," who can perform a "Soul Gem Alignment" to enhance a Magical Girl's power.
• During the alignment, Iroha has another, clearer vision of the hospital room and the girl, feeling a strong sense of affection and nostalgia. After the procedure, Mitama reveals that she can see into the pasts of those whose Soul Gems she touches and asks Iroha what her wish was. Iroha is horrified to realize she cannot remember her own wish or the identity of the girl in her dreams.
• Driven by this revelation, Iroha rushes out to continue her search, but is intercepted by the powerful Magical Girl Yachiyo Nanami. Yachiyo, believing Iroha is not strong enough to survive in Kamihama, challenges her to a duel to force her to leave the city. Though Yachiyo wins, Momoko intervenes, and a compromise is reached: Yachiyo will allow Iroha to stay if she and Momoko can defeat a specific Witch, the Sandbox Witch, before Yachiyo can.
• The small Kyubey reappears and leads Iroha and Momoko directly to the Sandbox Witch's Labyrinth. Although Yachiyo defeats the Witch first, she gives Iroha a final chance to prove herself by defeating the Witch alone, which Iroha successfully does. Yachiyo admits she thought Iroha would be fine from the start. However, Yachiyo then reveals her true objective: she believes the small Kyubey is a dangerous irregularity and moves to eliminate it. Yachiyo explains she was trying to draw the small Kyubey out, as all the other Kyubeys in Kamihama have disappeared. Iroha throws herself in the way to protect it.
• After the confrontation, as Iroha protects the small Kyubey, by touching it a flood of memories is unlocked. She remembers her little sister, Ui Tamaki, who was chronically ill and hospitalized. Iroha recalls her wish to Kyubey: "Please cure Ui! Make my precious little sister healthy!" She also realizes with horror that she had completely forgotten Ui's existence, living her life as if she never had a sister, with no memory of her until that moment.
• Iroha awakens back at Mitama's office, having been carried there by Momoko after fainting. She explains her recovered memory to Momoko and Mitama. Despite their warnings that the memory could be false, Iroha declares that she must continue her investigation in Kamihama. Now her goal is not just to understand her dreams, but to find the cause of Ui's disappearance and uncover the truth behind her own forgotten wish. Momoko resolves to help Iroha, and Mitama agrees to help as well for a price. Mitama then asks Iroha to give the small Kyubey a name. Iroha asks Lil' Kyubey if he will help her find Ui, and he agrees.

Second Day

• Iroha, now at her home in Takarazaki City, understands the reason for the empty space in her room: it once belonged to her sister, Ui. She recalls memories of Ui and her two friends from the hospital, Touka Satomi and Nemu Hiiragi, even remembering specific details like how Nemu loved writing and published stories online, or how Touka was very smart. Iroha resolves to visit the hospital to find them, hopeful they will remember Ui.
• Later that day, Iroha goes to the hospital with Lil' Kyubey's help to use her cellphone but is unable to locate Touka and Nemu, as she does not have a visitor pass and is not family. She reflects on their personalities and their frequent arguments, which Ui often mediated. As Iroha recalls one of their fights where they declared they were "not friends anymore," she is approached by Yachiyo. She warns Iroha about a dangerous Rumor in Kamihama called the "Rule of Ending Friendships." She explains that if two friends fight and one later apologizes to make up, a monster will kidnap the one who apologized. Yachiyo states this is one of several Rumors in Kamihama that have become reality, leading to people disappearing and tells Iroha to be careful. Iroha later discusses this rumor with Mitama, who explains that Momoko is not likely to believe anything from Yachiyo, as they stopped getting along after Yachiyo became a model.
• Shortly after this conversation, Iroha witnesses an argument between Momoko Togame's teammates, Rena Minami and Kaede Akino. Momoko asks Iroha to catch Rena, but Rena fights her off and even transforms into Iroha to surprise her. Momoko formally introduces Kaede and explains the fight is over sweets. She figures Rena will apologize later. The argument escalates, and both girls declare they are "not friends anymore" before Rena storms off. Momoko dismisses Iroha's concern about the Rumor, asserting that rumors are not true. Iroha notes that Momoko seems dismissive of the information specifically because it came from Yachiyo.

• Mami enters Kamihama City and saves Rena from a Stacey Witch. Rena reveals that Kamihama has the opposite problem to other cities: an overabundance of powerful Witches. Mami realizes Kamihama is an anomaly. While investigating, she encounters a powerful Familiar and a strange, non-Witch Barrier, solidifying her decision to investigate the city's mysteries.

Undated Period

• Several days after the initial argument, Momoko notes that Rena Minami has not apologized to Kaede, which is unusual behavior. Kaede spends her time alone, and Momoko expresses worry for her. During this time, Iroha encounters a witch and rescues Kaede. Kaede admits she was running away from Momoko to avoid being forced to see Rena, and that she wants to apologize but doesn't think she can.
• Several more days later, Momoko decides to intervene in the dispute. Iroha offers to help, and Momoko accepts, promising to aid Iroha in her search for Ui in return.
  • Momoko devises a plan to lure Rena and Kaede to the same location. The plan involves waiting for Rena at her student committee meeting. Iroha waits for a long time, but Momoko calls to say the meeting was cancelled and Rena went home early. Momoko tells Iroha to find Rena at the game center. Iroha finds Rena at the arcade playing a game and attempts to lure her to an abandoned construction site with a false story about a live show from Sayuki Fumino, Rena's favorite idol. Rena sees through the ruse. Kaede arrives and confronts Rena directly, demanding an apology. When Rena refuses, Kaede attempts to apologize herself. Rena reacts with panic and tries to stop her, revealing her belief in the Rule of Ending Friendships Rumor and her fear that an apology would cause Kaede to be taken. Rena denies this and runs off. Iroha and Kaede chase her and run into Momoko, but Kaede realizes it's a transformed Rena. Rena returns to her normal appearance and admits she believes in the rumor.
  • As Kaede completes her apology, a strange Labyrinth, distinct from a Witch's Barrier, manifests. Monstrous Familiars appear, seize Kaede, and drag her away, confirming the Rumor's power. Rena runs off, determined to find a solution.
  • Momoko and Iroha regroup and Momoko expresses more concern over Rena Minami's departure than Kaede Akino's capture, but trusts that Rena had a reason. Iroha suggests asking Mitama for help. Momoko reveals that Mitama accepts payment in Grief Seeds, and she's running low. Lil' Kyubey then finds Rena, who was looking for Momoko. They follow the residual magic trail and find Rena, who reveals she sought information from Yachiyo on how to counter the Rumor. The group returns to the abandoned construction site, where Rena shouts an apology to Kaede to lure out the entity. The Uwasa's Labyrinth manifests, and a brainwashed Kaede appears, followed by monstrous Familiars. The Uwasa captures Rena too and Yachiyo arrives, confirms the Rumor's power, and joins the fight. Yachiyo subdues the possessed Kaede, and Momoko and Iroha proceed deeper into the Labyrinth and find the Uwasa, "Ms. Staircase," which has also possessed Rena. Momoko and Iroha try attacking the witch, but it has no effect. Yachiyo then arrives, having knocked Kaede out. Yachiyo admits she doesn't know how to defeat the witch either. Kaede returns and teams up with a now brainwashed Rena. Yachiyo knocks them out and notes the witch may have increased their powers, at the cost of darkening their Soul Gems. Yachiyo catches up and defeats both possessed girls to neutralize the threat without serious injury. Iroha proposes a coordinated attack to counteract the Uwasa's nature, so Iroha, Momoko, and Yachiyo combine their attacks and destroy the Uwasa.
  • After the battle, Yachiyo provides a Grief Seed to revive the exhausted Kaede and Iroha also uses her healing powers to help awaken her. Yachiyo identifies the entity as an "Uwasa," a being distinct from Witches and Familiars that exists to protect a Rumor. Afterward, the girls find Rena and Kaede. Kaede awakens and reconciles with Rena. The four girls then all share pudding together, affirming their friendship.
  • Sometime later, to fulfill her promise, Momoko has Rena use her transformation magic to investigate the hospital records. Rena confirms that Touka Satomi and Nemu Hiiragi were real patients discharged around the same time as Ui. However, Rena finds no record of Ui Tamaki's existence at the hospital. Despite this setback, Iroha resolves to continue her search.

• One day, Iroha visits Mitama for a Soul Gem alignment. During the procedure, Mitama's hunger causes Iroha to see visions of food. Momoko arrives and notes Mitama's treatments are ineffective when she is hungry. The three go to Mitama's kitchen, where her dangerous cooking prompts Iroha to recall memories of cooking for her sister, Ui. Iroha remembers a specific incident where she burned hamburg steak for Ui in the hospital, but her mother brought a replacement, and Ui enjoyed the meal regardless.

• One week after the defeat of the Uwasa of Ending Friendships, Iroha has found no new clues about Ui, Touka Satomi, or Nemu Hiiragi. Kaede tells Iroha and Rena a rumor that the children kidnapped by the previous Uwasa returned after its defeat. This gives Iroha the idea that if she defeats other Rumors, people trapped by them, including Ui, might be freed. She recalls a conversation where Ui spoke about imagination becoming reality, which strengthens her resolve. Iroha decides to actively investigate Kamihama's Rumors and she meets Mitama, who suggests Iroha look into a rumor about a shrine in Mizuna Ward.
  • Later that day, in Mizuna Ward, Iroha has no success finding information about the shrine rumor. She meets Tsuruno Yui, a Magical Girl who calls herself the "Mightiest." Tsuruno tells Iroha about the "Séance Shrine" rumor, which claims it can reunite people with those they yearn to see. Iroha decides this is a promising lead to find Ui.

• The next day, Tsuruno tasks Iroha with investigating a local legend about a tragic couple, which may connect to the Séance Shrine rumor. Tsuruno explains the folk tale in detail: a woman whose lover was killed found a paper with his handwriting, went to the place written on it, and was able to meet his ghost. She suggests Iroha investigate the path while she investigates shrines. Iroha completes a stamp rally related to the legend. She discovers the path is part of a town renewal project meant for couples and finds she only has half the map, requiring a partner with a "Sheet B." Yachiyo appears, coincidentally in possession of Sheet B. They combine their sheets, which reveals a map that leads them to Mizuna Shrine. Before they leave, Yachiyo points out Iroha dropped her notebook, which Iroha hurriedly claims is her homework. At the final stamp rally location, a woman makes them confess their feelings for each other to get a matchmaking charm. Afterward, Yachiyo notices Iroha is writing in a "Kamihama Mystery Notes" notebook, and Iroha admits she's copying Yachiyo. Yachiyo determines this is not the Séance Shrine, and they part ways. Iroha agrees to help Tsuruno investigate further the next day. Later, Iroha spots a shrine on a rooftop from a train.
  • Mami discusses Kamihama City's anomalies with Kyubey, who agrees to share information. She then meets Kyoko and informs her about the high concentration of Witches in Kamihama. Kyoko is eager to hunt there but promises to leave if it becomes too dangerous. Mami remains concerned about the Witch shortage elsewhere.
  • Iroha investigates the rooftop shrine location. She senses strong magic, enters a Witch's Labyrinth, and is overwhelmed by powerful Familiars. Yachiyo arrives and assists her and together, they defeat the Witch. After the battle, a store sale gives Yachiyo a new idea after she uncharacteristically begged Iroha for help getting to the sale. She deduces the Séance Shrine is Mizuna Shrine, but it must be visited at night just like in the folk tale. Yachiyo invites Iroha to investigate the shrine that night, and Iroha requests to bring Tsuruno.
  • That night, Iroha, Yachiyo, and Tsuruno sneak into Mizuna Shrine after hours. Tsuruno reveals that she and Yachiyo are former teammates and Yachiyo explains the Rumor of the Séance Shrine: those who write a name on a wooden plaque and pray at the shrine will be reunited with that person, but risk being trapped in bliss. They perform the ritual. Iroha prays to be reunited with Ui. Tsuruno provokes the Uwasa, which manifests and attacks. Yachiyo urges Iroha to complete the ritual as the Uwasa's minions approach and Iroha does so.
  • Iroha finds herself alone in a twilight version of the shrine. A false version of Ui appears but only repeats a cryptic message: "To change your fate, come to Kamihama City... Here, Magical Girls can be saved." The illusion then shatters and Iroha locates Yachiyo, who is confronted by a manifestation of her missing friend, Mifuyu Azusa. Yachiyo determines this Mifuyu is an imposter created by the Uwasa and the two defeat her. Afterward, Iroha uses her Grief Seed to purify Yachiyo's Soul Gem, and they realize they are both searching for someone.

• Mami encounters Kaede, who is hesitating to enter a Witch's Barrier. Mami invites Kaede to join her, and they defeat the Witch together. Afterwards, Kaede tells Mami about her recent experience with a "Rumor," an entity with a magical signature unlike a Witch or Magical Girl. Mami dismisses the story as a coincidence but is intrigued by the unknown energy. To avoid involving Kaede in further conflict, Mami decides to investigate the Rumor alone.
  • Tsuruno joins with the two of them and the Uwasa of the Séance Shrine manifests to attack them directly. The trio's attacks prove ineffective and Iroha's Soul Gem becomes critically corrupted during the fight. As she nears her limit, an unknown power erupts from within her. This power, her Doppel, which consumes the impurities in her Soul Gem, destroys the Uwasa and leaves her Soul Gem completely purified.
  • Immediately after the battle, Mami enters the Rumor's Barrier and witnesses Iroha unleash her Doppel. Mistaking it for a human-disguised Witch, Mami attacks Iroha, who tries and fails to summon her Doppel again to defend herself. The confrontation is interrupted by Momoko Togame, forcing Mami to retreat, but she vows to pursue Iroha.
  • Later that day, Mami finds Kyoko and, relieved she has not yet gone to Kamihama, recounts the event and describes Iroha as a "humanoid Witch." She pleads with Kyoko to avoid the city and offers to provide her with Grief Seeds, to which Kyoko reluctantly agrees.
  • Concurrently, Kaede, Rena, and Momoko discuss the incident. They conclude it was a misunderstanding and speculate they will meet Mami again.
  • Later, after Yachiyo uses Iroha's phone to explain the situation to Iroha's mother and get permission for her to stay out, Yachiyo takes Iroha to her home, Mikazuki Villa, as her assistant. Yachiyo formally invites Iroha to be her assistant and use the villa as a base to investigate Kamihama's Rumors together. Iroha accepts. Tsuruno arrives and declares herself part of the team as well, and then reveals that a girl named Nemu Hiiragi is a regular customer at her family's restaurant, providing Iroha with a significant new lead.
  • Shortly after the defeat of the Séance Shrine Uwasa, Iroha, Yachiyo, and Tsuruno attempt to find Nemu Hiiragi at her family's restaurant in Sankyo Ward, but learn she only visits once a month. Yachiyo suggests using a phone book to find Nemu's home address, but their search yields no results. Iroha reveals her family will move overseas and she will soon relocate to Kamihama and while searching, Iroha drinks water from a "Water Station with the Owl Sign." After drinking, she begins to find pieces of paper with decreasing numbers. Yachiyo identifies this as a potential new Rumor.
  • Kyoko travels to Kamihama's Sankyo Ward against Mami's advice and upon entering the city, she finds it overrun with aggressive Witches and Familiars. After the battles, she notices a crowd around a man giving out free water, and, after drinking it, begins to find papers with a countdown from 24.

• The next morning, the countdown has reached 10. Kyoko returns to Kamihama to investigate and meets Yachiyo Nanami, who explains the phenomenon is a Rumor. Kyoko refuses Yachiyo's offer to help, resolving to confront the threat alone.
  • After learning Nemu's family were regulars, Iroha searches eats at Banbanzai daily. Yachiyo suggests she use a phonebook, but her visits to three different houses are unsuccessful. Iroha and another girl receive water from an old man at a shop with an owl sign. Later, Iroha returns to the Water Station but finds it has vanished. She meets the girl she saw earlier, Felicia Mitsuki, another Magical Girl and receives the numbered papers. Iroha convinces Felicia to help investigate the Rumor.
  • During this time, Iroha tells Yachiyo over the phone that she would be moving because her father was going abroad for work, and her mother was accompanying him. She plans to stay at a dormitory attached to her new school, which is also where Tsuruno went, but there were no rooms available. While discussing this, the numbered papers begin falling on Iroha.
  • Later that day, Kyoko encounters Rena Minami and Kaede Akino. They lead her to Tsuruno Yui's restaurant, where Kyoko learns the others are also investigating the Rumor. The three Magical Girls fight a Witch together, and after the battle, Rena and Kaede identify Kyoko's affliction as the "Rumor of the Misery Water" and offer to help. Kyoko, reminded of her past with Mami, rejects their offer and leaves.
  • Separately, Yachiyo encounters Kyoko Sakura, who is also affected by the Rumor. Yachiyo proposes they investigate together, but Kyoko refuses, stating that Uwasa are not Witches and do not provide Grief Seeds.
  • Later the same day, Iroha and Felicia investigate the Rumor, where Felicia's reckless fighting style nearly injures Iroha against a Witch. Felicia explains she became a Magical Girl for revenge against the Witch that killed her parents. The Lil' Kyubey appears and reveals the "Rumor of the Misery Water," which states a disaster will befall those who drank the water after 24 hours. The countdown shows they have less than five hours.
  • Members of a group called the Wings of the Magius appear and attempt to stop them from pursuing the Uwasa. They state their goal is to "liberate" all Magical Girls and that the Rumors are essential to this plan. Felicia pretends to betray the group to infiltrate the Wings, a plan that Yachiyo had actually hired her for. However, she later genuinely defects after they offer her a substantial reward. Iroha confronts Felicia, who claims nothing could make her life worse. Iroha learns about Felicia's treasured stuffed animal, a cow her parents gave her. Iroha convinces Felicia that losing it would be a personal disaster. Felicia rejoins the group and reveals the Wings' base is under a school in Sankyo Ward.
  • Throughout this ordeal, Kyoko has followed Iroha's group and when they're confronted the Black Feathers of the Wings of the Magius, she assists them in their fight. The countdown reaches one hour.
  • With less than one hour remaining, the team is confronted by the White Feathers, Tsukuyo and Tsukasa Amane, who use sound-based magic. Tsuruno devises a plan to counter their attacks by creating a loud noise to disrupt the sound waves. The team defeats the Amane sisters, but then they unleash powerful entities from their bodies, that they call "Doppels," which they describe as a projection of their emotions and the key to liberating Magical Girls. The team withstands the Doppel's attack, and with 30 minutes remaining, Yachiyo and Tsuruno stay behind to hold off the remaining White Feathers. Iroha, Felicia, and Kyoko proceed into the Uwasa's Labyrinth, and with 10 minutes remaining, they locate the Uwasa of the Misery Water, a large cup-like creature protected by falling boulders. Iroha's long-range attack proves ineffective, and Felicia devises a plan to use the falling boulders as platforms to reach the Uwasa. With one minute remaining, Felicia executes her plan and launches her attack on the Uwasa and successfully defeats it.
  • Yachiyo and Tsuruno subdue the Amane sisters, but then Mifuyu, Yachiyo's missing friend, appears and reveals she is a high-ranking member of the Wings of the Magius. She refuses to return with Yachiyo, stating her faith in the Magius' goal of liberation. Iroha asks Mifuyu if she knows Ui Tamaki, and she suggests Ui could be a member of the Wings of the Magius but claims to have no specific knowledge. With this, Mifuyu and the Amane sisters retreat.
  • Yachiyo resolves to continue eliminating Rumors to confront the Wings of the Magius and save Mifuyu. Iroha agrees to continue as her assistant, believing the Wings are connected to Ui's disappearance. Tsuruno also pledges her help and Kyoko departs.
  • Later that day, the group walks home and Iroha invites Felicia to stop working as a mercenary and team up as friends. Yachiyo offers Felicia room and board at Mikazuki Villa in exchange for her services, and Tsuruno offers Felicia a job at her family's restaurant, which includes meals. Yachiyo then invites Iroha to live at Mikazuki Villa as well, to make their investigations easier. Iroha's parents approve the arrangement.
  • That night, Kyoko meets Mami and explains that the "humanoid Witch" was a Doppel. Mami confronts Kyoko for disobeying her and expresses a desire to protect her as a former friend. Kyoko rejects this, stating she has changed and believes their paths are destined to remain separate. She reaffirms her resolve to live only for herself.

• In the following days, Iroha moves into Mikazuki Villa and she and Yachiyo reaffirm their commitment to find Ui and Mifuyu.

• One day, at Mikazuki Villa, Felicia returns with souvenirs. She criticizes Iroha's cooking, and the group goes to Tsuruno's family restaurant. Felicia laughs at the revelation that Tsuruno's politically-influential family now runs a Chinese restaurant, hurting Tsuruno's feelings. Iroha scolds Felicia for her insensitivity, causing Felicia to run off crying. Felicia finds Tsuruno at a park and apologizes. They reconcile, and Iroha apologizes for her harshness.

Magical Halloween Theater

• Karin saves Kaede from a Witch using enchanted gravel. Kaede mentions not feeling Halloween-like. Karin reflects on her origin as a Halloween magical girl.
• Karin asks Alina if she seems like a Halloween magical girl and Alina insults her. Karin's grandmother asks her to perform a play at a children's Halloween event. Karin agrees.
• Karin writes a script. Alina notes it copies Karin's favorite manga and warns her about gathering people.
  • Karin asks Kaede, Rena, and Momoko to help. Kaede has plans; Rena and Momoko have a concert. They agree to help with stage setting instead. Karin runs out of people to invite.
  • Karin encounters Sasara, who offers help. Karin asks her to be the knight. Sasara accepts and suggests someone for the cow. Sasara calls Asuka and Felicia. Felicia accepts the cow role. Asuka refuses. Felicia mentions a demon at her place. The girls agree to meet tomorrow.
• Felicia brings Karin to meet her demon: Yachiyo. Iroha and Tsuruno are also there. Karin explains the situation. Yachiyo understands. Iroha and Tsuruno offer help. Karin tells Alina she has all actors except a wolf. Alina offers to make costumes.
  • Roles are set: Momoko, Rena, Kaede as stage crew; Sasara as knight; Yachiyo as demon; Felicia as cow; Karin as protagonist. Karin still needs a wolf, costumes, sound, lighting, and stagehands.
  • Yachiyo offers to plan a schedule. Rena, Momoko, and Kaede build stage settings. Felicia, Yachiyo, and Sasara practice with Iroha as victim. Tsuruno and Iroha look for stagehands. Sasara suggests Asuka. Karin searches for a wolf.
  • Alina asks Karin who is directing and managing. Karin does not know who is directing and says Yachiyo is managing. Alina asks what Karin is doing. Karin says looking for a wolf. Alina shows costume designs then rips them, refusing to help someone who does not understand whose work the play is.
  • Karin wonders why Alina got angry. She decides to find someone more talented for the wolf role. She bumps into Kyoko hunting a witch. Kyoko tells Karin not to push responsibilities onto others. Karin realizes this is why Alina was angry. She grabs Kyoko and brings her to the others.
  • Karin returns to apologize but no one listens. Iroha and Tsuruno argue over lighting. Kaede and Rena argue over background. Karin realizes the story only exists in her head. She shouts an apology. The girls reveal they were acting. Karin says she will lead. Kyoko demands to know why she was brought. Felicia mentions food and candy. Kyoko agrees to be the wolf.
  • Karin thanks Alina at the club and says she will not attend for a while. Alina gives her new costume designs. Karin asks Kanoko to make costumes. Kanoko agrees. Karin asks Hinano for smoke effects. Hinano offers knowledge instead. Asuka agrees to work behind the scenes.
  • Kyoko, Sasara, Yachiyo, Iroha, Felicia, and Karin practice. Felicia struggles with Karin's handwriting. Sasara thinks everything else is perfect. Kaede, Rena, and Momoko finish scenery. Karin buys candy for the children. Karin tells her grandmother the play will be unforgettable.
• On the day of the play, Momoko and Rena leave for their concert. Kaede gives Iroha a basket of cookies for Karin. Karin runs to the event, realizing she forgot the candy. She senses a witch approaching the school.
  • Sasara announces the play will start soon. Kanoko arrives with costumes. Karin enters the witch's barrier and fights its familiars. The audience grows restless. Iroha calls Karin with no answer. Kyoko wonders if Karin fled. Yachiyo believes Karin is doing this for more than herself. The girls decide to start the play before children become too restless. Sasara notes Karin's roles are near the end. The play begins.
  • Karin senses the play started and needs to hurry. She cannot defeat the witch with usual attacks. She refuses to enchant the candy meant for children. The girls backstage sense the witch and prepare to handle it. Karin's part approaches but she has not appeared. Karin uses the candies to destroy the witch. The barrier disappears. Karin appears on stage exactly when supposed to. Yachiyo tells her to play her role. The play succeeds.
  • The candy is gone. Kaede's basket contains cookies and an apology note. Karin shares them with the children. Tsuruno suggests using Felicia's prop candies. Karin narrates the play started because of Kaede's comment and thanks everyone. At home, Karin's grandmother thanks her and is glad she made friends. A new manga issue arrives, and they read it together.

Day 13 - Sunday, the 28th

• At some point, in Mitakihara City, Homura Akemi experiences an anomaly during a routine Witch hunt with Madoka Kaname and Mami while fighting Patricia. While time is stopped, a mysterious girl appears before her, unseen by the others. This girl tells Homura that if she wishes to change the fate of Magical Girls, specifically Madoka's, she must go to Kamihama City. The vision vanishes as quickly as it appeared, leaving Homura to ponder this cryptic message alone.

c. Day 14 to 22

• A short time after Iroha moves into Mikazuki Villa, the group begins to feel like a family, playing mobile games and making dinner together. Iroha, Yachiyo, Tsuruno, and Felicia investigate the radio tower in Chuo Ward. Tsuruno reports hearing a strange, laughing girl's voice on the phone there and Yachiyo identifies this as the "Electric Wave Girl" rumor, which she previously considered harmless. They overhear passersby mention the rumor and a specific girl from their school and the team decides to investigate the rumor.
  • Iroha receives a text message from an unknown number that says, "Please, help me."
• Homura, troubled by a new vision of a girl in Kamihama City, decides to investigate. She and Madoka discuss Kamihama with Mami, who warns them about the city's dangers, including powerful Witches, Rumors, and a "human witch." Mami insists on investigating alone first, and Homura and Madoka reluctantly agree to wait.
  • Mami investigates Kamihama on her own, which leads her to the abandoned Kamihama Recording Museum where Mifuyu awaited her. Mifuyu and Alina Gray show her the truth of the Magical Girl system, which causes her to have a mental breakdown. The Magius, including Touka and Nemu Hiiragi, then decide to fuse Mami with an Uwasa to control her. This fusion warps her desire to save people into a fanatical loyalty to the Magius and she starts acting as their public figurehead in the Wings of the Magius.

• The next day, in Mitakihara, Madoka and Homura discover Mami is missing. Homura attempts to investigate Kamihama City alone, but Madoka follows her. They reunite at Kamihama's train station and begin their search. Meanwhile, in Kamihama, Iroha reports to Yachiyo that Momoko has found a password-protected website with information on the "Electric Wave Girl" rumor. Momoko also warns them to avoid an entity called "Endless Solitude." Iroha receives a mysterious text message that reads, "Please reply."
  • Homura is pulled into a Witch's Barrier and separated from Madoka. While searching for Homura, Madoka spots a girl heading toward the radio tower with a Witch's Kiss. Iroha and Yachiyo, having also spotted the same girl, rush to the tower to stop her from jumping. Madoka arrives and saves the girl. The three Magical Girls then enter the Witch's Labyrinth and defeat the Witch. After the battle, Madoka explains she is searching for her missing classmate, Mami Tomoe. The rescued girl reveals the "Electric Wave Girl" is a student at Mizuna Girls' Academy.
  • While Madoka is with Iroha and Yachiyo, Homura escapes the Witch's Barrier. She briefly assists Felicia and Tsuruno, who are at Mizuna Girls' Academy interrogating Tsukuyo Amane of the Wings of the Magius about the rumor. Yachiyo calls Tsuruno with the new information about the Mizuna student, which Tsuruno uses to pressure Tsukuyo into revealing the girl's name: Sana Futaba.
  • Later that day, the two groups reunite at the radio tower. Iroha and Yachiyo meet up with Tsuruno and Felicia, and they are also joined by Homura, who had been searching for Madoka. Iroha receives another text from the unknown number, which now identifies itself as "Ai" and begs to be deleted to free the trapped girl, Sana. Iroha also reveals she was the "human witch" Mami had seen, and Homura agrees to trust her.
  • Ai provides a URL and password to a website called the "Kamihama Urban Legend Index" and the entry for the "Electric Wave Girl" reveals the Uwasa is named "Anonymous Ai," an A.I. that traps people in a dimension called "Endless Solitude." Madoka and Homura deduce Mami may also be trapped there.
  • Ai sends memory logs of its interactions with Sana, which reveal Sana is a Magical Girl who wished to become invisible because she felt unwanted. She sought out Ai due to loneliness and over time, Ai developed a genuine care for Sana and now wishes for her to be rescued, even at the cost of its own deletion. After reviewing Ai's memory logs, which detail Sana's loneliness and Ai's care for her, Iroha decides to jump from the radio tower to enter Endless Solitude and rescue Sana. Madoka, and Homura agree to accompany her.
  • Later, the three jump from the tower and enter the "Endless Solitude" Labyrinth, where they find Sana Futaba and Ai. Homura and Madoka formally join Iroha's team for the rescue. Alina Gray, one of the Magius, appears to stop them, claiming she fed Mami Tomoe to a Witch, and unleashes her Doppel. During the battle, Homura observes the Doppel's power and questions if the Magius' goal of saving Magical Girls is possible. She uses her time-stop magic to help Sana defeat Ai, and Sana ultimately destroys Ai, who thanks her before disappearing. Alina's hidden Witch emerges, and Yachiyo's team holds off the Wings of the Magius while Felicia, Madoka, and Homura pursue Alina. Felicia destroys the Witch, and the combined teams force Alina and the Wings of the Magius to retreat.
  • After the battle, Madoka and Homura return to Mitakihara, resolving to return to Kamihama to continue searching for Mami. Homura considers that Kamihama may hold the key to changing the fate of Madoka and all Magical Girls. Back in Kamihama, Yachiyo invites Sana to live at Mikazuki Villa, and the group holds a welcome party for her.
  • While Sayaka reflects on becoming a Magical Girl to heal Kyosuke and protect her friends, she learns from Madoka and Homura that Mami is missing. Despite warnings about the city's danger, Sayaka insists on joining their next search, stating her wish was to protect those she cares about. The three agree to go to Kamihama together.

• Sometime later, Sana returns to her family home to formally sever ties, leaving a note of thanks. She fully commits to Mikazuki Villa as her new home.

• In the following days, Sana reveals to the team that she overheard the Wings of the Magius discussing Nemu Hiiragi, one of the Magius and describing her as dangerous and useful. The team consolidates its understanding of the Wings' structure: three Magius leaders, with Mifuyu acting as a relay to other Magical Girls and Iroha is left to ponder Ai's statement that it knew Ui "as an Uwasa."

• Tsuruno and Felicia announce a Magical Girl training camp hosted by Asuka Tatsuki. Yachiyo, Sana, and Iroha decline to attend, forming the "vegetarian group," while Tsuruno and Felicia, the "carnivorous group," leave for the camp.
• That weekend, in Tsuruno and Felicia's absence, Iroha, Yachiyo, and Sana find the house quiet and their routines disrupted. At the camp, Tsuruno and Felicia train with Momoko's team but also find themselves missing the others.
• The following day, Iroha, Yachiyo, and Sana prepare a welcome-home hotpot for the two. While shopping, they realize they know their friends' preferences intimately. Tsuruno and Felicia return from the camp early, stating they thought the others would be lonely. The group reunites for dinner.

• Yachiyo, Iroha, and Tsuruno encounter Shizuku after she's just used her personal magic to help a member of the Wings of the Magius for their duties. Concerned, they invite her to Mikazuki Villa. Shizuku meets Felicia and Sana as well and shares a meal with the group. Iroha explains that eating together makes her feel she has found a place to belong. Yachiyo formally invites Shizuku to stay with them.
  • That night, Shizuku realizes the home the five girls have built is complete without her, and the place she truly belonged was with Fūnī, who is now gone. She leaves Mikazuki Villa quietly while the girls are out preparing a welcome party for her.
• The next day the girls wait with a cake, but Shizuku does not return. Yachiyo concludes she will not come back. Shizuku returns to her anonymous employer for another job, stating that the "picture" at the villa was complete with five people and she must continue her search alone. She acknowledges her actions may cause a disaster but feels unprepared to take responsibility, still walking on unstable ground.

• After joining the Wings of the Magius, Mami, now residing in a house provided by Touka, grapples with a fractured psyche, manifesting as a dialogue between her regular self and a zealous "Holy Mami" persona. She dedicates herself completely to the Magius' goal of "releasing" Magical Girls, prioritizing it over her education. Touka and Alina visit to tutor her, though their lessons quickly diverge into their own passionate interests in mathematics and art, respectively.
  • Touka and Alina receive a call for assistance from the Amane sisters. Mami joins Tsukuyo and Tsukasa Amane to hunt a Witch. During the mission, the Amane sisters explain that the Black Feathers hide their identities to avoid conflict with Magical Girls who are unaware of the truth about Witches. Mami defeats the Witch using her Doppel, "Florence," whom she relies on to suppress her lingering doubts about the Magius' methods.
  • Immediately after the hunt, Touka summons Mami to an abandoned museum in Sakae Ward to deal with "troublesome" Magical Girls who escaped a Rumor. Mami fails to capture them, which triggers another internal crisis. Her "Holy Mami" persona reaffirms her faith in the Magius as the only salvation for Magical Girls.
  • Later that day, Mami dines at an upscale restaurant with Mifuyu, Touka, and Alina. They discuss the day's events, including the escaped Magical Girls and the failed Witch observation. Touka expresses frustration at their slow progress, while Mifuyu counsels patience.
  • Sometime later, Mami returns to Mitakihara alone. She reflects on Madoka, Homura, and Sayaka, and feeling responsible for involving them in the world of Magical Girls, she believes she cannot face them with the horrific truth and resolves that the only path is to see the Magius' plan through to completion. Madoka briefly senses Mami's presence but dismisses it.

Monogatari Series Collab

• Iroha wakes up at Mikazuki Villa and helps Yachiyo prepare breakfast. Sana joins them, but when she goes to wake Felicia, she finds Felicia’s room empty and her shoes gone; Felicia’s phone is also out of service. Worried, Yachiyo calls Tsuruno for help, and the group splits up to search the town.
  • During the search, Iroha’s Soul Gem reacts to a nearby Witch. Inside the labyrinth, they encounter two unfamiliar magical girls who are already fighting the Witch: Mayoi Hachikuji and Shinobu Oshino. After the Witch is defeated, introductions are exchanged. Mayoi and Shinobu explain they are traveling and looking for a lost friend named Yotsugi Ononoki, who has bluish‑green pigtails, a peculiar hat with eyes, and a frilly dress. The two groups exchange phone numbers to help each other.
  • Elsewhere, Felicia has in fact met Yotsugi. Yotsugi buys her ice cream, and Felicia learns Yotsugi is also traveling. Felicia offers to show Yotsugi around town as thanks, taking her to the shopping street, a spot with cats, and a bench good for naps. Yotsugi finds everything unfamiliar and feels something is off, as if she has buttoned her shirt wrong. She shortens Felicia’s name to “Felly,” which makes Felicia happy.
  • Iroha’s group eventually spots Felicia with Yotsugi. When Yachiyo hugs Felicia in relief, Felicia reacts as if she does not know any of them. She remembers Yachiyo only as a famous magical girl, but has no memory of living at Mikazuki Villa. The group realizes Felicia has lost her memories. Mayoi and Shinobu arrive and reunite with Yotsugi. Felicia refuses to go with Iroha’s group, accusing them of being kidnappers. Yotsugi offers a third option: Felicia can join their traveling team. Mayoi warns Felicia that if she chooses to leave with them, she will never return to the home that might be waiting for her. Felicia becomes confused and cries.
  • Iroha proposes they all have dinner together at Mikazuki Villa first, so Felicia can calm down and decide later. Everyone agrees. At the villa, Shinobu requests doughnuts for dessert, and the group plays games. Yotsugi helps in the kitchen and notices the chicken meat has a nice springy firmness. During dinner, the group shares memories of how they met Felicia. Felicia still does not remember, but Shinobu points out the stories are too detailed to be lies. Tsuruno suddenly does not remember buying coasters, revealing she may also have amnesia. Yotsugi then shifts the discussion: she reminds Shinobu that she walked in sunlight all day without harm, which should be impossible because Shinobu is actually a vampire. Shinobu’s memories return, and she declares herself the iron‑blooded, hot‑blooded, cold‑blooded vampire king of oddities. Mayoi also gets a headache and remembers she is not human either, and instead she is a snail oddity, a ghost. Yotsugi explains that she has felt uneasy calling herself a magical girl; she suspects this world is not the one she came from, as everything feels slightly different, like two paintings of the same image in different styles. She believes Shinobu, Mayoi, and herself came from another world. They conclude that a Witch may be behind the memory loss and false memories, and decide to hunt Witches the next day. Everyone stays the night at Mikazuki Villa.
  • That night, after they lay out futons in the living room, Shinobu reveals she is actually over 500 years old, and Mayoi was in fifth grade when she died, now mentally 21. Yotsugi still does not remember what she is. Felicia cannot sleep and goes outside. She sees a Witch appear suddenly, feels her head go foggy, and collapses.
• The next morning, Iroha again helps with breakfast. She feels a strange déjà vu, as if the same conversation has happened before. Sana again reports Felicia is missing. The group searches the town and again encounters Mayoi and Shinobu fighting a Witch. The same exchanges occur, but Iroha’s déjà vu grows stronger.
  • When they finally find Felicia, she is with Yotsugi and is annoyed that they took so long to show up. Yotsugi addresses Iroha by name without being introduced. Mayoi and Shinobu arrive. Iroha blurts out that everything feels like it has happened before. Yotsugi then explains: this is the second time they have met like this. Everyone suddenly remembers the previous day’s events of the dinner, the revelations about vampires and ghosts, and the time reset. Yotsugi says she felt the air warp after falling asleep, and when she woke up, she was back where she had been before meeting Felicia. Felicia recalls that before the reset, she saw a Witch outside Mikazuki Villa that made her dizzy and erased her memories. The group deduces that Witch is responsible.
  • As they discuss how to fight the Witch, Felicia’s stomach growls. They decide to return to the villa for dinner again, saving the battle for the next day. On the way, they stop at a supermarket for a snack.
  • While walking home, a Witch suddenly appears and pulls Iroha, Felicia, and Yotsugi into a labyrinth. Felicia recognizes it as the same Witch from the reset. The Witch ignores both Iroha and Felicia, focusing all its attacks on Yotsugi. It dodges Felicia’s hammer and lands a clean hit, cutting Yotsugi’s body into pieces. Iroha and Felicia are horrified. As the Witch prepares to strike again, Yotsugi’s voice tells them to keep pretending to be sad. She instructs them to retreat and gather the pieces of her body. They do so.
  • Outside the labyrinth, Yotsugi puts herself back together as if nothing happened. She reveals that when she took the hit, she regained her true memories. Back at Mikazuki Villa, she explains to everyone: she is a hundred‑year‑old tsukumogami made from a human body, both a doll oddity and a corpse oddity. She has no heart and has always been dead. This is why the Witch’s power of suggestion, which works by influencing emotions, does not affect her as much. She also notes that the Witch let them escape because it was angry at Yotsugi for helping everyone remember the first loop.
  • Suddenly, Yotsugi attacks Shinobu. Shinobu blocks the strike. When asked why, Yotsugi coldly says, “Would you mind dying for me real quick?” Yotsugi’s sudden attack on Shinobu was not betrayal but a calculated shock: she remembered that when the Witch cut her into pieces, the trauma restored her own original memories. She reasons that a sufficiently strong physical blow can break through the memory manipulation. Shinobu’s severed leg instantly regenerates as her vampiric powers return, proving the method works. Without warning, Yotsugi then punches Mayoi, knocking her unconscious. When Mayoi wakes, her memories also return, which is triggered by the keyword “lost.” Mayoi explains that their false magical girl powers and wishes were implanted by the Witch, and that they are not inhabitants of this world. She then proposes a new theory: the Kamihama girls did not lose their memories; rather, they come from different points in their own timeline and simply haven’t experienced the shared past yet. Felicia is devastated, fearing she will never have a family again, but Iroha and the others reassure her that in every timeline they will end up together.
  • Later that night, after everyone has gone to sleep, Shinobu summons Yotsugi and Mayoi outside. She admits she does not fully trust Iroha’s group, as they could be the Witch’s minions or mere plot devices. She reveals there may be another way to return to their original world, but she does not elaborate immediately.
• The group splits up to hunt the elusive Witch. They repeatedly enter labyrinths of other Witches, wasting time. Felicia grows increasingly frustrated, nearly charging into unrelated fights. Yachiyo observes that the Witch seems to want them to fight, so any peaceful, fun activity risks a reset, which is why the first reset happened after their happy dinner and games. She concludes that the Witch is like a director forcing them to act out a “magical girls fighting” plot. Iroha suggests they deliberately provoke the Witch by acting against that plot, hoping to lure it out. However, Yotsugi warns that straying too far might trigger another reset.
  • That evening at Mikazuki Villa, Yachiyo formally presents her three‑point theory: (1) The Witch did not pursue them when they fled, (2) it never removed their magical girl powers, and (3) the resets happen when they relax instead of fight. Everyone agrees the plan is to provoke the Witch into appearing. Shinobu then insists on going sightseeing the next day, arguing that one more reset will weaken the Witch’s power further. Despite concerns about resetting again, Tsuruno enthusiastically supports the idea, and the group reluctantly agrees.
• The group spends the morning and afternoon touring Kamihama: the radio tower, the school (which they sneak into), an arcade where Yotsugi plays rhythm games with a completely blank expression, and the shopping mall where Shinobu demands to find a donut shop. Tsuruno saves the family restaurant, Banbanzai, for last. As they approach, Iroha, Felicia, and Yotsugi sense the Witch charging straight at them. The familiar dizziness overcomes everyone, and the world resets.
  • Several hours after the reset, Yotsugi again restores everyone’s memories, as her immunity to the Witch’s suggestion means she still remembers everything. The group notes that more people felt déjà vu this time, suggesting the Witch is weakening. That night, Shinobu privately tells Yotsugi and Mayoi her true alternative plan: she will kill the Kamihama magical girls and consume their power, believing that enough strength will allow her to tear open a gate back to their world. Yotsugi and Mayoi agree to help, though Mayoi is conflicted.
• The next morning, the town feels eerily deserted. The Witch’s labyrinth is sparse, with only familiars. Following Shinobu’s earlier secret instruction, the group begins shouting insults at the Witch to provoke it. Suddenly, Shinobu strikes Felicia from behind, seemingly killing her. Yachiyo and Tsuruno are horrified. Shinobu, Yotsugi, and Mayoi reveal their betrayal: they intend to slaughter everyone to gain power for a gate home. A brutal fight erupts. Mayoi uses her ability to redirect Yachiyo’s spear attack, causing it to hit Iroha and Sana, who also fall. Tsuruno is overwhelmed, and Yachiyo is mortally wounded. Shinobu stands alone, gloating, but then the “dead” girls suddenly rise.
  • It was all an act. The group had secretly planned this staged betrayal during the previous night, communicating via handwritten notes to avoid the Witch overhearing. Sana, who makes picture books, wrote the script. The plan had multiple layers: first, they deliberately triggered a second reset by going sightseeing to weaken the Witch; second, they staged a believable in‑fighting scenario to lure the Witch out, because if all the “actors” disappear, the Witch’s story cannot continue. The Witch falls for the trap and appears, enraged by the deception. A full‑scale battle begins. The group coordinates: Iroha and Sana herd familiars for Yotsugi’s “Unlimited Rulebook”; Yachiyo, Shinobu, and Iroha immobilize the Witch; Tsuruno guides Mayoi’s errant drill attack with her flames, piercing the Witch’s front camera. When that does not destroy the labyrinth, Yachiyo and Shinobu realize the front camera was a decoy: the true weak spot is the film at the back. Felicia, launched by Yotsugi like a bullet, smashes the drill deeper, and Yachiyo and Shinobu destroy the film. The labyrinth dissolves.
  • As the world fades to mist, Felicia breaks down crying. She does not want this world to end because at Mikazuki Villa she finally felt like she had a family again, and she fears returning to her own timeline where she will be alone. Iroha, Yachiyo, Tsuruno, and Sana hug her, promising that no matter the world or timeline, they will surely live together again. Shinobu, Mayoi, and Yotsugi share an awkward, brief hug, concluding they are not the hugging type. Everyone exchanges farewells. Yotsugi tells Felicia, “I’m glad I met you, Felly.”
• Iroha wakes up at Mikazuki Villa, yawning. Felicia teases her for sleeping late. Iroha recalls a long, strange dream, both fun and bittersweet, but the details fade upon waking. She only remembers that it was something really special. The day begins again, as if the adventure had never happened, except for the faint warmth left behind.

Day 23 - Wednesday, the 7th

• Iroha, Tsuruno, Felicia and Sana decide to buy matching coasters as a gift for Yachiyo, to show their appreciation, and after some searching, they find a suitable set.

Day 24 - Thursday, the 8th

• The following day, the plan to present the gift is interrupted when Mifuyu Azusa arrives at the villa before Yachiyo returns home. The girls' plan was for Iroha to wait inside while the others came from outside to surprise Yachiyo. Mifuyu prepares tea and reveals one of the two mugs on the top shelf, which Yachiyo forbade Iroha from using, belongs to her. Mifuyu invites Iroha to a lecture hosted by the Wings of the Magius to explain their goal of "freeing" Magical Girls. The lecture is scheduled for two days later at the Memory Museum and Iroha agrees to investigate the Rumor about the museum first.
• Yachiyo returns home and is visibly distressed to find Mifuyu there. Mifuyu leaves, asking Iroha to inform the others about the lecture. Before finally leaving, Mifuyu returns to speak to Yachiyo privately. She references a "promise" they made a year ago, and accuses Yachiyo of returning to her old ways. Yachiyo insists her relationship with Iroha and the others is "just cooperating." Yachiyo retreats to her room without receiving the coasters. That night, Yachiyo reflects on her past, resolving to return to the person she once was.

Day 25 - Friday, the 9th

• The day before the lecture, Iroha is unable to give Yachiyo the coasters due to Yachiyo's low spirits. Iroha discusses her plan to attend the Wings of the Magius lecture with Madoka Kaname via text. Iroha then attempts to investigate the Rumor of the Memory Museum. Yachiyo claims no knowledge of it and leaves for school. Iroha and Momoko ask Mitama, who refuses to share information to maintain her neutrality. After the visit, Mitama has a separate conversation with Momoko about Momoko's own secret, advising her to tell her friends the truth.
• Kaede and Rena help Iroha by summoning the creature that recites the Rumor of the Memory Museum, which allows people to view researched memories. Tsuruno's father provides the location of the similar-sounding "Kamihama Memorial Museum." That evening, Yachiyo refuses to join the investigation, reiterating that her relationship with the others is strictly professional, which saddens Tsuruno.

Day 26 - Saturday, the 10th

• The day of the lecture, Yachiyo again refuses to go to the museum and Iroha, Tsuruno, Felicia, and Sana go to the Kamihama Memorial Museum without her. There, they are greeted by Touka Satomi, who reveals herself as one of the three Magius.
• Concurrently at Mikazuki, Yachiyo, haunted by memories of past friends, decides she must investigate the Memory Museum herself.

• Touka Satomi gives them a lecture titled "The Truth Behind Magical Girls." She presents three key items through illustrative stories:
  • Item 1: Soul Gems. A story reveals that a Soul Gem is a Magical Girl's actual soul. Using magic consumes this life force, and if the gem shatters, the Magical Girl dies. Touka uses an analogy of an internal vs. external battery to explain Soul Gems and Grief Seeds.
  • Item 2: Witches. A second story demonstrates that when a Magical Girl's Soul Gem becomes fully corrupted, she transforms into a Witch. This revelation traumatizes Felicia, who realizes the Witches she has been killing were once Magical Girls and that she herself is destined to become one.
  • Item 3: Doppels. A third story explains that in Kamihama City, a fully corrupted Soul Gem can manifest a "Doppel" instead of a Witch. The Wings of the Magius present this as the key to "freeing" Magical Girls from their fate.
• To prove their claims, Touka and Mifuyu Azusa activate the Memory Museum's Rumor. Mifuyu presents a book containing her own memories, inviting the group to witness the truth of the lecture firsthand.
• Yachiyo arrives at the museum and confronts Touka. She is shown into the memory dimension where Iroha and the others are and Mifuyu activates the Rumor, forcing the group to relive her memories. The memories depict Yachiyo's former team, Mikazuki Villa:
  • The first memory shows Kanae Yukino sacrificing herself to reveal a Witch's weakness. Her uninjured body is found next to her shattered Soul Gem, proving the Soul Gem is the Magical Girl's life.
  • The second memory shows Mel Anna using too much magic to protect Yachiyo. With no Grief Seed to purify her fully corrupted Soul Gem, Mel transforms into a Witch before the team's eyes, confirming Magical Girls become Witches.
  • The third memory shows Mifuyu's despair six months after Mel's death, causing her Soul Gem to corrupt fully. Instead of becoming a Witch, she manifests a Doppel. Touka then appears and recruits her into the Wings of the Magius.
• Tsuruno is consumed by guilt over Mel's death, believing her absence that day was the cause. Felicia is horrified, realizing the Witches she killed were Magical Girls and Sana is terrified but feels powerless to change the system. Touka and Mifuyu use this emotional vulnerability to press their recruitment offers to each girl, promising a world where these tragedies are impossible and even suggesting Sana could be freed from her wish of invisibility.
• Iroha and Yachiyo reject the offer to join and Yachiyo compares the Magius' methods to Kyubey's, accusing them of exploiting weaknesses. Yachiyo then announces she is disbanding their team, which Iroha protests, but Yachiyo insists.
• Touka reveals that Tsuruno, Felicia, and Sana have been brainwashed and now serve the Wings of the Magius. Alina Gray arrives and traps Iroha and Yachiyo within her Labyrinth and leaves them to face a Witch. As they fight the Witch, Yachiyo reiterates her decision to disband the team and work alone. She reveals her wish was "I want to survive," and explains that she interprets this as a curse: the power to survive by sacrificing her teammates, based on the last words of her former comrades, Kanae and Mel, who both died while she lived. Yachiyo believes that to protect Iroha, she must sever their partnership.
• Iroha rejects Yachiyo's conclusion. She declares she will defeat the Uwasa alone to prove Yachiyo's "curse" is not real and that she can protect Yachiyo. Iroha states she is angry that Yachiyo made this decision for everyone and vows to rescue their brainwashed friends. She defeats the Witch and rejects Yachiyo's belief in a cursed wish and declares herself the new leader to nullify its perceived effect. Yachiyo relents and agrees to work with Iroha to save their friends.
• At the same time, Madoka, Homura, and Sayaka, having detected Mami's magic while investigating Kamihama, investigate the closed Kamihama Recording Museum. They are attacked by the Wings of the Magius. While Madoka and Homura hold them off, Sayaka proceeds and witnesses Mami, transformed into "Holy Mami," attacking Iroha and Yachiyo. It is here that Sayaka learns the horrific truth that Magical Girls become Witches.
• Mami, now a brainwashed member of the Wings of the Magius, confronts them. As Iroha and Yachiyo are too injured to fight, Sayaka Miki arrives and intervenes. Sayaka uses a bomb from Homura to create a diversion, allowing the three to escape.
• After their escape, Sayaka gives Iroha a Grief Seed. Iroha explains the truth about Witches and the Wings of the Magius to Sayaka, who is horrified. Sayaka leaves to process this information and Iroha and Yachiyo walk home in silence to reflect.
• After fleeing the museum, Sayaka reunites with Madoka and Homura, defeats their pursuers in a distraught state, and explains what happened to Mami to them, as well as the truth about becoming Witches.The group returns to Mitakihara in silence but Madoka resolves to find a way to avoid their fate and to save Mami. Sayaka agrees to fight back as well and later decides to meet with Kyoko Sakura.
• Later, at Mikazuki Villa, Iroha and Yachiyo reaffirm their commitment to save their friends and Momoko arrives, having told the secret of Magical Girls to Rena and Kaede. Yachiyo also apologizes for her actions and explains her fears about her wish. Momoko forgives her and reaffirms their friendship. Iroha then receives a text from Madoka, who promises to come to Kamihama to help.
• In Mitakihara, Sayaka meets Kyoko and reveals the truth about Witches. Kyoko deduces this is what the Wings of the Magius meant by "saving" Magical Girls. Kyoko declares she will find a way to avoid becoming a Witch and confront the Wings of the Magius alone, rejecting Sayaka's offer of help. Despite Sayaka's protests, Kyoko leaves to operate solo.

• Iroha Tamaki resolves to find her lost friends and mentally tells Ui Tamaki to wait a bit longer. Iroha and Yachiyo Nanami finish cleaning their house. Iroha resolves to give the coasters she and the others bought for Yachiyo when everyone is reunited. Iroha says she sent a message to Madoka Kaname in Mitakihara City, but hasn't gotten a response.

• Immediately after Tsuruno, Felicia, and Sana are taken, Mifuyu reports to Touka and Alina that the brainwashing on the three is holding, so Touka selects Tsuruno for a mission, which Alina states will involve "mass murder."

• Later in her room, Iroha thinks back to when she celebrated Christmas with her friends, but resolves to keep going with her mission.

Day 27 - Sunday, the 11th

• The next day, Iroha and Yachiyo investigate the Kamihama Rumor Files at Mikazuki Villa. Iroha recognizes some of the Rumors. They meet with Momoko, who mentions Tsuruno's perfect school attendance record is now broken and that a new amusement park is also opening.
• Iroha and Yachiyo visit Tsuruno's family restaurant and her father reveals Tsuruno and Felicia visited once. Tsuruno told him she found a place where she feels safe and would not return and he notes her expression was blank, similar to how she looked a year ago after Mel's death. Afterwards, a White Feather ambushes Iroha and Yachiyo, stating they will be used for a mission like Tsuruno, and the two fight off the attacker.

Day 28 - Monday, the 12th

• The next day, Iroha and Yachiyo devise a plan to destroy Rumors across Kamihama to lure out the Wings of the Magius and locate their base. They share this plan with Momoko, who offers to help by getting Grief Seeds for them while they hunt. Momoko then goes to check on Kaede, who is hiding in her room. She hugs Kaede and tells her she and Rena will always be there to support her.
  • Iroha and Yachiyo systematically hunt Rumors like the "Historical Battle Marker," the "Castle Town Illusion," the "Headless Biker Gang," the "Puzzle Tiles Lock," and the "Fashion Monster." They also interrogate captured Feathers, but none reveal information about Tsuruno, Felicia, or Sana's location.
• Concurrently, Momoko investigates a rapidly spreading rumor about a new amusement park. She notes it originated in the east and spread west through Sakae, Mizuna, and Shinsei Wards.
• Later that day, Iroha and Yachiyo analyze the Kamihama Rumor Files, marking all known Rumor locations on a map. They identify a pattern: Rumors cluster more densely in Shinsei Ward, with a notable concentration around Satomi Medical Center, the hospital where Ui was supposedly treated.
• They travel to the hospital area and are ambushed by Feathers. Felicia and Sana, who had broken free of the brainwashing, arrive and help fight off the attackers. The four Magical Girls reunite and Felicia and Sana reveal they pretended to be brainwashed to gather information. Momoko confirms the amusement park rumor spread from east to west and will open at dawn in two days.
• Felicia and Sana explain to Yachiyo and Iroha that Mifuyu used her illusion magic to break their brainwashing. Mifuyu revealed the Magius are protecting and strengthening Witches for their liberation plan and are planning to use the brainwashed Magical Girls to cross a dangerous line. Mifuyu attempted to free Tsuruno but failed, as Tsuruno's reason for being brainwashed was different. Mifuyu then helped Felicia and Sana escape but chose to remain behind, stating they would be enemies next time they meet.
• Momoko arrives and shares her investigation into a new Rumor about an amusement park opening at dawn in two days. She confirms it spread from the east, and the group overlays the Rumor locations on a map and identifies a pattern suggesting a source or "eye of the storm" in the eastern wards.

• Yachiyo decides to contact Kanagi Izumi, the powerful Magical Girl who controls the eastern Daito and Kosho Wards and is a former rival of hers. Kanagi agrees to an alliance, and during their call, Tsukasa of the Wings of the Magius arrives at Kanagi's location.

Day 29 - Tuesday, the 13th

• The morning, Felicia and Sana try to accompany Iroha and Yachiyo but are told to rest due to their collapse the previous night. Iroha and Yachiyo leave them behind. Meanwhile in Kosho Ward, Iroha, Yachiyo, Momoko, and Kanagi meet and Kanagi agrees to ally with them against the Wings of the Magius. They combine their Rumor data on a map, which reveals a circular pattern with a vacant center in Kosho Ward and Kanagi identifies the old railway yard as the likely location of the Wings' base.
• After learning the truth about Witches, Madoka questions Kyubey about a way to avoid becoming a Witch. Kyubey states he knows of no method and reveals he cannot enter Kamihama City himself. He proposes an alliance to investigate the Wings of the Magius but Madoka refuses to promise cooperation. She resolves to return to Kamihama with her friends, but then a Witch from Kamihama appears in Mitakihara.
• Madoka, Sayaka, and Homura defeat the Kamihama Witch. They share Grief Seeds and note the alarming appearance of foreign Witches in their city. The trio resolves to go to Kamihama the next day to find answers.
• Around this time, Kyoko successfully infiltrates the Wings of the Magius. She is assigned to a team tasked with dealing with a group that erases Rumors, which she suspects is Iroha's team.
• Iroha's group travels to the railway yard but finds it empty. They are ambushed by Tsukuyo and Tsukasa Amane, who summon Witches and during the battle, Kanagi uses her unique power to read Iroha's true intentions and confirms her sincerity. Kanagi then joins the fight and helps defeat the Amane sisters and their Black Feathers.
• Kanagi uses her power on the defeated Amane sisters to read their minds and she learns that Tsuruno is still completely brainwashed and has become part of an Uwasa to protect it. She also learns Tsuruno's location is at the Ferris Wheel Field in Daito Ward and the group prepares to move out immediately.
  • At Mikazuki Villa, Sana and Felicia wait anxiously and Yachiyo calls them with an update.
  • Elsewhere, Rena visits Kaede at her house, and after an argument involving slapping and pinching, Kaede reconciles with Rena and agrees to return to school.
• The team arrives in Daito Ward, where Yachiyo and Iroha plan to enter the "amusement park" Rumor to save Tsuruno, while Felicia, Sana, Momoko, and Kanagi hold off the Wings of the Magius. The group locates the Rumor's entrance and Kanagi and Momoko stay behind to fight the Feathers.
• Iroha and Yachiyo proceed and confront Alina, Touka, and Mifuyu, where Alina declares her intent to erase them. During the battle, Mifuyu secretly tells Yachiyo that destroying the main Uwasa will kill Tsuruno, and that they must instead tear the Uwasa from her by connecting with her heart. Mifuyu also reveals Tsuruno is in a Ferris wheel car.

• Iroha and Yachiyo enter the Rumor, "Chelation Land," which induces a hazy, thoughtless state. They find Tsuruno, who has fully merged with the Uwasa and acts as the park's host. Tsuruno tries to force them to relax and stay, serving them hotpot in mugs reminiscent of Mikazuki Villa, but they refuse and attempt to reason with Tsuruno, and she attacks them. Following Mifuyu's advice, they combine their magic to tear the Uwasa from Tsuruno in one powerful strike.

• After Tsuruno is freed from the Uwasa, Yachiyo realizes that Tsuruno's cheerful demeanor was a facade to hide her pain and guilt over past events, including the death of Mel. The team defeats the main Uwasa of Chelation Land and the Magius, Touka, Nemu Hiiragi, and Alina, confront the group. Nemu reveals she is the "Creator" of all the Rumors in Kamihama and the Magius explain their goal: to use the energy generated by Rumors and Witches to hatch "Embryo Eve," a being that will liberate all Magical Girls worldwide from the fate of becoming Witches. They state the phenomenon requires the presence of all three Magius and a massive energy source, for which they have used the people of Kamihama and the teams part ways in opposition.

Day 30 - Wednesday, the 14th

• The next day, at Mikazuki Villa, the team summarizes the Magius' plan and that Kamihama is an incubator for Embryo Eve. They resolve to stop the Magius due to the plan's high human cost and the group gives Yachiyo the set of sakura blossom-themed coasters as a symbol of their team unity.
• In Mitakihara, Madoka, Homura, and Sayaka are separately attacked by multiple Kamihama Witches in Mitakihara before reuniting. They realize the Witch incursion is a coordinated attack meant to prevent them from leaving Mitakihara. Their magic and Grief Seed reserves are heavily depleted in the constant battles.
• During the ongoing Witch attacks, the trio is overwhelmed by a powerful Witch and is forced to retreat. Sayaka breaks down, admitting her terror of becoming a Witch and Madoka, Homura, and Sayaka share their fears and resolve to face the threat together. They are observed by Feathers of the Wings of the Magius, who imply the attack is part of their plan.
• In Fendt Hope, Kyoko, having gained the trust of her unit, is taken on a tour of the Wings of the Magius headquarters by her White Feather superior.
• Later that day, the three defeat the Feathers sent to observe them, and after interrogating them, they receive a message from Iroha about how to save Mami. Holy Mami arrives to Mitakihara and reveals she brought the Witches to Mitakihara to keep the three of them "safe," and insists the Magius will save them. Alina Gray also appears and traps Madoka, Homura, and Sayaka in a Barrier, which Mami seals with her ribbons.
• After her infiltration, Kyoko is taken to Hotel Fenthope by Mifuyu Azusa. She confronts Holy Mami, accusing her of not being the real Mami Tomoe. Touka Satomi and Nemu Hiiragi arrive and reinforce the Rumor brainwashing on Mami. Mifuyu secretly escorts Kyoko away and reveals the Magius' plans: they are using a mysterious entity called "Eve" to liberate Magical Girls and are deliberately bringing Walpurgisnacht to Kamihama to hatch it. Horrified, Kyoko rejects the Magius and is led out of the city by Mifuyu.
• Kyoko arrives in Mitakihara and frees Madoka, Homura, and Sayaka from Alina's Barrier. She explains the Magius' plan to bring Walpurgisnacht to Kamihama and Homura urges the group to stay in Mitakihara for safety. Kyoko departs alone, later resolving to return and crush the Magius.
• That night, Iroha has a sudden memory flashback to the hospital, triggered by the word "sakura." She remembers a story she, Ui, Touka, and Nemu created about the "Eternal Sakura." She deduces this Rumor is real and located at the hospital, and that all the Rumors were created there.
• Concurrently, Touka and Nemu observe that Embryo Eve has reached a critical state and they confirm that a legendary, cross-dimensional event they foresaw: the arrival of Walpurgisnacht, will provide the final, massive energy surge needed to hatch Eve.

Day 31 - Thursday, the 15th

• The Wings of the Magius initiate a city-wide offensive, unleashing powerful Witches and sending brainwashed Black and White Feathers to indiscriminately attack other Magical Girls. Mami delivers a declaration of war to Iroha and Yachiyo, stating they will no longer delay their plan for "freedom."
• The Magical Girls of Kamihama form a coordinated response and Yachiyo's team devises a strategy: first, eliminate the unleashed Witches; second, protect other Magical Girls and direct them to Mitama's shop as a safe haven; third, deal with the rampaging Feathers.
• Iroha, recalling the "Rumor of the Eternal Sakura" in Hokuyo Ward, theorizes it could be the location of the Magius' hidden base. Yachiyo approves Iroha and Sana to investigate this lead separately.
• Over the next several hours, the teams execute the plan. Yachiyo rescues Ren from a Black Feather and escorts her to Mitama's shop. Kaede Afinds Konomi protecting an injured Kako; together they defeat a Witch and get Kako to safety. Rena aids Asuka and Sasara, later teaming with Ria and Manaka to defeat a Witch. Momoko and Aimi rescue Kokoro and Masara from Feathers. Tsuruno works with Hinano to eliminate a Witch and warns her about the Feathers. Felicia fights alongside Akira and Nanaka's group, eventually reuniting with Tsuruno. Kanagi protects Himika from Feathers and sends her to Mitama's. Yachiyo and Kanagi also rescue Riko and Ayaka from Feather attacks and track the enemy to a heliport. Yachiyo, Kanagi, Momoko's team, and Tsuruno's team successfully clear the city of the powerful Witches and they rescue and guide numerous Magical Girls to Mitama's shop. Momoko confronts Mitama, challenging her to abandon her neutral stance and Mitama agrees to allow her shop to be used as a headquarters and to share her knowledge about the Magius' plans.
• Mitama reveals the truth that Magical Girls are destined to become Witches, and that the Magius aim to use the energy from Embryo Eve to spread the Doppel phenomenon worldwide, preventing this fate. However, their methods involve sacrificing the citizens of Kamihama and other Magical Girls to gather this energy, so the Magical Girls at the shelter decide to join the fight against the Magius.
• Meanwhile, in Chuo Ward, Yachiyo and Kanagi are ambushed by Mami and a horde of brainwashed Feathers at the Kamihama Central Tower heliport. The battle is difficult due to the Feathers' numbers and Mami's enhanced power from the Uwasa. Kanagi reads Mami's mind and finds her personality has been completely overwritten by the Uwasa's influence, leaving only her devotion to the Magius' plan.
• Tsuruno and Felicia then arrive as reinforcements and during the fight, a Black Feather loses her "Receiver Pendant." Kanagi reads this Feather's mind, uncovering that the Feathers' berserk state is caused by the "Rumor of the Receiver Pendant," which numbs their emotions and forces them to obey the Magius' orders. The memory also reveals the three Magius orchestrating the attack to harvest emotional energy from the chaos, believing it will bring their utopia closer. The Feather who lost her pendant then begins to regain her senses.
• Yachiyo's team battles the brainwashed Mami and the Wings of the Magius. With the help of Momoko's team and Kanagi's ability to read the enemy's weakness, they remove the Uwasa from Mami, freeing her from its control. Mami collapses from exhaustion.

• Meanwhile, Homura pleads with Madoka and Sayaka not to go to Kamihama, fearing for their lives against Walpurgisnacht. After initial hesitation, Madoka and Sayaka resolve to go and Homura agrees to accompany them. The trio leaves for Kamihama but cannot contact Iroha Tamaki.
• Upon arriving in Kamihama, the three are attacked by brainwashed Black Feathers in Sakae Ward, but the Feathers suddenly regain their senses and flee. The trio pursues them into Central Ward and meets Kanoko Yayoi, Karin Misono, and Natsuki Utsuho. They learn that other Magical Girls are gathering at Mitama Yakumo's office and Karin reveals she saw Nanaka Tokiwa carrying an unconscious Mami there. The group goes to Mitama's and finds Mami, who has been freed from the Magius' control and awakens.
• The Wings of the Magius then execute their plan: they cause a city-wide blackout and seize control of Kamihama's radio waves and power grid. They use Nemu's power to project a false utopia over the city, attracting Witches, and Touka's power to send a signal that summons the legendary Witch, Walpurgisnacht. Their goal is to use the chaos and emotional energy to hatch "Eve."
• Iroha and Sana infiltrate the "Rumor of the Eternal Sakura" Labyrinth, initially having their presence hidden due to Sana's unique magic. There, Iroha confronts Touka and Nemu, using the Uwasa itself as proof that her memories of their shared past with Ui are real. Despite this, Touka and Nemu don't believe her and refuse to halt their plans. Alina arrives, captures Iroha, and takes her to their main base, Hotel Fendt Hope. Afterwards, Sana escapes and informs Yachiyo's arriving team of Iroha's capture.
• At Mitama's shop, Mitama reveals she previously supplied the Wings with Grief Seeds in exchange for neutrality but has now chosen to side with Yachiyo's team against them. Mami herself awakens, now having reconciled with her inner turmoil. Now, Yachiyo's team, reinforced by Momoko's team and Mami, prepares to assault Hotel Fendt Hope to rescue Iroha and stop the Magius before Walpurgisnacht arrives.
• Mami, freed from the Uwasa's influence, resolves to expose the Magius' true plans to the Feathers and Madoka, Homura, and Sayaka decide to support her instead of joining Iroha's group. Nanaka and her team escort them to the heliport and during the journey, Mami explains to Nanaka that the Feathers' loyalty was placed not in the Magius themselves, but in Mifuyu Azusa.
• At the heliport, Mami arrives where the exhausted Feathers and Kamihama Magical Girls are at a stalemate. She reveals the Magius' plan to sacrifice hundreds of civilians, including the Feathers' own friends and family, to Walpurgisnacht. She also details their previous use of the Chelation Land Rumor for a similar purpose and the Feathers are shocked and dismayed. Some even accuse Mami of hypocrisy, which she does not deny.
• The Feathers split into two factions: one that still desires liberation at any cost and another that vows to protect Kamihama. A fight breaks out between them and Madoka and the others defend Mami, declaring their unwavering friendship. Moved, Mami asks the Feathers if they have anyone they trust unconditionally, as she now does, and the Feathers state they trust Mifuyu and demand to hear the truth from her directly.
• Mami entrusts the Feathers to Nanaka's team, while she, Madoka, Homura, and Sayaka then proceed to Hotel Fendthope to aid Iroha. On the way, Mami thanks her friends and asks them to rely on her as an equal ally and friend, not as a veteran. They arrive at the Rumor of the Eternal Sakura, where Mitama is guarding the entrance. She confirms she is aware of Mami's past struggles and allows the group to pass.

Day 32 - Friday, the 16th

• At Hotel Fendt Hope, Sana infiltrates the hotel to find Iroha and she overhears Feathers discussing Iroha's location and heads there. Iroha is held in a cell and, with her Soul Gem confiscated, she reflects on her memories of Ui, Touka, and Nemu and resolves to stop the Magius' plan.
• The Magius discuss their plans and Alina demands Iroha's Soul Gem and body be brought to her. A weather report at the same time indicates the approach of Walpurgisnacht.
• Sana locates Iroha's cell, and she breaks Iroha out, but the act of breaking the cell door triggers an Uwasa, as the entire building is part of a Rumor. Sana defeats the Uwasa and as they flee, they are ambushed by Black Feathers. Kyoko Sakura, who was undergoing an orientation with the Feathers but decided against joining them, intervenes and helps defeat the attackers as well.
• Iroha explains the Magius' goal is to summon Walpurgisnacht, and Kyoko reveals the Magius also plan to use Iroha, Mifuyu, and the Amane sisters as nourishment for "Eve," the core of the system. Suddenly, Iroha collapses and stops breathing due to the distance from her Soul Gem. A Black Feather who pretended to be unconscious seizes Iroha's body and escapes with it, and Sana and Kyoko give chase.
• Yachiyo's team enters the Hotel Fendt Hope through the Eternal Sakura Labyrinth and they split into two teams: Yachiyo's group heads to the top floor to rescue Mifuyu and the Amane sisters, while Momoko's group searches for Iroha.
• Yachiyo's team finds Mifuyu, Tsukuyo, and Tsukasa unconscious, their bodies separated from their Soul Gems. They quickly recover the Soul Gems, reviving the three, and Mifuyu confirms the Magius summoned Walpurgisnacht to provide energy to hatch Eve. Mifuyu and the Amane sisters renounce the Magius and join Yachiyo's team.
• Meanwhile, Iroha is transported by a Black Feather who reveals her motivation: her younger sister turned into a Witch, and she supports the Magius to prevent others from suffering the same fate. Momoko's team intercepts them and rescues Iroha.
• Kyoko and Sana fight their way through the hotel and reunite with the main group. Momoko's team recovers a bag containing Iroha's, Mifuyu's, and the Amane sisters' Soul Gems. A group of Feathers from the East confronts them but is persuaded by Kanagi to stand down, and they retreat.
• With the teams reunited, the full coalition of Iroha, Yachiyo, Tsuruno, Felicia, Sana, Kanagi, Momoko, Rena, Kaede, Mifuyu, Tsukuyo, Tsukasa, and Kyoko regroups. They possess all the stolen Soul Gems and are united in their goal to stop the Magius and confront Walpurgisnacht.
• The team's path to the underground chapel is blocked and Mifuyu determines the magical building, a Rumor crafted by Nemu Hiiragi, has been reconfigured. Mifuyu, Tsukuyo, and Tsukasa attempt to break the blockade, but a powerful magical wind erupts, separating the group. Mifuyu, the Amane sisters, Momoko, Rena, Kaede, and Kyoko are blown outside.
• Yachiyo, Iroha, Sana, Felicia, Tsuruno, and Kanagi remain inside and they defeat an Uwasa that attacks them. Mifuyu communicates from outside that they are locked out, and she devises a new plan: her group will gather other Kamihama Magical Girls to attack and destroy the Uwasa of Hotel Fendt Hope itself, which will collapse the building. She instructs Yachiyo's group to hurry to the underground chapel for safety before the attack.
• Mifuyu's group fights off Witches released by Alina Gray as a defense measure. Mami, Madoka, Homura, and Sayaka also arrive and assist them. After the battle, Mami convinces Mifuyu to address all the Feathers of the Wings of the Magius, and using the Amane sisters' sound magic, Mifuyu broadcasts a telepathic message across Kamihama, revealing the Magius' plan to sacrifice civilians and summon Walpurgisnacht. She urges the Feathers to lay down their arms and prepare to fight the legendary Witch. Many Feathers also heed her call and defect.
• Mami then uses her magic to create a small opening in the building's barrier and enters Hotel Fendt Hope alone to rejoin Yachiyo's team, and Kyoko is noted to be absent. Yachiyo's team searches for the entrance to the underground chapel and Mami reveals she concealed the entrance with her magic. She severs the ribbon hiding the path, officially breaking her ties with the Wings of the Magius and Mami then leaves to assist with the attack on the Uwasa of Fendt Hope outside. Kyoko meets Mami along the way and gives her a Grief Seed before they both exit the building.
• The team then encounters false copies of Touka, Nemu, and Alina from the Mirror Witch's barrier; they realize the fakes speak differently and defeat them before continuing.
• Outside Fendt Hope, Mifuyu's group, now joined by Mami, Kyoko, and the Feathers who defected, attacks the Uwasa of Fendt Hope. Despite a coordinated assault, the Uwasa proves extremely resilient and withstands their combined power. The battle continues as the city-wide weather disaster escalates.

• Yachiyo's team proceeds down a long staircase into a deep, dark underground area filled with strong magical impurities. Along the way, they are confronted by Mirror copies of themselves that voice their deepest insecurities, but each member overcomes their own doubts by relying on their friends. In the underground chapel, they find Alina, Nemu, and Touka waiting for them. At the back of the chapel, they see the massive, unhatched form of the Witch known as Embryo Eve. They reveal the full scope of their plan. They explain that Kyubey's true mission is to harvest the emotional energy of Magical Girls to counteract the universe's heat death. The cycle of hope and despair, culminating in a Magical Girl's transformation into a Witch, produces the necessary energy.
• The Magius intend to usurp this system. They plan to use the phase transition energy from Eve's transformation into a full Witch to create a permanent forcefield over Kamihama. This field would allow Magical Girls to release their impurities as Doppels instead of becoming Witches, and the energy would be fed back to the universe, making Kyubey and new Magical Girl contracts obsolete. The imminent arrival of Walpurgisnacht is a key part of their plan, as its destruction by Eve will provide the massive energy required.
• Despite understanding the plan, Iroha and her team refuse to accept the Magius' methods or their control over the future. The Magius argue that without their plan, Walpurgisnacht will destroy the city regardless.

• Outside Fendt Hope, the battle against the Uwasa of Fendt Hope continues. Realizing they are losing, Mifuyu uses a dangerous self-illusion to unleash all her magic at once in a final attack. She destroys the Uwasa but becomes incapacitated in the process as her Soul Gem starts breaking.
• In the chapel, the destruction of the Uwasa causes Fendt Hope's Labyrinth to collapse, and the chapel is exposed to the outside as the building disappears. After the collapse of Hotel Fendt Hope, the teams reunite in the forest as the Labyrinth vanishes. Yachiyo learns that Mifuyu was severely injured destroying the Uwasa and was taken to Mitama for treatment.
• The Magius appear with Embryo Eve, now freed from the chapel, and they prepare to fully release Eve so it can devour the approaching Walpurgisnacht. A battle ensues as the teams try to stop them and Iroha and Sana break through the defensive line of Familiars to attack Eve directly. Iroha's attack on Eve fails and Eve captures Iroha but does not harm her. A bright light emanates from Iroha, allowing Sana to rescue her. Sana reveals she possesses a branch from the Uwasa of the Eternal Sakura, which was not in bloom when she received it. The branch suddenly blossoms after Iroha touches Eve and Iroha realizes that Embryo Eve is her missing sister, Ui Tamaki.

• Iroha and Sana confront Embryo Eve on Takayama Mountain and Iroha believes Eve is her sister, Ui Tamaki, but Eve breaks free from the mountain and begins to move toward Kamihama City.
• In Kamihama City, Walpurgisnacht approaches from the sea, accompanied by a massive horde of Familiars that begin to swarm the city. Magical Girl teams led by Hinano Miyako and Nanaka Tokiwa engage the Familiars along the coast to prevent widespread destruction.
• At the ruins of Hotel Fendt Hope, Tsukasa and Tsukuyo bring the injured Mifuyu to Mitama Yakumo for emergency aid.
• On Takayama Mountain, Iroha pleads with the combined Magical Girl forces not to kill Eve, revealing her belief that it is Ui. The Magius leaders and Alina retreat. Eve leaps into the sky, heading for Sankyo Ward in Kamihama. Yachiyo Nanami's team prepares to pursue Eve, while Madoka Kaname's group from Mitakihara heads to the coast to help defend against Walpurgisnacht.
• At the Magius headquarters, Touka and Nemu dismiss Iroha's claims about Ui, despite Nemu's private suspicions. Alina expresses interest in Iroha's memories but remains focused on Eve's hatching.
• After Eve's arrival in Sankyo Ward, Mitama informs Iroha and the team that Ui's true body and Soul Gem are contained within Embryo Eve, which is a "Half-Witch." To save Ui, they must defeat Eve's manifested form without destroying the Soul Gem and Mitama identifies a large red jewel on Eve's chest as the core that maintains its form and its weak point. Mitama also treats the comatose Mifuyu, whose Soul Gem is critically cracked from overuse. Mitama stabilizes it but cannot fully heal her, and Tsukuyo and Tsukasa decide to rejoin the fight.
• As Eve rampages through Sankyo Ward, the combined Magical Girl teams attack Eve but find their assaults completely ineffective. Mitama, the Amane sisters, and other groups like Hinano Miyako's team regroup and they decide to consolidate their forces: one group will focus on defeating Eve, while the other prepares for Walpurgisnacht's landfall.
• Felicia readies her hammer and strikes Eve on the head with a magic‑powered blow, using her memory‑obliterating ability to confuse Eve and halt its advance; in the aftermath of the strike, a strange glow is visible near Eve's belly. Meanwhile, the Amane sisters relay the critical intelligence about Eve's red jewel weak point to Yachiyo's team. Eve begins to move toward Chuo Ward, and Sana proposes a plan to immobilize Eve so the team can target its weak point.
• In Chuo Ward, the combined forces of Yachiyo's team, the Amane sisters, and other White Feathers execute a plan to immobilize Embryo Eve. They use chains from Sana's shield, spears, and plants to bind Eve to a large building and Iroha successfully strikes the large red jewel on Eve's chest, its weak point.
• Eve retaliates by absorbing a massive vortex of impurities its Familiars had collected, causing its body to mutate and merge with the jewel. Iroha then sees a vision of Ui trapped within the core, reaffirming her resolve to save her, but the Magius arrive to protect Eve and ensure it consumes Walpurgisnacht. Iroha declares her intent to enter the gem to save Ui directly, and despite being severely injured, Sana, Tsuruno, and Felicia hold off the Magius, creating an opening for Iroha to advance toward Eve's core.

• Iroha reaches Ui's body but cannot shatter the gem surrounding it completely. Touka arrives at her side, and questions her motives. Iroha declares Ui is her sister and a precious friend to Touka and Nemu, and as Iroha reaches for Ui, the Embryo Eve attacks and Lil' Kyubey intervenes and blocks the attack.
• Touka and Nemu experience a flood of memories, recalling the original events. She remembers seeing Iroha with Kyubey in a Witch's Labyrinth, learning about Magical Girls, and devising a plan with Ui and Nemu to usurp Kyubey's powers to create an automatic purification system and save all Magical Girls. Their plan failed when Ui's "harvest" ability went haywire upon her transformation, forcing Nemu to sever Ui's soul from her body and store it within the de-powered, small Kyubey to prevent her from becoming a Witch. This act erased Ui from the world's memory, as well as any traces of her.
• Regaining their memories, Touka uses her stored energy to destabilize the Embryo Eve and Nemu uses her stories to restrain it. Iroha shatters Eve's central gem, and the small Kyubey releases Ui's soul. Ui awakens and reassures Touka and Nemu that she does not blame them for their shared decision. The Embryo Eve, now soulless, begins to decay.
• The combined Magical Girl forces, including Mami, Kyoko, Madoka, Sayaka, and Homura, continue their battle against Walpurgisnacht in Chuo Ward. Despite their numbers, the Witch proves immensely powerful and resilient.
• In Chuo Ward, a massive explosion of light and energy erupts from the location of the decaying Embryo Eve. The Eve has transformed into a new, stable form, and Touka deduces that Alina, who had previously shrunk the anti-Kyubey forcefield to contain the city's energy, has now wrapped that forcefield tightly around Eve. This action stabilized Eve's energy and prevented its decay, allowing Alina to control it as a tool for her art. Alina appears, now fused with an Uwasa in a manner similar to Holy Mami, and declares her intent to use Eve to create her ultimate masterpiece, disregarding the goal of Magical Girl liberation.
• Holy Alina asserts that humanity subconsciously desires destruction and that she will use the Embryo Eve to fulfill this wish as her ultimate artwork. Kanagi confronts her own past desire to destroy the city due to its history of conflict but ultimately rejects Alina's path as well.

• Nemu, as the creator of Alina's Uwasa, takes responsibility. She uses the last of her life force to summon every Uwasa recorded in her book to attack Alina directly. The attack defeats Alina, making her disappear, but Nemu collapses, severely weakened and unable to move her legs, so White Feathers evacuate her to safety.

• The Embryo Eve, now uncontrolled, begins to rampage and targets Ui, attempting to reabsorb her. Lil' Kyubey implies a solution: it will take Ui's place within Eve. Touka realizes that the small Kyubey, which contains Ui's former soul and Kyubey's original functions, possesses similar attributes to Eve. It is also incapable of becoming a Witch. Lil' Kyubey merges with the Embryo Eve, causing it to release all orbs of light from its body, lading in different parts of Kamihama. The small Kyubey thus becomes the core of the "Automatic Purification System" that Touka, Ui, and Nemu originally envisioned, preventing Magical Girls from becoming Witches within Kamihama City.

• With Walpurgisnacht's arrival, the combined forces of Magical Girls, including the various teams from Kamihama and the team from Mitakihara, are on the verge of defeat. Homura and the others exhaust their weapons and energy in a desperate attempt to defeat it. They are exhausted, out of Grief Seeds, many are incapacitated, and despite their injuries and depleted resources, the girls refuse to give up.
• As Walpurgisnacht prepares a massive attack that seems certain to annihilate them, an unknown, benevolent force envelops the Magical Girls. Iroha hears a mysterious voice and sees white feathers raining down, an experience shared by everyone on the battlefield. They all experience a sudden surge of energy and a feeling of being urged forward. This voice is from the Law of Cycles, who had been watching the timeline but not interfering with it. The feathers rejuvenate the group, lifting their spirits and empowering them to continue fighting; their strength is restored, and even the injured find themselves able to fight again. With morale returned, they rally together for one final, united assault, redirecting Walpurgisnacht to Kaihin Park using a coordinated strategy with their unique magical abilities.
• The combined forces of Magical Girls coordinate their unique magics to combat Walpurgisnacht:
  • Momoko and Natsuki Utsuho initiate the counterattack by using their Encouragement and Cheering magic to boost the morale and power of all allies.
  • Seizing this surge of energy, the team implements a complex strategy to control the battlefield. First, Felicia, Meiyui Chun, and Rika Ayano use their Memory Erasure, Persuasion, and Mind-Altering magic to disorient Walpurgisnacht and force it to change course toward the sea.
  • To precisely guide the Witch to the intended battleground, Tsuruno, Riko Chiaki, and Emiri Kisaki then use their Good Luck, Luring, and Charm magic, successfully leading Walpurgisnacht to the beachfront park while evading its attacks.
  • Once there, the focus shifts to immobilizing the colossal foe. Tsukuyo, Tsukasa, and Asuka Tatsuki use their Flute Blossom Resonance and Action Control magic in an attempt to halt Walpurgisnacht's movement entirely.
  • When it retaliates, Himika Mao diverts its attacks, creating an opening for Kanagi Izumi, who, with a power boost from Mitama's Coordination, attacks it directly to stun it.
  • This creates the crucial opening for a full restraint, and Mami, Kanoko Yayoi, and Kaede use Ribbon Binding, Stitching, and Plant magic to ensnare the Witch, which Rena amplified by using her Transformation magic to transform into Kaede and double the restraining power.
  • With Walpurgisnacht finally immobilized, Nanaka organizes their forces while Hazuki Yusa and Akira Shinobu identify its weak point with their magic, a gear connected to Walpurgisnacht's body.
  • The entire group then launch a coordinated, all-out assault, with offensive magics like Hinano Miyako's Chemical Explosions leading the charge.
  • Throughout the final attack, Kokoro Awane, Ayame Mikuri, and Konoha Shizumi provide vital defense with their Wall Creation, Safeguarding, and Fog Generation magic, protecting the assault team and ensuring their united strike could land.
  • Realizing their combined assault was not enough to deliver a final blow, the Magical Girls regroup and to ensure they could act as one perfect unit, Reira Ibuki uses her Purifying Flame to heal their wounds and replenish their energy, while Mito Aino uses her Heart-Linking magic to synchronize their hearts and minds, allowing their resolve to become perfectly aligned.
  • With their spirits united, they form a new strategy and Konomi Haruna uses her magic to force their Fighting Spirit to Bloom, amplifying their collective potential, while Kako Natsume uses her Event Reproduction magic to reinforce the gathered energy, and Ren Isuzu enacts her Nirvana magic to ensure the attack would bring permanent rest to the Witch if successful.
• The plan to create a final weapon then commences. Ui uses her Harvest magic to gather the hope and magical energy from every single Magical Girl on the battlefield. She passes this immense energy to Touka, who used her Conversion magic to condense it all into a single, concentrated mass.
• This mass of collective hope is then entrusted to Yachiyo, whose unique magic of Inheritance allows her to embody and control the power. She and Iroha shape this energy into a gigantic, radiant arrow aimed at the weak point that had been identified.
• As they prepared to fire, Walpurgisnacht launches an attack to free itself from their binds. In that moment, Homura activates her Time-Stop, and touches Iroha, allowing her to move within the suspended time and take aim unimpeded.
• With the path clear, Iroha releases the arrow and strikes the central gear with overwhelming force. As time resumed, the arrow consumed Walpurgisnacht in a brilliant explosion, finally ending the calamity and clearing the sky over Kamihama.

• Homura reflects that she has finally surpassed this battle after countless timelines, and Madoka expresses relief that no more people will suffer from Walpurgisnacht. The girls in Kamihama also celebrate their hard-earned victory, despite the fact that many are injured and exhausted.

Epilogue

• Some days after the defeat of Walpurgisnacht, Iroha and Ui see their parents off at the airport as they leave for their overseas assignment. Iroha and Ui then return to Mikazuki Villa in Kamihama City, where Yachiyo, Tsuruno, Felicia, and Sana welcome them back. Mifuyu is also present, as Iroha was able to use her magic to repair Mifuyu's damaged Soul Gem, allowing her to recover. Later that day, Momoko, Rena, Kaede, Kanagi, and Mitama visit Mikazuki Villa as well.
• Some time later, Ultimate Madoka, a being who identifies as a record-keeper of all universes reflects on the new timeline centered on Kamihama. She states she intervened one last time by sending a "rain of feathers" to empower the Magical Girls but will now only observe, fearing further direct interference could damage this fragile new reality.
• Touka and Nemu organize a meeting for all Magical Girls involved in the recent conflict to discuss the actions of the Wings of the Magius and the future fate of all Magical Girls.
• Iroha, Ui, Touka, and Nemu visit the Eternal Sakura. The Uwasa of the Eternal Sakura congratulates them on finally being together as friends and Nemu, who now uses a wheelchair, accepts her condition as a consequence of her past actions. Iroha briefly wonders about the whereabouts of the small Kyubey that once accompanied her, and then meet Lil' Kyubey in the Eternal Sakura Labyrinth again.

• After some days, Homura reflects on their victory. Despite saving Madoka and defeating Walpurgisnacht, she feels uncertain. The fundamental curse of Magical Girls becoming Witches remains, and she questions if this timeline is truly the best outcome. At school, Mami informs the group about recent disappearances and people getting lost, which they attribute to a new Witch. They devise a plan to track it by mapping the incidents. Kyoko arrives from Kazamino, also hunting the same Witch, and a tense alliance forms.
  • Later that day, the group splits into teams to search the area Mami identified. Madoka notices Homura's preoccupation and reassures her. The teams locate the Witch's Labyrinth and coordinate their attack. During the battle, Homura fears for her friends' safety, but they work together effectively. Kyoko and Sayaka create an opening for Mami and Madoka to deliver the final blow, while Homura evacuates the Witch-Kissed civilians.
  • After the battle, Kyoko gives the Grief Seed to Mami and Sayaka declares she has no regrets about becoming a Magical Girl, valuing the power to protect and the friends she has made. This prompts Mami to reconcile with Kyoko, asking to be true friends who help each other when needed again, to which Kyoko agrees. Madoka then states she is also glad she became a Magical Girl, expressing faith in the future because of her friends. This resolve causes Homura to weep with joy, finally believing this timeline, where they face their fate together, could be the one she sought.
• The following day, the group, including Kyoko, shares a meal at a pancake restaurant. They discuss an upcoming meeting in Kamihama to address the Magius' actions. While Kyoko opts not to attend, the others plan to update her later.

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Summer With Mikazuki Villa

• After arriving at the hostel, the Mikazuki Villa members meet Momoko, Rena, and Kaede, who secretly followed because Rena wanted to join the trip. The group spends the day playing at the beach, where Tsuruno and Felicia dominate a game of beach flags, and Sana tearfully confides in Iroha that this is her first holiday ever.
• The next day, the group participates in a spicy food eating contest at a seaside restaurant, where Yachiyo surprises everyone by consuming nearly one hundred forty-two bowls of pasta to secure victory for her team against Konoha, Nanaka, and the others.
• On the third day, Sana's late-night sighting of a shadowy figure screaming "Come on go" sparks a beach-wide rumor that eventually draws in Kokoro, Masara, Aimi, Mito, and Reira, only for the mystery to be solved when Seika introduces her Manzai teacher Ayaka, whose gag playing on the phrase's rhythm reveals the source of the confusion.
• On the fourth day, the Mikazuki Villa girls and Momoko's trio attempt to teach Iroha how to swim without her float, but their efforts fail repeatedly. Iroha eventually explains that she used to be a swimmer until a traumatic incident: during a rare hospital holiday for her sister Ui, the family visited a pool, and Iroha mistook Ui happily paddling for drowning. In her rush to help, Iroha tripped and nearly drowned herself, leaving her with lasting anxiety about it. Suddenly, Rena begins drowning and cries for help via telepathy. The team rushes to save her, and surprisingly Iroha proves fastest, reaching Rena first and giving her the float while swimming them both to shore. On the way, Rena explains her leg was caught in seaweed, not cramped as she thought. Once Iroha realizes Rena is safe, her sisterly instincts fade and she begins drowning herself, having temporarily overcome her fear only through concern for another. Yachiyo reassures Iroha that the rescue proves she can still swim and encourages her to practice diligently. Iroha looks forward to regaining her ability fully, hoping that by then she and Ui can visit the pool together again.
• On the fifth day, Tsuruno leads the team on a surprise treasure hunt, guiding them through a forest with help from Konomi and Mayu to confront the "evil queen" Mitama, who surrenders a map piece that leads them to a cave with a beautiful stream, which was nature's treasure all along.
• On the sixth day, the team attends an unorthodox summer festival produced by Emiri, where they meet Rika, repeatedly mispronounce festival icon Ria's name, and watch Felicia win a mushroom whacking contest before everyone joins in Bon Odori dancing under fireworks.
• On the final morning, the group visits the beach one last time and asks Manaka to take a group photo, with Iroha treasuring these memories with her friends.
  • That night, Yachiyo, Tsuruno, Sana, and Felicia surprise Iroha with a birthday party, having learned the date from her parents. They give her heartfelt gifts - a cookbook, a photo album, a drawing inspired by the "come on go" search, and a handmade brooch - and Momoko, Rena, and Kaede arrive with a bouquet and food, moving Iroha to tears of joy.

Beachside Bonds

• August 11: Homura writes in her diary as she and her friends take an air-conditioned express train to the beach for summer vacation. They buy ice cream and enjoy the ride.
  • The girls arrive at their destination, a seaside inn run by Sayaka's relatives who had a sudden cancellation. Sayaka complains about the heat as they walk to the inn.
  • At the inn, Sayaka's aunt shows them to their rooms and warns them not to get lost in the surrounding forest. Outside, two young girls who live at the inn approach Madoka. They ask if she knows someone named Kei, who is looking for someone named Yu. They warn Madoka not to talk to Kei and that she should hold still if Kei enters her room. The girls then leave. Homura suggests Kei might be a cat. They agree to tell the others as Kyoko passes by already in her swimsuit.
  • At the beach, the girls play volleyball. Mami spikes the ball hard and hits Homura in the face. They stop the game and Mami frets over Homura. Madoka suggests they rest in the shade while Mami buys something cold. Madoka then suggests they collect pine cones from nearby trees.
  • In the forest, a cat appears and leads them deeper into the trees. It guides them to a small shrine, where Homura finds an old notebook. She reads entries from April 20, June 24, August 3, and August 6, all detailing the author's complicated feelings for someone named Kei. Madoka tells her to put it back without reading further. When they turn around, the cat is gone.
  • Back at the beach, Sayaka shares a rumor from the beach house: a girl fell off a nearby cliff years ago and died, and her spirit is reportedly seen rising from the ocean between two and three a.m. Mami shrieks in fear.
  • At the inn, Kyoko teases Mami about being scared. The conversation turns to ghosts and Kyoko compares them to how normal people might perceive Witches. Madoka feels relieved and tells Sayaka about the twin girls. Sayaka plans to ask them about any pets later.
  • After an Italian dinner, the girls light fireworks on the beach. Kyoko bumps into Hinano Miyako, who doesn't recognize her but does recognize her Soul Gem ring. Ren Isuzu finds Hinano, followed by Emiri Kisaki and Rika Ayano. The groups combine for fireworks. Emiri admits she used a little magic to help everyone relax, explaining why Kyoko had strange memories of Mami. Kyoko chases Sayaka around the beach.
  • Heading back to the inn, Sayaka finds her twin cousins lining up stones. They claim the stones protect against Kei entering. They say Kei would hate Sayaka the most because she is nosy, then leave. In her diary, Homura writes that the girls talked until they all fell asleep.
• August 12 Homura's diary entry describes a dream belonging to someone else. In the dream, the narrator waits for her friend Yusa Yumeno, who arrives with popsicles. The narrator complains that Yusa doesn't need to come every day, but Yusa insists she can only be her real self around her friend. The narrator believes identity is shaped by others' perceptions. She reveals she may not take college exams due to family obligations and urges Yusa to attend her chosen school, comparing herself to a weed and Yusa to a flower growing in a different direction. The narrator comes home to another hateful letter from classmates.
  • Homura wakes in a cold sweat, unable to move. The room smells strongly of seaweed. She sees a pitch-black human shadow sitting between Mami and Sayaka's futons. It examines their faces, grumbling "wrong, wrong, all wrong." As it moves toward Madoka, Homura struggles to move. The shadow stops and stares at her, asking "You can see me?" Homura screams.
  • The others wake. Sayaka notices the strange smell. Kyoko goes back to sleep. Mami offers water and Homura asks if someone entered the room. They saw no one. Sayaka apologizes for the scary stories. Mami suggests thinking about tomorrow's fun. Madoka offers to hold Homura's hand, which she accepts.
  • Homura wakes early, the ocean scent still strong. She finds the twin girls outside. They ask if she met Kei. Homura asks what Kei is. The girls explain Kei looks like a human made of shadow without facial features, smells of the sea, and emerges from the ocean at night to look for her friend Yu. They repeat that she should do nothing and never talk to her. They notice their protective stones scattered and go to reline them.
  • Homura suspects this might be a Rumor. She returns to the forest shrine and finds the notebook on the shrine's lattice door, despite having placed it underneath. She reads entries from May 2, May 20, June 12, and June 26, all detailing the author Yu's complicated, obsessive feelings for Kei. She replaces the notebook, feeling guilty.
  • At the beach, Homura recalls more diary entries: July 2 describes Yu placing hands on Kei's neck as if to strangle her; July 5 compares Kei's neck to a lizard she killed; July 15 describes Kei now finding Yu after school; July 20 states they should never have met and that both wear bandages to hide bruises on their necks. Madoka points out a small bruise on Homura's neck.
  • The girls begin walking to an aquarium along the coast. Kyoko complains about the distance and suggests fishing instead. Sayaka refuses, traumatized by a recent fishing tournament incident in Kamihama.
  • At the aquarium, they eat fish burgers, marvel at jellyfish, and watch a dolphin and seal show. They leave at sunset.
  • The girls walk to a cape to watch the sunset. Sayaka warns them not to get too close to the edge, referencing the girl who died. Homura smells flowers and Mami identifies night-blooming jasmine nearby. The scent reminds Homura of her dream.
  • She recalls another diary entry: August 1 describes Yu feeling happy hearing Kei's wish despite blaming herself; August 12 states their plan is set for tomorrow, with Yu hoping something will make Kei reconsider.
  • On the cape, Kyoko admits feeling down because a cape is the end of the road with nothing after. Mami says it's more important they could talk again like they used to.
  • Homura writes in her diary about the difference between the self you know and the self others perceive. She asks Madoka what kind of person she thinks Homura is. Madoka calls her a dear friend who works hard. Homura worries that revealing her time-traveling truth would change this perception. After dinner, the girls settle in for sleep.
• August 13: Homura dreams again of Kei and Yu. Kei calls out that the promised day is here. She has dressed up and brought a ribbon to tie them together. Yu questions if this is right. Kei insists her life belongs only to Yu. They vow: "In every life, we end whenever we meet." They promise to kill each other for every reincarnation as proof of who they are.
  • A voice calls Homura to wake. She awakens to find Madoka standing with eyes closed, enveloped in shadow. Madoka snaps her eyes open and proclaims repeatedly "I got in." She calls out for Yu, saying the promised day is finally here. Madoka runs into the forest toward the cliff. Homura chases.
  • At the cape, everything grows dark. Madoka, possessed by Kei's spirit, tells Homura that the drowned Chinese girl's body washed up here and she is looking for her father's ship. Homura urges her to chase after the girl to escape, but Kei claims Homura will kill her as soon as they leave. Homura transforms and attempts to freeze time but finds her magic has no effect in this place where time does not flow.
  • Ren's voice calls out. She informs Homura that the others are searching for them, but only Ren could traverse into this abyss. Ren suggests this might be similar to her own magic rather than a Witch.
  • Kei admits she tried possessing Homura but could not, so she settled for Madoka. She explains she is a faint memory staining the cliffside. The drowned girl's spirit helped her recall all her memories clearly. She describes how she and Yu bound themselves together and jumped into the ocean, but the waves pulled them apart. Kei died; Yu survived. Kei wants to kill Yu so they can kill each other throughout eternity.
  • Homura refuses to stay in the abyss with Madoka. Kei transforms Madoka into her magical girl state and attacks. Ren blocks the blow and tries to use her magic to draw out the possession. Homura calls out the vow Kei and Yu made, distracting Kei. Ren attempts her magic but the ghost of the drowned Chinese girl deflects it.
  • Ren realizes the ghost girl is not a girl but the root cause: the Witch Paola. The barrier forms and Homura fights the Witch alone while Ren hurries to catch up.
  • The Barrier dissipates and Homura faces the possessed Madoka on the cape. Kei accuses Homura of killing her. Homura tells her to shut up and leave their lives alone. Kei explains she will soon fade if Yu is not there. She begs Homura to kill Yu if she ever meets her, before her soul breaks and she becomes like the Witch. She begs Homura to keep this promise no matter where they meet or how many worlds Homura visits. Kei then relinquishes Madoka's body.
  • Ren arrives, relieved they are safe. Madoka wakes with no memory, thinking she simply tossed and turned. The other girls find them and celebrate.
  • Homura writes in her diary, describing the events as too strange to comprehend. She reflects on Kyubey's use of the term "soul" and questions what a soul truly is.
  • Sayaka sighs that even on vacation they dealt with a Witch. Kyoko thinks she's getting rusty. Mami suggests Homura was right about a Witch mixing with a Rumor. Madoka telepathically tells them to quiet down since Homura is asleep.
  • In her final dream, Homura sees Yu wake in a hospital on an unknown date. Kei died. Their bruises were dismissed. Yu returned to school where others used her grief as their own. Unable to bear going on without Kei, she nearly threw herself off the cliff again. All she holds onto is their final words: "In every life, we end whenever we meet." But if the Yu that died that day is gone, who is the girl writing now? An image of Kyubey flashes on the screen.
  • Deep in the dream, Homura recalls Kei's plea on the cliff. But Homura never agreed or promised anything.

Post-Arc 1

Dreaming Cherry Blossom

• After the defeat of Walpurgisnacht, the Eternal Sakura completed her duties as an Uwasa when her tree came into full bloom. Her Rumor was rewritten and she was connected to Touka's server, reborn as an Uwasa with ample knowledge who would later be named Sakurako. Around this time, Yachiyo received a message asking what should be done about the six ringleaders of the Magius—Touka Satomi, Nemu Hiiragi, Mifuyu Azusa, Mitama Yakumo, Tsukuyo Amane, and Tsukasa Amane. Nemu proposed rewriting the Eternal Sakura to serve as an impartial judge. They designed three trials: the first to analyze crimes and calculate a verdict, the second to survey all Magical Girls, and the third to reach a final decision based on responses. Punishments ranged from monitoring to destruction of the Soul Gem.
  • In the first trial, Sakurako sentenced Touka and Nemu to the maximum penalty. Mifuyu received power revocation, reduced from maximum due to testimony that she helped destroy Fendt Hope. Mitama received conditional power revocation, allowed to transform only for Coordinator work. The Amane sisters received power restriction. After the trial, Touka and Nemu remained calm, thanking everyone. Yachiyo noted they had intentionally omitted their ages from consideration.
• Two days before Valentine's Day, Nemu and Sakurako wait at a train station with others. Nearby girls whisper about Nemu, recognizing her as one of the Magius and questioning why she faces no punishment. Ui argues with Iroha about using the Stardust Time Viewer, while Touka pushes through the crowd, disheveled from navigating the train alone. The three girls reunite, each feeling it is a dream. Touka sends Ui a photo of the map they created together in the hospital. The group travels to the mall, where Ui finally visits the croquette shop she always wanted to try, and they share plates to taste each other's orders. From there, they take a rickshaw to Mizuna Shrine, where they briefly encounter Tsukuyo and Tsukasa, who quickly hurry away. The group buys prayer plaques, though most hesitate at the cost until a shrine attendant suggests writing prayers on the back of their fortunes instead. Iroha wishes for all Magical Girls to get along, while Touka and Nemu write their own wishes. They argue over where to go next—Touka wants a lookout point in Hokuyo Ward, but Ui resists rushing. Sakurako suggests they also face reality, so they head to Central Ward, still scarred from Walpurgisnacht and Eve.
  • Ui admits she used the library as an excuse to bring them here, hoping the Stardust Time Viewer would show them a hopeful future. Nemu summons the Rumor, transporting them to a star-filled space. The Viewer shows Iroha's future: a world where the Doppel system has expanded globally and all Magical Girls coexist peacefully. Iroha feels embarrassed, but Sakurako assures her the wish is beautiful. When Ui asks to see her own future, the Viewer has nothing to show. Ui realizes this means Touka and Nemu are absent from Iroha's future and accuses them of planning to die. The vision fades, returning them to the rubble of Central Ward. Touka and Nemu admit they believe they should die for their crimes, pointing to the destruction around them, the Feathers they manipulated, and the innocent people hurt. Sakurako confirms she knew this all along. Ui slaps them both, demanding they consider how she feels. Nemu explains they wanted to do what they could while they still had time.
  • The second trial begins. No surveys have arrived. Sakurako agrees to wait one hour. Yachiyo and others leave to retrieve them. Mifuyu confronts Touka and Nemu, asking if they sabotaged the surveys. They admit they did, altering the date so the surveys would not arrive in time. They wanted to be judged and sentenced to death to spare Ui from the hatred directed at them. Ui refuses to accept this. She and Iroha transform to protect them. The hour ends and Sakurako moves to deliver punishment. Iroha and Ui hold her back as Mifuyu and Mitama join the defense. The Amane sisters attack Sakurako with their flutes, accepting heavier sentences. Iroha realizes they can use photos of the surveys as evidence. Mifuyu and Mitama's phones begin chiming with images from Yachiyo and the others. Iroha begs Sakurako to accept the evidence. Sakurako confirms the surveys are real and delays the trial, requiring them to arrive by day's end. The surveys show Magical Girls believe Touka and Nemu should be punished, but not killed. Some suggest atonement, rehabilitation, or mentorship. Reading the responses, Touka and Nemu weep, but Ui weeps with joy. Based on the surveys, sentences are reduced. Touka and Nemu receive monitoring with transformation-prevention bracelets, while Mifuyu and Mitama's sentences are reduced to monitoring. The Amane sisters are found not guilty and Feathers who revealed themselves have their cases dismissed.
• At Mikazuki Villa, the group gathers. Touka and Nemu wear their bracelets. Sakurako serves drinks. Mifuyu asks about tutoring Touka in exchange for help with pharmacy school. Nemu will rely on Sakurako for mobility on difficult days. Tsuruno suggests welcoming them as the Brains of Kamihama. In the kitchen, Sakurako hugs Touka and Nemu, then Iroha and Ui. She tells them she loves them. The days she always dreamed of have arrived. The real spring can finally begin.

A Fledgling's First Flight

• One day, Ui reads "The Happy Prince" and reflects on her uncertain purpose as a Magical Girl. While walking, she stops Kyubey from contracting a girl outside Kamihama, explaining she cannot let anyone else suffer the fate of becoming a Witch. When Kyubey asks what he should do instead, she has no answer. Later at Yachiyo's house, Felicia tells Ui she is overthinking things and should focus on her upcoming combat test. Iroha and Yachiyo serve dinner.
• The next morning, Tsuruno gives Ui an enthusiastic pep talk for her live combat test. To remain in Kamihama, Ui must detect and eliminate a Witch alone—the same test Yachiyo gave Iroha when she first arrived. Yachiyo admits the test may be unfair and offers to let Ui choose a partner. With Iroha busy helping Kanagi, Ui chooses Momoko. They depart together.
  • Ui struggles to sense the Witch's magic, so they search Mizuna Ward where young women gather. They encounter a Familiar and follow it to a Witch's labyrinth. After defeating it, Felicia suddenly appears, attacks them, and runs away. Tsuruno gives chase and tackles her. Felicia's oblivion magic has erased their memory of the Familiar's pattern, so they cannot track the Witch. Momoko requests a pause, but Yachiyo refuses, stating unexpected events happen in real combat.
  • At Yachiyo's house, Felicia admits she interfered because she is jealous that Ui receives everyone's attention while she struggled alone as a mercenary. Yachiyo explains that Felicia's past does not justify making others unhappy. Meanwhile, Ui cheers up after eating crepes with Momoko and resolves to continue. As sunset approaches, they search Sakae Ward but find nothing. Yachiyo offers to bring a Familiar for them to retrack, but it disappears before they arrive. Ui suggests checking Hokuyo Ward on a hunch.
  • In Hokuyo Ward, Ui senses a different Witch's magical reaction. They follow Witch-kissed people up a mountain toward a labyrinth. At Yachiyo's house, the others realize Ui failed the test since Yachiyo had to eliminate the original Witch herself, though Yachiyo will allow a retake. They notice Felicia smiling and suspect she interfered again. Rena confesses she helped Felicia erase the hint because she understood Felicia's jealousy. Tsuruno says the only person who deserves an apology is Ui.
  • On the mountain, Ui and Momoko enter the Witch's barrier against Momoko's better judgment. They fight through Familiars but become trapped and cannot escape. The Witch overwhelms them. Yachiyo and the others arrive and join the fight, but Familiars overwhelm them too. Iroha arrives at the last moment to defend Ui. Ui proposes using her ability to harvest impurities, purifying everyone's Soul Gems so they can fight at full strength. She will temporarily become a Witch, but the Doppel system will contain it. She absorbs the impurities, and the others destroy the Witch while Ui struggles with the darkness.
  • Ui unleashes her Doppel and meets her Doppel self, who accuses her of wanting punishment and being jealous of others while trapped in the hospital. Ui nearly agrees to let the Doppel consume her but refuses, recognizing it as the easy way out. She recalls Iroha's words about taking responsibility and confronting the situation honestly. She accepts her wrongs and her true feelings, realizing this difficult path will bring true happiness. The Doppel admits she is right. Iroha wakes Ui at Mitama's clinic, where she has been unconscious for some time.
  • Mitama checks on Ui after her first Doppel release. Felicia apologizes for her interference and says she thinks Ui is cool. Rena also apologizes for helping Felicia. Ui accepts their apologies and compliments them both, asking Felicia to teach her things. Rena and Felicia feel terrible for how they treated someone so kind. Later that evening at Yachiyo's house, everyone celebrates Ui passing her test—though she did not defeat the assigned Witch, she tracked a Witch, stayed calm, used her intelligence, and performed better than expected. Ui tells Iroha she now knows what she wants to do as a Magical Girl. Iroha decides to work with other Kamihama Magical Girls to find a way to free them all.
• One day, Ui and Iroha encounter Kyubey outside Kamihama attempting another contract and stop him. Kyubey asks what their goal is. They explain they plan to fight and find a way to coexist with Kyubey—if they can expand Kamihama's miracle globally, Magical Girls can live happily while providing the energy Kyubey needs. Kyubey welcomes the idea if it avoids conflict but warns that Magical Girls worldwide are not as unified as those in Kamihama. Ui wonders how much happiness she can give to the world.

Tart / Darc Magica

• Through Minou's spell from 15th-century France, Ui is pulled into the past, with her phone acting as her Soul Gem and Blank Prophecy, with the power to restore the past's real history.
  • Returning from the past, Ui finds herself in an antique store, still surrounded by magic bubbles though no memory of what occured. On the floor are the two candles and the old book. She feels they are important but cannot remember why, so she puts them on store shelves before falling asleep again.
• Ui wakes up at Mikazuki Villa. Her phone rings ith a text of Nemu asking if she knows any charms, as Mitama has been really into them lately. Ui says she knows a charm for good dreams requiring red and blue candles. Nemu asks where she heard about it and Ui isn't sure but says it was in 15th-century France. Nemu is fascinated and promises to research it. Later, Ui scrolls through her phone and finds a photo she doesn't recognize with girls she doesn't know. She begins crying without understanding why and Iroha finds her and hugs her tightly. Suddenly Ui remembers Darc's final words. She turns to her sister and tells her, "Let's have a wonderful future together." Iroha agrees. Ui calms down and heads home to prepare for a slumber party with Nemu and Touka. Iroha, running errands, decides to stop by Mitama's place afterward. Mitama greets her warmly, mentioning she just learned an interesting little charm.
  • That day, Iroha visits Mitama, who gives her and Yachiyo antique candles for a sweet dream spell. That night, they light the candles and drift off to sleep together, where they're pulled into the nightmare of Jeanne d'Arc in April 29th, 1429.
  • The next morning, Yachiyo reveals she had the same dream. They call Mitama, who is surprised they had nightmares instead of sweet dreams. They decide to try the candles again.
  • They awaken to find Kamihama plunged into darkness and all non-Magical Girls vanished. Their Soul Gems have consumed magic in the real world despite no injuries. Realizing the dream affects reality, they decide to return.
  • After a lot of fighting, they awaken and prepare for the final battle. In this journey they discover that they'd been traveling to Darc's dream, and if Darc despairs completely, she will turn into a Witch and trigger a catastrophe affecting the real world.
  • They awaken to find Felicia and Sana gone and Kamihama empty. Breaking into Mitama's shop, they find a grimoire revealing the candles were made with Darc's hair, creating a connection to her dream. They return with the book.
  • They finally awaken at Mikazuki Villa to sunshine and normalcy. Felicia demands steak for dinner. Consulting a history book, they read that on May 7th, 1429, Jeanne d'Arc fought at Tourelles after waking from a dream. The battle was fierce but Orléans was liberated. Iroha notices a portrait in the book showing them in their Magical Girl outfits standing beside Jeanne d'Arc.
  • Later at Mitama's shop, Yachiyo recounts everything. Mitama mentions the spell became widespread in France during Jeanne d'Arc's era. Iroha realizes Melissa must have spread it after learning it from them in the dream. The use of red and blue candles was too specific to be coincidence. Iroha's head spins trying to figure out where the spell originated. Yachiyo notes the grimoire never mentioned the candle setup, so the spell just circled around and around. They will never know for certain whether they changed history or were always part of it.

• During their slumber party, Ui, Touka, and Nemu encounter a massive witch, Crépuscule de La Reine. Touka and Nemu vanish, leaving Ui and Sakurako to face it alone. The witch is unaffected by their attacks and disappears, taking Ui with it into 15th-century France once more, this time in the realm of Purgatory which Minou created. With Pernelle's help, Ui is soon able to also summon Iroha and Yachiyo there as well.
  • Iroha, Yachiyo, Ui, and Sakurako pass through the gates and return to their future, reuniting with Touka and Nemu as their memories fade.

• Lil' Kyubey and Ui's phone as the Blank Prophecy are pulled as "If Factors" into the world of Holy Maiden Academy, which Minou created and maintained for six hundred years after being given a Philosopher's Stone after Isabeau's death. However, after her plans are thwarted by the "what if" version of Melissa, he returns and wakes in the real world, where Iroha and Ui assure him it was just a dream.

The Cuddly Despairs

• Kazumi Subaru is kidnapped outside a café by two Magical Girls who steal her Soul Gem, and they refer to a diary while announcing themselves as the reborn "Magical Girl hunters," the Pleiades Saints.
• In Mitakihara City, Michiru Kazusa, a transfer student from Italy, travels there to buy strawberries. She follows a strange creature and stumbles into a Witch's labyrinth, but Mami rescues her and introduces her to Kyubey, who offers her a contract. Michiru returns to Asunaro.
  • Later that day in Asunaro City, Michiru makes her contract with Kyubey. She soon encounters a Familiar and saves two girls: Umika Misaki, a novelist whose work was stolen by her editor, and Kaoru Maki, a soccer player whose career ended due to injury. Michiru invites them to her home and cooks for them, and drawing from her late grandmother's wisdom, she encourages them to keep living.
  • Shortly after, Umika and Kaoru make contracts with Kyubey. The three begin fighting Witches together as a team, with Michiru giving their techniques Italian names. Umika invites Michiru to live with her, and they spend their days happily, saving people and growing closer.
• Days later, Michiru encounters a distressed Magical Girl whose Soul Gem is nearly black, and the girl turns into a Witch before her eyes. Kyubey explains that all Magical Girls eventually become Witches, and horrified, Michiru realizes she led Umika and Kaoru into this fate. She hides the truth from them and begins hunting alone.
• Shortly after, Michiru discovers two Magical Girls, Saki Asami and Niko Kanna, stealing a dying girl's Soul Gem. They explain they are the Pleiades Saints, a resistance against the Incubator system, and they preserve Magical Girls on the verge of turning in a place called "The Freezer," hoping to one day save them. Michiru, seeing this as a way to save Umika and Kaoru, joins them as the third member.
• Approximately less than one month later, Umika and Kaoru return from separate trips abroad to find their housemate Kazumi missing, and they learn someone impersonated them to inform the school she was hospitalized. Searching for her, they instead find Michiru, Saki, and Niko, but Saki and Niko flee with Michiru. Juubey appears and explains that copies of Umika and Kaoru were created and have now entrusted the real ones with an important wish.
• The next day, Umika and Kaoru investigate the Freezer, where they encounter Michiru again. After saving a child, Michiru collapses due to her tainted Soul Gem, having given her Grief Seeds away, and Umika purifies it. When Michiru wakes, she finally confesses the truth about Magical Girls and apologizes for leading them into despair, but to her surprise, Umika and Kaoru thank her for her honesty and reaffirm their friendship.
  • Later that day, Saki and Niko reveal themselves and explain that they, along with the Umika and Kaoru now in the Freezer, are all clones from the "Kazumi Series"—copies of the original Pleiades Saints members, with Michiru herself being clone number 4 who saved the other four. Their plan was to recreate Michiru's story by using their contracts with Kyubey so that this time, she would confess her pain and avoid the despair that turned the original Michiru into a Witch, and the real Umika and Kaoru acknowledge the plan succeeded.
  • They reveal their Soul Gems are reaching their limit, and when they die, the Freezer's preservation magic will fail, causing all the Magical Girls inside to hatch into Witches, including the clones of Umika and Kaoru. They entrust Michiru and the real Umika and Kaoru with saving Kazumi, the thirteenth clone, who is also inside.
  • Moments later, the Freezer begins collapsing as Niko's magic fades, and Umika and Kaoru use their combined magic to buy time while Michiru searches for Kazumi. She finds her Soul Gem and body, reunites with her, and they return to face the Witches emerging from the freed Soul Gems.
  • During the final battle, the four clones—Saki, Niko, and the copies of Umika and Kaoru—begin turning into Witches and beg to be put down. Michiru initially insists on doing it alone, but Kazumi argues the clones only wanted their friend to live happily, not to carry guilt. Together, Michiru, Kazumi, Umika, and Kaoru combine their powers and defeat the Witches, freeing their friends' souls.
• A few days afterward, Michiru decides to move to Italy to live with her grandmother's relatives. Before leaving, she, Kazumi, Umika, and Kaoru share a meal and take a photograph together, promising to meet again.

• Kazumi, Umika, and Kaoru arrive in Kamihama, with Kazumi eager to see her friends again now that she is truly human. At Mikazuki Villa, Tsuruno cooks alongside Manaka as they prepare a party for the visiting trio, and Kazumi impresses everyone by joining in. After the feast, the group moves to Banbanzai at Kazumi's request, where she saves the apricot tofu from being removed from the menu by suggesting an apricot tofu tiramisu that becomes an instant hit.
  • Nanaka and her teammates take the Kazumi three on a tour around Kamihama, visiting the Natsume bookshop, Emiri's counseling room, and going on a shopping trip where it is revealed that Kaoru has been scouted for the U-18 Women's National Team. The group then visits the beachside park and aquarium before deciding to shop for ingredients to make strawberry risotto in Manaka's kitchen.
  • While shopping alone, Kazumi bumps into Yachiyo, who introduces Nemu and Sakurako Hiiragi. When Sakurako explains she is a zero-year-old created being, Kazumi reveals she was once the same way and explains her backstory as a clone of Michiru Kazusa who contracted with Kyubey to become human because her clone body was unstable and she wanted to protect her friends. Sakurako struggles to understand Kazumi's motivation, so Kazumi explains that her grandmother's strawberry risotto recipe represents hope, sacrifice, and togetherness. She invites Sakurako, Yachiyo, and Nemu to join the risotto party, believing Sakurako will understand humanity by watching everyone eat together. Sakurako agrees, and the two become buddies, understanding each other as beings who may understand each other best.

My Only Salvation

• Oriko prepares snacks for Kirika while reflecting on her mission to prevent a catastrophic future by killing Madoka Kaname. News reports of Walpurgisnacht striking Kamihama instead of Mitakihara confuse her and cast doubt on her precognitive abilities. Suspecting Kamihama is the source of the instability, she sends Kirika to observe Madoka and investigate the city.
  • Kirika confirms Madoka has become a magical girl and reports that Walpurgisnacht was defeated by Kamihama's magical girls. Using her precognition, Oriko foresees a future conflict in Kamihama and glimpses a mysterious girl who wished for destruction. She concludes this girl is the true threat and shifts her mission toward eliminating her.
• Two days later, Oriko and Kirika go to Kamihama again. Oriko decides to isolate and target Mitama Yakumo, the Coordinator, by spreading distrust toward her. She encounters Shizuku Hozumi and begins laying groundwork for her plan.
• Four days afterward, suspicion toward Mitama grows within the Kamihama Magia Union as Kirika secretly uses her magic to slow girls after adjustments. Oriko pretends to struggle in a witch battle to gain introduction to the Union through Iroha and Ui Tamaki, then subtly hints that Coordinators cause problems.
  • Yachiyo Nanami listens as Oriko tells a fabricated story about a troubled Coordinator from her hometown. Meanwhile, Kirika disrupts battles of recently adjusted girls, confronts and threatens Mitama directly, and leaves her shaken. As injuries mount, Mitama blames herself and decides to temporarily close her shop despite her friends' protests.
• The next day, Kamihama descends into chaos as Kirika's attacks and an overwhelming number of witches strain the magical girls. Oriko enters Mitama's shop to strike but is ambushed by Rena, Momoko, and others who transformed to look like Mitama, having anticipated the attack. Exposed as the mastermind, Oriko is rescued by an injured Kirika, and they escape to Mitakihara.
• The next day, Kirika tries to comfort a guilt-ridden Oriko, who admits she underestimated the strength of Mitama's friendships. Shizuku awakens and reveals Kirika's speed-slowing magic previously injured Kyoko Sakura and Mami Tomoe, confirming the connection to recent chaos.
  • In Mitakihara, Oriko discovers her late father's journal and learns he viewed her perfection as cold and distant, which drove him to suicide. The revelation destabilizes her, but she reaffirms her mission to eliminate Mitama. Kirika reaffirms her loyalty, explaining her wish was to serve Oriko unconditionally, and they prepare for another assault.
  • That night, they attack the magical girls guarding Mitama's shop. Kirika overwhelms them in a narrow alley and unleashes her Doppel before fainting. Oriko protects her but is pushed to her limits. When Kirika's unconscious body moves to shield her, Oriko panics as their attacks focus on Kirika.
  • Oriko experiences a vision of her past loneliness and realizes Kirika, who vowed to do anything for her, is her entire world. She confronts her Doppel self.
    • She reflects that she has long known her dependence on others but could not admit it, seeing it as weakness. Her wish was to know her purpose, yet she refused to see the answer. In daily life, she plays the perfect student council president and politician's daughter, feeling something missing despite her success.
    • A dreamlike vision confronts her with a shadow and a voice. She dreams of her father asking her to die with him, and learns from his notebook that her perfection suffocated him—a revelation that shatters her. A figure representing her sins accuses her of tormenting her father and convincing Kirika to contract, urging punishment. But Kirika breaks through, and Oriko remembers that Kirika became her true purpose, binding her with love. She rejects dying with her father, accepts her sins, and finds strength in Kirika's love, bidding goodbye to her past.
  • This acceptance awakens a Final form combining their power. She defeats Yachiyo and Kanagi but collapses from exhaustion.
  • Mitama confronts Oriko and offers herself in exchange for sparing the others. Oriko sees a vision of the future of Kamihama, as well as Mitama's friends protecting her, and recognizes their parallel struggles. She relinquishes her vendetta, and Mitama proposes reconciliation. Iroha mediates a meeting where Oriko and Kirika apologize and promise to atone.
• Oriko and Kirika return to Mitakihara. Oriko admits she wants to try drowning pancakes in syrup the way Kirika likes them. She reflects that facing her heart in Kamihama helped her find her true world to protect, and with Kirika, she will be okay. Oriko bakes a cake for Kirika, and they enjoy their peace and shared life together.

Agent Magica

• Chisato and Takina are on a mission when their charge vanishes and they find themselves transported to Kamihama City, in a world where Magical Girls exist. They meet Felicia and other girls, and after sharing secrets about being Lycoris agents and Magical Girls, they learn that the interiors of Café LycoReco and Mikazuki Villa have swapped places between worlds. The two groups agree to work together to restore everything.
• The next day, Chisato and Takina investigate local Rumors with Iroha and Ui. They learn of a rooftop that leads to another world, where they encounter the girl who vanished from their world and her companion. The girl attacks, critically injuring Chisato. Desperate to save her, Takina makes a contract with Kyubey, wishing for Chisato's life and becoming a Magical Girl in secret.
  • Chisato wakes fully healed, unaware of Takina's contract. Manaka reports that the swapping phenomenon is spreading and threatens to destroy both universes. The group tracks the two girls, learning they seek revenge and a world without evil. Mifuyu joins the investigation.
• Takina returns to Mikazuki Villa exhausted and explains that Chisato outranks her. When asked if there is anything she can beat Chisato at, she considers cooking, films, and art. Yachiyo suggests she consult Mitama for expert connections.
  • Mitama refers Takina to Manaka for cooking lessons. Takina learns to make savory pancakes with ketchup drawings, and with help from Ria, creates an elaborate dish she decides to keep as a staff exclusive.
• The next day, Takina visits Karin for art lessons. Karin immerses her in a favorite manga and recruits others to draw portraits of Chisato. Takina realizes capturing a person’s essence matters more than technical skill.
• Another day, Takina meets with film experts who suggest she make a video letter featuring messages from their Kamihama friends. They also lend her a monster movie from their world that does not exist in hers.
• The day of the premiere, Takina surprises Chisato with the video letter, her pancake dish, a portrait she drew, and the unknown movie. Chisato is overwhelmed with joy. The Mikazuki residents reveal they knew all along, and Takina privately resolves to do better next time.
  • Chisato and Takina search for a way home with Tsuruno but become lost. A Witch attacks, and an unseen Magical Girl helps them escape. They find Emiri’s Counseling Room.
  • They meet Emiri Kisaki and Akira Shinobu, who offer to help expand their network. Chisato and Takina agree to assist with counseling.
  • Their first client, Ayaka, is upset that her friend Shizuku no longer laughs at her jokes. They visit Shizuku’s coffee shop and learn she has been losing sleep over declining sales. The group helps Shizuku plan a limited‑time event, and the friends reconcile.
  • A call comes in about someone being chased. They find Aimi, who joked about confessing to her crush if she lost a VR game, but her friends took it seriously. Chisato and Takina become her teammates at the arcade. After both lose, Chisato encourages Aimi to confess anyway. Aimi hesitates, but her crush asks her to play together sometime, and she returns overjoyed.
  • Later, they meet maid Ikumi, whose café staff are all ill before a large reservation. They help out alongside Ryo, Hinano, and Shizuku. After a Witch appears, Chisato and Ryo fight it together, and Ryo deletes a photo she took of Chisato with a gun.
• Over the following days, Chisato and Takina continue helping Kamihama residents with various tasks, from working at a nursery to collecting wild herbs.
• One day, the group gathers with Emiri, Akira, Rika, Ren, and Hinano. Chisato explains she helps others because she believes people should not waste their limited time on worry. Hinano notes this resonates with Magical Girls. Takina reminds Chisato they still have not found a way home.
  • A new customer arrives at the counseling center. Chisato and Emiri welcome them, ready to help.
  • They finally corner the girls, who explain their motives: one seeks revenge for her terrorist guardian killed by Lycoris, the other wants to create a world without evil to replace her lost senpai. The girls flee to trigger a final magic that would swap Kamihama entirely, collapsing the universe.
  • With three minutes remaining, Chisato makes her own contract with Kyubey, wishing to protect the daily lives she loves in both worlds. The magic activates, pulling both worlds into a space between them. The girls summon a Witch, but with help from all the Magical Girls, Chisato and Takina defeat it. Chisato offers them hope instead of despair, and the space collapses as everything returns to normal.
• Chisato wakes at Café LycoReco, having fallen asleep during a movie. Takina wakes beside her. They realize they shared the same dream about another world. As they prepare to open, a customer arrives. Chisato feels she has met her in a dream. The customer smiles and enters, and Chisato and Takina welcome her together.

The Green Jasper Diviners

• One evening in late March, Chiharu watches her favorite detective drama at home. After it ends, her mother answers a phone call and becomes visibly shaken. She tells Chiharu they must leave tomorrow for the Tokime Clan's village.
• The next day, Chiharu and her mother drive deep into the mountains to a village that does not appear on any map. They are greeted by a villager and brought to the home of Mikoshiba, the elderly head priestess. Mikoshiba explains she summoned them because she wants Chiharu to become a Diviner.
• The following day, two young Diviners, Shizuka and Sunao, visit Chiharu. They explain that Diviners grant wishes to help the nation and fight invisible evil spirits called Devils. To prove it, they demonstrate their powers and defeat a Devil before Chiharu's eyes. Despite her mother's concerns, Chiharu decides to become a Diviner. Mikoshiba gives Chiharu her assigned wish: to uncover evidence of crimes being concealed by the National Police Agency.
  • That night, Chiharu participates in the Diviner's Ceremony. She meets Kyubey, the god's envoy, and makes her wish. She becomes a Diviner.
• The next morning, Chiharu wakes to find her wish has already come true. A newspaper reports that officials have suddenly reversed their position on the concealed crimes. She excitedly begins combat training with Shizuka's mother.
• One week later, the three girls go hunting for Devils together. Chiharu successfully defeats her first Devil. Afterward, she asks what happens when a Diviner's jewel becomes completely tainted. Shizuka admits she does not know.
  • Later, Chiharu senses a mysterious, unpleasant smell near the shrine. Shizuka finds her and warns her to stay away from restricted areas. Shizuka then visits Mikoshiba to ask about tainted jewels. Mikoshiba reveals that when a jewel becomes completely tainted, it signifies the Diviner's coming of age and their time to leave the village. Shizuka is satisfied with this answer.
• The next day, Chiharu continues sensing the strange smell near the shrine. She investigates but stops herself from going too far. Later that night, a group of Underlings attacks her without a Labyrinth. Shizuka arrives and helps her defeat them. However, Shizuka's jewel becomes badly tainted from the effort.
• The following day, Mikoshiba informs Shizuka that her jewel is nearly black and her coming-of-age ceremony will be held tomorrow. Chiharu is saddened but promises to meet Shizuka again outside the village.
  • That night, Chiharu cannot sleep. She goes to the shrine to watch Shizuka's ceremony from a distance. She sees Mikoshiba and Shizuka speaking. Shizuka becomes distressed and cries out. Mikoshiba pushes her into the waterfall basin. Chiharu runs to save her and jumps in after her.
• The next day, Chiharu and Shizuka wake up in Sunao's home. Sunao confesses she was ordered by Mikoshiba to kill anyone who defied the village's will, including them. She hesitated after hearing Shizuka's words by the river. Shizuka reveals what Mikoshiba told her during the ceremony: Diviners eventually become Devils, and the "coming-of-age" ceremony is actually a killing ritual to dispose of them. No Diviner has ever left the village.
  • The three realize the entire village may be inside a Devil's Labyrinth. They decide to confront Mikoshiba and the Devil.
  • They split up to search. Chiharu finds her mother and Shizuka's mother fighting Underlings. Shizuka finds the villagers hiding safely but notices her mother and Chiharu's mother are missing. Sunao searches Mikoshiba's house and finds a hidden laptop with audio files recording conversations about selling Diviners' wishes.
  • They regroup and deduce the Devil is beneath the Grand Shrine. They descend and find Mikoshiba controlling the Devil. She admits everything: the Diviners are sold, killed when used up, and the village exists to produce them for profit. She orders the Devil to kill them.
  • The three girls fight together. Chiharu binds the Devil, Shizuka attacks, and Sunao delivers the final blow. They defeat it.
  • Mikoshiba survives but claims to remember nothing. Sunao confronts her about the recordings. Before she can explain, she bites a hidden poison tooth and dies.
  • Chiharu searches Mikoshiba's body and finds a book written in an ancient script. Because of her family's tradition, Chiharu and her mother can read it. They stay up all night deciphering it.
• The next morning, Chiharu explains what the book revealed. The Mikoshiba clan were originally guards who seized control of the village centuries ago. They created the rituals, learned to manipulate Devils, and hid the village inside a Labyrinth to produce and sell Diviners. The Wavering Deity is a Devil formed from all the discarded Diviners. Now that the Labyrinth is gone, it is returning to the village. They must defeat it.
  • Shizuka's mother gives them a treasured sword infused with generations of Diviners' power. They intercept the Wavering Deity before it reaches the village. The Devil's power overwhelms them, and Shizuka nearly gives in to despair. Sunao and Chiharu encourage her. Chiharu reveals the book also described the Tokime's original beliefs: they chose their own wishes, left the village willingly, and accepted their fate with honor. Shizuka regains her resolve. Together, they use the sword to destroy the Wavering Deity and free the trapped Diviners.
• Days later, the village slowly recovers. The adults learn the truth and worry about their future without Mikoshiba's financial support. The three girls decide to find a way to avoid becoming Devils. They summon Kyubey, who tells them about Kamihama City, where an automatic purification system exists. If they can obtain it, they may escape their fate.
• The next day, the girls prepare for their journey. Shizuka struggles with the new terminology used outside, where Diviners are called Magical Girls and Devils are called Witches. Chiharu's ability to sense malice hasn't bothered her now that the village is free. Shizuka suggests they first contact all Tokime clan members across the country and recruit Magical Girls willing to join them. Once they are ready, they will travel together to Kamihama City.

Crimson Resolve

• In Futatsugi, Mitsuru Inami is approached by Kyubey to become a Magical Girl. Having grown with her mother always telling her she was no good at anything, she wishes to become completely normal, a wish she believes came true.

• A Magical Girl transforms into a Witch before her kouhai Yuna Kureha, and Kyubey coldly confirms that all Magical Girls share this fate. The girls of Futatsugi slaughter every Kyubey in the city, and with no incubators left, new Witches stop appearing. Starved for Grief Seeds, the girls grow desperate, and the Bloody Tragedy begins.
• Yuna now leads Torayamachi, one of the largest gangs in Futatsugi, living by her fallen senpai's words to avoid hatred and selfishness. When Witches begin reappearing, the rival Ryuugasaki gang learns that Torayamachi has lost their secret weapon known as the Horse, and leader Juri Ooba declares war.
  • In Janomiya, an undercover group of younger girls led by Ao Kasane, a girl named Hikaru accepts recruitment. Ao's true goal is to assassinate both Yuna and Juri.
• Mitsuru is approached by two other girls who mistake her for a new recruit for Torayamachi. Mitsuru joins Yuna's faction, hoping to blend in, but when Yuna leads them into battle against a rival faction, Mitsuru panics and hides until the fighting ends. After their defeat, Yuna suspects a spy, and fearing suspicion, Mitsuru flees and infiltrates the rival faction instead.
  • Later, Mitsuru scouts Torayamachi but is spotted, triggering another battle between the factions. During the fight, attacks aimed at Mitsuru unconsciously miss her. After this she gains a reputation as a "Ghost Magical Girl," which has attacks aimed at her always deflected and hitting others.
• Yuna welcomes Hikaru, who claims to be fleeing Ryuugasaki, and assigns her to guard their Grief Seeds. Days pass with no attack, and Yuna's girls grow restless. To lift their spirits, Yuna reveals that the Horse is alive and watching from the shadows.
• Juri's lieutenants advise waiting to let Torayamachi's tension wear them down. After interrogating a captured thief, Juri learns of Torayamachi's defensive preparations and decides to strike in two days.
• Ao encounters the Bat of Monzenbashi, a former gang leader who once exploited her. With Hikaru's help, Ao subdues and captures her rather than killing.
• On the night before battle, Juri meets Yuna on a bridge. She admits she dragged everyone into this because Yuna would not fight her otherwise, thanks her for accepting her sickness, and promises to burn her down when they next meet. Ao watches from a distance, planning to strike as the snake while the tiger and dragon clash.
  • That night, the battle begins across multiple bridges. Yuna's forces push Ranka's squad back, but Juri breaks through Sakuya's defense, killing one of her girls. As both sides converge on Monzenbashi, Ao lures both leaders to a construction site where Janomiya lies in wait.
  • When Janomiya attacks, wounding Juri, Hikaru reveals herself as Torayamachi's Horse, a spy planted in Janomiya from the beginning. Yuna knew everything. Janomiya is defeated, and Ao surrenders. Yuna spares her life and offers Juri an open door, but Juri swears she will break it down and drag her out. As police sirens wail, Yuna weeps over what she has done.
• In the following days, Juri recovers in an empty base with only Ranka remaining loyal. Ao hunts for Ranka, determined to kill her before joining Torayamachi. Hikaru pleads with Ao to return, promising that Yuna will make her dream come true.
• Yuna attempts to negotiate with Ryuugasaki girls, but a meeting by the river turns into an ambush. Two of her girls are killed. She fights desperately, thinking of Hikaru.
  • Ao reaches Ryuugasaki's base, finding only the wounded Juri. Juri taunts her, but Ao refuses to join her, still believing in Yuna. Ranka contacts Ao through their video game, asking to meet alone at Janomiya's base the following night.
• The meeting is a trap, as Ranka has brought the Bat of Monzenbashi. As Ao fights Ranka and Hikaru fights the Bat, Ranka reveals that Yuna's meeting is also a trap. Hikaru runs to save Yuna.
  • At the river, Yuna is surrounded. Juri arrives and challenges her to a one-on-one fight. At Janomiya's base, the other Janomiya girls arrive to help Ao corner the Bat. Ranka sincerely apologizes for everything, and Ao hesitates to deliver the final blow. At the river, Hikaru engages Juri to protect Yuna, whose Soul Gem is badly tainted. Juri refuses to kill her in this state and retreats, promising to fight again when Yuna is at full strength.
• Most of Torayamachi has left, following Yuna's instructions to join Ryuugasaki and avoid more bloodshed. Only Hikaru remains, refusing to leave her. Ao admits she has gained respect for Yuna but remains undecided about joining.
  • Sakuya brings the missing Torayamachi girl home. The girl reveals she went to Kamihama City and joined the Wings of the Magius, an organization that built a system to lure Witches from across the country, preventing them from appearing elsewhere. The Bloody Tragedy was their fault. Yuna, hearing the screams of her fallen comrades, vows to make Kamihama pay.
  • Yuna and Juri meet at the construction site where Yuna's senpai died. Yuna, running on pure rage, demands Juri become hers and help with her revenge. She overpowers the wounded Juri and prepares to kill her, but Hikaru intervenes, embracing Yuna and calming her down. Ao arrives with Kyubey, who confirms everything and offers to help them reach Kamihama in exchange for a truce. Yuna accepts, and Juri, Ao, Ranka, Sakuya, and Hikaru agree to join her.
• Yuna, Juri, Ao, and Hikaru visit the sites where their friends died, offering flowers and vowing revenge. Yuna, Juri, and Ao drink each other's blood, swearing to never fight again. They are Promised Blood. That night, their path to Kamihama begins.

The Ash Grey Revolution

• In Yukuni, Asahi learns from classmates that the stone monument she discovered will be researched. She meets fellow magical girls Lavi and Sasha when they respond to a distress call, only to witness two magical girls witch out before them when no Grief Seeds are available. Kyubey confirms this fate, and Asahi shoots him. A local girl named Urara Yume witnesses everything.
• Over the following days, the trio struggles with the truth. Lavi is forced to reveal her identity to save her friend Shirogane from a Witch's Kiss. Sasha asks the others to be her friends and help her face reality. They begin fighting together.
• Urara begins subtly supporting them on her internet broadcast. Asahi saves her classmate Kuroda from a Witch's Kiss, revealing her identity. He asks her to help him confess to Haitani at the upcoming festival.
• Urara seeks out the trio and learns the truth about magical girls. She offers to introduce them as guests on her festival broadcast to tell Yukuni about their existence.
• At the Yukuni All-star Festival, the trio sense the Witches of the two original girls. While fighting them, one Witch escapes. A truck explodes at the festival grounds, killing Haitani. Kuroda blames Asahi and all magical girls, vowing revenge.
• In the following week, public backlash intensifies. Kuroda forms an extermination group against magical girls while Shirogane forms a protector group. The trio witness another girl witch out after being cornered. Lavi takes responsibility publicly on a broadcast.
• The trio endure daily harassment. They meet folklorist Tasuke Satomi, who takes a knife for Asahi and explains his theory about magical girls being erased from history by an unseen force. He wants to help them try again.
• Public opinion slowly shifts. The six remaining magical girls work together, restoring some trust. Three of them sacrifice themselves rather than witch out, asking Kuroda to make peace.
• At a unity ceremony, the Witch that caused the festival explosion appears. Asahi summons the dead to help the exterminators find closure. The summoned spirits suddenly relive their final moments, causing a bus to crash and kill everyone aboard, including Shirogane. Urara contracts to save her dying friend Kurara, who rejects her for letting others die.
• Tasuke theorizes the universe's immune system caused this. He suggests eliminating all magical girls and Witches to create a custom preventing future contracts.
• In the days following, students blame the trio. Kyubey suggests they go to Kamihama City to observe attempts there to publicize magical girls. Tasuke agrees they should investigate. Lavi holds a broken pocket watch with five minutes remaining until midnight, when she will finally give up. Tasuke calls it the folklore of midnight.