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Theaters around Tokyo
| Theater | Screen | Screen Type | Projector(s) | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TOHO Cinemas Hibiya | Screen 4 | IMAX (325 seats) | Barco (Laser, IMAX) | Less about the screen itself but sound mastering in IMAX version is a bit unfortunate |
| TOHO Cinemas Hibiya | Screen 9 | Medium auditorium (251 seats) | Barco (Laser, 2K?) | Good color reproduction. |
| Grand Cinema Sunshine | Screen 5 | BESTIA (346 seats) | Christie (Laser, RGB, 4K) | Similar to 109 Cinemas Premium Shinjuku and LIVE ZOUND in terms of picture quality and color reproduction (they even advertised that they're using Christie Projector before you enter the theater). The theater also supports Dolby Atmos (QSC speakers) although it feels a bit too loud and unbalanced (overall I think Wald 9 has better Dolby Atmos sound). Good package considering you can get all of this with just extra 300 Yen from the base price. |
| Grand Cinema Sunshine | Screen 12 | IMAX GT (542 seats) | Barco (Laser, IMAX GT) | It's IMAX GT. That bit about sound mastering still applies here though. |
| Cinecitta | Screen 8 | LIVE ZOUND (532 seats) | Christie (Laser, RGB, 4K) | Excellent color reproduction. Custom audio mix tuned by Youta Tsuruoka (the sound director of the show). One of the best places to watch, especially if you prefer big screen (downside is that Cinecitta is in Kanagawa). |
| Wald 9 | Screen 4 | Small auditorium (80 seats) | NEC? (Xenon?, 4K) | Color reproduction is not too bad; equipment is probably similar to screen 7 but screen maintenance could be better and there's wavy lines in the brighter scenes. |
| Wald 9 | Screen 6 | Dolby Cinema (387 seats) | Christie (Laser, RGB, 4K) | Dolby Atmos-only version is excellent, but Dolby Cinema version seems to have some weird HDR conversion (or lack thereof) in some of the brighter scenes (gray-ish skin tone, etc). Not sure if it's Wald 9 specific or in general. Still worth a watch, though. |
| Wald 9 | Screen 7 | Small auditorium (80 seats) | NEC? (Xenon?, 4K) | Similar to screen 4 but seems better maintained. Would actually prefer this over Screen 9. |
| Wald 9 | Screen 8 | Medium auditorium (251 seats) | NEC? (Xenon?, 4K) | Quite OK color reproduction. |
| Wald 9 | Screen 9 | Large auditorium (429 seats) | NEC? (Xenon?, 4K?) | Sad color reproduction. The screen is also very dimmed. Sound seems a bit better than the rest (non-Dolby). |
| 109 Cinemas Premium Shinjuku | Screen 1 | Premium theater (68 seats) | Christie (Laser, RGB, 4K) | Excellent color reproduction and excellent image quality. Probably one of the best places to watch Walpurgisnacht: Rising. (Although I still like Dolby Atmos better for sound, and ticket is also very expensive). |
| 109 Cinemas Premium Shinjuku | Screen 2 | Premium theater (88 seats) | Christie (Laser, RGB, 4K) | Same as screen 1 but slightly larger. I think the sound may be slightly better tuned on this one. (Ticket still expensive). |
| 109 Cinemas Premium Shinjuku | Screen 3 | Premium theater (128 seats) | Christie (Laser, RGB, 4K) | I wished I got a chance to watch Walpurgisnacht: Rising on this screen... it was an excellent theater to watch Digger. |
| TOHO Cinemas Shinjuku | Screen 2 | MX4D (110 seats) | Barco? (Laser?, 2K) | Standard TOHO screen, 4D is not really my thing |
| TOHO Cinemas Shibuya | Screen 4 | Small auditorium (117 seats) | ? | Maximum suffering. Screen is bad (yellow-ish), sound is bad, my back hurts. Nobody should suffer themselves with this screen. |
| Cinema City Cinema Two | a studio | Large auditorium (382 seats) | Barco (Laser, RGB, 4K) | Great screen, but I think I prefer Christie's color reproduction. Not sure if I'm a fan of how the sound is tuned in this theater, but overall a good experience. (Also members only pay 1,000 yen for the ticket, which is a huge bargain for the screen of this quality.) |
?is my guess:- TOHO is known to use Barco (TOHOシネマズ様へ累計232式のバルコ製レーザープロジェクターを納入)
- Wald 9 has announced when they open back in 2007 that they were using NEC DLP Cinema; they have been retrofitting their equipments since (e.g. screen 9 is now Dolby Cinema, so Christie) (新宿初のシネコン「新宿バルト9」、オープニング作品決定)
- IMAX has been exclusively using Barco for a while (their recent renew: New agreement between IMAX and Barco to further collaborate on cutting-edge laser light source technology worldwide)
- Dolby Cinema exclusively uses Christie (their recent renew: Dolby and Christie renew collaboration)
- 109 Cinemas Premium Shinjuku uses Christie CP4450-RGB and Christie CP4435-RGB
- Cinecitta uses Christie CP4330-RGB
- Cinema City uses Barco (their 2022 pricing change also announced Barco retrofit: 【重要】2022年2月4日(金)から基本料金および各種割引き料金を改訂します)
- 2023年6月版 東京23区内シネコンの4Kプロジェクター導入スクリーンだ！ says that all Wald 9 screens are all 4K. I have no ideas why is their image quality worse than TOHO Cinemas' 2K screens…
- Supposedly 109 Cinemas Premium Shinjuku uses Christie CP4450-RGB and Christie CP4435-RGB while Cinecitta uses Christie CP4330-RGB. I still think 109 Cinemas Premium Shinjuku gave better impression (i.e. "sharper") because the screen size is similar to that of medium-sized auditorium versus a much larger one in Citta.
- 109 Cinemas Premium Shinjuku Screen 3 (128 seats) has got Dolby Atmos setup alongside the sound system tuned by Sakamoto Ryuichi (the normal SAION SR EDITION was already really good for enjoying all the BGMs). It was an excellent theater to watch Digger, I wished I got a chance to watch Walpurgisnacht: Rising on it ;_;
Script revision
- This is some thought experiment/research about what may have been original script and what may have been a revised part.
- I'm not sure if we'll ever get enough confirmation of which is which, so this will remains on my user page for a (long) while.
- We have confirmation that there are A-E parts, A-C are inferred from production materials shown in Kyomaf 2026, D-E are a guess. The scene where background are shown in Kyomaf 2026 and labelled with Part are marked
[A],[B],[C]below (these are anchors).- Avant is probably part of A.
- After credits is probably part of E.
- [The Q&A session on Oct 13, mentioned that the "core structure (骨組み) remained the same"]
| Scene | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Before title (Avant) | ||
| Girl A | ||
| Part A | ||
| Girl A waking up / Mami/Kyoko/Sayaka/Homura | ||
| [A] Madoka going to school / Wasu's appearance |
| |
| [A] Wasu/Choka/Selema stopping Homura from making temporarily Magical Girl | ||
| Part B | ||
| Selema's amusement park |
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| [B] Choka's floating cafe | ||
| Madoka's residence / Wasu vs. Homura |
| |
| [B] Nameless Star |
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| Sayaka Meeting / Sayaka vs. Homura | ||
| Cake | ||
| Part C | ||
| Sayaka/Homura visiting Nazukasokotsune | ||
| [C] Madoka following Choka |
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| Wasu coming back, confronts Homura |
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| [1h mark around here] | ||
| Kyoko vs. Choka |
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| Homura vs. Wasu |
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| Selema & Madoka | ||
| Part D? | ||
| Kriemhild Gretchen | ||
| Nagisa + Sayaka convo |
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| Marguerite's flashback |
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| Everyone vs. Quitterie |
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| Madoka telling Wasu that she is Maguerite |
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| Part E? | ||
| Crucifixion / Law of Cycles |
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| Fortress Mitakihara |
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| Madoka's tears |
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| After credits | ||
| QB | ||
Q&A 2026/10/13 18:45
Parts I haven't incorporated in the WR article (where do I put this, even?). All lines from memory (may be incomplete or outright wrong). They'll release the Q&A on Twitter eventually.
Important aspect
- MC: This is popular question, in creating a sequel to Madoka Magica, were there any parts you paid special attention to or considered important?
- President Kubota: [I can't remember the first half of the answer… ;_;] I don't know if this comes across, but this time it's a story of Madoka deciding for herself.
[Note: this is also mentioned in Interview with a media outlet in Shizuoka; I thought president Kubota was referring to the scene in the Fortress Mitakihara (personally I don't mind the ambiguity; my complain is that while I can see these scenes as "Madoka's decision" I think it's waaaay too short, but then they spent 6 years trying to redo the entire script, so idk); but a lot of people seems to think it's the entire latter half? this one also opens up to interpretion, I guess]
Script revision
- MC: How much was the script changed from Urobuchi's original script?
- President Kubota: Not really that much, the last line was changed after Chief Director Shinbo heard the ending theme. We also changed Wasu lines and personality by the request of Chief Director Shinbo. Otherwise the core structure remained the same.
Girl A
- President Kubota: Girl A is just a supporting character meant to depict how Homura's world works, that any middle school girl can be "temporarily contracted" [I can't remember the exact wording] and fight Wraiths.
- President Kubota: The magical girl uniform resembles that of Homura. Originally they weren't planned to have glasses for the transformed design, but Shinbo asked them to add one since it's Homura's contract, she should have glasses.
- President Kubota: If you want to know what happened to Girl A later, she reappears near the ending, smiling.
Screenplay
- Kato Emiri: there may be some lines being cut, please consider releasing the screenplay.
- President Kubota: no recorded lines were cut, although some scenes [that didn't have any lines] didn't make it to final film.
- Producer Ishikawa: if we were to release a screenplay, would someone buy it?
- Audience: [huge applause]
- Producer Ishikawa: okay, but this reaction sometimes doesn't necessary result in a sale…. How about a storyboard as a Blu-ray bonus?
- Audience: [huge appluase]
- Producer Ishikawa: we'll think about it…
Kato Emiri
- Kato Emiri: I asked to re-record the "Kyu-" sound in the Kigurumi scene [the kigurumi Kyubey during Selema fight] to "Kyu-kyu-" as I found it cuter.
- Kato Emiri: intially the last line [after credits] was recorded in the tone that there'll be a sequel based on my own interpretation. Sound director Tsuruoka Yota asked me to redo the scene and telling at me "please let it properly end!"
- Kato Emiri: I love it when there's an announcement that I'm going to voice a new character [in another series] and everyone goes "can this character be trusted!?"