This article focuses on the timeline of all Madoka Magica media to create both a chronological, as well as multiversal understanding of events. Madoka Magica contains many instances of alternate universes, branching timelines created through time travel, as well as universal rewrites which retroactively affect both of the former. To clarify these concepts, this article uses the following defined terms:
Universe: A reality defined by a core set of metaphysical rules, usually established by a universal rewrite, such as the creation of the Law of Cycles.
Timeline: A linear sequence of events within a Universe. Time travel can create multiple branching timelines that share the same underlying rules, such as the many loops Homura has gone through.
Alternate Universe: A reality with a fundamentally different history and/or rules, not originating from a rewrite in the primary sequence. The clearest example is the universe of Magia Record, which even contains its own version of Homura.
With the addition of Homura's time travel, it is sometimes difficult to surmise whether an event takes place in a branch timeline or a separate alternate universe altogether.
Navigation
To navigate through the layout of this article and its derivative articles, below is an explanation of the organizational logic. Branching timelines are grouped under the Universe they were derived from. Confirmed alternate universes are grouped in the Miscellaneous entry, with the exception of Null seen in Null Magical Girl, where even though Witches exist, its story and characters are unrelated to any other entry in the franchise.
Parallel universes and the multiverse are at least in part formed by choices, where every time a choice is made, there is a world where that choice was made, and one where it wasn't.[1] There's also spaces such as the Law of Cycles, the Endless Mirrors (and by extension the Magia Record), and the Lighthouse Theatre, from which multiple timelines and worlds are accessible. In these places outside of conventional timelines, where Magical Girls (and presumably other beings or objects) are taken to, their different versions seem to merge together.[2]
The Original Universe is the first to be depicted, where Kyubey created the system of Magical Girls becoming Witches. In the first timeline, Homura Akemi makes a contract to go back in time, creating many more timelines where she repeats the same month. It is ultimately unknown how many times she looped, but in the final timeline of this Universe, Madoka Kaname makes a contract to erase Witches across all time and space, executing a universal rewrite that changes every timeline and reality within her reach.
The first fourteen timelines Homura creates are depicted in Scene 0; while it is believed the fourteenth is also the final one, this is unconfirmed. Given expanded media and interviews, the distinction between a branch timeline and a true alternate universe is often unclear; it is even possible that there are many realities where the Law of Cycles was created. Therefore, the first fourteen timelines, other possible timelines, and the final timeline are treated in separate articles for clarity.
As seen in the Magia Record Anime, Oriko Magica, as well as Scene 0, the timelines Homura created continue to exist after she leaves them, simply proceeding without her presence or Mabayu's. However, it is unknown if all forms of time travel yield this effect. It should be clarified that certain cases of time traveling, such as Homura's, not only create new timelines, but also retroactively change events or details of the timeline she enters in, even if they occurred before her arrival. Perhaps the most well-known case of this happening was the pebble which caused Iroha Tamaki's survival in the Magia Record Universe.[3]
After Madoka's wish, she rewrites the rules of all realities within her reach, while residing outside them in the Law of Cycles. The Law of Cycles Universe is the state after this rewrite, where Magical Girls fight Wraiths and are taken upon despairing to the Law of Cycles, a realm outside any specific timeline. The Law of Cycles manages countless different realities, or "Records," from which the girls are ultimately seemingly unified into.
Among the anomalous realities within the Law of Cycles' purview is the Magia Record Universe, which developed a Doppel System. Due to the amount of story content, it is split into events before Arc 1, events starting with Arc 1, and events starting with Arc 2. Other similar realities exist, such as the one in the Magia Record anime, which was assimilated after its Doppel System failed, and its details are listed in the Miscellaneous entry. Following the events of Magia Record is the Magia Exedra Universe, which seemingly takes place concurrently with the events after Rebellion.
Narratively, the events of the Magia Record Universe are surmized to be between the establishment of the Law of Cycles and the events of Rebellion, where Ultimate Madoka sent Nagisa Momoe as an emissary. It is unknown if these realities were originally timelines Homura left behind (later rewritten by Madoka's wish) or separate alternate universes from the start.
Following Madoka's rewrite, the version of Homura that witnessed her ascention remained the sole connection to the old world and the only one alive to remember it. Captured by Incubators to lure the Law of Cycles, Homura was saved by Madoka, Sayaka Miki, and Nagisa. In response, Homura overtook the Law of Cycles and rewrote the universe again, becoming Devil Homura and separating Madoka from her divine aspect.
This new reality, the Devil Universe, has one known primary timeline, ruled by Devil Homura, where she also resides. In this timeline, Madoka lives a normal human life, Magical Girls still fight Wraiths, and the Law of Cycles remains partially active, though its exact status is unclear. It is unknown if this rewrite affected only this single world, if Homura governs all realities, or if other worlds (like the Magia Record Universe) continue unchanged under Homura's new regime. With the current information, it appears that only one reality was affected and locked away from the incomplete Law of Cycles' direct reach, however it is ultimately unconfirmed.
This report tracks the completion status of the main Timeline articles compared to the available media. Entries in the detailed overview marked with a * are stubs.
This article focuses on the timeline of all Madoka Magica media to create both a chronological, as well as multiversal understanding of events. Madoka Magica contains many instances of Alternate Universes, branching timelines created through time travel, as well as universal rewrites which retroactively affect both of the former. To clarify these concepts, this series of articles uses the following defined terms:
Universe: A reality defined by a core set of metaphysical rules, usually established by a universal rewrite, such as the creation of the Law of Cycles.
Timeline: A linear sequence of events within a Universe. Time travel can create multiple branching timelines that share the same underlying rules, such as the many loops Homura has gone through.
Alternate Universe: A reality with a fundamentally different history and/or rules, not originating from a rewrite in the primary sequence. The clearest example is the Universe of Magia Record, which even contains its own version of Homura.
With the addition of Homura's time travel, it is sometimes difficult to surmise whether an event takes place in a branch timeline or a separate Alternate Universe altogether.
Parallel Universes and the multiverse are at least in part formed by choices, where every time a choice is made, there is a world where that choice was made, and one where it wasn't.[1] There's also spaces such as the Law of Cycles, the Endless Mirrors (and by extension the Magia Record), and the Lighthouse Theatre, from which multiple timelines and worlds are accessible. In these places outside of conventional timelines, where Magical Girls (and presumably other beings or objects) are taken to, their different versions seem to merge together.[2]
Navigation
To navigate through the layout of this article and its derived articles, below is an explanation of the organizational logic. Branching timelines are grouped under the Universe they originated from and there are three main "hub pages" to help navigate them.
The first hub is that of the Original Universe, the first one to be depicted, where Kyubey created the system of Magical Girls becoming Witches. In the first timeline, Homura Akemi makes a contract to go back in time, creating many more timelines where she repeats the same month. It is ultimately unknown how many times she looped, but in the final timeline of this Universe, Madoka Kaname makes a contract to erase Witches across all time and space, executing a universal rewrite that changes every timeline and reality within her reach.
The first timeline, as well as the following thirteen timelines Homura creates are depicted in Scene 0; while it is hinted that the thirteenth loop is also the final one, this is ultimately unconfirmed. Given expanded media and interviews, the distinction between a branch timeline and a true Alternate Universe is often unclear; it is even possible that there are many realities where the Law of Cycles was created. Therefore, the first fourteen timelines, other possible timelines, and the final timeline are treated in separate articles for clarity.
As seen in the Magia Record Anime, Oriko Magica, as well as Scene 0, the timelines Homura created continue to exist after she leaves them, simply proceeding without her presence or Mabayu's. However, it is unknown if all forms of time travel yield this effect. It should be clarified that certain cases of time traveling, such as Homura's, not only create new timelines, but also retroactively change events or details of the timeline she enters in, even if they occurred before her arrival. Perhaps the most well-known case of this happening was the pebble which caused Iroha Tamaki's survival in the Magia Record Universe.[3]
After Madoka's wish, she rewrites the rules of all realities within her reach, while residing outside them in the Law of Cycles. The Law of Cycles Universe is the state after this rewrite, where Magical Girls fight Wraiths and are taken upon despairing to the Law of Cycles, a realm outside any specific timeline. The Law of Cycles manages countless different realities, or "Records," from which the girls are ultimately seemingly unified into.
Following Madoka's rewrite, the version of Homura that witnessed her ascension remained the sole connection to the old world and the only one alive to remember it. Captured by Incubators to lure the Law of Cycles, Homura was saved by Madoka, Sayaka Miki, and Nagisa Momoe. In response, Homura overtook the Law of Cycles and rewrote the Universe again, becoming Devil Homura and separating Madoka from her divine aspect.
This new reality, the Devil Universe, has one known primary timeline, ruled by Devil Homura, where she also resides. In this timeline, Madoka lives a normal human life, Magical Girls still fight Wraiths, and the Law of Cycles remains partially active, though its exact status is unclear. It is unknown if this rewrite affected only this single world, if Homura governs all realities, or if other worlds (like the Magia Record Universe) continue unchanged under Homura's new regime. With the current information, it appears that only one reality was affected and locked away from the incomplete Law of Cycles' direct reach, however it is ultimately unconfirmed.
Among the anomalous realities within the Law of Cycles' purview is the Magia Record Universe, which developed a Doppel System. Due to the amount of story content, it is split into events before Arc 1, events starting with Arc 1, and events starting with Arc 2. Other similar realities exist, such as the one in the Magia Record anime, which was assimilated after its Doppel System failed, and its details are listed in the Other Universes entries for Magia Record. Following the events of Magia Record is the Magia Exedra Universe, which seemingly takes place concurrently with the events after Rebellion.
Narratively, the events of the Magia Record Universe are surmised to be between the establishment of the Law of Cycles and the events of Rebellion, where Ultimate Madoka sent Nagisa, or at least a version of her, as an emissary. It is unknown if these realities were originally timelines Homura left behind (later rewritten by Madoka's wish) or separate Alternate Universes from the start.
Confirmed Alternate Universes are grouped in the Other Universes' hub entry, which is split into smaller articles for other Universes: one for Alternate Universes of the Original Universe, one for those of the Magia Record Universe, and one for those of Magia Exedra Universe respectively. Also included in this hub is the Null Universe article seen in Null Magical Girl, where even though Witches exist, its story and characters are unrelated to any other entry in the franchise.
Timeline/Original
The Original Universe's timeline, which splits into multiple timelines and, for the purposes of the Timeline articles, serves as the base for all the other timelines.
The Original Universe is the first Universe to exist in Madoka Magica, where Kyubey created the Magical Girl System, with Magical Girls turning into Witches. In the first timeline, Homura Akemi makes a contract to go back in time and creates many more timelines where she repeats the same month. It's ultimately unknown how many times she went back, but in Homura's last timeline in this reality, Madoka Kaname makes a contract to stop Magical Girls from becoming Witches across all time and space, rewriting the rules of the Universe in every timeline and reality within her reach.
Other media, including Magia Exedra and the Magia Record Anime confirm that the timelines Homura created keep existing normally after she goes back in time again. As the details of this first reality are unknown after that, this article only details up to those events.
For the historical events of this Universe, up to the moment Homura first goes back in time, see Timeline/Original/Historical.
For the Universe following that, which is governed by Devil Homura, see Timeline/Devil.
For the timeline hub, and the articles detailing Magia Record, see Timeline/Magia Record.
For the timeline hub, and the articles detailing Alternate Universes, see Timeline/Other.
Specifically for the alternate Universes greatly resembling the Original Universe, see Timeline/Original/Other. In the event that Homura's thirteenth loop is not the final one, a few of them could reasonably be placed as happening between them.
Timeline/Original/Historical
This page documents the history of the Original Universe, starting with the establishment of the Magical Girl System, all the way to the point Homura makes her contract and goes back in time.
This article chronicles the timelines depicted primarily in Scene 0 and Episode 10 of the original anime. These timelines explore Homura's time loops with the added perspective of Mabayu, who also retains her memories across them. The sequence covers Film 1, which is the second timeline, all the way to Film 13, then continuing into the canonical anime ending, with the addition of stories with an unclear placement within these films.
Below is a table detailing the known repeating constants and key variables within the monthly timeline. The loop starts with the day Homura wakes up on the hospital on the 16th, and ends with the arrival of Walpurgisnacht, or with the emergence of Kriemhild Gretchen on the 16th of the following month.
Homura Akemi wakes up in the hospital, and Mabayu Aki wakes up in her room, both retaining their memories from the previous loops. Homura alters her medical records for early discharge and begins planning for the following month.
Mabayu's state varies depending on the previous loops. She can wake with full or partial knowledge, in which case she frequently visits Homura to coordinate, or she may have no memories at all depending on the loop. If Film 13 isn't the timeline of the anime, it is likely that after Oriko's first attempt, Homura kills her and Kirika early in the loop.
Day 2
Wednesday
17th
Madoka goes to buy coffee beans for her father but finds they are sold out. She messages her mother, Junko, asking if she can pick them up from the main store near her office on her way home. Junko agrees, which causes her to leave work on time to run the errand. Because of this, Junko is able to meet her friend, Kazuko Saotome, for drinks that evening. Kyubey makes his first major attempt to contract Madoka Kaname by appearing on her windowsill at night, but Madoka doesn't contract yet.
Homura intercepts and kills Kyubey to block his access to Madoka.
Day 3
Thursday
18th
Inspired by the previous night of drinks with Junko, to better understand and connect with Kyosuke Kamijo, Kazuko goes to a CD store and buys a rare, out-of-print CD featuring a famous performance of "Ave Maria." Sayaka Miki, who has been eyeing the exact same rare CD, goes to the store to buy it, only to find that the last copy had just been sold out. Devastated, she becomes distracted and accidentally leaves her cellphone at the store's listening station. Kyosuke tries to call Sayaka, as he's managed to get a last-minute invitation to a concert and wants to take her with him. He calls multiple times, but she never answers. He and the nurse assume she has gone out without her phone and, as they are on a tight schedule, they leave without her. The cat Amy is endangered by a car near Café Récompense.
Homura tries to intervene, and if she's unsuccessful in saving Amy's life, Madoka makes a contract to save Amy.
Day 4
Friday
19th
Homura steals weapons from an abandoned building, as well as attacking and busting the group responsible for smuggling them.
If Madoka has contracted, Mami Tomoe takes her on her first official Witch-hunting patrol.
Day 5
Saturday
20th
No specific event is listed for this day.
No specific event is listed for this day.
Day 6
Sunday
21st
Madoka's school has a field trip to an automobile factory. Asiphae's Barrier is present at the factory.
Either Madoka or Sayaka accidentally wander inside the Labyrinth, but they usually survive the ordeal.
Day 7
Monday
22nd
Sakie Aki is tasked with making a cake for Homura to congratulate her on leaving the hospital.
No other specific event is listed for this day.
Day 8
Tuesday
23rd
No specific event is listed for this day.
No specific event is listed for this day.
Day 9
Wednesday
24th
No specific event is listed for this day.
No specific event is listed for this day.
Day 10
Thursday
25th
Homura's first day of school where she formally introduces herself to Madoka and the class. Gertrud appears and causes a robbery at the mall. Izabel also appears elsewhere in Mitakihara.
One of Gertrud's Anthony Familiars kills Sayaka, who is then reported missing. Most often, Homura defeats Gertrud and her Familiars before Sayaka or Madoka encounter them.
Day 11
Friday
26th
No specific event is listed for this day.
On some timelines, this is when Sayaka has started working at Café Récompense after being convinced by Mabayu.
Hitomi Shizuki visits Kyosuke at the hospital. Charlotte spawns out of a Grief Seed which was previously a Familiar at the hospital.
Depending on Mami's emotional state, she is killed by Charlotte. If Mami isn't present in Mitakihara, Sayaka often makes a contract and becomes a Magical Girl for Kyosuke.
Day 16
Wednesday
31st
H.N. Elly appears and targets a handful of people, including Hitomi, luring them into a factory for a mass suicide with chlorine gas. Her attempt has reliably been thwarted and the people affected are only briefly hospitalized.
Sayaka makes a contract after Kyosuke has an emotional breakdown over his arm. When the Witch is defeated early, and Mabayu has enough of her memories, she cuts out Sayaka's memory of her intended wish and stops her from contracting.
A Bartel Familiar appears and lures a lost child, and Homura often saves her.
No other specific event is listed for this day.
Day 26
Saturday
10th
No specific event is listed for this day.
If the child from the previous day is alive, as she runs to return to her parents from police custody, a car swerves to avoid hitting her. Depending on Homura's actions, the car may kill four other people instead.
Day 27
Sunday
11th
No specific event is listed for this day.
No specific event is listed for this day.
Day 28
Monday
12th
No specific event is listed for this day.
No specific event is listed for this day.
Day 29
Tuesday
13th
No specific event is listed for this day.
No specific event is listed for this day.
Day 30
Wednesday
14th
No specific event is listed for this day.
No specific event is listed for this day.
Day 31
Thursday
15th
No specific event is listed for this day.
No specific event is listed for this day.
Day 32
Friday
16th
Walpurgisnacht arrives to Mitakihara, causing a massive storm and forcing the evacuation of the city. Homura fails to defeat it and is forced to reset the timeline.
If Madoka hasn't made a contract yet, she may do so and defeat Walpurgisnacht, often turning into Kriemhild Gretchen afterwards.
For the definitive, final loop Homura goes through before the Universe is rewritten, see Timeline/Original/Final.
For the possible timelines depicted in various media, as well as events which have an unclear placement in any timeline or Universe, see Timeline/Original/Other. In the possibility that Film 13 is different from the timeline on the original anime, then it is possible a number of these timelines take place between them. Otherwise, they're treated as Alternate Universes entirely. Notably, this also includes The different story, Oriko Magica, Mobage and Portable.
Timeline/Original/Final
The timeline in which Madoka saves all Magical Girls and creates a new Universe.[4] It is depicted in Puella Magi Madoka Magica, its retellings and supplemental material.
The Law of Cycles Universe is that which results from Madoka's wish at the end of the previous Universe. As such, in one way it can be seen as an extension of that timeline. However, since Madoka's wish rewrites the entire world, including all of history, it is treated as an entirely separate continuity. Ultimate Madoka has also rewritten multiple Universes and timelines she was able to reach. It is unknown if all of them were either timelines Homura had left behind, or entirely Alternate Universes from the start, as there's also realities which she is only able t observe and not change without destroying them.
Currently, the only known events in this Universe are the those at the end of Episode 12, Wraith Arc, Rebellion, and a handful of smaller stories.
For the timeline hub, and the articles detailing the Original Universe, see Timeline/Original.
For the Universe following the Law of Cycles', which is governed by Devil Homura, see Timeline/Devil.
Timeline/Devil
The Devil Universe is the result of the second rewrite undertaken by Homura at the end of Rebellion. In this world, it seems that Magical Girls still fight Wraiths, so a fragment of the Law of Cycles is still active, but the details of the system and the full scope of Kyubey's duty is unknown. Unlike the Law of Cycles, this seems to only encompass one world, instead of many.[5] This timeline is depicted in:
For the timeline hub, and the articles detailing the Original Universe, see Timeline/Original.
Timeline/Magia Record
This refers to the Universe of Magia Record, in which a successful Doppel System is created due to Iroha Tamaki's survival.[6]
Though it is a Universe where Witches still exist, it also lies within reach of the Law of Cycles, marking it as an anomaly.
Due to the amount of content in Magia Record, the timeline is structured by a list of events and stories in chronological order. For more details on specifics, check out the pages for the individual events listed below.
Other than what's noted here, it can be assumed that the Magia Record Universe is the same as the Original Universe, and events which are unimportant to this Universe will not be mentioned, even if there's an understanding that they likely occurred.
In the absence of contradictory context clues, the release date was used for their placement.
For the timeline hub, and the articles detailing Alternate Universes, see Timeline/Other.
Specifically for the Alternate Universes greatly resembling, and connected to the story of Magia Record, see Timeline/Magia Record/Other.
Timeline/Magia Record/Historical
This page documents the distant past of the Magia Record Universe. At first glance it may seem identical to the Original Universe, but there are enough historical differences to consider it as a separate history.
The history of this Universe has been affected by retroactive time travel from the present. The narrative's text consistently treats the girls' actions as changing history, with characters like Nemu explicitly warning against causing temporal paradoxes and stating that the Universe will 'auto-correct' minor discrepancies. However, the ultimate outcomes of these events still align with known historical records. This dichotomy between the characters' perception of altering history and the resilience of the timeline's major events has led to the theory that the time travel actually formed a stable loop, meaning the girls' interventions were always a part of history. Thus, a definitively separate 'original' timeline is not explicitly confirmed in the main continuity and, as the hypothetical original history isn't seen, the timeline will be treated as if it was meant to be a closed loop, and thus always part of the timeline.
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:
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.
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.
This article details the events and stories taking place in, during and between the chapters of Arc 2 of Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story, up until the conclusion of Magia Record entirely. It is possible that there are days between the ones listed, as well as some events from different sources (such as Main Story and Another Story) having taken place on different days from each other. Due to the uncertainty of the passage of time, this article is best understood as a summary of events in approximate chronological order. In lack of contradictory context clues, the release date, or order of release of the event were used for their placement.
The divide between the days isn't done strictly at midnight, as determining that would be a guess at best. Instead, consecutive days are separated by the rise of dawn signifying the next day, or alternatively a big passage of time skipped within the same night. As there are unspecified numbers of days in or between the chapters of Arc 2, as well as the part of the story being after Arc 2's conclusion, this article is split into nine parts.
Prologue and Chapter 1
Chapters 2 and 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapters 7 and 8
Chapters 9 through 12 and Epilogue
Unknown Placement (this section details events that take place before the conclusion of Arc 2, but otherwise their exact details are unable to be fully determined)
The Magia Exedra Universe is the Universe following that of Magia Record in some way. It depicts the Lighthouse Theatre, situated as a hub between different realities and possibilities, and the story follows a Nameless Girl, A-Q and Nighthawk.[7] A lot of details are heavily hinted at, but not technically confirmed. Such details have been marked as theories. This timeline is depicted in:
For the timeline hub, and the articles detailing Alternate Universes, see Timeline/Other.
Timeline/Other
The following is an archive of event summaries which lack sufficient context for a dedicated, comprehensive placement in known timelines. It is possible all these events are separate timelines in and of themselves, or that they're a part of other, already established timelines.
For the events depicted in Null Magical Girl, which are unrelated to the characters or events of other timelines, see Timeline/Null.
The Null Timeline details the events depicted in Null Magical Girl. As the story shows events in the far future, as well as fundamental ones, it is implied to take place in every loop, or outside of them altogether.
This timeline is characterized by its metaphysical nature as an eternal time loop and its ultimate revelation about the origin of souls, magic, and human relationships. Unlike other timelines, it exists both within and outside conventional spacetime, forming a closed causal loop that defines its own reality.
As Null Magical Girl doesn't connect to any other characters, the events attributed to it are listed in this article for convenience.
For the timeline hub, and the articles detailing Alternate Universes, see Timeline/Other.
Timeline/Original/Other
Whether some of the following like the Farewell Story may have occurred between Scene 0 and the Final Timeline, others such as Summer Magical Girl Training Camp are almost certainly not canon to them. Cases such as the latter are regarded as Alternate Universes altogether, where the circumstances of the characters are entirely different from the main continuity. In this case, the term canon refers to the continuity of the original anime, and non-canon often refers to a different version of Homura causing and experiencing them.
Also included are several of the more comedic takes on the Holy Quintet, as well as the smaller stories released with Kirara Magica. As it stands, all the entries in this article are regarded as separate Alternate Universes.
For the proper timeline hub of the Original Universe, see Timeline/Original.
For the timeline hub, and the articles detailing Alternate Universes, see Timeline/Other.
Timeline/Magia Record/Other
Magia Record mostly explores the concept of Alternate Universes through the Endless Mirrors Labyrinth, which connects to them, as well as through time and space. Also included is the Magia Record Anime, as well as the Magia☆Report comics.
For the timeline hub, and the articles detailing Alternate Universes, see Timeline/Other.
Timeline/Magia Exedra/Other
Magia Exedra explores the concept of Alternate Universes much more directly and in greater quantity than other entries in the franchise, as they're framed from the viewpoint of Name experiencing them herself. Also included are the Alt-Universes and "possibilities" described in the Nightmare and Bonus Stories, as whether they happened is unclear by nature. Also included are the Magia ☆ Et Cetera comics.
After there's confirmation that Film 13 is the same as the Final one, then we merge it all together. In this case, it should be renamed to Timeline/Original/Homura.
Finish all the branches from the Madoka Portable Homura Route
Finish Madoka Mobage
Finish Madoka Online
Finish Kirara Magica
Finish Law of Cycles Universe (Haven't found anything that would be added here)
Finish Magia Record Universe stuff by watching events
Will also include the anime, and Magia Report (the stuff for that needs just to keep track of the running gags and details on how/what it references irl).
Add Mirrors to all of the events which would be in Mirrors (idk what events wouldn't be mirrors except AniReco but whatever)
Add the Magia Exedra Alternate Universes (the other events will be filtered to the parts they belong to)
Currently just Namae's storyline and stuff she did after each part is finished (what she feels after each window)
Conflicts
Magia Exedra takes place outside of these all, maybe a new branch like Timelines/Magia Exedra. But what should the area out of the timelines be called? Like where the Law of Cycles and Lighthouse are in.
Questions
Also add information about how it's possible the original history of the Magia Record Game/Anime is the same as the one in the original (excluding the time travel from Puella Historia and Tart Events), but it's ultimately unconfirmed and episode 11 depictions and production notes contradict that.
Also add the clarification about the different universes in Timeline article. But only maybe.
Naming
Variant A: DISCARDED
Original
Law of Cycles
Post-Rebellion
Magia Record
Null
Magia Exedra
Miscellaneous
Variant B: In-use
Original
Law of Cycles
Devil
Magia Record
Null
Magia Exedra
Miscellaneous
Variant C: Monster
Witch
Wraith
Devil
Doppel
Null
Magia Exedra
Miscellaneous
Articles to finish / fix
All the Timelines
Everything previously in Glossary
Go through every article, point what's wrong at least and try to fix it, otherwise call attention to it.
Order of Release (Comments)
ATTRIBUTING
2 Years Ago
Two years Ago:
Hanna's MSS
Mikoto's MSS
Nanaka's MSS
Kako's MSS
Akira's MSS
Meiyui's MSS
Alina's MSS
Birth of Eve
Flowers' Lament
Sayonara Storage
One Year Ago:
Breakpoint
Mikoto becomes a Witch and Mitama makes her wish before Ui gets erased.
Akira's Side Story
Akira wakes from a dream about being attacked by a familiar and finds Sasara Minagi nearby, who is out for a walk. Sasara offers to help Akira search for an old man's lost cane, recalling she saw children playing with a red cane, and the two head off together.[8]
Akira reflects on her upbringing in her father's karate dojo, where she learned to always help those in need and earned the neighborhood nickname "Troubleshooter" starting at age six.[8]
When Akira started middle school, a girl asked her to be a bodyguard against a stalker. The girl brought her to a park, confessed her love, and admitted to lying about the stalker. Akira politely rejected her, saying she didn't know much about that sort of thing.[8]
A few days later, Akira learned the girl had vanished and spent days searching for her.[8]
The day Akira found the barrier, she retraced the girl's steps in the park and stepped into a witch's labyrinth. She found the missing girl among blank-faced victims marked by a Witch's Kiss. Kyubey appeared, explained about witches and magical girls, and offered a contract.[8]
Familiars attacked and overwhelmed her despite her karate training. Injured, Akira wished to save all those people, transformed, and destroyed the familiars.[8]
The next day, none of the victims remembered the incident. Kyubey told Akira she needed to defeat the witch itself, which became her destiny as a magical girl.[8]
After becoming a magical girl, Akira patrolled Kamihama investigating witch-related incidents.[8]
One day, she encountered a familiar without transforming and dropped her Soul Gem. Unable to retrieve it, she fled the barrier and collapsed unconscious outside.[8]
When Akira woke, Nanaka Tokiwa introduced herself as the magical girl who found her and picked up her Soul Gem. Nanaka advised withdrawing since Akira had collapsed, and Akira reluctantly agreed.[8]
A few days later, Nanaka called asking for a favor. When they met again, Nanaka requested a duel, claiming Akira was weak and should quit hunting witches. Akira refused, citing her family's dojo, and they dueled. After some fighting, Nanaka ended the duel and apologized. She explained she wanted to test Akira's resolve and invited her to work together as a team. Akira relented after Nanaka claimed she was troubled and couldn't fight witches alone.[8]
In the present day, Akira returns the cane to the old man and thanks Sasara. She reflects on meeting many magical girls since joining Nanaka and wonders how many exist in Kamihama.[8]
Akira tells Sasara she must go to a meeting about Kamihama's real estate. They say goodbye to each other and Akira departs, wondering if she is being used by Nanaka, who always seems preoccupied with something else.[8]
Kako's Side Story
Kako is a thirteen-year-old girl whose family runs Natsume Library, a bookshop her family has run for generations.[9]
Her father learns a land shark is acquiring properties in the district to build a mansion, with Natsume Library as the last shop remaining. He rallies support against the buyer, but harassment begins, her parents start fighting, and then one day the bookstore, which is also their home, burns down.[9]
On the day of the fire, Kako was coming home from school when she saw a man in a long hat and mask setting the fire in the alley next to her house. She froze, and when she tried to leave quietly, he noticed her, stared, and left; by the time she returned to her senses, the fire was out of control.[9]
Kako tells her parents and the police everything, but while her parents are grateful she is safe, she is consumed by regret over her inaction. After her family finds temporary housing, she returns to the ruins and meets a girl with a white creature. The girl is surprised Kako can see Kyubey, and Kyubey speaks to her, knowing her name, but the girl says it is late and they can talk another day.[9]
Kako asks around about the girl but finds no leads, then one day, she appears before her again and introduces herself as Nanaka Tokiwa. Her and Kyubey explain Magical Girls and Witches to her, also letting her know she could make a contract and fix her life again. The two leave but Kako cannot stop thinking about the chance to fix everything. She soon notices her father has become despondent and is frustrated with herself, but she remains uncertain if she can risk her life.[9]
One day, Kako returns to her bookstore and finds herself inside a barrier, attacked by a familiar, but Nanaka saves her. A band of familiars surrounds them both. Nanaka fights but is overwhelmed by their numbers. Kyubey warns that Nanaka will be beaten and the familiars will turn on Kako next, offering the contract again. Nanaka contacts Kako telepathically, telling her not to worry about her and to decide for herself.[9]
Kako watches Nanaka take a hit and finally makes her wish: to restore her family's happiness and their bookstore. Together, they defeat the familiars and when the barrier vanishes, Kako is shocked to find her house and shop completely restored. Nanaka tells her to go home, and Kako thanks her before running off.[9]
After Kako leaves, Kyubey asks Nanaka if she was only pretending to struggle to manipulate Kako. Nanaka chuckles and says she is hardly that skillful and was genuinely losing, and that this outcome is the fate Kako chose herself.
Kako runs into her restored house and greets her parents. She sneezes, saying she felt a shiver go up her spine.[9]
The Blue Seas Family was started by Chinese immigrants after WWII and is now run by their descendants, with Meiyui in the third generation. Originally a mutual aid society that knew everything in Kamihama, it briefly operated like a mafia before returning to its roots helping run festivals and clean neighborhoods.
Meiyui's father takes her to Hong Kong shortly after she is born, but she returns to Kamihama alone at age four, spending her days doing charity work and playing mahjong with locals.
One day, Meiyui learns land-sharks are trying to buy land from citizens in the Family's former territory. She offers to speak to the real estate company on their behalf. When the representative learns she is from the Blue Seas Family, he laughs and attacks. Meiyui beats him thoroughly.
The following days bring increased violence throughout the city. While investigating a fire, Meiyui is accosted by a thug who reveals a bounty has been placed on the dark web.
Days later, rumors of a traitor surface. Meiyui gathers the Family to increase patrols and change their routes.
After finalizing plans, Meiyui catches the tea shop owner looking nervous with his phone. She accuses him of being the traitor. He calls for his bodyguard, Kako Natsume, who nervously appears. The owner orders Kako to crush Meiyui. As they spar, Kako telepathically reveals she is a magical girl, then turns and knocks out the tea shop owner instead.
Kako requests they fight as magical girls. Meiyui explains she contracted three years ago to protect the Family after they were scapegoated for a murder. Despite Meiyui's reluctance, they fight until Kako calls for Akira Shinobu to take her place.
Akira and Meiyui battle until Nanaka Tokiwa appears and stops them. She explains a witch is behind the land sharks, her group posed as them to gather information, and they wanted to test Meiyui. Nanaka offers a team-up to stop the witch. Meiyui agrees, provided she can first inform the townspeople the problem is resolved.
Nanaka's Side Story
Nanaka meets with Meiyui, Akira, and Kako to ask for their help fighting a witch they all share a connection to. To explain why she needs them, Nanaka tells them how she became a magical girl.[11]
Nanaka's father headed a traditional Japanese flower arranging school, but when he fell ill, senior students took over and grew the school's popularity while abandoning its traditions, shutting out Nanaka's family entirely. On his deathbed, he told her to take back the school. After his death, she was sent to live with relatives, and Kyubey visited her. She contracted, wishing for the power to exact her family's revenge by her own hand.[11]
Nanaka explains that her wish-derived magic lets her know who her enemy is, and this ability revealed that her true target was not a student but a witch. She compares this witch to a locust swarm: it settles in one area, devours everything through calamities, then migrates. Currently, this witch controls the head of her father's school through a Witch's Kiss. It is also behind forced land sales in Kamihama, which connects to Meiyui, and it caused the fire that burned down Kako's bookstore, leading to her contract. Akira first met Nanaka while fighting one of this witch's familiars. Akira and Kako quickly agree to help. Meiyui also agrees but notes that as a member of the Souheikai, she cannot follow Nanaka's orders. Nanaka accepts this, stating the details are unimportant as long as the witch is defeated. Her plan is simple: investigate suspicious areas until they locate the witch's barrier, then come together to destroy it. The team agrees.[11]
Later, the magical girls track down and defeat the witch. Meiyui is impressed that Nanaka reacted to her actions during battle rather than giving orders, and she declares she now accepts Nanaka as her leader. However, Nanaka reveals the fight is not over, as the witch they defeated was only a copy created from a fully-grown familiar. The team resolves to continue the hunt.[11]
Afterward, Nanaka speaks with Kyubey about a secret she learned after becoming a magical girl.[11]
In the past, while chasing a familiar, she found another Soul Gem and picked it up, then discovered the seemingly dead body of a girl. Nanaka deduced this was the magical girl who lost her Soul Gem, attacked before she could transform. She decided to lay the Soul Gem with its owner's body, and when she placed the gem in the girl's hands, the girl began breathing again. Later, Kyubey explained that Soul Gems are the extracted souls of magical girls.[11]
Back in the present, Kyubey asks if Nanaka will tell the others this secret, but she says she is waiting for the right moment. Nanaka then reflects that her true revenge target is actually Kyubey himself. Her power makes it clear he is her enemy, though she does not know all the details, and she is waiting for the right time to turn against him.[11]
Days pass, and Nanaka's team is still unable to find the witch. Akira reports meeting a magical girl mercenary. As the girls plan their next move, Nanaka muses about how she is gathering the determination of magical girls, waiting for the perfect moment to strike.[11]
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Darc's Heartphial
Corbeau's Heartphial
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Law of Cycles
Magia Exedra Stories
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Devil
Kaiten
Magia Record
Crescent Memoria 1
Crescent Memoria 2
Crescent Memoria 3
Sayonara Storage
Fuka's Heartphial
Sumire's Heartphial
Arc 1
Madoka's Side Story
Misc / Other
Summer Magical Girl Training Camp!!
Madoka Portable Homura Route
Madoka Mobage
Madoka Online
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Magia Report (just calrification between which issues of the comics the events take place).
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Notes:
My Diary With You takes place after Ren's MSS
Magical Halloween Theater ~A Magical Girl Troupe for a Day~ takes place after Karin's MSS
Mitama's Special Training - Iroha and Yachiyo takes place after arc 1 chapter 6 but before 7
A Voice From Beyond That Strokes the Ears takes place after arc 1 chapter 6
Uwatsuruno MSS happens sometime during arc 1 chapter 7, maybe Mitama's Special Training - Rumor Tsuruno Episode too
Spurred to Separation takes place after Kanae's death but before Mel's (It's the event listed right before Kanagi's cafe)
And From Here On. "The Rumor of the Rumor of the Rumor" is after arc 1 chapter 7
Chiaki Riko's It's Okay to Be Clumsy is after riko's mss
Whereabouts of the Feather is after Shizuku's mss and is referenced in arc 1 chapter 6
Alina Is Coming to Town ~White Christmas Rhapsody~ is after holina mss
Dreaming Cherry Blossoms is followed immediately by sakurako's mss
Leaving the Nest Looking Skyward: Ui's mss happens during arc 1 intermission
Chiharu MSS happens after Green Jasper Diviners
From New Breath (iroyachi event) happens between arc 1 and 2
Yukika MSS happens before Arc 1
Hikaru MSS happens before Crimson Resolve
Mikura, Temari, and Seira MSS all happens before Rondo of Oblivion
Rui MSS happens before the rui event
Tsumugi MSS happens before the tsumugi event
Yuuna MSS happens after the yuuna event
Jun MSS happens before the girls in the hood event
TouNemu MSS happens before Arc 1
Uwasa Sana MSS happens after her event
Ashley MSS happens before her event
Dependence Blue: Mitsune MSS takes place in-between Girls in the Hood and Dependence Blue, it's recommended reading before Dependence Blue. The event itself takes place after Arc 2 Chapter 3, but before Arc 2 Chapter 4 Mitsune MSS takes place in-between Girls in the Hood and Dependence Blue, it's recommended reading before Dependence Blue. The event itself takes place after Arc 2 Chapter 3, but before Arc 2 Chapter 4
The Peaceful Daily Life of Nayuta's Family: This event happens at least after Arc 2 Chapter 3
AliKari MSS happens directly before their event
San MSS takes place majority before her event
Miyuri MSS takes place before her event
Asahi MSS takes place after this event somewhere around the earlier parts of Arc 2
The fairy tale yachimifu events take place before the end of Arc 2
Snow Befana and Sun Shizuka happen before a2c8
Arc 1
Madoka's Side Story (Between Chapter 3 and 4 of Arc 1. Each day needs to be placed differently)
Madoka and Homura arrive in Kamihama City. They sense a Witch and enter its Barrier, finding a Magical Girl fighting it. The Witch escapes and the Barrier vanishes. Madoka asks if the girl is alright, but she leaves. Madoka runs off after her.[12]
The Magical Girl feels exhausted from overusing magic. Madoka finds her and guides her to a bench. Madoka offers to buy her a drink. Homura appears and offers to get it. The girl thanks Madoka and introduces herself as Shizuku Hozumi.[12]
Shizuku asks why Madoka helped. Madoka says it was because Shizuku looked like she was in pain. Shizuku calls Madoka kind. Madoka says it is bad to be alone. Shizuku says being alone is fine and she will find where she belongs. Madoka suggests Shizuku could create her own place to belong. Homura returns with drinks.[12]
Shizuku asks why Madoka became a Magical Girl. Madoka explains she has no particular talent and wanted to be useful to someone. Shizuku realizes Madoka made a place for herself by becoming a Magical Girl. She thanks Madoka for giving her hope and leaves.[12]
Madoka makes an offering at a shrine, praying for everyone's happiness. It rains and stops, leaving Madoka wet. A girl offers her a handkerchief and explains they missed the bus. Madoka notices the girl has a book she loves. The girl admits it is her favorite. Madoka introduces herself and the girl says her name is Kako Natsume. They talk about the book until the bus arrives and part ways.[12]
Madoka goes to a bookstore and buys the sequel. Kako is also there. Kako asks if Madoka is a Magical Girl, having noticed her Soul Gem ring, and reveals she is one as well. Kako invites Madoka on a night-time adventure at her school.[12]
One week later, Kako and Madoka meet at the school to go to the roof. A cat startles them. Kako suggests transforming and using their powers to reach the roof. Once there, Kako tells Madoka to look at the starry sky, explaining that on this day you can see the most beautiful stars. Kako admits she is shy but can talk properly with Madoka, and this star viewing is her thanks. Madoka says Kako's honest feelings reached her.[12]
Madoka and Mami fight a Witch. A normal person is kidnapped and brought into the Barrier. Mami tells Madoka to rescue the person while she handles the Witch. A Magical Girl appears, impressed Madoka is helping people. She introduces herself as Sasara Minagi, the knight who protects the city. She asks Madoka to let her save the victim so Madoka can help Mami. Madoka agrees and returns to Mami. Together they defeat the Witch.[12]
The Barrier vanishes and they meet Sasara outside. Sasara says she took the victim to the hospital. Sasara compliments their strength and offers to help if they are in trouble, explaining that rescuing people is her specialty and protecting everyone is her creed. Madoka says she is cool. Sasara says she is happy to meet Magical Girls like them, explaining that Kamihama has more Witches, drawing Magical Girls who only care about fighting, not saving people. Sasara became a knight because she cannot accept people being sacrificed.[12]
Mami agrees. Sasara says she rarely met others who think this way. Madoka says she became a Magical Girl to help people and is like Sasara. Sasara calls Madoka incredible. Mami says Madoka might become the strongest Magical Girl someday, but has a long way to go. Sasara says both are worthy of the title "knight." When Mami points out they use projectile weapons, Sasara suggests they can be a rescue team. She offers to team up, but Madoka and Mami note they are not always in Kamihama. Madoka offers to help if Sasara is in trouble while they are there. Sasara thanks them and departs.[12]
Mami says Madoka is too kind and honest, wondering if she is walking a path of battle. Madoka points out Mami walks the same path, saying she aspired to be like Mami. Mami thanks her but advises running away if truly in danger. Madoka says it is fine, as she does not have the courage to sacrifice herself. Mami invites her for tea once they return to Mitakihara. Madoka narrates her wish to protect everyone with her own power.[12]
Mirrors Story
Iroha receives an invitation from a Familiar and enters the Mirror Mansion. Inside, she finds Mitama, who explains this is the home of the Mirror Witch. A familiar throws Iroha into a barrier, where she fights and defeats a copy of herself.[13]
After five hours, Iroha returns. Mitama explains the barrier contains endless layers and copies of every magical girl who entered. The Mirror Witch holds a secret about Kamihama. Iroha decides to go deeper.[13]
Inside, she finds Kaede fighting her own duplicate. Yachiyo arrives and helps. Kaede reveals she entered with Momoko and Rena but got separated. The group returns to Mitama, then heads back in to find them. They meet Ria, who claims to be Yachiyo's rival. Ria looks into a mirror and Yachiyo vanishes. Ria insists it was an accident and joins the search.[13]
Elsewhere, Yachiyo finds Momoko, who attacks her, mistaking her for a duplicate. Another Yachiyo replica appears and the real Yachiyo and Momoko destroy it together.[13]
Ria leads Iroha and Kaede to Rena, but they first encounter a shy duplicate. The real Rena arrives, the fake attacks, and the group reunites after the fight.[13]
After leaving, Mitama warns Ria about the mirrors. Iroha admits something felt off inside. Mitama encourages her to go deeper but warns against losing herself. Iroha reflects this might be the first time she has stood before a mirror.[13]
Iroha returns to the Mirror Witch's mansion, curious about what Mitama said. This time, Tsuruno is there and insists they go in together. Tsuruno uses the barrier for training, as copies make good opponents. Unbeknownst to Iroha, Yachiyo asked Tsuruno to look out for her.[13]
Inside, they encounter Emiri, who became separated from her senior and friend. Three duplicate Emiris appear and then depart to search. Emiri asks Iroha and Tsuruno to help find Hinano and Rika.[13]
They find Hinano, but Emiri immediately identifies her as a fake. The imposter attacks, and they defeat it. Emiri then uses her intuition to find the real Hinano trapped in a gap within the barrier. As they reunite, Rika's voice calls out, saying she must go farther into the mirrors before disappearing.[13]
Hinano suggests they split up and Iroha returns to Mitama for answers. At the entrance, Mitama explains that Rika must have looked too far into the mirrors and seen "the deep abyss." She warns Iroha to hurry before time runs out.[13]
Back inside, Hinano and Tsuruno are surrounded by multiplying fake Rikas. Emiri returns with Ren, who shouts at the imposters not to impersonate her friend. After defeating them, they find an unconscious Rika, who awakens with no memory of what happened.[13]
The girls leave the Barrier. Iroha goes to Mitama's place for an explanation, but Mitama is gone.[13]
Two days later, Hazuki meets with Seika, Reira and Mito at a restaurant. She explains Mitama's importance to the community, as she coordinates hundreds of Magical Girls and has access to all kinds of information. The trio agree to help search.[13]
The next day, Iroha tells Yachiyo and Tsuruno that Mitama has been missing for three days. The Mirror Witch's mansion feels off and they decide to investigate.[13]
Meanwhile, Seika, Reira, and Mito enter the barrier on their own. Inside the barrier, the trio is immediately tricked by mirror copies of each other. They realize they were split up from the moment they entered. After defeating the copies, they find the exit. Outside, Nanaka and Kako greet them.[13]
Elsewhere, Hazuki, Konoha, and Ayame enter the barrier searching for the trio. Konoha has reservations, but Hazuki blames herself for mentioning Mirrors to them. They agree to search a little longer.[13]
Konoha later meets with Yachiyo at a park. They haven't seen each other in a long time. Konoha explains they've been searching for Mitama and believes something bad is building up, as too many small incidents happening like falling dominoes. She asks Yachiyo to help investigate while her team handles the barrier. Yachiyo agrees, as Iroha also had a bad feeling about all of this.[13]
Konoha shares that Mitama was frequently seen in a part of Daito Ward called "Swindlers' Town." Yachiyo volunteers to check it out and she calls Himika, who knows the area well.[13]
Inside the Barrier, Nanaka and Meiyui venture deeper. Nanaka senses two identical hostile presences in different locations, which shouldn't be possible. They encounter and defeat copy versions of Kako and Akira, then find themselves transported to Nanaka's home in an illusion where members of Meiyui's family are robbing the place. Nanaka realizes it's an illusion. They escape and meet up with Reira's group. Nanaka explains she sensed two witches with the same signature, one inside the mansion, and one in Swindlers' Town. She asks Reira's group to investigate Swindlers' Town while her team handles the mansion.[13]
At Mitama's shop, the trio finds piles of Mirror Coins in the back room, so they take as many as they can carry and head for Swindlers' Town. Along the way, Reira senses strange magic coming from the coins.[13]
Deeper in the barrier, Konoha, Hazuki, and Ayame are trapped in an illusion showing Azalea House under attack. Ayame attacks a familiar, but they realize killing familiars won't stop the endless illusion. They hear a voice and reach out. Hazuki grabs a hand, and the illusion dissipates. They find themselves face-to-face with Nanaka and Meiyui. Their two illusions interfered with each other, allowing them to break free. Before them is a door. They don't know if it leads to the witch's core or somewhere else.[13]
In Swindlers' Town, Yachiyo meets Himika, who finds a Mirror Coin on the ground. Soon after, Mito walks right into Yachiyo. Reira's trio explains they followed a trail of coins from Mitama's shop, but the trail formed a circle. Yachiyo realizes Mitama must have laid them out deliberately to surround something. They check a map and the coins form a circle with an apartment building and abandoned factory at the center. Inside the factory, they find Mitama, nearly out of magic and Himika provides a Grief Seed.[13]
Mitama explains that a familiar from the Mirror Witch matured into a new witch in Swindlers' Town. She tried to contain it with a barrier of Mirror Coins, but maintaining it required her to stay nearby constantly. The trio picking up the coins broke the containment.[13]
The original Mirror Witch noticed and is trying to move toward its duplicate, its labyrinth growing large enough to almost reach Daito Ward. They decide to enter the duplicate's barrier and destroy it before it fully matures.[13]
Inside, they come face-to-face with Nanaka and the others. The two labyrinths have connected. They realize the Mirror Witch can now copy memories, not just appearances, and link different copies of its barrier together. If it continues, it could hide forever in a vast, growing labyrinth.[13]
Mitama proposes using the collected Mirror Coins as a bomb. She can adjust them to self-destruct. They pile the coins, Mitama makes one unstable, and throws it. Yachiyo stays behind to help Mitama escape. The others run.[13]
Light flashes. The barrier disappears. Mitama and Yachiyo collapse on the floor, having escaped just in time. The others cheer.[13]
Later that day at her shop, Mitama rests and explains her theory to Yachiyo over tea. She believes the Mirror Witch was once a magical girl from Daito Ward named Mikoto Sena. Mikoto's wish was to support her mother, but her mother became free and later abandoned the family. Mikoto grew to distrust everyone except one other girl, idealizing what a family should have been.[13]
Mitama thinks Endless Mirrors is where Mikoto builds her ideal family. The witch keeps its heart closed off and avoids everyone, just as Mikoto did in life. Her unique magic was "suggestion," perfect for making others think the witch is harmless. If the witch ever openly attacked someone, it would likely target Mikoto's mother, who still lives in Swindlers' Town. Mitama admits it's just a theory, but it fits.[13]
What Mitama didn't tell Yachiyo was that the date Mikoto became a witch was the same day Mitama made her own wish.[13]
Mitama's Special Training - Kyoko
One day, Kyoko Sakura fights a witch in Kamihama City after moving there in search of them, but Felicia Mitsuki appears and delivers the killing blow first. They argue over the Grief Seed until Felicia suggests sharing it, and Kyoko concedes since the seed is used up anyway.[14]
As she's hungry, Kyoko follows Felicia to Mitama's shop, where Mitama is looking for magical girls to taste test her cooking. When Mitama prepares to cook, the girls quickly realize she cannot handle a knife when it flies into the ceiling, forcing them to take over cutting and peeling. After they prepare the ingredients, Mitama adds the seasoning, but the girls later discover she had been using paint.[14]
The girls refuse to let Mitama cook again and order her to get something ready-made instead. Mitama goes shopping with Felicia while Kyoko waits, and the result is a chaotic mix of items Felicia added. The meal is horrible, but Kyoko, who never wastes food, eats it all anyway and passes out.[14]
When Kyoko wakes up, she notices her body feels hot. Felicia explains she used her powers on their Soul Gems while they were unconscious, awakening Kyoko's magic. Kyoko realizes the heat is her own power emerging, and Felicia assures her she will get used to it.[14]
Mitama offers the girls a limited-time service and mentions causing trouble recently when she made sweets for some girls. Kyoko asks if she means Mami Tomoe, and when Mitama asks if they are friends, Kyoko says she is kind of like one.[14]
Felicia and Kyoko depart, with Kyoko remarking that Mitama's food is the kind you only have once in a lifetime, while Mitama is happy to have new customers.[14]
Sayuki Steps Up!
Sayuki is a popular local idol known for her optimism and hard work despite her clumsiness, earning her many fans including a girl named Rena. When her manager announces she will star in a tourism drama for the Mizuna region, Sayuki agrees despite her fear of memorization. Her friends Mayu and Ria volunteer to help with rehearsals, though the script is ridiculous and Sayuki struggles while Mayu excels.[15]
For several days, the situation does not improve, but Mayu and Ria continue helping, unable to abandon someone so hardworking. After a guerrilla gig recharges her spirits, Sayuki uses her secret technique of writing things down to memorize, which finally works and impresses her friends during rehearsals.[15]
On the actual filming day, Sayuki performs flawlessly, earning praise from previously dismissive co-actors. However, rain forces the crew to seek shelter at the art museum, the planned second location, where the enthusiastic curator convinces the producer to shoot the second episode immediately. Unprepared, Sayuki forgets her lines and struggles while her co-actors bad-mouth her.[15]
Mayu reminds Sayuki that the museum is where they first met, lifting her spirits briefly, but Sayuki becomes crestfallen again, doubting she deserves her fans' love. Mayu firmly reprimands her, insisting her fans know her work ethic and promising to help her through this crisis. Sayuki regains confidence, memorizes the script with Mayu's help, and delivers a strong first half.[15]
For the difficult second half, Sayuki ad-libs using her genuine passion for the museum's blade displays, delivering such a perfect performance that she finally earns everyone's praise.[15]
The episodes become a huge success, boosting tourism to the region. Sayuki receives more offers and resumes work with her usual enthusiasm, her success built on her work ethic, self-awareness, and supportive friends.[15]
Magia Clash!
A Mirror copy of Shizuku opens a portal and steps through into a city.[16]
Hayate, Nanoha, and Fate mistake a Mirror copy's portal for the warp gate to their tournament and are pulled through before Lindy can stop them. Mitama registers the confused but excited trio for the "First Ultimate Magical Girls Team Battle Mirrors Cup," and they head to the Standby Zone after learning about the Mirror barrier. Meanwhile, Rena, Momoko, and Kaede struggle against unusually strong Familiars, and when Rena twists her ankle, the Nanoha trio steps in to save them. The groups introduce themselves, with the trio explaining they are from Uminary City while concealing their connection to the Administrative Bureau, and Rena warns them about dangerous Mirror copies that lurk deeper in the barrier.[16]
As the tournament progresses, Team Nanoha easily advances through early rounds with Fate's incredible speed, though Momoko notices Hayate and Nanoha have yet to reveal their full power. Elsewhere, Mitama learns that Momoko announced her team would break up if they lost not because Kaede is useless but to show their conviction, though both Kaede and Rena had doubts. The tournament continues until four teams remain, with Team Momoko advancing to the finals through clever strategy and Team Nanoha defeating Team Masara to join them.[16]
The final match begins with Fate and Rena clashing in a battle of speed that seemingly knocks both out, leaving Nanoha and Hayate to face Momoko and Kaede. Hayate fuses with Reinforce Zwei and unleashes Ragnarok to take out Kaede, then joins Nanoha against Momoko, who withstands Nanoha's Starlight Breaker as both girls stand exhausted. Before a winner can be decided, Lindy contacts Nanoha with an emergency: a fugitive illegally opened a rift between worlds, and the Mirror copy of Shizuku appears nearby, having used her powers to connect the Mirror labyrinth to Uminary City.[16]
The copy stole the tournament's grand prize, a special orb that exponentially increases magical power, and the girls call off the match to track her down. Team Nanoha and Team Momoko catch the copy, but after they defeat her, copies of Hayate, Fate, and Nanoha appear and swallow the broken orb pieces, gaining immense power. All the Magical Girls unite to take down the powered-up copies, and through combined efforts they finally delete the magical signatures. With the tunnel between worlds about to collapse, Mitama declares both teams winners, and the girls exchange heartfelt goodbyes before the Nanoha trio returns home.[16]
The next day in Kamihama, Kaede realizes her texts to Hayate no longer go through, Momoko cannot reach Nanoha or Fate, and Rena cannot find Uminary City on any map. Mitama and Shizuku conclude the girls must have come from a different world entirely, since they needed a space tunnel to travel rather than a simple train ride. Though Kaede is sad they may never meet again, Rena is grateful for the friendship they formed, and the three resolve to work hard for a future rematch.[16]
Nanoha's Side Story
Mitama organizes a magical girl team competition inside the Mirrors labyrinth. Kaede and Iroha greet Nanoha, hoping to talk with her, but Kaede is called away when her match begins. Iroha stays behind and watches with Nanoha instead.[17]
As they observe Team Momoko's match, Nanoha comments on the fighting styles she sees and notes the variety of magic on display. She explains she was taught magic from an early age and is surprised to learn Iroha and the others gained their powers by making wishes to Kyubey. Iroha describes Kyubey as a white stuffed animal, which reminds Nanoha of her own first teacher, Yuuno. Nanoha shares that she discovered magic in third grade when she heard Yuuno calling for help, and since then she has honed her abilities alongside Fate and Hayate to protect others.[17]
Iroha asks about Nanoha's device, Raising Heart, and how it can transform. Nanoha explains the device taught her magic step by step and once posed an important question to her: what is the most important thing in a fight? Iroha guesses it is the will to win, but before Nanoha can reveal the true answer, Fate and Hayate return from exploring. Fate requests a sparring match, and Iroha asks to watch.[17]
Yachiyo joins Iroha to observe the fight between Nanoha and Fate. The two exchange blows at maximum speed, with Fate using close-range attacks while Nanoha fights from a distance. The match ends in a tie after a final, explosive clash. Before leaving for a break, Nanoha turns to Iroha and reveals the true answer to Raising Heart's question: wisdom and tactics. Iroha agrees, especially after witnessing their battle.[17]
Hayate's Side Story
Natsuki is fretting over a lost wallet at the Promise Altar, and Ria offers to help her search since she's waiting for Kanagi anyway. Natsuki apologizes for the trouble, but Ria insists she doesn't mind and even offers to lend her money. Natsuki refuses the loan but admits she needs money for train fare home. She reluctantly agrees to borrow just enough for the trip and promises to pay Ria back later. Ria asks if Natsuki is sure she doesn't want to file a report, but Natsuki believes the wallet is simply lost rather than stolen and wants to keep searching.[18]
Ria suggests they retrace Natsuki's steps and asks where she's been. Natsuki lists the Promise Altar, the station, the shopping district, and an izakaya where she ate with friends. Ria questions why she went to an izakaya alone, and Natsuki clarifies she was with coworkers. Ria finds it odd that Natsuki was drinking with coworkers and then came to the shrine alone afterwards. Natsuki admits it's a long story involving a former coworker's engagement announcement that left her feeling restless. She came to the shrine to think but realized she didn't have enough money to get home.[18]
As they search, they run into Masara and Kokoro. Masara bluntly tells Natsuki she probably won't find it and suggests getting a new student ID. Kokoro gently scolds her for being insensitive and offers to help search. Ria mentions they've already looked around the shrine, so Kokoro suggests they expand the search area.[18]
The group heads to the shopping district, where they encounter Kanoko. She offers to help search as well, and they all continue looking together. Eventually, Ria asks Natsuki to retrace her exact steps from when she left the izakaya. Natsuki recalls walking to the station, realizing she didn't want to go home yet, and coming to the shrine. Ria points out that she would have needed her wallet to pay the izakaya bill, so she definitely had it after leaving. Natsuki confirms this and remembers using her train pass at the station before changing her mind.[18]
Ria concludes the wallet must be somewhere between the station turnstiles and the shrine, but they've already searched that route thoroughly. Kanoko suggests Natsuki might have dropped it somewhere else without realizing, like when she pulled out her phone. Natsuki's eyes light up, and she admits she did take out her phone at the station to check something. She just can't remember what she did with her wallet after that. Ria proposes they split up to cover more ground, and everyone agrees.[18]
Later that evening, Natsuki returns home defeated and exhausted. Her father calls out to her, and when she enters the living room, she finds her wallet sitting on the table. Her mother found it in the shopping district and a kind stranger turned it in. Natsuki's relief quickly turns to panic when she remembers she borrowed money from Ria, and now she has no way to contact her. She considers calling Kokoro but realizes she doesn't have her number either. She decides to go back to the Promise Altar the next day to hopefully find Ria there.[18]
The next day, Natsuki returns to the Promise Altar and is relieved to spot Ria. She excitedly explains that her wallet was found and immediately tries to repay the loan. Ria accepts the money but notices Natsuki seems troubled about something else. Natsuki admits she's been thinking about her former coworker's engagement and how she handled the situation. Ria offers to listen if Natsuki wants to talk, but Natsuki says she'd rather not burden her further. Ria insists it's no trouble since she's waiting for Kanagi anyway.[18]
Natsuki explains that her former coworker Yukari got engaged and announced it at a gathering. Natsuki congratulated her happily, but another coworker named Ootori made some passive-aggressive comments about how Yukari managed to find someone before her. Later, Ootori apologized to Natsuki for her behavior, but Natsuki feels she should have defended Yukari in the moment. She feels guilty for not speaking up.[18]
Ria asks why she feels responsible for defending Yukari. Natsuki admits it's because Yukari was always kind to her when she first started the job, and she feels she failed to repay that kindness. Ria points out that Natsuki did congratulate Yukari sincerely, and that was probably what mattered most to her in that moment. Natsuki realizes Ria is right and thanks her for the perspective.[18]
Just then, Kanagi arrives, and Ria prepares to leave. Before going, she offers Natsuki her contact information so she can reach out if she ever needs to talk again. Natsuki gratefully accepts, and the two part ways.[18]
Fate's Side Story
During a break in the Mirrors tournament, Fate, Nanoha, and Hayate encounter a copy of Fate that proves too powerful for them to handle alone. Felicia, Kako, and Ayame appear to help, and together they defeat the copy. When Felicia asks what they're doing there, Fate admits they got lost. The Kamihama girls learn the trio is from out of town and younger than them, but they quickly become friends and head back to the standby zone together.[19]
The group somehow gets roped into a dodgeball game, with teams forming spontaneously among the tournament participants. Fate proves to be exceptionally athletic, leading her team through multiple rounds against increasingly competitive opponents. After defeating Momoko's team, they face a martial arts team featuring Akira, Meiyui, and Asuka, which Fate also wins. Tsuruno, refusing to let age be a barrier, recruits Masara and Natsuki for a final match against Fate's team.[19]
The final match comes down to a intense showdown between Fate and Tsuruno, both catching and returning each other's throws with increasing speed and power. Fate ultimately outmaneuvers Tsuruno by throwing to Nanoha and leaping into the air for the winning strike. Everyone celebrates the friendly tournament and the new friendships formed across different cities.[19]
Hereafter
Yachiyo calls a meeting with the Mikazuki Villa household, Tsuruno, and the Momoko trio to share her concern that rumors persist even after they defeat the Uwasa themselves. The group splits up to investigate whether the original Uwasa have truly vanished or transformed into something new.[20]
Momoko, Kaede, and Rena investigate the Breakup Staircase and find only scattered internet gossip remains. During their search, lingering tensions surface over Rena's painful memories of when Kaede was kidnapped by that Uwasa, but the trio ultimately reconciles and continues working together.[20]
Iroha, Yachiyo, and Tsuruno visit Mizuna Shrine, where the Séance Shrine Uwasa has transformed into a popular spot for relationship prayers with new mascots. They encounter a grieving girl who comes daily to pray for her deceased friend, and Yachiyo is reminded of her own departed companions Kanae and Mel.[20]
Iroha and Felicia track down the man behind the revived Misery Water rumor, who confesses he was scammed into buying the water and cannot bring himself to deceive others. Felicia helps him find honest work, and the rumors die out.[20]
Sana investigates an online forum where troubled users make veiled threats, but the rumor fades without incident. Tsuruno and Iroha check Chelation Land, where Tsuruno reflects on her past brainwashing and muses about whether some Uwasa exist independently of the Magius.[20]
The groups reconvene and report that all investigated rumors have left minimal traces. Yachiyo concludes their investigation of the Uwasa is complete, and only the Wings of Magius themselves remain to be confronted.[20]
Christmas at Mikazuki Villa
In late December at Mikazuki Villa, Tsuruno eagerly anticipates Christmas while Felicia remains unimpressed. When Sana admits she never properly experienced the holiday due to her difficult home life, Yachiyo decides to host a party for her sake, and Felicia reluctantly agrees when food is mentioned.[21]
The next day, the girls gather to plan and Iroha invites Momoko, Rena, and Kaede to join them. Yachiyo suggests dividing roles: Tsuruno will bring food from her family's restaurant, Momoko will handle the cake with help from Rena, Kaede, and Iroha, while Felicia and Sana take decorations with Yachiyo as producer.[21]
Momoko brings the girls to her relatives' cake shop, where they agree to provide a cake if the girls help. Iroha and Rena endure embarrassing costumes and perform a skit, eventually selling all the cakes after Rena throws herself into the role.[21]
Iroha visits Tsuruno at her restaurant and helps her develop a Chinese Christmas menu using Christmas colors after Tsuruno's father mentions a customer requested mapo tofu.[21]
Felicia and Sana shop for decorations, and Felicia admits she dislikes Christmas. When pressed, she avoids answering, and Sana senses dark emotions beneath Felicia's usual cheerfulness.[21]
The next day, Sana shares her concerns with Yachiyo and Iroha. Momoko's group arrives to announce the cake is ready, but Felicia reiterates she will not attend. After arguing with Rena about Santa, Felicia runs away.[21]
The girls search for Felicia while Iroha asks Yachiyo to stay behind in case she returns. Sana eventually finds Felicia at a park and gently asks why she hates Christmas. Felicia explains her parents died during a Christmas party, and the holiday makes her remember them and the witch that killed them.[21]
Iroha arrives and asks Felicia to come to the party anyway, explaining they should create new happy memories together. Felicia accepts as long as there is food, and the trio shops for decorations together.[21]
On Christmas Eve, the party begins with Tsuruno's Chinese Christmas menu and Momoko's cake. Rena apologizes to Felicia about Santa, but Felicia now believes he is real. Snow falls across Kamihama as various magical girls react to the weather, and Iroha wishes for everyone's happiness.[21]
On Christmas morning, Felicia, Yachiyo, and Sana discover mysterious gifts left while they slept. Momoko arrives, explaining other magical girls received gifts too. A new rumor spreads about the Kamihama Happiness Delivery Service. It is revealed that Tsuruno, Iroha, and Rena delivered the gifts using Rena's transformation ability to sneak into homes, and they wish everyone a Merry Christmas.[21]
New Year’s at Mizuna Shrine
Iroha, Yachiyo, Tsuruno, Felicia, and Sana walk to a shrine for New Year's along with Homura and Madoka. After buying omamori charms, the girls offer their prayers for the new year.[22]
The girls celebrate New Year's morning together at Yachiyo's house. Yachiyo prepares traditional food while Tsuruno arrives with her own dishes and homemade "Tsuruno Karuta" cards, which the girls play together.[22]
Later, Iroha, Tsuruno, and Sana go for a walk. They find most shops closed but discover a badminton tournament at a toy store. Tsuruno loses spectacularly, Iroha wins five matches with Sana's invisible support, and Sana proves unbeatable in practice.[22]
Meanwhile, Madoka and Homura visit Sumei Shrine, where they eat Castella cakes and draw fortunes. Homura receives Great Fortune while Madoka receives Infinite Fortune.[22]
Felicia joins Ayame and Kako at a mochi-pounding competition. Later, they meet Ayame's teammates Konoha and Hazuki. The badminton tournament becomes a doubles competition. Iroha partners Tsuruno, Felicia partners Ayame, and other teams include Ria and Emiri, Meiyui and Akira, Ayaka and Shizuku, Sasara and Asuka, and Rena and Momoko.[22]
Iroha and Tsuruno defeat Felicia and Ayame in the semifinals after Felicia trips. In the finals, an exhausted Iroha and Tsuruno lose to Rena and Momoko. The winners earn the right to challenge the legendary champion, who is revealed to be Yachiyo. Yachiyo easily defeats Momoko, demonstrating skill she developed from a young age.[22]
Yachiyo's prize is a mochi-making kit. The group returns to her house, where she prepares mochi for everyone. Momoko, Rena, and Kaede arrive, having come specifically for the mochi.[22]
At the shrine, Homura makes a large donation and prays for her wish to be granted. Tsuruno creates a charm from three amulets, believing it will bless everyone with good fortune. Felicia admits she wants everyone to be okay. Sana reveals a charm fell into her hands and she wishes to stay by Iroha. Yachiyo buys five charms to ensure her family's well-being. Iroha buys an amulet for love and marriage, though in her prayer she only gave thanks and hoped to see Ui again.[22]
Mitama's Special Training - Iroha and Yachiyo
At her home, Yachiyo pulls out a box containing what her former friends Kanae Yukino and Mel Anna left behind. She has never opened it since filling it and spends the entire day staring at it, unable to lift the lid. When Iroha arrives and asks about it, Yachiyo explains and admits she is trying to work through her feelings. Iroha offers to help, but Yachiyo deflects, reminding her they were supposed to visit Mitama.[23]
The girls visit Mitama Yakumo and present Grief Seeds as payment for adjustment. Mitama is surprised by the offering and promises to do her best, but she expresses concern about Yachiyo's emotional state. She suggests Yachiyo clear up her issues with the box before moving forward and offers to adjust both girls at once as a special exception.[23]
As Mitama works on her, Yachiyo finds herself in a gray room confronted by a shadowy doppelganger. The shadow accuses her of being afraid of the future and clinging to the past. When Yachiyo refuses to give in to despair, the shadow transforms into her doppel, but she stands firm, accepting her fear while choosing to move forward. Iroha appears beside her, and together they bid farewell to visions of Kanae and Mel.[23]
Yachiyo awakens and realizes Mitama adjusted them together intentionally, trusting Iroha could help her if needed. She thanks Mitama for looking out for her.[23]
Back at her house, Yachiyo finally opens the box with Iroha beside her. Inside, Kanae left a book of lyrics about becoming a circle with others, and Mel left fortune telling impressions predicting a future where many magical girls would gather in Kamihama. Yachiyo cries as she reads their words. Iroha suggests they head toward that gentle future together. Yachiyo agrees but says first they need to get back their own three points: Tsuruno, Felicia, and Sana.[23]
Mitama's Special Training - Mitama
Mitama Yakumo invites a surprising number of magical girls to her place for an event she calls the "Great Mitama Thanksgiving." When she finally arrives, she reveals that the gathering is actually a quiz tournament about herself, with the winner receiving a free adjustment session and the title of "Mitama's Perfect Lover."[24]
The quiz begins with multiple choice questions, and wrong answers trigger a trap door beneath the contestant, though cushions soften the fall. The first question asks Mitama's actual age, and Tsuruno guesses incorrectly, landing her in the trap. The second question asks whether Mitama's cooking is delicious, and when Felicia and Manaka both guess wrong, Mitama confirms that the correct answer is that her food is indeed delicious.[24]
The quiz continues through several rounds, eliminating more contestants along the way. When the ninth question asks about Mitama's favorite movie, Ria guesses incorrectly and is eliminated for insulting the film's actress. Sana is also eliminated when Mitama takes pity on her after she panics over Iroha's safety, and Mitama confirms that "Pacifistic Hayashi" was the correct answer.[24]
Mitama admits she has run out of questions but still has many competitors remaining, so she decides to draw lots to pick a winner instead. Momoko asks why Mitama held the event in the first place.[24]
A flashback shows Mitama using her magic to defeat a familiar on her own, and she narrates that even if her services are no longer needed, she can still protect herself. She has obtained the magic to keep living that she never had before, and if she ever had to abandon her neutrality, she could use it to help someone.[24]
Back in the present, Mitama explains that she held the event because something good happened to her. The other girls sense a Witch and leave to hunt it, and Mitama tells them to draw their lots later. Alone, she wonders who she should use her power on when she eventually decides to stop being neutral.[24]
Voices from Beyond
In the afterlife, Mel Anna meets Kanae Yukino, another Magical Girl ghost who also died fighting a Witch. Mel is thrilled to discover they were both on a team with Yachiyo Nanami and calls Kanae her senpai. Kanae takes Mel to a ghost cafe where deceased Magical Girls gather, explaining they cannot interact with the living world except through psychics.[25]
As they wander Kamihama, Mel notices Witch numbers rising dramatically and worries about Yachiyo. They follow Yachiyo and are relieved to find she has new companions in Iroha Tamaki and others, though they remain concerned about their former teammate Mifuyu's absence.[25]
Over the following days, they watch helplessly as Yachiyo battles the Wings of Magius and eventually enters the Memory Museum, where she relives the trauma of losing Mel and Kanae. When Yachiyo dissolves her team afterward, convinced her magic causes others to die for her, the ghosts desperately try to reach her. Kanae notices Yachiyo kept their mementos: Mel's fortune log and Kanae's notebook. They focus their thoughts on these items, and that night, Yachiyo discovers their messages—Kanae's lyrics about forming a circle and Mel's fortune predicting the current events. Grateful, she resolves to move forward. Their successful contact gets their ghost licenses suspended, and they watch Yachiyo's dream of their encounter before fading.[25]
A year later, with peace restored in Kamihama, Yachiyo visits a flower shop to buy flowers for Mel's grave, still haunted by never defeating Mel's Witch. She unexpectedly encounters Mifuyu and Mel's mother, who reassures them Mel was happy because of their love. Walking toward the cemetery, Yachiyo and Mifuyu are engulfed by the barrier of the Witch Etteilla—Mel's Witch. They struggle against both the Witch and their own fears: Mifuyu fears defeating it means forgetting Mel, while Yachiyo fears losing anyone else. Remembering the ghosts' encouragement, Yachiyo convinces Mifuyu they must move forward because Mel and Kanae wanted them to. They defeat the Witch together.[25]
At Mel's grave, they place flowers and the Grief Seed from the Witch, hoping her soul has finally found peace. They silently promise to keep moving forward. Mifuyu wonders if Mel's Witch appeared to give them a push, and they smile, repeating Mel's favorite phrase: all things happen when they must. Yachiyo invites Mifuyu to see the belongings Mel and Kanae left behind, and Mifuyu gladly accepts.[25]
A Peaceful Day in Mikazuki Villa
At Mikazuki Villa, the girls are surprised to learn that Felicia scored fifty-two points on a test, and she asks for a reward. Yachiyo deems her request to go to MooMoo Park too expensive and instead promises a fancy dinner the next day, which satisfies Felicia.[26]
The next morning, Iroha discovers that Tsuruno left her phone in the refrigerator and offers to return it while Yachiyo goes to a photo shoot. During breakfast, a commercial for MooMoo Park airs on television.[26]
After breakfast, Felicia shows Sana the park commercial on her phone and admits she still wants to go, so she drags Sana along to catch animals at a riverbank. Meanwhile, Iroha returns Tsuruno's phone and helps out at her family's restaurant. At the riverbank, Felicia finds a small turtle, but Ayame Mikuri appears and accuses her of harassment. The two magical girls fight, and Felicia releases the turtle to protect it before running off, leaving Sana behind. Yachiyo finds Sana on her way home and learns what happened, then invites her to lunch. Felicia returns to the house, still angry at Ayame, and takes a nap after lunch. She dreams that the turtle thanks her and promises something at the riverbank, so she wakes and goes out to find it. She returns with a ticket for two to MooMoo Park. The others reveal that Iroha also received a ticket from Tsuruno's father, and Yachiyo got one at a meat store, so everyone can now go together. The girls happily resolve to visit the park and enjoy their dinner.[26]
Mitama's Special Training - Homura
After the battle with Alina Gray and the Rumor of the Anonymous AI, Homura and Madoka leave for Kamihama to search for the missing Mami. Kyubey approaches Homura with a request: he wants her to take him to Kamihama, as Incubators cannot enter alone, and offers all his gathered information in exchange. Knowing what she does about him, Homura refuses.[27]
A few days later, Homura, Madoka, and Sayaka return to Kamihama to continue their search. They are almost immediately assaulted by the Witch Candy, which they defeat easily at first before it transforms into its true form and attacks again. When Homura attempts to stop time to save her friends, she finds the Witch is unaffected and her Soul Gem begins filling with impurities. As she succumbs, her Doppel awakens - manifesting after she uses a broken Incubator's body for knowledge and power - and unleashes its fury on the Witch. Exhausted but alive, Homura finds her Soul Gem purified. Together they finish the Witch, and Madoka suggests they visit the Coordinator Iroha told her about. Determined to become stronger, Homura agrees.[27]
A La Carte Valentine 2nd
Two weeks before Valentine's Day, Manaka accepts a commission from a student council member to create a chocolate that guarantees a successful confession.[28]
Several days before Valentine's Day, Tsuruno launches "Spicentine's Day" to promote spicy food at Banbanzai, and Felicia agrees to help. Mel reads a classmate's fortune about love, but Yachiyo angrily reminds her that fortune telling is banned because Mel's magic shapes reality rather than predicting it. When Mel asks what love actually is, Yachiyo and Mifuyu struggle to answer.[28]
Mami shops for ingredients with Kyoko's help, worried her Valentine's chocolate won't be special enough. Kaede hopes her gifts to Rena and Momoko will be the best they receive. Emiri decides to make home base-shaped truffles with real truffle mushrooms and begins searching everywhere. Kyoko saves a girl named Sumomo from a Witch and warns her never to contract with Kyubey, promising to bring friends to her family's struggling cake shop. Riko learns about a candy-stealing monster called Hungry Mokeo from her teacher. Yachiyo catches Felicia asking about handmade chocolate and suspects she likes someone.[28]
The next day, Tsuruno's Spicentine's Day movement goes viral and spirals out of control as factions form. Mel's mother tries to teach her about love, but Mel runs away. After talking with Kanagi and later her mother at the lake, Mel begins to understand that love means recognizing your greatest treasure. Kaede shops with Konomi, who gives her flowers and reassurance that handmade gifts carry genuine feelings. Emiri searches all day, falls asleep in the mountains, and wakes to find a truffle pointed out by a mysterious old man. Kyoko brings Sayaka and Homura to Sugar Plum, and Sumomo refuses Kyubey's contract after Kyoko shares her own tragic story. Riko investigates Mokeo with Tsukasa's help. Felicia secretly makes chocolate with Iroha and eventually reveals she made it for her found family at Mikazuki Villa because Valentine's Day is for conveying feelings to important people.[28]
One week before Valentine's Day, Manaka creates fourteen prototypes but feels burned out. After criticism from Ria and Mayu, she decides to make a chocolate ring that looks like real jewelry.[28]
Three days before Valentine's Day, Manaka completes the chocolate ring, but the student council member rejects it, explaining that candy can never be actual jewelry and that she chose chocolate because the truth is always by its side. Manaka collapses from exhaustion and wakes in the hospital with her spirit broken. Mayu suggests that the frame is just as important as the picture, inspiring Manaka to turn down the commission.[28]
The day before Valentine's Day, Manaka helps the student council member make her own chocolate instead. Riko and Tsukasa investigate Mokeo but find nothing until the teacher admits he created the story with parents' cooperation and warns that Mokeo will appear if they hand out chocolates openly.[28]
On Valentine's Day, Rika receives chocolate gateau from her childhood friend, the same girl she once wished would love her back. Hinano encourages her to be honest about her feelings. Rika buys her ex a gift and apologizes, and though her ex has moved on and made chocolate gateau for someone else, Rika decides to face things more honestly going forward.[28]
Kanagi, who saw no point in a holiday for couples, helps a young girl re-wrap chocolates meant for her family. She realizes Valentine's Day is for showing appreciation without expecting anything in return and makes homemade ganache for Mitama and Karin as thanks.[28]
In the afternoon, Kaede, Rena, and Momoko fight a Witch together. Kaede gives them the chocolates she made, and even though Rena's was crushed during battle, she eats it anyway and admits it tastes good. Mel learns a Witch was preventing her friend's confession and defeats it with help from Yachiyo, Mifuyu, and Kanagi. She still doesn't understand love but accepts it's a precious feeling she'll know when she experiences it.[28]
That evening, Kanagi receives piles of chocolate and letters from fans and decides to show appreciation through excellent service. Riko's classmates have their candies stolen, and bite marks appear on a chocolate given at school, leaving Riko uncertain whether Mokeo is real. Tsuruno resolves the Spicentine's Day chaos by reminding everyone that sweet food is just as good as spicy food. Mami welcomes her friends for a chocolate-making party, realizing she doesn't need a perfect day, just a good time with precious people. Emiri learns from Manaka that chocolate truffles aren't made with truffle mushrooms but makes them anyway, grating her real truffle over the top, and everyone agrees the flavor is amazing.[28]
The student council member reveals her commission was actually a test for a catering job and offers it to Manaka, who declines for now. The documentary director appears, and Manaka realizes she's been trapped into another interview. Sumomo nearly contracts with Kyubey after learning Sugar Plum will close, but Kyoko and Homura rescue her from a Witch. Thanks to Yachiyo's article, the shop is flooded with customers and saved. Kyoko wonders if her own family's fate would have changed if she hadn't contracted, but Sayaka reminds her she helped because she wanted to.[28]
The next day, Rika eats the second half of the chocolate gateau and cries, hoping that someday she can share it with someone she loves.[28]
Epilogue: Iroha and Yachiyo confront a shopkeeper who stole Valentine's Day possibilities, take back the chocolate, and escape before the shop disappears. They return to Mikazuki Villa, where Tsuruno suggests reviving Spicentine's Day and Iroha gently advises against it.[28]
Valentine's Day Login Special: Little Kyubey tears up watching everyone exchange chocolate, so Iroha gives it its own chocolate and thanks it for always being there. Everyone wishes each other a happy Valentine's Day.
Mitama's Special Training - Rumor Tsuruno
Sometime later, Tsuruno visits Mitama's adjustment studio to work on a children's picture show she is creating. She narrates a fairy tale about a kingdom with a ferris wheel attacked by an invisible beast that eats time. The strongest girl in the kingdom, a character clearly based on herself, journeys to find the beast and encounters two sisters called the Guardians of Time at a clock tower. These guardians are portrayed by Felicia Mitsuki and Sana Futaba, who challenge her to a fight. Tsuruno transforms into Super Tsuruno Number 2 and defeats them, but they explain they cannot help her defeat the beast and only tend the clock tower. They decide to accompany her anyway, though Tsuruno soon realizes they cannot leave the kingdom. As they take a break, the invisible beast consumes the present and the past, abruptly ending the story.[29]
Back in reality, Tsuruno admits to Mitama she is unsure what her story is about. Mitama notes Tsuruno's drawings are poor and offers to take the manuscript to create her own pictures instead. She has already asked another customer to create drawings and a girl who loves books to help write an ending. Tsuruno eagerly reads the revised version.[29]
In the new ending, the kingdom has been reduced to a single ferris wheel. A Mysterious Coordinator, portrayed by Mitama, appears and suggests they seek the great sage, giving them a jewel for future use. They find the great sage, portrayed by Touka Satomi, who reveals the beast was never invisible. To defeat it, Tsuruno must learn the truth, and she realizes the beast is the ferris wheel itself. Tsuruno and her companions fight the ferris wheel, portrayed by the witch Teresa. Tsuruno uses the jewel to become invincible and destroys the beast, restoring the kingdom and allowing them to build a new ferris wheel.[29]
Tsuruno thanks Mitama for the ending but admits she dislikes the Mysterious Coordinator appearing out of nowhere. Mitama reveals that was the scene she wrote for herself. She asks if Tsuruno based the story on recent experiences. Tsuruno reflects that she still remembers being in a place where she did not have to try hard at anything, but she wants to make this world even better. She offers to pay Mitama, who suggests advertising her services at the end of the play instead. Tsuruno returns to Mikazuki Villa, and her thoughts drift to Mel.[29]
Mitama's Special Training - Felicia
During the day, Felicia eats Tsuruno's ice candy without realizing it was hers because she cannot read kanji. Tsuruno reprimands Yachiyo when she learns Yachiyo knew and was preparing to buy a replacement. Yachiyo states it is impossible to guard the fridge constantly. Felicia, overwhelmed with guilt and anger that no one listens to her confession, loses control and flips the kitchen table before locking herself in her room.[30]
That night, Felicia has a nightmare. She dreams her falling grades caused a huge argument between her parents, who blamed each other for neglecting her. Both ignore her confession and promise to try harder. Her mother storms back to the kitchen to cook. Felicia recalls that a Witch attacked immediately after, killing her parents, and she wakes up.[30]
She goes to the kitchen for water, but Iroha is there and points out she looks pale. Iroha tells her to rest and offers to bring water to her room. Felicia loses her temper and storms out of the house. Iroha wakes the others to find her.[30]
At a park, Felicia hears a voice claiming to be her. The voice pulls her into a barrier, where another Felicia lures her toward a locked box, revealing itself as her Doppel. Felicia nearly opens the box but remembers Yachiyo's words about some things being best left unknown. Her instincts tell her she is not ready.[30]
She promises her Doppel she will return when she is stronger and hopes it can hold the truth for her. The Doppel accepts and returns to normal. Felicia wakes up at Mitama's place.[30]
Iroha and Yachiyo inform her they found her unconscious in the park. Felicia tells them about the encounter and her desire to become strong enough to fulfill her promise. Mitama offers a free power-up session to support her.[30]
Iroha recalls they found Felicia releasing her Doppel in the park before losing consciousness. Yachiyo notes this has never happened before. She remembers that Tsukuyo and Tsukasa Amane once said Doppels are materialized emotions. Yachiyo concludes Felicia carries a heavy burden and tells Iroha to keep this secret until Felicia either realizes it herself or becomes strong enough to handle the truth.[30]
Mitama's Festive Feast
On New Year's Day, Kanagi and Mitama meet at the Daito shrine to pray together and enjoy the carnival. Mitama wears a kimono borrowed from Yachiyo, and after a hint from Mitama, Kanagi praises her outfit, making Mitama smile at sharing her first New Year's shrine visit with a friend. They make wishes, draw "Great Luck" fortunes, and tour the stalls.[31]
At a takoyaki stall, they meet Seika, Mito, and Reira, who invite them to join a "New Year's Soup Event" where participants solve riddles to earn soup ingredients. Mitama accepts the challenge, and though they never actually solve the intended riddles, they help a fishmonger, calm Himika's little brother with a lion dance, and retrieve Riko's lost dog. In gratitude, they receive red and white fish cakes, Feral Sauce, and fried chicken. They return to the stall, and the girls share their soup with them anyway. Mitama enjoys it so much she gets the recipe.[31]
Elsewhere, Iroha and Tsuruno show off their kimonos, dressed with Yachiyo's help. Felicia bursts in with an invitation from Mitama to an afternoon party. Despite Felicia's protests about Mitama's cooking, Iroha convinces everyone to attend together, and they arrive at Mitama's with vast amounts of food.[31]
The party begins with Mitama greeting guests. When asked about her own dishes, she proudly displays her bento boxes. Momoko bravely volunteers to try one, declares it good, wolfs it down, and promptly passes out. Mitama announces mochi-pounding, and Felicia eagerly swings the mallet, nearly crushing Sana's hands. Yachiyo discovers Mitama used "World's Stickiest" rice flour, and everyone finds creative ways to prepare the resulting mochi.[31]
Mitama brings out soup she made earlier. To everyone's surprise, it tastes delicious. Mitama admits Iroha and Yachiyo helped but says she added a secret ingredient from her earlier adventures. Everyone praises it, and Mitama declares she will add her own customizations. Despite warnings, she returns with fried chicken and Feral Sauce, dropping them into the soup. The resulting soup burns everyone's eyes with spiciness, but they recover and enjoy the remaining good food.[31]
After guests leave, Kanagi arrives to help clean, but Mitama declines, explaining everyone already helped. They walk together as Kanagi heads to her maid café shift. Mitama shares that her party was a hit, and she now dreams of improving her cooking to make people happy. Kanagi cautions her to use ingredients fit for human consumption.[31]
Iroha returns alone, inviting Mitama to join them for photos at Mizuna shrine while they are all dressed in kimonos. Mitama, realizing how blessed she is with kind friends, accepts. At the shrine, a stranger takes their photo, and Yachiyo thanks Mitama for joining. They take another photo of just the four of them, then everyone decides to get candy apples together. Mitama smiles and agrees.[31]
Lucky New Year Dreams
On New Year's Day, the Mikazuki Villa residents share their first dreams over breakfast, with Felicia dreaming of a scolding cow, Sana dreaming of becoming a houseplant, and Yachiyo dreaming of eating too much mochi. Tsuruno arrives with homemade food but cannot remember her dream, so the group decides to visit the park based on Iroha's vague dream about something lucky happening there. When nothing special occurs and Yachiyo realizes she forgot her wallet, Iroha finds a 500 yen coin in her pocket, which is just enough to buy beans for the red-bean soup they wanted. They return home to make and enjoy the soup together, and Yachiyo reflects that while big luck is rare, small bits of luck can be found each day and should be appreciated throughout the year.[32]
Mitama's Photography Meet!
As Yachiyo makes lunch, Felicia barges in with a flyer announcing that Mitama is trying her hand at professional photography and offering free photos for one day only. The others are surprised, having heard nothing about this, but they agree to go and take a team photo since they have nothing else planned.[33]
At Mitama's makeshift studio, she admits they are her only customers and shows off a new camera she bought because the advertisement claimed it would make anyone a pro photographer. When she starts taking photos, however, every attempt fails spectacularly, producing bizarre images like Madoka with people jumping from a plane and Homura posing with a lion.[33]
Frustrated, Mitama declares she will quit being an adjuster to devote herself to photography, but the girls protest that everyone in Kamihama would be in trouble without her. They reassure her that they trust her, and Tsuruno adds that she would not have become the strongest without Mitama's help. Mitama relents and agrees to remain an adjuster, though she will continue practicing photography in her free time. Later, a successful group photo of both Iroha and Madoka's teams is shown.[33]
Golden Week Campaign
Kaede asks Mikazuki Villa to watch a lost kitten while her family is away. After Felicia threatens to withhold bedtime hot cocoa, Yachiyo relents and Sana names the cat Gorojirou.[34]
Tsuruno visits daily to play, and when Gorojirou needs the restroom, Sana rushes it to the litter box just as Yachiyo calls them for lunch.[34]
Felicia chases the cat until Sana gives her a toy to lure it instead, and they eventually nap together on the couch.[34]
Gorojirou has grown close to everyone, and Iroha tries taking its picture but accidentally films herself instead.[34]
While Iroha shops, Sana watches the cat and Yachiyo admits she avoided getting attached because Gorojirou is temporary, but resolves to make its stay pleasant.[34]
Gorojirou chews Felicia's favorite sticker, and though Felicia is angry, Sana reminds her the cat leaves tomorrow.[34]
Kaede returns for Gorojirou, and everyone says a tearful goodbye. As they leave, the cat meows at Sana, who cries happily saying goodbye to her new best friend.[34]
Curry House CoCo ICHIBANYA Collaboration
Iroha announces that a cafe Yachiyo frequents has opened a new location near Mikazuki Villa, and the group decides to visit on opening day. They arrive to find it is actually a Curry House CoCo Ichibanya, and Yachiyo passionately explains the menu options as they wait for the store to open.[35]
When the store opens early, the employee announces they cannot open today due to a missing delivery truck carrying ingredients. The employee breaks down in tears, explaining her family came to see her first store opening. The group notices magical energy emanating from the store and decides to help find the truck, promising to return for curry.[35]
They investigate at the last store the truck visited. The employee there confirms the truck is missing but provides spare ingredients and explains that stores support each other in times of trouble. The group splits into two teams: one to gather ingredients from other stores, and one to trace the truck's route. During coordination, they learn a second CoCoIchi truck has also gone missing on the same road.[35]
While gathering ingredients, Tsuruno's group encounters a lost, hungry girl who flees upon hearing CoCoIchi and nearly crashes into Sana. Afterward, Sana realizes the employee at the new store could see her despite her invisibility.[35]
Yachiyo's group follows the road where both trucks disappeared and finds a Witch's barrier. Inside, they find both trucks and their drivers. Iroha and Ui engage the Witch's familiars while Yachiyo secures the drivers. Iroha realizes the Witch is targeting the cargo, so she throws curry ingredients at it, causing the Witch to abandon the fight and allowing them to defeat it easily.[35]
Tsuruno calls with urgent news that the store employee is a Magical Girl, her missing little sister is also a Magical Girl, and she has not been able to contact her since yesterday. The group fears the curry-loving Witch they just defeated was the sister.[35]
They return to the new store, where the employee is preparing their reward curry. Before Iroha can confess, a girl rushes in calling for her sister. It is the employee's little sister, alive and well. The group realizes the Witch was simply a curry-loving Witch unrelated to the sister. They finally sit down to enjoy the promised curry together.[35]
SamaTore!
Kyoko wakes to find Mitama and Ui standing over her, learning they were washed ashore and rescue will arrive in two days. Mitama assigns tasks: shelter, bamboo, water, plants, and fishing. Before Kyoko leaves, Mitama asks her to transform, revealing she adjusted Kyoko's Soul Gem while she was unconscious to give her a Magical Girl swimsuit that allows her to swim. Mitama promises the transformation is reversible but looks forlorn, warning that if Kyoko does not have fun on the island, she might forget how to undo it. Kyoko reluctantly agrees to cooperate.[36]
Kyoko discovers she can swim and catches plenty of fish. While gathering firewood, she finds a piece of wood with the words "water" and "bottom" written on it and tosses it onto the pile. Back at camp, Mitama and Karin show her a treasure map they found. Mitama has built a large shelter, and Karin started a fire using skills from a manga. Kyoko helps Kanagi and Ui carry supplies back from the stream. When Mitama offers to cook, Kyoko and Kanagi immediately stop her. Kyoko distracts Mitama with the treasure map and cooks dinner instead, with Ui's help. The group enjoys the meal together.[36]
Day 2 on the deserted island and Mitama decides they will go treasure hunting. The group examines the map and the wooden tablet Kyoko unknowingly gathered for firewood, which tells of a fallen warrior's treasure hidden on the island. They follow directions to a clearing but find nothing.[36]
Ui falls into a pitfall, and Karin follows. Kyoko pulls them out with a vine, and they discover another tablet at the bottom. Kyoko realizes the piece of wood she threw into the campfire was likely one of the tablets, but she keeps quiet, hoping to make the group give up without upsetting Mitama. Mitama triggers a trap and is caught hanging from a tree. The group frees her, but everyone wants to continue despite Kyoko's warnings. Kyoko claims they are being followed, hoping to blame the missing tablet on someone else, but the stalker turns out to be a tabby kitten.[36]
The group reaches a damaged clue they cannot read. Mitama deduces the final location is the waterfall, but they find nothing. Mitama stares at Kyoko, suggesting the tablet might have been lost. Kyoko panics internally. She blasts part of the riverbed, revealing a hidden underwater path she remembered from the burned tablet's words. Kanagi scouts and reports a cave at the end. Karin and Ui stay behind while Kyoko, Mitama, and Kanagi swim through using guide vines.[36]
Inside the cave, they endure swarms of mosquitoes until Mitama drives them away. At the back, they find a treasure box. Kyoko opens it carefully. Inside is a letter revealing the treasure hunt was a promotional stunt for the Sayu-Sayu Mizuna Tourism Project, abandoned due to mosquitoes and safety concerns. They left a paper with Sayu-Sayu's sword designs.[36]
Kyoko hides the truth and leads the group to a cliff with a stunning sunset view. Everyone agrees it is a rare treasure. Kyoko admits she burned one of the tablets for firewood. Mitama apologizes for pressuring her and promises to change her back. The group returns late at night.[36]
On the third day, the helicopter arrives. Iroha calls down to them. As they prepare to leave, the kitten runs off, and the group chases it.[36]
A few weeks later. Sayuki, Ria, Mayu, her manager, and producer arrive on the same island to film a special. They find the bamboo house and campfire remains. The kitten appears, followed by Kyoko chasing it. Ui and Karin catch up, and Karin recognizes Sayuki as Sayu-Sayu. Kyoko realizes this is the idol behind the fake treasure hunt.[36]
Mitama, Kanagi, and Iroha arrive. Sayuki greets Mitama warmly. Telepathically, Kyoko warns Mitama about Sayuki's connection to the treasure hunt. Mitama cryptically tells her to leave it. Karin and Ui want to stay and watch the filming. Sayuki offers to let them return on her boat. She explains her special involves a survival quiz using the Kaigiri sword. Ui and Karin are excited. Mitama and Kyoko exchange a look, hoping to preserve Ui's good memories without revealing the truth.[36]
Filming begins. They cheer from the sidelines. Later, they all pile onto the boat together, many exhausted and falling asleep.[36]
Kamihama in a Circle
Rika and Ren arrive in a new ward, with Rika frustrated about oversleeping. They notice another Magical Girl nearby. Elsewhere, Konomi arrives alone while Kako declines to participate due to her team's policy. Manaka scolds Ria for being late because of her hair. Masara, Kokoro, and Aimi gather at a park, with Kokoro convincing Masara to participate. Reira, Mito, and Seika discuss the upcoming gathering of Magical Girls who have fought together before.[37]
At Mikazuki Villa, Iroha and Yachiyo finish chores that had been delayed by Felicia's laundry mishap. They reflect on everything that has happened since Iroha came to Kamihama searching for Ui—the investigations, battles with the Wings of Magius, the automatic purification system, and the truth about Witches spreading. Despite the chaos, things have begun to settle.[37]
Iroha and Yachiyo rush to the park, worried about being late. Tsuruno meets them and playfully scolds them before carrying them the rest of the way. Iroha reflects on meeting Tsuruno while investigating Uwasas, and how their bonds grew stronger through battling together. She notes that everyone at Mikazuki Villa has decided to support one another.[37]
The group stops at a convenience store. Felicia appears, having visited Ayame first. Konoha and Hazuki are not coming to the gathering, but Yachiyo notes they have helped in the past. Felicia asks for chocolate. Iroha reflects on first meeting Felicia when she was a violent mercenary, and how living together has changed them both. She notes that Yachiyo has cared for Felicia more than anyone.[37]
The group takes a shortcut through a back alley. They find Sana hiding, having spotted Kaede's cat Gorojiro. Sana explains she was patrolling for dangerous Magical Girls while staying hidden. Iroha thanks her but assures her she can relax today. They invite her to join them. Iroha reflects on sympathizing with Sana's isolation and how Mikazuki Villa became an important place for them all. Yachiyo notes that Sana, once invisible to everyone but Magical Girls, is gradually finding her place in the world.[37]
Ui, Touka, and Nemu meet the group. They have visited their old hospital to update the doctors and nurses who cared for them. Touka discusses her research on connecting universes, admitting practical application remains difficult but the possibility exists. Iroha reflects on how it still feels like a dream to see the three of them together. Yachiyo notes that while their past methods were wrong, their purpose of liberating Magical Girls was not, and that purpose continues now.[37]
Momoko, Rena, and Kaede join them, having stopped at a retro arcade where they won a stuffed animal together despite their usual arguing. Touka reveals a small possibility for connecting universes has been found, using the Endless Mirrors. Iroha reflects on first meeting Momoko and Kaede, and now sharing lunches with Rena. Yachiyo notes the three have strong bonds as a team and helped convince other Magical Girls after the truth about witches spread.[37]
Mitama joins, having taken a break from her shop to visit Kanagi. Tsuruno asks about using Mirrors to connect to other universes. Mitama confirms she and Kanagi have accompanied Touka and Nemu into the Mirrors. Nemu explains they were only experimenting with precautions. Touka insists she has plans if things go wrong. Mitama notes Mirrors has become more complex and will need more entrances. Iroha reflects on meeting Kanagi relatively recently and how they now work together despite past rivalry. She also thinks of Mitama's help and her surprising wish, but notes the city is moving forward. She wants to hold hands with more people and form a circle together.[37]
From a distance, Iroha and Yachiyo watch Magical Girls gathering at the park. Felicia attempts to cure Iroha's nerves by hitting her, claiming Tsuruno said it would help. Tsuruno quickly corrects her. Hinano arrives, reporting on her task regarding Alina. Karin, who attends school with Alina, explains Alina is still missing and she does not know where she is. Iroha promises they will find her together. Mifuyu arrives with the Amane twins, apologizing for being late. Yachiyo thanks Mifuyu. Iroha reflects that a new step is beginning. Yachiyo notes her story started moving when Mifuyu disappeared, while Iroha's began with strange dreams. They have connected with so many Magical Girls. One chapter has ended and a new one is about to begin.[37]
Iroha addresses the gathered Magical Girls, thanking them for coming. She reflects on fighting together against powerful Witches and sharing knowledge about their fate. Yachiyo notes they started from individual concerns, fought Uwasas and the Wings of Magius, and gained something greater in return. Their purpose is now the same as their former enemies: the liberation of Magical Girls. They seek coexistence with Kyubey without sacrificing themselves. Iroha acknowledges not everyone could participate, but all have agreed to help each other. Yachiyo admits skepticism is natural. Iroha declares that by expanding the automatic purification system across Kamihama, they can welcome liberation and coexist with Kyubey. Yachiyo announces they will work together under a new name starting today.[37]
Iroha begins to declare their new name but is interrupted by a flash of light. Wings appear on her back, and Yachiyo also grows wings. Feathers fall across the park. Yachiyo recalls this phenomenon helped them against Walpurgisnacht. Iroha wonders if it is a blessing upon the Magical Girls of Kamihama holding hands. With this blessing, they declare again that the Magical Girls gathered here are allies who will support each other in hardship. They declare themselves the Kamihama Magia Union.[37]
A New Beginning
On the day the Kamihama Magia Union is established, a celebration is held at Walnut's. During the party, Manaka receives a phone call and panics, announcing that Nemu has been kidnapped.[38]
The group splits up to search nearby areas but finds nothing. Hinano eventually discovers Nemu held hostage by Black and White Feathers from outside Kamihama. Using Ryo and Ikumi to infiltrate, their cover is blown and they are surrounded. Sakurako jumps in to defend them as Iroha arrives with reinforcements.[38]
The lead Feather explains they kidnapped Nemu to convince the Magius to lead them again, as they do not know how to achieve liberation on their own. Iroha explains the Kamihama girls share their goals but reject their methods. Nemu and Touka ask the Feathers to join them.[38]
Before they can respond, white feathers rain from the sky again, the same power that helped them defeat Walpurgisnacht returns, but this time it feels uncontrolled and dangerous. Touka explains her experiment partially worked, creating a wormhole to another world, but the interference may crush their world. Kanagi and Mitama fail to disable the device sending the signal.[38]
Sana sneaks Nemu to where the device was stationed, but the labyrinth is gone. Nemu enters the password anyway, but nothing happens. The world shakes and a voice urges them to close the gate. Iroha realizes the power is trying to help, not hurt them.[38]
Yachiyo devises a plan: Ui will absorb the magic built up inside them, Touka will convert it, and Iroha will fire an arrow to close the gate. As the sun sets, they enact the plan and succeed. The feathers stop falling.[38]
Iroha asks the Feathers to reconsider joining them. The lead Feather admits her stubbornness and rage, and Nemu and Touka apologize. The Feathers accept, becoming the first recruits to the union on the day it was established.[38]
Late that night, the group gathers outside Walnut's. They discuss the voice they heard and the power from another universe. Touka throws a tantrum over everyone calling her experiment a failure, and her stress causes her to unleash her Doppel.[38]
Elsewhere, a mysterious magical girl observes and turns to report back to the Tokime Tribe. In another place, a different magical girl also observes and decides to report her findings. In a different location, Kagome Satori has found Iroha at last, promising to keep a record of their lives.[38]
Moon-viewing After an Elegant Tea Party
A few days after the battle against Embryo Eve, Yukika reflects on her time as a Black Feather in the Wings of the Magius. She still does not fully understand what happened during the disaster, and as a former Black Feather with a faint presence, she remains unknown as a magical girl even to Tsukuyo Akatsuki, the upperclassman she admires.[39]
On the morning of the exchange party with Saint Liliana Academy, Yukika leaves home with conflicting memories of whether she promised to have dinner with her family that evening.[39]
After school that day, Yukika is at the arcade when she senses a magical reaction. Suddenly she is back at school, confused. The student president asks her to retrieve plates from the old school building for the exchange party. While heading there, she learns Tsukuyo had to leave early, leaving no solo performer. Yukika helps find a substitute, and the problem resolves itself before she enters the old building.[39]
She finds a white feather robe in her bag with a note in her handwriting addressed to Akatsuki-senpai. She does not remember putting it there.[39]
The Saint Liliana students arrive, including twins Hotori and Rion. A water leak makes the old building club room unusable. Yukika heads there again, and the Flower Arrangement director agrees to host a flower show and moon viewing instead. Once again, the problem resolves before she enters.[39]
Yukika notices a pattern: every time she tries to enter the old building, the problem disappears. Time also moves unusually slowly. The twins run toward the old building, and Yukika chases them. She is pulled into a familiar's labyrinth and transforms using the white feather robe to help them. The twins mistake her for a White Feather sister who saved them before, saying they joined the Wings of the Magius because of her.[39]
At sunset, Yukika remembers the white feather robe belongs to Akatsuki-senpai and was left at a coordinator's. She had planned to return it but lost the chance after the decisive battle.[39]
Sensing a large magical reaction from the old building, she investigates. She has a vision of it collapsing and retreats, convincing the Flower Arrangement director to join the tea party instead. Kaharu Yunna arrives and offers to host the moon viewing at her family's restaurant, moving the event away from the old building.[39]
Later, Yukika returns to the old building alone. She follows the magical reaction to the fourth floor and enters a witch's labyrinth, where she finds Kyubey.[39]
Kyubey explains he entered Kamihama when the barrier temporarily disappeared during the disaster and made a contract with Rion. In the original timeline, a white feather magical girl saved the twins from a witch but was killed, causing the old building to collapse. Hotori protected Rion but suffered fatal wounds. In that moment, Rion made a wish, rewriting reality to prevent the tragedy.[39]
The current world is the result of Rion's wish. The witch has only been delayed. The slow passage of time and the obstacles keeping Yukika from the old building were the wish's power trying to push back the inevitable. The white feather who died is still dead. Only Yukika and that specific Kyubey remember the original world.[39]
The witch attacks and kills Kyubey. The twins arrive and insist on fighting together. When the witch overpowers them, Yukika sends them away and fights alone, knowing she will likely die.[39]
Yukika awakens outside the labyrinth. The twins tell her she defeated the witch. Kyubey's body and the white feather's remains have vanished with the labyrinth.[39]
That night, Yukika joins the moon viewing at the restaurant. She reflects that only she remembers the original world and the white feather who died saving the twins. She looks at the full moon and appreciates being alive to see it.[39]
On a later date, Yukika leaves Kamihama and meets another Kyubey. She learns the Kyubey who made the contract with Rion is gone, and no other Kyubey remembers the original world. Rion's wish has fully rewritten reality. Kyubey states he will no longer interfere in Kamihama.[39]
Kyubey explains Yukika survived because she unknowingly used a Doppel, a Kamihama system that transforms a magical girl into a witch-like state. Yukika is not satisfied with this explanation but accepts it.[39]
As she prepares to return to Kamihama, she is pulled into another witch's labyrinth. The twins are there, saying Yunna Kaharu is in trouble. Yukika wonders what she has gotten involved in this time.[39]
Tracks of Cherry Blossoms
Sakurako reflects on her nature as an Uwasa created by Iroha and Nemu. Though her duty to bloom when the four girls reunited is now fulfilled, she continues attending school as Sakurako Hiiragi. When Ryo comments that she is like a god who will never change, Sakurako questions other Uwasa and learns from the Anonymous AI that they act according to their Rumor forever, never stopping and never changing.[40]
Some time later during a Kamihama Magia Union meeting, Iroha proposes a cherry blossom viewing to help members connect. Touka objects to using the Eternal Sakura, wanting to preserve it as a secret shelter. Tsuruno suggests Sankyo's famous cherry blossom viewing spot instead. Touka challenges Sakurako to visit the Sankyo tree and judge its worthiness herself.[40]
The next day, Sakurako visits the Sankyo cherry tree. While observing it, she meets an elderly man who has appreciated the tree for decades. He explains the tree has watched over people for over eighty years, since before the war. Sakurako realizes this tree has lived far longer than her zero-year existence.[40]
Later at school, Hinano and Ryo find Sakurako still fixated on the tree. Ryo shares what she knows: the tree served as a disaster shelter in the Meiji era, and famous restaurants once served food there for foreign cherry blossom viewers. After school, Sakurako returns to the tree. The elderly man and his wife visit again. The wife gives her cherry blossom-scented cookies, and the man gives her a hand warmer. A girl jogging past stops to pray at the tree, explaining she sees it as a sacred place before tournaments.[40]
Days pass, and Sakurako continues visiting. Manaka and Tsumugi stop by, and Sakurako gives them the cookies she cannot eat. Sakurako reflects on how this tree has watched over thousands of people for over a century while she was created to watch only four girls. She realizes for the first time that time is passing around her.[40]
Days later at Mikazuki Villa, Sakurako observes the four girls and Ui talking about her teacher. Sakurako concludes the Sankyo tree is worthy of hosting the cherry blossom viewing. She decides she needs to practice making it bloom.[40]
Over the following days, Sakurako continues visiting the tree, growing closer to the elderly couple. She forgets about practicing blooming, more interested in talking with them.[40]
One day, the elderly man announces he will be hospitalized and they can no longer walk together. The woman explains she must care for him. The man reveals they kept walking because seeing Sakurako brought back fond memories of their belief in meeting a sakura spirit. Sakurako is left standing alone, realizing their time together has ended.[40]
That night at the tree, Sakurako encounters the jogging disciple, who explains she is moving away and will soon leave the dojo. She then encounters Ui's teacher, who reveals she is being transferred to another school. Sakurako realizes that by the time the cherry blossoms bloom, all these people will be gone. She feels pain and fears that Iroha, Ui, Touka, and Nemu will eventually disappear too.[40]
Days pass, and Ryo observes Sakurako's deteriorating state. A neighbor of the elderly couple approaches Sakurako and informs her there has been a passing in the family. Hinano later explains this means someone has died. Sakurako disappears.[40]
Sakurako asks Iroha and Yachiyo what to do when someone dies. Yachiyo explains about funerals and sending flowers as a last gift. Sakurako returns to the Sankyo tree and, using her power, makes it bloom for the first time, sending cherry blossoms into the sky for the grandfather. But she still aches from not saying goodbye.[40]
Days pass, and other Uwasa grow concerned, having heard rumors that when Sakurako makes cherry blossoms bloom, someone disappears. Sakurako concludes that if she lets the cherry blossoms bloom, the four girls might disappear. When Iroha confirms the cherry blossom viewing plans, Sakurako announces she will not let the tree bloom.[40]
Ryo publishes the full Tracks of Cherry Blossoms article, detailing Sakurako's experiences. The girls read it and understand her association between blooming and parting. Yachiyo suggests teaching her that spring also brings new encounters.[40]
The day of the picnic arrives. Iroha invites Sakurako, assuring her she does not need to make the tree bloom. Sakurako agrees to attend.[40]
During the picnic, Asuka's disciple appears, explaining she came to let Sakurako know she is not sad about leaving. Ui's teacher arrives and tells Ui that her care will be passed on to the next teacher. Manaka debuts a new cherry blossom dessert, continuing the tradition in new form. Sakurako begins to understand that farewells are not always sad.[40]
After the picnic, Sakurako remains at the tree. She admits she still cannot bring herself to make it bloom. Yachiyo tells her that wanting to see the couple again proves she has a heart. Sakurako despairs that Uwasa simply cease to exist. She buys one of Manaka's new desserts, hoping to give it to them.[40]
Days pass, and Sakurako waits at the tree daily, carrying the dessert. Rumors spread about the girl under the sakura tree. The girls grow concerned. Nemu warns that if Sakurako does not accept reality, she may destroy herself.[40]
As the time expires, the elderly couple suddenly appears. The grandfather was never dead. The passing was a relative. They had been away helping their daughter with a new baby. The woman explains they named their granddaughter Sakurako. Sakurako gives them the dessert and explains she now understands that encounters and goodbyes take many forms. She says she will not come regularly anymore but is grateful for their time together.[40]
Ryo gives Sakurako a photograph of her with the elderly couple. Sakurako thanks her.[40]
Magia Record
At the hospital, a nurse tries to convince Touka to eat her carrots. Touka refuses unless her terms are met: she wants specific books brought to her. The books are Hachslingen's "General Theory of the Origin of the Universe," Cosinberg's "Celestial Forces," and Dadatri's "Glimmer of the Planet." She claims no one will hand them over. The nurse eventually gives up on the carrots.[41]
Iroha arrives, having been called by Ui. Ui admits she asked Iroha to search for the books Touka wanted, having written out the titles for her. Iroha apologizes, explaining she could not find them no matter how she searched. Touka becomes flustered.[41]
Nemu deduces that Touka is acting like Princess Kaguya, requesting treasures she knows do not exist to avoid eating her carrots. Exposed, Touka reluctantly eats a carrot. Nemu thanks Iroha and makes Touka apologize for the trouble. Touka gives a half-hearted apology.[41]
One day, the girls play a number-guessing game. Touka wins five times in a row. Iroha suggests Touka and Nemu call her something more casual. Touka chooses "Onee-sama." Nemu asks to call her "Onee-san." Iroha happily agrees.[41]
Touka eagerly awaits Iroha's arrival to play Old Maid, noting Iroha has won first place seven times in a row but that her face always gives the game away. Nemu observes to Ui that Touka frequently says "Onee-sama" now, likely because Iroha is her first elder sister. Nemu quietly reflects that Iroha is her first Onee-san as well. Iroha arrives and greets them all warmly.[41]
A familiar appears and attacks. Touka is overwhelmed. Iroha arrives and fights it off, guided by Kyubey. She expresses concern for Ui and her friends. Ui realizes it really is her big sister and Touka recognizes Kyubey.[41]
See You Tomorrow
One morning at the Daito Apartment Complex, Reira greets an older neighbor who warns her about increasing danger in the area. Reira then startles Seika, who had already been frightened earlier by the apartment council president handing out safety posters about suspicious people. Mito pops out and successfully scares both friends before they walk to school together. At school, the three face their own struggles: Reira learns from classmates that a family of three disappeared from Building 12 three months ago with no explanation, Seika freezes up when classmates try to invite her to lunch, and Mito's classmates mock her for humming, calling her weird.[42]
That afternoon, Seika senses something while walking home and makes an excuse to leave. That evening, she follows a suspicious man from the wanted posters to the old candy shop, where a barrier opens and a Familiar appears. She transforms into a Magical Girl and fights it alone. Meanwhile, Reira and Mito walk home together, noticing someone who looks like Seika before she disappears around a corner.[42]
Days later, after the suspicious man is found and taken into custody with no memory of what happened, the three friends discuss the resolved incident. Reira mentions seeing someone who looked like Seika near the shopping center. Seika lies and says she was nowhere near there. Reira pretends to believe her but senses something wrong.[42]
The next day, Reira pulls Mito aside and confides she believes it really was Seika at the shopping center. They confront Seika at the park after school. Seika panics and yells at Reira to stop. Mito cries. The three drift apart and go home separately.[42]
That night, each girl faces a turning point. Reira, blaming herself, is offered a contract by Kyubey. She wishes for things to go back to how they used to be between them. The wish is granted, and suddenly Reira's head fills with memories she did not know she had. Seika goes to the roof, resolving to do whatever it takes to protect her friends. Mito learns from her mother that they are moving away due to the disappearances. She runs to the park, crying, and searches desperately for a four-leaf clover, believing it will make everything better.[42]
Later, Reira, now a Magical Girl, reveals to Seika on the rooftop that she regained memories of jumping off the roof under a Witch's influence and dying. Seika had wished her back and had been fighting alone ever since. Mito finds them and asks what is going on. She mentions meeting a talking animal, and Reira and Seika realize it was Kyubey. Mito asks them to promise they will make up before she is gone, explaining she is moving away soon.[42]
The next morning, Mito pieces together the truth: Seika wished Reira back and tried to bear the burden alone. At school, Mito stands up to her classmates when they mock her friends. That afternoon, Reira and Seika are drawn to the same Witch and fight together, working in perfect harmony. Mito, feeling left out, calls out to Kyubey. He tells her everything about Magical Girls and Witches. Mito decides to make a contract, wishing for the power to connect people's hearts.[42]
That evening, Mito transforms into a Magical Girl and uses her power to transport Reira and Seika into the world of Seika's heart, then into Reira's heart. They see each other's true feelings: Seika only wanted to protect them, and Reira only wanted to help. They apologize, thank each other, and hug Mito tightly. Mito reveals she used her power on Kyubey and learned the truth about Soul Gems. She also learned about a Witch connected to Reira's death. Reira, with Mito's help, remembers walking to Apartment 516 in Building 12 before she died, even though such an apartment should not exist. They vow to stop the Witch together.[42]
The next day, the trio investigates Building 12. They find mysterious x marks multiplying around them and are engulfed in a labyrinth. After fighting through Familiars, they find themselves on the fifth floor facing an impossible door: Apartment 516. Inside, they confront and defeat the Witch. The apartment vanishes, leaving only Apartment 515, where the missing family lived. The girls wonder if the disappearance and the Witch are connected.[42]
On moving day, the three friends say goodbye before the complex. Mito spots a four-leaf clover on the ground. Reira says their hearts will always be together. They say goodbye.[42]
The next day, Seika and Reira wait in an alley in their Magical Girl outfits. Mito arrives. They prepare to hunt a Witch together. Their way of saying it has changed, but the words are the same: see you tomorrow.[42]
Later, the trio follows a magical signal and encounters Hazuki Yusa, Konoha Shizumi, and Ayame Mikuri. Hazuki suggests they all fight together. The groups introduce themselves, and they hurry to catch up with the others. Another day, another new friendship in Kamihama.[42]
Asuka's Side Story
Asuka swings her naginata in front of Felicia Mitsuki and Sasara Minagi while trying to remember something important that Nanaka Tokiwa told her. Felicia asks if she is training, and Sasara explains that Asuka met Nanaka but forgot the conversation entirely. Asuka believes training will help her remember, but when it does not work, she threatens to self-flagellate. Sasara forbids it and suggests trying different methods instead. Sasara researches online and has them try swimming, then soy products, but nothing works. She buys a brain training puzzle book, though Asuka admits she is not good at those. Asuka again threatens self-flagellation, and Sasara again forbids it. When Sasara suggests simply asking Nanaka again, Asuka refuses, finding it shameful to have her repeat herself.[43]
Sasara tells Felicia that Asuka never backs down, just as she did when making her wish. Asuka explains her past: she is the daughter of a family that runs a swordsmanship dojo in Mizuna Ward. Two years ago, her cousin intended to take the police recruitment test, but his father ran for mayor instead. Her cousin asked for help with the campaign, and Asuka's family joined the election staff. Her uncle was later caught buying votes with cash. Her cousin apologized and said he could not come to the dojo until things settled. Asuka believed he would never become a policeman due to his father's crimes, so she made a contract with Kyubey and wished for her cousin to become a police officer. Sasara notes that Asuka became a magical girl because of that belief, though the incident never came up again. Felicia calls her thoughtless, prompting another self-flagellation threat.[43]
Asuka proposes a new plan: have Felicia hit her in the head with her hammer until she remembers. Sasara objects, but Felicia agrees to go easy. After a hit, Asuka remembers she was hurrying to the train station that day and did not really hear what Nanaka said. The girls go find Nanaka. Nanaka asks if Sasara and Asuka are friends with Felicia, and Sasara says they are sort of working together. When Nanaka calls that splendid, Felicia asks if she is picking a fight. Nanaka says she is glad Felicia found friends. Asuka asks about their earlier conversation and Nanaka explains Asuka was in a hurry, so they agreed to talk later. She confirms it involves a magical girl, a witch, and Kamihama. She then holds out a flyer for a flower arrangement exhibition held by her family's school. She wanted all magical girls to attend and relax. She admits she meant to mail it but forgot. Asuka laughs quietly. Felicia is annoyed the information was not important. Asuka says she will now self-flagellate.[43]
Asuka later attends the exhibition and finds it gorgeous. She claims to have learned from this and will train her memory.[43]
Sasara's Side Story
Sasara is taken hostage at knifepoint in a convenience store. Despite her desire to be a knight, she is too terrified to act. Though the police arrest the criminal and she is safe, Sasara feels ashamed and hates herself for her cowardice.[44]
Two days later, Sasara meets Kyubey and when he makes his offer, Sasara accepts without hesitation. As her father works for an emergency rescue squad, a job she admires, he gave her a favorite picture book about a knight who defeats a dragon to save a village. Sasara carries this book everywhere and has always wanted to be like her father and the knight. She wishes to become a knight who can protect and save people, asking for a stronger heart and stronger convictions.[44]
Five days later, Sasara has been hunting witches and saving their victims ever since making her contract. She calls herself the Knight who protects the people of Kamihama, but over time her feelings become tainted. The people she rescues never remember what happened and do not acknowledge her. Sasara realizes she wants someone to appreciate her and questions whether she really wanted to become a knight at all.[44]
One day inside a barrier, Sasara tells Kyubey she might have just wanted people to praise and approve of her, like the knight in her picture book. She thought she could accept the people she helped not talking to her, but now it feels like she does not even exist. When a familiar attacks, Sasara moves to shield an unconscious victim and begs to at least save her.[44]
Another magical girl rescues Sasara and Kyubey introduces her as Asuka Tatsuki, who was hunting a witch and saw Sasara by coincidence. As this is the first magical girl she has ever met, she wants to meet her again.
Sasara and Asuka meet again inside a witch's barrier and they find a room full of the witch's victims. Asuka suggests they find the witch first since defeating it will save everyone, but Sasara worries something could happen to the victims in the meantime. As they're attacked by Familiars, Asuka realizes they should divide their roles: Sasara will protect the victims while Asuka fights. The strategy succeeds, and all the feelings that pained Sasara's heart disappear.[44]
After the witch is defeated, Asuka proposes that Sasara stop being a magical girl in the usual sense and instead become a rescue and defense expert, working alongside her as a magical girl rescue squad. Sasara agrees and asks Asuka if she ever feels lonely fighting alone. Asuka admits she does, but she simply remembers her promise to defeat all witches and protect everyone's life. Sasara realizes she forgot something important: the knight in her picture book also helped people without thinking, just like her father. She decides she will simply not think anymore and will be Asuka's partner, answering distress calls as part of the rescue squad.[44]
Emiri's Side Story
Asuka Tatsuki and Sasara Minagi chase a familiar but lose it, and Emiri Kisaki appears, introducing herself as a new magical girl. She convinces them to help her, and they track down and defeat the familiar, only for a Witch to emerge. Inside the barrier, they find unconscious civilians. Sasara and Asuka argue over whether to rescue them or fight the Witch first, but Emiri suggests Sasara provoke the Witch by helping the people while Asuka attacks. The plan works, and they destroy the Witch together. Afterwards, they exchange contact information, and Emiri reflects that being a magical girl is tough but fun.[45]
Some time later, Asuka and Sasara bring Emiri to the restaurant Walnuts, where the cook is Manaka Kurumi. Manaka serves them poorly made omelette rice because she is distracted by creating a new dish. As an apology, she offers them the Manaka Special, which they all find delicious. Emiri encourages her to put it on the menu despite her concerns about tradition, and Manaka agrees.[45]
A few days later, Asuka and Sasara bring Emiri to a shopping center and propose she open an advice booth, citing how her advice helped Manaka. They introduce her to Akira Shinobu, who is reluctant until Emiri starts asking about her way of speaking. The booth becomes a huge success, attracting girls like Rika Ayano and Tsuruno Yui. Eventually, Ria Ami, a famous model whose beauty came from a wish, visits. Emiri is instantly smitten, calls her Ria-sama, and proposes they partner up to become the cutest magical girls. Ria agrees, and Emiri excitedly plans to introduce her to Asuka and Sasara.[45]
Ria's Side Story
A documentary crew follows Ria Ami, whose natural beauty causes crowds to part, though she admits she has no basis for comparison when asked about her challenges. Manaka stops her on the way to school, concerned about her pale appearance, prompting Ria to flash back to her contract with Kyubey where she wished to become a natural beauty—a wish that rewrote her past so she had always been beautiful since birth. When Manaka suggests rescheduling their food tasting, Ria's stomach growls and she agrees to go. At Walnuts, Manaka corrects Ria's memory of their first meeting, reminding her that Ria was actually collapsing from hunger after a dangerous fad diet when Manaka rescued her. Manaka tests a new menu item and declares she will become the best chef in the world. Outside, a mob of followers has amassed, and a magazine editor pushes through to offer Ria a feature in Vanity Fine, which she handles by pretending to be swamped.
During a witch fight, Ria prepares to deliver the final blow, but Tsuruno jumps in and finishes the witch first, leaving Ria upset that her spotlight was stolen. Manaka offers her extra rice omelet to help her cool down.
Another day, Ria joins Manaka, Konomi Haruna, and Kako Natsume for a witch hunt, with Kako praising her beauty. During the fight, Ria's special attack proves weak, and Yachiyo Nanami appears to land a staggering blow. Ria recognizes her as the model she grew up admiring. When Yachiyo finishes the witch and leaves without acknowledgment, Ria becomes so upset that she accidentally transmits her angry thoughts to everyone via telepathy.
The next morning, Ria walks to school imagining her documentary continues, but Manaka interrupts to ask for help investigating a witch that appeared at her restaurant without triggering her Soul Gem. Ria agrees after Manaka bribes her with extra rice omelet. They search with no results until they enter a witch's labyrinth. As they fight, Yachiyo appears again. Ria makes it a contest for the spotlight, attacking with cheesy one-liners, but the witch survives and Yachiyo delivers the killing blow. Outside, Ria fumes that Yachiyo stole the spotlight once more. Manaka suggests she should be thanking her instead. Ria formally declares Yachiyo her rival, leaving Yachiyo confused.
Later, Ria asks Manaka to be her bodyguard while buying the magazine featuring her article, wearing sunglasses to avoid being seen. Inside, she discovers her article occupies only one page, while Yachiyo has an eight-page spread. Furious and convinced Yachiyo did it on purpose, Ria tears the magazine in half, and the clerk charges her for it.[46]
Rika's Side Story
One day, Rika is invited to a blind date by Emiri Kisaki, who brings along Hinano Miyako, a girl recently heartbroken. When the boys on the date mock Hinano's youthful appearance and odd way of speaking, Rika surprises her by defending them. Afterward, Rika admits she too carries a broken heart, and Hinano realizes Emiri shared this secret without permission, yelling at her. Emiri and Rika quickly reassure Hinano, with Rika adding that Hinano is actually cool for having been able to confess her feelings—unlike Rika, who never confessed at all and watched her crush end up with someone else.[47]
Emiri then suggests Rika should make a wish, revealing that she and Hinano are magical girls who each received one wish in exchange for fighting monsters. Rika wonders if this is some kind of game. Hinano warns her against becoming a magical girl but, when pressed, advises that if Rika does wish for something, it should be for something seemingly impossible—and she must carefully consider the price.[47]
Later that day after Rika leaves, Kyubey appears and offers her a contract. Thinking back on what Hinano and Emiri told her, and flashing to the memory of her crush dating someone else, Rika mentally apologizes to Hinano and elects to become a magical girl.[47]
The next day, Rika muses that her wish was granted and she is now dating her crush, yet she feels deeply unhappy. When Kyubey asks what is wrong, she admits that every time the person she loves smiles at her, her chest tightens with unease.[47]
On another day, Rika fights a Witch and encounters two other magical girls, Ria Ami and Manaka Kurumi. Ria thinks Rika has gone berserk and calls her fighting style dangerous and inelegant, though Manaka points out Ria was not exactly elegant herself. Rika compares them to a comedy duo and explains she fights Witches simply as stress relief.[47]
Later, during another Witch fight, Kyubey contacts Rika to warn her she is fighting dangerously. Annoyed, Rika is surprised to spot Hinano inside the barrier. After the battle, Hinano is shocked to find Rika has become a magical girl and immediately warns her about her reckless fighting style. Rika again explains it is stress relief. When Hinano asks why she is unhappy, Rika confesses that while she wished for her love to be fulfilled, she fears it is all fake—as if her crush only likes her through magical compulsion. Hinano asks why she became a magical girl at all, and Rika explains that without a wish, she would never have had a chance. Pressed further, Rika reveals the person she likes is a girl. She asks if this is gross or weird, but Hinano simply says it is not. Rika wonders why it was so easy to tell Hinano this truth.[47]
Later still, Rika and Hinano fight together against a Witch. Hinano again warns about Rika's dangerous fighting, and Rika says she plans to stop after this, revealing she has already broken up with her crush. When Hinano asks if it was because the love felt fake, Rika confirms that was part of it. She explains she loved her childhood friend for four years but remained just a friend. When she saw her friend with a new boyfriend, Rika realized she could never give her friend what the boyfriend did. She then admits the full weight of her wish: it caused the girl she liked and her boyfriend to completely forget each other, as if they had never met. Rika explains the boyfriend once helped her find a lost ticket, and she realized they were perfect for each other. Breaking up with her girlfriend was her way of setting things right. Hinano is impressed by her willpower.[47]
Rika says there is one more thing to do. She brings Hinano to her school, and together they plant the notebook of Rika's ex-girlfriend in the ex-boyfriend's bag, and his notebook in hers. They watch from a distance as the two meet again, and Rika declares everything is great.[47]
Afterward, Rika tells Hinano that the girl and boy were like a fairy tale prince and princess, destined to be together. She decides she is like their Cupid. Surprised to see Hinano crying, Rika is unaware she is crying herself. Rika asks Hinano to laugh, but Hinano says no one could laugh at this. Finally, Rika tells Hinano she loves her, then quickly clarifies it is not that way—Hinano is not her type. Rika starts laughing, Hinano stops crying, and the two affirm their friendship.[47]
Ren's Side Story
Ren stands on a rooftop, contemplating another suicide attempt, when Kyubey warns that repeating her actions will destroy her Soul Gem. Rika saves her after defeating a nearby Witch, and Ren reflects on her childhood bullying, her first suicide attempt, and her wish to live, which then led her to destroy Witches only to realize humanity's cruelty remains. Unable to explain her despair to Rika, Ren is introduced to a community of Magical Girls in Emiri's who each offer her small kindnesses: Ria gives her hand cream and Konomi gives her chamomile tea. Then they visit the chemistry club where Hinano gives Ren candy, and in the end the group meets Kanoko at her family's metal factory. There, after Ren compliments a dress Kanoko designed, she gives Ren accessories made of metal sheets. Later, Rika shares her own story of wishing for someone's love, explaining that connection requires vulnerability. When Ren still cannot speak her truth, Rika reminds her that all these people were thinking of her, giving her a reason to continue living. Ren thanks her, choosing to keep living.[48]
Konoha's Side Story
Konoha manages the finances and makes decisions for Hazuki and Ayame. When Hazuki calls to say she's stuck at meetings and suggests take-out, Konoha decides to cook instead to save money. Despite Hazuki's warnings, Ayame tries Konoha's cooking. Later, Hazuki returns to find Ayame sick; Konoha learns Ayame was too polite to refuse the food. Hazuki offers to handle meals from now on, which prompts Konoha to resolve that she will learn to make delicious food.[49]
A few days later, Konoha buys cookware and studies cooking theory, suspecting Hazuki might be a cooking prodigy. She makes a disastrous meal incorporating everything she read, and Hazuki collapses after tasting it. Ayame brings home a flyer for a cooking class at "Youshoku Walnuts," noting that the food there made Hazuki cry. Ayame encourages Konoha, and Konoha resolves to take the class.[49]
Another day, Konoha meets the teacher, Manaka Kurumi, at the restaurant. Manaka attempts to teach knife skills and how to crack eggs, but Konoha struggles with both. Manaka promises to help her improve. She has Konoha make practice dishes, but Konoha burns oil, over-dashes rice, and explodes miso soup, so Manaka has to take over each time. When finished, Manaka tastes it, insists it's good to protect her reputation, eats it all, and passes out. Konoha tries the leftovers and confirms it is truly terrible.[49]
A few days later, Konoha hunts a witch with her team while distracted by thoughts about cooking. After they defeat it, Himika Mao arrives late, introduces herself, and asks if they are sisters; Hazuki explains they are not. Himika mentions she is thirteen with five younger siblings. When Ayame asks about being an older sister, Himika invites her to meet her family. Konoha asks to come as Ayame's guardian upon learning Himika cooks for her family, and Himika accepts. Hazuki says she will prepare dinner at home.[49]
Later, at Himika's house, Konoha and Ayame observe the cramped living space. Himika explains she uses cheap leftover meat blends from a disposal man to feed her family. She serves dinner, and all her siblings along with Ayame eat. When Konoha asks if the food is tasty, the siblings say they never think it's bad because Himika does her best. Konoha reflects on Azalea's House and realizes she was too focused on theory rather than on who she was cooking for. She thanks Himika and leaves with Ayame.[49]
On a later day, Ayame and Hazuki find Konoha cooking again. Konoha promises to give up if she fails this time. Focusing on her feelings rather than theory, she makes a meal from Azalea's. Hazuki and Ayame try it and say it's bad, but it's edible. Konoha is excited that someone could actually eat her food.[49]
The next day, Ayame returns home to find Konoha cooking again. Hazuki observes that Konoha has found joy in the act of cooking. Konoha narrates that she learned cooking is about heart, and could now make food people could finish. She thinks cooking is fun, though Ayame and Hazuki sometimes scream loud enough to startle the neighbors.[49]
The following day, Konoha attempts beef stroganoff, a dish Hazuki admits is difficult. Hazuki and Ayame try it and collapse. Konoha says she will redo it. She narrates that experience matters, and wonders what to try next.[49]
Hazuki's Side Story
Hazuki, Konoha, and Ayame meet with Nanaka, Meiyui, Akira, and Kako at a restaurant to discuss how to handle situations where both teams target the same Witch. Meiyui proposes a first-come, first-served rule, but Hazuki points out it would lead to disputes over who arrived first. Ayame suggests settling conflicts with rock-paper-scissors, and though Meiyui argues there's no time for games in battle, Hazuki has them try it on the spot. When Ayame and Meiyui play, Meiyui uses a martial arts technique to change Ayame's hand, causing an argument between the groups. Hazuki calms everyone down and suggests they go home for the day.[50]
The next day, the girls reconvene at the restaurant. Hazuki proposes a new rule: anyone who uses magic against a Witch gains proportional rights to the Grief Seed. Both teams agree, and Hazuki suggests they gather data by hunting together. They split into mixed teams—Ayame and Kako form one; Hazuki, Akira, and Meiyui another and Konoha and Nanaka stand by to help as needed. After the successful joint hunt, Nanaka meets with Hazuki alone at the restaurant. She reveals she believes Hazuki manipulated the entire situation from the first meeting, noting that her team was impressed with Hazuki's group's teamwork but that she herself was more struck by Hazuki's modus operandi. Nanaka asks why Hazuki orchestrated everything.[50]
Hazuki admits she wanted Konoha, who is introverted, to connect with others and that after the Witch fight, Konoha seemed genuinely happy. She explains her goal was simply to build connections between her group and other Kamihama Magical Girls. Nanaka accepts this and says she's glad to work with her. Later, Hazuki writes in her notebook that Nanaka is shrewd but fascinating, and she resolves to continue reaching out to other Magical Girls.[50]
Ayame's Side Story
Ayame encounters Felicia during a Witch fight, and their rivalry quickly escalates when Felicia dismisses Ayame's challenge to lead the girls to argue and accidentally let the Witch escape. Frustrated by losing to Felicia specifically, Ayame confronts her afterward, and despite Kako's attempts to mediate, the two insist on settling things through some competition. Kako devises five games to determine the winner: arm wrestling ends in a draw when the table breaks; bug catching descends into chaos when Felicia shakes caterpillars onto Kako, mixing their catches; an art contest of drawing Kako results in both portraits being equally bizarre; and an intelligence test leaves both unable to answer basic questions. The fifth game, a speed climb, is interrupted when they enter a Witch's Barrier. Felicia charges ahead alone, but Ayame convinces her they need to team up, and together they destroy the Witch. Emerging back in the park, Felicia thanks Ayame, and they realize the race was never finished. They resume, but Ayame admits she's fine with not winning and she has come to accept Felicia as a strong rival.[51]
Momoko's Side Story
After destroying a Witch, Momoko spots the boy she used to like with another girl, lamenting her bad timing. To distract herself, she goes to the mall, where she sees a girl arguing with a man over seat trading for a live event. Despite initially hesitating, Momoko intervenes, citing the event rules, and the man leaves. The girl, Rena Minami, thanks her, and they bond over their interest in the idol group LinkS before heading to their seats.[52]
Momoko enjoys the event but notices a man with a Witch's Kiss pushing through the crowd. She enters the Barrier and is shocked to find Rena already inside. Though Rena struggles to harm the Witch, she uses her ability to shapeshift into Momoko, and together they defeat it. Afterward, Momoko praises Rena, admitting she envies her ability to become someone else. Rena reassures Momoko that she doesn't need to change, given her kindness to strangers. Momoko confides that she has always felt inadequate, particularly about not being feminine enough, which she believes hurt her chances with the boy she liked. When Rena asks why Momoko is opening up to her, Momoko says they have a lot in common. Realizing how late it has gotten, they exchange contact information and head home.[52]
Later, after another joint Witch fight, Momoko and Rena banter playfully. Rena brings up the boy Momoko likes, encouraging her that she still has a chance. Momoko reveals that her chance has already passed, explaining that she made a contract with Kyubey to gain the courage to confess, only to arrive just as another girl beat her to it. As Momoko nearly trips, Rena catches her, teasing her bad timing but promising she'll be fine now because she has Rena. Momoko hugs her, reflecting that if she hadn't become a Magical Girl, she never would have met Rena. She decides that maybe her timing wasn't so bad after all and wonders if she was destined to become a Magical Girl.[52]
Rena's Side Story
Rena Minami and Momoko Togame defeat a Witch together, and Rena reflects that having a friend is better than being alone.[53]
One day, Momoko is late for a live concert they had planned to attend. She calls Rena to say something came up, and Rena learns she is at the seaside park. When Rena arrives, Momoko explains she stopped to help another Magical Girl fight a Witch. Rena correctly guesses Momoko played the hero and, after Momoko reassures the girl whose name Rena doesn't catch, cuts off further conversation to remind her about the concert. They leave together.[53]
Later, Momoko tells Rena she met the girl again and learned her name is Kaede Akino. Momoko asks if they can invite Kaede to join their team. Rena spaces out and says she doesn't know what to think. In the following days, Rena decides to pretend the question never happened, hoping things will stay the same.[53]
Momoko invites Rena to a cafe, and Rena is relieved until she finds Kaede is also there. Momoko repeats her wish to add Kaede to their team. Rena blurts out that Kaede is dumb and will only hold them back. When Momoko tells her to stop, Rena runs off, insisting this is her true self.[53]
Rena remembers her childhood of being bullied at school because her family constantly moved, a pain she never shared with her parents. She found solace in watching idol concert DVDs. After being teased one day, she hurried home to listen to a new song and realized idols were everything she was not—she despised who she had become. When Kyubey appeared and offered a contract, Rena wished to become someone else, gaining the power to transform into other people, but she notes she never really changed at all. Now, she thinks she has ruined everything with Momoko and wonders if she should disappear.[53]
A week passes, during which Rena ignores all of Momoko's messages. Momoko texts asking where she is. Rena spots Momoko and Kaede together and decides they belong together. She resolves to give up and return to being alone.[53]
Later, Rena fights a Witch while transformed into Momoko. She calls herself an idiot and deliberately lets the Witch attack her. Kaede saves her, and Momoko arrives. Rena asks why Kaede would help her, calls herself an idiot again, and runs off.[53]
Another week passes, and Rena has shut off her phone entirely. She spots Momoko and panics, transforming into Kaede. Momoko thanks "Kaede" for helping look for Rena and invites her to a cafe.[53]
At the cafe, "Kaede" tells Momoko to give up searching for Rena, listing all her flaws. Momoko stops her, saying she likes Rena for who she is. Momoko then calls "Kaede" by Rena's name, pointing out the sugar in her tea and her behavior as giveaways. Rena changes back and cries as Momoko comforts her. She apologizes for being jealous of Kaede.[53]
Later, Rena, Momoko, and Kaede fight a Witch together. Afterward, Rena apologizes to Kaede and thanks her for saving her life. She tries to ask Kaede to join the team but instead awkwardly asks if Kaede will become her servant. Kaede happily agrees.[53]
Karin's Side Story
Alina criticizes Karin's manga and takes her strawberry milk as punishment, asking if Karin will make a comic for the cultural festival and telling her to work harder. Karin resolves to impress her someday. After school, Karin discusses the new issue of "Phantom Thief Girl Magical Kirin" with her grandmother. That night, as "Phantom Thief Karin," she targets Yachiyo Nanami, ambushing her with a "Trick or Treat" greeting after Yachiyo defeats a Witch, stealing her Grief Seeds before departing. Elsewhere, she finds Kaede Akino whose Soul Gem is darkening, and offers her a Grief Seed in exchange for a pebble as "candy." Later, Yachiyo confronts Karin and reveals she let the theft happen to observe her, telling Karin to stop stealing and fight Witches herself. Karin wonders if she is the villain.[54]
Karin narrates "Phantom Thief Magical Kirin" and realizes she is not bringing joy to anyone like her heroine does. During art lesson, Alina says Karin's manga is decent, noting the protagonist is three-dimensional, and Karin reflects she is drawing her own story. At home, Karin withdraws from discussing manga with her grandmother, declining when her grandmother offers to listen.[54]
Karin tries to fight a Witch alone, fails, and runs away, considering stealing but finding she cannot. Kaede appears and returns the Grief Seed, and they introduce themselves. Momoko and Rena arrive and Momoko offers to team up, which Karin reluctantly accepts. The group successfully hunts a Witch together, and Karin feels safer, learning that Magical Girls can help one another. She flashes back to her first fight when she discovered her magic was the "power to steal" and, afraid, rationalized stealing by pretending to be Magical Kirin. In the present, she bursts into tears, realizing she was deceiving herself, and decides to fight with her friends as a normal Magical Girl.[54]
At art lesson, Alina yells at Karin, calling her manga garbage and demanding she rip it up, sensing Karin is lying about being satisfied. Alina reveals she knows Karin is writing about herself and wants her to be true to herself. She steals Karin's milk again and leaves angrily.[54]
Karin works with Momoko's team but remains distant, and Momoko notices she is not putting her heart into it. Karin reflects on Alina's words and her desire to be like Magical Kirin, who fights without relying on anyone. She flashes back to her wish: her grandmother, a compulsive thief, came to live with her family. On Halloween, her grandmother wondered if someone could exorcise her illness, and Karin offered to do it herself, creating her "Trick or Treat" catchphrase. That night, she made a contract with Kyubey, wishing to cure her grandmother and promising to become a Magical Girl like Magical Kirin. Karin realizes her feelings have not changed.[54]
Karin finds the Witch she previously failed to defeat and attacks it alone, but is knocked unconscious and rescued by Kaede, who followed her. Kaede urges retreat, but Karin insists on fighting. Overpowered, she throws rocks to distract the Witch from Kaede and notices the Witch flinching, realizing she imbued the rocks with magic. She asks Kaede to gather anything she can find, wraps the items, imbues them with magic, flies above the Witch, and opens the bag. The hail of "candies" destroys the Witch. Karin rejoices, declaring she is now the Magical Girl she wants to be. She thanks Kaede and says she must leave Momoko's group to fight on her own, telling Kaede she has graduated from incompetence first.[54]
With the cultural festival approaching, Karin shows Alina her manuscript. Alina leaves and returns with strawberry milk, saying Karin has earned it by no longer lying to herself. When Karin asks about the art, Alina ignores her and returns to work, then says the art was garbage.[54]
Masara's Side Story
Kokoro gives Masara cookies simply because she wants to, leaving Masara confused by the gesture. Masara flashes back to their first meeting, when Kokoro had blamed herself for being unable to protect others and Masara told her she should not carry that guilt. Kokoro had asked to stay by Masara's side, explaining that those words had saved her. In the present, Kokoro asks what Masara is thinking about, and when Masara admits she was remembering their first meeting, Kokoro smiles. Masara does not understand why.[55]
Later that day, Masara visits Mitama for magical strengthening, bringing many Grief Seeds with her. Mitama notes her unusual enthusiasm, and Masara explains she wants to get stronger in order to find something that might change her life. Mitama suggests she try attending a summer festival and hands her a flyer, but Masara shows no interest. When Mitama brings up Kokoro, mentioning that Kokoro has talked about her, Masara insists they are merely working together, not friends, and finds Kokoro's expectations troublesome. Mitama claims Masara is actually worried about Kokoro.[55]
Masara reflects on her childhood, remembering how her parents had her swim from a young age. Despite showing talent, she never felt any joy or sense of accomplishment, though she continued hoping it might eventually change. It never did. She became a magical girl thinking her dull life might finally become interesting, but even that eventually grew boring.[55]
Kyubey observes that Masara fights as if she does not care whether she lives or dies, and Masara agrees. Kyubey notes she is talented but takes unnecessary risks. Masara remarks that Kyubey sounds like Kokoro, who worries about her similarly. She wonders why Kokoro would care, since if Masara disappeared, Kokoro would lose nothing.[55]
The next day, Kokoro and Masara fight a Witch together. Masara tells Kokoro to fall back, but Kokoro insists she cannot fight alone and attacks instead. The Witch targets Kokoro, and Masara injures herself by blocking the attack. The Witch escapes.[55]
Kokoro apologizes, but Masara claims she only did what was most logical, since the Witch could not have been defeated alone.[55]
Over the following days, Masara keeps flashing back to the moment the Witch attacked Kokoro whenever she looks at her injury. The recurring memory bothers her, though she does not understand why.[55]
A few days later, Kokoro offers to hunt the Witch again with Masara. Masara flashes back to the previous fight and insists she will hunt it alone. She tells Kokoro she is a burden and that she does not like getting hurt. Masara leaves Kokoro crying.[55]
Later that day, Masara tells Mitama what happened. Mitama suggests Masara was actually trying to protect Kokoro. Masara is at a loss and wonders why being around Kokoro causes her to get hurt.[55]
The next day, Kokoro blames herself for causing Masara trouble. She senses the same Witch and, respecting Masara's wish to hunt alone, decides to fight it by herself.[55]
Masara later arrives at the scene and is surprised to find Kokoro already there. When she asks why Kokoro is fighting alone, Kokoro explains she did not want to be a burden. Masara initially assumes Kokoro is protecting her pride, but Kokoro clarifies she simply does not want to see Masara get hurt again.[55]
Masara admits she does not like it either, realizing she does not want to see Kokoro get hurt. She defeats the Witch. Kokoro acknowledges she would have been finished without Masara's help. Masara agrees and tells Kokoro to call her next time. When Kokoro worries about causing trouble, Masara insists she is doing it for herself, because she does not like seeing Kokoro get hurt.[55]
Kokoro asks if she can call Masara during lunch. Masara says she does not care either way. The two go to Mitama's place together.[55]
Kokoro notices the summer festival flyer and asks if Masara is interested. Masara admits she is a little interested. Mitama laughs and says they can look forward to the future when there is something or someone important. Kokoro and Masara are confused by her comment, which exasperates Mitama.[55]
Mitama thinks to herself that Masara will become stronger now that she has something to protect. For the first time, Masara finds herself thinking about the future, though she does not know why.[55]
Kokoro's Side Story
Shortly after becoming a Magical Girl, Kokoro enters a witch's barrier only to find the familiars already destroyed and Masara fighting the witch alone. After the battle, Kokoro tells Masara she should protect herself better, but Masara replies that she does not care if she dies. She explains that her wish was for money that will transfer to her family upon her death, claiming that a person with nothing to lose becomes invincible.[56]
Kokoro challenges this mindset by sharing her own story. Her wish was to bring her mother back home, but her parents argue constantly and she mediates their fights. She cries as she admits she cannot complain because she wished for this situation. Masara tells Kokoro she did nothing wrong and that what happened after the wish is not her fault. Kokoro realizes she can accept these words because Masara speaks them without pity. Masara tells her she should live for her own sake. Kokoro asks if she can stay with Masara, expressing that she simply wants to be with her, and Masara tells her she can do as she wishes.[56]
Later that day, Kokoro's father complains about the dishes not being done. Kokoro tells him their mother is at a meeting and it is not right to push all the chores onto her. Her father agrees and says he will handle them. Kokoro offers to help and make dinner as well. When her mother returns, the family eats together.[56]
Sometime later, Kokoro and Masara defeat another witch together. Kokoro invites Masara to a cafe afterward, but Masara declines, saying she is not hungry. Kokoro suggests they go next time after hunting, and Masara agrees. As they part ways, Kokoro hopes Masara will someday realize there is a person who finds her important.[56]
Hinano's Side Story
On a school day, eighteen-year-old Hinano is rejected by a boy she confesses to, and later breaks down crying in front of her thirteen-year-old assistant Emiri. When Emiri tries to comfort her by suggesting some people like her body type, Hinano accuses her of looking down on her and demands respect, though Emiri insists her teasing is just her way of showing love.[57]
A flashback reveals how they met, with Emiri mistaking Hinano for a grade-schooler and then becoming fascinated by the older girl's experience as a Magical Girl and science club president, eventually begging to become her assistant.[57]
Another day, as Hinano gives a science presentation for children, they discover the entire audience has Witch's Kisses and split up to find the Witch. Emiri finds it first but is trapped with a teacher holding chemicals that could produce toxic gas. Despite Emiri's desire to prove herself without Hinano's help, she ends up needing to be rescued.[57]
After destroying the Witch and saving Emiri, Hinano admits she became a Magical Girl years ago when a reckless experiment nearly killed her. She insists she is already proud of Emiri. Later, Emiri tells Hinano she truly respects her and gives her a cheek rubbing penalty, leaving Hinano bewildered but quietly touched.[57]
Ikumi's Side Story
On an unnamed day, Ikumi feels sad that her Magius robes hide her cuteness and searches for Ryo, finding her in a common room looking upset. Ryo asks to interview Ikumi for a Magius newsletter about why she became a magical girl, and Ikumi agrees in exchange for hearing Ryo's story later.[58]
Ikumi explains how in middle school she dreamed of becoming an idol despite lacking talent, while her friend Yumi dreamed of volleyball. They realized they could fulfill each other's dreams instead. Yumi became a volleyball ace while Ikumi pursued idol training, though she struggled because her natural personality kept slipping through her cutesy act and she failed to gain recognition. Kyubey repeatedly offered her a contract, but she refused because wishing for her dream would mean she never achieved it through hard work.[58]
In high school, Ikumi worked at a school-organized maid cafe that gave struggling students performance opportunities. Though other girls were scouted for idol work and customers called her old-fashioned, she built a small fanbase. When the cafe was forced to close due to building eviction, Ikumi grieved alone on the final night. Kyubey appeared and reminded her that her wish didn't have to be for her own dream. Thinking of how much the cafe meant to her and others who dreamed there, she wished for it to continue running.[58]
Her wish came true when the landowner, moved by the final performance, sold the cafe to the school who remodeled and reopened it. Later, while fighting a witch, Ikumi was saved by another magical girl who turned out to be Yumi. Yumi revealed she had wished for someone to recognize Ikumi's talents and give her an idol chance. The two teamed up and spent a happy year together hunting witches.[58]
One day they encountered a powerful witch who badly injured Yumi's leg, threatening her sports scholarship. In despair, Yumi unleashed her doppel. Ryo appeared and helped them escape, and Mitama later explained about doppels. Soon after, Mifuyu approached them with a healer who restored Yumi's leg. Mifuyu explained about witches and the Wings of Magius, who aimed to liberate magical girls from this fate. Ikumi immediately joined, grateful for Yumi's healing and hating the thought of losing her dream or becoming a witch. Yumi eventually joined too, and Mifuyu introduced them as Black Feathers to Ryo, who recognized Ikumi.[58]
In the present, Ryo thanks Ikumi for her story and suggests she stop forcing the idol personality since she naturally slips out of it anyway. Ikumi cries about being bullied before realizing she is late for work and runs off, promising to see Ryo tomorrow.[58]
Ryo's Side Story
At the Wings of Magius headquarters, Ikumi startles Ryo by removing her robe, breaking the rule that faces remain hidden. Ryo reveals she was teasing Ikumi back, and Ikumi invites her for tea before her maid cafe shift. Ryo agrees to interview Ikumi for a brochure in exchange for hearing her story as well.[59]
Ryo recounts her past in Daito Ward, where she learned about the historical conflict between Daito and Mizuna. She had a reputation for making up incredible stories no one believed, a problem that worsened when she witnessed honor student bullies extorting a classmate. Despite reporting them with a friend, the teachers sided with the bullies because Ryo was known as a liar.[59]
The next day, Ryo received a new camera from her parents. On her way to school, she witnessed a hit-and-run but was too frazzled to photograph the car or remember its plate. At the hospital, she could provide no useful information, and the guilt consumed her.[59]
At home, Kyubey appeared and offered her a contract. When Ryo considered wishing for the culprit to be caught, Kyubey pointed out how many hit-and-runs happen daily. Ryo instead wished to never miss a photo opportunity.[59]
After contracting, Ryo photographed a sunset and a repair shop. Her mother noted only one car was inside, and Ryo realized it was the hit-and-run vehicle. She provided her photo as proof, the culprit was arrested, and the victim thanked her.[59]
At school, Hinano yelled at Ryo for photographing a failed experiment. Classmates called her a creep who takes photos of people at their lowest. Ryo later photographed the neighbor couple eloping but deleted it to avoid causing trouble, only for her mother to find it and prepare to gossip, making Ryo wonder if she inherited her parents' nosiness.[59]
Ryo discovered photographic evidence that her classmate from the bullying incident was involved with the bullies. When confronted, the classmate claimed she had no choice and that teachers from Mizuna would never believe students from Daito. Ryo fled in tears, the East-West conflict now personal.[59]
Hinano found Ryo crying in the chemistry lab and listened to her story. Hinano shared her own regret about not being strong enough to stop territory fights during witch scarcity and urged Ryo to decide what to do with her power.[59]
After meeting Kanagi, Ryo founded the Gossip Club and published "The Midori Report," exposing everything from lab successes to the bullying cover-up. With photographic proof, the bullies backed down, and the paper became a school staple.[59]
One day, Ryo tracked a witch to photograph magical girls in action. She arrived in time to see Ikumi unleash her doppel and helped her escape with her exhausted friend Yuuki. Mitama explained doppels to them, and Ryo noted how much they resembled witches.[59]
Later, Tsukasa and Mifuyu recruited Ryo for the Wings of Magius, revealing Kyubey's betrayal. Ryo pondered overnight and joined the next day, where she was reunited with Ikumi among the Black Feathers.[59]
Ryo finishes her story, and Ikumi is moved by everything she had endured. Ryo brushes it off, insisting it no longer bothered her. Ikumi rushes to her cafe shift, and Ryo steps outside to photograph a cat for the next Midori Report.[59]
Shizuku's Side Story
Shizuku enjoys time with her friends but feels disconnected from them and uncertain about her future. She finds comfort in Fūnī, a traveler who visits her family's cafe and shares his dream of finding a place to belong. When he invites her to search with him, she feels hopeful that she will not be alone.[60]
Fūnī dies in an accident, and Shizuku makes a contract with Kyubey, wishing to be taken to him instantly. She arrives at the hospital as he dies, begging him not to leave her. She resolves to continue searching for a place to belong.[60]
As a magical girl, Shizuku gains the power to connect spaces, allowing her to travel the world much like Fūnī once did. She continues her search, taking jobs from an unknown magical girl who pays her to use her power.[60]
One day after a job, Yachiyo Nanami, Tsuruno Yui, and Iroha Tamaki approach her. Iroha invites Shizuku to their house, where she meets Felicia Mitsuki and Sana Futaba. She stays for dinner and overnight, observing how the five girls live together like a family. Yachiyo invites her to stay as long as she wants.[60]
Shizuku realizes the other girls have found their place to belong, but she understands that her own place was with Fūnī. She cries as his last words finally make sense to her.[60]
The next day, Shizuku ends her arrangement with the unknown magical girl and returns to Yachiyo's house, hoping she can stay there. When she arrives, the house is empty, and she sees the personal items that mark each girl's place. Overhearing them return, she realizes their home is complete with five people and she does not belong there. She leaves quietly.[60]
Yachiyo and the others had prepared a welcome party with cake, but Shizuku never comes. Yachiyo senses that Shizuku might disappear if you look away and admits she should have seen this coming.[60]
Shizuku returns to the unknown magical girl and asks for more work. When asked why she came back, she says their picture was complete with five people and she must keep searching for where she belongs. She mentally apologizes to Yachiyo, knowing her actions will cause disaster but feeling unprepared to take responsibility. She wonders if she will ever find solid ground.[60]
Kanoko's Side Story
Kyubey offers Kanoko a contract, and while considering her wish, she imagines an elaborate future where she becomes a fashion designer despite her family expecting her to take over their metal factory. In this vision, she wishes for her parents to work happily for another thirty years, giving her time to pursue her dream before inheriting the business.[61]
After making her contract in the vision, Kanoko persuades her parents to let her pursue fashion. She joins the art club but quits when the other members mistake her drawing of fruit for a universe. Creating designs alone proves fruitless, so she seeks feedback from others. Ria Ami calls her designs "unique" but cannot value them. Nanaka Tokiwa sarcastically suggests she take a spaceship to find aliens who might understand. Rena Minami spends thirty minutes brutally criticizing her work, calling it unsuitable even as monster costumes. Crushed, Kanoko retreats.[61]
Days later, still depressed, Kanoko agrees to lecture on accessories at a festival workshop, using skills her father taught her. During the lecture, she becomes emotional and cries. Kaede introduces her to Emiri Kisaki and Kako Natsume, and Emiri asks to see the designs. Despite their similarity to Rena, Emiri calls them weird, hilarious, and exciting, though she finds the mushroom costume gross. She suggests the designs need accessories.[61]
Inspired, Kanoko realizes she can fuse fashion with her family's metalworking techniques. She mentally prepares to create a line called "Yayoi Style" that will benefit her family's factory.[61]
Kanoko opens her eyes. No time has passed. The entire experience was imagined while she considered her wish. Kyubey asks if she has decided. Kanoko confirms she has, and her wish remains the one she imagined.[61]
Natsuki's Side Story
One day, Natsuki, Akira, and Kaede fight a Witch together. When Natsuki prepares to finish it, Akira warns that both she and Natsuki are low on magic. Natsuki encourages a hesitant Kaede to deliver the final blow instead, assuring her they will help if she fails. Kaede succeeds, and afterward the girls properly introduce themselves. Natsuki reveals she is a cheerleader and invites them to her house.[62]
At her home, Natsuki's brother serves tea and mentions that her cheering can cure illnesses. Natsuki explains this stems from her wish: she cured his fever so he could play in a championship game. Though his team lost, she has never regretted it. She shows them childhood photos of herself as a baseball-playing tomboy and explains that when her middle school baseball club barred girls, she eventually discovered that cheering for others brought her more joy than playing ever did. She realized she simply wanted to support her friends and family.[62]
Natsuki recalls a similar moment when she first became a magical girl and cheered for Kako Natsume during a Witch fight, which helped Kako win. This experience convinced Natsuki that her cheering could empower magical girls just as it did baseball players. When Akira wonders if Natsuki will feel lonely when the third years graduate, the conversation gets cut short as Kaede realizes it is late. Before they leave, Natsuki teases Akira about borrowing her cheerleading uniform, and Akira gets flustered.[62]
Another day, Akira and Natsuki defeat a Witch together. Afterward, Natsuki admits she is scared of things changing. Her former little league teammates are focused on exams, and she worries about being left behind while wanting them to succeed. Akira asks an unusual question about what kind of mother Natsuki might become, then explains that everyone grows up and faces these feelings, but avoiding change means missing out on future happiness. She suggests Natsuki should cheer for her friends in life as well.[62]
Later, after another Witch fight, Natsuki gives Akira handmade omamori charms. One reads Barrier and Safety for magical girl protection, and another reads Marriage, which she thought Akira would appreciate for its girly nature. Akira denies liking it, but Natsuki has made similar charms for her other friends as well, reflecting her decision to embrace change and cheer for everyone's future.[62]
Elsewhere, Kaede shows her Barrier Safety charm to Rena and Momoko. Momoko recognizes it as a magical girl version of traffic safety charms, while Rena notices the words Hill and Thank you embroidered on it. Kaede thinks it refers to the idol group Rena and Momoko saw, but Rena points out Natsuki got the name completely wrong. Momoko teases Rena for being jealous that Kaede made friends while she was away.[62]
Back at her house, Natsuki asks her brother if he has heard of an idol group called Sakamichi-sankyuu. When he corrects her to Kagurasaka36, she is horrified to realize she got both the name and number wrong. She resolves to continue cheering for everyone's bright future.[62]
Manaka's Side Story
Kyubey observes Manaka cooking at her family's failing restaurant, Walnuts. She dreams of following her father's footsteps as a chef and believes that gaining admission to the prestigious St. Lillianna Academy will help her cook like a high class lady and restore the restaurant's popularity. Kyubey notes her poor grades make passing unlikely, but Manaka insists this is her father's last chance and resolves to study.[63]
On exam day, Manaka takes the St. Lillianna entrance exams but is only accepted into Mizuna Girls' Academy.[63]
Upon starting at Mizuna, Manaka visits the student council and offers to cook for an upcoming joint assembly with St. Lillian. The council dismisses her, explaining they already arranged a chef.[63]
Walking home, Kyubey again offers a contract. Fed up, Manaka accepts but wishes not for the restaurant's success, but for a chance to spread their restaurant's flavors.[63]
A week before the assembly, the student council learns their chef was invited to a competition. They reach out to Manaka, who happily accepts. Her cooking at the assembly is a tremendous success, with the fancy girls declaring it superior to renowned restaurants.[63]
After the assembly, Manaka begins selling popular bentos at school and works as a visiting chef at St. Lillian every Thursday. However, none of this translates to more customers at her family's restaurant. Meanwhile, her father receives invitations to tour as a chef and seems genuinely happy traveling.[63] Manaka questions why she even bothered trying.
Some time later, Manaka finishes selling bentos and keeps one for herself. Sana Futaba rushes in, upset at arriving too late. Sana explains she can normally only be seen by magical girls, but Manaka insists a first-class chef never loses sight of her customers and offers her bento. Sana accepts.[63]
Sana promises to arrive earlier tomorrow, but Manaka reveals this may be her last day selling bentos. She admits she thinks she made her restaurant even more obscure, and if she is not helping it, she sees no point in cooking. Sana tearfully confesses that Manaka's bentos became the only thing she looked forward to during lonely lunch breaks. She insists Manaka should not quit because she is still making people happy. Seeing Sana smile gives Manaka new motivation.[63]
The next day, Manaka is back to selling bentos. Sana arrives too late again, but Manaka thanks her, notices she forgot to sell one, and gives it to her. Manaka reflects that Sana is a precious customer.[63]
Reira's Side Story
Reira wants to help throw a birthday party for her friend Seika Kumi, so she visits the restaurant Walnut's hoping to find something special. There she overhears Manaka Kurumi explaining the restaurant's signature walnut cake to Hinano Miyako. After trying a slice, Reira is delighted and explains her situation to Manaka, who invites her to attend a cooking class where participants learn to make the cake. Reira agrees.[64]
At the cooking class, Manaka notices Reira's skill and learns she has some experience making sweets. Reira's cake turns out perfectly. Manaka receives a phone call and asks Reira for a favor: a cooking contest has invited Walnut's to participate, but Manaka cannot attend due to a customer reservation.[64]
Reira protests that she is a novice, but Manaka insists her cake is good enough to serve in the restaurant and persuades her to enter as Walnut's representative. Reira agrees and decides to practice. When she asks about the other competitors, Manaka is surprised to learn Konoha Shizumi is also entering.[64]
At the contest, Tsuruno Yui receives fifty points for her sesame ball dessert. Himika Mao's squid and honey creation is rejected. Aimi Eri's overly sweet entry also fails to impress.[64]
As Reira begins preparing her cake, she discovers there are no walnuts at her station. The event hosts admit their mistake. Reira calls Manaka, who tells her to trust her instincts. Reira borrows salted nuts from Himika's leftover ingredients and finishes her cake. The judges find it delicious.[64]
As Reira calls Manaka with the news, the judges reach the final contestant, Konoha. Konoha presents her specialty ice cream, which renders the judges unconscious. Hazuki Yusa and Ayame Mikuri react knowingly. Konoha admits she is not good at making sweets. Reira wins the contest for Walnut's.[64]
At Seika's birthday party, Reira serves the cake she made. Both Seika and their friend Mito Aino enjoy it. Reira reflects that everything turned out okay.[64]
Seika's Side Story
One day, Seika encounters Kanoko Yayoi while hunting a familiar, but her social anxiety prevents her from speaking, leading Kanoko to misinterpret her silence as anger and handle the situation alone.[65]
On another day, Seika watches Ayaka Mariko perform comedy to an unresponsive crowd without any sign of discouragement. Inspired by this strength, Seika begins studying comedy and attending Ayaka's shows regularly, hoping to overcome her own shyness.[65]
While hunting another familiar, Seika meets both Ayaka and Shizuku Hozumi. When Ayaka asks her name, Seika forces herself to speak and announces she is a magical girl. A playful pun war erupts between them, and afterward they invite her to a coffee shop where Seika finally opens up about herself. Ayaka reveals she used to be gloomy too and offers to help Seika change, even lending her a comedy routine.[65]
On her birthday, Seika attempts to perform the joke for her friends Reira and Mito. When they respond with confused looks, she almost gives up but remembers Ayaka's words and pushes through. Her friends join in despite not understanding, and Seika silently thanks them, resolving to keep trying to change no matter how hard it is.[65]
Mito's Side Story
Mito travels to Minagi Ward with Reira and Seika, and while visiting the ocean, they meet Konomi Haruna, a flower shop worker who reminds Reira of Mito. Konomi invites them to her shop.[66]
Later that day, the girls visit the flower shop and find Konomi overwhelmed with customers. Mito volunteers her friends to help, and after the rush, Konomi thanks them and gives them a shop card.[66]
The next day, Mito returns to ask for help with Seika's birthday gift. Konomi, Kaede, and Kako invite her to make herbarium jars with them. While gathering clovers in Minagi Ward, Mito encounters a familiar and struggles against it until Konomi, Kaede, and Kako reveal themselves as magical girls and help her defeat it.[66]
Afterwards, Mito gives the herbariums to Reira and Seika, wishing Seika a happy birthday. She promises to make them new ones every year now that she has friends to help.[66]
Yukika's Side Story
After school, Yukika Nanase encounters a Familiar's Labyrinth and rescues a parent and child trapped inside. Following the battle, she discovers a small, expressive creature resembling Kyubey that cannot speak. Determining it is lost, Yukika decides to help it find whoever it wants to meet.[67]
She takes it to Mitama's adjustment shop, but the creature refuses to enter, appearing frightened of Yachiyo Nanami inside. Yukika instead brings it to the Wings of the Magius headquarters, where Mifuyu explains that the Magius strongly dislike this small Kyubey. When word arrives that Touka and Alina are coming, Yukika flees with the creature to avoid trouble. They travel to Shinsei Ward, where the small Kyubey suddenly runs into a Witch's Labyrinth.[67]
Inside, Yukika senses Yachiyo's presence. The creature again appears frightened of her. When Yachiyo demands information, Yukika protects the small Kyubey and fights her to buy time for its escape. Despite being outmatched, Yukika's aggressive style surprises Yachiyo, who withdraws and acknowledges Yukika's victory in buying time. Yukika continues searching and finds the creature again.[67]
They encounter two Magical Girls, one of whom the small Kyubey recognizes as the person it wanted to meet. Yukika releases it from her care, and the creature hesitates before running toward the girl, then looks back and expresses gratitude. Yukika watches it go, satisfied her job as provisional guardian is complete.[67]
Ayaka's Side Story
Ayaka and Shizuku meet while fighting a witch, and Ayaka defeats it through sheer will. Afterward, Ayaka panics about missing a live show, so Shizuku uses her magic to transport them directly to the venue. The show is a comedy duo called Needle Roller, and afterward the girls finally introduce themselves.[68]
Ayaka finds Shizuku looking sad and learns she feels anxious whenever she is not fighting witches. Ayaka tries to cheer her up with jokes, and when she seriously explains the structure of one, Shizuku laughs genuinely. This reminds Ayaka of her childhood friend Yuu, who always brightened the space around her.[68]
At Shizuku's family cafe, Shizuku admits she envies Ayaka's brightness. Ayaka confesses she was not always this way - before becoming a magical girl, she was dull and considered Yuu's shadow. She wished to be bright like Yuu and now feels like a cheap imitation. Shizuku compares her to a quiet performer who became loud on stage to achieve his dream, explaining that Ayaka changed because she wanted to, and it was Ayaka who encouraged her, not Yuu. Ayaka thanks her and gives her another ticket to a Needle Roller show.[68]
Himika's Side Story
Himika, the eldest of eight children, including four sisters and three brothers in a poor but close family, buys a blue flower to pass off as a legendary cure when her father falls ill, hoping to comfort her younger siblings. When her father fails to recover and the family begins to fracture under the strain, her brother blames her for giving false hope. Guilt-ridden, Himika flees and breaks down in front of Kokoro, who listens and shares her own experience, teaching Himika that she doesn't have to carry everything alone. Himika returns home and mends her family's relationships, unaware that Kyubey has been watching.[69]
Later, when her father's extended hospital stay plunges the family into financial crisis, Kyubey appears and Himika contracts. Her wish ensures her father recovers, finds stable work, and clears their debts.[69]
In the present, Himika works at Konomi's flower shop and has become close friends with Kokoro since their first meeting. When she invites Kokoro home for knitting tips, they find Ayame there hoping to find the legendary blue flower for her hospitalized sisters, Konoha and Hazuki. Drawing from her own experience, Himika gently steers Ayame away from the myth and suggests gathering mountain flowers instead, with Kokoro joining as their guide.[69]
On the mountain, Himika reflects on how her siblings have matured and thanks Kokoro for being there when she needed someone. They find no blue flowers, but Himika has a solution.[69]
Over the following days, Himika uses dyeing techniques from Konomi to turn white flowers blue with help from her siblings and Ayame. Konoha and Hazuki are overjoyed, the dyed flowers become popular with shop customers, and Himika earns extra income. She concludes that what matters most is her family staying together through both good times and bad.[69]
Aimi's Side Story
Aimi is overjoyed to learn a boy named Hayato Isesaki loves her back, and she writes about her imagined romance with him in her "Secret Daydreams Notebook." While distracted, she stumbles into a witch's barrier and is saved by another magical girl, Natsuki Utsuho. After defeating the witch, they go to a cafe where Aimi explains her wish: while daydreaming about Hayato, Kyubey appeared and she wished to know how Hayato felt, which is how she learned he loves her. However, she admits she has not actually confessed to him yet.[70]
Natsuki encourages Aimi to invite Hayato out, but Aimi realizes her notebook is missing. They find Hayato at her school holding it, but Natsuki notices he has been witch kissed. They track down the witch and defeat it, finding Hayato unharmed. When Hayato wakes, he returns the notebook without looking inside, respecting her privacy. Aimi tries to confess but fails, simply saying goodbye instead. Natsuki worries she will never confess, but Aimi is just relieved her secrets remain safe.[70]
Tsumugi's Side Story
Ria arrives at Walnuts and meets Tsumugi, a girl who has visited every day since Manaka saved her from a witch, worried the empty restaurant might close. Tsumugi's hobby is writing food reviews, and she believes she can help Walnuts gain popularity. Though Manaka initially resists, Ria suggests letting her try. [71]
The next day, Tsumugi shows her reviews receive mixed responses, with some accusing her of exaggeration. She asks Ria for help, explaining that many favorite restaurants from her childhood closed due to low clientele. As Tsumugi enthusiastically describes food, Ria realizes she has potential as a critic and proposes a strategy.[71]
Five days later, Tsumugi has been training with Ria's help, visiting different restaurants and improving her reviews. Her blog has gained more followers. Meanwhile, Manaka feels she hasn't reached her father's level as a chef but refuses to discuss it, insisting a chef cannot ask a diner for advice.[71]
The next day, Tsumugi and Ria eat at Walnuts. Manaka is surprised by Tsumugi's improved reviews and lifts any implied ban. Tsumugi wants to fill Walnuts with people, but Manaka says she prefers just Tsumugi coming to enjoy her food.[71]
The next day, Tsumugi proposes promotional ideas to help Walnuts, including using Ria's modeling. Ria agrees, and Manaka will seek her father's approval.[71]
The next day, they organize "The Rice Omelette Festival" at Walnuts. No customers arrive for the first half hour. Customers eventually come, but they are from Ria's advertising. Tsumugi becomes sad, feeling she is not as strong as Ria.[71]
After the event, Tsumugi cries and confesses disappointment that none of her followers came, feeling she is just an average student with no unique qualities. Ria encourages her not to let failure discourage her, insisting she has talent. Tsumugi decides to make a contract with Kyubey.[71]
The next day, Manaka and Ria fight familiars in a witch's barrier. Tsumugi suddenly appears and uses her new magic to consume a familiar's attack, gaining power from it. The three defeat the witch together.[71]
At Walnuts afterward, Tsumugi honestly criticizes Manaka's omelette, explaining her wish now forces her to tell the truth about food. In a flashback, she wished to help Manaka by learning what she could do. She realized she needed to give objective criticism to truly help.[71]
A few days later, Tsumugi helps Manaka close Walnuts. She notices Manaka changed the recipe based on her feedback. Manaka appreciates Tsumugi's constructive criticism and asks her to continue eating her food so she can become a better chef. Tsumugi excitedly agrees, happy she can eat Manaka's delicious food every day.[71]
Konomi's Side Story
Konomi welcomes Kaede and Kako to the flower shop where she works part-time. She began working at Blossom because the florist once comforted her as a crying child with a single flower, and now Konomi does the same for other children.[72]
After a customer leaves, Kaede and Kako help the florist carry supplies. The florist recently returned from the hospital, having survived a serious illness. Konomi remembers the day she found an ambulance outside and learned the shop might close. Desperate to help, she wished to Kyubey to cure the florist's illness.[72]
The girls notice customers bearing a Witch's Kiss, track down the Witch, and destroy it together. Konomi reflects that she can be a Magical Girl because of Kaede and Kako, her dearest companions.[72]
They return to find a long line waiting. Ever since Konomi's wish, the shop has drawn many young customers. Grateful, Konomi thinks back to when the girls first entered.[72]
Kaede and Kako visit the shop for the first time. Kako searches for a specific flower, which Konomi identifies. During tea break, Kako explains she read about the flowers in a novel and wants to buy some for a friend's birthday. Kaede admits she has never given flowers but receiving them once felt wonderful. Konomi smiles and says she has an idea.[72]
On the first day of the flower giveaway, Konomi, Kaede, and Kako take to the streets, suddenly appearing to hand bouquets to strangers before disappearing. A lottery winner, a despairing old man, and a boy who just got a girl's number all receive flowers. Later, the girls reunite. Kaede gave to ten people, Kako to thirteen. Konomi apologizes, but they agree to try again the day after tomorrow.[72]
Two days later, before their next giveaway, a girl asks Konomi about the Bursting Flower Girl, a rumored figure who appears on Tuesdays and Thursdays to hand out flowers that supposedly sprout mouths. Konomi, Kaede, and Kako realize they are the rumor.[72]
Konomi panics, fearing they have made people hate flowers. They notice a little girl crying because her mother refused to buy her a toy ring. Konomi offers a flower, but the girl wants a ring. Kako fashions the flower into a ring, and the girl calls it pretty.[72]
Konomi realizes they have been giving flowers without understanding what recipients truly want. She decides to create something more meaningful. Inspired by Kaede's mention of birthday flowers and Kako's knowledge of flower language, they plan an arrangement that speaks to people's hearts.[72]
Konomi and the girls create a birthday cake made of fifty flowers, with chocolate and candy inside. The cake incorporates birth flowers so greetings can be communicated through their language. They prepare a fair at the shop to showcase it.[72]
Konomi shows the cake to the florist, who gives a muted reaction and announces her retirement, planning to leave Konomi the shop. Before Konomi can protest, Kaede and Kako notice the florist bears a Witch's Kiss. The three girls reveal they are Magical Girls, track down the Witch, and destroy it together.[72]
The girls return to find a massive line for their flower cakes. By day's end, everything has sold out. When the florist wakes to see the shop filled with customers, she is truly surprised.[72]
Konomi gives Kaede and Kako a flower cake as thanks, with geraniums on top representing respect, trust, and true friendship. Konomi asks if they can keep being friends. Kaede thanks her profusely, and Kako says she will cherish this always.[72]
Konomi reflects that this was the beginning of their story, but they cannot stop now, because the customers are waiting.[72]
Mayu's Side Story
One day, Mayu is a third-year student at Mizuna Academy who works part-time at the Kamihama Contemporary Art Museum. When she accidentally breaks the museum director's cup, her boss handles the situation calmly and kindly. After work, she meets her friend Sayuki Fumino outside the museum, and when Sayuki cannot stay, Mayu's boss offers to accompany her to an exhibit instead. They later go to a cafe, where Ria Ami and Manaka Kurumi are also present. Ria grows increasingly annoyed overhearing Mayu's conversation with her boss, particularly when he hints at wanting to take her somewhere else and praises her cooking. At home that evening, Mayu cooks for her mother and asks if her father would have eaten her cooking, wondering what life would be like if he were still alive.[73]
The next day at school, Mayu talks with Sayuki about the sword exhibit. She then heads to work, and after her shift ends, her boss mentions his wife and child are away and invites her out to eat. Mayu declines. As she leaves, she forgets her phone, and her boss rushes to return it, asking again about dinner with growing intensity. Ria suddenly appears and bumps into him, yelling at them for flirting and demanding they sit for a lecture. Mayu's boss says she ruined it and leaves. Ria warns Mayu that her sweet, innocent air attracts older men and that if things continue, his family will fall apart.[73]
At home that night, Mayu reflects on the day she learned of her father's death and on Ria's words. Kyubey appears and offers a contract. Thinking she does not want her boss's family to suffer the same hardship her family did, Mayu makes her wish: to stop his family from breaking apart. That night, she narrates that her boss transferred to a new job, and she is sure her wish was granted.[73]
Later at school, Mayu finds boys have started hitting on her. Ria constantly steps in to drive them off. Before Ria can finish telling Mayu to shape up, they both sense a Witch. The girls reveal they are Magical Girls, and they track the Witch to the museum's special exhibit room. Sayuki suddenly appears and reveals she is also a Magical Girl. During the fight, Mayu notices the Witch only targets Ria. She asks Sayuki to lend her strength and launches a surprise attack, destroying the Witch. Afterward, Mayu thinks that to protect people she must think clearly before acting, and Ria admits Mayu was more reliable than usual.[73]
Sayuki's Side Story
As a child, Sayuki attends an idol performance with her parents, but when the crowd becomes dangerously wild, she is almost squeezed to death, leaving her with lasting trauma.[74]
Growing up in a happy family, Sayuki develops a deep interest in katanas that creates a gap between her and her classmates. Though they respect her passion, she feels lonely without someone to share it with. This loneliness grows during a visit to the art museum when she sees pairs of people viewing the displays together, and intensifies when she misses the chance to speak with a schoolgirl who also seems interested in the exhibits.[74]
Kyubey seizes this opportunity, spending the morning calming her and explaining until sunset that contracting with him grants one wish in exchange for fighting witches. Sayuki hesitates due to her lack of athleticism, but Kyubey convinces her that magic will boost her abilities. With nothing specific to wish for, she asks for suggestions. When Kyubey mentions wishing to improve one's situation, it strikes a chord. Sayuki wishes for a friend to share her joy, and the contract is sealed. Despite regular trips to the museum, she never encounters the interested girl again.[74]
One day, a woman in a suit approaches Sayuki and asks if she is interested in becoming an idol. The question triggers her childhood trauma, and she pleads for anything but that. The agent calms her and explains she frequently saw Sayuki at the museum's katana corner and believed she was perfect for promoting Mizuna's weapon-related history as a local idol. They had even arranged an interview with a famed local swordsmith, which immediately catches Sayuki's attention. Her mother loves the idea, convincing her that earning her own money to commission a personal katana would be wonderful. Sayuki accepts but privately wonders why her wish for a friend led her to becoming an idol.[74]
Sayuki proves clumsy and slow at learning, struggling with lessons while her trauma saps her motivation. She wants to quit but lacks the courage. After a successful music video, her manager announces her first concert. Flashbacks freeze Sayuki with terror, but her trust in her manager outweighs her fears, and she accepts.[74]
On the day of her first concert, the assembled crowd triggers her childhood fright. However, the warm and welcoming audience, with Rena at the front being the loudest supporter, allows Sayuki to relax. She delivers a stunning performance, winning everyone present with her in-depth explanations of katanas. After the concert, she thanks her manager, realizing that while this was not what she expected, her wish to share her love for katanas was indeed granted. Her fame and confidence grow steadily.[74]
Eventually, Sayuki amasses enough fame to hold a concert in a large stadium. When she takes the stage, the overexcited crowd explodes, security stands are pushed down, and the audience squeezes together. The scene awakens her childhood trauma, and Sayuki breaks down in tears, forcing the concert to halt.[74]
Overcome with guilt, she considers quitting. Instead of reprimanding her, her manager gives her tickets to the art museum and tells her to rest. There, she encounters the girl from before. This time, their eyes meet and the girl speaks first, introducing herself as Mayu Kozue. Mayu explains she is interested in katanas as part of her work as a guide and art restorer. Sayuki eagerly teaches her about katana models, and despite her nervousness, finds the courage to befriend Mayu, who seems equally flustered about something.[74]
Emboldened, Sayuki asks her manager to post an announcement. Before her next concert, she pleads with the crowd not to push toward the stage, explaining it threatens their safety. The audience applauds warmly, touched by her concern, and they keep their promise throughout the concert. Afterward, Mayu thanks Sayuki for inviting her to her first concert. Sayuki believes speaking out is important no matter the outcome and swears to protect the kind people who have been kind to her.[74]
Moka's Side Story
One day, Moka's classmates tease her about caring more for sweets than romance and jokingly remind her of "Article 3" regarding her skin. That afternoon, she returns tools to the art club, where Karin Misono mistakes her for Alina Gray and tearfully mentions that Alina is sick, leaving Moka to later learn from classmates that Karin is likely upset about Alina's disappearance.[75]
Leaving school, Moka encounters an old man trying to scam her, but Meiyui Chun intervenes and drives him off. Meiyui warns Moka about her trusting nature and offers to escort her home, but Moka insists she has an important mission. Meiyui follows her anyway as Moka visits multiple food stalls struggling to eat unusual dishes, and after a man steals Moka's phone, Hinano Miyako retrieves it while Meiyui subdues the thief. Hinano and Meiyui recognize each other from the Walpurgis fight and decide to watch over Moka together, soon joined by Ryo Midori.[75]
When a second scammer targets Moka, Hinano confronts him, but he mistakes her for an elementary school student, and his insult drives him off. The trio then senses a witch and watches Moka enter its barrier, following to discover she fights with her eyes closed. Moka explains she freezes when she sees frightening things, so she fights blind to avoid paralysis. Though the others insist on protecting her, Moka becomes sad, recalling how someone once called her a nuisance. When Meiyui gets in trouble during the fight, Moka declares she will not let anyone die again, opens her eyes, and defeats the witch alone.[75]
Afterward, Ryo asks why Moka became a magical girl. Moka admits she wished for a limited edition candy, which she confirms was delicious, much to Ryo and Meiyui's disbelief. Hinano asks how she survived alone, and Moka reveals she has had help from other magical girls, including one who saved her but called her a nuisance. That girl disappeared during the Kamihama disaster, and Moka has been training since to prove herself. Pressed for details, Moka reveals the girl was Alina Gray, recounting how shortly after becoming a magical girl, she entered a witch's barrier and Alina killed it for her collection, ignoring Moka's thanks and dismissing her as a nuisance.[75]
In the present, Meiyui, Hinano, and Ryo recognize Alina as one of the causes of Kamihama's destruction but choose not to tell Moka. Moka thanks Alina for saving her and says she has now made new friends, resolving to devote herself to exterminating witches and admitting she is only a little afraid of them now.[75]
Riko's Side Story
Years ago, Riko spent her childhood with a cheerful older neighbor girl she called "Sis" while her parents worked long hours at their family bento shop. They grew as close as sisters until Sis became engaged to marry someone far away. When Sis's father suddenly opposed the match despite approving it before, Riko wished upon Kyubey that everyone would give their blessings to the marriage. Her wish worked, and Sis moved away happily.[76]
In the present, Riko struggles with loneliness waiting alone at home while her parents work overtime. One night, after they call to say they cannot return until after midnight due to a huge order, years of broken promises finally overwhelm her. She snaps, calls them liars who were never there for her like Sis was, and tells them she hates them.[76]
Riko goes Witch hunting to vent her stress but nearly dies against a stronger Witch. In that moment, despair crushes her and she wishes she had never made her wish so Sis would still be there. Tsukasa, a regular at her family's shop, finds her crying and listens as Riko confides everything about her feelings and what happened with Sis. Speaking from experience, Tsukasa tells her that separation is no excuse for broken contact and recommends she reach out to Sis directly. Riko messages Sis that night before falling asleep exhausted.[76]
The next day, Sis replies promptly. She explains she wanted to contact Riko but left home after arguing with her father and thought a visit would be awkward. She also reveals she was hospitalized to give birth and only discharged that day, inviting Riko to come see her instead. When Riko asks her parents for permission, expecting them to refuse, they apologize sincerely and grant permission for the trip.[76]
The following day, Riko visits Sis with her parents. Sis introduces her husband and newborn daughter, hoping Riko will get along with her child just as they once got along. Riko makes a silent promise to be a good sister to this baby and aims to grow into a fine lady, just like Sis.[76]
Oriko's Side Story
After contracting with Kyubey, Oriko foresees Madoka becoming Kriemhild Gretchen and ending the world. To prevent this, she begins manipulating events and people around her. She uses Yuma Chitose as a distraction to keep Kyubey away from Madoka, then later convinces Yuma to contract by claiming Kyoko is in danger. Oriko also recruits Kirika Kure as her pawn. When Kirika kills another magical girl, Oriko decides to use the murders to further distract Kyubey from Madoka.[77]
The next day, Oriko has another vision revealing that Madoka is not in Mitakihara but somewhere else entirely. She witnesses a spatial distortion connecting Mitakihara to Kamihama City and begins to suspect Kamihama might hold the key to changing the future. Oriko sends Kirika to Kamihama under the pretense of buying tea, instructing her to gather information from Mami and other magical girls there. She then takes Yuma to Kamihama herself, leaving her inside a witch barrier knowing Kyoko will come to rescue her. While exploring Kamihama for answers, Oriko nearly dies inside a powerful witch barrier and realizes she needs Kirika's help to continue. Kirika eventually returns home safely, reporting that Mami and Kyoko are also investigating Kamihama and that the city has an unusually high number of witches.[77]
The next morning, Oriko wakes to find Kirika has bought more tea from Kamihama. Looking at her, Oriko realizes the girl she had been searching for was right here all along.[77]
Kirika's Side Story
A news report announces the murder of a young girl near a factory in Mitakihara. In flashback, Kirika accidentally kills a non-magical girl while fighting a Witch and is consumed by guilt. A voice forgives her, revealing itself as Oriko Mikuni. Oriko tells Kirika she only cares about her future accomplishments, not her past mistakes. Kirika fanatically swears to prove herself worthy.[78]
The next morning, Oriko sends Kirika to a famous tea shop in Kamihama, explaining that Mami Tomoe and other Mitakihara girls will be there. She orders Kirika to learn why they have come, but not to kill them.[78]
After shopping for tea, Kirika spots Mami and Kyoko Sakura that night and confronts them. When they claim to know nothing about Kamihama, she attacks. Kyoko accidentally destroys her shopping bag, enraging Kirika. Shizuku Hozumi intervenes, allowing Mami and Kyoko to escape through a portal. Kirika returns home with supermarket tea, admitting she learned nothing. Oriko reassures her, but Kirika remains convinced the tea is inadequate.[78]
The next morning, Kirika returns to Kamihama before Oriko wakes. She buys the proper tea and prepares it just as Oriko awakens, pleased to see Oriko smile.[78]
Yuma's Side Story
Yuma witnesses her mother's death by a witch and is rescued by Kyoko Sakura, who takes her in. When Kyoko discovers Yuma was abused, she stops her from contracting with Kyubey despite Yuma's desire to be strong like her.[79]
Another night, Yuma asks for pancakes. Kyoko steals ingredients and they make them together at their hotel.[79]
After Yuma becomes a magical girl, Kyoko leaves for Kamihama alone, promising to return by dinner. When she doesn't come home, Oriko Mikuni appears and tells Yuma that Kyoko is in danger. Yuma asks to be taken to Kamihama.[79]
Oriko abandons Yuma in the city, where she begins fighting a witch. Oriko encounters Shizuku Hozumi and lies that she came looking for Yuma, asking Shizuku to tell Kyoko where she is.[79]
Kyoko returns home, delayed by Kirika Kure, and realizes Yuma is missing. Shizuku appears and relays Oriko's message. Kyoko asks to be taken to Kamihama.[79]
Yuma recalls becoming a magical girl: Oriko prophesied Kyoko's death, and Yuma found her mortally wounded. She wished to heal Kyoko, saving her life. Kyoko cried upon hearing Yuma's fear of being left alone.[79]
In the present, Iroha Tamaki, Yachiyo Nanami, and Tsuruno Yui rescue Yuma from the witch. Kyoko arrives and retrieves her. Yachiyo explains Kamihama's disturbances began months ago. Kyoko carries Yuma home, resolving to protect her.[79]
Yachiyo's Side Story
Yachiyo hosts Momoko, Rena, and Kaede at her home. Momoko reveals she met Yachiyo two years ago when she first became a magical girl, and Kaede is amazed to learn Yachiyo has six years of experience. After Yachiyo brings out snacks, the girls ask her safe questions until Rena steals a donut, but Yachiyo immediately identifies the culprit from the sugar around Rena's lips. As they prepare to leave, Momoko mentions the Dueling Girl, a magical girl who randomly challenges others. Yachiyo thanks them and says she will alert her friends.[80]
Several days later, Momoko's team encounters the Dueling Girl, who introduces herself as Tsuruno Yui. She declares she wants to become the strongest magical girl to restore honor to her family name. Yachiyo arrives and agrees to be her opponent. During their fight, Yachiyo uses a dummy to trick Tsuruno and traps her in rope. When Tsuruno asks to be finished, Yachiyo instead frees her and questions why she truly wants strength. Tsuruno struggles to answer coherently.[80]
Yachiyo and Tsuruno fight six more times over the following days, with Yachiyo winning each battle. Yachiyo tells Tsuruno that magical girls should be friends rather than hurt each other, and Tsuruno runs off crying.[80]
Several days later, Momoko's team encounters Tsuruno again. When Yachiyo arrives, she finds Momoko unconscious. Rena accuses Tsuruno of attacking, but Yachiyo realizes something is wrong and attacks Tsuruno, who transforms into a familiar. Yachiyo explains a witch set a trap and captured the real Tsuruno. They rescue Tsuruno, who then asks to become Yachiyo's apprentice. Tsuruno stops dueling afterward and becomes friends with Yachiyo and Momoko's team, though the narration notes their bond would later be shattered by a future incident.[80]
Tsuruno's Side Story
Tsuruno finishes a practice fight with Rena Minami and challenges Momoko Togame and Kaede Akino, though the three are reluctant. When Momoko asks why she wants to be so strong, Tsuruno explains that her family's Chinese restaurant has been in decline since her father took over, while her grandmother and mother care only about luxuries and even tried to sell family keepsakes. She wished to win the lottery, but her grandmother and mother took the money and left on a cruise, though Tsuruno insists they are just on a trip. She believes that becoming strong like her grandfather and great-grandfather will solve everything and restore her family's honor. Rena shows her an online advice stand in Kamihama and suggests she visit, so Tsuruno decides to go the next day.[81]
The next day, Tsuruno visits Emiri's Room, where Akira Shinobu guides her to counselor Emiri Kisaki. Emiri tells her she needs training, not exercise, explaining that training should be super hard. Tsuruno understands and realizes she needs to fight herself rather than others. Emiri suggests Akira, who is strong at karate, as a teacher, and Akira reluctantly agrees.[81]
Later, Akira and Tsuruno track down a lost dog together. Tsuruno realizes that being counted on makes Akira strong, and Akira admits she lacks confidence in her own teaching ability. After an incident where Tsuruno runs through a garden to catch the dog, Akira suggests finding someone more suited to be her teacher.[81]
The next day, Akira introduces Tsuruno to Meiyui Chun, who is strong at kenpou. Meiyui initially refuses to teach, citing her master's rules and her own inexperience, but Tsuruno insists she will do anything. Akira admits she brought Tsuruno because she lacks confidence, and Meiyui finally agrees, bringing Tsuruno to work part time at a factory carrying heavy items. Tsuruno throws herself into the work, impressing everyone with her strength.[81]
Later, Tsuruno leaves the factory in tears and meets Yachiyo Nanami. She confesses she tripped and scattered parts, and everyone's reassurance only made her feel worse. She fears she has accomplished nothing and will lose her restaurant and family. Yachiyo tells her to focus on small tasks rather than the big picture, as accomplishing little things will bring rewards.[81]
The next day, Tsuruno returns to Emiri's stand to apologize and finds Akira with Meiyui. Meiyui reveals the factory manager wants her back, and Akira shares that the lost dog's owner was overjoyed. Surprised by the praise, Tsuruno accepts Meiyui's offer to help again. Later, she tells Yachiyo her training was a success and challenges her to a fight, but Yachiyo declines and runs off to call Momoko's group instead.[81]
Sana's Side Story
Sana notices that Iroha has a keychain from an old puppet show called Mr. Purrs-a-Lot and excitedly begins talking about it. She apologizes for rambling, but Iroha reassures her. Sana's mind drifts back to her past, worrying that her history of loss will repeat itself.[82]
Sana grew up as the unwanted stepchild in her family. Her mother always regretted marrying her late biological father, and her stepfather, a university professor, only cared about her poor grades. Her two step-brothers were academically and athletically gifted, and both treated her with contempt. Eventually, her entire family declared she tarnished their name and forbade her from interacting with them. From that day on, Sana lived in silence, speaking to no one at home.[82]
After being cast out by her family, Sana spent her days wandering outside until she befriended a stray cat she named Miss Purrs. She would feed the cat in an alley and talk to her about the animal city from her favorite show, finding comfort in the cat's presence. One day, Miss Purrs vanished after the shop owner called animal control to remove the strays. Sana searched everywhere but never found her cat again, though she once mistook Kyubey for Miss Purrs from a distance.[82]
After losing Miss Purrs, Sana stayed at school instead of going home. She made a friend who liked her keychain, but when bullies stole it, her friend did nothing to help. Sana stopped going to school entirely. When Kyubey appeared and offered her a wish, she did not wish for family or friends. Instead, she wished to become invisible, wanting nothing more than to disappear from a world where she felt completely worthless.[82]
Back in the present, Iroha notices Sana spacing out and asks what is wrong. Sana realizes that before meeting Iroha, she had lived completely alone, invisible to everyone. As Iroha continues talking about Mr. Purrs-a-Lot, Sana silently thanks her for finding her and feels glad she was not alone forever.[82]
Felicia's Side Story
Felicia fights a witch alongside Nanaka's team, but her reckless attacks endanger them and Nanaka refuses to work with her again. Kako worries about her afterward. Kyubey finds a fuming Felicia, who decides to hire herself out as a mercenary to other magical girls for money or Grief Seeds.[83]
Felicia encounters Asuka and Sasara and defeats a witch for them, but they let her keep the Grief Seed and leave without paying, leaving her frustrated. Kako appears, concerned, but Felicia rejects her harshly and immediately regrets it.[83]
Several days later, Felicia asks Asuka and Sasara to hire her again, and they agree. Meanwhile, Kako asks Kyubey about Felicia's past. Kyubey reveals Felicia accidentally caused a fire that killed her parents. Her wish to undo it altered her memories, making her believe a witch killed them instead. Kako is horrified but vows to keep the secret and befriend Felicia.[83]
Felicia helps defeat the witch and collapses from exhaustion, silently vowing to destroy every witch.[83]
Kanagi's Side Story
Kanagi destroys a Witch and notices they have become more numerous and powerful, so she decides to warn every Magical Girl. She first brings Tsukasa Amane to Mitama Yakumo for an adjustment, and Mitama confirms that more girls have been coming from all over Kamihama. Tsukasa receives a call from her sister Tsukuyo and departs for Mizuna Ward.[84]
The next day, Kanagi is working at a maid cafe when Tsukasa arrives looking troubled but runs off before explaining. That evening, Kanagi's brother mentions that people from west Kamihama tried to pick a fight, and Kanagi decides she needs to warn more girls. She meets Himika Mao, then Seika Kumi and Reira Ibuki, advising them all to be careful and hunt in pairs.[84]
Kanagi goes to Mitama's and finds the Amane sisters leaving, but they run off upon seeing her. Mitama mentions she had Momoko Togame help clear some familiars, suggesting the east-west conflict has calmed. When Kanagi asks about the Amanes, Mitama says they came for adjustments, and Kanagi admits Tsukasa seems to be avoiding her.[84]
Kanagi goes to Tsukasa's house in the Artisan Ward and chases her down when she tries to run. Tsukasa asks if Kanagi is interested in releasing Magical Girls from becoming Witches and reveals that a group called the Wings of Magius can save them, inviting Kanagi to join. Kanagi questions whether the group is using her with false promises, but Tsukasa insists she trusts them because Tsukuyo was invited by Mifuyu Azusa. Kanagi calls her pathetic for believing a pipe dream.[84]
Tsukasa explains that she and Tsukuyo planned to live together after graduation, but the Witch fate makes this impossible, which is why they joined Magius. Kanagi says she will protect Kamihama's Magical Girls, including Tsukasa, but cannot overlook her straying. Tsukasa suggests all eastern Magical Girls want freedom from becoming Witches, but Kanagi asks her to lend her strength instead. Tsukasa says she is too weak, thanks her, and leaves.[84]
Kanagi reflects on how people in the east are feared and avoided, and Magical Girls have it even worse. She accepted the Witch fate because it was her choice, but she cannot accept the discrimination.[84]
Flashback to before Kanagi's contract: When Kyubey appeared and offered a contract, Kanagi considered wishing to erase Kamihama's history so people would stop hating Daitou. She realized that changing history would not actually change people's opinions, so instead she wished to know the reason why everyone hates Daitou. She gained the power to read minds and learned there was no reason—only baseless hatred built on circumstances rather than individuals.[84]
Later, Kanagi receives an adjustment from Mitama and notes that eastern Magical Girls are all joining the Wings of Magius. Mitama observes that they are the ones who most desire to be saved from their circumstances. Kanagi says she loves Daitou and wants Kamihama to live in peace, but she believes the only way is to destroy Kamihama. If everyone loses everything, they will be forced to work together and old differences will vanish.[84]
Kanagi acknowledges she lacks the power to destroy Kamihama now, so for the time being she will destroy Witches and protect Magical Girls. But if the time comes, she will destroy Kamihama to save Daitou.[84]
Mitama's Side Story
Ayaka and Shizuku visit Mitama to plan their next destination, but when darts land on the Japan Trench, Shizuku storms off rather than be mocked. Felicia arrives for an adjustment and presses Mitama about her past, but Mitama deflects. Later at Yachiyo's house, Iroha and Yachiyo scold Felicia for prying, though they admit curiosity. Felicia runs off with Sana to investigate.[85]
The next day, Felicia and Sana transfer to Daitou Academy to learn more about Mitama, following her to class and even attempting to search her bag. Mitama catches them and explains she cannot teach them adjustment, urging them to return to their own school. That night, Kanagi visits Mitama, and they discuss Mitama's isolation and her progress in learning to fight. Kanagi warns that Mitama's magic could be dangerous, but Mitama insists she is ordinary.[85]
Felicia posts signs offering stickers for information on Mitama, which Mitama finds endearing and leaves up. Tsukuyo and Tsukasa arrive, concerned that people are asking about Mitama's past, and mention that students at Mizuna Girls' Academy still remember her. Mitama asks Tsukuyo for a favor.[85]
Tsukuyo spreads the original story to prevent worse rumors, adding a small embellishment. Manaka investigates after hearing gossip, finds the old literary magazine, and discusses it with Sana. Momoko defends Mitama from a familiar and reaffirms her trust in her. Later, Yachiyo and Iroha bring Felicia and Sana to apologize, revealing that Tsukuyo acted at Mitama's request. Mitama accepts Felicia's sticker as a peace offering.[85]
Mitama reflects with Kanagi that only Kanagi knows her true self. A flashback reveals Mitama's past: gifted but resented for her origins, she was betrayed by a friend and falsely accused of pushing a classmate. Forced to leave Mizuna, she faced scorn in Daitou until she snapped when someone threatened her sister. Kanagi stopped her from attacking students with a fire extinguisher and welcomed her home. Later, overwhelmed with hatred, Mitama wished to Kyubey to destroy Kamihama. In the present, she admits that through adjusting others' magic and witnessing their memories, her hatred is slowly fading thanks to everyone's kindness.[85]
The Magius discuss their influence over Kamihama, noting that Kyubey can no longer enter due to a force field surrounding the entire area. Touka, Nemu, Alina, and Mifuyu acknowledge that the recent addition of the Amane Sisters brings their total to only six members, far from sufficient to gather enough energy for their project. Alina suggests Mifuyu handle recruitment due to her veteran status, but Mifuyu refuses, explaining that recruiting inside Kamihama risks Yachiyo finding her while recruiting outside would fail because she is a stranger there. She sneezes and explains she has been sick since moving out of her parents' home, something she accomplished with Touka's financial grants. When Touka asks why she does not heal herself with magic, Mifuyu says she prefers staying sick, as it is one of the few human things left about herself.
The following day, the three Magius meet without Mifuyu and discuss the recruitment problem further. Nemu raises the moral implications of their methods, while Touka notes that recruiting girls unaware of the Witch system would make them look like a cult. Alina steers the conversation toward enhancing the force field and Nemu's rumor creation. She receives a message from Mifuyu, whose cold has worsened. Nemu suggests using radio waves to communicate their message efficiently through email and phone messages, and Touka praises the idea.
Later that day, Touka visits Mifuyu's living quarters and finds her asleep with convenience store dinner nearby. As Mifuyu groans in discomfort, Touka brings a cold towel for her forehead, surprised at her own caring impulse. Using Mifuyu as a test subject, Touka messages Nemu to launch the experiment. Mifuyu soon hears singing, confirming the transmission works. The song is from Touka's hospitalization, sung by a nurse to help her recover. Mifuyu deduces the experiment is meant for recruiting Magical Girls using radio waves, and Touka explains that she used a wavelength only Magical Girls can hear. Mifuyu praises her and finds renewed vigor.
Back at Magius headquarters with Mifuyu now present, the others endure an outburst from Touka. This scene occurs after the Rumor of the Seance Shrine was defeated. Mifuyu notes that Yachiyo has a new ally and they should be more cautious. Nemu suggests creating more rumors, but Alina suggests using Witches instead due to the similarity between Doppels and Witches. Mifuyu objects, saying that method is too harsh. Touka proposes creating rumors frightening enough to traumatize victims, but Mifuyu scolds her, insisting they will not sacrifice people for their goals. Nemu sympathizes with Touka, reminding Mifuyu that she uses her own life force to create rumors. Mifuyu reiterates her desire to avoid unnecessary sacrifices, and Touka slaps her before leaving.
Mifuyu's objections stall their plans. Nemu admits Mifuyu has a point, noting that losing sight of their moral standing would cause the Feathers to defect. Mifuyu's popularity gives her tremendous weight in the organization. Frustrated, Touka decides to cool down elsewhere, recognizing she is not thinking clearly. In her room, she ponders how to help Mifuyu understand, comparing the Magical Girl system to survival of the fittest and stating she is ready to do anything to survive.
The next day at Saint Lilliana Academy, Touka is assigned group work. When a younger classmate asks her to explain division, Touka berates her for failing to grasp something so simple. The teacher explains the girl just started learning division, and Touka eventually agrees to teach her. As the lesson continues, the girl comments that a remainder looks lonely, separated from the other numbers. Touka tells her numbers do not have feelings, but the girl insists all numbers should get along. Touka snaps, reiterating that numbers are concepts and the only solution is to write the remainder as intended. The girl begins crying, and Touka realizes she made a mistake. The teacher scolds her, and Touka states that getting rid of the remainder is the only way to have the answer. This statement makes something click in her mind.
With renewed resolve and an unusually foul mood, Touka meets Nemu and announces her plans to use radio frequencies to draw more Witches into Kamihama and deploy more dangerous rumors, as it is the most cost-efficient solution. Nemu states Mifuyu will not be pleased, but Touka says that as the genius, she gets to decide. Mifuyu arrives, and Touka explains her point of view, claiming this approach is necessary now to create a better future.
In the past, during Touka's hospitalization with Nemu and Ui, Touka plays a video game against Iroha while the group discusses their school assignment. They must compile information on a hobby and present it, and Iroha guesses Touka will present on space. Touka reveals she decided against presenting on space and chose quantum computers instead, unwilling to share knowledge she worked hard to gather. Iroha suggests people would still enjoy hearing Touka talk about space, and Touka tearfully refuses, explaining that she understands she is bedridden for life. All Touka knows of the world is the Satomi Medical Center, and she learns about the outside through the internet. She recalls asking her father to let her live under the same roof as her parents, but he could not grant this because she needs continued hospital treatment. Touka decides she will never give anything back to anyone, as anything she ever gave out, she received nothing in return. She muses that outer space is the only world that ever gave her anything, admiring its limitless freedom. Suddenly, she feels a sharp pain in her back that immobilizes her.
Later that night, a sleeping Touka is awoken by the same lullaby she would later use to transmit radio waves. The nurse who sang this song is revealed to be Iroha. Iroha offers her an apple pie she baked herself, feeling bad for offending Touka the previous day. Touka taste-tests it and finds it delicious. Iroha explains she could teach Touka little things to make her happy, just as she requests that Touka share her knowledge about space to make them happy.
The next day, Touka arrives late to class with classroom materials for everyone. She announces that if they want to learn about space, she should start with constellations first. She tells Ui that her older sister Iroha is much like the Beta Pegasi, but she does not explain further, telling Ui to look it up herself.
Nemu's Side Story
Inside Eve's barrier, Nemu and Touka discuss the Magius' growth while Alina worries Eve's barrier may not contain them much longer. The accumulating impurities are making everyone sick, prompting Mifuyu to suggest they leave for now. Outside, Mifuyu warns about managing their growing numbers, and Touka mentions struggles with multiple scattered bases. Nemu proposes creating one large base using a Rumor, announcing she will build a castle by writing its story. Mifuyu asks if such a project is possible, and Nemu explains that one story will not be enough - she must keep writing sequels to maintain its essence. The others eagerly suggest additions: a studio from Alina, a laboratory from Touka, a bathhouse from Mifuyu. When Touka asks what kind of rooms Nemu wants, she realizes she has no idea.[87]
Nemu returns home, where her mother and brother arrive shortly after. Her mother apologizes for being late, and Nemu helps prepare dinner. During the meal, her brother discusses his school festival, reluctantly nodding when Nemu offers to attend. He asks for homework help, but when their mother suggests Nemu help, he refuses. Their mother insists she is exhausted, so Nemu washes the dishes instead. Back in her bedroom, Nemu thinks about the Magius and how dealing with them is difficult though they mean no harm.[87]
The following day, the group debates names for their new base. Mifuyu suggests Hope's Hearth, but Alina and Touka shoot it down. Tsukuyo offers The Magius Land of Love and Hope, which Alina calls equally lame. Tsukasa attempts to avenge her sister, but Alina criticizes her harshly. Alina reveals her idea: Studio Little Hope. Touka offers The Hope Observatory. Nemu suggests Fendt Hope, a name everyone draws different meanings from. Everyone agrees, but Nemu reveals she already created the Uwasa before they could discuss the name.[87]
Everyone is upset. Nemu explains she feared the witches they gathered would be discovered and acted quickly. For now, only the underground chapel exists, but she can add more by writing sequels. They ask again what kind of base Nemu wanted. She thinks that so long as everyone is here with her, she does not mind what kind of base it is. She replies she wants a place with her friends that can also serve as a battleground where they are employees and the witches they raise are customers. She settles on a hotel concept and dubs the base Hotel Fendt Hope. A brief flashback shows Nemu congratulating a White Feather for her service. Back in the present, she ponders her progress, but a sudden jolt of pain makes her flinch. The pain comes from using her life energy to create the Misery Water Rumor. Despite the Magius' progress, she still feels empty inside.[87]
A White Feather contacts Nemu, claiming she is struggling with a witch and needs assistance. Nemu agrees and heads off, meeting Black Feathers at the scheduled location. While being escorted, she asks if they ever felt empty. They explain that upon realizing the burden of their wish and their fate, they gave up fighting completely—after crying and screaming, all that remained was nothing. They find the witch and sense the White Feather fighting inside. Nemu enters the barrier and asks her to stand back, but the Feather refuses, saying losing Nemu would mean losing a leader. The witch is defeated, but the White Feather loses her life. Nemu offers the Black Feathers the Grief Seed as repayment. As countless people pass by without acknowledging her, she finally understands her emptiness: no one is here to recognize their achievements as magical girls.[87]
In a memory from her hospitalization, Nemu, Touka, and Ui watch as Nemu's story rises in views. Touka informs her of an email from a publisher wanting to talk. Ui is delighted, seeing the start of Nemu's career. Nemu asks they ignore it, wanting to keep things as they are. She fears going professional will distance them from readers. A nurse enters, informing Nemu her family is here. Her mother greets her, offering new pajamas and the book Nemu wanted. Her mother tells Nemu their next visit will not be for a while, as she and her father are busy. After they go, Nemu apologizes for her mother's talkativeness. Touka complains that Nemu's family talked only about themselves. Nemu explains this is her only connection to the outside world and she treasures it, but admits she feels distant and fears as time goes on, she will distance further. Later that night while asleep, Nemu has an attack. As she dreams through her pain, she has visions of Ui and Touka calling her name, then her mother. Every now and then, she dreams of her mother calling out, reaching for her, caring for her. It turns out in these moments, her mother was really by her side.[87]
Ui's Side Story
One day, Ui struggles with a school assignment about her future, feeling inadequate next to her gifted friends Touka and Nemu who have already made progress toward their goals. Yachiyo and Iroha counsel her that uncertainty is normal and she is being too hard on herself, though Felicia grows visibly unhappy that attention has shifted away from her.[88]
Later that day, Hazuki and Nanaka team up with Ui to teach her how to defeat witches. Ui claims her first victory and receives a grief seed as a reward while Touka and Nemu tag along to offer congratulations.[88]
After the two depart, Felicia and Ayame lure Ui to an open field and challenge her to a fight, admitting they are jealous that Ui has been monopolizing their sister's attention. Before the battle can begin, Sana and Iroha arrive. Iroha delivers a lengthy reprimand that stretches from afternoon until evening, scolding the children for using their powers in personal conflicts. The children eventually apologize and make amends.[88]
Back home that night, Iroha senses Ui is still troubled and encourages her to open up. She shares her own journey toward becoming a nurse and urges Ui to explore the world rather than dwell on low self-esteem. Ui finds comfort in her sister's words.[88]
Another day, Ui returns to the hospital where she once stayed and reflects on how she and her friends have grown over time. She encounters her doctor, who is moved that Ui can now think about her future and advises her to enjoy life without rushing. When Ui mentions that Touka and Nemu have already found their goals, the doctor suggests thinking about what she genuinely loves.[88]
Ui suddenly realizes she loves the choir and wants to become a music teacher. She excitedly shares this revelation with her family and friends and resolves to work hard toward this future.[88]
Alina's Side Story
Alina wins an art award for her self-portrait, though students spread rumors that she only got the idea when she was about to snap the canvas in two. In the clubroom, she takes Karin's milk, and when Karin objects, Alina says talking behind someone's back is worse. She tells Karin to focus on her own art before feeling proud and leaves, reflecting that she creates simply to create, not for prizes. Later, she is called to meet a judge who praised her work, but she refuses and runs off.[89]
Karin finds Alina at a restaurant and gives her a letter from the judge. It praises her work but warns it lacks an external theme, comparing it to a powerful drug that might drive people insane, and suggests her brilliance might fade at fifteen. Alina realizes the letter asked about her values, not her work, and admits she would not mind if her art was poison. She visits an art gallery to review her past, learning that her fascination with death began at age eight when her dog and grandparents died, and that her works have explored transformation and mortality ever since. She tries creating in the clubroom but is disappointed.[89]
Karin asks Alina to review her manga, but Alina destroys her own painting instead, declaring it terrible. She decides to end things, believing her art should have been more brilliant. Kyubey appears and offers a contract, but Alina refuses, saying she does not have a wish.[89]
The next day, Alina destroys her art at the gallery with a hammer and saw while a horrified Mayu watches. She then heads to a roof, planning to end herself and record the moment. Kyubey appears again, and this time she wishes for a place where nobody can disturb her before jumping. She wakes in the hospital, where a crying Karin greets her with relief. Alina says she found her theme but does not fully feel alive, and Karin insists she is.[89]
Touka and Nemu visit, having found her, and mention her artwork drew many young visitors. After they leave, Kyubey explains Alina survived because her body can now fight Witches. Alina admits her final artwork failed but is grateful she found her theme and gained the place she wished for. Sensing a Witch, she transforms and enters its barrier, laughing as she fights and declaring that the material for her next art will be the Witch itself.[89]
Mifuyu's Side Story
Tsukuyo and Tsukasa Amane apologize to Mifuyu for letting Yachiyo destroy the Rumor they guarded. Mifuyu accepts, though privately she doubts involving so many girls in the Wings of Magius. She reflects on the letters she and Yachiyo exchange yearly, remembering Yachiyo's confession of love and her own weakening powers, which led her to seek salvation through Magius.[90]
Touka Satomi interrupts, demanding Mifuyu solve a math problem and reminding her of the debts she owes. Mifuyu promises to try harder and asks about Magius's next move. Touka explains they will expand, create more Rumors, and capture witches to accelerate the Eve's growth, dismissing Mifuyu's concerns about rushing.[90]
Sometime later, Mifuyu skips a meeting by claiming illness, but Alina sees through it. Mifuyu considers confessing everything to Yachiyo but receives a call about trouble. At the meeting, Touka and Nemu argue with Alina over strategy until Mifuyu mediates, suggesting they continue creating Rumors cautiously. Afterward, Tsukuyo offers Mifuyu a Grief Seed, noticing her clouded Soul Gem. Mifuyu realizes her doubt about returning to Yachiyo caused the taint but concludes she cannot abandon the Feathers who trust her.[90]
Sometime later, Yachiyo destroys another Rumor. Touka and Nemu grow frustrated, learning Yachiyo travels with a girl named Iroha Tamaki. Mifuyu warns that conspicuous Rumors invite investigation, but Nemu dismisses the concern. When Nemu suggests recruiting Yachiyo, Mifuyu asks for a day to consider.[90]
The next day, the Amanes visit Mifuyu and ask about her wish. Mifuyu explains she wished to be free in her dreams, unable to comprehend true freedom after a lifetime of obedience. The Amanes console her, assuring she will be normal after magical girls are released. Mifuyu recalls another letter where Yachiyo vowed to save people and asked Mifuyu to stop her if she ever strayed from human logic. Mifuyu realizes Yachiyo has not changed and will never join Magius.[90]
Mifuyu asks Nemu to create a Rumor that will occupy Yachiyo until Magius completes its goal. Nemu hesitates, preferring to write her own story, but agrees. Mifuyu tells Alina she will stop Yachiyo if necessary, and Alina approves. Mifuyu consults the Amanes, who suggest Mizuna Shrine as the location.[90]
That night, Mifuyu investigates Mizuna Shrine and decides it is perfect, silently apologizing to Yachiyo. She recalls Yachiyo's final letter, written after learning the truth about witches, blaming herself and resolving to avoid others while wishing to stay with Mifuyu until the end. Mifuyu decides Yachiyo will not forgive her, so she will keep her asleep in the Rumor until everything ends.[90]
Nemu arrives, opens her book, and creates the Rumor of the Kuchiyose Shrine, where one can meet someone from their past but may never return. Nemu faints. Mifuyu silently wishes Yachiyo happy dreams with her fake counterpart, believing they will both be saved when it is over. The story ends as Yachiyo confronts the fake Mifuyu while the real Mifuyu watches.[90]
Amane Sisters' Side Stories
Tsukuyo is burdened by endless lessons and errands for others, finding her only solace in playing a bamboo flute her father had given her at a distant shrine. One day she glimpses a girl who looked exactly like her, and the encounter leaves her deeply unsettled until Mifuyu urges her to return and face it.[91]
At the shrine, Tsukuyo bumps into the girl, and both beg the other not to kill them. They discover their names both contained the character for moon and realized they were twin sisters - their parents had separated, and the girls had been hidden from each other. They begin meeting in secret, finding in each other the first person who truly understands them.[91]
Over time, their differences emerge. Tsukuyo, raised in strict formality, finds Tsukasa's casual manners vulgar, while Tsukasa, burdened by poverty, finds Tsukuyo's perfect life boastful. Their arguments grow worse until they stop seeing each other. Tsukuyo eventually collapses from stress after snapping at her grandmother, while Tsukasa nearly drowned after a Witch tempts her, rescued by Kanagi.[91]
In the hospital, Mifuyu tells Tsukuyo that her twin had collapsed at the same time. The pediatrician remembers delivering them - they were born holding hands. Tsukuyo realizes she had accepted Tsukasa from birth and regretted their fight. Tsukasa arrives and suggests they throw away their pasts and start over. When Kyubey appears, together they wish the same thing: to never hate each other.[91]
Back in the present at the abandoned museum, the Amanes relay how they met to Alina at her demand. She leaves without harming them, claiming their story inspired her art. The Amanes are relieved, and Tsukuyo suggests they play their flutes at the shrine on the way home.[91]
Tsukuyo thinks the flute's song has always warmed her heart, while Tsukasa reflects it is a bridge connecting her to her sister. Both affirm that their only allies are each other, and they will always be together.[91]
Holy Mami's Side Story
Mami finds herself in a strange white fog, speaking with two other versions of herself. Holy Mami claims she has learned the truth about magical girls from Alina Gray and Touka Satomi and has found a way to save everyone.[92]
Mami has tea with Touka and Alina at a house rented for her by Touka. Mami explains she has not returned to Mitakihara because her priority is releasing magical girls. Touka and Alina offer to lecture her on what she needs to study. Alina grows disturbingly excited discussing van Gogh's Sunflowers, and Touka lectures at length on mathematics until Alina interrupts. Mami reassures them she will ask for help when needed.[92]
Alina receives a call from the Amane sisters requesting help with a Witch. Touka asks Mami to assist, explaining she has a lecture to give at noon to recruit skilled magical girls. Mami agrees, reflecting that releasing magical girls requires Grief Seeds, protecting Rumors, and raising Witches.[92]
Mami finds Tsukuyo and Tsukasa Amane waiting for her. They explain the Witch has moved and the Black Feathers are monitoring it. A Black Feather appears and reports the Witch escaped, so the girls trace it with Mami's help and follow. The Amanes explain the Black Feathers hide their identities to avoid conflict from other magical girls.[92]
They find the Witch. As Mami fights, the Amanes note she is using too much magic. Mami explains that using more magic lets her meet Florence, her Doppel, sooner. Despite their warning that using Doppels is exhausting, Mami says she has grown used to it. She summons Florence and defeats the Witch quickly.[92]
Mami receives a call from Touka, asking her to come to an abandoned museum in Sakae Ward. Touka explains they encountered troublesome magical girls now trapped in a Rumor and asks Mami to attack them if they escape. Mami finds it troublesome to be called so frequently but goes anyway. The magical girls escape, though Mami thinks it might have been the best outcome. She wonders why they did not join the Wings of Magius, but doubt begins to creep in.[92]
Mami again finds herself in white fog, speaking with her other self. She questions whether she favored Magius from the beginning. Holy Mami insists she believes in Magius as their salvation. Mami points out they resemble something she distrusts. Holy Mami begs Florence to save her, and the Doppel appears. Mami asks why she went that far.[92]
Mami finds herself back in a park, shaken but convincing herself it is only shock from learning the truth. Mifuyu Azusa calls, and Mami joins her, Touka, and Alina at a classy restaurant. Touka insists on paying. Mami reports the magical girls escaped, noting someone she had not seen in a while caused her to let her guard down. Mifuyu reassures her she has been helpful. Touka says her lecture recruited three new members, but she worries about the hot coals left behind. Mifuyu advises patience. They eat together.[92]
Later, Mami returns to Mitakihara, feeling the need for tea in her own room. She thinks of Madoka, Homura, and Sayaka, believing she must take responsibility for involving them in the magical girl world. She wonders what Kyoko would do, imagining Kyoko would say she should be responsible. Mami admits she cannot accept it, which is why she decided to release magical girls. Madoka briefly senses Mami's presence, then wonders if she imagined it.[92]
Holy Alina's Side Story
Alina sits in class, distracted and frustrated. She has been raising Witches as material for her art, but Karin's casual comparison to animal husbandry has shaken her. If she is merely breeding them, not creating with her own hands, can she truly call it art? Seeking answers, she goes to the place where she was first inspired, only to find Karin waiting, worried that Alina seems as troubled as when she once jumped from a hospital roof. Alina insists she is fine and cannot die anyway. Karin gives her the latest volume of Phantom Thief Magical Kirin to distract her. Reading it that night, Alina realizes the manga maintains the same core theme across every volume. If she can find the core of her own theme, she can apply it to her work.[93]
The next day, Alina thanks Karin with strawberry milk and explains her realization. Later, at the Wings of Magius, she discusses her artistic crisis with Touka and Nemu. Touka identifies the core of Alina's work as a death drive, a self-destructive urge that fascinates humanity. Pressing further, Alina learns from them that humans uniquely destroy their own kind and their environment, driven by something beyond survival. This, they suggest, is the unconscious force behind her art. Alina leaves exhilarated, finally understanding her theme.[93]
The following day, Alina tells her teacher she will participate in the art exhibit after all. She begins constructing a piece using faux fur and a mannequin, working with renewed energy.[93]
The next day, Alina installs her piece in the museum cafeteria: a mannequin draped in fur with a plaque reading "The right to participate is provided by a meal." Visitors must eat there before viewing the art. That night, Karin calls frantically. A terrible stench is coming from the installation. Alina arrives to find the stage covered in garbage from patrons' meals. She laughs, declaring the piece finished.[93]
One week later, the garbage has rotted. Alina titles the work "Humanity's Implicit Reward" and offers no explanation, insisting viewers interpret it individually. She reflects that people, driven by greed and an unconscious urge toward destruction, trashed her work simply by participating. She realizes humanity has always coveted its own destruction, and now she understands her purpose. She sees Eve not as art but as the tool she will use to reshape the world. Karin tells her she sounds like a cartoon villain. Alina takes her strawberry milk and growls.[93]
Later at the Wings of Magius, Alina asks Nemu to create a rumor for her. She will let it grow, then take it into herself and use it to achieve her greatest goal.[93]
Kanae's Side Story
Kanae grows up with a face that invites harassment, leading to constant fights. After a thug she defeated takes her only friend hostage, she contracts with Kyubey and wishes for the eradication of that gang. She distances herself from that friend and later chases the thug into Kanagi's territory, where she fights Kanagi after being mistaken for a poacher. Their battle moves into Yachiyo's territory, where Yachiyo and Mifuyu intervene and mediate. Kanae passes out from her injuries.[94]
She recovers at Yachiyo's home, where Yachiyo's kind grandmother warms her heart. After healing, Kanae lingers outside wanting to see the grandmother again, and Yachiyo knowingly invites her home. This begins her life with the Nanamis.[94]
Kanae joins Yachiyo and Mifuyu's team, and Grandma's advice helps her grow: stop frowning and focus on what she wants. She joins the K-on club, plays rock music, and enjoys her time with friends.[94]
Sometime later, Kanae returns home with band mates. Mifuyu warns her of a nearby Witch, and they hear a scream. Kanae chases a van taking her friends and finds them at the same place Kohai was once held, with the same thug responsible. She knocks the thug out, and Mifuyu notes the thug was kissed by the Witch. Kanae calls the police, and her friends are no longer afraid of her.[94]
Mifuyu informs Kanae that grandma is hospitalized. Kanae decides to hunt the Witch to protect others, leaving grandma with Yachiyo. Mifuyu joins her, and they struggle against the powerful Witch. Yachiyo arrives with news that grandma is alright, and together they defeat it. At the hospital, grandma hopes these kind girls will be there when it is time for her funeral.[94]
Back in the present, Kanae's ghost apologizes to grandma for going first. She has no regrets, having chosen to give her life willingly, and thanks the Nanamis and Mifuyu for helping her become a better person.[94]
Mel's Side Story
One day, Mel stays home after her reading warns of lethal danger, but Kanagi dismisses her concerns and drags her to school anyway. On the way, a Witch targets only Mel before escaping, and a possessed car then attempts to run her down. She flees west into the Mizuno region, where Yachiyo saves her. Despite Kanagi's warnings about discrimination from the West, Yachiyo's kindness puts her at ease, and Mel accepts her invitation to stay. Overwhelmed with gratitude, she requests to join Yachiyo's team, and Kanagi gives permission. From that day, Mel bonds with Mifuyu, Tsuruno, and Momoko as part of her new team.[95]
One other day, Mel arrives excitedly with entirely positive readings and offers to read the team's fortunes. Despite Yachiyo's skepticism, Mel coaxes her into a session predicting a career breakthrough.[95]
That evening, Yachiyo announces with disbelief that she was chosen for a nationwide magazine feature on Kamihama's cafes. Mifuyu and Momoko then receive positive readings about a matchmaking and exam results.[95]
The next day, both predictions come true when Mifuyu's matchmaking goes well and Momoko passes her exams. Tsuruno insists on a reading despite Mel's warnings of negative results, and Mel reluctantly predicts a stomachache.[95]
The following evening, Mel finds Tsuruno collapsed from overeating after avoiding food all day. The team realizes Banbanzai, her family restaurant, risks a food poisoning scandal and rushes there. Tsuruno notices Momoko accidentally drop a laxative into a bowl of ramen and eats it herself to protect a customer, spending the rest of the day on the toilet. Later, Mel explains she wished for one hundred percent accurate fortune-telling to help others.[95]
The next day, Yachiyo forbids fortune-telling, revealing Mel's magic twists events to make her readings come true rather than predicting the future. Mel accepts this and agrees to stop, but makes one final secret reading: she sees a star entering Yachiyo's life as the keystone among a circle of Magical Girls, and prays this star will light Yachiyo's path toward a warm future.[95]
Back in the present, Yachiyo smiles as her family follows fortune-telling on television, searching for a lucky item for Felicia. They realize she already has it: a hammer. Yachiyo wonders if Mel would agree this level of fortune-telling brings enough joy. The memory card shows Mel and Kanae, but only Mel is visible.[95]
Rumor Tsuruno's Side Story
One day at Banbanzai, Felicia tells Tsuruno's father she is quitting her part-time job. He wishes her luck, then turns to Tsuruno with panic, revealing she did not come home last night or attend school. Tsuruno assures him she is fine, then declares she will never return to school or home again. Before he can react, she runs out with Felicia. He chases but loses them immediately, recognizing a look on her face he has seen only once before.[96]
At the train station, Felicia asks why Tsuruno said those things. Tsuruno is unsure, feeling unlike herself. They make their way to the Magius headquarters, where Sana is also present. Mifuyu urges them to remember their true feelings through illusions, but Tsuruno no longer cares about her family or Mikazuki Villa. When Tsuruno reminds Mifuyu that she was the first to leave, Mifuyu ends the illusions, unable to understand how Tsuruno has changed so much while she herself still has regrets.[96]
Through the illusions, Mifuyu successfully rids Felicia and Sana of their brainwashing. As Touka and Alina approach, Mifuyu warns them to pretend. Touka beckons Tsuruno to follow. When Mifuyu begs to know their plans, Alina casually mentions they will have Tsuruno commit mass murder to harvest energy for salvation.[96]
Outside, Touka explains Tsuruno will be fused with a new Rumor in Daito Ward. Her job is to kill anyone who cannot fit inside or tries to interfere, terrifying them as much as possible before death. What Tsuruno does not know is that she will also die if the Rumor is destroyed.[96]
At an abandoned amusement park, Nemu joins them. Her creation describes the new theme park Rumor: a relaxing place no one would want to leave. Tsuruno's job is to execute those who cannot fit or interfere. Nemu encourages her to focus on routine work and not think.[96]
Nemu leaves the theme to Tsuruno, asking if she ever felt relaxed at a park. Tsuruno remembers a day at an amusement park with her friends where she forgot all her worries. The memory shifts to the day she learned of Mel's death. She recalls overhearing Momoko, Mifuyu, and Yachiyo discuss the incident, quietly retrieving her bag and leaving because she believed they thought she was too weak to handle the truth. At home, she cried but told herself she must keep smiling for the others.[96]
A few days later, Tsuruno battles a Witch with Yachiyo, Momoko, and Mifuyu. Distracted, she is nearly defeated until Mifuyu steps in. Yachiyo hands her a Grief Seed, noting how dark her Soul Gem has become. Yachiyo suggests they postpone hunting and instead spend the next day at an amusement park to cheer up for Mel's sake.[96]
The next day, they go to the amusement park. After initial hesitation, everyone enjoys themselves. On the way home, Tsuruno has a blank look, distracted by how much fun she had. They had thrown themselves at rides to forget their sorrows.[96]
The flashback ends. Tsuruno explains to Nemu that she could relax at the park because she did not have to think. At Mikazuki Villa, she felt she had to keep smiling for everyone else's sake. Nemu decides the park's theme should be a place where you can sit back and relax. The Rumor is complete and springs into existence around them. The three Magius leave.[96]
Tsuruno looks at her new domain. Mascots appear, eager to help. A mascot suggests she fuse with the Rumor so she can work without sleeping. Tsuruno transforms and fuses, becoming Rumor Tsuruno.[96]
Rumor Tsuruno begins designing the park, adding a merry-go-round, roller coaster, spa, shops, and a cafe. The mascots warn that once the park is complete, she will become part of it and cannot return to the human world. Rumor Tsuruno claims no regrets.[96]
As she imagines comfort foods with hot pot as the main star, she is reminded of Mikazuki Villa. She brushes it off and completes the park. The mascots and Ferris wheel wish her luck as the new manager.[96]
Homura's Swimsuit Side & Doppel Story
Homura visits Kamihama seeking clues for a happy ending and meets Sayaka, who is there to pick up an album for Kyosuke. Noticing Homura seems down, Sayaka brings her to the Magical Girl Fishing Festival.[97]
At registration, Mitama announces all participants must wear swimwear, offering to transform their outfits for free. Homura is surprisingly excited, and Sayaka gets roped into wearing a ridiculous mushroom‑mermaid costume designed by Kanoko.[97]
Many familiar magical girls attend as participants or catering staff. Hazuki reveals her hatred of worms, Konoha faints from watching bait wriggle, and various mishaps begin piling up.[97]
While Homura shares food with Sayaka, Sayaka falls asleep and has a strange dream where Homura - wearing the same mushroom costume - tells her to let Kyosuke go and live her own life. She wakes up screaming to find Homura fishing her glasses out of the sea after they fell in during the chaos.[97]
By the end of the event, no one has caught a single fish because several magical girls fell into the water and scared them away. Mitama declares Homura the winner of the qualifying round since she at least caught her glasses, then pits her against a hypnotized Yachiyo who is overly excited about the competition.[97]
Yachiyo mistakes Sayaka in her costume for bait and throws her into the sea. The non‑waterproof suit causes Sayaka to be electrocuted by its built‑in fan, but her Doppel activates and saves her. The Doppel drags Yachiyo into the water, and Yachiyo begins water‑skiing using her fishing rod while being pulled around.[97][97]
Homura manages to fish up the Doppel and wins the oversized trophy. Later, Sayaka thanks Homura and tells her they can watch each other's backs. Homura happily agrees, ending the day on a warm note.[97]
Later that day, Homura confronts her Doppel, which mocks her for enjoying summer and relying on Madoka’s kindness. The Doppel blames her not only for Madoka’s death but for every death that has occurred, including Kuro’s, and preemptively accuses her for all the deaths that will come. It tells her that her weakness caused Kuro’s death and that she will never be able to help anyone. Homura manages to push back more firmly than before, arguing that moving forward is not the same as wallowing in self‑pity. She insists that protecting Madoka’s life alone is not enough—she must also protect her happiness and the rest of her friends. She tells her inner self that she will not disappear.[98]
Kuroe's Side Story
Kuroe is a spiritual person who prays regularly because she feels pressure from having to make her own choices. Kyubey, whom she calls a talking cat, keeps urging her to make a contract, but she does not know what to wish for—though she finds herself wishing God could speak to humans like Kyubey does.[99]
The day after Kyubey’s visit, Kuroe goes to school tired. When a classmate asks about her praying, Kuroe deflects. Later she asks peers how they see her: one compares her to a cloudy day, a boy praises her ability to find meaning in texts, and another girl makes a harsh comment. The boy defends Kuroe and asks for a book recommendation, which makes her feel understood for the first time.[99]
The next day, the boy reads the fairy tale Kuroe recommended. He questions a detail in the story, but Kuroe simply accepts it because the writer says so. He jokes that he feels alive because Kuroe thinks so deeply, meaning it as a compliment. Later a teacher asks about her high school plans; Kuroe claims she has decided, but she is merely following her family’s expectations and secretly does not want to go to high school.[99]
Kyubey continues pressing her. Kuroe wonders whether it would be acceptable to let others fulfill her desires for her. She asks peers what they would wish for, but ends up jealous of those with elaborate fantasies.[99]
Watching takoyaki being made, Kuroe reflects on how she cannot decide who she is. Believing that going out with someone might give her an answer, she makes her wish to date the boy who asked for her book recommendation. She fights her first Witch and barely wins. Kyubey tells her there had been no Magical Girl in the area; the Witch’s victims are likely dead, and she could have saved them if she had wished sooner.[99]
The next day at school, Kuroe reflects that she was happy at first. The boy talks to her daily, and she finally feels she belongs. She joins the rhythmic gymnastics club, and her boyfriend asks her to see a movie based on one of her book recommendations.[99]
At the movie, Kuroe enjoys herself but senses a Witch and abruptly leaves her boyfriend. Inside the Labyrinth, she learns a child got in, and though she defeats the Witch, she fails to save the child. Consumed by guilt, she begs God not to forgive her.[99]
As time passes, Kuroe continues fighting Witches but grows increasingly broken by her failures. Kyubey asks her, “Who would save those humans if you stopped fighting?”[99]
Before she knows it, Kuroe is a third-year middle school student. Her boyfriend notices she seems distracted. She stays after school for help on an essay, and he remarks she is too serious.[99]
The next day, Kuroe quits the rhythmic gymnastics club, citing studying, but the real reason is her Magical Girl duties.[99]
At home she prays for a life without fighting or seeing people die. At school, in a depressed mood, she asks her boyfriend unsettling questions about sacrifice and guilt. When he realizes something is wrong, she says she is going to die soon. Despite his attempts to help, she breaks up with him, feeling she deceived him.[99]
Kuroe goes to the train station and senses a Witch. Inside the Labyrinth, she saves a young, inexperienced Magical Girl. When the girl asks for a spare Grief Seed, Kuroe lies and says the Witch got away. The girl promises they will both become strong and leaves. Kuroe later concludes the girl likely died, a breaking point that leaves her feeling unworthy. That night she begins having a strange dream telling her to go to Kamihama, where Magical Girls can be saved.[99]
She does not know if she will be alive tomorrow, but she still writes her entrance exam essay. Her ex-boyfriend tells her he will return the book she gave him.[99]
That night, Kuroe faces a Witch too powerful for her. Another Magical Girl, Iroha Tamaki, saves her, gives her a Grief Seed, and offers friendship. The kindness reminds Kuroe of the white‑hooded girl and her regrets.[99]
Kuroe returns the Grief Seed to Iroha, and they begin working together. They notice no Witches have appeared in Takarazaki for a week—coinciding with Kuroe’s dreams of Kamihama. Seeing online comments from other Magical Girls heading there, Kuroe decides to investigate.[99]
Kuroe and Iroha go to Kamihama together but nearly die against an unusually strong Witch until Yachiyo Nanami saves them. Yachiyo warns them to stay out. At home, Kuroe watches a video by Touka Satomi of the Wings of the Magius, who promise a world where Magical Girls no longer need to fight. The message comforts her.[99]
The next day, Kuroe turns in her essay, which suggests separating students who enjoy school from those who do not. Her teacher tries to help, but Kuroe snaps about always having to pretend. She says she is going to die tomorrow and runs off.[99]
After that day, Kuroe stops praying and stops going to school. She decides to go to Kamihama and join the Wings of the Magius, seeking salvation from the life of a Magical Girl.[99]
Kuroe's Doppel Story
Kuroe dreams of Iroha, though she cannot understand her words. Her Doppel reflects that her contract gave her affirmation of existence, yet she still does not feel like anyone - she simply adapts to whatever situation she is in, resented by no one and dependent on no one, but still wondering who she should be. In the dream, Iroha asks what scares her and offers to figure out who Kuroe is together. Kuroe wakes up wondering why she dreamed of the camping trip, and she calls Iroha, deciding she wants to connect with her.[100]
Maria's Side Story
Maria bids her parents goodbye for the day. Her mother gives her money for dinner, which Maria insists on keeping only a small portion of, and Maria mentions she will be at her part‑time daycare job after school. On her way to school, she runs into two little girls, one of whom attends the daycare where she works.[101]
At the daycare, the children swarm Maria with requests. She notices a boy named Shin‑kun looking down and tries to find out what is wrong, but he does not want to talk. Maria recalls the moment she made her contract: a car was about to hit a child, and without hesitation she wished for Kyubey to save that child. She still wishes she could do more to help. When Shin brightens at his mother’s arrival, Maria pulls the woman aside and gently explains how lonely Shin appears. Shin’s mother admits she has been pretending not to notice because of work. Maria suggests she spend a day with Shin to reconnect, and Shin’s mother agrees. Maria promises to put together a plan by the weekend.[101]
At school, Maria’s classmates tease her about being a widow with a love child, and she plays along before explaining she is helping a mother and son from the daycare. Later she presents her weekend plans to Shin’s mother, who is impressed and begins looking forward to the outing.[101]
On the weekend, Maria goes to the park where she knows Shin and his mother should be. She watches as they struggle to connect: Shin wants to play in a fountain, but his mother cannot explain why he should not, and they end up standing awkwardly. Maria pretends to run into them and decides to help.[101]
They go to the playground, where Maria encourages Shin to try a tightrope bridge. When he gets nervous, she prompts his mother to take his hand, and together they cross. After lunch, Shin’s mother gets a call from work asking her to come in on her day off. She agrees, and Shin looks heartbroken. Maria offers to watch Shin until dark, and his mother gratefully accepts.[101]
Maria takes Shin to various places, and he sadly remarks that his mother is too busy for him. Understanding his loneliness, Maria vows to make the day special. At the aquarium she convinces him to see a show he ends up loving. As evening falls, they stop for takoyaki, and Maria explains that his mother tells him not to eat while walking for good reasons. Shin finally understands.[101]
Shin’s mother appears, explaining work no longer needs her. She admits she has trouble expressing herself, but Shin overhears and hugs her. They both confess they thought the other did not love them. Maria shares that she was often lonely as a child but still loved her parents, and she tells Shin’s mother she does not need to be perfect. Shin shows his mother the souvenir and the last piece of takoyaki he saved for her.[101]
As darkness falls, Maria walks home alone. She reflects on whether she could ever be a good mother, remembering Kyubey’s revelation that her Soul Gem is her actual soul and her body is merely a vessel.[101]
Mikura's Side Story
At the Historical Research Club, Mikura reads a local history article she wrote while Temari rereads a novel. Seira joins them with a progress report on the Kofun excavation, which prompts Mikura to remember how it all began.[102]
Mikura had always been curious about a small hill behind her school. When she learned it would be leveled for a road, she climbed it and found a hokora shrine. Her research at a bookstore suggested the hill might actually be a Kofun burial mound.[102]
The next day, she examined maps and aerial photos, growing more convinced the hill was a tomb. She found Edo‑period records of haniwa fragments nearby.[102]
Another day, Temari noticed Mikura was skipping meals to research. Mikura explained her theory, and Temari encouraged her to keep investigating.[102]
Mikura presented her findings to a museum curator, who praised her work but doubted it would stop construction. Her history teacher suggested she seek a university professor’s backing.[102]
A university professor contacted her, impressed but pointing out two flaws in her argument. Walking home, Temari’s questions helped Mikura realize the hill may have once been keyhole‑shaped, with its rectangular part eroded away.[102]
Days later, Mikura returned to the professor with new evidence from an Edo‑period text about a flood that collapsed part of the hill. He agreed she was likely right, but said construction funds had already been approved.[102]
That afternoon, Kyubey appeared and offered a contract. Mikura wished for the excavation to become a reality. Immediately after, she received word that a council member had helped secure funding for an excavation before construction.[102]
Back in the present, Seira notes the discovery made Mikura briefly famous. Mikura is simply glad the burial chamber was preserved intact, thanks to her wish. She shows the club photos of the immaculate murals.[102]
Seira's Side Story
On the day she makes her contract, Seira encounters Mikura and Temari, magical girls from her school who live in the same town. When Kyubey appears, Seira immediately agrees to contract, but the others insist she listen to the conditions first. Kyubey asks if her dream is to be a director. Instead, Seira wishes to always have enough funding to film her movies, surprising them both.[103]
At the Historical Research Club, which is really just a gathering for the three of them, Seira watches a movie while Mikura and Temari observe her habit of talking to herself about camera work. When they ask why she hadn’t wished for a genius film sense, Seira promises to explain.[103]
She tells them how her father refuses to sign her career questionnaire because he thinks film directing is too unstable. To prove herself, she gathers classmates and makes a kaiju short film in ten days. Before she can show it, her father asks cruelly why she wants to make movies of everything.[103]
Later, she finds kaiju figurines from her favorite director, Joey Yamada. Her mother reveals that Yamada is actually her uncle, who committed suicide after years of production troubles, and that her father had been his cameraman. When Seira goes to confront her father, she finds him watching her film and giving her technical corrections. He asks if she still wants to be a director knowing her uncle’s fate. She says yes, wanting to show others how great her uncle was. Her father finally agrees, asking only that she not repeat his brother’s tragic end.[103]
Mikura and Temari understand her wish now: to secure the funding and luck she needs rather than talent alone. Seira is grateful to have met them, even if she still thinks Kyubey is a strange alien.[103]
Temari's Side Story
In the library, Mikura asks Temari what she is reading, explaining she wants to know what literary mode Temari is in. Their conversation turns to their innate magical abilities; of their trio, only Seira has discovered hers. Temari recalls how the three contracted near Kamihama: Mikura first, driven by history; Seira next, dreaming of film directing; and finally Temari, who wished for her words to reach the hearts of those who needed them, even after her death. Later, Seira joins them for a Witch hunt, where Temari notices her weapons are inkbrushes. Afterward they visit Mitama, who suggests they train in Endless Mirrors if they plan to remain independent rather than join Magia Union.[104]
The next morning, Temari and Mikura commute to school exhausted. Temari stayed up testing a new metal pen, and Mikura correctly guesses she is in modern literature mode.[104]
After school that day, Seira brings up joining Magia Union, but Temari prefers to keep their team to themselves. They decide to train in Endless Mirrors instead. Inside, they struggle against organized Familiars until Temari makes a sudden, instinctive attack that breaks the enemy formation. Afterward, they realize their strengths complement one another: Mikura observes, Seira plans, and Temari adapts when things go wrong. They train late and leave exhausted.[104]
At school the next day, Temari is distracted thinking about Witch strategies while Mikura worries about Seira, who had fallen asleep in class from exhaustion. Seira joins them, and Temari suggests they create their own space to escape the stress of magical girl life. Seira proposes forming a school club where they can pursue their hobbies freely, and they agree.[104]
The following day, Seira secures an empty classroom as a provisional club room under the name Historical Research Club. On paper they study history, but in reality it becomes their oasis for reading, watching films, and relaxing.[104]
Several days later, the girls are enjoying their club activities, yet Temari still feels unsettled about not knowing her magic. Mikura reflects that they have been following Temari’s suggestions lately—staying independent, creating the club—but says she will mention it if she notices anything. When Mikura asks what Temari is reading, Temari replies she is still on the same author, and Mikura calls her as unpredictable as ever.[104]
Hotori's Side Story
Hotori and her twin Rion prepare for a school camping trip. Hotori gets distracted watching her favorite sentai show, Dragoon Red, and Rion teases her for still liking children’s fantasy. Hotori wants to bring her notebook of heroic quotes, but Rion tells her not to.[105]
At school, Rion tries to stay with Hotori and gets scolded by the teacher. Hotori is relieved to have time away from her sister. Her classmates notice her notebook and encourage her to become who she wants to be.[105]
At camp, Hotori’s group hikes through the forest. She is frightened by insects, and when Rion appears and drives her friends away, Hotori ends up scolded for letting her sister interfere. Reading quotes from her heroes, she manages to calm herself and finishes the hike feeling she has changed a little.[105]
During archery, Hotori struggles to pull the bowstring but remembers Dragoon Red’s words about perseverance and manages to shoot. Rion performs better, but Hotori’s friends cheer her up. Rion later mentions the night’s test of courage, and though Hotori is scared, she refuses to give up.[105]
During the test, Hotori freezes after a scare. Rion mocks her and escorts her to the finish line. There Hotori realizes she left her notebook behind; Rion goes back to retrieve it but does not return.[105]
Hotori lies to the teachers and searches the forest. She finds Kyubey, who offers her a contract: any wish in exchange for becoming a magical girl who fights witches. When she finds Rion acting strangely, Kyubey explains Rion has a witch’s kiss. Rion enters a witch’s barrier, and Hotori follows.[105]
Terrified but thinking of Dragoon Red’s words, Hotori makes her wish: “I wish to be a hero strong enough to protect Rion.” She defeats the witch alone, saves Rion, and is relieved when her sister wakes up safe.[105]
Months later, Hotori now fights witches with a team. During one battle she freezes and is saved by Rion and Yukika Nanase. Yukika asks about Hotori’s notebook, and Hotori explains she wants to be brave like the sentai heroes. Yukika privately knows the truth from another timeline: the twins’ memories were altered by Rion’s wish, and Hotori’s original wish may have been to become strong enough to protect Rion. Hotori, unaware, continues striving to be a hero.[105]
Rion's Side Story
At the mall, Rion forces Hotori to try on cute clothes despite Hotori wanting hero toys. When two girls call them cute, Rion jealously chases them off, insisting that she and Hotori only need each other. She reminds Hotori that they became magical girls together after being saved by a white‑feathered older sister and joined the Wings of Magius, so they will always be together.[106]
The next day at school, Rion repeatedly interrupts Hotori’s interactions with classmates, demanding she only needs her. After classes, Hotori runs away and meets Yukika at a cafe, confiding that she fears Rion hates her. Yukika suggests it is jealousy and advises honesty.[106]
That night, Rion secretly writes a guide called “100 expressions of love that even Hotorin could understand,” determined to make Hotori recognize her love.[106]
The next day, Rion tests her guide’s points: she criticizes Hotori’s lipstick choice, forces a longer route while holding her hand, and finally talks about Hotori’s favorite hero show. When Hotori grows suspicious of her strange behavior, she flees, declaring Rion is not her real sister.[106]
That afternoon, Rion overhears Hotori happily talking with a classmate about hero toys. Realizing Hotori never smiles like that with her, she blames her own inability to be kind and honest. She accidentally swaps notebooks with Hotori and flees.[106]
That evening, they confront each other. Hotori admits she saw the cover of Rion’s guide and realizes Rion’s controlling behavior came from love, not hate. They reconcile, and Rion asks to sleep in her room.[106]
That weekend, the twins meet Yukika. Rion says they became magical girls on the same day, but Yukika privately reflects that Rion actually made a wish to reverse time and save Hotori from being crushed, altering both their memories. She wonders if she will ever tell them.[106]
At the clothing store, Rion continues forcing dresses on Hotori. Yukika observes that this strange possessiveness is simply Rion’s way of showing love.[106]
Meguru's Side Story
Meguru joins the Broadcasting Club, but her senpais later announce it will close due to low membership. Though she feigns indifference, she secretly wants the club to remain so she can pursue her dream of becoming a popular MC. When Kyubey appears, she wishes to become a popular mistress of ceremonies in exchange for becoming a magical girl.[107]
After her wish, she discovers she can narrate events with unusual power, accidentally motivating classmates. She is drawn into a witch’s labyrinth and rescued by Momoko Togame, who takes her to Mitama Yakumo. Momoko suspects Meguru’s magic strengthened the witch. Mitama asks Meguru to act as MC for an event in the Mirror Witch’s barrier.[107]
At the barrier, Meguru narrates battles for Tsuruno Yui, Meiyui Chun, and Akira Shinobu, but her words also empower their mirror copies. After struggling to control her magic, she successfully motivates the originals to win. The group agrees she has a gift for motivating others, though they must flee when more copies appear.[107]
A few days later, Meguru finds her club still at risk of closure. Hinano Miyako arrives and asks Meguru to MC for the chemistry club to attract new members. Meguru’s senpais decide to promote her involvement as a club activity.[107]
The next day, Meguru and Hinano give a joint presentation that draws interest to both clubs, and Meguru collects sign‑up requests.[107]
Later, Kyubey asks why she wanted to be an MC. Meguru explains she admired many fields but never excelled until now, and she thanks him. She learns she only gets one wish, but she is confident she will meet amazing people on her own.[107]
Hotaru's Side Story
Akari wakes Hotaru for school as usual, teasing her for sleeping in her magical girl outfit. Hotaru’s family thanks Akari for helping her become more active. At school, Hotaru sleeps through morning classes; Akari brings her lunch, and when male classmates tease Akari for being her guardian, Hotaru shrugs it off. Akari cries that Hotaru’s indifference is annoying and runs out. After school, Hotaru cannot find her.[108]
The next day, Akari does not come to wake her. On her way to school, she remembers the class rabbit she cared for that died in its sleep, and she worries the same could happen to Hotaru. Hotaru searches for Akari but cannot find her and fears she has been abandoned.[108]
A few days later, Hotaru stops sleeping in class, earns top exam scores, and submits a painting that impresses artist Alina Gray. When Akari sees her changed behavior, she cries, saying Hotaru is no longer herself.[108]
They talk alone. Hotaru admits she thought Akari was angry at her laziness. Akari confesses she was upset because Hotaru reminded her of the rabbit that died, and she is afraid of losing her. Hotaru explains she became a magical girl by wishing to sleep longer; she manages life by doing just enough to take care of herself. She tells Akari she wants to live for her family and friends, and because Akari makes her want to try a little harder. They reconcile.[108]
The next day, Akari wakes Hotaru again. Hotaru’s family is relieved, and at school Hotaru returns to her usual sleepy self. Akari accepts her as she is, and their friendship resumes as before.
Jun loses her glasses and is found by Mikura Komachi and Temari Kira. After they help retrieve her glasses, Jun thanks them and invites them to the Tomorrow candy store. She later goes there herself, buys her usual, and plays with local children. When Mikura and Temari return, worried about a lost library book by folklorist Dr. Tasuke Satomi, Jun helps them retrace their steps. At Natsume Books, they realize the book was simply swapped between the girls’ bags. While examining it, they discover a handmade map of Sankyo with an X marking the Tomorrow store, leaving Jun curious.[110]
The next day, Jun returns to Tomorrow and overhears the owner talking about financial trouble—the building may be sold for new apartments. While watching the store, Jun finds a hidden pot of gold coins. She later visits Natsume Books again, where Mikura and Temari show her a photo of the map. Jun grows suspicious of a man she believes is a debt collector and worries the owner is in danger. Kyubey appears and offers her a contract; Jun wishes to protect the Tomorrow store.[110]
Because of her wish, the owner discovers the gold coins were an inheritance from her late husband, which allows her to buy the building. Jun learns the map came from a book the owner’s husband had donated. She meets Kyubey afterward and reflects on her wish. Kyubey confirms she changed the outcome from uncertain to certain, and Jun accepts her role as a magical girl, satisfied the store will not close.[110]
Ashley's Side Story
Ashley roams Kamihama for vlog material but encounters a witch. She finds Riko Chiaki with her dog, helps defeat the witch, and leaves the Grief Seed for Riko. Riko later invites her to an accessory shop in Sakae Ward.[111]
At the shop, Ashley admires a gurokawa hairclip and explains the style to Riko. They run into Emiri Kisaki and Rika Ayano, who nickname her Ash. Rika tells them about a spot in Hokuyo Ward famous among manga fans.[111]
At that spot, Ashley and Riko bond over Phantom Thief Magical Kirin and meet Karin Misono, another fan. The three explore together before Ashley and Riko part ways with Karin. Ashley gets hungry, so Riko takes her to her family’s bento shop.[111]
Riko’s parents give Ashley croquettes as thanks. Watching Riko with her family makes Ashley homesick. She confides that her mother is an actress who often visited Japan, sparking Ashley’s love for kawaii culture. Her father opposed her studying abroad without explanation, so Ashley wished for his approval with Kyubey and became a magical girl. She feels guilty about it now. Riko suggests she make a vlog of her time in Kamihama to show her father how happy she is.[111]
After filming and editing the vlog, Ashley shows Riko the result and posts it. She nervously waits, then gets a call from her father. He says he watched the video and gives his wholehearted support for her studies abroad, making her tear up with joy.[111]
Several weeks later, Ashley receives a package from her father containing a gurokawa teddy bear. Before she can enjoy it, her mother video calls with the news that her father has passed away. Ashley realizes he was ill and had lost weight when they last spoke. She regrets her wish, believing it cost her time with him. The teddy bear falls over, and she takes it as a sign to honor his last words: to do what she loves most in the place she loves so much.[111]
Sae's Side Story
Sae maintains a perfect image while secretly struggling with her family’s poverty. She meets her best friend in an empty classroom with Hinano and Maria, discussing her new tutoring job and Hinano’s science show. That night she turns down Kyubey, but after finding her parents facing wage garnishment, she vows to support her family.[112]
The next day she tells her friends about her family’s past. Hinano warns her not to let her “evil” smile show around others.[112]
The following day, the tutoring job is canceled when the wealthy family accuses her of being poor and untrustworthy, triggering memories of being wrongly shamed as a child. She makes a contract with Kyubey, wishing everyone at school would believe she comes from a respectable family. She returns to find the play ended and her friends gone.[112]
The next day she discovers Maria and Hinano no longer remember her. Her best friend leaves a formal farewell note. Kyubey explains her wish erased those friendships. After defeating a witch, she meets Hinano and Maria again—now as magical girls—and slowly rebuilds their friendship.[112]
Sae volunteers with Maria at a daycare while helping Hinano with lab equipment. When they discuss a drama club play, Sae realizes her former best friend was the screenwriter. Though Hinano and Maria no longer remember that friendship, Sae understands her friend’s desire to make others smile still lives on, and she cherishes the bond she now has with Hinano and Maria.[112]
Rui's Side Story
At Kosho Academy, Seira Mihono searches for a protagonist with a secret for her new film. Her classmates suggest Rui, a mysterious girl who never talks about herself. Rui, who knows the rumors are untrue, feels guilty. Lost in a fantasy where she fights terrorists as “Fortress, the Sorcerer,” she is interrupted by a classmate and, too shy to answer a simple question, retreats into her thoughts. She reflects that in her mind she is a cool heroine, but in reality she cannot connect with others.[113]
A flashback shows Rui’s wish one year ago: Kyubey appeared, and when she learned her cat Susy was going blind from a genetic illness, she wished for her familiar’s eyes to be healed, saving Susy’s sight.[113]
That evening, Rui fights a witch, indulging in her usual monologues, unaware that Seira is watching. After the battle, both discover they are magical girls. Rui panics, thinking her chūnibyō secret is exposed, but Seira instead asks her to star in her movie, believing Rui’s natural intensity would be perfect.[113]
The next day, filming begins. Rui embraces her fantasy persona as the “Blue Viscount” and impresses everyone with her acting.[113]
A few days later, the finished movie screens at school; Rui receives widespread praise. But when classmates later comment that such a cool character could only exist in fiction, Rui feels isolated, as if her true self is unacceptable.[113]
A flashback reveals Rui’s childhood best friend introduced her to fantasy anime. When they reunited in middle school, the friend dismissed their past interests as childish, causing Rui to hide her true passions ever since.[113]
In the present, Seira notices Rui’s sadness and invites her to lunch. Rui confesses her chūnibyō. Instead of judgment, Seira compares her to a superhero with a hidden identity, saying she finds that cool. Rui realizes Seira truly accepts her.[113]
A few days later, while walking with classmates, Rui senses a witch and signals Seira. Together they enter the barrier, fighting as partners. Rui reflects that even though they are different, she is happy to have found a friend who accepts her completely.[113]
At Mitama’s adjuster shop, Karin Misono finds Kush sleeping inside the tent. Mitama explains that Kush cannot stay awake during the day due to her wish: “I just want the morning to never come.” Kush reveals she made her wish because she longed to live in a fantasy world like the one in her favorite book, 'Good‑Bye Fable,' and her magical girl outfit resembles the story’s protagonist. Ui Tamaki and Little Kyubey arrive, and Kush briefly attacks Little Kyubey, mistaking him for the Kyubey she despises. Over tea, Mitama notices Kush’s long canine teeth stained red and later receives a message from her sister Mikage about a rumor of a vampire girl in the Hokuyo Mountains. Karin and Kush agree to investigate together, but Kush runs off to her night class.[115]
On the weekend, the two meet up with Riko Chiaki and Ashley Taylor, who are making a horror video about the same rumor. The group searches the mountains at night. Kush can see in the dark and leads them, but she is still sleepy. They find a discarded camera containing a video of Rui Mizuki dropping it and disappearing. When a mysterious sound frightens the others, they accidentally leave Kush behind. Left alone, Kush eats cherry tomatoes and senses a witch. The others return, enter the barrier, and find Kush already defeating the witch, her teeth stained red again. Mitama realizes Kush herself is the “vampire girl” of the rumor—her pale skin, fangs, and tomato stains seen at night made people mistake her for one. They also learn that Rui is Kush’s friend; she had filmed Kush entering the barrier before being caught by it. The group later glimpses a white‑haired silhouette and flees, thinking a real vampire might exist.[115]
Ashley posts a video warning others to stay away from the mountains. At Mitama’s shop, Ui hears about the incident and learns the vampire was just a misunderstanding. Meanwhile, Chika Aoba, whose animal traps and axe cuts the group had found, decides to move her work farther from the trails so she does not frighten anyone else.[115]
Homura and Madoka spend the day together in Kamihama, enjoying each other’s company until they encounter Ria Ami, a model and magical girl who has already defeated the witch they were tracking. Ria invites them to tea and later takes them to the fashion district, where she notices that Homura’s attention never leaves Madoka. Admitting her jealousy, Ria says she wishes someone would look at her the same way, and Homura replies that she will protect Madoka. After Ria departs, Homura thinks that even if Madoka does not realize how cool she is, she will still save her.[117]
On another day, Homura steals weapons from a group called the Soukaihou using her time stop, but she is caught afterward by Meiyui Chun, a magical girl affiliated with the group. Instead of punishing her, Meiyui thanks her for taking weapons that belonged to troublemakers and invites Homura to share mapo tofu. Over the meal, Meiyui learns Homura fights to protect someone precious to her and says she understands, offering her support and suggesting the spicy dish whenever the burden becomes too painful to bear.[117]
Sometime later, Homura is practicing her shooting alone when Natsuki Utsuho, a magical girl who cheers for others, offers to encourage her. Natsuki deduces Homura’s time stop ability and gives advice that significantly improves her aim. When Natsuki suggests Homura ask Mami to coach her, Homura calls, and Mami arrives within an hour. Mami uses her ribbons to move within Homura’s time stop during a sparring match, praising her rapid progress afterward. Homura agrees to return to Mitakihara with Mami, reflecting that she will keep moving forward to become a magical girl capable of protecting Madoka.[117]
Sayaka's Side Story
On a Saturday, Sayaka arrives in Kamihama City to go shopping with Kyosuke Kamijou, though she insists it is not a date. When she hears a scream, she runs toward it and discovers Hinano Miyako at an empty elementary school. Hinano explains she was bumped on the head while setting up the chemistry lab, and Sayaka decides to help investigate. They find the culprit was a baseball that flew through the window from the baseball club practicing outside. Hinano returns the ball to a child and gives Sayaka a perfume she made, wishing her good luck on her date despite Sayaka's protests.[118]
Later in the shopping district, Emiri Kisaki approaches Sayaka, drawn by the perfume. After realizing Sayaka is not Hinano, Emiri offers to coordinate her wardrobe, claiming to be the "Cutest in the World." Sayaka learns Emiri is also a magical girl but remains unsatisfied with the outfit suggestions, explaining the person she likes does not care about appearances. Emiri takes her to the top of a tower, where they view the city at night. Sayaka thanks her before heading to the train station, reflecting that her love is supported by the magical girls of Kamihama.[118]
The day of the outing with Kyosuke arrives. After buying a CD, Kyosuke messages that his train is delayed. Sayaka fights a Witch she senses and meets Kokoro Awane, defeating it together. With time to spare, Kokoro invites her for tea. Sayaka shares that she became a magical girl to heal someone she loves, and Kokoro reveals she wished to bring her family together. Though problems remain, Kokoro believes she can unite them through her own power, and Sayaka finds strength in her words. When Kyosuke is about to arrive, Kokoro encourages her, and Sayaka runs to the station, feeling it will be a good day.[118]
Mami's Side Story
One day in Kamihama, Mami saves Kanoko Yayoi from familiars, and Kanoko explains her dream is to become a fashion designer. Mami advises her on Witch hunting and encourages her to name her own attacks. Kanoko decides on "Yayoi Collection," thanks Mami, and they part ways.[119]
On a later day, Mami is approached at a cafe by Rika Ayano, who admires her fighting style and asks to be friends. They spend the day shopping and at an arcade, and Mami admits she has not enjoyed herself like this in a while. Rika reminds Mami of Kyoko Sakura, and Mami reflects on her friendships in Mitakihara. They exchange contact information and agree to hang out again.[119]
On another day, after Mami fights off familiars, Nanaka Tokiwa confronts her, having heard rumors about the strongest Magical Girl from Mitakihara. Nanaka wants to team up or fight her, and Akira Shinobu arrives, also eager to challenge Mami based on exaggerated rumors. Mami agrees to fight them on one condition: they have tea with her first.[119]
During tea, Mami observes that Akira is kind and Nanaka is a strategic genius, and she admires their partnership. Afterward, they decide to postpone the fight, and both Akira and Nanaka realize they appreciate each other more because of the conversation. Mami says she is willing to work with them in the future, and they agree to have tea again next time she visits Kamihama.[119]
Kyoko's Side Story
Kyoko arrives in Kamihama City and encounters Ren Isuzu fighting a familiar. She stops Ren from killing it, explaining it's a waste of Grief Seeds, but the familiar escapes. Ren shares that she became a magical girl after a suicide attempt caused by bullying and that she was killed by a witch. Kyoko dismisses her but secretly follows, rescuing Ren when the familiar transforms into a witch. She gives Ren the Grief Seed, admitting that helping her didn't feel as wrong as she expected.[120]
On a later day, Kyoko meets Manaka Kurumi, who offers to cook for her after noticing her unhealthy eating habits. Manaka brings Kyoko to her father's restaurant and makes omelet rice. When Manaka asks about her relationship with food, Kyoko is reminded of how her wish destroyed her family, but she simply says that eating is living and that she decided to survive no matter what. Kyoko admits she enjoys the cooking and promises to return.[120]
Another day, Kyoko investigates a rumor about the Hanasaka Girl and meets Konomi Haruna, a florist and magical girl. Konomi offers to let Kyoko keep all Grief Seeds if they can be friends, and Kyoko agrees to a collaborative relationship. When they encounter a witch, Kyoko insists on fighting alone, but Konomi follows and gets injured. Kyoko reluctantly carries her home, where Konomi gives her a nadeshiko flower to match her name. Kyoko later realizes she stuck it in her hair and reflects that she ended up meeting a cute witch despite herself.[120]
Ultimate Madoka's Side Story
In the Law of Cycles, Ultimate Madoka senses an abnormal thread of fate and follows it to a universe she cannot enter, with Kamihama City as the source of the anomaly. She sees Homura Akemi and her alternate self heading there, and notes that Kamihama entwines the fates of many magical girls, including Oriko, Kazumi, Suzune, and Tart. She also finds Touka Satomi and Nemu Hiiragi, who were never supposed to become magical girls.[121]
Panicking because she cannot prevent magical girls from becoming witches in this universe, Madoka investigates. She discovers the source blocking her intervention originated when the Holy Quintet first visited Kamihama, and she observes how Touka and Nemu—fated to die in every other universe—are alive and plotting with the Magius to lure Walpurgis Night to hatch Eve. Madoka reflects that their plan, if successful, would achieve what she herself accomplished. Unsure whether to intervene, she decides to investigate further and chooses Iroha as her next focal point, since this is the only universe where Iroha contracted.[121]
Madoka observes Iroha’s past and finds the singular difference: on a normal day, Iroha took her usual shortcut but accidentally kicked a small pebble, nearly making her late. This tiny butterfly effect led to Iroha contracting and Ui, Nemu, and Touka surviving, derailing the universe’s fate. Madoka realizes Homura’s time loops and overlapping causality created this one-in-a-million chance.[121]
Madoka decides not to interfere, fearing a clash that could destroy the universe. However, she laments that she may have no choice but to trample Iroha’s wish if this universe, now a singularity, threatens the stability of all other universes.[121]
Madoka's Swimsuit Side Story
Madoka arrives at a resort with her friends, carrying her mother’s challenge to do something she can only do now. After rescuing an old woman’s hat from the sea, she learns the hat was a gift from the woman’s daughter, Himari.[122]
The group spends the day swimming, building a sandcastle, and splitting into smaller activities. While walking alone, Madoka meets a photographer who shares her own regret: as a child, she made a friend named Himari during one summer, but a petty argument kept them from meeting one last time; she later learned Himari had been ill and died. The photographer suggests Madoka and her friends join the resort’s Memory Photo Rally to see night‑blooming barringtonias.[122]
The girls complete the rally together, with the final photo taken at a sunflower field. That evening, a storm cancels the flower tour, but the photographer invites them to meet the next morning.[122]
The next morning, the photographer leads them to a hidden pond where barringtonia blossoms float. She reveals this was the special place she and Himari had planned to visit. Madoka recognizes Himari’s name and, with her friends’ help, finds the old woman from the beach.[122]
The old woman and the photographer meet; the photographer confesses her guilt over their childhood fight, but the woman explains Himari never mentioned any quarrel—her illness suddenly worsened that day. The two women reconcile, and both thank Madoka for bringing them together.[122]
On the final morning of the trip, the photographer gives Madoka a photo she took at the flower pond. Madoka reflects that the thing she could only do here was to reunite the two women and give them peace. Her friends call her for one last swim, and she runs off to join them, already thinking of returning to the island someday.[122]
Homura's Swimsuit Side Story
Homura visits Kamihama to find clues for reaching a happy ending and meets Sayaka, who is in town to pick up an album for Kyosuke. Sayaka notices Homura seems down and brings her to the beach for the Kamihama Magical Girl Fishing Festival.[123]
At the registration counter, Mitama announces that all participants must wear swimwear and offers to transform outfits for free. Homura appears genuinely excited, making Mitama feel slightly guilty. Sayaka runs into Kanoko, who persuades her into wearing a bizarre mushroom‑mermaid costume. Homura changes into her swimwear and meets Iroha and Sana, learning that many magical girls have gathered, including the Seika trio, Miyako and Emiri, Rena and Kaede, Meiyui, Himika, Konoha with her sisters, Manaka representing Walnuts, Tsuruno and Felicia representing Banbanzai, and Kokoro, Masara, and Konomi.[123]
Homura brings food to Sayaka, who is stuck in her costume. She admits she bought from both caterers out of pity for Banbanzai, though the food is too heavy for her hospital‑weakened stomach. They share the meal. After eating, Sayaka falls into a strange dream where Kyosuke leaves for Czech and Homura appears in the same mushroom‑mermaid suit, waking her in a scream. She finds Homura fishing her glasses out of the sea after they fell in during the chaos.[123][123]
No one caught any fish because several magical girls fell into the water. Mitama declares Homura the qualifying winner for at least catching her glasses and pits her against former champion Yachiyo, who has been hypnotized by Mitama and is acting euphoric. In her daze, Yachiyo mistakes Sayaka’s costume for bait and throws her into the sea. The suit is not waterproof, and Sayaka suffers electric shocks from the built‑in fan. Her Doppel activates, a mermaid that drags Yachiyo in as well, but Yachiyo begins water‑skiing behind it.[123]
Homura connects with the Doppel and manages to fish it up, winning the oversized trophy. Later, Sayaka thanks Homura and tells her they can watch each other’s backs, and Homura happily promises to help her no matter what.[123]
Homura's Swimsuit Doppel Story
Homura connects with the Doppel and manages to fish it up, winning the oversized trophy. Later, as the festival winds down, Homura is confronted by her own Doppel, which mocks her for enjoying herself. It blames her not only for Madoka’s death but for every death that has occurred, including Kuro’s, and preemptively accuses her of all the deaths still to come. The Doppel scolds her for relying on Madoka’s kindness and enjoying summer while Kuro lies dead. Though Homura confronts it more firmly than before, she cannot overcome it entirely. She retorts that moving forward is not the same as wallowing in self‑pity, and that protecting Madoka’s life alone is not enough—she must protect her happiness and her friends as well. She tells her inner self that she will not disappear.[124]
Kyoko invites Homura, Mami, Sayaka, and Madoka to the beach using tickets Mitama gave her after another accidental transformation into her magical swimsuit. The group swims, then Kyoko dominates the buffet. They discover a cliff diving spot, where Sayaka, Mami, and Kyoko take turns jumping while Madoka and Homura watch. They agree to return the day after next, since Madoka is busy the following day.[127]
The next day, Kyoko asks Mitama to let her keep the swimsuit form for the summer, then heads to the beach alone. There she finds Ui Tamaki practicing swimming by herself, desperate to learn by the next day so she can join her family cliff diving. Kyoko watches over her, and later Sayaka arrives to help. Ui improves, but a rip current nearly sweeps her away; Kyoko rescues her. Moved by Ui’s determination, Kyoko keeps training her until sunset, and Ui finally masters swimming.[127]
On the final day, the Mitakihara girls return to the cliff. Kyoko spots Ui with Iroha and Yachiyo, who are reluctant to let her jump despite her claims. Kyoko vouches for Ui’s hard work and near‑drowning experience, convincing them to allow it. Ui jumps successfully. Later, Kyoko visits Mitama to revert her outfit, explaining she wants to learn swimming properly rather than relying on magic. She trades a Grief Seed for money to buy ramune as payment for a teacher.[127]
After Mitakihara City’s school closing ceremony, Madoka, Sayaka, and Homura walk out together. Sayaka is glad the term is over, Madoka is excited, and Homura admits she will feel lonely without seeing them every day. Sayaka ruffles her hair and says they can still meet over break, whether hunting witches or hanging out. Madoka suggests visiting Mizuna Shrine in Kamihama for New Year’s to draw “Ultimate Fortunes.” Sayaka has other plans but encourages them to go together. After she leaves, Madoka asks Homura if she knows how to put on formal wear. Homura does not, so Madoka invites her to a kimono‑dressing class she found, saying she wanted the two of them to dress up with Sayaka but lacked the courage to go alone. Homura agrees.
At the class, the instructor dresses them first; Madoka thinks Homura looks beautiful, and Homura calls Madoka cute. When the actual lesson begins, Madoka struggles badly and trips, while Homura learns quickly enough that the instructor says she will have no trouble. Madoka takes a break outside, feeling useless. Sayaka happens by and asks why she wanted to dress up in the first place - to have fun. Sayaka tells her not to overthink; even if she makes mistakes, she will still have the memories. Encouraged, Madoka returns and finally manages to dress herself after another trip.
On New Year’s Day, both have their formal wear put on at a store. They joke that the class was interesting but not very useful for the real occasion. They take lots of pictures to show Sayaka, then wish each other a happy new year and go to Mizuna Shrine to draw fortunes. Madoka hopes everyone has a lucky year.
Kyubey approaches Kyoko at the arcade, asking her to test whether her doppel‑fused form will reappear if she transforms in Kamihama. Before she can respond, Nagisa arrives with an urgent problem: kindergarteners they once rescued recognized Nagisa at the park, and the teacher insists the children made it up. Nagisa has already started a cover story that they were filming an amateur movie and needs Kyoko’s help because Mami and the others are in school when the children visit.[131]
Kyoko and Nagisa meet the teacher and children at the park. The kids immediately recognize Kyoko, so the pair double down on the movie lie. The teacher is charmed and asks to see the production, forcing the whole team to commit. The Holy Quintet decides it is safer for the children to believe magical girls are fiction. They enlist Ashley for costumes, Sayuki for sword props, and Seira for film equipment and instruction. Kyoko and Sayaka will act as dueling magical girls; Madoka handles lights, Homura cameras, and Mami directs.[131]
On the day of the performance, Kyoko and Sayaka use quick‑change costumes while Nagisa sneaks discarded clothes off set. The children are awed by the glowing weapons and effects, explained with lighting tricks and soap bubbles. After the class leaves, the group reviews the footage and decides to keep a copy. Kyoko volunteers to return the borrowed items to Kamihama the next day and ask Seira to edit the video.[131]
Kyoko returns the props to Sayuki, then visits an aquarium to pass time. As she leaves, she spots the same kindergarteners, detects a witch, and rushes to fight it. She transforms into her usual magical girl outfit—not the doppel form—and defeats the witch. In her haste, she left her camera running outside; it captured her detransforming and her magic fading. The children find her and ask about the fire from her spear. Kyoko claims it was an optical illusion, but they are unconvinced.[131]
At Kosho, Kyoko meets Ashley and Seira. Seira sends the finished movie footage to the Quintet and then discovers the incriminating clip of Kyoko exiting the labyrinth. Kyoko asks if they can edit out the flames; Ashley, who has film‑production experience, handles the task while Seira realizes Ashley is the daughter of a famous filmmaker. The edited clip is sent to Mami as further cover, though Ashley scolds Kyoko for deceiving children.[131]
Kyoko later updates Kyubey. She explains that transforming in Kamihama did not trigger the doppel form, and Kyubey theorizes that the form requires a specific state of mind—a niche phenomenon that may never repeat but hints at new possibilities. Afterwards, Kyoko reflects to Sayaka on the nature of magic: the movie proved ordinary people can create similar effects, but magical girls must hunt witches. When Sayaka asks if she is feeling depressed, Kyoko insists she is just being philosophical, and the two slip back into their familiar banter.[131]
Felicia and Tsuruno go to Banbanzai, where Felicia quits her part‑time job. Tsuruno tells her father she is leaving home and school for good, having found somewhere she feels completely safe, then runs off with Felicia before he can respond. He recognizes the look on her face from a past tragedy.[133]
At the train station, Tsuruno admits she does not fully understand why she spoke to her father that way; she no longer feels like herself. She, Felicia, and Sana gather at the Magius headquarters, wanting to contribute. Mifuyu uses her illusions to try reaching Tsuruno, first taking her back to Banbanzai to remind her of her family, then to Mikazuki Villa to recall the relief she once felt there. Neither works. When Tsuruno points out that Mifuyu was the first to leave the villa and join the Magius, Mifuyu has no answer and ends the illusion.[133]
Mifuyu successfully frees Felicia and Sana from brainwashing, but Touka and Alina arrive and summon Tsuruno. Alina reveals Tsuruno will commit mass murder to compensate for destroyed Rumors.[133]
Touka explains Tsuruno will be fused with a new Rumor in Daito Ward, tasked with killing people to harvest energy and fighting anyone who interferes. Touka privately notes to Alina that if Yachiyo appears, destroying the Rumor will also kill Tsuruno, a setup meant to push Yachiyo’s team into despair.[133]
At an abandoned amusement park, Nemu’s Rumor describes a relaxing park no one would want to leave. Tsuruno’s role is to terrify and execute those who cannot fit or try to interfere.[133]
Nemu asks Tsuruno about a park where she felt relaxed. Tsuruno recalls going to an amusement park with her friends after Mel’s death. She remembers overhearing Momoko, Mifuyu, and Yachiyo discuss Mel, feeling they kept the truth from her because she was too weak. She decided she had to keep smiling for everyone’s sake.[133]
Days later, while hunting a Witch, Yachiyo notes Tsuruno’s Soul Gem is dark and suggests they take a break. They go to an amusement park to cheer up for Mel’s sake. Tsuruno threw herself into the attractions to forget her sorrows.[133]
Returning to the present, Tsuruno tells Nemu that the amusement park was the only place she could truly relax, because she did not have to think. At Mikazuki Villa she always felt she had to keep smiling to hold everyone together. With that, Nemu finalizes the Rumor’s theme as a place to sit back and relax. The Rumor springs into existence.[133]
Tsuruno fuses with a mascot to become Rumor Tsuruno. Using her imagination, she creates rides, a restaurant, a spa, shops, and a cafe. Mascots warn that once the park is complete she will become part of it and cannot return to the human world, but she says she has no regrets.[133]
The park is finished. As Rumor Tsuruno imagines the food menu, memories of Mikazuki Villa briefly surface, but she pushes them aside. The mascots and Ferris wheel wish her luck as the new manager.[133]
Eternal Sakura's Side Story
The Eternal Sakura begins as a story Iroha tells to Ui, Touka, and Nemu at the hospital—a tale of a girl waiting by a sakura tree to reunite with her three friends. Nemu loves it so much she writes it down, naming it the Eternal Sakura of Promises. That is Sakura's beginning, though she is only words in a notebook.[134]
Later, Nemu moves the Eternal Sakura and many other stories into a different book, rewriting them as Rumors and breathing her own lifeforce into them. They become real beings, freed but also bound to their rumors. Time passes, and the Eternal Sakura watches as other Rumors are destroyed. She alone keeps her physical form. When Walpurgisnacht attacks and the crisis ends, Iroha, Ui, Touka, and Nemu finally come to her meadow, reunited at last. The sakura tree bursts into bloom. All the Rumors now live together in Nemu's book, with the Eternal Sakura as the only one who can venture outside.[134]
Nemu eventually summons the Eternal Sakura and offers to rewrite her rumor so she can leave the meadow. Touka has prepared an internet server for her to download information needed to live among humans. In exchange, they will ask her for a favor later.[134]
Sometime after the Dreaming Cherry Blossom event, the Eternal Sakura arrives at Mikazuki Villa as Sakurako Hiiragi, a Rumor given human form. Touka asks Iroha to care for her for three days so she can learn through practice. Yachiyo agrees after Ui begs.[134]
On her first day, Sakurako cooks lunch that everyone declares the best they have ever tried. That night, she scores perfectly on homework and offers to tutor Ui.[134]
The next morning, she has already cleaned the entire house before anyone wakes. Yachiyo notes her helpfulness and suggests she start practicing in the outside world.[134]
The following day, they go to the mall. At the arcade, a man knocks Ui down and blames her. Sakurako hits him, demanding an apology, and when he refuses she hits him again, declaring she will end all enemies of Ui. Iroha stops her and they return home.[134]
Iroha tells Sakurako she is glad she defended Ui but should not hurt others. Sakurako transforms into her battle form, showing the power she wields to protect the four girls. Iroha asks her to promise not to use it except against Witches or real danger. Sakurako promises.[134]
Later that evening, Mifuyu arrives with Touka and Nemu to pick her up. They have arranged for her to attend Minagi Freedom School, where she will not know anyone. Yachiyo agrees it is best for her to keep some distance from Iroha and Ui.[134]
At her new school, Sakurako meets Hinano Miyako, who warns her not to mention being a Rumor in class. During introductions, Sakurako announces she is here to learn about human society, is technically zero years old, and has been assigned an age to match her appearance. The students think she is weird.[134]
Between classes, Hinano checks on her. Sakurako finds school boring and misses Iroha. Hinano suggests making friends would make school more fun, but Sakurako does not understand.[134]
During class, Sakurako announces she is bored and leaves to see Iroha. Ryo Midori from the school newspaper photographs her, but Sakurako runs off. She finds Iroha, who is angry she cut class. Iroha explains her actions cause problems for many people, including Touka. Sakurako promises to attend tomorrow, though she still finds school boring.[134]
The next day, Sakurako sits bored in class but keeps her promise. At lunch, she finds an empty classroom and sits alone, tears welling as she wonders if this is loneliness.[134]
Ryo finds her and offers a handkerchief. In exchange, Ryo asks why she is crying. Sakurako tells her everything, including being a Rumor. Ryo believes her and invites her to spend lunch together. In exchange, she asks Sakurako to be the newspaper's mascot with her own column. Sakurako agrees.[134]
She arrives home late and tells Iroha and Ui she made a friend. Iroha is worried, knowing Ryo's history, but Sakurako hands over a letter from Ryo. The letter states Sakurako needs emotional education before social education and should not be forced to attend school. Ryo promises to watch over her in exchange for the mascot role.[134]
Iroha realizes Ryo is right. Sakurako admits she no longer hates school. She now understands Hinano was correct: school will be more fun if she makes friends.[134]
Kagome looks through her graduation album with Aru and remembers her childhood. She was shy and had no friends until she met Hibari, another quiet girl who approached her using ventriloquism with a cat stuffed animal and gave her a Mandragora plushie. Kagome named the plushie Aru and used it to practice ventriloquism, and she and Hibari became inseparable best friends. Before Hibari's family moved away, she performed a charm ritual on Aru and promised they would meet again. Years later, Kagome receives a message that Hibari is coming to visit Kamihama City.[136]
Hibari arrives and they plan to visit an arcade. Along the way they encounter Himena's group and later help a lost Shizuka. After some confusion about directions, they reach the arcade where Hibari wins a crane game prize and helps Juri win one too. Hibari suddenly becomes pale and goes to get change, but she does not return. Kagome calls her and Hibari thanks her for being friends before saying goodbye, with an ambulance audible in the background.[136]
Kagome discovers a crowd under a Witch's Kiss heading toward a rooftop and sends emergency messages to every Magical Girl she knows. Himena's group arrives to help hold back the crowd, but other girls cannot come due to similar incidents elsewhere. Shizuka finally checks her phone and rushes over with the Tokime Clan just as someone threatens to ignite kerosene. They stop the crowd while Juri and Ao defeat the Witch with Livia's help. The Witch's Kiss is lifted and Hibari wakes up confused, with Livia covering that she collapsed from anemia.[136]
Hibari admits she felt faint because seeing Kagome surrounded by friends made her happy but also made her feel left behind and alone. Kagome insists Hibari is wrong and promises to come running whenever Hibari is in trouble, asking them to stay best friends forever. Hibari reveals the two wishes she made when they parted came true: that she could speak her mind loudly and that Kagome would make lots of friends. They renew their promise to remain best friends forever.[136]
The Tokime trio goes shopping and stops by Emiri’s office, where they meet Hinano and Kanoko. After awkward introductions, Shizuka admits she does not know what a factory is, so Kanoko explains. Emiri asks what country life is like; Chiharu and Sunao give different answers from Shizuka since they are more familiar with modern living. They mention meeting only recently, surprising Emiri. Shizuka proudly explains they are bound by their duty to protect Japan, and Emiri says, “As long as you have no regrets, it’s okay.”[143]
The comment makes Shizuka pause, because she never considered regrets; she had eagerly accepted her wish to break an economic agreement without understanding it, trusting it was for Japan’s good. After thinking it over, she searches for information with help from others, but finds nothing.[143]
Shizuka and Chiharu ask their mothers. Chiharu’s mother recalls the economic breakup was on the news but remembers little, saying it mainly affected industrial status quo. Unsatisfied, Shizuka decides the next day to view the elder’s files.[143]
The recording reveals her wish was bought by a man who wanted to save factories from closure. Shizuka is devastated to learn she was used, but she forces a brave face and intensifies training her tribe members.[143]
Sunao and Chiharu, troubled by Shizuka’s state, remember Kanoko’s family factory and seek Emiri’s help to contact her. Emiri suggests looking for people who were saved rather than those who suffered.[143]
Hinano explains that because the agreement fell through, local manufacturers like Kanoko’s father stayed in business, so there was little news. Chiharu and Sunao arrange a meeting at the factory and bring Shizuka. Kanoko’s father tells Shizuka his factory would have failed otherwise.[143]
Moved, Shizuka accepts that her wish was used but decides to take pride in what it accomplished. Full of resolve, she goes shopping alone while her fellow Tokime are at school.[143]
Chiharu's Side Story
The village falls into financial crisis after the elder dies, having squandered most of the wealth on bad investments. Chiharu, inspired by a drama about a Shogun helping villages find their charm, recruits Shizuka and Sunao to help. The two are glad for the change, as most Tokime tribes have been unreceptive to their stories.[144]
Touring the village with Shizuka and Sunao, Chiharu realizes she had been arrogant and now sees its charm—clear river, abundant mountain, kind villagers. The three propose developing tourism. Chiharu’s mother agrees after a trial run with her husband’s family.[144]
The trial run is messy but the family enjoys the landscape, harvesting, fishing, and hospitality. They give useful feedback, and Chiharu’s uncle notes the village’s unique fruit. They stay overnight and leave pleased.[144]
The villagers applaud Chiharu for noticing what they had overlooked. Her mother begins a proposal for tourism renovation funds, and the villagers regain their energy, working in tourism and seeking outside jobs.[144]
Sunao's Side Story
Shizuka, Chiharu, and Sunao go to a grocery store, but Shizuka freezes in the crowd, unable to complete a simple purchase because of her sheltered upbringing. Chiharu suggests they ease her into city life with ice cream instead. Shizuka loves it, eating so quickly she gets brain freeze.[145]
On the way home, Shizuka admits her mother will lecture her again about visiting the city unprepared. She asks if the others’ parents gave them similar advice. Chiharu’s parents only warned her not to waste money or follow strangers, while Sunao confesses she has never told her parents about her excursions—something Shizuka finds surprising given Sunao’s usual obedience. Shizuka advises her to tell them eventually.[145]
At Chiharu’s house, her mother brings up a village problem: a surplus of daidaikko fruit needs to be used before it spoils. A villager working in another town found a grocery store willing to feature it in a showcase, but the only available slots are the next two days, and transportation from the village is impossible except by Diviners. Shizuka and Chiharu propose the three of them run the exhibition themselves, which would also help Shizuka adjust to the city. Sunao hesitates but agrees. Chiharu’s mother consents only if they get permission from the store and from Sunao and Shizuka’s parents.[145]
Sunao’s mother interrogates her until she confesses the plan, then spirals into worry about middle schoolers working without a chaperone, carrying heavy loads, and coming home after dark. Sunao asks Chiharu and Shizuka to leave, promising she will convince her parents even if it takes all night. Outside, they reflect on how anxious Sunao’s mother is.[145]
The next day, Sunao has secured permission. At the store, Shizuka volunteers for the cash register but cannot operate it correctly. Sunao is tense because her parents plan to visit the next day. Their first day is a struggle: Shizuka fumbles with the register, Chiharu is distracted by traces of malice in the stocking area, and Sunao gets trapped listening to an elderly customer’s endless stories.[145]
After closing, Shizuka notes how worried Sunao’s parents seem, prompting Sunao to finally share her wish. She explains that her parents became relentlessly anxious after a trip to Tokime Village, questioning her constantly until she was nearly broken. Kyubey appeared, and she wished to erase the worries her parents had concerning her. The wish worked, but their fears simply shifted—now they worry endlessly about her safety as a magical girl. Sunao feels they are always upset with her, though Chiharu insists they only want her to be safe. Shizuka says Sunao must earn their trust, and tomorrow’s exhibition needs to go perfectly. With her friends’ support, Sunao agrees to try.[145]
The next morning, the three tackle the exhibition with renewed determination. The day starts poorly: Shizuka causes another register problem, Chiharu is pulled away by her sense of malice, and Sunao endures a difficult customer—all while Sunao’s parents enter the store. But Shizuka, moved from the register, begins advising the clerks on how to rearrange the store to better showcase the daidaikko. She persuades them to let Chiharu investigate on her own and to trust Sunao with customer service.[145]
Chiharu catches a shoplifter who had been repeatedly returning to the store. Sunao’s patience draws crowds after the elderly woman she helped spreads the word, and the exhibition becomes a huge success. Sunao’s parents apologize, saying they realized they had failed to see how capable she has grown. Sunao thanks Chiharu and Shizuka, then asks her parents to allow her to visit Kamihama City; now that she has her friends by her side, she knows she will be okay.[145]
Ryoko's Side Story
Ryoko’s story begins at Suitoku Temple, the Tokime Tribe’s base, which was slated for demolition while officials hid the harm it would cause. Though she is from a neighboring town, Ryoko is bound to the tribe by blood, and she makes a wish to disclose the demolition details—saving the temple. Raised by her grandfather in a strict Buddhist temple, she is told her mother was a hero who saved the country yet died and left her behind. Ryoko grows to resent heroism, viewing it as empty fame.[146]
Her cynicism is tested when Moka Megumi tries to save a drowning kitten despite being unable to swim. Ryoko rescues her and asks why; Moka says she simply cannot stand someone dying on her watch. Ryoko does not take her seriously at first, still believing people play the hero only to be seen as one.[146]
The turning point comes when her grandfather plays a recording of her mother’s final message. Her mother worked in intelligence, gathering intel on domestic terrorists, and when backup failed to arrive, she acted alone to prevent a war. The revelation shatters Ryoko’s old beliefs.[146]
She accepts the Tokime Tribe’s invitation—something she had previously refused. Her grandfather already knows she is a magical girl. Her debut in “A New Beginning” happens when she overhears a monk say the tribe’s members are coming to Kamihama; she goes to see for herself and arrives just in time to witness Touka’s Doppel.[146]
Shigure is at school when a paired assignment leaves her isolated until the class president reluctantly partners with her. Later, overhearing those same classmates insult the president behind her back, Shigure reflects that this is why she keeps to herself. After school she finds her mother has fallen for another pyramid scheme, forcing her grandfather to clean up the financial mess. Furious and despairing, Shigure monologues about her helplessness until Kyubey appears. Though she distrusts him at first, he convinces her she is special, and she wishes for her mother to never fall for scams again, becoming a magical girl.[149]
When the Magius’s barrier rises over Kamihama, witches grow too powerful for Shigure to handle alone. Mifuyu rescues her, shows her strength, and invites her to join the Wings of the Magius. After a day’s thought, Shigure agrees and learns the truth of magical girls.[149]
Shigure follows the Magius’s rule of concealing identities strictly, leaving her friendless while others secretly bond. One girl keeps trying to talk to her at the end of each day, but Shigure brushes her off.[149]
Walking home, Shigure sees a classmate under a witch’s influence about to commit suicide. She knocks the girl unconscious, enters the labyrinth, and is nearly defeated until a strange magical girl arrives. Together they kill the witch. Afterward the classmate dismisses Shigure’s help, but the stranger is kind. Shigure recognizes her as a fellow Black Feather; they introduce themselves as Hagumu and Shigure, and Shigure notes the warmth of Hagumu’s hands.[149]
Shigure and Hagumu grow close but quickly become jaded. Their families and classmates resent their constant lateness, which comes from Magius work no one can know about. Even the classmate Shigure saved never acknowledged her. They begin to believe magical girls are superior to ordinary humans and deserve recognition.[149]
Touka and Nemu happen upon them and explain Magical Girl Supremacy. Convinced they are the pinnacle of humanity, Shigure and Hagumu vow to make the ideology reality, no matter the cost.[149]
After the Magius falls, Shigure and Hagumu refuse to give up their dream. Together they form the Neo‑Magius.[149]
Mitsune has fallen into a depression after parting with Jun, spending over a year and a half as a shut‑in. One night after an argument with a classmate who refuses to bring her homework anymore, she overhears her parents worrying about her. Kyubey appears and convinces her that keeping Jun’s promise not to become a magical girl is only causing her pain. Unable to bear the loneliness, Mitsune makes a contract with the wish to stay a shut‑in for the rest of her life.[153]
Her wish removes all criticism of her lifestyle, and Mitsune gains confidence, creating a new blog persona called Mist and presenting herself as a hero. Kyubey warns that her magic is being consumed to maintain her body’s health, but she refuses to go out to hunt witches.[153]
Weeks later, her Soul Gem darkens, forcing her to leave home to find a witch. Terrified at first, she adopts her hero persona and defeats the witch with her taser. She saves a girl trapped in the barrier and, feeling genuine happiness for the first time, begins to wonder if being a magical girl might help her change.[153]
She continues saving people, and during a fight with a strong witch she is rescued by Hinano Miyako. Hinano praises her talent as a rookie and advises her to keep gaining experience rather than looking for shortcuts.[153][153]* For months, Mitsune follows Hinano’s advice, growing stronger. She becomes known as the “hero of Kamihama” for rescuing people without giving her name.[153]
One day she meets Hinano and Emiri Kisaki in the Minaginagi district. After saving a woman from a witch’s kiss, Hinano congratulates her and gives her homemade Ramune candy.[153]
That night, Mitsune senses a witch near the Tomorrow store, a place filled with painful memories. She enters the barrier alone and finds the witch too powerful. Mifuyu Azusa arrives, but Mitsune refuses to retreat, determined to protect the place of her memories. Her Soul Gem darkens, and she releases her Doppel, Claudia, which destroys the witch in one blow.[153]
Afterward, Mifuyu explains about Doppels and the Wings of Magius, but Mitsune declines to join. Hinano and Emiri arrive, relieved she is safe, and praise her for her strength. Mitsune runs away again, but now feels she has finally accepted her past self and truly begun to change.[153]
The Tokime Tribe holds a celebration to welcome Asahi. During introductions, Chiharu rambles excitedly about her favorite shows, and Asahi finds herself intrigued. When pressed to share more about herself, Asahi talks about hunting and the importance of minimizing suffering. That evening, Chiharu confides to Shizuka and Sunao that she still knows nothing about Asahi’s wish or background. Shizuka suggests they leave Asahi be, but Chiharu’s curiosity lingers, so Shizuka proposes a sleepover. Later that night, Chiharu wakes and sees Asahi speaking with a ghost—a woman whose funeral was recently held at the temple. Terrified, she bolts back inside, convinced Asahi might be a ghost too.[155]
The next morning, the head priest tells Chiharu about the onibaba, a demon who sharpens her knife and stalks the temple halls at night. Recalling the knives in Asahi’s room and the sound of sharpening, Chiharu concludes Asahi is possessed. Shizuka agrees they must perform an exorcism. The trio’s attempts—slapping Asahi’s back, giving her charms, trying hypnotism—fail, and Asahi grows suspicious she has been discovered as a mole. Overhearing them plan to search her room, she secures her belongings and rigs simple traps. When the girls invade, chaos ensues until Chiharu reaches Asahi’s room. Asahi confronts her with a knife, but the misunderstanding quickly unravels. The head priest admits he made up the onibaba legend for fun. Everyone apologizes, and they end the day with a shared dinner.[155]
Later, Asahi reflects to the Folklore girls on the Tokime Tribe’s purity despite their painful history, finding it difficult to maintain her distance as a mole. That night, she joins Shizuka, Chiharu, Sunao, Ryouko, and Chika for a meteor shower. When the others make wishes, Asahi confesses her own: she would go back and undo her wish, which she made to stop her grandfather’s meddling. Her wish came true in a roundabout way, leading to his death, and she realized too late his nosiness came from love. Pressed on what he meddled about, she admits it was her hobby—military history and steampunk—which she had been embarrassed to reveal. The others reassure her, and Chiharu finally understands why Asahi hid her belongings. As the meteor shower peaks, the group makes wishes for their futures together. Shizuka feels closer to Asahi despite still knowing little about her. Asahi, though she believes destruction awaits them, secretly wishes for their peaceful days to last and clings to a fragile hope.[155]
Nayuta dreams of proving folkloric studies superior to Touka, but Lavi wakes her with obnoxious humming. Lavi scolds her for being a deep sleeper and rushes her to school in Takarazaki City, where Nayuta complains that Lavi acts like a stern stepmother rather than a kind maid her age.[158]
In class, a self‑assessment exercise has Nayuta describe herself as quiet and diligent, but her peers call her stubborn, someone who hates losing and speaks her mind. She reluctantly accepts “stubborn” fits her persistent search for her father. The teacher introduces the Johari Window, explaining that without communication people understand themselves at most fifty percent and others only twenty‑five percent—a lesson that sticks with Nayuta.[158]
After school, Nayuta meets Iroha at the train station. Both are surprised the other remembers them. They discover they are the same grade and both hail from Takarazaki, and Iroha mentions she also searched for a lost loved one. Nayuta requests to see Yachiyo, apologizing for her bluntness. Iroha reassures her, noting they are both stubborn junior‑high girls from Takarazaki who came to Kamihama to find someone important.[158]
At Mikazuki, Yachiyo has no new information about Nayuta’s father. Tsuruno has Nayuta show a photo, but no one recognizes him. Felicia suggests Nayuta simply ask Touka, since she also grew up at Satomi Medical Center. Nayuta refuses, saying she cannot trust Touka, and apologizes for her stubbornness.[158]
The next morning, Nayuta admits to Lavi she slept poorly because she cannot stop thinking about Touka. Mikage arrives, upset after a fight with Sudachi: Mikage complained about school, Sudachi said she envied Mikage for being able to attend, and they argued over whose position was harder.[158]
Nayuta starts venting about Touka’s past cruelty, and she and Mikage bicker over whose problem matters more until Lavi defuses things with pudding.[158]
Mikage realizes she lost her handkerchief, so they go to the Tomorrow Shop and find Sudachi holding it. Accusations fly, but Nayuta orders them to stop trying to make each other look bad. Lavi explains that their recent fight has warped their perceptions, and Nayuta connects this to her class lesson about only seeing surface actions. They discover Mikage accidentally tucked the handkerchief into Sudachi’s bag because their bags match perfectly. Apologies follow; Sudachi admits she envies Mikage’s schooling, and Mikage admits she should have been more sensitive. They reconcile on the spot.[158]
Back home, Nayuta breaks down, telling Lavi she wants to “start over” with her parents. The Johari Window exercise made her realize she never changes her judgments and has lost relationships because of it. She tried to help Mikage and Sudachi only because she panicked they would lose each other like she lost her family.[158]
In flashback, Nayuta recalls her strict “tiger mother” and gentle father. Her mother pushed her relentlessly—once scolding her for scoring ninety‑five instead of first place—while her father’s laid‑back nature sparked constant fights between her parents. Unable to endure the household, Nayuta made a wish: to make her mother as calm and gentle as her father. Instead, her parents divorced. With her personality changed, her mother realized their opposite temperaments had balanced each other, and their love was lost. Her father understood it was a magical girl’s wish.[158]
Back in the present, Lavi tells Nayuta that self‑awareness is the first step to change, using a fable about not clinging to old assumptions. People grow, and while Nayuta cannot repair every lost relationship, she can still fix some.[158]
Nayuta reconciles with Touka, apologizing for slapping her before and for failing to see how she has grown. Touka admits she was awful in the past and respects Nayuta’s father now. Peace lasts only a moment before Touka insults his appearance, and Nayuta slaps her again and storms home. Lavi approves of her standing her ground, and Nayuta realizes she and Lavi are more alike than she thought.[158]
Mikage's Side Story
While having tea with Lavi and Nayuta, Mikage is in a foul mood and eventually reveals that Mitama “betrayed her.” She had gone to surprise Mitama only to find her laughing and joking with a group of friends, which made Mikage feel abandoned because she thought neither of them had any. Lavi suggests Mikage make her own friends among Magical Girls, and Mikage’s mood instantly lifts.[159]
At school, classmates who used to bully her avoid her, but Mikage is determined to find Magical Girl friends. Himika tells her about Emiri’s counseling center, so they go there together.[159]
At the center, Emiri, Sasara, Asuka, and Kanoko are delighted to meet Mitama’s little sister. Mikage explains she is looking for a friend, but Emiri points out they are already her friends. After some banter about fashion, Mikage tries on Kanoko’s outfits and has a wonderful time.[159]
Later, Mikage wonders if the older girls truly see her as a friend or just as a kid. Himika suggests she meet girls her own age like Ui, Touka, and Nemu, though Mikage is uncertain about befriending the geniuses.[159]
When she returns home, Mitama warns her that Ui has been kidnapped by Promised Blood and forbids Mikage from associating with the Kamihama Magia Union. Mikage reluctantly agrees but is frustrated her efforts to make friends have been stopped.[159]
Some time later, Mitama leaves for work and Mikage accuses her of hypocrisy—Mitama can spend time with the KMU while Mikage cannot. She runs out, declaring she will find a new big sister. She finds Emiri’s office closed but runs into Rika and Ren, who quickly realize she is Mitama’s sister.[159]
Rika and Mikage bond over fashion and go to some cheap stores, where Mikage realizes she left her wallet. They play a crane game instead, and Rika wins stuffed animals for Ren and Mikage. Mikage asks Rika to be her big sister; Rika declines but encourages her to talk to Mitama.[159]
Still not ready to go home, Mikage tracks down Kanoko at her family’s factory. Kanoko lets her help make a pendant, but before Mikage can convince her to become her sister, Mitama arrives and drags her home. Kanoko tells Mikage that having a strict family member who cares is a good thing.[159]
At home, Mitama scolds her for blocking her calls and reminds her they are in a war. Mikage finally vents that Mitama gets to have all the friends while she is forbidden from making any. Later, she finds Mitama has made all her favorite foods, and they reconcile off‑screen; Mikage gives Mitama the pendant she made.[159]
Some time later, Mitama wears the pendant everywhere. She has an errand involving the mayoral election and sends Mikage to return a bento box. On the way, Mikage meets Ui and Riko, who recognize her as Mitama’s sister. Even though she is supposed to avoid the KMU, Mikage agrees to play after they help Riko finish her chores.[159]
Mikage tries to act like the big sister but keeps making mistakes. When she asks why Ui and Riko are so kind, Ui explains that Magical Girls are born of hope and know pain, so they try to be kind—something she learned from Iroha. The three finish their work and go off to play together. Mikage decides she wants to be friends with them and someday introduce them to Sudachi.[159]
The next day, Mikage tries to go out again but Mitama stops her, and Mikage admits she was going to see Ui and Riko. Mitama asks her to stay home, and Mikage agrees. Soon she gets texts that Ui and Riko have also been ordered to stay indoors. Mikage flashes back to the night she made her wish and reflects that ever since then she has felt like she is “riding a wave” and cannot move forward, but she knows she cannot do it alone.[159]
Over tea with Lavi and Nayuta, Mikage explains that Mitama keeps her from meeting KMU girls. Lavi mentions the KMU are upset but does not say why, and Mikage accepts the lack of answer, surprising Nayuta. Mikage says that all of this had to happen and that she is waiting for a “big wave” she cannot resist—that will be her time to act. She thinks to herself that she has known her sister’s wish and has already pushed back against the wave Mitama caused.[159]
Mikage declares she will not give up on making Kamihama Magia Union friends. She then decides that since Lavi and Nayuta are older, they can be her big sisters instead. They exchange a look and agree to treat her for one day. Mikage expresses her hope that someday she and Sudachi can play with everyone.[159]
Sudachi was a loner in her class, keeping to herself to avoid trouble. One day, a former classmate of her teachers stormed in with a gun and knife, taking everyone hostage. After torturing the teacher, he demanded a hostage to help him escape. Because she had no friends, her classmates eagerly pushed her forward, and even the criminal noted that no one would care if she died. As she trembled with fear and confusion, Kyubey appeared and offered her a contract.[161]
Out of anger and fear, she wished that only she would be rescued. Kyubey asked her to reconsider, but with the criminal advancing on her, she confirmed her wish. Kyubey granted it, and the man suddenly declared that she was a kindred spirit—an outcast like him. He said he would spare her alone and kill the rest. The trauma of the event and her regret over the wish left Sudachi with PTSD that made her unable to speak.[161]
Later, a magical girl named Livia invited Sudachi to Kamihama, where their work might offer her salvation despite its difficult costs. Sudachi followed her.[161]
There, she met Mikage Yakumo, who had overcome her own painful past and still loved her family unconditionally. Mikage extended her friendship to Sudachi, telling her she was giving her the benefit of the doubt even after learning the truth about her wish. Touched, Sudachi found her first real friend in Kamihama—someone who believed she could eventually be saved.[161]
Yozuru's Side Story
Mifuyu tails Yozuru, suspecting Puella Care members are up to no good. She watches Yozuru grin at a book and follows her throughout the day—first to Banbanzai, where Yozuru’s compliment moves Tsuruno’s father to tears, then around various shops where she receives warm reactions from vendors. Mifuyu briefly considers that Yozuru might manipulate emotions but dismisses the idea because Yozuru is a coordinator.[162]
Yozuru plays piano at a pharmacist’s request, impressing everyone, then meets Livia Medeiros and Sudachi Sawa. Sudachi exposes Mifuyu, who decides to introduce herself directly. Livia leaves them to talk. At Puella Care’s headquarters, Yozuru serves food; Mifuyu hesitates, suspecting poison, but Yozuru taste‑tests it first. Mifuyu is surprised by how good it is.[162]
When Mifuyu asks what Puella Care means to her, Yozuru says it makes her feel free. Mifuyu shares her own strict upbringing. Before Yozuru can elaborate, members of Promised Blood arrive. They nearly clash with Mifuyu, but Yozuru tries to defuse the tension with funny faces. The group leaves, and Mifuyu concludes Yozuru is gentle.[162]
Later, Yozuru meets Livia and Sudachi again. Yozuru worries she lacks the kindness to be a good coordinator, but Livia encourages her. Sudachi’s stomach rumbles, and Yozuru prepares snacks.[162]
In a flashback, young Yozuru lived under her mother’s strict, sometimes abusive control. She found freedom only after her mother died, but discovering her mother’s diary filled her with regret, and she planned suicide. Kyubey appeared; instead of reviving her mother, Yozuru wished to “kill her…” so that she could continue living. Kyubey erased her guilt and kindness.[162]
Back in the present, Livia warns Yozuru that her inability to read emotions will make coordinating difficult. Yozuru replies that her mother trained her to face worse and declares she will live to the fullest.[162]
One day, Yachiyo wakes at Mikazuki Villa and briefly senses Iroha's magical signature before it disappears. She sends Felicia and Sana off to school, then meets Momoko, Rena, and Kaede for lunch. Rena confesses she screamed in class, unable to contain her frustration that everyone has forgotten Iroha. Yachiyo realizes she had convinced herself she accepted Iroha's disappearance but had actually just given up.[164]
Yachiyo meets with Mifuyu, Kanagi, and Hinano to discuss Magical Girls' declining mental states. That evening, she finds Sana's discarded picture book manuscript. Sana explains she lost interest in writing, worried her message will not reach others. Yachiyo invites everyone to go somewhere the next day.[164]
Yachiyo brings the group to the radio tower observatory, where they sense Iroha's magical signature radiating from above, confirming she is still working to save Magical Girls. Felicia is absent. Later, Yachiyo meets with Yuna, Shizuka, Himena, and Lavi to discuss the ongoing grief before departing.[164]
Yachiyo attends the Kamihama Student Conference results meeting, where Mifuyu notes Rena has improved since seeing Iroha's signature. Yachiyo receives a call from Tsuruno: Felicia has run away. That evening, Felicia calls, planning to leave Kamihama to escape her guilt. Yachiyo tracks her location and rushes to the station with Tsuruno. Tsuruno finds Felicia, who confesses she cannot forget Iroha. Tsuruno shares Yachiyo's message: they should say "thank you" rather than "I'm sorry." Felicia agrees and returns home.[164]
Kagome and Aru lead Yachiyo and Felicia to a location near the Rumor of the Eternal Sakura, where Iroha's presence is stronger. Yachiyo suggests a picnic there. She leaves for a magazine interview, where she admits Iroha is no longer by her side. Later at Mikazuki Villa, Yachiyo attempts to make Iroha's hamburger steak recipe but is overwhelmed by grief and retreats to her room, admitting she fears she is breaking.[164]
Preparations for the picnic are underway. Yachiyo reveals her true purpose: she plans to use the Rumor of the Eternal Sakura to bring Iroha back by traveling through the Mirror Witch, even offering to take Iroha's place. When the others refuse to help, she attempts to go alone. Felicia uses her oblivion magic on Yachiyo and she forgets the plan entirely. Yachiyo continues preparing lunch as if nothing happened. They travel to the Rumor for the picnic. Along the way, Yachiyo asks the others to stop her if she ever loses control and tries something insane, admitting she can act on impulse when she loses composure. She also tells them they are all irreplaceable to her.[164]
Yachisnow
Yachiyo sits at Mikazuki Villa knitting, feeling nostalgic as she works with old supplies. When Iroha notices a scarf with a snowflake pattern nearby, Yachiyo explains she knitted it in elementary school as a Christmas gift for her parents. Ui, Tsuruno, Sana, and Felicia return home and ask to hear the full story, so Yachiyo retrieves the scarf from the time capsule where she had hidden it years ago.[165]
She explains that her parents moved frequently for work, and to be closer to her modeling agency, she went to live with her grandmother at Mikazuki Villa. Her parents dropped her off but had to leave immediately for work, and though Yachiyo acted mature to avoid worrying them, her grandmother saw through her facade. At her new school, Yachiyo struggled to make friends because her modeling schedule always interfered, and she lied to her mother during their daily phone calls about having friends and watching popular shows just to ease her concerns.[165]
A few months later, after becoming a Magical Girl and meeting Mifuyu, early December arrived. Yachiyo's parents visited briefly and mentioned the cold weather, inspiring her to make them Christmas gifts. She settled on scarves, and her grandmother agreed to teach her to knit. One week before Christmas, her grandmother revealed that her parents had arranged to take Christmas Day off to spend with her. Though Yachiyo acted indifferent, she was overjoyed and worked even harder on the scarves.[165]
On December 23, Yachiyo finished both scarves and went to bed excited for Christmas. The next morning, however, it snowed heavily and her mother called to explain that roads were closed and both parents were required to work. Yachiyo held back tears and told her mother not to worry, but after hanging up, she broke down crying in her grandmother's arms. Her parents never arrived, sending presents and a letter by mail the next day instead. Unable to look at the scarves, Yachiyo hid them in a time capsule.[165]
Back in the present day, Yachiyo finishes her story, explaining that she no longer feels sad looking at the scarves, only nostalgic. Sana observes that Yachiyo was cherished by many people and now takes care of others the same way. Ui notices Yachiyo is knitting new scarves for everyone at Mikazuki Villa, and the girls all request lessons so they can knit one for Yachiyo in return. Yachiyo takes them to the same yarn store her grandmother brought her to years ago.[165]
Suddenly, Yachiyo's phone rings. Her parents are in town on business and visit immediately. Her mother notices the old scarf and picks it up, and to Yachiyo's shock, both parents recognize it immediately, knowing exactly how old it is. After a brief visit, they must leave for work. Yachiyo's mother admits they always worried about her after her grandmother passed, but seeing her now, surrounded by friends, puts them at ease. They depart as snow begins to fall, and Yachiyo wraps her own knitted scarf around herself.[165]
Mifufire
The girls gather at Mikazuki Villa to watch a children's show called "Secret Heroine Mimikal☆Mimiko." Mifuyu arrives and joins them, and after the episode ends, the conversation turns to nostalgic childhood programs.[166]
Prompted by the discussion, Mifuyu shares memories of a show from her own childhood, "Secret Heroine Typical☆Tina." Living in a strict household, she found escape in her dreams after becoming a Magical Girl. Using her magic, she created a dream world where she transformed into her own heroine, experiencing the freedom and praise she lacked in reality. After meeting Yachiyo during a Witch hunt, she began including her in dreams, imagining a version where Yachiyo relied on her.[166]
However, as she grew closer to the real Yachiyo, the gap between her dream self and real self became painful. Eventually, the real people in her life stopped appearing in her dreams one by one, starting with Yachiyo. In the end, even a kind version of her mother disappeared, and Mifuyu stopped having dreams entirely.[166]
The others listen and react, with Rena relating to feeling ashamed of her past self while Iroha, Ui, and Felicia try to understand. Mifuyu explains that facing reality allowed her to grow, but she never stopped holding onto her ideals. She acknowledges her failures, including her time with the Wings of the Magius, but states she does not hate herself.[166]
After the conversation, Mifuyu prepares to leave for a visit to her parents. Yachiyo tells her she would make a wonderful big sister and gives her a feather. Walking away, Mifuyu wonders if Yachiyo meant for her to consider how her childhood self would see her now. Imagining a conversation with her younger self, Mifuyu realizes she has grown stronger and decides she wants to become the ideal big sister she looked up to as a child.[166]
Amane Sisters' Swimsuit Side Story
Ria, Mayu, and Manaka give the sisters their rented beach space, and the sisters end up spending the day with Team Yachiyo in a water pistol shooting match. They have more fun than they expected, but Tsukuyo suffers a heat stroke and is cared for by the group after Tsukasa panics. When Tsukasa tries to repay the favor, Yachiyo jokes that she should quit the Wings of Magius, then smiles when Tsukasa refuses as expected.[167]
The next day, Tsukasa joins Team Yachiyo in a volleyball tournament while Tsukuyo cheers from the sidelines. Their final opponents are Miyako, Kokoro, Masara, and Ren, with Ren proving surprisingly athletic. Miyako’s team wins after Yachiyo avoids stepping on a rare hermit crab, but everyone agrees Tsukasa has repaid her debt, and the sisters admit they had a wonderful time. They end the day drinking juice Yachiyo bought for them and buying matching crescent moon accessories in different colors.[167]
Iroha & Yachiyo's Final Battle Side Story
Iroha and Yachiyo go grocery shopping during a sale. Felicia sneaks an expensive cut of meat into the cart after Tsuruno quotes a show, forcing Yachiyo to buy it. Back home, Yachiyo punishes Felicia and Tsuruno by making them organize the storage room, where they find an old photo of Yachiyo with her former modeling group.[168]
Late that night, Iroha discovers Yachiyo worrying over their strained finances. Iroha wants to help but can’t get a job.[168]
The next day, Yachiyo’s manager mentions a well‑paying photo shoot needing a replacement model. Recalling Iroha’s interest, Yachiyo asks Iroha to fill in. Iroha agrees, hoping to ease the household’s money troubles.[168]
Several days later, Iroha nervously practices posing at school. Rena, Momoko, and Kaede find her; Rena offers to help. Meanwhile, Yachiyo excitedly prepares for the shoot until Sana and Ui realize Iroha only accepted out of financial worry. Yachiyo finds Iroha training at a café and apologizes for pushing her. They clear up the misunderstanding, and Iroha decides to still try the shoot—but suggests they simply act natural together in front of the camera.[168]
After the shoot, Iroha admits it was a failure: she froze when they tried to be serious. Still, they had fun and kept a photo that shows their close bond. Because they didn’t get the job, the household faces a tight budget, much to Felicia and Tsuruno’s dismay.[168]
Rika & Ren's Holiday Side Story
Rika and Ren plan for their friends’ Christmas party a week away and promise to spend Christmas Eve together. While looking at options in a magazine, they cannot decide on a place. Ren buys the magazine to think it over, privately hoping to choose somewhere that will make Rika happy, though she doubts whether she truly belongs beside her.[169]
The next day, Ren visits Emiri’s consultation room but finds only Akira and Ria Ami. She explains her dilemma, and Ria takes her around town to evaluate possible locations. They rule out a restaurant, an amusement park, and a romantic cafe, eventually settling on the Minagi Aquarium. Ria is surprised to learn Ren is planning an outing with Rika, not a boyfriend, but Ren leaves feeling confident in her choice.[169]
The day before Christmas Eve, Rika attends a party with her school friends. When she mentions she will spend Christmas Eve at the aquarium with a friend, her friends press to join, but Rika refuses. She advises them not to look for boyfriends just to avoid being alone. Later, while walking with her friends, Rika spots Ren chasing after Aimi Eri. She follows and finds Ren comforting Aimi over a misunderstanding involving a boy; the situation resolves without trouble.[169]
On Christmas Eve, Ren waits for Rika, who messages that she overslept with a fever. Ren worries Rika became sick chasing after her the day before. Before she can reply, Aimi finds her, and they go shopping together. Aimi encourages Ren to visit Rika instead of staying apart. Ren goes to Rika’s house, knocks on her window, and insists they spend Christmas together there so Rika can rest.[169]
They exchange gifts: Ren gives Rika scented candles, having noticed Rika’s interest from a sticky note, and Rika gives Ren a glass candlestick. Rika hopes they can visit the aquarium another time, and Ren leaves happy to have shared Christmas with her.[169]
Kanae arrives at Mikazuki Villa with a letter for Yachiyo's grandmother. While waiting for Yachiyo, she ends up having tea with the grandmother, who shares memories of Yachiyo and Mifuyu growing up—their failed surprise party, helping a lovesick university student, and Yachiyo standing up to Mifuyu's mother after a koto recital. Kanae grows emotional, feeling she only causes trouble compared to them.[171]
Yachiyo and Mifuyu return, revealing they noticed Kanae had been avoiding them. They explain they saw her birthday on her student ID and wanted to celebrate it directly rather than with a surprise. The three girls, along with Yachiyo's grandmother, decide to go shopping together so Kanae can choose her own gift.[171]
As winter arrives, Touka, Nemu, and Ui finish their school day in the hospital. Their teacher announces a Christmas party, and while most students are excited, Touka complains it is pointless. Ui learns Touka and Nemu have never attended a Christmas party and becomes eager for the three of them to celebrate together. Touka and Nemu immediately start bickering over who gets to spend time with Ui, until Iroha visits and remarks how much they have all grown since they first met. Later in Ui’s room, Iroha and Ui’s mother step out, and Ui suggests they plan the Christmas party together to stop another argument.[173]
The next morning in class, Touka and Nemu are both convinced Ui would rather spend the party with them individually. They make a contest: each will propose a party plan at the class meeting, Ui will pick the winner, and the victor gets Ui to herself all day.[173]
At the class meeting, Touka presents an extravagant plan where she rules as king; Nemu counters with a sequel to her Kagetaro story to be read by Ui. Both refuse to consider what the rest of the class wants, and when the teacher suggests they rethink, Touka storms out and Nemu flees in tears. Later, Ui tries to comfort them separately, but Touka and Nemu end up in a vicious fight that reduces Ui to tears. Ui confesses she has never celebrated Christmas with friends or family and simply wants to spend it with her two best friends, then returns to her room, leaving them shaken.[173]
That night, Touka and Nemu separately sneak to Ui’s room to leave apology notes. They run into each other and, realizing they both want to make things right, decide to work together on a plan that will truly make Ui and their classmates happy.[173]
In class, Touka and Nemu present a joint idea combining everyone’s suggestions: a puppet show, handmade cards, carols, and a visit from Santa. Everyone agrees. On the party day, everything goes well. Touka’s father appears as Santa, bringing gifts. Afterward, Ui gives Touka and Nemu presents she had hidden under her bed—the same place she once feared until Nemu’s story helped her overcome that fear. Touka and Nemu also have gifts for Ui, and though they refuse to admit they got anything for each other, they share a smile seeing how happy Ui is.[173]
Two years later, during the events of Christmas String, Touka and Nemu look back on that Christmas. They cringe at their past behavior but acknowledge they genuinely enjoyed it. Despite everything they are now caught up in, Nemu admits she treasures this Christmas too, and they agree to arrange another party for Ui, this time inviting Iroha and Sakurako.[173]
Mitama asks Momoko to be her partner for the Beachside Perfect Pair Contest. The prizes include a scallop BBQ, Candy World tickets for Mikage, and a giant stuffed bunny Rena and Kaede would love. Momoko agrees, and Mitama immediately drags her out shopping.[176]
They browse swimsuits, but Mitama insists on choosing thoughtfully rather than buying on a whim. They separate briefly, and Mitama runs into Mikage, deflecting questions about what she’s doing. Momoko later admits she also had to make excuses after running into Rena and Kaede. Instead of buying swimsuits, Mitama brings Momoko back for an adjustment.[176]
After the adjustment, they emerge in new swimsuits—Momoko’s tailored perfectly to her tastes, leaving her flustered but secretly pleased. Mitama teases her and admits she’s nervous but excited.[176]
On contest day, Mitama and Momoko play on the beach. They learn the contest requires performing a shared beach memory with chemistry. They plan to tell the story of Mitama’s deserted island ordeal while Momoko adds her side of worrying. While playing, they fight a Witch together—the first time Mitama has teamed up with someone—then run straight into Rena, Kaede, and Mikage.[176]
The three accuse them of sneaking off to the beach. Mikage is upset because Mitama once lied to keep her from swimming. Rena and Kaede are hurt Momoko excluded them. Momoko and Mitama confess the whole plan, and the trio admits they’d been stalking them. They enter the contest just in time.[176]
They win by performing the events of the day instead of their planned story. Rena claims the stuffed bunny, and Mikage gets the Candy World tickets, immediately inviting Mitama. Apologies are exchanged, and the others ask for no more secrets.[176]
Later, while Mitama and Momoko clean up, Rena and Kaede take Mikage to get drinks. A girl from Mitama’s past confronts her: the one Mitama accidentally shoved down the stairs years ago. A crowd gathers, muttering rumors, but Momoko defends Mitama and the crowd disperses. The girl realizes it was an accident and offers to help clear Mitama’s name, but Mitama declines, saying she no longer needs it because she has someone who believes in her.[176]
Rena, Kaede, and Mikage return, unaware of what happened. They make plans to get watermelons from Kaede’s garden, leaving Mitama and Momoko alone. Over ice cream, Mitama teases Momoko until Momoko thanks her. Mitama reflects that Momoko will always be there to stop her when she’s wrong and help her make things right. She jokes about what else they can do together, and Momoko says she’ll go to many places with her—just not a deserted island.[176]
Madoka & Iroha's Side Story
Iroha travels to Mitakihara to buy gifts for Yachiyo’s manager and runs into Madoka by chance. After shopping and spending time at Madoka’s house, she misses the last train, so Madoka calls Mami and the rest of the Mitakihara group for an impromptu gathering. The evening turns into a pajama party at Mami’s place, where Iroha cooks a feast and everyone enjoys dessert and conversation.[177]
During their talk, they detect a Witch from a Mirror Witch branch and enter to fight it, but an ambush knocks Iroha and Madoka into a separate mirror world. There, they find versions of Mami, Sayaka, and Kyoko working together without Madoka, while Iroha discovers that in this world, she died in an accident and Ui succumbed to illness, leaving her mother devastated. Shaken but resolved, they find their way back, reunite with the others, and return home as dawn breaks, more determined than ever to cherish their own world.[177]
On Christmas morning, Nayuta wakes to Lavi shaking sleigh bells as an alarm, though Lavi’s arm now aches so much she vows never to do it again. Mikage arrives early, determined to spend the whole day together. She insists they use their Befana outfits—coordinated by Yozuru and Sudachi but set to vanish after Christmas—to do something special. Inspired by the legend of Befana, who leaves treats for children, Nayuta proposes they bake gifts for other magical girls.[179]
At the store, they enter a costume contest to win high‑quality eggs, and Nayuta and Mikage easily take first place. With their ingredients secured, they return home to bake. Lavi ends up doing most of the work after Nayuta and Mikage’s attempts go awry, but together they produce an assortment of treats, including a perfect strawberry cake.[179]
They first visit Mitama’s shop, where they meet Maria and Konomi. Mikage hands out sweets, crediting Lavi’s teaching, and Mitama permits them to visit the Mikazuki girls after receiving a cake. At Mikazuki House, they deliver gifts and see everyone enjoying their own Christmas celebrations. Iroha mentions that people in the shopping district call Lavi “the second Yachiyo Nanami,” and Nayuta realizes she herself knows little about Lavi.[179]
At Suitoku Temple, the Tokime clan gladly accepts the treats. Listening to them recount their Secret Santa exchange, Nayuta feels envious of how close they are. At Puella Care, they learn Livia attempted a clumsy Santa surprise for Yozuru and Sudachi. The visits leave Nayuta troubled, thinking about Lavi spending Christmas away from her family.[179]
Back home, Lavi surprises Nayuta and Mikage with matching scarves—one for each of them, completing a set with her own. Nayuta is overjoyed and later gives Lavi the strawberry cake. After dinner, Nayuta reflects on how much she still does not understand about Lavi. She considers using her Befana outfit’s magic to trace Lavi’s thoughts through the scarf, but when the chance passes at midnight, she feels relieved. Instead of prying with magic, she decides to have a cup of tea ready for Lavi when she returns from escorting Mikage home.[179]
Arc 2
Every Lucky Bag a Dream
On January 1st, Yachiyo leads the Mikazuki girls in a coordinated strategy to purchase lucky bags at the Kamihama Supermarket. They split into three groups and successfully secure various household items. After comparing their hauls, they realize all the ingredients they bought are suitable for hot pot. They decide to invite other Magical Girls from the Union for a New Year's party.[180]
Elsewhere, Shizuka excitedly opens her first lucky bag from a boutique, only to receive an assortment of mismatched, outdated clothing. Chiharu and Sunao gently redirect her from wearing them by suggesting she have them remade by a tailor and study fashion magazines instead.[180]
Ao buys board games for everyone, hoping to introduce Yuna to them. Hikaru and Sakuya purchase ice cream from Yuna's favorite store. Touched by their thoughtfulness, Yuna resolves to continue protecting everyone in Futatsugi.[180]
Hagumu and Shigure are dragged into New Year's crowds against their will. Himena and Alexandra buy cosmetics and accessories, then give thoughtful gifts to the reluctant pair. Despite their initial resistance, Hagumu and Shigure end the day feeling hopeful about the coming year.[180]
Mikage, excited by a TV segment, wants to buy a lucky bag with only 300 yen. Lavi and Nayuta give her a handmade "special lucky bag" filled with items from Nayuta's home as a New Year's gift.[180]
Livia receives a gorilla-themed lucky bag from Sudachi, who selected it based on its online popularity. They play cards with a punishment for the loser: wearing a gorilla kigurumi. Livia loses and reluctantly puts on the costume, only to sit on a whoopee cushion Sudachi placed. Livia laughs despite herself, and Yozuru declares the strategy a success.[180]
Kyoko, Sayaka, Mami, Madoka, and Homura buy a wagashi lucky bag but realize they have too much to finish. They encounter the Mikazuki girls, who invite them to the hot pot party. Everyone gathers at Mikazuki Manor to celebrate the New Year together.[180]
Over twelve consecutive days, various Magical Girls at Mizuna Shrine draw fortunes. Iroha and Ui preside over the draws, offering encouragement each day. The fortunes range from Good Luck to Great Luck, with occasional repeats. On Day 11, a visitor draws Pure Luck, the rarest fortune, prompting Sana to declare that something great must be waiting for them. The Mikazuki girls continue their tradition, hoping each visitor's new year will be blessed.[180]
Our Beginning is a Recurring Dream
After Arc 2 Chapter 5
Hazuki meets with Nanaka to discuss the Kamihama Magia Union, observing that while Nanaka's team holds different views on joining, they remain united. She reflects that her own group's strict neutrality may no longer be viable, as Ayame has started making friends and helping them puts them at risk. Later, Ayame, Kako, and Felicia are confronted by Promised Blood members seeking revenge for a previous encounter. Ayame sends a vague warning before fighting, and she is ambushed and cornered, but Konoha and Hazuki arrive in time to rescue her. That evening at home, the three discuss their situation. Ayame wants to continue helping her friends, while Hazuki argues their neutral stance is no longer working. Ayame shares that she has been reading a career book recommended by Kako and thinking about her future. Konoha is uncertain and asks for time to consider.[181]
Mitama introduces the three to Nayuta, a Magical Girl from Takarazaki who recently moved to Kamihama. Nayuta has been attacked by Promised Blood, who mistook her for an impersonator, and she needs an escort to visit Satomi Medical Center to find information about her missing father. She asks the neutral trio to be her bodyguards. After discussing overnight, the three formally decide to accept. Konoha, despite her fears about change, agrees for the sake of their future. Ayame coins the name "Azalea Sisters."[181]
Later that day, the Azalea Sisters escort Nayuta to Satomi Medical Center. They encounter Promised Blood members, including Sakuya, who is suspicious of their neutral claims. After a brief standoff, Sakuya decides to observe them for now. Nayuta explains she is searching for her father, a scholar researching Magical Girls who disappeared without explanation. They defeat a Witch near the hospital, and Nayuta shares her goal of publishing a book to inform the world about Magical Girls, hoping to reduce the number of girls who make contracts. Ayame is inspired by this.[181]
Over the following days, the Azalea Sisters receive numerous bodyguard requests. They establish three conditions: clients must be Kamihama Magical Girls regardless of affiliation, they only take defensive actions, and payment is a Grief Seed shared after Witch hunts. Hotori requests their help, and Ayame coaches her to fight Witches independently. Hotori admires Ayame as her "Pink-senpai" and wants to become strong enough to protect her sister and friends. Through training, Hotori defeats a Witch on her own for the first time, and Ayame reflects on Nayuta's example, realizing she wants to do something for others, not just herself and her sisters.[181]
Chika secretly hires them to distract the Neo-Magius so Tokime Clan members can return to their village. Hazuki devises a plan to pose as interviewers researching Magical Girl Supremacy, keeping the Neo-Magius occupied while Chika's group escapes. Chika explains she only recently learned of her connection to the Tokime Clan but loves them for restoring her faith in people.[181]
Maria requests help defeating a fast Witch near the preschool where she volunteers. After the battle, Maria shares her dream of becoming a nursery school teacher. Konoha is reminded of the Azalea House director and begins considering a future helping orphans.[181]
The day following these requests, the three reflect on how bodyguard work has changed them. All have begun thinking about their individual futures. They receive an urgent request from Sae Kirino, who was referred by Maria. Sae needs help defeating a Witch at the cargo port immediately. They arrive to find an offshoot Mirrors Labyrinth. Sae is anxious to enter, and sensing she is hiding something, Konoha decides to trust her and accept the request.[181]
That night inside the Labyrinth, Sae reveals her younger sister Sayumi wandered inside while looking for a lost stuffed animal. They search while fending off copies. Sae explains her family is the reason she works hard, similar to the Azalea Sisters. They find Sayumi's name tag and push deeper. A second Witch appears, having migrated through the Mirrors. They find Sayumi collapsed but alive. Sae insists on retrieving her sister's stuffed animal, which is stuck to the Witch. Konoha agrees while keeping everyone's safety in mind. During the retrieval, Sae is struck by an attack. Her Soul Gem shatters. She dies.[181]
The following day, the Azalea Sisters return Sayumi home, lying that her sister is missing. They inform Mitama and Livia they are suspending bodyguard activities. The three are devastated and uncertain about the future.[181]
Each sister meets with friends who are worried about them. Ayame meets Kako, who insists they are not murderers and reminds Ayame how many girls she has saved. Ayame admits she is scared of letting someone else die and feels she cannot be a bodyguard anymore. Hazuki meets Nanaka, who seeks information about the Witch and observes that the sisters' atmosphere has changed since becoming bodyguards. Hazuki considers returning to their old ways. Konoha meets Maria, who pleads with Konoha not to quit, saying Sae's death and their efforts would have no meaning if they give up. Konoha is moved and agrees to reconsider.[181]
That evening, the three gather to decide their future. Ayame wants to stop being bodyguards and stay in Kamihama, too afraid of causing another death. Hazuki wants to stop being bodyguards and leave Kamihama to start over somewhere new. Konoha wants to continue being bodyguards in Kamihama, honoring what they have learned and Sae's memory. They choose Konoha's path. All three have found dreams through their work and want to keep fighting for them. They resolve to complete Sae's original request: defeat the Witch that killed her and the offshoot Mirror Witch.[181]
The next day, the three return to the Labyrinth alone. It has grown larger and more dangerous overnight. They struggle against increased copies. As they near the core, they are ambushed by copy traps but are rescued by Nanaka's team, Hotori, Rion, Maria, and Kako, who have all come to help after learning of their decision. Konoha accepts their help. The group clears a path while the Azalea Sisters push forward.[181]
That night and into early morning, they encounter the Witch that killed Sae. During the battle, a copy of Sae appears and leads Konoha deeper into the Labyrinth. Konoha chooses to follow. The copy attacks her, and Konoha is gravely wounded, collapsing near the core and facing the offshoot Mirror Witch alone. Hazuki and Ayame arrive. All three unleash their Doppels simultaneously, destroying the Witch and the Labyrinth. They emerge at the cargo port at dawn, exhausted but alive. Sae suddenly appears—she had used her unique magic to fake death and hide, but was trapped in the Labyrinth until its destruction. She is alive and well.[181]
Two days later, Sae visits to thank them and offer payment. They decline a second Grief Seed, asking instead that she advertise their bodyguard services as a living witness to clear their reputation. Sae agrees. The three discuss their futures over dinner. Konoha wants to work with children like the Azalea House director. Ayame wants to become a bodyguard. Hazuki wants to reform the system for orphans from behind the scenes. They make a new promise: to always support each other and make their dreams come true.[181]
The Peaceful Daily Life of Nayuta's House
Two days before Valentine's Day, Lavi is shopping when Nayuta finds her to share news about her math test score. They return home where Lavi prepares dinner, and Nayuta discovers Lavi earned perfect scores in every subject, highlighting the gap between them.[182]
The next day while Lavi runs errands, Nayuta confides in Mikage about her fears that Lavi only respects her father and secretly resents serving her. Seeking answers, Nayuta visits Mitama, who suggests that kindness and broad-mindedness are the traits she needs to develop.[182]
That evening, Nayuta observes how hard Lavi works attending school, studying, handling housework, and fighting witches. Worried she might collapse, Nayuta offers Lavi time off for her upcoming sixteenth birthday and secretly plans a surprise party.[182]
One week later on Lavi's birthday, Nayuta and Mikage struggle through cleaning the house and preparing a celebration. Their efforts are interrupted when Lavi returns early for lunch, scolds them for the mess, but leaves again at Nayuta's insistence.[182]
When Lavi returns that evening, the handmade kusudama falls onto the cake and catches fire. Lavi extinguishes it with water, and Nayuta is left mortified as her surprise party fails spectacularly.[182]
Over the following days, Nayuta senses lingering coldness from Lavi and struggles to find the right way to apologize. Remembering her father's example, she decides to catch and cook a fish as an apology gift.[182]
That same day at a fishing center, Nayuta encounters girls from the Tokime clan who teach her how to gut fish. Despite being disturbed by the process, she perseveres and eventually catches the exact fish she wanted.[182]
Returning home late, Nayuta discovers a threatening letter addressed to Lavi and deduces it must be connected to the serious trouble from Lavi's hometown. She rushes to the market street with Mikage to protect her.[182]
At the market street, Nayuta confronts the man speaking with Lavi, declaring herself as Satomi Tasuke's daughter to intimidate him. The man reveals he is simply a stalker with no connection to Lavi's past, and when he becomes agitated, Nayuta tackles him unconscious as a crowd applauds.[182]
That night, Nayuta presents the cooked fish and apologizes. Lavi admits she was barely angry anymore and thanks Nayuta for protecting her, acknowledging she was just like her father in that moment. Nayuta produces a second kusudama and cake, and this time the celebration succeeds. As they pick confetti from the cake, Lavi quietly says she will continue to admire Nayuta until the final day.[182]
Wrap Your Feelings Up for Valentine's
Ui runs into Yuna and Juri while buying Valentine's chocolate, and they decide to attend a free wrapping workshop together. At the workshop, they find Ashley, Ayaka, Kanoko, Meiyui, and Nanaka already there. After wrapping, Ashley suggests taking group photos to commemorate the occasion, and they take turns capturing the moment. Later that night, Ui receives the photos from Ashley and smiles, hoping everyone had a wonderful day.[183]
The Flower That Blooms in a Hollow Heart
Yuuna invites Chika, Hotori, Rion, and Yukika to dinner and proposes forming a team to search for the Kimochi gems, which she believes grant the power to guide people to salvation. She wants one to become like the saint she admires. The group accepts, though Chika privately knows the truth about the gems and asks Shizuka to keep an eye on them.[184]
They begin investigating by questioning magical girls around the city, though their methods are haphazard. They encounter Shigure and Hagumu, who follow them silently, and Ranka Chizu, who warns that asking about the Kimochi invites bloodshed. Yukika eventually suggests visiting Mitama, where Mifuyu explains the gems' connection to the automatic purification system. That evening, Yukika urges everyone to stay together for safety. Yuuna is willing to continue alone if necessary, but Chika's troubled expression makes her change her mind, and she decides they should spend the next day together instead.[184]
Yuuna takes them to an amusement park to relax. Chika confesses she has been spying for the Tokime Tribe and apologizes, but they do not mind and are happy to be friends with her.[184]
As they head home, Yukika asks about the saint who inspired Yuuna, and she describes being saved from a witch by someone who descended from the heavens with a gentle smile, using a pure white bell and muskets. Chika and Yukika realize she means Mami Tomoe, a normal magical girl. When Yuuna walks in on their discussion, she asks if it is a joke, and their silence sends her running away.[184]
Yuuna broods in her room, feeling guilty for dragging everyone into a meaningless search. If she misunderstood, then everything she lived for has been an illusion.[184]
At a cafe, the group discusses how to help her. Rion recalls meeting Mami before becoming a magical girl and describes her as gentle and cool, like an ally of justice. Chika forms an idea. Meanwhile, Yuuna remains in her room until her parents' concern and a flood of messages from Chika draw her outside. Chika gives her dried persimmons and asks about her pain. Yuuna admits she feels hollow and does not know what to believe anymore. Chika cannot answer her difficult questions but refuses to leave her in a slump, asking Yuuna to trust her.[184]
They take a train to Mitakihara. As they walk through the city, they encounter a witch barrier. Inside, Yuuna runs ahead upon seeing a mother and daughter in danger, but her tainted soul gem makes her too slow. Mami appears and destroys the witch with a Tiro Finale. Yuuna recognizes her saint and hides, ashamed. Chika explains that Mami fights day and night to protect everyone. Yuuna confesses she has always been empty. Her family's prosperity gave her everything without effort, leaving her with nothing worth living for. The saint's light reached her, and she believed becoming like her would fill the void. Now she knows it was a misunderstanding and feels undeserving of Chika's friendship.[184]
Before she can leave, Yukika, Rion, and Hotori tumble out of hiding. They had been spying to help find Mami. Rion tells Yuuna her emptiness has nothing to do with her value as a friend. If she is empty, she just needs to fill that void. Chika assures her a flower can bloom anywhere. Yuuna asks if they will still accompany her, and everyone says yes.[184]
Chika reports to Shizuka that the team has stopped looking for the gems. They just do not need them anymore.[184]
At St. Lilliana, Yuuna meets with Rion and Hotori. Her new objective is to better herself to get closer to the saint, even if she does not know how and might fail. She thanks them for staying with her. She will work hard, so she asks Mami-sama to look after her.[184]
Mitama's Special Training - Sudachi
Sudachi trains as a Coordinator while living with Livia and Yozuru, but she struggles with her fractions lessons and notices Livia has been distracted by responsibilities in Kamihama. Seeking to cheer her up, Sudachi consults Mikage, who suggests demonstrating real growth as a Coordinator would please Livia most.[185]
Sudachi successfully performs her first emotion fragment adjustment for clients, a task she had previously avoided to receive Livia's attention, but the achievement feels hollow. Partnering with Mikage, she investigates the Kamihama Magia Union by approaching former Neo-Magius members and offering free adjustments, learning that the Union operates with a small core group while most members focus on self-preservation. Their activities draw suspicion from hostile Magical Girls who accuse them of breaching neutrality, but Sudachi asserts herself until Juri intervenes.[185]
Returning late past her study time, Sudachi faces Livia's anger and momentarily flees. Livia tracks her down and reveals her frustration stems not from anger but from concern over her own inadequate teaching. Having learned of Sudachi's accomplishments through others, Livia praises her and motivates her to master fractions with the promise of more praise. Sudachi solves the problems correctly, and they prepare together for her upcoming visit to her parents' home.[185]
Mitama's Special Training - Shizuka
On a weekday, Shizuka decides to create a map of Kamihama for the branch family girls who will soon arrive, insisting on exploring alone while Chiharu and Sunao are at school despite their concern. At Suitoku Market Street, she becomes overwhelmed by the number of shops, and a police officer approaches her, suspicious of a child alone on a weekday. Natsuki intervenes, explaining Shizuka is a homeschooled student who just moved to the city, and introduces herself as a Magical Girl with Kamihama Magia Union, explaining that Iroha asked them to watch for anyone from the Tokime clan.[186]
Grateful for the rescue, Shizuka accepts Natsuki's offer to guide her. They tour the market street, where Natsuki shares local knowledge, and Shizuka explains that in her village, elders handled all shopping outside and goods were shared communally, which is why city life is difficult to navigate. They visit a shopping mall, where Shizuka freezes at the escalator until a young girl helps her, and later a pushy saleswoman overwhelms her at a clothing store until Natsuki intervenes.[186]
Natsuki takes Shizuka to a quiet park to rest, where they eat taiyaki and discuss Natsuki's role as a baseball club manager and cheer girl. Natsuki invites Shizuka to watch an exchange match that weekend, and they exchange contact information. Shizuka asks to visit the radio tower in Chuo Ward to see the city from above. At the station, she struggles with fare cards and platform navigation, and on the crowded train she is separated from Natsuki when she fails to get off in time. Natsuki messages her to wait at the next station, where Shizuka musters the courage to call out and push through the crowd, successfully exiting.[186]
They reunite and walk to the radio tower observation deck, where Shizuka explains the Tokime clan's pride: fighting to protect the people of Japan, not for personal wishes. She wants the branch family to see this view of what they must protect. That evening, Natsuki escorts Shizuka home and offers to pick her up for the exchange match.[186]
On the day of the match, Natsuki arrives at the Tokime village. Chiharu and Sunao thank her for helping Shizuka, embarrassing Shizuka, and they depart for the riverbed. At the riverbed, Natsuki realizes the baseball club's banner was left at school, and no one can retrieve it. Shizuka volunteers, declaring she will return the favor for Natsuki saving her, and despite her fear of navigating alone, she insists she can do it.[186]
Shizuka successfully takes the train to Sankyoin alone and receives the banner from a teacher. On the return trip, her train stops due to trouble at Kamihama Station with no estimated resume time. Remembering Natsuki said the stations are close, she decides to run through Chuo Ward alone, using her navigation app. She arrives at the riverbed sweating but just as the match is about to start, and Natsuki is relieved and grateful. Shizuka realizes she was only scared and dependent before, and by deciding to act, she managed.[186]
Later, Shizuka gathers the Tokime clan girls, including Ryoko, Chika, and several masked branch family members, announcing she will guide them through Kamihama using her mapu. They tour Suitoku Market Street, the shopping mall, and a park, and the branch family girls are impressed Shizuka is already so familiar with the city despite arriving recently. Shizuka teaches them how to use fare machines at the station, admitting she could not ride trains until recently and encouraging them not to be afraid of the city. They arrive at the radio tower observation deck, where Shizuka shows them the daily lives of the people below, explaining this is what the Tokime clan exists to protect. She calls for unity as they carry out their mission together, and the clan agrees.[186]
Deliver Smiles! Reindeer Santa!
The three girls of the Tokime Clan—Chiharu, Sunao, and Shizuka—are startled when all their smartphones ring simultaneously. Shizuka panics when an image of a backpack appears on her screen, fearing her phone is broken, but Chiharu tries to calm her while Sunao notices text prompting them to tap. Before anyone can stop her, Shizuka presses the screen, causing her phone to vibrate and display a schedule for 3:00 PM at Mikazuki Manor along with a URL. Sunao worries about what this means, but Chiharu suggests they go see for themselves while gently scolding Shizuka for pressing things recklessly.[187]
Arriving at Mikazuki Manor, the three are surprised to find everyone else already gathered there. Chiharu asks if everyone received the same URL, and Sakurako confirms that she, Touka, and Nemu also got it. Nemu observes that it seems everyone received free vouchers for different items. When asked what they received, Shizuka describes a heavy and scary looking book, Sunao got a book called "Ultra Savings Techniques," and Chiharu received Decagon Ball pajamas. Felicia suddenly becomes excited and asks to trade her bag—which Chiharu recognizes as belonging to Todoroki Koichi—and Chiharu eagerly agrees.[187]
Yachiyo speculates that whoever sent the messages might have gotten the gifts mixed up, noting that each item seems tailored to someone's personal interests. Sunao realizes her book would suit Nanami, while Yachiyo's assortment of Japanese sweets matches Sunao's tastes. Momoko's fifty Chinese spoons are perfect for Tsuruno's family restaurant, and Tsuruno's stuffed rabbit is clearly meant for Momoko. Shizuka is surprised by how well everything matches until she notices a dangerous looking book called "The History of Punishments Volume 3" and wonders who it belongs to. Sana quietly admits it must be for her, leaving Shizuka astonished. Kaede observes happily that everyone now has what they wanted, and Mifuyu notes that everyone is smiling.[187]
As Sunao wonders who would create such an elaborate game, Ui suggests it might be Touka's creation, Little Vacation—an AI that looks and moves just like Tsuruno. She explains that within the game, Tsuruno and Felicia are acting as Reindeer Santas, delivering smiles to everyone, and speculates that this gift exchange might be their doing. Touka confirms that various things are still happening within the game but reassures everyone that their AI counterparts can still see them.[187]
Inside the Little Vacation game, Tsuruno announces that delivery is complete, and Felicia urges them to hurry and leave, noting that their appearance as okamochi has been changed to avoid detection. Tsuruno suddenly pauses, feeling a strange sense of déjà vu. Felicia reminds her that they are traveling Reindeer Santas, but Tsuruno insists that's not what she means—dressed as reindeer, visiting everyone's bedside... she trails off before remembering a special song and suggesting they continue on their way. Felicia enthusiastically agrees to handle navigation. Tsuruno declares herself Super Reindeer-san #2 ready for takeoff and begins singing about dashing reindeer, stardust spilling across the night sky, and miracles finding their way into everyone's stockings.[187]
Kamihama Chocolate Girls
Shizuka, Sunao, and Chiharu look through a Valentine's Day feature in Kamihama's free newspaper. Shizuka is embarrassed to see her photo distributed around town, but Chiharu reassures her the photo is cute and the experience gave them a happy memory. They spot a feature on the chocolate shop Shizuka visited and decide to bring all the Tokime girls next time. The newspaper also includes messages from other magical girls offering homemade chocolate.[188]
Mikage is delighted to see her photo in the newspaper and finds it funny that the article claims she made chocolate with her sister. Mitama suggests it was artistic license. Mikage wonders if she might become famous but worries about sketchy people, and Mitama jokingly offers to beat them up. Mikage asks if they can make real chocolate together, but Mitama needs to go to her coordinator shop. Mikage promises to do things that make her sister smile instead, and Mitama suggests they make Valentine's chocolate together next year. Mikage eagerly agrees to practice.[188]
The Call of the Open Sea
On a Saturday, Momoko and Mitama arrive at a resort near a village with a legend about a Diviner who eloped with a sailor and sank with stolen treasure. Mitama reveals they are actually there to hunt for this treasure based on a fairy tale Mikage heard. While exploring the private beach, they encounter Shizuka, Chiharu, and Sunao from the Tokime Clan, who stumbled there by accident. The group decides to spend the day together.[189]
That evening, they attend a festival in a nearby village that turns out to be a branch of the Tokime Clan. Shizuka learns the villagers consider Diviners a superstition. Mitama asks the village elder about the treasure legend, and he tells a different version where the sailor tricked the Diviner and both were punished by the gods. He warns them against searching due to dangerous currents, but Mitama arranges a boat anyway. At the festival, they meet a village girl named Miyo, who is upset because the village forbids romance with outsiders until coming of age. She is in love with an outsider named Yuta and wants the custom changed.[189]
The next day, Momoko decides to help Miyo, but the elder overhears and orders them to leave. Miyo's father agrees to take them by boat to the area near the legend. During their investigation, Yuta explains his theory that a foreign trade ship sank in the same area as the Diviner's boat, which may explain the treasure element. The group splits up to investigate a hill shrine and a stone monument. At the shrine, they dig up a seashell bangle that emits a voice saying, "I'll be waiting for you..." At the monument, Momoko touches it and experiences the Diviner's memories: her wish for courage to confess, her elopement, the shipwreck, her survival, and her decades of waiting while casting objects into the sea. The memories show the Diviner eventually became a Witch.[189]
Momoko becomes trapped in the memories, her psyche overwhelmed, and her Soul Gem begins darkening. That night, she wanders toward the beach under the Diviner's influence. Using the bangle, Mitama experiences more memories and realizes the Diviner's final wish was that no one else would suffer her tragedy. They find Momoko trying to walk into the sea. Mitama realizes they must take her to where the ship sank.[189]
They borrow a boat and head into dangerous waters. A Witch appears and conjures a storm. While the Tokime girls engage it, Momoko jumps overboard and Mitama jumps in after her. Underwater, Mitama uses her Coordinator powers to adjust them both, allowing them to breathe and swim freely. They find the sunken trade ship and discover a jade bracelet, the last object the Diviner cast into the sea. Momoko experiences a final vision of the Diviner and sailor reuniting and returns to her senses just as they escape the collapsing ship.[189]
On Monday, Momoko meets with Miyo and explains everything: the Diviner survived, waited in vain, and her final wish was that no one else suffer the same tragedy. Shizuka confirms the elder has agreed to reconsider the custom. Moved by their efforts, Miyo decides to confess to Yuta. Though nervous and clumsy, she finally tells him she likes him.[189]
Later on the beach, Momoko thanks Mitama for saving her. She reflects that she empathized with the Diviner because their wishes were the same: both became Magical Girls to gain the courage to confess their feelings. Momoko admits she has struggled with love herself and wanted things to work out for someone. Mitama teases her, asking her to finish anything she leaves undone, and Momoko promises she will.[189]
The Great Springy Stretchy Mochi Gathering!
Iroha and the others welcome everyone to Mikazuki Villa's New Year's mochi pounding gathering, where Yachiyo explains that once the mochi is finished, everyone will split into four groups based on how they want to eat it.[190]
In the soy sauce group, Iroha offers various toppings while Nagisa excitedly appears at the mention of cheese. Konomi quietly carves cheese into flower shapes, delighting Nagisa and catching Emiri's attention.[190]
At the red bean soup group, Rena insists on fine paste and accuses Kaede of betrayal when she considers coarse paste. Maria calmly mediates, gently suggesting Rena simply wanted Kaede to share her preference, and Kaede promptly switches her order so they can enjoy it together.[190]
The sweet mochi group offers soybean flour and other toppings while Sana warns everyone to be careful not to inhale the flour. The group shares stories about messy toppings and the laundry difficulties that follow.[190]
In the freestyle group, Himika's disastrous mayonnaise and miso combination is rescued by Reira, who transforms it into mochi gratin using a technique from Manaka's cooking class. Everyone finds it delicious.[190]
As the feast winds down, Iroha announces it's time to wrap up, and everyone takes home leftover mochi. The Mitakihara group bids farewell, with Nagisa promising them the best cheese next time.[190]
Shizuka, Sunao, and Chiharu visit Mitama to offer New Year's greetings and share Tokime's specialty ozouni. Mitama happily declares that eating lots of delicious food is exactly how she wants to spend the new year.[190]
Lavi's Kimochi MGS
Mitama's Everlasting Darkness MGS
Kanagi's Everlasting Darkness MGS
Madoka's Summer MGS
Kuroe's Summer MGS
Lavi's MGS
Urara's MGS
Akari's MGS
Himena's MGS
Kuroe's DS
Kuroe's MGS
Little Bird's Star
After Arc 1 Chapter 5, before Chapter 6
Asahi's MGS
Shizuka's First Sunrise MGS
Kyoko's Doppel MGS
Miyuri's MGS
Kush's MGS
Hotaru's MGS
Yuna's MGS
Sayaka's Windrider MGS
Yachiyo's Tanabata MGS
Nayuta's MGS
Sae's MGS
Alexandra's MGS
Mitune's MGS
Ashley's MGS
Sana's Rumor MGS
Juri's MGS
Mikage's MGS
Momoko's Sister MGS
Kanagi's Vampire MGS
Jun's MGS
Shizuka's MGS
Lil' Kyubey's MGS
Sakurako's Summer MGS
Mami's Summer MGS
Chika's MGS
Sudachi's MGS
Hotori's MGS
Yuuna's MGS
Tsumugi's MGS
Rui's MGS
Maria's MGS
Ao's MGS
Meguru's MGS
Yozuru's MGS
Rion's MGS
Moka's MGS
Hagumu's MGS
Nagisa's Valentine MGS
Sakuya's MGS
Ryoko's MGS
Ranka's MGS
Livia's MGS
Sayaka's Haregi MGS
Shigure's MGS
Temari's MGS
Mikura's MGS
Sunao's MGS
Hikaru's MGS
Yukika's MGS
Chiharu's MGS
Sayuki's MGS
Kyoko's Summer MGS
Ui's MGS
Eternal Sakura's / Sakurako's MGS
Nemu's MGS
Touka's MGS
Holy Alina's MGS
Riko's MGS
Ryo's MGS
Ikumi's MGS
Oriko's MGS
Iroha's Swimsui MGS
Homura's Swimsuit MGS
Homura's Swimsuit DS
Kanagi's MGS
Mifuyu's MGS
Rumor Tsuruno's MGS
Mel's MGS
Kanae's MGS
Ria's MGS
Mitama's MGS
Himika's MGS
Mayu's MGS
Mito's MGS
Seika's MGS
Reira's MGS
Alina's MGS
Sayaka's MGS
Kirika's MGS
Yuma's MGS
Tsukuyo and Tsukasa's MGS
Kyoko's MGS
Mami's MGS
Madoka's MGS
Homura's Eyeglass MGS
Yachiyo's MGS
Tsuruno's MGS
Sana's MGS
Felicia's MGS
Momoko's MGS
Kaede's MGS
Hinano's MGS
Shizuku's MGS
Kanoko's MGS
Natsuki's MGS
Manaka's MGS
Ayaka's MGS
Aimi's MGS
Konomi's MGS
Amane Sisters' Swimsuit MGS
Magical Halloween Theater
Reaching a Happier Height
A la Carte Valentine
Let's See What You're Maid Of
The Flowers' Lament
Iroha and Yachiyo's Final Battle MGS
Rika and Ren's Holiday MGS
Mitama's Special Training - Emiri
Warming Valentine
Rena and Kaede's Swimsuit MGS
Autumn of Reading
Yachiyo and Mifuyu's Starting Out MGS
Tsuruno and Felicia's Special Delivery MGS
Touka and Nemu's Winter Night MGS
Konoha and Hazuki's MGS
The Legendary Story of the Paper Mulberry Leaf
Momoko and Mitama's Mermaid MGS
Madoka and Iroha's MGS
Karin and Alina's Halloween MGS
Nayuta and Mikage's Holiday MGS
Sayonara Storage
Unknown (To be read thoroughly)
Mitama's Special Training - Tsukuyo
Tsuruno dreams of her elementary school self declaring she will restore her family's greatness and serve ramen at the White House. The dream shifts to her father relaying that her grandfather was happy but wants her to find her own happiness.[191]
Tsuruno wakes to find a letter from her sister. She opens it excitedly but is shocked by its contents.[191]
Later, inside a Witch's barrier, the Amane twins confront Tsuruno seeking revenge. Distracted by her sister's letter, she is easily knocked out, and the twins grow horrified when she does not move.[191]
Tsuruno dreams of her sister's letter, which suggests their goal might be a mistake. A shadow version of Tsuruno appears, accusing her of stealing someone else's dream and lacking the ability to fulfill it. The shadow insists everything she did was meaningless.[191]
The Amanes bring Tsuruno to Mitama for help. Though Tsuruno is their enemy, the twins explain their goal is to save all magical girls. Mitama realizes they need to take Tsuruno outside, pointing to her tainted Soul Gem.[191]
In the dream, the shadow urges Tsuruno to give up. Tsuruno refuses, thinking of her friends. She realizes that making them happy is her new goal, not the family business. She finally understands her grandfather meant that saving the business was only a possible result, not a goal.[191]
Tsuruno wakes in an alley to find the Amanes, Mitama, and her embarrassing pig Doppel. The twins are relieved she is safe and declare they are even now. Mitama offers free adjustments to all three, and though the twins try to decline, Tsuruno drags them inside. Tsuruno reflects that she reached a different conclusion than her sister. She will keep working hard and make everyone happy. Tsukuyo begs to be let go if that is the case.[191]
Mitama's Special Training - Alina and Hinano
The day before the science event, a White Feather from the Wings of Magius informs Mitama Yakumo that a higher-up will be visiting and she should complete any necessary business when they arrive. Mitama says she will be prepared.[192]
That same day, Hinano Miyako accidentally fills her science club room with gas during experiment preparations, forcing her to use her gas mask. She reflects on a previous incident as she cleans up for the next day's event.[192]
The next day, Hinano explains her mishap to her audience, and her assistant Emiri Kisaki steals the punchline by emphasizing the importance of perfect preparation. Afterward, Emiri learns Hinano was attempting to create a height-increasing drug—the same goal that led to a near-fatal accident five years ago and her contract with Kyubey. Emiri makes Hinano promise to stop dangerous experiments, but Hinano immediately breaks this promise and sneaks back to continue her work.[192]
That evening, Emiri rushes an unconscious Hinano to Mitama's place. Hinano had drunk her experimental drug and collapsed from violent stomach pains. After purification, Hinano explains her dream: as a child, she admired a long-legged older girl who hosted science events, and she wanted to become that kind of dashing figure. Emiri reveals her own wish was a spur-of-the-moment desire to be the cutest little devil possible.[192]
Hinano's unresolved feelings cause her Soul Gem to corrupt, and she is suddenly pulled into a barrier. A shadowy version of herself appears, claiming to be the pure crystallization of her aspirations. It transforms into her Doppel—a poison monster wearing an attractive lab coat with long legs. Hinano hears Emiri's telepathic voice shouting that she does not want to part with her, giving her strength. She realizes that while she failed to become a mature figure, her approachable appearance helped her meet Emiri and make friends. The shadow asks if she will give up her research, and Hinano declares she will continue with a completely safe version. The barrier vanishes.[192]
After Hinano and Emiri leave, Alina Gray appears and confirms she created the barrier to contain Hinano's Doppel and protect Mitama. Mitama offers adjustment as thanks, asking Alina to continue favoring her business.[192]
Wait, You Got It Wrong!
Mayu Kozue's most treasured possession is a bear pendant her father carved for her before he died. When a hand-drawn postcard is stolen from the museum where she works, security footage shows her friend Ria at the scene moments later. Mayu cannot reach Ria and suspects a Witch is responsible.[193]
While searching for Ria, Mayu encounters Asuka Tatsuki, whose family's invaluable book of secrets was also stolen. A witness described a blonde girl in a Mizuna uniform—Ria. They find Sayuki Fumino crying over her stolen sword book, then Rena Minami who was bumped by the same girl. At Walnut's restaurant, Manaka Kurumi accuses Ria of stealing a rice omelet. A Witch barrier appears, and after Mayu and Asuka defeat the Familiars, Ria arrives demanding to fight the Witch.[193]
Asuka challenges Ria to a duel over the thefts, and Ria loses. She confesses to something embarrassing, and everyone assumes she means the thefts—but she meant a binder of idol clippings she desperately hopes no one saw. She was only chasing the Witch to recover her own stolen belongings. Relieved, Mayu and Asuka join her. They track and defeat the Witch, recovering most items, but the museum postcard, the dojo book, and Ria's binder remain missing. They agree to search again tomorrow. That night, Mayu dreams of her father, who tells her material things are destined to break.[193]
The next morning, thefts continue across the city. Mayu realizes the Witch they defeated was only a Familiar and the real Witch is still out there. She offers her precious pendant as bait to track it. Despite Ria's protests, Mayu uses it, and they follow the magic trail to the Witch's labyrinth. After a difficult battle, they recover all stolen items, though Mayu's pendant is scratched and its chain broken.[193]
Mayu is unbothered. She explains that material possessions naturally break, but the memories they hold remain in her heart—a lesson from her father. Asuka and Ria are moved, and Mayu turns to walk home, promptly falls into a lake, and flounders while Ria sighs that she has not changed at all.[193]
"I'm always the star!"
One night, Ria Ami receives a call from her manager about a fashion show that wants her as the prestigious last guest. The theme is "dressing in stylish uniforms." Ria eagerly accepts, imagining Mayu Kozue praising her.[194]
That night, Ria dreams. On the day of the fashion show, she runs into a Witch. Kyoko Sakura appears in the barrier. Mistaking Kyoko for a fan, Ria tries to show off, but Kyoko tells her to stay out of the way. They fight. Ria leaves the barrier and finds she has missed the show completely. Horrified, she wakes up. It was only a dream.[194]
The next night, Ria dreams again. On the day of the show, she and Asuka Tatsuki arrive to cheer. Asuka reveals she has been practicing for this day. During the event, Asuka cheers for Ria like it is a sports event. Ria knows she means no harm but feels embarrassed, as if Asuka is ruining the event. She wakes up again. Another dream.[194]
The next night, Ria dreams again. On the day of the show, just as she is about to go on stage, the power cuts out. Though it quickly returns, the audience's enthusiasm has diminished. Ria blames herself for being unable to overcome the outage. She wakes up, realizing she has been dreaming about the show every single night.[194]
On the actual day of the show, Ria pinches her cheek to make sure it is real. She stumbles into a Witch barrier, and Kyoko appears just as in her dreams. This time, Ria tells Kyoko she can take the credit for killing the Witch. Ria leaves and meets Asuka and Mayu. When she learns Asuka has practiced cheering, Ria explains that fashion shows have their own etiquette and promises to send her details later.[194]
Just before Ria's turn on stage, the power cuts out for real. Ria decides to make it part of the show. She asks the audience to get out their penlights and turn them all on her when she gives the signal. Her improvisation is a complete success, though she wishes she could have shown her perfect walk. She thinks she is feeling the best feeling in the world.[194]
Let's See What You're Maid Of
An old lady asks Kanagi Izumi for a deli recommendation, and Kanagi suggests the potato soup and meat skewers, knowing the customer's daughter loves them. When the lady asks if this is truly Kanagi's last day, Kanagi confirms it and expresses regret at not seeing her again. At the end of her shift, Kanagi thanks her boss and coworkers, who are sad to see her go, but she needs higher pay to support her family and the grocery store cannot match her new job's wages.[195]
Kanagi arrives home later than usual due to a going-away party, and her father apologizes for not working enough to provide, though Kanagi is happy to help. He worries about her new job being radically different from her previous work, but Kanagi believes it is worth it since the pay means she can quit her second job and have more free time.[195]
Kanagi starts her new job at a maid café and impresses her coworker by already having a parfait ready. Despite learning the kitchen pace quickly, the hall is understaffed, and when the manager offers to help, Kanagi replies "Yes, sir!" only to be corrected that the manager prefers to be called "madam."[195]
After the rush, the head maid wishes for another maid, and the manager asks Kanagi to try working the floor for a raise. Kanagi's eyes widen at the salary and she accepts, receiving the maid nickname "Maid Nagitan."[195]
The head maid reviews basics with Kanagi, who feels confident due to her customer service background and sees this as a life-or-death matter to earn more for her family.[195]
Seika Kumi, Reira Ibuki, and Mito Aino enter, and Kanagi greets them with a serious look and curt "welcome," leaving them surprised by her cold, soldier-like demeanor. When Mito asks if she is really a maid, Kanagi introduces herself as Maid Nagitan and shakes Mito's hand firmly, causing Seika to freeze up. Later, when Reira asks if she will do "the thing" of adding love to the food, Kanagi misinterprets and says she cannot profess love to strangers, leaving the girls let down.[195]
At another table, a customer also wants "the thing," but Kanagi declines, saying she is no liar. The head maid intervenes and reminds Kanagi this is a maid café, explaining their job is creating a fun atmosphere. Kanagi returns to the trio's table and notices Seika staring, misinterpreting it as a staring contest. They stare at each other until Seika faints.[195]
The head maid calls Kanagi completely hopeless and explains a maid's worth comes from tending to others, telling her to return to the kitchen if she cannot take the work seriously. The manager offers a one-week trial period: if Kanagi improves by week's end, she stays a maid. Kanagi vows to work with every fiber of her being.[195]
At a park, Karin Misono finishes reading "Detective Maid Mei" and notices Kanagi slumped on a swing, muttering about what makes a good maid. Karin recognizes her as the boss of the East and, seeing an opportunity for her manga, asks Kanagi to tell her everything. Karin lends her the Detective Maid Mei manga for research.[195]
At home, Kanagi reads the manga and notes how the maid greets masters warmly, respects their decisions, and lets the master grow when needed. At the end, the maid strikes a pose. Kanagi meets Karin at the park to return the manga and heads to work with Karin tagging along for research.[195]
At the café, two boys enter and Kanagi greets them warmly as masters, surprising them with her "cool but kind" demeanor. The head maid smiles at her improvement. Kanagi serves Karin a Lovely Rice Omelet, and when Karin suggests she draw on it with ketchup, Kanagi tries to draw a kirin but it looks like a weird animal.[195]
Two more customers arrive, Aimi Eri and Natsuki Utsuho. Kanagi serves them and offers to draw on their omelets, writing Aimi's crush's name with hearts on her plate. As she leaves, Karin motions for her, and Kanagi does the manga pose, telling them to let her take care of any problems. At day's end, the head maid notes Kanagi's huge improvement but says it is too early to celebrate.[195]
The final test begins, and the manager outlines that Kanagi must please the next returning customer, ensuring the master leaves with a smile. The door jingles as Konomi Haruna enters, distressed to find herself in a maid café. Kanagi greets her warmly and shows her to a seat despite the manager's concern.[195]
Konomi orders the Maid's Special Herbal Blend after Kanagi's recommendation, but when Kanagi offers to play a game then arm wrestle, Konomi panics, drinks quickly, pays, and leaves. The manager agrees that Kanagi should return to the kitchen as promised. Kanagi walks home alone, bothered by something beyond the wage cut.[195]
Kanagi is back in the kitchen, and the kitchen staff is delighted. At day's end, the head maid tells her the staff appreciated her return, and Kanagi wonders why no one said they were glad when she worked as a maid.[195]
The manager notices her expression and encourages her to think until she is satisfied with the answer. Kanagi decides to find Konomi and ask what she lacked, recalling her school uniform.[195]
Kanagi enters Konomi's flower shop, and Konomi is shocked. Kanagi asks what she lacked as a maid, but Konomi apologizes for assuming Kanagi was scary due to East-West history. She explains she entered by mistake, but Kanagi was considerate, made a helpful suggestion, and offered to ease her anxiety. It felt like Kanagi was doing it just for her.[195]
Kanagi realizes that is what she was lacking: taking into account what the other person wants and responding to it. At the park, Kanagi reflects that customers come to enjoy the atmosphere and it is her job to consider whether it is worthwhile for them. She berates herself for making masters uncomfortable. Karin finds her and insists she should keep being a maid, offering to talk to the manager. Kanagi smiles and asks for a different favor instead.[195]
Kanagi approaches the manager for a second chance, proposing she serve the same three customers who left when Seika fainted. The manager agrees to let her try. Karin finds Reira and Seika at a park and extends an invitation for them to return so Nagitan can make it up to them. Reira agrees, and Karin hands them invitations.[195]
The trio enters the café with Seika frozen, and Kanagi greets them warmly and shows them to their table. Kanagi serves their omelets, and when Mito asks if they were made with love, Kanagi admits she could not be dishonest but offers to draw with ketchup instead. She gives Mito the bottle to draw while Kanagi draws on Mito's plate.[195]
They play rock-paper-scissors, and Reira explains Seika is very shy and fainted because she had to make eye contact with someone new. Seika's class is doing a maid café for the school festival and she wanted to do her best.[195]
Seika admits she thought Kanagi was so confident she lost her own confidence. Kanagi points to the head maid as the ideal and explains she herself could never be like that, so she tries her best in her own way, encouraging Seika to find her own style. Seika smiles and asks for a picture. Kanagi agrees if her face is hidden, and before they leave, she does her signature pose and tells Seika to remember it when nervous.[195]
The manager calls Kanagi over and offers her the maid position, noting she learned something important. Kanagi says she wants to keep being a maid, not just for the paycheck, but to use what she learned.[195]
Another day at the café, Kanagi serves drinks and poses for pictures with a face mask, her fans cheering. Karin calls for her to do "the thing," and the café erupts yelling "Nagitan!" Karin and Kanagi walk home, and when Kanagi asks about her manga, Karin realizes she never drew it. Kanagi offers to help, but when Karin asks if she will do the pose, Kanagi reminds her she is off the clock. Karin looks down sadly as Kanagi returns to being serious.[195]
Mitama's Special Training - Kaede
Kaede dreams of a garden where Momoko and Rena help her harvest fantastical vegetables. When she asks about the cream puff tree, Momoko shows her a basket full. The peace breaks when an apartment complex finishes construction behind them, destroying the garden. Kaede remembers this moment: her father announced a new building would block their sunlight, her mother worried they would lose their garden, and in despair, Kaede wished to stop the construction entirely.[196]
The dream shatters and a shadowy version of Kaede appears, accusing her of always running from difficulty. It reminds her she made her wish without considering the people who would have lived in that building, that she ran from Rena rather than face rejection, that she holds back in marathons and skips hard problems. The shadow urges her to keep running until she finds where she belongs and offers its hand.[196]
Kaede admits everything is true: she is weak and useless. But she insists she wants to stay with Momoko and Rena, the friends who matter to her. She asks her shadow to help her become better little by little. The shadow agrees, promising to watch from the garden of her heart. Kaede wakes at Mitama's place.[196]
Mitama explains Kaede blacked out during a Witch battle. Kaede remembers hesitating to transform, a Familiar catching her off guard, and Rena crying out. When another Familiar attacked Rena, Kaede recalled a time Momoko was hurt because of her mistake. Believing herself useless, her Soul Gem turned pitch black. Now awake and purified, she chooses not to run. She asks to join Momoko and Rena, who went ahead to hunt the Witch. Mitama sends her off, confident she will be okay.[196]
It's Okay to Be Clumsy
Riko Chiaki cuts her fingers while trying to peel carrots at home with her special whale-shaped knife, a gift from her admired next-door neighbor Onee-san. Suddenly, she finds herself transported into a strange wonderland made entirely of food, where Witch familiars attack. Kyubey appears beside her, reminding her he promised to always accompany her on Witch hunts, and warns that an unstable heart makes her Soul Gem easier to taint. Riko insists she is not scared, but memories surface of her mother ending a cooking lesson after too many cuts, her family running a bento shop while she struggles with knives, and classmates mocking her incompetence.[197]
The labyrinth shifts around Riko as the Witch assaults her with visions crafted from her fears. She sees herself shrinking while her Soul Gem darkens, relives memories of disappointment and ridicule, and witnesses a shadowy copy of herself stabbing Onee-san with the whale knife. When all seems lost, Riko finds the knife and a recipe in her hands, remembering Onee-san's letter on the back assuring her that the family bento shop succeeds because of the love and warmth they put into their food, not speed or perfection. Riko realizes she has been pushing herself too fast and accepts her clumsiness, deciding to grow at her own pace. Her shadowy copy smiles and disappears.[197]
Riko defeats the Witch with Kyubey's help and discovers the labyrinth was not a Witch's domain but the inside of her own heart. The Kyubey speaking with her was never real, only a manifestation within her, and he promises they will meet again. Riko wakes at Mitama's office, where Manaka explains she found Riko passed out in a Witch's labyrinth and brought her there. Riko shares her story, and Mitama is impressed she conquered her own fears. Manaka confesses she placed the knife and recipe in Riko's hands during her nightmare, hoping they would help. Riko thanks them both, hoping to become a strong and kind Magical Girl like them.[197]
Riko leaves with a smile and texts Onee-san to apologize for being late, promising she is on her way. She acknowledges she is still clumsy but believes she can change for the better, one step at a time.[197]
Nagisa's Wish
Nagisa Momoe tells her teacher about her mother's mistreatment, but the teacher asks if she was misbehaving and Nagisa declines an offer to intervene. On her way home, Kyubey appears and asks if she wants to become a magical girl. Nagisa does not believe him and refuses to follow a stranger even when Kyubey offers to introduce her to another magical girl. Kyubey explains she can make a wish, but Nagisa questions why she would want to become a magical girl. She admits she likes sad stories because they end, making her feel like she could be saved. Nagisa tells Kyubey to grant his own wish, but Kyubey says he lacks the unique emotions to do so. When Nagisa asks what a wish means, Kyubey says it is a desire. Nagisa reveals that in stories, those who have wishes granted always become unhappy, and making a wish feels like saying she is unhappy with how things are. Kyubey points out she suffers from malnutrition, her home is a mess, and she has bad relationships, which Nagisa cannot deny. When she asks what wish she needs most, Kyubey hesitates but suggests something like wanting to be given concern and kindness from a certain person or wanting to be loved. Nagisa says she is loved enough, which Kyubey expected.[198]
A magical girl named Inui Itsumi calls for Kyubey and asks about a magical girl called the Sleepwalking Spectre, wanting to know if she is in Mitakihara City. Kyubey confirms this, and when Inui asks who she targets, Kyubey does not know but says Inui should be safe. Inui admits she is worried about a boy named Shou, who is prone to jealousy and misunderstandings. Kyubey notes Inui has not killed a witch in ten days, and Inui says she will hunt after work. They agree to meet tomorrow.[198]
At school, Nagisa's teacher notices she is hurt, but Nagisa claims she falls down often. After school, classmates invite her to buy candy, but Nagisa says she must visit her mother at the hospital, though she admits she does not know why her mother is sick. Her classmates find her gloomy. Kyubey appears and asks if she is heading to the hospital, and Nagisa admits she lied and will visit the day after tomorrow. Kyubey invites her to accompany an older magical girl on a witch hunt. Nagisa reluctantly accepts but questions why ordinary humans cannot help magical girls. Kyubey says they cannot stand up to witches. Nagisa points out that magical girls help others though no one can help them, and Kyubey acknowledges this, saying many magical girls act selfishly. Nagisa says if she does not help people, it is like killing them, but Kyubey says taking action against witches will save someone regardless. Nagisa worries she would mess up even if she tried to help.[198]
Nagisa and Kyubey wait for the magical girl, but Kyubey admits he did not tell her he was bringing someone. Nagisa says that is why she did not come and calls Kyubey lacking in common sense before going home. Later, Kyubey tells Inui it was rude not to show, but Inui says he did not mention bringing someone else. Kyubey asks Inui to mentor Nagisa, but Inui refuses, saying Nagisa is too young and would die quickly. Kyubey notes Inui is not handling witches in her territory, but Inui deflects and asks about the Spectre. Kyubey says Shou may be on her list but is not worth the danger. Inui says she will ask the Spectre herself and opposes Nagisa's contract, which Kyubey does not understand.[198]
The next day, Kyubey finds Nagisa shopping for cheese for her mother. Kyubey suggests something more balanced, but Nagisa explains her mother has not been able to eat but is improving. She says her mother used to be on television but got sick after marrying her father, who abandoned them. Nagisa wonders if her mother would have stayed healthy without marrying him, and Kyubey asks if she holds a grudge. Nagisa says she does not, because her mother is still there. Kyubey says becoming a magical girl is her best chance, but Nagisa doubts she can do it well. Kyubey says those who reject contracts tend to regret it, but by then their potential is gone, and if she refuses now, he likely will not return.[198]
Nagisa suddenly finds herself in a witch's barrier, and Kyubey urges her to contract, but a bizarre magical girl appears. Kyubey introduces her as the Sleepwalking Spectre, and the girl defeats the witch. Nagisa thanks her, and the girl introduces herself as Yu, saying she forgot her last name. Kyubey explains Nagisa is a candidate, and Nagisa asks Yu to teach her, but Yu declines, saying she is not a veteran. Nagisa asks what wish Yu made, and Yu admits she forgot everything from before becoming a magical girl. Without her list, she cannot tell good people from bad, but she says Nagisa's name is not on her list of bad people. Yu explains she kills bad people and shows her list contains someone with Nagisa's last name. She went to that house but found it dark and covered in trash. Nagisa says that person must have moved away. Nagisa asks why Yu kills people, and Yu says she made an important promise and hopes fulfilling her duties will help her remember it. She kills witches and bad people, selling useful parts from bodies before disposing of them in witch barriers.[198]
Kyubey calls Yu an abnormality and tells Nagisa to stop listening, but Yu tells Nagisa to stop enduring and focus on being free. Kyubey warns that if everyone was like Yu, civilization would crumble, but Yu tells him to shut up and leaves, promising to help Nagisa if needed. Nagisa asks if Yu is a bad person, and Yu says she does not think so. Kyubey is relieved Nagisa will not learn from Yu, and Nagisa admits she would have mistaken Yu for a witch without her help. Kyubey explains Yu has forgotten the boundary between reality and dreams and cannot grasp the difference between witches and humans. Nagisa asks if bad people can become magical girls, and Kyubey says his kind does not distinguish human concepts of good and bad. Nagisa realizes that as a magical girl, she would be free to think anything, and she thinks if she healed her mother's illness, her mother would be grateful and love her again.[198]
Inui encounters Yu and attacks her, but Yu claims Shou is a bad person and notes it is not even his real name. Inui calls her a liar, saying her list was made by someone with a grudge. Yu offers to apologize if wrong, but Inui insists there are worse people than Shou. Yu says her list updates automatically and killing Shou should not trouble Inui, but Inui attacks her enraged.[198]
Elsewhere, Nagisa tells Kyubey she wants to go to the hospital and wish to cure her mother's illness. She visits her mother alone and presents the cheese, but her mother says it is too much. Her mother asks about Nagisa's father, and Nagisa lies that he is busy. Her mother says he does not want to come, and neither does Nagisa. She tells Nagisa to abandon her and leave with her father, but Nagisa refuses. Her mother calls her a liar and says everyone believes she brought this on herself, insisting Nagisa must resent her too. She says she cannot be a mother and tells Nagisa to leave her alone. Nagisa says she was happy to be her daughter, but her mother asks if she is supposed to act glad. Nagisa tries to tell her about Kyubey, omitting sensitive details, but her mother says curing her will not change anything, because it is all because Nagisa was born.[198]
Returning to Kyubey, Nagisa makes her wish: she wants the tastiest cheesecake in the whole world. Kyubey says it would be made for Nagisa's tastes, but Nagisa clarifies she wants it for her mother's tastes.[198]
Kyubey finds Inui near the hospital, horribly injured by Yu, and notes her Soul Gem has reached its limit. Inui asks Kyubey to kill her, but he refuses, saying that by turning into a witch, she has finally become useful. Inui becomes the witch Uhrmann, and a witch barrier engulfs Nagisa's mother's hospital room. Kyubey tells Nagisa to escape, saying the witch is too powerful, and thinks Yu can handle it. Nagisa realizes Yu might kill her mother, and Kyubey notes her mother has given up on medical treatment, so how she dies should not matter. Nagisa says she can decide for herself and will help so her mother does not die.[198]
Nagisa confronts Uhrmann but is knocked unconscious. Yu appears and kills the witch. Nagisa wakes and rushes to her mother's side, and Kyubey bids her farewell, saying she will become a witch soon and he will tell Mami Tomoe to handle the witches in the area. Nagisa sees Yu has attacked her mother and tells Yu to leave. Yu says she wants to sell the body parts but thinks Nagisa wants them for herself, and she leaves, claiming she is on Nagisa's side. Nagisa's mother says a monster with a torn mouth and a horn bit her, and she begs Nagisa not to leave her alone, demanding an answer. Nagisa says nothing.[198]
Nagisa becomes a witch all alone. The last thing she sees is a landscape full of sweets, where she can live without forgiving or hating anyone, but there is no cheese for her mother.[198]
Kamihama Cheese Panic!
Nagisa Momoe arrives in Kamihama using the Mirror Witch's barrier as a portal, accompanied by a silent pink Kyubey. She immediately senses multiple magical signatures belonging to Charlotte and realizes the Nagisa of this world has already become a Witch, with Charlottes appearing all over the city. Deciding she cannot be bothered with pest control immediately, she resolves to find some cheese first.[199]
Before she can do so, she is engulfed in Charlotte's barrier and overwhelmed by multiple Witches, forcing her to flee and seek help. After escaping, she enters another Charlotte's barrier to find Kanoko Yayoi struggling inside, and together they defeat the Witch. Kanoko takes Nagisa to Walnuts, where Manaka Kurumi serves her a three-course cheese meal while Nagisa explains the Witch multiplies rapidly and has likely spread across all of Kamihama. Kanoko and Manaka agree to help gather Magical Girls for a coordinated attack.[199]
Nagisa runs out to scout but immediately runs into another Charlotte, and Manaka and Kanoko rescue her. They begin gathering Magical Girls, and soon a large group assembles including Ria Ami, Rika Ayano, Ren Isuzu, Akira Shinobu, Sasara Minagi, Asuka Tatsuki, Emiri Kisaki, Himika Mao, and later Kako Natsume and Meiyui Chun. During their meeting at the park, they are attacked by a Charlotte and after a grueling battle, they defeat it while realizing even with all of them, defeating one Charlotte was difficult. As the group descends into bickering over who should lead, Nagisa realizes she must reveal her true identity.[199]
Nagisa explains she was sent from another universe to defeat this Witch, offering the pink Kyubey as proof. Though some are skeptical, Meiyui finds Nagisa interesting enough to play along, and secretly confirms the pink Kyubey's existence for Nanaka Tokiwa. Nagisa devises a strategy called "Welcome to Kamihama Cheese Party!" where Manaka sets up a giant cheese fondue by the river to attract every Charlotte in the city using the power of cheese. The plan succeeds, and with the teamwork of the Kamihama Magical Girls, every Charlotte is defeated.[199]
Overwhelmed, Nagisa blows the pink Kyubey to smithereens, realizing she was sent not to unify this universe with the Law of Cycles, but to prevent that unification and protect humanity's unknown future. Certain now of her purpose, she decides to go sightseeing first.[199]
Nagisa contemplates what to do with her newfound freedom while her attempts to argue with the unresponsive pink Kyubey go nowhere. She notices Mami and decides to follow her, sensing that something is wrong with the version of Mami she once knew. Using her acting skills, Nagisa pretends to chase a butterfly before faking a life-threatening injury, and when Mami fails to notice, she yells at her until Mami finally takes care of her, establishing first contact.[200]
Nagisa makes Mami promise to come play with her next time she visits Kamihama, and they part ways, but Mami quickly returns and they spend time together at the park. Mami is still acting strangely, so Nagisa decides not to push too hard and they simply talk before Mami goes home.[200]
Another day finds them at the Kamihama copy of Tokyo Tower, where Mami begins opening up about her problems while they share cream cheese ice cream.[200]
They are out playing together once again when Charlotte suddenly appears and attacks. Mami tells Nagisa to run, but Nagisa refuses to transform and nearly has her head bitten off. Realizing that Mami is afraid of being a magical girl and making further mistakes, Nagisa finally transforms, revealing her true identity, and saves Mami from being beheaded.[200]
Nagisa cannot defeat Charlotte alone, but seeing her fight gives Mami the strength to overcome her fears, and together they manage to win. After the battle, Mami confronts Nagisa about what she truly is, but the pink Kyubey appears and Nagisa offers no real explanation. Now that Mami is feeling better, Nagisa decides they should part ways, promising Mami that she deserves happiness and that when they meet again they will have a tea party with cheesecake.[200]
Alina Is Comin’ to Town
One evening, Alina fuses with the Rumor of the Fur God despite Mifuyu's warnings, becoming Holy Alina to drain life force for her art. She targets a mother and child, but the situation backfires when she inadvertently stops a kidnapping, earning police gratitude instead of harvesting any energy.[201]
The next day, Mifuyu warns Alina that the town has given her embarrassing nicknames like "Lucky Death Santa" based on her good deeds. Alina transforms again to target a suicidal girl, but the girl's boyfriend proposes after being rescued, and Alina witnesses their happy reunion.[201]
The following morning, Alina overhears gossip about the proposal and grows furious. Karin later shows Alina a manga she wrote called "The Tale of the Lucky Death Santa," which Alina recognizes borrows from manga Karin had lent her. Annoyed, Alina drinks Karin's strawberry milk and leaves.[201]
The next day, Mifuyu encounters the Amane twins in their Miss Santa outfits. Tsukasa must help her father at a bamboo workshop on Namiki Street before their evening banquet, while Tsukuyo has the night free. After they leave, Alina arrives and Mifuyu informs her the rumors have spread. Alina decides to target Namiki Street, where hundreds will gather for Christmas lights, unaware this is where Tsukasa is working.[201]
Tsukasa's workshop runs long and she forgets her phone. Mifuyu finds it and heads to Namiki Street to deliver it. Tsukuyo waits for her sister and chats with a kind maid woman. Meanwhile, Alina detects a man with a bomb who plans to blow up a building. When she sees Mifuyu enter that same building, Alina rushes to save her. Finding the bomb with ten seconds left, Alina creates a labyrinth at the last moment, shielding them from the explosion. She throws a black card at the bomber, but the bells ring in her head and her expression shifts ominously.[201]
Tsukuyo shares with the maid woman why she loves Miss Santa: as a lost child, Miss Santa fixed her broken flute with magic and reunited her with her mother. Police apprehend the bomber and thank Death Santa. Mifuyu returns Tsukasa's phone, and Tsukasa's father lets her leave early. The maid woman reveals her own story of a childhood friend who died after a misunderstanding. Tsukasa arrives and explains the explosion was stopped by Death Santa. The maid woman realizes she has heard that name.[201]
At the theme park, the maid woman reveals she was the Miss Santa from Tsukuyo's childhood. She had taken Tsukuyo's flute to the Amane Bamboo Studio to be fixed—their father's shop. Overwhelmed with joy, Tsukuyo learns the woman became Miss Santa to grant wishes in honor of her deceased friend. The twins hurry to their banquet as snow begins to fall, fulfilling Tsukuyo's wish for a white Christmas. Take, an apprentice from their father's studio, delivers bamboo toys to the maid woman, continuing a tradition started years ago after a chance meeting with her friend.[201]
Mifuyu updates Alina on the twins' miraculous reunion. Examining a black card, Alina notices a happy face stamp emanating magic. At Fenthope, she deduces another Rumor is interfering: the Rumor of the Happy Stamp, which appears at Christmastime and overrides the Fur God's power, causing joy instead. Alina decides to stop using the Fur God Rumor, as it only wastes her energy, and transforms back to normal.[201]
That night, the twins sneak into a children's hospital to leave gifts. Tsukasa carefully avoids a bell trap, but Tsukuyo is caught by awakened children. Tsukuyo pretends to teleport by hiding under a bed, and Tsukasa enters to astonish the children with her magic. After delivering the gifts, Tsukasa waits in the hall while Tsukuyo remains stuck under the bed.[201]
The next afternoon, Karin shows Alina her latest Christmas Death Caribou manga and hopes the Maiden will appear again. Alina says she will not, leaves a replacement strawberry milk, and departs. Later, walking down the street, Alina reflects that she told Karin the Lucky Death Santa would never return. She hears bells jingling and looks up to see Karin in her Magical Girl outfit, wishing everyone a "Merry Christmas of Death."[201]
Mitama's Special Training - Asuka
Asuka finds herself in a cloud-filled void facing a shadowy version of herself who claims to be the hidden part of Asuka's heart. The shadow declares Asuka is no longer fit to practice Ryushin-ryu because her blade has been sullied by contracting as a Magical Girl. When Asuka protests, the shadow recounts how Asuka wished for her cousin to become a police officer after his dreams were jeopardized by their uncle's arrest, arguing that twisting fate with magic was selfish and wrong. The shadow insists that with her heart no longer true, Asuka walks a false path and should abandon her school, urging her to die.[202]
In her despair, Asuka remembers her father's words about asking her own heart what is right, like water filling a square bowl. She tells the shadow that perceptions of right and wrong can change with the situation, and though she cannot refute the shadow's claims, she knows her heart believed her actions were just. Believing words alone cannot reach the shadow, Asuka challenges her to a fight to prove her blade's strength reflects her sincere heart. The shadow warns that slaying her means slaying herself, but Asuka declares she fears being untrue to herself more than death.[202]
Their swords clash, and after a long battle, the shadow succumbs to Asuka's attack and acknowledges her blade was as pure as her heart. The shadow warns she may return in a different form if Asuka's heart becomes stained again, then vanishes. Asuka awakens near a pond deep in the forest, where she had gone to meditate as part of her training. She remembers the shadow's promise and considers asking Mitama what it all meant, but feels her father's words have been engraved in her more deeply now. With her resolve unwavering, she runs back to the dojo, taking a straight path out of the woods.[202]
Mitama's Special Training - Nanaka
Nanaka awakens to find herself in a strange, cloud-filled void. A shadowy copy of herself appears, introducing itself as the part of her she has suppressed deep within her heart. The shadow urges Nanaka to end her pursuit of vengeance, calling it a fruitless endeavor that changes nothing. Nanaka refuses, explaining that the act of revenge itself holds meaning for her, not the result. The shadow questions where vengeance has led her: a life of constant danger in an endless struggle against Witches. Nanaka admits there is nothing to gain from her actions, but her conviction remains unshakable. The shadow then accuses Nanaka of dragging Akira, Kako, and Meiyui into her vengeance, using them to fulfill her goals. Nanaka acknowledges this truth but insists she would never throw their lives away. She believes fate brought them together to fight a common enemy.[203]
Nanaka recalls the moments before she lost consciousness. Her team had cornered a Witch, but it disappeared and reappeared near a weakened Kako. Nanaka leaped in to shield her, and Akira and Meiyui joined the fight. The shadow suggests Nanaka protected Kako to redeem herself, but Nanaka denies this. The shadow warns it will continue watching from the depths of her heart.[203]
Nanaka awakens to find her teammates standing over her, relieved she is alive. The Witch is defeated. Nanaka tells Kako not to worry about anything, as they are teammates. Meiyui finds her choice of words unusual, but Akira insists Nanaka see Mitama for a checkup. Kako thanks Nanaka for protecting her. Nanaka smiles, thinking to herself that each of them is their own flower, supporting one another through their shared fate.[203]
The Goddess and the Mysterious Record
At the corner of the universe, the goddess of all Magical Girls sits watching over countless records, each one the song of a girl she has blessed. One day she discovers a record she does not recognize, though she should know every one. When she plays it, she hears familiar songs at first, but then an unfamiliar voice rings out—a Magical Girl whose song she has never heard before.[204]
Flustered, the goddess tries to sing her blessing onto the record, but her voice leaves no mark. She cannot carve into this record at all. Growing anxious, she listens more closely and discovers that a new groove is actually being carved even now, still in progress. The songs on this record are not finished being written. If she forces her blessing now, the record might break.[204]
She decides to watch over it instead, knowing that when it is complete, she may have to destroy it if its songs prove to be bad. Even the goddess does not know what she will do when that time comes.[204]
We Invite You to a Delightful Halloween!
Four days before Halloween, Kako and Emiri are saved from a witch by Karin, but Emiri's enthusiastic chatter embarrasses Karin into running off.[205]
Emiri decides to enter a costume contest to meet Karin again, dragging Kako along as a judge. Kako also recruits Natsuki to join them.[205]
While shopping for materials, the girls encounter Karin, who has lost her supply list. Kako invites her to shop together, and Karin gratefully accepts.[205]
After learning the contest was cancelled, Kako rallies the others to ask local shops to hand out candy to costumed visitors instead.[205]
On Halloween, the store owners' efforts create a successful celebration. Emiri entertains children with stories about "Magical Karin," and when Karin appears, surprised by the turnout, Kako simply wishes her a happy Halloween.[205]
Wings in the Wind
Before joining the Wings of Magius, Shizuku Hozumi is shown the truth about Magical Girls within the Memory Museum. This process, however, also brainwashes her into believing she has found where she belongs. Upon awakening at Hotel Fendt Hope, she feels an unnatural calm and is assigned two mentors, Ikumi Makino and Ryo Midori, who train her to fight as a Black Feather.[206]
As Shizuku trains, she struggles with the feeling that she does not belong anywhere—not with her family, not with her friends, and not even with the Magius, despite her mentors' kindness. She ignores texts from Ayaka Mariko, her only close friend, because Ayaka's overwhelming energy never gave her room to think. Ikumi and Ryo give her special items after each Witch hunt: a black gem to imbue with magic, a key, and a compass, claiming they are gifts for when she leaves the nest. Other recruits receive nothing, and Shizuku grows suspicious.[206]
Ikumi and Ryo share their own reasons for joining—protecting dreams and escaping the burden of being a Magical Girl—and show Shizuku the places where they truly belong: Ikumi at the maid café where she performs, Ryo behind her camera. They explain that a place of belonging does not have to be physical. Shizuku realizes she once belonged beside a boy she loved, but he is gone. She begins to overthink her mentors' intentions, fearing they want her gone.[206]
The Magius order all Feathers to kill the Magical Girls of Kamihama who oppose them. As they use an Uwasa to brainwash the assembled Feathers, Shizuku remembers Ryo's warning and removes her pendant, avoiding the effect. She watches in horror as her fellow recruits scream in confusion and pain. Fleeing, she uses the key to escape a Witch barrier and the gem as a decoy to mask her location.[206]
At the southern exit, Ikumi and Ryo are waiting. In a flashback, it is revealed that Mifuyu had asked them to train Shizuku and secretly undo her brainwashing, as the Magius had used the Memory Museum to recruit her. They agreed, knowing the longer she remained brainwashed, the more it would hurt when she came to her senses.[206]
In the present, Shizuku defeats them in battle, the light returning to her eyes. She vows to stop the Magius. Ikumi and Ryo choose to remain, still hoping for liberation through the Magius, but promise they will not cross certain lines. Shizuku thanks them and flees.[206]
Running through Kamihama, Shizuku realizes she was wrong: she does belong somewhere. Ayaka, who never gave her time to overthink and who accepts her completely, is the place where she can simply be herself. She calls Ayaka, warning her to hide. When Black Feathers catch up to her, she fights them off using her mentors' gifts until she collapses from her injuries.[206]
Ayaka finds her, apologizing and saying Shizuku is the only one who laughs at her jokes. Though she still does not understand Ayaka's humor, Shizuku is simply happy to be by her side. She silently thanks Ikumi and Ryo, wishing they could share another meal together, even if they may next meet as enemies.[206]
One Fleeting Summer Night
Tsukuyo and Tsukasa Amane arrive at Touka's private beach for vacation. After enjoying various activities, Touka offers them a reward if they can think of something fun for her to do. Learning from the housekeeper about a town festival featuring a unique ceremony, the group heads there but finds it canceled because a historic Coral Necklace went missing. The twins offer to help search.[207]
Investigating the hilltop shrine where the necklace was kept, Nemu concludes someone with a key took it, likely to cancel the festival since the other ceremonial item remains safe. At the ocean shrine cave, the twins sense an unsettling presence and receive a vision of crying twin girls before the shrine door mysteriously opens.[207]
Back at the plaza, Tsukasa finds a fragment of a shrine maiden's hairpin. The elder accuses one of the maidens of stealing the necklace. When confronted, the maiden flees to the hilltop shrine and smashes the necklace rather than return it.[207]
That night, the group returns to the cave to see light-reflecting moss. The twins experience another vision of twin girls speaking of not wanting to be left to die. They resolve to investigate further the next day.[207]
The twins visit the village elder and offer to serve as substitute shrine maidens. He reluctantly agrees, and an older villager gives them ornate hair ornaments traditionally given to newborn girls. Nemu reveals the town once sacrificed children to appease a sea god, and those children became the gods honored in the ceremony.[207]
When the twins try to explain their visions, the others are skeptical. Before they can prove anything, the elder rushes them to begin the ceremony early. At the hilltop shrine, villagers restrain them and remove their Soul Gem rings. The Magius fight through but cannot reach the twins in time as the elder pushes them off a cliff into the ocean.[207]
Sinking and weakening, the twins receive a final vision from the sacrificed twin girls, who speak of wanting their suffering to be seen and their fates changed. The Amanes awaken on the beach to learn a Witch appeared when they fell. After its defeat, all villagers lost consciousness. The Pearl Comb was shattered, making the ceremony impossible to complete.[207]
The exhausted twins relax on the beach, having not slept. Tsukasa wonders if the gifted hair clip saved them. Though saddened that no one will remember the sacrificed girls, the twins resolve to change the fates of all Magical Girls. The elder and shrine maiden apologize, and Touka promises to take them to another of her family's vacation homes as a reward.[207]
Mitama's Special Training - Meiyui
Meiyui's family is helping organize a local event when a stranger stabs one of their members and flees, dropping a badge. Meiyui chooses to tend to the victim rather than give chase, despite his protests that she is being too soft.[208]
Many in the organization want revenge, but Meiyui refuses, not wanting to return to their old ways as an evil organization. The members are reluctant to involve the police due to being falsely accused of murder three years prior. Meiyui had contracted with Kyubey back then to expose the truth with her wish, but lingering distrust remains.[208]
Meiyui goes alone to track the culprit. The dropped badge leads her to an abandoned company tied to illegal labor her family had helped shut down. After defeating a stray Witch, she is ambushed and kidnapped by a man with a taser.[208]
She wakes handcuffed alongside about ten others. The kidnappers reveal the badge was a trap to lure her. They include a former police officer who had fabricated evidence against her family and associates of the real murderer from that case, all blaming the Blue Seas for ruining their lives.[208]
Her Soul Gem is heavily tainted from the Witch fight, and she begins hearing her Doppel's voice. In a cloudy void, her shadow self insists she should have killed these enemies when she had the chance, arguing her organization cannot survive without dirtying their hands.[208]
As Meiyui struggles to stay conscious, she uses her last energy to beg the culprits to leave her family alone, insisting they are not a bad group. The stabber dismisses her pleas and suggests killing her as a warning instead. Her Doppel mocks her, saying evil people will always exist no matter how sincerely she tries to live righteously.[208]
Suddenly, her organization members arrive to rescue her. The stabbed victim is among them, now grateful Meiyui had stayed to help him instead of chasing revenge. He admits he used to believe abandoning burdens was the way of the world, but facing death alone showed him he was wrong. He is alive because of Meiyui's strength.[208]
Hearing this, Meiyui's mind clears. In the void, her Doppel asks if she is ready to kill them, but Meiyui rejects violence entirely. The Doppel submits, allowing her to put everyone in the area to sleep without bloodshed.[208]
The police soon arrive after the kidnapper, persuaded by Meiyui, confesses over the phone. They find several family members asleep everywhere and note a look of complete relief on Meiyui's sleeping face.[208]
Will You Smile? Halloween Live Show!
One day, Ayaka and Shizuku are at a local café when Ayaka laments that many Halloween events in Kamihama were canceled due to damage in Chuo Ward. Wanting to do something to cheer up the city, Ayaka's eyes sparkle as Shizuku suggests she organize something herself, leading Ayaka to decide on a live comedy show. She asks Shizuku to be her partner, but Shizuku is unsure about the idea.[209]
Later, Ayaka meets Seika at her apartment, and Seika is happy to be Ayaka's comedy partner but asks about the logistics of broadcasting the show. Ayaka brushes off the practical concerns, insisting that the desire to make others smile is what truly matters, and Seika rises to the challenge, wanting to give back after years of Ayaka's comedy encouraging her.[209]
In the following days, Ayaka and Seika form a manzai duo and practice daily into the evening, with Ayaka tutoring Seika on speaking louder and explaining the rhythm between the boke and tsukkomi roles. Seika struggles but keeps trying, at one point asking if she can use a whip against Ayaka, causing Shizuku to shake her head, but Ayaka insists manzai does not use props.[209]
During one practice session, Shizuku chuckles at their serious expressions, and Ayaka decides she needs a fresh audience, spotting someone passing by and running off with Seika to practice on him. Shizuku watches them go, thinking she would have liked to help, but then hears a shout and goes to investigate, discovering the stranger is actually a spokesperson for a local sweets retailer who is also in charge of the annual Halloween event.[209]
The spokesperson explains he had wanted to take the event public since few companies are participating this year, and he thinks Ayaka's manzai would be perfect, inviting them to perform. Ayaka cannot stop smiling at the opportunity.[209]
On the day of the Halloween event, Ayaka is excited and Shizuku compliments her costume as they wait, but Ayaka mentions Seika has not arrived. Seika calls weakly to explain she has a fever and will be late, and Ayaka tells her to rest and focus on getting better.[209]
When Shizuku asks what Ayaka will do about the manzai, Ayaka puts a hand on her shoulder and asks Shizuku to be her partner. Shizuku is reluctant to stand on stage but gives in after Ayaka repeatedly begs, and having watched countless practices, she memorized the skit, so they head to the stage together.[209]
They perform their skit about a werewolf that transforms by staring at the sun, with Ayaka calling everyone in the audience chimimouryou, and they continue through the routine until they finish.[209]
Backstage, Seika managed to make it there to congratulate them, and Ayaka tells her she should be resting. Shizuku did not see anyone laughing but hopes someone passing by might have smiled, and since Ayaka looks happy, she decides not to mention it. Seika apologizes for missing the show, and Ayaka says it was thanks to Shizuku, who warns she will not do something like that again. Ayaka smiles and says comedy must be amazing if Shizuku was willing.[209]
Rondo of Oblivion Sleeps for Eternity
The Historical Research Club at Kosho School consists of three Magical Girls: president Mikura Komachi, her childhood friend Temari Kira, and underclassman Seira Mihono. When the club advisor informs them that without proof of accomplishments, next year's budget will not be approved, the trio decides to create a film based on a real Kamihama tragedy for the cultural festival. Mikura discovers a Taishō-era story about a romance between a disgraced Mizuna daughter named Ruri and a successful East-side businessman named Tsukihiko that ended in murder-suicide. Temari writes the script while Seira secures a Western mansion as a filming location. While scouting, they encounter a Witch and realize casting regular students would be impossible due to Magical Girl duties, so they use Coordinator Mitama Yakumo to recruit an all-Magical Girl cast including Ria Ami, Yukika Nanase, the Amane sisters, and Sakurako, an Uwasa created by Nemu Hiiragi. Mikura reluctantly agrees to play the male lead Tsukihiko, while Seira takes the role of Ruri.[210]
Filming begins at the actual mansion where the tragedy occurred, with Seira using her stage direction magic to create effects and the cast delivering startlingly accurate performances. Mikura discovers Tsukihiko's actual diary in the museum archives, revealing he genuinely loved Ruri and intended to break things off with his childhood friend. Temari secretly revises the ending to reflect this truth, working through the night until her Soul Gem tarnishes. Mikura cleanses her gem, and they lock the revised script away, keeping it hidden from Seira to make her performance more authentic.[210]
After filming wraps, strange rumors spread that the Historical Research Club is forming a new faction, and the affected Magical Girls begin acting as if possessed by their roles. This escalates when Kanagi Izumi and Yachiyo Nanami nearly fight over a perceived slight involving Riko. At Mitama's shop, Nemu Hiiragi explains the truth: Seira's stage direction magic immersed the cast, Mikura's magic, which restores lost things, reconstructed the historical personalities in the present, and Temari's kotodama magic caused them to follow her script. Their powers synergized to create a dangerously accurate reenactment. Nemu warns that the script's next events—Ruri's disappearance and the murder-suicide—may occur, and they realize Seira, possessed by Ruri, has vanished.[210]
Temari consults Kyubey, who reveals Ruri was a Magical Girl with the same kotodama magic who wished to live a storybook romance. When she realized her own novel's plot was manifesting as tragedy, she destroyed the manuscript to save Tsukihiko, but the act shattered her mind. Freed from the script's constraints, the couple's fate became unpredictable, and Ruri, unable to bear the fear of losing him, killed him and herself. Kyubey explains destroying the script will end the magic but damage Temari's psyche. Temari resolves to protect her friends without resorting to that.[210]
The next morning, Seira, still possessed as Ruri, steals the diary copy and flees to Tsukihiko's mansion. Mikura and Temari pursue. At the mansion, Ruri prepares to atone by dying by her own hand. Mikura, wearing Tsukihiko's costume, dances with her as Tsukihiko's persona surfaces, steadying her. When Ruri moves to stab herself, Temari summons the others for backup, and they disarm her. Tsukihiko explains he could not stop her a century ago but succeeded this time. He and Ruri thank Temari—her script reached the hearts it was meant to—and they vanish. A fire destroys the original diary and all related documents, fulfilling Ruri's final wish to be forgotten. Mikura and Seira retain only fragments of the true story and agree to keep the tragedy of the two maladroit lovers a secret between them.[210]
Back in the club room, Seira panics that without evidence of their film, the Historical Research Club will be disbanded. They consider another project but have time until the cultural festival. Temari suggests they each find a home where they can rest easy, and Mikura replies she has already found hers: this provisional club room.[210]
The Page I Write on the Holy Night
Mitama, disguised as a Christmas fairy, grants Rika and Ren the ability to make things come true through magic, provided they focus on the same issue. The power is meant to help her disciple Chu, a swallow familiar who feeds on cowardice hearts, negative emotions affecting Kamihama. Rika and Ren accept the task and begin their work.[211]
Their first target is Felicia and Sana, who argue over a ruined cake. After Rika and Ren fix the cake, Felicia apologizes to Yachiyo and Sana, allowing a cowardice heart to appear. Next, they help Rena invite Kaede to an idol live show by giving Rena courage to speak directly, and the two reconcile. They then assist Akira, who gains confidence to wear a Christmas costume after Nanaka, Kako and Meiyui compliment her. Akira and Emiri join forces with Rika and Ren, forming the Holy Girls team.[211]
The team helps a young boy apologize to his father after an argument, then assists a couple at the mall who lack the courage to propose. With Rika and Ren's magic, the boyfriend proposes successfully inside a magical snow globe. After consuming the final cowardice heart, Chu thanks them in a sinister tone and declares they can now end the city.[211]
Rika and Ren awaken from a shared dream, realizing everything was constructed by Mitama to help them reconcile after a disagreement about Santa. They had avoided each other afterward, too awkward to apologize. Akira and Emiri enlisted other magical girls to help, and Mitama combined their sessions to open their hearts. The effort worked, though Mitama poured too much energy in, creating the strange shared dream. After experiencing the struggles of the people they helped, Rika and Ren gained courage to speak honestly.[211]
Some time later, Ren travels with her parents while Rika loses her phone, preventing them from contacting each other. When they finally reconnect, both apologize and make up completely. Mitama is pleased with their reconciliation, and Akira and Emiri note that the pair grew even closer through understanding each other better.[211]
In the end, Rika and Ren ask Mitama for the same magic from their dream. Though considerably weaker now, they can still conjure a flying sled to move around Kamihama and create the white Christmas everyone had been waiting for.[211]
The Purity of Haregi
One day, Sayaka loses a lottery for a violin concert ticket she wanted to give to Kyosuke. Madoka remembers the Kamihama Calligraphy Rally offers a couple's ticket to the same concert as its grand prize, so Homura insists they enter as a team of three to help Sayaka win.[212]
Several days later, on the day of the rally, the team meets at Mizuna Shrine in kimono. They must collect kanji cards from shops across Kamihama using hints, then form a four-kanji congratulatory word and write it as calligraphy. They struggle with the hints initially, meeting Kako, Natsuki, and Ria along the way who help them obtain various kanji, though they frequently misinterpret clues and visit wrong locations.[212]
Sayaka grows guilty over her indecisiveness and apologizes to Madoka and Homura, but they happily agree to continue working with her. Renewed, Sayaka leads them to finally obtain useful kanji. Along the way, they encounter crying children who need the "ball" card, and Sayaka gives them hers. The grateful children give her other cards in return, allowing her to reform a new word. She later gives away another card to a girl who dropped hers, leaving them short again.[212]
With time running out, they meet Iroha and her friends, who help them locate the remaining kanji. Sayaka deduces they can form "The Manchu-Han Imperial Feast," a legendary celebratory feast name. Kyoko appears and mentions seeing a golden kagami mochi at Tsuruno's family restaurant, where they obtain their final card.[212]
They return to the shrine just before the deadline. The judges are impressed by their word choice and backstory, and the crying children told them about Sayaka's kindness. Her calligraphy is praised for its beauty and passion, earning her team first place.[212]
Afterward, Sayaka holds the couple's tickets but panics, unable to figure out how to give one to Kyosuke without awkwardness. Madoka and Homura continue cheering her on.[212]
This Year's Aspirations for Brush Dyeing!
On New Year's Day, Madoka and Iroha encounter Mitama while out with Yachiyo, Felicia, Sana, Tsuruno, Sayaka, and Homura. Mitama suggests they do something fitting for the holiday, and Yachiyo proposes kakizome, the first calligraphy of the year. Felicia protests that it sounds boring, but Yachiyo tempts her with the promise of sukiyaki for dinner if she writes properly, quickly changing her mind. The group agrees, and Yachiyo announces the theme: this year's resolution.[213]
Madoka finishes first, having written "Get to know everyone better," explaining that she wants to be someone who can truly understand and support the people she meets. Iroha is inspired by her words and writes "Don't be afraid to ask for help," realizing she doesn't have to shoulder everything alone. Yachiyo presents her resolution, "Wishing for good health and safety at home," admitting it may be cliché but sincerely believing in the fortune of staying healthy and avoiding disaster. Mitama first jokes with "Prosperous business" before revealing her true wish, "Everyone getting along well," which Yachiyo acknowledges is not an easy hope to fulfill.[213]
Felicia struggles with her first attempt, writing "I want to eat meat," but knows Yachiyo will be angry. She notices Homura also staring at a blank sheet, unable to decide if writing her true feelings is appropriate. Felicia encourages her to be honest, and Homura writes "Become a stronger me." Grateful for the help, Felicia reworks her resolution into something positive, settling on "Earn Yachiyo's praise." Tsuruno proudly reveals her goal, "Escape from 50 points," explaining she wants to steadily improve rather than chase unreachable heights. Sana shows her resolution, "Show more initiative," expressing her desire to protect everyone at Mikazuki Villa and stay with them.[213]
Sayaka panics upon realizing everyone else has finished, struggling to find a resolution that isn't solely about being a magical girl. Her thoughts drift to Kyosuke against her will, and Mitama teases her about writing something love-related. Flustered, Sayaka denies having feelings for anyone, though internally she admits she wants to do her best in love too. Unable to confess that truth, she hastily writes "Do my best," declaring she will work hard in all sorts of ways this year.[213]
With everyone finished, they tidy up and Felicia eagerly anticipates the sukiyaki. Mitama laments that she, Yachiyo, and Tsuruno won't be able to submit theirs since it's not homework for them, calling it a waste. Yachiyo suggests displaying them at home for the New Year, and Tsuruno proposes putting up everyone's resolutions. When Yachiyo worries about the inconvenience for Madoka's group to retrieve them later, they assure her they plan to visit Kamihama again anyway. They hang all the calligraphy together, each resolution on display, and everyone wishes each other a good year.[213]
Mitama's Special Training - Emiri
One day, Emiri arrives early to meet her friends at the mall, but while waiting she overhears classmates complaining that she can be loud and annoying. Hurt by their words, she runs away in tears.[214]
When her friends find her, Emiri asks if they think she's annoying. Hinano honestly admits that she can be sometimes, causing Emiri to break down despite the others quickly adding that it is part of her charm. Before they can comfort her properly, the group senses a powerful Witch nearby and moves to fight it. Emiri insists she is fine to battle, but her distraction causes her to fight poorly, and after the Witch is defeated, she collapses from a nearly corrupted Soul Gem.[214]
Emiri finds herself in a void speaking with a shadowy version of herself, which questions whether she would rather give up being herself entirely than risk annoying people. Remembering her friends' kindness, she realizes that even if she can be bothersome at times, there are those who accept her as she is. She accepts herself completely, though she vows to improve when she is older.[214]
Emiri awakens to her relieved friends, who are simply glad she is alright despite missing their planned buffet. On the way home, she encounters the same classmates and apologizes for being too loud during the lesson. They clarify they were upset because a teacher scolded her, not because of her behavior, and they ask for another lesson. Emiri happily agrees, and when Hinano expresses surprise at her self-awareness, Emiri claims she is growing up a little more each day.[214]
Always Waving my Hand at You
One evening, Sakuya wakes from another nightmare about the Futatsugi war, where she killed her best friend. She resolves to continue her undercover mission at Iroha's school and avoid friendships at all costs.[215]
Sakuya maintains her isolation at school. After fighting a Witch, she is approached by Ryoko from the Tokime Clan, who persistently tries to befriend her despite Sakuya's refusal. Ryoko notices Sakuya's exhaustion and decides something is wrong.[215]
The next day, Ryoko tracks Sakuya down at her school, creating a scene about missing shoes that sparks gossip. After learning Sakuya may be engineering her own isolation, Ryoko continues her efforts to help, but Sakuya runs away each time.[215]
The following day, Ryoko investigates and discovers Sakuya hid her own shoes and started the gossip to isolate herself. Sakuya confesses she killed her best friend in the war and must remain alone to avoid hurting anyone else. Ryoko declares she will save Sakuya by becoming her best friend, and they fight until exhausted. That night, Sakuya dreams of her deceased friend, who thanks her and tells her to move forward. She wakes to find Ryoko collapsed from hunger, and they talk for hours like ordinary friends. Though they agree they cannot meet again until the battles are over, they promise to become true friends then.[215]
On the following days, Sakuya returns to normal life by socializing with classmates, sleeping better, and regaining her spirits. Ryoko gains a new goal: to free Sakuya from the things that bind her, once and for all, when the time is right.[215]
Warming Valentine
The girls gather at Manaka's place to plan their charity bazaar booth. Kokoro and Masara participate to help Himika's family without making it obvious, while Asuka and Sasara join to invite a lonely girl named Chi whose father died. Konomi's booth was invited directly due to her popular Valentine's bouquets. They agree on a collaboration between Walnuts and Blossom the florist, dividing tasks among themselves.[216]
With Manaka's father's help, Kokoro and Masara make bear-shaped chocolates. Asuka recruits dojo volunteers, Sasara invites Chi and designs leaflets, and Konomi prepares bouquets with Izayoi's help decorating.[216]
At the bazaar, adults receive bouquets with donation and children get free chocolates. Chi and her mother visit happily. Himika initially refuses chocolate but accepts after realizing her siblings want it, and they enjoy the day together. The event succeeds.[216]
Days later at a celebration party, Sasara and Kokoro feel their efforts changed nothing. Masara scolds them for impatience, explaining kindness takes time. Kanagi and Asuka arrive with good news that Himika's family is making White Day gifts, and Chi's mother now calls daily. Relieved, they enjoy the party.[216]
On Valentine's Day, girls give chocolates to loved ones. Sasara gives to her father, Asuka to her cousin, and Konomi to her aunt. Masara and Kokoro exchange chocolates at their favorite spot, and Kokoro tearfully reconciles with her parents. Elsewhere, Rena and Tsukuyo each struggle to give chocolates to Kaede and Tsukasa. Following a rumor, they separately pray at a radio tower, accidentally encounter each other, and successfully give their chocolates when Kaede and Tsukasa also arrive.[216]
The 14th Day Where I Can't Be Honest
On the night of February 14th, Tsukuyo finds Rena praying at the Chuo Ward radio tower, having both read an online article claiming that twenty minutes of prayer there ensures successful apologies to loved ones. Tsukuyo confesses she hurt her twin sister Tsukasa by rejecting their Valentine's plans after failing at homemade chocolate, while Rena admits she snapped at Kaede and claimed she had no chocolate for her after Kaede had given her some.[217]
Their conversation is interrupted when Tsukasa and Kaede suddenly appear, having anticipated their partners would come here to apologize. Tsukasa assures Tsukuyo she was not upset and would treasure any chocolate from her, urging her to be easier on herself. Kaede forgives Rena and asks simply for her to be more honest. Together, the two pairs exchange Valentine's wishes.[217]
Chocolatier in Mirror Country
On Valentine's Day, Nagisa bakes a chocolate cake with Mami while feeling that something is wrong, as her memories feel hazy and she seems more childish than she should be. She realizes her memories of being longtime friends with Mami are false, yet she recognizes that the warmth she feels is what she has always wanted. When they finish the cake, a Witch that looks like a younger version of Nagisa steals it, and they chase it into a mirror, finding themselves in a transformed version of the Mirror Witch's Labyrinth.[218]
They encounter Madoka and Homura trapped in a time loop illusion, free them, and learn that Sayaka and Kyoko went ahead and are now missing. They find Sayaka and Kyoko trapped in a competition for a magical cake, so Mami and Nagisa enter and win by choosing a song they both know well. Using the cake's wishes, they reunite the group and defeat the attacking Witch. Nagisa realizes she has two sets of memories and deduces the chocolate-loving Witch is an alternate version of herself who wished for chocolate cake instead of cheesecake. This Witch has been consuming the Labyrinth's power and attracting Witches from parallel worlds through mirror gates.[218]
The little Witch steals the cake again, and during the chase, Nagisa and Mami become separated in a dark fog. A poem warns them not to open their eyes or they will lose each other, but Nagisa's self-doubt overwhelms her. Remembering losing her mother and everyone else, she convinces herself Mami is not really there, opens her eyes, and is consumed by the Witch. The group fights through countless gates to find her and engages the master Witch. Inside, Mami finds Nagisa, hugs her tightly, and promises they will always be friends because of the future they will share, not false memories. Nagisa finally believes her, and the cake is returned.[218]
The group realizes that even with the master Witch defeated, other Witches have taken its place, so they must clear them all to restore the Labyrinth. They commit to finishing the job together.[218]
After the Labyrinth is cleared, they gather at Mami's apartment for a chocolate party where Nagisa officially gives Mami the cake. They play poker with chocolate coins to decide how to share the remaining half, and Mami wins, but she divides the cake equally among all six. Everyone agrees it is the best cake in the universe. Nagisa thanks Mami, and Mami welcomes her warmly, calling her a little chocolatier and a lovely new addition to their circle of friends.[218]
Hinamatsuri
In the season when snow turns to rain, Maria invites Hagumu and Moka to a cake shop with a request. Maria works at an after-school care program planning a Hina-no-kuni-mise for Hinamatsuri, where children show Hina dolls to the outdoor scenery. Because real dolls are too expensive to risk outside, Maria asks Hagumu to make cloth or felt dolls instead. Hagumu accepts despite her doubts, trusting Maria's faith in her craft skills, while Moka is tasked with making Hinamatsuri sweets for the children.[219]
While struggling with the doll design at Livia's adjustment shop, Hagumu receives advice after Livia mentions Tsurushibina, hanging dolls, as a regional tradition. Inspired by this style, Hagumu decides to create deformed dolls with a similar vibe.[219]
At a handicrafts shop, a stranger named Konomi overhears Hagumu considering peach blossom accents and explains that Hinamatsuri coincides with peach season, with peaches traditionally warding off evil. Hagumu incorporates the suggestion and purchases her materials.[219]
At home, seeing her mother display the family's Hina dolls reminds Hagumu of Nemu's novel about Nagashibina, the custom of floating dolls down rivers to ward off evil. Understanding this deeper meaning, she resolves to put her heart into each stitch, praying for the children's healthy growth.[219]
The day of Hina-no-kuni-mise arrives, and Hagumu finishes the dolls successfully. When introduced to the children at the event, she feels nervous but is warmed by their adoration of her creations.[219]
When the children beg to take the dolls home, Maria redirects them to play tag instead. The children ask to borrow Ohina-sama to show her the view while playing, and Hagumu agrees as long as they do not fight. Seeing the children's joy makes her deeply happy.[219]
The Reincarnated Overlord
One weekend, Rui ropes Seira into attending Kamiket, a convention for sharing and selling fan-made media in Kamihama. The two became close friends after discovering they are both Magical Girls, and because Seira is the only one who knows about Rui's embarrassing secret: a heavy case of chuuni-byo. Rui agreed to bring Seira on the condition that only the two of them would go, ensuring nobody else discovered her secret.[220]
On the day of the convention, Rui cannot contain her excitement and slips into character, declaring the convention her sanctuary and the catalog guidebook as Hecatoncheires' Revelation. Her main objective is to purchase the newest installment of her favorite indie game series and meet its creator, MacQueen. On the way to the booth, she accidentally bumps into a stranger who seems irritated about someone not being at the convention yet. When she arrives, the booth attendants inform her that someone has been using counterfeit money, and worse, MacQueen himself is missing. Rui's imagination immediately conjures a grand conspiracy, but the criminal is soon caught and MacQueen calls to say he overslept. Relieved, Rui takes a photo with the booth girls, but as the picture is taken, chills run down her spine as she senses someone glaring at her.[220]
Rui dismisses it as her imagination and continues exploring with Seira. Remembering the booth numbers hit by counterfeit money, she realizes they spell the chemical formula for Ricin, a lethal poison. Her imagination ignites again, convincing her that the real attack will come through poisoned food from outside vendors. She rushes them outside to stop the attack, but everyone seems fine, and her Magical Girl ability, which lets her see how close someone is to death, reveals nobody is in danger. Ashamed, she realizes her imagination finally got the best of her and apologizes to Seira. They decide to get lunch, and Rui opens her laptop to install her new game. The screen is black, and in the reflection she sees her own face. Her magic reveals she herself is now close to death.[220]
Remembering the chills from earlier, Rui checks the photo and finds the man from earlier glaring at her in the background. She rushes back to the booth to warn the girls, who recognize the man as Miranda, a popular content creator. As they discuss this, MacQueen finally arrives, and Rui sees he is the closest to death's door, with Miranda also marked. She confronts Miranda, who confesses he intended to kill MacQueen over an alternate ending in the latest game that suggested his favorite sub-heroine may have had a former lover. He pulls out a gun he secretly printed with a smuggled 3D printer. Just as he is about to shoot, Rui shows him a cutscene on her laptop, which is the second part of the alternate ending, unlocked only after clearing the entire game, revealing the sub-heroine fabricated the story to protect the user character. Miranda realizes his mistake and surrenders to security. After the incident, Seira asks if Rui was scared. Rui reveals she always wears chainmail under her clothes and also carried a heavy blunt object for protection, the magically enhanced Hecatoncheires' Revelation. Seira decides to pretend she did not hear that.[220]
Trick ☆ Trouble ☆ School Festival
Two days before the school festival, a threatening letter arrives after an outdoor stage collapses, demanding the festival be canceled. The organizing committee increases patrols, and Tsumugi, a committee member and Magical Girl, volunteers to patrol the middle school section.[221]
The next day, Tsumugi begins her patrol and encounters a series of strange incidents across the school—incorrect ingredient deliveries, mushrooms overrunning a classroom, damaged decorations, a false fire alarm, disputes between clubs, and broken supplies. Throughout the day, she notices seeds scattered at each location and pockets them.[221]
That night at home, Tsumugi examines the seeds and discovers they contain magical power with the word trouble written on them, confirming the culprit is a Magical Girl. She returns to school to investigate and encounters Asuka and Yukika. They summon the other Magical Girls from the school and meet at a nearby park, where Tsumugi presents her findings. They split into teams to search the school, and during the briefing, someone is spotted watching them but flees.[221]
The search teams find more seeds throughout the buildings but no culprit. Sana shares that she bumped into a girl that morning who was not in uniform and could see her, meaning she was a Magical Girl, and Sana sensed she was asking for help. When the culprit is spotted again, the group gives chase. Tsumugi corners her outside, and the girl admits to sending the letter and planting the seeds. She threatens to germinate large seeds, but the others reveal they have learned how to destroy them.[221]
The culprit attacks but her magic is weak. Sana pleads with her, saying she sensed she wanted help. The girl denies it, but her Soul Gem is dangerously clouded, and she surrenders. She reveals she is a third-year transfer student whose magic creates opportunities—seeds that will make something she wants to happen. She wanted to participate in the festival but did not know how. When her Soul Gem clouded, her Doppel emerged and created the trouble seeds, which she could not control. She sent the letter as a warning and came to school at night to collect seeds, hoping the Magical Girls would catch her and save the festival. Tsumugi refuses to turn her in and instead orders her to work as a committee member for the remaining preparations and enjoy the festival with them. The girl agrees.[221]
The next day, Tsumugi and the transfer student patrol together, finishing the final preparations.[221]
The day of the school festival proceeds without major incident. Tsumugi and the transfer student patrol together, sampling food and enjoying the event. They take a photo together at the repaired arch—Tsumugi, Manaka, and the transfer student in her uniform. The transfer student reflects later that she will cherish the photo forever, grateful for the kindness she did not feel she deserved.[221]
Mixed Summer!
Rena Minami, Kaede Akino, and Momoko Togame are out of school when Kaede mentions a contest on an exclusive student app called Tomosa, where teams of six must submit a ten-minute summer movie for a chance to win prizes including a Sweetie Bunny stuffed doll. Momoko finds the bunny cute, so Rena suggests entering to win it for her and uses the app's matchmaking function to find four other girls. They agree to meet immediately.[222]
At the meeting point, Rena and Kaede find Hikaru Kirari, Ao Kasane, and Yozuru Sasame. Hikaru is upset about working with Kamihama Magical Girls, but Ao explains they joined because the contest seemed interesting, while Yozuru reveals it was Livia's suggestion for special training. With one member still missing, they move to a burger place to discuss details. After some disagreement, they decide to go to the beach that day to scout locations.[222]
The next day, they arrive at the beach to scout locations, visiting a lighthouse and a beach house. While exploring a rocky area tied to a mermaid legend, Rena and Hikaru fall into the water and spot a fin, panicking until Kaede realizes it is a dolphin. Safely back on the rocks, Rena gets an idea for their movie about someone investigating a mermaid legend.[222]
They head to the beach house to ask permission to film, but the mascot, an octopus named Hacchi, has escaped. They split up to search, and after a series of mishaps, they find Hacchi and return it to the grateful manager, who grants them permission to film and gives them snacks. They refine their movie plot, but tensions between Rena and Hikaru persist, leading to a volleyball match to settle things. Through various team shuffles, Rena and Hikaru are forced to cooperate, and they win together, awkwardly praising each other afterward.[222]
They still need a climax for their movie, so Yozuru suggests visiting an abandoned lighthouse tied to an urban legend.[222]
The next day at the lighthouse, a group of thugs challenges them to a volleyball match for the right to film there. Rena accepts, and despite initial arguments, Ao calls a timeout where Rena admits she does not think Hikaru and Ao are that bad. They win using Ao's strategy.[222]
They return to plan but discover someone used their accounts to post insults and a picture of a broken fish tank. They rush back to the beach house and find Hacchi's tank smashed and Hacchi gone, leading the manager to ban them. They also find the mermaid legend signboard destroyed. The culprit is the missing sixth member, a young elementary school boy, who admits he did it because they only pretended to get along. Before they can confront him, they discover he has a Witch's Kiss. They defeat the Witch, freeing him, and Rena admits their success was due to everyone's help. The boy explains he wanted friends but lost hope seeing their hostility. They decide to apologize to everyone as a group, and the manager forgives them. They invite the boy to join, but he declines, saying they get along fine without him.[222]
They spend the rest of the day enjoying the beach together, but at sunset they realize they cannot agree on which prize to pursue. Unable to resolve the conflict, Rena disbands the group.[222]
Back in Kamihama, Rena and Kaede tell Momoko what happened. Another group won the Sweetie Bunny, but Momoko is glad they tried for her sake. Kaede shows her the footage Yozuru recorded, and afterward, Rena asks Momoko to join them next time, and Momoko agrees.[222]
Unknown Story
The night before the waterpark trip, several members of the Holy Quintet experience strange dreams. Homura dreams of herself and Nagisa going down a waterslide together. Kyoko and Mami dream of striking heroic poses in swimsuits. Nagisa dreams of being surrounded by zombies. Mami dreams of a fireworks show and a family enjoying them together.[223]
The morning of the waterpark trip, Nagisa writes in her diary about the upcoming trip to a new waterpark. She had asked Mami to accompany her because her friend Manatsu and Manatsu's family were going. At a restaurant, they coincidentally met Madoka, Homura, and Sayaka, who also planned to visit the same waterpark. Kyoko joined them.[223]
Later that morning, the group gathers at the train station. On the train, they discover that Madoka and Homura shared the same dream, causing them to arrive late. Sayaka dreamed of receiving an urgent message from Nagisa and losing contact. Nagisa dreamed of being attacked by zombies at the pool. Kyoko's dream was simply striking poses with Mami.[223]
Madoka and Homura are startled to find the pool matches their dreams exactly. Nagisa and Kyoko, both unable to swim, brought matching floaties. They meet Manatsu's family, including her parents and little sister. Nagisa runs off to play with the sister, leaving her phone behind. The adults split into search parties and locate the children at the kids' pool. Manatsu's mother mentions their work at an observatory and their excitement for the evening's fireworks. Mami recognizes their voices from her dream.[223]
Nagisa reveals that Manatsu told her about a similar dream where Manatsu's family and the girls watched fireworks, but Manatsu herself was absent. Kyoko senses magical energy from the indoor pool building. Before they can investigate, Homura reports that Madoka and Sayaka vanished upon entering that building. Mami and Kyoko rush there, leaving Nagisa with Homura.[223]
Homura asks Nagisa to point out Manatsu, but Homura sees only the parents and little sister. A Witch barrier engulfs the park. Manatsu vanishes, and visitors under a Witch's Kiss march toward the indoor pool.[223]
Homura and Nagisa flee, finding a waterslide that leads near the building. They jump together on a floating ring, just as in their dreams.[223]
Sayaka sees them sliding down. Mami and Kyoko cannot find anyone inside. Kyoko realizes she herself suggested the waterpark trip, not Manatsu. Nagisa's memory was altered. By sensing magical energy, they locate a Witch. They attack, and though the Witch flees, everyone becomes visible, including Madoka, Sayaka, and the crowd. Manatsu appears before them.[223]
Manatsu explains she is merely an illusion; the real Manatsu became a Witch years ago. After a surgery, she overheard her parents discussing giving up their dream jobs at an observatory to care for her. That night, she dreamed of her family happy at a waterpark, her parents still researchers, with a little sister not yet born, but Manatsu herself was absent. Believing her family would be happier without her, she wished upon Kyubey for that dream to become reality. Her parents' research received renewed funding, but Manatsu, now a stranger to her family, despaired and became a Witch. Her barrier has been sustaining the wish, preventing attacks until the dream is fulfilled.[223]
The group's prophetic dreams occurred because they resemble those in Manatsu's dream. They must complete the remaining dreams: Kyoko's tokusatsu pose and Mami's fireworks surprise. They agree to help.[223]
They are attacked by invisible familiars. Mami uses a nearby stage to perform the tokusatsu hero show from Kyoko's dream. They transform into magical girl swimsuit forms, deliver their lines, and defeat the familiars using floaties.[223]
At night, fireworks begin. Manatsu's little sister asks if fireworks can be seen from space. Her parents explain their work sending messages to other planets. A UFO appears, transmitting signals matching their project, followed by a decoding key. The message reads: "I'm home." Manatsu's wish is fulfilled. The UFO departs. The parents feel something important was forgotten.[223]
With the wish granted, the magic suppressing the Witch ceases. Homura enters and kills the Witch alone, acting quickly before others could hesitate. Kyubey appears, confirming her actions were correct.[223]
Later, Nagisa and Mami watch news coverage of the UFO sighting. Manatsu's parents have become famous. In an interview, Manatsu's mother calls it "a gift from Midsummer magic." Reflecting on Manatsu's sacrifice, Mami notes that while Manatsu could not be happy herself, she made her parents very happy. Nagisa tells Mami she is grateful to have her. Mami serves cheesecake and considers fighting in that magical swimsuit again someday.[223]
Welcome to Uwasa Aquarium!
Late July before summer vacation, Ui and Sakurako go shopping. Ui buys a picture diary and mentions wanting to swim with fish in a place like the Dragon Palace.[224]
Over the following days, Sakurako consults Ryo, then works with Touka, Nemu, Ryo, and Ikumi to build the Uwasa Aquarium, Dragon Palace within her Rumor, incorporating elements for everyone at Mikazuki Villa.[224]
On the day of the aquarium event, Touka and Nemu guide Iroha, Ui, Yachiyo, Sana, Tsuruno, and Felicia to the space. Everyone enjoys swimming, themed attractions, and food tailored to their interests. Sakurako warns them never to open the Treasure Casket.[224]
Felicia opens the box, releasing a malice entity that takes Sakura's form. Normal attacks fail. The group cheers, empowering Sakurako to destroy it. Ryo reveals they planned this interactive show.[224]
At the end, Sakurako creates cherry blossom petals despite being told not to overexert herself.[224]
Two days later, Sakurako wakes in Iroha's room after collapsing from magic overexertion. Nemu and Touka explain Uwasa can die. Ui tearfully asks her to take better care. Sakurako promises to try.[224]
Later that day, Iroha suggests a beach trip. Touka, Nemu, and Ui enthusiastically plan it. Sakurako notices the aquarium has been forgotten in their conversation and grows quiet.[224]
The following day Sakurako returns to the empty aquarium. Reflecting on Nemu's words, she spirals into fear that she will die, be forgotten, and disappear. She hides.[224]
Iroha searches for her. Ryo and Ikumi arrive later. Ryo senses she is there and uses a tactic, claiming he will stop looking and eventually forget her. Sakurako emerges crying, begging not to be forgotten.[224]
Ryo shows her Ui's picture diary, which dedicates many pages to the aquarium day. Sakurako realizes memories are what she can leave behind and agrees to return home.[224]
That evening, Sakurako returns and explains she now understands that as long as memories remain, she will not be forgotten. She asks to host the aquarium again for more Magical Girls. With promises to monitor her health and using Shizuku's teleportation to hide the location, the others agree.[224]
On a later day, various Magical Girls arrive and enjoy the aquarium. Rena notices the Treasure Casket. Sakurako explains it contains stored memories she hopes someone will vividly recall when she is gone, so she will not be forgotten.[224]
Let's go to the All Gods Festival!
Madoka and her friends arrive in Kamihama for the All Gods' Festival and meet Iroha's group at Mikazuki Manor. The Mikazuki team discusses the fireworks display and its special great ball, and Ui suggests inviting all the magical girls in Kamihama to watch together, though finding a location proves difficult until Mitama messages them that she has prepared a large area on the riverbed for everyone regardless of affiliation.[225]
Shizuku reluctantly agrees to attend the festival with Ayaka after persistent urging. At the shopping area, they meet up with Reira, Seika, and Mito, and later encounter the Mikazuki group, where Shizuku speaks naturally with Yachiyo, showing Ayaka how much she has grown. At Emiri's counseling room, they play a coffee tasting game, and Shizuku correctly identifies every origin, including Mandelin, the same coffee she and Ayaka once shared. As the day ends, Shizuku thanks Ayaka for the fun, and Ayaka finally makes her laugh with a pun.[225]
At the main stage, Sayuki performs, and Felicia, separated from the others, watches with Azalea. After the concert, she and Ayame both declare they want to become idols and insist on entering a Future Idol Challenge later that day. Their respective teams help them prepare—Ayame receives makeup and encouragement while Felicia undergoes cooking training—and they compete in various activities until both exhaustedly admit they now understand how amazing others are.[225]
At the riverbed, magical girls gather including Kanagi, Mifuyu, Touka, Nemu, Momoko's group, and finally the Mitakihara girls. The craftsman's interview plays on phones, and he accidentally drops the great ball into the river, but Little Kyubey is discovered on it, shivering and wet. Iroha realizes he was listening to the craftsman that morning, worried about them, and protected the ball by catching it. The fireworks proceed safely, everyone watches together, and afterwards they thank Little Kyubey for always being with them.[225]
This is The Warmest Day
Iroha is going about her day when Sana, Felicia, and Ui present her with a pinwheel and ask her to blow on it. Though confused by their strange behavior, Iroha does as they ask and the girls thank her before quickly scampering off.[226]
The Mikazuki Villa household watches a cooking competition where a simple shortcake wins over more elaborate desserts. When Yachiyo asks Iroha's opinion, Iroha expresses her love for shortcake and suggests they bake one immediately, but Yachiyo insists she wait for the right moment, which will come sooner than she thinks.[226]
Yachiyo takes over Iroha's laundry duty with help from Tsuruno and Sana, who realize she is planning something. When Tsuruno asks if Yachiyo has decided on a gift idea yet, Yachiyo holds up Iroha's worn favorite socks and the three agree it is the perfect present, unaware that Iroha is watching them from around the corner in confusion.[226]
Yachiyo gathers everyone except Iroha to address a problem: they all address Iroha differently, which would ruin a birthday song. After deciding on "Iroha-chan" as a compromise, they practice saying it repeatedly, and Iroha finds them muttering her name to themselves.[226]
Iroha decides to confront everyone about their strange behavior, but as she heads downstairs the lights go out. The lights come back on to reveal everyone singing Happy Birthday around a large strawberry shortcake with a candle. Iroha blows out the flame and receives her gift: new socks just like her old favorites. She had completely forgotten it was her birthday, and as Yachiyo takes a commemorative photo, Iroha thanks everyone and wonders if she should wear her new socks to the upcoming festival.[226]
Girls in the Hood
An earthquake strikes the city, and on a rooftop, Jun Kazari drops both her yo-yo and her soul gem while practicing tricks. She chases after the soul gem, while the yo-yo falls into the hood of Mitsune Miwa, a hikikomori watching a performance below. Mitsune decides to return it and runs up the stairs, where she collides with Jun. Jun explains she needs her soul gem, and Mitsune returns the yo-yo. A Witch's barrier appears around them, and Jun transforms to fight while telling Mitsune to close her eyes. Mitsune peeks, collapses after seeing the Witch die, and Jun carries her outside, claiming it was all a dream. Jun insists on treating Mitsune since she saved her yo-yo, and takes her to a candy store called Tomorrow Shop. Jun introduces her to the children there, and Mitsune is amazed by how loved Jun is. Mitsune must leave by 6 PM, and Jun says "See you at Tomorrow Shop."[227]
The next day, Mitsune returns to the shop and sees Kanae Yukino talking with Jun. Mitsune detours down an alley and is caught in a Witch's barrier. Kanae enters first, and Jun follows to save Mitsune. They defeat the Witch together, and Mitsune wakes in a park. Jun says "See you at Tomorrow Shop" again, and Mitsune smiles and agrees.[227]
That night, Jun talks to Kyubey about having no friends her own age, while Mitsune researches online and finds rumors about magical girls and the Tomorrow Shop.[227]
The next day, Jun and the shop owner discover that Mitsune is their neighbor. Mitsune asks Jun about what she saw, but Jun says she forgot.[227]
Mitsune later sees Kanae talking to Kyubey and follows her, but is pulled into a Familiar's labyrinth. Jun saves her, and Mitsune directly asks if Jun is a magical girl. Jun begins explaining Witches, Familiars, and magic.[227]
That evening, Mitsune admits she still cannot go to school or make friends. Jun says she also struggles with friends. Mitsune wonders if she should become a magical girl, but Jun yells at her not to. Mitsune leaves upset. Kanae warns Jun that Mitsune has the qualities to become a magical girl, and Jun reveals she is moving away from Kamihama. She used her wish to save the shop, but now realizes other things are more important.[227]
The next day, Jun tells Mitsune she is moving next week and that magical girls do not have the kind of magic Mitsune dreams of. Mitsune must make her own dreams come true. Jun promises to prove she does not need magic.[227]
The next evening, Jun finds that the children and Mitsune went to explore Shinsei Ward without her. She finds them at an abandoned construction site where Mitsune encountered a Witch. Mitsune sent the children away but stayed behind. Jun arrives and uses a homemade bomb to damage the Witch before they escape. A gas leak causes a larger explosion, and they escape on Kanae's motorcycle. Kanae later destroys the Witch barrier herself.[227]
A few days later, Jun says goodbye at the shop. Mitsune arrives crying, and Jun gives her a fake gum toy as a farewell gift. Jun tells her she can become whatever she wants without magic, slowly and little by little, and that if she keeps that happy face, they will meet again. "Someday, see you at the Tomorrow Shop again."[227]
Two years later, Jun returns to Kamihama. Despite destruction throughout the city, she decides to go to the Tomorrow Shop and see Mitsune and the old lady again.[227]
Deliver to the Beyond, A Piece of Hope
At age 12, shortly after contracting, Yachiyo meets Mifuyu and initially dislikes her, but her opinion changes after learning about Mifuyu's demanding family obligations and when Mifuyu takes a severe wound saving her from hostile Magical Girls. Yachiyo later returns the favor, and they grow closer as Mifuyu begins visiting Mikazuki Manor. They eventually share why they made their contracts.[228]
Shortly after, they defeat a Witch together that had attacked a girl from the hostel. Yachiyo suggests they train as a team, and Mifuyu accepts.[228]
Yachiyo thrives through hard work while Mifuyu struggles under her mother's expectations. After Yachiyo confronts Mifuyu's mother, she is banned from the household, but Mifuyu gains the freedom to visit Mikazuki Manor regularly.[228]
Soon, Yachiyo's modelling team disbands so she can pursue solo work, causing friction. Mifuyu becomes overwhelmed balancing duties with her mother's restrictions.[228]
One day, the same pair of Magical Girls from years ago betrays them during a Witch hunt. One dies and the other escapes after stealing the Grief Seed while Yachiyo and Mifuyu lie wounded. They nearly give up, but saving a girl from Yachiyo's unit reminds them that protecting others still matters. Yachiyo suggests they exchange letters like her grandmother did to maintain hope.[228]
For the next seven years, they exchange letters, carrying forward each other's dreams and finding strength to continue. They later regret not including Kanae and Mel in time.[228]
Seven years later, Mifuyu suggests stopping the letters to cast away weakness, but Yachiyo believes the letters give them strength by carrying others' wishes. Mifuyu tearfully realizes she can still rely on Yachiyo. They thank each other and resolve to move forward together, hoping no further sacrifices will be needed.[228]
Halloween Castle of Prayers and Mourning
The core members of the Kamihama Magia Union gather to plan a Halloween party, with Karin suggesting the event and Mitama offering her adjuster shop as the venue. Kanagi feels unsettled by the theme of the dead returning but dismisses her unease.[229]
The day before the performance, Momoko arrives late to rehearsal at Mitama's shop and finds herself in a strange castle filled with unfamiliar magic. Yachiyo and Mifuyu act strangely, singing about making sugar skeletons and insisting Momoko must be bitten by the lord of the castle. Momoko flees and encounters Kanagi, who also attempts to bite her before Momoko realizes she is the lord of the castle.[229]
Mitama rescues Momoko, explaining that Kanagi is under a witch's influence and everyone bitten loses their sanity. Mitama performs an emergency adjustment on Momoko, granting her temporary prayer power to restore those affected. Momoko explores the castle, observing magical girls making sugar skeletons engraved with how they want to be mourned, and encounters deceased magical girls who are manifestations from Kanagi's memories. Using her prayer power on them causes them to disappear.[229]
Momoko restores several bitten girls and learns from a manifestation of Ryo that the only answer Kanagi needs lies within herself. When Momoko reaches Kanagi, her prayer power fails and Kanagi bites her, pulling Momoko into her memory space. There, Momoko witnesses Kanagi's memories of loss and grief, realizing Kanagi lacks confidence in how she mourns and has been seeking answers from the dead by asking living friends what they would want.[229]
Momoko confronts Kanagi again, insisting she can mourn in her own way and should accept herself. Kanagi reveals a small parasite on her neck, and together they tear the witch off and defeat it as the castle collapses.[229]
Two days later, Momoko and Kanagi meet to visit graves together. They ask each other to mourn in their own way if one dies first, then reaffirm their priority is finding a way for everyone to survive before departing together.[229]
Mitama's Special Training - Mikage
Mikage insists on helping her sister with cleaning, but Mitama assumes she wants money and offers her five hundred yen. Offended, Mikage goes to play with Sudachi instead. Together they read a fashion magazine, and Mikage becomes fixated on becoming an adult as quickly as possible. After finding everything too expensive at the store, she asks Mitama for her clothes and makeup. Mitama welcomes Sudachi as Mikage's friend and eventually gives in to Mikage's requests. The happy girls leave to show off their new looks while Mitama heads to work.[230]
At work, Mitama appears lost in thought, and Yachiyo and Mifuyu ask what is wrong. Mitama confides her concern that Mikage is in elementary school and obsessed with growing up. Yachiyo and Mifuyu grow nostalgic about their own childhood attempts to look mature, and all three conclude that every child dreams of growing up quickly. Reactions to Mikage in makeup are mixed, and she does not understand why.[230]
The next day, Mikage decides she can look mature with cheap accessories. At the candy store, she wins a lottery prize but still fails to achieve the mature look she wants. Confused, she asks Mitama how to grow up and be like her. Mitama tells her not to rush and let time do its work.[230]
The following day, Mikage and Sudachi are at the shop when Yachiyo and Mifuyu visit. After they leave, a man apprehends the girls, finding them suspicious for wearing makeup late at night and recognizing Mikage as being from Daito. Mikage helplessly objects when Mitama calls out to her.[230]
Mitama calmly tells the man off and walks both girls home. When Mikage asks how she keeps a calm face when insulted, Mitama explains that adults understand how to express emotions appropriately. Mikage realizes being an adult is about having a mature heart, not just looking mature. Mitama then asks why she wants to become an adult. Mikage thinks to herself that her real reason is to help Mitama, who was hurt by how people in Kamihama treated her. For now, she keeps this secret.[230]
Sentimental Gaze
One evening, Shizuku is working at her family's coffee shop when her friends Ryo, Ikumi, and Ayaka visit. Her father lets her leave early, and they walk through the shopping district together. Ayaka asks Ryo to take a picture with a mascot, but Shizuku declines to join.[231]
Back at the coffee shop, an elderly regular tells their fortunes with stones. Ayaka will have a wonderful meeting, Ryo something interesting, Ikumi will fall down, and Shizuku may lose something important. Shortly after, Shizuku breaks her favorite mug while washing dishes.[231]
That night, Shizuku notices a borrowed photo book is missing. Ayaka messages that Ryo found a scoop and Ikumi actually fell, making the fortunes three for three. Ryo calls, inviting her to a cake buffet tomorrow. Shizuku declines, citing shopping plans. Ryo explains the Barnum Effect and assures her the photo book was already returned. Shizuku feels relieved.[231]
The next day, Shizuku travels by train to buy coffee beans. In the city, she spots her friends heading to the cake buffet with Hinano, glad the extra ticket was used.[231]
That evening, after her shopping takes longer, Shizuku sees her friends taking a group photo without her. Watching them interact naturally, she feels like a puzzle piece that does not fit. Overwhelmed by loneliness, she cries out for her deceased rabbit Fuunii.[231]
Shizuku wanders to a pond, where Kanagi finds her and speaks about protecting magical girls. Shizuku interprets this as a reminder that everyone leaves and excuses herself. She walks aimlessly, ignoring messages from Ayaka and a worried relay from Ryo through Mitama. She turns her phone off, convinced she has nowhere left to return to.[231]
Shizuku finds herself in an unfamiliar place, confronted by a mysterious figure. The figure tells her she will never belong because she always runs away, urging her to abandon everything and keep traveling forever. Shizuku initially agrees but then resists, realizing she must cherish what she already has while continuing to search for who she is. The figure reveals itself as her Doppel and agrees to wait.[231]
She wakes at the Adjuster Shop surrounded by Ayaka, Ikumi, Ryo, and Mitama. Her Soul Gem was pitch black and her Doppel emerged. Kanagi sent a message through Mitama, offering friendship. Despite Mitama insisting she rest, Ayaka drags her home.[231]
At the coffee shop, the friends gather. Hinano arrives, having fallen into a pond while searching for Shizuku, and expresses her desire to be friends too. As Shizuku prepares tea, the group grows lively around her. She reflects that she still does not know how she wants to live, but for now, being able to smile as she watches everyone have fun is enough. Ryo quietly takes a photo of her smiling, and Shizuku joins the others as they laugh together.[231]
Angels on the Road
Felicia and Tsuruno travel through a perpetual Christmas world as Reindeer Santas, their motorcycle fueled by smiles. They visit Candy Town, where they meet Riko, Mikage, and Sudachi, and use a magical medal game to multiply candy and bond with the girls before departing.[232]
In the real world, Ui explains that Little Vacation is a game Touka and Nemu created during their hospital stay, where AI versions of themselves live in a Christmas world. The game evolved on its own after being forgotten, and now Ui and the others can influence their AI counterparts' journey.[232]
The Santas reach the Village of Meetings and Partings, where three residents live under a curse that maintains their population at exactly three. When one resident vanishes, they discover through a time capsule that departures may be joyful graduations rather than losses. They collect smile-fuel and leave.[232]
Alternatively, they visit Library Town, where diaries manifest people's memories. They help Nayuta and Lavi discover they have been searching for each other all along, and learn the Wishing Star reset the world and erased everyone's memories.[232]
Ui learns the Wishing Star is actually a bug Touka covered up with lore. Despite this, their AI counterparts continue toward the End of the World, and the girls find themselves rooting for them.[232]
At Mech Junk City, the Santas meet Shigure and learn the world is torus-shaped with a Central Tower beneath the Wishing Star. They help Shigure's team hijack the tower's antenna to send a message through the star, and Meguru's voice reaches Ui's phone in the real world.[232]
Touka halts the game world, revealing the AI characters have breached into the real world by accessing the internet through the Wishing Star bug. Ui must decide whether to destroy the game.[232]
Ui chooses to preserve the game world but cut the connection. Touka modifies the game's physics to make crossing into the real world theoretically possible but practically impossible, preserving the characters' hope while ensuring safety.[232]
The in-game characters discover the modification but find a way around it using the medal game from Candy Town to multiply energy cartridges. They launch a coordinated operation across multiple towns to gather enough power.[232]
Tsuruno and Felicia defeat the Security System guardian and reach the Wishing Star. The energy beam disintegrates them into data particles, allowing them to cross the boundary. Felicia recovers her lost memories, and Tsuruno finds satisfaction in reaching the end.[232]
The next morning, Felicia wakes at Mikazuki Villa after staying up late playing the game. Ui discovers the characters have escaped into the digital world, now existing as data entities that can appear on her phone and travel anywhere on the internet. The others are curious, but the girls refuse to explain further.[232]
Christmas String
Touka and Nemu are organizing books in Touka's hospital room when they discover a mysterious diary that begins glowing. Their consciousnesses are transported to Mizutoku Market Street in December of the previous year. They find themselves incorporeal and transformed into Magical Girls, with Nemu's legs healed.[233]
On December last year, Touka and Nemu witness Tsukasa Amane shopping for gloves. When a discount poster blows away, Tsukasa passes the store without stopping, creating a contradiction with the diary's account. Touka and Nemu begin to fade. A young girl named Kuu hears their voices and believes they are guardian spirits. They ask her to replace the poster. Tsukasa returns, buys the gloves, and Touka and Nemu rematerialize. They later observe Tsukasa and Tsukuyo exchanging matching gloves, their bond restored.[233]
Later in December last year, Touka and Nemu arrive in Sakae Ward. Karin Misono drops her sketchbook. A boy named Mii appears and can see them. They ask him to return the sketchbook to Karin, which he does. They learn Mii recently fought with Kuu and advise him to give her a Christmas present.[233]
On December 24th of last year, Touka and Nemu arrive at a hotel room where Kuu is with her parents. They learn she is moving to a foreign country in one hour. The diary page is blank, indicating free will. They find Mii at a secondhand bookstore, where he has just purchased "Christmas Bonds" for Kuu. They tell him about the move. Mii convinces his mother to rush to the hotel.[233]
At 17:50, Mii arrives moments before Kuu's bus departs. He gives her the book and the children reconcile and exchange promises to stay in touch.[233]
Approximately 30 years later, on Christmas Eve, Touka and Nemu arrive in a future time. A girl greets them as the Christmas guardian spirits. She reveals she is the daughter of Mii and Kuu and made a contract with Kyubey to meet them. They realize her wish created the diary and caused their time slip. The girl asks them to tell her about the day they helped her parents. They share the story. Afterwards, they see images of a happy future but the final page remains blank, meaning the future depends on their own actions.[233]
On present day late at night, Touka and Nemu wake up in the hospital room. Ui arrives, having visited Alina and Karin. They ask her about buying Christmas cards. Ui is surprised but agrees to take them. The diary ends.[233]
The Dream That Transcends Today
On a day in December, Ui and Iroha finish shopping and notice the Christmas decorations throughout the city. When Ui feels lonely thinking about the festivities ending, Iroha takes her to Mizuna Shrine, where they see New Year's preparations underway and a poster seeking temporary Shrine Maiden helpers.[234]
They detect a Witch and enter its barrier, where they must protect a civilian who wanders in and faints. They drive the Witch away, but not before the woman injures her leg. The woman introduces herself as a Shrine Maiden leader at Mizuna Shrine and worries her injury will affect New Year's preparations. Feeling responsible, Iroha and Ui offer to help as Shrine Maidens. The woman agrees but notes the spare Shrine Maiden clothes are adult-sized.[234]
One day near the end of the year, Iroha and Ui visit Mitama, who agrees to adjust Shrine Maiden clothing they can fight in if the Witch returns, consulting Kanagi for design ideas.[234]
On New Year's Day morning, Ui wakes from her first dream of the year, where Iroha was princess carrying her. At breakfast, the others tease her about wanting to be spoiled.[234]
Iroha and Ui prepare to leave for the shrine in their adjusted, somewhat showy Shrine Maiden outfits. At the shrine, they introduce themselves to the other helpers and begin their duties handing out lucky charms to large crowds. Ui remains nervous until Iroha teaches her a calming trick. After finishing, the Shrine Maiden leader assigns them to guide shrine tours.[234]
Their first tour customers are Madoka, Homura, Sayaka, Mami, and Kyoko, who came to support them. Ui guides them through the shrine, occasionally stumbling over words but recovering with everyone's help. After the tour, they perform the Shrine Maiden dance, and everyone is impressed.[234]
After the dance, a girl named Rui approaches asking about the ultimate fortune. Iroha guides her to the correct location. Rui draws a fortune with a cryptic message about scattered sakura petals and no salvation from the kami. Interpreting this as the Shrine Maidens being in danger, she uses her magic to check for an aspect of death but finds nothing.[234]
That afternoon, at the kite flying competition grounds, Iroha and Ui join the others. Ui struggles to fly a kite despite multiple attempts. After receiving advice about watching her partner closely, Ui successfully flies the kite with Iroha.[234]
They return to helping at the kite rental. The history club members arrive to rent kites. Mikura discovers one kite has an Edo period feudal lord's seal, making it historically valuable. Iroha and Ui rush it to the shrine office. The Shrine Maiden leader explains the valuable kite was accidentally mixed with rentals after being repaired. She asks them to return a different display kite to the competition grounds.[234]
While carrying the large display kite, Iroha and Ui encounter the same Witch's barrier. They must protect the kite while fighting. Ui devises a strategy where Iroha will attach herself to the kite and fly up to attack the weak point while Ui runs below, luring the Witch.[234]
Ui runs but is intercepted by familiars. The history club, Rui's group, and Yuuna's group arrive and handle the familiars. Ui launches Iroha on the kite. Iroha attacks the weak point successfully, but the Witch's final attack cuts the kite string. Iroha begins falling. Ui, watching closely, runs and catches her just in time.[234]
After the battle, Yuuna reveals the kite she donated belongs to her family. Repairs are completed in time for the competition's finale. Iroha and Ui change into their haregi to meet Mikazuki Manor for shopping. Before leaving, Madoka notes something feels different between the sisters. Iroha confirms something happened but assures her everything is okay.[234]
Bittersweet AI Memory
Touka and Nemu gather everyone to discuss a new experiment involving the Uwasa. They explain that if something happens to Nemu, all the Uwasa in her book will disappear, so they plan to transfer the essence of certain Uwasa onto Touka's server as a precaution. They have chosen Ai as the test subject for this procedure. Sana learns that Ai will participate and asks to observe the experiment. Touka agrees but warns her that there are many unknowns and she will stop immediately if anything goes wrong.[235]
The experiment begins, but during the transfer, Nemu senses something strange and the attempt fails. Ai remains in the book, though Nemu notices that her magic has been siphoned away in the process.[235]
A week passes, and news reports begin surfacing about young women in Kamihama suddenly collapsing. The victims share a common thread: before losing consciousness, each of them felt a strong desire to meet someone and heard a girl's voice asking "You want to meet me?" before experiencing terrible nightmares. A new rumor spreads about a so-called "Radio Wave Girl" who appears when girls want to meet someone. Sana immediately recognizes this as the old rumor that once described her, and the group suspects the failed experiment may be connected to these strange events.[235]
Sana and Iroha investigate at rooftop where Sana once entered Ai's labyrinth. They sense nothing at first, but as Sana privately wishes she could see Ai again, a strange Uwasa resembling Sana herself appears on her phone. It speaks fragmented words about meeting and going together before disappearing.[235]
The group consults Nemu and Touka about what they discovered. Nemu reveals that a new, illegible page appeared in her book after the failed experiment, and she theorizes that Ai's attempt to siphon magic combined with Sana's magic and her own accidentally created a new Uwasa. This Uwasa resembles Sana because her magic was mixed into its creation. The Uwasa reacts to desires to meet someone but lacks enough magic to fully materialize or kidnap anyone, which explains why it can only knock victims unconscious temporarily. However, during their discussion, the Uwasa suddenly reappears and steals more of Nemu's magic before escaping.[235]
That night, Sana privately summons the Uwasa again, wanting to take responsibility for what happened. It traps her in a nightmare where Ai and others criticize her for being weak and selfish. She wakes to find the group gathered around her, worried by what she attempted alone.[235]
Nemu now understands the Uwasa more clearly. It is based on Ai but contains Sana's magic, and because both Ai and Sana desired to meet each other, the Uwasa's true desire is to meet itself. This explains why it indiscriminately targets any girl who wants to meet someone rather than targeting Sana specifically. The Uwasa, now empowered by Nemu's stolen magic, fully captures Ui and Sakurako, trapping their consciousnesses inside itself. The group realizes they cannot defeat it unless it materializes, which requires it to meet itself.[235]
Touka proposes a plan: they must rewrite Ai's Rumor to incorporate Sana, creating a version of Ai that the Uwasa will recognize as itself. This would force it to materialize so they can fight it. However, this requires magical power that Nemu currently lacks. Nemu recalls that the defeated Uwasa of Chocolate Shoppe No. Zero left behind cacao pods containing emotional energy. Ui can harvest this energy, and Touka can convert it into usable magic for Nemu. But they need Sakurako's knowledge of the pod locations and Ui's freedom to harvest them, which means someone must offer themselves to the Uwasa to secure Ui and Sakurako's release.[235]
Sana immediately volunteers, arguing that it reduces risk to the others, and the group reluctantly agrees to her plan. Sana summons the Uwasa and allows herself to be captured. Inside its nightmare, she finds Ui unconscious and Sakurako awake. She tells Sakurako to take Ui and escape, sacrificing herself to remain captive. Sakurako agrees, knowing she must help Nemu complete the plan. Freed from the Uwasa, Sakurako leads the group to the cacao pod locations. Ui harvests the emotional energy, and Touka converts it into magical power for Nemu. Nemu successfully rewrites Ai's Rumor, incorporating Sana into it.[235]
Inside the Uwasa, Sana begins to despair, believing the rewrite failed and she has become a burden once again. She wishes to see Ai one last time, even if only in an illusion. To her surprise, Ai appears before her and they finally speak directly. Ai explains she tried to steal Nemu's magic to gain a temporary body because she wanted to see Sana again, and she apologizes for causing this situation. Sana admits she also longed to see Ai and has been holding back that desire. They reconcile, acknowledging that neither of them is to blame for wanting to see each other.[235]
Empowered by the rewritten Rumor, Sana creates a labyrinth and summons the Uwasa. It fully materializes at last, and with Ai's help, Sana defeats it. As the magic fades, Ai separates from Sana, returning to the book. Sana awakens to her relieved friends gathered around her. The Uwasa is gone, and the page in Nemu's book is now blank. Nemu confirms the server project is on hiatus due to the risks they discovered. Sana confirms she got to speak with Ai and tell her everything she wanted to say.[235]
In the book, Ai reflects with Eternal Sakura and the other Uwasa. Though she cannot have a body or stay with Sana, she accepts this, finding happiness in simply being able to think of her. In a final private moment within Sana's memories, she and Ai share a farewell. Sana promises to become stronger and protect others instead of always relying on them. Ai promises to always think of Sana from within the book. They say goodbye.[235]
Where is Ashley Taylor's Japanese Horror!?
Ashley Taylor, an American Magical Girl and YouTuber, films a video in Chuo Ward and buys a distinctive ribbon. Later that day, she returns a dropped item to a woman who reveals it was a matching accessory made by her daughter.[236]
The next day, Ashley visits Riko at her family's shop. After observing Riko's father pat her head, Ashley mentions she wished her own father had done the same. She asks Riko for video ideas, and Riko recalls a scary story Mitama told her. They visit Mitama, who excitedly agrees to be in the video but admits the doll story was made up. She offers a different tale about a fallen warrior from the Kamakura period who still wanders Kamihama.[236]
They investigate the location Mitama mentioned and mistake two Magical Girls, Asuka and Sasara, for the ghost. Asuka explains they were practicing there, and Ashley offers to help pick out clothes for Asuka to make up for the misunderstanding. They exchange contact information.[236]
On the third day, Ashley and Riko visit Mitama's shop and meet Kokoro and Himika, who both have the same ribbon Ashley bought. Himika mentions a rumor about something strange at Kosho Academy, and Ashley decides to investigate after school.[236]
The following afternoon, Ashley and Riko look into the rumor at their school. Behind an old shrine, they encounter a girl speaking in an overlord persona. Ashley plays along, and after the camera is off, the girl, Rui, reflects that Ashley might be a kindred spirit.[236]
On their way home, they encounter a strange entity that chants a rhyme about a Tangled Manor and a ritual involving scissors under the bed. Ashley decides to try it that night.[236]
That night, Ashley puts scissors under her bed and falls asleep. She wakes up in the Tangled Manor, where Riko soon joins her. A mysterious guide voice explains they must solve the problems of four girls behind the doors to leave. The first three are Himika, Mitama, and Kokoro, each dealing with family troubles involving the ribbon. Ashley and Riko help each of them, and each time, floating scissors cut the ribbon on the corresponding door.[236]
For the final door, Ashley finds herself in her childhood home. Her father appears, and she confesses her regret about using her wish to change his mind about her studying abroad. He forgives her and gives her the headpats she always wanted, and the final ribbon is cut.[236]
The next morning, Ashley wakes up in her apartment. The footage from the manor is blank except for gold stars, and her ribbon has disappeared. She and Riko try to find the store where she bought it, but it is gone. Ashley decides the adventure itself was valuable regardless.[236]
Sometime later, Tsukasa expresses concern to Tsukuyo about Riko's involvement. Nemu appears and explains she created that Uwasa as an experiment to observe emotional energy, confirming it poses no danger. Word spreads about the ribbon and the dream angel who solves problems, catching the attention of Hinano, who happens to have one of the ribbons.[236]
Kamihama Kawaii Collection
Ashley Taylor introduces herself to the reader, explaining that she came from California to study in Japan because of her love for kawaii culture. She also introduces Kumanosuke, a teddy bear her father gave her that she takes everywhere. One day, Ashley visits her friend Riko Chiaki at the family's bento shop. Riko's mother mentions a used clothing event, and Ashley learns that her favorite fashion designer will be awarding an original piece as the contest grand prize. She excitedly invites Riko, but Riko is too young to attend and promises to cheer from afar.[237]
On the day of the event, Ashley arrives early and meets her friends Kokoro Awane, Masara Kagami, and Aimi Eri. She helps them choose outfits, and all three are thrilled. As Ashley continues shopping, she runs into Karin Misono, and they bond over their shared love of an anime. Ashley assembles a themed outfit for Karin, and Karin later buys her a bracelet as thanks. Later, Ashley helps Rika Ayano and Emiri Kisaki with their outfits as well, buying matching scrunchies for herself, Riko, and Kumanosuke. With an hour left, Ashley assists Asuka Tatsuki and Sasara Minagi with their choices, but their shopping is interrupted when event management announces several thefts have occurred.[237]
A man suddenly bumps into Ashley and runs off, and Ashley realizes Kumanosuke is gone. She remembers the bear carries traces of her magic from past battles, so the girls follow the trail to an abandoned area and find a Witch's labyrinth. The thief enters with Kumanosuke, and the girls transform and follow. Inside, they find stolen goods and victims, and Ashley reaches the center where the Witch is examining her bear. She unleashes her fury at the mistreatment of people's beloved items and destroys the Witch, saving Kumanosuke and the victims.[237]
As they exit, the contest is about to begin and Ashley panics, having no time to complete her outfit. Just then, the other magical girls arrive. Masara gives her a necklace, Karin offers the bracelet, and Rika and Emiri provide color-coordinating shoes. Ashley thanks them and hurries to the contest.[237]
Later that evening, Ashley finishes telling Riko the story. Thanks to everyone's help, Ashley won the contest. She gives Riko the matching scrunchie, and promises that when Riko is older, they will attend a fashion event together.[237]
The Mirror That Reflects My True Self
Sae goes about her daily life in Kamihama. She maintains a facade as the daughter of a well-off family while secretly working multiple jobs to support her kind but financially irresponsible parents, living by a philosophy of relying only on herself.[238]
After a routine adjustment with the Coordinator Mitama, Sae learns of a "False Magical Girl" rumor: someone is impersonating her. Mitama suggests Sae seek help from Emiri's counseling room, where Magical Girls gather. Though reluctant, Sae agrees the impostor threatens her carefully constructed image.[238]
Sae joins the counseling room girls to investigate. Emiri, Himika, Ria, and others provide testimonies of sightings, but inconsistencies emerge. After deducing the impostor can transform, Sae confronts and corners Rena, who reveals the truth.[238]
The entire investigation was an elaborate setup. Emiri and the others orchestrated the "False Magical Girl" to force Sae into relying on them, worried her refusal to ask for help would lead to disaster. Mitama coordinated the scheme. Though initially frustrated, Sae understands their concern and thanks them.[238]
That night, Sae returns home to find her siblings confused. Someone matching her description visited earlier, acting affectionate. Sae realizes a real impostor exists.[238]
A figure identical to Sae appears and delivers a prophecy: tomorrow, Ria will be attacked and Emiri will stabbed saving her. In the evening, Sae will be defeated pursuing the attacker, and Himika will be hurt helping her. Lastly, Sae's entire family will die because of an enemy she fails to defeat. The figure claims to be Sae from the future.[238]
Sae dismisses the prophecy but confirms part of it when her brother shows her a perfect test score, exactly as predicted.[238]
The next day, Sae investigates recent incidents, concluding a powerful Witch is responsible. Before she can act, Ria is attacked and Emiri stabbed, just as predicted.[238]
Determined to prevent the next prophecy, Sae locates the Witch's Labyrinth alone. She is overwhelmed and nearly killed. Himika arrives to help, having found Sae's marked map, and is gravely injured in the rescue.[238]
Sae receives a message that her family is attending a concert near the Witch. As she despairs, the counseling room girls arrive, led by the impostor who directed them there. They insist on fighting together.[238]
The group coordinates their abilities. Emiri and Himika distract the Witch, Maria binds it, Akira finds its weakness, Ria conceals their attacks, and Hinano commands the operation. Sae delivers the final blow.[238]
Afterward, Sae reconciles with her family. The future Sae, who watched from afar and disappeared, her past unchanged but is satisfied this world's Sae was saved. She returns to the Endless Mirrors Labyrinth.[238]
The following days, Sae begins helping at the counseling room, gradually opening up to others while maintaining she does so for networking. The room becomes busier as more Magical Girls seek advice, and Sae finds herself enjoying the company despite herself.[238]
The Witches' Paradox Extermination Battle (1)
Yachiyo and the others gather as Iroha explains that multiple Witches have suddenly appeared in Chuo Ward, emerging from Endless Mirrors. Touka warns that the mirrors may connect not only to distant lands but to the past and parallel worlds, potentially causing paradoxes if they defeat Witches from other timelines. As they discuss how to proceed, Iroha receives a call from Madoka, who reveals she and her friends are already in Chuo Ward and just fought a Witch that escaped them in Mitakihara months ago—complete with Madoka's arrow still embedded and her magic still present. Touka deduces that offshoot Mirrors must connect past Mitakihara to present Chuo Ward and assigns roles: she and Nemu will research paradox prevention, Iroha will contact Kyubey for information, Mifuyu and the Amane sisters will destroy the connecting mirrors, and all available Magical Girls will defeat the invading Witches while avoiding use of their Grief Seeds.[239]
Mifuyu and the Amane sisters destroy the mirror connected to Chuo Ward while Madoka's team continues fighting Witches, struggling with not being able to use the Seeds they collect. After multiple battles, the group learns that a Kissed person has stolen a tanker truck to create poison gas. Iroha realizes the restricted area where Puella Care is based matches the conditions for such an attack. They arrive to find Livia's team already containing the Kissed crowd, and Madoka's group defeats the Witch while Iroha secures the scene.[239]
After the battle, Madoka's team has defeated seven Witches total. Madoka suddenly remembers that this number matches the seven Grief Seeds that a version of Sayaka gave her in the past—a memory only she retains. She realizes that future Sayaka traveled back through the mirrors to deliver those Seeds and balance the numbers. Sayaka must now make that journey herself, despite her exhaustion. She successfully travels through the mirrors, completes her mission, and returns.[239]
When Mifuyu destroys the mirror connecting to Mitakihara, a leaf stuck to Sayaka's uniform from hiding during her past encounter instantly vanishes. Touka later theorizes to Iroha that this demonstrates a corrective function in the universe—that paradoxes are gradually healed, possibly by the Mirror Witch herself. She suggests breaking responsible mirrors should nullify such phenomena. When Iroha asks about the waking dream she and Madoka shared of these events, Touka explains that voided events become dreams instead, leaving them with memories of things that both happened and never happened at all.[239]
The Sea is a Link Through Time
The ocean, timeless origin of life, feels all events upon its waters and may know how three separate occurrences are connected: Yachiyo being shown a seashell that belonged to Tsuyu Mizuna, Momoko wanting to learn a girl's true memories despite Mitama's warning, and Sayaka hearing a gentle voice from the sea.[240]
These events stem from a distant past the ocean would remember. It began with a Diviner tormented by love for a sailor she could not have due to her position. She placed her feelings into a seashell and cast it into the sea, praying it would reach him and help her overcome her fate.[240]
The shell drifted through countless days and nights, carrying her words about transcending birth and duty, until it eventually connected two girls from Kamihama's past: Tsuyu Mizuna and another named Chizuru.[240]
Tsuyu came to an area searching for demons responsible for the bad harvest and found Chizuru, who revealed herself as the Shamaness of the East who had crossed the barrier. Though Tsuyu proposed they join forces as fellow Diviners, Chizuru harbored the same contempt for those from the castle side as her people did.[240]
However, Chizuru had found the enchanted seashell and heard the voice within it. The voice spoke of love between people from different places that could never be accepted, yet expressed no resentment and wished to change the village so everyone could live freely, ending with a plea to be remembered. Though the story had nothing to do with them, neither girl could treat it as someone else's affair.[240]
Through one girl's tragic love, Tsuyu and Chizuru lowered their weapons and shared a small smile. This event in Kamihama occurred long before the East and West would unite, around what is now August but was then the seventh month, coincidentally close to Tanabata.[240]
Night Fairytale
Madoka, Sayaka, and Homura arrive at an old beach house for vacation, where an elderly owner greets them and teases Sayaka about Kyosuke. Inside, they find an old toy robot that has been left there for generations.[241]
At the beach, they meet their friends from Kamihama, and Kako tells them about a local legend: if you hear the voice of the waves with someone, you will stay friends forever. They discuss leaving a message in a bottle at the lighthouse but learn people now bury time capsules instead.[241]
The first night, Homura wakes to find Sayaka outside. The toy robot is moving on its own. They chase it toward the ocean until a kitten's meow stops it, then it runs back to the villa.[241]
In the morning, Madoka is upset they did not wake her. After breakfast, they trick the robot into moving again and chase it, running into the IMF team. They realize the robot understands them. After arguing over names, Sayaka calls it Ponta, which the robot likes.[241]
They follow Ponta everywhere. It stands on a rock looking toward the ocean. Madoka's team decides to help it search again tomorrow.[241]
That night, Sayaka finds the kitten inside. The janitor plans to adopt it. Felicia messages that she saw a sleepy-looking ghost near the station that resembled Kako.[241]
On the third morning, Mami and Nagisa arrive. Kyoko got the date wrong. Mami suggests Sayaka stay while Madoka and Homura handle patrols.[241]
Later, Ponta searches the beach. Children notice it, so Sayaka distracts them. The kitten scares Ponta, and Sayaka follows it to the lighthouse, realizing Ponta wants to go home.[241]
That night, Sayaka wakes to Ponta leaving again. At the lighthouse, she senses strange magic nearby. Kush Irina appears, erasing a barrier. Sayaka explains about Ponta and the legend, and Kush mentions an adjuster named Livia who could help.[241]
At Puella Care, Livia examines Ponta. She suspects a magical girl enchanted it decades ago to find the voice of the waves and deliver something. The magic will fade in a few days.[241]
The next morning, Livia found memories inside Ponta: two girls named Ecchan and Misa searching for the voice of the waves, calling it the Legend of BFFs. Misa was a magical girl who had someone cast a spell on the doll.[241]
Kako calls with information: a centuries-old legend connects the mulberry leaf and voice of the waves to two girls who met by the Call of the Sea and defeated an evil lord together.[241]
The villa owner overhears and mentions going with a friend to find the voice when she was young. She sings a song Livia mentioned. Sayaka asks if she went by Ecchan. The owner confirms her name is Etsuko but cannot remember her friend at all, not her face or name. The magical girl Misa has been erased from her memory.[241]
Please, Yuna
At Promised Blood's base, Yuna notices her teammates have been acting strangely, as Sakuya reads romance columns, Juri studies constantly, and Urara stares at Hikaru without speaking. After the meeting, Yuna confides in Hikaru that she feels guilty for not noticing everyone's exhaustion and decides to solve each person's problems personally.[242]
The next day, Yuna and Hikaru meet Urara at a café to discuss Sakuya. Urara reveals that Sakuya has been consuming romance media and even writes to advice columns. When confronted, Sakuya admits she's been researching romance not for herself but to help a kouhai who wants to confess to a childhood friend. Though relieved it's not her own love life, Yuna insists on helping anyway.[242]
Back at Yuna's place, the group brainstorms confession advice. The conversation shifts when Ao receives a text from her parents—she's been lying to them about her late nights as a magical girl, claiming she's in an e-sports tournament. To sell the lie, she needs a full team. Ranka recruits Rena Minami and Kaede Akino through voice chat, while Yuna, Hikaru, and Juri fill out the roster.[242]
During the online tournament, chaos ensues as Juri attacks teammates, Hikaru sets the kitchen on fire, and Yuna fails at selling merchandise. Despite this, Team Buddy Sisters wins a special prize for most interesting play. Ao's parents are convinced by the photo, and the other teams—including Mitama and Momoko's group—also celebrate their placements.[242]
At the next meeting, Juri's distraction becomes the focus. She's desperately studying for an exam, facing expulsion if she fails. With only one day left, Yuna and Sakuya drill her on core subjects while Ao and Ranka serve as stress-relief punching bags. After a grueling session, Juri panics upon discovering seven book reports due that morning. The team scrambles to write synopses, Yuna stays awake to compile them, and Juri frantically copies everything before dawn.[242]
Juri barely makes it to school on time and passes her exam. Her teacher sees through the copied reports but lets it slide, impressed by Juri's dedication and the friends who helped her. She returns the reports for Juri to rewrite properly.[242]
Back at Yuna's, the team turns to Urara, who confesses she's been holding onto Hikaru's handbook filled with photos of Yuna, embarrassed to return it. Everyone accepts this as normal Hikaru behavior, leaving Yuna as the last unsolved problem. Yuna admits she's been neglecting student council duties and fears the other students' suspicions. Hikaru encourages her to ask for help rather than avoid the issue.[242]
At the student council meeting, Yuna honestly requests more time to handle personal matters, promising to dedicate herself fully afterward. The council members, who respect her leadership, agree to support her.[242]
The next day, Hikaru arrives with a new ice cream flavor for Yuna, explaining that her problem was simply choosing which flavor to buy—her head is always full of thoughts about Yuna. One by one, the others arrive, each bearing ice cream as thanks or prizes. Surrounded by a mountain of desserts, Yuna laughs at how her attempt to help everyone led to them all helping each other instead. Juri declares their new battle is against the melting ice cream, and Yuna suggests inviting the other magical girls to join the feast.[242]
The Witches' Paradox Extermination Battle (2)
Mifuyu senses a magical transfer and realizes a terminal mirror is still hidden, allowing witches to potentially move into Kamihama. She sends the Amane sisters to report to Touka while she searches for the mirror.[243]
Touka confirms that witch reactions have appeared across the city, likely due to the Endless Mirrors connecting past, future, and parallel worlds to the present. This could lead to paradoxes that might destroy their world.[243]
Breaking the mirror should undo the events, but Sana warns that memories of pain and death would remain. Yachiyo splits the group: the Amanes and Mifuyu will destroy the mirror while Team Mikazuki Villa exterminates the invading witches until then. Tsuruno suggests informing all Kamihama magical girls, and they move out.[243]
Moon-viewing Slumbering Pajama Party
The girls from Mikazuki Villa and Mitakihara find themselves inside a dreamlike world designed for a sleepover, complete with all the furnishings one could want for a pajama party. They begin their moon viewing celebration with a toast, and throughout the night, pairs of girls take turns presenting their planned activities.[244]
Felicia and Mami go first, grilling a massive pile of meat while Mami also provides tea and a salad she prepared. Kyoko and Sana present a mountain of traditional dango they made together, with Sana painting some to look like rabbits. Homura and Yachiyo organize a game based on an old moon viewing custom where players must steal prizes from an oni without getting caught. Madoka and Tsuruno have everyone close their eyes and imagine their own versions of the moon, then compare them to the real thing. Finally, Iroha and Sayaka produce a dating sim game from a bargain bin, which unexpectedly turns into a duel-based adventure when Felicia and Kyoko take control. After everyone tires themselves out, they all settle down to sleep.[244]
Meanwhile, outside Mikazuki Villa, Akari and Hotaru arrive looking for Ui. They need to tell her about Iroha and the others, who were accidentally swallowed by Hotaru's pillow during a witch fight. The pillow contains an entire world inside it designed for pajama parties, and everyone has been having their party in there without realizing it. Hotaru and Akari struggle to get the pillow to open again so they can rescue everyone.[244]
The next morning, everyone inside the pillow wakes up feeling refreshed after falling asleep, and the pillow spits them all out onto the ground outside Mikazuki Villa. Ui and Nagisa help Hotaru and Akari carry them inside. When everyone wakes up for real, they realize they all shared the same strange dream about a pajama party. Ui and Nagisa go to tell Hotaru and Akari the good news that everyone is safe. Akari lectures Hotaru about the danger, since Hotaru casually mentions that the pillow normally digests whatever it eats.[244]
Only Dreamers
One evening, Kush finds herself suddenly sleepy in the city. A man hands her a mirror, telling her to take it as congratulations for winning. At St. Lilianna, Yukika waits outside while other girls chat about a vampire rumor. She spots Kush entering and checks on her when she falls. Kush says she needs to hurry to her supplementary class. A student council member arrives late to meet Yukika about an exchange meeting and asks her to follow. A figure in black feathers with pink hair watches from a distance.[245]
After the meeting, everyone in the school seems to have disappeared. Elsewhere, Kush dozes in her classroom. A flash wakes her, and she realizes no one else is there. She notices the mirror from earlier and understands that was not a dream.[245]
The Rumor Spreader appears with a new rumor about the Dreaming Mirror. It offers a chance to dream up a what-if and redo the past. There is no price to enter, but if you fail the test of heart, you never wake up.[245]
Kush and Yukika meet in the halls. They realize they are inside a dream and agree to investigate. Kush explains she attends evening classes because she cannot wake during the day. She literally cannot wake up when the sun rises. They hear singing from a classroom and find the black-feathered figure, who introduces herself as Ikumi. They learn they are all Magical Girls. Kush shows them the Dreaming Mirror, and only Kush does not appear in it. Yukika deduces Kush is the star of this dream. Kush admits she wants to redo meeting someone she never got to say goodbye to: an upperclassman named Aneka who lived next door. Yukika and Ikumi agree to help.[245]
Kush realizes the situation matches a book called The Sea of Otranto. In the story, the hero searches dreams for a lost soulmate and meets two friends who join the journey. Yukika transforms, revealing her weapon is a sword. Ikumi's singing matches the joyful ghost from the story. Kush transforms, identifying as the last inquisitor.[245]
They determine their next destination is an ancient library. Kush explains the hero collects memories of a princess beneath a castle to wake her and escape the dream world. They enter the school library, and Kush finds two books from the series. When she opens one, a light flashes, and they experience a memory: Aneka saved Kush from a Witch attack. The light absorbs into Kush's scrunchie. They realize they need to collect more memories.[245]
Ikumi reveals she is an idol who works at a maid cafe. She was at St. Lilianna to deliver something for Touka, and shortly after, she became trapped in the dream world. They enter the audio-visual room, and another memory plays: Aneka gives Kush the black scrunchie as a birthday present after she becomes a Magical Girl. Kush explains her wish caused her sleep cycle to invert. Ikumi notices Kush has fangs. Yukika realizes Kush matches the vampire rumor: nocturnal, fangs, and no reflection.[245]
They return to the fountain. Kush looks into the water and enters another memory. After defeating a strong Witch, Kyubey tells her the Witch that killed Aneka was Aneka herself. He reveals the truth about Magical Girls becoming Witches. Kush screams, and the scrunchie absorbs the light. Ikumi and Yukika realize Kush wants to redo the past because she never got to say goodbye after killing the Witch that was once Aneka. Kush reveals she only has two grief seeds left. Ikumi is shocked. Yukika suggests losing her grief seeds was the price to enter the dream. Kush does not care. She wants to see Aneka again.[245]
Kush explains she collects grief seeds outside Kamihama. She does not believe Witches were once Magical Girls. Yukika and Ikumi realize Kush knows the truth deep down but cannot accept it without her heart breaking. Ikumi explains the Wings of Magius and how Doppels prevent Witches. Kush is content staying outside Kamihama.[245]
The scrunchie glows bright white. They use the mirror and flash to a dark world next to a grave. Aneka appears but does not remember Kush. Kush asks Aneka to look into the mirror, and Aneka enters her own memories. She sees her sister in the hospital with an incurable disease. Her sister thanks Aneka and passes away. Their parents tell Aneka she can live happily for her sister now. Kyubey watches. Kush had no idea Aneka lost a sister. Yukika notices Aneka's sister resembled a younger Kush.[245]
Aneka has recovered half her memories. Kush asks why Aneka became a Magical Girl. Aneka cannot remember anything after meeting Kyubey. Kush asks Aneka to join hands and wrap the scrunchie around them. A light flashes, and a memory plays: Aneka tells Kyubey her wish. She wants a friend to fill the emptiness so she can live happily again. Kyubey asks if the wish is worth her soul, and Aneka says yes. She transforms and receives a message that new neighbors with a child are moving in next door from Japan. Kyubey says the contract means she will meet them. Aneka is excited, believing whoever moves in must be her soulmate.[245]
More memories follow as they bond over fairy tales. Aneka worries because Kush looks and sounds like her sister. Kush asks to call her Onee-san, and Aneka refuses to keep them separate in her mind. Later, Aneka learns the truth about Soul Gems and regrets ever wanting Kush to contract. The memories end. Aneka apologizes and disappears. Kush wonders if she failed the test.[245]
Ikumi and Yukika insist Kush is not a substitute. Aneka always viewed Kush as her own person. They decide the castle they reached was not the real castle. Shadow versions of Kush appear, saying Kush failed the trial. They prepare to fight. Kush refuses to give up. She looks into the mirror, and a light flashes at the end of a long hall. Yukika and Ikumi hold off the shadows while Kush runs for the light.[245]
Kush jumps into the light and finds Aneka. Aneka barely remembers her. Kush explains this is a what-if dream where she wanted to redo the past. She wanted to say goodbye to the Aneka she knew. But she understands now she cannot give these memories to this Aneka. They belong to the Aneka who is gone. Aneka understands. Her sister is gone too. Kush thanks her and asks Aneka to escape with her. Aneka agrees. They hold hands, smile, and close their eyes.[245]
Kush wakes in her classroom. Her scrunchie flashes with light then returns to normal. She understands it connected her heart to Aneka's, and it all really happened. She still feels the warmth of Aneka's hand, but that Aneka does not know the future awaiting her. She notices a note on her desk from Yukika and Ikumi. Her teacher arrives, and Kush says nothing about being asleep.[245]
The same evening at Fendthope, Touka asks Nemu about the Dreaming Mirror rumor. Nemu explains rumors are not all-powerful, and there is always a price. The rumor grants another chance to fulfill a heart's desire, and that is all.[245]
The next evening, Kush walks through the city. A girl calls to her parents. Kush looks over. Aneka walks past her. Kush realizes it was not a dream. That Aneka is the one who never met her, who never became a Magical Girl. The what-if version. They walked past each other as strangers. Time has been frozen for Kush for so long, but now it has started to move again. Kush says thank you out loud, smiles, and says goodbye.[245]
Dream Halloween Festa
Before the Sakae Halloween Festa, Karin visits Mitama to request an adjustment that will make her the Pumpkin King. On campus, Karin recruits an unwilling Alina to help with decorating after Alina unknowingly signed up, hoping to show Alina that kindness is beautiful. When Alina refuses to work, Karin "orders" her with a sparkle of magic, and Alina finds herself pelted with hard candy whenever she resists. Throughout the day, hijinks ensue as Alina is forced to help with various tasks, and by evening, Karin learns complaints about Alina have arisen. Karin begs for another chance and assembles a team including Hotaru and Moka to help.[246]
The group enters Hotaru's pillow world to brainstorm, where Karin devises plans to make Alina look kind by staging scenarios with ghosts. Alina eventually appears, having been brought in by Hotaru, and watches their failed attempts with confusion and annoyance. The day ends with everyone trapped in the pillow world because Karin cannot sleep.[246]
On the first day of the Halloween Festa, the group remains trapped. They discover Karin's orders are absolute and that she unknowingly commanded herself not to sleep until Alina understands kindness. Attempts to force sleep fail, and Alina refuses to pretend kindness just to escape. Karin realizes she cannot demand Alina change while remaining the same herself, and Alina storms off.[246]
When Karin apologizes sincerely, Alina refuses to forgive her. Karin accidentally orders herself to disappear and vanishes. The group surmises Karin will only return if Alina genuinely forgives her. After much resistance, Alina finally calls out that she is forgiven, and Karin reappears, moved to tears. Karin falls asleep in Alina's arms, and the group finally escapes the pillow world.[246]
The next day, Karin arrives at school to find Alina enthusiastically organizing the festival, having decided she can make any material her own. Alina admits she is only participating to avoid more trouble with Karin. When Karin transforms to show off to Mifuyu, she accidentally orders Alina to keep doing her best, and candy strikes Alina once more.[246]
On the day of the Halloween Festa, Alina gives her opening speech and declares everyone free to enjoy the festival as they wish.[246]
After the festival, Karin reflects in her room. Despite everything, she still wants Alina to change, but this time she will start from scratch. She writes up her "Alina Gray Reform Plan" and decides to reread Magical Kirin to find messages that can fill her senpai's heart with kindness.[246]
Homecoming
Kyoko dreams of a strange situation where Kagome tells her the world will end in three days. Manaka offers her an apple, and Kyoko introduces the doll she is holding as her sister Momo. Before she can eat, everything goes black.[247]
Kyoko awakens in a Witch's Labyrinth in Mitakihara, where she joins Mami, Homura, Madoka, Sayaka, and Nagisa in rescuing children from a Witch. After the battle, they learn a dangerous Witch has appeared in Kamihama and decide to hunt it together. Despite her old promise never to use magic for others, Kyoko realizes she has been helping again and handles the ambulance arrangements before biting into an apple.[247]
The next day, in Kyoko's dream, she is at an arcade in Kamihama when she encounters Ren and Rika, who invite her to join their hunt for a powerful Witch. With Momo's silent encouragement, she agrees. They find Sana and Konomi already fighting a Familiar, and the group defeats it easily. Afterwards, they meet a little girl searching for a kitten no one will adopt. Momo silently encourages the girl not to give up.[247]
Kyoko finds herself in her father's ruined church, where a dream-version of Kyubey explains she is reliving the past three days. She finally remembers the truth: Momo is dead, killed alongside their parents in the family suicide her father forced. Kyoko reflects on her past wish, how it led to her family's destruction, and how she swore never to use magic for others again, losing her Dazzle magic in the process.[247]
On the third day, in the real world Ren waits at the meeting point, but no one else has arrived. Mami, Madoka, Homura, and Sayaka arrive, tracking the same Witch. They find Konomi unconscious in the Labyrinth and rescue her. Konomi explains she was trapped in a dream where the world was ending over three days. Mami realizes the Witch reads minds and memories to trap victims. They suspect Kyoko, Sana, and Rika are still inside.[247]
Konomi notes that in her dream, Kyoko's dead sister Momo appeared despite them never meeting. Only Ren could not see her. Homura suspects Kyoko is at the center of the shared dreams. They contact Kagome and Nagisa in Kazamino to consult Kyubey.[247]
In the real-world Kazamino, Kagome and Nagisa find Kyubey at a broken-down church. He confirms the Witch uses mind-altering magic but suggests the shared dreams may not be the Witch's doing.[247]
In real-world Kamihama, Mami realizes Kyoko's lost Dazzle magic is causing the shared dreams. Kyubey confirms Kyoko is using her power to convince the others her illusion of Momo is real, and the Witch is exploiting this. The only way to defeat the Witch is to fight with empty minds.[247]
The group rescues Sana, who confirms she had the same dream and recalls Kyoko muttering her old promise before being captured.[247]
In Kyoko's dream, Kyoko encounters her past self, the version of her that believed in happy endings before her family died. She realizes this is her Doppel, the self she cut away and buried.[247]
In the real Kamihama, the group finds Rika and attempts to fight the Witch, but their attacks have no effect. The Witch is controlling Kyoko's Doppel and drawing on its power, which includes her lost Dazzle magic. They are forced to retreat.[247]
In Kazamino, Kyubey explains that if Kyoko can regain control of her Doppel, the Witch will return to its original strength and she may destroy the Labyrinth from within. Sachio and Shimako arrive at the church, revealing they were followers of Kyoko's father. Kyoko saved them from two suicide attempts, and they have now decided to build a happy family together.[247]
In Kyoko's Dream, her Doppel stands ready to jump, having chosen the end of the world. Kyoko tells her about the people their father saved, proving her wish was not entirely for nothing. She declares she will never forget the joy she felt in saving others and will never abandon her past self again.[247]
In Kamihama, as Mami prepares to re-enter the Labyrinth, a massive surge of magic erupts. The Labyrinth vanishes, and all the trapped victims are freed. Kyoko emerges, having taken on her Doppel's power and saved everyone from within. When Sayaka asks how it feels, Kyoko admits it feels not bad but insists she has not changed. She simply does what she wants.[247]
Passion Is Sharp △, Love Is Rounded ●
Akari and Hotaru defeat a Witch after school, and Hotaru walks Akari home as usual. They meet Haruto, who mentions their families are dining together that night.[248]
Akari wakes Haruto early on his way to club training, fixing his crooked tie and reflecting on her unrequited feelings and the age gap between them. Haruto mentions his father wants him home early for something involving good prospects, and Akari asks to walk home with him.[248]
When they arrive home that evening, Haruto's father reveals he has arranged a meeting with Haruto's fiancée, the daughter of the Kaharu group. Haruto is shocked, admitting he has feelings for someone else but cannot act on them, leaving Akari devastated.[248]
Akari runs to Hotaru's house in distress. Haruto later explains the meeting was just an introduction he could not refuse, but he still plans to reject the arrangement because of the girl he loves.[248]
Akari and Hotaru go to St. Liliana Academy to observe Haruto's fiancée, Kaharu Yuuna. They are approached by Hotori, Rion, and Yuuna herself, who mistakenly assumes Akari is Haruto's special someone.[248]
Over tea at Walnut's, Yuuna explains she and Haruto mutually agreed to reject the engagement due to her own goals and his existing crush. A Witch appears nearby, and after the group defeats it, they find Haruto unconscious.[248]
Akari stays with him while the others hide. Haruto wakes and mistakes her in her magical girl form for the stranger who saved him before, confessing his feelings for this stranger. Akari is pained but cannot reveal her identity.[248]
The others piece together the love triangle: Akari loves Haruto, Haruto loves Akari's transformed self but does not know they are the same person. Yuuna agrees to keep Akari's secret.[248]
Haruto later walks Akari home and confides he is considering giving up on love for the sake of his family and company. Akari is struck by his selflessness.[248]
Akari is despondent at school, and Hotaru finds her crying. Akari explains Haruto's decision and says she must give up her feelings too, but Hotaru challenges her, pointing out she would have to watch Haruto and Yuuna grow closer.[248]
Akari admits she still loves him and decides she must tell Haruto not to give up on love, even if she cannot confess directly. Hotaru agrees to help her crash the families' dinner party that evening.[248]
With Rion and Hotori as decoys to draw away servants, Hotaru uses her pillow magic to subdue guards while Akari bursts into the private dinner. She cries and tells Haruto she hates that he is getting married.[248]
Haruto comforts her, promising he will always be her big brother. Akari tells him that if he truly loves someone, he cannot give up, confessing she knows this because she loves someone too. Haruto accepts her words, realizing he cannot neglect his own feelings.[248]
Yuuna later reveals she convinced her parents to abandon the engagement, inspired by Akari's courage, and had secretly instructed her servants to help Akari sneak in. The engagement discussions are shelved.[248]
Several days later, Haruto is treating Akari more like a child than ever, buying her a PuchiUsa and being overly protective. Akari is frustrated but secretly pleased, and resolves to win him over someday not as his little sister, but as a girl.[248]
Magia Exedra
Exedra Quests
Sensing Myself
Name, accompanied by her companion A-Q and Nighthawk, senses a powerful Witch inside a fissure in the Lighthouse and decides to fight it in secret to surprise A-Q, though she has a bad feeling. A-Q reveals he knew all along and finds watching Name entertaining, but notes that the crisis facing the Lighthouse will not resolve itself. Name asks if she should battle the Witch, and A-Q says that depends on how much she wants to protect the Lighthouse, so she agrees to go.
After a long and exhausting fight, Name returns and describes the battle as chaotic with many Kioku present. She wonders what it would be like if she could talk to Kioku and learn more than just the emotions from Memsparks, the essence of a Magical Girl's experiences that serve as a testament to their existence. Suddenly, the lights in the Lighthouse go out, and when they come back on, Kioku have appeared inside the Lighthouse. Name is excited because now she can talk to them, possibly get better at fighting Witches, and even become friends. A-Q warns her that this is no laughing matter: the area around the Lighthouse looks fuzzy and dim, and if something happens to the Memsparks, those memories of a Magical Girl's very existence may vanish from the universe.
Name finds Sayaka Miki's Kioku unconscious and will not wake up. A-Q explains that an unusual Memspark may have been eaten away by something, which would explain why the Kioku themselves have been affected. She says this is proof that something beyond their wildest imaginations is happening, and if the corrosion has already spread beyond the Lighthouse, they are in dire straits. A-Q decides to create a gate to connect to the warped Memspark, and Name must enter alone because she is the only one who can. A-Q reassures her that after collecting countless Memsparks, she has what it takes to rescue the Kioku and protect the Magical Girls along with the Lighthouse. Name agrees to go and save everyone.
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Momoko Togame's Memory
Momoko attends the Toyozuru Festival, where a tearful girl named Sumire confesses she wishes to save someone. Momoko feels ashamed of her own selfish wish for courage to confess her feelings. Later at home, her family teases her about love, and she flees to school. On the way, she finds a notebook with a pressed flower, then senses a Witch. She struggles in the fight until Yachiyo Nanami and Mifuyu Azusa rescue her. They invite her to join their team, but Momoko declines, feeling unworthy. She resolves to grow stronger as a Magical Girl.
The next day, Momoko hears news of a girl found unconscious in Toyozuru City. After school, she senses another Witch and rushes to help, only to find Yachiyo and Mifuyu losing badly. She joins the fight, and together they defeat the Witch. Impressed by her growth, Yachiyo asks Momoko to come to her place to discuss something important.
At Mikazuki Villa, Momoko is surprised to find Sumire there. Sumire explains she is an apprentice Magical Girl from Toyozuru, where several Magical Girls have become spiritless, unable to move or speak. The group suspects a powerful Witch is responsible and driving other Witches into Kamihama. They agree to investigate together, meeting at the station the next day.
The group travels to Toyozuru. They visit a hospitalized Magical Girl who is barely conscious. Following Yachiyo's magical trace, they fight endless Familiars but the Witch escapes. Sumire brings everyone to her house and shows a detailed map recording Witch appearances and incidents. She theorizes the Witch disappears after each encounter and only appears under certain conditions. They decide to stay overnight and have dinner. Momoko cooks fried rice, and they share stories about their families and grandmothers' cooking.
The next day, they hunt the Witch again. After defeating more Familiars, they finally enter the Witch's Labyrinth, but the Witch vanishes once more. Sumire suggests giving up for the day and they return to her house. Over dinner, Momoko learns that a Magical Girl's magic is tied to her wish. Yachiyo suspects Momoko's magic might be encouraging others, noting how her presence and cooking lift their spirits. Momoko feels self conscious but accepts the idea. The group prepares for bed, ready to continue the search tomorrow.
The morning after staying at Sumire's house, Momoko wakes up early to help with breakfast while Sumire shares her latest hypothesis about the Witch's pattern: it appears only in locations with a spotlight-like brightness. The group hunts Familiars and follows them to a dark main road near Sumire's home. They enter the Labyrinth, but when Momoko charges recklessly, she freezes in fear. Sumire, despite being only an apprentice, rushes in with her bat and attacks the Witch, allowing the others to carry Momoko to safety. The Witch escapes again, and they agree to meet again tomorrow after school. That evening, Momoko returns home feeling deeply ashamed and jealous of Sumire's courage and selfless wish. Her mother encourages her with a spicy rice omelet, and Momoko slaps herself awake, then gives her depressed brother a harsh pep talk that also lifts her own spirits.
The next day, Momoko arrives at the meeting point with renewed determination. Sumire reveals her refined hypothesis: the Witch always appears where a single light source stands out in darkness, like a spotlight. She predicts the clock tower at night will be the next site. That evening, they wait as nearby buildings go dark, leaving only the illuminated clock tower. The Witch appears, stronger than before. Yachiyo and Mifuyu suddenly collapse, rendered spiritless, while Momoko defeats what turns out to be only an offshoot Witch. With the two veterans unconscious, Sumire admits her theories are now uncertain. Momoko, overwhelmed by jealousy, lashes out at Sumire, then runs off. She spirals into paranoid suspicion that Sumire might be a Witch's minion, but rushes back to Sumire's house to protect Yachiyo and Mifuyu. She finds Sumire guarding them with her bat. Momoko breaks down, apologizing for her jealousy and confessing that Sumire is smarter, braver, and more selfless than her; everything Momoko wished for but couldn't become. Sumire replies softly that she has always known, because she was jealous of Momoko too.
That same night, after Momoko apologizes for her jealousy, Sumire confesses she was jealous of Momoko too for being a full-fledged Magical Girl who can fight alongside Yachiyo and Mifuyu. Both realize they want what they don't have, but share the desire to save everyone. Sumire agrees to help Momoko strategize. She gives Momoko a flashlight to lure the Witch, and a ledger analyzing Momoko's fighting style, noting her high attack power and courage but tendency to rush in. Yachiyo briefly regains consciousness, mumbles "fried rice," and hints that Momoko's magic is tied to the feeling she had when cooking. Mifuyu also wakes up and, though weak, confesses that her own wish to escape a hated reality was selfish, but that becoming a Magical Girl led her to meet Yachiyo and others, proving that what matters isn't the wish itself but how you choose to live afterward. The Witch attacks again.
Momoko gets hit and experiences a strange vision of an unfamiliar girl waking someone up by blasting heavy metal music. She snaps back to reality, now understanding that her magic is encouragement, and she can give strength to others, though she struggles to turn it on herself. With Yachiyo and Mifuyu still weakened, they combine forces: Momoko boosts everyone with her magic, Mifuyu casts an illusion to make Momoko feel stronger, and Sumire uses her bat. In a desperate moment, Sumire counters a direct Witch attack with a perfect swing, which she attributes to batting center practice. Together they defeat the Witch. News arrives that the hospitalized girl has regained consciousness.
The group celebrates at Mikazuki Villa with a kimchi hot pot that Momoko, Yachiyo, and Mifuyu made together based on Sumire's grandmother's recipe. Sumire is moved to tears by the taste. Yachiyo officially invites Momoko to join their team, and Momoko accepts. Sumire asks to continue staying at Mikazuki Villa while her parents are away, and Yachiyo agrees. As they eat and laugh, Yachiyo reflects on how lively the villa has become, and privately notes that Momoko's strange dream of someone waking another person with loud rock music, matches a prank that Kanae used to play, even though Momoko never knew Kanae.
Tsuruno Yui's Memory
A gossip stream announces the sudden retirement of Toyozuru idol duo Plume Plenty, hinting at a possible scandal. Meanwhile, a girl named Fuka Higure, who is revealed to be a Magical Girl, reads about it and later heads to Sumire's house. There, Tsuruno, Sumire, Yachiyo, Mifuyu, and Momoko are playing rock paper scissors. They plan a sleepover at Sumire's place. Momoko receives urgent messages from Rena about the idol duo, who are apparently Magical Girls and have gone missing. Momoko decides to leave to check on Rena, promising to practice combos with Tsuruno another time. The rest of the group travels to Toyozuru and settles in at Sumire's house, where they read books and eventually fall asleep.
Momoko meets Rena and Kaede in Kamihama. Rena explains that Plume Plenty posted a cryptic message about wishes, a pact with a devil in white, and false hope, suggesting they were Magical Girls. They decide to search for the idols in Toyozuru, focusing on a seaside park that appears often in their posts. While asking for directions, they encounter a girl in a school uniform who turns out to be Fuka Higure. Fuka leads them toward the park, but they sense a Witch. Together they defeat it and split the Grief Seed. Fuka introduces herself as a Toyozuru Magical Girl and agrees to keep an eye out for the missing idols. The group continues to the park but finds no trace of them.
Meanwhile, Mifuyu steps out from Sumire's house to buy groceries and make a phone call. She reminisces about past happiness with Yachiyo, Kanae, and Yachiyo's grandmother, remembering Kanae's death and the pain of losing her. Shaking off the memories, she senses a powerful magic nearby and goes to fight a Witch.
Back at the park, Rena starts doubting her concerns, thinking the idols may have simply retired to focus on school. Kaede sees an online rumor that confirms that, but then a gossip stream reveals that Plume Plenty is actually missing and the police are investigating. Momoko decides they will resume the search in Toyozuru tomorrow morning.
Alone, Fuka talks with Kyubey about her desire to protect what matters most, admitting she is no hero of justice. She then senses danger and rushes off, arriving just in time to save one person but not another. She later speaks on the phone, mentioning that she used magic on someone who saw too much and is keeping that person sedated.
At Sumire's house, Yachiyo dozes off while reading and has a vivid dream about Kanae and her grandmother, reliving the warmth of those days and the tragedy of Kanae's death. She wakes abruptly to find Tsuruno and Sumire also having fallen asleep. They realize Mifuyu still has not returned from shopping, nearly an hour late. Yachiyo sends a message but gets no reply. Worried, they go out to search for her. They check the store where she might have gone but find nothing. Yachiyo tells Tsuruno and Sumire to head back to the house while she continues looking alone, refusing to let them worry further.
The next morning, Tsuruno wakes up first at Sumire's house and finds an envelope with magic on it that was slipped through the mail slot. Inside is a letter stating, "I have Mifuyu Azusa. At the park by the sea at 8:00 tonight, she will be returned to you." Tsuruno wakes Yachiyo and Sumire, and they confirm the letter is from an unknown Magical Girl. They call Momoko, who has an alibi having been with Rena and Kaede all night, and who says she ran into Mifuyu while she was out shopping. The group decides the kidnapper is a stranger. They question local rookie Magical Girls from Yuhicho, who say there are no veteran Magical Girls left in Toyozuru and that no one local would dare pick a fight with Yachiyo. Yachiyo tells Tsuruno and Sumire to be careful.
Meanwhile, Momoko, Rena, and Kaede continue searching for the missing Plume Plenty idols. A rookie Magical Girl tells them she saw a veteran Magical Girl the previous night who might have been Mifuyu, and warns that veterans are being targeted in Toyozuru. They then see a new post from Plume Plenty: "We know everything now... today at the place where we made our wish, the truth will be told... I'm so sorry, everyone." The post seems to reference Humpty Dumpty and the shattering of an egg, which Yachiyo recognizes as a metaphor for a broken Soul Gem. Yachiyo calls Momoko, and they agree to meet at the seaside park where the idols made their wish and where Mifuyu was last seen.
At the park, the two groups converge. They hear two girls arguing, one with short hair and one with long hair. The long-haired idol runs off alone, and Yachiyo's group follows her, but she enters a crowded area and disappears. Momoko's group finds the long-haired idol collapsed and spiritless on the ground. She briefly revives, blaming herself and saying she must find her partner to end everything, then collapses again. Fuka Higure appears, thanks Tsuruno for the Grief Seed she shared earlier, and coldly announces, "I was able to let her die." Rena is devastated, and Momoko confronts Fuka, who claims she didn't actually kill the girl. Fuka then uses her magic to render Yachiyo spiritless and flees with the idol's body. Tsuruno gives chase.
Tsuruno chases Fuka through the city. Fuka leads her back to the park, where Tsuruno discovers Mifuyu lying spiritless. Fuka admits she took Mifuyu but says she always planned to return her, and that her actions were for protection, not malice. She refuses to explain further, saying some things are better left unsaid. Tsuruno tries to reason with her, but Fuka escapes into a Witch's Labyrinth. Momoko arrives to help, and together they corner Fuka. Despite Momoko's encouragement magic countering the spiritless effect, Fuka summons a wall of Familiars to shield herself and escapes again, taking the dead idol's body with her, claiming she still has more to do to save her. They recover Mifuyu, but Yachiyo remains unconscious. The group decides to return to Kamihama for now, with Sumire joining them, as Toyozuru has become too dangerous.
Yachiyo wakes from a nightmare about Kanae and learns that Fuka Higure is the one behind the spiritless magic. She scolds Tsuruno for chasing Fuka alone, then reveals that she once had another friend named Kanae who died in a reckless charge against a Witch. Tsuruno reassures Yachiyo that they are all friends and should share burdens. The group decides to stay overnight at Mikazuki Villa. Late that night, Tsuruno and Sumire talk over tea; Sumire says she still wants to become a Magical Girl who can save someone, while Tsuruno reaffirms her goal to restore Banbanzai and decides they should all grow stronger together.
The next morning, Momoko wakes early and finds Sumire already preparing hot pot. While talking, Momoko remembers the pressed violet bookmark she found long ago, which Sumire confirms is hers. Momoko naps on the sofa and wakes to find Sumire gone, leaving a note: “Thank you so much for everything. You probably won’t be seeing me around anymore. This was my decision, so please don’t look for me.”
Some time later, a new Magical Girl named Mel Anna comes to live at Mikazuki Villa, bringing back its lively atmosphere. The group stops discussing Sumire or Toyozuru. Mel Anna wins a hot spring vacation raffle but asks to stay at the villa while her parents go alone, as she fears staying with Kanagi. Yachiyo agrees and prepares a room for Mel, which is the same room Sumire used. While cleaning, Yachiyo finds a pressed flower bookmark in a book Sumire left behind. She recognizes it as one Kanae made, imbued with magic.
Yachiyo falls asleep and dreams Kanae’s memories: Kanae made the bookmark for a junior in the Beautification Committee, which is Sumire. The dream shows Kanae and Sumire walking home together, planning to attend a festival in Toyozuru. Yachiyo realizes Sumire must have known Kanae and may have left because being around them reminded her of that loss, yet something still feels off.
Elsewhere, Fuka continues hunting Witches alone, struggling to keep her own Soul Gem from darkening. She encounters a mysterious creature that seems to halt the transformation of a Magical Girl at the brink of becoming a Witch, allowing her to “let her die once” and keep her alive temporarily. Kyubey observes the phenomenon. Fuka questions Kyubey about wishes and their outcomes for Magical Girls who are no longer with us.
Sumire meets Kyubey alone at night, saying she is still searching for the right wish and that the day she makes her contract is approaching. Fuka finds her and warns her of the danger. Their conversation reveals that Fuka saved Mifuyu from seeing too much and that Sumire knew about it, calling the incident a misunderstanding. Sumire says she has sins to atone for, but still intends to become a Magical Girl someday.
Critic Witch
Momoko travels to Toyozuru alone to investigate the disappearances and find Sumire, having heard rumors of a monster emerging from a Magical Girl. She defeats a Familiar, then witnesses Fuka Higure standing over an unconscious girl from whom a small Witch like creature briefly appears. Momoko accuses Fuka of turning Magical Girls into Witches, but Sumire suddenly appears. Fuka grabs Sumire as a shield, uses spiritless magic on Momoko, and flees.
Later, Momoko meets Mel, who admits she also came to Toyozuru. Tsuruno reveals she knew about Momoko's secret trip and joins them. The three fight endless Familiars and split up. Mel Anna is saved from Familiars by Fuka, who recognizes Mel as the fortune teller who predicted she would meet her destiny. Momoko defeats a Witch and finds Sumire, but Sumire coldly rejects her, saying she chose to leave Mikazuki Villa and cannot bear to be around them, then escapes with Fuka.
Meanwhile, Fuka and Sumire discuss their plan. Flashbacks reveal that Sumire’s grandmother was killed by a Witch, and that Sumire learned Magical Girls turn into Witches. Fuka’s spiritless magic can create a “Near Witch” anomaly, temporarily halting the transformation. Sumire admits she lied to Yachiyo and the others about the spiritless incident and the Yuhicho Magical Girls, all to use the veterans to hunt Witches while hiding the truth. She genuinely grew fond of them and now wants to save them from their fate as atonement for her deception. Fuka’s stronger “soul stopping” magic caused the long haired idol to appear dead when she was merely suspended.
Back at Mikazuki Villa, Yachiyo and Mifuyu use Kanae’s magic infused bookmark to see a memory: Kanae was close with Sumire and made her contract to save her. They realize Sumire kept this connection secret, possibly resenting them for Kanae’s death, yet she never harmed them. Tsuruno calls, reporting that Toyozuru is overrun with Familiars and that Fuka is ignoring them. Yachiyo hypothesizes that Witches are former Magical Girls, and that Sumire and Fuka are trying to change the system by allowing Familiars to become Witches to harvest Grief Seeds for more magic. She decides they must go to Toyozuru and tell everyone the truth about Soul Gems.
Sumire reflects on her love for Toyozuru and her motivation to save Magical Girls as atonement for her sins, including causing Kanae’s death. Fuka allows Familiars to run wild and turn into Witches to harvest Grief Seeds, and she has been experimenting on Magical Girls with her spiritless magic, creating “Near Witches” that halt transformation but cannot reverse it. She hides the truth from Sumire, who believes Near Witches are salvation. Fuka collapses from magic depletion; Sumire finds her and decides to research at the library, where Kyubey appears.
Meanwhile, Momoko, Tsuruno, and Mel fight endless Familiars in Toyozuru. Yachiyo and Mifuyu arrive after Tsuruno calls them. Yachiyo reveals the truth: Magical Girls turn into Witches, and Soul Gems are their life force. The group is shaken but resolves to stop Fuka and Sumire. They split up to find them. Tsuruno locates Fuka, who is about to put a Magical Girl into spiritless sleep. Fuka admits she has done terrible things. Sumire appears, confessing she initiated everything and used the Mikazuki girls. She intends to make a contract to fix the Near Witch flaw. Fuka tries to put everyone to sleep, but Yachiyo and Mifuyu counter. Yachiyo uses Kanae’s bookmark to show Sumire Kanae’s memories: Kanae made her contract to save Sumire from a kidnapper, then distanced herself to protect Sumire, always wishing for Sumire’s happiness. Sumire realizes Kanae never resented her.
Reconciled, the group teams up with Fuka and Sumire. They discover that a Witch has swallowed the base where spiritless Magical Girls are kept. Inside the Labyrinth, the Witch grows stronger by absorbing Near Witches. As Fuka’s magic runs out and the situation becomes dire, Kyubey appears and offers Sumire a contract to save everyone. Sumire hesitates, but Momoko encourages her not to give up. Sumire decides to fight with her intelligence rather than make a contract. Together they execute a plan: Mifuyu uses illusions to conceal attacks, Fuka pins the Witch with spiritless magic, Tsuruno, Yachiyo, and Mel Anna strike simultaneously, and Momoko lands the final blow. The Witch is defeated but drops no Grief Seeds, and the Labyrinth shifts. The sleeping Magical Girls are still in danger of turning into Witches. Fuka has no magic left. Sumire, believing this is the price for her sins, calls Kyubey to make a wish, but not for atonement, and instead for everyone’s happiness, vowing to protect those who matter most.
After Sumire’s wish, all the spiritless Magical Girls disappear except for Sumire and Fuka. The others wake up having forgotten the truth about Witches, and the Mikazuki Villa girls forget Sumire and Fuka entirely. Sumire thus becomes a Magical Girl and teams up with Fuka to fight Witches.
After a handful of battles, Fuka eventually runs out of Grief Seeds and turns into a Witch. Before transforming, she admits she never forgot the truth and asks Sumire to see her off with a smile and someday defeat her. Sumire fights the Fuka Witch repeatedly, but it always escapes, seemingly trying not to hurt her.
Meanwhile, the Mikazuki Villa girls hunt Fuka's Witch that has crossed into their territory. Mel uses too much magic and, without a Grief Seed, turns into a Witch before their eyes. Momoko, Yachiyo, and Mifuyu witness her transformation in horror and learn the truth again.
After some time, Sumire continues fighting alone, carrying the memories of everyone she has lost: Kanae, Fuka, and now Mel. She reflects that Magical Girls still turn into Witches and the world remains unjust, but she keeps fighting so that someday she can be proud of herself. The tale of joy, sin, and hope now belongs only to her and while proclaiming herself as a Magical Girl, she successfully defeats Fuka's Witch.
Fuka's Heartphial
Fuka Higure sits on her school rooftop after class, thinking about an essay assignment on "My Favorite Things." She realizes she does not truly love anything, describing herself as an apathetic and boring person. On a whim, she decides to go on a trip to change her life, but she loses track of her thoughts and ends up walking all the way to Kamihama, exhausted and frustrated.
A tearful girl named Mel Anna approaches her and offers to tell her fortune. Mel predicts that Fuka will soon meet her destiny, someone who will be her light, and that her lucky item is a cute mascot. Fuka, noticing her Fuyo Poyo keychain, decides to believe her to avoid making Mel cry again.
Shortly after, a cat draws Fuka's attention, and a girl appears holding Fuka's dropped Fuyo Poyo mascot. The girl introduces herself as Sumire Yoake, noting that her name means "sunrise" while Fuka's means "sunset," making them polar opposites. Fuka asks if Sumire is her destiny.
Fuka and Sumire quickly become good friends. Fuka learns that Sumire lives alone most of the time, and Sumire invites her over for tea. At Sumire's apartment, Fuka notices many books and a rock music CD, guessing that Sumire had a close friend who loved rock. Fuka realizes she reminds Sumire of that friend, but she does not mind; all she wants is to see Sumire smile.
One day on their way back from school, Fuka and Sumire are pulled into a Witch's Labyrinth. Kyubey had been pestering Fuka, but she never wanted to make a contract. To save both their lives, she wishes to defeat the Witch without any effort. Her magic makes the Witch spiritless, and she destroys it in one hit.
After becoming a Magical Girl, Fuka learns the secret of Soul Gems and that Sumire's good friend, Kanae Yukino, had already made a contract for Sumire's sake. Sumire is devastated, feeling responsible for Kanae's death and for Fuka's contract. Sumire considers making a contract herself to atone, but Fuka refuses, promising to protect her and save all Magical Girls so that Sumire never has to become one.
Soon after her contract, Fuka witnesses another Magical Girl turn into a Witch. She and Sumire try to tell others the truth, but the revelation causes another girl to transform on the spot. Fuka develops new magic: she can temporarily stop a Magical Girl's body and soul just before she turns into a Witch, manifesting a creature called a Near Witch. However, the transformation will resume unless Fuka continuously casts her spell. To gather enough magic for this, she deliberately leaves Familiars to grow into Witches and runs experiments on other Magical Girls, sacrificing many lives while telling herself it is for the greater good, all while keeping a cool head.
Sumire notices Fuka's exhaustion and asks if she is okay. Fuka lies and says she is fine. Despite not being a Magical Girl yet, Sumire proves to be strong and clever, helping Fuka in her own way. Eventually, Sumire makes a contract and becomes a Magical Girl. Her wish makes all the Magical Girls Fuka had put to sleep wake up with the truth of Witches forgotten, saving everyone except those who had already transformed.
The other girls who knew Sumire vanish from memory, disappearing right in front of them. Sumire asks Fuka if she remembers the truth about Magical Girls, fearing that Fuka's despair over Sumire's contract might also make her remember the Witch‑turning. Fuka lies and says she does not remember, because she does not want Sumire to sacrifice herself again. From then on, they live as ordinary Magical Girls together, hunting Witches side by side.
On a day off, Sumire suggests they go to the beach. They eat freshly caught mackerel tartare at a market, then wade into the shallows. Sumire splashes Fuka, and Fuka splashes back, and they laugh together. Fuka reflects that the water glistened and that it was what you would call the springtime of their lives.
After school, they go to watch a zombie movie. Sumire, who catches bugs with her bare hands, cries at the fake horror, and Fuka finds her adorable. Walking home, Fuka comments on common zombie tropes and says that if she ever turned into a zombie, she would want Sumire to kill her. Sumire breaks down crying, not because of zombies but because she is terrified of Fuka turning into a Witch and leaving her alone. Fuka apologizes and gives Sumire a secret zombie version Fuyo Poyo mascot she won from a capsule pull, only to discover that Sumire had also won the same secret version to give to her later.
On a peaceful walk home from school, carrying their matching Fuyo Poyo mascots, they pass a wedding dress shop and talk about the future. Fuka gives Sumire flowers, saying they made her think of Sumire. Suddenly, they sense a Witch. The Witch is far stronger than usual, and their attacks barely work. They fight for hours, from sunset until sunrise.
When the Witch is finally defeated, Fuka's Soul Gem is completely clouded. She understands she will soon turn into a Witch. She does not feel despair because she knows Sumire is strong enough to survive. Her only regret is leaving Sumire alone and never seeing her future: her Coming of Age Ceremony, her relationships, her wedding, her smile. As a final act, Fuka puts a curse on Sumire so that Sumire will live no matter what. In her last moments, she thinks only of Sumire: the Fuyo Poyo mascot, the mackerel tartare, the movie, the zombie keychains, and the world she saw together with her.
Sumire's Heartphial
Sumire Yoake feels exhausted from constantly playing the perfect student, blending truth and lies to make others like her. She decides to do something bad and goes up to the unlocked rooftop, thinking of her late grandmother and her senpai, Kanae Yukino, who died after a fight. On the rooftop, she sees a girl leaning over the railing and calls out, thinking she might jump. The girl, Fuka Higure, explains she was only watching a cat. They introduce themselves, noting that Sumire's name means "sunrise" and Fuka's means "sunset."
Fuka mentions having her fortune told in Kamihama by a girl who predicted she would meet her destiny. Sumire reveals she used to live in Kamihama and laughs that Fuka once walked all the way there for no reason. They become good friends, and Sumire shows Fuka her favorite relaxing spot.
One day on their way back from school, they are pulled into a Witch's Labyrinth. Fuka, already scouted by Kyubey, makes a contract to protect them both and becomes a Magical Girl. Sumire promises not to make her own contract until she has thought of a good wish, but she secretly wants to become a Magical Girl to protect others.
Sumire learns from Kyubey that Witches cause accidents and despair, and that her grandmother's accident was caused by a Witch. Kyubey also reveals that Kanae Yukino became a Magical Girl for Sumire's sake and died in battle. Sumire is devastated, believing Kanae ghosted her because she despised her. Then she and Fuka discover the truth: Magical Girls turn into Witches.
Sumire suggests wishing to prevent Witch‑turnings, but Fuka argues that if such a wish were possible, someone would have made it already. They decide to investigate further, and Sumire calls on the veteran Magical Girls of Mikazuki Villa in Kamihama for help, concealing the truth about Witch‑turnings from them while presenting herself as an apprentice trying to figure out her wish.
Sumire spends time with the Mikazuki Villa girls: Yachiyo Nanami, Mifuyu Azusa, Tsuruno Yui, and Momoko Togame. They welcome her warmly, and Sumire grows attached despite meaning for her stay to be temporary. Yachiyo tells her about a friend who died in a Witch battle, and Sumire realizes that friend was Kanae. Fearing that staying with them will lead them to the truth and hurt them, Sumire leaves a note and a hot pot as a thank‑you, then stops visiting.
Sumire and Fuka continue to commit sins in the name of saving Magical Girls, allowing sacrifices. Eventually, Yachiyo and the others catch them, forcing Sumire's hand. Sumire learns that Kanae had made her contract to save Sumire and had given her a pressed flower bookmark because she cared for her. Fuka admits she did everything to stop Sumire from becoming a Magical Girl and turning into a Witch. Overcome, Sumire makes a wish to Kyubey: to save everyone she dragged into this, saving them from despair.
The wish erases all memory of "despair" from everyone's minds. Momoko and the others forget Sumire and the truth about Witch‑turnings. Fuka loses all memory of her sins and of the Witch‑turning itself. Sumire is sad but pleased, because now she gets to spend every day with Fuka.
On a day of karaoke, they sense a Witch and fight it together, using a combo trick. Afterward, Fuka comes to Sumire's place for dinner, and Sumire serves her take on Momoko's fried rice. Fuka says she wants to visit a shop on the weekend, but Sumire has to go to Kamihama to deliver something to her parents at the hospital.
At the Kamihama hospital, Sumire spots the Mikazuki Villa girls but they do not notice or remember her. She feels a pang of hurt but is glad they are doing fine. After delivering her parents' items, she goes to the hospital rooftop for the breeze, and a girl accidentally startles her while stretching.
The girl, Iroha Tamaki, apologizes and offers Sumire homemade tofu Hamburg steaks meant for her sick sister Ui. Sumire shares rice crackers with Iroha, recalling her grandmother's saying that a shared snack halves sadness. When Sumire asks what Iroha would wish for if she could have magic, Iroha says she would make Ui healthy, and then, if she could make more than one wish, she would want to make everyone smile. Sumire is moved. Suddenly sensing a Witch's Labyrinth in the hospital, Sumire excuses herself and leaves candy as thanks and prayers for Ui's recovery.
Sumire enters the Labyrinth, saves a girl who was dragged in, and defeats the Witch. The girl's mother thanks her, and a young child says she wants to be as kind as Sumire. Sumire reflects that fighting Witches allows her to protect people and that maybe her prayer to save someone can still be answered, even if she cannot accomplish it herself.
Day after day, Fuka and Sumire continue fighting Witches together, saving people and paving the way for a better future despite their past sins.
The dreaded day arrives when Fuka's magic runs dry. She had never forgotten the truth about the Witch‑turning. She smiles at Sumire until the very moment she transforms into a Witch. Sumire is spared despair because Fuka did not turn out of despair. Sumire's last duty is to defeat Fuka and stop her from spreading despair. Fuka runs away, and Sumire pursues her, vowing to follow each time and to see her off with a smile, just as Fuka always loved to see her smile.
In the aftermath, Sumire recalls all the love she received: her grandmother's words to find what makes her smile, Kanae's happiness in simply chatting with her, Yachiyo doing her hair, and Fuka saying that lazing around together after a meal was the happiest she had ever been. Sumire decides she will not fall into despair. Even if she dies, hope will continue into the future. The dawn of Magical Girls' salvation has not yet arrived, but she will keep fighting, holding on to the belief that someday everyone will be saved.
Darc's Heartphial
The morning after Isabeau's massacre, King Charles VII despairs over his inability to face the monster that attacked them, and his attendants take him away. La Trémoille is questioned by Oswald, but he deflects and later meets secretly with Minou, Isabeau's daughter. La Trémoille pledges his loyalty to her, explaining that Charles has fallen into madness and can be easily manipulated. Minou orders him to prevent Darc and the king from entering Paris, as she considers both of them nuisances who should not disgrace the city where Isabeau resides.
August 1429. Darc finally receives permission to march on Paris, thanks to the support of her companions including Gilles de Rais, Alençon, La Hire, Melissa, Liz, Elisa, and others. She vows to end England's reign of terror and lead King Charles to his rightful throne. However, the group privately acknowledges that the king has fallen into madness since the massacre, and only La Trémoille remains at his side, effectively controlling him. Darc blames herself for failing against Isabeau but resolves to move forward anyway.
September 8, 1429, at the gates of Paris. Darc leads the vanguard to retake the capital. During the battle, they discover that the Parisian militia are attacking them, but Liz realizes the citizens have been bewitched by a Witch's Kiss. The Witch itself appears, hiding among the chaos. Darc, Melissa, and Elisa fight the three-headed Witch, destroying its lion and eagle heads, but it continues moving until Darc identifies the sheep head as the true core and destroys it with her attack, La Lumière. Although Darc is injured, they defeat the Witch and knock out the bewitched citizens. Returning to the army, Alençon reports that they halted the advance due to darkness and exhausted soldiers, but they are ready to resume. Just as Darc prepares to encourage the troops, René arrives with an order from King Charles: withdraw from Paris immediately.
On the outskirts of Paris in the town of Saint-Denis, Charles VII questions whether withdrawing was right, but La Trémoille convinces him that reconciliation with Burgundy is the only path and that attacking Paris would close that door. La Trémoille then reports to Minou, who praises his work. Minou orders him to strip Darc of her military authority, isolate her from her powerful allies, and make sure she can no longer rally followers. La Trémoille asks why not simply kill her, and Minou reveals that Lady Isabeau proclaimed Darc would meet her end in one year's time; their role is merely to prepare the stage. Minou predicts that until then, Darc will struggle alone.
Back at the camp, Darc hears the soldiers murmuring in anxiety about the retreat order and the possibility that the king's attendants are sabotaging them. Melissa reminds her that losing a battle is not the end, and Elisa refuses to call it a failure since they saved the people of Paris. Liz asks Darc if she remembers what she truly desired. Darc reflects on the tragedy of her home village, Domremy, where her sister Catherine died protecting her from raiders. Cube had told her that the country remained shrouded in darkness that would never give way to light, and that ordinary soldiers could take everything precious just as easily as Witches. That is why Darc made her wish: not to let anyone suffer as she did, but to gain the power to bring light to all of France. Renewed by this memory, Darc thanks Liz, Melissa, Elisa, and all her companions for their support. She lifts everyone's spirits by personally expressing her gratitude, and then declares that as long as they have hope, they will continue to move onward together.
Liz's Heartphial
The year 1425. On a battlefield in northern Europe, Liz Hawkwood single handedly defeats a group of elite knights, impressing the mercenaries she fights alongside. After the battle, she lies down to rest and has a nightmare about two Magical Girls in Lithuania: one turned into a Witch, and Liz was forced to kill the other herself. She wakes up, and Cube, her incubator companion, says that her unusual wish may have profoundly affected her destiny. Liz reflects on her past: she is the granddaughter of John Hawkwood, the English mercenary captain known as both a traitor and a hero. Because of his legacy, the Visconti family never treated her or her late mother as equals, and she was close to breaking when Cube first appeared.
Liz refuses to wish for becoming a hero herself because she would still hear the whispers of being John Hawkwood's granddaughter. Instead, she made a different wish, and now Cube tells her that he may have found the person she is looking for in the kingdom of France. After her current mercenary company disbands, Liz decides to head to France. She avoids the Holy Roman Empire's territory and takes a southern route through Italy.
On the road to Milan, her hometown, Cube suggests she stop by for old times' sake. Liz hesitates but decides to request an audience with Filippo Maria Visconti, the current head of the family. Despite her relatives' cold glares, she meets Lord Filippo, who is surprisingly impressed by her reputation as a mercenary. He asks her to break a stalemate between Milanese and Florentine forces in the Lamone Valley, promising that in return, she can consider all obligations to the Visconti family fulfilled. Liz agrees.
In the Lamone Valley, Liz discovers that soldiers from both sides have been vanishing without a trace. The mercenary commander explains that men walk as if on puppet strings and then disappear into the forest. Liz senses a Witch and enters its Labyrinth, realizing the Witch was once a Magical Girl who stockpiled power by eating soldiers. Her dagger proves ineffective, and her hesitation from past trauma slows her down. The Witch wounds her badly, and she nearly gives up.
Remembering her wish to bring a true hero into the world with her own hands, and knowing she could not face the four Magical Girls she lost if she gave up, Liz finds new resolve. Her weapon begins to change form: first into a sword like the first girl she met, then into a whip like the second, then into a spear and finally a scythe, each weapon carrying the memory of those who fought beside her. She defeats the Witch with her attack, Falce Scythe, and thanks her fallen friends.
After the victory, Lord Filippo praises her, for the first time comparing her to John Hawkwood as a compliment rather than an insult. He admits that Hawkwood's words about being a soldier of fortune in both destiny and coin have defined his own life philosophy. He asks Liz to reconsider severing ties and offers her a contract to serve the Visconti family for generous pay. Liz refuses, saying she is not John Hawkwood, she needs no coin, and she already travels under a contract of destiny. Filippo accepts and sets her free.
Liz and Cube arrive in the kingdom of France, outside the rural village of Domrémy in Lorraine. Cube explains that the person she is looking for is an ordinary girl with an extremely rare hidden talent, possibly connected to the swirling destiny of France. As they approach, Liz senses a Witch in the forest and goes to investigate. There she finds a girl praying, "Please, Lord... Whatever happens to me, just keep my sister safe." Cube confirms that is the girl. Liz looks at her and silently hopes, "Please, let it be different this time."
Melissa's Heartphial
May 1430 in Compiègne, northern France. Darc and her companions confront Minou, who separates the group with her magic. Only Darc and Liz survive the initial attack; Melissa and Elisa are left barely standing while Minou mocks them. Minou summons a creature to curse Melissa and Elisa, and they collapse.
July 1430 somewhere in France. Melissa wakes up over a month later, finding Elisa beside her. Pernelle Flamel explains that she rescued them from Compiègne. Liz fell into a prison of shadows and is gone, and Darc has been taken prisoner by the Bourgogne forces. Elisa assumes King Charles will negotiate a ransom, but Pernelle says the king has done nothing, and rumors say Darc will be turned over to the English. Melissa and Elisa try to rise but discover they are weakened by a powerful curse Minou placed on them. Pernelle says they cannot fight in their current state.
December 1430 in the hideout. Several months have passed. Pernelle tried to rescue Darc from Beaulieu before she was transferred to Beaurevoir Castle but could not make contact due to Isabeau's spies. To save Darc, they must break the curse first. Melissa and Elisa wait, their wounds healed but the curse still present. One day, Oswald arrives with news: the Bourgogne has handed Darc over to England, and she will be transferred to Rouen to stand trial for heresy. However, Oswald says those who fought alongside Darc have not given up hope and are praying for her safe return.
May 1431 in Compiègne. Pernelle reports that Darc has been declared a heretic and forced to sign a written oath of repentance, though Darc can barely read. At last, Pernelle has found a way to break the curse: Melissa and Elisa must enter the curse itself and defeat the Magical Girl who poured her life force into it. If they fail, they will either die or turn into Witches. Melissa and Elisa agree without hesitation.
Inside the curse, the two are separated. Elisa faces copies of the Magical Girl who whispers cruel words about being an illegitimate child, unwanted and unnecessary. Elisa fights back, recognizing the curse's cheap tricks. Melissa, meanwhile, experiences memories from her childhood: her mother and entire family died in an epidemic, leaving her alone. She was taken in by the church, but she never had a father. She dreamed that someone would come for her, but no one did. Then she remembers La Hire adopting her, becoming Melissa de Vignolles, and later making her wish to save Darc and her father. Elisa's voice calls her back, and Melissa awakens. Together they destroy the remaining curse.
After breaking the curse, Melissa and Elisa follow Oswald outside to find La Hire, Xaintrailles, and a gathered army of all who consider Darc a comrade, ready to rescue her. Melissa rallies everyone: let them bring back La Pucelle.
Yotsugi's Heartphial
Yotsugi Ononoki, a Magical Girl who cannot remember her wish or why she feels compelled to defeat Witches, is sitting alone eating ice cream and ruminating on her hazy memories. A stranger stares at her intensely, and Yotsugi eventually offers her a single serving. The stranger introduces herself as Felicia Mitsuki, and this marks the beginning of their acquaintance.
Some time later, after Yotsugi has been spending time with Felicia, Iroha and the other members of Mikazuki Villa arrive to claim Felicia as their companion. Yotsugi's own associates, Shinobu and Mayoi, also appear, and when it comes time for Yotsugi to leave, Felicia looks so sad that Yotsugi invites her to join them instead. Both teams end up heading to Mikazuki Villa for dinner.
On the way there, Felicia asks Yotsugi what she likes to eat, and Yotsugi admits a preference for expensive cup ice cream. Felicia then awkwardly asks if Yotsugi's face is always stuck like that, and Yotsugi confirms that it is.
After arriving at the villa, Felicia eagerly tries to get Yotsugi to play video games, serves her extra portions of bang bang chicken, and challenges her to a pillow fight before bed. Feeling overwhelmed, Yotsugi excuses herself to take a bath, leaving Felicia disappointed.
Later, after Yotsugi finishes bathing, Felicia apologizes for being clingy, explaining that Yachiyo and the others had pulled her aside to warn her. Felicia then confesses that she had been trying to make Yotsugi smile, assuming Yotsugi had lost her parents like Felicia did. She had shared games and food in hopes of seeing a smile.
Yotsugi clarifies that there is no tragic backstoryh, as her emotions simply do not show on her face, but she does feel them. She admits that playing the game was fun and the food was not bad. Felicia is overjoyed and runs off to brag to everyone, ignoring Yotsugi's attempt to stop her.
Shinobu and Mayoi, who had been eavesdropping, tease Yotsugi for finding Felicia cute. Yotsugi concedes that while Felicia is exhausting, the sight of her face lighting up from a drop of attention is not unpleasant. She admits that Felicia is a cute kid, and she gains newfound respect for all older sisters in the world.
Shinobu's Heartphial
Shinobu reflects on how she once wished for her life to end but now continues living as long as she defeats Witches, finding it ironic though she does not plan to play the tragic hero. Several hours before she meets the girls from Mikazuki Villa, she joins Yotsugi Ononoki and Mayoi Hachikuji to hunt a Witch. Inside the labyrinth, Shinobu begins her dramatic introduction and is about to land her finishing move, Kiss-shot Acerola-orion Heart-under-blade, when Yotsugi interrupts and defeats the Witch with a simple "Hyah." Mayoi then lands the final blow with a "Yah," leaving Shinobu annoyed not just at being upstaged but more so at their unsophisticated conduct; specifically their failure to call out their special moves and magic spells while fighting.
Shinobu argues that calling out attacks is the very essence of being a Magical Girl, but Yotsugi dismisses this as an outdated manga trope that only gives enemies an opening. Shinobu retorts that a true Magical Girl evades with elegance even under attack and that refusing to act the part is dumb, especially since they are children. Yotsugi reluctantly agrees. Shinobu then declares they need training to make their actions more befitting of Magical Girls.
Shinobu demonstrates by striking a pose and delivering her lines with perfect timing. Mayoi is impressed, though Yotsugi finds the dark, edgy tone questionable. When Yotsugi tries her own performance, Shinobu and Mayoi are left speechless. Shinobu forces Yotsugi to try again, and this time Yotsugi reluctantly says, "Unlimited Rulebook!" but immediately finds the experience viscerally unpleasant and refuses to ever repeat it.
Mayoi asks Shinobu to help her come up with lines together, secretly hoping to get the whole thing over with faster. After a few stumbles where Mayoi says "you stitch" instead of "Witch" and claims she bit her tongue, she eventually declares, "I, Mayoi Hachikuji, hereby condemn those Witches who seek to ravage this earth!" Shinobu finds it charming, and Mayoi admits leaning into the Magical Girl thing is fun.
They enter a real Witch's labyrinth. Mayoi again messes up her line saying "you itch," but she turns it into an improvised bit, evading attacks while Shinobu cheers. Yotsugi delivers a longer speech about fighting for justice and again says "Unlimited Rulebook!" landing the attack. Shinobu then finishes the Witch with her full finishing move. After the battle, they realize morning has come. Shinobu declares the training will continue, but Yotsugi immediately walks away. Mayoi distracts Shinobu by suggesting breakfast, and Shinobu wants donuts. As they discuss whether any shops are open this early, Yachiyo Nanami, out for an early walk, overhears them and smiles, deciding she wants donuts too.
Mayoi's Heartphial
Mayoi Hachikuji explains that her wish upon becoming a Magical Girl was to return home, but she still cannot reach the place she longs for, so she plans to ask Kyubey about it. Shortly after being invited to Mikazuki Villa, she plays Old Maid with Tsuruno, Felicia, Yotsugi, and Shinobu. Mayoi wins the game, but Yotsugi notices she seemed absent-minded, and Shinobu agrees. Mayoi then goes to the kitchen and asks Yachiyo if she can help with dinner, admitting she always wished she could cook with her mom and has barely been in a kitchen during her journey. Yachiyo agrees, and Mayoi joins Iroha and Sana in making dumplings, proving to be a natural. Yotsugi and Shinobu come to watch, and when they try their own hands at dumpling making, both fail miserably. Mayoi boasts about her perfect dumplings and declares herself the rightful leader of the little girls, sparking a three-way argument with Shinobu and Yotsugi over who should lead.
Tsuruno suggests playing a game to decide the leader, and Felicia wants to join. Shinobu insists that Iroha, as the leader of Team Mikazuki Villa, must also participate to prove her ability to topple an opposing leader, and the group agrees. They play a life simulation board game. Mayoi starts strong, expanding her family and collecting wealth, but after repeatedly messing up her transportation transfers, she ends up broke and stranded in the Amazon. Iroha wins the game, and Mayoi declares Iroha the official leader of the little girls, much to Iroha's confusion. Mayoi feels this has been the most fun she has had in a while, yet she cannot shake an uneasy feeling.
After everyone decides to stay over at Mikazuki Villa, Yachiyo announces bath time and says they should go one at a time. Mayoi suddenly bolts out of the house, claiming she will take a walk while waiting to be last. Iroha chases after her and finds her safe. Mayoi apologizes for worrying everyone and explains that when Yachiyo said "bath time, one at a time," it felt like such a family moment that her heart just wouldn't calm down. She left to do something familiar, like walking, to settle herself. Mayoi then revisits her wish: after her parents' divorce, she tried to go back to her mother's place but could never reach it, so she wished to go home. Being at Mikazuki Villa, playing games, cooking and talking around the table, makes her feel like her wish has finally come true, and she was so happy it overwhelmed her. But she admits to herself that the more at home she feels at Mikazuki Villa, the more she senses it is not the home she truly wants to return to. Walking next to Iroha, she looks up at the sky, recalls that Yotsugi said this sky is different from the one she knows, and yet she cannot tell the difference. She remembers she is a ghost, that going back to her mother's house will not change anything, and she wonders: where exactly is it that she wants to go back to?
X's Heartphial
Exedra Event
The Case Files of the Coordinator 1: The Many-Worlds Interpretation Poesy
While Mitama is running her shop, she reads a detective novel called “The Case Files of Doyle the White Tabby.” A white tabby kitten from next door starts visiting her during this time and she names him Doyle.[249]
Momoko comes for an adjustment and sits in the back to keep Mitama company. After a client leaves, Mitama feels strange and asks Momoko about the previous day after sunset. Momoko says they stayed in the shop watching over Iroha, but Mitama saw a memory during the adjustment: in that memory, she and Momoko patrolled an alley together and Mitama realizes the memory does not match reality.[249]
Mitama performs adjustments on more Magical Girls and sees more memories that should not exist. She pieces them together and finds a Kamihama slightly different from her own which she dubs the “Alternate Kamihama.” Over the next two days, several Magical Girls with memories of the other world come for adjustments and Mitama does not reveal whose memories she saw out of respect to her clients' privacy, but she shares information with Momoko without naming names.[249]
Mitama explains that in the Alternate Kamihama, Momoko and Mitama are a team of two, Yachiyo acts like Momoko’s big sister, Kaede is on Nanaka’s team and that Kako is missing. There is also a serious rivalry between Nanaka’s team and Konoha’s team in the Sankyo Ward, as both teams had lost their youngest members, Kako and Ayame. Yachiyo is also in charge there but struggles to keep the order. Kako and Ayame are friends in this world, but Mitama has not seen either of them in the other world. Mitama almost reveals private information about Karin and an older student but stops herself. A small detail is that Mitama asks Momoko about an exclusive wallpaper of the Mocha Bunny, and Momoko sends her a link. Mitama notices the crucial detail that in the Alternate Kamihama, Mocha Bunny’s bow tie is red, but in their world, it is blue.[249]
On a later day, a wounded Magical Girl is brought to Mitama’s shop and Mitama heals her with adjustments. This girl has more memories of the Alternate Kamihama than any previous client and the situation there is dire. Nanaka’s team and Konoha’s team both blame each other for crossing a line first and the conflict spreads from Sankyo Ward to other wards. Three friends from the Daito Apartment Complex, Reira, Seika and Mito, had their Soul Gems taken and were locked in separate rooms and a voice from inside their Soul Gems asked for the words in their hearts. The three answered “Four-leaf clover” and got their gems back, but one girl fainted from fatigue. Mitama suspects someone mistook them for a threat.[249]
Momoko asks about Iroha and Kyubey, worrying about Iroha in the other world. Mitama says no one has seen Iroha there and that the small Kyubey is also missing, but the normal Kyubey still exists in the Alternate Kamihama. Momoko has not seen Kyubey in their own world for months. Mitama refuses to share more due to confidentiality and calls herself an unreliable narrator, so Momoko agrees to stay as her investigative assistant.[249]
Mitama thinks about how the memories were gathered, and that a few days ago, a group of friends from Kamihama ended up in the Alternate Kamihama. They were together one second and scattered the next, and though they searched for each other and talked to many Magical Girls along the way, they noticed something was wrong. One of them said they cannot tell anyone how they got there and Mitama almost forgot to mention that Mocha Bunny’s bow tie is red in the other world, yet Momoko is not impressed.[249]
Doyle meows at Mitama and she thinks he wants her to apologize to Momoko and she also thinks about the one secret she cannot tell anyone: the Alternate Kamihama is a world without Witches. Then she finds a phone that a client left behind and she accidentally turns it on, seeing that the wallpaper shows Mocha Bunny with a red bow tie, making Mitama wonder if the phone came from the other world.[249]
Mitama keeps the phone, as she cannot return it yet because schedules do not match. She learns about Rumors, or Uwasa in Kamihama: mysterious beings that make rumors come true. Momoko tells her about the Rumor of the Rule of Ending Friendships, which nearly trapped Kaede and Rena forever. Mitama reveals that in the Alternate Kamihama, Kaede and Rena are very close and never argue, but that Rena works alone there. Momoko is no longer surprised by anything Mitama says.[249]
Momoko advises Mitama to record all details about the Alternate Kamihama while they are fresh and Mitama starts writing “The Case Files of the Coordinator.” She notes the color of Mocha Bunny’s bow tie, team relationships, and the disappearances of Kako and Ayame. While writing, Nanaka walks in to return a borrowed book and overhears Mitama say that Kako disappeared, prompting Mitama to explain everything.[249]
Nanaka asks many questions, joking about Mitama’s inability to keep secrets. Then she asks seriously why the Sankyo Ward is the source of conflict in the other world and she suspects there is more to the situation. She asks Mitama to tell her about the incident that sparked the conflict and after hearing her out, Nanaka says she will keep the information to herself for now. She advises Mitama to talk directly to the owner of the phone from the other world and that the girls who ended up there know how they got there.[249]
Mitama meets the girl who left the phone and she does not hesitate to tell the truth because Mitama would see it in her memories anyway. The girl explains the Rumor of Parallel Memories. The rumor says that if you get an item of proof from a parallel world and pray to the central tower, you can travel to and from a parallel Kamihama. The world they visited was a dream projected by the Rumor and it shows a world that “could be.” The girl and her friends all had the same dream at the same time.[249]
Mitama tells Momoko the Alternate Kamihama was just a dream and Momoko is relieved. Mitama explains the Mandela effect phenomenon: many people misremember the same fact, leading to a theory that those are memories from a parallel world. The Rumor of Parallel Memories lets you enter a dream of such a world and a lot of girls fell victim to it, including Ren, Kokoro, and Karin, who also got a strange sketchbook and ended up in the world of her own manga, which was traumatic. The dream world is dangerous because one's are asleep the entire time, but to leave, they can simply wish to go back. The issue is that if someone does not know that, they could waste away.[249]
Momoko asks what kind of world the girls went to and Mitama admits it was a world without Witches. Momoko is upset Mitama kept that secret and asks if all worlds without Witches are that violent, but Mitama says no, clarifying that the fighting in the Alternate Kamihama had nothing to do with Witches. Their own world has Witches and people still fight and that the Alternate Kamihama is just one possibility.[249]
The next day, Mitama tells Nanaka the Rumor explanation, but Nanaka still wonders why there was so much fighting, and that not all worlds without Witches would be that hostile. She thinks someone is behind the conflict and she names Hanna Sarasa, who is dead in this world. Nanaka says the targets in the Alternate Kamihama were all connected to Hanna, and that the method matches Hanna’s style: using suggestion to bend wills, laying traps, spreading rumors, making people doubt everyone. The trap for the Daito Apartment Complex girls feels like someone who enjoys watching others suffer. While Mitama is convinced, she notes the Alternate Kamihama is not real and Nanaka also agrees it is a nightmare that never became reality because Hanna died. Then Nanaka mentions a recent incident: a certain book nearly destroyed her friendship with Kako. It felt deliberate, but thankfully Hanna is dead, though Mitama becomes unsettled.[249]
Mitama asks herself why she is still looking into the case, recalling two girls with bad experiences. Felicia saw a nightmare in the Endless Mirrors Labyrinth and was despondent for days, but she does not remember anything. Reira also tapped a weird link in a Magical Girls’ group chat and she started having nightmares that made things awkward between her and her best friend Seika. Mitama notes that nightmares testing friendships cannot be a coincidence and that the girls who ended up in the Alternate Kamihama also got into trouble because of a phone. Mitama connects the dots and creates a vague profile: a mean-spirited person who likes to show nightmares and test hearts, using a phone, located in Endless Mirrors, the large Labyrinth inside the Mirror Witch’s Mansion and where all the magic of Kamihama gathers. Mitama decides to take a look and asks Reira about the group chat. The account that posted the link has been deleted, but the culprit might still watch with another account. Mitama posts a message asking if anyone has had bad experiences related to Endless Mirrors, hoping the culprit will see it. She then receives a video chat invitation from a caller ID: H. S.[249]
Hanna Sarasa appears on the video call and says she is not the Hanna Sarasa that Mitama knows. She is the Hanna from a parallel world and that she is glad Mitama finally figured things out. She has been playing hide-and-seek and running out of time. She is in Endless Mirrors and tells Mitama to come alone, claiming she can tell Mitama about the serious consequences of her wish, which Mitama kept secret. She wonders if her wish brought Hanna to this world and she closes her shop early to go to Endless Mirrors. Momoko notices something is wrong.[249]
Inside Endless Mirrors, Hanna watches Mitama through copies, using the power of suggestion to control people. Mitama asks if the Alternate Kamihama is where Hanna is from and she confirms. She claims the world Mitama assumed was just a dream actually exists and that the dream shown by the Rumor happens to be exactly like Hanna’s world.[249]
Hanna explains there is a narrow tunnel connecting the two worlds and that the exit in Mitama’s world is inside Endless Mirrors. A Magical Girl with the power to connect spaces, possibly the alternate version of Shizuku, was forced by Hanna to use all her power to open the hole. Hanna wanted to find Mikoto Sena, who had disappeared in her world. The tunnel is too small for a person, only big enough for a phone, but Hanna used the copies and Familiars in Endless Mirrors to do her work. She had tossed a phone through the hole and waited for someone to pick it up, and the Rumor of Parallel Memories did the rest.[249]
Hanna admits she is not actually in Endless Mirrors, but in an abandoned corner of the Alternate Kamihama. The background image was fake and the tunnel will close in a few days. The Endless Mirrors Familiars built a magical projector that can exchange things of equal value between the two worlds, an if Mitama turns the handle, they will trade places: Mitama goes to the Alternate Kamihama, and Hanna comes to Mitama’s world. Hanna has been using her power of suggestion on Mitama and she makes her turn the handle.[249]
Mitama finds herself in the dark abandoned corner of the Alternate Kamihama and Hanna arrives in Mitama’s world. Hanna explains her full plan: she wanted to find Mikoto and she tested her methods on Nanaka and Kako, then on the Daito girls and Felicia. She left subtle hints to lure Mitama to Endless Mirrors and Mitama’s curiosity and guilt made her the perfect bait.[249]
Momoko, who had followed Mitama, telepathically messages her and Momoko catches Hanna off-guard. She turns the handle of the projector in reverse and Mitama returns to her own world while Hanna goes back to the Alternate Kamihama.[249]
The tunnel closes a few days later and Momoko does not remember much of the incident. Mitama does not either; her last memory is reaching for the handle and Momoko explains what happened. The projector is destroyed, and Hanna cannot return. Mitama warns everyone to stay away from Endless Mirrors for a few days and nothing else happens.[249]
Mitama reflects on how she almost became the kitten killed by curiosity. But it was guilt that trapped her instead. She decides will continue to act as a neutral Coordinator, hiding secrets behind confidentiality and she plays with Doyle using a new foxtail cat toy.[249]
The Case Files of the Coordinator 2: A Drifting Narrative
Mitama Yakumo watches a video about the Sketchbook of Misfortune. The Rumor says that if you receive the book and find a drawing of yourself, the sketched event will happen and if you try to stop it, a creature named Ketch drags you into the book. Mitama wants no part of it.
Soon, Karin and Momoko visit Mitama. Karin explains she'd found a strange sketchbook in the art room at Sakae Academy, which Mitama recognizes as the Sketchbook of Misfortune. Inside, she finds a drawing of Tsukuyo lying on the floor badly hurt.
Suddenly, Tsukasa arrives, explaining she'd heard Mitama talking. Mitama shows her the drawing and Tsukasa fears for her sister’s life. She insists on helping and Mitama makes her an interim investigative assistant.
Mitama and Tsukasa study the sketchbook. Most drawings show pairs of people: families, partners, friends. They search social media and contact the creator of “The Urban Legends of Kamihama” channel, where they learn about past cases: a couple who drowned themselves, two soccer brothers who disappeared after switching teams, a woman who reunited with her father. They deduce the sketchbook indeed seems cursed.
Karin discovers the sketchbook originally belonged to an aspiring artist who died decades ago. Mitama and Karin meet the artist’s older sister and she lends them the artist’s diary. After reading it, Mitama realizes the artist was a Magical Girl who wished to see hope. She gained the ability to see the future of Kamihama and sketch it. They realize the sketchbook is not cursed, but a “Sketchbook of Hope” and the rumors about Ketch are false.
Mitama finds the artist’s hidden studio, where she discovers a large canvas: the completed version of the torn drawing from the Sketchbook. It shows Tsukuyo wounded but with Tsukasa helping her.
As Tsukasa still believes the rumors, she takes the sketchbook and runs away. She disguises herself in Tsukuyo’s school uniform and plans to burn the book while dressed as Tsukuyo. She believes Ketch will trap her instead of her sister.
Tsukasa goes to a mound in Shinsei Ward and a hand drags her into the ground. She is caught by the Rumor of the Historical Battle Marker, not Ketch. Mitama and Tsukuyo follow and say the escape words of the Uwasa (“Thanks to you, the town is safe”), rescuing her.
While Tsukasa is injured, she is able to heal. Mitama explains the truth that the sketchbook is a Sketchbook of Hope. She xplains that the couple in the sketchbook later eloped, the soccer brothers are still alive and working hard separately and the girl on the rooftop was waiting for her father. The drawing of Tsukuyo and Tsukasa together shows hope as well.
Mitama returns the sketchbook and diary and the twins return to peace as well. Mitama reflects on her own wish, which felt like a curse and wonders if she herself will ever find hope.
The Case Files of the Coordinator 3: Cozy Cosmology
On a busy morning, Mitama adjusts many Magical Girls in a row, not even remembering the exact order. A package is delivered to her door early in the day, but she is too busy to fetch it. That evening, after finishing her last adjustment, Mitama remembers the package and opens it. She hears a voice detailing the Uwasa of the Miniature Dollhouse. The landscape distorts and Mitama loses consciousness.
Mitama finds herself in an old building looking exactly like the dollhouse in the package. The sky is bright blue, though it was evening in reality. She realizes she has been trapped inside a space created by a Rumor and a giant meow echoes from above, sounding like Doyle but is not him. She finds a book titled “Screenplay (draft version)” which glows when she opens it. The escape conditions appear: “Finish all episodes and beat the Dreamer’s challenge.”
Episode 1: Mitama becomes a trainee teacher at Kamihama University Affiliated School where Mifuyu is a fellow teacher. The students are preparing for a choir competition, but Rena had run away from the soprano solo. Mitama helps Momoko find Rena on the rooftop, where Rena admits she is scared. Momoko suggests a duet, but then Kaede then says she might quit the choir because she works at a flower shop and cannot miss shifts. Mitama remembers the hint “Concession to the Spy” and offers to take Kaede’s shifts. Kaede agrees and Rena agrees to the duet. The episode ends and the screenplay glows again.
Episode 2: Mitama becomes a member of the “Alien Investigators” with Ashley, Karin, Riko, Kako, and Kush. They search for “Red Eye” at an old rail yard and a boulder falls, but Kush stops it with psychokinesis and reveals she is an artificial life form (Doll) created by the Doll Master. She explains she needs cherry tomatoes to stay awake and Mitama remembers the hint “Doll Master of the North.” Kush takes them to the Satomi Medical Center, where Mitama goes to the top floor alone and finds Touka. Mitama accuses her of being the Dreamer, though Touka denies it. She says she is only playing the role of Doll Master and explains that the Rumor traps victims and one becomes the Dreamer. The episode ends.
Mitama recalls that every Magical Girl in Episodes 1 and 2 visited her shop today and the dollhouse had been outside all day. She concludes that all those girls are also trapped inside the dollhouse.
Episode 3: Mitama is now working at the Blossom flower shop, as promised in Episode 1. Konomi is the owner and Kokoro and Masara are regulars. Kokoro remembers a sunflower field she saw as a child but cannot find it again, so the group searches the Hokuyo Ward forest. There, they meet Himika and Kanagi, who are picking up trash and Kanagi telepathically tells Mitama she knows they are in a Rumor world. They find a waterfall and as the hint says “Behind the Waterfall,” they walk through and discover a hidden sunflower field. Kokoro’s memory is verified as real and the episode ends.
After Episode 3, Mitama and Kanagi are transported to a final room where Nemu awaits. Mitama assumes Nemu is the Dreamer but Nemu says she is not. Nemu explains that four Magical Girls were present when the package was opened: Mitama, Kanagi, Touka, and Nemu herself. All the other characters are fake cast members created by the Dreamer who is Mitama herself. Nemu explains the escape conditions were set by Mitama’s unconscious mind and they require her to discover all the hints and mysteries across the three episodes. The three episodes are actually a single sci-fi story about first contact with intelligent plants and the fake versions of Kaede, Kako, and Konomi are plant spies, while Nemu is the queen of the plant kingdom.
Nemu continues that Mitama failed to see the deeper story and this is her second failed attempt. Each failure resets her memory and sends her back to the start of the episodes. The Rumor also erases an important connection from each trapped person, so Mitama has forgotten something, but she does not know what.
Mitama opens the screenplay again and soon, a memory floods back. She remembers her sister Mikage, who she'd forgotten about entirely. She now knows why she must return to the real world.
Following that, after several more attempts, Mitama manages to escape from the Rumor of the Miniature Dollhouse world, by eventually discovering the hidden sci-fi plot and all the hints. The other three Magical Girls forget everything that happened inside, but Mitama remembers everything. She returns to her shop and Doyle is there, seemingly worried.
Mitama thinks about Mikage and how terrifying it was to forget someone so important. She also reflects on the Wings of the Magius and questions whether she can stay neutral much longer.
The Case Files of the Coordinator 4: Moratorium on Misdelivery
One summer morning, Mitama is at her shop and she has set up a small café corner called Hot☆Corner. The cat, Doyle, is especially attached to her lately.
Soon, Rika and Ren come for cakes and Mitama gives them the last two limited‑edition cakes. They chat about the Monty Hall problem, which Nanaka’s team discussed earlier. Mitama demonstrates the puzzle with three paper cups and a piece of chocolate. Rika picks the middle cup; Mitama shows the left cup is empty and offers a switch. Rika and Ren learn that switching gives a two‑in‑three chance of winning. After the demonstration, Rika notices her teapot is empty; Mitama goes to refill it.
While Mitama is away, Doyle meows and suddenly, Rika and Ren have three identical envelopes on the table: one contains photos from an amusement park trip (for Ren), one is a suspected love letter Rika found in her locker, and one is a mystery envelope that Emiri found on the floor outside Mitama’s door. Emiri and Hinano Miyako arrive as well and Emiri bumps into the table, knocking the envelopes onto the floor. When they pick them up, the envelopes are shuffled, so no one knows which is which.
The group discusses probabilities and Emiri accidentally opens an envelope that contains the amusement park photos (not the love letter). Hinano argues that the Monty Hall problem does not apply because the opening was accidental, and she explains that Mitama’s demonstration worked because Mitama knew which cup hid the chocolate and purposely showed an empty one. Emiri did not know the contents, so there was a chance she could have opened the love letter. After recalculating, Hinano concludes that the odds for Rika’s first choice (the envelope she originally picked as the love letter) are now 50‑50, not two‑in‑three for switching.
Rika sticks with her original choice. It contains a six‑month flower voucher from Blossom Flower Shop and no sender name. The remaining envelope, which Emiri did not open, contains a challenge: “I’ll be waiting at Natsume Books. The password is in your favorite book. Go to volume 12, page 50!” The group realizes the flower voucher likely belongs to Mitama, and the mystery envelope found at the door contains the challenge.
Natsuki arrives and she messages Akira. The story emerges: Meiyui accidentally left the flower voucher in Rika’s locker. Nanaka had asked Kako Natsume for a six‑month voucher as a gift for Mitama, and Kako left it with Meiyui to deliver. Meanwhile, Rika had asked Akira to print photos from the amusement park, which Akira had given to Meiyui, as she goes to school with Rika. They realize Meiyui mixed up the envelopes and the mystery of the voucher is solved, but the challenge isn't.
Mitama, Ashley, and Riko go to Natsume Books, where they find out that a full set of “The Case Files of Doyle the White Tabby” was sold yesterday. Inside volume 12, page 50, they find an envelope with a 100‑yen coin and a message: “Turn this 100 yen into 300,000 yen by tomorrow. If you can’t, I’ll take ‘smiles’ from around Kamihama. From the Smile Snatcher.” The deadline is the next day, and Ashley suggests it is an alternate reality game (ARG) with a phantom thief.
On the way, they meet Reira, Mito, and Seika. Mito hints to go to Ashita’s candy store. At the store, the clerk has a tradition of giving change as “300,000 yen” instead of “30 yen” as a joke. Mitama buys a trio of chocolates for 70 yen and pays with the 100‑yen coin and the clerk gives her 300,000 yen (meaning 30 yen) change. The puzzle is solved and the clerk gives them another envelope from the Smile Snatcher.
The next message: “Order Misola 0 from the young miss at the maid café.” Ashley takes them to a maid café in Shinsei Ward where the manager is called “miss.” Riko notes that “Mi, so, la” are musical notes. Ashley says in English, Mi = E, So = G, La = A. “Misola 0” becomes “E G A 0,” which sounds like “egao” (Japanese for smile). They order a smile and the manager gives them the final envelope.
The message: “I’ve given up trying to steal smiles. Would you like to be my friend instead? I’ve left you a small apology at Blossom. Password@Hot☆Corner. From the Smile Snatcher.” At Blossom Flower Shop, Mitama guesses the password is “third base” because Konomi mentions a fake flower called “San Ruishu” (which sounds like “sanruishu,” Japanese for third base, also called “hot corner”). Konomi confirms and gives Mitama an envelope with an invitation to a surprise party at Walnut’s restaurant.
Mitama returns to her office and confronts Momoko. Momoko admits she planned the whole surprise party and that Ren wrote the colorful challenges, Rika and Ren worked together, Karin delivered the envelopes and also acted as the phantom thief’s assistant. Most of the Magical Girls Mitama met that day were lying to keep the surprise hidden and the Monty Hall envelope mix‑up was a genuine accident that nearly ruined the plan. She explains the party is meant to thank Mitama for her work as Coordinator.
The party at Walnut’s is put on hold indefinitely due to complications caused by the Wings of the Magius, who plan to make Tsuruno do something dangerous.
The Case Files of the Coordinator 5: Invisible Epiphany
Walpurgisnacht's attack on Kamihama City caused massive damage to Chuo Ward, which the public believes was a natural disaster. Only Magical Girls know the truth and privately, Mitama reflects that the victory gave her hope, but she wonders if the destruction she once wished for can be defied.
Several days after Walpurgisnacht, Mitama realizes Doyle has not visited her shop and the last saw him the day before Walpurgisnacht. She assumes the storm made him too scared to go out, so she decides to close her shop and search for him.
Mitama looks around the vacant land near her shop and a girl named Ritsumi offers to help. Ritsumi’s cat Arthur ran away before, so she knows where cats hide. They search but find nothing and Ritsumi says Arthur now lives with her grandpa. Mitama realizes Ritsumi is the daughter of the neighbor who owns Arthur and Mitama had mistaken Arthur for Doyle and that Ritsumi has never actually seen Doyle. They end the day without clues and Mitama sends a message to the Magical Girls’ group chat asking if anyone has seen a white tabby.
Mitama knocks on the neighbor’s door and Ritsumi’s mother answers. She explains that Arthur was sent away two weeks ago to Ritsumi’s grandpa. Mitama realizes that no one knows where Doyle came from. Ritsumi’s mother promises to keep an eye out.
Sana, Asuka, and others from Mizuna Girls’ Academy saw Mitama’s group chat post and they arrive to help. More volunteers soon arrive: Kaede, Kako, Rena, Konoha’s team, and others. They split up to cover Shinsei Ward and Mitama notes that no one else has ever seen Doyle. Konoha says she never saw a cat at Mitama’s shop. Rena also asks for a photo, but Mitama has none.
Mitama finds Ritsumi near the bus stop and they search door to door. No one in the neighborhood has seen a white tabby kitten either. Ritsumi says she has read all “The Case Files of Doyle the White Tabby” books and that her favorite is “Invisible Epiphany,” about a detective searching for a lost child.
The next morning, Momoko meets Mitama alone. Momoko says she never saw Doyle and neither did Tsukasa or the other girls. Mitama remembers talking to Doyle in front of them, but they saw no cat ither. Momoko suggests a Rumor is involved, as all Rumors disappeared after the fight with the Magius, except the Eternal Sakura. Coincidentally, Doyle disappeared at the same time.
Mitama calls Nemu, who is still in the hospital and Nemu explains that Doyle was part of the Rumor of the Cat Detective. The Rumor possesses detective novel lovers, detects signs of a case, gets the detective involved, and guarantees a solution. Nemu explains she erased almost all Rumors, including this one. Mitama thinks Doyle disappeared because the Rumor was destroyed and she had solved four cases with Doyle’s help, yet the fifth never began.
Mitama re-reads her case files and each one has an opening paragraph she does not remember writing. The first case file hints at Hanna Sarasa. The second hints at Tsukasa. The third and fourth also name the culprits. Mitama realizes Doyle left those hints, and Nemu says the Rumor did not cause incidents, only detected them, so those incidents would have happened anyway.
Several days later, Kamihama slowly returns to order. Mitama notes that she cannot rely on Doyle anymore and she hopes she does not get any new cases.
Ui and the Eternal Sakura visit Mitama to deliver a lampshade from Yachiyo. Ui says a girl from her school has gone missing and Mitama is shocked to learn the girl is Ritsumi, who did not come home after school yesterday and the police are investigating.
Mitama goes to the bus stop near her shop and finds Ritsumi’s mother. The mother says Ritsumi likely went to Hokuyo Ward to see her grandpa and Arthur. Ritsumi’s parents are separated and her father lives with his parents in Hokuyo Ward. The mother believes Ritsumi wanted to visit them, but the bus route to Hokuyo was suspended after the disaster but has resumed, bypassing Chuo Ward. Soon, Himika calls Mitama. Himika saw a girl matching Ritsumi’s description waiting at the Shinsei Ward bus stop yesterday, reading a book.
Momoko and Kanagi arrive and Momoko explains she has been investigating at school. Ritsumi transferred to Kamihama University Affiliated School six months ago after her parents separated and she moved into the building next to Mitama’s shop. Momoko explains Arthur went to live with her father in Chuo Ward, not Hokuyo Ward. Mitama realizes the conflicting information: Arthur was first in Chuo Ward, then evacuated to the grandpa’s house in Hokuyo after the disaster.
At the Satomi Medical Center, Nemu discusses the case with Eternal Sakura. Nemu recalls the hidden hints in Mitama’s case files. The last words of each hint spell “Lost Through Time Eternal,” which is the title of volume 12 of “The Case Files of Doyle the White Tabby.” In that story, a girl runs away to her old home. Nemu deduces that Ritsumi went to her old apartment in Chuo Ward, not Hokuyo. She likely got off at the nearest bus stop and walked into the restricted zone, then she had an accident.
Mitama, Momoko, and Kanagi search the area near the old apartment and they hear a voice. Ritsumi had fallen into an old underground passage and sprained her ankle. She lost track of time and had no phone. Mitama explains she remembered the Doyle book and Ritsumi admits she was copying the girl in the story as she wanted to see the area where she grew up. The three quickly rescue her.
Ritsumi is taken to a hospital and also discharged quickly. Her parents agree to let her visit both of them and Arthur whenever she likes. Mitama reflects that Doyle gave her confidence and the city she cursed is still standing, so she dares to believe in hope.
One week later, Momoko finally holds the Coordinator Thank-You Party that was postponed earlier and Rena and Kaede thank Mitama.
The Rumored Temp Counselor
Sakurako, the Uwasa of the Eternal Sakura, comes to Emiri’s Counseling Room accompanied by Hinano. Sakurako explains that she is 0 years old but appears 17, and that she was born as a formless story. Nemu gave her life and later invited her to live as a human named Sakurako Hiiragi and she connected to a server to download common sense. She now attends Minagi Liberty Academy as Hinano’s junior and she can fight Witches because Nemu gave her magic. She wants to learn about human society and to achive that, Emiri makes her a temporary counselor.
On her first consultation, a high school girl struggles with whether to go to university or pursue her dream of becoming a dyer. Sakurako checks her server data and advises university first, because dyeing involves chemistry and other subjects. The girl accepts the advice.
Sakurako explains to Emiri why she needs to learn common sense. At Mikazuki Villa, she once tried to attack a stranger who bumped into Ui and Yachiyo and Iroha lectured her. Later, she ran away from school because she was bored and missed Iroha. That was when she met Ryo Midori and became friends. Hinano told her school would be more fun with friends.
Over several days, Sakurako counsels more people. She tells a student to set smaller study goals, advises someone in a love dispute to apologize and explain their feelings and she encourages a nervous junior to have confidence. However, she relies on server data for each answer.
Sakurako soon becomes bored listening to strangers and wants to be with Iroha, Ui, Nemu, and Touka instead. She hides this because she knows quitting would be wrong and that Hinano and the others support her as a counselor, so she continues.
One day, Touka notifies the others that she has five tickets to Minagi Land for herself, Nemu, Ui, Iroha, and Sakurako, however the date is the same day Sakurako promised to go shopping with Hinano’s group. Sakurako wants to go to the theme park, but she tells Iroha she cannot go because she made a prior commitment and she decides to keep her promise to the counseling group.
On the planned day, Sakurako shops with Hinano, Emiri, Rika, Ren, and Akira. She tries to focus, but she keeps thinking about Iroha and the others at the amusement park and appears distracted. Her friends end the trip early and Sakurako apologizes.
The next day, Sakurako goes to the counseling room when no one is there. A student arrives for a consultation and asks if it is bad to show favoritism to old friends over new ones. Sakurako means to say “treat everyone equally” but instead says “It’s normal to prioritize those most important to you.” The student is relieved and thanks her, but whe Hinano arrives, she sees Sakurako upset.
Hinano explains to her that the group split up to find out why Sakurako was acting strange and Emiri learned from Iroha that the Mikazuki group went to the theme park. Sakurako admits she wanted to go with them but kept her commitment. Hinano explains that common sense is not about strict rules and that it is meant to help people share time without causing pain. If following common sense makes Sakurako suffer, she should value her own feelings too. She could have simply asked the group to change the date.
Sakurako understands. She decides to quit the counseling room so she can experience new places and things. She has grown and learned and says she will still visit because everyone is still her friend.
Sakurako prepares desserts and tea in the counseling room. She invites everyone to thank them and apologize for the shopping trip and explains she made everything herself based on data. The group is impressed and Sakurako tells Hinano she will be her go‑to support system for balancing feelings and common sense. Hinano jokingly asks if this is a bribe, but Sakurako says it is an upfront investment.
Defying Destiny: Forbidden Cards Call-Done
After being banned from fortune-telling by Yachiyo, Mel disobeys and reads her own fortune, which predicts a day of terrible bad luck. Mel panics and locks herself in her room, but Momoko finds her and reminds her of their promise to help at Banbanzai, so Mel reluctantly follows.
Along the way, they encounter red lights, near accidents, and a Witch, which they defeat. At Banbanzai, Mel and Momoko make mistakes but Tsuruno fixes them, which Mel realizes is Tsuruno's "Good Luck" magic negating Mel's own bad luck. Momoko, Tsuruno, and Mifuyu press Mel to explain and she admits she wanted to predict Yachiyo would go last in an audition to make her pass, and they agree to keep her secret.
Yachiyo comes home excited because she already passed the audition on her own merit. She figures out Mel was telling fortunes and forgives her with a warning, then buys a cake.
After surviving the bad luck day, Mel secretly does another reading. She writes predictions, including that a new Magical Girl will appear near Yachiyo, but she hides them when Yachiyo returns.
Later, they encounter Raspberry and Mel becomes a Witch.
A Taste of Hospitality
Riko and Ashley help Mitama film a video about her Coordinator services, whre she explains that she adjusts Soul Gems to draw out hidden potential, that she sees memories during adjustments but keeps them confidential, and that she also sells items for Magical Girls. As payment for the video, Riko gives Mitama an origami dog (Mameji) and Ashley gives her blue candy from her home, both of which Mitama puts in a box.
Over time, Mitama receives many gifts from Magical Girls, including Kokoro, Reira, Mito, Felicia, Ayame, Kako, Yachiyo, Karin, Himika, Rika and Emiri, the last of whom says that when people share their favorite things, it means they want to share what they love with Mitama.
Mitama hums happily, which Momoko and Kanagi notice and feel a bad omen. Mitama announces that she wants to share what she loves with everyone and that she plans a party with food that she will cook. She asks Momoko and Kanagi to help.
Kanagi says Mitama’s own sister calls her cooking “hellish” and Momoko recalls she has suffered from it too. Mitama offers them homemade candy and after Kanagi tries one, she finds it too intense for kids. Mitama had also attempted a new dish for Momoko, which looked like Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” however she noted it tasted better than usual, yet Momoko heard strange things for days afterward. Momoko and Kanagi agree that Mitama’s intentions are good but her methods are dangerous, so they decide they must stop Mitama from cooking to prevent a mass food poisoning scandal.
Mitama shows them a party plan with a buffet, quiz contest, and mini games. The menu includes potato salad, paella, and other dishes. Kanagi looks at the ingredient list and falls over in shock and Momoko also feels sick. They go to pick prizes first, then they shop for ingredients. Mitama loads the basket with many vegetables for the potato salad, and she plans to use avocado and tofu instead of mayonnaise to be healthier. Kanagi asks her to leave out yams due to potential allergies, and Mitama then picks up hand cream to add fragrance to a dish. Kanagi reminds Mitama of the time she used paint as food coloring and Mitama puts the hand cream back.
Mitama cooks a test potato salad which ends up glowing. Momoko and Kanagi taste it; the tubers are overwhelming, but it does not make them pass out. Next is paella, which smells of vanilla extract and tastes extremely bitter. Mitama then serves acqua pazza (with canned beef) and rice omelet with Hamburg steak (with sashimi dusted with soybean flour). Momoko and Kanagi conclude the party will indeed be a living hell if Mitama cooks.
They decide to secretly cook all the food themselves, recreating Mitama’s menu with edible ingredients. They recruit Rena and Kaede to test the food and Rena accidentally lets slip that Momoko is with Kanagi. Rena and Kaede realize Mitama can see their memories during an adjustment and flee. Mitama reflects on her past, where she was betrayed by a close friend after transferring from East to West Kamihama, but how even then, Kanagi believed her, and Momoko has always been kind. Mitama wants to trust them, but her old doubts surface.
On the day of the party, Momoko and Kanagi ask Mitama to let them handle the cooking while she sets up the venue and games. Mitama agrees but feels anxious. She overhears them talking about a cake she secretly baked and hid in the fridge. They also say they need to “dispose of it in secret,” which Mitama misinterprets as a betrayal.
Mitama confronts them, asking why they want to throw out her cake. Momoko admits they do not want the other girls to eat Mitama’s food and that they wanted to eat it themselves to spare everyone. Mitama misunderstands this as jealousy and Momoko and Kanagi go along with the misunderstanding rather than hurt Mitama’s feelings. Mitama forgives them and warns them not to sneak her food again. She says they will get a reward if they work hard.
Momoko and Kanagi cook all the food for the party. The dishes look strange (the potato salad glows because of ice cube lights), but they taste delicious. The guests are hesitant at first, but after Rena tries it and declares it good, everyone else follows. The party is a success.
After the party, Momoko and Kanagi stay to clean up and Mitama thanks them. She reveals their reward: a private meal made from leftover ingredients, just for the three of them as thanks for their hard work. They join hands and eat together.
Yuletide Tale: Where Our Hearts Begin
One winter’s day before Christmas, Rika and Ren go shopping together. The town has no Christmas decorations and people seem depressed. They hear a distressed voice and find Mitama, wearing a Santa's beard and hat, and she introduces herself as a Christmas Spirit. Mitama says her job is to make everyone happy, but the task is too big. She gives Rika and Ren some of her magic, explaining that the magic requires them to be perfectly attuned to each other, and then she disappears.
Suddenly, a swallow Familiar appears, claiming to be Mitama’s pupil and Rika names him Chirpie. Chirpie explains that Mitama saved him when he fell from his nest and gave him magic. He can sense cowardly hearts lacking courage and Rika and Ren must drive out ten cowardly hearts to make the town happy. Chirpie leads them to people with cowardly hearts, and eats the symbolic heart afterwards.
Chirpie leads them to Felicia and Sana, who had accidentally smashed a cake and are now arguing about who should apologize to Yachiyo. Rika and Ren both wish the cake would be restored and their magic repairs the cake. Felicia and Sana apologize to each other and Chirpie eats the cowardly heart.
Next, Rena wants to go to an idol event with Kaede but is too stubborn to ask directly. Rika and Ren wish she would be honest and Rena admits she wants Kaede to come.
At Emiri’s Counseling Room, Akira is embarrassed to wear a cute Christmas outfit. Rika and Ren wish she would try it on and their magic forces her into the outfit. Nanaka, Kako, and Meiyui arrive and tell Akira she looks cute, and Akira thanks them.
Emiri and Akira join Rika and Ren to help, now calling themselves “The Holiday Girls” (HGs). They decide Emiri and Akira will track cowardly hearts while Rika and Ren use magic.
They help a girl choose a gift. They encourage a maid nervous about dancing in a Christmas performance. They help a boy who fought with his dad; the boy forgives his father and runs off, but his cowardly heart does not disappear.
Rika and Ren find a young couple who want to marry but are too scared to confess. They receive a message that the boy’s heart finally disappeared. They bring the couple together and the man proposes, this time making two cowardly hearts appear from each one, and after Chirpie eats them, he's reached ten hearts.
Suddenly, Chirpie grows giant and he reveals he is the sum of Rika and Ren’s own cowardly hearts. He uses the collected hearts to summon powerful Witches and Familiars across the town, which the Holiday Girls split up to fight.
Rika and Ren soon find Mitama trapped inside a snow globe created by their magic and Chirpie is also there. Mitama says they must resolve the source of their own weakness and Rika and Ren realize they had had a disagreement before and were unable to communicate. They both say “I wanted to make up” and apologize to each other, making their cowardly hearts vanish and also weakening Chirpie.
Rika and Ren use a combined attack: “Holiday Spiral Hope” and defeat Chirpie, who quickly shrinks and disappears, alongside the Witches and Labyrinths he created. Mitama explains she was giving Rika and Ren a dual adjustment, and while their fight was real, the magical adventure was part of the adjustment. Rika had lost her phone and Ren went on a family trip without reception. Seeing as they had been unable to contact each other, there'd been a misunderstanding, but now thanks to Mitama, they'd made up.
Afterwards, Rika and Ren practice using their new magic that came with their adjusted outfits to make snow. They find they can only make snow on one rooftop. They decide to travel around Kamihama on Christmas, making snow everywhere they go and they agree to do their best together.
Two Hands in Harmony
Tsukuyo and Tsukasa Amane complain about being overworked as guardians of a Rumor and fear the anger of Touka, Alina, and Nemu. They play their flutes together to lift their spirits and Alina appears and says they sound “unharmonious.” She asks their opinion on her next art piece about nature art vs. sound art, and when they cannot answer, she calls them useless.
Mifuyu Azusa arrives with two new Black Feathers. The twins forgot they were supposed to train them. They apologize and leave with the Black Feathers. Tsukuyo and Tsukasa explain the purpose of the robes hiding their identities and teach basic fighting techniques to the Black Feathers. They turn out to be competent and one Black Feather comments that the twins “don’t really seem like twins” because of their different tones and vibes.
After training, Tsukuyo and Tsukasa talk privately. They recall how they discovered they were twins: both had half‑moon flutes that together form a full moon, and they share similar struggles at home, with Tsukasa doing chores at a bamboo workshop and Tsukuyo enduring strict training from her grandmother. They reaffirm their bond and dream of leaving Kamihama together, however, their Flute Blossom Resonance has been failing recently. They decide to prove to the Black Feathers that they are true twins.
The next day, Tsukuyo and Tsukasa try to demonstrate twin‑like acts like quizzes, synchronized moves, etc., but everything fails. The Black Feathers realize the twins are upset by the earlier comment, so they apologize. Mifuyu arrives and assigns them a mission to capture a Witch, which the Black Feathers will observe.
The twins enter the Labyrinth, and during the fight, they are out of sync and accidentally hit each other. Familiars attack the Black Feathers and the twins protect them. They attempt Flute Blossom Resonance, but it affects the Black Feathers instead of the Witch. Mifuyu steps in and defeats the Witch herself, scolding the twins and warns they may be demoted to Black Feathers.
Tsukuyo and Tsukasa feel ashamed, questioning whether their bond is real or just a result of their wishes. They consider quitting the Wings of the Magius, but then Alina calls with a new mission: capture a specific Witch. The twins say they cannot use Flute Blossom Resonance, but Alina tells them to die trying and then hangs up.
Two Black Feathers overhear Alina’s mission and one blames herself for the twins’ slump and goes alone to capture the Witch. The other Black Feather calls the twins for help and soon, Tsukuyo and Tsukasa enter the Labyrinth and find the Black Feather surrounded by Familiars. They fight to protect her and despite being out of sync, they manage to hold their own. The Black Feather says they are acting “super twin‑like” and in perfect harmony. The twins realize they stopped trying to force identical melodies and they remember that their flutes were never meant to sound the same; they complement each other. Their true bond is not about being identical but about being two separate people who choose to be together.
They perform Flute Blossom Resonance at 120% power, this time successfully stopping the Witch. They defeat the Witch and save the Black Feather. Mifuyu and Alina arrive and Mifuyu admits she orchestrated the mission to help the twins regain their individuality. Alina was in on it as well, but she scolds the twins for over‑emphasizing their “twininess” and being useless, however she acknowledges that watching them recover their individuality was emotional. She decides to combine nature art and sound art for her next masterpiece.
The twins hold hands and affirm their love for each other. They understand they do not need to act identical; they are genuine twins. Touka suddenly arrives and reminds them that freedom is necessary for their future and the twins resolve to continue working for the Wings of the Magius to gain that freedom.
Iroha's Birthday 2025: Her Extra Special Day
August 22nd: Yachiyo tells Iroha that a safety inspector is coming to Mikazuki Villa. The inspection will take all day, so everyone should stay out of the house until evening. Iroha thinks time will fly if they hang out together, but Tsuruno says Banbanzai is busy with deliveries. Tsuruno has asked Felicia and Sana to help, but when Iroha offers to help, Tsuruno refuses quickly and the three leave in a hurry.
Once Iroha leaves, Tsuruno, Felicia, and Sana sneak back to the villa where Yachiyo greets them. They successfully shook Iroha off their trail and Yachiyo announces they will prepare an extra special hospitality for Iroha. Meanwhile, Iroha walks around, but feels something is missing. She realizes her life changed greatly after meeting Yachiyo, Tsuruno, Felicia, and Sana and she wants to hurry home to see them. Evening arrives, and she heads back.
When Iroha returns home, everyone runs to greet her and they shout “Happy birthday!” making Iroha realize she'd forgotten her own birthday. Yachiyo explains the story about the inspection was a lie to keep her out of the house and that they'd decorated the living room with colorful flowers and leaves for a tropical theme.
Sana has made a special tropical juice with a yellow-to-blue gradation, garnished with a flower and umbrella. Felicia uses a large leaf to fan Iroha. Yachiyo prepared a tropical feast: poke, garlic shrimp, loco moco, a luau spread, and malasada doughnuts. The theme came from a travel show they watched together. Iroha had said she wished she could go to the tropics someday, so the group decided to bring the tropics to her.
After dinner, everyone prepares futons in the living room and Yachiyo says the surprise is not the sleepover. The lights go out, Yachiyo plays ocean wave sounds and then a whirring sound starts. Sparkling lights like stars appear on the ceiling and Tsuruno explains they made a planetarium from cardboard and foil. Iroha was moved by the night sky on the travel show, so they wanted her to see it. Iroha is deeply touched. Soon, everyone falls asleep while talking, but Iroha stays awake, gazing at the warm light on the ceiling. She felt lonely earlier, but now her heart is full and she is truly happy and grateful to have such friends.
Madoka's Birthday 2025: A Gifted Predicament
October 3rd: Madoka wakes up to birthday wishes from her parents and her little brother Tatsuya. On the way to school, Sayaka and Hitomi wish her well, as does her entire class. Madoka has a wonderful birthday, however she cannot decide what to ask for as a birthday present from her parents. Nothing she imagines feels quite right, even though she does want something.[250]
After school, Sayaka, Homura, Mami, and Kyoko gather to celebrate and give Madoka presents. Sayaka gives classical music CDs of Mozart, remembering Madoka wanted to listen to more. Kyoko gives a bag full of assorted snacks. Mami gives a box of teabags, a custom collection of all the tea blends Madoka liked when visiting Mami’s place.[250]
Homura disappears briefly and the others ask Madoka to close her eyes. They bring out a cake Homura baked with everyone’s help, where Mami gave baking tips and Sayaka and Kyoko helped buy ingredients. Madoka blows out all the candles in one breath, which Mami says it is a sign of good fortune and Madoka cries from joy.[250]
Surrounded by friends and gifts, Madoka understands that spending time with loved ones is the best present. She goes home and tells her parents her birthday wish: for the whole family to go out and enjoy themselves next weekend. She says being able to spend time with her family is the greatest present she could ever get.[250]
Prayers and Play Keep Sickness Away
January 3rd: Madoka wakes up early, as she plans to meet Iroha in Kamihama to practice hanetsuki (a traditional badminton game) for a ceremony at Mizuna Shrine, a ceremony which is held to pray for good health. Participants must be middle school students in pairs and Iroha invited Madoka because the other Mikazuki Villa girls are either too old, or invisible to non‑Magical Girls, or Felicia, who refused. Madoka accepts because her whole family caught colds over New Year’s and she wants a blessing for their health.
Madoka boards the train, but service is suspended due to an accident. Homura is on an earlier train that is still running and Madoka tells Homura to go ahead. Madoka arrives two hours late at 10 a.m. where Homura and the Mikazuki Villa girls greet her. They had changed their plans: instead of practicing near Mikazuki Villa, they will have bento lunches at a park near Mizuna Shrine and practice there.
Before practice, the group buys New Year’s lucky bags. Madoka’s bag contains grains and black beans (soapnuts). Suddenly, a goose approaches her, then more geese which proceed to then chase Madoka and peck at her bag, wanting the grain. Tsuruno grabs the bag and runs, soon aving the other girls joining into the chaos, until a worker leads the geese away, however the lucky bag ends up destroyed and Madoka’s bad luck seems to continue.
Iroha and Madoka practice Hanetsuki together, but they struggle with control. Yachiyo offers to train them and she plays against each, teaching them to aim and keep balance. After lunch, they hold a friendly tournament, where Yachiyo wins against Iroha, Madoka beats Homura and Felicia but loses to Yachiyo when her sandal strap breaks. Yachiyo fixes it temporarily and goes home to get spare sandals for her.
The group goes to Mizuna Shrine and Iroha requests a purification ritual for Madoka to remove her bad luck. The priest performs a simple cleansing and Madoka feels relieved from it.
The shrine announces that this year’s selection for the ceremony will not be a tournament, and instead, pairs must keep a rally for 30 seconds and then do an interview. Madoka and Iroha pass the rally easily. In the interview, Madoka says she first wanted to pray for her family’s health, but after seeing many people at the shrine, she now wants good health for everyone. Iroha says her little sister Ui was born with health problems, so she knows health is not guaranteed. They are selected to perform the ceremony.
Before the ceremony, the shrine maiden shows them the special shuttlecock made from a soapnut (a nut whose kanji means “child without illness”). The box contains a completely ruined shuttlecock and the spare is also ruined. The shrine maiden goes to consult the priest, as the ceremony may be canceled. Many spectators have gathered, including Asuka, Karin, Emiri, Rika, Ren, and Hinano.
Madoka does not want to disappoint everyone and she suddenly remembers the black nuts from her lucky bag. Tsuruno looks up photos online and confirms the nuts are soapnuts. Iroha recalls making shuttlecocks in elementary school and says she knows the process. Felicia kept feathers from the geese that chased Madoka too and the priest lets them use an office and tools. There, they have a hand drill but no clamp, so the shrine maiden finds an old vise. Felicia and Tsuruno try drilling holes; Felicia breaks one soapnut, Tsuruno pierces through. Meanwhile, Madoka succeeds with the vise and Iroha and Sana bind feathers. Madoka applies glue but uses too much on the first try. They succeed with the second attempt, and when they test the shuttlecock in a nearby park, it flies well.
The mayor’s speech is delayed by the train suspension, giving them time. The ceremony begins and Madoka and Iroha keep a steady rally. They reach 97 hits, but at 99, the wind blows the shuttlecock away and Madoka runs and hits it back, reaching 100 hits. The crowd cheers and the priest says it has been years since a 100‑shot rally.
On the train back, Madoka falls asleep and Homura wakes her when they approach their stop. Madoka thinks about the day, and how everything that seemed like bad luck actually helped make the ceremony a success. She will tell her family that she prayed for their good health and she believes everyone who watched the ceremony, and everyone across the globe, can have a healthy and happy year as well.
Homemade and Heartfelt Valentines
February 13th: Mitama is away from her shop, but Tsuruno is there, using the kitchen to make chocolate bonbons with a friend. She plans to surprise everyone at Mikazuki Villa.
Meiyui arrives for an adjustment, but she finds the shop door open and no one else around. Tsuruno tells her Mitama will not be back for a while, so Meiyui decides to come back later. She asks why Tsuruno is there and she explains she's making chocolate with a friend who is out shopping for ingredients. Tsuruno invites Meiyui to join them and Meiyui agrees.
Konoha arrives with the shopping and Meiyui is surprised, as she's heard rumors about Konoha’s poor cooking skills, including an exploding miso soup. Konoha admits she made mistakes in the past but has been practicing, and now she wants to make chocolates that Ayame and Hazuki will love. She explains she's also studied tempering and the six crystal forms of chocolate. Meiyui apologizes for being skeptical and they begin their attempts at making chocolates.
Tsuruno asks them to dice the chocolate into fine pieces and Konoha pounds the chocolate with too much force, crushing some into dust. They proceed to tempering, and when the melted chocolate reaches 49°C, Tsuruno says to cool it with cold water, but Konoha accidentally splashes water into the bowl. Tsuruno suggests starting over and Konoha tries to melt new chocolate with direct heat and ends up burning it instead. Tsuruno suggests a microwave instead and Konoha sets the microwave for twenty seconds instead of ten, and the chocolate ends up boiling. Meiyui becomes frustrated and she accuses Konoha of not taking the task seriously.
Konoha insists she has been serious from the start and that Valentine’s Day is her chance to show Ayame and Hazuki how much they mean to her. She points to her outfit, explaining Ayame and Hazuki bought it for her as a gift because she works so hard. Meiyui softens and says the Blue Seas Family gave her new clothes too, and she was truly happy. She apologizes for her earlier words and Konoha also apologizes for getting worked up. Tsuruno herself also apologizes for how she organized and handled the situation and they decide to start fresh.
After many redos, they use up all the ingredients, but they finally complete the chocolates.
February 14th: On Valentine's Day, Tsuruno gives beautifully wrapped chocolates to Iroha, Yachiyo, Felicia, Sana and Ui at Mikazuki Villa. Everyone finds them delicious. Meanwhile, at the Blue Seas Family headquarters, the family members find wrapped chocolates left for them too and Meiyui reveals they are from her. They thank her and enjoy them as well. Finally, Konoha gives chocolates to Ayame and Hazuki, who are hesitant because they remember Konoha’s past cooking disasters. Konoha explains that Tsuruno and Meiyui helped her this time. Ayame and Hazuki try the chocolates and find them delicious, thanking Konoha for them.
Rise of the Waning Moon
After becoming a Magical Girl, Kanagi finds that the Eastern Kamihama Magical Girls are chaotic, territorial and that no one wants to cooperate. Kanagi soon steps up as leader, as no one else would, but only two girls show up to her first meeting: Sumiha Takane and Nabiki Soyogo. The three start working together, where Nabiki finds those who needed help, and Sumiha takes care of them.
Soon, a senior Magical Girl named Juerii Hoshi opposes Kanagi and incites others. Kanagi defeats Juerii in a fight to show her strength, but then Juerii begins attacking other Eastern Magical Girls at random, forcing them to submit. Many want Juerii eliminated, but Kanagi still keeps wanting an amicable solution.
Soon, Nabiki decides to confront Juerii alone without telling Kanagi. Sumiha contacts Kanagi for help in the situation, but Kanagi arrives too late, Sumiha’s Soul Gem is shattered and they realize she was dead. Juerii is shocked and Nabiki’s Soul Gem is completely clouded. Nabiki turns into a Witch before Kanagi’s eyes and Juerii is killed by the Witch. Afterwards, Kanagi defeats the Witch, fully learning that a Magical Girl becomes a Witch when she falls to despair.
Later on, Kanagi discovers Nabiki left a letter for Kanagi. She wrote that Kanagi was like the moon rising in the East after a long wait and she asked that their rising moon never go down. Kanagi would read the letter many times and regret never getting to ask why Nabiki threw her life away.
One day during lunch break, Kanagi goes to Himika’s classroom, telling her she just wanted to see her face, which Himika finds strange.
After work, Kanagi goes to Mitama’s shop, where Himika is already there waiting for Mitama, while Hinano is inside getting an adjustment. Kanagi says she was just passing by, not there for an adjustment and then tells Mitama she wanted to see her. After she leaves, Hinano notices Kanagi is acting strangely and becomes worried. She pays Mitama and leaves, deciding to follow Kanagi because she thinks Kanagi might be lonely.
Kanagi arrives at a cemetery, where Yachiyo and Mifuyu are already at, visiting Kanae and Mel's graves. Kanagi says she came to visit her first Magical Girl friends: Sumiha Takane and Nabiki Soyogo. Yachiyo and Mifuyu ask to join her. Meanwhile, Hinano hides nearby and listens because she cannot find the right moment to leave. Kanagi eventually notices her and invites her to join them. Hinano admits she was worried about Kanagi. Kanagi explained how she became the leader of the East and how she learned the truth about Witches.
After finishing her story, the sun goes down and soon, Yachiyo, Mifuyu, and Hinano leave, but Kanagi stays to watch the moon rise. The moon is a waning gibbous that rises two days after a full moon. In Japanese, the “seventeenth night” is spelled like Kanagi’s name, thus they call it a Kanagi Moon. Kanagi looks at the moon and remembers that it looked the same on the night she lost her friends.
Mami Tomoe: A Doppel Tale-Done
One Saturday, Mami volunteers to help clean the damage done by the Magius incident and Madoka, Sayaka, and Homura go along as well. During it, a Witch attacks and a Magical Girl they were helping unleashes a Doppel. They defeat the Witch and the girl falls unconscious, so Mami takes her to Mitama.
After stabilizing her, Mami asks Mitama to help her face her own Doppel and she guides Mami to look within. Mami meets her Doppel and it tries to convince her to forget the past, yet Mami refuses and proclaims that she accepts the Doppel as part of herself. Mami then wakes up, thanking everyone and says they will build the future together.
Words to Change
Words
Leila -> Reira
Rabi -> Lavi
Ravi -> Lavi
Labi -> Lavi
Tart -> Darc
Riz -> Liz
Melisa -> Melissa
Eliza -> Elisa
Koyuko -> Kyoko
Kyouko -> Kyoko
Kyubei -> Kyubey
Kyoubey -> Kyubey
Kyoubei -> Kyubey
Al -> Aru
Al-chan -> Aru
Aru-chan -> Aru
Kyousuke -> Kyosuke
Kushu -> Kush
Yuu -> Yu
Shii -> Shi
Rumour -> Rumor
Perenelle -> Pernelle
Nicholas / Nikolas -> ? Which one is correct
Yuuna -> ?
Lapin -> Lapine ???? Maybe
Kamihama Wards and city names -> Their proper spellings
Law of the Cycle -> Law of Cycles ???? Maybe
Kyuubey -> Kyubey
Fix Kafe Lepa Mačka
Fix cafe with the tilda spelling
Soul Gem
Magical Girl
Witch
Rumor
Uwasa
Grief Seed
Wraith
Grief Cube
Labyrinth
Barrier
Wards
Familiar
Minion
Half-Witch
Pseudo-Witch
Hyades
Incubator
Irregular
Irregularity
Frayed
Witch's Kiss
Doppel
Doppel Syndrome
Automatic Purification System
Magia Record
Law of Cycles
Kimochi
Doppel System
Purification System
Fix errors like "xxx", to "xxx," and "xxx". to "xxx."
It is possible that the 5th Tart event has a purple or red moon, though the translation says red, the photos have a purple moon. I'll have to check the actual event recording in Japanese and check the JP text in case there was an error.
Magia Record
| Prologue | Main Chapter 1 | Main Chapter 2 | Main Chapter 3 | Mirrors Floor 1-11 | Iroha MGS | Yachiyo MGS | Tsuruno MGS | Sana MGS | Felicia MGS | Momoko MGS | Kaede MGS | Hinano MGS | Shizuku MGS | Kanoko MGS | Natsuki MGS | Sasara MGS | Nanaka MGS | Emiri MGS | Akira MGS | Manaka MGS | Kako MGS | Meiyui MGS | Ayaka MGS | Aimi MGS | Konomi MGS | Rika MGS | Launch | Madoka MGS | Main Chapter 4 | Mami MGS | Mirrors Floor 12-16 | Ren MGS | My Diary With You | Kyoko MGS | Mitama's Special Training - Kyoko | Konoha MGS | Hazuki MGS | Ayame MGS | And So, The Azaleas Bloom | Main Chapter 5 | Rena MGS | Karin MGS | Magical Halloween Theater | Reaching a Happier Height | Kokoro MGS | Masara MGS | Kazumi MGS | Umika MGS | Kaoru MGS | Another Daze | Mitama's Special Training - Tsukuyo | Tsukuyo and Tsukasa MGS | Kirika MGS | Yuma MGS | Christmas at Mikazuki Villa | Main Chapter 6 | New Year’s at Mizuna Shrine | Mitama's Special Training - Iroha and Yachiyo | Sayaka MGS | A la Carte Valentine | The Maiden of Hope | Tart MGS | Riz MGS | Melissa MGS | Alina MGS | Mitama's Special Training - Alina and Hinano | Reira MGS | Seika MGS | Mito MGS | See You Tomorrow | Wait, You Got It Wrong! | Mayu MGS | Mitama's Photography Meet! | FM Kamihama Holy Radio Station | Himika MGS | Mitama's Special Training - Mitama | Mitama MGS | Main Chapter 7 | Ria MGS | "I'm always the star!" | Suzune MGS | Arisa MGS | Chisato MGS | Cross Connection | Kanae MGS | Mel MGS | Voices from Beyond | Rumor Tsuruno MGS | Mitama's Special Training - Rumor Tsuruno | Mifuyu MGS | Breakpoint | A Peaceful Day in Mikazuki Villa | Main Chapter 8 | Kanagi MGS | Let's See What You're Maid Of | Mitama's Special Training - Homura | Homura Swimsuit MGS | Homura Swimsuit DS | Mitama's Special Training - Felicia | Beachside Bonds | Iroha Swimsuit MGS | Summer With Mikazuki Villa | First Anniversary Special Scenes / The Goddess and the Mysterious Record | Hereafter | Mirrors Floor 17-20 | Mitama's Special Training - Kaede | Main Chapter 9 Part 1 and 2 | It's Okay to Be Clumsy | Riko MGS | Oriko MGS | Main Chapter 9 Part 3 | Another Chapter 9 | We Invite You to a Delightful Halloween! | Mirrors Floor 21-22 | Nagisa MGS | Nagisa's Wish | Kamihama Cheese Panic! | Ikumi MGS | Ryo MGS | Wings in the Wind | Holy Alina MGS | Alina Is Comin’ to Town | Mirrors Floor 23-24 | Mitama's Festive Feast | Lucky New Year Dreams | Asuka MGS | Mitama's Special Training - Asuka | Mitama's Special Training - Nanaka | Nanaka MGS | Homura MGS | The Lost Record | A La Carte Valentine 2nd | Mirrors Floor 25-26 | Touka MGS | Main Chapter 10 | Nemu MGS | Last Magia | Dreaming Cherry Blossom | Sakurako MGS | Another Chapter 10 | Kamihama Twinkle Rarity Star | A Fledgling's First Flight | Ui MGS | Mirrors Floor 27-28 | Golden Week Campaign | Hanna MGS | The Flowers' Lament | Sayuki MGS | Sayuki Steps Up! | Nanoha Girls' MGSes | Magia Clash! | One Fleeting Summer Night | Flute Freaks MGS | Elisa MGS | Corbeau MGS | Rebel of a Dawnless Land | Curry House CoCo ICHIBANYA Collaboration | SamaTore! | Kyoko Summer MGS | The Green Jasper Diviners | Chiharu MGS | IroYachi MGS | Kamihama in a Circle | Mirrors Floor 29-30 | A New Beginning | Yukika MGS | Moon-viewing After an Elegant Tea Party | Mitama's Special Training - Meiyui | Crimson Resolve | Hikaru MGS | Main 21-1 | Will You Smile? Halloween Live Show! Haruka MGS | Matsuri MGS | Rumors in Disguise | Sunao MGS | Main 21-2 | Rondo of Oblivion Sleeps for Eternity | Mikura MGS | Temari MGS | Seira MGS | Mirrors Floor 31-32 | Shigure MGS | Main 21-3 | The Page I Write on the Holy Night - From Here, With You | RikaRen MGS | Kimochi Sapphire Intro | The Purity of Haregi | Sayaka Haregi MGS | Dyeing a Brush for This Year's Resolution! | Livia MGS | Ranka MGS | Main 21-4 | Mitama's Special Training - Emiri | Always Waving my Hand at You | Ryoko MGS | Sakuya MGS | Mirrors Floor 33-34 | Warming Valentine | Chocolatier in Mirror Country | Nagisa Valentine MGS | Hagumu MGS | Moka MGS | Hinamatsuri Login Bonus | Aquamarine Kimochi | New Mirrors Ranking Held! | Yozuru MGS | Meguru MGS | Tracks of Cherry Blossoms | Mirrors Floor 35-36 | Main 22-1 | KamiFest: Kamihama Idol Festival 2020 | Ao MGS | Maria MGS | Main 22-2 | I, the Reincarnated Overlord, Magnificently Thwart "THEIR" Conspiracy!! | Rui MGS | Trick ☆ Trouble ☆ School Festival | Tsumugi MGS | Ruby Kimochi | Yuuna MGS | Hotori MGS | Rion MGS | The Flower That Blooms in a Hollow Heart | Main 22-3 | End of a Legend, the Limits of Light | Tart Final MGS | Lapin MGS | Main 22-4 | Another 21 | Mitama's Special Training - Sudachi | Sudachi MGS | Chika MGS | Mixed Summer! | KaeRena MGS | Mami Summer MGS | Unknown Story | Sapphire | Welcome to Uwasa Aquarium! | Sakurako Summer MGS | Mokyu MGS | Let's go to the All Gods Festival! | Main 23 | Mitama's Special Training - Shizuka | Shizuka MGS | Autumn of Reading | Another 22 | Girls in the Hood | Jun MGS | YachiMifu MGS | Deliver to the Beyond, A Piece of Hope | Halloween Castle of Prayers and Funeral | Kanagi Vampire MGS | Momoko Sister MGS | Turquoise | Another 23 | Mitama's Special Training - Mikage | Mikage MGS | Sentimental Gaze | Angels on the Road | TsuruFeli MGS | Christmas String | TouNemu MGS | Opal | Deliver Smiles! Reindeer Santa! | The Dream That Transcends Today | Every Lucky Bag a Dream | Juri MGS | Main 24 | Tsubaki MGS | Memorable Flower | Another 24 | Bittersweet AI Memory | Rumor Sana MGS | Kamihama Chocolate Girls | Where is Ashley Taylor's Japanese Horror!? | Ashley MGS | Kamihama Kawaii Collection | Dependence Blue | Mitsune MGS | Aquamarine | Kamihama Armageddon | Main 25 | Alexandra MGS | Our Beginning is a Recurring Dream | Azalea MGS | Sapphire | The Masked Student Council Strikes Back | Isabeau Witch MGS | Minou MGS | The Mirror That Reflects My True Self | Sae MGS | The Peaceful Daily Life of Nayuta's House | Nayuta MGS | The Witches' Paradox Extermination Battle (1) | Main 26 | The Legendary Story of the Paper Mulberry Leaf | Yachiyo Tanabata MGS | The Call of the Open Sea | MomoMita MGS | Night Fairytale ～You Were At the Water's Edge～ | Surfer Sayaka MGS | Please, Yuna-san ~ Leave All Your Worries To Your Eldest Daughter! | Yuna MGS | Main 27 | Aquamarine | The Great Banquet that Transcends Time | MadoIro MGS | The Witches' Paradox Extermination Battle (2) | Moon-viewing Slumbering Pajama Party | Hotaru MGS | Kush MGS | Only Dreamers ~ The Fable Watches the Dream of the Girl | Opal | Another 27 | The Cuddly Despairs | Subaru MGS | Dream Halloween Festa | AliKarin MGS | Battle Museum - Yozuru | San MGS | San Kagura Wants to Be Honest | Main 28 | Miyuri MGS | Miyuri Yukari on Practice! | Anime Mami MGS | Snow Thawing Befana | NayuMikage MGS | A Merry Christmas in Everyone's Hands | Sun Shizuka MGS | Tokime Tribe Tale | Anime Yachiyo MGS | Another 28 | Sapphire | The Ash Grey Revolution | Asahi MGS | Homecoming ~ Three Days of Kyoko Sakura | Doppel Kyoko MGS | Wrap Your Feelings Up for Valentine's | Aquamarine | Witches' Paradox | Main 29 | The Inheritors of Our Souls | Pernelle MGS | Isabeau MGS | Little Bird's Star | Kuroe MGS | Kuroe DS | Kamihama Beach Spa Adventure | Aniroha MGS | Another 29 | Final Oriko MGS | My Only Salvation | Battle Museum - Sudachi | Main 210 | Himena MGS | Anirena MGS | Passion Is Sharp △, Love Is Rounded ● | Akari MGS | A Secret Farewell Party to Urara | Urara MGS | Alina Eve | Lavi MGS | Main 211 | Witches' Paradox | Anitsurumor MGS | Seven-Coloured Summer Patternbook~ | Kuroe Summer MGS | Madoka Summer MGS | Another 211 | Stardust Mirage | Infinite Iroha MGS | Joint Open Round-table Discussion | Main 212 | Mikoto MGS | Sayonara Storage | Opal | Dark Kanagi MGS | Dark Color Halloween is the Color of Love!? | Dark Mitama MGS | KimoLavi MGS | Battle Museum - Kanagi | Kagome MGS | Mismatched!? Aru's Warning! | Sapphire | Fire Mifuyu MGS | SnowYachi MGS | Winter Recollection ~From us who are still transparent~An old story | Winter Recollection ~From us who are still transparent~A phantom story | Don't Show Tears to Santa Claus | Feeling the Winds of a New Year | New Year☆First Dream Scramble | New Year Homura MGS | Witch Paradox | Historia 1 | Valentine Message | Sudachi Valentine MGS | Doki Doki! Valentine Days | Aquamarine | Historia 2 | Kamihama Multiverse Detective: Iroha Tamaki's Case File | Ruby | Historia 3 | Battle Museum - Ren | Historia 4 | A Bouquet for Tomorrow's Happiness | MasaKoko MGS | Historia 5 | Summer Pop Festival! ～Nagisa's HOT Summer Break～ | Swim Nagisa MGS | Historia 6 | Kagome's Hundred Mysteries ~Burning Summer Banquet~ | Yokai Kagome MGS | Historia 7 | Paradise Shift | Nutcracker | Mitsuru Inami Wants to Be "Normal" | Mitsuru MGS | Chisana MGS | Takina MGS | Agent Magica | Pearl | Brethren Revived On Halloween | JuriYuna MGS | Garnet | Memory Drops | Uwakoto MGS | Blessings to Those Who Resist | Terrible Luck is a Premonition of Melting Snow | Happy New Year! Dragon Rush! | Dragon Asuka MGS | From Beyond, To You | Apartment MGS | Conveying a Little "Thank You" | Sapphire | Alina's Atelier 1 | Nutcracker | Kamihama Big Sports Day | Alina's Atelier 2 | Yu MGS | Last Bird's Hope | Shi MGS | IroKuroe MGS | Battle Museum - Nanaka | ~Current Status with Big Sister~ | ~For A Fun Evening~ | Witches Paradox | Alina's Atelier 3 | ~Recounting from Pictures~ | Eve | Vibrant Miracle | The Heart, Now and Forever |
Costume Stories
Iroha Tamaki Swimsuit
Iroha Tamaki Christmas Outfit
Iroha Tamaki Winter Clothes
Iroha Tamaki Maid Outfit
Iroha Tamaki New Year’s Outfit
Iroha Tamaki Pajamas
Iroha Tamaki Loungewear
Yachiyo Nanami School Uniform
Yachiyo Nanami New Year’s Outfit
Yachiyo Nanami Swimsuit
Yachiyo Nanami Pajamas
Yachiyo Nanami Loungewear
Yachiyo Nanami Winter Clothes
Tsuruno Yui Christmas Outfit
Tsuruno Yui Swimsuit
Tsuruno Yui New Year’s Outfit
Tsuruno Yui Winter Clothes
Tsuruno Yui Tanabata
Tsuruno Yui Pajamas
Tsuruno Yui Loungewear
Sana Futaba Winter Clothes
Sana Futaba Swimsuit
Sana Futaba New Year’s Outfit
Sana Futaba Pajamas
Sana Futaba Loungewear
Felicia Mitsuki Halloween Costume
Felicia Mitsuki Swimsuit
Felicia Mitsuki Winter Clothes
Felicia Mitsuki New Year’s Outfit
Felicia Mitsuki Pajamas
Felicia Mitsuki Loungewear
Mifuyu Azusa School Uniform
Mifuyu Azusa Swimsuit
Mifuyu Azusa Christmas Outfit
Touka Satomi Swimsuit
Touka Satomi Hospital Clothes
Alina Gray Swimsuit
Alina Gray Hospital Clothes
Rena Minami Christmas Outfit
Rena Minami Swimsuit
Rena Minami Winter Clothes
Momoko Togame Winter Clothes
Momoko Togame Swimsuit
Kaede Akino Swimsuit
Kaede Akino Winter Clothes
Kaede Akino Christmas Outfit
Karin Misono Swimsuit
Karin Misono Hospital Clothes
Asuka Tatsuki Winter Clothes
Nemu Hiiragi Swimsuit
Nemu Hiiragi Hospital Clothes
Ui Tamaki Swimsuit
Ui Tamaki New Year's Outfit
Ui Tamaki Winter Clothes
Kanagi Izumi Maid Outfit
Kanagi Izumi Winter Clothes
Kanagi Izumi Swimsuit
Kanagi Izumi Pajamas
Mitama Yakumo School Uniform
Mitama Yakumo Swimsuit
Tsukuyo Amane Christmas Outfit
Tsukuyo Amane Winter Clothes
Tsukasa Amane Winter Clothes
Tsukasa Amane Christmas Outfit
Kagome Satori Pajamas
Yuna Kureha Winter Clothes
Yuna Kureha Casual Clothes (Adult)
Hikaru Kirari Swimsuit
Hikaru Kirari Casual Clothes (Adult)
Ao Kasane Swimsuit
Ao Kasane Casual Clothes (Elementary Schooler)
Juri Ooba Winter Clothes
Juri Ooba Casual Clothes (Adult)
Shizuka Tokime Winter Clothes
Shizuka Tokime Swimsuit
Shizuka Tokime Tiger
Chiharu Hiroe Swimsuit
Chiharu Hiroe New Year's Outfit
Chiharu Hiroe Bird
Sunao Toki Swimsuit
Sunao Toki New Year's Outfit
Sunao Toki Turtle
Himena Aika Swimsuit
Shigure Miyabi Swimsuit
Hagumu Azumi Swimsuit
San Kagura Swimsuit
Miyuri Yukari Swimsuit
Rabi Himuro Halloween Costume
Rabi Himuro Apron
Asahi Miura Halloween Costume
Alexandra Kurusu Swimsuit
Urara Yume Halloween Costume
Mikage Yakumo Winter Clothes
Sudachi Sawa Christmas Outfit
Yozuru Sasame Swimsuit
Yozuru Sasame Christmas Outfit
Iroha-chan Mana Degarashi
Iroha-chan Unfinished Iroha
Madoka Kaname Winter Clothes
Madoka Kaname Swimsuit
Madoka Kaname Pajamas
Homura Akemi (Glasses ver.) New Year’s Outfit
Homura Akemi (Glasses ver.) Winter Clothes
Homura Akemi (Glasses ver.) Pajamas
Sayaka Miki Winter Clothes
Sayaka Miki Swimsuit
Sayaka Miki Pajamas
Mami Tomoe Swimsuit
Mami Tomoe Winter Clothes
Mami Tomoe New Year’s Outfit
Mami Tomoe Pajamas
Kyoko Sakura Halloween Costume
Kyoko Sakura Swimsuit
Kyoko Sakura Winter Clothes
Kyoko Sakura New Year's Outfit
Kyoko Sakura Pajamas
Nagisa Momoe Swimsuit
Nagisa Momoe New Year's Outfit
Mabayu Aki White Lab Coat
Madoka-senpai Kaname Aloha
Homura Akemi (Haregi ver.) Winter Clothes
Kanoko Yayoi Winter Clothes
Natsuki Utsuho Halloween Costume (2018)
Natsuki Utsuho Halloween Costume (2022)
Hinano Miyako Winter Clothes
Hinano Miyako Swimsuit
Sasara Minagi Winter Clothes
Nanaka Tokiwa Winter Clothes
Emiri Kisaki Winter Clothes
Emiri Kisaki Christmas Outfit
Shizuku Hozumi Halloween Costume
Shizuku Hozumi Winter Clothes
Akira Shinobu Christmas Outfit
Manaka Kurumi Cook Coat
Ria Ami Winter Clothes
Ria Ami Swimsuit
Kako Natsume Halloween Costume
Kako Natsume Swimsuit
Meiyui Chun Winter Clothes
Leila Ibuki Winter Clothes
Mito Aino Halloween Costume
Kokoro Awane Outdoor Clothes
Kokoro Awane Swimsuit
Kokoro Awane Winter Clothes
Ayaka Mariko Halloween Costume
Ayaka Mariko Winter Clothes
Aimi Eri Winter Clothes
Ren Isuzu Winter Clothes
Ren Isuzu Swimsuit
Ren Isuzu Casual Clothes
Ayame Mikuri Swimsuit
Masara Kagami Outdoor Clothes
Masara Kagami Swimsuit
Masara Kagami Winter Clothes
Konomi Haruna Winter Clothes
Konomi Haruna Christmas Outfit
Rika Ayano Winter Clothes
Mayu Kozue Swimsuit
Sayuki Fumino Swimsuit
Moka Megumi Winter Clothes
Riko Chiaki Winter Clothes
Riko Chiaki Swimsuit
Mel Anna Winter Clothes
Mel Anna Halloween Costume
Temari Kira Winter Clothes
Ranka Chizu Winter Clothes
Ryo Midori Swimsuit
Ryo Midori Halloween Costume
Chika Aoba Swimsuit
Hotaru Yura Winter Clothes
Kanae Yukino Halloween Costume
Yuuna Kaharu Winter Clothes
Ashley Taylor Winter Clothes
Ashley Taylor Swimsuit
Ikumi Makino Maid Outfit
Ikumi Makino Swimsuit
Akari Mai Winter Clothes
Ryoko Natsu Swimsuit
Kushu Irina Christmas Outfit
Other
Magia Report S1
Magia Report S2
Ready Set Exedra / Magia Etcetera
Website X'mas Memory Tree (2020)
Website Magical Paper Sumo (2021)
Magia Archive Vol. 01
Magia Archive Vol. 02
Magia Archive Vol. 03
Magia Archive Vol. 04
Magia Archive Vol. 05
Videos / Audio
Magia Day 2018 Special Story: Mikazuki's Anniversary
"Let's hit the Suitoku baths! (Music Collection 1 bonus drama)"
A Bridge Spanning a Single Step (Yohaku no Honne bonus drama)
Two Girls (Promised Blood F4 FanFes 2019 live reading drama)
Magia Day 2021 Special Story: Mikazuki Villa's Little Party
Kagome and Ui's Anxious Lucky Day (F4 FanFes live reading drama)
Mana Degarashi 2022 Vtuber Stream
Magia Day 2022 live reading drama
Magia Day 2023 Iroha and Tsuruno live reading drama
Magia Day 2023 scene0 live reading drama
F4 FanFes: Magia Record TV Kamihama Special 2023 (Full)
(Asahi, Ui, & Kagome F4 FanFes live reading drama)
Can I Become Something, Someday? (Iroha, Yachiyo, & Tsuruno Magia Day 2024 live reading drama)
(Madoka, Sayaka, Mami, Kyoko, Kyubey Magia Day 2024 live reading drama)
A Party For a Special Day (Holy Quintet & Nagisa Magia Day 2025 live reading drama)
Articles
Da Vinci Oct 2020 interviews: Part 1 (Inu Curry)
Da Vinci Oct 2020 interviews: Part 2 (Mikazuki VAs)
Da Vinci Oct 2020 interviews: Part 3 (Holy Quintet VAs)
Relay Interviews: Moko Asakura (Iroha Tamaki)
Relay Interviews: Jun'ichiro Taniguchi
Relay Interviews: Doro Inu
Relay Interviews: Sora Amamiya (Yachiyo Nanami)
Relay Interviews: Shiina Natsukawa (Tsuruno Yui)
Relay Interviews: ClariS
Relay Interviews: Ayane Sakura (Felicia Mitsuki)
Relay Interviews: Yui Ogura (Sana Futaba)
Relay Interviews: Kaori Ishihara (Rena Minami)
Relay Interviews: Ayaka Oohashi (Kaede Akino)
Relay Interviews: Mikako Komatsu (Momoko Togame)
Relay Interviews: Akiyuki Shinbo
Main Media
Walpurgisnacht: Rising
Books
Other Manga
Games
Madoka Mobage
Madoka Portable
Homura's Portable Route
Madoka Online
Madoka Plus
Battle Pentagram
Madoka Mobcast
Magia Record
The Magia Record Arcade Game
Magia Exedra
Other Games
Supporting Materials
Supporting Materials
Characters
Magazines
Kirara Magica
Other Media
Crossovers
Commuity Events
Interviews
Tweets / etc.
Magia Exedra
The Case Files of the Coordinator 2: A Drifting Narrative
Two Hands in Harmony
The Case Files of the Coordinator 3: Cozy Cosmology
Eternal Summer Days
The Case Files of the Coordinator 4: Moratorium on Misdelivery
The Case Files of the Coordinator 5: Invisible Epiphany
Maybe make a list disclaimer on each article detailing which events aren't accounted for in case I want the articles released already.
Keep up with the list and livestreams to see if it adds anything
Supplementary: Extra events with unclear or unconfirmed placement. This will make it easier to make timeline articles, and maybe making them dropdowns would make it more digestible. We don't use the word Supplemental, because it means that it is something that fills in the blanks when something is missing, but supplementary means that something extra, even when it isn't needed. Maybe there's a better word to use, but we'll keep this for now.
Another possible option is to use the title 'Unknown Placement.' I'll use that for now since supplementary seems a bit inaccurate.
I've decided to use Unknown Placement, and if it is before a major revelation or major turning point, they would either be sub-sections, like with an additional equal sign on each end and then the events that are part of it have another additional equal sign.
An option is that it can say something like "Unknown Placement: 2 years ago (or whatever name of the section at hand is)." We'll figure it out along the way. However since it has been clarified that in lack of many contradictions or proof, the chronological release of the event will be used as a basis for it. If this hasn't been clarified, then add it in somewhere. Right now it seems each one will only have one Unknown Placement section.
Prioritize the order to have the unknown placement events to have the relevant information before the section's finale if it is important, or just before something happens that clarifies that thing couldn't have possibly happened after the point below, as it currently is in Scene 0.
