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Cosmology

This article explains the cosmology of the Madoka Magica multiverse, including the nature of universes, timelines, and extradimensional spaces that connect them together.

Madoka Magica contains many instances of alternate universes, branching timelines created through time travel, as well as universal rewrites which 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. A reality with a fundamentally different history and/or rules that did not originate from a rewrite in the primary sequence is considered an alternate universe, such as the Magia Record Universe, which even contains its own version of Homura.

Timeline: A linear sequence of events within a Universe. Multiple timelines can be created one after the other through wishes or time travel, forming a Time Axis, such as Homura's time loops. The distinction between a branch timeline and a true alternate universe is often unclear, particularly in cases involving time travel.

In Null Magical Girl, a universe itself is revealed to be a self-reproducing living organism. The universe reproduces through black hole singularities and eventually reaches heat death, at which point it is overtaken by a black hole and begins anew, creating an endless cycle. This concept is known as the Cosmological Natural Selection Theory, also famously called the Fecund Universes hypothesis.

For more information, see the Will of the Universe.

Multiverse

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. This follows the Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics. It should be noted that parallel universes formed through this process aren't explored in the franchise. Instead, the multiverse of the series is explored through worlds created through magic—most often through time travel.

The Many-Worlds Interpretation is only utilized as an explanation in Magia Exedra, where the phone in the Lighthouse Theatre connects to the phones in the Lighthouse Theatre of different worlds (meaning that the Many-Worlds Interpretation applies in extradimensional places). This is the in-story explanation of the Union function of the game, and thus not explored further. Additionally, besides these two kinds of worlds, there are alternate universes with entirely different rules which have seemingly always existed.

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 that of anyone caught in her time loops. However, it is unknown if all forms of time travel yield this effect.

Rewrites

A rewrite of the universe changes the rules and history of a reality or multiple realities rather than simply creating another branch of an existing timeline that time travel does. These are usually accompanied with the birth of a new concept or rule of the universe, though that isn't always the case.

Madoka's wish is the clearest example, where she rewrites the rules of all realities within her reach, while residing outside them in the Law of Cycles. This creates the cluster known as the Law of Cycles Universe. Homura later performs another rewrite when she overtakes the Law of Cycles and separates Madoka from her divine aspect. The resulting singular altered reality is known as the Devil Universe.

Additionally, while not rewrites in the same sense, there are several cases where an individual's existence, or "concept," is wiped from reality—meaning that all physical traces and memories of their existence are wiped, though there's usually exceptions to the rule. Madoka's ascention into the Law of Cycles caused her to be wiped from everyone's memory except Homura's and Tatsuya's, though many people seemed to have a nostalgic sense when they're reminded of her.

It is also shown that when one's soul is removed from their body and then placed into an empty, depowered Incubator, their concept is similarly erased. This happened to Ui Tamaki, though her sister Iroha Tamaki was able to remember her eventually. When her soul is returned to her, memories and traces of her existence were also similarly restored.

In the Arc 2 finale, when Infinite Iroha—who had fused with Ui, Lil' Kyubey, the Kimochi and the Automatic Purification System—overused her Reversal magic, she and everyone she had fused with were also erased for everyone except Magical Girls. Later on, this was able to be undone, and they were able to live normal lives again, but when they elevated the Automatic Purification System to being a law of the Magia Record universe, it had the same result. By the end of Magia Record, Iroha, Ui, Lil' Kyubey, the Kimochi, Touka Satomi, Nemu Hiiragi and the Rumor of the Eternal Sakura were wiped from existence for everyone except Magical Girls.

Known Universes

The franchise depicts several such universes, each with fundamentally different histories and/or rules. The relationships between these universes are complex, with an extensive time axis formed through Homura's time travel, and then all of the created timelines changing from rewrites within the primary sequence of events, while others have seemingly always existed as separate realities with their own distinct rules.

For more information regarding the details of known universes, see the Timeline cluster of articles.

Extradimensional Spaces

There are spaces from which multiple timelines and worlds are accessible—often also called as spaces "outside the universe." They each maintain some kind of fundamental concept in conventional universes, and also function as archives or "records" of some kind. However the scope of every extradimensional space in reaching different worlds in the multiverse is unique.

How such spaces are created varies, however when a person becomes a fundamental part of a space outside the universe—also maintaining a concept by doing so—all traces and memories of their existence are erased, with a few exceptions.

For more information regarding the motif of records in their different forms, see the In-Universe Concepts section of the Magia Record article.

Nazukasokotsune

Seemingly the first extradimensional space to be created, it was made in the era when Magical Girls became Demons nd lost their individuality. After Marguerite made her wish to save all Magical Girls, she was able to purify their Soul Gems, but eventually there were too many of them, and the accumulated curses took over Marguerite as well.

Marguerite turned into a creature called a Witch, fusing with the Demons of the past. Meanwhile, Magical Girls who would become Demons after that point would instead keep their identity, each receiving a new name and becoming Witches. This is because Marguerite's transformation created the realm which would be called Nazukasokotsune, which works as a device creating the identities of all Witches at the moment of their creation.

This event seemingly also caused Magical Girls' Soul Gems to become more individualized, and due to Witches dropping Grief Seeds, they also gained a method of purifying them as well. Marguerite's Witch herself had no name and would only come to be referred to as Walpurgisnacht.

It is unknown whether each timeline, or even time axis, has its own Nazukasokotsune, or whether the space is connected to many universes. Additionally, in the event that a Witch exclusive to another universe were to appear, it is possible that the appearance of those Witches is simply a standard behind-the-scenes production shortcut used to save time and budget, and not meant to be taken literally. Thus, the number and scope of the Nazukasokotsune is currently unknown.

After the creation of the Law of Cycles and the rewrite of all Witch worlds within Ultimate Madoka's reach, Witches would no longer be created and Magical Girls would instead fight Wraiths, who lacked identities of their own and dropped Grief Cubes. However, after Homura pulled Madoka out of the Law of Cycles, becoming Devil Homura and rewriting the world in which she resided, the Law of Cycles became an entity akin to a machine.

This simplified Law of Cycles would become increasingly unstable, only working automatically and fulfilling its purpose of collecting girls before they are to become Witches, but itself lacking an identity. During this, a pathway between the Law of Cycles and Nazukasokotsune was able to be opened through a new structure in the Nazukasokotsune called the Nameless Star. Through this realm, one is also able to go back to the world of Devil Homura.

The door connecting the Nameless Star and the Law of Cycles is only able to be opened by Walpurgisnacht, who gained a new form as a Witch Girl. However, the result of going through the Nazukasokotsune would turn the girls from the Law of Cycles into Witch Girls, who kept their souls in Melt Gems. Due to the absence of Madoka, Walpurgisnacht—now Wasu and resembling Homura in appearance—had lost her memories, only remembering a need to retrieve Marguerite, who she mistook Madoka as.

During the mission to return Madoka to the Law of Cycles, Kyubey is able to sneak his way into Nazukasokotsune. After the Witch Girls and Madoka return to the Law of Cycles, Kyubey's access remains and he plans to gain control of the device entirely. What becomes of the Nazukasokotsune afterwards is unknown.

Law of Cycles

The Law of Cycles functions as the only salvation for the souls of Magical Girls. It was created as a concept of the universe when Madoka Kaname made her wish to erase Witches before they're born in the past, present and future everywhere. As a result, Madoka became Ultimate Madoka, creating the realm of the Law of Cycles, to where she collects the souls and bodies of Magical Girls at the moment when they would become Witches.

Besides collecting Magical Girls before they become Witches, the Law of Cycles facilitates the existence of Wraiths, giving Magical Girls a reason to fight and a method to purify Soul Gems. Unlike Witches or Demons, they never had any semblance of individuality—only manifesting as the curses of the world and absorbing emotions into Grief Cubes.

In contrast to how the Law of Cycles collects the girl's body as well, it appears that when a Magical Girls' Soul Gem breaks, she is only able to collect their soul. Such was the case with Selema Terez, who returned to Earth as a Witch Girl through the Nazukasokotsune. After she transformed her Melt Gem back into a Soul Gem, which was then shattered by Nagisa, her soul was then brought back to the Law of Cycles alongside the other Witch Girls.

Ultimate Madoka is able to send Magical Girls to other worlds as emissaries, giving them the power to summon their Witch forms and Familiars as well. The inside of the Law of Cycles also seems to have the inhabitants be in a perpetual state of rest, similar to one's idea of heaven.

After it was formed, the Law of Cycles rewrote many universes into Wraith worlds, also erasing the concept of Madoka Kaname from the world and only leaving the version of Homura that helped in its creation to remember the truth. That version of Homura was used by the Incubators to try and lure Ultimate Madoka in order to observe and then gain control of the Law of Cycles, hoping to bring back the Witch system. After Madoka sent herself down to rescue Homura alongside Sayaka and Nagisa, Homura—on the brink of becoming a Witch—split Madoka from the Law of Cycles, stealing a fraction of her power and causing another universal rewrite.

In the new world, ruled by Devil Homura, Madoka has no memory of her divine status and leads a normal life, similar to Sayaka and Nagisa who had their memories suppressed. The Law of Cycles from this point forward, began to fall apart and lost its personality, leaving it without a personality to collected Magical Girls before they became Witches and causing its inhabitants to also suffer.

Through this act, the many girls which made up Walpurgisnacht lost their identity, forming into Wasu, who was then able to use the Nazukasokotsune to return to a Witch's form, and then into a Witch Girl, alongside Selema Terez and Zi Ding Xiang. They were ultimately able to save Madoka and after a grace period as a human, return her to the Law of Cycles, restoring it to the complete Ultimate Madoka.

Magia Record

Originally starting out as the Barrier of the Automatic Purification System, after Iroha gathered the Kimochi Stones and fused with Ui, Lil' Kyubey and the Core of the Automatic Purification System, she was able to spread the Barrier—and thus the Doppel System—across the entire globe with the help of Touka Satomi and Nemu Hiiragi. The Barrier was then also connected with the Barrier of the Uwasa of the Eternal Sakura with Sakurako's help.

The space serves as the gathering point for impurities collected from Soul Gems across the world. Through the Magia Record, these impurities are converted into Phase Shift Energy and released back into the universe, fighting entropy while also preventing Magical Girls from becoming Witches and instead allowing them to manifest Doppels.

As an extradimensional space, the Magia Record's scope is unique among the spaces documented in this article. While the Law of Cycles can access and rewrite multiple worlds, the Magia Record is confined to a single timeline—that of the Magia Record Universe—though it can observe many more. The Barrier initially covered only Kamihama, expanded to cover the entire planet, then finally ascending to a law of the entire Magia Record Universe.

Through Iroha's acquisition of Mikoto's Endless Mirrors powers, she also gained the ability to travel through space, time, and dimensions, accessing any point in the timeline to gather records of Magical Girls long past. This allows Iroha to record the histories of Magical Girls who would otherwise be forgotten, creating a comprehensive archive within the Magia Record. The records gathered in this manner are stored within the Magia Record, making it an archive comparable to the Nazukasokotsune, though preserving the identities of Magical Girls instead of Witches.

While the Magia Record serves as the system's core and the dwelling place of its essential inhabitants, the Eternal Sakura's Barrier functions as a point of interface between the system and the physical world. Magical Girls of Kamihama can still feel the presence of Iroha and Ui within the Eternal Sakura's Barrier even after all traces of their existence have been erased from the memories of non-Magical Girls.

Due to Touka and Nemu's actions and partially due to 10^-43's influence, Iroha and Ui were able to leave the Magia Record for some time to live normal lives, also restoring their memories to non-Magical Girls. However, after the system began to increasingly malfunction due to the immense strain of maintaining the Doppel Barrier, Iroha and Ui made the decision to fully elevate the Magia Record as a concept of the universe, transforming it into a constant rule akin to Madoka becoming the Law of Cycles. This transformation ensured the system's permanence, allowing it to continue gathering impurities and compiling records of Magical Girls indefinitely. All traces and memories of Iroha and Ui's existence were once again wiped from everyone who wasn't a Magical Girl, and the two continue their work within the Magia Record alongside Lil' Kyubey, Touka, Nemu and Sakurako.

The Magia Record's relationship to the Law of Cycles seems to be parallel in that the two realms likely cannot directly contact with each other due to their conflicting concepts. The Magia Record's final form was done so through its timeline's absorption of the Endless Mirrors and 10^-43, however its relationship to Nazukasokotsune is unclear. Prior to Iroha and Ui's return to the Magia Record, the malfunctioning Law of Cycles allowed Alina Gray to use her Labyrinths in conjunction with the magic of other Magical Girls and create Witch Portraits—seemingly tapping into the Nazukasokotsune without the girls becoming Witches. The Magia Record has many connections to the Lighthouse, such as having the Puella Magi Diarum, or at least a copy of it, as well as keepsakes of its original inhabitants. The real connection between the two realms is ultimately unknown.

Lighthouse

The Lighthouse Theatre, often simply called the Lighthouse, is an extradimensional space that exists outside of any universe, in a realm of pure "rules" or "concepts." Unlike other spaces documented in this article, which are either created through magical events or exist as natural features of the multiverse, the Lighthouse was deliberately constructed within a universe before being pulled outside of conventional reality due to its accumulation of vast amounts of data from various times and spaces.

In the Lighthouse, things exist in their "complete forms"—a ball is a ball as long as it can be rolled, regardless of its color or size. The existence of individuals within this conceptual space is described as "anomalous" and a special phenomenon that could theoretically collapse at any time. The twinkling lights visible from the Lighthouse are not stars but likely entire universes, as the structure exists in a place from which one can "wholly gaze at all the universes."

The Lighthouse's primary function involves the collection of Memsparks—fragments of memory that serve as proof of Magical Girls' lives. If the Memsparks were to disappear, those memories would vanish entirely. The Windows of Memory allow the inhabitants of the Lighthouse to enter and experience the memories of Magical Girls directly. By collecting Lights of Memory through these windows, the Nameless Girl who resides there can recover her own lost memories and rekindle the light within the Lighthouse.

The space's residents include the Nameless Girl, who arrived from an endless darkness with only the memory of having once been a Magical Girl; A-Q, the current lighthouse keeper who guides her and possesses the ability to create Labyrinths similar to those of Witches; and Nighthawk, a collector and trader of items who communicates through squawks. The Kioku—manifestations of Magical Girls' memories that take physical form within the Lighthouse—also inhabit the space, serving as allies for the Nameless Girl in her exploration of the Memory Windows. In the Lighthouse, the Kioku of the Magical Girls are confirmed to all fuse into a single version of themselves containing all the memories of the various versions. This also allows for the simultaneous separate existence of multiple versions of the same girl, her other versions, as well as her Witch form. From the Lighthouse, a Kioku's destruction also means the concept of that very girl disappearing from every universe.

Within the Lighthouse, several distinct areas serve different functions. Notably, a phone connects to parallel worlds, enabling communication with alternate versions of the Nameless Girl—this serves as the in-story explanation for the Union function, allowing the Nameless Girl to communicate with other versions of the Lighthouse formed through the Many-Worlds Interpretation. There's also a library, which is said to store a massive collection of books, including the Puella Magi Diarium.

Overall, the scope of the Lighthouse seems to be comparable, or even surpass that of the Magia Record and Law of Cycles both in regard to time and dimensions. As the story of Magia Exedra is not currently finished, forming definitive answers regarding its true nature is not currently possible.

The Exedra Quest story reveals that the Lighthouse is connected to a phenomenon called the Darklight, which corrupts the space and threatens to erase Magical Girls from every universe. The Darklight is capable of eating away at Memsparks, and if left unchecked, could proceed to erase every Magical Girl from every reality.

For more information regarding the motif of phones and the sound of bells, see Phones.

Time Railroad

In Null Magical Girl, there are similar spaces outside conventional space-time that are given names.

Super-time is the dimensional space beyond linear, conventional time and Inner Universes are spaces where countless timelines are accessible from and converge. In contrast, Outer Universes are implied to be the physical cosmoses governed by the laws of thermodynamics and entropy.

It should be noted that these terms have only been used in Null Magical Girl, thus they're not used outside of articles dedicated to it.

By using the Time Railroad, created by the Homo magica to conquer all of spacetime, Kosane is able to go 800,000 years into the future. When she tries to make her way back, an explosion on the engine causes her to fuse with it, as well as the many Incubators she was carrying.

Kosane is able to see all of human history from the formation of the Homo sapiens to the end of the universe at the hands of Homo magica, even spending millions of years trying to stop it. Despite her many powers from the fusion and the Symmetry Chrysalis, Kosane is unable to access other worlds, eternally confined to the time axis where she fights Eruna for eternity. The concept maintained by this time loop is that of the origin of the soul itself.

For more information, see Kosane Kiriha, or the story of Null Magical Girl.

Paradox Events

In the context of cosmology and time travel, a paradox occurs when characters travel through time and create a contradiction in the timeline.

The Grandfather Paradox occurs when an entity, object, or piece of information travels into the past and alters history in a way that retroactively destroys the very conditions required for its own departure. Because its origin or journey becomes impossible, it could never have existed to travel back and cause the disruption in the first place, creating an unresolvable logical contradiction.

On the other hand, the Bootstrap Paradox—often called a Causal Loop—occurs when an entity, object, or piece of information is sent into the past and becomes the root cause of its own future existence. This creates a closed loop of cause and effect where the subject has a history but completely lacks a true linear origin point.

Grandfather Paradoxes have been stated to potentially bring about the end of the Universe they occur in, while Casual Loops have not. Despite the many cases of time travel, no Grandfather Paradox Event has come to pass, thus creating the theory that each instance of time travel creates a bifurcated time branch of its own, or the changes to the timeline were always meant to be Casual Loops of their own.

It is likely that the Universe itself course-corrects contradictions to the timeline, as seen during the Lovers in the Pax Romana, where three separate methods of time-travel conversed. This resulted in the creation of a Time Paradox Zone, a space outside conventional spacetime which actively helped the heroes to solve the paradox.

Anomalies

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.

Traveling between dimensions is also shown to cause this, as seen when Nagisa Momoe entered the Magia Record Universe from the Law of Cycles by using the Endless Mirrors, which caused Yusa Yumeno, or Yu, to make a contract and become a Magical Girl. However, it is also possible Nagisa was sent to a past point in time as well, as it should be noted that other cases of extradimensional travel don't cause such inconsistencies.

There's also many Witches who have different kinds of tima-and-space awareness, the properties of which also apply to their Familiars and Labyrinths.

Frayed End

When Nagisa entered the Magia Record Universe, it caused Yu to become what Nagisa refers to as a Frayed End (Hotsure). A Frayed End is recognized as a factor which, if left unchecked, would be the catalyst for the worst possible future for the reality it resides in. In Yu's case, she was likely meant to have died, and when she was later killed, the danger she posed to the timeline was removed. Not much is known about this type of anomaly, as Yu is the only example, however it appears to be something the Law of Cycles warns Magical Girls of when they're sent on missions to other worlds.

Darklight

In Magia Exedra, from the Lighthouse, a similar type of anomaly is observable, having been caused by a Darklight. This phenomenon changed a key aspect of Sayaka Miki within a certain world, causing the very concept of Sayaka to be at risk of being erased from every reality. The full aspects of this type of anomaly are currently unknown, however Sayaka's transformation—called Anomalia—is entirely different from her normal Magical Girl version and she is very powerful.

Other

• According to Oktavia von Seckendorff's Witch entry for the second time loop, it is possible that the anomaly caused by Homura in that timeline was that Kyosuke Kamijo played the guitar, rather the violin.
• In a universe divorced from the main narrative, Homura caused a series of events which resulted in a pebble stopping Iroha Tamaki's death. This would then spiral into the creation of the Magia Record.

Afterlife

The afterlife has been referred to with many names in the franchise, such as the underworld, or tomorrow, and it is unknown whether the afterlife is nothingness, a sort of Abrahamic version of the afterlife, or reincarnation. Even Asahi Miura—whose magic allows her to commune and manifest the spirits of the dead under her control—is uncertain whether her manifestations are the real souls. The journey to the afterlife is often compared to the story of Night on the Galactic Railroad, where a train goes through space with the souls of the deceased as its passengers.

Besides the souls of Magical Girls which are placed into Soul Gems after contracting, other living beings' souls have been stated by Kyubey to simply disappear after the death of the physical body. The ghosts of the deceased are occasionally able to physically manifest on their own, though most often they commune to the living through dreams or thoughts. The ghost of Kei Seto was able to entangle itself with a Paola Witch and then create a Labyrinth-like space and even possess Madoka herself.

Kei was able to trap Homura and Madoka inside a black void where time went on in a loop, rendering Homura's time stop useless. She was only detectable to Ren, whose magic allowed her to somewhat sense and harm spirits, and visible to Homura, as she was similar to the person Kei was looking for in that they both survived while their companion did not. After Kei was separated from Paola, her abilities waned and she quickly faded, resorting to commune with kindred souls through dreams and occasionally empty voids as well until she was ready to go to "tomorrow."

Yachiyo Nanami has often communed with the spirits of her dead companions in her dreams. According to her dreams of Kanae Yukino, ghosts are intagible and imperceptible to normal people, though beside the living, they're able to manifest anything they desire. This seems to be the case as long as the ghosts do not reach "tomorrow."

Even Magical Girls leave souls behind after their Soul Gems break, or they become Witches, as seen by the apparition of Paola. The ghost of Kanae was only able to manifest as her Soul Gem was broken, while the ghost of Mel Anna was only able to be created because Kanae's ghost intervened at the moment Mel became a Witch. This is revealed to Yachiyo in a dream, which she herself doubts the validity of. It is likely their spirits remained due to their loyalty to Yachiyo.

Asahi's magic is much more direct through giving spirits a physical form as transparent apparitions, able to interact with the physical world. Most often, she is able to control the spirits she manifests, though in cases where her magic was strengthened, she was unable to control or banish them. Asahi calls them forth from the "underworld," and through the scope of her summons, it is possible she even summons spirits who have moved on to "tomorrow." It should be noted that Asahi herself is skeptical of her manifestations, uncertain to whether they're their real selves, or whether they're constructs containing their memories.

Trivia

• The Universe's "Antibodies" bear a resemblance to the aura that Wraiths give out, suggesting a connection between them, or that the Wraiths are extensions of the Will of the Universe created after Madoka rewrote its laws. However, this connection is only a fanmade analysis and not confirmed.
  • It is also unknown if the aforementioned antibodies are somehow connected to the symmetry chrysalis of the universe, or whether they are one and the same.
• The mirrors made in Winchester's Labyrinth—the Endless Mirrors—are able to connect to different points of time and space. Due to its nature, Endless Mirrors often connects to the worlds that the Law of Cycles isn't able to reach, as the Witch never came to be in worlds where Wraiths exist.

Speculation

The theories below have not been proven yet.

Please keep in mind that they are fanmade theories, and not official material.

• It should be noted that the Lighthouse Theatre bears many similarties to the Nameless Star, yet as the number of Nazukasokotsunes in the multiverse is unclear, it is possible the Lighthouse Theatre is what became of a different Nazukasokotsune.
• The Lighthouse maintains connections to Ultimate Madoka and the Law of Cycles. The Window of Memory features a design showing Madoka and the wings of Ultimate Madoka, and this same symbol appears on the floor of the Main Room. The symbols of the Law of Cycles can also be seen above windows to either side of the Soul Gem mural. The opening animation of Magia Exedra prominently features these connections, suggesting a fundamental relationship between the Lighthouse's function of guiding Magical Girls' souls and the Law of Cycles' role as their salvation.
• The relationship between the Lighthouse and the Magia Record is a subject of significant speculation. The Lighthouse contains the Puella Magi Diarium, which is also said to be stored within the Magia Record, suggesting a connection between the two archives. Both spaces serve as repositories for the memories and records of Magical Girls and it is possible the Lighthouse is what became of the Magia Record. The Lighthouse bears similarities to the Nameless Star within Nazukasokotsune, and given the unclear number of Nazukasokotsunes in the multiverse, it is possible the Lighthouse is what became of a different Nazukasokotsune, or something else entirely.
• A-Q himself is theorized to be what became of Alina Gray, based on his ability to create Labyrinths similar to hers, his interest in art, and his stated history of having been part of a trio (the three Magius), then a duo (Alina and Mikoto Sena, or Alina and Karin Misono), and part of a greater group (the entire Automatic Purification System). Similarly, Nighthawk bears many associations with Kuroe, including connections to the Nighthawk Witch and the cookbook he treasures, which is likely Iroha's. The drawing of four girls in front of a cherry blossom tree found within the Lighthouse is almost certainly of Iroha, Touka, Nemu, and Ui in front of the Eternal Sakura. The Nameless Girl has been theorized to have been the original identity of 10^-43, as the Witch was once responsible for allowing Iroha, Ui, and Lil' Kyubey to leave the Magia Record, or alternatively to be the previous keeper of the Lighthouse who lost her identity.