Zi Ding Xiang

Zi Ding Xiang / Choka Shi (紫 丁香, Shi Chōka)
Witch GirlUniform
Physical info
Type	Human, Magical Girl (Original); Human, Witch Girl (Walpurgisnacht Rising)
Gender	Female ♀
Age	Unknown
Eye color	Amber
Hair color	Pale green
Magic info
Soul Gem	Unknown (Magical Girl); Melt Gem (Witch Girl)
Weapon	Stick (Wand Mode / Mace Mode)
Witch Form	Paola
Powers and Abilities	Unknown
Wish	For the sake of her family (possibly her father); the details are unknown.
Social info
Japanese pronoun	atashi (あたし), watashi (私)
Known relatives	Unnamed father (deceased)
School	Mitakihara Middle School
Background info
Character designer Primary artist	Ume Aoki
Voiced by	Japanese: Shion Wakayama (WENWJAaniDBANNIMDb)

Zi Ding Xiang (紫 (し)丁 (ちょう)香 (か), Shi Chōka), also called Choka Shi, is a character from Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Walpurgisnacht: Rising-.

Appearance

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Witch Girl

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Personality and Traits

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Powers and Abilities

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History

In Magia Record

Beachside Bonds

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In Walpurgisnacht Rising

Prior to the events of Rebellion, Zi Ding Xiang was a magical girl who was taken into the Law of Cycles, this was due to delivering a cake for her ill father, then witnessing her father commit suicide which caused her to fall into despair.^[observed]

After Homura split Madoka from the Law of Cycles, she returned to the mortal world through Nazukasokotsune, being brought along by Wasu. She became a student at Mitakahara and worked alongside Selema Terez.

She quickly gains the trust of Kyoko Sakura, who she talks to about things like magical girls going out with not magical girls being nonsense.

Later, she joins Wasu with Selema Terez in her fight against Homura, and later disrupts Homura by preventing her from making temporary contracts with girls.

In the Nazukasokotsune, she reprimands Wasu for suddenly attacking Homura, and the consequences that would bring, but she is dismissed by her.

She is invited to a great tea party along with Selema, Kyoko, Mami and Madoka, but she suddenly leaves after Madoka gives her a tomato cake. Madoka follows her, but she transform into her Witch Girl form and attacks her, saying that if Madoka dies the world they are in will crumble. Madoka is saved by Kyoko, and after a fight, Madoka tells her that she can be saved too and she doesn't have to have a grudge anymore. However, the three of them are put to sleep by Selema, who tosses her unconscious body away.

At the end, she joins the fight against Selema and Kriemhild Gretchen, and leaves with Wasu to the Law of Cycles asking Homura to protect Madoka at all costs.

Gallery

Anime Screenshots

Concept movie

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Games

Magia Exedra

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  Magia Et Cetera Lighthouse Stamp Rally cameo

Manga

Magia☆Et Cetera

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Official Art

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  Art from the Walpurgisnacht: Rising Website
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  School uniform
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  Walpurgisnacht Rising poster
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  Art by Mizuki Katō celebrating the release of Walpurgisnacht Rising

Walpurgisnacht Rising 100-Day Countdown

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Concept

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The witch form of Ding Xiang was described in Inu Curry's Note as "Rubber Girl (Rubber Witch)" (「ゴム子 (ゴムの魔女)」, "Gomu-ko (Gomu no Majo)").

Trivia

• Ding Xiang and Selema make a cameo appearance in the Magia Exedra event quest Magia Et Cetera Lighthouse Stamp Rally.

Etymology

• "紫丁香" is the name of lilac, a flower in the Syringa genus, in both Japanese and Chinese, though the exact species differs between the two languages.
  • The Chinese pronunciation is "zǐdīngxiāng", corresponding to Zi Ding Xiang, her name in the English version of the movie. The species it refers to in Chinese is Syringa oblata.
  • The Japanese version of the flower's name is "紫丁香花", with flower (花) added at the end. The name of the flower is romanized as "murasaki hashidoi". The species it refers to in Japanese is Syringa vulgaris.
    • The Japanese pronunciation of her name does not correspond to either the Japanese name of the flower, nor a transcription of the modern Chinese pronunciation. Instead, her name uses other readings of the kanji: shi (紫) is on'yomi (reading borrowed from historical Chinese), chō (丁) is kun'yomi (reading from native Japanese vocabulary, not originating from loanwords), and ka (香) is on'yomi.

Speculation

The theories below have not been proven yet.

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

• Wasu may have brought her along to Mitakihara due to her resemblances to Sy Plede, one of the Magical Girls who was together with Marguerite until the very last moment.

The theories below have been proven right.

At least one element from the franchise is rendering them valid.

• It's possible that she and Selema Terez are both girls that were taken in by the Law of Cycles, but because of Homura's actions in Rebellion have been brought back into living, as this is seen with both Sayaka Miki and Nagisa Momoe.
• Due to her association with Bona Familiars seen in the trailers, it is speculated that she is the identity of Paola. In the Magia Record event, Beachside Bonds we see a glimpse of Paola's identity, which spoke Chinese and mentioned her father. Her fingernail mark is also the shape of Paola's head.
  • In Magia Exedra, Paola's witch barrier had added a Taoist Tower in the background, similar to the one that Ding Xiang appears along side the Bona familiars in one of the trailers.