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'''Elsa Maria''' ({{Runes|ELSAMARIA}}) is a [[witch]] who battles [[Sayaka]] at the end of [[Episode 7]]. Her [[barrier]] is full of dark shadows with a white background. Her symbolism includes Christian crosses, and the terrain forms a large arm holding either a torch or a monstrance. Elsa Maria appears to be praying before this object when Sayaka engages her. She fights with fanged snake-like minions and tree branches that extend from her body.
'''Elsa Maria''' ({{Runes|ELSAMARIA}}) is a [[witch]] who battles [[Sayaka]] at the end of [[Episode 7]]. She reappears in [[Madoka Magica Portable]] and [[Madoka Magica Mobage]]. Her familiars make an appearance in [[The Rebellion Story]] and [[Magia Record]]
 
==Witch Card==
==Witch Card==
{{Card
{{Card
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== Minions ==
== Minions ==
{{Card
{{Card
|name          = Sebastian's
|name          = Sebastian
|runes        = SEBASTIAN'S
|runes        = SEBASTIAN
|image        = File:Card Sebastian.png
|image        = File:Card Sebastian.png
|japanese_desc = 影の魔女の手下。その役割は妄信。 影の魔女によって平等に救われてしまった命達の集合体。 彼らは同胞を求めている。
|japanese_desc = 影の魔女の手下。その役割は妄信。 影の魔女によって平等に救われてしまった命達の集合体。 彼らは同胞を求めている。
|english_desc  = The shadow witch's minions, whose duty is to blindly believe. They are an aggregate of the lives who have found salvation thanks to the shadow witch. They continually seek out companions.
|english_desc  = The shadow witch's minions, whose duty is to blindly believe. They are an aggregate of the lives that were granted salvation equally by the shadow witch. They continually seek out companions.
|type          = Shadow witch's minions
|type          = Shadow witch's minions
|task          = Blind belief
|task          = Blind belief
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}}
}}


==History==
===Original Anime===
Elsa Maria appears at the end of [[Episode 7]] where she fights [[Sayaka]]. [[Madoka]] accompanies her and [[Kyoko]] arrives to help. Elsa Maria uses an attack where a thick tree grows out of her back to stop Sayaka growing close to her. She is swiftly defeated due to Sayaka's emotional state, she hacks at her mercilessly with blood spurting out of the witch. Her [[Grief Seed]] is shown after the fight. Sayaka rejects it and gives it to Kyoko.
===The Rebellion Story===
While Elsa Maria doesn't make a reappearance in [[The Rebellion Story]], her familiars do. [[Nagisa]] rides on them during the fight against {{Spoiler|[[Homulilly]]}}.
===Madogatari Song===
'''The Witch's Hymn''' (魔女の賛美歌)<br>
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<th style="text-align: right; background: #efefef;">Original text</th>
<th style="text-align: left; background: #efefef;">Translation</th>
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光よ　祈りよ　ビン底よ<br>
主なる骨のこびり付き肉<br>
殻の内には　美徳の炭塊<br>
主なる力よ　罪　沈め給え<br>
この怒りは　悲しみは<br>
歓声の群れの食べ残し<br>
舐め取り給え　誰も等しく<br>
伸びる炭影　その全てまで<br><td>
O light, o prayer, o bottle-base<br>
Clinging bits of meat upon the Lordly bones <br>
Inside the shell are the coal lumps of virtue<br>
O Lordly power, submerge our sins<br>
This anger-- this sorrow-- they are<br>
The table scraps of the crowding cheers of joy <br>
Lick them up equally, one and all<br>
Those long coal shadows, to the very last drop<br></td>
</tr>
<tr>
</table><br>
==Observations==
==Observations==
*She is named after [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Asenijeff Elsa Asenijeff], also known as Elsa Maria Packeny. After refusing many proposals, she was forced by her parents to marry a diplomat eleven years her senior; She felt at the mercy of her husband, a theme that influenced her literary works. She eventually divorced the diplomat and remarried an artist, though this marriage too suffered when her second husband took an 18-year-old girl named Gertrude Bock as a model and companion, whom he eventually married shortly before his death after he and Asenijeff also divorced. After this divorce, she lived in poverty as her second ex-husband refused to support her financially; she eventually became isolated from her friends and family and was admitted to a psychiatric clinic.
*Her name is possibly a reference to the song Ave Maria which [[Kyousuke Kamijou]] is known to play
*Possibly a reference to the song Ave Maria which [[Kyousuke Kamijou]] is known to play.
*She could also be a reference to Jeanne d'Arc, another magical girl (as shown in episode 12.) Jeanne said she was hearing the voices of saints, angels and God, and prayed very often
*It could also be a reference to Jeanne d'Arc, another magical girl (as shown in episode 12.) Jeanne said she was hearing the voices of saints, angels and God, and prayed very often.
*Elsa Maria may be linked to [[wikipedia:Kakure_Kirishitan|Kakure Kirishitan]] (or "Hidden Christians") which were a group of practicing Christians that existed in hiding from the mid 1600's and on. Freedom of Religion was finally granted to Japanese citizens in 1871, which may have been the result of a wish. This would explain the heavily religious nature of the witch.
*Elsa Maria ''may'' be linked to [[wikipedia:Kakure_Kirishitan|Kakure Kirishitan]] (or "Hidden Christians") which were a group of practicing Christians that existed in hiding from the mid 1600's and on. Freedom of Religion was finally granted to Japanese citizens in 1871, which may have been the result of a wish. This would explain the heavily religious nature of the witch.
**This can be an accurate theory because witches can not only live forever if never killed, which in this case would be difficult because of how she can only be defeated by a magical girl "with the blackest anguish," but they can also live on as familiars that break away and grow back into witches. Not all witches are necessarily new, they can survive for a very long time and duplicate if a part is broken off.  
**This can be an accurate theory because witches can not only live forever if never killed, which in this case would be difficult because of how she can only be defeated by a magical girl "with the blackest anguish," but they can also live on as familiars that break away and grow back into witches. Not all witches are necessarily new, they can survive for a very long time and duplicate if a part is broken off.  
** On the other hand, Elsa Maria could be a modern Japanese Christian, possibly a descendant of the ''Kakure Kirishitan'' and/or just ''very'' influenced by their history and martyrdom (like real life writer [[wikipedia:Shusaku_Endo|Shusaku Endo]], who was Catholic). She might be from either [[wikipedia:Nagasaki|Nagasaki]] (the city with the biggest historical connection with Japanese Catholicism, and one of the places where the ''Kakure Kirishitan'' came from), [[wikipedia:Akita|Akita]] (the prefecture where the Marian apparitions known as [[wikipedia:Our_Lady_of_Akita|Our Lady of Akita]] took place) or the Madoka world's equivalent to Nagasaki and Akita.
** On the other hand, Elsa Maria could be a modern Japanese Christian, possibly a descendant of the ''Kakure Kirishitan'' and/or just ''very'' influenced by their history and martyrdom (like real life writer [[wikipedia:Shusaku_Endo|Shusaku Endo]], who was Catholic). She might be from either [[wikipedia:Nagasaki|Nagasaki]] (the city with the biggest historical connection with Japanese Catholicism, and one of the places where the ''Kakure Kirishitan'' came from), [[wikipedia:Akita|Akita]] (the prefecture where the Marian apparitions known as [[wikipedia:Our_Lady_of_Akita|Our Lady of Akita]] took place) or the Madoka world's equivalent to Nagasaki and Akita.
*The tree growing from Elsa Maria's back may be a reference to the Biblical tale of Adam & Eve. The familiars could be a reference to the animals in The Garden of Eden.
*The tree growing from Elsa Maria's back may be a reference to the Biblical tale of Adam & Eve. The familiars could be a reference to the animals in The Garden of Eden
*There is possibility that Elsa Maria is praying for America to end World War II, given the Statue of Liberty-like image in her labyrinth.  The dead tree look of her attacks may reference the effect of the fallout radiation from the nuclear bomb that was dropped on Japan.  Her minions also are representative of the twelve zodiac, which may imply the transition after World War II from Eastern thought to the Western thought that happened after World War II.
*There is possibility that Elsa Maria is praying for America to end World War II, given the Statue of Liberty-like image in her labyrinth.  The dead tree look of her attacks may reference the effect of the fallout radiation from the nuclear bomb that was dropped on Japan.  Her minions also are representative of the twelve zodiac, which may imply the transition after World War II from Eastern thought to the Western thought that happened after World War II


==Trivia==
==Trivia==
*[[Puella_Magi_Madoka_Magica_Official_Guidebook_"You_Are_Not_Alone"#Labyrinth_design|The Guidebook]] indicates that Elsa Maria's labyrinth design is a Church, with the words ''"I wish you, although not seen from me, to be happy."'' （まだ見ないあなたが幸せであるように）. It indicates when the Witch dies, the stained glass collapses and drops into the air. There's a 'baaaaaaahn' sound like from a pipe organ.
*[[Puella_Magi_Madoka_Magica_Official_Guidebook_"You_Are_Not_Alone"#Labyrinth_design|The Guidebook]] indicates that Elsa Maria's labyrinth design is a church that's "a mix of a (Christian) church and Buddhism", and calls it or the witch "like [[wikipedia:Amakusa_Shir%C5%8D|Amakusa Shiro]]", an Edo period Christian and leader of an oppressed Japanese Roman Catholics uprising against the shogunate; his rebellion failed and he was executed at 17, with his head being publicly displayed on a pike as a warning to other Christians. It also says that the circles on the background should spin and rotate, and that within them there should be "images of God and angels in the style of [[wikipedia:Ukiyo-e|ukiyo-e] "
*According to the storyboards:
** Elsa Maria was originally the daughter of an aristocratic family, back in the day when people wore kimonos. Kimonos originated around the Heian period (794-1185) "when Japan's nobility embraced a distinctive style of clothing".
*** Whether she originated from the Heian or Edo period, this would make Elsa Maria among the oldest Magical Girls and/or Witches in the franchise (such as [[Pernelle]], [[Roberta]], and presumably [[Walpurgisnacht]]).
** There's a name written in witch runes on the cross held up by the giant statue, but it doesn't explain exactly which one. Instead, it says it's "Princess ___ (German name)". The notes also show that "while it's not shown", beneath the statue there's a field covered in grass and the skulls of all the people Elsa Maria "saved" since she became a witch.
*There are also design notes for the prototype version of this witch, with the phrase ''"I wish happiness to you, who I have not yet seen."'' （まだ見ないあなたが幸せであるように）written near the top. Not everything matches the witch shown in the anime: for example, the platform in Elsa Maria's barrier was supposed to be mirrored, with another cross underneath it. The real witch would be there, while on the upper side there would be a decoy. There would also be seated, human-like familiars that'd make the sign of the cross when the witch died. This would also cause a 'baaaaaaahn' sound like from a pipe organ to play and the sky would break apart and fall like glass.
*She is named after [[wikipedia:Elsa_Asenijeff|Elsa Asenijeff]], also known as Elsa Maria Packeny. After refusing many proposals, she was forced by her parents to marry a diplomat eleven years her senior; She felt at the mercy of her husband, a theme that influenced her literary works. She eventually divorced the diplomat and remarried an artist, though this marriage too suffered when her second husband took an 18-year-old girl named Gertrude Bock as a model and companion, whom he eventually married shortly before his death after he and Asenijeff also divorced. After this divorce, she lived in poverty as her second ex-husband refused to support her financially; she eventually became isolated from her friends and family and was admitted to a psychiatric clinic


==Gallery==
==Gallery==
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===Official Art===
===Official Art===
<gallery position="center" captionalign="left">
<gallery position="center" captionalign="left">
File:Guidebook 0051.jpg|Puella Magi Madoka Magica Official Guidebook "You Are Not Alone"
File:Puella Magi Production Note by Inu Curry Elsa Maria.jpg|TL of Upper right corner: ''"A girl has become a mahou shoujo to save the world. However, Nothing has changed at all. Not even a little. For sure, there is lack of salvation. I must help. I must help. Equally, completely impartially."''
File:Memoria 1008 c.png|Memoria card from [[Magia Record]]
</gallery>
 
===Puella Magi Production Notes by Inu Curry ===
<gallery>
File:Puella Magi Production Note by Inu Curry Elsa Maria.jpg|TL of Upper right corner: ''"A girl has become a mahou shoujo to save the world. However, Nothing has changed at all. Even a little. For sure, there is lack of salvation. I must help. I must help. Equally, All impartially."''
File:PN 17.jpg|Art of Elsa Maria from the [[Puella Magi Production Note]]
File:PN 17.jpg|Art of Elsa Maria from the [[Puella Magi Production Note]]
File:Production Note 0015.jpg
File:Production Note 0015.jpg
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File:PN 18.jpg
File:PN 18.jpg
File:Production Note 0011.jpg
File:Production Note 0011.jpg
File:PN 61.jpg|Art of Elsa Maria's Grief Seed
File:Image Note 0035.jpg|Storyboards of Sayaka fighting Elsa Maria
File:Image Note 0035.jpg|Storyboards of Sayaka fighting Elsa Maria
File:Image Note 0037.jpg
File:Image Note 0037.jpg
File:Image Note 0038.jpg
File:Image Note 0038.jpg
File:Production Note 0007.jpg|Witch Kisses from the Production Note
File:Guidebook 0051.jpg|Art from the [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica Official Guidebook "You Are Not Alone"]]
File:Guidebook 0066.jpg
File:Key Animation Note Vol 6 01.jpg|Art featuring Elsa Maria and Sebastian from the [[Key Animation Note]] volume 6
Mobage7070.jpg|Card from [[Madoka Magica Mobage]]
File:Memoria 1008 c.png|Memoria card from [[Magia Record]]
File:Princess punt witches.jpg|Art from Princess Punt
</gallery>
</gallery>


===Screenshots===
===Screenshots===
<gallery position="center" captionalign="left">
<gallery position="center" captionalign="left">
File:Elsamaria-runes.jpg|Runes circling the left and right sides of the screen reveal Elsa Maria's name.
File:em barrier opening.png|The labyrinth begins to appear in [[Episode 7]]
File:Elsa maria rune bd.jpg|The same scene on BD version.
File:Elsamaria-runes.jpg|Runes circling the left and right sides of the screen reveal Elsa Maria's name
File:Elsamaria_whole_image.jpg|Combined images of Elsa Maria's labyrinth.
File:Elsa maria rune bd.jpg|The same scene on BD version
File:Elsa maria statue.jpg|Elsa Maria's labyrinth, outside view on BD version.
File:Elsamaria_whole_image.jpg|Combined images of Elsa Maria's labyrinth
File:Elsamaria-grief-seed.PNG|Elsa Maria's grief seed.
File:anime sebastian 1.png|Sebastian
File:Elsa_Maria%27s_grief_seed.jpg|Another look at her grief seed.
File:anime sebastian 2.png
File:anime sebastian 3.png
File:em tree attack 1.png|Elsa Maria's tree attack
File:em tree attack 2.png
File:em tree attack 3.png
File:em dead.png|Sayaka kills Elsa Maria
File:em flails.png
File:em star explosion.png
File:em dead hands.png
File:em dead trees.png
File:em barrier shawl 1.png|A shawl floats down as the labyrinth crumbles
File:em shawl.png
File:Elsa maria statue.jpg|Elsa Maria's labyrinth, outside view on BD version
File:Elsamaria-grief-seed.PNG|Elsa Maria's Grief Seed
File:Elsa_Maria%27s_grief_seed.jpg
</gallery>
</gallery>


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File:Manga elsa barrier2.png
File:Manga elsa barrier2.png
File:Manga elsa grief seed.png|Elsa Maria's grief seed
File:Manga elsa grief seed.png|Elsa Maria's grief seed
File:Elsa_Maria_reprint.jpg|Elsa Maria in the reprint manga
File:Sayaka_attacks_Elsa_Maria_reprint.jpg
File:Sebastian_reprint.jpg|Sebastian
File:Elsa_Maria_death_reprint.jpg
File:Reprint manga elsa maria grief seed.png|Elsa Maria's grief seed
File:Dsmanga Screenshot 2020-08-15 at 19.59.25.png|Elsa Maria in [[The Different Story]]
File:Dsmanga Em 2.png|Sebastian
File:Dsmanga Em 1.png
File:Dsmanga em barrier.png
File:Dsmanga em 3.png
Manga Army 3.png|Sebastian in the [[Rebellion Manga]]
Manga Army 4.png
Manga Fams 2.png
Manga Fams 4.png
File:Manga Familiars 3.png
File:Rmanga Sebastian 1.png
File:Rmanga Witch group 2.png
Rmanga Witch group 1.png|Elsa Maria's cameo
</gallery>
</gallery>


===Madoka Magica Portable===
===Madoka Magica Portable===
<gallery>
<gallery>
File:Elsie barrier 1.PNG|Elsa Maria's barrier from Madoka Magica Portable
File:Por elsie.png|Elsa Maria's introduction from [[Madoka Magica Portable]]
File:Por elsie runes.png|Elsa Maria's name in Runes
File:Por elsie familiars 1.png|New familiars that resemble hands
File:Por elsie familiars 2.png|They make shapes when idle
Sebastians sahasrabhuja info.png
File:Elsie barrier 1.PNG|Elsa Maria's barrier  
File:Elsie barrier 4.PNG|Elsa Maria's boss room
File:Elsie barrier 4.PNG|Elsa Maria's boss room
File:Elsie barrier 5.PNG|The entrance to Elsa Maria's boss room. This part was never seen in the anime
File:Elsie barrier 5.PNG|The entrance to Elsa Maria's boss room. This part was never seen in the anime
File:GRIEF GS ICON ELSA.png|Elsa Maria's Grief Seed from [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica Portable]]
File:Por elsie kiss.png|Elsa Maria's witch kiss from the loading screen
File:GRIEF GS ICON ELSA.png|Elsa Maria's Grief Seed
</gallery>
 
===Madoka Magica Mobage===
<gallery>
File:mobage elsie in battle.png|Elsa Maria in [[Madoka Magica Mobage]]
File:mobage sebastian.png|Sebastian
File:mobage sebastian in battle.png
File:Mobage7071.jpg
</gallery>
 
===Madoka Magica Plus===
<gallery>
File:Mobage elsa maria.jpg|Art of Elsa Maria from Madoka Magica Plus
</gallery>
</gallery>
===SLOT Puella Magi Madoka Magica===
<gallery>
File:Slot 1 elsie.jpg|Elsa Maria from SLOT Puella Magi Madoka Magica
File:Slot 1 elsie 2.jpg
File:Slot 1 elsie death.PNG
</gallery>
===The Battle Pentagram===
<gallery>
File:Bp em introduction.png|Elsa Maria's introduction from [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Battle Pentagram|The Battle Pentagram]]
File:Bp em runes.png|Elsa Maria's name in Runes
File:Bp sebastian.png|The hand shaped Sebastian
File:Bp em recolour barrier 1.png|A white recolour of Elsa Maria's labyrinth
File:Bp em recolour barrier 2.png
File:Bp em recolour barrier 3.png|In this recoloured labyrinth, the red spire resembles [[:Media:Production Note 0011.jpg|art]] from the [[Puella Magi Production Note]] while also having a moon instead of a sun at the centre
</gallery>
===[[Magia Record]]===
<gallery>
File:Enemy 6409 l.png|Magia Record Sprite
File:Elsa Maria MagiReco.png
File:Sebastian MagiReco.png|Magia Record Sprite
File:Elsa Maria kiss.png|Witch Kiss
File:ElsaMaria Magireco battle.PNG
File:ElsaMaria attack.PNG|Attack
File:ElsaMaria single attack.PNG|Single attack
File:ElsaMaria skill use.PNG|Skill use
File:ElsaMaria pinch.PNG|Near death sprite
File:ElsaMaria deferted.PNG|Defeated
</gallery>
===Merchandise===
<gallery>
File:Movic_witch_coll2_ad.jpg|Movic Witch Collection 2
File:Movic Grief Seed Collection 2.jpg|Movic Grief Seed Collection
File:Soul Gem cell phone straps.jpg|Grief Seed phone strap
File:31002_4.jpg|Grief Seed pin
File:Elsie_glass.png|Ichiban Kuji G prize art glass
File:Familiar folder.png|Ichiban Kuji H prize clear file
</gallery>
===Other===
<gallery>
Monstrace.png|A comparison between Elsa Maria's labyrinth and a [[wikipedia:Monstrance|monstrance]]
File:Exhibit 40.jpg|Sebastian from the [[Movic Madoka Magica Exhibit]]
</gallery>
==Memoria Cards==
{{Magia Record Memoria Header}}
{{File:Memoria 1008 c.png}}
{{Magia Record Memoria Footer}}


==External links==
==External links==

Latest revision as of 14:09, 15 February 2024

Elsa Maria (ELSAMARIA) is a witch who battles Sayaka at the end of Episode 7. She reappears in Madoka Magica Portable and Madoka Magica Mobage. Her familiars make an appearance in The Rebellion Story and Magia Record

Witch Card

Card Elsa Maria.png

影の魔女。その性質は独善。全ての生命のために祈り続ける魔女。祈りの姿勢を崩さぬまま、その影の中へとあらゆる命を平等に引きずり込む。この魔女を倒したくば、黒色の苦痛を知らなくてはならない。

Elsa Maria

RunesELSA MARIA
TypeShadow witch
NatureSelf-righteousness
EpisodesEpisode 7

The witch of shadow with a self-righteous nature. She continually prays for all of creation and drags all life equally into her shadow without breaking her posture. One hoping to defeat her must know the blackest anguish.

Minions

Card Sebastian.png

影の魔女の手下。その役割は妄信。 影の魔女によって平等に救われてしまった命達の集合体。 彼らは同胞を求めている。

Sebastian

RunesSEBASTIAN
TypeShadow witch's minions
DutyBlind belief
EpisodesEpisode 7, The Rebellion Story

The shadow witch's minions, whose duty is to blindly believe. They are an aggregate of the lives that were granted salvation equally by the shadow witch. They continually seek out companions.

History

Original Anime

Elsa Maria appears at the end of Episode 7 where she fights Sayaka. Madoka accompanies her and Kyoko arrives to help. Elsa Maria uses an attack where a thick tree grows out of her back to stop Sayaka growing close to her. She is swiftly defeated due to Sayaka's emotional state, she hacks at her mercilessly with blood spurting out of the witch. Her Grief Seed is shown after the fight. Sayaka rejects it and gives it to Kyoko.

The Rebellion Story

While Elsa Maria doesn't make a reappearance in The Rebellion Story, her familiars do. Nagisa rides on them during the fight against Homulilly.

Madogatari Song

The Witch's Hymn (魔女の賛美歌)

Original text Translation

光よ　祈りよ　ビン底よ
主なる骨のこびり付き肉
殻の内には　美徳の炭塊

主なる力よ　罪　沈め給え
この怒りは　悲しみは
歓声の群れの食べ残し

舐め取り給え　誰も等しく

伸びる炭影　その全てまで

O light, o prayer, o bottle-base
Clinging bits of meat upon the Lordly bones
Inside the shell are the coal lumps of virtue

O Lordly power, submerge our sins
This anger-- this sorrow-- they are
The table scraps of the crowding cheers of joy

Lick them up equally, one and all

Those long coal shadows, to the very last drop


Observations

  • Her name is possibly a reference to the song Ave Maria which Kyousuke Kamijou is known to play
  • She could also be a reference to Jeanne d'Arc, another magical girl (as shown in episode 12.) Jeanne said she was hearing the voices of saints, angels and God, and prayed very often
  • Elsa Maria may be linked to Kakure Kirishitan (or "Hidden Christians") which were a group of practicing Christians that existed in hiding from the mid 1600's and on. Freedom of Religion was finally granted to Japanese citizens in 1871, which may have been the result of a wish. This would explain the heavily religious nature of the witch.
    • This can be an accurate theory because witches can not only live forever if never killed, which in this case would be difficult because of how she can only be defeated by a magical girl "with the blackest anguish," but they can also live on as familiars that break away and grow back into witches. Not all witches are necessarily new, they can survive for a very long time and duplicate if a part is broken off.
    • On the other hand, Elsa Maria could be a modern Japanese Christian, possibly a descendant of the Kakure Kirishitan and/or just very influenced by their history and martyrdom (like real life writer Shusaku Endo, who was Catholic). She might be from either Nagasaki (the city with the biggest historical connection with Japanese Catholicism, and one of the places where the Kakure Kirishitan came from), Akita (the prefecture where the Marian apparitions known as Our Lady of Akita took place) or the Madoka world's equivalent to Nagasaki and Akita.
  • The tree growing from Elsa Maria's back may be a reference to the Biblical tale of Adam & Eve. The familiars could be a reference to the animals in The Garden of Eden
  • There is possibility that Elsa Maria is praying for America to end World War II, given the Statue of Liberty-like image in her labyrinth. The dead tree look of her attacks may reference the effect of the fallout radiation from the nuclear bomb that was dropped on Japan. Her minions also are representative of the twelve zodiac, which may imply the transition after World War II from Eastern thought to the Western thought that happened after World War II

Trivia

  • The Guidebook indicates that Elsa Maria's labyrinth design is a church that's "a mix of a (Christian) church and Buddhism", and calls it or the witch "like Amakusa Shiro", an Edo period Christian and leader of an oppressed Japanese Roman Catholics uprising against the shogunate; his rebellion failed and he was executed at 17, with his head being publicly displayed on a pike as a warning to other Christians. It also says that the circles on the background should spin and rotate, and that within them there should be "images of God and angels in the style of [[wikipedia:Ukiyo-e|ukiyo-e] "
  • According to the storyboards:
    • Elsa Maria was originally the daughter of an aristocratic family, back in the day when people wore kimonos. Kimonos originated around the Heian period (794-1185) "when Japan's nobility embraced a distinctive style of clothing".
      • Whether she originated from the Heian or Edo period, this would make Elsa Maria among the oldest Magical Girls and/or Witches in the franchise (such as Pernelle, Roberta, and presumably Walpurgisnacht).
    • There's a name written in witch runes on the cross held up by the giant statue, but it doesn't explain exactly which one. Instead, it says it's "Princess ___ (German name)". The notes also show that "while it's not shown", beneath the statue there's a field covered in grass and the skulls of all the people Elsa Maria "saved" since she became a witch.
  • There are also design notes for the prototype version of this witch, with the phrase "I wish happiness to you, who I have not yet seen." （まだ見ないあなたが幸せであるように）written near the top. Not everything matches the witch shown in the anime: for example, the platform in Elsa Maria's barrier was supposed to be mirrored, with another cross underneath it. The real witch would be there, while on the upper side there would be a decoy. There would also be seated, human-like familiars that'd make the sign of the cross when the witch died. This would also cause a 'baaaaaaahn' sound like from a pipe organ to play and the sky would break apart and fall like glass.
  • She is named after Elsa Asenijeff, also known as Elsa Maria Packeny. After refusing many proposals, she was forced by her parents to marry a diplomat eleven years her senior; She felt at the mercy of her husband, a theme that influenced her literary works. She eventually divorced the diplomat and remarried an artist, though this marriage too suffered when her second husband took an 18-year-old girl named Gertrude Bock as a model and companion, whom he eventually married shortly before his death after he and Asenijeff also divorced. After this divorce, she lived in poverty as her second ex-husband refused to support her financially; she eventually became isolated from her friends and family and was admitted to a psychiatric clinic

Gallery

Official Art

Screenshots

  • The labyrinth begins to appear in Episode 7

    The labyrinth begins to appear in Episode 7

  • Runes circling the left and right sides of the screen reveal Elsa Maria's name

    Runes circling the left and right sides of the screen reveal Elsa Maria's name

  • The same scene on BD version

    The same scene on BD version

  • Combined images of Elsa Maria's labyrinth

    Combined images of Elsa Maria's labyrinth

  • Sebastian

    Sebastian

  • Anime sebastian 2.png
  • Anime sebastian 3.png
  • Elsa Maria's tree attack

    Elsa Maria's tree attack

  • Em tree attack 2.png
  • Em tree attack 3.png
  • Sayaka kills Elsa Maria

    Sayaka kills Elsa Maria

  • Em flails.png
  • Em star explosion.png
  • Em dead hands.png
  • Em dead trees.png
  • A shawl floats down as the labyrinth crumbles

    A shawl floats down as the labyrinth crumbles

  • Em shawl.png
  • Elsa Maria's labyrinth, outside view on BD version

    Elsa Maria's labyrinth, outside view on BD version

  • Elsa Maria's Grief Seed

    Elsa Maria's Grief Seed

  • Elsa Maria's grief seed.jpg

The Rebellion Story

Manga

  • Elsa Maria in the manga

    Elsa Maria in the manga

  • Manga elsa2.png
  • Elsa Maria's labyrinth

    Elsa Maria's labyrinth

  • Manga elsa barrier2.png
  • Elsa Maria's grief seed

    Elsa Maria's grief seed

  • Elsa Maria in the reprint manga

    Elsa Maria in the reprint manga

  • Sayaka attacks Elsa Maria reprint.jpg
  • Sebastian

    Sebastian

  • Elsa Maria death reprint.jpg
  • Elsa Maria's grief seed

    Elsa Maria's grief seed

  • Elsa Maria in The Different Story

    Elsa Maria in The Different Story

  • Sebastian

    Sebastian

  • Dsmanga Em 1.png
  • Dsmanga em barrier.png
  • Dsmanga em 3.png
  • Sebastian in the Rebellion Manga

    Sebastian in the Rebellion Manga

  • Manga Army 4.png
  • Manga Fams 2.png
  • Manga Fams 4.png
  • Manga Familiars 3.png
  • Rmanga Sebastian 1.png
  • Rmanga Witch group 2.png
  • Elsa Maria's cameo

    Elsa Maria's cameo

Madoka Magica Portable

  • Elsa Maria's introduction from Madoka Magica Portable

    Elsa Maria's introduction from Madoka Magica Portable

  • Elsa Maria's name in Runes

    Elsa Maria's name in Runes

  • New familiars that resemble hands

    New familiars that resemble hands

  • They make shapes when idle

    They make shapes when idle

  • Sebastians sahasrabhuja info.png
  • Elsa Maria's barrier

    Elsa Maria's barrier

  • Elsa Maria's boss room

    Elsa Maria's boss room

  • The entrance to Elsa Maria's boss room. This part was never seen in the anime

    The entrance to Elsa Maria's boss room. This part was never seen in the anime

  • Elsa Maria's witch kiss from the loading screen

    Elsa Maria's witch kiss from the loading screen

  • Elsa Maria's Grief Seed

    Elsa Maria's Grief Seed

Madoka Magica Mobage

Madoka Magica Plus

  • Art of Elsa Maria from Madoka Magica Plus

    Art of Elsa Maria from Madoka Magica Plus

SLOT Puella Magi Madoka Magica

  • Elsa Maria from SLOT Puella Magi Madoka Magica

    Elsa Maria from SLOT Puella Magi Madoka Magica

  • Slot 1 elsie 2.jpg
  • Slot 1 elsie death.PNG

The Battle Pentagram

  • Elsa Maria's introduction from The Battle Pentagram

    Elsa Maria's introduction from The Battle Pentagram

  • Elsa Maria's name in Runes

    Elsa Maria's name in Runes

  • The hand shaped Sebastian

    The hand shaped Sebastian

  • A white recolour of Elsa Maria's labyrinth

    A white recolour of Elsa Maria's labyrinth

  • Bp em recolour barrier 2.png
  • In this recoloured labyrinth, the red spire resembles art from the Puella Magi Production Note while also having a moon instead of a sun at the centre

    In this recoloured labyrinth, the red spire resembles art from the Puella Magi Production Note while also having a moon instead of a sun at the centre

Magia Record

  • Magia Record Sprite

    Magia Record Sprite

  • Elsa Maria MagiReco.png
  • Magia Record Sprite

    Magia Record Sprite

  • Witch Kiss

    Witch Kiss

  • ElsaMaria Magireco battle.PNG
  • Attack

    Attack

  • Single attack

    Single attack

  • Skill use

    Skill use

  • Near death sprite

    Near death sprite

  • Defeated

    Defeated

Merchandise

  • Movic Witch Collection 2

    Movic Witch Collection 2

  • Movic Grief Seed Collection

    Movic Grief Seed Collection

  • Grief Seed phone strap

    Grief Seed phone strap

  • Grief Seed pin

    Grief Seed pin

  • Ichiban Kuji G prize art glass

    Ichiban Kuji G prize art glass

  • Ichiban Kuji H prize clear file

    Ichiban Kuji H prize clear file

Other

Memoria Cards

To edit a memoria's details, click on the specific memoria

Card Effect Cooldown EN TextJP Text
Minions of the Shadow Witch
Normal
Status Ailment Resistance Down [III] (One / 1 Turn) 6 turns
Max Limit Break
Status Ailment Resistance Down [IV] (One / 1 Turn) 5 turns
Shadow Witch Minion. Role: Blind Follower.
A group of lives given grace by their Witch. They seek new brethren.		影の魔女の手下。その役割は妄信。
影の魔女によって平等に救われてしまった命達の集合体。彼らは同胞を求めている。
Card Effect Cooldown EN TextJP Text


External links

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