Episode revisions

The series was released several times over the time:

• the original broadcasts on MBS and TBS
• one week late broadcast on CBC
• webcast on Nico Nico Douga, Showtime and AnimeOne
• three months late broadcast on AT-X
• DVD/BD release

This page is a work-in-progress attempt to list at least some of the changes made to the episodes in later revisions.

Episode 1

AT-X version

• In the original broadcast, all the background music (most notably, Magia played during the prologue scene) is played slower and at a lower pitch. In the AT-X version (and reportedly the webcast version, too), this was corrected, causing the need for the tunes to be edited differently to fit the video.
• No differences in the video, voice acting or sound effects were spotted.

Episode 4

AT-X version

• Elly's Grief Seed is shown after the fight.

Episode 10

Webcast version

See the image on the right for a visual comparison of the original MBS broadcast version and the revised webcast version.

• When Madoka and Mami attack Izabel in her barrier, the original version has highly stylized black-and-white blobs. The revised version show more detailed laser beams.
• One of the shots of Walpurgis Night in Timeline 1 is mirrored, compared to the original version.
• Kyubey is removed from the scene when Madoka becomes a witch in Timeline 2.
• The color scheme of the aforementioned Madoka's transformation into a witch is reversed - it was a white energy blob and black lightning in the original version, but it's a dark energy blob and a white lightning in the revised version.
• During the battle with Oktavia von Seckendorff in Timeline 3, her full name (in runes) is shown. In the original version, only "Oktavia von" is readable: "Seckendorff" was misplaced off-screen, as seen by the tips of the O, R and F runes at the bottom edge of the screen.
• Spots of grief in one of Homura's shots when she's making a promise to protect Madoka are timed differently.
• Two first shots of Roberta's barrier are discolored.
• Kriemhild Gretchen's name in Timeline 4 is shown (in runes).
• A big tree is seen next to the platform where Homura and Kyubey stand after Madoka's transformation.
• Homura is seen walking through the "tunnel of time" in shots where she was walking just on a dark background in the original version.

The same revision of the episode seem to have been used for the post-hiatus TBS and CBC broadcasts.

Episode 11

Homura-chan... ;_;

Webcast version

• Several shots in the shelter were added. One of them shows a replica of a satellite map made after the 2011 Sendai Earthquake.
• A closeup shot of Homura's leg broken under a rock is added.

Those shots were not shown in the original broadcast version probably as a form of self-restraint censorship.