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.

Comparison of dream sequence in original versions of Episode 1 and Episode 10. Blu-ray version of Episode 1 looks like Episode 10.

Blu-ray version

Those differences were pointed on Amimone☆Nikki, a Japanese fan's blog. See there for screenshot comparison.

• The prologue scene was heavily modified, to keep it in line with Timeline 4 of Episode 10.
• A version of opening sequence that debuted in Episode 6's broadcast version is used.
• Direction of sunlight is changed in some shots of the walk to school.
• Girls' shadows are drawn in more detail in other shots of the same scene.
• Closeup shot of the teacher is re-animated.
• During Homura's introduction, her name on the whiteboard is moved to be visible.
• Sayaka's hairpin is added in some shots in the classroom.
• Lighting is dimmed in Homura's high jump shot.
• Likewise, some shots in the cafeteria are lit less intensively.
• Lights glow in Kyubey chase scene is changed.
• A fence is added before Madoka in the shot where she meets Kyubey.
• Lines on Madoka's cheeks are less intense in a closeup shot of her afterwards.
• The explosion in Gertrud's maze is animated completely differently.
• Mami's Soul Gem is much smaller in her first shot.
• Mami is lit differently in a shot before her transformation.
• During Mami's transformation, Soul Gem has different shape and is glowing more intensively.
• The episode has a proper ending sequence with an entirely new song ("Mata Ashita" by Aoi Yuuki).

Episode 2

Blu-ray version

Those differences were pointed on Amimone☆Nikki, a Japanese fan's blog. See there for screenshot comparison.

• Reflections in the mirror during the bath scene are much brighter.
• Interior of Mami's apartment is redesigned completely, with a round table and many stuff inside.
• Mami's Soul Gem is bigger when she shows it to the second-years.
• Some shots inside Mami's apartment have characters redrawn in addition to a completely different background.
• Color of the sunset behind Mami's windows is different.
• Madoka is visible in some of the shots of Junko before the window.
• Shot of Mami's reflection in the table is zoomed out, showing much more detail.
• Madoka's face is lit differently during a closeup shot in Mami's apartment.
• Closeups of Mami's Soul Gem show a slightly different design of it.
• Fence on the school rooftop has a different pattern.
• Flash of Kyousuke's room now features a dark sunset or sunrise.
• When the girls go on a witch hunt, the lighting is darker, and blooming cherry trees are replaced by dead trees. The bridges also have different designs.
• The girl jumping off the bridge has darker hair.
• The pavement in a subsequent shot is patterned.
• In a shot before Mami takes down few Adelberts, the girls are lit differently.
• A place before entrance to Gertrud's chamber looks different.
• Gertrud's name (in runes) is written in a smaller and differently colored font.
• Background Gertrud's chamber is slightly different. Witch's movements are also different.
• The ending sequence is added, like in Episode 1.

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.

TBS/CBC version

As TBS and CBC haven't shown Episode 10 on the same week as MBS, it was shown in a one-and-half-hour-long block together with episodes 11 and 12. This revision contains few further differences:

• The first shot of Walpurgis Night in Timeline 1 is mirrored as well.
• In one of the shots when Homura practices her golf club skills on time-stop in Timeline 2, a rain droplet is added in front of the camera.
• In another shot of the same scene, when the time flow is restored, the rain is heavier.
• Oktavia von Seckendorff is shown moving just before the explosion that kills her. In earlier revisions, a still picture of her was shown.
• When Homura approaches Madoka in Timeline 4, the light is turned on in Madoka's room.
• The rotating platform Homura is standing on during the fight with Roberta is discolored in the first shot, so is her cage and the shot when it explodes.
• The aforementioned explosion is brighter and has a glow effect to it.

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.