Hitomi Shizuki

Official Info

Hitomi is a close friend of Madoka and Sayaka. A girl who likes piano, classical Japanese dance, tea, and so on, she is able to learn a lot and is quite rich.

The first character in her last name (志) means "purpose" or "will." The last character (筑) means "architecture."
Her first name is written using a combination of the kanji 仁 (meaning "charity" or "benevolence") and 美 (meaning "beauty").
She attends after-school classes in Piano, Japanese dance and Tea ceremony, feeling obliged to make time for them even when she might reasonably be expected to focus on her studies.
In Episode 4, Hitomi was among the persons who got a witch's kiss and were driven into a suicidal trance. She spends her apparition talking about going to a better place and attempting to join the others, who then stage a collective suicide. Madoka manages to save them, but is swallowed into a witche's barrier and Sayaka, now a Magical Girl, saves her.
Having noticed Sayaka's crush on Kamijou, Hitomi confronts Sayaka and tells her that she will tell her feelings to him if Sayaka doesn't do it first. This act, unbeknownst to her, contributes to Sayaka's despair.
Hitomi did indeed talk to Kyousuke, but since it was a silent conversation, neither the audience nor Sayaka (who was lurking around) know what she was telling him. This has raised fan speculation about her intentions: it is likely that she was actually speaking on Sayaka's behalf, telling Kamijou about how Sayaka feels about him instead of about her own feelings. If this is true, this would make Sayaka's becoming a witch all the more tragic.^[1]