Madoka Magica Movie

Beginnings movie poster

Eternal movie poster

"Even if it's a deception, this is the future she wanted." ~ Beginnings movie poster.

"Even the unchangeable destiny, shall be shattered." ~ Eternal movie poster.

Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie (劇場版 魔法少女まどか☆マギカ, Gekijōban Mahō Shōjo Madoka Magika), the anime movie adaptation of Puella Magi Madoka Magica, was first announced on November 10, 2011 in NewType 2011-12. The movies are a trilogy, with the first two being recap of the anime series and the last one being a continuation of the Madoka Magica story. On April 1, 2012, the titles for the first two movies were announced at Anime Contents Expo. Both movies are set for an Autumn 2012 release. The third movie was released October 26, 2013.

Movies

• Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Beginnings (始まりの物語, Hajimari no Monogatari, lit. "The Beginning Story") is the first of the two recap movies, released on October 6, 2012. It features the song "Luminous" by ClariS as the OP and a new version of "Magia", "Magia [quattro]" by Kalafina as the ED. The movie is is 130 minutes long and covers the first eight episodes of the anime series.
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Eternal (永遠の物語, Eien no Monogatari, lit. "The Eternal Story" or "The Everlasting Story") is the second of the recap movies, released on October 13, 2012. It features the theme song "Hikari Furu" by Kalafina. It is 109 minutes long and covers the remaining four episodes of the anime series.
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Rebellion (叛逆の物語, Hangyaku no Monogatari, lit. "The Rebellion Story") is the third movie and the continuation of the Madoka Magica story, which was released October, 26 2013. It is 120 minutes long.

Observations

• Sayaka gets a new transformation sequence that takes place underwater.
• Sayaka's hair pins are also changed during her transformation, they're now in the shape of a fortissimo sign.
  • In Italian, fortissimo means very strong, bright, tough/severe. In the music world, fortissimo is signed as ff and indicates that the piece should be played very loudly.
• Sayaka's face is concealed more often.
• Two of Mami's transformation sequences were changed.
• Mami's room became more lovely and has a loft.
• Kyoko has more variety of food in each scene she is in. She is seen eating green tea and strawberry Pocky in addition to her usual chocolate variety.
  • The waffle during her binoculars scene has been replaced with a French cream sandwich cookie.
  • The taiyaki she eats as she's fighting Sayaka in Episode 5 has been replaced with a similar bear-shaped pastry.
  • The blue popsicle she eats at the end of Episode 7 has been replaced with an orange one.
  • Snacks are sold around theaters which collaborated by Madoka-Magica and Yaokin who makes "Umai-Bo', that is original of "Ummai-Bo" which Kyoko has.
• SHAFT redraws a lot of the backgrounds.
• A new music score by Yuki Kajiura was produced, replacing a lot of the original music.
  • In addition, Mami got a new version of "Credens justitiam" named "Mirai" (meaning "future") by Kalafina. Kalafina also produced a new version of "Magia" named "Magia [quattro]" and a new version of "Sagitta luminis" named "Hikari Furu" (meaning "light falling").
• Homura and Madoka sitting on chairs together in an open field. Chairs have a significance with the Madoka animated franchise.
• Oktavia's barrier has new runes that read, "Desiderantes Affectibus". Summis desiderantes affectibus (Latin: "Desiring with supreme ardor") was a papal bull issued by Pope Innocent VIII on December 5, 1484. The bull was written in response to the request of Dominican Inquisitor Heinrich Kramer for explicit authority to prosecute witchcraft in Germany, after he was refused assistance by the local ecclesiastical authorities. The bull recognized the existence of witches.
  • The bull, which synthesized the spiritual and the secular crimes of witchcraft, is often viewed as opening the door for the witchhunts of the early modern period.
• The "LOOK AT ME" posters were re-added to the movie version. They were removed from the Blu-ray version of the TV series.
• When Kyoko's soul gem explodes, there's a hidden frame of the "and I'm home" picture.

Trivia

• A detailed comparison between the first movie and the series can be viewed here on Tumblr.
• A detailed comparison between the second movie and the series can be viewed here on Tumblr.
• On August 2012, a picture of a magazine article was leaked to the internet, revealing what appears to be a new character for the Madoka movie. It was quickly discovered that the magazine article was actually a fabrication by 2ch to deceive Madoka fans.
• On October 2, 2012 Mezamashi TV aired a feature on the first movie, showing scenes from the movie OP, new music, as well as new backgrounds and transformation sequences. (Clip is unavailable)
• "Luminous" has become a slang term that refers to the cheek rubbing scene from the OP.
  • This kind of pose is tagged as (っ´ω`(´ω`c)ﾙﾐﾅｽ on pixiv. Those last 4 characters are the katakana for "Luminous".
• Beginnings and Eternal grossed over 11 billion yen in the box office in total.[2]

Worldwide premiere

The first two movies are set to open in various cities and countries starting from October 2012. Each country will have their own key visuals.

United States

State	City	Theatre	Date
CA	Los Angeles	Downtown Independent	October 19-25, December 7-13
NY	New York	Big Cinema Manhattan	October 20-22
IL	Chicago	Music Box	October 20
TX	Houston	Alamo Drafthouse	October 20, October 21
CA	San Francisco	New People	October 20, October 21
MO	Kansas City	Screenland Crossroads	November 21, December 2
NY	Buffalo	The Screening Room Cinema	November 23, November 24
OH	Akron	Cleveland Cinemas - Plaza	December 4
OH	Cleveland	Cleveland Cinemas - Cedar Lee	December 4
WA	Seattle	Grand Illusion	December 9, December 10, December 12, December 17
PA	Pittsburgh	The Hollywood Theatre	December 16
IN	Indianapolis	Georgetown 14	December 8, December 9
PA	Philadelphia	Cinema 16:9	December 1, December 2, December 8
FL	Clearwater/Tampa Bay	Clearwater Cinema Café	December 15
OH	Columbus	Gateway Film Center	January 12
GA	Atlanta	Plaza Atlanta	December 14
FL	Fort Lauderdale/Miami	Cinema Paradiso	December 22
TX	Dallas	Texas Theatre	December 29
AL	Birmingham	The Edge 12	December 20
NC	Raleigh	Raleighwood Cinema Grill	December 18
OR	Portland	Hollywood Theatre	December 26
AZ	Phoenix	Harkins Theatres - Valley Art	January 12, February 9
CA	San Francisco	4 Star Theatre	January 18, February 15
CO	Denver	FilmCenter-Sie FilmCenter	January 16
DC	Washington	The Movies at Montgomery Mall	January 10
HI	Honolulu	Doris Duke Theater	February 27, February 28
MA	Boston	Brattle Theatre	January 10, January 12
NC	Greensboro	Carousel Luxury Cinemas	January 5
NV	Las Vegas	Theatre7	January 11
NY	New York	Cinema Village	December 26
OK	Tulsa	Select Cinemas	January 20
NM	Albuquerque	The Guild Cinema	April 19
UT	Sandy	Megaplex	March 17
CO	Littleton	Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Littleton	December 18, 2013 (Movie 1+2)
HI	Honolulu	Doris Duke Theater	December 26, 2013 (Movie 1+2+3)
MO	Kansas City	Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Mainstreet	November 23, 2013 (Movie 1+2)
NY	Yonkers	Aramo Drafthouse Cinema Yonkers	November 30, 2013 (Move 1+2)
PA	Pittsburg	The Hollywood Theatre	December 5, 2013 (Movie 1+2)
TX	Austin	Alamo Drafthouse Austin Slaughter Lane	November 24, 2013 (Movie 1), December 1 (Movie 2)
TX	Austin	Alamo Drafthouse Austin Lakeline	November 25, 2013 (Movie 1), December 2, 2013 (Movie 2)
TX	Houston	Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Vintage Park	December 7, 2013 (Movie 1+2)
TX	San Antonio	Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Westlakes	December 8, 2013 (Movie 1+2)
WA	Seattle	Grand Illusion	December 8, 2013 (Movie 1+2)

France

• Paris' Grand Rex (October 19)

Italy

• Lucca's Cinema Centrale (November 4)
• All the Italian Cinemas that are associated with Dynit (Madoka Magica italian publisher). It will be only the first movie and with the Italian dub. (July 26)

San Marino

• San Marino Anime Festival (December 8)

South Korea

Location	Theatre	Date
Seoul (Junggu) Dongdaemun	Megabox	October 27 2012
Seoul Hapjeong	Lotte Cinema	July 20 2013, July 21, July 27, July 28
Seoul Nowon	Lotte Cinema	July 20, July 21, July 27, July 28
Seoul Yeongdeungpo	Lotte Cinema	July 20, July 21, July 27, July 28
Seoul Gasan	Lotte Cinema	July 21, July 28
Seoul Avenuel (a.k.a. Myeongdong)	Lotte Cinema	July 20, July 21, July 27, July 28
Seoul Gangnam City	Lotte Cinema	July 27, July 28
Incheon	Lotte Cinema	July 20 2013, July 21, July 27, July 28
Daejeon	Lotte Cinema	July 21, July 28
Daegu	Lotte Cinema	July 20, July 21, July 27, July 28
Busan	Lotte Cinema head office	July 20, July 21, July 27, July 28
Gwangju	Lotte Cinema	July 21, July 28

Taiwan

• Vie Show Cinemas Taipei Sun (台北日新威秀影城) (October 20 for the first movie, and October 21 for the second)

Hong Kong

• MCL JP Cinema, Causeway Bay (MCL JP 銅鑼灣戲院) (October 20, October 27)

Singapore

• Singapore Expo Hall 8 (November 10, November 11)

Australia

• Sydney's Dendy Newtown (December 9, December 16)
• Melbourne's Cinema Nova (December 9, December 15, December 22, December 23)
• Brisbane's Dendy Portside (December 9)
• Canberra's Dendy Canberra (December 9)

Germany

• Bonn, Animotion Film Festival (July 26-28)

Canada
The first movie will be screened on March 14, 2013, with the second one following on March 20, 2013, in the following cities:

Province	Location	Theater
AB	Calgary	Scotiabank Theatre Chinook
	Edmonton	Cineplex Odeon South Edmonton Cinemas
	Lethbridge	Galaxy Cinemas Lethbridge
BC	Burnaby	SilverCity Metropolis Cinemas
	Coquitlam	SilverCity Coquitlam Cinemas
	Richmond	SilverCity Riverport Cinemas
	Vancouver	Cineplex Odeon International Village
	Victoria	SilverCity Tillicum Victoria
MB	Winnipeg	SilverCity Polo Park Cinemas
ON	Ancaster	SilverCity Ancaster Cinemas
	Niagara Falls	Cineplex Odeon Niagara Square Cinemas
	Barrie	Galaxy Cinemas Barrie
	Guelph	Galaxy Cinemas Pergola Commons
	Kingston	Cineplex Odeon Gardiner's Road
	London	SilverCity London Cinemas
	Mississauga	Cineplex Odeon Courtney Park Cinemas
	North York	SilverCity Fairview Mall Cinemas
	Oshawa	Cineplex Odeon Oshawa Cinemas
	Ottawa	SilverCity Gloucester Cinemas
	Scarborough	Coliseum Scarborough Cinemas
	Toronto	Cineplex Odeon Queensway Cinemas
	Toronto	Cineplex Odeon Yonge & Dundas Square
	Waterloo	Galaxy Cinemas Waterloo
	Windsor	SilverCity Windsor Cinemas
QC	Montreal	Cinéma Banque Scotia Montréal (Scotiabank Theatre Montreal)
	Quebec City	Cineplex Odeon Ste. Foy
SK	Regina	Galaxy Cinemas Regina
	Saskatoon	Galaxy Cinemas Saskatoon

Mexico
Presented by the Kokuban group, Crunchyroll Latin America and Aniplex U.S.A. Both movies will be screened starting May 18, 2013 on select Cinépolis theaters in the following cities:

State	City	Theater	Date (1st Round)	Date (2nd Round)
Federal District	Mexico City	Cinépolis Fórum Buenavista	May 18, 2013	June 22, 2013
Jalisco	Guadalajara	Cinépolis La Gran Plaza	May 25, 2013	None
Nuevo León	Monterrey	Cinépolis Sendero Monterrey	June 1, 2013	None
Yucatán	Mérida	Cinépolis Las Américas	June 8, 2013	None
Chihuahua	Chihuahua	Cinépolis Vallarta	None	June 29, 2013
Baja California	Tijuana	Cinépolis Galerías Hipódromo	None	July 13, 2013
Veracruz	Xalapa	Cinépolis Plaza Las Américas	None	July 20, 2013

Gallery

Movie posters

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  Beginnings poster

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  Clean version

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  Eternal poster

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  Clean version

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  France

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  Taiwan

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  Hong Kong

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  Italy

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  San Marino

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  US movie poster version.

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  Singapore

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  South Korea

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  Mexico

Official art

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  Initial Key Visual #1

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  From the official Madoka Magica website.

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  Complete set of all 3 Clear Files sold at the Goods counter at movie theaters. Each includes another clear file with a deco design and the girls' soul gem symbol and/or Kyubey silhouette.

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Screenshots

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  Elly in the movie version

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  Elly's Grief Seed

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  Sayaka's apartment

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  Anja's Labyrinth movie version.

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  Sayaka's room.

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  Chairs inside Madoka's room.

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  Sakura Church.

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  "LOOK AT ME"

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  The runes read "Desiderantes Affectibus"

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  When Kyoko's soul gem explodes, there's a hidden frame of the "And I'm Home" picture.

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  Dialogue from earlier episodes.

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  Eternal Story 46:50~46:53.[1]

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  Japanese translation, Romanji

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Animations

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  a slight variation of the OP in the 2nd movie.

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  Mami's transformation

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  Mami's second transformation

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  Sayaka's transformation

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  Kyoko's transformation

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  Kyoko's second transformation

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  Homura's transformation

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  Madoka cleaning up Homura

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  Preview of Rebellion

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  Another preview

Tickets

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  Special Edition Advance tickets at ACE for a limited venue showing of the first two Madoka Magica movies.

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  Closer look at the ticket for the two movies.

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  Kyoto International Anime Manga Fair 2012 Tickets

Movie differences

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  Differences in quality. The movie version will be of higher image quality.

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  Scanned from a flyer, so the images aren't perfect.

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Madoka Original Art Exhibit

The Beginnings & Eternal exhibition of “Puella Magi Madoka Magica” original drawing reproduction, is open to the public since September 2013 at Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, and Fukuoka in Japan.

Reproduction of original drawings and characters' references from the movie are exhibited at once. In addition, rare items that have never been revealed before such as oversea version of posters are exhibited as well. It displays an estimated 800 pieces of Madoka Magica artworks as well as the transformation sequences of the five magical girls because no magical girl anime will ever be complete without a transformation sequence. Furthermore, a ”Ultimate Madoka” gigantic figure taller than 2 meters is displayed in the exhibit along with a life-size statue of Homura Akemi.[3].

There is a photo booth where visitors can snap a photograph with some of the work pieces from the anime for 500 yen.

Some limited edition cafe menu items are also served during the event such as the Kyubey ampan bun with Madoka tart, and the Charlotte Candy curry. Both limited edition menu items cost 980 yen.

Since August 30, the public site for the exhibition is open to ticket sales. Information about ticket and details for each venue was announced on its official website on and after 30th August.[4]

The Roppongi Hills exhibit will last from October 19 until November 4. After that, the Madoka Magica exhibit will be hitting the road to visit Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo and Fukuoka. There is a 1,500 yen general entrance fee, 1,000 yen high school student fee and a 500 yen middle school student fee.[5]

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Fanart

This section contains fanart images

Everything in the following fan gallery is created, or the comments accompanying them are created, for entertainment value and should not be confused with actual canon events of the Puella Magi franchise.

• Homumado movie fanart.jpg
• Mamikyoko nuzzling fanart.png
• MamixKyubey nuzzling fanart.jpg
• Sayakamado nuzzling fanart.gif

See also

• Theater Pamphlet
• Luminous - Movie OP theme.
• Hikari Furu - An assortment of redone tracks used in the movie.

External links

• Puella Magi Madoka Magica official website