Magia Record Story Mitama and the Delicious New Year's Party

Part One

The following summary was provided courtesy of Min as well as Summary Anon on 4chan’s /pmmm/ general.

Episode 1

Kanagi Izumi and Mitama Yakumo meet up on New Year’s Day at the Daito shrine to pray together for the new year and to enjoy the carnival held there. Mitama is wearing a Kimono that she borrowed from Yachiyo Nanami. Mitama is a little miffed Kanagi is not praising her outfit and gives a hint, which Kanagi took and praises her, making Mitama smile brightly. Mitama says that this is her first time at a shrine on New Year’s with a friend. Kanagi and Mitama ask for their wishes in front of the bells of the shrine.

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While Kanagi frowns at Mitama's many wishes, the latter defends herself, saying God might choose what wishes to grant, so making more gives a higher chance to have them granted. Then Kanagi and Mitama go to receive their fortunes: Kagani got “Great Luck” while Mitama got “Great Luck” too but Mitama wanted something more exciting. The two then tour the stores at the new year carnival, eating different foods and having fun. They stop at one stall that is selling takoyaki and is run by the neighborhood association. They meet with Seika Kumi, Mito Aino, and Leila Ibuki. They ask if Mitama and Kanagi to would like to join an event.

Episode 2

The event is called “New Year’s Soup Event” and basically they are hosting a stall which allows people to taste their Nimono if they can solve three riddles and bring the goods related to the answer back to them. Mitama says that she and Kanagi want to join but Kanagi says that the event is directed to children. Leila states that they wanted to attract children to teach them to eat different kinds of food, in particular traditional food, but it’s okay for anyone else who wants to join. The instructions are “There are 10 riddles set up around the Shrine Area. Pick any 3 and solve’em! Once you solve a riddle, you will be given an ingredient as a reward. Solve three and come back here, and you can use the 3 ingredients you won to top your soup! Then we can all enjoy eatin’ it together!” Leila, Mito and Seika explain how the ingredients work and then say that there are some that are not used in Kamihama, but she urges them to not hesitate in getting them. Since there is no charge, the pair decide to take up the challenge.

Episode 3

Mitama wonders where the riddles are, so they decide to comb the whole are from top to bottom in hopes they can find one of the questions that way. Mitama gets distracted with all the eating, but Kanagi interrupts her to ask if they’re looking for the questions or not. Mitama says that a hint lies among the food and that is called “Scavenger hunting 101” They see a fishermonger asking for help so Mitama runs over to find out what happened to him. Mitama talks to him and agrees to his request to help him to find something lost.

Episode 4

An old woman appears and recognizes the badges that Mitama and Kanagi have so she says that if they solve a riddle she will lend them the item that the fishermonger is looking for. Kanagi tries some answers but the old woman says that those are wrong. After some time Mitama gives the answer to the granny and obtain the cod. They deliver it and obtain some red and white fish cakes in exchange.

Episode 5

Mitama and Kanagi see one of the Lions from the Lion Dance, with some nearby children getting scared by how the Lion looks. Kagani meets with Himika Mao’s little brother (who was running from the lion some seconds ago) and then Himika appers in front of Mitama. They wish each other a Happy New Year. The children are scared because the Lion wants to bite their heads but Himika says that the bite keeps you healthy for the year. (This is per tradition, as the lion eats away bad luck and sickness.) Mitama gets an idea but she needs “that” to make it work.

Episode 6

Kanagi dresses up as the Lion that scares the children in order to give them more courage while Mitama pretends to defend the kids. She manages to convinced them to have the courage to stand up against the lion, but it worked too well as Himika's brother pretends to transform into his favorite superhero and begins to kick and punch the heck out of poor Kanagi. Mitama stops them and tells him that the Spirit of the Lion that performs the Lion dance is a good spirit. In the end, Mitama and Himika are able to teach the tradition to the children. As they children go away to play, Himika and Mitama apologize to Kanagi about the violence, but she laughs it off, happy that she is able to help. Himika gives them her home-made “Feral Sauce” and while Mitama believes this to be the answer to the second riddle and plans to use it for cooking, Kagani recommends she not use it in the soup. Mitama says that they only need one more ingredient.

Episode 7

As they search for the third answer, they come across Riko's family store and greet her and her parents. It is her first time helping her parents on New Year’s Day. Riko’s father gives thanks to Mitama for looking out for their little daughter and offers her a bento. Riko’s dog Mameji gets scared by a Taiko drum and runs off, with Riko blaming herself for not tying the puppy up and is in tears, so Kanagi and Mitama offer their help to find him.

Episode 8

They try to find Mameji and ask a lot of people but no one has seen him. It is then they hear some people talking about a cute dog that is not leashed. Mitama tries to throw him a frisbee and a ball but that scares him more and he runs away.

Episode 9

The trio eventually find the dog at a corner and this time Mitama is able to calm the dog by mixing in what she learned from TV: using music to sooth emotions with her magic and experience as a healer to calm the puppy, but using the drum. Mitama wants to calm Mameji by using a constant beat on the taiko drums to relax him. It works perfectly and now Riko is reunited with Mameji again. They return back to the store where Riko's parents are very grateful for the help from Mitama and Kanagi and give them their trademark food as thanks. Mitama thinks this is the last answer: Chiaki’s friend chicken.

Episode 10

Mitama and Kagani return to the stall from the beginning where Leila, Seika and Mito were. First, they show them the Red and White fish cakes and Mito agrees that they solved the fishmonger problem. Then Mitama shows them the Feral Sauce and Leila asks them what riddle they solved to get that. The last thing Mitama shows them is the fried chicken but Seika gets surprised. They didn’t obtain the necessary ingredients so Leila, Mito and Seika offer part of their soup to Kanagi and Mitama anyway since it is festival time after all. They love the taste and Mitama even manages to get the recipe from Leila, thinking that she will cook for her customers the next time round.

Part 2

At the Mikazuki manor, Iroha and Tsuruno thank Yachiyo for helping them wear their new year kimonos. After wishing each other Happy New Year, they decide to visit Mitama's to wish her a good New Year, but wonder if she is open. Just then Sana and Felicia return, the latter exclaiming in fear that Mitama is holding a New Year party at her place and has prepared food. The party also welcomes participants to bring along their own food as well. Felicia's experience with Mitama's food makes her vehemently refuse to join the party. However, she is eventually convinced by the rest of the team since they wanted to have fun together for the New Year, as Sana has never celebrated the festival and they all agree that Mitama deserves the thanks they should give. Iroha assures Felicia that they will politely ensure Mitama's food never surfaces by bringing lots of food that they cooked.

The team wish Mitama a happy new year at her place. Mitama is delighted, and is overjoyed when the team offer to help her with preparations. Since she is only done with the New Year dishes, she needs help with setting up the place for mochi making and cooking the Nimono. Yachiyo and Iroha help out with the cooking while the rest help set up the place. Everything goes smoothly (though Mitama needs Yachiyo to teach her how to properly remove skin from a piece of chicken meat) until Tsuruno and Felicia ask Yachiyo and Iroha for help. Thus, the seasoning is done by Mitama and this worries Yachiyo and Iroha. But Yachiyo thinks they should have more confidence with themselves and Mitama, and they help set up the food.

After a while, the other participants arrive. Since most have their own activities for New Year, only Momoko trio, the Azalea sisters, Akira and Kako join, but Mitama is happy anyway. Iroha and Tsuruno help arrange the bento boxes and desserts the others brought, and everyone cleverly don't ask about Mitama's food. Hazuki accidentally opens Pandora's box when she asks about the owner of the beautiful bento box, which is revealed to be Mitama's food. The colors are too bright to be possible with just seasoning, and then Mitama realizes that only her food has not been touched. As the atmosphere gets awkward, Iroha decides to bite the bullet, but Momoko intercepts and offers herself as sacrifice instead. The first bite was fine, but Momoko was knocked out cold after finishing the whole thing since the excited Mitama shoved everything down her stomach.

After that, everyone enjoyed the good food and made mochis using extra sticky glutinous rice Mitama had prepared, and they could even add in their own variations. Mitama brought out her Nimono that everyone has forgotten about, but this one tastes excellent since Mitama followed the recipe diligently and also because she had helped from Yachiyo and Iroha. She ruined the food though when she dumped in the juice from Himika and the fried food Riko's parents gave her during her visit to the shrine and festival.

They manage to finish the food with some nauseous feelings after, but after some rest, they continue to finish off the good stuff, having a great time. Everyone wishes Mitama a happy new year again and leave after helping her clean up. Kanagi arrives late, so she helps by taking out the trash, and she is happy that Mitama's party is a success. She cannot help but frown when Mitama says her New Year Wish is to improve her cooking, and she tells Mitama that while she is happy for her enthusiasm, she pleads for Mitama to use only food that is meant to be cook as her ingredients.

Kanagi has to go for her shift at the Maid Cafe, and Mitama is alone again. However, Iroha comes back and says they had forgotten to invite her to join them at Mizune Shrine for a New Year picture. Mitama is reluctant initially due to her negative experiences with the region, but eventually succumbs to Iroha's heartful invitation. Mitama and the Mikazuki manor gang take photos at the shrine while also enjoying themselves at the festival held there. Mitama is happy and grateful that she has such caring and kind friends, and thinks the new year will be great.