Oriko Magica
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Puella Magi Oriko Magica (魔法少女おりこ☆マギカ, Mahou Shoujo Oriko Magica) is the second spin-off manga illustrated by Mura Kuroe with a draft by Magica Quartet. The volumes were published by Houbunsha and feature the return of Kyoko and Mami from the anime as well as new cast members.
Although the first volume was initially intended to be released on April 12, 2011, the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, as well as the subsequent postponement of the last two episodes of the anime caused Oriko Magica to be postponed to May 12, 2011. The second volume was released on June 13, 2011.
Plot
The story is believed to take place in one of the alternate timelines, during the same time period (calendar-wise) as the original anime. It is most likely to be one of the timelines occuring between timeline 3 and timeline 4 of the TV anime. The plot revolves around Oriko Mikuni, a mysterious magical girl with a unique ability to see the future.
Chapter 1: Don't even think about becoming a Magical Girl
A girl dressed all in white tests out her magic after contracting with Kyubey. This girl, Oriko, seems to have a vision of a future where Mitakihara Town has been destroyed, possibly by one or more witches. Oriko is determined not to let the town be destroyed, but may not be able to stop it herself. She has a second vision soon after, where she sees the potential of a girl with strong magic, implying this girl could do something about the vision.
Some undetermined time later, a very young girl called Yuma Chitose is rescued by Kyoko from being killed by a witch, but not before her parents are killed in the same way. Upon seeing Kyoko fight, Yuma grows a desire to become a magical girl herself, despite many warnings from Kyoko. Kyubey, informed about Yuma by Oriko, approaches her in order to make a contract, but is stopped by Kyoko. Meanwhile, Kyoko teaches the girl how to live on her own, and Yuma reveals her troubled past - her parents were very abusive, which led her to have very low self-esteem and find herself useless.
Chapter 2: I'm not crying at all
While Kyoko is out fighting witches, Oriko approaches Yuma and manipulates her into believing that Kyoko is in big danger and she should become a magical girl, too. Kyoko is indeed having a hard fight and is nearly killed. Kyoko is rescued, without initially realizing how she survived, but Yuma quickly appears in front of her - as a magical girl. It turns out that Oriko also told Yuma that Kyoko is about to die. That's why she contracted - to prove her usefulness and save Kyoko. At the end of the chapter, Kyoko is seen determined to get revenge on Oriko, while another girl is talking with Oriko on the phone while covered in blood, accepting some request.
Chapter 3: Love is infinitely finite
Backstory of Oriko is revealed - her father, Hisaomi Mikuni, was a politician, and she was helping him with his campaign back when she was a child. Mami is seen fighting Charlotte, and feeling a presence of another magical girl nearby, who turns out to be dead. Kyubey reveals to her a rumor that there is a magical girl who hunts other magical girls. The girl seen at the end of the previous chapter is revealed to be Kirika Kure, and she's having a tea party with Oriko in the garden. A witch attacks, and Kirika fights her while Oriko continues to make tea. Kirika faints, and Oriko says that she has to use her again, "to protect [their] world".
Mami investigates the case of the killer magical girl, asking Kyubey, Kyoko and Homura what they know about it. Kyoko asks Mami back about Oriko, but she doesn't know anything. Homura has no knowledge herself, but tells Mami to stay away from herself, Madoka, Sayaka, and Hitomi. Homura then accompanies them home (note that Sayaka and Hitomi never actually appear). Mami meets Kirika, who has lost a stuffed toy - Mami helps her recover it, and Kirika calls her "savior". Kirika treats Mami for a strawberry crepe to thank her, but Mami mentioning Kirika probably loving the person who gave her that toy makes Kirika mad - she is extremely picky about using the words "affection" and "love". She comments that "love is infinitely finite". A witch appears, and Mami begins to fight it carefully, not wanting to harm Kirika. However, Kirika transforms into a magical girl and attacks Mami, revealing herself as the "Black Magical Girl", the culprit behind the previous murders. Kirika is seen winning the battle, while in the meantime Oriko is seen talking about her and Kirika making her father's dream come true.
Chapter 4: I'll never forgive you
The chapter begins with a flashback to Kirika's past. It reveals that she was a quiet loner who looked down on people with friends and was apathetic to the world.
Mami and Kirika's fight continues. Kirika wounds Mami on her leg, making it difficult for her to move. Mami still manages an escape, however, and realizes that Kirika must have cast a spell to slow down enemies, giving Kirika the illusion of great agility and speed. Mami takes advantage of this, setting up a trap for Kirika. In the meantime, Kirika is searching through the barrier for Mami, knowing that it is starting to fall apart and that she needs to end the fight quickly. Kirika has a flashback to when she first met Oriko. While Kirika was trying to pick up her things that had fallen on the ground, Oriko is the only one to stop and help her gather them. Kirika is charmed by Oriko, who is seen in the present baking sweets, thinking that Kirika will return hungry.
Back in the barrier, Kirika finally finds Mami, who summons her large gun to perform her signature attack, Tiro Finale. Kirika slows down time again in order to dodge the blast, but this causes it to go off behind her and wound her back, which is where her Soul Gem is located. Oriko, who is some distance away, sees some kind of vision about Kirika and falls to the ground.
As Kirika falls to the ground as well, Mami asks for an explanation for the murders, mentioning that Kirika needs to heal soon or she'll die of blood loss, but Kirika refuses to answer. Mami then holds up a gun to Kirika's head and prepares to shoot, but is interrupted by Oriko, who causes a huge explosion. In the confusion, Oriko takes Kirika back and comments that Mami and the pair will probably meet again and that Mami will hopefully have realized her "foolishness" by that time. As Oriko vanishes and the barrier finally crumbles, Mami falls to her knees, relieved to finally be away from the terrifying strength Oriko displayed.
At Oriko's house, Kirika confesses something to Oriko, which is revealed in another flashback. Kirika tried to track Oriko down after their first meeting, but when she finally does, she's too nervous to call out to her. She thinks that no one would pay attention to her and that there's no way Oriko will remember her. Her apathetic personality was fake and that she really did care about things like friends. She was jealous, and thinks, "I want to change myself." This is the wish Kyubey grants for her. The Kirika Oriko knows is a result of that wish. Kirika apologizes for the deception, but Oriko responds that what she's done is "unforgivable." She demands that Kirika make it up to her, which the bed-ridden girl agrees to while we see a shot of Kirika's cracked Soul Gem.
The final page of this chapter shows Homura, Sayaka, Hitomi and Madoka going out for snacks after school.
Chapter 5: That's what I'm here for
Oriko's past begins to be revealed: She was the daughter of a politician, Hisaomi Mikuni. She was a well-liked and popular girl with a good reputation who fully believed in her father. He embezzled money from the government, and when he was discovered, he committed suicide before he could be tried for it.
Mami, at school, remembers speaking to Kyubey about the murders of magical girls. He claims he had suspicions as to who had done it, but no proof, so he never brought it up. Just then, Oriko and Kirika take over the Mitakihara Junior High School's broadcasting room. As Madoka and Sayaka speculate on it, Homura tells them not to worry. Kyubey realizes what Oriko is really up to, and vows to get rid of her. Oriko begins to make a speech, saying, "Do you have people who you love?" She claims that the world is in danger, that a monster will descend upon it and destroy it. She seems to look straight at Madoka as she says, "I will fight," and shuts the camera off.
Suddenly, a witch's barrier forms over the school, and Madoka's classmates being to panic when Kazuko Saotome, their teacher, is eaten by familiars before their eyes. They stampede away, pushing Madoka to the side. She's quickly surrounded by familiars, but Homura saves her. Mami attempts to do the same for the other students, but realizes that defeating the witch is the only way. She tries to make it to the center of the barrier, but is quickly captured. Kyoko and Yuma arrive just in time to save her. Kyubey had called on them to help, because Oriko was getting out of control. They start moving to the center of the barrier.
Homura continues to protect Madoka, but Madoka is not satisfied with that. She asks Homura why she only protects her, and not any of their other friends or classmates. She doesn't want to be saved at the cost of everyone else's lives. Homura says that even if she can't save everyone, she wants to protect Madoka, and puts her in a protective barrier, saying she'll go on alone. Madoka apologizes for her words, and says, "Let's go home together." In response, Homura agrees, and says, "That's why I'm here."
Homura reaches the center of the barrier, where Oriko and Kirika are waiting. Homura demands they take it down, but when they play innocent, Homura attacks. Oriko and Kirika's combined abilities (foresight and time-manipulation) allow them to dodge Homura's attack. Oriko then reveals that she's seen Homura in her vision of the end of the world. Oriko plans to kill Madoka to prevent her from contracting, and eventually becoming a witch with the power to destroy their planet, which Homura refuses to allow.
Kyoko, Mami and Yuma then reach the center. Mami comments that there isn't a witch there, but Kyoko just wants to take Oriko down. The white magical girl begins to cry, and says she feels pity for them in their ignorant state. Kirika realizes she's outmatched, and transforms into a witch.
Chapter 6: Someday isn't today
After the death of her father, Oriko is shunned and ostracized by her former friends and the people she counted on. Teacher refuse to speak to her, and students mock her. Oriko is in such despair that Kyubey appears to her, offering her a contract.
Mami, Kyoko, Yuma and Homura continue to attack, trying to defeat Kirika's witch form. The confusion they feel from the knowledge that magical girls become witches hinders their battle skils. Homura decides to fight alone when she sees their state. Oriko comments that it would be great if Homura was on her side. They begin to battle for the fate of Madoka.
Sayaka and Hitomi are running through the barrier, fighting familiars on their way. When Hitomi sees a corpse of one of their schoolmates, she breaks down and says she's rather be dead than remember that. An elevator suddenly appears, and takes the pair to Madoka.
Oriko and Homura figure out one another's specialty magic (prescience and time manipulation, respectively). With this knowledge, Oriko also figures out Homura's other magical ability: to turn back time and start new, alternate timelines. Oriko claims that because Homura keeps running away to new timelines, she cannot defeat the white magical girl.
Mami and Kyoko are injured by Kirika, and when Yuma tries to heal them, they tell her to leave. They would rather die than turn into witches. As Kirika and Oriko attempt to give them a final blow, Yuma knocks Kirika away and heals her friends at the same time. Yuma says that even though being with her mother made her want to die, being faced with the witch that killed her made her desperately want to live. Everyone dies someday, and she asks if Kyoko and Mami are really ready to give up and die that day. Kyoko and Mami get up and together, the three defeat Kirika.
Oriko quickly becomes enraged, and tries to attack again. Homura comments that if she continues, Oriko will run out of magic. Kyubey appears, revealing all of Oriko's plan to distract him with the murders and Yuma, and that it failed. He has found Madoka.
Chapter 7, the final chapter: To protect my world
In the final chapter, Madoka breaks out of the protective barrier that Homura had formed around her and runs into Hitomi and Sayaka. Determined to save Homura, Madoka goes to find her, accompanied by Hitomi and Sayaka. At the scene of the battle between Oriko and Homura, Oriko reveals that she has forseen Madoka to become the most terrible witch mankind has ever encountered, she is determined to kill her. Her plan is to hit Madoka with all of her magic once Madoka reaches the battle site. Kyoko, Yuma and Mami also join the fight.
During a flashback to her past, Oriko remembers her wish. In the depths of her sadness with her father tarnishing her reputation, she met Kyuubey, and wished to learn the meaning of her life. Oriko is then shot by Homura and falls into a seemingly endless despair, but as a piece of Kirika's witch form falls towards her, she hurls it at Kyuubey with the last of her strength. The piece then knocks off Kyuubey's head, and Oriko dies. As Homura turns to tell her story to Mami, Kyoko and Yuma, she hears the screams of Hitomi and Sayaka. Passing by a distraught Yuma and Kyoko, Homura sees Madoka lying on the ground, already dead and unable to be saved by Yuma. Homura's hopes of this being her last timeline are dashed as she falls to the ground in shock, once more seeing her friend dead, and prepares to restart yet another timeline.
In what seems to be either some kind of afterlife or another timeline (because Kirika vaguely remembers Oriko or the previous events), Kirika is seen talking to a sad Oriko, sitting at the edge of a curb in a bus stop. Oriko confesses to have killed many people, and says to have saved more, but the burden is too heavy for her, and she can't stand up. Kirika, confused, can only comprehend that it means she has a big burden. Struck with an idea, she says that she'll take half the burden, they then take each others hands and walk off, smiling.
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Translation of Official Site
Even though the TV anime ended, Puella Magi will not.
Who could be the girl that stands in front of Mami and Kyoko?
Stay tuned for volume one of the official spin-off comic "Puella Magi Oriko Magica", which shows another fight that was not depicted in Mami's, Kyoko's as well as Homura and Madoka's TV anime!!
Official synopsis
Volume 1:
- Introducing a spin-off comic from the big-hit original TV anime "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" with a whole new story!
Kyoko Sakura, who spends all her time fighting in isolation, Mami Tomoe, who protects Mitakihara Town with a heart of justice and Homura Akemi, who silently approaches Madoka Kaname.
A story revolving around each Puella Magi's battles that weren't meant to cross, centering in an event called "Puella Magi Hunting".
Which would be, an incident that would change the fate of the girls completely.
Which would be, the beginning of a new Puella Magi story...
The first eight pages are available for official preview here [1]. Click on the orange button.
Volume 2:
- Kyoko Sakura who searches for a fated white Puella Magi; Mami Tomoe, who confronts the culpit of the "Puella Magi Hunting", a black Puella Magi; and Homura Akemi, who does nothing but protect Madoka Kaname's peace. The path of those three magical girls weren't supposed to cross. A story where their existence is tested. The story of a passed time line. This is the concluding volume of the spin-off comic made for the big-hit TV anime, "Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica".
Gallery
Front Covers
Volume 1
Volume 2
Miscellaneous
Official art of Kyoko and Yuma from Oriko vol. 1.
Free illustration that comes with purchases of Oriko vol. 1.
Another illustration that comes with Oriko purchased from certain vendors
This illustration as well.
Official art of Oriko and Kirika in their school uniforms from volume 2.
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.- Mami, Kyoko and Yuma pose.png
Fan art of the volume 1 cover girls striking a pose.
- Black mage Kirika Kure art.jpg
Fan art of Kirika Kure.
- Mami yuma kyouko fanart.jpg
- ChitoseandKyouko.jpg
Fan art of Kyoko and Yuma.
- Kyouko and Yuma together.jpg
Fan art of Kyoko and Yuma, happy together.
- Yuma, sayaka, kyouko fanart.jpg
Fan art of Yuma and Sayaka fighting over Kyoko.
- Yuma, sayaka, kyouko fanart with text.jpg
continuation of fight.
- Yuma and kyouko headpat.jpg
Fan art of Kyoko showing Yuma some sisterly affection.
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Fan art of Kyoko and Oriko battling.
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Manga sample: The Despair is strong on this one.
- Oriko fancy hotel bath house.png
Manga sample: Yuma, hasn't anyone taught you not to go to fancy hotels with strangers?