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Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Different Story (魔法少女まどか☆マギカ ~The different story~) is a three-volume manga spin-off for the Madoka Magica Movie created by Hanokage. The first volume was released on October 12th, 2012, while the other two will be released on October 19th and November 12th.

The first volume begins as an adaptation of Drama CD 3, though in culminates in an alternate timeline with a different outcome from the timelines shown in the anime.

Observation & Trivia

Mami and Kyoko are the protagonists in this story. Both Madoka and Homura only appear in a few scenes.
After seeing her father hanging, Kyoko lost her 'Rosso Phantasma' ability. She might have decided to break up with Mami because she thought herself a burden to her.
In this story, Sayaka saves Mami from her fate (defeated by Charlotte) by making a contract for Kyousuke. She then teams up with Mami.
- Homura tells Mami that since she already formed a party with Sayaka, she should not induce Madoka to contract with Kyubey. However, Mami thinks Homura's intention is to take Madoka for herself, along with Kyoko, so she refuses such idea.
Sayaka doesn't go to save Hitomi from a witch since she doesn't want to lose Kyousuke. Hitomi is saved by Mami, and Sayaka feels regret and guilt for almost letting her friend die.
- She flips out during a witch hunting, and results in Mami getting severely hurt. Despite healing Mami with her magic, this makes Sayaka fall into despair.
  - Madoka tells Kyousuke about how his hands were healed. Sayaka feels hurt again when her secret is exposed.
Although not drawn, Sayaka becomes a witch in the late part of chapter 8.
- She didn't call herself an idiot this time. She feels happy for being necessary to Mami, but it was already too late.
- According to Kyubey, she became a witch because there are no grief seeds left for her. They were all used by Homura, Kyoko and Mami.
- Kyubey corrects his words later in volume 3, saying confrontation between magical girls slows down the speed of the collection of grief seeds. Kyubey admits that the process is beneficial for him because more magical girls become witches.
  - After hearing his words, Mami becomes angry and summons a pistol from her soul gem, preparing to shoot Kyubey.
Knowing a magical girl's inevitable fate, Mami decides to die with Oktavia. Kyoko stops her and they fight.
- Candeloro tries to temtp Mami to fall into despair with promises of friends that would never betray nor abandon her, promising Mami a new world of happiness. This is the first time that we learn that ones' witch version can tempt a magical girl to fall into despair.
- Homura remembers Mami's insanity after learning the truth from many timelines. She tells Kyoko about it but Kyoko doesn't believe her.
- Kyoko recovers her illusion ability momentarily. She deceives Mami so she has the chance to cleanse Mami's soul gem.
  - Kyoko creates a fake image of Mami's corrupt Soul Gem to make Mami think it is cleansed to stop her from becoming Candeloro. In fact Mami's Soul Gem is still corrupted and Kyoko does not cleanse it until after she kills Oktavia and dies in the process.
Finally Madoka makes her contract to revive Sayaka, and they fight Walpurgis together. Although it is not shown, they probably failed and Homura likely reset the timeline. Mami commits suicide by breaking her own soul gem (after being saved by Homura). Mami might be afraid of becoming a burden to Madoka since she no longer wants to fight.
- Homura doesn't reset time before fighting Walpurgis. She suggests Madoka to run away to prevent her from becoming Kriemhild Gretchen, but Madoka refuses again.
- After revival, Sayaka changes her attitude towards Homura. She also seems to know nothing about becoming a witch, and instead believes that she was saved by Madoka just before being killed by witches.
Weapon designs in this spin-off are the same as in anime, rather than the manga version.
- Mami also often summons multiple guns.
- Soul Gem design is also based on the anime version.
Through out the story, it is stated that one Grief Seed is not enough to purify multiple Soul Gems, making its usage very limited on a party. This is the source of competition among magical girls.
- It is also the source of strife and friction with Mami and other magical girls (and Kyoko).
- Also the reason why magical girls ignore familiars, as magic would be wasted on a target that doesn't drop Grief Seeds.