Puella Magi Madoka Magica Anthology 1

Summary

Cover illustrated by Ume Aoki

The first comic anthology for Puella Magi Madoka Magica was released on September 12, 2011. The cover for this 164 page book is illustrated by Ume Aoki.

Listed contributors include: Hanokage, Keito Koume (小梅けいと), Kinusa Shimotsuki (霜月絹鯊), Zara (ざら), Takashi Tensugi, James Hotate, Chima Konami, Sadoru Chiba, Ayun Tachibana, Mizutama, Tetsuya Kobayashi, Seri Suzushiro, Tokio Shima, Ayami Kazama, KAKERU, Shin Hashimoto, Masato Yamane, Masakazu Oi, Tadashi Mizumoto, Kenji Tsurubuchi, Afro, Kashmir and Daioki.

A sample of hanokage's comic is available online by clicking on the orange box on the lower right hand of this page. The premise of it is that Homura built a game to simulate interacting with real life people. Homura uses it to interact with Madoka. Kyoko then uses it to interact with Sayaka. The last frame is her reaction after playing for a few hours.

Trivia

Information from the "Puella Magi Madoka Magica Anthology 1" is not meant to be taken as canon.

• Homura's golf club actually belongs to the school's principal that she took while stopping time.
• In a bar scene, Kazuko tell Junko that she is concerned with one of her students. Homura ended her introduction by telling Madoka she was also a mahou shoujo, like she did in timeline 2.
• Mami is concerned that the police could trace Homura for making homemade bombs; Homura explains that as long as there is no trace or evidence left behind, everything should be fine.
• Homura's home is equipped with a high-tech hologram technology/magic.
  • Homura's sophisticated simulation program is reminiscent of a dating sim.
• Some of the stories contain yuri subtext.
• In a parallel story/universe, the girls are just normal school girls and they are in the drama club. One day Madoka suggests a play about mahou shoujo.
  • The play is called "Mahou Shoujo Homura☆Madoka", with Homura and Madoka as the heroines.
    • Homura wrote 12 chapters in one night and apparently her script remains faithful to Gen Urobuchi's, except the ending.
      • Kyoko, Mami, and Sayaka find the script to be dark, depressing, and scary.
• A special chapter where the girls are given the chance to come up with their own finishing move's name.
  • Homura fails because no one can hear the names she uses during time stop.
  • Kyoko is guilty of ripping off names.
  • Sayaka's choice is just awful.
  • Mami's naming habit is mocked once again, and this time it turns her into a witch.
  • Surprisingly Madoka never got a chance to name her own finishing move.
• In a new parallel universe/story the girls are doing their summer homework and Madoka is still human.
  • In this story Homura is willing to help Madoka cheat (without Madoka's knowledge) as it serves "to protect Madoka's life".
  • Apparently Kyoko is an idiot savant/math genius. Still, Kyoko has given up schooling as she doesn't think there is any point to it.
  • Before Kyoko met the girls, the apples she ate were tasteless and she felt nothing.
• One story depicts Mami's point of view. She draws her friends as Puella Magi and feels less lonely.

Gallery

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Comment Letters - Translated

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