Cover illustrated by Ume Aoki
Summary
A follow-up to the first anthology, released on March 12, 2012. The Homura cover for this 164 page book is illustrated by Ume Aoki.
A sample of the anthology comic by Ushiki Yoshitaka is available online by clicking on the orange box on the lower right hand of this page
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Illustrations
- Front Cover - Ume Aoki. Homura armed with a grenade.
- Back Cover - Kotamaru. Girls in chibi form, having a tea party.
- Inside illustration - Minamura Haruki. Madoka and Sayaka holding hands and jumping.
- Page 3 - Pan - Mami drinking tea and surrounded by rifles.
- Page 4 - Kaedena Akino - Kyoko and Sayaka eating pocky.
Comics:
- Imu Sanjo. Inner cover pages. "Soul Jam (Amply Sweet)" - The girls taste their soul gems.
- Ushiki Yoshitaka, Page 5. "To become what you want me to be" - Homura learns to be cool from Mami, but it backfires.
- Sekiya Asami, Page 11. "Traces" - Kyousuke's thoughts on Sayaka.
- Mura Kuroe, Page 21.
- Rui Tamachi, Page 29. "Cake" - The girls have a contest to make the most delicious cake.
- Tozakura Nagomi, Page 37.
- Takashi Tensugi, Page 45. "Feeding Kyoko" - Mami teaches Kyoko about how to properly value food.
- reimei-Nördlingen (circle), page 51.
- Cherry Arai, p. 67.
- Adobenchara, p. 73. "Madoka☆Magica Symposium" - After the anime finished airing, Homura has a discussion with everyone on their intentions and relationships with one another.
- Tsukasa Unohana, p. 81. "Mami-san Weight!" - Mami has concerns about her weight.
- akka, p. 89.
- Purapa, p. 101.
- Houmitsu, p. 107.
- Heiki Abara, p. 115. "Meetings and Farewells" - A humorous series of moments involving Madoka, from joining Mami in Charlotte's barrier to watching Homura as Ultimate Madoka.
- Torii Hisshi, p. 125. "An Important Story" - Homura invites the girls on a trip to tell them the truth about being magical girls. It doesn't go quite as she planned.
- Satoru Kouzo (鴻巣覚), p. 137. "A High Place in Mitakihara City" - Set in the world at the end of the anime, Homura chats with Kyoko and Kyubey, with Ultimate Madoka looking on.
- name, p. 147. "The Little Mermaid and the Kind Witch" - Kyoko's sympathetic thoughts about Sayaka's downfall.
Trivia
Information from the "Puella Magi Madoka Magica Anthology 2" is not meant to be taken as canon.
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 Pretty much what yuri-fans saw on the anime. - Some of the stories, like the previous Anthology, has yuri subtext.
- "To Become What You Want to Be": Homura asks Mami for help so she can become cool to impress Madoka. Homura's first mistake was asking Mami on how to become cool.
- "Traces": The story is told from Kyosuke's point of view. He suspects that Sayaka likes him and he feels bad for making her look after him, when none of his friends did. He cant even look at Sayaka without being reminded how pathetic he was, and he feels remorse about it. At one point he thought of dating Sayaka out of guilt, but instead he decides to date Hitomi as he feels a relationship with her will be on more equal terms, with no regrets nor being indebted to her.
- "Cake": The story focuses on the cooking skills of the girls and it becomes a cooking contest.
- Sayaka's cake looks normal but it is actually horrible tasting, "This nastiness must have been achieved through miracles and magic, Sayaka!".
- Surprisingly, Kyoko knows how to bake an apple pie. And surprisingly it is ordinary looking, ordinarily delicious, and just plain ordinary.
- Homura serves C4 (plastic explosive) as a cake. C4 tastes sweet but it is poisonous.[1]
- Madoka's cake looks like a Lovecraftian monster reject. However, its tastes delicious.
- "Feeding Kyoko": The story begins after Madoka leaves the spirit world from Episode 12, when she was having a conversation with Mami and Kyoko (who are spirits) about her wish.
- Mami is concerned that Kyoko is not really appreciating the food that is been given to her. To Kyoko, the idea of food appreciation is eating everything, while Mami reproaches her and tells her that by eating too quickly she doesnt get to enjoy the taste of the ingredients.
- When Mami asks Kyoko why she isnt getting fat for being a glutton, Kyoko replies that she uses magic to suck out the extra fat.
- Kyoko suspects that Mami used magic to give herself some extra fat in the right places.
- Kyoko realizes that by using magic to suck out the fat, it is not different than wasting food. Kyoko promises to Mami that she will be more considered from now on once they return to reality.
- In the New World, Kyoko took Mami's advice to heart. Apparently Kyoko has trouble eating sometimes, as she is commanded by "the spirit of valuing food" to not be greedy. This concerns Mami as it may backfire and end up making Kyoko to overeat herself.
- Mami gives permission to Kyoko to indulge herself, after all she enjoys Kyoko's company and she is willing to make more food for her whenever she wants. An embarrassed Kyoko at first tries to reproach Mami, but she is soon swoon by the delicious taste of Mami's cake, so much so that she doesn't ask for seconds, instead she enjoys its flavor.
- "Madoka☆Magica Symposium": Homura wants to start a symposium to comment and criticize the Anime series, however the discussion devolves into Homura's rants about how Madoka is a cheating spouse.
- Mami wanted to voice her opinion that her character left the show too early.
- Homura has a dislike of Mami, because her character caused unnecessary suffering on Madoka. Homura also reveals that there was a high probability that Mami would steal Madoka from her.
- Homura also had some harsh words for Madoka for being flirty and friendly toward Mami.
- Homura is not threatened by the presence of Kyoko, since she is only has eyes for Sayaka.
- Homura reveals that in one of her timelines, Kyoko "comforts" Sayaka during her moment of weakness after being rejected by Kyousuke. It was a rare event.
- In the end, the symposium was just Homura's opportunity for her to complain about her horrible experience.
- "Mami-san's Weight!": Ever since Mami made new friends, she has been inviting them for tea and cakes every day. Mami has enjoyed their company so much that she gained weight for eating too much cake.
- Sayaka triumphantly declares that she is not gaining any weight thanks to an "special" training.
- Kyoko claims that they are going out together for "special" training.
- It was suppose to be a secret, so an embarrassed Sayaka reproaches Kyoko for being an idiot. Kyoko counter-reproaches Sayaka by reminding her that "they are going out together", so she shouldn't call her an idiot.
- Homura is keeping a track of Madoka's weight in every timeline...
- She gained 0.3 kilograms, but something tells me that shouldn't be Madoka's main concern.
- Kyubey is puzzled as to why girls would worry about their body weight.
- What Kyubey doesnt tell Mami is that her magical body wont lose or gain weight. Isn't that great, Mami?
- "A High Place in Mitakihara City": A story about how idiots and smoke like high places.
- Disturbingly, Homura has developed a fetish for pink haired girls, to the point she imagines Tatsuya wearing a pretty dress and a pink wig. Godoka was not amused.
- Mami is trying to seduce Sayaka, Kyoko is not amused.
- Kyubey is willing to jump from the top of a roof for some Grief Seeds. Either he is also an idiot or doesn't care, "Entropyyyy!".
- Kyubey's favorite word is, "Surpassed".
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- ↑ No joke. US Army Field Manual 5-250, Explosives and Demolitions includes this bold print, block warning: "WARNING Composition C4 explosive is poisonous and dangerous if chewed or ingested; its detonation or burning produces poisonous fumes."
