 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.
- "Kyuu-san.":
- "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.
- "Miracles, Magic and Regrets":
- "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".
- "Reasons Why She Didn't Drink Coffee":
- Mami serves Homura black coffee, instead of tea.
- Homura's home has a kitchen cabinet filled with folded bags of coffee beans, coffee grinders, several coffee makers, and plenty of coffee cups.
- Apparently, everyone assumes that Homura must like black coffee.
- Homura thinks black coffee is like despair if it was given a form: dark and bitter.
- Homura orders what appears to be coffee in Episode 5.
- "Meetings and Farewells":
- Madoka is angry that Mami the cute Anthonys.
- Madoka asks Mami to bring back with them the candies and ingredients within Charlotte's maze, so Mami can make better sweets.
- And Mami died while trying to bring back said such ingredients with them. Madoka explains that Mami's sacrifice wont be in vain.
- Homura boasts that her time stop power is quite handy, specially when it helps her to check on Madoka. Like checking Madoka's underwear, reading Madoka's notebooks, and spying on Madoka's night activities on her room.
- Ultimate Madoka replies that she saw everything, that she knows everything, she said to to Homura with a smile... Homura knows she is in trouble.
- Homura's dubious intentions continue to exist in the New World at the chagrin of Ultimate Madoka.
- Homura tried to help Sayaka with her lovelife but she realized Sayaka was hopeless.
- "An Important Story": Homura takes the magical girls to a travel trip with the purpose of telling them the truth about Kyubey, they spend the night at an INN.
- Homura's plan gets derailed as she is swayed by multiple distractions that makes her lose focus. The night turns into a wonderful evening for the girls to bond with each other and create good memories together.
- "The Little Mermaid and the Kind Witch": Kyoko reflects about her past and Sayaka, before her last moment.
- After Kyoko's fight with Sayaka regarding the stolen apples, sometime later Kyoko returns to the church to find a paper bag and two apples with a note, "I properly bought these with money.", it is presumed that these were bought by Sayaka for Kyoko. After Kyoko takes one bite, she claims it is sour.
- The story has a few elements from The Little Mermaid, like how the mermaid wanted to have a voice to be with her prince.
- Kyoko acknowledges that she can't be Sayaka's prince, but thanks to Sayaka she gave Kyoko the voice to be with her.
- "Welcome to Patisserie Madoka":
- Madoka wishes for a cake store with the certain conditions: a store that will never go bankrupt, located in a nice location, and enough money to cover for the material cost.
- Madoka wants the girls to wear cute, maid-like outfits and become her salesgirls.
- Madoka is clearly entrepreneurial.
- Madoka wants to use Kyubey as the store's mascot, and sell Kyubey-shape cakes...
- Kyubey thinks it is really strange that junior high schoolers are magical girls, ideally he would prefer elementary schoolers.
- And of course, Homura wants to work at Madoka's store.
- Kyoko was left out of the story, perhaps because she would eat everything and bring down Madoka's business.
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