Puella Magi Madoka Magica Official Guidebook "You Are Not Alone"

Summary

Puella Magi Madoka Magica Official Guidebook "You Are Not Alone", a compilation on a wide variety of information on Madoka Magica, was released on August 27th, 2011. The table of contents reveals these categories of information: Illustrations, Episode and Characters, Cast Interviews, Materials, and Staff Interviews.

Table of Contents

A look at the sample pages from the Guidebook reveals it contains a wide range of information, including:

Prior illustrations from magazines and other sources
Early character designs of initial concepts
Comics related to production that are both informative and entertaining
Character pages for not only the main characters but witches too
Episode coverage including commentary
Interviews with many cast and staff members
Design, sketches and other production-related material similar to Production Note or Art Book
Staff behind-the-scenes discussion

Translations

All translations courtesy of symbv from evageeks forum.

Puella Magi Madoka Magica After-recording Report

Puella Magi Madoka Magica After-recording Report (魔法少女まどか☆マギカアフレコレポート)
By Hanokage (作：　ハノカゲ), author of the Puella Magi Madoka Magica manga

Episode 11: Part 1

Episode 11: Part 1

Original text	Translation
某日、都内某所にてまどかマギカアフレコ現場へ突撃☆取材いたしまた！今回取材させて頂いた回は第１１話「最後に残った道しるべ」です！	In a certain day, at a certain place in Tokyo. I went to the recording session for Madoka Magica's after-recording for a sudden reporting trip! The episode which I came to report on this time is episode 11 "The Last Signpost Left!!"
キュウべえ代理c	Kyubey as avatar [symbv:ハノ was written on the paper covering this Kyubey -- it is the first two characters of Hanokage: HANO but it also looks like a face. Quite ingenious idea.]
クライマックス	Climax
まだかのイラストが描いてありましたかわいい！！描きおろしでしょう？	There is Madoka illustration on it. Cute!! Is it new illustration?
台本	Scripts
アフレコが始まるまで、早速いただいた台本を読んで作業です	Before the after-recording begins,my work was to read the scripts given to me
スタジオはこんなかんじです	The studio looks like this
それで見てみま・・・----!??	And then when I start to read.....!??
ほむら・・・・ちゃん！？コマ・・・ホマンドー！？	Homura...chan!? Comma....Hommando!?
＝＝＝＝	(bottom parts are the sound effects) ＝＝＝＝
隠していたミサイル輸送車が浮く。時間差で戦闘機も浮上	The previously hidden Missile Launcher Vehicles float up. With some time delay, Fighters also float up
２０３　水滴なめ見上げるほむら	203 Homura, looking up at the water drops at an angle
２０４　正面で笑ってるワルプルギス	204 In full face Walpurgis laughing
２０５　ほむらUP	205 Homura - close-up
２０６　ミサイル輸送車からミサイル発射	206 Missile Launcher Vehicle launches missiles
２０７　コンビナート群にミサイル打ち込まれたワルプルギスIN ミサイル爆発し、電線が切れて周囲が停電。戦闘機が次々に突っ込んでくる	207 In the industrial complex, Walpurgis shot by missiles - zoom in missles explode, electric wires cut electric outage in the surrounding areas fighters sortie one by one
＝＝＝＝	＝＝＝＝
脚本段階ではなかった描写が色々追加されていました	Many depictions that were not found at the stage of screenplay were added
ミサイル輸送車・・・？戦闘機・・・？	Missle Launcher Vehicles....? Fighters....?
・・・と、はしゃいでいる間新房監督と脚本の虚淵さんがなにやら話しこんでおられる様子・・・	...while I was in high mood about it. I saw Director Shinbo and Urobuchi-san who wrote the screenplay being deep in conversations on something...
虚淵さん	Urobuchi-san
監督	Director
アニメ放送時には戦闘機がカットされていたので演出面での話し合いをしていたのかなと予想です	I guess it was some discussions on matters related to animation as the fighters were to be cut in the anime broadcast
新房監督・・・！ワルプルギス戦ハンパないですコレ！	Director Shinbo...! The Walpurgis Battle... this is awesome!!
すみませんキュウべえ姿で代理です	Sorry, all have Kyubey as avatars

Part 2:

Part 2

Part 3:

Part 3

Part 4:

[Editor's note (EN): The quality of the picture caused the translator problems, which is why there's some gaps in the translations and notes.]

Top frame:
After a full session of recording, the sounds of familiars and Walpurgis Nacht used in the fight scenes were also recorded.
HA HA HA HA HA HA
The laughing sounds from the female seiyuu were taken.

Middle frame:
Tatsuya~~!!! Mami-sa~~n!!?

picture in imagination

And then Walpurgis is...no kidding... Kaori Mizubashi-san!! [EN: Mami's seiyuu]
In the anime, the voice was modified so I did not notice. I was shocked to know this! Ahahahahahahah....

Bottom Right:
During the break at the middle Yuuki-san and Kato-san came to talk to me! It was a valuable experience. [EN: seiyuu for Madoka and Kyubey]

I am not going to talk about this picture (lol)

(TN: I cannot read the text next to eyeglasses girl)
They read the manga Madoka which I finished and presented only today. Thank you so much!

Bottom Middle:
QB (with director Shinbo written on it) - Kyubey from anime, cool?
Beat ??? Walpurgis
- It is the best !
During the break, I felt that the seiyuu and the staff created a gentle mood around the recording studio....

Bottom Left:
(TN: not entirely legible but it is about being able to visit the after-recording session and give thanks to everyone)

Very bottom:
Finally, my thanks to the seiyuu, production staff, editors!!

Temporary title is “Mahou Shoujo Apocalypse”

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[EN: Ume Aoki is original character designer and Atsuhiro Iwagami is the main producer]

Aoki – Later when I watched it again from ep.1, I got the impression that the heroine kept changing from one to one. From ep.4 it is the story about Sayaka and Kyouko, and when it is near the last part Homura starts to get more noticeable. At the end Madoka becomes the proper protagonist.

Iwagami – About the characters, to be honest at the time when I read the screenplay I could not read this far. Indeed it became like an omnibus where there is Mami arc, Sayaka arc, Kyouko arc etc. In one sense it is like Bakemonogatari in which the composition is to showcase the appeal of each heroine by turn, and then I thought “I see, so it is what it has become.”

Interviewer – By the way, how about making the protagonist Madoka and other girls junior high students?

Iwagami – Primary school student, if in 3D form, will give the impression of child actor, not idol. However, if it is junior high student, people will recognize her as an idol, and I thought it may get easier to get people to watch it. So even before Urobuchi-san finished writing the plot, [I gave ?] the condition of “make [???] mahou shoujo of junior high students..... [more text on the next page]