Sana Futaba

Sana Futaba
Japanese Name	二葉 さな (Futaba Sana)
Voiced by	Japanese: Yui Ogura

Sana Futaba is the one of the original characters of the 2017 mobile game Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Magia Record

General Info

Physical features

• Age: 14
• Height: 153cm
• Eye colour: Green
• Hair colour: Green
• Birthplace: Chuo Ward

Other

• Soul Gem: Green circle on crown-shaped pendant
• Weapon: Large Shield
• Wish: To disappear
• Ability: Disappear (Disappears along with all signs of magic)
• Witch form: Theresia
• Japanese pronoun: watashi (私)
• School: Mizuna Girls' School, Eighth grade

Game Info

Game related data

Rarity Final Lv Type Attribute ★2 → ★5 100 Defense STATS HP ATK DEF Initial 12514 3156 4375 Max at ★2 12514 3156 4375 Max at ★3 15847 3998 5551 Max at ★4 20843 5261 7310 Max at ★5 25825 6520 9080 Disks Connect: Anything You Need From Me ★2: Damage Cut [VII] ★3: Damage Cut [X] ★4: Damage Cut [XV] ★4: Damage Cut [XV] & Attack UP [VI] & Defense UP to Iroha Magia: Foltergefängnis (Torture Prison) ★2: Damage All Enemies [I] & Defense UP (All / 3 T) ★3: Damage All Enemies [III] & Defense UP (All / 3 T) ★4: Damage All Enemies [V] & Defense UP (All / 3 T) & Damage Cut (All / 3 T) ★5: Damage All Enemies [VI] & Defense UP (All / 3 T) & Damage Cut (All / 3 T) Doppel: Theresia Random Damage Effect on All Enemies & 1 of 2 Pattern effects (Random) Pattern 1: Defense UP (All / 3T) & Damage Cut (All / 3 T) & HP recovery (All) Pattern 2: Burn & Darkness & Chance of Bind (All Enemies)

Summary

A Magical Girl who is always thinking negative thoughts. Ostracized by her family and by the people around her, she never gained any real confidence in herself. But she is gentle to others, which leads her to submit to the will of those who can be confident in their own abilities, and she is always content to serve quietly and obediently at their side. "What… was I born for? I need to change, don't I?"

Doppel Description

The Doppel of invisibility. Its form is an inquisition chair. The master of this emotion is pained at the sight of its materialized form, but feels some sense of fulfillment as well. This Doppel’s main body isn’t the chair, but rather an invisible form that sits above the chair in a continual state of torment. The invisible Doppel uses the blood flowing from itself to attack its enemies. However, this Doppel also proves rather difficult to control. Apart from the invisible Doppel that’s normally created from its master’s left ear, a visible one may sometimes appear from her right ear instead. In these cases, the Doppel will make no distinction between enemy and ally, wildly swinging its pendulum guillotine in a violent, shrieking rampage.

Side Story

Sana notices that Iroha has a keychain for an old puppet show called "Koneko no Gorogoro" ("Kitten's Purr"). Sana explains that she's a fan of the show and starts talking about the cast and events. Sana apologizes for talking too much, but Iroha tells her not to worry. Sana starts to worry that her past will just repeat itself, and thinks about how she became a magical girl. Sana narrates that she's her mother's "stepchild". Her actual father has been dead as long as she could remember. Her mother would say that marrying Sana's father was the biggest mistake she ever made.

Sana's mother was always strict with her, and would yell at her no matter what. Her current father is a professor at Kamihama University and teaches at its medical school. All he cared about were Sana's grades, which were always poor. He would literally call her a stupid girl and demanded that she get better. Sana also has two step-brothers from her step-father, an older one and a younger one. Her older brother had the highest grades in the country, while her younger brother was athletically talented. Both of her brothers were greatly loved by Sana's mother.

One day Sana asked her older brother to help her study. However, her older brother called her stupid as well. Her younger brother says that neither of them have to waste their valuable time on Sana. Eventually, it reached the point where her entire family declared Sana didn't deserve to be part of the Futaba family. Claiming that she tarnished the family name with her actions, Sana's family forbade her from interacting or even seeing them. They told her to send an email if she needed something. Since that day, Sana hasn't said a word to her family, and vice versa. Sana narrates that she had to stay quiet, or else it seemed she would be abandoned completely.

Since that day, Sana spent more time outside. She would spend her days wandering aimlessly. One day though she made a friend - a stray cat she named Goro, after the "Koneko no Gorogoro" show. Every day she would feed Goro in a back alley and talk to him. She would do things like ask if Goro lived in an animal city, like on the show. Sana narrates that she was just living simply because she was too scared to die. Sana wonders if she could live in the animal city, but realizes it doesn't really exist.

One day, Goro vanished. Sana tried to find him and eventually met an old man who ran the store in front of Goro's alley. The old man explains he called someone from the health department to take away the stray cats behind his store, and asks Sana to stop feeding them. The old man apologizes when Sana starts crying, but she runs off. As time went on, Sana started to believe Goro left because she talked to it. One day she thought she saw Goro but found nothing. Unbeknownst to Sana, it was actually Kyubey. Sana narrates she never saw Goro again.

After Goro disappeared, Sana decided to simply stay at school after class. One day, she met a student from her class who liked her "Koneko no Gorogoro" keychain. Sana was happy to make a friend, especially since the student was also lonely like her. One day, Sana was bullied by some other students, who took her keychain. Sana looked to her friend for help, but her friend did nothing. That day, Sana just stopped going to school. She called her friend once, and after an awkward conversation Sana cut off all contact. Sana has no hard feelings, believing the student was scared as well. That was when she met Kyubey.

When Kyubey made his offer, Sana didn't even think about making wishes to fix her family or make friends. After all, she was betrayed by those people. Sana initially asks to be taken to the animal city where Gorogoro lives, but then just says to make her invisible. Sana explains she just wants to disappear from the world, as she believes herself worthless. Back in the present, Iroha notices Sana spacing out and asks her what's wrong. Sana narrates that until she met Iroha, she lived by herself. Since normal people couldn't see her she stopped going to home or school, not wanting to deal with the world around. She thinks about what she would do if she hadn't met Iroha, but is interrupted by Iroha talking about "Koneko no Gorogoro". Sana mentally thanks Iroha for finding her and is glad she wasn't alone forever.

Costume Stories

Swimsuit (2018)

Sana has come to the beach to play with Iroha and company. Iroha takes a break from swimming and asks if Sana has swam already. Sana says she's taking a break herself. As the girls relax, Iroha remembers something and helps Sana make something in the sand. Sana recognizes it as "Gorogoro" from the show she likes. Sana proceeds to monologue about the show internally. Iroha asks her why she's staring. Sana says it's because it's amazing and asks if Iroha is a "Gorotor", a creator of the show. Iroha is confused.

Sana decide to make a sand version of "Gorogoro"'s friend "Wonderful", which Iroha recognizes. Iroha remembers there was an episode where the characters were in a beach volleyball tournament, but couldn't win first place. Sana makes another character that appeared in the episode, and Iroha says she's making them fast. Sana then proceeds to make objects and locations from the episode.

An hour later, Iroha asks Sana to stop, pointing out that she filled the entire area with characters. People come by and wonder if there's a live performance going on. An embarrassed Sana flees into the ocean. Iroha takes a picture of the art. Sana narrates that when it comes to "Gorogoro" she gets so excited, and wants to try doing it again.

Event Appearances

• The Crescent Moon Manor's Merry Christmas.
• Happy New Year at the Mizuna Shrine!
• A la Carte Valentine
• 300 Day Login Event

Abilities

Due to the nature of her wish, Sana is completely invisible and silent to humans except other magical girls.

Etymology

• The characters in her last name mean "two" (二) and "leaf" (葉), respectively.

Trivia

• Her illustrators are Ume Aoki and Sasagi Koushi.
• Sana's Side Story was slightly edited due to the inconsistency of her having a boy in her all-girls school. See here.
• Her weapon is reminiscent of a police riot shield that spawns various types of pliers and wrenches.
• Sana's doppel is the first to have more than one doppel attack depending on which half of the doppel is summoned. There is a set pattern for each half of the doppel and there is an equal likelihood of either half being summoned in battle.

Gallery

Game Gallery

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  Magia Record Two Star Card

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  Magia Record Five Star Card

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  In-Battle Sprite

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  Doppel Pattern 1

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  Valentine Event Costume

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  Sana in Pajamas

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  Magical Girl Seal 2019

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Official Art

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  Sana transformation sequence production art

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  Image is from an official livestream event on September 1st, 2018. The artist is Fujino Fuji

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Memoria Cards

Card	Effect	Cooldown	Eng Text	Jap Text
Back Alley Friend	Normal: Guaranteed Guardian (Self / 1 T) Max Limit Break: Guaranteed Guardian (Self / 1 T)	Normal: 8 turns Max Limit Break: 7 turns	**Unique to Sana Futaba** A tiny little soul sitting alone... It meant a great deal to the girl it supported. It filled her heart, which felt like a gloomy back alley, with warmth and kindness. Now and then it still peeks its face out in her dreams.	ポツンと座る小さな命は、少女を支えた大きな命暗くて怖い路地裏を、優しい雰囲気で包み込むように薄暗く沈んだ心を明るく穏やかにしてくれただから今も少女の夢には、時折この子が顔を覗かせる
Invisible Girl After School	Normal: Chance to Inflict Poison [V] (All Enemies / 1 T) Max Limit Break: Chance to Inflict Poison [VI] (All Enemies / 1 T)	Normal: 8 turns Max Limit Break: 7 turns	(Oh...Iroha's right ahead of me... Is she going back to Yachiyo's house? Maybe I should hurry after her... Would it be annoying if I tagged along? If I just bumped into her by chance, we could go home and talk, couldn't we? She did say she needed me...) "Um, Iroha!"	（あ...前にいるのって...いろはさん...やちよさんの家に帰るのかな？お追いかけてみようかな…私も一緒に付いて行ったら駄目かな？偶然会ったときぐらい、一緒にお話しながら帰ってもいいよね？だって、私を必要としてくれた人だもん…）「あのフ、いろはさん！」
Is This Joy Momentary or Forever...?	Max Limit Break: Anti-Darkness & Anti-Fog & Damage UP [III]	Passive	The curtains descend on the first day, and the distant hands are connected. The warmth of the sunset on their backs is the same as the warmth of their hands. However, the night draws close behind. Only the night can dominate the sky after the evening.	離れた手が繋がれて、１日に幕が下りてゆく。 背に受ける夕日の温もりは、手の温もりと同じ。 だが、その背後に迫るのは夜。 夕の後に空を支配できるのは、否応なく夜だけだ。
Learning by Example...?	Normal: Max Limit Break: Attack UP [V] (Self / 3 T) Status Ailment Resistance UP [IV] (Self / 3 T)	Normal: turns Max Limit Break: turns	"Over here, Tsuruno~! Take this!!" "Hey! Now you've done it, Felicia~!" "(S-so you have fun with everyone at the beach by playing around like this...!)" Later, Sana received a combined counterattack from Tsuruno and Felicia after splashing water at them with all her power...	「ほらほら鶴乃～！食らいやがれー！」 「あ～！やったなフェリシア～！」 「（う、海では皆さんとこうやって遊ぶんですね…！）」 この後、全力で水をかけまくり、ふたりからの反撃に遭うさなだった…
Recovery and Resolve	Normal: Guaranteed Guardian (Self / 1 T) + Defense UP [VIII] (Self / 1 T) Max Limit Break: Guaranteed Guardian (Self / 1 T) + Defense UP [IX] (Self / 1 T)	Normal: 8 turns Max Limit Break: 7 turns	I vanished from this world, and the people in it, because I didn't belong anywhere. It was painful, and lonely. But because I went through all that, I met someone really important. Now, I won't give up on our friendship, no matter what happens. I'll give my all for her, because she treats me like I matter...	「この世界に私の居場所はないから、私は人の視界から姿を消した… 辛くて、寂しくて、切なかったけど、おかげで大切な人と出会えた… だから、私は何があっても、もうこの関係を手放したりしない… 私は私を必要としてくれる人のために、この身を捧げます…」
A Shower of Light	Normal: Blast Damage UP [I] Max Limit Break: Blast Damage UP [II]	Passive	One hated Christmas. The other didn't understand it. But when those fragments of light rained down that night, their closed off hearts slowly eased open.	あんなに大嫌いだったクリスマスあんなに理解できなかったクリスマス光の粒子が降り注いだ夜固く閉ざされた心は少しずつ開いていった
Smile to Everyone!	Max Limit Break: Acquired amount of Cash Chip (CC) UP [II] (Not applicable as Support equipment)	Passive	The most important thing for having fun every day is a smile! If a smile brings about another smile, the cycle will continue on and on! So today once more with a smile full of energy, "Welcome!"(Lawson Collaboration Memorial)	毎日を楽しく過ごすために大事なのは、何よりも笑顔！笑顔が笑顔を呼べば、その輪はどんどん広がっていくはず！だから、今日も元気に笑顔で「いらっしゃいませー！」(ローソンコラボ記念）
A Split-Second Tag Team	Max Limit Break: Attack UP [V] & Charged Damage UP [IV] (Self / 1 T)	Max Limit Break: 7 turns	It’s easy to understand what you’re thinking, and I can perfectly match your mood. Because we’re comrades united under one roof. Still, it’s difficult to match your mood with just a dinner menu.	何を考えているのかを理解するのは簡単で、 息を合わせた絶妙な連携だってできてしまう。 だって、ひとつ屋根の下で強く結束した仲間だから。 それでも食事の献立だけは、息を合わせるのが難しい。
The Story That Starts Here	Max Limit Break: MP Gauge 10% Full On Battle Start	Passive	A wish to vanish from the world. A pursuit of endless, solitary revenge. A desire to reclaim lost glory. A chance to protect others by remaining isolated. And...a precious girl, forgotten by all around her. We have all lost something, and now we are assembled here together, linked by a mysterious fate. Our new story has only just begun...	消え去りたいと願ったこと。独りで仇を探し続けること。喪われた誇りを追い求めたこと。守るために孤独を選んだこと。そして…忘れ去られた大切な人のこと何かをなくした私たちは、不思議な因果で結ばれ、この場所に集ったいまはもう新しい物語が動き始めている
The Treasure is Here	Normal: Damage Cut [V] (Self 1 T) Max Limit Break: Damage Cut [VI] (Self 1 T)	Normal: 9 turns Max Limit Break: 8 turns	This picture is my precious treasure. The bright blue sky, the vast sea, and my friends' smiles... This recollection of spending this summer's holidays with everyone is a once in a lifetime, an irreplaceable memory.	この写真の向こう側に、私の大切な宝物がある 鮮やかな青い空、広い海、仲間たちの笑顔… みんなと過ごしたあの夏の旅の想い出は 一生に一度だけの、かけがえのない記憶
Twin Shadows Sneaking Up	Normal: Anti-Evade & Blast Damage UP [VI] (Self / 1 T) Max Limit Break: Anti-Evade & Blast Damage UP [VII]	Normal: 6 turns Max Limit Break: 5 turns	Sana: "Wow...It smells nice, doesn't it Iroha?" Iroha: "Yeah! Are you going to eat soon?" Yachiyo: "Wait!...Not yet. I'll be the one to judge." Tsuruno & Felicia: "Fufufu...Charge!"	さな「わぁ…いい匂いがしてきましたね、いろはさん」 いろは「うん！そろそろ食べごろかな？」 やちよ「待って！...まだよ…食べ頃は私が見極めるわ」 鶴乃＆フェリシア「ふつふつふつ...突撃だぁー！」

External links

• Official Magia Record Website - Japanese
• Official Magia Record Website - English
• Gamepress' character page
• Transcript of Sana's MSS from NA Server
• Recording of Sana's MSS on Youtube (NA)