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Puella Magi Madoka Magica is a magical girl anime from 2011 that almost everyone has seen by now. Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story is the anime adaptation of the Madoka Magica spinoff mobile game (which originally launched in 2017 for Japan and 2019 for NA). The anime is being done by Shaft, with much of the staff from the original series also working on Magireco. In exchange for the fulfillment of a wish, Magical Girls keep fighting, unbeknownst to the rest of the world. But Iroha Tamaki can't seem to remember her wish. “When I became a Magical Girl, what did I wish for again?” There is a gaping hole in her life. Something important has been lost. But she continues to fight every day, without even knowing why… Then, a rumor begins to spread among Magical Girls. “Magical Girls can be saved if they go to Kamihama.” Kamihama City, the city where Magical Girls and Uwasa are gathering. The story of Iroha Tamaki, in search of her lost wish, begins… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBhgPAIMhfY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiRywvGitzs Magia Record is set in an alternate universe/timeline from the original Madoka series, and features a new cast of magical girls from Kamihama City. The story is not a prequel or sequel to the original series, and does not require that the reader/viewer has seen the original. But it is definitely written with the assumption that most or all of its audience is familiar with the main story and plot twists from the original. In general, I would say that the tone of the game is more lighthearted than the original series, but the main story, and especially the character back stories, feel very much like more Madoka. Also, while the anime is an adaptation of the game's first main story arc, there is (at least one) anime-only character, and there will probably be other changes to the story.  Season 2 infoStreaming: Funimation, Crunchyroll, and Hidive all have it, but Crunchyroll/Hidive are on a 1-week delay. astr0man posted:Season 2 starts on July 31 Spoiler rulesThis thread is for discussing the anime. Magical Girls (will add the rest of the main girls as the show progresses) Iroha Tamaki (voiced by Momo Asakura)  Game PV A Magical Girl who lives in Takarazaki City. Iroha is very responsible, but being overly considerate toward everyone around her, she does not fit in at school. Iroha cannot remember the wish she made when she became a Magical Girl, so she decides to go to Kamihama City to investigate a certain rumor that could provide her with answers. Kuroe (voiced by Kana Hanazawa)  A Magical Girl who lives in Takarazaki City. Kuroe fights alongside Iroha from time to time, but mostly they’re acquaintances who get together on a regular basis to exchange information. Kuroe is afraid of fighting in life or death battles and wishes she could be saved from being a Magical Girl. She begins to become obsessed with Kamihama City after hearing a certain rumor. Yachiyo Nanami (voiced by Sora Amamiya)  Game PV A veteran Magical Girl in Kamihama City. Yachiyo is a college student who’s not affiliated with a team, preferring to instead work alone. She is very territorial and is strict toward Magical Girls from other areas, especially when their skills don’t measure up. Yachiyo has been documenting all of Kamihama City’s “rumors.” Tsuruno Yui (voiced by Shiina Natsukawa)  Game PV A reckless Magical Girl who's full of energy. Tsuruno loves her family, especially her grandfather and great-grandfather, who lead the Yuis to their former prosperity. She fights to become the strongest Magical Girl in order to restore the Yui name. Felicia Mitsuki (voiced by Ayane Sakura)  Game PV Felicia is a spirited Magical Girl, full of energy and determination, who hates Witches for taking the lives of her parents. She now works as a mercenary, hunting Witches all across Kamihama. Her tough talk hides a kind heart and a love of animals. Sana Futaba (voiced by Yui Ogura)  Game PV A pessimistic Magical Girl, Sana was rejected by her family and those around her, so she has hardly any self-confidence. However, she'll quietly stand by the people who need her, ready to help them when the time comes. Momoko Togame (voiced by Mikako Komatsu)  A Magical Girl who is always looking out for rookies. The middle child, Momoko was influenced by her two brothers' boyishness, but she loves cute, girly things like stuffed animals. Because she loves cute things she's also a fan of female idols. Rena Minami (voiced by Kaori Ishihara)  A Magical Girl who has trouble opening up to others. Rena acts cocky to make up for her lack of self-confidence, which leads people who don't know her well to misunderstanding her. She's a picky eater and loves sweets. She is also a big fan of idols. Kaede Akino (voiced by Ayaka Ohashi)  A worrywart, Kaede is easily scared. She is also kind, caring, and ready to take risks for her friends. She loves animals, plants, and insects, and nature in general. She enjoys gardening, and though she's not good at them, she likes UFO Catchers. What happened to the game The NA/English server was shut down in September 2020. The JP game is still around, and Main Story Arc 2 is still ongoing (the anime is an adaptation of Arc 1). A new Chinese server was also started around the time that NA died, and is somewhere in Arc 1 (afaik they are going at a "normal" pace instead of the super accelerated schedule from NA's iteration). If you are interested in playing on the JP server, r/magiarecord has a good installation guide. There are also guides for playing on the CN server but I don't know anything about that. There is a partial English fan-translation patch available for the android version of the JP game (that works on the common emulators as well) provided by https://rayshift.io/ (FGO fan/translation community). For info on installing it you need to join their discord. Everything that was available at the end of NA is patched into the JP client, and there is ongoing fan translation for the JP only content. Full disclosure, I play on JP but haven't personally tried the rayshift/kamihama patch since I play on iOS. But in general the magia record community vouches for it, but it does require installing custom/patched APKs so ymmv Links Website | Twitter Magia Record: Playing Gacha is Suffering - Dead mobile games thread Let's All Be Magical Girls! - General magical girl thread Madoka Magica: Gen Urobuchi Wants to Warm Your Heart - The original Madoka anime thread (requires archives) the new Madoka Magica thread - The most recent Madoka thread (closed but should not require archives) astr0man fucked around with this message at 06:11 on Jul 31, 2021 |
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You forgot Kyubey OP
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Jan 5, 2020 06:12
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Can you punch Kyubey in the game?
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Jan 5, 2020 06:53
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The game has some magical girls that punch things, but unfortunately kyubey is not one of the things that gets punched
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Jan 5, 2020 07:33
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Good first episode. Not sure how far the anime original stuff will go, but just seeing game scenes animated already feels like enough justification for me to watch. I love the mobile game, but the visuals are not terribly exciting, whereas Shaft can certainly be counted on to make things interesting.
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Jan 5, 2020 14:28
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Kyubaby. I'm going in with flat expectations and hoping to be pleasantly surprised. So far, so good.
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Jan 5, 2020 16:38
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So do we know if this is one cour, or two? I've heard different answers from different people who all seem equally confident.
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Jan 6, 2020 20:12
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it's either 1 or split, there's 13 eps listed for this season
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Jan 6, 2020 20:16
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I played the mobage until it got to the point where you needed to grind for free or pay real bucks, I think it was after Chapter 4ish? I'll know once the anime gets to the point. Looks like a wonderful adaptation so far - the aesthetic sensibilities carried over, with the whole beautiful city, amazing school architecture, the Witches so far, etc. I wasn't that big of a fan of the characters outside of Iroha and Tsuruno, so hopefully we get some of the minor side characters, but who am I kidding
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Jan 7, 2020 15:01
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Yeah, I doubt that we'll get to see very many of the characters outside of Iroha and co. For what it's worth, I thought that the one scene with all of the wishes at the end of the first episode was a nice touch for game players.
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Jan 7, 2020 16:30
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 Kyubey is still a little bitch who needs to die I see.
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Jan 11, 2020 22:05
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Super Jay Mann posted:
Would it be Madoka if he wasn't?
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Jan 12, 2020 01:05
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Solid second episode, I liked that they threw in another side character reference with the Rena/Ren transformation
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Jan 12, 2020 04:38
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Some very nice transformation sequences this week. So far the anime has done a good job of fixing the slow/meandering pacing issues from the game. I was kind of hoping we'd get to see a bit more of the Momoko/Rena/Kaede back story stuff, but the side story lines they did use in this weeks ep fit really well. also there's a post-credits scene this week
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Jan 19, 2020 04:35
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I've heard some complaints about the plot for this episode being a bit rushed, especially with Rena's backstory. As a mobile game player I was very happy with the episode, but I think I'm filling in gaps without realizing it because I already understand these characters.
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Jan 19, 2020 05:00
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I haven't played the game, but I assume that all unanswered questions in Madoka hide a terrible secret. On that basis, I count more looming disasters than episodes so far. So that's cool.
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Jan 19, 2020 05:02
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astr0man posted:Some very nice transformation sequences this week. So far the anime has done a good job of fixing the slow/meandering pacing issues from the game. I was kind of hoping we'd get to see a bit more of the Momoko/Rena/Kaede back story stuff, but the side story lines they did use in this weeks ep fit really well.
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Jan 19, 2020 05:07
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Elephant Parade posted:the minute-long transformation montage kinda damaged the pacing, imo. it felt a little like an ad for those characters in the mobage. that's fair, when I mentioned the pacing it's I was talking about how the game really drags out the plot beats (because it has to spread it across however many battle nodes per story chapter) and a lot of times you end up with multiple strings of nodes in a row where nothing really happens
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Jan 19, 2020 05:25
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it's not fair. if you have anything less than the deepest respect for well-done transformation scenes in magical girl shows then get out
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Jan 19, 2020 05:39
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FractalSandwich posted:I haven't played the game, but I assume that all unanswered questions in Madoka hide a terrible secret. On that basis, I count more looming disasters than episodes so far. So that's cool. 1) Ui. This is the obvious one, since the main storyline is all about her. It doesn't seem like she disappeared as a result of Iroha's wish backfiring, so it must have been something else. Who, what, and why? Certain disaster awaits. 2) Kyubey Prime's intercity scheming. This speaks for itself. Certain disaster awaits. 3) Tiny Kyubey. A wildcard. It seems like he only appears inside Labyrinths. Probable disaster awaits. 4) Yachiyo. She looks much older than any magical girl we've seen before, and her name sounds pretty old-fashioned. What's up with that? Also: the ED is all about her. Curious. Certain disaster awaits. 5) The Coordinator. This is the most interesting one to me. What a weirdo. What's her deal? How much does she know about magical girls? If she knows everything, how can she be so breezy? And if she doesn't, how did she get to be in that position? And her name. Even by the standards of anime characters, "Mitama Yakumo" sounds made-up. She's very suspicious. I've got my eyes on her. Catastrophic disaster awaits. Some of these are probably different facets of the same disaster. Time will tell.
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Jan 19, 2020 05:40
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[in the theaters in 2013] gee i dunno guys, i think they just put this montage in to get us to buy the limited edition of the psp game
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Jan 19, 2020 05:41
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Elephant Parade posted:the minute-long transformation montage kinda damaged the pacing, imo. it felt a little like an ad for those characters in the mobage.
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Jan 19, 2020 07:21
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the 3-ep intro arc was rad imo. i loved how whatever is going on with the girls' despair (which i assume plays into how doppels are formed later) puts a fresh spin on the tsundere char. the last half of ep 3 is almost parallel to the whole section of Rebellion w/ homura's witch form. love to see it
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Jan 19, 2020 07:49
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FractalSandwich posted:If she knows everything, how can she be so breezy? And if she doesn't, how did she get to be in that position? And her name. Even by the standards of anime characters, "Mitama Yakumo" sounds made-up. She's very suspicious. I've got my eyes on her. Catastrophic disaster awaits. She doesn't know everything, she just knows what she knows. (VA joke)
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Jan 19, 2020 12:50
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Myriad Truths posted:She doesn't know everything, she just knows what she knows. You know, when I was compiling that list of impending catastrophes, I somehow left out all the stuff about rumours, even though it's the most obvious of them all. And the word "Uwasa" has appeared as a proper noun in a couple of places. Yachiyo gestured at an answer in this episode, so I guess I wasn't thinking about it. Classic mistake. Of course it'll get worse. I left out Kamihama's Witch population and Anti-Kyubey Field on purpose, because anything that causes trouble for him is probably a good thing.
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Jan 19, 2020 15:24
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What are some magical girl anime that can even compete with Madoka's transformation sequences? The ones in this and Rebellion are amazing.
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Jan 19, 2020 16:33
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Cephas posted:What are some magical girl anime that can even compete with Madoka's transformation sequences? The ones in this and Rebellion are amazing. Symphogear last season had some amazing transformations but the true champ since 2004 has been Precure
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Jan 19, 2020 17:30
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Endorph posted:that's... just magical girl anime. e: and the weirdness of that was what made me go "oh there might be an ulterior motive here"
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Jan 19, 2020 19:33
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Jan 20, 2020 06:26
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What I expected to see this episode that I got: More pretty visuals, magical girl battles, and an unsettling atmosphere. What I didn't expect to see this episode that I got: Someone putting ketchup on their cheesecake 
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Jan 25, 2020 23:09
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Super Jay Mann posted:What I expected to see this episode that I got: More pretty visuals, magical girl battles, and an unsettling atmosphere. I thought that as well, but cherry topping also comes in similar squeezable containers so maybe it was that?
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Jan 26, 2020 01:35
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Elephant Parade posted:That's fair, I guess. To be clear, I don't have a problem with transformation sequences; I just didn't like that they played all of them in a row, because it felt flow-breaking to have four separate abstract sequences play sequentially over two minutes.
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Jan 26, 2020 02:34
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Endorph posted:no seriously thats just magical girl anime, precure plays two minute of transformation sequences every episode. if theres an ulterior motive, its probably just saving time on animation. I mean that was probably the original reason. Reusing 2 minutes of footage over the course of a 48+ episode series is probably a life saver for meeting time lines and not having animators go completely crazy
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Jan 26, 2020 02:46
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Also Henshins are neat and I like watching them
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Jan 26, 2020 02:46
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Nitrousoxide posted:I thought that as well, but cherry topping also comes in similar squeezable containers so maybe it was that?  Zoom. Enhance.  I told you there's something wrong with her.
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Jan 26, 2020 02:47
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It’s definitely ketchup. It’s very in-character for Mitama to be doing weird poo poo with food. I’m on vacation in jp this week so The Mightiest™ won’t make it into the op until I get home
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Jan 26, 2020 03:40
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Endorph posted:if theres an ulterior motive, its probably just saving time on animation. this is where shaft is and has just been ridiculous. madomagi TV had transformations they played like once each, then they gave them new ones for BD and then again for the movie remakes, and then they just went off in rebellion. and if they wanted to save any time here they'd have reused the mobage transformations. instead they went all out again.
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Jan 26, 2020 04:26
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Endorph posted:no seriously thats just magical girl anime, precure plays two minute of transformation sequences every episode. if theres an ulterior motive, its probably just saving time on animation.
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Jan 26, 2020 04:54
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Elephant Parade posted:huh, good to know. I thought only the super cheap ones did that Nah, if anything the expensive, well made ones get spammed even harder because they look rad as poo poo. Last year's Symphogear was as well-produced as a high-end shounen piece, and I'm pretty sure every single episode besides the finale had at least one if not multiple minute-and-a-half-to-two-minutes long transformation sequences in it - and fans had a great time with it because we thought the transformations were awesome.
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Jan 26, 2020 05:14
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astr0man posted:It’s definitely ketchup. It’s very in-character for Mitama to be doing weird poo poo with food. For all I know, the show might end before we learn anything about her at all. I wouldn't mind that either, really. Not all mysteries need answers.
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Jan 26, 2020 17:27
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