Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica: Majuu-hen

[MangaDex]

 

[arcsalvo]

Readable, but a bit weak compared to the stellar original Madoka Magica story. The art's nice though, and the design of some of these new "Wraiths" are pretty cool. All in all, I can see why they didn't adapt it into an anime or movie. Kind of feels like one of those filler arcs in long-running shounen anime that have to kill time because they caught up with the original story.

 

[TakeshiCuzao]

Wasted potential.

 

[Rockylucky20]

Hold on...there is a movie....
i've only seen the anime

 

[Spooder9]

great stuff

 

[ILiekFishes]

love what they do with sayaka and kyoko here, it's got the same needless tragedy aspect as the show and it's amazing. fills in the gaps between main series and rebellion very nicely and gives a lot of lore to digest. couldn't ask for anything more.

 

[ThatGuyBman]

A complete and total waste of your time.

The first Volume is surprisingly solid, building tension and exploring the mystery of the Wraith threat, while also shedding more light on Sayaka's death in the new universe. Then, Volume 2 starts to bring in the craziness, introducing a Wraith that looks like Madoka to Homura alone, and causing Homura to start questioning if her memories of Madoka's existence were even real or not. All for the third and final volume to be an incoherent piece of shit that contradicts itself, overexplains literally everything to the point that my brain was melting from trying to understand what was going on, and in the end, it all leads to a time reset? What I gathered from this is that Homura was unsure why she lost her time magic, and instead gained the ability to manipulate memories. This plants the inner seed of doubt that her memories of Madoka were all fabricated for some reason. The presence of Wraith Madoka drives that further when she's forced to confront someone who looks just like Madoka, but nobody can see that. All leading to Homura realizing she forgot what her wish to become a Magical Girl was and ultimately making her believe Madoka was just a farce she came up with. BUT it turns out that the shield that allowed her to manipulate time had somehow became home to a pocket dimension where a witch existed? Also, Homura's magic was stolen and it was given to this Wraith Madoka, but eventually she dies and it instead takes physical form and explains that Homura did in fact; alter her memories, and that her ability to manipulate memories was the result of a miracle when Goddess Madoka reset the universe with her wish to prevent the existence of Witches?

As you can tell, it's a mess of writing and planning. What cool ideas are there are dragged down by incompetent, incoherent writing that does nothing to bridge the gap between the Anime and Rebellion Movie. Skip this, you don't need the context of it. The character interactions are nice, i will give it that. But otherwise; avoid it.

 

[KrisCrossed]

It was awesome!! Of course it isn't like the original series in terms of storytelling but it's really enjoyable, I loved the way we got more time with characters like mami and kyoko since we got so little of them in pmmm

I like that we get insight on homuras despair about not being able to be with Madoka since it really ties into rebellion where she'd rather defy everything that makes up the world in order to keep Madoka with her.

The story gets a bit messy later on but I really liked wraithdoka, and homura doubting if Madoka was ever real was so sad, it gave me chills when homura asked her to make her stop being a magical girl and she ate her soul gem saying she was keeping her heart safe! (it also kind of resembled the scene where homura broke her own soul gem in rebellion so extra points)I also got a bit sad when she died near the end overall it's a pretty solid story, not Shakespeare levels but honestly ill reread when Walpurgisnacht rising comes out because I reaaally loved it if you couldn't tell haha