History YMMV / PuellaMagiOrikoMagica

* DracoInLeatherPants: [[spoiler: Oriko and Kirika]], for some. For some people, using brutal and horrible methods as their M.O. (like [[spoiler: getting many students and teachers from Mitakihara Junior High killed after stating a witch attack]]) and [[spoiler: getting Madoka ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice]] is LIKE TOTALLY OKAY because they're [[spoiler: {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s]].

* DistaffCounterpart: Yuma and Oriko seem to function as counterparts towards Madoka and Homura respectively. [[spoiler: Much like Madoka inspired hope, later actually becoming hope itself, Yuma is the bright-eyed idealist who ends up inspiring Kyouko and Mami to keep fighting after they hit their DespairEventHorizon. Oriko seems to be a counterpart to Homura in that both are taking drastic measures to try and save their world after going through much suffering in their lives. The differences lie in that, even though Yuma inspires Kyouko and Mami, her efforts aren't enough to save this timeline from the inevitable rewind that Homura causes once Madoka dies, and Oriko's actions have left her with too much blood on her hands to the point that she questions as to whether or not it was worth it.]] They seem to function in the sense that nature abhors a vacuum.

* GallowsHumor: While bantering with Mami, Kirika praises Mami's endurance. Mami claims she's so proud, she'll repeat that to all her friends at a tea party. Mami is losing hope of survival and has no friends.

* KickTheSonOfABitch:[[spoiler:The first time we see Yuma's mother being eaten by an unseen witch, it's one of the most horrific, stomach-churning things to yet happen in the franchise. A few pages later, we learn what Yuma's mother was actually like, and people wish they high-five said witch.]]

* [[spoiler:AlasPoorVillain: Oriko was never truly evil [[WellIntentionedExtremist although her methods were pretty brutal]], and she died protecting the lifeless body of Kirika.]]
** Considering [[spoiler:how utterly ''horrible'' said methods were, some people consider her TogetherInDeath scene with Kirika a borderline KarmaHoudini, even when she does acknowledge that she did it wrong.]]

** This being [[WorldOfWoobie Madoka Magica]] and all. It doesn't take long for Oriko and Kirika to enter Woobiedom either.
*** YMMV, for Oriko and Kirika's actions have made some readers lose sympathy for them.
*** Once again, YMMV, but it's hard not to feel a twinge of sympathy for Oriko when we see a flashback of her [[spoiler:sitting all alone in a corner of her vandalized house, wrapped up in a bedsheet with teary eyes after her father, a politician, committed suicide after it's revealed that he was embezzling funds. Everyone turns against Oriko, leaving her completely alone (which is bad enough in and of itself, but it also implies that the only reason they hung around her was because of who her father was). Cue Kyubey's entrance.]]

*** Once again, YMMV, but it's hard not to feel a twinge of sympathy for Oriko when we see a flashback of her [[spoiler:sitting all alone in a corner of her vandalized house, wrapped up in a bedsheet with teary eyes after her father, a politician, committed suicide after it's revealed that he was embezzling funds. Everyone turns against Oriko, leaving her completely alone. Cue Kyubey's entrance.]]

* CounterpartComparison: A number of of people have found that Oriko, Kirika, and Yuma resemble various TouhouProject characters; for example, Yuma has been noted to look like Kisume and the common depiction of Daiyousei. Meanwhile, Kirika has a number of similarities to Renko Usami, while Oriko is much like Marbiel Hearn [[spoiler:and Yukari Yakumo]]. The artist of ''Oriko Magica'' has drawn Touhou fanart.

** Even worse [[spoiler: is the fact that the Walpurgis Night is still around, which has shown to be unstoppable except for Madoka whose the only one with the potential to defeat it. It's possible that Madoka would still become a magical girl after learning of the AwfulTruth, but it's not far-fetched to say she'll likely make the same wish she did at the end of the anime. In her own self-righteousness, Oriko think she has saved the world, but in reality she actually has doomed it because she has killed the only one who can defeat the Walpurgis Night.]]

** [[spoiler:The image of Kyouko getting her arms and legs ripped off is sure to cause some to scream.]]

*** YMMV, for Oriko and Kirika's actions have made some readers lose sympathy for them.

** Even worse [[spoiler: is the fact that the Walpurgis Night is still around, which has shown to be unstoppable except for Madoka whose the only one with the potential to defeat it. It's possible that Madoka would still become a magical girl after learning of the AwfulTruth, but it's not far-fetched to say she'll likely make the same wish she did at the end of the anime. In her own self-righteousness, Oriko has saved the world, but in reality she actually has doomed her city because she has killed the only one who can defeat the Walpurgis Night.]]

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel:[[spoiler: 19 pages into the first chapter, and we already get our [[http://www.mangareader.net/mahou-shoujo-oriko-magica/1/19 first instance of this trope.]] (Bottom middle panel.)]]
** [[spoiler:The image of Kyouko getting her arms and legs ripped off is sure to cause some to scream.]]
** [[spoiler:The scene of Kazuko-sensei being chomped by a Witch in chapter 5.]]

** Even worse [[spoiler: is the fact that the Walpurgis Night is still around, which has shown to be unstoppable except for Madoka whose the only one with the potential to defeat it. It's possible that Madoka would still become a magical girl after learning of the AwfulTruth, but it's not far-fetched to say she'll likely make the same wish she did at the end of the anime. In her own self-righteousness, Oriko thinks that she has saved the world, but in reality she actually has doomed it because she has killed the only one who can defeat the Walpurgis Night.]]

*** YMMV, for Oriko and Kirika's actions have made some readers lose sympathy for them.
* [[WhatTheHellHero What The Hell Antihero]]: The fact that Homura doesn't care about [[spoiler:magical girls' deaths.]]
** And boy, she does mean it when she says she doesn't care about anyone who is not Madoka. [[spoiler:Even if Madoka begs and cries for her to save Sayaka and the rest of the class, she won't flinch.]]

** Arguably, also [[spoiler: her murder of Madoka. In this particular timeline, ''everyone'' had learned the AwfulTruth yet thanks to Yuma they managed to '''not''' fall into despair, so making Madoka swear off becoming a MagicalGirl would've been reasonably easy ''and'' the girls would be GenreSavvy enough to not become witches. There was no need to kill Madoka anymore - '''and yet Oriko still did it.''' Likely just to spite Homura over her own death, rather than real need.]]

* Tearjerker:[[spoiler:Madoka's death. Even though it was a ForegoneConclusion due to this being a previous timeline, the last scenes had set up a HopeSpot for her survival. Also while in other timelines, only Homura was there to set her death, here we get an audience from Sayaka, Hitomi, Mami, Kyoko and Yuma. To make things more depressing, WordOfGod states that Homura can only turn back time after a month has passed from her discharge from the hospital, meaning that she had to dwell on her failure to save Madoka in this timeline for days or weeks.]]

* KickTheSonOfABitch:[[spoiler:The first time we see Yuma's mother being eaten by an unseen witch, it's one of the most horrific, stomach-churning things to yet happen in the franchise. A few pages later, we learn what Yuma's mother was actually like, and this troper wanted to high-five said witch.]]

* [[spoiler: AlasPoorVillain: Oriko was never truly evil [[WellIntentionedExtremist although her methods were pretty brutal]], and she died protecting the lifeless body of Kirika.]]
** Considering [[spoiler: how utterly ''horrible'' said methods were, some people consider her TogetherInDeath scene with Kirika a borderline KarmaHoudini, even when she does acknowledge that she did it wrong.]]

* IAmNotShazam: Oriko, [[spoiler: one of the main villains in the manga]] is often confused with Yuma, the little girl with green pigtails who appears of the cover of the first volume.

* Tearjerker:[[spoiler: Madoka's death. Even though it was a ForegoneConclusion due to this being a previous timeline, the last scenes had set up a HopeSpot for her survival. Also while in other timelines, only Homura was there to set her death, here we get an audience from Sayaka, Hitomi, Mami, Kyoko and Yuma. To make things more depressing, WordOfGod states that Homura can only turn back time after a month has passed from her discharge from the hospital, meaning that she had to dwell on her failure to save Madoka in this timeline for days or weeks.]]

Tearjerker:[[spoiler: Madoka's death. Even though it was a ForegoneConclusion due to this being a previous timeline, the last scenes had set up a HopeSpot for her survival. Also while in other timelines, only Homura was there to set her death, here we get an audience from Sayaka, Hitomi, Mami, Kyoko and Yuma. To make things more depressing, WordOfGod states that Homura can only turn back time after a month has passed from her discharge from the hospital, meaning that she had to dwell on her failure to save Madoka in this timeline for days or weeks.]]