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Mami Tomoe

Voiced by: Kaori Mizuhashi (Japanese), Carrie Keranen (English), María José Guerrero (Latin American Spanish)

"It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance. Let's get going!"

"I sensed something strange when I first arrived in Kamihama. It seemed no different than where I live, Mitakihara, but the constant charge of magic in the air was completely different. That was the only time I ever felt anything like that..."

The first Mitakihara magical girl lured into Kamihama City. Mami has been fighting Witches in Mitakihara longer than the others. She is experienced and takes care of Madoka and her friends, as she is proud of being able to save people, and loves tea.

Action Girl: She's been fighting for so long that some of the magical girls in Kamihama have heard rumours about her prowess.
Big Sister Mentor: As usual. She inspires Homura and gives her special training when she asks for it. She also gave tips to another magical girl who was having problems.
Calling Your Attacks:
- Keeps this habit from the anime. Albeit many other magical girls do this, a part of her sidestory has her conversing with Kanoko about the importance of naming one's attack. In her opinion, a magical girl calling her attacks gives her courage. She also helps Kanoko come up with her own attack name.
- She uses Tiro Finale in her regular form and Fiore Finale in her Swimsuit form.
Chekhov M.I.A.: She first appears in the main story antagonizing Iroha because she mistakes Iroha for a witch. The next time she's mentioned, Madoka and Homura are searching for her because she never comes back from that encounter. Alina says that she and Mami fought and implies that Alina won, but no one still can find her even after the heroes shatter Alina's barrier.
Commonality Connection: She bonds with Homura over the fact they use guns to compensate for the fact their powers aren't capable of doing damage directly. They later bond over researching weapons to help them better in combat.
Connected All Along: The Flower That Blooms in a Hollow Heart has it revealed that Mami had once saved Rion's life when she encountered a Labyrinth in Mitakihara.
Cool Big Sis:
- As always, she is viewed as this by other Magical Girls. Nagisa especially, who sees her as the sister she never had.
- Yuuna also sees her as this, viewing Mami as a saint and worships her, even after realizing she wasn't a literally blessed being she still looks up to her. It took her a while to realize Mami was actually younger than her.
Entertainingly Wrong: When she sees Iroha summon her Doppel, Mami comes to the conclusion that she's a witch in disguise and attacks her.
Famed In-Story: As revealed in her side story, once she starts going to Kamihama City, she gains a reputation among the magical girls living there. She's famous for being an outside magical girl who has never gone to the Coordinator (aka Mitama) to get her magic enhanced to fight the stronger witches of Kamihama; she's also rumored to have defeated hundreds of witches in Kamihama on her own. The part about her not going to the Coordinator is true (she's just that strong already); the part about defeating hundreds of Kamihama witches is an exaggeration, but she has killed quite a few by herself.
Food as Bribe: Gets Kyoko into a haregi in Kyoko's New Year Haregi Costume story by offering her as many sweets and tea she could want for a week.
Glass Cannon: She hits hard and can even inflict debuffs, but she's more or less made of paper. It doesn't help that her Magia also inflicts a debuff on her.
Heavenly Concentric Circles: In Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story, she has the Doppel of Worship, which is described as materializing when one has "accepted salvation in a moment of despair". In other words, the Doppel believes itself a divine savior. When merged with Mami Tomoe, it turns her Magical Girl outfit into a Shout-Out to common imagery of the Christian Virgin Mary. On her back, she has concentric, golden discs with the outer ring being made of protruding rays.
Humble Hero: Mami has no problem with either those she helps in Mitakihara not knowing her role, or a little girl in Kamihama believing Yuuna saved her family and adores her in Mami's place, though she admits it can be depressing at times. Being thanked for her actions and helped in turn by the former does put a smile on her face, though she never seeks it out, encouraging Yuuna to think more about how the little girl adores her and how Yuuna makes her happy versus the truth of the matter.
I Just Want to Have Friends: Mami admits that her biggest desire is to have friends. She is grateful to Madoka and the others for being her friends.
Know When to Fold Them: When she fights Iroha under the assumption she is a witch, she flees after Momoko shows up.
Mind-Control Eyes: It's subtle, but she definitely has them, via Dull Eyes of Unhappiness, after she joins the Wings of the Magius.
More than Mind Control: The majority of her brainwashing's anchor came from the perceived guilt that she damned her juniors with the curse of magical girl. After she got fused with Kamihama Saint Uwasa, she continues to preach Magius' salvation because some parts of her still think that they're right despite knowing that their methods are wrong.
Multiform Balance: Is able to retain access to both her regular and swimsuit costumes, changing her main combat weapon from guns to fireworks respectively.
Must Make Amends: After she gets released from her brainwashing, she spends the rest of the story trying to stop the damage that she caused, whether it's the Feathers that she induced into the Wings of Magius, the Magius' scheme that she helped execute, or aiding the magical girls she harmed on her way.
My God, What Have I Done?: After she's been shaken out of her mind control, she inwardly apologizes to her friends for all the trouble and misery she had caused.
Mythology Gag:
- Tiro Finale temporarily lowering her Defense is referencing the events surrounding her death in anime's timeline.
- In Homura's side story she gets into a fight with Homura that resembles the one from Rebellion, except it's a training spar instead of a more serious fight.
- When Mifuyu gives her the Magius' lecture, Mami immediately attempts to shoot her, claiming that if they're going to be Witches, then it's better if they all die then and there.
Necessary Drawback: Tiro Finale is extremely powerful but debuffs Mami's defense for a turn - see Mythology Gag above. However, this attack usually forces all enemies to lose a turn anyway.
Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: To an extent. Pretty much anywhere else Mami is a rare type of Magical Girl: a veteran and powerful combatant whose level of power and experience, along with her kindness to others, marks her as something unique. In Kamihama there are many Magical Girls who are just as veteran as she is, several who are even longer tenured, several who are just as strong if not stronger than her, and groups of Magical Girls are not uncommon. However Mami is still a rather powerful Magical Girl with a lot of experience and good teamwork with her own team, done so without the advantage of a coordinator improving her magic, she is simply no longer the pinnacle of experience, power, and teamwork she is in most series.
Parental Substitute: Nagisa has admitted she sees Mami as her guardian, though Mami points out she isn't actually old enough to be one yet.
Principles Zealot: She has only one opinion of witches; that they're evil and must be exterminated, not knowing just how they came to be. This causes her to jump to the conclusion that Iroha is a witch pretending to be a magical girl that fooled Yachiyo and the others into protecting her, and refuse Kyouko who outright tells her that witches appear when a Soul Gem gets tainted. This makes her come across as high-and-mighty to those who know Iroha; while Momoko agrees with Rena's claim that seeing a witch burst out of someone would cause alert, Mami's patronizing attitude even toward the people she's supposed to be saving make Momoko averse to her methods.
Sadist: In the anime's first season finale, Mami shows a bit of a slasher smile and a soft giggle as she points a musket at Yachiyo's face; this is because of her being brainwashed into Holy Mami.
Slave to PR: As part of her perfect student identity, she has to maintain perfect attendance or it will be broken. In her swimsuit interlude, she nearly shows up late to school after fighting a Witch and only arrives on time after getting a ride from a civilian she and the others saved.
Spared by the Adaptation: Never got shot down by Madoka after going off the deep end or committed suicide due to finding out the Awful Truth from the Magius sooner and joining them afterwards. It is also implied (and later confirmed in the anime adaptation) that Charlotte has already been dealt with some time before Mami went to Kamihama.
Swiss Army Super Power: Mami gets a lot of usage out of her magic ribbons.
Tea Is Classy: Like in other stories, she loves tea. In one of her side stories, she interrupts a spar between her and Akira and Nanaka because it happened during her tea time.
Younger Than They Look: In Another Story, she meets Rena, who assumes she's a college student like Yachiyo. In reality she's 15. Yuuna is similarly surprised to learn that Mami is younger than her during her winter costume story.

Kyouko Sakura

Voiced by: Ai Nonaka (Japanese), Lauren Landa (English), Itzel Mendoza (Latin American Spanish)

"If you wanna fight alongside me, you better be willin' to reward me with dinner... Heh, I'm kiddin'. Lunch'll do just fine!"

"Huh? You want me to play nice in your little Magical Girl gang? Sorry, but can you go look somewhere else? I made my mind up to only use my magic for myself, no matter what. If we meet on the battlefield, we’ll see who’s the best hunter... Winner takes all."

Kyouko is a Magical Girl from Kazamino who doesn't seem to go to school or have a home. Not exactly friendly, but not quite hostile either, Kyouko amasses a network of connections with Kamihama magical girls from her vagrant lifestyle, yet she often butts heads with other Magical Girls. She wields a multi-jointed spear, can create magical barriers, and is always snacking.

Badass Longcoat: Kyouko gains one that floats behind her whenever she summons Ophelia.
Big Eater: Of course. Kyouko befriends another magical girl just because she feeds Kyouko for free. Since this is due to living in poverty prior to her father's murder-suicide, which is yet to be mentioned here, her ravenous appetite does make sense.
- Kyouko even manages to choke down Mitama's horrendous cooking, even just out of principle.
Big Sister Instinct: When Yuma gets lost in Kamihama City because of Oriko's scheme, Kyouko willingly works with other magical girls to search for her. She would even put herself in Shizuku's debt if Shizuku wouldn't help out of the goodness of her heart.
Cool Big Sis: To Yuma, since she is taking care of her due to the presence of Oriko Magica's cast.
Fire Is Red: Flame element magical girl with red hair and costume.
Fire-Forged Friends: Arguably happens between herself and Iroha's team as they fight together against the Rumor of the Misery Rhyton and the Wings of Magius.
Genius Bruiser: Her appearance in the Sankyouin Academy's sewer is purely through her own investigation; her tailing Iroha's group when they go to fight the Rumor is a mere coincidence as she had already gleaned that the Rumor is in Sankyou Ward. Another Story reveals that when she finds out that she got showered by Misery Rhyton's countdown papers, she goes on sleuthing around the town and pretty much figures out everything about the Rumor, all while making friends with some locals and kicking witches' asses - she arguably does better job at it than Mami. Then she goes on to be the frontliners against the Misery Rhyton and we all know how that turns out.
Heel–Face Revolving Door: She briefly joins the Wings of Magius in Another Story Chapter 8 in the game, and during the Misery Rhyton arc in the anime, but in both cases she defects pretty quickly. In the game, she freaks out when she sees what the Magius have done to Mami and she decides that she wants no part in it. Meanwhile, she joins them much earlier in the anime (though more as a mercenary than a full-time member), but decides that the Wings of Magius' preaching is too vague for her liking and switches sides.
I Was Just Passing Through: Kyouko's excuse when she rescues Ren is that she was just there to hunt a Witch. She definitely didn't save a weakling like Ren because she was in trouble.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Her side story is full of her acting like a Jerkass to other magical girl before helping them. She berates herself the whole time she's saving them.
Lightning Bruiser: She's extremely fast and extremely strong, with large attack range from her segmented spear. It's a Badass Boast of the Kyouko playerbase that she can win a full team PvP fights by herself due to specializing in AoE Blast attacks that will hit anyone without fail. Leans a little on the Glass Cannon side, though, due to below average defenses.
Mechanical Horse: Kyouko rides a candle-holder horse whenever she summons Ophelia.
Spared by the Adaptation: Due to Mami's sudden disappearance and not learning the Awful Truth from either Homura or Kyubey, Kyoko doesn't die from either being backstabbed by a crazed Mami or pulling a Taking You with Me stunt on Oktavia.
True Companions: This version of Kyouko apparently lacks her usual reluctance to form friendships with other Magical Girls.
- Several of the event stories heavily play up her relationship with Sayaka.
- In the "Another Story" manga Kyouko is close friends and occasional Witch-hunting partners with Mami, suggesting that their falling out in Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Different Story did not happen in this timeline.
Unkempt Beauty: Kyoko's hair is just naturally pretty and glossy, unlike the rest of the cast, to their jealousy.
Vitriolic Best Buds: Tends to have this dynamic with Sayaka in events, especially in seasonal events like Beachside Bonds, where the two of them enjoy teasing each other yet are practically inseparable.
Wild Card: As the most morally ambiguous of the Mitakihara quintet, she's ostensibly neutral and frequently proclaims that she's only in it for herself. In Another Story Chapter 8 she joins up with the Wings of Magius, both to scout them out and possibly see if they're worth joining, but upon seeing Holy Mami she decides to bail. In the end she winds up on the side of the heroes, not because the Magius are wrong but because they pissed her off.

Madoka Kaname

Voiced by: Aoi Yūki (Japanese), Christine Marie Cabanos (English), Amanda Hinojosa (Latin American Spanish)

"It hasn't been too long since I became a Magical Girl, but I'm doing my best!"

"There's still so many things I have to learn, but Mami's teaching me all kinds of stuff, so I might become the kind of Magical Girl who can help everyone out! Hopefully I'm putting in effort in my own way... Wait, "hopefully" isn't enough, is it? I'm trying my best! And, right, Mami even complimented me on my good work earlier! Hee hee!"

A Magical Girl with extraordinary potential who lives in Mitakihara with her parents and younger brother. Gentle and caring, she is always surrounded by friends. She uses a bow and arrow in battle.

Adaptational Wimp: Downplayed. While Madoka is still a force to be reckoned with due to her unusually high latent power, she doesn't get stronger than her post-third timeline selves from Homura's Reset Buttons and later achieve Ultimate form this time around: Because Homura deliberately kept the Awful Truth in the dark and Walpurgisnacht is lured to Kamihama, Madoka and her Holy Quintet teammates ended up joining forces with Iroha and the other Magical Girls in bringing down the Witch instead.
All-Loving Heroine: She does good simply because she wants to. Kamihama magical girls are immediately enamored by her because she's so guileless with actions. In her Valentine 2018 story, it comes to the point where, when she's given a chocolate that will only let her out of the Rumor barrier and she has to abandon Kako and Kanoko, without a second thought she breaks her chocolate to share it despite being warned that each chocolate is a representation of the owner's destiny and breaking it might have a terrible repercussion.
Beat Still, My Heart: When a Doppel manifests, it usually transforms some parts of the magical girl in return. Kriemhild Gretchen manifests as Madoka's Soul Gem, taking a large chunk of Madoka's chest with it.
Demonic Possession: In Summer 2018 event, Madoka gets possessed by a ghost and attacks Homura because the ghost's girlfriend made contract and it is implied that she turned into a witch, and the ghost smells the same witch's curse from the group. The ghost attacks Homura in an attempt to ask for her aid to kill her girlfriend before she's turning witch next time, knowing that Homura is a time traveler.
Energy Bow: Like the main series, Madoka's primary weapon is an energy bow.
Hope Bringer: Even without becoming a goddess, Madoka inspires those she helps and keeps them going.
Improbable Weapon User: Madoka attacks with a shuttlecock and a Kyubey-patterned paddle in her Haregi form.
Mythology Gag:
- Her Doppel takes the form of a Soul Gem, which refers to a piece of art from Puella Magi Madoka Magica Portable.
- Her morning log-in greeting is the wake-up call she makes for her mother.
Nice Girl: She has unlimited kindness and compassion.
Rain of Arrows: Her Magia is the shower of arrows seen when she's taking her place as the Law of Cycle, complete with its Instant Runes.
Spared by the Adaptation: In regards to her pre-main timeline selves, this Madoka survived from dying or Witching out.
Shut Up, Hannibal!: After hearing what Kyubey has to say about the Witch system, Kyubey asks Madoka to investigate more about the auto-purification system in Kamihama because he can't walk inside Kamihama. Madoka, upset with how blase he is toward the entire thing, tells him to do it himself if it's so important for him.
Torso with a View: Kriemhild Gretchen punches a hole in Madoka's chest every time she summons it.

Homura Akemi (Eyeglasses ver.)

Voiced By: Chiwa Saitō (Japanese), Cristina Valenzuela (English), Fernanda Ornelas (Latin American Spanish)

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"U-umm, h-hello...I'm, um, Homura A-Akemi... And...um... Nice to, er, meet you."

"I'm able to use my magic to manipulate time because of the wish I made. I stop time, and then toss bombs at our enemies while time is frozen... But sometimes people get mad at me because of it. Oh, I have an important goal though, and my magic exists to help me accomplish it."

A timid Magical Girl who wished to protect Madoka. She turns back time repeatedly in an attempt to save Madoka from becoming a Witch. Now she searches for a new hope in Kamihama City.

Adaptational Heroism: As a result of keeping the origin of Witches a secret, this Homura remained a Bespectacled Cutie and didn't Took a Level in Cynic like her canon counterpart did, which is a good thing because this act would prevent her from becoming an insane Dark Messiah in Rebellion.
Adaptational Late Appearance: Like Madoka, she's absent in the first season of the Magia Record anime adaptation, and her role and debut during Sana's arc, which originally involved her in the game, have been rewritten or edited as a result. She and Madoka finally show up in the first episode of the second season.
Adaptational Wimp: This is the side effect of not telling the rest of the Holy Quintet about the Awful Truth, as she didn't Took a Level in Badass (via "Groundhog Day" Loop) and later achieve Devil form. Though this is downplayed to an extent, since Homura and her Holy Quintet teammates were able to fight Walpurgisnacht without losing (or dying) because Kamihama has more Magical Girls (whom they joined forces with) than her hometown.
Alternate Self: Her decision not to tell her friends the truth about the Witches in her version of "Timeline 3" in the Magia Record universe ostensibly makes her one to the Homura from the original series, as though they may share the same origin, their paths diverge greatly from that point on.
Bespectacled Cutie: Since this Homura is strongly based on her early timeline self, this is certainly expected.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Downplayed because she's not malicious, but her uncap event shows that she can already be cold and ruthless even this early in the timeline. She's a lot more defeatist than she shows and she feigns ignorance about the witches while also keeping up a lot of her Shrinking Violet persona to avoid suspicion. She gets her Doppel when she thought she was turning witch at the beginning of the Mitakihra group's search for Mami, and her reaction was basically her "timeline three" offer to Madoka - embracing her incoming witchdom and destroying everything.
Cassandra Truth: Averted when compared to the main-series continuity, where this Homura decides not to explain the truth about magical girls to the others in her third time-loop. Whether or not this had a hand in Magia Record's timeline escaping Ultimate Madoka's reach and being absent from the main-series Homura's memories is left mostly ambiguous.
Commonality Connection: She bonds with Mami over the fact they use guns to compensate for the fact their powers aren't directly offensive. They decide to study weapons specs together.
Cooldown Manipulation: Her personal Memoria inflicts Skill Quicken on herself, making cooldowns run out faster. Her Magia does the same for the entire team.
Dark Is Not Evil: Is classified as Dark element, but is a friendly person.
Death Glare: In Chapter 5, as the heroes talk about teaming up, when Homura voices her hesitation that Iroha isn't a witch because of Mami's warning, Yachiyo says that if she doubts them so much then maybe they should do things their own way. Homura answers the hostility with a subtle glower. She only backs down when Madoka reassures her that it's going to be fine.
Dramatic Irony: In "Beachside Bond", when Kei taunts her through Madoka's mouth, Homura's Shut Up, Hannibal!, like how she will never kill Madoka, is ironically the things that turned her into the cynical Broken Bird in the original series, should she took the same path as her alternate self.
Earn Your Happy Ending: With Walpurgisnacht lured into Kamihama, and then slain by the combined efforts of all Magical Girls (from that city or otherwise), combined with Madoka surviving without Witching out, this Homura deserves the sweetest ending she earned just for once in her entire life.
Fight Like a Normal: Just like canon, Homura uses guns she's stolen from Yakuza and that she's made herself to compensate for the fact her magic isn't offensive in nature.
In Spite of a Nail: Despite her decision not to due so, her friends still learn the Awful Truth about witches.
Irony: In spite of being in poor physical health before she contracted, she has one of the highest Health stats even as a 4-star (though her Defense being relatively normal balances it out).
Heroic Self-Deprecation: She doesn't have much self-esteem; when praising Mami's style as "calm and gorgeous," she calls hers opposite of that.
Hidden Depths: Among the documentation she studies for using her weapons are in foreign languages, revealing herself to be multi-lingual.
Late-Arrival Spoiler: Is a Walking Spoiler in the Madoka Magica anime, and yet the game doesn't even try to hide her existence.
More Dakka: Her Doppel uses GAU-Avenger 8, a military grade anti-tank cannon with high fire rate and a gun not meant to be carried by a human, to rain bullets on enemies.
Not a Morning Person: Tends to stay up late at night, studying magic. This results in her still being somewhat sleepy in the morning.
Power Glows: As a 5-star, the tip of her golf club gets a purple glow.
Shrinking Violet: Since this is her old self that isn't distant and aloof, she sometimes gets nervous around people, like when eating together.
Spontaneous Weapon Creation: It is said that Homulilly's guns are not previously procured weapons that Homura stole and kept inside her shield, but a momentary construct that Homura made from her sand based on the knowledge she had gathered. Mami taught her well.
Talk to the Fist: When Felicia shouts at a bystander (Homura) that the fleeing Tsukuyo is a dine-and-dasher, Tsukuyo tries to threaten Homura in a desperate bravado. Realizing that her opponent is a magical girl, Homura pulls out a gun and threatens Tsukuyo back. Tsukuyo promptly wilts.
Throw the Dog a Bone: Homura arguably suffered the most in the anime, and this version of her still has self-esteem issues. Apparently the writers thought Homura needed some encouragement, because in each of her side story chapters she meets a magical girl who tells her she's really cool. Heck, her third side story has her meet a magical girl cheerleader, for Madokami's sake.
What You Are in the Dark: As the arrival of Walpurgisnacht keep getting closer, Homura starts thinking that maybe if she and her friends turn a blind eye on Walpurgisnacht and hole up somewhere safe, damn everyone else, then Madoka can be saved from her fate. She tries to do so several times, but it almost seems that Walpurgisnacht is chasing after her. Seeing her friends' resolve to save everyone shakes her out of her own indecisiveness, and Homura is there at the frontline fighting. Homura ends up thanking Iroha for giving her a chance to successfully Set Right What Once Went Wrong.
You Did the Right Thing: In Another Story Chapter 10, Homura is in a melancholy over everything finally reach the closest thing she has for a happy ending. She's unsure whether this timeline is the right one because Schrödinger's Cat situation where she can't be sure whether this is the right timeline unless she abandons it and lives a new one. After the other Holy Quintet unknowingly reassures her of her choice, Homura decides that maybe this is really the right timeline.

Sayaka Miki

Voiced by: Eri Kitamura (Japanese), Sarah Anne Williams (English), Ana Lucia Ramos (Latin American Spanish)

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"Don't worry about anything! You can count on me! I know, cliche, right?"

"I came chasing after Mami, and now here I am striking out in Kamihama at last... Sure is a weird city! I ran into a bunch of Witches and Familiars back there, and then... Uh, what's it called? An Uwasa? That thing's way wilder than anything I could've imagined! Though it's nothing Mami can't keep up with..."

A straightforward Magical Girl with a strong sense of justice. She is a dear friend of Madoka and looks up to her Magical Girl senpai, Mami, whose fighting style of mass-conjuring weapons resembles her own. She used to visit her childhood friend Kyosuke in the hospital often.

Adaptational Badass: In the original show, Sayaka's healing magic was much faster than other magical girls', but still operated on a bit of a time frame, where she could get knocked down and would need a few seconds to get up again. In the Magia Record anime, on the other hand, she can instantly regenerate injuries as serious as a severed hand without even halting for a second.
Adaptational Nice Guy: This game shows Sayaka in what might be her best emotional stability in a normal situation. While she's still a hothead, she's a lot more understanding and less prejudiced toward Homura and Kyouko than she otherwise would. When in situations where she would burst into anger or impatience, she more often than not holds back to talk calmly or rationalize that her actions would upset everyone before she could start running her mouth. The most obvious case of this might be her interaction with Homura in the Summer 2018 event story. The fact that Homura never revealed the secret of Witchification in the Magia Record version of "Timeline 3," and therefore never got into a fight with Sayaka may justify this.
Big Damn Heroes: In Chapter 6, she steps in when Holy Mami attacks the injured Iroha and Yachiyo.
Butt-Monkey: In Summer 2018 story and the accompanying Swimsuit Homura's side story, she gets a lot of punishment just for walking on the beach. To wit, she gets talked into wearing a ridiculous costumes, gets electrocuted by the costume's fan, gets thrown around by Oktavia, and gets fished out of the water by Homura as her contest-winning fish.
Defense Mechanism Superpower: While all Doppels are generally this, Sayaka gets the special mention since Oktavia comes out in an otherwise pretty casual situation. In Summer 2018 event story, when Sayaka gets electrocuted by her costumes's fan as she falls into the sea, Oktavia bursts out of her to prevent Sayaka from touching water. Of course, since Oktavia is a mermaid, swimming in the sea causes Oktavia to go berserk and throw around Sayaka like in a rodeo.
Demoted to Extra: Sayaka played a prominent role in the original anime, yet it took about five months into the game's lifespan in Japan for her to have anything besides a brief appearence in Mami's sidestory.
Early-Bird Cameo:
- In Japan, she appears out of nowhere in Chapter 6, Episode 6 and is even playable for a single battle. A week after the Episode was released there, Sayaka was added to the character pool.
- Inverted in the North American version, where she was unlockable a few weeks before her playable cameo (and Chapter 6) was in mid-September 2019.
Everyone Has Standards: As justice-oriented as Sayaka is, she is flat-out pissed in the anime about Kyubey duping Magical Girls into being victim to a Totalitarian Utilitarian system that she slices her head in near-half shortly after he explains that the universe will be destroyed otherwise. Heck, it's also fitting that the very person who does so is the same one who witched out in the original anime.
Global Ignorance: During Homura's swimsuit story, she believes Prague is in Germany. However, in Sayaka's defense, she was having a strange dream induced by overheating at the time, so perhaps when not stuck on the beach in a hybrid mermaid/mushroom swimsuit she'd know better.
Guest-Star Party Member: For a single battle in Chapter 6. This battle came out before she was even made obtainable in the Japanese version.
Healing Factor: As always, her personal magic is to heal from any kind of injury much faster than even a Magical Girls's in-built regeneration. This is showcased in Episode 13 of the Magia Record anime, where while defending Iroha and Yachiyo from Holy Mami's Tiro Finale, the force of the attack rips her arm off, only for her to instantly regenerate her arm and even grab her sword back.
My Name Is ???: Because she enters the battle without introducing herself to Iroha and Yachiyo beforehand, her name as an ally in the battle interface is question marks.
Not Now, Kiddo: Disregards the warnings and actions of two little kids, implied to be her cousins, at her aunt's seaside inn, which would have warned her that a angry ghost is around who'd eventually possess Madoka.
Real Dreams are Weirder: Several costume side stories, like her own pajama and Homura's swimsuit, will have Sayaka have some very weird dreams.
Spared by the Adaptation: As far as her main series counterpart is concerned, this Sayaka doesn't Witch out this time, mainly due to not finding out the Awful Truth until after learning the Wings of Magus are looking for a solution to witching out. It also helps that Homura deliberately held back from telling her about it.
Super-Toughness: As expected; she's one of the bulkiest character in the game. Additionally, her Limit Break makes her unkillable for a while, on top of giving temporary HP regeneration.
Throw the Dog a Bone: In every other timeline Sayaka becomes a Magical Girl, she dies. The writers decided to finally give her a world where she becomes a Magical Girl and survives.

Ultimate Madoka (Unmarked Spoilers)

Ultimate Madoka

Voiced by: Aoi Yūki

"I’m shocked... Can you really see me? I thought I’d never be able to talk to anyone again!"

"My name is Madoka Kaname. I used to be just a regular student, but now I bear the weight of all Magical Girls’ fates. I don’t regret my choice. I was able to make this vital wish because of a very dear friend."

The goddess of all Magical Girls, born when Madoka Kaname wished to erase all Witches before they were born. She watches over Magical Girls from the furthest reaches of the universe's present, past and future, and provides blessings for all of them. For the first time since coming into being, she found a Magical Girl she does not recognize...

All-Powerful Bystander: Ultimate Madoka is practically omnipotent, capable of erasing a timeline. But she's incapable of acting nilly-willy without disturbing the law of universe, lest she's destroying all other timelines in the universe. No matter how much suffering she witnesses, she can't interfere with it unless it has something to do with her function as the Law of Cycle.
All Your Powers Combined: The Ultimate type is basically all other types combined, making Ultimate Madoka capable of filing any role in the party.
Angelic Abomination: Much more pronounced here than in the main series, especially since she cannot directly interact with the Magia Record timeline (as much as she wants to) without literally destroying it.
Big Damn Heroes: She finally intervenes at the very end of the first story arc, using her feathers to give the Kamihama magical girls a much-needed morale boost to finish Walpurgisnacht off. She did this so that there's at least one timeline where she and Homura are alive and well, and afterwards she resigns to simply watching over the timeline in question.
The Cameo: In her second Magia, there are glimpses of the spin-off magical girls that not yet playable in the game, like the rest of Suzune Magica main characters, Eliza and the three English antagonists from Tart Magica, and three of the magical girls that Ultimate Madoka saves in the last episode of Madoka Magica.
Infinity +1 Element: While her actual element is still Light, she has the rare MP-modifier type "Ultimate." This has the highest possible bonus from taking damage, but is acutally slightly worse for her own attacks compared to Magia and Support types, and Magia is still the best overall (120%/120% for attack and defense, while Ultimate is 110%/120%).
Not So Omniscient After All: From her side story, it is revealed that the universe of Magia Record is beyond her foresight. While she can see the past of the timeline, she can't see the future.
Olympus Mons: She is a god and the literal embodiment of hope for all magical girls, and lucky players can recruit her on their team like any other magical girl.
Power Floats: Her sprite floats off the ground.
Shout-Out: The runes that appear with her emblem in her transformation sequence read "Das Ewig Weibliche", German for "The Eternal Feminine," the psychological and philosophical principle of ultimate feminine identity. At the conclusion of Goethe's Faust, Faust's deceased lover Gretchen takes the form of the Eternal Feminine to intercede with God to save Faust's soul from the fulfillment of his contract with Mephistopheles. Meanwhile, Ultimate Madoka is the interceding force that saves the souls of Magical Girls from the ultimate fulfillment of their contracts with Kyubey.
Temporary Online Content: Only available during her rate-up gacha.

Nagisa Momoe

Voiced by: Kana Asumi

"Want to know what I was eating? *Giggle* It's cheese, of course!"

"My name is Nagisa Momoe! You want to know more about me? Okay, here's what I want you to know... I LOVE cheese! Cheese! Of course I love eating it, but I also love how it looks. It can be nice and round or blocky..... Just looking at it gets me super excited!"

She once brought hope... and then a curse. Guided by the Law of Cycles, Nagisa has come to Kamihama as a messenger. Her thoughts quickly turn to cheese, her one and only obsession, even when she is on a mission.

Alternate Self:
- Inu Curry claims that the one who appears in the Nagisa's Wish event story is different than the one who appears in Rebellion, likely because Nagisa, no matter what, is already dead the time of the main story. The "Cheese Panic" event explains it; in the Nagisa's Wish event, it's the living Nagisa, while in "Cheese Panic", it's the Nagisa that has been taken by the Law of Cycles, which is an alternate world's version of Nagisa that is independent from Magia Record version. When she arrives in the Magia Record universe in the "Cheese Panic" event, she even refers to the Charlottes she encounters as "ex-Nagisas", further separating the two.
- This Nagisa and the Valentine's Day version of Nagisa is revealed to be an alternate universe of each other, both are taken by the Law of Cycle, and the Valentine Nagisa's memory starts to mix with her.
Beneath the Mask: Nagisa is a cheerful, energetic girl who loves cheese... after she was taken by the Law of Cycles. Prior to that, she was a precocious girl who asked Kyubey even more questions about the contract than Mito, was desperate to motivate her mother out of her illness-induced depression and, when her attempts were met with rejection, became spiteful of her mother but never hateful. She also didn't even like cheese.
Broken Bird: She's a lot more somber than she looks.
Bubble Gun: Her trumpet shoots out explosive bubbles.
Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: After seeing that Yu had fatally wounded her mother and having such a blasé attitude about it, she stood there frozen in despair. She never came out of it.
Genre Savvy: In her story detailing her wish, she's noticably wary about Kyuubey's offer for a wish, especially since she knows many stories end up screwing over those who make the wishes. This sadly does not stop her after an angry outburst from her mother and she witches out almost immediately after making her wish due to another magical girl killing said mother.
Large Ham: During the "Cheese Panic" event, the Law of Cycles version of Nagisa has a penchant for bombastic theatrics, even referring to herself as "Neo-Nagisa", and hams it up further whenever she meets another Magical Girl in the vicinity. When hit by an enemy, she'll LOUDLY shout out the names of different cheeses for some reason.
"CHEEEEDAAAAR!!!!!"
I Know Madden Kombat: Based on her comment in the evening, her weapon is a trumpet because she used to play brass instruments in her school's marching band.
Ironic Hell: Her ultimate fate as the Witch of Sweets, Charlotte. She can create any sort of dessert she wants, and yet she desires cheese. Her nature is tenacity and she will not stop until she gets what she wants. Nagisa earlier noted that she actually dislikes cheese, and her nature before she broke was that she was willing to tenaciously wait for her mother's love, though when it was clear that she'd never get that, she decided to live for herself instead. In short, Nagisa's life as Charlotte is only cosmetically different from how she was before she contracted.
Other Me Annoys Me: She sees Charlotte as some kind of pest when she first meets her in the "Cheese Panic" event, despite fully acknowledging that Charlotte used to be a version of her old self in the Magia Record universe that Witched out. She even complains about how pesky she is to Kanoko and Manaka when they meet up.
Posthumous Character: Nagisa, by the time of Magia Record storyline, is already dead. The playable Nagisa is the version of her sent by the Law of Cycles.
Rebellious Spirit: After so many grief expended trying to please her mother, Nagisa decides that she's going live for herself after making her wish. In the "Cheese Panic" event, Nagisa is sent to Magia Record world by Ultimate Madoka to investigate the world because Madoka herself can't. Nagisa destroys Madoka's pink Kyubey-shaped comm line and goes off on her own, befriending Mami.
Sixth Ranger: She is treated as this by the Holy Quintet.
Sweet Tooth: Nagisa loves cheesecake and cheese flavored desserts.
Trauma Conga Line: Her mother was sickly and strongly implied to be physically abusive, her father left them, she was left languishing in a dirty house, and then she got swallowed up in a Witch's barrier but saved by the worst person possible - an amnesiac Ax-Crazy serial killer named Yu. Nagisa decided to use her wish to heal her mother, but when her mother rejected Nagisa's explanation that she could heal her with the wish instead of taking revenge on those who made her miserable, Nagisa, horrified at how low her mother could go, used her wish for her mother's favorite cheesecake to spite her with the declaration that she will only look after herself from now on. Nagisa's magical girl sempai got into a fight with Yu and turned into a Witch, Yu then killed her before killing Nagisa's mother as another notch to her serial killing list. Nagisa's mother begged for her help, but she could only stand there, shell-shocked. Nagisa was then left alone, accomplishing nothing and with no one to comfort her, before turning into a Witch.
"Well Done, Daughter!" Gal: Nagisa was unloved by her mother, mostly because she was considered the beginning of her mother's misfortune as not only did her husband leave her, she was always confined to a hospital bed. Nagisa always brought her her favorite cheesecake, even though Nagisa didn't really like cheese herself, so her mother could at least love her for liking the thing she likes. Nagisa tried to bring attention to the fact that she could heal her mother's illness with her wish in hopes that her mother would love her for it.

Homura Akemi

Voiced By: Chiwa Saitō

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"I've given myself a mission. I'm still fighting for it...now, and in the past. "

"There is something I absolutely must do, and I'll stop at nothing to achieve it. I don't care what kind of sin I must bear. It doesn't matter what happens to me. That is what I swore, since the day that she saved me..."

A mysterious Magical Girl who transferred into Madoka's class. She repeatedly travels through time to save her friend from a fate of despair, preparing to defeat Walpurgisnacht without the aid of anyone else. She is from a different timeline than the Homura that found herself in Kamihama.

Badass Boast: One of her battle start quote is, "I'm alone is enough."
Dramatic Irony: Despite all her claims that I Work Alone, her Connect effects are very strong because it give her allies a chance to stun enemies beside the attack up and critical chance.
Early-Bird Cameo: Aside from a handful of Memoria, this version of Homura appears in Ultimate Madoka's Magical Girl Story, well before Homura herself became playable.
Flash Sideways: In her Magical Girl story, while Ultimate Madoka is rewriting the universe, Homura stumbles upon memories of herself from Magia Record's timeline. She doesn't want anything to do with those events, instead deciding to put all of her effort into protecting her own world that Madoka created.
Hair Flip: She does this upon a victory, or receiving a Connect from a teammate.
Ineffectual Loner: While she's fervent with her decision to continue on with her lonely path and seemingly make peace with the world where Madoka does her Cosmic Retcon, the audience knows what will come after that.
Other Me Annoys Me: Though she never really gets to meet her Magia Record counterpart face to face, this Homura expresses annoyance and disdain towards her other self all the same after having had a glimpse of her other self's memories from the events of the game.
Silly Rabbit, Cynicism Is for Losers!: When she stumbles upon the memories of her Magia Record self, she always derides her alternate self's decisions like making friends with other magical girls or aiding them with their fights, claiming that she's wasting time instead of working on saving Madoka. When she arrives at the eve of Walpurgisnacht's fight, Homura ends up destroying the connection to her alternate self's memories, one part out of implied jealousy that that version of Homura is largely successful with her choices, and one part of Sunk Cost Fallacy that she gets from Madoka's Cosmic Retcon, unaware that Ultimate Madoka prefers Magia Record's conclusion for both of them.
Temporary Online Content: Only available during her rate-up gacha.

Kyubey

Voiced by: Emiri Katou (Japanese), Cassandra Lee Morris (English)

Chekhov M.I.A.: He's completely vanished from Kamihama. However, Another Story shows he's still active outside of it, and he also appears in the side stories set before the Main Story's events. The one that tried to follow Homura into Kamihama had more or less died due to a barrier meant to drive him out.
Cryptic Conversation: In the Epilogue to the "And So The Azalea Blooms" Event Story, he has one with the story's Hidden Villain. The reader is only privy to Kyubey's side of the conversation.
''If witches are "disasters", then for now, you are "chaos", aren't you?
Demoted to Extra: Played With. He's not in the Main Story of Act 1, but he appears in the other stories frequently and gets an active role in Act 2. In the anime adaptation which covers Act 1 he is a more substantial presence, though he's mostly used for exposition drops.
Didn't Think This Through: While nowhere near as disastrous for him as giving Madoka far too much information via his exposition moments, he granted wishes to Nanaka and Mito to let them figure out immediately he isn't just a helpful mascot.
Even Evil Has Standards: Kyubey is not against warning the odd Magical Girl about the dangers of their wish if it is that dangerous. He outright tells Kanagi to think over her initial wish as altering history as drastically as she advised would have unpredictable consequences, even to him.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: In the anime's episode 24, Kyubey, being the Totalitarian Utilitarian that he is, shows a complete lack of understanding why the Wings of Magius won't accept a system that he knows full well dooms Magical Girls into becoming Witches.
Greater-Scope Villain: In Arc 2, while the magical girl alliances are fighting each other, it's Kyubey that deliberately manipulates them to do so.
He Who Must Not Be Heard: During the "Bye Bye, See You Tomorrow ~Memories of the Kamihama Large Residential Complex~" event, the reader never sees any of his dialogue. The characters talk to him, and explain what he said through narration, but Kyubey speaking words is never shown..
Karma Houdini: Played With: Once again, he isn’t punished for his actions at the end of Arc 2, even getting an effective way of getting energy with the Doppel System and Iroha allows him to stay on Earth. However, Kagome’s wish has ensured that he can’t mess with the system, and Livia takes him with her when she and the other coordinators leave, much to his disapproval.
Let's You and Him Fight: At the end of Arc 2's Chapter 1, Kyubey admits on informing the belligerent factions about Kamihama's Doppel barrier to provoke the desire to have the barrier for themselves, so they can fight each other and unleash their Doppels for the Incubators' energy quota.
Moral Myopia: In episode 24, Kyubey calls out the Magius for using a Witch to wreak havoc upon Kamihama, even though episode 10 of the original anime reveals that he has no problem letting a far more powerful one wipe out an entire planet that has outlived its usefulness
Nonstandard Character Design: He uses a non-moving 2D design when shown on screen speaking, versus the Live 2D models used by the other characters.
Running Gag: Multiple potential Magical Girls calling him something, such as a rabbit or squirrel, and Kyubey correcting them that he's not such a thing.
Pet the Dog: He does occasionally offer genuine advice with no malicious intent, such as explaining the nature of Suwe and Hatsu's wishes to Shizuka in Tokime Collective Tale and both what was done to sabotage Hatsu's wish and what would remedy it.

Devil Homura (MAJOR UNMARKED SPOILERS)

Devil Homura

Voiced by: Chiwa Saitō

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An existence that disturbs providence and lays waste to this world. She has stolen a fragment of the "Law of Cycles" and thus calls herself a "Devil". While forcing the Incubators to cooperate with her, she's more than willing to turn against the magical girls she was once involved with.

Animal Motifs: Lizards and salamanders, mainly due to her Witch Kiss, her name being translated as "flame" in English, and her actions in Rebellion parallels to that of the infamous Fallen Angel Lucifer. Her wings also evokes the image of crows.
Assist Character: Instead of fighting directly, Devil Homura has the Clara Dolls fight for her.
Dark Is Evil: She's a way more insane version of Homura in a skimpy and dark clothing.
Evil Counterpart: To Ultimate Madoka, being the devil to the latter's angel/god.
Face–Heel Turn: She became the devil in a successful attempt to force the Incubators into serving her... at the expense of her friendship with Madoka.
Fallen Hero: She used to be part of the Holy Quintet until countless time loops and the events of Rebellion turned her into an insane demon queen.
Mythology Gag: She is a character variant inspired by the Rebellion movie.
Olympus Mons: As someone who has stolen at least some of the Law of Cycles, she will not hold back in a fight. Not only does she boast some of the highest base stats in the game^note, but she also turns her Dark-attuned allies into killing machines by significantly buffing them and just-as-significantly crippling her enemies' defenses against that.
Satan Is Good: Even though she made herself an enemy out of Madoka at the climax of Rebellion, her intentions are ultimately sympathetic, albeit misguided, though she went insane due to spending twelve years worth of time travelling as a result.
Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains: She shows more skin than Ultimate Madoka.

Event Variants

Holy Mami

Voiced by: Kaori Mizuhashi

"Call on me when times are hard and you find yourself crushed by despair... I will deliver you into grace."

"Once I learned the whole truth, my pride in myself as a Magical Girl crumbled to dust... I felt as though my heart would be crushed from anxiety and despair. Now, though...I feel different. I have a new ideal and goal to fight toward. I will save you."

A Magical Girl from Mitakihara, and a mentor to Madoka and her friends. Though she was once proud of hunting Witches and saving people, she has relocated to Kamihama, where she works to lead Magical Girls to their liberation. After encountering the Wings of the Magius, they inform Mami of the truth about witches and somehow convinced her to join their organization. Taking this costume to show her new beliefs, Mami is now a wholehearted believer in the Wings of the Magius's ideology.

Accidental Misnaming: Holy Mami calls Candeloro Florence just like how she calls Charlotte Bebe, most likely because she still can't read the Witch Runes.
A-Team Firing: Holy Mami combines this with More Dakka in the finale of the first season of the anime. Yachiyo faces down an virtual wall of endlessly shooting bullets from Holy Mami's guns, and yet somehow doesn't get hit even once (though she does get very fatigued).
Badass Cape: Her winter coat doesn't hinder her fighting prowess, it instead makes her even stronger. The cape is also an Uwasa.
Early-Bird Cameo: In North America, her debut in Chapter 6 was released (in September 2019) before any holiday event would make her unlockable, unlike in Japan.
Fighting from the Inside: Holy Mami's side story reveals that Mami continues to fight against the Magius' influence inside her mind. Holy Mami, the Mami who has accepted that the Magius' ideal is the salvation of magical girls, hinders Mami's path to regain control of her conscious mind by using Candeloro to block off her voice because if there's even a little gap in her ideal, she can be easily swayed from one path, for better or worse. Mami is just that kind of person.
Face–Heel Turn: While her introduction to the heroes is antagonistic, they believe that Mami can be reasoned with after meeting with her friends. So, the fact that she's outright joining the Wings of Magius in Chapter 6 is a massive blow to the heroes' morale, especially after it seems that Tsuruno, Felicia, and Sana are on their way to the same fate.
Freak Out: This happened to Mami when she confronted the Wings of Magius and learned the truth behind Witches. She immediately attempted to shoot Mifuyu and later Alina, and was reduced to a sobbing wreck after her Doppel came out for the first time. Touka even had to validate fusing her with an Uwasa by explaining how Mami might attack other magical girls if they just let her go.
Fusion Dance: It is revealed that her enhanced brainwashing is because she was fused with the Uwasa of the Saint of Kamihama (the white robe she wears as Holy Mami) and basically analogous to Uwasa Tsuruno. It is said that if Tsuruno's fusion is 50%, then Mami's fusion is close to 100% - largely because she was rattled hard by the reveal of the magical girl system.
Humanoid Abomination: While a minor example, the anime's version of her introduction has the Uwasa suddenly burst from her body, which causes her to slump over very suddenly and unnaturally before Mami simply stares off into nothing with a dissonant smile, keeping a strange pose perfectly. While it was at first unclear what happened to Mami to make her into Holy Mami, the anime makes it clear that there is more than just a mental breakdown going on with her.
Improbable Aiming Skills: Unlike the regular Mami who aims forward where the enemies are, Holy Mami really likes to shoot her muskets all over, like loosing fireworks from behind her back. The bullets still ricochet around and hit the enemies.
It's All My Fault: In Another Story, she admits she feels responsible for the Holy Quintet getting involved in the world of magic and doesn't want them to get any more involved.
Knight Templar: Mami is completely loyal to the Wings of Magius, to the point where she's willing to attack other magical girls if necessary.
Morality Pet: Even in her brainwashed state, Mami still tries to protect the Holy Quintet from getting caught in Kamihama bloodshed. Yachiyo calls her out that she's only saving those important to her. Mami denies this, but it's clear that this is the case.
More Dakka: In the anime, she unloads a terrifying barrage of weaponry at Iroha, Yachiyo, and Sayaka.
More than Mind Control: It's true that Mami lost in her fight against Alina - an ideology fight, that is. With a little Mind Rape, Mami had despaired from the revelation of the magical girls' fate and has taken up the Wings of Magius' ideals of possible salvation. By the Christmas event, she's running around Kamihama City as a Virgin Mary-analogue, helping other magical girls and fighting for the Magius' cause.
Motive Rant: In episode 13, she paranoidly rants about being duped into a system that turns Magical Girls into Witches and her desire to "save" them with More Dakka.
Temporary Online Content: Holy Mami was exclusive to the Christmas event gacha.
Thousand-Yard Stare: In the anime she is shown with a totally blank look and similarly blank smile, making her even more unsettling.
Walking Spoiler: She isn't just a simple holiday variant...

Holy Mami (Anime ver.)

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A Mitakihara City Magical Girl who fused with the Uwasa of Saint Kamihama. She feels responsible for convincing Madoka and others to contract, and is working hard to free Magical Girls from their fate. She will show no mercy to those who oppose the ideals of the Wings of Magius.

Mythology Gag: She is a character variant based on said character's anime counterpart.

Madoka Kaname (Haregi ver.)