As a Fridge subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.
open/close all folders
Fridge Brilliance
- Ever wonder why the uwasas' barrier have Japanese characters instead of runes? It's because uwasa are not creations of incubators like witches. They were made by the Magius.
- Kanagi wasn't part of Mitama's Special Training event for two reasons. The first is that, as Mitama's friend, she would know most of the answers and give her an unfair advantage over everyone else. The second, because she's Mitama's friend, she could probably tell that Mitama would have a bit too much 'fun' with it and stayed the heck out of dodge to avoid the inevitable hijinks.
- Rena in the anime attempts to throw off those following her by disguising herself as Ren, which fails. Is this just fanservice because Ren is one of the most popular secondary characters in all Magia Record? Maybe, but Rena and Ren are in the same grade and go to the same school, even if some events do imply they don't share classes. Rena might be more familiar with Ren than many other possible candidates, making the disguise a reasonable one for her to try, especially as Ren is naturally quiet, making for a good disguise as fewer people would approach Rena as Ren than if, say, she disguised herself as Leila (who has a lot more people interested in talking to her.)
- It has been observed that Kyubey had no issue with Rui's initial wish for a 'partner redeemed shinigami who fights for justice' despite saying he can't grant Sana's initial wish to enter her favorite television series world to live in instead. However other Magia Record events have shown that ghosts do exist, and Kyubey had placed the soul of a dead person, Hiko, into a Magical Girl, Himena, in canon, along with granting several other wishes that relate to spirits somehow, such as Asahi's wish. So Kyubey could have given Rui that wish by manipulating a ghost, distinct from creating an entire reality based on fiction for Sana to inhabit.
- Some fans had noted that Takina's outfit is basically just her regular outfit with an extra flourish. As Takina in her own series really didn't wear things that she didn't chose for herself until much later, it makes sense she wouldn't have the most divergent magical girl outfit.
- A easy to miss detail in Yuna's transformation sequence is a hole where her heart should be. Easy to miss among the many horrible things in it, it is notable this is a transformation for Yuna with her horn, not her without it. This is the Yuna who went through the events of Crimson Resolve, which broke her and cost the lives of many girls she was responsible for as leader. Its not hard to understand said hole in her heart. This detail is notably absent in her Halloween alt with Juri, as this is set after Yuna had reached rock bottom in her desire for revenge in Act 2 and since started to recover. Said alt also notably lacks the horn, replaced with two devil horns that are appropriate to her costume instead of her broken, vengeful state.
Fridge Horror
- If anyone rewatching the anime were to recall that Kuroe witched out because her Doppel dragged her outside Alina's Doppel barrier and that Alina was truthfully a Jerk with a Heart of Jerk who eventually settled on turning all humanity into witches for art even if it meant destroying her barrier while watching the scene where dozens of magical girls contract Doppel Syndrome after Embryo Eve is awakened, then it's reasonable to assume things would have been been far more disastrous if Alina had remained with the Magius at the very end.
- What Its Okay To Be Clumsy put Riko through was already rather unsettling, but it gets more so if you compare it to what happened to Homura in Rebellion when things really went downhill and you realize that it wasn't just a witch hunt gone wrong. It was Riko barely avoiding turning into a witch by the skin of her teeth, the intervention of Manaka and Mitama, and the Automatic Purification System.
