Trivia / Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story

• Actor Allusion:
  • The only thing Konoha is not good at is cooking. Her voice actress, Lynn, is infamously known to put omelette rice on a steak.
  • This isn't the first time Azusa Tadokoro voiced a character named Kaoru.
  • This isn't the first time Azumi Waki voices a Nice Girl character with a Face of a Thug.
  • Asami Seto also voices a Magical Girl named Asuka.
  • In the English dub of the anime, Yachiyo is played by Erika Harlacher. Wait, didn't she already play a dark haired, blue themed, big sis-like magical girl in another anime?
    • It's also not the first time Iroha's been a pink-haired amnesiac, a pink-haired magical girl, or a girl with a split personality (if you count her Doppel as one, anyway).
• All-Star Cast: Take a look at this list...
  • Later Subverted as the cast of Arc 2 characters are comprised of either newer or relatively unknown voice actress. Once example is Hikaru Iida - who voices Miyuri - currently is still under training.
• Cash-Cow Franchise: Madoka was already becoming a Long Runner in the game of intellectual properties making bank over the long term, but the game Magia Record is unquestionably the single most successful entry, in both zeitgeist penetration and monetary return, since the original show and Rebellion. It's not quite as rock-solid on the grossing charts as some of the other eight hundred ton gorillas of the mobile gaming world (including its obvious predecessor Fate/Grand Order), but its highest profile events tend to have it hanging out in the top twenty list of the grossing charts regularly. Its success fueled a new wave of Madoka works beginning in 2018.
• Casting Gag: Maaya Uchida and Aya Uchida are voicing a pair of twins.
• Content Leak: In 2018 people datamined the Doppel transformation animation for 10 girls that didn't have a usable Doppel at the time; they would be slowly released over the following years, with the final two released in February 2023 (though some of them clearly went through a redesign).
• Development Hell:
  • The game was initially slated for May 2017, but then was delayed to June. Then it got delayed again to August. The official parody comic Magia Report had a◊ field day◊ with all◊ the delays.
  • According to f4's interview in the second Magia Day stream, the concept of the game has been in development for five years, which means Madoka Magica Online game was a stepping stone for Magia Record.
• Dummied Out:
  • Animation tied to Corbeau's Magia (but nothing more) was found way back during the first Tart event but wasn't actually used; eventually this changed when she became playable for the second Tart event.
  • Similarly, Sana's Doppel summon animation is different between the leak and the finalized version. However, the general silhouette of the Doppel is the same.
  • There are three unused icons found inside the game that cannot be tied to any other used icon: two status ailments marked with a bomb and a skull, as well as added effect using the icon of an uniform.
• Follow the Leader:
  • Magia Report, the parody manga that stars a borderline psychotic alternation of the main character who serves as both the court jester and the gameplay guide of the game, which then has a part in the April Fool day is also done by Fate/Grand Order and its Learning with Manga! FGO.
  • "Howa Howa Girl"/"Wait, You Got It Wrong!" event has an structure that's a lot like FGO Setsubun 2018 event, being a tower-climbing event using a fatigue system, complete with extra challenge floors beyond the advertised event stories.
• Marth Debuted in "Smash Bros.":
  • In Japan, Holy Mami was released as a playable character in an in-game event before Main Story Chapter 6 was released there. In the North America localization, Chapter 6 came first and marked the character's debut that way.
  • Zigzagged for Sayuki Fumino. She cameos in the anime's third episode. When it aired, she was still only playable in the Japanese version of the game, but does appear in "The Howa Howa Girl"/"Wait, You Got It Wrong" as well as Arisa Narumi's and Mayu Kozue's Magical Girl Stories.
  • Ikumi Makino's first appearance in the English game was in Ashley Taylor's side story.
  • Latin America offers the most extreme example of this: While the original anime got a sub-only release on Netflix, the animated adaptation of the game marks the first time that any part of the Puella Magi franchise is dubbed in both Latin American Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, compared with Spain.
• Meaningful Release Date: For various events in the Japanese version:
  • If the game didn't get hit by Development Hell bat, the game would be released on Walpurgisnacht, which would also become Iroha's official birthday.
  • It's unclear how intentional this was, but 2018's Puella Magi Tart Magica event began the day after Valentine's Day...which was also the day after Ash Wednesday in 2018.
  • The 2018 Puella Magi Suzune Magica event began on May 1st, the day after Walpurgis Night. The 2019 sequel event began on Halloween.
  • The announcement of Nagisa Momoe's release was on October 26th, 2018, the fifth anniversary of Rebellion's release.
• Meme Acknowledgement: Issue #152 (September 2020) of Magia Report Season 2 shows a crane game full of Sana nesoberi in the background, a subtle reference to the popular "snaa" meme. PAPA, creator of Magia Report, has liked Twitter posts featuring the meme in the past, confirming that this is a deliberate shout-out.
• No Dub for You: Mainly because of the large amount of voiced dialog (particularly the cutscenes) that would be too tedious and expensive to dub. Averted with the anime adaptation, which did receive an English dub.
  • The closest to a dub for the game being an official "How to Play" video on Aniplex USA's channel that's narrated by Madoka's English voice Christine Marie Cabanos.
• No Export for You:
  • The game was officially available only in Japan at first. In August 2018 a Chinese release was announced. The North America version was announced on April 19th, 2019, and released on June 25th, 2019.
  • The 2018 April Fools' Day camera mode event, "Mitama's Photography Meet", was not ported to the official NA version when "FM Kamihama" was. Instead of Iroha's and Madoka's group members appearing without warning as their Magia Report selves in camera mode, their "costumes" can be unlocked in the Support Points shop and used on demand.
  • The official NA version held its last events in September 2020 and shut down the following month, so Main Story Arc 2 was never officially translated. This version ended with the events "The Flowers' Lament" and "Mitama's Special Training: Iroha and Yachiyo".
• Playing Against Type:
  • Kurumi Wakamatsu usually plays cutesy Genki Girl types of character and her normal voice is already high-pitched, now voicing a nigh-apathetic Bifauxnen Adjuster Yozuru Sasame, with a contralto (and Creepy Monotone at times).
  • Shizuka Tokime is voiced by Shuu Uchida who is able to speak English very well, with her other roles are mostly English-speaking characters such as Warspite in KanColle or Mia Taylor in Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS. Meanwhile, Shizuka herself has a poor understanding of English due to her sheltered upbringing.
  • Maria Sashide is well known by her role as Emma Verde in Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS with her high-pitched and soft voice. While her role Rabi Himuro in Magia Record is also a leader figure to her team, she is more cynical and has a rather sardonic tone in her voice, a contrast to Emma.
  • Eri Yukimura is known more for playing girly, motherly characters (such as Anri from Blue Lock). Her role as Ranka Chizu however is a Gamer Chick who doesn't afraid to spew profanity or not mincing her words.
  • While not foreign to more inquisitive or mischievous characters like Mabayu, Saori Hayami is more known by her more soft-spoken type of character, in which Oriko is an example.
• Release Date Change: The anime adaptation was originally announced for a 2019 premiere but was delayed to January 2020.
• Role-Ending Misdemeanor: Ria's section in the first Magia Archive artbook is the only one that doesn't have the artist's comment likely because her artist, Nardack, was caught in a controversy where she was accused of supporting a violent radical feminist group.
• Schedule Slip:
  • The game was delayed several times, as covered under Development Hell above.
  • The Mirrors mode has an ongoing plot of its own. After the game released, the story was updated once on September 2017. And then...nothing. It took nearly a year for Mirrors to update again, at the end of August 2018. It's especially galling because the plot stalled on a cliffhanger involving a popular character.
• Teasing Creator: For the first few months of the game Sayaka Miki was conspicuous through her absence. Her appearence in-game was limited to The Cameo in Mami Tomoe's sidestory. Players would post sad Sayaka images in response to the game's Twitter announcements. In what might overlap with Ascended Meme, an event released in November 2017 features a battle against Madoka, Homura, Mami, Kyoko...and an empty spot where Sayaka would be. Ironically, a battle in the 2018 April Fools' Day event had Sayaka present along with Madoka, Mami and Kyoko - but Homura's the one replaced with the empty spot, probably because her non-glasses self wasn't in the game yet.
• What Could Have Been:
  • In early summary of the story, it is said that Homura's disappearance in Kamihama is the reason why Madoka searches for her and ends up teaming up with Iroha. This is seen when in the prologue, Homura is the one who see the mysterious girl that beckon her to the city, creating this plot thread. In game story proper, Mami is the one who is missing and lured the other Holy Quintet to Kamihama.
  • Besides differences in interface (possibly implying some of the mechanics worked differently than in the final release), pre-release screenshots showed Iroha with AAABC disk layout (instead of AABBC) and Himika as a 3-star unit, when she's a base 4-star in the actual game.
  • If the staff's comment in the first anniversary livestream about Iroha's birthday is true, then the game was intended to be launched at Walpurgisnacht before it was delayed.
  • Other things shown in pre-release material were backgrounds that are nowhere to be found in the final game. While many of them are likely just early designs of existing places, there's one background that depicts a specific place that has yet to actually appear in the game: the Witch barrier for Elfriede◊, Momoko's witch.
  • If the internal game files are anything to trust, there'd have been a chance for the Eternal Sakura rumor being called 'Aira Kanon' (逢良 かのん). This name, however, is never used in any officially-released content; her civilian name is Sakurako Hiiragi.