Madoka Kaname, an ordinary middle-schooler, along with her best friend Sayaka Miki, are offered the chance to have any wish they want granted by the mysterious Kyubey, and become magical girls and fight witches. However, fellow magical girl Homura Akemi seems intent on stopping Madoka from becoming a magical girl at any cost. Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part I: Beginnings is a retelling of the first half of the TV anime series.
Direction
Shinbo's architectural witch labyrinths that eat your eyes.
Score
Yuki Kajiura's choral devastation — operatic and cruel.
Writing
Subverts genre so hard it becomes the genre.
Director
Yukihiro Miyamoto
Aoi Yuuki
Madoka Kaname (voice)
Chiwa Saito
Homura Akemi (voice)
Eri Kitamura
Sayaka Miki (voice)
Kaori Mizuhashi
Mami Tomoe / Tatsuya Kaname (voice)
Ai Nonaka
Kyoko Sakura (voice)
Emiri Kato
Kyubey (voice)
Ryoko Shintani
Hitomi Shizuki (voice)
Yuko Goto
Junko Kaname (voice)
Tetsuya Iwanaga
Tomohisa Kaname (voice)
Junko Iwao
Kazuko Saotome (voice)
Seiko Yoshida
Kyousuke Kamijou (voice)
Nobuo Tobita
Host (voice)
Shin-ichiro Miki
Host (voice)
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka
Nakazawa (voice)
Hideki Tasaka
Kyosuke's Father (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Launched the 'dark magical girl' subgenre, directly inspiring Yuki Yuna and others. The show aired during the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, causing episode delays that eerily mirrored its themes of catastrophe.
The witch labyrinth designs incorporate real-world psychiatric art and outsider art aesthetics, visually encoding the girls' psychological states into abstract horror spaces.
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The awkward moment when you realize this trailer is just a compilation of massive spoilers.
@lilianaportello5650 93
"What happens if someone offers to grant your wish?" "RUN AWAY"
@burnout02urza 59
I love at 0:23 it had a visual joke. Mami whipping out guns reminds me of my reaction when I see Kyubey now a days.
@JordanSmith-yi3ji 194
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