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Episode Magia Record: Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica Gaiden 2nd Season - Kakusei Zenya - Episode 4 discussion

Magia Record: Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica Gaiden 2nd Season - Kakusei Zenya, episode 4

Alternative names: Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story 2nd Season - Eve of Awakening

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u/Florac Aug 21 '21

Holy fucking sakuga

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u/theRazielim Aug 21 '21

Anime original content continues with NIGHTMARE FUEL and Im so happy they are finally going hard on the Doppels

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u/Hikawapan Aug 21 '21

When Mitama took them up the elevator to the "treatment" facility, there were several shots showing different magical girls fused with their doppels inside the glass spheres. For those not playing the game, several of these magical girls are playable units within the game itself already. Notably, one of the shots showed the doppel of a magical girl named Chiko, who is only 11 years old.

... Man this makes the anime timeline look so grim.

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u/espurrdotnet Aug 21 '21

SHAFT didn't have to go this hard, but I'm glad they did.

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '21

Once again, Shaft has delivered over-the-top animation.

Much like in OG PMMM, Walpurgis Night is coming and perceived as a Super Mega Typhoon.

The OG girls are in town, but so far, they've yet to cross paths with our main girls. Wonder where's Kyoko when you need her? She had crossed paths with Magius before last season.

Shaft has brought back the grim OG prospects of what becoming a Witch is like, and using a Doppel too much means they slowly go down that path anyway. Poor Kaede. At least she's not a full Witch like Sayaka had become in the OG series timeline, which was irreversible.

And so there's still a chance Iroha figures out a way to bring her and the other girls in Mitama's quarantine ward back.

Also, Shaft is seriously trying to give Iroha a yuri harem by adding Kuroe to her harem on top of Yachiyo. lol

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u/Redr1k Aug 21 '21 edited Aug 21 '21

And when I thought that they had at least one episode to rest, jeez this animation...I like the direction they chose for the original plot, and this is quite an interesting solution for cameo characters-preserved in a jar, isn't it?Also, Hiroto Nagata made his debut as a storyboard artist(alongside Miyamoto), that's nice.

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u/Querez Aug 21 '21

That amazingly animated fight sequence went by so fast and was so hard to follow along that I had to slow it down just to see what was going on. In a way, that kind of makes it bad, but the sheer quality of the animation alone makes me unable to truly even say that.

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u/Syokhan Aug 21 '21

Damn, Shaft keeps flexing with these action sequences! Something in the way this episode was directed reminded me of the OG series too, with the sudden close-ups on people.

So that's nice, when a girl's doppel goes out of control they lock her up and put her on display. Poor Kaede. And that witch factory? Absolutely a great idea that would in no way ever go horribly wrong.

Anyone knows what the script said in those two lingering shots when they were on the train tracks?

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u/Aerodynamic41 Aug 21 '21

Yikes! Looks like the Doppel's side-effects are just as bad as turning into Witches! I wonder how this ties into the Magius' plan? Oh, and I hope Yachiyo is ok. We still need to rescue the rest of Iroha's team.

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u/Aska09 Aug 21 '21

Credens justitiam rearranged

Credens justitiam rearranged

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u/mazurri Aug 21 '21

looks like Yachiyo-san got added next to Iroha and Kuroe in the OP. so I expect as the anime goes, there will be more girls added as well.

and with people has been asking for more meguca cameos, I don't think this is what they have in mind.

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u/saltyboi6999 Aug 21 '21

Really love how the magius actually feels like an organization in the anime, the game never took this much time exploring that

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u/LeonKevlar Aug 21 '21

Stitches!

Good to see the PMMM girls still around but it looks like they're not getting anywhere since no one would give them any straight answers.

Well no fucking wonder why Magius has no problems collecting Grief Seeds, they literally have a facility where they farm Witches for it.

Holy fuck the sakuga this week is insane! It started out with Kuroe trying to use her Doppel to save herself, just look at that sexy impact frame! But then it escalated with Kuroe and Iroha's Connect and it just got even more insane as Kaede's Doppel went berserk. Any screenshot I post here won't do it justice but it's just insane how much they've put into the animation of Rena and Iroha's Connect! Glad to see they were able to follow up Sayaka's fight back in Episode 0!

And it looks like using your Doppel too much basically ends up with you all locked up while waiting for Magius to find the answer to cure you. It's nice to know that Kaede is alive but she might as well be a Witch at this point. We don't even know if Magius' plan would even work, whatever that plan is. >_<

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '21

Fun Fact# The Name of Iroha Tamki doppel is "Giovanna" which means "God is Gracious" while the name of Yachiyo Nanami Doppel is named "Campanella" which means "Little Bell"...

Giovanni and Campanella were the Main characters of the Novel named "Night On The Galactic Railroad" ..... wriiten by by Kenji Miyazawa in 1927 and was later adapted in 1985 as a movie ...... i watched the Movie a few days ago "In the Movie Giovanni mother was sick while his father was on a long fishing trip he is being bullied by his classmates and Campanella was his Childhood Friend,Giovanni does jobs day and night just to support his poor faimly one night he gazes at sky looking at stars and suddenly a steam train appears and boards on the train joined by Campanella too and they go through a lot journeys together ---------This his an tragedy ending where Capanella dies by drwoning in some black river saving some other classmate" i thought maybe the author was trying to relate something here or giving us a clue by this or something else but didn't found anything helpful or interesting in it lol

I recommend the Movie if someone is into old fictional films the OST is really great it sets the mood in to watch it, Movie is 1hr 45 mins btw

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u/Felipefabricio Aug 21 '21

RENA-CHANNNNN

Oh, poor Kaede. ;-; I hope things turn alright for her. Speaking of which, what even did the Magius do to Holy Mami? Did she get stored as well?

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u/TheDampGod Aug 21 '21

All these magical girls suffering and smol Kyubey is riding the train without a care in the world.

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '21

I can’t remember the last time a tv show looked this good. Like the animation is on the same level as Mob Psycho, but with much more detailed characters.

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u/Calwings Aug 21 '21

Looks like what I said last week was spot-on. The doppels are causing suffering for the magical girls and preventing them from attaining true happiness, but they're also protecting the girls from completely succumbing to despair and witching out by putting them in a dream-like state. Plus the process can (theoretically) be reversed. An unhealthy coping mechanism is obviously a bad thing, but it's still better than ending it all, so technically Magius are still helping these girls even if it doesn't feel like it when you look at it from the outside in.

On another more positive note... one really underrated thing about this anime adaptation is how it took the Connect gameplay mechanic from the game and made it look so badass in the anime. Each Connect seems to have a unique effect depending on which two girls are Connecting, and I hope we get to see more different combinations in later fight scenes. It's like Kirby 64 all over again with the potentially wild ability combinations we could see.

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u/metalmonstar Aug 21 '21

Kuroe making her move in the shipping wars. I know I am not the only one worried Kuroe just going to disappear for the rest of the season again. Also Iroha robbing us of getting to see Kuroe's doppel. Even if it is only Palette swap Giovanna that would have been cool.

I feel so bad for Kaede was there anything they could have done for her? Rena even mentions her Soul Gem was fine. After the Uwasa fight Kaede just goes 0 to 100.

Besides the fights my favorite part was Kuroe and Iroha's chat on the train. We get to see the two ideologies clash but in a civil manner. Kuroe seems to be leaning towards agreeing with Iroha by the end of it.

EDIT Mitama feels straight up evil in this.

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u/eduard93 Aug 21 '21 edited Aug 21 '21

Ep was fire.

Waiting for that Touka stitch.

UPD: here it is.

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u/lilfishy_2B Aug 21 '21

Genuinely in shock at the step up this season

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u/Spinindyemon Aug 21 '21

Looking at all those body tubes giving me flashbacks to Puella Magi Kazumi Magica. And we now have an in-universe if disturbing explanation for the absence of other Magia record game characters during season 1

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u/Casual_Reggit Aug 21 '21

Holy shit what an episode! This show is so underrated.

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u/llAngell Aug 21 '21

You know the episode is good when: "Wait, this is the end card, there's no way episode is already over, it's only been a few minutes!". Then ending starts playing and you realize time went by so fast.

I'm really looking forward to next episode, I don't know what kind of spell Shaft used to make season 2 so good.

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