Watch Episodes Add to My List Add to Favorites Alternative TitlesSynonyms: Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika, Magical Girl Madoka Magica Japanese: 魔法少女まどか★マギカ English: Puella Magi Madoka Magica German: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Spanish: Puella Magi Madoka Magica French: Puella Magi Madoka Magica More titles InformationType: TV Episodes: 12 Status: Finished Airing Aired: Jan 7, 2011 to Apr 22, 2011 Premiered: Winter 2011 Broadcast: Fridays at 01:25 (JST) Producers: Aniplex, Mainichi Broadcasting System, Movic, Nitroplus, Houbunsha Licensors: Aniplex of America Studios: Shaft Source: Original Genres: Award Winning, Drama, Suspense Themes: Mahou Shoujo, Psychological Duration: 24 min. per ep. Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older StatisticsScore: 8.371 (scored by 772,978 users) 1 indicates a weighted score. Ranked: #2192 2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #104 Members: 1,327,060 Favorites: 56,687 Available AtResourcesStreaming Platforms |
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Jan 28, 2015 werberman Recommended **Spoiler Free** Madoka Magica is great for a magical girl animé, but certainly no Stein;s Gate or FMA: Brotherhood. The Story (8/10) is where the main issues with the Madoka Magica can be found. The pacing is utterly abysmal. I found myself bored out of my skull for the first 9 episodes. While this issue is certainly not unique to Madoka Magica (Gurren Lagann *cough*) the perceived overall value of the show is far more largely damaged as there are only 12 episodes in the whole thing, meaning that three-quarters of it isn't worth seeing on its own. This said, even I cannot deny that the ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jun 18, 2017 You Recommended *Might contains minor spoilers, after the review ends I put my interpretations which has 100% spoilers* Magical girl genre is one of the more niche genre even in anime community. Anime fans proportions is heavily dominated by action fans. Yet in this action fans group, chuuni subgenre can be considered as unpopular compared to those that dominated the market, with the only exceptions for nowadays being Fate series. But by combining the aspects of those in this two genres, Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica has become a new achievement for the medium. It popularized both genres, and has made many other magical girl shows that's created afterwards, tried ... Read more Open Gift Report
Apr 22, 2011 steviePOPO Recommended If you had told me a few months ago that a magical girl anime would become one of my favorite shows of all time, I would have laughed at you, slapped you upside your head and then continued to laugh. Don't let that label fool you however, Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica is not your run-of-the-mill magical girl anime. There have been a few series, such as Nanoha that have gone against the grain in terms of the magical girl genre, but Madoka seriously flipped the script. This ain't no sunshine, happy, cute, fluffy, fuwa fuwa magical girl show meant for little kids. Not by a ... Read more Open Gift Report
Nov 3, 2012 bmw830 Mixed Feelings Honestly, I don't understand why people are so in love with this anime. I was made to watch it and it wasn't so bad, so I finished it. That doesn't mean that it was great by any stretch. Let's start with what was alright in my opinion. The soundtrack was decent and I liked the ending song. The music complimented the story nicely and that's all. The art was also good, especially the backgrounds were very well done. Characters - I give them 5/10. They were believable in their behaviour (mostly), but I didn't identify with any of them and their struggles didn't really have any affect ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jul 26, 2015 matic12345 Recommended Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica starts off as a show about a schoolgirl Kaname Madoka living a perfectly ordinary life. She has nice parents a younger brother and a few good friends. Everything is perfectly fine until one day she has a magical encounter that changes her life. That’s how the show starts, and as the show was suggested to me by a friend whose first recommendation was Another, I was surprised. The show starts off all cute and nice, which was a great surprise, and I found it really strange and quite boring, but I told myself I have to at least try to make it ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jun 30, 2013 ZeroReq011 Recommended Madoka Kaname lives as good a life as many adolescent girls go: a well-off home, a wonderful family, and great friends. Then the first-hand revelation of the existence of witches, the fathomless despair they will within their auras, emanated from their so-called labyrinths wherever they pass, and the obligations of those whose duty it is to oppose them. And finally... an offer, a wish. For whatever you ask, would you be willing to make a contract? Would you like to become a magical girl? Produced by Shaft as its first original anime series, the same studio that brought us the anime adaptations of Sayonara Zetsubou ... Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 7, 2016 lawlmartz Mixed Feelings Madoka Magica- an extremely popular, well loved, and held up by many as a landmark in the magical girl genre. A show that many describe as having beautiful artwork, a fantastic soundtrack, and contains one of the most exciting and unexpected stories in anime of late. Is Madoka Magica all of these things? Yes, and no. Let’s find out what it is that works and doesn’t. Note that I will try my best to avoid spoilers- but for my analysis of the plot, there may be one element that could be considered a minor spoiler. Beginning with the Artwork and Animation: Read more Open Gift Report
Dec 19, 2017 RadicalWalrus Not Recommended Funny This show is absolute trash. People try to say it is good just because of the poorly written plot twist at the climax of the story. The shows narrative is complete garbage, switching from one characters insecurities to the despair of homura due to madokas ignorance; with almost no transition. In the end nothing changes. This show tries so hard to be something that its not. Which only makes it worse overall. The ending provides no resolution to the story at all, instead just making it worse. This show ruined the magical girl genre. The art is terrible, the scenes where they fight witches are ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jul 30, 2013 pakoko Recommended Here’s my review of Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica… of the 200 or so that are out there. The anime is rated by the MAL criteria in the bottom of this review. Because countless top-rated reviews have already provided this information exhaustively, I believe my opinion about why “Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica is worth the watch” would be more interesting than reading the same information over and over. Why “Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica?” (Top 3 reasons) 1) Gen Urobuchi: He was the writer for many highly rated anime out there: Fate/Zero, Black Lagoon, Psycho-Pass, and Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet. If you’re like me, watching a memorable anime motivates ... Read more Open Gift Report
Nov 19, 2017 LIQfilms Mixed Feelings Under the crimson red glow of the sun, the girls jump into action. At the prompt of their premeditated quote varying from the power of friendship to that of installing justice, hurled at their enemy, the girls begin to transform (for you see, it is entirely impossible for a girl to do so without following this procedure, or, at the very least, posing brazenly in wake of their opponent that lays before them). Exploding into a barrage of colours and lights, while simultaneously losing their clothing for a brief period of time (but worry not, as, you see, those mysterious lights that accompany a magical ... Read more Open Gift Report
Apr 27, 2011 AquaHaze Recommended When I first came across Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica I expected something that was light and fluffy (I did watch the series when it first started) but what I got was completely different. Everything came as a surprise and that's what really kept me watching. It starts out like a regular magical girl anime, fighting enemies, collecting their droppings (yes that's what I like to call them), but then everything takes a turn. The atmosphere becomes dark as we watch the hardships each character goes through. While all this takes place, we, the viewers, also learn what is really going on. After a turn ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jul 13, 2013 Touyariki Recommended Are you looking for a magical girl series filled with happiness and joy? Well, then you are looking in the wrong place. I watched the opening. The word dark was pushed into the back of my mind. I watched the first episode-I didn't expect much from the anime. But later, I included Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica in my ''favorite'' list. This whole anime starts by showing Madoka running across a dark room and seeing a girl struggling. She wakes up after being told that she can save her. But then someone transfers to their school. Madoka thinks she is the same girl in her dream. The ... Read more Open Gift Report
Feb 15, 2014 Durbikins Mixed Feelings The fact that so many people still name Puella Magi Madoka Magica “the greatest or most significant or most influential" mahou shoujo series of all time only tells you how anime still is from becoming a serious art. Classic critics have long recognized that the greatest mahou shoujou series of all times are Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon and Revolutionary Girl Utena, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Other critics rank the highly controversial Princess Tutu over classic anime who were highly popular in courts around Japan. This new wave of anime fans ... Read more Open Gift Report
Nov 12, 2014 EpicSawce Recommended Madoka Magica was hyped as the ultimate deconstruction of the magical girl genre. Not only that, but one of the best deconstructions to date. Its name carries a lot of weight with anime fans, and is often brought up when talking about great anime from this decade. I went into Madoka Magica expecting greatness; however, only mastering its goal wasn't enough to illustrate a true masterpiece. The story starts out extremely slow and confusing and becomes predictable over time. It being called a deconstruction is a giant spoiler tag for me, as I can see what to expect. If ... Read more Open Gift Report
May 7, 2011 zzzzzzzz Recommended Madoka is hands-down the best anime series of 2011 thus far, and a contender for the best anime series of all-time. How could an original, non-adaptation magical girl show of all shows end up rousing the anime community in such a fashion? What starts out as a regular, pastel-colored magical girl show quickly turns on its head as the magical girls come to realize that they're in a zero-sum situation: the stakes are real, and for every bit of hope given in the world, an equal amount of despair must be displaced. The first three episodes have a sense of normalcy to them, but it is ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jun 10, 2011 Yuunagi Recommended Before this show was aired, anime enthusiasts were looking forward to cute character designs, pretty visuals, and charming stories of friendship. Weeks later, the same people were indeed enjoying those — while decoding encrypted text, citing 19th century German literature, brushing up on physics, and debating about ethics. Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica has certainly been the center of much attention. Despite the efforts of the creators to tone down certain elements in their promotional videos, the anime has suffered from levels of hype and backlash unseen since Neon Genesis Evangelion and the Haruhi series. The presence of notable names in the list of collaborators suggests that ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jul 18, 2011 Reckoner Recommended Of all the genres in anime, there are few as innocent and as light as the magical girl genre. It is usually by default that audiences expect the same old concept of the young, optimistic heroine who harnesses some sort of magical power given to her to battle evil forces in the name of justice. So to those unfamiliar with director Akiyuki Shinbo and writer Urobuchi Gen, Puella Magi Madoka Magica must have come with quite a shock. While there certainly have been magical girl shows that have taken a darker focus in the past, none so far have been able to deconstruct the genre as ... Read more Open Gift Report
Feb 5, 2021 OneFemaleInATub Not Recommended This show is down right appalling Story 4/10 Read more Open Gift Report
Apr 26, 2011 8thSin Recommended *This is an in-depth review with spoilers. A rare original (non-adaptation) anime series by SHAFT, 'Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica' began like any other Mahou Shoujo series, and while it's not ground-breakingly original in any way, it's anything but ordinary. Story / Character: Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 31, 2013 Kanrarararara Recommended Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica consists of magical girls. When I saw the pictures of the magical girls, I thought it was a rip-off off of Sailor Moon. So then I watched the first episode and got extremely confused. Then... I felt as if I was blinded by something. I went back to it. And when I hit the next two episodes, it was a mindfuck. This anime will screw up the image of magical girls. You'll think that they're a bright thing, but in reality, it's like as if a witch casted a spell on the innocent magical girls who want to save the world. Hearing ... Read more Open Gift Report Previous - More Reviews |
