1. #1Magical Girls

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   A Magical Girl (魔法少女, Mahō shōjo?), also known as Puella Magi, is a girl who has contracted with a messenger of magic known as Kyubey, having one wish granted and in exchange, the contractees must fight, battle and defeat witches to obtain Grief Seeds.

2. #2Wish

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   The Magical Girl's Wish was the wish of the girls that Kyubey had chosen to make the magical girl covenant in exchange for that wish to come true, and that wish had an effect on the magic power they had received. When the girls meets Kyubey and is persuaded to make a covenant to become a magical girl in exchange for a wish to come true. When the covenant is complete, Kyubey will take out the spirit of the girls who has made the covenant and transform it into a soul gem to use in the fight against the witch. In addition, she was able to use the magic that was created by the wish she had set.

3. #3Witch

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   The Witches (魔女, Majo?) are grotesque surreal supernatural beings invisible to humans and are born of curses; negative emotions and feed on humans and their negative emotions and are primary antagonists featured in the Puella Magi Madoka☆Magica franchise. They tend to create and hide within reality warping spaces, otherworlds or dimensions known as Labyrinths alongside their Familiars. They drop Grief Seeds once defeated. Puella Magi franchise. A Witch spreads malice and hatred through the world while, according to Mami Tomoe, it is the duty of Magical Girls to spread hope. When defeated, a Witch usually drops a Grief Seed that is used to purify the darkness in Soul Gems.

   Episode 8 reveals that Witches are the final form of Magical Girls. When a girl's Soul Gem becomes too full of impurities and turns completely black, it transforms into a Grief Seed, and its Magical Girl becomes a Witch. Witches from the past seem to have nouns and nicknames for people as their names rather than traditionally feminine names.

   As revealed in Magia Record, witches are capable of, and can be made stronger by, consuming Grief Seeds and other witches.

   Also in Magia Record, Magical Girls can harness the power of their Witch as Doppels.

4. #4Grief Seed

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   Grief Seed (グリーフシード, Grief Seed?) is an item Witches drop once defeated and is said to be necessary for the survival of all Magical Girls. Appearance Grief Seeds are small dark orbs surrounded by grey designs around them that differ from Witch to Witch and have a cane on the bottom of the orb and above one can see the motif of a Witch. A witch's egg, which usually appears after a witch is defeated.

   When a Soul Gem contains too many impurities and becomes completely black, it will transform into a Grief Seed, and its Magical Girl will become a Witch. All Grief Seeds drain impurities when used on a dim Soul Gem, replenishing a girl's magic and staving off their transformation into a Witch. In episode 6, Kyubey warns that absorbing too many impurities can revive the Witch. A Grief Seed that has been used before and already contains impurities will be unable to fully cleanse a Soul Gem. Due to unknown reasons, a Witch is not always guaranteed to leave behind a Grief Seed when defeated. This has been theorized to be at random, due to the attack also destroying the Grief Seed inside the Witch, or due to the Witch choosing not to leave one behind, but the reason is ultimately unknown.

   Because of how valuable they are, Magical Girls may also use Grief Seeds to test if they can cooperate with another Magical Girl; rejecting an offered Grief Seed from another Magical Girl means refusing to work with them and hostility. Both Mami and Homura performed such kinds of tests.

   As shown in Magia Record:

   Grief Seeds can be consumed by Witches and make them stronger. They are also confirmed to exist within the bodies of the Witches that own them. Grief Seeds are originally Soul Gems that have been influenced by emotions. Inside a Grief Seed is an energy with properties similar to an induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC). Unlike other stem cells, iPSCs are not found naturally within a living organism; rather, they are created in a laboratory by genetically reprogramming ordinary adult cells, effectively returning them to a pluripotent state where they have the potential to become any cell type. This process mirrors the nature of a Grief Seed, which is a "programmed" Soul Gem that now contains an energy that can "become any emotion". Grief Seeds can be reached and stimulated by the hydrogen line, a specific radio wave used to send and receive signals during searches for extraterrestrial intelligence; it can penetrate through any obstacle, including the bodies of Witches, and resonate with their Grief Seeds within, allowing whoever is sending the signal to stimulate and manipulate their emotions. Touka Satomi further explains that, somehow, the hydrogen line can be emitted "with brain waves", such as brain waves used in hypnotism and waves that are emitted when one is excited, meaning that Witches can also feel others' emotions.

5. #5Magic

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   Magic in the Madoka Magica Universe is a force created from fluctuation of emotion, unbounded by the First Law of Thermodynamics. When Kyubey's scientifically-advanced race discovered magic, they realized its capacity to create new energy can postpone maximum Entropy and delay the heat death of the Universe. However, Kyubey's race is incapable of emotions, thus they scoured the Universe for species with the most emotional potential. He found his answer in Earth's human females, especially those still developing secondary sex characteristics. Magical Girls and Witches, and thus the settings of the story, are the result of Kyubey's quest to harvest this energy.

6. #6Magical Creatures

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   Three types of naturally-occuring magical creatures exist in the Madoka Magica universe: Magical Girls, Witches, and Familiars. However, because both Familiars and Magical Girls can mature into Witches, all three may be considered stages of a single species. Souls of Magical Girls and Witches are separated from their bodies and reside in their Soul Gems and Grief Seeds respectively. Because of this, Magical Girls and Witches are highly invulnerable as long as their Soul Gems or Grief Seeds are intact and can recover in due time. Familiars do not have Grief Seeds so they are presumed dead when killed, however once they gather enough energy, usually by killing three or four people, they will turn into a Grief Seed and then hatch into a copy of their parent Witch. Both Soul Gems and Grief Seeds are adorned by the emblems of the holder.

   As seen in Kazumi Magica, certain Magical Girls can summon magical animals, or other constructs to fight alongside them. The extent of their life or sentience is uncertain, but they can be considered to be similar to a Witch's Familiars.

   In timelines governed by the Law of Cycles, instead of fighting Witches, Magical Girls fight beings known as Wraiths, as Magical Girls' souls are taken into the Law of Cycles right before they become Witches. So far, Wraiths are the only magical entities which come into existence naturally, excluding Kyubey.

   Other magical beings created through unconventional means include "Pseudo-Witches," beings made of the flesh of Witches, Hyades, Nightmares, Uwasa, Kimochi and Homo magica.

7. #7Common Applications

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   These are magical abilities common to all magical girls. For Magical Girls, magic usage (inside and outside of battle) causes their Soul Gems to become tainted, which must be cleansed by a vanquished Witch's Grief Seed. With training, Magical Girls can become more proficient at these abilities and reduce magic usage. According to a magazine article, veteran Magical Girls will become very powerful in time as they gain experience. They can also develop different magical powers beyond those of their original abilities:

   Transformation (Henshin): Magical Girls undergo a magical transformation that summons a costume based on their own imagination when they made their contract. Alongside the outfit, some transformations can also extend to bodily changes like their hair color, tattoos, eye color, or even more extreme changes like additional limbs, a mermaid tail, etc. Significant experiences, being coordinated by a Magical Girl Coordinator, or even certain types of magic from other Magical Girls (like Kazumi Subaru's Upgrade magic) can each change their transformed forms, whether temporarily or permanently. Summon Weaponry: Magical Girls typically summon their signature weapon from thin air or their Soul Gem at will. Each girl has their own characteristic weaponry and fighting style that they gain increasing proficiency at upon making a contract. Magical Girls can summon numerous copies of their weapons, and sometimes in differing styles or sizes, and channel their unique or elemental magic through them. For a catalogue of weapons used in the series, see Weapons. Magic Seals: Many girls have been shown to use their magic in various ways through their personal magic seals they conjure. These seals can sometimes be used to make floating platforms for them to stand on. Not all Magical Girls have been shown to need to use a magical seal, but it seems to be a common application of magic, as seen when Mami was preparing an exploding bullet to use against Kirika Kure. Physical Enhancements: All Magical Girls exhibit superhuman strength, agility, and healing. They are also able to shut off their sense of pain during battle at will, though this hinders their reaction time. Magical Girls may also choose whether to use their magic to make themselves completely immune to mundane illnesses, and some choose not to so that they may retain some semblance of humanity. They are capable of healing physical ailments such as poor eyesight, weak constitutions or immune systems, or physical disabilities like paralysis. Great feats of magic may leave a Magical Girl disabled and unable to cure themselves, as was the case with Nemu Hiiragi and Mitsune Miwa. According to Kyubey, it is possible to keep fighting even with every drop of blood in their body drained by healing it with magic. These physical enhancements also include the ability to jump to incredible heights and survive immense falls. However, Magical Girls may still retain severe injuries from magical opponents that may leave them in a hospital for prolonged periods of time, comatose, or on the brink of death. Such injuries, if left unhealed by another Magical Girl and without unique healing magic, will continuously and rapidly darken the injured girl's Soul Gem to heal, and purifying it with Grief Seeds will not necessarily speed up their own healing or awaken them. Magic Detection: Soul Gems are capable of detecting the magic of other magical beings, or even uses of magic, though some are less detectable than others. The gems glow when there are Witches or Familiars nearby, or if there have been any in a given area recently. Witches leave behind a trail of magic, each unique and distinguishable from each other, which Magical Girls can detect and follow. It is unclear whether a Witch's Familiar has the same energy signature as its master Witch, and whether Soul Gems can also detect victims of a Witch's Kiss. The magical signatures of Uwasa cannot be detected, even in the area it exists in, unless the rumor it embodies has been successfully invoked and it subsequently appears to fulfill or protect it. The magic of Uwasa is noted to feel very different from that of Witches. As depicted in Magia Record, the magic of a Magical Girl detected through another's Soul Gem is depicted as a glowing dot, the color of the detected girl's own gem. This dot will move around to mirror the detected girl's movement. Visually, the magic of Witches or Familiars will display markings attributed to them over the Soul Gem, as well as making it resonate. Telepathy: Magical Girls are able to use telepathy to communicate with each other nonverbally and over large distances or through obstacles. Kyubey can use himself as a relay through which non-contracted girls with magical potential can communicate with each other and Magical Girls. Magical Girls do not require Kyubey to use this ability amongst themselves, but, as shown in Magia Record, telepathy can also be negated by some Witch Labyrinths. Telepathy is shown to have a maximum range in which it can be used, with Magical Girls having used it to communicate between each other at least a few hundred meters apart. While most Magical girls who aren't transformed are unable to use their magic, they still use up a bit of it to sustain their body involuntarily in their daily lives. However, even without transforming they can still use their Soul Gems in a limited fashion to perform magic. For example, the Soul Gem can be used:

   1. To summon a magical weapon still attached to the Soul Gem.
   2. Imbue magic upon an object to enhance it.
   3. To heal any form of injuries on themselves or others.
   4. Adjust a body's ability.
   5. Preserve a dead body from decomposition.
8. #8Learnable Magical Skills

   Keys: Learnable Magical Skills, Physical Alterations, Energy Blasts, Protective Barriers, Concealed Messages, Magic Imbuement, Transmission, Storage/Hammerspace, Presence Concealment

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   In addition to the instinctual applications of magic, Magical Girls can learn to use their magic in various other techniques:

   Physical Alterations: A different application of magic when compared to physical enhancements, or healing in the traditional sense, instead using it to modify a physical feature. For example, Homura was able to use her Soul Gem directly to her eyes to calibrate her eyesight so that she'd no longer need to use glasses. Energy Blasts: Magical Girls may also instead fire blasts of pure magical energy in lieu of using an outwardly offensive weapon. Protective Barriers: Magical Girls are able to learn to use protective magic in the form of barriers or shields. For example, in Kaoru Maki's side story, Natsuki Utsuho's desire to protect her created defensive magic that saved her from a Witch, a power she did not know she could use until then. Concealed Messages: In the Magia Record Anime, many Wings of the Magius symbols were hidden in front of Alina's posters. They only became visible to those who'd apply magic to their sight, such as by looking through the Soul Gem ring, or by applying it directly in one's eyes or glasses. Madoka and Homura both sensed and knew how to view the messages, implying that the means to view them is easy to learn even if the means of creating them is not. Magic Imbuement: Magical Girls are able to imbue ordinary objects with magic. This can enhance their original functions, change the object to a certain degree, or allow them to be used in combat. Transmission: Some Magical Girls have been shown to use imbued items to hold messages, and as direct methods of communication. Yuuri could imbue a message in one of her projectile arrows, and Mifuyu Azusa was able to imbue a piece of paper with a holographic map, and then use it as a direct method of vocal two-way communication between herself and the people in possession of the map. Storage/Hammerspace: A seemingly easy skill for Magical Girls to learn is that they're able to store items in a personal hammerspace of theirs. Most of them do so through their Magical Girl costumes, or their weapons, but it seems they can learn to do it through any part of their body, or directly through magic seals. It is unknown what happens to the unseen stored items if the girl dies, or turns into a Witch, but seeing as anything abandoned in a Labyrinth also disappears when the Labyrinth fades, it is likely those items would also disappear. Presence Concealment: Experienced Magical Girls can learn to conceal themselves, as well as traces of their magic, from the detection of others. They can even be trained to be undetectable to the point of not even Kyubey being able to detect their magic signature, as was the case with Suzune Amano. Several girls have also been able to use their unique powers without the need to transform, and some of them have their effects remain even after the caster's death.

   Mami Tomoe can still use her ribbons, as seen when she attached one of them to Homura in Rebellion. Nagisa Momoe's magic passively makes her more assertive and greedy, as well as breaking her out of trances. Mabayu Aki has used many of her abilities without being transformed, including her seeing into the future unintentionally, as well as her connection to Homura's time loops. Kazumi Subaru has used many of her abilities without being transformed, even though they weren't originally her abilities. She has transformed items from one thing to another, as well as enhanced the speed of her body. She has also used her own power of Destruction as magical seals which would activate once they detected the use of magic. Saki Asami used her ability to speed up, and slow down the processes of her body, giving herself super-speed, but also having side-effects on her body. Niko Kanna's different abilities were used by others without them being transformed, so it can be surmised that she herself can use her powers of Rebuilding and Reforming without transforming. Satomi Usagi used both her power of talking to animals, as well as remotely controlling the bodies of others without being transformed. Kanna Hijiri has used many abilities, both her own power of Connect, as well as ones she copied without being transformed. Oriko Mikuni has received many involuntary visions of the future without being transformed, usually for emergencies, such as Kirika being in danger. Matsuri Hinata, while unable to use her power to its full extent, she was the only one who was able to break free from Kagari's magic, likely attributed to her own detection magic. Arisa Narumi's strength and overall physical capabilities are higher than that of a normal human, as shown when she was immediately able to single-handedly beat up all her bullies after having made her wish. Kagari Hinata was shown to have rewritten Matsuri's memories as a child, even when she wasn't transformed and had just contracted. Elisa Celjska is constantly seen as more favorably than she would normally as part of her power. Tsuruno Yui's good luck power notably allows Banbanzai to stay open despite their mediocre food quality. Sana Futaba is always imperceptible to normal people as a result of her wish. Rena Minami is able to transform into other people. It is unknown if she would be able to transform into her Magical Girl form without her Soul Gem. Ryo Midori's photography is always reliable no matter her state. Kuroe's magic makes it so that people passively focus on her while she is present. Hikaru Kirari is able to focus on any task, even when she's not in a transformed state. Miyuri Yukari can enter her sleepwalking state even during her day-to-day life, even winning an entire tournament and not remembering it due to how anxious she was. Livia Medeiros' magic passively causes harm upon those she helps even when she isn't transformed. Konomi Haruna's magic passively works to place her in situations where she can be helpful to others, as well as making those she's helping take centerstage, and sometimes backfiring on her when she tries to take it herself. Nanaka Tokiwa has a constant knowledge of whether someone is her enemy, or her ally, even having a sense of the kind of danger they may pose. Yukika Nanase generally always finds herself in dangerous situations, while also getting a boost from it. Mitsuru Inami's able to often reliably avoid dangerous situations due to her luck, and she was even able to reliably live a normal life because of it. Sae Kirino can alter the way others view her, and have them believe her impersonations. While she cannot change her appearance in a physical sense, she can make them believe she is someone of authority, play dead, that she isn't a Magical Girl, etc. Kush Irina is unable to stay awake during the day, but she gets a boost in all her abilities during the night. This applies not just to her fighting abilities, but also her productivity in general. Yu's many abilities are active even when she's in her civilian form. Those around her are susceptible to her "Mental Pollution," and Yu herself is in her chronic state of sedation, as well as enhanced healing constantly. Shi originally had the power to experience other people's pain without having been a Magical Girl. However, in the present, her power of complete Synchronization requires her to be transformed. Mel Anna's predictions always make themselves be true, even the ones she makes when she's not transformed.

9. #9Unique Abilities

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   Wishes and Unique Magic Magical Girls are granted unique, personalized powers (regularly referred to as "unique magic") based on the wish they made to become Magical Girls. As with the way wishes may be granted, the powers bestowed by them can be interpreted in many different ways.

   In the original series and most manga adaptations, the unique magic a girl's wish grants was always based on some interpretation of the wish and its wording, creating a mostly direct parallel between the two: for example, Homura Akemi's wish to redo her first meeting with Madoka Kaname gave her the ability to stop and rewind time; Kirika Kure's wish to become a "different" Kirika, one Oriko Mikuni would like, granted her the ability to change to match Oriko's preferences; Riz Hawkwood's wish to become the one from which a hero (who, in turn, wished to be the "light" that saved France) would emerge, gave her the ability to manipulate shadows.

   With the introduction of Magia Record, however, girls' unique magic is shown to be able to differ rather significantly from the wording of their wish, and can now be based on the intent or background of the wish: Kanoko Yayoi wished for her parents to be healthy enough to work for decades, but instead of any powers relating to healing, strength, or longevity, she gained the ability of "Sewing", allowing her to create threads and needles to sew things together, stemming from her desire to become a fashion designer instead of work at her parents' steel mill; Tsukuyo and Tsukasa Amane wished that they would never fight each other, and gained the ability to manipulate sound waves, stemming from them being reunited by their flutes.

   In some cases in both the manga adaptations and Magia Record, though, a girl's unique magic seemingly has nothing to do with the wishes they made. A notable example of this was Melissa de Vignolles' wish to heal her father's and Tart's injuries; rather than grant her any healing magic, she gained destructive anti-matter powers (presumably tied to her anger that she inherited from her father); Seika Kumi wished to revive a dead friend, and gained the ability to travel between bodies of water; Masara Kagami wished for money, and gained the ability to become transparent (invisible).

   In some cases, when a Magical Girl subconsciously rejects her wish, she loses the ability to use whatever power her wish granted her, as was the case with Kyoko Sakura losing access to her illusion magic. However, this may not always be the case, as multiple magical girls in Magia Record have been shown to reject their wishes (consciously or otherwise) and still retain their unique abilities.

   Additionally, a Magical Girl may still retain access to her unique magic even if she does not remember her wish, partially or entirely. Iroha Tamaki forgot she had a sister and that she had wished to cure her disease, yet was still able to use her healing magic (in the anime, this was used to determine that she had in fact wished to heal someone's injury or ailment). Felicia Mitsuki's memory of her parents' death was modified due to her confusion when she had made her wish, and yet retained knowledge and usage of the ability to make others forget things.

   For information on wishes that are more like curses, see Adjustment below.

   Karma/Karmic Destiny According to Kyubey, a Magical Girl's power is tied to her "karmic destiny." From his explanation regarding people like queens and messiahs having greater karmic weight than average girls, it can be surmised that karmic destiny relates to how much influence a girl has on the world and people around her. Because Homura's repeated time loops centered around Madoka Kaname, Madoka's karmic destiny (and subsequently, power) was increased with each loop. Naturally, this strength also applies to the strength of a Magical Girl's Witch form.

   Further, as Kyubey says in Magia Record, some wishes may be "impossible" to grant if they outweigh the karmic weight of the girl making the wish; such a wish can still be granted, but will come at a significant cost to the girl. In the case of Ui Tamaki, wishing for one of Kyubey's abilities seems to have resulted in her being unable to handle her power and quickly become overwhelmed by the absorption of impurities. Touka Satomi and Nemu Hiiragi may have also been affected by this cost, as the use of Touka's Doppel's wish-granting power and Nemu's creation of Uwasa both use up their life force and take years off their lives In a more explicit instance, Rion Yuzuki wished to in some way undo an event that led to the death of her sister Hotori. However, because she lacked the necessary karmic destiny to completely undo a fixed point in time, her wish instead created two split timelines (one where Rion never made a wish and Hotori died, and one where the incident that killed her never occurred, which also resulted in their memories being modified so they believed they had both been Magical Girls together for the same amount of time and without any knowledge of the other timeline's events). Over time, these two timelines began to merge and overlap with each other, until the inciting incident that ultimately led to Rion making her wish was resolved and the timelines could merge peacefully, once more erasing the knowledge of the entire incident from everyone involved.

   This, coupled with Homura Akemi's wish, which was said to "surpass entropy" indicates that the alteration of time and creation of multiple timelines may actually be relatively simple for an average wish to accomplish, but that there exist certain moments in time that are fixed points, and thus are more difficult if not impossible to change without sufficient karmic power. It is possible, but unconfirmed, that what constitutes a "fixed point" in time, or at least how much karmic weight is required to modify it, may be tied to how much karma is involved in that moment (eg. a moment that affects a great number of people would have a lot of karma, and thus require a girl with equal or greater karmic power to modify or undo it).

   In Tart Magica, Tart's incredible power was the result of Riz Hawkwood's wish for the existence of a great hero, resulting in the entire karmic weight of all of France centering on her. The manga, as well as various descriptions in Magia Record, make frequent mention of threads of fate/karma being added to Tart's destiny, such as Melissa making her wish to save both Tart and her father's lives. Because her karmic destiny is so great, Tart lacks control over her magic and expends a lot of it at once.

   It seems that making a wish for someone else increases that persons own karmic destiny, as seen in Tart Magica and in Madoka Magica where Homura's repeated time loops began to center the world around Madoka, thereby increasing her innate karmic destiny.

   Elemental Magic As initially established in Magia Record and briefly shown in its anime adaptation, Magical Girls and their magic fall in one of six "elemental" categories: Light, Dark, Fire, Forest, Water, and Void.

   In the game, these elements have strengths and weakness against each other: Light and Dark are equally strong and weak against each other; Fire is strong against Forest, Forest is strong against Water, and Water is strong against Fire; Void is neither weak or strong against any other element.

   However, what makes a Magical Girl a given elemental type is questionable. Light, Dark, and Void are not tangible types and there is nothing that defines them. Fire, Forest, and Water, while being more tangible, apply to Magical Girls who seemingly don't have any related abilities, such as Mami Tomoe being catergorized as a Forest Magical Girl despite not having any kind of plant-related powers. It also implies that some girls may be weaker to each other because of a type difference that does not actually end up applying in battle. (Sayaka Miki's supposed Water magic does not seem to present any extra challenge in battles against Kyoko Sakura's supposed Fire magic, despite in theory being able to do so.) Because it is arbitrary, it is reasonable to assume that this system was mainly intended as a game mechanic and was simply a cameo in the anime.

10. #10Labyrinths (Magical Realm)

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    Witches and Familiars reside in magical Labyrinths of another dimension. These labyrinths interface with the real world at specific locations, but can be entered by Magical Girls through ripping open Barriers, or by stumbling into them. To attract normal people to their locations to feed upon, Witches infest unhappy people with a Witch's Kiss, which either attract them to these locations to commit suicide (if unhindered) or kill them off with diseases or accidents. For this reason, Witches tend to gather around violence-prone areas and hospitals.

    The labyrinths consist both of elements from their locations in reality and of allusions to the Witches that created them. Deeper within the Labyrinth, more references to the witch will be seen and fewer elements from reality show up. For example, in Episode 1, the Labyrinth is set in a floor waiting for refurbishing, and it was fulfilled with 'under construction' signs and barriers of a construction site. In episode two, the labyrinth is set in an abandoned concrete building, thus the rooms in the labyrinth are made of solid concrete, making its appearance differ from Episode 1 even though it's the same Labyrinth. As the girls approach the the final room, elements of a rose garden start to dominate the construction elements. In Episode 3, the Labyrinth is set in a hospital, therefore surgery signs, needles, gallipots, and wards are presented first, but deeper in, those are replaced by various kinds of desserts. The barrier can also be somewhat influenced by the strong emotions of the people within them, as seen in Episode 3 when Mami and Madoka make their promise, or the many Labyrinths directly showing their victims visions of their own memories.

11. #11Witch's kiss

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    A Witch's Kiss is a marking, the personal symbol of the Witch, used by a Witch and its Familiars to control the minds of humans. They can be used to exacerbate pre-existing negative emotions and thoughts, change personalities, make people commit crimes or suicide, or lure them into a Labyrinth to be consumed by the Witch inside. While some of these actions may not necessarily lead humans to being consumed, some Witches may also desire merely to spread evil and misfortune regardless of if they get sustenance. Further, a Kissed human may not always die from it. Familiars can Kiss humans well outside of the Labyrinth they hail from in order to bring them to their Witch.

    In the original series, Witch's Kisses were only depicted as appearing on people's necks. In Magia Record, they are now shown to appear on any part of the body, including the face and limbs.

    In the original series, Kazumi Magica and Magia Record, it is shown that humans with magical potential (future Magical Girls) can still become Kissed. It is unconfirmed, though implied in Rebellion, that even contracted Magical Girls can also be Kissed under special situations.

    The symbol that makes up a Witch's Kiss also appears at the entrance of its owner's Labyrinth.

12. #12Witch's heart, Witch Hybrids

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    The Witch's heart, also called "cuore maleficus", is a physical manifestation, or flesh of the Witch's life. When retrieved in a specific way through magic, it does not disappear like the rest of the Witch. The flesh of the Witches has been referred to with many names, such as "evil stuffing", "stuffed Witch" or "malefica farce" and it was used by the Pleiades Saints in combination with a human body to create Witch Hybrids. It is unknown if all Witches have an actual "heart" component, or if the flesh of a Witch is enough for the process. A sapient being created by a Witch's Heart and a human body. A hybrid sometimes has the abilities of the Magical Girls that were used to create them, as well as the abilities of the original girl who turned into its parent Witch. They progressively become more Witch-like with time and use of their abilities, similar to normal Magical Girls.

    Hybrids can sometimes have their own version of a Soul Gem, in which case they're able to transform into their magical form, otherwise they will seemingly be permanently stuck in that form without the need for transformation. Hybrids of the same Witch have cannibalistic and amalgamate properties, as they can consume their siblings to gain their power, as well as willingly give their own to them. A Hybrid making a contract with Kyubey is not unheard of.

13. #13Familiar

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    A Familiar is a lesser monster divided out of the essence of a Witch or other magical creature. Though normally assigned the task of maintaining and defending their mistress' Barrier, they also possess Barriers of their own, often very identical to that of their creator.

    A Familiar is a secondary enemy that a Witch creates for a variety of purposes, usually shortly after the Witch itself is born. After either eating a few humans or gaining enough energy through other means, they will turn into a filled Grief Seed, lay roots and launch their own Barrier, which is itself full of Familiars. The Grief Seed itself will then hatch completely and grow into an identical copy of its parent Witch, able to spawn its own Familiars and dropping their own Grief Seed. The details of this process sometimes vary slightly depending on the Witch, but the practice of not hunting Familiars until they mature into Witches is known as "Witch farming." One prominent example is most of the Witch population of Kamihama City, which were created by Familiars, whether by chance or through the Witch farming of Magical Girls.

    Unlike their parent Witches, Familiars are approximately weak enough for a human to do significant damage to them without magical assistance. Familiars themselves do not drop any Grief Seeds when killed unless they have matured into a full Witch and it appears that when a Witch is killed, Familiars in its Labyrinth, or at least those in close proximity, also die alongside it.

    According to the January 2012 Dengeki PlayStation, Familiars are described as "projections of the Magical Girl's heart before they became a Witch." Like Witches themselves, the behavior and properties of Familiars, as well as the relationship to their Witch, vary greatly, with seemingly the only constants being the lack of a Grief Seed, their big numbers and lesser power.

    Non-Witch Familiars Despite Familiars being most common with Witches, other magical creatures also have Familiars of their own. Magical Girls themselves have been known to create creatures, or constructs from their own personal magic to do a certain job, or simply aid their master.

    It can be said that Nightmares are a form of Familiar in their own right, but they also have proper Familiars of their own. The Familiars of Nightmares, named Koguma and Koyagi respectively, appear as small plushies that are mostly used as projectiles. Notably, a creature which was very similar to Nightmares in its creation and function, Made in 168, did not appear to have any Familiars of its own.

    As Uwasa are all created by Nemu's magic, they can be considered her Familiars, but they themselves sometimes also have their own Familiars. The Familiars of Uwasa are different in that they solely exist to fulfill their underlying rumor, and they seemingly all lack any form of further agency, or ability to grow into anything else. When the Kimochi appear, they initially employ empty copies of major Uwasa and their Uwasa Familiars to serve as their personal bodyguards before the Kimochi themselves appeared.

    Names The only entries in the franchise that have named Familiars are Madoka Magica, Magia Record and Magia Exedra.

    As with the names of Witches, the names of Familiars in Madoka Magica relate to the works or themes of Johann Goethe, Richard Wagner, or Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Albertine is named after one or two women by that name that Goethe was known friends with, and her Familiar Anja is named after a titular character of a play by writer Klaus Mann, who like Goethe wrote an adaptation of the legend of Faust. Charlotte's Familiars, Pyotr and Polina, are respectively named after Pyotr Tchaikovsky (composer for The Nutcracker) and both Polina Semionova (a ballerina in The Nutcracker) and possibly, Pauiline von Metternich, a woman important in the promotion of Richard Wagner's work.

    In Magia Record, it is more common for the names for the Familiars to more closely relate to the name of their master Witches, which themselves tend to be named for more personal reasons outside of the game's larger inspirations. For instance, Zenobia is a revered Syrian queen, and Zabaii comes from Zenobia's birth name or an ancestor. Shin, a babysitting-themed Witch, may be named after the television character Shin Takonara who is herself a babysitter; her Familiar, Kotori, is named after a Japanese children's game. This may also explain the aforementioned characterization of Familiars are projections of the Magical Girl's heart.

14. #14Soul Gem

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    A Soul Gem is a gem birthed from a contract with an Incubator. It's the extracted soul of the Magical Girl that made the contract, given physical form, but Kyubey hides this from the girls he contracts. It's the source of a Magical Girl's magic and proof that she is a Magical Girl. Appearance Soul Gems have the appearance reminiscent of a Fabergé egg. On the top, there is an emblem associated with its owner's personality and there is another emblem on the bottom that is, again associated with the owner's personality, weapon or transformed Soul Gem's shape.

    In camouflage mode, they become silver rings worn on the middle finger. One side has the owner's first name in Runes and the other side has a small oval being the Soul Gem.

    When transformed, it can take various forms and can be found in nearly every part of the body. Ranging from neck to legs. It can either become one with the body or simply become an accessory. Uses After a girl contracts Kyubey, a Soul Gem is born, with it, its owner can use it to transform into their Magical Girl form. Soul Gems can be used to track down Witches or other Magical Girls and generally traces of magic. Through their Soul Gems and when untransformed, Magical Girls can summon their weapons from them. After it's fully polluted, it shatters and becomes a Grief Seed. This can be prevented by using Grief Seeds obtained by Witches. A Soul Gem is able to cause a mass explosion that is even capable of killing a Witch. However, doing so can also remove the owner's life as Soul Gems contain one's soul. Soul gems can take on the form of rings for easier transportation. They are worn on a girl's left middle finger and spell her name in runes with the gemstone facing away from them.

    Mechanics Soul Gem Form Physical contact with the Soul Gem is required for a Magical Girl to transform. When not transformed, a Magical Girl's Soul Gem typically takes its default "egg" form, or may be turned into a ring at will to be worn for easier transportation. When in ring form, the band will display its owner's name written in Runes. When transformed, the gem will change appearance and become incorporated into its owner's costume. The gem's costumed form most often takes on the appearance of one of the two symbols, which may or may not be the same symbol repeated, on the top and bottom/center of the gem in its "egg" form (e.g. Mami Tomoe's becomes a flower, Rena Minami's becomes a music note, etc.). Magic A Magical Girl is capable of using their Soul Gem to perform magic when not transformed: they can merge it with a normal object to temporarily imbue it with magic, also transforming its appearance, which is then returned the normal when the Soul Gem is separated from it; and they can summon simplified forms of their weapons made of magical energy that extent from, and can be retracted into, the gem. Soul Gems have a natural magic sense that allows Magical Girls to detect both generalized spikes in magic and specific magic signatures of Witches, other Magical Girls as well as other magical creatures. Additionally, by looking through the Soul Gem Ring, certain things that have been hidden by magic are made visible and this seems to be a way for Magical Girls to spread messages between each other. Since the creation of the Soul Gem requires the Incubator to extract the soul out of the contractee's body, the body becomes nothing more than a vessel for the Magical Girl To keep the body healthy and living, magic is subconsciously used.[Citation needed] It's possible for the Magical Girl to "dissociate" from her body and stop feeling pain.

    A Magical Girl must remain within 100 meters of their Soul Gem or their connection will be broken, and the girl will instantly lose consciousness. If this connection is broken, it will only be re-established once physical contact between them has been made again. Once separated within 100 meters, a Magical Girl's body has approximately 48 hours until it begins to decay. While transformed, a Magical Girl may be separated from their Soul Gem and retain their life and magic provided the distance between them does not exceed 100 meters; however, if a Magical Girl is not already transformed and is separated from their gem while remaining within proper distance of it, they will be unable to transform and, potentially, unable to use their unique magic. The connection between a Magical Girl and their Soul Gem can be broken by another using magic while still within 100 meters of each other. while still within 100 meters of each other.

    It's possible for multiple Soul Gems to inhabit one body.

    Corruption When a Magical Girl uses her magic, experiences strong negative emotions, or sustains physical injuries, the Soul Gem gathers impurities and becomes progressively darker. The only way to rid it of its darkness is to extract it with a Grief Seed or Grief Cube. If the Soul Gem becomes too full of impurities and turns completely black, it will transform into a Grief Seed, and its Magical Girl will become a Witch. This will completely sever the connection to the Magical Girl's body, unless the Magical Girl was already using a Doppel at the time and leaving the boundary of the Automatic Purification System.

15. #15Kyubey

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    Appearance Kyubey is a small, cat-like creature. It has white fur and four ears, one pair representing the average cat and the other similar to those of a rabbit. It has red eyes and golden rings around its long ears. At the bottom of the ears, it appears that it is separated into three, along with a pink-white fade and three red ovals. These ears seem to be what turns the girls into Magical Girls, as seen when it makes Sayaka Miki's Soul Gem. It has a large tail and pointy ears, the inside of them being pinkish peach color. On its back is a hot pink egg-shaped oval that can flip open to remove Grief Seed fragments.

    Personality Despite appearing and sounding somewhat human, Kyubey is an Incubator and has no personal understanding of human emotion. Despite appearing as an individual, Kyubey and the rest of the Incubators do not seem to have a distinct sense of self. On the occasions where a Kyubey is killed, another will step out and continue to converse as if nothing had occurred.

    The Incubators are an emotionless race, but seek to exploit the thermodynamics-violating emotions of the human race to produce energy and prevent the Heat Death of the Universe, the ultimate end of the universe itself. The fact that the system they use to harvest this power-- Magical girls and Witches-- would be considered horrendously evil by humans is inconsequential to the Incubators. They choose this method because it is the most expedient to their goals. No action they take is ultimately malicious, as they do not themselves experience or understand the emotions required to act in such a way. Everything about Kyubey, however, is implied to make it as appealing as possible to the Magical Girls (by leaving out potentially traumatizing details about it), as well as emulating behaviors and 'emotions' for the same purpose.

    This lack of understanding ultimately results in Kyubey being unable to predict or understand the actions of the Magical Girls or the results of those actions, despite them being obvious to the girls themselves.

    Etymology Kyubey's name comes from the word Incubator (インキュベーター, Incubator?).Episode 08 Incubator comes from the Latin word "incubare" which means "to lie".

    Prior to the series' premiere, Urobuchi pointed out that Kyu (キュゥ, Kyu?) came from the English word "cute" which was proven to be a lie. Kyu however, matches Juubey's Juu, which mean "nine" and "ten" respectively.

    Biography Kyubey is a creature who makes contracts with young girls to turn them into "magical girls" so that they can fight witches. In this process, the girl makes a wish and Kyubey grants it, but in return, the girl's soul is put in a small gem, which is also the source of their magic. If destroyed, the magic will disappear and the girl will die. If it is corrupted with darkness from grief, the gem will turn into a grief seed and the girl will turn into a witch. This is the ultimate fate of all Magical girls.

    Much like the rest of its race, Kyubey does not possess any human emotion. As seen in a later episode, Kyubey refers to magical girls' bodies as empty shells while explaining why Sayaka "died" when separated from her soul gem. This may also be why Homura Akemi got angry when Madoka Kaname threw it. Kyoko Sakura claims that it tricked and turned them into zombies, though it wasn't its intention. It believed that it was doing a good thing, seeing as it was convenient that they were invincible.

    Despite its emotionless attitude, it apparently likes hot baths and human food, as seen in episode 2. It is also able to bleed, though it can reproduce its body and eat the old one. This body reproduction ability can be used whenever Kyubey's body is too damaged to be used or simply at an inconvenient state. (For example, is shown covered in bullet holes from being shot at.) It has an unlimited amount of these extra "bodies" that could be used, but it says that it would be more convenient to not use them so much.

    Relationships Madoka Kaname: Madoka and Kyubey used to share a bond because Kyubey always saw a great potential in Madoka and wanted to make her a Magical Girl. As the story was unfolding, she hated him more and more even when she made the contract to become Ultimate Madoka. Sayaka Miki: Sayaka is very protective of Kyubey in the beginning and likes him a lot. However, after finding the truth about Soul Gems, Sayaka starts being aggressive towards him and has even come to a point to stab him. Mami Tomoe: Mami is very good friends with Kyubey, at least in most timelines as long as she doesn't know the dark secrets of being a Magical Girl. She takes good care of Kyubey and is very protective of him towards Homura. Homura Akemi: Homura dislikes Kyubey to no end. No matter the timeline, she will always attempt to kill him and prevent Kyubey to form contacts with Madoka and to a lesser degree with Sayaka. Kyubey usually comes to Homura whenever there is something new he has discovered or wants to talk to someone aside of Madoka. Iroha Tamaki: Like many other Magical Girls, Iroha, prior to finding out the secrets of a Magical Girl's life, used to be good acquaintances with Kyubey, contacting each other on a daily basis. Though after Iroha found out the dark secrets of a Magical Girl and seeing Kuroe transforming into a Witch, she despises Kyubey endlessly, to the point that she even shot him. Touka Satomi: It is described by many characters that Touka and Kyubey are really alike in terms of ideology. Though Touka does despise Incubator like everyone else because she knows the secrets of a Magical Girl's life. Powers and Abilities Kyubey has a wide variety of magical abilities which he uses in his mission to counteract entropy.

    Telepathic communication - Kyubey communicates with Puella Magi and potential Puella Magi through telepathic communication, as opposed to verbal. Exposure to this apparently enables Puella Magi and potential Puella Magi to also communicate telepathically amongst each other when Kyubey is nearby. Invisibility - Kyubey is invisible to everyone, except for Puella Magi and candidates. Normal humans do not seem to notice his presence at all, just as he never communicates with them. Teleportation - Kyubey has been evidenced to cross long distances in impossibly short time spans, the method for which is yet unknown, but can be assumed to be teleportation. In episode 10, he also fades into reality above Homura, which may be the visible manifestation of him teleporting. Wish granting - Kyubey can grant the wishes of young girls, in the same manner a Genie would. Unlike most genies, Kyubey does his best to grant the wishes accurately, without twisting the wording, and wishes that end up backfiring do so for factors entirely beyond the Incubator's control. Kyubey only allocates one wish per contract. It appears that Kyubey can only grant the wishes of others, since he has never been seen using his reality-warping power to his own ends. Wishes are fueled via the magical potential of the new Puella Magi. Because of this, while Kyubey can grant almost any regular wish, particularly high-impact wishes cannot be granted for most girls. Energy conversion/collection - Kyubey is able to collect energy from witch transformation and battles through unseen means. In Timeline 6, he collects it when magical girls drop grief seeds into a hatch-like "mouth" that opens in the red oval on his back. How he is able to transport this energy also remains a mystery. Soul Gem Creation - Kyubey is capable of rending young girls' souls from their bodies and placing them within small egg-shaped gemstones called soul gems. This makes the newly formed Puella Magi capable of transformation into their "magical girl form", granting increased agility, strength, endurance, pain threshold, conjuring of magical weaponry and other magical abilities. Although this process is invaluable to allow the girls to fight without being overwhelmed by pain, Kyubey tries to avoid mentioning fact that it involves separation of soul from body, as it tends to be traumatic to the Puella Magi. It is unknown whether Kyubey can create a Soul Gem at will, or whether a contract must first be formed. Replication - After being killed, another identical Kyubey will appear nearby and consume the remains of his predecessor if possible. This duplicate appears to retain most, if not all the knowledge of the last one. This may suggest a "hive mind" or cloning process. It has been stated that Kyubey "instantaneously generates a replacement body out of the surrounding mana". The ability may reference the saying "cats have nine lives", as Kyubey resembles a cat. Soul Gem Stimulation - As seen in episode 7, Kyubey can create impulses of certain feelings on a soul gem simply by touching it. In Sayaka's case, he emulates a pike (probably mimicking Kyoko's) impaling Sayaka's stomach. Soul Gem Purification - Jubey, another Incubator, has been shown in the spinoff comics to be able to purify Soul Gems. Kyubey likely has the same ability. Advanced magical technology - The Incubators are stated to be a highly advanced alien race. They are obviously capable of space travel. The Inhibition Field seen in Rebellion movie is an example of their technology. Since they are not overly hostile to humanity and do not need to defend themselves if attacked, preferring to regenerate in a new body, it is unknown whether the Incubators dispose of any weaponry or offensive magic.

16. #16Ultimate Madoka

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    Shortly after hiring, she is seen saving different magical girls from becoming witches. These girls include Cleopatra, Queen Himiko, Joan of Arc, a girl with a scarf on her head, a Jewish girl on a train (possibly Anne Frank), a princess Dakini, a girl in the Savanna, a girl with bear suit in a futuristic city, a magical girl in a volcano and a viking girl. When the world is being rebuilt as a result of her wish, Ultimate Madoka appears in her signature costume to destroy her own witch form, Kriemhild Gretchen, with her bow before it destroys the world. By doing so, Madoka becomes a concept: the Law of Cycles, and her human existence is erased from the world, passing to another plane of existence as a Goddess who observes everything that happens in the present, past and future. Appearance Like in her original magical girl outfit, Ultimate Madoka has pink hair, but much longer, and her eyes have turned into a golden color. She retains her characteristic pair of pigtails, which are adorned with now white bows. She wears a white dress that exposes a small part of her chest. The skirt of the dress has several ruffles with a galaxy design on the inside of it. Its white sleeves have pink ruffles. She has pink tights and white shoes with wings on her feet. The wings on its back are pale pink. The bow and arrow she uses as a weapon are very similar to the one she used before becoming a goddess. Powers and Abilities Abilities Able to absorb and erase the despair inside one's soul gem with ease. Able to destroy/erase witches (or curses in general) before they are born. From multiple different moments throughout the series and movies, it has been proven that Ultimate Madoka is both omnipresent and omnipotent, yet she cannot just easily interact with the people on earth outside of what the Law of Cycles is used for. Reality warping. Going beyond universal laws. At the Magia Record timeline, she can not intervene and decide to watch this book.

17. #17Pseudo-witches, Evil Nuts

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    Pseudo-witches are a type of Witch unique to the Kazumi Magica manga. They are actually human women that are implanted with a fake Grief Seed called an "Evil Nut". They have many traits of Witches, but Kazumi is able to sense them more than other Magical Girls and when they are defeated, the Evil Nut separates from the woman, much like when a Witch drops a Grief Seed. Unlike regular Witches, the women return to normal after they are defeated and they seem to be visible to normal humans, or at least normal girls, as seen when a schoolgirl was attacked by one. They lose their memories of the events that occurred while they were under the Evil Nut's influence due to Umika Misaki erasing them with her magic.

18. #18Evil Nuts

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    Evil Nuts are fake Grief Seeds, which appear as magical items in Kazumi Magica. They can be used to create fake Witches (known as "pseudo-witches" to fans) from ordinary women and to change a Magical Girl into a Witch. Women affected can be restored to their normal state if they are defeated, as the Evil Nut separates from her, much like when a normal Witch drops a Grief Seed. Unlike regular Witches, the women return to normal after they are defeated instead of simply dying. The women affected have had the memories of these events erased by Umika Misaki.

    An Evil Nut can be touched by Magical Girls and seemingly even normal people, but it triggers the transformation when it makes forceful contact with a girl's forehead, or presumably, her Soul Gem as well. They are used by both Yuuri and the Soujus from the beginning of the story, but their origins remain unknown until much later. The fake Witches created by them can be detected only by Kazumi's ahoge and unlike conventional Grief Seeds, Incubators cannot consume them. They apparently do not activate on their own like Grief Seeds, but must be inserted into a host via the forehead by a magical girl. The Evil Nuts were created (and distributed to Yuuri and the Soujus) by . They are a combination of Umika Misaki's analysis magic and Niko Kanna's reconstruction magic. It can be assumed that this combination of powers was used on a normal Grief Seed to create this effect.

19. #19Near Witches

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    A Near Witch (魔女の境界 Majo no Kyōkai, lit. "Witch's Frontier") is a transitional form that manifests when the transformation into a Witch is halted during the final stages by Fuka Higure's Spiritless magic.

    It represents an incomplete or suspended form of the Witch-turning process and was first identified and named by Fuka and Sumire Yoake in the events surrounding Toyozuru City. The term was coined by Sumire to describe the creature that appears when a Magical Girl is halted just before her Soul Gem fully taints and she completes her transformation into a Witch. The phenomenon was discovered during Fuka's experiments with her "Spiritless magic," which temporarily suspends the body and soul to prevent Soul Gem corruption.

    Near Witches are created when a Magical Girl reaches the brink of despair, with her Soul Gem heavily tainted but not yet fully transformed into a Grief Seed. While Fuka's magic would make the girl appear physically dead, while her Soul Gem remains intact, applying it at this point also leads to the manifestation of the Near Witch.

    Near Witches are explicitly described as halfway between a Magical Girl and a Witch. They carry impurities but lack the full autonomy or destructive scale of a true Witch. Their appearance is uncertain, and it is unknown if the Near Witch takes the appearance similar to a girl's Witch, Familiar, Doppel, or something else entirely. The Near Witch is only described as a monster, "weird creature" or "small Witch."

    A Near Witch remains connected to the Magical Girl from whom it emerged. The girl does not fully transform as long as Fuka continues applying Spiritless magic, but the process is merely postponed and cannot be undone with Grief Seeds, or Fuka's own magic. If the suppressing magic is not reapplied regularly, the girl immediately resumes her transformation into a full Witch. The Near Witch itself can dissipate or destabilize once the magic lapses, thus they're more a sign of a life-support system than a cure to Witches.

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