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“Middle school girls offered magical powers by Kyuubey face dark truths about being magical girls.”
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
魔法少女まどか★マギカ
8.38
241 rank · 1,400,799 viewers · 60,045 favorites
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Drama
Suspense
Mahou Shoujo
Psychological
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Synopsis
Middle school girls offered magical powers by Kyuubey face dark truths about being magical girls.
Madoka Kaname and Sayaka Miki are regular middle school girls with regular lives, but all that changes when they encounter Kyuubey, a cat-like magical familiar, and Homura Akemi, the new transfer student. Kyuubey offers them a proposition: he will grant any one of their wishes and in exchange, they will each become a magical girl, gaining enough power to fulfill their dreams. However, Homura Akemi, a magical girl herself, urges them not to accept the offer, stating that everything is not what it seems. A story of hope, despair, and friendship, Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica deals with the difficulties of being a magical girl and the price one has to pay to make a dream come true.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 500 sampled reviews of 657
8.7
/10
What 500 viewers settled on.
95%
recommend
Score distribution
median 9
mode 10
σ 1.78
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.78 · some divergence
The polarity gap
6.1 pts
Recommenders 9.2 · others 3.1
Yes
No
Score over time
↓ 1.33
Running avg · Jan 2011 → Jun 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “I really enjoyed this anime. At first I wasn't sure if I liked it but I got into it after I heard the music and saw the artwork in the witch fights. I loved the bright colors and the way the art is...”
- 10 “When i first started to watch this, I had no idea what time of show this was. Thinking it was going to be a cute magical girl show, my assumptions where thrown right out the window, stomped on, and...”
- 9 “Before you watch this show, please bewared that this is not just another "Kawaii Magical Girl" anime. This anime has a real heart wrenching plot line. The art is great and the animation is...”
Verbosity
Short · 22%
Medium · 34%
Long · 44%
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- Format 12 × 24′ eps × min
- Total runtime 4h 48m all episodes
- Aired Jan 2011 – Apr 2011 Winter 2011
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-5870 catalog
Produced by
- Aniplex Producer
- Mainichi Broadcasting System Producer
- Movic Producer
- Nitroplus Producer
- Houbunsha Producer
Licensed by
- Aniplex of America Licensor