Puella Magi Madoka Magica
魔法少女まどか☆マギカ
“A cat-like creature offers two schoolgirls any wish if they become magical girls, but a transfer student warns them off.”
8.39
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Synopsis
A cat-like creature offers two schoolgirls any wish if they become magical girls, but a transfer student warns them off.
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.
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What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 500 sampled reviews of 657
8.7/10
What 500
viewers
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95% recommend
Score distribution
Agreement
MixedMostly aligned
σ 1.78 · some divergence
The polarity gap
6.1 ptsRecommenders 9.2 · others 3.1
Yes
9.2
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3.1
Score over time
1.33Verbosity
Short · 22%
Medium · 34%
Long · 44%
Snap verdicts · shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9/10 “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...”
- 10/10 “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...”
- 9/10 “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...”
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Reel · 01 Cat. №BS-5870
- 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