Magia Record

Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story (Japanese: マギアレコード 魔法少女まどか☆マギカ外伝, Hepburn: Magia Rekōdo: Mahō Shōjo Madoka Magika Gaiden) is a Japanese role-playing video game developed by f4samurai for Android and iOS, which was released by Aniplex in Japan on August 22, 2017 and in North America on June 25, 2019. The game is a spin-off of the 2011 anime series Puella Magi Madoka Magica, and features a new protagonist named Iroha Tamaki, who arrives in Kamihama City to search for her missing sister.

Magia Record
English logo
マギアレコード
(Magia Rekōdo)
Genre
Created by
Game
Developerf4samurai
PublisherAniplex
GenreRole-playing game
PlatformAndroid, iOS, Windows
Released
  • JP: August 22, 2017
  • TW: December 19, 2018
  • HK: December 19, 2018
  • MAC: December 19, 2018
  • NA: June 25, 2019
Manga
Written byFujino Fuji
Published byHoubunsha
MagazineManga Time Kirara Forward
DemographicSeinen
Original runAugust 24, 2018 – present
Manga
Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story – Another Story
Written byU35
Published byHoubunsha
ImprintManga Time KR Comics
MagazineComic Fuz
DemographicSeinen
Original runMay 25, 2019 – present
Volumes1
Anime television series
Directed by
Produced by
Written byGekidan Inu Curry (Doroinu)
Music byTakumi Ozawa
StudioShaft
Licensed by
Original networkTokyo MX, GYT, GTV, BS11, MBS
English network
Original run January 4, 2020 – March 28, 2020
Episodes13

A manga adaptation has been serialized in Manga Time Kirara Forward magazine since August 24, 2018, illustrated by Fujino Fuji. A stage play adaptation was also produced in 2018. An anime television series adaptation of the game produced by Shaft aired between January and March 2020, with a second anime season in production.

Plot
See also: List of Magia Record characters

A white creature named Kyubey has the power to grant girls any single wish. In exchange for that wish, however, they must become magical girls and fight against creatures known as Witches. A rumor soon begins to spread among magical girls that they can be saved from their duty by going to Kamihama City. Iroha Tamaki, a girl who had originally forgotten the wish she had made to become a magical girl, one day encounters a smaller Kyubey and remembers that she made a wish to cure her younger sister Ui of her illness. Realising that Ui has become missing somehow, Iroha travels to Kamihama City in order to find answers, encountering many other magical girls along the way.

Gameplay

Magia Record is a turn-based tactical RPG that features battles with magical girls on the right side of the screen and witches/familiars on the left side. The player must attack enemies on the left side with magical girls that they have collected and chosen onto their team by choosing three of five attack disks found at the bottom of the screen. There are three types of attacks that the player can use: "Accele", which boosts Magic Points (MP); "Blast", which can target multiple enemies in a row or column; and "Charge", which boosts the impact of the attack following it. Attacks are automatically boosted if all three disks chosen are of the same type of command or are from the same character. After a magical girl attacks three times, the player can use an attack disk associated with that character and drag it to another magical girl on their team to "Connect" and add special effects on the receiving character, such as healing them. Magical girls are also able to use skills (found at the bottom right of the screen) and "Magia" (bottom left of the screen).

The game's main story is separated by chapters, which are further separated into episodes. Once an episode is completed, the player receives rewards, experience points for each magical girl in the team, and rank points from the battle and can replay the episode as well as move on to the next. If the player loses a battle in an episode, they can continue by using Magia Stones, one of the in-game currencies.

One magical girl is automatically put onto a team, but the player can select up to four additional magical girls, which can be received from the game's Fate Weave feature. The Fate Weave feature can also be used to gain Memoria, Enhance Gems, and Destiny Gems.

Development and release

The game was officially announced at the Shaft 40th anniversary "Madogatari" event in September 2016.[4] The producer of the original anime series, Atsuhiro Iwakami stated, "Since it seems that it will take some more time until the anime's new work, the idea that I want to make a title that "Madoka Magica" is active will work.[5] Ume Aoki, the character designer of the original anime series was also responsible for the game's character designs, in which she designed more than 10 new and original characters for the game, including the main protagonist Iroha Tamaki.[4] The opening animation and magical girl transformation scenes was produced by Shaft.[6] The game is produced by Yusuke Toyama and Masaki Sato.[6][7]

Magia Record was originally scheduled to be released in May 2017.[8] However, it was pushed back to July and then again to its current release date, August 22, 2017.[9][10]

Aniplex of America produced an English version of Magia Record that was released in North America on June 25, 2019.[11] A pre-registration campaign was held for its release, where at least 25,000 people pre-registered for the English release of the game.[12] On August 28, 2020, it was announced that the North American version of the game would be shutting down at the end of the following month.[13][14][15] The news was responded to negatively, with refunds for any microtransactions being refused. This was preceded by poor communication among the developers and players, alongside constant banners, which encouraged spending money.[16] The end of service was later delayed to October 30 and a gallery mode update was made available to players who updated the app before the shutdown.[17]

Other media

Manga

A manga adaptation based on Magia Record illustrated by Fujino Fuji has been serialized in Manga Time Kirara Forward magazine since August 24, 2018.[18]

Stage play

The game also inspired a stage play adaptation that was produced from August 24 to September 9, 2018.[19] The characters were portrayed by the Japanese idol group girl Hiragana Keyakizaka46.[20] The Blu-ray and DVD for the stage adaptation was released on February 27, 2019.[21]

Anime
See also: List of Magia Record episodes

An anime television series adaptation by Shaft was announced in September 2018 and was originally scheduled to premiere in 2019,[22] but it was delayed, instead airing between January 4 and March 28, 2020 on Tokyo MX, GYT, GTV, BS11, and MBS. The series is directed and written by Doroinu of Gekidan Inu Curry, with Yukihiro Miyamoto serving as assistant director, Junichirō Taniguchi serving as character designer, and Takumi Ozawa composing the series' music.[23] Akiyuki Shinbo serves as animation supervisor. The cast reprise their roles from the game.[24] TrySail perform the series' opening theme song "Gomakashi" (ごまかし), while ClariS perform the series' ending theme song "Alethea" (アリシア, Arishia).[25] Aniplex of America has licensed the series, and began streaming the series on FunimationNow and AnimeLab from January 4, and on Crunchyroll and Hidive from January 11.[26] In Southeast Asia, the series simulcasts on Aniplus Asia. The first season ran for 13 episodes,[27] with a second season announced at the end of the first season's final episode.[28]

Notes
  1. Credited as Chief Director (総監督, Sō Kantoku); Doroinu is specifically credited as the chief director, rather than Gekidan Inu Curry as a whole.
  2. Credited as Director (ディレクター, Direkutā).

References
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  4. "新作アプリ「マギアレコード 魔法少女まどか☆マギカ外伝」が本日配信。"水着いろは"やマギアストーンのプレゼントも実施決定" [A new application Magia Record Magical Girl Madoka ☆ Magika Gaiden is delivered today. "Swimsuit Iroha" and magia stone gifts also decided to be implemented]. 4Gamer.net (in Japanese). August 22, 2017. Retrieved December 13, 2018.
  5. Atsuhiro Iwakami Interview. Manga Time Kiara Forward Vol. 30. Houbunsha.
  6. "『マギアレコード』に登場する魔法少女すべてにシャフト制作の変身シーンがつく!?【AJ 2017】" [Magical girls appearing in "Magia Record" all have transformation scenes of Shaft production!? [AJ 2017]]. Dengeki Online (in Japanese). March 25, 2017. Retrieved December 13, 2018.
  7. "【マギレコインタビュー】Live2Dだからこそできたアートワーク。予算やスケジュールの限界がクオリティ上限ではない!" [【Magi Reco Interview】 This is the artwork that made possible for Live2D. The limit of budget and schedule is not a quality upper limit!]. Appbank (in Japanese). December 9, 2017. Retrieved December 13, 2018.
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  12. "25,000 Pre-Registered Players Achieved!". Aniplex of America. June 24, 2019. Archived from the original on August 28, 2020. Retrieved June 29, 2019.
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  20. "Costumes and casting for upcoming 'Madoka Magica' stage adaptation divides fans". Japan Today. August 25, 2018. Retrieved December 13, 2018.
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