Anime of the Week: Puella Magi Madoka Magica (Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica) [Franchise]
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Anime: Puella Magi Madoka Magica (Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica)
Series Director: Yukihiro Miyamoto
Director: Akiyuki Shinbo
Series Composition: Gen Urobuchi
Studio: SHAFT
Year: 2011
Episodes: 12 TV
She has a loving family and best friends, laughs and cries from time to time... Madoka Kaname, an eighth grader of Mitakihara middle school, is one of those who lives such a life. One day, she had a very magical encounter. She doesn't know if it happened by chance or by fate yet. This is a fateful encounter that can change her destiny—this is a beginning of the new story of the magical witch girls.
Anime: Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part I: Beginnings (Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica Movie 1: Hajimari no Monogatari)
Chief Director: Akiyuki Shinbo
Director: Yukihiro Miyamoto
Screenplay: Gen Urobuchi
Studio: SHAFT
Year: 2012
Length: Approximately 2 hours and 10 minutes.
The first movie in the Madoka trilogy. It is a recap of the first eight episodes of the series.
Anime: Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part II: Eternal (Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica Movie 2: Eien no Monogatari)
Chief Director: Akiyuki Shinbo
Director: Yukihiro Miyamoto
Screenplay: Gen Urobuchi
Studio: SHAFT
Year: 2012
Length: Approximately 1 hour and 49 minutes.
The second movie in the Madoka trilogy. It is a recap of the last four episodes of the series.
Anime: Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part III: Rebellion (Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica Movie 3: Hangyaku no Monogatari)
Chief Director: Akiyuki Shinbo
Director: Yukihiro Miyamoto
Screenplay: Gen Urobuchi
Studio: SHAFT
Year: 2013
Length: Approximately 1 hour and 59 minutes.
The third movie in the Madoka trilogy.
The synopsis contains spoilers for events of the television show and its compilation films.
Anime: Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica Movie 3: Hangyaku no Monogatari - Magica Quartet x Nisioisin (MAGICA QUARTET x NISIOISIN)
Studio: SHAFT
Year: 2013
Length: Four episodes, approximately 3 minutes each
Short videos shown in theaters before the main movie (Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part III: Rebellion) starts.
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