The one who gave everything had nothing. The one who received everything knew nothing.
After Sayaka Miki made her wish and became a magical girl, she fought witches countless times. At the moment she struggled on the line between life and death, she knew she had already lost the right to stay by Kyosuke Kamijō's side, yet she still struggled and cried out. She had given everything but received no reward. No one even knew what a heavy price she had paid.
She had thought that watching Kyosuke Kamijō become happy would make her happy too, but Hitomi Shizuki's appearance made her understand just how foolish she had been. She had made a selfless wish from selfish feelings.
Sayaka Miki regretted it.
Kyosuke Kamijō's violin performance received widespread praise, while Sayaka Miki desperately protected the city without anyone knowing.
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Kyosuke Kamijō and Hitomi Shizuki became a sweet, affectionate couple, while Sayaka Miki fought witches alone in desperate battles. Her Soul Gem was stained black by negative emotions. Even when other magical girls reminded her, she had no intention of purifying it. From that moment on, her mind began to fall, and she even started enjoying the influence of the negative emotions brought by the Soul Gem's corruption.
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Kyosuke Kamijō successfully realized his dream, performing on a famous grand stage and receiving unanimous praise from the judges.
With his violin piece serving as background music, Sayaka Miki successfully defeated a witch, using rough and cruel methods to tear apart—or perhaps devour—the witch that had appeared.
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When he received the prize he had long dreamed of, Kyosuke Kamijō stood on the performance stage and said happily, "The person I want to thank most is the one who stayed by my side while I was hospitalized, who never abandoned me no matter what setbacks I went through... Hitomi Shizuki."
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Kyosuke Kamijō forgot Sayaka Miki, who had always stayed beside him and encouraged him. What he remembered was the refined young lady who had brought him flowers.
Hitomi Shizuki forgot that Kyosuke Kamijō was the person her closest friend loved.
Sayaka Miki was betrayed by her closest friend, betrayed by the person she loved most, and targeted by the malice of the world.
In an instant, her Soul Gem was completely polluted, shattered, and transformed into a black Grief Seed. Sayaka Miki also fell and became the Mermaid Witch. Holding onto her final sliver of hope, she approached Kyosuke Kamijō in her twisted witch form, wanting to tell him everything she had done and all the feelings she carried—only to be denounced by him in terror as a "monster"!
The human part of Sayaka Miki was completely swallowed by despair. With Kyosuke Kamijō's violin performance as the background music, the magnificent stage as the venue, and a grand banquet of suffering witches, the feast began.
Hitomi Shizuki was cruelly turned into a violin by the Mermaid Witch. Kyosuke Kamijō became a bird in a cage, imprisoned on the witch's stage. Every time he played the violin, what rang out was Hitomi Shizuki's wailing. The audience members who had originally come to watch Kyosuke Kamijō perform had turned into puppets, offering thunderous applause whenever they heard Hitomi Shizuki's cries.
Kyosuke Kamijō was controlled by the witch, forced to play that familiar violin piece without pause. Hitomi Shizuki's piercing cries also made him shed tears of despair.
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"Will the plot be too dark? I remember the original was warned by the Television Broadcasting Ethics Committee because of plot issues. To be safe, it's better to apply for a fifteen-plus rating."
"The original 'Puella Magi Madoka Magica' can roughly be divided into three parts: hope, despair, and salvation. It starts with the hope arc, using Homura Akemi's time-traveling ability as the thread. The process may be different, but this method is Ryohgo Narita's favorite narrative technique in 'Baccano!' and 'Durarara!!'—disrupting the story timeline and letting the characters themselves trigger and trace back their memories."
"Use the hope arc as groundwork, the despair arc as the main body, and the salvation arc to bring the story to a close. The focus is truly on portraying the despair arc. Hope transitions into despair, and then despair is explained more concretely and thoroughly. Only this way will the salvation at the end have a greater impact and emotional power for the audience."
"Then there's the plot. The broad framework won't differ much from the original, but the ending must be changed. The original ending could be called brilliant, but not perfect. The missing part was only truly completed in the movie version."
"The content of the movie can actually be integrated into the main story."
"Rose Witch Gertrud, Sweets Witch Charlotte, Box Witch Elly, Doodle Witch Albertine, Silver Witch Gisela, Shadow Witch Elsa Maria, Mermaid Witch Oktavia von Seckendorff (Sayaka Miki), Artist Witch Izabel, Class Representative Witch Patricia, Birdcage Witch Roberta, Witch of Salvation Kriemhild Gretchen (Madoka Kaname), and Stage-Construction Witch Walpurgis Night."
"And the final appearance: the Witch of the Universe, who represents all despair in this world."
Within his mental space, Kamiyā Yuu recalled the original information while creating 'Puella Magi Madoka Magica.' Every witch was connected to a plot unit, but these story chains did not satisfy him at all.
"The Witch of the Universe is destroyed by the Witch of Salvation (Madoka Kaname), or by the Law of Cycles, the 'nonexistent witch who is no one.'"
"Add the content and setting from the movie version, 'Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Rebellion.'"
"Revise the setting of the Witch of the Universe. In the original, it is the price of Madoka Kaname's excessively grand wish, containing all despair in the world. But Madoka Kaname's wish itself is to erase all witches in the world and change the existence of witches at the level of rules, so the Witch of the Universe, as the price, is also erased by the wish itself."
"Combined with the movie version, the Witch of the Universe can be set as Homura Akemi. She is the cause of the time loops. The causal threads entangled around her are no fewer than those surrounding Madokami herself. Across countless loops, she quietly falls. Even after becoming the Witch of the Universe, she still holds a tiny final wish. The witch destroys the original world, creates an ideal world, and lets herself' wander within that world to 'save' Madoka Kaname, satisfying her own distorted wish."
"The Witch of the Universe is the cause of everything, and what she desires is the effect of all things."
"Homura Akemi is the cause. Madoka Kaname is the effect."
"Walpurgis Night can be an excellent fuse. For example, after a great battle, Walpurgis Night still cannot be destroyed. Just as it tries to kill Madoka Kaname, it is stopped by one sentence from Homura Akemi. As an observer, Kyubey then jumps out and reveals Homura Akemi's identity as the Witch of the Universe, exposing the truth that this world is actually a cage she created."
"After witnessing the destruction of the world during Walpurgis Night, Madoka Kaname recovers her memories from countless loops through Kyubey's ability. She understands everything and wants to bring everything to a perfect conclusion."
"The causality entangled around her, affecting countless worlds, transforms into the power of a wish."
"The Law of Cycles is born from this, surpassing timelines and the universe itself. Like an immutable mathematical theorem of the cosmos, it erases all witches before they are born."
"Well, ~ Since the movie's content is being integrated, the story's rhythm and narrative method need slight adjustments. A 'Baccano!'-style reverse chronological flashback? Maintain the original's fluctuating contrast? Hmm, actually, it could also use the method from 'Danganronpa,' broadcasting the Future Arc and Despair Arc together."
"The reverse chronological flashback method suits episodic stories. For a long-form work like 'Puella Magi Madoka Magica,' it would instead disrupt the story rhythm. A two-episode alternating broadcast like 'Danganronpa' isn't impossible, but it still feels like it lacks impact compared to the original."
"Maintain the original narrative method? Then the story rhythm needs to be adjusted. The hope arc must continuously plant foreshadowing for the despair arc while advancing the story with unimaginable smoothness to achieve the later contrast."
"In the hope arc, change the history where Mami Tomoe becomes the headless knight. Madoka Kaname makes a wish for a cake and smoothly becomes a magical girl. Until Episode 7, when everyone faces Walpurgis Night and the result is a total wipeout. Homura Akemi's time travel then becomes the thread that opens the despair arc. After once again witnessing Madoka Kaname's death, Homura Akemi swears she cannot let her continue being a magical girl, and the methods she takes to stop her become even more intense and forceful."
"The despair arc keeps the original rhythm. Senior Mami Tomoe loses her head, Sayaka Miki falls into despair and becomes the Mermaid Witch, Kyoko Sakura and the Mermaid Witch perish together, and until Walpurgis Night arrives, Madoka Kaname still has not made her wish."