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2017 · Role-playing · Turn-based strategy
Magia Record
Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Magia Record is a mobile game developed by f4samurai, and is part of the Puella Magi Madoka Magica franchise.
- Released
- 22 August 2017
- Platforms
- AndroidiOS
- Genres
- Role-playingTurn-based strategy
- Developers
- —
- Publishers
- —
- Themes
- Fantasy
- Country
- Japan
About
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) was a Japanese role-playing video game developed by f4samurai for Android and iOS, which was released by Aniplex in Japan on August 22, 2017. A North American version was available from June 2019 to October 2020. The game is a spin-off of the 2011 anime series Puella Magi Madoka Magica, and follows a new protagonist, Iroha Tamaki, who arrives in Kamihama City in search of her missing sister. The game closed its servers on July 31, 2024, and was replaced by Magia Exedra, a 3D gacha game with characters carried over from Magia Record.
A manga adaptation has been serialized in Manga Time Kirara Forward magazine since August 2018. A stage play adaptation was also produced in 2018. An anime television series adaptation of the game produced by Shaft aired for three seasons between January 2020 and April 2022.
›Story
Iroha Tamaki is a magical girl who has been having strange dreams of a girl at a hospital. She goes to Kamihama City to find the source of these dreams.
While tracking a witch, she comes across another magical girl (later identified as Kaede Akino). After saving Kaede from a familiar, Kaede explains the witches in Kamihama are very strong. Iroha claims she went to Kamihama to look for a small Kyubey. Kaede recognizes it, claiming it's been the only Kyubey around recently, and says she saw it in the witch's barrier.
Iroha chases down the witch again and finds the small Kyubey, but is attacked by familiars. She falls unconcious and sees a vision of another magical girl, telling her to leave Kamihama.
After another dream of a the girl in the hospital, Iroha is awoken by a magical girl named Momoko Togame. Momoko takes Iroha to visit the "Adjuster" of Kamihama. This adjuster is a magical girl named Mitama Yakumo, who is incapable of fighting witches and familiars by herself. Her power let's her enhance the powers of other magical girls by touching their Soul Gems.
When Yakumo uses her power on Iroha, Iroha sees the girl in the hospital again. Afterward, Mitama tells Iroha that when she uses her power on another magical girl she can see their past. She then asks Iroha if she remembers her wish. Iroha is shocked to find that she can't.
Iroha immediately sets out to find the small Kyubey, believing it has answers.
Keywords
- anime
- magic
- magical girl
- card based combat
- battle screen
- gacha system
Media
The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
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).
Story
Two story arcs have been released for Magia Record. The first arc consists of two parallel storylines; the Main Story, which follows Iroha and her dealing with the uwasa and the Magius, and the Another Story, a side story of the events in Kamihama City told from the perspective of the main characters of the original Puella Magi Madoka Magica anime. The second arc covers events after the resolution of the conflict with the Magius as Iroha deals with the kimochi, another phenomenon different from the uwasa and the witches.
A creature named Kyubey has the power to grant girls a wish, but in exchange they must become magical girls and fight against creatures known as Witches. Soon, a rumor begins to spread among magical girls that they can be saved from their duty if they go to Kamihama City.
Development
The game was officially announced at the Shaft 40th anniversary "Madogatari" event in September 2016. 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. 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. The opening animation and magical girl transformation scenes was produced by Shaft. The game is produced by Yusuke Toyama and Masaki Sato.
Magia Record was originally scheduled to be released in May 2017. However, it was pushed back to July and then again to its current release date, August 22, 2017. Aniplex of America produced an English version of Magia Record that was released in North America on June 25, 2019. A pre-registration campaign was held for its release, where at least 25,000 people pre-registered for the English release of the game.
Releases by platformdates and regions as published
Editions and related releases
- Based on
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica
- Derivative works
- Magia RecordMadoka Magica Magia Exedra
- Basis for
- Magia Exedra
- Derived from
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica
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