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Puella Magi Madoka Magica

★ 8.2 15K votes 2011–2011 1 season · 12 episodes Ended MBS
Gut punchWilling to devastate you, and remembered for it.This show: 9/10AnimeJapanese animation traditions and grammar.This show: 9/10Dark toneShadowy mood and subject matter, a shade short of outright bleak.This show: 9/10Existential dreadMortality and meaninglessness confronted head-on.This show: 8/10Distinctive scoreMusic inseparable from the show's identity.This show: 8/10Stylized directionBold, signature formal choices.This show: 8/10UnsettlingA creeping sense of unease and wrongness that gets under your skin.This show: 8/10BittersweetJoy and loss mixed so thoroughly they can't be separated.This show: 8/10
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Starring
Aoi YûkiChiwa SaitôEmiri KatoEri KitamuraAi NonakaKaori Mizuhashi
Written by
Ume AokiAtsuhiro IwakamiAkiyuki ShinbōGen Urobuchi
Starring
Aoi YûkiChiwa SaitôEmiri KatoEri KitamuraAi NonakaKaori Mizuhashi
Written by
Ume AokiAtsuhiro IwakamiAkiyuki ShinbōGen Urobuchi
Ratings per Episode
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Votes per Episode
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About

"A cheerful premise weaponized into heartbreak"

A shy middle schooler named Madoka meets a talking creature who offers to grant any wish in exchange for becoming a magical girl and fighting monsters. What starts as a bright, candy-colored adventure with her friends slowly curdles into something far bleaker and more thoughtful about sacrifice, despair, and what those wishes actually cost. It's tightly paced across just twelve episodes, anchored by a haunting score and a genuine emotional gut-punch that recontextualizes the whole genre it appears to imitate.

Watch it for

the way it dismantles magical-girl tropes into something genuinely devastating and thoughtful.

Maybe skip if

you want lighthearted escapism or dislike stories that grow increasingly bleak and psychological.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12011
8.511K124h 51m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Yume no naka de atta, yôna...7.4
90525 min
▶2Sore wa tottemo ureshi inatte7.4
84025 min
▶3Mou nani mo kowakunai8.3
92824 min
▶4Kiseki mo, mahô mo, arundayo8.0
80724 min
▶5Koukai nante, Aru Wake Nai7.7
78324 min
▶6Konna no Zettai Okashiiyo8.2
79324 min
▶7Honto no Kimochi to Mukiaemasu ka?8.4
80824 min
▶8Atashitte, honto baka9.0
89624 min
▶9Sonna no, Atashi ga Yurusanai8.7
81425 min
▶10Mo dare ni mo tayoranai9.5
1K24 min
▶11Saigo ni Nokotta Michishirube9.0
86025 min
▶12Watashi no saikou no tomodachi9.2
97523 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Aoi Yûki Madoka Kaname
Chiwa Saitô Homura Akemi
Emiri Kato Kyubey
Eri Kitamura Sayaka Miki
Ai Nonaka Kyouko Sakura
Kaori Mizuhashi Mami Tomoe, Tatsuya Kaname
Yûko Gotô Junko Kaname
Ryôko Shintani Hitomi Shizuki
Rumi Okubo Joshi, Joshi seito, Kangofu A
Seiko Yoshida Kyosuke Kamijo

Crew

Ume Aoki
Atsuhiro Iwakami
Akiyuki Shinbō
Gen Urobuchi

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