Magia Record: Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica Gaiden (TV) Episode 9 Discussion

Milennin said:
Don't know if it was intentional or not, but that fight scene against Alina was totally confusing. Other than that, it was an all right episode.

faeryghost said:
I cried my eyes out when Sana had to put Ai down ;_;

I feel like the director did a really fantastic job of getting Sana's emotions across. It was impressive to me how succinctly they were able to portray Sana's backstory.

I might be biased because I already loved Sana from playing the mobile game. I wonder if anime-only watchers felt the same level of connection with her this episode?

salbery755 said:
In the end it was not Sana Futaba who contacted Iroha, but it was someone who knew her or rather had her trapped.

Ai turned out to be an artificial intelligence and in turn a rumor that was controlled by the Wings of Magius, Ai was the infinite Solitude and it turns out that she was with Sana, who wanted to run away from her miserable life, a girl who was not loved by her family and that she had no one to call a friend, only the kindness that this girl possessed, but in her days in infinite Solitude, she connected with Ai and a particular friendship emerged, but Ai did not want Sana to remain trapped and did not want continue to be used by Magius Wings members.
Iroha comes to fulfill Ai's request, but Sana does not want to leave, that place where she and Ai lived was her perfect world, but at the moment when they were both talking Alina Gray, a magical girl who belongs to the Wings of Magius.
With the pain of her soul, Sana frees her dear friend Ai and now she and Iroha will be released somewhere unknown to both girls, but not to Iroha's friends.

I suffered a lot with the story of poor Sana, who felt alienated from society, I hope Iroha can support her, now more than ever Sana needs emotional support, is not easy to have to kill who saved you from so much pain, Sana deserves hundreds of headpats and hugs.

Emmanuel_Macron said:
Hmmm yes I agree for the first part but I want to say that the calculations on time that these disciplines offer, particularly in mathematics, suggest that it is perfectly autonomous, such perspectives then omit the initial inscription of these measures in the experimentation which the consciousness operates
It's the same in Magia Record, in other words, there is no pure present, pure instantaneity of our consciousness; what works is always a flow of present, a flow of consciousness. The past is thus only to consciousness what it retains at the present moment from previous phenomena. And the future is only the protection, that is to say the projection and the anticipation of consciousness towards potential future phenomena.
Iroha has a complicated future because being is a being of potentiality, of possibilities. Its relation to time must not be that of a simple causalism, sequences of events and their effects, because that corresponds only to an abstract apprehension of time and existence. An embodied time is a time in which the consciousness is thrown head over heels, and in which it is inevitably thrown.

Nemesis_Ranka said:


Agreed fight scene was confusing to watch.

Emelie_ said:
I wonder if Sana truly is unloved or if it is all just in her head? This whole episode felt like a metaphor for depression with her isolating herself and escaping into the virtual world.

Kosmonaut said:
Also uhm interesting choice in changing Alina's italian to english.

I still think the game format with heaps of story each chapter (and magical girl stories to further develop the characters) isn't suiting the anime very well tbh, which is a shame. I feel like people don't have enough time to care about any of the characters and none receive enough characterization to be 'attention-worthy' to the audience. I was an anime-only until about two weeks ago and only after playing the game do I feel any kind of connection to the girls or care about the development of the plot. It's a shame really, because the game really captured me.

Genoard said:
What a mess of an episode.
The materialized rumor that is also a computer program that also inhibits a pocket dimension of it's own and kidnaps children all for the sake of evil organization's plans, but by the end of the episode it's gone so none of the above is explained properly?

Polycell said:
Alina always spoke gratuitous English; the Italian is entirely an affection of the translation to try and keep the feel.

There's simply too much plot for it to adapt well to the limited runtime of a single cour; this episode's tact of rewriting things to cover the most important things while completely discarding that which can be let go is about the only way it can be made to work.

prepare4trouble said:
I didn't really like this episode. Sana's backstory seems over the top. Alina seemed to appear from nowhere just to be evil. Why couldn't Sana stay with Ai if she was happy there and hadn't been happy elsewhere? Didn't make sense to me. If you find love, hang onto it, don't go back to where people say you should get it but it's lacking.

Polycell said:
her rumor was kidnapping girls to have as conversation partners

Kosmonaut said:

Yes, she spoke gratuitous english, but they cut the italian out completely. I'm not complaining, just pointing out it was a change that was made and I particularly feel like the italian would fit the 'mad artist' feel better, but it's not a big deal (it isn't even a 'deal' to begin with).

Eroha said:
if she used a Doppel to remove the impurities it could accidentally kill Ai, just like how Kaede almost killed her friends the other episode

dindasmart said:
was expecting the two 'you know who' here, since episode 8, but still no sign of them :(

salarx said:


They probably have a better plan for those two. Maybe keeping the best girls for the final episode.

Polycell said:

Ai was created in a lab, got to the internet and developed in ways her creators didn't like, so they got rid of her; when she became an uwasa, her rumor was kidnapping girls to have as conversation partners. As for aiding the Magius, she does that simply by existing, like every other uwasa we've seen; she's simply able to appreciate the human cost, thanks to Sana, and has decided she wants no part of it.

Also, it's been established from the beginning that uwasa have labyrinths of their own, so I'm not sure why you're whipping that out as a complaint.

Kosmonaut said:
Yes, she spoke gratuitous english, but they cut the italian out completely. I'm not complaining, just pointing out it was a change that was made

Genoard said:
What a mess of an episode.
The materialized rumor that is also a computer program that also inhibits a pocket dimension of it's own and kidnaps children all for the sake of evil organization's plans, but by the end of the episode it's gone so none of the above is explained properly?
The new character about whom we don't know anything but apparently everyone was mean to her in the past for no reason so i guess i should feel bad for her?
The out-of-nowhere new enemy who appears for 2 minutes, splashes colorful circles all over the screen so you can't figure out what the hell is going on, and then disappears?
Finally, the mind-controlling paint!?

Either i'm getting too old or that's a tad too much of stuff to introduce within 20 minutes and this series has a real problem with pacing. Also this episode felt disconnect from the previous one, which was supposed to set it up, i think because in previous episode we saw mostly Iroha investigating clues about the rumor, but in this episode she barely did anything.