Magia Record Episode 5 – “There’s No Place For You Here”

After a disappointingly pedestrian fourth episode, full of grocery shopping and local tourism, things are getting a lot more interesting and potentially life-threatening in Episode 5, picking up at the exact moment where the last one left off. Iroha finds her sister Ui in the Seance Shrine, but something’s not right. She simply keeps repeating

Magia Record Episode 4 – “This Isn’t The Past”

The last episode saw Kaede’s safe return after she was captured by the Chain Witch, and Iroha and her new allies have effectively solved the mystery of the Friendship-Ending Staircase. It appears that Magia Record will take a more episodic approach than the original Madoka Magica anime, and Episode 4 introduces another urban legend that

Magia Record Episode 3 – “Sorry for Making You My Friend”

Continuing what seems to be the pattern for every episode, this one starts with Iroha having a dream about her sister Ui’s two friends in the hospital – a pair of girl geniuses named Toka and Nemu who apparently invented a perpetual motion machine that promptly set fire to a library. When I write that

Magia Record 2 – It’s Proof of the End of a Friendship

The second episode of Magia Record starts to feel like a real horror movie, with strange urban legends and something called the Chain Monster that will forcibly end friendships in the most terrifying way possible. Things are certainly escalating fast. As the episode opens, Iroha has somehow remembered that her wish was to help her

Magia Record Episode 1 – “Have You Heard? That Rumor About the Magical Girls”

It feels appropriate to start off my new blog with a post about Magia Record, the new spinoff of Puella Magi Madoka Magica. It was the show that got me back into anime after falling out of interest for a few years, and it’s still my favorite series by far after all these years. There