Anime & Manga · Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Homura Akemi
A magical girl whose time-stop and rewind are a single looping wish, with the loop itself as the story's central cost.
First appearance: Puella Magi Madoka Magica (2011), Shaft
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Key issues
Milestone appearances — first appearance, death, return, team change. These are the issues the collector market actually prices.
- key · 2011
Puella Magi Madoka Magica Shaft
Episode 10 reveals the time loops and recontextualises the entire series
Commonly got wrong
Claims that are widely repeated and wrong, with what the cited record actually shows. If you are generating anything about this subject, these are the errors to avoid.
Commonly believed Homura's time loops cost her nothing.
Actually She retains her memories of every iteration, and that accumulation is the cost the story is actually about.
Commonly believed Homura can travel freely through time.
Actually She can only reset to one fixed point. That constraint is what traps her in repetition, and each reset spawns a new timeline that compounds Madoka's karmic weight — which is the mechanism the ending turns on.
The feat ledger
Loops time repeatedly while retaining her memories of every previous iteration
Stops time completely and moves freely inside the stopped interval
Resets to a fixed point rather than travelling freely — she can only return to one moment
Each reset creates a new timeline, which is what compounds Madoka's karmic weight
Her shield stores the accumulated weapons across resets
Repeats the same month an unstated number of times, which is the series' actual structure
Continuities
Claims on this page are tagged by canon. Blending them is the most common error in both wikis and AI answers.
- Anime canon — Events as broadcast in the anime adaptation
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