Madoka Magica The Movie 1: Beginnings is a 2012 compilation film of the Puella Magi Madoka☆Magica TV anime series. Beginnings features the theme song "Luminous" by ClariS. The movie can be watched on Prime Video, Vudu, and Apple TV.
Beginnings & Eternal served as a recap from the anime and feature newly adapted animation and voice acting. They were both released in October of 2012.
Plot[]
Madoka Kaname and Sayaka Miki are offered a contract with Kyubey, a mysterious creature that creates magical girls. The girls meet Mami Tomoe, an upperclasswoman and a veteran magical girl who coaches them through killing witches. Homura Akemi, a magical girl who recently transferred to their school, is heavily against Madoka becoming a magical girl, for reasons revealed in Eternal. Sayaka becomes a magical girl to save her childhood friend and crush, Kyousuke Kamijou, but falls into despair after learning that Hitomi Shizuki plans to confess to him, and becomes the witch known as Oktavia von Seckendorff.
Production[]
In November 2011, it was announced in the December issue of Kadokawa Shoten's Newtype magazine that a three-part theatrical film project was in development by Shaft. It covers the first eight episodes of the anime series. The film was released in Japanese theaters on October 6, 2012.
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