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Sayaka Miki

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"For all the happiness you wish for someone, someone else gets cursed with equal misery. That's how it works for magical girls, and that's how it is for me. I was stupid, so stupid..."

– Sayaka Miki, Episode 9

Sayaka Miki (美樹さやか?) is one of the five main Magical Girls in the Puella Magi Madoka☆Magica anime and manga series. She's a second-year student at Mitakihara Middle School and is in the same class as Madoka and Homura. She sometimes self-proclaims herself as the Magical Girl of Justice (正義の魔法少女?).

Bio

Appearance

As a civilian, Sayaka has short-medium blue hair with yellow barrets and blue oval-shaped eyes. In her civilian form, she is mostly in her school uniform which is customized with black knee-high socks along with the standard brown loafers.

As a Magical Girl, her clothing consists of a cobalt blue breast piece with yellow trimming and thin white frills along with a white corset that has yellow diamond shaped buttons and yellow trimming with thin frills, a darkish cadet blue asymmetrical pleated skirt with a white brim held up by a dark blue belt with a yellow buckle and a cobalt blue skirt that is split into square shaped segments, white thigh-high stockings that have blue trims tied by blue buckled straps,deep azure-teal boots,a white thigh-long cape and 4 pairs of gloves dull prussian blue opera gloves with similarly coloured arm bands,and wrist length white gloves with blue cuffs.Her Soul Gem is embedded in her belly button and has a C shape she accessories with a golden clip shaped like 2 f's, representing "fortissimo." Her outfit looks like a knight's.

Personality

Sayaka is shown to act slightly tomboyish and heroic. She cares a lot for her friends, made clear by her immediately making the contract to become a Magical Girl just so she could save Madoka. Despite acting tomboyish, she does have a girly side, shown by her interest in romance and classical music. However, her vision of love is very unrealistic. She hates the idea of being rejected by people that she loves. When Kyousuke started dating Hitomi, Sayaka felt hurt and rejected. This showed that she wanted to get praise for her wish and even to get the chance to date him.

She rarely thinks twice before acting on something and comes into conflict with others easily. When combined with her kindness and courage, those two traits make her ignorant and careless. Being careless could sometimes make her forget things like her Soul Gem, as seen in The Veranda of Madoka.

Etymology

Sayaka (さやか?): Since it's written in Hiragana, it has no specific meaning. When in kanji, it can mean "fresh" (清か?).[1]

Miki (美樹?): Mi (?) means "beauty"[2] and ki (?) translates to "timber tree"[3]. Altogether, it can also mean "shake offered to the gods" (神酒?)[4] which could foreshadow the events of episode 8.

Relationships

  • Madoka Kaname: Sayaka's childhood friend. They're best friends and classmates since a young age when Sayaka was protecting Madoka from a group of bullies during elementary school. Sayaka would do anything to protect Madoka and so would Madoka. They care deeply for each other and would stand for each other at all costs. Madoka would be truly hurt if something happened to Sayaka and was showing concern when Sayaka was despairing in the series' main timeline and the opposite would happen.
  • Mami Tomoe: Fellow Magical Girl and friend. They met when Mami saved her and Madoka from a Witch's Labyrinth in episode 1. Sayaka looks up to Mami and wishes to become as strong as Mami both mentally and as a Magical Girl one day. She cares deeply for her and would do anything for Mami. Mami appreciates Sayaka's passion for becoming a Magical Girl.
  • Kyoko Sakura: Kyoko and Sayaka initially had a hate relationship. Kyoko was disappointed when she found out Sayaka had become a Magical Girl because these two have different opinions and values. Kyoko strongly remembers her old self when she sees Sayaka's Magical Girl story and personality. She wanted to show Sayaka her mistakes so she wouldn't be like Kyoko. When Sayaka became a Witch, Kyoko carried her corpse out of Oktavia von Seckendorff's Barrier. Sayaka and Kyoko built a friendship after the series' events and also in Magia Record.
  • Homura Akemi: A Magical Girl who she sees as an enemy and annoys her to no end. She doesn't like her at all and the same is true for Homura. She usually tries to create conflicts with Homura. Homura even attempted to kill Sayaka because she didn't want Madoka to see Sayaka fully destroying herself.Episode 08 It appears that this relationship exists in several timelines. However, other timelines shown in Magia Record or Drama CD 2 depict them as very good friends caring for each other, though mostly because Sayaka isn't a Magical Girl or her personality is different. In Rebellion, Sayaka and Homura were also good friends, and at some point Sayaka tries to guide and help out Homura discover the secret of the labyrinth they're all trapped in. Around the end however, Sayaka goes back to hating her for what she did as Devil Homura, and tries to attack her.
  • Kyubey: Sayaka was protective of Kyubey at first because she didn't know Kyubey's actual nature. After finding out the secret behind Soul Gems and briefly for Magical Girls, she hates Kyubey to no end.Episode 06

Family

Aunt
Sayaka has an aunt who owns an inn near Kamihama City and also works there. She was only shown in the Magia Record event, Beachside Bonds. She is shown to be very friendly, kind and helpful.

Powers and Abilities

Abilities

  • Due to her healing-type wish when she became a Magical Girl, Sayaka has the ability to regenerate her health faster than normally and she can also control that pain.
  • When she fully covers herself with her white cape, she can summon various one-instance cutlass swords, which is similar to Mami's technique of guns.
  • After becoming a part of Law of Cycles, she is able to summon her Witch and even control her at will.

Attacks

  • Tiro Duet (ティロデュエット?): An attack Sayaka performs in Magia Record episode 22 when she connects with Holy Mami to save her. It is a variant of Mami's Tiro Finale.
  • Connect (コネクト?): A technique used by Magical Girls in Magia Record. By joining hands, they are able to fuse their weapons and make a strong variant based on them.

Trivia

  • She was the first character to break the fourth wall when she said Madoka acted like an anime character when she said she had seen Homura before. Therefore, she becomes the first of the two characters to have broken the fourth wall in the franchise. The other is Junko Kaname in episode 12.
  • She's the first Magical Girl to have a love interest.
  • She likes classic music thanks to Kyosuke.
  • Sayaka hates sea cucumbers. Drama CD 4
  • In one of her Magia Record game quotes, she specifies that she comes from a middle-class family.

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