6.6
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story (2020)
Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story (2020)
Overview
Few people know the truth: the world is safe thanks to the Magical Girls who are forced to slay Witches. Even though these girls are putting their lives on the line for a wish, rumors say they can be saved in Kamihama City. That’s where Iroha Tamaki is headed in search of answers; she can’t remember the wish she made to Kyubey.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
NetflixRating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Moderate
LGBTQ: Positive
Viewer Rating
6.6
Overview
Few people know the truth: the world is safe thanks to the Magical Girls who are forced to slay Witches. Even though these girls are putting their lives on the line for a wish, rumors say they can be saved in Kamihama City. That’s where Iroha Tamaki is headed in search of answers; she can’t remember the wish she made to Kyubey.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
NetflixDetailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
The series' central narrative critiques systemic exploitation and oppressive power structures that prey on vulnerable individuals, advocating for challenging the status quo and seeking genuine liberation. This focus on dismantling an unjust system aligns with left-leaning themes.
The movie, an anime production, features a Japanese cast, which does not directly engage with the Western-centric definitions of traditional or explicit DEI casting. Its narrative does not explicitly critique traditional identities or center on strong DEI themes, focusing instead on its established genre conventions.
Secondary
Magia Record features strong, central, and positively depicted emotional bonds between female characters, which are widely interpreted as romantic or queer-coded. These relationships are portrayed with dignity and complexity, serving as crucial sources of strength and motivation for the characters, affirming their worth within the narrative.
Based on available information and common knowledge of the series, "Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story" does not feature identifiable transsexual characters or themes. Therefore, there is no depiction to evaluate regarding its impact on transsexual representation.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Magia Record is a side story in the Puella Magi Madoka Magica franchise, which exclusively features female magical girls. All characters, both new and returning from the original series, maintain their established female gender, with no instances of a character canonically established as one gender being portrayed as another.
Magia Record is an anime adaptation of a Japanese mobile game. The characters maintain their original designs and implied ethnicity from the source material, which is consistent with Japanese animation. There is no evidence of any character's race being changed from their established depiction.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.2
6.9
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