Puella Magi Madoka Magica
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50 free Puella Magi Madoka Magica trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Puella Magi Madoka Magica looks like a sweet magical girl show for about three episodes, then pulls the floor away. In twelve episodes and a run of films it turned a cheerful genre into a tragedy about wishes, contracts and what they cost, and fans have argued over it ever since. This quiz covers the whole story: Madoka, Homura, Sayaka, Mami and Kyoko and the wishes they make, Kyubey and the rules of the contract, the witches and their strange worlds, the big twists, the Rebellion film and the spin-offs. There are questions on the making of the series too, from the script and the character designs to the music and the cast. It is pitched for anyone who has seen the anime once as well as for fans who know every timeline. Each answer comes with a short explanation, so you will pick up a few behind-the-scenes stories along the way.
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Q 01Why did the last two episodes of Puella Magi Madoka Magica reach Japanese television weeks late?
The Tōhoku earthquake
The Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami halted the broadcast, and the pause gave animators time to rescue an eleventh episode the writer feared would disappoint.
Q 02Sayaka Miki spends her wish healing a hospitalised boy's hand so he can again play which instrument?
Violin
Violin prodigy Kyosuke Kamijo recovers, but he soon starts dating her friend instead, the heartbreak that tips her into despair.
Q 03A Production I.G director sought out Puella Magi Madoka Magica after hearing it outdid which mecha anime?
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Neon Genesis Evangelion was the comparison Neo magazine reached for too, saying the show did for magical girls what that series had done for giant robots.
Q 04Who drew the deliberately clumsy sketches that fill Madoka Kaname's school notebooks in the anime?
Her voice actress
Her voice actress got the job because the professional designer could not draw like a real schoolgirl, and the director then asked her to sketch worse than she normally would.
Q 05In Madoka Magica, Kyubey's species turns the despair of magical girls into energy to postpone which cosmic fate?
Heat death
Heat death is the end Kyubey's kind are trying to stave off, and they judged human girls the ideal subjects after weighing up races all across space.
Q 06Which colour was Madoka Kaname meant to wear before her designer forgot the plan and made her pink?
White
White was the writer's choice in the first draft, and it finally returned in her goddess-like final form, which is built around that colour and cherry blossoms.
Q 07Which studio animated Puella Magi Madoka Magica, keeping only five episodes fully in-house because of its workload?
Shaft
Shaft was so stretched that it kept only episodes 1 to 3, 10 and 12 in-house and sent the rest out to other studios.
Q 08What is the true name of Kyubey's emotionless alien race, the one Homura Akemi calls it to its face?
Incubators
Incubators share one hive mind, which is why a fresh body simply takes over the place and identity of any that is destroyed.
Q 09Which colossal witch arrives with a storm that sends the whole city to shelters and defeats Homura Akemi?
Walpurgisnacht
Walpurgisnacht so startled the writer, who had pictured ordinary movie monsters, that on seeing its surreal concept art he wondered how Homura could fight such a thing.
Q 10What killed Mami Tomoe's parents and forced her to spend her wish on simply staying alive?
A car accident
A car accident left her no time to think, which is why she later tells younger girls to find a wish worth risking their lives for before they contract.
Q 11In which fictional Japanese city do the middle schoolers of Puella Magi Madoka Magica live and fight?
Mitakihara
Mitakihara draws in Kyoko Sakura, a loner from Kazamino, in the fourth episode because the area's previous guardian has just died.
Q 12In Madoka Magica, what does a Soul Gem turn into once despair has tainted it completely?
A Grief Seed
A Grief Seed is also the prize a defeated witch leaves behind, and magical girls use them to cleanse their own gems and recover their magic.
Q 13Which item carried by Homura Akemi holds the sand that lets her freeze time in battle?
A shield
A shield with no attacking power is all her magic gives her, and the trick fails if she is restrained and cannot turn it.
Q 21At the climax of the Rebellion film, Homura Akemi seizes Madoka's power and declares herself what?
A demon
A demon is her own word for it, yet the world she rewrites hands every one of her friends a happy, ordinary life.
Q 22Sayaka Miki's caped magical girl outfit was designed to make her look like which fantasy figure?
A knight
A knight suited her sense of justice, and the designer cut her hair and skirt unevenly to show a boyish side and a girlish side at once.
Q 23During the bridge duel in Madoka Magica, where does Sayaka Miki's Soul Gem land after it is thrown?
On a passing truck
On a passing truck it is carried out of range, so her body drops lifeless and the girls learn that their souls now live inside the gems.
Q 14Which weapon does Kyoko Sakura wield, one that can extend and split into chained sections?
A spear
A spear with so many joints took real planning, and the staff held discussions to settle the logic of how it would work in each setting.
Q 15Which Nitroplus writer scripted Puella Magi Madoka Magica, his first solo screenplay for an anime series?
Gen Urobuchi
Gen Urobuchi turned down repeated pleas from fond colleagues to spare the mentor character whose death he had planned from the proposal stage.
Q 16Which pop duo, junior high schoolers who kept their faces hidden, sang the Madoka Magica opening theme Connect?
ClariS
ClariS took Connect to number five on Japan's Oricon chart, and the director was surprised how well its words fit a story the lyricist had never been told.
Q 17Kyoko Sakura wished for crowds to listen to her father, who did which job before his breakdown?
Pastor
Pastor was his calling until he was excommunicated for heresy, and learning that magic had filled his pews is what broke him.
Q 18Which weapon, formed from a rose branch, does Madoka Kaname carry as a magical girl in earlier timelines?
A bow
A bow was enough for her to bring down the mightiest witch in the very first timeline, though the fight cost her life.
Q 19In Madoka Magica, the loner magical girl Kyoko Sakura is rarely seen without what?
Some food
Some food is always in her hands because her family once nearly starved, a hunger that left her with a voracious appetite.
Q 20When one Kyubey body is destroyed in Madoka Magica, what does its replacement do with the corpse?
Eats it
Eats it, in fact: the writer used the moment to show how far Kyubey's morals sit from those of the girls it recruits.
Q 24Homura Akemi's own magic cannot attack, so what does she fight witches with while time stands still?
Stolen guns and bombs
Stolen guns and bombs come out only while the clock is stopped, so the other girls never actually learn what weapons she carries.
Q 25In Madoka Magica's Rebellion film, Homura Akemi says her Soul Gem was darkened not by despair but by what?
Love
Love is the emotion she names, and it gives her the strength to split a goddess in two and rewrite the cosmos to her own design.
Q 26Which doll-like witch suddenly becomes a huge caterpillar creature and kills Mami Tomoe before Madoka's eyes?
Charlotte
Charlotte delivers the shock the writers had fixed at the proposal stage, and a 2012 BIGLOBE poll named it the most memorable death in anime.
Q 27What is the first name of the armoured Mermaid Witch that Sayaka Miki becomes when despair overwhelms her?
Oktavia
Oktavia von Seckendorff cannot be turned back, and Kyoko Sakura finally destroys her in a blast that costs Kyoko her own life too.
Q 28Which classmate gives Sayaka Miki one day to confess before telling the boy of her own feelings?
Hitomi Shizuki
Hitomi Shizuki later weeps at the funeral and is said to blame herself for everything that followed her confession.
Q 29What name is given to the cosmic rule Madoka Kaname becomes, which carries magical girls away before they fall?
The Law of Cycles
The Law of Cycles came from a wish so paradoxical that it lifted her out of ordinary existence, and nearly everyone forgot she had ever lived.
Q 30Which new monsters do magical girls hunt in the rewritten world at the end of the Madoka Magica television series?
Wraiths
Wraiths replace the old enemy because no girl turns into a monster any more, and only one fighter recalls that things were ever different.