Q 01/05

Why did the last two episodes of Puella Magi Madoka Magica reach Japanese television weeks late?

A) An animators' strike

B) A censorship dispute

C) The Tōhoku earthquake

D) A fire at the animation studio

Answer · why

C) 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 disapp...

Q 02/05

Sayaka Miki spends her wish healing a hospitalised boy's hand so he can again play which instrument?

A) Violin

B) Piano

C) Cello

D) Clarinet

Answer · why

A) Violin

Violin prodigy Kyosuke Kamijo recovers, but he soon starts dating her friend instead, the heartbreak that tips her into despair.

Q 03/05

A Production I.G director sought out Puella Magi Madoka Magica after hearing it outdid which mecha anime?

A) Mobile Suit Gundam Wing

B) Super Dimension Fortress Macross

C) Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

D) Neon Genesis Evangelion

Answer · why

D) 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 rob...

Q 04/05

Who drew the deliberately clumsy sketches that fill Madoka Kaname's school notebooks in the anime?

A) The character designer

B) Her voice actress

C) The director's daughter

D) A contest-winning fan

Answer · why

B) 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...

Q 05/05

In Madoka Magica, Kyubey's species turns the despair of magical girls into energy to postpone which cosmic fate?

A) The Big Crunch

B) Heat death

C) The Big Rip

D) Vacuum decay

Answer · why

B) 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.