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Instantly popular, Madoka Magica gained viewers by the week. Madoka Magica played this up and then did away with it entirely in its third episode. The expectations of a viewer watching Madoka Magica as it aired were that of lighter and fluffier fare.

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Although I can rant all I want about how it wasn’t that much darker than a lot of other magical girl series, Madoka Magica celebrated the existence of the magical girl and has been one of the more influential anime series of the past decade. The original 2011 Madoka series, and series composer Gen Urobuchi played a lot with audience expectations of what a magical girl story should be. You don’t have to have watched Madoka Magica or have played the mobile game to understand Magia Record but, like most stories that are part of a larger franchise, it plays with the expectations of an informed viewer who has already watched Madoka Magica in its entirety. Magia Record is a mobile game spinoff of the anime Puella Magi Madoka Magica, which in turn received its own anime adaptation, Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story. Part of this is because of the recent Star Wars canon (I’m using this word very loosely here) post- The Rise of Skywalker, part of this is because I’m a fanfiction writer myself (compartmentalization comes remarkably easy to me), and part of this is because Magia Record aired today. More specifically, I’ve been thinking a lot about fanfiction and how frequently it’s written off or denigrated publicly, but this also somewhat applies to fanart and other methods of engaging with a media property outside of the recognized canon. I’ve been thinking a lot about fanworks lately.

Is irregular at magic high school movie canon