#Saito Chiwa

[kaisertheadvisor]

I swear to god, this has to be coincidence, Homura and Metis have a lot of similarities when you look at it.

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[blogpoppit]

Chiwa Saito voice Mayu's mother/Sumire NEKOYASHIKI in wonderful precure and Homura AKEMI from Puella Magi Madoka Magica anime

3rd seiyuu from madoka magica series along with Eri Kitamura and aoi yuuki

[majokkoradio]

"Yume Oto" - Puella Magi Madoka Magica - Madoka & Homura Duet

Requested by Anon

[musicinanime]

My Dear SiSTARS! - Emiri Kato, Chiwa Saito, Rina Hidaka

Anime: Oomuro-ke: Dear Sisters

[homie-koyomi]

This banner has been good to me. (I've also pulled 2 other Pilgrims)

[qan-t]

trailblazer predates madoka magica by about a year but when i see the giant els i’m like ‘that there’s a really big grief seed’

[yurimother]

'Puella Magi Madoka Magica -Walpurgisnacht: Rising-' Announces Winter 2024 Debut

On Sunday, at Aniplex Online Fest 2023, Aniplex revealed a new teaser trailer for Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: -Walpurgisnacht Rising- (Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica: Walpurgis no Kaiten).

The trailer revealed that the anime film, which continues the Puella Magi Madoka Magica main timeline after the events of the 2013 film Rebellion, will debut theatrically in Japan in Winter 2024.

Aniplex also revealed a new key visual for the film and announced that director Yukihiro Miyamoto, who directed the original 2011 television anime series, its two film adaptation, Rebellion, and spin-off Magia Record is returning for Walpurgisnacht: Rising at SHAFT.

He is joined by the previously revealed staff, including the original creators Magica Quartet, chief director Akiyuki Simbou, writer Gen Urobuchi (Nitroplus), and character designer Aokiume. Additional returning staff includes character animation designer Junichiro Taniguchi, who served as Chief Animation Director on previous projects, parallel world designer Gekidan InuCurry (Doroinu), who created the iconic, unique looks of the Witches Labyrinths, and composer Yuki Kajiura.

All of the original Japanese main voice cast from the series and Rebellion are set to reprise their roles:

Aoi Yuki as Madoka Kaname

Chiwa Saito as Homura Akemi

Kaori Mizuhashi as Mami Tomoe

Eri Kitamura as Sayaka Miki

Ai Nonaka as Kyouko Sakura

Kana Asumi as Nagisa Momoe

Emiri Kato as Kyubey

The anime was originally announced back in 2021, but in 2019 at Anime Expo, Homura's voice actress, Chiwa Saito, foreshadowed the sequel, saying that "the actual series has not ended yet" and that she was looking forward to everyone seeing Devil Homura, a reference to the ending of Rebellion, again.

Puella Magi Madoka Magica aired in 2011 to critical and audience acclaim. It became a cultural phenomenon and spawned two movie adaptations, Beginnings and Eternal, the sequel film Rebellion, and multiple manga and video game spin-offs. It is credited with popularizing mixing dark, postmodern tropes with the magical girl genre.

Source: Aniplex Online Fest 2023, Press Release

[demifiendrsa]

Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Walpurgisnacht: Rising - Official English subbed Trailer

Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Walpurgisnacht: Rising will hit Japanese theaters in Winter 2024.

Poster

Cast

Aoi Yūki as Madoka Kaname

Chiwa Saito as Homura Akemi

Kaori Mizuhashi as Mami Tomoe

Eri Kitamura as Sayaka Miki

Ai Nonaka as Kyōko Sakura

Kana Asumi as Nagisa Momoe

Emiri Katō as Kyubey

Staff

Director: Yukihiro Miyamoto

Chief Director: Akiyuki Simbo

Screenplay: Gen Urobuchi

Original Character Design: Ume Aoki

Chief Animation Director: Junichirō Taniguchi

Music: Yuki Kajiura

Alternate Space Design: Gekidan Inu Curry

Animation Production: SHAFT

[voydcat]

So since fighting games and voice actors are my brainrot, I decided to ponder hypothetical VAs for the cast of @spicymancer’s Rumble After Dark.

Beck: Erica Mendez (EN), Miyuki Sawashiro (JP)

Madison: Monica Rial (EN), Chiwa Saito (JP)

Shoto: Alejandro Saab (EN), Yuuki Kaji (JP)

Yuseong: Erica Lindbeck (EN), Mitsuki Saiga (JP)

Helen: Patricia Drake (EN), Mami Koyama (JP)

Locke: Michael Schwalbe (EN), Kenjiro Tsuda (JP)

Vincent: Curtis Arnott (EN), Junichi Suwabe (JP)

Gibson: Alec Newman (EN), Yukihiro Misono (JP)

Pop Cap: N/A

[yukiteruakari]

The Hopeful Radio & The Hopeless Ogata

I've recently managed to find all the recordings of Megumi Ogata's (Makoto Naegi's VA) talk show! The show features many guests, including voice actors and even Kodaka himself. Please feel free to check it out!

Vol.1 & Vol.2

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Vol. 1 Tracklist:

1. The Role of Makoto Naegi: Megumi Ogata

2. Guest: The Role of Byakuya Togami: Akira Ishida

3. The Role of Makoto Naegi: Megumi Ogata

4. Guest: The Role of Kyoko Kirigiri: Yoko Hikasa

5. Guest: Planning, Scenario: Kazutaka Kodaka

6. Guest: The Role of Sayaka Maizono: Makiko Ohmoto

7. The Role of Makoto Naegi: Megumi Ogata

8. Guest: Script: Makoto Uezu

9. The Role of Makoto Naegi: Megumi Ogata

10. Guest: The Role of Chihiro Fujisaki: Koki Miyata

11. The Role of Makoto Naegi: Megumi Ogata

Special Travel Edition - Guest: The Role of Leon Kuwata: Takahiro Sakurai

[Special Guest]

The Role of Asahina Aoi: Chiwa Saito

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Vol. 2 Tracklist:

12. Guest: The Role of Kiyotaka Ishimaru: Kosuke Toriumi

13. Guest: Anime Producer: Yuji Higa

14. Guest: The Role of Celestia Ludenberg: Hekiru Shiina

15. The Role of Makoto Naegi: Megumi Ogata

16. Guest: The Role of Sakura Ogami: Kujira

17. Guest: Director: Seiji Kishi

18. Guest: The Role of Junko Enoshima: Megumi Toyoguchi

19. Guest: Game Producer: Yoshinori Terasawa and Hope's Peak Academy Store Department: Editor T

20. Guest: The Role of Yasuhiro Hagakure: Masaya Matsukaze

21. Guest: Music Producer: Masafumi Takada

22. Guest: Original Scenario Writer: Kazutaka Kodaka, Anime Producer: Yuji Higa and Ryoko Amisaki

[Special Guests]

The Role of Sayaka Maizono: Makiko Ohmoto

The Role of Celestia Ludenberg: Hekiru Shiina

The Role of Yasuhiro Hagakure: Masaya Matsukaze

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[atamascolily]

Given how tightly plotted previously installments have been, I have to admit I was caught off guard by the seeming introduction of new characters in the Walpurgis no Kaiten trailer. However, on reflection (heh), it makes sense if one of the themes of the movie is indeed opposites/doubling/mirroring. After all, if Homura has a double for a narrative foil, why shouldn't the rest of the main cast have one, too? Prior to the second trailer, I had assumed this role would be filled by the "new girl" in the first trailer, who appears to be a Homura/Mami/Madoka hybrid, but it seems that's just the tip of the iceberg.

That said, it's also clear to me from the second trailer that this mirroring, if that's what's really going on here, isn't going to always literal as it is with Homura. The girl paired with Nagisa in the ball pit in the second trailer doesn't look exactly the same as Nagisa, but it's clear from the framing that the two of them are being deliberately juxtaposed, and will likely serve as narrative foils to each other. My guess is that this girl is the humanized form of Nagisa's witch Charlotte, just like I think that the most likely candidate for Homura's double is her witch Homulilly, (because the metaphorical almost always becomes literal in this series, even though the movie may or may not name them directly as such), but my point stands regardless of their exact relationship to each other.

If that's the case, then who in the Holy Quintet is the counterpart for the other new character--the green-haired girl in the trailer?

The obvious answer is "Mami"--partly because of the tea party and general vibes, and partly because of the color scheme (green and yellow go well together and the girl has golden eyes like Mami's). This is especially true if fan theories are right and this girl is the humanized form of Gertrud the Rose Witch, whom Mami faces off against in episode 1-2 of the original series, and who serves as a deliberate counterpoint to Mami there.

Having a more human Gertrud as foil to Mami would make sense because unlike Homura and Nagisa, Mami never becomes a witch in the original series; while she does have a witch form in the PSP game and other spinoff media, I think we are unlikely to see it in this installment and thus her most likely counterpoint would then be Gertrud. Gertrud's familiars are also visible in Homura's new world at the end of Rebellion, suggesting she might turn up in some fashion in Walpurgis no Kaiten.

(This also raises the interesting question of whether Mami's VA would voice this character or not. Considering that Kaori Mizuhashi also voiced Walpurgisnacht and Tatsuya in the original series, it's not impossible than she and/or other voice actors might play one or more roles in this new installment. As a bonus, this would also mean that SHAFT could get away with not announcing the minor roles before the release, as they would probably have to if they were adding completely new voice actors to the cast. Until we get more news, I'm assuming that Chiwa Saito is voicing both Homuras, though everything else is more speculative.)

However, it occurred to me that based on her ponytail and her position in this shot, she could also be Kyouko's foil (red and green being opposing colors); this is less likely, but I figured I'd mention it as a possibility anyway, since the second trailer appears to be leaning heavily into Rebellion parallels. TBD. Like Mami, Kyouko doesn't have a witch form in the original series, so her most likely parallel is another established witch character, although nobody from the original series immediately leaps to mind.

(By the way, this would mean there are more new characters--or new versions of established characters--we haven't seen yet, so, uh, hold that thought.)

After that, it gets a little more complex and murky. Sayaka's most likely foil should be her witch Oktavia, but it's unclear to me from what we've seen so far how much that particular conflict manifests internally or externally. I think Sayaka is going to be extremely conflicted in Walpurgis no Kaiten, and it will be interesting to see how her arc develops. Based on the original series, however, I would say that the other logical witch counterpart for her is Elsa Maria the Shadow Witch, whose labyrinth mirrors Sayaka's black and white thinking during a particularly dark period for her, though I suppose H.N. Elly the Box Witch who attacks Madoka in Episode 4 is also a possibility.

Madoka also has a witch form, Kriemhild Gretchen, who is absorbed into the Law of Cycles, though I think her foil is most likely the Law of Cycles itself. We'll have to see.

You may have noticed that I am limiting myself solely to witches from the original series rather than spinoff media. The first reason is that I'm skeptical that SHAFT would bring in a witch that general audiences who have only followed the main series have never seen before (except for maybe a brief cameo). The second reason is that the Law of Cycles' motif in Rebellion explicitly shows only those witches from the original series, and we see only a select group of these witches and/or their familiars during the battle against Homulilly's familiars.

All these witches are potentially fair game to appear in WnK, making nine in all, though I doubt more than a handful would have more than a few lines, let alone a major role. Also this diagram does not appear to incorporate Walpurgisnacht unless she turns out to be the Law of Cycles after all.

Somehow, I can't imagine SHAFT pivoting in mid-stream to bring up something completely new or even a more obscure witch from another spinoff, especially when so much of the main series focused on reliving and re-experiencing the same events over and over again. Sorry, fans of the Madoka PSP and slot machine games, I think you're destined to be disappointed in your wish to see any of those game-only witches on the big screen, but I suppose we'll see.

This is all just speculation for now, but I'm excited and intrigued to see where this goes!

[hellohimawarihana]

Do you know that two Aqours girls dressing as Personas have the same naming structure as the Japanese voice actors playing the user of their respective Persona? The left one is Chika Takami dressing as Psyche while Metis' VA is Chiwa Saito, and then we have Mari Ohara as Orpheus F with Kotone's VA being Marina Inoue.

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so much of madoka's supplementary material expands on HomuMado Is Canon (including the wraith arc manga which states madoka reciprocates homuras feelings) that I wonder if urobuchi is actually going to bite the bullet and acknowledge it. rebellion came out despite the ship being so popular that even chiwa saito and aoi yuki (homura and madoka's voice actresses) were asking him directly for it to be canonized so whomst knows.

[daystud]

She's not Himeko. (but rather genderbent Shakespeare)

To clarify, it's almost impossible to verify whenever the resemblance between newer mihoyo characters and stigmatas out of all things is a coincidence or not. The only confirmed stigmata expies i recall are Charlotte and Kafka since they borrow the name too (and HSR Kafka is still like, a walking Kafka reference). Ive seen several posts on hoyolab comparing Star Rail characters to hi3 stigmatas and i found them a bit stretchy as someone who compares characters' similarities daily like jpeg dolls.

Anyway Mavuika is still not Himeko.

"But the Pyro Archon's named Murata in the manga!" That was a mistranslation (allegedly??), there's no guarantee Mavuika's demon name is still Murata or something else like Aym. She's 90% not the original pyro archon either.

She's not even voiced by the same seiyuu as Himeko, although it's not always consistent for expies to share voices:

- Lisa's JP VA is also Himeko's

- in GGZ at some point Bronya and Mei changed seiyuus (Kana Hanazawa and Chiwa Saito, who the latter voices Jean✌️)

- Bronya Rand's not voiced by Hanser, while Silver Wolf still is

- still Genshin's Raidens and Nahida share the same voices as Mei and Theresa

So don't point the finger at any random character and call them expy especially if you're not an expert on every single mihoyo game like me. Do you have any idea how confused and cringed i am that my beloved Garuda Hua looks like both Kazuha and Mavuika at the same time????

And Agata???