#Scene 0 Mami

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Here is the card art for Mami Tomoe (Scene 0 ver.)!

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Homescreen girl of the day is... Scene Zero Mami!

[crystalkokoro]

New Scene 0 Magia☆Report art from today's update

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[cafeaubandage]

Why Mabayu is my favourite

I feel like...no one is TRULY registering mabayu in these recent Films. Girl is HURTING. We are so used to seeing homura. deadset on saving madoka. that she endurs timeloop after timeloop. But i feel like people forget. Mabayu isn't homura. Shes her own person who is merely helping homura, (Hell she didn't really have a choice seeing as shes trapped in these timeloops) And these recent films show

She is almost at her limit, Yea homura has the ability to endure it. But Mabayu isn't Shes tired, shes hurt, shes scared. Hell she has been in dangerous situations when legit her only worries before was watching her favourite movie, cheating on exams, and flaking at life. And now?? she was held gunpoint by homura Threatened by mami, sayaka, kyoko homura and nagisa She found out about witches and had to endure the pain alone. I wouldn't be surprised if she full on ditches the quintetfor her own mental health. Or if she witched out??? Give Mabayu a BREAK!!! Let her REST.

[area-strigae]

recompense maid drawings for madomamihomu!! my girls!!!!!

[oreosandcreamfilledmangos]

Her 5 star art is really good 😭

[8r14r-r0s3]

(I’m definitely not stupid and didn’t misspell mabayu’s name in the poll no sir-)

[fandomrouletteburrito]

Dude I feel so awful for Homura. From Scene 0 it looks like so far (I’m still on day 4) even if Homura gets allies she cannot save Madoka, from Magia Record even a whole slew of Magicial Girls trying to fight their fate Madoka’s fate still could not be prevented.

And its like

Tw grooming

I cannot believe how well Kyubey groomed all the girls and how Mabuyu was able to somewhat realize she was going to be groomed.

I wonder how well represented the way Kyubey’s grooming is, I think its pretty realistic. Of the constant manipulation and switching tactice when the girls dont respond well at first. Of targeting girls who are at their weakest, leaving alone the girls who wont respond, making the girls feel so lonely that they of their own volition find other girls to join them unknowingly continuing the cycle of abuse.

And I never thought about how easy of a target Madoka herself is! Shes the prime target! Kyubey only goes to Sayaka after Madoka’s introduces Sayaka to him, Sayaka did have the foresight to not trust Kyubey which Madoka who was underconfident and believed she was absolutely useless did not. Madoka’s total lack of faith in herself made her a really good target for Kyubey’s grooming and its AWFUL. Its not Madoka’s fault that her STILL developing confidence was taken advantage off like this. And I can imagine the frusteration Homura felt trying her best to undo that grooming and all of it falling in deaf ears, trying to get someone who is being groomed to recognize they are is an extremely difficult task even for full grown adults with experience!

It just breaks my heart that there was no winning for anyone.

And oh my god the horror of realizing Mami was also helping Kyubey groom girls into being magical girls. Mami had no idea thats what was done to her and actually continuing the cycle by pulling other girls to join her.

The contrast of how Kyoko kind of broke away a bit of that same grooming by refusing to recruit other girls unless they were fully informed and chose that decision(which i know isnt a real educated decision but the best decision a teen can make at that time). It kind of shows also how there are diff ways of breaking away from it too no matter how small. Kyoko cannot stop fighting or being a magicial girl as her life depends on it but she IS preventing other girls from following her path by very simply not involving them.

But man, Homura’s helplessness hits so hard. I feel like Scene0 really expanded on that and showed how severly Homura’s mind had broken because it HAS.

[i-just-really-like-pmmm]

Let's gooo 🎉

I was waiting for this moment :D

I really hope they do a rerun because i missed Kyoko and Homura (and their art is soo good)

[puellamagiholyquintet-sidestory]

I made it to max mirrors & i finally got the mami flowerfield memo!!! After almost a year of playing!!! Its a sign scene 0 mami is next trust.

Also, currently fighting the urge to pull slots for darkness mitama, i have her at 1s but it would be nice to have more slots on her. If i do, I'll regret not having enough pulls for scene 0 mami and be super sad... before you say, "use the innocent gem!" Im using that on scene 0 mami if i dont get her 4s on her banner

[muffinrecord]

Apparently Scene zero mami is 2 accele discs and 3 blast

This makes the second Forest unit to have 3+ blast discs.

the second

Compare that to Aqua, which has seven

Or Dark that has nine

Forest needs more love, and also a charge unit that's a natural four-star

[falled-over]

i recently watched the madmen episode where timeline wise MLK was just assassinated and hey they didn’t handle it well

[crystalkokoro]

The Scene 0 character units featuring Mabayu and the Holy Quintet!

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Closing thoughts on Magia Record Scene 0

Scene 0 has finally ended! Or the translation I've been following has been completed. To those who don't know, it tells the Madoka Magica story, but the point of view of a new character Mabayu, who for some reason keeps her memory through Homura's time loops and can move while time is stopped. And since we all know how the Madoka plot goes (right?), the main story here is the mystery of Mabayu having lost her memory of why she is already a magical girl.

(spoilers)

First things first, the whole premise conflicts with what I think is one of the core points of the Madoka Magica drama, that is, how Homura had to do her thankless time looping job all alone and became increasingly isolated because of it. But here it's "revealed" that she had a buddy all along, with whom she became very close friends and who is eventually cast as the reason why Homura is able to keep going on in the first place. The whole thing considerably waters down her devotion to Madoka, when most of the story is about how she bonds with Mabayu. And then there's also the inherent awkwardness of inserting a brand new nobody to the story you already know, to whom the characters you've known for a decade become the side cast.

Then again, that is the premise, so you just have to make peace with it if you want to enjoy the story at all. And in fact I like Mabayu a lot, so I'll take it, though I'll have to consider everything a non-canon super AU (even within the canon's actual AUs). There was also the other problem though that some of the stuff was kind of fanservicey, and not in the horny way but in the superficial "let's put the whole cast in maid outfits for no particular reason" way. But I was a fan of some of it, like Nagisa being un-witched in one time loop, so fine.

I don't know how much this is about what the story actually is and how much should be blamed on me not paying enough attention, but in the end I think there's still plenty of holes in the story. Like we learned how Mabayu became a magical girl and what how her personal magic power works, but I didn't understand how her memory doesn't reset through the time loops and why she can move when Homura stops the time. Also the way she erased other characters' memories was inconsistent, she had to cut Sayaka's memory all over again in each loop, but when she cut Mami's, the effect was carried to the next loop. And I guess it was explained how the final resolution worked (duh) but I don't think I quite understood.

That's a lot of complaints but I did have a decent time with this actually, and that is because I really like Mabayu. She's the kind of character I'd really like to see more in magical girl stories: low energy, kind of lazy and self serving, passive and loner but not in an edgy way, and it was interesting to see her grow to be more heroic. She also has a lovely voice, and it turns out the same actor also did Ha-chan whose voice is also great. She also had really good dynamics with the main cast, and I especially like growing friendship between her and Homura, they had good banter with Homura being super serious all the time, and their growing friendship was touching. And she had some interesting stuff going on with Sayaka and Mami too.

And while I complained about the whole premise being about rewriting canon, I also think there were some worthwhile additions. For example in this version Mami used to recruit other girls to become magical girls with Mabayu, and the guilt from that is a major reason for her breakdown when she learns the truth about witches. On one hand I prefer the version of a seemingly strong character actually being weak and emotionally unstable, like she's been through a lot and doesn't need a more noble reason for her breakdown, but I think the Scene 0 version is also interesting.

Ultimately the ending left me somewhat sour with how inconclusive it was. Mabayu cut herself from everyone's memories (including her own), but it feels like there's a ton of stuff about her that's not resolved. Like she's still able to move during Homura's stopped time and doesn't understand why, she's still a magical girl even if she doesn't remember it, becoming friends with Mami again doesn't lead much anywhere if she's going to die to Charlotte in a few days… If the idea is the bittersweet knowledge that Mabayu made a difference in the Homura-Madoka story but nobody can remember it, it doesn't work for me since I didn't really get what her contribution was. Or I guess it was pretty clear how important Mabayu's presence was for keeping Homura sane through all the failed time loops but that was like my number one issue with the premise, so maybe I'm just incompatible with the whole story to begin with.

Still I had a good time following this as the translations came out, I was eager to see where the plot would go and watching a short video every few days didn't require that much from me. Though I do think the story was too long for its own good and especially the early loops could have been condensed.

[honestlyboringperson]

Okay so uh in scene 0 Nagisa found out she used to be a witch, became depressed, and ran away, ran into Kyoko who tries to kill her for eating Mami as Charlotte, then Nagisa accidentally kills Kyoko and now Mabayu, Madoka, and Homura has a dead body and a traumatized 10 year old on their hands.

Oh boy.