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Chapter one starts off with amnesia, kidnapping, bombs, and giant bug people. What a lighthearted series!

Considering the size of the parent series' Nightmare Fuel page, it was only a matter of time before the spinoffs followed suit.


  • A newly-transformed Airi fighting her first Witch and laughing maniacally as she's covered in blood, slurping the Witch's blood in absolute glee a she relishes in the powers she got.
  • Kazumi experiencing some odd Body Horror after she's implanted with an Evil Nut, with her arms growing long and unusually long finger-claws.
  • Kazumi holding onto Yuuri-Airi's Witch form and trying to turn her back into a magical girl, resulting in her human form bursting out of it and can only talk in runes.
  • The sight of the Souju girls' collection of dozens of Soul Gems. Exactly how many comatose victims of theirs are just lying somewhere in the street? Or even corpses that are decaying, knowing what happens when a Soul Gem is separated from the magical girl's body for too long.
  • The revelation that the Pleiades Saints not only were hunting magical girls as suspected, but that they have all of their Soul Gems and bodies located in the Freezer beneath the Angelica Bears museum.
  • Michiru saves the girls from committing suicide when influenced by a Witch's Kiss, but she still drags them inside of a Witch's barrier and initially just watches as the familiars start attacking them.
    • She does give them guns that she conjures from her hat as a means to defend themselves, but the guns do run out of bullets, and the girls sustain some pretty bad wounds during the struggle. It was all to reignite their will to live, but that was pretty harsh of Michiru.
  • Chapter 13 revealing that Kazumi is merely the latest of clones of a dead magical girl, nothing but a human corpse that's been stuffed with Witch meat. And the other clones are approaching her menacingly, ready to attack.
  • Chapter 14 having Kazumi fighting the clones while her body is controlled by Satomi, using the various powers of the Pleiades Saints. And the clones are obviously self-aware, one of them even begging Kazumi to kill her.
    • Kazumi also 'eating' the killed clones to regenerate her limbs that were severely injured or were beginning to turn into Witch parts.
  • Chapter 18 showing Saki turning into a Witch. While her Witch form of a giant nebula-like ball with ornate flowers on it may not be overtly terrifying, its first major action is chomping Mirai's head off, with a panel showing her headless body and Saki's corpse falling to the ground.
  • Chapter 19 having Saki's Witch make the other Witches turn on her, allowing them to rip her to shreds while she herself laughs loudly, until her Grief Seed drops.
    • Jubey's body disintegrating piece by piece after failing to clean Kazumi's Soul Gem. Especially with his standard, grinning face stating calmly that he has no idea what's going on.
  • Kyubey revealing that the Pleiades Saints cast a spell over all of Asurano that made incubators like him invisible to everyone, including themselves, and tried to 'change the rules' by having their gems cleaned through Jubey, and this all leading to many magical girls unnecessarily dying from overuse of magic or turning into Witches. Jubey can't actually clean gems, as that's not something incubators can do, so even with the Soul Gem looking clean, it hides all sorts of corruption and impurities beneath it.
  • Hijiri Kanna turning all of the collected Soul gems into one giant Witch that Kyubey dubs 'Hyades Daybreak' in reference to Walpurgisnacht, the legendary Witch that's actually made up of an unnamed number of other Witches.
  • Crossing into tearjerker, but the girls' wishes in the series hammering home just how brutal and 'unfair' magic is in the franchise.
    Most stories focusing on Be Careful What You Wish For focus on greedy or selfish characters getting their comeuppance, while the more modest types are rewarded for their humility and kindness. Even Madoka had quite a harsh side-effect of her selfless wish of eradicating all Witches, namely being removed from existence entirely and merely being nothing but a concept. But most of the Pleiades Saints' wishes were incredibly simple and humble — Umika already has talent as a good writer, but merely wished for a chance to prove her work without being backstabbed. Kaoru simply wanted to ensure everyone from the match was okay, Saki wanted a memento of her sisters to remain, and Mirai wished for a place to put her important toys. The only remotely outlandish ones were Satomi and Niko asking for animal speech and a clone, respectively.
    But none of those selfless or humble wishes spare them of the horrible fate that befalls magical girls: dying from overusing magic or turning into Witches.


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