YMMV / Puella Magi Suzune Magica

• Awesome Art: Features much better art than some other Puella Magi titles, and has some gorgeous costume and witch designs. It only gets better as the series goes on.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: See here.
• Ho Yay: Though Suzune Magica doesn't contain as much implications of Ho Yay compared to the other installments, the cast still form rather strong relationships with one another. Notably, there is Arisa/Chisato (the two arguably have the strongest-shown friendship, with Chisato's death being an important vehicle for Arisa's character development); Matsuri/Suzune (the two are close childhood friends who were separated by Kagari, and come to care deeply for one another over the course of the story, with Suzune practically sacrificing herself for Matsuri's sake in the ending); and Kagari/Suzune (Kagari is very, very enthusiastic about bringing her sadistic revenge upon Suzune).
• Iron Woobie: Matsuri, by the end of the story. All her close friends are dead, as are her surrogate mother and twin sister, and she knows the ugly truth of the magical girl system, but she's still going strong and fighting against despair despite everything she's been through.
• Moral Event Horizon: See here.
• Nightmare Fuel
  • Some of the witch designs pull off creepy, scary, and downright weird very effectively. Special mention goes to Haruka's and Kagari's witches, who, on top of having incredibly creepy designs, retain the mind-control powers of their original forms, which may make them even scarier.
  • Kagari Hinata embodies this. There's not much scarier than person whose power is to alter people's minds and memories and what they are currently perceiving without so much as blinking an eye in effort. And the fact that she made her revenge gambit as convoluted as it was just because it would be more fun for her, which speaks levels about her sheer sadism.
• Paranoia Fuel
  • Suzune's modus operandi of hunting down magical girls in dark alleys at night would certainly make one think twice about travelling alone at night. Or even in groups, seeing as even that didn't save Chisato from Suzune...
  • Suzune lived for possibly years under Kagari's mental influence, with her memories altered and her best friend completely erased from memory without even realizing it. How do you know the same hasn't happened to you?
• So Okay, It's Average: Compared to some of the other Puella Magi spin-offs. Suzune's plot is pretty bland and predictable, with poor pacing on top of that, and doesn't feature very many outstanding original elements.
• The Scrappy: Kagari is the least-liked character in Suzune Magica. If it's not because of how awful a person she is (see her character page for details), then it's because of how her presence detriments on the plot, with her introduction marking a rather jarring turn into a much different storyline than the one previously going on. There's also the fact that she killed Arisa, who is generally the most-liked character of the cast; the fact that said action resulted in Arisa being practically removed from the plot hurt Kagari's reputation.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character
  • Chisato. Gets killed off by Suzune in the very second chapter, and has the least development of all the main characters, to the point that we don't even know what her powers were (outside of GAN's word). She gets focus in two flashbacks after her death, but both of them have her being a vehicle for character development, and one of them is pretty much an exposition dump explaining what her wish was.
  • Arisa following her sudden death at Kagari's hands, which pretty much functions as a way of removing her from the story, and really slaps of the author not knowing what to do with her due to changes in the plot (see Executive Meddling under the Trivia tab). Even more so because the character in question was one of the major characters, and ends up getting kicked out of the story without so much as a second thought, with her presence getting relegated to mere mentions to make room for the new character and plot developments, despite the fact that her presence could've played an interesting part to both the story and worked as development towards her personal arc.