History Characters / PuellaMagiKazumiMagicaMagicalGirls

* MuggleBestFriend: Averted, as it first seems that she and Kaoru are regular middleschoolers. Then it turns out that they are also magical girls, part of the Pleaides Saints group.

* PowerTrio: Alongside Kaoru and Kazumi. [[spoiler:Especially in the final chapter, as the only ones of the Pleaides Saints remaining.]]

Kaoru is one of Kazumi's friends and a member of the Pleaides Saints, a group of magical girls that hunt witches. She was a well-known talent in soccer, but eventually suffered a bad injury during a game that put her out of commission.\\

* CoolBigSis: Acts like one towards Kazumi. [[spoiler:When the Pleaides Saints decide to kill this Kazumi and re-clone her, Kaoru is the only one that has reservations for it and ends up fighting her friends to keep Kazumi safe.]]

* PowerTrio: Alongside Kazumi and Umika. [[spoiler:Especially in the end, when they are the only remaining Pleaides Saints members.]]

Saki is a member of the Pleaides Saints, a group of magical girls that hunt witches. She's the quasi-leader of the group due to Kazumi lacking most of her memories.\\

* TheCaptain: Takes on this role for the Pleaides Saints. Even her magical girl uniform looks a lot like a military one.

* CoolBigSis: Her overall role to the rest of the Pleaides Saints.

** Similar to Homura in the sense that both have a tougher appearance, are competent magical girls, and are willing to sacrifice themselves for the good of those they hold dear. [[spoiler:Homura has the ability to rewind time, whereas Saki's magic involves the ability to preserve things by altering the speed of bodily functions. Homura and the Pleaides use magic to revive a dead magical girl they loved very much, being Madoka and Michiru, respectively.]]

* NotSoStoic: Almost freaks out when Yuuri threatens to reveal [[spoiler:the Pleaides Saints hunting and harming magical girls]] to Kazumi.

Niko is a magical girl and member of the Pleaides Saints.\\

* CloningGambit: Another Niko appears after [[spoiler:Niko's Witch form is killed and the human Niko is dead]] and in perfect health, with Jubey revealing that the first Niko was merely her 'preliminary'. [[spoiler:She also uses a clone of Kazumi to distract the Pleaides Saints and tucks the protagonist Kazumi into her backpack. And the first Niko was actually the 'real' one.]]

Resentful of her artificial status, Hijiri contracted with Kyubey and wished for the ability to connect to other people and sneak up on the Pleaides Saints without their knowledge, all in order to get revenge on humankind.

!Yuuri Asuka

The real Yuuri. Her wish was to cure Airi's life-threatening illness.

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: Becomes a witch.
* ChekhovsBoomerang: In later chapters it turns out she knew Michuru.
* [[ChekhovsGunman Chekhov's Gunman]]: Interesting example. She was first seen in a single panel flashback in Chapter 4 along with Airi in her true appearance. Airi's impersonation of Yuuri hadn't been revealed yet, so the reader was meant to think that only Airi was the Chekhov's Gunman.
* CombatMedic: Her main ability was to heal and she fought using a giant syringe.
* CombatStilettos: She wore tall high heels in magical girl form.
* DressedToHeal: Her magical girl costume is very nurse-like.
* {{Expy}}: Has a number of similarities to [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Sayaka.]]
* FeminineWomenCanCook: She participates in a cooking contest and makes the finals.
* GirlishPigtails: Like her doppelganger, she has huge pigtails.
* HealingHands: [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished This gets her in trouble.]]
* ImprobableWeaponUser: A giant hypodermic needle. ''With multiple needles''.
* MagicFeather: Airi believed that the spoon Yuuri gave her cured her illness, and gives it back to Yuuri in the hope that it would help her.
* MementoMacGuffin: The spoon she gives to Airi. Airi gives it back to her and her witch form drops it when it's destroyed. Also doubles as a MagicFeather, as Airi believed it cured her illness.
* NiceGirl: She was incredibly kind and friendly, which unfortunately [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished becomes her undoing]].
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Doubly so. First she becomes a witch because she used too much of her magic healing people. Second is her wish, which was to cure her friend Airi's illness. When Yuuri becomes a witch, Airi goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the magical girls that destroyed Yuuri's witch form, culminating in Airi becoming a witch herself.
* NonuniformUniform: She wears striped stockings even while wearing her school uniform.
* PimpedOutDress: Her magical girl costume has a long, frilly skirt with bows.
* PosthumousCharacter: She's dead by the time the story begins and is only seen in flashbacks.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Her witch transformation led to the creation of the StarterVillain and the BigBad.
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* KnightOfCerberus: She starts to show the darker side of the Pleiades Saints and that there's more to the series than simply an amnesiac magical girl that's having an adventure with fellow magical girl friends.

* TragicKeepsake: She wears a spoon as a charm around her neck. [[spoiler:It was given to her by the real Yuuri as a good-luck charm, which Airi returned after she became healthy.]] Seeing it on the ground after the Saints killed the Witch allowed her to recognize who the Witch as.

!"Yuuri"/[[spoiler:Airi Anri]]

A mysterious magical girl who has a grudge against the Pleiades for the death of the ''real'' Yuuri. Her wish was to become the real Yuuri.

* AllThereInTheManual: [[spoiler:Her full name is only given in an interview by the author.]]
* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler: The witch-maker becomes a witch.]]
* AlliterativeName: [[spoiler:Airi Anri.]]
* AxCrazy: Enough to pretend she's someone else!
* BigBad: For the first five chapters, at least. Six if you count her witch form.
* BigNo: In backstory, when she learns the real Yuuri had become a witch.
* CameBackWrong: In Chapter 6, Kazumi attempts to reverse Yuuri's transformation into a witch. [[BodyHorror It doesn't work out well...]]
* [[ChekhovsGunman Chekhov's Gunman]]: Airi's true appearance is first seen in a single panel flashback in Chapter 4, before her impersonation of Yuuri was revealed.
* CuteLittleFangs: Is shown to have these at times.
* CuteWitch: Her magical girl costume. However, she's clearly an antagonist and it's also obvious {{Foreshadowing}}.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Her backstory involves being critically ill, then having [[spoiler:Yuuri]] save her life with magic, only to watch [[spoiler:a team of magical girls kill Yuuri after she became a witch.]]
* DeadPersonImpersonation: [[spoiler:She's impersonating the real Yuuri to take revenge on the Pleiades for her death.]]
* DyingAsYourself: More or less.
* EvilLaugh: Does this a ''lot'', showing how insane she is.
* {{Expy}} / EvilCounterpart: Arguably to [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Homura]]. Formerly ill: Check. Motivated by friend's death: Check. Has dramatic changes in personality and appearance: Check. [[TheGunslinger Uses guns]]: Check.
* FaceFramedInShadow: In her first appearances. We see her face in Chapter 3.
* GirlishPigtails: She sports two huge pigtails.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: She just ''snaps'' when she learned that her friend became a witch and was subsequently killed.
* TheGunslinger: Uses pistols as her weapons. And like [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Mami]], she can create several of them at once and have them all fire.
** But unlike Mami, who has flintlocks, all her guns are modern handguns and [=SMGs=], which mean '''[[MoreDakka she means business]]'''.
* IdiotHair: [[spoiler:As Airi.]]
* IJustWantToBeYou: [[spoiler:Airi wished to become Yuuri,]] though her motivation was [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge a bit different than what is normal for the trope.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:The first character to die off in-story, with her witch form being destroyed by the Pleiades Saints in Chapter 6.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: Takes this role in Chapter 4.
* TheManBehindTheMonsters: Created the "sort-of-witches" that appeared in the first two chapters. She didn't create the Evil Nuts though...
* MasterOfDisguise: Fully impersonates Satomi in Chapter 3. This power is probably derived from her wish, which was to become the real Yurri.
* MementoMacGuffin / TragicKeepsake: The easy-to-miss spoon hanging around Yuuri's neck. It was given to her by the real Yuuri as a good luck charm. Airi then gave it back to Yuuri, and it's left behind when her witch form is destroyed. Airi then reclaims the spoon and wears it when she becomes Yuuri.
* MiniDressOfPower: Wears an incredibly skimpy pink and mint green one in magical girl form.
* MysteriousWatcher: In the first two chapters.
* MysticalWhiteHair: As revealed in official artwork.
* NoNameGiven: Until Chapter 4. But then in Chapter 5 we find it's not her real name.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Against the Pleiades for killing her friend, the real Yuuri. Of course, Yuuri had become a witch...
* SensibleHeroesSkimpyVillains: Her outfit is very revealing compared to [[spoiler:the real Yuuri's.]]
* {{Sideboob}}: In her magical girl costume.
* SlasherSmile: She keeps it throughout her final fight with Pleiades.
* StarfishLanguage / {{Wingdinglish}}: After she [[CameBackWrong Comes Back Wrong]] she begins speaking in [[CypherLanguage runes]].
* StarterVillain: She's the first villain that Kazumi faces.
* SummonMagic: Summons a bull. She calls it Cole.
* UnwittingPawn: To Kyubey.
* {{Stripperific}}: [[AllThereInTheManual Purposely invoked by the author,]] he wanted to show how broken she was by having her outfit show skin in unusual places.
* VaporWear: Apparently doesn't wear any underwear beneath her magical girl costume.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: After making a wish to ''become her dead friend'', she's seen laughing maniacally and drinking a witch's blood.
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* {{Expy}}: Her magical girl form resembles [[Literature/Bakemonogatari Shinobu Oshino]].

* GoMadFromTheRealization: When she saw Niko, who looks identical to her, among the Pleiades and learned that she was merely a clone to take over her life, Hijiri swore to take revenge on them.
* GoodColorsBadColors: Niko's magical girl outfit was green, where as Hijiri's is all black.

* ShutUpHannibal: Delivers one to [[spoiler:Kanna]]'s motive rant.

!Kanna [[spoiler:Hijiri]]
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[[spoiler:The magical girl created from Niko's wish. She had no knowledge of the Pleiades until seeing them fighting Yuuri, and she subsequently learned the truth about her origins from Juubey/Kyubey. Resentful of her artificial status, she contracted with Jubey and wished for the ability to connect and sneak up on the Pleiades without their knowledge, in order to get revenge.]]

* AllYourPowersCombined: [[spoiler:Because of her wish, she can use the Pleiades Saints' powers and combine them to create new effects. This is how she created the Evil Nuts.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Turns out to be the final one of the manga.]]
* [[spoiler: CloningBlues: Resents her status as an artificial being. She feels a connection to Kazumi, who is an artificially created being like herself.]]
* DeadPersonImpersonation: [[spoiler:When Niko turns into a witch in Chapter 9, Kanna steps in and pretends to be the real Niko, saying that the one who turned into a witch was her "spare." Interesting to note is that Jubey knew who she was and supported her story anyway.]]
* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler:To Kazumi, both being artificial humans created from magic and both being able to use the powers of the other Pleiades Saints.]]
* FantasticRacism [[spoiler:Despises humanity as it is, and wants to turn the magical girls in the Freezer into the "new humans."]]
* GirlishPigtails: Has her hair tied in a pair that match Niko’s, due to being her clone.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: [[spoiler:When Kanna happens upon the Pleiades and gets the truth about her existence explained to her by Jubey, her reaction is to swear vengeance upon the Pleiades, which soon extends to include all of humanity.]]
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:Followed by BetterToDieThanBeKilled.]]
* KillAllHumans: [[spoiler: Wants to accomplish this using the magical girls in the Freezer.]]
* ManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:As the creator of the evil nuts, she’s the one behind Fake!Yuuri and the Soujus.]]
* MarionetteMaster: [[spoiler:She can control the actions of witches.]]
* MotiveDecay[=/=]SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Her initial goal was just to get revenge on Niko, but then she found she didn't like the Pleiades Saints either. Ultimately she decides she might as well KillAllHumans.]]
* SlasherSmile: She has some really creepy expressions.
* StepfordSmiler: When she smiles, anyway.
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:Her existence spoils both the fact that Niko witches out and what her wish truly was.]]

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!Michiru Kazusa

[[spoiler: The original Kazumi.]] Her wish was to spend one last day with her grandmother. She was the one who brought the Pleiades Saints together. [[spoiler:She turned into a witch and was killed. The Pleiades Saints have been cloning her.]]

* TheAce: Kept an entire team together against all odds, had no problems with taking down witches, and made one of the only wishes in the series that had an entirely positive effect. [[spoiler:Well, besides the become a witch part.]] No wonder the Pleiades liked her so much.
* [[spoiler:[[AndThenJohnWasAZombie And Then Michiru Was A Witch.]]]]: [[spoiler:She witched out long ago. The Pleiades took it ''very'' badly.]]
* BigDamnHero: For the Pleiades when she first meets them. She rescues them from jumping off a bridge and falling to their deaths while under the affects of a witch's kiss.
* TheCameo: Got a panel appearance in ''Madoka Magica: the Different Story'' vol. 3 in Mami's flashback of saving her from a Witch from Chapter 11 of ''Kazumi''.
* [[spoiler:CloningBlues: After her death.]]
* DespairEventHorizon[=/=]ItsAllMyFault: Passed it when [[spoiler: she found out that magical girls turn into witches, and became consumed with guilt over dooming her friends to that fate by talking them into contracting.]]
* FeminineWomenCanCook: Is an extremely good cook, as taught by her grandmother.
* {{Expy}}: Resembles [[spoiler: [[Manga/CardcaptorSakura Clow Reed]]. They both wished for their loved ones to open their eyes one more time.]]
* TheGunslinger: Although she fights with a cross, it's shown that she had a spell that pulls guns out of her hat which she uses to equip the future Pleiades Saints. She likely knows this spell because the first magical girl she met was [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Mami Tomoe.]]
* InSeriesNickname: [[spoiler:Kazumi, of course]]. Taken from her name in Japanese name order: [[spoiler:'''Kazu'''sa '''Mi'''chiru]]
* ParentalAbandonment [[spoiler: [=/=] ConvenientlyAnOrphan]]: Before she became a magical girl she lived alone with her grandmother when she wasn't studying abroad. Later her grandmother died.
* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler:She’s been dead for years when the series begins.]]
* SinkOrSwimMentor: Surprisingly, to the rest of the Saints. She might have saved them from jumping to their deaths, but she deliberately let them fend off familiars by themselves when they were still ordinary humans to test whether or not they wanted to live after their attempted suicide.
* TragicKeepsake: Her original set of earring bells came from her deceased grandmother. She actually lost them, but received another pair from Saki.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:Was pretty much responsible for ''almost the entire story''.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:Her existence spoils the fact that Kazumi is actually a clone.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: When she first met the girls who would become the Pleiades Saints, she initially doesn't rescue them from the witch's familiars. When they call her out on this, she asks them why they don't want to be eaten when they were previously trying to commit suicide, showing that they don't really want to die.

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[[folder:'''SPOILER CHARACTER - The Final Threat''']]

!Niko Kanna[[spoiler:/Kanna Hijiri]]

A member of the Pleiades Saints. Her wish [[spoiler:was to create another version of herself with no memories of the childhood incident in which she accidentally shot her friends. This other version of herself was Kanna Hijiri, who would eventually become the BigBad.]]

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler: Becomes a witch in Chapter 9.]]
* BloodFromTheMouth: After being horribly wounded in Chapter 7.
* ButNotTooForeign: Apparently spent her childhood in California.
* CloningGambit: After her witch form is killed in Chapter 9, another Niko appears, in perfect health, and destroys what's left of the first Niko's body. Jubey refers to the first Niko as her "preliminary".
** [[spoiler: She manages to pull it off again in Chapter 17, when she pits a clone of Kazumi against the Pleiades to distract them while she tucks the real one into her backpack.]]
*** [[spoiler: It then turns out the other Niko was never the real one.]]
* [[ChekhovsGunman Chekhov's Gunman]]: Appears as a silhouette in Chapter 1.
* DeadpanSnarker: Has quite the sassy tongue at times.
* DoppelgangerAttack: Can create clones of herself from objects. They're still made from those objects, as she's just transmuting them into another form. The attack {{lampshades}} this trope by being named "Prodotto Secondario", which can mean [[SpinOff spin]]-[[IncrediblyLamePun off]].
** ExpendableClone: They can be killed without Niko batting an eye.
*** [[spoiler: They can turn into ''witches'' without Niko batting an eye...because that wasn't a clone that turned into a witch...]]
* DoesntLikeGuns: Averted. She'll ''use'' firearms if she has to, but she doesn't particularly like it. Given her backstory, where she accidentally shot and killed her friends after she dropped a gun, this is very understandable.
* DreamworksFace: When she's not [[TheStoic expressionless]], she'll sometimes sport this expression, such as on the cover of Volume 4.
* {{Expy}}: Her Puella Magi form resembles [[LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}} Shinobu]].
* ItsAllMyFault: [[spoiler:Feels pretty guilty over accidentally fatally shooting her friends as a kid.]]
* FingerGun: Literally can turn her fingers into bullets and fire them.
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Thanks to her powerset. This is presumably why she can regrow her fingers after firing them like bullets.
* GogglesDoNothing: In her magical girl form.
* GirlishPigtails: Her hair is tied in a long, low-set pair in her magical girl form.
* HiddenEyes: She has them when speaking to Kazumi about the latter's past in Chapter 7.
* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: As a young child, Niko was playing with her neighbors using an actual loaded gun. It fired.

* MeaningfulName: Her name can be rendered as ''Second Child''.
* TheSmartGirl: She’s the most analytical of the group and usually the one to come up with plans.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Or in this case, a c; her name can be written as Nico.
* TheStoic: Almost always has the same expression. Even when an arrow is shot right through her arm and torso.
* TragicKeepsake: Weird example. She keeps a copy of the news article about her [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace childhood accident]] on her PDA.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:Her wish created the BigBad.]]

[[folder:'''SPOILER CHARACTER - The Founder''']]

!Satomi Usagi

A member of the Pleaides Saints. Her wish was to speak to animals. She also has mind control abilities.

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie [[spoiler: Becomes a witch in Chapter 15.]]
* AnimalEaredHeadband: Satomi has cat ears on her magical girl costume.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She’s soft-spoken at first, [[spoiler:but then she stabs Kazumi and tries to kill her.]] Oh dear…
* BloodIsTheNewBlack: She’s covered in it at the end of Chapter 14, due to [[spoiler:her murder attempt on Kazumi.]]
* CatGirl: Has a cat motif in her magical girl outfit.
* CombatStilettos: In her magical girl outfit, she wears high-heels that resemble cats' feet.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Reddish-brown hair and reddish-brown eyes.
* CuteAndPsycho: Turns out to be this.
* CuteLittleFangs: Shows these from time to time.
* DemonicPossession / MindManipulation: "Fantasma Bisbiglio", though she doesn't actually enter the victim's body, and the victim can still resist
* {{Dominatrix}}: In an Omake, the visual representation of her mind manipulation over Saki is that she has Saki literally on a leash while holding a whip.
* {{Expy}}: Of Mami. Both girls are quiet, reserved and tried to help others. Also they both considered the Incubator in their respective series as their friend (Satomi is very fond of Jubey, in the same way Mami was with Kyubey). However, they both seem to have a fragile mind and an unstable attitude, as shown by Satomi's suggestion at the end of Chapter 12. In Chapter 13, Satomi says that it's better for Kazumi to be killed than become a witch, paralleling Mami's breakdown in an alternate timeline. [[spoiler: Both died as a result.]] The nail in the coffin is the fact that [[spoiler: Satomi's witch form looks like Mami's]].
* HeroicBSOD: Freaks out after Niko turns into a witch and dies. Apparently gets better when another Niko shows up.
** FreakOut: [[spoiler: It's implied that the reason she's trying to kill Kazumi is because she just ''snapped''.]]
* ItsAllMyFault: In backstory, she blames herself for the death of her childhood pet cat.
* ImpossiblyLowNeckline: In her magical girl outfit.
** CleavageWindow: Has a sort-of triangular one.
* MeaningfulName: ''Usagi'' means ''rabbit''. Fitting, since Satomi wants to be a vet.
** It's probably also a ShoutOut to [[Franchise/SailorMoon another Usagi.]]
** [[spoiler: Also, her witch form has a smaller form resembling a rabbit that is revealed after the cage-like outer layer of the witch was broken.]]
* SlasherSmile: Flashes one at the end of Chapter 12.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: She wished to talk to animals, to help her become a veterinarian.
* TragicKeepsake: In backstory. During her attempted PsychicAssistedSuicide, she is holding her dead cat's collar.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: Her justification for killing Kazumi; she's just a clone, and could turn back into a witch.]]

* NumberOfTheBest: Her latest teddy bear made before becoming a magical girl was the 666th one, and she has an attack called La Bestia (The Beast) to summon and fuse teddy bears.

* MiniDressOfPower: Wears a skimpy, pink dress with a low skirt as a magical girl.

* Expy: She's a mixture of [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Homura]] and [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Mami]].

!Mirai Wakaba
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A member of the Pleiades Saints. Her wish was to have a big museum to hold all her teddy bears.

* {{BFS}}: Her wand turns into a giant sword that can cut a witch in half.
* BearsAreBadNews: One of her attacks is to summon an army of small, cute-looking teddy bears.
** KillerRabbit: They bite a witch's skin off with their teeth.
** FusionDance / MakeMyMonsterGrow: She can also make them fuse into a giant bear.
* BerserkButton: Don't ''ever'' harm Saki.
* BloodIsTheNewBlack: She's covered in a witch's blood and [[DissonantSerenity acts normally after killing the witch who hurt Saki]] until forced out of it.
* {{Bokukko}}: The reason why she was an outcast in her school.
* BystanderSyndrome: Her reaction to most things, even Niko's death or the fact that the Pleiades might have to kill Kazumi. As long as they don't affect Saki, she doesn't care.
* ChekhovsGunman: Likely the silhouette with the witch's hat in Chapter 1.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Purple hair and purple eyes.
* CuteLittleFangs: Show up when she loses it over Saki's wound.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Saki gets a tiny cut on her cheek while saving Mirai. Mirai responds by ''cutting Niko's witch form'' who hurt Saki in half.
* DoggedNiceGirl: So dogged, she still hangs around Saki, despite the fact that Saki has obvious feelings for Kazumi.
* DyingDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler: Declares her love for Saki right before getting killed by Saki's witch form.]]
* ExactEavesdropping: [[spoiler: Listening to Satomi and Kazumi's [[SarcasmMode heart-to-heart]] before Satomi attacks Kazumi with the clones.]]
* {{Expy}}: Of [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Homura]]. They had the same two-tailed hairstyle and glasses in their backstories, and both were bullied by classmates. Like Sayaka, she is impulsive, hotheaded and not afraid to speak what’s on their minds but at the same time they are good-hearted girls. When they are magical girls, both girls use swords and they have unrequited crushes on a certain person who is completely oblivious to their advances. She also shares a similar backstory with [[Manga/PuellaMagiOrikoMagica Kirika]]. Both were girls ostracized by their class and without any friends who lied to themselves that they weren't lonely before making contracts, and are somewhat {{Yandere}} for another girl they are friends with. They also both use bladed weapons (claws and a sword, respectively).
* FriendlessBackground / LonersAreFreaks: In backstory, she was basically ostracized by her entire class only for being a Bokkuko and having NerdGlasses.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Does this a lot. Usually with MegatonPunch.
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: Has a teddy bear museum, and carries around one after using an army of them to attack a witch. Later we find that she had an entire room full of teddy-bears.
* GirlishPigtails: Her Hair is tied in a low pair of these in her backstory.
* HeartSymbol / SigilSpam: Hearts are featured heavily as accents on her costume, weapon, bear summons and on her school uniform. Possibly {{Foreshadowing}} her {{Yandere}} streak.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: In backstory, due to being ignored and shunned at school.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Arrogant, and quite willing to hit Kazumi on the head when she's blaming herself, [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan but it's clear she does it because she cares.]] [[{{Yandere}} Maybe too much.]]
* LittleMissBadass / BadassAdorable: Her weapon is a heart shaped wand. Her magic lets her summon cutesy teddy-bears that can fuse into a giant bear by hugging each other. ''Do not underestimate any of them.''
* LonelyDollGirl: She makes and collects teddy bears, who were her only friends before the Pleiades.
* NerdGlasses: Wears a big swirly pair in her backstory.
* NumberOfTheBeast: In Chapter 12 we find she was carrying a teddy-bear with 666 on it. Earlier we saw she had an attack that translates to "The Beast", where she summons her teddy bear army.
* MiniDressOfPower: Wears a pink one in magical girl form.
* OffWithHerHead: [[spoiler: Gets decapitated by Saki's witch form when she refuses to fight it.]]
* OutOfFocus: After her initial appearance, she gets less panel time compared to the other magical girls. Averted in a big way in Chapter 9.
* RedEyesTakeWarning
* RoomFullOfCrazy: That room full of teddy-bears in her backstory is a tiny bit disturbing.
* SecurityBlanket: In backstory, her teddy-bears were the only "friends" she had.
* TakingTheBullet: The first time she was trapped in a witch's barrier, she shielded Saki from a familiar with her own body.
* {{Yandere}}/ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: For Saki, apparently.

!Saki Asami

A member of the Pleiades Saints. Her wish was for her dead sister's flower to bloom forever. [[spoiler:Her magic allows her to speed up or slow down her own biological functions... and also allows her to shoot lightning.]]

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie [[spoiler: Kanna turns her into a witch in Chapter 18.]]
* {{Bokukko}}: As a young girl. Her father forced her out of it. She bonded with Mirai because of that.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Satomi does this to her in Chapter 13.
* TheCaptain: Saki seems to be this for the Pleiades, effectively taking the leader role. Her magical girl costume even looks like a military uniform.
* [[ChekhovsGunman Chekhov's Gunman]]: Appears as a silhouette in Chapter 1.
* ChildhoodMarriagePromise: In backstory, with a [[LesYay girl named Miyuki]]. But we later find [[IncestSubtext Miyuki was her sister.]]
* CoolBigSis: Acts like this to the Pleiades, Kazumi especially.
* CynicismCatalyst/ SurvivorGuilt: In her backstory. Saki and her sister Miyuki were in a horrible car accident. Miyuki died, driving Saki over the DespairEventHorizon.
* {{Expy}}: [[spoiler:Of [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Homura]]. Both girls have a tough appearance, competent, totally willing to sacrifice herself for another girl and wear glasses. Homura has the ability to rewind time, something that helps her to create timelines to save Madoka, while Saki (whose wish was for her sister's flowers to bloom forever) apparently has the ability to preserve things, since she preserved Kazumi's previous clones in the Freezer. Saki and the Pleiades are forced to clone Kazumi's witch form again and again in order to revive her, much like Homura, who resets time in order to save Madoka.]]
** Also one of [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Mami]]. Both lost loved ones in a car crash they were in, but survived themselves. Both are big sister archetypes that try to lead the younger magical girls. Both wear nice hats in magical girl form.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Saki's witch form ends up taking on the other witches Hijiri has created in order to protect Kazumi. Kyubey has stated that the nature of Saki's witch form is "sisterly affection".]]
* HiddenDepths: Despite being a no-nonsense commander, she carries books in her backpack with titles such as "My First Love Was The Milky Way" and "Lemon Kiss Memories".
* LightningCanDoAnything: Her entire power revolves around how she manipulates electricity from her body. She attacks by summoning or shaping lightning channeled from her hand to her weapons, her seeming power as TeleportersAndTransporters is actually her speeding up her own metabolism to gain SuperSpeed in exchange of getting older faster (evident from her hair growing out), and [[spoiler: preventing her transformation into a witch by constantly killing and reviving herself with a lightning storm defibrillator.]]
* IncestSubtext: She was ''very close'' to her sister. And she later says Mirai is like her sister.
* MeaningfulName: ''Saki'' means ''bloom''. Fitting, since Saki wished for the flowers of her sister to bloom forever.
* {{Monocle}}: Her glasses become one in her magical girl outfit.
* NotSoStoic: While she normally has a cool head, she has a FreakOut moment when Yuuri threatens to reveal the Pleiades' darker side to Kazumi.
* ShockAndAwe: Pietra di Tuono!!
* SugarAndIcePersonality: But she also sometimes has a rather violent temper when provoked.
* TragicKeepsake: In backstory. During her attempted PsychicAssistedSuicide she is holding Miyuki's lily of the valley plant.
* WhipItGood: Her weapon is a riding crop that [[LightningGun shoots lightning]]. It can actually become a bullwhip.

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!Kaoru Maki

One of Kazumi's friends, and a member of the Pleiades Saints. She initially claims her wish was to have body strong enough to be a top soccer player. It's later revealed it was actually to help people who were hurt in a match where she lost the use of her legs.

* BadassNormal: Mind you, at that time, Kaoru was crippled and had to walk with crutches. Even before her contract, she was the only one who can fend off the familiars without Kazumi's musket back-up before her injured leg started to give in.
* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: Kaoru is Brawn.
* CoolBigSis: To Kazumi. [[spoiler:At the end of Ch.15 when the Pleiades decide to kill Kazumi and reclone her, Kaoru is the only one to have reservations against it.]]
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Yellow/orange hair and yellow/orange eyes.
* GameBreakingInjury: In her backstory. The person who injured her was bullied and [[DrivenToSuicide nearly killed herself]] because of it.
* InstantArmor: In Chapter 9, she covers her arms in a metallic substance that lets her block a giant pair of scissors.
* ItsAllMyFault: Kaoru goes over the DespairEventHorizon in her backstory when she finds that the person who injured her tried to kill herself.
* KickChick: Her main mode of attack. Helps that she’s a soccer player.
* MuggleBestFriend: Averted, as she’s a magical girl too.
* NoNameGiven: Her last name isn't revealed until Chapter 7.
* ThoseTwoGirls: With Umika, but subverted as she has more character than that.

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!Saki Asami
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A member of the Pleiades Saints. Her wish was for her dead sister's flower to bloom forever. [[spoiler:Her magic allows her to speed up or slow down her own biological functions... and also allows her to shoot lightning.]]
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TragicKeepsake: Her original manuscript that was plagiarized.

!Umika Misaki

One of Kazumi's friends and a member of the Pleiades Saints. Her wish was to meet an editor who would recognize her writing talent.

* BarrierWarrior: Creates force fields.
* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: Umika is Brains.
* BladeOnAStick: Her book can become a staff with a diamond-shaped blade on each end.
* CoolBigSis: To Kazumi. [[spoiler: It used to be the other way around. as Michuru was very comforting and encouraging to Umika about her plagiarized novel problem]].
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Blue hair and blue eyes.
* ExpositionBeam: Her book can do this to others.
* FakeMemories: [[spoiler: Can alter the memories of others.]]
* FeminineWomenCanCook: She can cook pretty well.
* GreatBigBookOfEverything: Umika's weapon is a book that tells her about the enemies they fight. It can also copy the ability of other people who she had recorded, first seen when [[spoiler:she casts [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Kyoko's]] Rosso Phantasma]] on Kaoru.
* MiniDressOfPower: Wears a white one with yellow crosses on it in magical girl form.
* MorphWeapon: Her book can change into a [[BladeOnAStick spear]].
* MostWritersAreWriters: Umika is a novelist.
* MuggleBestFriend: Averted, as she’s a magical girl too.
* PlagiarismInFiction: Her first novel was stolen by her editor and released under a different author. Her editor then had the gall to actually ask Umika for more writing.
* ShutUpHannibal: An epic one delivered to [[spoiler:Kanna's MotiveRant]].
* TakingTheBullet: The first time she was trapped in a witch's barrier, she shielded Kaoru from a familiar with her own body.
* ThoseTwoGirls: With Kaoru, but subverted as she has more character than that.
* TragicKeepsake: In backstory. During her attempted PsychicAssistedSuicide, she is shown holding her plagiarized manuscript.

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** Chapter 8 has Jubey claim that Kazumi's magic is 'breaking lreigious law'/'sacrilege', but corrects himself into calling it 'destruction'. Both are AlternateCharacterReading of the same word in Japanese.

* SkewedPriorities: Her main focus during some of the most dramatic moments is for her stomach to give out a loud gurgle and she needs to eat.

* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:She's a clone of a dead magical girl and made up of said girl's witch parts. And she's the not even the first, but the thirteenth clone.]]

* VaporWear: Her magical girl outfit is extremely tight-fighting.

!Kazumi

The main character. An amnesiac girl who can't remember anything about her life before, including her wish. She is a member of the Pleiades Saints. [[spoiler: Actually the thirteenth clone of deceased magical girl Michiru Kazusa, created from the remains of her human and witch selves. This allows her to use Michiru's powers without having made a contract. Due to this, she can wish to become a normal human near the end of the manga.]]

* AllYourPowersCombined: [[spoiler: Because the Saints are pouring their power to her clone to revive her, she can use their power to an extent from its residue such as Umika's [[BarrierWarrior barrier]] and Kaoru's InstantArmor.]]
* AmnesiacHero: [[spoiler: Subverted; being a clone, she actually might not have any memories at all. Umika is making them for her.]]
* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: Comes very close, but ultimately averted. [[spoiler: Umika and Kaoru manage to use the Grief Seed from Saki's witch form to purify Kazumi's corrupted Soul Gem just in time to prevent her transformation into a witch.]]
* ArtificialHuman: [[spoiler:As it turns out, she’s an artificial construct made out of witch parts, made by the Pleiades Saints, based off of their deceased friend, Michiru Kazusa.]]
* BadPowersGoodPeople: Her magic is based on ''destruction''. [[spoiler: Makes sense cause she is made out of witch parts.]]
* BecomeARealBoy: [[spoiler: Her wish.]]
* BreakTheCutie: As the series progresses.
* BerserkButton: Don't touch Kazumi's bells.
* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: Kazumi is Beauty.
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:All the failed clones have some kind of it on their person. Kazumi herself turns similar to them after being exposed to the Evil Nut.]]
* CloningBlues: [[spoiler: She's a clone of Michiru Kazusa.]]
* CombinationAttack: Meteora Finale (Final Meteor).
* CrossAttack: Kazumi's weapon is a large cross-shaped MagicStaff. She can use the cross as a melee weapon at close range, but it's most effectively used to fire magic beams from a distance.
* CuteLittleFangs: They tend to show up during her more angsty moments.
* CuteWitch: Kazumi's magical girl outfit makes her look like one. Ironic, considering the monsters she fights are called witches [[spoiler: and the fact that she's basically a witch stuffed in a human body.]]
* ExpressiveHair: Kazumi's IdiotHair changes in response to the non-standard witches. It also responds to emotions, like making a heart at the end of Chapter 3.
* {{Expy}}: Chapter 10 shows that in the past, Kazumi was a heroic magical girl, and saved the Pleiades Saints from a witch's kiss before they became magical girls. When she loses her memories, Kazumi is LockedOutOfTheLoop because her friends are trying to protect her from the truth of the magical girl system. [[spoiler: She has died before, as well, and her friends are attempting to save her from that fate by reviving her over and over again.]] Basically, she's [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Madoka.]]
* FeminineWomenCanCook: [[spoiler: Inherited from Michiru. The rest of the Pleaides Saints take this as a sign that they may have finally made a successful clone.]]
* ForgotTheCall: Kazumi wasn't aware she was a magical girl until she transformed. [[spoiler: Subverted; there was nothing to forget.]]
* GoingCommando: Apparently. If [[http://images.puella-magi.net/0/03/PMKM_vol1_cover.png the cover of the first tankobon]] is to be believed, Kazumi wears nothing beneath that magical girl outfit. That opens the question of how can she wear panties when not wearing her skirt, though. Perhaps they remain in place until the outfit is formed?
** Chapter 2 gives us a post-TransformationSequence PantyShot after she briefly forgets to conjure a skirt.
** Chapter 8 gives us a minor PantyShot, so who knows.
* HealingFactor: [[spoiler: By transmuting herself with her dead clones, she can regenerates her severed arm and leg. Satomi calls it '[[ImAHumanitarian Cannibalism]]'.]]
* TheHeart: She’s the most caring of the group and the one that keeps them together, at least at first. [[spoiler:Makes sense, as Michiru was one too.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler: She's made from the remains of Michuru and her witch.]]
* IdiotHair: Kazumi has one that, according to her, can detect witches! But it fails to detect typical anime-style witches.
* ImportantHaircut: Kazumi's long, flowing hair gets quite a trim from her friends in the second chapter. She decides it fits with the 'new Kazumi'. [[spoiler:Turns out, that short hair was how the hair the person she was cloned from had. When Kazumi makes a new contract, her hair becomes long again.]]
* ImprobableWeaponUser: A giant laser-shooting cross.
* {{Kawaiiko}}: Kazumi dresses like an elementary student, and acts quite young and innocent.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: The rest of the Pleiades were hiding from Kazumi [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie the origins of witches]], but she discovers the truth in chapter 5.
** And then we find she's still LockedOutOfTheLoop when the Pleiades attack a magical girl and sever her connection to her Soul Gem. She discovers that truth in chapters 8 and 9. [[spoiler:Then there's her true origins...]]
* LoopholeAbuse: [[spoiler:Even though she has magical girl powers, she obtained them from having a witch inside herself, not from a contract, which means that, technically, she could contract and make a wish. This is what allows her to wish to become human in chapter 22.]]
* LossOfIdentity: To the point where she even refers to herself as a "new" Kazumi. [[spoiler:Because she is.]]
* MagicalIncantation: "[[ShoutOut Bibbidi-Bobb]][[WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} idi-Boo]]," though [[{{Woolseyism}} this was only in the scanlation]]. The original phrase was "Chichinpurin," another food pun. The official translation is "Chi-Chin Pudding".
* MeaningfulName: Kazumi can be read as "thirteen". While [[ThirteenIsUnlucky thirteen is a very common unlucky number]], one and three also make four, [[FourIsDeath which is an Asian unlucky number]]. In Chapter 13 [[spoiler:we find out she's the thirteenth Kazumi clone. "Kazumi" is also a portmanteau of ''Mi''chiru ''Kazu''sa.]]
** MeaningfulRename: [[spoiler:Adds "Subaru" {Japanese for Pleiades) in the final chapter when she takes a last name.]]
* MercyKilling: Performs the final blow on Yuuri's witch form. Interestingly, she also did it to share that burden with her friends.
* MiniDressOfPower: Her magical girl outfit is a black and white one.
* MoralityPet: For the Pleiades... sort of.
* NakedFirstImpression: How Souichirou (and the reader, for that matter) is introduced to Kazumi.
* NoNameGiven: Her last name, until Chapter 13 reveals [[spoiler:she technically never had one. So in the final chapter, she gives herself the surname Subaru.]]
* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler:Justified; she's a clone.]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Though the "new" Kazumi isn't sinister.
* RealityWarper: It seems that Kazumi's bell can change reality; in the first chapter, the bomb that was supposedly a real bomb turned into a harmless toy after Kazumi wishes it.
** Her magic is strong enough that she can turn a witch into a [[CameBackWrong twisted witch/magical girl hybrid.]]
** In the original Japanese version of Chapter 8, Jubey claims her magic is "breaking religious law"/"sacrilege" but then apparently corrects himself and says it's "destruction" -- both are {{Alternate Character Reading}}s of the same word in Japanese.
* SigilSpam: See that symbol on her earring bells? It's also the shape of her IdiotHair and the top of her witch's hat in magical girl form. And it appears ''twice'' on her [[TransformationTrinket Soul Gem]].
* SinisterScythe: Gains one in Chapter 14.
* SkewedPriorities: Kazumi has been kidnapped, is recently amnesiac, and is sitting in the kitchen of a man who plans to blow up a mall. What does she focus on? '''Food'''.
** She has just find out that [[spoiler:everything she knows about herself is a lie, she is being hunted by her former friends]], and she is on the verge of total nervous breakdown. [[MoodWhiplash No prize for guessing]] [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments the thing she wants first from Det. Ishijima.]] (This may very well be a sort of stress relief).
* SuperEmpowering/ NextTierPowerUp: [[spoiler: The newly contracted Kazumi can do this with Scala A Paradiso (Stairway To Heaven).]]
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: See MeaningfulName.
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:She’s based off of a dead person, and made from witch parts. Oh, and she’s not even the first of these, she’s the]] ''[[spoiler:thirteenth.]]''
* TragicKeepsake: Kazumi takes Yuuri/Airi's spoon after her witch form is defeated.
** Her earring-bells turn out to be one. [[spoiler:For her original.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: After a certain reveal.
* WrongContextMagic: [[spoiler:She's a clone of a magical girl created from remnants of that girl's human and witch selves, something that was never even implied to be possible in the original series.]]
* VaporWear: Mmmhm.
* YouAreNumberSix: [[spoiler: She's the 13th clone.]]
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* BareYourMidriff: In her MagicalGirl costume.

* BareYourMidriff: In her MagicalGirl costume.

* BareYourMidriff: Her navel is still covered, unlike most examples, but her magical girl outfit exposes both sides of her stomach.

* BareYourMidriff: Her shirt is cut to expose her tummy, with her soul gem being placed where her belly button would be.

* GirlInABox: In the first chapter.

* GiantWaistRibbon: [[spoiler:Like the real Yuuri,]] her outfit has a large bow at the back.

* GiantWaistRibbon: Her magical girl outfit had a huge blue one.

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler: The Soujus' Soul Gems were already on the verge of "hatching" when the Pleiades locked them in the freezer. When Kanna attacked the Pleiades, she pulled them out and let them finish their transformation.]]

* [[DoggedNiceGuy Dogged Nice Girl]]: So dogged, she still hangs around Saki, despite the fact that Saki has obvious feelings for Kazumi.

* [[spoiler:[[AndThenJohnWasAZombie And Then The Soujus Were A Witch]]: The Soujus' Soul Gems were already on the verge of "hatching" when the Pleiades locked them in the freezer. When Kanna attacked the Pleiades, she pulled them out and let them finish their transformation.]]

* NamesTheSame: [[spoiler:With another Hijiri from Franchise/TouhouProject in the person of Byakuren Hijiri.]]

* [[ArcWelding Arc Welder]]: Her being here helps to solidify the connection between the original series and this one.

* AnAxeToGrind: Her main weapon was an axe.

* ShesGotLegs: And she uses them well.

%%!Sumire Akane
%%A magical girl that was attacked by the Pleiades Saints. She knows Kaoru because they both played soccer to together.
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%%* BareYourMidriff
%%* BladeOnAStick: Her main weapon.
%%* GoryDiscretionShot
%%* HumanPopsicle: Is locked in the Pleiades’ giant freezer.