History WMG / PuellaMagiKazumiMagica

The set up is just too delicious for the Mangaka to pass up. In chapter 13, [[spoiler: [[YouAreNumberSix Kazumi learns that she is the 13th clone of the Magical Girl Michiru Kazusa]], the original founder of the Pleiades Saints, and [[CloningBlues all of the previous clones have been set loose on Kazumi.]] ]] The shock generated will send [[spoiler: [[DespairEventHorizon Kazumi over the edge into despair, and become a witch.]] Because all the other Pleiades Saints [[spoiler: might be on the verge of becoming witches, [[DespairEventHorizon the despair of their thirteenth failure to bring back Kazusa will cause them to become witches too.]] ]] The Pleiades Saints all lose, and Juubey wins. All in all, a good day of business...

* Confirmed. [[spoiler:Her wish was to create another version of herself with no memories of her childhood shooting accident to take her place. It wasn't Nico at the end of chapter 17, and hasn't been since chapter 9, because the original Nico turned into a witch at the end of chapter 8. This fake Nico, Kanna Hijiri, is behind the Evil Nuts and is after the Pleiades for [[CloningBlues revenge for her origins.]]]]

Based on nothing more than the fact that the guy who writes ''Kazumi Magica'' wrote the screenplay for the drama CD that introduced Amy. So to make this WMG work, ''Kazumi Magica'' has to be set before the events of the anime, and the Pleiades Saints (or at least Kazumi, Kaoru, and Umika) will get [[KillEmAll wiped out]] or [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie worse]]. Then the now lonely cat wanders over from Asunaro to Mitakihara and you know the rest.

* This could be supported by the fact that the MagicalGirls seen using the Evil Nuts, Anri and the Soujous were already familiar with the Pleiades Saints. We know that Anri got her information about them from Kyubey and someone must have told the Soujous about the Pleiades.

The Spin-off series tend to base characters from characters in the anime and Kyoko's the only one without a counterpart comparison. Like Kyoko, Kazumi was once an idealistic MagicalGirl who believed in helping others [[spoiler: the flashback in Ch 10 shows her rescuing the Pleiades before they became [[MagicalGirl magical girls]] from a witch-kiss induced suicide kinda of how Kyoko helped protect Madoka and Sayaka from a witch as explained in the 3rd CD Drama.]]. Unfortunately, her world-view became shattered by a traumatizing event. A flashback in Ch1 shows her standing over dead bodies; its possible she may have been the sole survivor of a massacre wherein she lost loved ones including the person who gave her her bells which may be why she hates people touching them. Alternately, finding out the truth behind the Puella Magi system soured her selfless worldview driving her to despair and deciding that she may as well just look out for herself rather than other people. Of course, it could have been both. The Pleiades shocked at the change in personality and beliefs of the one who saved their lives and failing to convince her to change her mind otherwise erased her memories so she would go back to the old Kazumi. This is why the girls become so desperate to hide the truth behind [[MagicalGirl magical girls]] from her and what leads them to go to extremes to prevent Puella Magi from becoming witches and turning them back to humans. Also going with the previous theory that Kazumi created the 'new witches', in her StartOfDarkness she may have been responsible for the creation of the Evil Nuts.

[[spoiler: Satomi shares personality traits with Mami such as patience, friendliness as well as a hidden fragile mind with a tendency to snap. The end of Chapter 12 shows her suggesting to Saki to kill Kazumi with a SlasherSmile after the Evil Nuts insignia appears in her eyes before her fainting. In the orginal series, third timeline Mami wound up killing kyouko in a murder-suicide attempt after finding out the AwfulTruth about MagicalGirls and was killed by Madoka before she could kill Homura. Its possible that Satomi may have concluded that Kazumi was the one responsible for creating the Evil Nuts and seen her as a threat to be eliminated. She will then try to kill Kazumi resulting in the other Pleides or Kazumi herself killing her making her earlier words about not wanting to die Ironic and HarsherInHindsight. Bonus points if her crazyness results in her worst fear of turning into a witch. ]]

** In going with the above theory that Kazumi created the new witches, its possible that after finding out the AwfulTruth, she looked for an altnative source of energy for the Incubators to harvest and came up with the Evil Nuts. The new witches, similar to the anime ones are capable of consuming emotion from living humans and revert back to ordinary humans upon defeat. In this way, she hoped that this new solution would turn the Incubators away from their current method of turning MagicalGirls into witches. Unfortunately, as shown with Jyubey, Incubators cant make use of Evil Nuts.

This one [[http://forums.mangafox.com/threads/263594-Well-it-was-bound-to-happen-sooner-or-later.-*SPOILERS*?p=6358148#post6358148 here]] shows that Oriko Magica is likely the actual sequel rather than being the prequel. The Madoka Magica showed that there have already been magical girls in the past so its possible this was before the timeline of the anime.

Or in other words, [[CaptainObvious there are Incubators who feel emotion, but they are regarded as having a mental illness]]. It's entirely possible that an Incubator with emotions would see the [[spoiler: magical girl fights witches → magical girl becomes a witch → more magical girls are needed to fight witches cycle]] the same way a human would, and that it might want to ally itself with magical girls to end it all.

Truly a Wild Mass Guess, as there is no evidence whatsoever [[spoiler: seriously Oriko-as-Charlotte has more evidence than this!]]. This idea only came about because it was noticed that the symbol on Kazumi's bells ([[SigilSpam and hair, and hat, and in two places on her Soul Gem]]) resembles a question mark, [[spoiler: as in the question mark found on Suleika's (and Albertine's, and Uhrmann's) witch card]]. It would also make a very neat pair of BookEnds: [[spoiler: ''Kazumi'' begins in darkness and ends in darkness.]] Although that would lead to KingdomHearts jokes...

Alternatively , given [[spoiler: the ending of Madoka Magica]], Kazumi might be one of the few Magical Girls who stood on the brink of [[spoiler: oblivion via Grief]], and while she might [[spoiler: have become a Witch under the old rules]] , she is one of the few who managed to overcome/reversed this. It might also explain her memory loss. Her memory might be deliberately erased [[spoiler:by Madoka]] so that Kazumi's "second chance " can occur.

Yes, [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann THAT Spiral Power]]. [[http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Speculah:Grief_Seeds Given the counter-rotating Spirals on her Soul Gem emblems]], and the extremely overpowered, rulebreaking magic she has, and her [[BigEater generous appetite often applicable to Spiral Energy users]], this explains so much about why she exhibits powers unusual even for Contractee Magical Girls.

* The corollary to this is that [[spoiler: the "old" Kazumi may have been mentally unstable - Suleika has a "deluded" nature. Combine with the theory below and we suddenly have a possible [[ChaosHead Nitroplus reference!]]]]

* {{Jossed}}. [[spoiler: She becomes an unnamed witch that resembles a giant ball with a mouth.]]

[[WMG: The series will end with a WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue [[spoiler: set after the Cosmic RetCon caused by Madoka's wish]].]]
[[spoiler: After the main plot is resolved, or whatever, we cut to Kazumi some unspecified time later waking up to find herself in a place where she is greeted by Madoka. Madoka explains to her how the universe has changed so that witches no longer exists, but reveals that while Kazumi never existed in the new world, Madoka was able to prevent her from disappearing from existance completely and take her to where she takes fallen magical girls. She then shows Kazumi what the other characters are up to in the new world. Possible things we might see:]]
** [[spoiler: Since Jubey most likely doesn't exist in the new world, the characters who contracted with him in the old universe probably made contracts with Kyubey instead in the new world.]]
** [[spoiler: Michiru is still alive and well in the new world.]]
** [[spoiler: Yuuri probably disappeared after overusing her powers. Airi still learned of Yuuri's contract, and becomes a MagicalGirl herself, this time wishing to continue Yuuri's "mission" by fighting demons and helping others, this time not going as far as to wish to do it as Yuuri herself.]]

[[WMG: Mirai's soul gem [[spoiler: is still intact]]]]
[[spoiler: How else can her bears still be around in chapter 19?]]

[[WMG: [[spoiler: Kanna Hijiri will be Walpurgisnacht's base witch]]]]

...wasn't [[PoweredByAForsakenChild made from scratch.]] Her powers are like FullMetalAlchemist transmutation, [[spoiler: and you can't create a soul from that, but her copy had a Soul Gem and it could become a witch. Plus if the Incubators could clone humans you'd think they'd do that instead.]] What Nico is doing is [[spoiler: transmuting another girl into a BodyDouble. Maybe also used FakeMemories or {{Brainwashing}} to make the duplicate think she's Nico. Based off the symbolism, she would then be that girl shooter Nico read about in Chapter 7. Bonus points if Nico was actually paralyzed by that girl shooter, made a wish to regenerate herself, and then took revenge in a horrific fashion.]]

[[AC:PuellaMagiKazumiMagica]]

** As of chapter 21, this WMG has been essentially confirmed, with the exception of who's magic wasn't responsible [[spoiler: It wasn't Kazumi's, but the rest of the Pleiades working together.]] MASSIVE spoilers for chapter 21: [[spoiler: 'Jyubey' was created by Nico from the corpse of one of Kyubey's 'terminals' that Umika killed when he explained the truth of the magical girl system. According the Puella Magi wiki, this is Nico's (translated) explanation for his name: INCUBATOR VER. DEPENDENT. Sub-or-din-at-ed (Juu-zoku-su-ru) Incubator. It's abbreviated to 'Juubey.' Nico's idea was to create an Incubator that would obey them and clean their Soul Gems without needing to use Grief Seeds (it didn't work). It was originally Kyubey who contracted with them, but to 'kill' him permanently within their city, they cast a spell that made Kyubey unable to be seen or heard by anyone within city limits, going so far as to replace their own memories of Kyubey with Jyubey to ensure the spell was complete.]]

** As of chapter 21, this WMG has been essentially confirmed, with the exception of who's magic wasn't responsible [[spoiler: It wasn't Kazumi's, but the rest of the Pleiades working together.]] MASSIVE spoilers for chapter 21: [[spoilers: 'Jyubey' was created by Nico from the corpse of one of Kyubey's 'terminals' that Umika killed when he explained the truth of the magical girl system. According the Puella Magi wiki, this is Nico's (translated) explanation for his name: INCUBATOR VER. DEPENDENT. Sub-or-din-at-ed (Juu-zoku-su-ru) Incubator. It's abbreviated to 'Juubey.' Nico's idea was to create an Incubator that would obey them and clean their Soul Gems without needing to use Grief Seeds (it didn't work). It was originally Kyubey who contracted with them, but to 'kill' him permanently within their city, they cast a spell that made Kyubey unable to be seen or heard by anyone within city limits, going so far as to replace their own memories of Kyubey with Jyubey to ensure the spell was complete.]]

[[spoiler: In the guidebook; a line in Walpurgisnacht's production note reads "My life is nothing more than a drama that you penned."; which mirror's Kanna's situation with Nico. Add that with the other witches and corrupted soul gems in the Freezer, and Kyubey's comment about it being only "the dawn over the miniature garden"; the manga will end with Kanna absorbing all the other witches, maybe even Kazumi, and bringing about the dusk.]]]]