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These are recommendations made by Tropers for Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story fanfics, all of which have to be signed to stay on the page. Feel free to add a fanfic of your own to the list, but remember to use the template found here.

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Do warn when a fanfic may head into non-canon territory. Some people just don't like it, and as we all know, Shipping is Serious Business.

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MUT Festa by Magia Union Translations

  • Recommended by: blurrylightning
  • Status: Completed
  • Synopsis: MUT Festa is a collaborative fan project made by volunteers and fans at Magia Union Translations to celebrate 2 years of bringing the original game's stories to a wider audience! The theme of this project was to hold a 4th wall breaking festival that celebrates MUT's translation efforts, as well as answer as many fan questions as possible in the biggest Union Report to date. Each episode was written by a different person, with the final episode being a culmination of everyone's ideas. Note that some content may seem outdated, but as most of these episodes were written months in advance, UnionRepo continues to claim its 100% prediction accuracy.
  • Comment: A collab fic from the people in the Magia Union Translations group written by its translators, JSON editors, and even just fans of the series. It expresses so much love for the series alongside its tongue and cheek meta-jokes that it's hard not to be a little bit entertained by it.

Anticipation by NaCl1572

  • Recommended by: blurrylightning
  • Status: Completed
  • Synopsis: People can die out of sheer boredom. And waiting to be playable can take tons of time. Yuna and Juri have to find ways to kill their time until being promoted to playable themselves.

The Tale of Cinderui by GoggleLad

  • Recommended by: blurrylightning
  • Status: Completed
  • Synopsis: Once upon a time there was a sweet young girl who lived with her two loving (albeit stuck-up and useless) stepsisters and their kind (but overworked) elder sister, in a kingdom far away. This is the story of that girl's hardships, her kindness, and her wish.

Mnemonic Record by PaleoKitty

  • Recommended by: blurrylightning
  • Status: Completed
  • Synopsis: Sana struggles to remember her own worth in the depths of a void, distanced from everything but her own memories. Her mind is a turbulent burden and her will nothing but to merge with the emptiness, to erase her existence.

Exeunt by bigscarythings

  • Recommended by: blurrylightning, skymin24
  • Status: Completed
  • Synopsis: Hagumu and Shigure visit Mitsune to request a favor. Mitsune has one to ask of them, too.

even the blossoming flowers by ai_sana

  • Recommended by: blurrylightning
  • Status: Completed
  • Synopsis: After all, there was no Iroha Tamaki without Ui Tamaki.
  • Comment: This fic takes place in the alternate timelines where Iroha doesn't contract and Ui, Nemu, and Touka die, which sets Iroha into a depressing spiral. What sets this fic apart from other fanworks with alternate timeline Iroha is how it develops her with Konomi (of all people) in a surprisingly fitting way. One of, if not the best Iroha fic for how well it plays into her Hidden Depths with an unexpected character while pulling a lot of meaningful nods to Arc 1 Chapter 1, IroUi MSS, and Konomi MSS.

Fateseeker by everlastinglily21

  • Recommended by: blurrylightning
  • Status: Completed
  • Synopsis: Every journey has its destination.
  • Notes: Spoilers up until Arc 2 Chapter 5, other Ryou relevant content such as Whereabouts of the Feather, Ryou's interview in Arc 2 Chapter 5-2, Ryou MSS, and her Doppel description are also recommended readings.

Escape by everlastinglily21

  • Recommended by: blurrylightning
  • Status: Completed
  • Synopsis: "Do you feel like you're caught in orbit?"
  • Notes: Warning as this fic deals heavily with themes of depression and suicide.

somewhere far, far away by ai_sana

  • Recommended by: blurrylightning
  • Status: Completed
  • Synopsis: "It was a tale as old as time."
  • Notes: This fic takes place in an AU inspired by Beauty and the Beast.
  • Comment: For what's basically a fic focusing on Yachiyo and Sana in a fairy tale based AU, it's surprisingly an alternate take of Yachiyo's self-destructive cycle in S2 through the lens of Sana's invisibility and her attempts to proof Sana's existence to save herself. It's hard to put into words how much of a mishmash of concept this fic is, while simultaneously being ridiculously coherent with its idea of an unperceived existence.

One: A Record in Two Parts by ai_sana

  • Recommended by: blurrylightning
  • Status: Completed
  • Synopsis: Four different protagonists stand on the same stage. Who will write the endings to their stories?
  • Notes: This fic was originally meant to be part of the MUT Festa, however it has far exceeded past the intended length and ended up becoming its own thing.
  • Comment: This troper has no real clue how to describe this fic (as noticed by the empty synopsis considering this fic isn't in AO3, EDIT: This fic is now in AO3), but what this troper is confident in saying is that it's a very satisfying long journey to be invested in with Kagome, Yukika, San, and Himena, the fic covers several ships such as HimeHiko, HimeSan, and one-sided Yukika x Tsukuyo from Yukika's side, however perhaps it's not exactly correct to call this a ship fic considering the other things this fic tackles. It's an amalgamation of many ideas, but one that is worth your time.
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Broken Cameras by everlastinglily21

  • Recommended by: blurrylightning
  • Status: Completed
  • Pairing: Makino Ikumi and Midori Ryou, Anna Meru and Yukino Kanae
  • Synopsis: A former intrepid photographer and journalist finds herself passing time in an endless space outside the mortal world.
  • Note: Despite much of the fic occurring in Ghost Café, it doesn't fully adhere to the rules set up in Voices from Beyond to utilize a more wider cast of characters.

A Shelter For Just Two Girls by Quintet

  • Recommended by: skymin24
  • Status: Complete
  • Pairing: Rika Ayano and Ren Isuzu
  • Synopsis: Puella Magi are beings of emotion. Don't judge them too harshly; despite everything, they're still young girls.

A Reason to Live For by Gogglelad

  • Recommended by: UCCMaster
  • Status: Complete
  • Pairing: Alina Grey and Karin Misono
  • Synopsis: During the final battle for the fate of Kamihama City, Alina takes a fall. But this is not the end of her story. In the calm after the storm Alina is forced to confront the consequences of her choices, and take a good hard look at what matters to her. Living with your past can be so much more complicated than dying for it. Karin hasn't given up on Alina yet. Even if the world turns against her, Karin still believes she can be saved. Is she right?

adoxography by ai_sana

  • Recommended by: blurrylightning
  • Status: Completed
  • Pairing: Tamaki Iroha and Himuro Rabi
  • Synopsis: For indeed, a lone ghost like her that forever lingered in the hollow darkness of resignation could only be the polar opposite of that minuscule star, surrounded by satellites and shining through her futile kindness and insignificant creations. In which Tamaki Iroha does pencil artworks on the rooftop of Satomi Medical Centre once every few nights.
  • Notes: Mentions ideas of depression and suicide.

Where Wings Won't Take You by everlastinglily21

  • Recommended by: blurrylightning
  • Status: Completed
  • Pairing: Makino Ikumi and Midori Ryou
  • Synopsis: What do you do after the end of the story?
  • Notes: As this fic takes place after the anime, it is highly recommended you finish that first. It is also recommended for you to familiarize yourself with Ikumi and Ryou content such as Whereabouts of the Feather, Uwasa Aquarium, Arc 2 up until Chapter 6 (that one especially) as it tackles themes from those stories. Important to note that this fic includes OCs.
  • Comment: This fic is unique in that its handling of OCs feels like how a MagiReco event would handle an NPC like Yuu and Kei from Beachside Bonds, the Promised Blood NPC from Juri MSS, or Kuro from Homura's A la Carte chapter where they feel like extensions of the themes presented by both Ikumi and Ryou and S3's fundamental idea of "a story of failure". The story at the end of the day is very Ikumi-centric with some views on how the major figureheads of Kamihama have moved on, while covering some concepts off-handedly mentioned in the anime as full-blown story beats.

two for the show by ai_sana

  • Recommended by: blurrylightning
  • Status: Ongoing
  • Pairing: Aika Himena and Kagura San
  • Synopsis: Romance was miles away from the instructor's line of expertise, but putting up with a bit of acting and teasing should be a fair enough price to pay for the future of Neo-Magius. And for better or worse, it was a self-proclaimed specialist's guidance that she would be working with and under. Really, how much of this could possibly go wrong? (i.e. an obviously self-indulgent himesan fake-dating fic)
  • Comment: As the author describes, the prompt went out of hand, perhaps in the best way possible spanning multiple unexpected cameos, countless side plots, and silly writing.

Strada Futuro by everlastinglily21

  • Recommended by: blurrylightning
  • Status: Completed
  • Pairing: Tamaki Iroha and Himuro Rabi
  • Synopsis: An aspiring fanfic writer forms a connection with an experienced one.

Touch by everlastinglily21

  • Recommended by: blurrylightning
  • Status: Completed
  • Pairing: Tamaki Iroha and Kuroe
  • Synopsis: If love is the answer, you're home.

Carousel by everlastinglily21

  • Recommended by: blurrylightning
  • Status: Completed
  • Pairing: Tamaki Iroha and Kuroe
  • Synopsis: For who in our world is unchanging?

Christmas Will Break Your Heart by everlastinglily21

  • Recommended by: blurrylightning
  • Status: Completed
  • Pairing: Makino Ikumi and Midori Ryou
  • Synopsis: Ikumi celebrates Christmas with Ryou.
  • Notes: This fic takes place after Arc 2 Chapter 5.

Apart, Together by MegucaHistorian

  • Recommended by: blurrylightning
  • Status: Completed
  • Pairing: Nanami Yachiyo and Riz Hawkwood
  • Synopsis: Yachiyo's not-date with Liz ends with her having to make a difficult choice.
  • Notes: This fic is a part of the author's Second Chances series of fics, but this fic in particular massively stood out to this troper as being one part very funny, another part very emotional

watch parties (for beginners) by everlastinglily21

  • Recommended by: blurrylightning
  • Status: Completed
  • Pairing: Akemi Homura and Aki Mabayu
  • Synopsis: Mabayu makes a critical error. Homura makes it worse.
  • Notes: Takes place in the middle of Film 6

Pygmalion by everlastinglily21

  • Recommended by: blurrylightning
  • Status: Ongoing
  • Pairing: Yukino Kanae and Meru Anna
  • Synopsis: A struggling young woman finds her world changed when a girl from a song she wrote comes to life.
  • Comment: A more down-to-earth AU about Kanae and Meru's life together, the fic is incredibly long spanning around 110k more words and is still ongoing, but it is perhaps one of the most unique and evocative MR fic that this troper has ever read that is deeply touching in a way that transcends its source material.

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