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- The first few seconds in the first opening animation that begins with Iroha, in black and white color, becomes oddly insane and then she grins and black paint bursts out from her body. That scene is really unsettling and made many people shocked and curious about the relation between that scene with the story of the game. Apparently, that Iroha is Zombie Iroha (which appears in Demon's Tower dungeon and the wedding-themed zombie invasion event on June 2020 in Japanese version), as the black liquid start to drip from her eyes, implying the zombification in the game.
- The 2021 version is no less disturbing/different as above with a sharp contrast between "cutesy" and "dark" or "creepy". But instead it's Lilly who gets insane with her eyes dripping black tear/blood and acts in an unsettling way, with a creative shift to a picture of an Arachne demon, who has same hairstyle with Iroha.
- The scene of the very beginning of the game is quite unsettling and ambiguous. As Isana seems to have offscreen incestuous sex with Tobio and then, in a naked condition, she gets reduced to paint for unknown reason. Some fans argue that the scene could be real (as it’s later foreshadowed by Kamisaman that the first attempt of universe-merging technology failed), some fans says that it’s just a R-rated Dream Intro or a scene that takes place in Alternate Universe, and don’t consider it canon.
- The enemy demons themselves are total nightmare fuel, as they enter the universes through fluxes to devour normal humans' existences, and everyone who is devoured by demons gets Ret-Gone. However, only girls with potentials to become magical girls are still able to remember the devoured victims. Fortunately the victims can be rescued as long as the demons in those fluxes are banished by magical girls. The demons also have a terrifying ability: Everytime they kill the magical girls, it has 50% chance that slain magical girls will be subsequently corrupted into demons, sometimes the corruption takes place before dying.
- It's even worse in the DX version, the process of turning them into more demons has the victims in their final moments go insane, agreeing to become a demon to destroy this reality as seen with Seira and Lilly when they start showing signs of The Corruption when they were being "devoured" by the demon.
Seira: "Yes...yesss... Everything important... ...Must be destroyed!!! Eheeehehahahahahaha!!- In comparison with Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Magicami is somewhat less disturbing (but still...) since the magical girl transformation powers don’t have any sacrificial requirements or any fatal side effects, while the demons from MGCM are somewhat equivalent to Kingdom Hearts' Heartless monsters, but with original ones that also exist and born from their home dimension.
- Legion class demons such as Arachne, Ligeia, Drake and any kinds of large demons are sexy humanoid abominations with lots of Body Horror in the design, such as: human legs, buttocks and even breasts as monstrous body parts. The Gerte demons are even worse, they much more resemble Eldritch abominations than "humanoid", as they’re covered by lots of demon world plants and fungi, and they don't have faces at all! (pictured above)
- Zombified Selves/Zombified Magical Girls have Black Eyes of Crazy appearances and creepy moaning noises. Not to mention Zombie Bride Kaori’s Namanari form, which also has a Slasher Smile and black blood (or tears?) splattered on her dress, and Zombie Iroha's noises when she's damaged. According to Kamisaman, they are parasite zombies which are created when Earworms, a type of parasitic mushroom from Demon Realm, invades the living hosts' brains through their ears, and gradually corrupt their minds and cells into zombies. However, how magical girls can be infected by Earworms...?
- Since the setting of the game is The Multiverse, which consists of infinite numbers of universes with infinite possibillities are co-exist. Which means even evil doppelgangers of Tobio and his heroines might have existed also, even they're not slain and corrupted into demons, they're Evil All Along or have become fallen heroes. This is later proven to be true in Chapter 12 Episode 4. The Ultimate Magica Nemesis self of Iroha is originated from the universe who is firstly recruited as a Magical Girl Warrior member in the multiverse, until her Executor disappears into another universe (it’s heavily implied that Vivian is responsible for her Executor's teleportation). Without her Executor's avatar's power, the remaining heroines are stuck in the flux and eventually they're blipped out of existence. (Ultimate Magica) Iroha is the one left, she becomes a raging Fallen Hero, finding a way to another universe after the Demon Twins show up, and she manages to kill the main universe Omnis for abandoning them, and the main universe's heroines. Let's just hope that Iroha isn't the one in "Ultimate Magica Iroha" dress episode.
Main Story - 1st Arc
- The Gut Punch begins in Chapter 4 Episode 5 “The End of The Daily Life” or "How Normal Ends" onwards when Kaori dies from blood loss after being ambushed by a demon from behind and is corrupted into a Honeybug demon in a battle. Then somehow, "Groundhog Day" Loop ensues. However, during the first time-loop, Seira dies after she's killed by an Arachne demon and is corrupted into a Taurus demon instead of Kaori. The next loop, Lilly merely dies after being ambushed by a demon in a form of Shadow Discretion Shot (however, she doesn't get corrupted into a demon, but only in the regular version). The next loop, everyone except Omnis merely dies. Poor Tobio, he suffers a Heroic BSoD.note
Bonus points for CGs of their brutal deaths in each time-loop, and the last one (Chapter 6 Episode 5) is the worst: They died onscreen with opened eyes with pink blood dripping from their dead bodies. If you pay close attention, Kaori and Seira actually got one of their limbs dismembered as you see Kaori dead body leaning on one side hiding the fact her arm got sliced off and one of Seira's legs as well. And the fact that Lily isn't there, probably hints she was so badly maimed they couldn't show her dead body... - In Chapter 7 onwards, they successfully escape from that unwinnable battle in that flux. It turns out that previous incidents aren’t Groundhog Day loops at all (although it has a time-loop element in those episodes), but it’s actually Omnis’ possibility realization ability as Kamisaman explains note . Omnis' ability is explained like this: He doesn’t just awaken the chosen girls' abilities and potentials into magical girls, he can also create a new reality from choices or possibilities he has (unwillingly) made and then merges the previously screwed-up universe, where he used to live, with the universe he recently created. The heroines from previous universes, both alive and dead, are also merged with ones from those newly created universes. The heroines' deaths get undone after being merged with living ones, but they won’t remember that they have died or witnessing someone dies and gets corrupted into a demon before.
Unfortunately, however, this ability has a risk: The demons have certain immunity against his reality merging ability. Instead, the number of demons increases in numbers as his ability also adds the remaining demons into the new reality he created and being merged with the old one, and the ones who are slain and corrupted into demons cannot be purified or resurrected by his ability. Instead, they’re replaced by their copies from new universes he recently created. Which also means there's nothing he can do with deceased magical girls who are corrupted into demons besides killing them for good unless Tobio wins the Sabbath battle and becomes the next Kamisaman. On the bright side, Tobio is aware of this risk after the incidents, he never uses it again and he won’t have to see his heroines (in the main universe, at least) die again, as long he's more be careful. Otherwise the players won’t probably care about the protagonists as the heroines would be treated as expendable clones, especially when they’re slain and corrupted into demons. - At Chapter 9 Episode 6, after White Omnis' Ligeia demon gets Killed Off for Real, he goes berserk and shows his Nightmare Face in a CG shot, quite creepy since his berserk face has lots of face wrinkles.
- It's revealed that a few (not all) demons are actually heroines' alternate selves, from other alternate universes, who are slain and corrupted by demons and their demonized selves from other alternate universes, including ones from the protagonist's party. Which also means every time Tobio lets just one heroine slain by a demon, he will create more demons due to his ability as mentioned above. So Tobio and the current heroines have to be careful and kill those demons and demonized selves effectively before they could kill and possibly corrupt them. Since alternate universes are countless, there must be millions, or even trillions of their alternate selves who are slain and corrupted by demons.
Main Story - 2nd Arc
- Reaches enormous heights in the beginning of 2nd arc onwards. Omnis (except his heroines) gets suddenly teleported and trapped into a battle royal-esque Deadly Game (it’s implied that is caused by Vivian in later chapters) in the hellish crapsack Dark World where the alternate selves of magical heroines must kill each other individually and only one surviving magical girl will get a wish (while Tobio ends up in another White Room for that Dark World). Even worse, lots of demons are in that universe, and kill a number of heroines in that universe. This ends in a final battle between the survivors of Takeraho and St.Charles when Aka, Ao and Iko meet their ends against the Drake (Ao's death scene is the worst as it shows the Drake evolving from devouring Ao and you can see her dismembered body's silhoutte, while her other half transforms into another Drake demon), leaving only Lily and Hanabi as the survivors as Hanabi sacrifices her own life to help Lilly gain the ability to wish the world back to normal. However in spite of defeating the Drake, Lily perishes and causes the destruction of the dimension as there are no more magical girls protecting it as uses her wish to give the Prime Dimension Lily a new power. Despite it's not his universe and his heroines, and Lilly's Magica 2020 Evo and World B Winter (based on her alternate self from Chapter 13) dress stories and a side story in MGCM Visual Fun Book heavily imply that Lilly's Eeyore counterpart and others are either resurrected after the deadly game by an Executor from that universe or the copy of themselves are alive in another reality besides in the Chapter 13 as Lilly uses the wish given to her to restore the reality as she would had wanted it. Tobio still feels a great deal of remorse for that reality's Lilly, being forced into such a harsh and cruel world for someone normally upbeat and gregarious.
- After clearing Chapter 1-2, you’ll get a new loading screen information from Kamisaman regarding the Dark World:
Kamisaman: The world of losers, covered with brilliant red crystals. This is what it means to lose to demons. If you don't want to do this, fight to die. Eh, what's with the crystals? Huh, of course... - In Chapter 2, there's a CG of Omnis Nightmare Face when he goes berserk, just like White Omnis.
- In Chapter 12, there’s a graphic CG image the prime world/main universe Iroha gets gruesomely impaled (while Omnis gets disintegrated into black liquid) by her Ultimate Magica Nemesis ver. self, who has become a vengeful Fallen Hero (you can see Omnis' black liquid and her blood splattered in that CG). Kaori witnesses her best friend is killed, and of course, she goes berserk, while Omnis' black liquid transforms her into "Beast Kaori" after she's splattered by it.
- Before that, the setup for the arrival of Nemesis shows that she descended down to the Prime Reality/main universe where Iroha is, emerging from an Abalone with blood spattering out as she goes out to find and kill Omnis for abandoning her and annihilates Shibuya, the change is even reflected in the lobby screen where instead of the cheery Karaoke hangout it has become a destroyed version where the girls are more focused on survival than having fun (though, this homepage change is temporary obviously).
Others (Including dress stories and limited-time events)
- In Kaori's Wine Girl/Kellnerin Maiden dress story, Kaori, Ao, and Iroha in the alternate universe are having fun growing grape trees, and Prof. To Bio comes to see it, and then he does something really bad to Kaori (the NSFW version is even worse).
- In Seira's Anubis dress story, Iroha gets tricked by Anubis Seira to become a subject for Anubis Seira to mummify her thinking it's just play mummification but it turns out that Anubis Seira was serious with the mummification and actually kills her to turn her to a mummy.
- When it comes to nightmares, Aka doesn't catch a break in her Dress substories.
- The Gal Army substory takes place in the dark reality where there are only few human survivors left, including Aka. Tobio serves as the narrator of the story. The survivors are trying to find another town with survivors and supplies, and Aka guides them, only for more and more of them to be killed one by one until Tobio is the last survivor. He realizes that a demon has killed Aka and is impersonating her, just as his head is lopped off.
- DX version exclusive scenes. In the Tokyo Miko Miko 2021 Event and Dress Story, Aka suffers not once but twice. She first recalls a dream that she had after getting the Miko Dress where she's getting the same nightmarish visions over and over and ends up being sacrificed by a mysterious priest for a ritual, only to wake up. The following day, after defeating the demon at the temple, she has another nightmare where she gives "birth" to a Body Horror twin of herself that leaves Aka frozen in terror as it absorbs her. At that point she wakes up, unable to grasp if what happened to her was real or not.
- In Ao's SR Leucosia dress story, Ao, Kaori, Akisa and Marianne are finished fighting zombified alternate selves in Demon's Tower. They're discussing how they've been corrupted into parasite zombies, then suddenly zombified Lilly bites Marianne from behind before they managed to kill her. Marianne's speech deteriorates into high speed gibberish in an unsettling way and she gets corrupted into a zombie, then Ao decides to Mercy Kill her. When they attempt to find a Fool's Abalone, which is the way back to Earth, they find that Kaori has been corrupted into a zombie. Then Akisa gets bitten by another zombified alternate self and is also corrupted into a zombie, leaving Ao as the sole survivor. Fortunately, it turns out to be Ao's nightmare. However, one thing is sure: the infection isn't caused by the zombified selves' bites, but by Earworm, a type of parasitic fungi from Demon World, which can infect humans through their ears into their brains.
- The dress story of Xenos Magica Marianne
is an Apocalyptic Log contained in a certain magical girl's smartphone and is (unfortunately) only witnessed by the demon twins Hakuri and Kokuri when they find it in the already-doomed Alternate Universe, which isn't a canon universe.note The Apocalyptic Log ends with Marianne dying after being defeated by a demon. A second before she dies, she lets out a long maniacal laugh as the demonic curse brainwashes and transforms her into a large demon.
