Fans of the Puella Magi Madoka Magica anime will have to wait a little bit longer for the follow up for the 2013 anime film Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie -Rebellion- as the official accounts for the franchise announced today that the upcoming Puella Magi Madoka Magica -Walpurgisnacht Rising- anime film has been postponed from its original Winter 2024 release to Winter 2025 in Japan. According to the official statement, the delay is due to “production reasons.”
Despite this, more information on -Walpurgisnacht Rising- will be announced at the Aniplex Online Fest 2024 on September 16, with the free stream for the event available in English live.
All the staff from Rebellion return at SHAFT; with Akiyuki Shimbo as the chief director, Yukihiro Miyamoto directing the film, Nitroplus’s Gen Urobuchi writing the script, aokiume designing the characters with Junichiro Taniguchi taking those designs and making them fit for animation, Yuki Kajiura as the composer on the film, and Gekidan Inu Curry returning to design the Witches Spaces. The original cast are also set to reprise their roles from the third film and Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story spin-off series.
Both the original 2011 TV anime series Puella Magi Madoka Magica, and the 2020 spin-off TV anime series Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story, are streaming on Crunchyroll. Crunchyroll describes the original series as such:
She has a loving family and best friends, laughs and cries from time to time… Madoka Kaname, an eighth grader of Mitakihara middle school, is one of those who lives such a life. One day, she had a very magical encounter. She doesn’t know if it happened by chance or by fate yet. This is a fateful encounter that can change her destiny- This is a beginning of the new story of the magical witch girls-
Source: Madoka Magica on X (formally Twitter)
