Mahou Shoujo Kazumi Magica

...and with Chapter 4 comes synthetic witches. Good Lord, what will they throw at us next?!

Oh yeah, and I seriously laughed when the name of the new Incubator was revealed; "Juubey" ("Kyu" is 9 and "Juu" is 10. Lol). In any case, Juubey is infinitely more useful than that damn Kyubey; Juubey can (and will) absorb the "darkness" from the Soul Gems, eliminating the need for Grief Seeds (well, except that he IS still collecting the Seeds).

Anyways, some speculation over at the mangafox forums:

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One of the Pleiades Saints uses a power similar to the witch Sayaka went mad fighting in Episode 7, and Kazumi seems to bear a strong resemblance to Charlotte due to her appetite. Could Kazumi Magica be a prequel to Madoka Magica, with the Pleiades Saints eventually becoming the witches featured in the latter?

My thoughts: Come to think of it, could Walpurgis Night be the result of all the Pleiades Saints becoming witches and assimilating (except for the two or three that were killed beforehand, assuming the witches are them)?

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I've read speculation that some of the witches were previous magical girls that were shown at the end of the series, for example Elsa Maria (the one Sayaka went batpomegranate on) was actually Joan of Arc, who was revealed to be a magical girl in the finale.
Though i do believe that Walpurgis Night is the Pleiades Saints, since the magical girls walpurgis used as attacks had outfits that were sorta.. poofy, which resemble their outfits.

And oh look, a cameo!

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Look carefully at the top left panel.

Anyway, about this chapter.

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OUCH that looked hella painful. For a moment i was thinking "Why aren't they dead after that!?" until i remembered they are practically zombies... brrrr. Juubey seems a lot more useful than Kyubey, but also a lot more scary. I imagine that Kyubey COULD have cleansed Soul Gems if he liked, but he had his own agenda and probably got more energy from letting it fester for a little longer.
It seems to me that the evil girl DIED at some point, considering the Pleiades Saints reactions to her... yeah, not sure how thats gonna go.
I imagine that Witch!Kazumi is going to kill quite a few of them.

Blimey this was a longer post than i'm used to typing.