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Originally Posted by scr

I just noticed something interesting. The very beginning part of Magia ("yeee-hee-hee-heee hee-hee") sounds exactly like a certain part of a track from Mai-HiME OST 2, as far as melody is concerned. It's track #30 ("Shinkou ni Shimaru Yoru no Yume") at 0:53.

And after i'm listening to both tracks one after each other, i'm convinced that they have amusing similarities. That instrumental part in the middle of Magia (starting from 02:43 in the live Riseani 2010 video).

Which means (extremely crack) speculah time.

Spoiler for possible mai-hime spoiler:

Mai-HiME didn't have a good ending. That Battle Royale With Cheese final episode was just Mai's imagination. The Festival completed, Mai (or rather, just her body) became bride of the Obsidian Lord. The world is saved from destruction.

... Not.

Due to the clusterfcuk that was The Festival, Mai's consciousness really wished that the world come to an end. The new world isn't stable, and it's going to crash and burn, real soon. A new maiden need to be chosen, soon. The Powers That Be (who are clearly arseholes) decided to repeat the whole darn thing in Mitakihara, this time they sent QB instead of Nagi.

This time, The Festival worked relatively well. The Maidens (Magical Girls) didn't realize that they were being pitted against each others until it's too late. Madoka came out the victor, but she had no desire to become the bride of Obsidian Lord, since she's a lesbian and loves Homura. So she killed herself, after she transferred most of her power to Homura. And that's one of the reason we see so many suicide attempts in this iteration of the world. Because even the Barrier Maiden wanted to kill herself.

(In that iteration of the world, Homura was Madoka's cat (was a stray cat) that she turned into human to become her lover so that she wasn't alone without anyone she can trust in the war.)

The world was, surely enough, destroyed. The Powers That Be were pissed, and decided to reboot the whole thing, literally. As for Madoka, she believed that Homura will carry her power (which is about as massive as Mai-HiME's Mashiro) and destroy the whole Festival system in the next iteration, which is now.

Homura is distressed that this iteration's Madoka have no recollection of the previous iteration, including that of her. What's more frustrating, this world's Madoka is innocent, after all those treacheries she did to won the Festival... after Madoka tasked her with this improbable scheme. This also explain her (unhealthy) obsession with Madoka. It's one part mad love, one part seething anger, 9001 parts despair.

Homura = flame, Kagutsuchi = god of flame.