Puella Magi Madoka Magica Portable (PSP)

[Kimidori]

lol, this is hilarious

Spoiler for Mami Route:

In the Mami route of the PSP game, glasses Homura tries to get closer to Madoka after being saved from a witch. Sayaka and Mami start to notice how close glasses Homura and Madoka are getting, so much so that they look adorable. This makes Sayaka and Mami jealous of them. Homura can only think about how wonderful and cool Madoka is (Mami is not even an afterthought, in her own route no less...).

Sayaka is so jealous, that she even turned down an offer from Kamijou to walk home together, or have lunch with him.

Even Hitomi thinks there is something going on when she sees Madoka getting closer to Homura. After mentioning the possibility of "forbidden love" between girls, Hitomi adds that she thought Madoka had a forbidden relationship with Sayaka, but now Madoka was having an illicit relationship with Homura after they just met, "Is this what they call a love triangle?!"

Spoiler for Homura Route:

In the PSP game, when Madoka invites Homura to dinner with her family, her dad comments that Homura is beautiful as they were told by Madoka. Junto then mentions that Madoka has been talking a lot about Homura, almost like she's in love! Madoka gets embarrassed by this comment and tells her not to say such things in front of her friend. (Fans would point out that Madoka didn't deny what her mom said!)

[Kimidori]

this is a translation of a scene, not a made up

[Hasumi]

^ Normally I'd be yelling at someone to fund this, but I'm too busy mopping the blood.

[Triple_R]

That truly is absolutely adorable. Nice work by whoever wrote this.

[Kimidori]

Originally Posted by Detective-san

^ Normally I'd be yelling at someone to fund this, but I'm too busy mopping the blood.

Originally Posted by Triple_R

That truly is absolutely adorable. Nice work by whoever wrote this.

the game's writer wrote it, as i said it a translation, not a made up dialog by fan.

In the PSP game, when Madoka invites Homura to dinner with her family, her dad comments that Homura is beautiful as they were told by Madoka. Junto then mentions that Madoka has been talking a lot about Homura, almost like she's in love! Madoka gets embarrassed by this comment and tells her not to say such things in front of her friend. (Fans would point out that Madoka didn't deny what her mom said!)

[bogcsa1013]

Originally Posted by Kimidori

can anyone tell me what extractly Homura is doing to QB in this sprite? it from the PSP's game file

Maybe she wants to kill him...

[SRanger]

Originally Posted by Kimidori

the game's writer wrote it, as i said it a translation, not a made up dialog by fan.

Wait...it's a legit translation? Does that mean they have plans of bringing this overseas?

[AuraTwilight]

No, he's saying it's a translation of the original script, and not some fanfiction.

[Clarami]

Originally Posted by bogcsa1013

Maybe she wants to kill him...

Wasn't that her goal to begin with.

[Snork]

Spoiler for Sayaka's good ending, translated:

Well, as much of a "good" ending as you usually get with Urobuchi, but this sure looks like the farthest he'd be willing to go for Sayaka. She overcomes her crisis, bonds with Kyouko right up to "precious friends" status and... dies fighting Walpurgis Night, yeah. But even that manages to be a bit better than ep 12 (dying heroically with an image of yourself as a protector of the town and burning yourself away mid-fight because of your own emotional burden are different things).

[Solace]

I don't think he planned for that music to kick in at 19:30.

[Clarami]

So Sayaka never gets the boy and dies, but in a heroic but redundant fashion and her "Precious friend/girlfriends gets left behind.. Sayaka, and Mami, sure end up getting the short end of the stick...as always -_-.

[Kazu-kun]

Originally Posted by Deikan

So Sayaka never gets the boy and dies, but in a heroic but redundant fashion and her "Precious friend/girlfriends gets left behind.. Sayaka, and Mami, sure end up getting the short end of the stick...as always -_-.

Well, Sayaka gets a better ending in Homura's route so it's not such a big deal. She never gets the boy though....

[Clarami]

Originally Posted by Kazu-kun

Well, Sayaka gets a better ending in Homura's route so it's not such a big deal. She never gets the boy though....

Yeah, I totally expected that one -_-.

Oh well, there's always a cute tomboyish redhead who would die for her love and attention, and as a Sayaka fan (being my second favourite character) I can take that as a win! "Thumbs Up"

[Snork]

She never gets the boy though....

Wasn't there an ending where she ends up with Kamijou?

[Kimidori]

Originally Posted by Snork

Wasn't there an ending where she ends up with Kamijou?

no, in the route she does have kyosuke's love, she ended up dying in Walpurgis Night. and in the route she survive Walpurgis Night, she never got kyosuke's love.
it still a miracle that Gen even let Sayaka alive in one route anyway, since he said that:

-Urobuchi read the script of the game. He felt that Sayaka might not be bullied bad enough. He got some protest from the seiyuu for that opinion.

-Urobuchi will never give Sayaka her happy ending. Well, at least not with Kyousuke as her love interest

[Kazu-kun]

Originally Posted by Snork

Wasn't there an ending where she ends up with Kamijou?

She gets Kamijou in the bonus route, but that's the one route that isn't canon, so getting together with him only in that route it's sort of an ironic joke against her .

[Triple_R]

Originally Posted by Kazu-kun

She gets Kamijou in the bonus route, but that's the one route that isn't canon, so getting together with him only in that route it's sort of an ironic joke against her .

I'm curious as to what "canon" and "non-canon" really mean in the context of this game. Obviously none of these routes are canonical going by the anime narrative (well, unless there's one identical to the anime), but within the game itself, if you get an end then that is a 'legit ending', isn't it?

Saying that all but one end in the game is canonical sounds weird to me (barring a sequel, perhaps, where some ends don't factor into the sequel - This being an issue with the old Command and Conquer games, amongst others).

[Kazu-kun]

Originally Posted by Triple_R

Saying that all but one end in the game is canonical sounds weird to me (barring a sequel, perhaps, where some ends don't factor into the sequel - This being an issue with the old Command and Conquer games, amongst others).

What I meant is that all routes and endings (including the anime ending) except the bonus route are canon possibilities in the context of Urobuchi's story.

The bonus route is an exception because it's made up of jokes and silly stuff. According to Urobuchi himself it's the only route that's unrelated to the story, so you have things like Mami becoming and idol, Sayaka getting together with Kamijo, Hitomi having a crush on Homura, and that sort of crazy things.

[Clarami]

Originally Posted by Kazu-kun

What I meant is that all routes and endings (including the anime ending) except the bonus route are canon possibilities in the context of Urobuchi's story.

The bonus route is an exception because it's made up of jokes and silly stuff. According to Urobuchi himself it's the only route that's unrelated to the story, so you have things like Mami becoming and idol, Sayaka getting together with Kamijo, Hitomi having a crush on Homura, and that sort of crazy things.

He probably did that so that fans of Mami and Sayaka (namely me!) can stop crying "why didn't Sayaka get the guy?", "Why did you kill off Mami in Episode 3?" and get forgiven for the tragedies and the short ends they received throughout the series. Even though it's still a slap to the face to the characters and the sacrifices that they made to become Magical Girls, I don't know whether the joke endings are something I can take in stride or I'm being biased of the route in general I don't know.