##**[“Sore ja mata ne” tte te o futte, muri ni waratte samishiku natte…](https://animethemes.moe/video/MadokaMagica-ED1.webm)**
As the title says, this is your reminder that this year’s Madoka Magica rewatch starts on April 20! (Yeah, that’s only six days away for the “one-week” reminder thread, sorry, forgot to update the reminder scheduling when I remembered that April has 30 days and today is also MagiReco announcement day so I couldn’t just move it up.) Be there or be square!
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##**Show Information:**
[MAL](https://myanimelist.net/anime/9756) | [AniList](https://anilist.co/anime/9756/Mahou-Shoujo-MadokaMagica) | [ANN](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=12120) | [Kitsu](https://kitsu.io/anime/mahou-shoujo-madoka-magica) | [AniDB](https://anidb.net/anime/8069)
###**Synopsis:**
Having a loving family, close friends, experiencing times of joy and times of sadness. These are the things that make up an ordinary life.
Kaname Madoka is a normal 2nd year middle-schoolgirl who lives such an ordinary life. Until, that is, a strange encounter occurs. She does not know if this encounter is coincidence, or the vagaries of fate, but two things are certain…
This is the moment when her destiny changes…
This is the start of a new magical girl story!
(Taken from AniDB’s translation/adaptation of the official site’s writeup – I don’t really like either the MAL or the ANN synopsis here.)
***[Official Trailer](https://www.viewpure.com/6CTHwEZK2JA?start=0&end=0)*** (wrapped in ViewPure to avoid any spoilers in recs)
###**Legal Streams:**
*As per [livechart.me](https://www.livechart.me/anime/3246); other streams may be available outside the US.*
**Main Series:**
[Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GRDQK39GY) | [Funimation](https://www.funimation.com/shows/puella-magi-madoka-magica/) | [Hulu](https://www.hulu.com/series/puella-magi-madoka-magica-085f5007-1b32-4dd7-9aea-41397554fb9b) | [VRV](https://vrv.co/series/GRDQK39GY)
(Livechart.me suggests that at least in the US both HBO Max and Netflix have lost the license since last year; HBO Max isn’t a surprise with the rest of what the new suits have done to it, Netflix is.)
**Rebellion:**
No legal streams; as of 2022 the movie was available for purchase on iTunes and Amazon Prime Video, otherwise you will need to go [sailing](#piracy).
##**Okay, I’m In, What’s the Schedule?**
Glad you asked! Especially since I am making one new alteration to the schedule relative to the past rewatches: *we will be having both a Main Series Discussion day* **and** *an Overall Discussion day this year*. Rebellion is long (though it’s an ordinary 2-hour movie and not The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya), and both the main series and Rebellion (especially the latter) benefit from time to sit back and digest them.
The one-week reminder thread will go up on April 14 and the one-day reminder thread will go up on April 20.
Episode threads will go up at 5:00 P.M. EDT each day (4:00 P.M. CDT) – that’s UTC -5 for our Europeans, IIRC.
**Episode** | **Date**
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Episode 1 | April 20
Episode 2 | April 21
Episode 3 | April 22
Episode 4 | April 23
Episode 5 | April 24
Episode 6 | April 25
Episode 7 | April 26
Episode 8 | April 27
Episode 9 | April 28
Episode 10 | April 29
Episode 11 | April 30
Episode 12 | May 1
Main Series Discussion | May 2
The Rebellion Story | May 3
Overall Discussion | May 4
##**Time for Club Activities!**
We will be having a few different daily activities to drive participation (though it’s not like the show usually needs it):
– Visual of the Day album (pick a shot from the episode you want to highlight, or up to three in the case of Rebellion, and if I get five entries including my own I will put up an album of them)
– Question(s) of the Day
– Theory of the Day (for the first-timer with the most interesting theory in their writeup that day; these do not have to be correct, mind you!)
– Analysis of the Day (for the best piece of analysis in the writeups that day; this is open to first-timers but primarily aimed at encouraging rewatcher participation, and it is expected that most winners here will be under spoiler tags – something for our first-timers to look forward to reading after we are finished!)
##**A Reminder to Rewatchers:**
Please do not spoil the experience for our first timers. In particular, [PMMM] >!Mentioning beheading, cakes, phylacteries/liches, the **ma**hou shou**jo** pun, aliens, time travel, or the like outside of spoiler tags before their relevant episodes is a fast way to get a referral to the subreddit mods. As Sky would put it, you’re probably not as subtle as you think you’re being. Leave that sort of thing for people who *can* do subtle… namely the show’s creators themselves. (Seriously, go hunt down all the visual foreshadowing of a certain episode 3 event in episode 2, it’s fun!)!<
##**And a Word of Warning to First-Timers:**
Be wary about your inboxes, especially early on; people have tried to spoil first-timers in each of the last two years IIRC (via replies one year and PMs the other) and also IIRC at least once a few years before that. (There is a small but dedicated PMMM hatedom out there, and I hear one of the most infamous examples has been active on Tumblr again lately.) But don’t worry *too* much. After all, it’s not like your host would do something like, say, intentionally coordinate with the mod team to use alt accounts to seed false spoilers as chaff for anyone trying to ruin the first-timer experience with actual spoilers, right? Right?
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Now with that out of the way, [I hope to see you all soon…](https://animethemes.moe/video/MadokaMagica-OP1.webm)
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