Madoka Magica Delays Walpurgisnacht - Rising Once Again
The Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Walpurgisnacht - Rising movie has been delayed once again. The movie was initially scheduled for 2025 and delayed to February 2026. The new release date will be announced in February.
Studio SHAFT is animating the movie with Akiyuki Shinbo as the chief director, Yukihiro Miyamoto as the director. Junichiro Taniguchi is doing the character designs. The Walpurgisnacht - Rising movie was initially slated to debut in 2024, but was pushed to this winter to "improve quality.
Puella Magi Madoka Magica, an original anime project created by the Magica Quartet (Akiyuki Shinbo, Ume Aoki, Gen Urobuchi, and producer Atsuhiro Iwakami), premiered in January 2011 as a TV anime.
The series spawned multiple manga series (adaptations and spin-offs), a novel by Nitroplus, a dedicated magazine, and video games. Two recap movies, Beginnings and Eternal, were released in October 2012. They were followed by a third movie, titled Rebellion, which premiered in October 2013 and featured a new story – a continuation of the TV anime. The movie is a prequel to Walpurgisnacht. The two recap movies have a TV edition that began broadcasting every Sunday this October.
It’s worth noting that the Magia Record spin-off story spawned an anime adaptation (also by studio SHAFT) and a mobile game, Puella Magi Madoka Magica Magia Exedra.
Source: Official Website
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