1st Movie of Madoka Magica Due in Autumn

According to Chunichi Newspaper, the first movie of Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica will be premiered in autumn. In the article, director Shinbo Akiyuki said he was worried that anime has been out of mainstream entertainment and hoped Madoka will attract the attention of the general public.

Source: Scan of Chunichi Newspaper

Update Apr 2nd
Aniplex has announced at Anime Contents Expo 2012 that the first two parts of Madoka Magica Trilogy movie will be shown in tandem. The tiles of the two parts are "Hajimari no Monogatari" and "Eien no Monogatari".

Source: Screenshot of the announcement

I wonder if it'll be as successful as the K-ON movie~

so exciting!!! will this one be one of the recaps or NEW MATERIAL!!!!!!!

Sounds good to me. The sooner the first movie is out, the shorter the wait for the other two movies. Especially the third one with supposedly new material.

Awwwwwww yeah!

I believe the first 2 movies are recap movies. I'm sure they will go the route of TTGL and add new scenes though.

Magical girl animu? Attracting general public? Hahahahhaha this guy.

Wasn't the whole reason Madoka was so cool was that it was out of the mainstream?


Is it really not making enough money with the passionate audience it has now?

I wouldn't worry too hard, Mr. Shinbou. @_@

So that will probably comeout in Blu-rays and DVD on Jan or Feb 2013 and gotta wait for subs to come out too. Sigh...that's a long wait ｏ( ><)o

He shouldn't be worried at all.

Can't wait for a year or so to watch a recap :D

PEOPLE LETS DO OUR PART AND HYPE IT UP! SHAFT NEEDS THEIR MONEY!

Seriously someone needs to start making an abundance of threads on a place where Japanese normalfags hang out on the internet. Can't do it myself because I don't speak Japanese.

Nice, I'll have to wait like a year for the subs to come out but at least it's finally progressing.
Even if it's a recap I cannot wait to see it ^^

cool!!! XD

the first 2 movies will be a recap if i remember right, so i hope they atleast reanimate it and not just cut and paste from the TV series



yep its all about gaming and social networking sites now a days lol

Both Kizumonogatari and Madoka in one year?

I hope Kyouko is in the first movie, if not I could live with just Homura.

I say 'MILK!', you say 'IT!'

Milk.. it.. milk..it..

Looking forward to it.

MILK IT! MILK IT! MILK THAT ¥¥¥¥ COW

I don't think the anime attracted anyone new to anime mostly those who watch anime anyway so of course he should be concerned if the general public go see the film.

The first 2 films are recaps so yeah she is in the film.

Yes Shaft is involved in Kizumonogatari but don't know when they plan to release it.

Shinbo's a good director and this should be a great watch per usual.

He never said he was going to change the anime so it's for the general public; he just said he hopes they notice the anime. You guys should really decrease the amount of things you inject into your bodies. It's unhealthy.

I know they're recaps, they could simply have Kyouko's scenes in the second recap film.

This is great news, but waiting for subs is going to be hell.

I remember that Eva 3.0 is also set for Autumn/Fall right?
I'm looking forward to the clash in the theaters.

My body has been read for this since... a long time ago.

Yep.

Sorry Evangelion, but I want Madoka much more than you right now. Especially since you've been in the works forever.

Bring it on.

So, I'll wait until autumn. I really want to see the movie

I know right?

Either way I hope it ain't a recap.

Nice info.~

What makes you say that?

one word: Precure
they not only make money in cinema (like 10 million dolars from Pretty Cure All Stars DX3)
but also gives loads of cash from toys and whatnot (here we have nice sum of 160 milion dolars)
so yeah it may work

problem is that it's easy to use child as an excuse to go for Precure movie... but doing it the same with Madoka, it may be a bit difficult plus attracting some non-interested people to go for it (K-On! didn't seem to have such problems)

You do realize that profit does not change the genre of a anime right?

Not that I care about this movie to much... but they may get some money for other of their projects (more of Hidamari Sketch is always welcome)

I feel anime was boring for me , and i dropped in episode 5 , so if i take it up again i ll be watching the movie.

Gundam, Evangelion, and Studio Ghibli are apparently non-existent.

I just hope it's not a recap, but instead a "remake" similar to that "rebuild of Evangelion" movies.

Exciting. Too bad about the wait, though.

It will be interesting to see how the Madoka movie does against the Evangelion one. I wonder which'll get more people...but I'm betting on Eva. ^^

KIZUMONOGATARI WHEN

Can't wait!

Just hopin' it bomb.

Dont care for story/plot, it's usually shit. eye candy please

Cant wait actually....

Can't wait to wat h the recap, sounds great!Now I'm excited!

Looking forward to this!

You're going to have to hope preeeeeeeeetty damn hard. So uh, good luck with that.

milk the cow, suck it dry

Sweet. :0

Good, at least we've got a date now. I just hope it'll do justice to the series and is not just a bunch of anime scenes put together. Re-animating and even adding new scenes would be awesome, though.