The first thing you'll probably notice when you read this is the bad art style the characters look often awkwardly drawn in. While it could be a lot worse, it could also be a lot better. While the style isn't as bad as the Meguca scenes from the anime, it comes a bit close in several instances, like where Sayaka has to duck. The new characters don't look very bad in this style except the small one, but the old characters didn't transition very well.
The story itself itself is alright, and it might keep you reading until the end, but its kind of weak. Oriko's motivations and grand scheme are a tad muddy, and for someone who supposedly has the power of understanding, she kind of sucks at it. Summed up, she's not a very good antagonist. In the end what made me bring the score down to 5 was the ending. No, I don't mean what happened to SPOILER , I mean the cliche afterlife bullshit that came right after it. I would settled for SPOILER, but combined with that? NO. There are almost quite a few things that could have been explained further, like if the antagonists wanted to save the world, why did they brutally involve Madoka's SPOILER in all of it? What took them so long to make their big move? What did Oriko think of her father after SPOILER?
As an extension to what I said below, the characters aren't the best. The old ones act similar enough to how they acted in the anime except maybe Kyouko, but the new characters aren't very good. You got Yuma, a traumatized and slightly sociopathic child who doesn't always have much of a personality.Then you have Kirika, the batshit crazy bipolar girl (or at least she became that way after her became a magical girl) who hated everything but for some half explained reason developed an attachment to the antagonist Oriko, and will do anything for Oriko to stay her friend. Honestly, if it weren't for those things and maybe her wish, she'd be another run of the mill crazy character, and almost is. Then you got the antagonist who often acts like a know-it-all who has a bit of a god complex who I mostly already explained. I'll admit Kirika was sort of likable, and Oriko had a few things going for her. But Yuma? No.
All in all. If you really REALLY like Madoka, I guess give this a read. But you'll probably be disappointed by the time your through reading this.
