Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Rebellion

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Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Rebellion is Shaft's 2013 movie sequel to Puella Magi Madoka Magica. It follows Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Beginnings and Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Eternal, two compilation films that re-edit the events of the series into feature films. Rebellion tells an original story, directly continuing after the original series. It was nominated for the Japan Academy Film Prize for Animation of the Year in 2014, but faced tough competition from Studio Ghibli, ultimately losing to The Wind Rises--the exact opposite film to Rebellion.

Fourteen year old Madoka Kaname was an Ordinary High School Student. Now she's a Magical Girl, attending school, hanging out with her other magical girl friends. When the night comes, she and her friends--Homura Akemi, Sayaka Miki, Mami Tomoe, and Kyoko Sakura-- team up to fight Nightmares, creatures born from, well, nightmares. Things are seemingly idyllic in this existence.

Except, wait a minute. Didn't the magical girls fight witches, not nightmares? Even after Madoka Ascended to A Higher Plane of Existence, the magical girls fought wraiths, not nightmares. Didn't half of them die in the original series? Why is Mami back? What is going on?

Well, things are far more than they look on the surface, for Homura quickly discovers she cannot leave the city of Mitakihara, and that it hides a far more sinister secret than it lets on. For you see, there's a lot going on in this "Mitakihara" the girls just don't know about.

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 * Gainax Ending:
 * The Movie: This is the last part of a trilogy . The first two films were a retelling of the original series, and this one is a continuation of the story.
 * Shoot the Bullet: Mami and Homura, can't hit each other during their fight just before halfway into the film. The reason for this is quite simple: their bullets kept hitting other bullets.
 * Trilogy Creep: Originally, we only have Beginnings, Eternal, and Rebellion. Now we're getting Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Walpurgisnacht: Rising- to clear up that Gainax Ending.