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** Kazumi's cat was later named in-story in Chapter 12.
* [[Alternate Character Reading]]: In chapter 3, a grief seed is called a "witch's essence/seed" (魔女の実, ''majo no mi'').
** Which is a [[Call Back]] to Episode 8's [[Wham! Line]].
** In Chapter 8 {{spoiler|Jubey initially refers to Kazumi's magic as "breaking religious law"/"sacrilege" before apparently correcting himself and saying it's "destruction". Both are "hakai" in Japanese.}}
** Mirai Wakaba's name, which means "Future Young Leaf", is similar to the name of her museum, "Ashitaba (Tomorrow's Leaf) Bears".
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** Chapter 9 adds some [[Foreshadowing]]: {{spoiler|"We have no future as long as he's around", as Nico's copy turns into a witch.}}
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Kazumi may have one; a [[Flash Back]] panel in the first chapter has her standing over a number of ''dead bodies''. {{spoiler|They're her clones.}}
** Chapter 10 reveals {{spoiler|''all'' the other Pleiades have one. See [[Despair Event Horizon]] and [[Psychic
* [[Deal With the Devil]]: As in [[Madoka Magica|canon]], but in Chapter 9, {{spoiler|Jubey notably says Nico's spare was compensation for her contract.}}
* [[Death Seeker]]: {{spoiler|The Kazumi fight in Chapter 14 was two-fold: the current Kazumi did not intend to fight the clones, while the others wanted their deaths.}}
* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: {{spoiler|Chapter 10 shows how each of the Pleaides - except Kazumi - went over the horizon before the story began.}}
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{spoiler|In Kaoru's backstory, the person who injured her nearly killed herself for ending Kaoru's career. See also [[Psychic
* [[The Fair Folk]]: The contract-making creatures are described here as fairies. One of them, Jubey, appears at the end of Chapter 3, although he's not revealed to be one until Chapter 4. {{spoiler|It's later revealed he's an Incubator that underwent [[Heel Face Brainwashing]]...[[Unreliable Narrator|maybe.]]}}
** [[Development Gag]]: An early series proposal for ''Madoka Magica'' also described the contract-making creatures as fairies. This may be a reference.
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* [[In Name Only]]: Initially, it appears that the only connection this series has to the anime is that the monsters are called witches. It gets increasingly subverted in later chapters, until it's very clear that it's set in the same universe.
* [[I See London]]: In chapter 2, Kazumi forgets to form her skirt when she transforms, [[Fan Service|and her underwear is exposed.]]
* [[Let's Split Up, Gang!]]: Occurs in chapter 3 to search for missing teammates.
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: Compared to [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica|the original]], ''Kazumi Magica'' comes off as far more lighthearted, with its heavier focus on comedy and [[Fan Service]]. {{spoiler|Then comes [[Wham! Episode|Chapter 4]], and the [[Cerebus Syndrome]] sets in.}}
** So far it can still be considered [[Lighter and Softer]] than its parent series, if only because the reader and the magical girls are already aware of the details and catches that were [[Wham! Episode|huge, horrible revelations]] to the original cast, and because [[The Power of Friendship]] is emphasized even more. It only remains to see what the death toll is to know if it really is so.
* [[Lost in Translation]]/[[Stealth Pun]]: A ''lot'' of them, most of them [[A Worldwide Punomenon|being puns on the Japanese language, characters, and pronunciation]]. See [[Meaningful Name]] and [[Mythology Gag]] for examples.
** The most notable example is the original Japanese title of Chapter 10. Kazumi's [[Magical Incantation]] in the original Japanese was "Chi-chin-purin", which is a portmanteau of "''purin''" meaning "pudding", and "''Chi-Chin-Pui''", a phrase equivalent to "Abracadabra" and other stock magical Incantations. The scanlators decided to translate it as [[Shout
** Mirai Wakaba's name, which means "Future Young Leaf", gives Kazumi the idea to the name her museum, "Ashitaba (Tomorrow's Leaf) Bears". The Ashitaba plant is also in the Angelica genus, and the museum's English name is Angelica Bears.
* [[Love Triangle]]: {{spoiler|Mirai loves Saki, who loves Kazumi.}}
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* [[People Jars]]: {{spoiler|Where the Pleides keep the bodies of the Puella Magi whose Soul Gems they take.}}
* [[Print Bonus]]: The collected volumes contain a few extra pages and some silly comics. It also has design info for the various antagonists and an author's Q&A.
* [[Psychic
* [[Origins Chapter]]: {{spoiler|Chapter 5 is this for "Yuuri"/Airi.}}
** {{spoiler|Chapter 10 gives us the origin of the Pleiades Saints. Chapters 11 and 12 are a continuation and also adds Kazumi's origin.}}
* [[Orwellian Retcon]]: The release of the first volume redrew some parts of the artwork, especially in Chapter 2. During serialization, the Soul Gems in that chapter initially looked like normal stones, but were redrawn as anime-style Soul Gems for the volume. In addition, the redrawn chapter reveals that Kazumi's earring-bell is her Soul Gem.
* [[Our Monsters Are Different|Our Witches Are Different]]: The witches of this series {{spoiler|at least at first}} are just humans who can transform into monsters (although they [[Emotion Eater|feed off despair]]). Defeating them turns them back to normal, and it's said that someone gives them this power. Chapter 4 reveals {{spoiler|they are actually pseudo-witches created by imitation Grief Seeds, known as Evil Nuts. The standard witches from the anime do exist.}}
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: {{spoiler|Played with; in chapter 14, Kazumi's (and the clones) eyes are shown as red colored.}}
* [[Shout
** Kazumi's [[Magical Incantation]] is "[[Cinderella (Disney)|Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo]]".
*** [[Woolseyism|This was something added in the scanlation.]]
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** Might be played straight as well. {{spoiler|In Chapter 4, the Pleiades conclude that Yuuri created the Evil Nuts. But then in Chapter 8 ''another'' magical girl pulls out Evil Nuts. Since Yuuri had already died, the Evil Nuts either avert [[No Ontological Inertia]] or that they were created by someone else. This was also hinted at in Chapter 6, when Kazumi's Evil Nut still activates even though Yuuri had become a witch (and technically "died".)}}
*** In Chapter 10 {{spoiler|Umika tells Kazumi that they lied to her about the origins of witches. What makes this disconcerting was that it was ''Jubey'' who told that lie to Kazumi.}}
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: There are some hints that the [[Whole
** Chapter 12 {{spoiler|is either this or [[Series Continuity Error]] - in Chapter 2 Kazumi is told Umika and Kaoru didn't know what her wish was...yet in the flashback Kazumi does tell them about her wish. Furthermore, Kaoru's wish in the flashback is entirely different from what she told Kazumi in Chapter 2. They could have been lying, but that just raises more questions. Given that Umika can [[Fake Memories|modify memories]], it's also possible the flashback is false.}}
*** As revealed in Chapter 13, {{spoiler|Kazumi, being a clone, has ''no'' memories of her own - they were all implanted by Umika, who admits that she's probably made mistakes. However, Kaoru specifically says that she initially lied to Kazumi.}}
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** {{spoiler|This is Satomi's attitude towards the Kazumi clones. Since it looks like the newest Kazumi might be corrupted by an Evil Nut, she just decides to kill her and try again.}}
** {{spoiler|In fact, all of the Pleiades have shades of this attitude - they just want Michiru back, and will keep cloning her (and the recently witchified Satomi) until they get it right. Saki's reservations only came from the fact that she loved Michiru and couldn't bring herself to kill the clones. Kaoru calls them out on this, but it doesn't work.}}
* [[Wham! Episode|Wham Chapter]]: [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica|As to be expected from the spin-off to the series that delivered a WHAM line every episode.]]
** Chapter 4: {{spoiler|Kyubey appears at the beginning of the chapter. The other [[Weasel Mascot]] can ''purify Soul Gems''. The witches from the first two chapters were really pseudo-witches created by imitation Grief Seeds. Yuuri reveals her name and becomes the [[Knight of Cerebus]]. And just to top it off, the chapter ends with [[Cliff Hanger|Kazumi getting an imitation Grief Seed shoved in her forehead.]]}}
** Chapter 5: {{spoiler|Kazumi learns the [[Awful Truth]] firsthand when Yuuri becomes a witch. It's confirmed that the other Pleaides Saints already knew that magical girls become witches. A flashback reveals that Yuuri wasn't really Yuuri at all, but a girl named Airi. The real Yuuri was Airi's friend who had turned into a witch and was killed by the Pleaides Saints. Airi had wished to ''become'' Yuuri and took her name and appearance in order to get revenge for Yuuri's death. ''[[Hijacked By Ganon|And she was being manipulated by Kyubey the whole time.]]''}}
** Chapter 8: Comparatively minor, but {{spoiler|the Soujus pull out Evil Nuts, which either implies they avert [[No Ontological Inertia]] or were created by someone other than Yuuri. [[Cliff Hanger|And then Nico becomes a witch]]}}.
** Chapter 9: {{spoiler|Mirai kills witch!Nico with one hit. Then another Nico appears, and we find the other one was actually a copy, which she demonstrates by [[The Blank|erasing the face of it's body]]. Then Kazumi is taken to Mirai's museum, and she learns that the Pleaides are turning magical girls into [[Human Popsicle|Human Popsicles]].}}
** Chapter 10: {{spoiler|Kauzmi is told the truth about Soul Gems and witches. It then turns into the Pleiades' [[Origins Chapter]] as they give Kazumi back her memories. Umika's first novel was plagiarized by her editor and released as another person's work. Kaoru received an injury that prevented her from playing sports and made the person who injured her [[Driven to Suicide|try to kill herself out of shame]]. Satomi's childhood pet cat died and she blamed herself for not listening to it. Mirai was a [[Nerd Glasses]]-wearing student ostracized by everyone else and her only companions were teddy-bears. Nico, as a little girl, accidentally shot her friends while playing around with a gun. Saki was caught in a horrible car accident with her [[Incest Subtext|younger sisterd]] Miyuki, who died. Then they all get [[Brainwashed and Crazy|witch kissed]] and [[Psychic
** Chapter 12: {{spoiler|Jubey is an Incubator with [[Fake Memories]] and [[Heel Face Brainwashing]] courtesy of Umika. Then, at the end of the chapter, Satomi says a [[Wham! Line]] with a [[Slasher Smile]], suggesting something more sinister is going on.}}
** Chapter 13: {{spoiler|The real Kazumi was a girl named Kazusa Michiru who turned into a witch and died before the events of the story; the current Kazumi is the thirteenth clone made from the remnants of the original's witch form. Kazumi's earlier exposure to the Evil Nut is causing her to revert to her witch form, and Satomi wants to kill her before it happens.}}
** Chapter 14: {{spoiler|Kazumi was stabbed by Satomi while in combat.}}
** Chapter 15: {{spoiler|Satomi becomes a witch while fighting Kazumi, and most of the other girls vote to kill Kazumi and revive her and Satomi as many times as is necessary.}}
** Chapter 17: {{spoiler|The Kazumi at the Freezer turns out to be a clone created by Nico, who shows up carrying the real Kazumi. When Mirai questions her, Nico points out Saki's Soul Gem, which is about to break. Then another Nico clone shows up behind Saki and presses an Evil Nut into her forehead, while the real Nico remarks that it would be troublesome if "you humans" killed Kazumi.}}
* [[Wham! Line]]: Chapter 12. {{spoiler|"Saki...let's kill Kazumi"}}.
** Chapter 17: {{spoiler|"It would be troublesome if you humans killed Kazumi." Said by Nico.}}
* [[Whole
** Chapter 12 continues Chapter 11's flashbacks, up until the end.
* [[Yin-Yang Bomb]]: {{spoiler|Kazumi and Nico pull something like this off in Chapter 8. The Soujus also use a variation on the trope with fire and ice.}}
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