Is Magia Record: Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica Gaiden good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Magia Record: Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica Gaiden (Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story) is a TV series from Winter 2020 by Shaft Inc.: 13 episodes, about 5 hours in total, finished, 6.82/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a quiet night. Tagged psychological, thriller, tragedy and not comedy: this wants attention and the right mood, not background chatter. Rule: heavy drama or psychological tags without comedy → quiet night.
This verdict comes from rules over the title's format, length and tags, not from a review — the rule that fired is named above.
The facts
- Type
- TV series
- Episodes
- 13
- Episode length
- 23 min
- Total time
- about 5 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Winter 2020
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Shaft Inc.
- Score
- 6.82/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, aliens, robots & AI, urban fantasy, dark fantasy, drama, fantasy, martial arts, found family, gaming, magic, magical girl, mystery, psychological, school, supernatural, thriller, tragedy
Data from anime-offline-database (ODbL) as of 2026-07-04; the score is the median of the scores the anime listing sites give it, on a 1–10 scale. Also listed as: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Magia Record.
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Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Magia Record: Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica Gaiden?
- About 5 hours for all 13 episodes at 23 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 7 evenings.
- How many episodes does Magia Record: Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica Gaiden have?
- 13 episodes of 23 min.
- Is Magia Record: Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica Gaiden finished?
- Yes, Magia Record: Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica Gaiden is finished (13 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Magia Record: Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica Gaiden good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Magia Record: Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica Gaiden is tagged drama, psychological, tragedy; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is Magia Record: Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica Gaiden listed?
- Magia Record: Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica Gaiden is on AniList (id 104051) and MyAnimeList (id 38256); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
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