Hello there! Welcome to Puella Magi Showdown, where we will be determining Tumblr's favorite Puella Magi. Feel free to vote with any criteria you like. Do you like the character, the design, the name? Did you flip a coin? Everything counts! The point is to have fun and determine which magical girl is best.
Q/A
What is this?: This is a single elimination bracket tournament involving magical girls present in the Puella Magi franchise as of May 9th, 2024. This includes crossovers characters from the mobile game. Each round will last a week, at the end of which the winners will be announced.
What happens if there is a tie?: If a tie occurs, a tiebreaker poll will occur. The poll will last for 24 hours and the one with the most votes will move on. If somehow a second tie occurs, another 24 hour tie breaker poll will occur. This will continue until one of the Magi wins.
What happens if there is an odd number of Puella Magi in a round?: The last match in the round will have a three-way vote. The magical girl with the most votes will move on. If a tie occurs between the top two choices, a tiebreaker will occur.
Why did you use that image for X character?: I tried my best to use official colored art of characters. If there are multiple options, I choose the one I think shows off more of the design. Surprisingly, some relatively major characters don't actually have full body art. And you do not understand my pain regarding all of the Magia Record characters that have the official art cut at the knees. There's full body art on the cards, but in the clean version it's cut.
There is an exception to the offical art rule. Because there really is so little clean Kazumi Magia art, I had to use fanart. It truly is that bad. There are literally some of the Saints that don't have full body art and they are major characters in the story. Why.
The fanarts of various Kazumi Magica characters are by Yukimura Kaname.
Where is X character?: Some characters do not have good art out there. This is mostly for minor characters, so I doubt anyone will miss them. But trust me, there was a debate about including some of the characters (see above for why).
What about X's alternate form?: Not including those. No Ultimate Madoka, no Infinite Iroha, no Fairytale Mifuyu. There's just too many alternate designs, we're just sticking with base forms here.
What about propaganda?: While I find it unlikely anyone will actually want to, I won't say anything against it.