Puella Magi Oriko Magica/Characters

Oriko Mikuni
A mysterious magical girl. Her magic allows her to see into the future. Her first vision was one where a powerful witch attacks Mitakihara City.
 * Big Damn Heroes: To Kirika, just as.
 * Canon Foreigner
 * Decoy Protagonist: The first volume, at least, is more about Yuma and Kyouko than Oriko.
 * Dissonant Serenity
 * Feminine Women Can Cook
 * Green Eyes
 * Les Yay: She and Kirika are very close.
 * Light Is Not Good: Invoked because she wears white, the color of light.
 * Meaningful Name: Oriko means "weaver girl" or "sewing lady" - think of weaving the threads of fate. It also sounds similar to Oracle.
 * "Mikuni" can also be read as "Beautiful Country" which could connect to her political family,.
 * Nice Hat: She has an odd headdress on her magical girl costume.
 * The Ojou
 * Omniscient Morality License: She does have a point about
 * Pimped-Out Dress: Her magical girl outfit is quite impressive.
 * Seer: Her powers appear to let her see the future.
 * Shadow Archetype: Both played straight and inverted with Homura. Inverted in that
 * Their powers are also each others' inverse. Oriko can see the future, while Homura can change the past.
 * Spot of Tea: A witch appears at Oriko's house. What does she do? Make tea while Kirika fights it.
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl: The volume 2 cover has her as silvery blonde, but that's close enough.
 * Woman in White: When in her magical girl outfit.
 * Nice Hat: She has an odd headdress on her magical girl costume.
 * The Ojou
 * Omniscient Morality License: She does have a point about
 * Pimped-Out Dress: Her magical girl outfit is quite impressive.
 * Seer: Her powers appear to let her see the future.
 * Shadow Archetype: Both played straight and inverted with Homura. Inverted in that
 * Their powers are also each others' inverse. Oriko can see the future, while Homura can change the past.
 * Spot of Tea: A witch appears at Oriko's house. What does she do? Make tea while Kirika fights it.
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl: The volume 2 cover has her as silvery blonde, but that's close enough.
 * Woman in White: When in her magical girl outfit.
 * Spot of Tea: A witch appears at Oriko's house. What does she do? Make tea while Kirika fights it.
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl: The volume 2 cover has her as silvery blonde, but that's close enough.
 * Woman in White: When in her magical girl outfit.
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl: The volume 2 cover has her as silvery blonde, but that's close enough.
 * Woman in White: When in her magical girl outfit.
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl: The volume 2 cover has her as silvery blonde, but that's close enough.
 * Woman in White: When in her magical girl outfit.

Yuma Chitose
A young girl that Oriko names as a potential magical girl candidate to Kyubey.


 * Animal-Eared Headband
 * Big Damn Healer:
 * Blue Eyes
 * Broken Bird: Severely mentally damaged from her past.
 * Canon Foreigner
 * Catgirl: Her magical girl form.
 * Combat Medic
 * Conveniently an Orphan: Witches killed her parents.
 * Hair Decorations
 * Girlish Pigtails
 * Healing Hands: To the point she can heal someone who just had their arms and legs ripped off. It's unclear if this level of healing is her power all the time; or whether that instance was the wish she made with Kyubey.
 * I Wished You Were Dead: Admits she's not really sad that her parents are dead, though she doesn't want to be alone.
 * Morality Pet: Kyouko really, really doesn't want to be a nurturing protector and she definitely doesn't want to be nice about it. But being mean to Yuma is like kicking a puppy.
 * Please Don't Leave Me: She really doesn't want Kyouko to leave her.
 * Replacement Goldfish:
 * Rousing Speech: Gives one to Kyouko and Mami
 * Tareme Eyes
 * Third Person Person:
 * You Gotta Have Green Hair
 * Rousing Speech: Gives one to Kyouko and Mami
 * Tareme Eyes
 * Third Person Person:
 * You Gotta Have Green Hair
 * You Gotta Have Green Hair
 * You Gotta Have Green Hair

Kirika Kure
A "black magical girl", and a friend of Oriko.


 * Alliterative Name
 * Badass Longcoat: In magical girl form.
 * Because You Were Nice to Me: The main reason she likes Oriko.
 * Berserk Button:  In her case, it's more like "Push this button to make her Berserk more."
 * Canon Foreigner
 * Cute Little Fangs
 * Dark Action Girl
 * Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
 * Excuse Me While I Multitask: While fighting a witch, Kirika tells Oriko how much sugar she wants in her tea, and argues with her about being treated like a kid.
 * Hair Decorations
 * : To Homura, in many ways. Unfortunately, it's not explored further.
 * Eyepatch of Power: Her magical girl outfit has one.
 * Eyes of Gold
 * Fashionable Asymmetry
 * Hurricane Kick: Performs one in her fight with while doing a handstand.
 * Les Yay: It's obvious she really likes Oriko.
 * Living Emotional Crutch / Only Friend: To Oriko after her fall from grace. She admits she would really be broken if Kirika wasn't around.
 * Magic Skirt: In her magical girl form.
 * : When Kirika figured out that she can't defeat.
 * Only a Flesh Wound: Apparently, being shot at the knee is not enough to stop her.
 * Security Blanket / Girls Love Stuffed Animals: The stuffed toy she carries around, which is implied to be a gift from Oriko.
 * Sweet Tooth
 * Too Many Belts: A fairly minor case, but present in both her civilian and magical girl outfits.
 * Undying Loyalty: To Oriko.
 * Wolverine Claws: Her weapons.
 * Woman in Black: When in her magical girl outfit.
 * Zettai Ryouiki
 * Sweet Tooth
 * Too Many Belts: A fairly minor case, but present in both her civilian and magical girl outfits.
 * Undying Loyalty: To Oriko.
 * Wolverine Claws: Her weapons.
 * Woman in Black: When in her magical girl outfit.
 * Zettai Ryouiki
 * Woman in Black: When in her magical girl outfit.
 * Zettai Ryouiki
 * Zettai Ryouiki

Returning Characters
This section is only for tropes that appear exclusively in Puella Magi Oriko Magica. See here for character tropes from the original series.

Mami Tomoe
A magical girl veteran who is investigating the recent murders of magical girls.


 * Adaptational Badass: She was already Badass in Madoka Magica, but her track was cut short due to Charlotte chomping her. Here? She shows further the extent of her Badassery if her track wasn't cut short at all.
 * Despair Event Horizon: Ultimately subverted when Yuma gives a Rousing Speech and brings the two back from the brink of despair.
 * For Want of a Nail: Survived in this timeline because she wasn't showing off to Madoka in her fight against Charlotte.
 * Mythology Gag: "That witch would have killed me if I left my guard down".
 * Not So Stoic:
 * Scenery Censor: When her skirt is flipped, Yuma's head and arms block the reader's view.

Kyouko Sakura
A magical girl veteran who becomes an "older sister" figure for Yuma.


 * Adopt the Dog: Though she hadn't yet abandoned her Jerkass nature at the time Oriko Magica begins, she finds it in her heart to take Yuma in, acting like a mother to her better than her real mother did.
 * Big Sister Instinct: Towards Yuma.
 * Despair Event Horizon: Ultimately subverted when Yuma gives a Rousing Speech and brings them back from the brink of despair.
 * Don't Call Me Oneechan: She says this to Yuma.
 * Parental Substitute: For Yuma.

Homura Akemi

 * Demoted to Extra: Only appears briefly in volume 1, though her role is expanded dramatically in volume 2.
 * Somebody Else's Problem: Her reaction to most things. As long as they don't affect Madoka, she doesn't care.
 * Somebody Else's Problem: Her reaction to most things. As long as they don't affect Madoka, she doesn't care.
 * Somebody Else's Problem: Her reaction to most things. As long as they don't affect Madoka, she doesn't care.
 * Somebody Else's Problem: Her reaction to most things. As long as they don't affect Madoka, she doesn't care.

Madoka Kaname
"Madoka: How can you be so cold, ? Why are you saving only me? You have such an incredible power, ! But if you're going to abandon everyone and run away, then you shouldn't save me!"
 * Blush Sticker
 * Demoted to Extra: Makes only a two panel appearance in volume 1, though her role is expanded somewhat in volume 2.
 * What the Hell, Hero?: Calls out for
 * What the Hell, Hero?: Calls out for
 * What the Hell, Hero?: Calls out for

Kyubey



 * Power Floats
 * Power Floats

Sayaka Miki

 * Demoted to Extra: She doesn't even appear in the first volume.
 * Heroic Bystander: She doesn't become a magical girl here, but does what she can to help.
 * Improvised Weapon:
 * Plucky Girl

Hitomi Shizuki

 * Break the Cutie: Hitomi didn't know anything about Witches and Magical Girls in the original. In this one, she To say the kid's broken by that is an understatement.
 * Heroic BSOD: She doesn't look much better when

Kazuko Saotome

 * Expy - Very likely to be a reference to a certain other young female teacher Considering that   is also a possible reference to the same franchise - and   - it's not too much of a stretch to see this parallel.
 * Expy - Very likely to be a reference to a certain other young female teacher Considering that   is also a possible reference to the same franchise - and   - it's not too much of a stretch to see this parallel.
 * Expy - Very likely to be a reference to a certain other young female teacher Considering that   is also a possible reference to the same franchise - and   - it's not too much of a stretch to see this parallel.