Puella Magi Kazumi Magica/WMG

Kazumi is actually
Kazumi has signs of a Dark and Troubled Past, even referring to her amnesiac self as a "new Kazumi" as opposed to the "old Kazumi". At the end of chapter 2, her friends say that  And let's face it,

Of course, the anime has said that such a thing is impossible, which is why this WMG must be taken together with the next WMG

Alternatively, given , Kazumi might be one of the few Magical Girls who stood on the brink of  , and while she might   , she is one of the few who managed to overcome/reversed this. It might also explain her memory loss. Her memory might be deliberately erased so that Kazumi's "second chance " can occur.

Kazumi takes place after the anime, specifically after
Specifically, a  Part of the changes would include a way to. Note that the black cat in Kazumi chapter 2 resembles the one seen in the OP of Madoka (and in a piece of official artwork with Homura). Earlier guesses on the Madoka WMG page say the cat could be
 * Chapter 3 reveals that
 * The witches that resembled anime variant Witches might not actually be Anime Witches, as in Witches born from depleted Grief Seeds, but a new variant of Witch , created by some yet unknown method that replicates the effects of a Madoka Magica Witch. However , their origins and very nature might be sufficiently different enough to bypass.
 * Alternatively, the  might be designated as Witches in some timelines. Furthermore , the nature of the enemy that Puella Magi face might differ from time-line to time-line. This might be set in the same "multi-universal" continuity in Madoka Magica , but is still an Alternate Universe of sorts.
 * There are several, more unpleasant possibilities.
 * Again, it is heavily implied that magical girls become witches in Kazumi ("there is the possibility that anyone can turn into a witch"). Unless we get evidence otherwise, we can probably call this theory Jossed.  On the other hand, a full blown Alternate Continuity seems very likely right now -
 * On the other hand, Chapter 4 explains the inconsistencies from the anime, without making it an Alternate Continuity.
 * And completely Jossed in Chapter 5.
 * And completely Jossed in Chapter 5.

Either Kazumi or Umika and Kaoru are evil.
Think about it. Kazumi's outfit looks like a witch's, and now there's a second magical girl with a similar costume theme. Umika and Kaoru's outfits look more like nun-outfits...there's gotta be something going on with that.

Kazumi can't remember her friends or past...
...because she wished for it.
 * It can't be that she wished to not remember; how could she be working with them before then?
 * Actually, it's revealed that

Kazumi's wish was to have friends.
Explains how she could be in a  Of course, the knowledge that she only has friends because she wished for them may have been causing her grief...
 * Jossed. She wished
 * Actually, she wished

Kazumi's wish Ret Conned reality.
In the first chapter, she alters reality by turning the bomb into a toy. A Puella Magi's abilities are linked to the nature of the wish they made. Perhaps, as speculated above, she wished to have friends... and thus, the others' memories were altered to include her in their group.
 * Jossed.

Kazumi helped create the new type of witches.
Possibly with the help of the other Cute Witch magical girl and/or the Pleiades Saints. This is why
 * It explains why the Evil Nuts seem to avert No Ontological Inertia even when, how  , and then there's Kazumi's aforementioned ahoge. It might be that the "old" Kazumi is pulling a Memory Gambit, using other magical girls as Unwitting Pawns to kill the Pleiades Saints while she remains beneath suspicion.
 * Actually, Kazumi

The mysterious, unnamed magical girl wished to save Kazumi
She has a similar costume because she admired Kazumi and wanted to be like her. She now regrets doing it,
 * If this takes place after Madoka Magica like it was speculated earlier in this page, this guessing is absolutely impossible, therefore it has to be more complex than that. Or the series just doesn't take place after Madoka.
 * so it is possible.
 * Jossed.

The new type of witch was born from a wish for more witches.
More specifically, for more Grief Seeds. Need a lot of those to maintain a group as big as the Pleiades Saints, after all...
 * Alternatively, the new type of witches were born from the original witches searching for new ways to reproduce,
 * No,
 * It's still possible.  was more like to   Since   and also had to take   from the magical girls who were
 * Alternatively alternatively, the new type of witches . Of course, this is all assuming that Kazumi takes place AFTER Madoka, which remains uncomfirmed.
 * While it's not quite explicit,
 * To add on to this, this might very well be a Time-line where some foolish Puella Magi wished for more varied enemies. We get this. Or it might be an attempt by the Incubators.
 * Likely Jossed as of Chapter 4.

It's All Just a Dream
Yup. Alternatively, Kazumi's wish was to be able to make her dreams into reality, which is why things don't fit.
 * Alternatively alternatively,

...is a former.

Maybe they lost their memories of her, and she was shamed in some way; this is why she holds a grudge.
 * seem to recognize her once they get a clear look at her face, which makes this even more plausible.
 * This is about as heavily implied as.
 * Instead of lost memories  The girl seen in   brief flashback
 * Also, some possible Genius Bonus foreshadowing:
 * Shockingly Jossed. . The details of the WMG are jossed but there's nothing to say about the original yet.
 * Turns out,

Plot predictions as of the end of Chapter 4

 * Fortunately,  don't work on magical girls, because   never got the memo about   This causes her backstory to come out, which gives Kazumi much consternation. It ultimately culminates in , giving Kazumi a full blown Heroic BSOD when she learns the Awful Truth. After a climactic battle, she'll
 * As of Chapter 5 we have

... made a wish to take revenge on the. She was their Muggle Best Friend, but they left her to die in a fight she'd tagged along to. She lived long enough for to find her and contract her, letting her live until she takes revenge.
 * Mostly Jossed.

Kazumi will become
Truly a Wild Mass Guess, as there is no evidence whatsoever. This idea only came about because it was noticed that the symbol on Kazumi's bells (and hair, and hat, and in two places on her Soul Gem) resembles a question mark,. It would also make a very neat pair of Book Ends:  Although that would lead to Kingdom Hearts jokes...
 * The corollary to this is that

Kazumi wished to be able to make her thoughts into reality.
"Stop the bomb. Bibbity Bobbity Boo".
 * Jossed.

Kazumi Magica is actually the prequel
This one here shows that Oriko Magica is likely the actual sequel rather than being the prequel. The Madoka Magica showed that there have already been magical girls in the past so its possible this was before the timeline of the anime.
 * This means that the Pleiades have been trying to convince Kazumi that the only witches that ever existed were the "imitation" ones.
 * No they didn't. They told Kazumi that the first two witches she fought were unusual. They're clearly trying to hide how real witches are created...probably because they don't want to expose Kazumi to the Awful Truth.

Kazumi and Yuuri are the same person.
Admittedly extremely wild and possibly even able to be debunked at this point. Kazumi has amnesia because she is the "good" side of the entity that Yuuri is the other side of. The girls had thought that they had "purified" Kazumi. (This could be why Yuuri is at her limit of turning into a witch.)
 * Jossed.

The girl in Yuuri's memory is Kazumi.
Specifically the "old Kazumi". She was close with Yuuri. Kazumi and the girl are in an identical position, and Yuuri seems to react in a way that implies she doesn't like the attitude of the "new Kazumi".
 * But they look nothing alike! Kazumi has consistently looked like herself in all her brief flashbacks.
 * Kazumi also has very spotty memory.
 * Then what about this? Unless she dyed her hair...
 * She also has a completely different hair style, so this seems unlikely.
 * Jossed

Jubey will become evil.
He absorbs the blackness into his fur, which is turning black. Perhaps he becomes some Eldritch Abomination and the girls have to fight him. Assuming Kazumi is a prequel, this prolly explains why Kyubey and the other Incubators don't do this anymore.
 * Actually,

The person who gave Kazumi her bells is the same person in Yuuri's flashback.
This girl is now dead, which set off both Kazumi's amnesia (because she didn't want to remember), and Yuuri's Roaring Rampage of Revenge (because she blames the Pleiades for what happened). She may have been a Magical Girl and died fighting a witch or.
 * Given that all the Pleiades except  seem to know what happens to magical girls that use too much magic
 * Jossed.

Juubey is a prototype Incubator.
If he's successful, he'll be used as a template for the the tenth 'edition' of Incubators. Kyuubey was a member of the ninth and most recent batch.
 * Jossed.

Yuuri was a
That would explain why everyone is so shocked and yells "Impossible!" when seeing her, as well as the power of her Evil Nuts.
 * Jossed.

Yuuri is an alias
That's why no-one recognized her name.

Cosmic Retcon effect predictions

 * As of Chapter 8
 * Although he's quick to correct himself, Jubey says Kazumi's powers are "sacrilege" or "breaking religious law". One can only wonder how that would relate to the divinely imposed "law of circles". Breaking that law would be a catastrophe beyond measure...

Kazumi is
Well, I don't have much of an explanation for this, but crazy theories tend to be true in this series. And there are little bits of foreshadowing if you know where to look:
 * Kazumi has no memory of anything that happened before the events of the manga
 * There is the Cryptic Conversation in episode 3:
 * Alternatively...
 * Jossed

Kazumi is
This may make a bit more sense than the one above.
 * Alternatively, Kazumi was one of the people
 * Jossed
 * Not exactly jossed, but the circumstance was different.

Jubey is born from a wish, probably from Kazumi's wishes.

 * Like Madoka, Kazumi finally realizes the wrongness in magical girl system, and wished to change it. Basically, she asked for means to purify magical girl soul gems in great number and power, without fully depending on Grief Seeds. This is why was very upset with Pleiades, they just broke the whole system, although not to the extent that Madoka does.
 * Jossed in that Kazumi didn't wish for it.

Jubey is from a different, competing race from Kyubey.
Jubey and Kyubey both aim to save the universe through emotions. However, Jubey, wishing to help the humans (possibly because he may have emotions), decides to leave it up to the emotions of the girls to generate energy rather than forcing grief on them, and cleans their Soul Gems both to save them from becoming witches and gather more helpers to stop the witches (e.g. fighting things like Walpurgis Night). However Kyubey prefers the more energy-generating method of forcing girls to become witches; it's possible he may not even be able to clean gems. Both of them have struck a truce of sorts, seen by them standing by each other. Either Jubey is dead by the end of Kazumi or his work wasn't effective enough to stop Kyubey's witches.
 * Jossed:

Jubey is a mentally ill Incubator.
That is, he feels emotions. Power Born of Madness, anyone?
 * Actually,.

Chapter 7 spoilers:

 * This could be the dirty things Airi accused Saki, the leader of the Pleides of hiding from Kazumi. Rather than deny it, Saki tells Airi to shut up pretty much confirming that the Pleides are hiding a dark secret. As you know the Pleides, except for Kazumi until the end are aware that Magical Girls turn into witches when their magic runs; their except from this comes from Jyubey purifying their gems before that happens. So they could be creating witches for the Incubators to collect energy from in exchange for Jyubey not letting that happen to them. Though this leads to Fridge Horror in that the Pleides might have done this to the original Yuri turning her into a witch, then killing her. Here are some hints:


 * 1) The Pleides recognizing Yuri's face when Airi showed it to them which would indicate they were with her when she transformed;
 * 2) The unlikelihood of Yuri falling from despair since she was on the verge of winning a cooking contest and celebrating with her best friend and had nothing to despair about and she couldnt have used up her magic fighting a witch given her transformation happened shortly after she met with Airi;
 * 3) When the Pleides communicate with Airi after killing witchYuri, the looks are not of relief or satisfaction as you'd feel after saving an innocent but more like a MIB covering up.

The reason why Kyubey didn't relay this to Airi was because he was saving it up as an emotional bombshell to drive her over the Despair Event Horizon or an extra motivation in case she showed signs of relenting against revenge. The Evil Nuts are her way of getting back at the Pleides which is to turn of their own into a witch like they did with her friend.

The Pleaides Saints will become Walpurgisnacht
Unlike Kyubey, Jubey is willing to play the long con, waiting for one of them to become a witch in the middle of a fight. Once one of them does it will send the others into despair at which point he'll stop cleaning their gems and tell them it was his plan all along. This one-two punch ought to get the rest to transform in rapid fashion. However, before all this happened they all became such close friends that all they want after their transformation is to be together. So their witch forms fuse to form Walpurgis.
 * There is another way that this theory could happen. In the most recent chapter they could all fuse into Walpurgisnacht. That could explain why WN's nature is  and why her Familiars
 * See one of the WMG'sbelow for why this might be doubtful. Walpurgisnacht seems to be a very ancient witch.

New!Kazumi was a Familiar
Bear with me on this. in Madoka Magica, Familiars were stated to become clones of the original witch if they kill a human and therefore drop Grief Seeds. In the first chapter you see a flashback of a naked Kazumi covered in blood and standing next to corpses, add in her amnesia, the subtitle 'The Innocent Malice', the fact she calls herself New Kazumi and Nico not encouraging her to get her memories back: its probable that she is a familiar of the Old'Kazumi.
 * In this case,
 * In this case,

Kazumi will become the antagonist
Her flashback hints at a Dark and Troubled Past with her standing over a pile of dead bodies and during her conversation with Nico about her memories Nico glances at a report about a shooting while saying that some memories are better forgotten implying that Kazumi may have been a mass murderer in her past or at least been a witness or complicit in some dreadful tragedy that caused many deaths. The subtitle 'The Innocent Malice' could be Foreshadowing her as a ticking time bomb waiting to go off at the right provocation. Remember that Madoka Magica and Oriko Magica had the titular characters as DecoyProtagonists, in Oriko's case, she turned out to be the villain, Kazumi could be something similar.
 * See "Kazumi helped create the new type of witches" above.

Ayase/Luca Souju are stealing other Magical Girl's powers via their Soul Gems
Jyubey mentions that they are two Soul Gems that control the same body rather than one Magical Girl with two different transformations. The same magic that allows this also allows the two to draw powers from Soul Gems. Besides acting as a Soul Jar, the Soul Gem also serves as a Transformation Trinket and source of a Magical Girl's power. The Soujus know this and actively seek to increase their own strength by collecting Soul Gems to gain access to a wider variety of powers. (i.e. Kazumi's Reality Warping, Nico's regeneration, etc.) It would explain why their interest in collecting bright gems and their disinterest in darker ones since a Magical Girl's magic strength corresponds to their gem's brightness. It is also possible they're aware of Magical Girls turning into witches once their gems darken. Drawing magic from other gems would decrease their need to use their own thus slowing down The Corruption. If they really needed a Grief Seed, they could just use up a gem until it darkened, and changed into a Grief Seed and destroy the resulting witch, though its more likely they just destroy the gems that get too corrupted.
 * Jossed, sort of.

Jyubey is the 10th species to join Kyubey's alliance to fight off entropy
This is, of course, assuming we can even believe Kyubey's claim to begin with, including the one when he told Madoka his species was waiting for humans to join them someday. According to these thoughts (sort of an "honest Kyubey" theory), Jyubey could be, appropriately for its name, the 10th species to join the alliance Kyubey belongs to. Kyubey itself/themselves could be the 9th, even!
 * In Chapter 8  Incubators don't do that.
 * Which indeed means he's not the same thing as Kyubey.

The black cat seen around Kazumi's (really, Umika's) house is actually Amy
Based on nothing more than the fact that the guy who writes Kazumi Magica wrote the screenplay for the drama CD that introduced Amy. So to make this WMG work, Kazumi Magica has to be set before the events of the anime, and the Pleiades Saints (or at least Kazumi, Kaoru, and Umika) will get wiped out or worse. Then the now lonely cat wanders over from Asunaro to Mitakihara and you know the rest.

...that would actually mean that Kazumi Magica created the anime's events. Shocking.

The witch that appears at the end of Chapter 8..

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Kazumi is Charlotte
She adores her sweets, after all, and has a darker personality lurking under her own cuteness...

Kazumi is tapping into Spiral Power
Yes, THAT Spiral Power. Given the counter-rotating Spirals on her Soul Gem emblems, and the extremely overpowered, rulebreaking magic she has, and her generous appetite often applicable to Spiral Energy users, this explains so much about why she exhibits powers unusual even for Contractee Magical Girls.

The Pleiades are

 * As a corollary

Kazumi Magica's Chapter 9 Freezer

 * Okay, this may sound crazy but seeing.
 * The biggest problem is that

Kazumi is

 * Chapter 9 has

Nico's
...wasn't made from scratch. Her powers are like Fullmetal Alchemist transmutation,  What Nico is doing is

The Pleiades are taking

 * Jossed.

Juubey's energy plan is more diabolical and will be more successful than Kyubey's
While many people think that the Madoka Magica characters got gypped by Juubey's cleaning method, in actual fact they are lucky. Juubey only seems to clean the Pleiades' gems, thus creating a very powerful witch fighting team full of special people. He also eats the Grief Seeds straight away, denying other Puella Magi their use. Non-Pleiade Puellas then have less chances of getting a Grief Seed, leading to the reveals in the latest chapters. He has therefore created a situation where if he was to leave, even simply just hiding for a time: His seven special Puellas would find they no longer have the luxury of automatic Gem cleaning and will then have to fight each other for Grief Seeds leading to them all falling into despair at more or less the same time. Seven witches appearing at once will create a very large amount of energy and create more Puellas. Juubey can then rinse and repeat and this way doesn't have to just contract powerful girls to get energy.
 * Not to mention none of the characters seem to know the Grief Seeds remove the taint from Soul Gems

Juubey is working with the Pleiades in order to find a way to stop magical girls from being corrupted.
Umika and Juubey explain that they as a response to the magical girl system, which basically exists to screw them over. Juubey is helping the girls to fix/escape this system either because he's mentally ill and has emotions, or because he's planning on using them for some other purpose.
 * Acutally,

The series ending will result in the Madoka universe being possible.
The Pleides Saints will sacrifice themselves, it may even result in Walpurgis Night being created; but it will enable more than one timeline to be tied together. They will know this; that it will be possible to create a super-magical girl whose wish who can either save them all or destroy the world.

Kazumi Magica is the result of...
Kyubey and Jyubey, essentially, are playing space chess against each other, using magical girls as their pawns. In other words, while he's, Jyubey isn't necessarily good or bad, it's simply a convenient result of fighting against Kyubey. This will likely end with Kyubey winning and moving on to Madoka's town, possibly with at least one of the Pleiades becoming one of the witches from Madoka. This also explains how as WELL as

Jyubey is actually
Jyubey doesn't act anything like we've come to expect incubators to be like. He seems to feel emotions. He can feed on grief directly without needing the soul gem to become completely corrupted. He's changed his mind or corrected himself on his explanations (calling Kazumi's magic 'destruction' vs. 'sacrilege.') He's flat out lied to Kazumi about where witches come from. Of these, the most egregiously out of character actions have all been centered around Kazumi, or at least associated with her.

It's possible that

This would even explain Jyubey's name. 'Kyubey' is pretty obviously a cutesy shortening of 'Incubator,' which fits with their mentality of 'hide what would upset the target, but don't *lie.*' Since 'Jyubey' was no longer part of the 'Kyubey' hive mind after the incident, the Jyu- suffix was chosen (by him or one of the girls) for the nine/ten pun noted elsewhere. The Kyubey hive mind haven't done anything about him because they regard the situation as an experiment. If the Jyubey model proves effective, they'll adopt it. If not, he's only affecting one city and a relatively small pool of puella magi, and can be dealt with if necessary.

A traumatic event in the past caused Kazumi to become evil or at least antagonistic
The Spin-off series tend to base characters from characters in the anime and Kyoko's the only one without a counterpart comparison. Like Kyoko, Kazumi was once an idealistic Magical Girl who believed in helping others. Unfortunately, her world-view became shattered by a traumatizing event. A flashback in Ch1 shows her standing over dead bodies; its possible she may have been the sole survivor of a massacre wherein she lost loved ones including the person who gave her her bells which may be why she hates people touching them. Alternately, finding out the truth behind the Puella Magi system soured her selfless worldview driving her to despair and deciding that she may as well just look out for herself rather than other people. Of course, it could have been both. The Pleiades shocked at the change in personality and beliefs of the one who saved their lives and failing to convince her to change her mind otherwise erased her memories so she would go back to the old Kazumi. This is why the girls become so desperate to hide the truth behind magical girls from her and what leads them to go to extremes to prevent Puella Magi from becoming witches and turning them back to humans. Also going with the previous theory that Kazumi created the 'new witches', in her Start of Darkness she may have been responsible for the creation of the Evil Nuts.
 * Kyoko's counterpart could be Ayase. Out of all of the Expys, she's actually the most blatant. Kazumi is really a lot more like Madoka.
 * She could be an evil Madoka.
 * In going with the above theory that Kazumi created the new witches, its possible that after finding out the Awful Truth, she looked for an altnative source of energy for the Incubators to harvest and came up with the Evil Nuts. The new witches, similar to the anime ones are capable of consuming emotion from living humans and revert back to ordinary humans upon defeat. In this way, she hoped that this new solution would turn the Incubators away from their current method of turning Magical Girls into witches. Unfortunately, as shown with Jyubey, Incubators cant make use of Evil Nuts.

Juubey is an Incubator capable of feeling emotion
Consider what Kyuubey tells Madoka in Madoka Magica: ""Among my species, the phenomenon known as 'emotion' only exists as a mental illness.""

Or in other words, there are Incubators who feel emotion, but they are regarded as having a mental illness. It's entirely possible that an Incubator with emotions would see the  the same way a human would, and that it might want to ally itself with magical girls to end it all.

Saki Asami
The symbol on the top of Saki's soul gem and Gertrud's grief seed is a butterfly.

There are quite a few things here that don't add up.


 * Confirmed.

Jubey is
The anime taught us that. Who is to say that

Jubey's purification...

 * Alternatively, Jubey is only pretending to be purified so that the Pleiades won't suspect him any further; after all, who's to say that Umika's powers would work on something like an Incubator? Not to mention that when Kyuubey remarks about things going well "this time", most likely referring to Kazumi's clones, Jubey has an evil grin. He's clearly not working in the Pleiades' best interests.

The Evil Nuts were created by Incubators.
When a Puella Magi went too long without becoming a witch (like, say, the Pleiades Saints), the Incubators would release Evil Nuts into their territory, causing her to use up magic fighting pseudo-witches and transform. Alternatively, Evil Nuts would be used to send the Puella Magi into a fit of rage and exhaust her. Tying into that...

The Incubators are behind most of the plot.
All of the big plot points - Evil Nuts, the Freezer, and the clones - are experiments to see if they can milk any more energy out of a single Puella Magi. One of the Pleiades Saints could be working with them, or it might just all be manipulation.
 * This could be supported by the fact that the Magical Girls seen using the Evil Nuts, Anri and the Soujous were already familiar with the Pleiades Saints. We know that Anri got her information about them from Kyubey and someone must have told the Soujous about the Pleiades.

Satomi's Fantasma Bisbiglio works by possessing people with her dead cat.
Think about it. Why would wishing to talk to animals let you brainwash humans? The spell is translated as Ghost Whisper, and the runes resemble cat paws and tails. Not to mention that Saki appears to grow fangs while under Satomi's control.

Everything is a part of Juubey's Plan
The set up is just too delicious for the Mangaka to pass up. In chapter 13,  The shock generated will send Kazumi over the edge into despair, and become a witch. Because all the other Pleiades Saints   The Pleiades Saints all lose, and Juubey wins. All in all, a good day of business...

All of the Pleiades Saints are .
It's not just Kazumi, all of them are the same.
 * This would explain why, in the image of the girls performing the ritual,
 * One piece of evidence against this is Kazumi herself.
 * This does not exclude the possibility that Kazumi may be a unique case, and that her magic may actually be the one ingredient that actually makes the process work.
 * There's also Nico.

During the scene in Chapter 14,

However, this time, Kazumi will find a way fully revert her back, unlike  due to their bonds of friendship... even after what has happened.
 * The title is confirmed, but the guess is jossed. Kazumi

were in the same accident that killed Mami's parents.
Its possible as the location of the accident is unknown and Asunaro and Mikitihara may be with in drivable distance of each other.

Nico's wish
Her powers, as well as

Nico is
At the end of Chapter 17, Nico uses the phrase  It's fairly clear, then, that she Up until this point, we have seen no evidence to support  We can assume that,   In otherwords, we can assume that they haven't been having the problem of turning into witches until recently (exceptions accounted for, of course). In otherwords, the only thing we have to go on is Nico's single statement and the following actions So what does this mean? It means that Nico may
 * If this is case, then it may be that she DOES see herself as inhuman as a