Madoka Kaname

* School Uniform
* Magical girl
* Goddess

Tatsuya Kaname (Younger brother)

Okiku (Adopted Daughter, 2029)

**Madoka Kaname** is a supporting character in Persona Record Series and the main protagonist of Persona Magica. She is a shy and kind girl who cares deeply for her friends, but has low self-confidence. After becoming a magical girl, she gains more confidence in herself and her actions.

## Background

Madoka was born into a warm and loving family surrounded by good friends. When she turns fourteen, she meets Homura Akemi, a mysterious new transfer student who transfers to school with a hidden purpose.

Suddenly, when she and her childhood friend Sayaka Miki learned about a witch and the magical girls, they were both persuaded by a mysterious creature, Kyubey, to become a magical girl by making a covenant with him in exchange for One wish, but while Madoka decides to decide, the newly transferred student Homura Akemi has prevented Madoka from becoming a magical girl for the reason that being a magical girl, it's not as easy as it seems. After Madoka learns a secret about witch, Soul Gem and Kyubey, she faces dangers and despair for the Magical Girl and makes her feel reluctant to make a decision.

Until one day, Walpurgisnacht, the strongest witch, comes to Mitakihara Town. Homura, the only surviving magical girl who fights that witch and is wounded and in despair. At that moment, Madoka ran out of refuge in search of Homura until she found her lying injured. She comforted Homura before saying that she had decided to become a magical girl, which shocked Homura. Madoka tells her her desire to wipe out all witches - past, present and future - because she doesn't want all magical girls to meet this fate.

Finally, Madoka's wishes made her a part of the universe and the magical girl's fate changed. Madoka, in the form of a god, has to keep an eye on every magical girl on earth she takes care of, and to look at her representative who lives with her beloved friends and family.

## Appearance

Madoka has pink twin tails and pink eyes. When down, her hair is almost shoulder length. She has choppy bangs that are pointed and chin-length, framing her face.

### School Uniform

Madoka's school uniform, which matches the others' uniforms of her age, is a light tan blouse with a black plaid skirt and white thigh high socks with a pair of brown shoes. Madoka also wears two red ribbons in her hair, which hold up her pigtails.

### Magical girl

Madoka wears a puffy pink dress with two bows arranged at either side of her skirt. She sports two bows in her hair, supporting her twin-tails, as well as a red ribbon around her neck, which is tied in a bow in the back. The front of her torso has a pale yellow segment surrounded by white frills with a white placket running down the center, decorated by five red buttons. She has two small straps that connect from the front to the back of the dress over her shoulders, and short, puffy sleeves with frilly ends. In between her shoulder blades and just below her neck, there is a heart-shaped hole in the back of her dress. Her skirt's ends are akin to a flower's petals; there are seven separate petal-shaped segments of her dress, which are all decorated with a red edge and three white teardrop-shaped designs, lay atop a big, white petticoat, which is notably frilly underneath. She also wears a pair of white gloves with pink trims around the wrists, white, knee-high stockings with frills just below the knee, and red, heeled shoes with ribbons tied behind them.

### Goddess

Madoka, upon becoming the Law of Cycles, grew very long pink hair and kept her small twin-tails on the sides, which are held up by large, white bows, rather than her usual red ribbons, which, she gave away to Homura as a gift to remember her by before she became the Law of Cycles. Her eyes also changed color. Rather than pink, her eyes became golden, and her pupils became lighter in color.

She wears a long, white, three-layered, frilly dress, which is shorter in the front, and gets increasingly longer nearing its end. The first two layers are purely white, and the final layer beneath the two is a light purple-y pink hue. Her collar is wavy and wide-cut and splits down the middle all the way to just below where Madoka's ribs would be, and is kept together near the beginning of the split by Madoka's soul gem, accompanied by what looks to be two smaller soul gems on either side. Her sleeves go down to just above her elbow, and are airy and wavy. There are two layers to them, with the layer underneath it being purple-y pink. She also wears white gloves, similar to those worn in her initial Magical Girl form. Underneath the multiple layers of her frilled dress is what appears to be a reflection of the Universe, complete with glittering stars and deep, dark, purple-and-blue hues.

## Personality

Madoka is seen to be a very kind girl who attempts to help and comfort anyone to the best of her ability, but is also shown to be quite timid. Madoka believes that helping others is the only thing she can offer to the world. Madoka is easily flustered, and can often be manipulated through her desire to help others. As a Magical Girl, however, Madoka retains her original personality, though is noticeably more confident with her actions. Madoka often tries to understand others, even if it doesn’t end well. She’s often anxious, scared, and usually doesn’t fully understand the whole situation, but even so, she attempts to do what is right.

Madoka is noted to speak politely with others, often referring to the same sex as ‘-chan’ or ‘-san,’ and the opposite sex as ‘-kun,’ somewhat indicating that Madoka is eager to get close to other people, with the exception of Kyosuke Kamijou, as Madoka believes he could someday become Sayaka Miki’s boyfriend.

## Abilities

When contracted as a magical girl, Madoka has displayed the ability to create arrows of energy to attack with and even fire several at once to attack several enemies. It is also to be noted that the amount of power she has seems to depend on the timeline her incarnation is located in as in earlier timelines she had less potential. The stronger her potential, the more power and damage she is seen to inflict upon her foes. Madoka can also fire an arrow into the sky onto a huge magical sigil which can fire hundreds of arrows at once. Yet in her ultimate form, Madoka is seen to be able to remove the corruption from Soul Gems without the need of a grief seed yet this causes the Soul Gem in question to dissipate and the magical girl in question to die but this also prevents her from becoming a Witch. She has also been seen to appear in several places at once as a projection due to her arrows. It is assumed that as a Goddess she also had knowledge of other timelines and the ability to observe other timelines without issue. Yet, it has been hinted at in Magia Record that she may be able to interfere with timelines if conditions are right.

## Doppel Description

"The master of this emotion tries to save all of existence. This Doppel appears as a huge floating Soul Gem. Once it is summoned, it creates an existence within which all things around it are consumed, and then takes control of everything within that existence. After that, it floats higher into the air and a shower of light arrows rains down. While all of this is happening, the master of this emotion sleeps inside the huge Soul Gem."

## Relationship

### Yu Narukami

Madoka's friend from Another World. In Persona Magica, She first met Yu and his friends when she and Sayaka ran away from Homura until they were trapped in the witch's labyrinth. When she saw Yu's Persona power, she wondered what if she could become like them. Madoka has a special interest in Yu because his coolness and compassion for others makes her want to be like him. Until Madoka decides to become a magical girl, wanting not all magical girls and Persona-Users to suffer again, she becomes part of the universe and unites the world of The magical girls and the world of Persona-Users are one world, with memories the two of them having met before disappear like they have never met before.

In Persona Record: Magi Arena Chapter 3, Madoka meets Yu again at the Kirijo Group Hospital. As the two of their eyes met, the familiar feeling between the two of them slowly returned, but the memory that had been forgotten was incomplete.

In Chapter 5, Forgotten memories are restored thanks to Homura's special magical power, bringing back the forgotten memories of the magical girls and the Persona-Users again.

### Homura Akemi

Mysterious Transfer Student. Madoka tried to get Homura to sympathize and accept her request, but it did not work out, as Homura's coldness and disgust for others resulted in Madoka being rejected several times. She doesn't know what Homura did to protect Madoka from becoming a magical girl with Kyubey's evil plans.

But if Homura was in braids and glasses with a shy personality, Madoka would be the closest to her, always ready to help her.

### Sayaka Miki

Madoka's childhood friend. Madoka is always caring and concerned about Sayaka, trying to do whatever it takes to make her childhood friend feel comfortable and worry-free.

### Mami Tomoe

Madoka's senior magical girl. Madoka is very pleased with Mami's abilities because Mami's coolness and leadership inspired Madoka to become a magical girl.

### Kyoko Sakura

Another magical girl friend. Although Kyoko is acting like a gangster, Madoka has always seen her like a little kid and is always kind to Kyoko.

### Iroha Tamaki

A magical girl friend from Kamihama City. She and Iroha were very close as Iroha's personality was similar to Madoka's personality, and the two quickly became friends.

### Ren Amamiya

A Persona-Users and The leader of Phantom Thieves of Hearts. Madoka helps Ren to bring back Iroha, kidnapped by an evil magical girl. After the fight, she and the other Magical Girl decide to partner with another Persona-Users.

### Minato Arisato

A Persona-User, whom he has been resurrected. Madoka used her healing powers with him and gave him immortality in order to defend humanity as he wanted, she gave him even if he didn't want immortality, he could summon her and return it to her.

### Junko Kaname

Madoka's Mother. She and her mother are always discussing female issues or problems among friends.

### Tatsuya Kaname

Madoka's younger brother. Madoka has always looked after him and protected him as older sister.

## Trivia

* The first character of her last name (鹿) means "deer". The last character (目) means "eye".
* Madoka's name is in hiragana, which does not have a specific meaning. When written in kanji, however, it can mean "round, tranquil" (円か).
* Her magical girl weapon is a bow.
* As a child, Madoka and Sayaka met when Sayaka saved her and protected her from the bullies.
* Madoka's Weapon is the same as Yukari Takeba's Weapon.

## Gallery

School UniformSwimsuitPajamasWinter outfitKimoto outfitMagical girl formMadoka's Doppel (Kriemhild Gretchen)Goddess Form