Sayaka Miki

Sayaka Miki is a protagonist and a member of The New Action Squad.

## **BIOGRAPHY**

Sayaka Miki (美樹 さやか *Miki Sayaka*?) is one of the main characters from the *Puella Magi Madoka Magica* franchise and is Madoka Kaname's friend.

Outside of Mitakihara, she is also a member of The New Action Squad, seeming to have move on from her former partner Kyosuke Kamijou

## **APPEARANCE**

Sayaka Miki is a very pale young girl with short-medium blue hair and blue eyes. She is seen wearing her school uniform in the beginning of episode one which, like all others, consists of a cream-colored long-sleeved shirt with a big red bow on the front. The bottoms of the sleeves are open and have red borders around them. The front of the shirt also has two pockets on it. She wears a pair of brown shoes with dark deep blue knee socks.

In her magical girl form, her clothing consists of a blue and white button-down strapless top, a blue asymmetrical skirt held up by a dark blue belt with a yellow buckle, white stockings with a blue stripe, teal boots, a white thigh-long cape and 2 pairs of gloves, one being elbow-length midnight-blue, and the other being standard-length, and white. Her Soul Gem is embedded in her belly button.

## **PERSONALITY**

Sayaka is shown to act slightly tomboyish and heroic. She cares a lot for her friends, made clear by her immediately making the contract to become a magical girl just so she could save Madoka.

Despite acting tomboyish, she does have a girly side, shown by her interest in romance and classical music. However, her vision of love is very unrealistic.

She rarely thinks twice before acting on something and comes into conflict with others easily. When combined with her kindness and courage, those two traits make her ignorant and careless.

Throughout the anime, she and Kyoko often argued with one another, and their first encounter was even an attempted fight to the death. If it hadn't been for Homura's interventions, Sayaka would have died at least **twice**.

She evidently has some love for anime and games, since she called Homura 'moe' when taunting, *"She's so moe, it makes me sick!"*. It's also hinted that Sayaka likes cosplaying as well.

She hates the idea of being rejected by people that she loves. When Kyousuke started dating Hitomi, Sayaka felt hurt and rejected. This showed that she wanted to get praise for her wish and even to get the chance to date him but, to her dismay, that did not happen. So that lead to her death.

In the Rebellion Movie, it is implied that she may have developed admiration or maybe even romantic feelings for Kyoko.

## **TRIVIA**

* The first character in her last name (美) means "beauty". The last character (樹) means "tree". Therefore, her last name could be written down as either 幹 (meaning "tree trunk") or 神酒 ("sake offered to the gods").
* Her first name is written in hiragana, so its individual characters have no special meaning. However, "sayaka" could be written in katakana as 明か ("obvious") or 清か ("clear").
* She is also known as "Blue" among fans.
* Sayaka Miki is the tallest member of the entire group in the anime and manga.
* It is revealed that during Sayaka's transformation into a witch a series of runes are shown twice. When those runes are translated, they put together German words. When the German words are translated to English, they mean "stormy" and "loving," as well as "crazy fool." This alludes to the personality traits that lead Sayaka to become a witch: her tendency towards strongly loving people, her foolish behavior, and her stormy temper.