Kyoko Sakura

Kyoko Sakura (佐倉 杏子 *Sakura Kyōko*?)
Voiced by: Ai Nonaka (Japanese), Lauren Landa (English)
Kyoko is a veteran magical girl who comes to the city following
Mami's death. Her distinguishing features include long red hair, fangs,
and a voracious appetite, almost never being seen without food. She came
 from a poor church family, and used her wish so that people would
listen to her father's preaching; when her father learned of this,
however, he went mad and killed everyone in his family aside from Kyoko.
 As such, Kyoko decided only to use her magic for herself from this
point on, since using it for others will only cause despair. Having
grown up in a poor family, she often has to steal food and hates people
who waste it, a logic she also applies to grief seeds, as she only goes
after fully grown witches.

Kyoko has been a magical girl much longer than the others, and thus
is more skillful; she wields a spear which can extend itself, split into
 multiple sections, and produce a ball at the end of a chain, which can
constrict and hit others at the same time. She also has the ability to
put up barriers to protect others or keep them from interfering. She
initially clashes with Sayaka, but after learning the truth about soul
gems, she sympathizes with her and tries to help her. This is partially
because Sayaka reminds Kyoko of her past self, as she too had made a
wish for another person's sake and tried to fight for justice. Thus, she
 wants to stop Sayaka from making what she believes is the same mistake
and advises her to live a life of selfishness. Even though Sayaka thanks
 Kyoko and admits that she misunderstood her, Sayaka refuses to abandon
her ideals of justice.

After Sayaka becomes a witch, Kyoko becomes determined to save her
and restore her to normal. In the end, though, Kyoko becomes tired of
her pain, gives up her previous ideals and abandons her outlook of
self-preservation, and chooses to destroy herself along with Oktavia, in
 an attempt to both find peace in death and make sure that Sayaka will
not die alone, by overloading her soul gem to create a massive explosion
 that kills them both. However, Kyoko's sacrifice leaves only Homura and
 the potential contract Madoka to face off against Walpurgisnacht, which
 ends up in Homura being defeated and Madoka contracting.

In a previous timeline, she was killed by Mami, who was driven to
kill them all in a desperate attempt, after learning that they would all
 eventually become witches.

In the final timeline, Kyoko survives, and grieves over Sayaka's
death in battle, lamenting how they had "finally become friends".

In the ending of *Rebellion*, Homura rewrites reality so that
Kyoko lives with Sayaka and has a more kinder, cheerful, yet slackish
personality, as a result of her better life, instead of being selfish
and vicious to others.

Prior to the storyline, Kyoko was previously Mami's partner and also
 possessed illusionary magic gained from her wish of deception, allowing
 her to make copies of herself. However, following the death of her
family, she subconsciously lost her illusion magic and decided to be
more selfish in her outlook, ending her partnership with Mami. This
relationship is explored in the third drama CD, "The Farewell Story",
the PSP game, and the *Different Story* manga. In the PSP game, her witch form is **Ophelia**, the wǔdàn witch, depicted as a horse rider with a candlestick for a head.