Homura Akemi

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I'll do it over, no matter how many times it takes... I'll relive it over and over again. I will find the way out. The one path that'll save you from this destiny of despair. Madoka... my one and my only friend. I don't care... because if it's for you, I'll stay trapped in this endless maze... forever.

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I'll do it over, no matter how many times it takes... I'll relive it over and over again. I will find the way out. The one path that'll save you from this destiny of despair. Madoka... my one and my only friend. I don't care... because if it's for you, I'll stay trapped in this endless maze... forever.

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“	I wish… I wish I can meet Miss Kaname all over again. But this time, instead of her protecting me, I wanna be strong enough to protect her!	„
	~ Homura's wish to Kyubey

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As I am now, I'm not a witch anymore. Something that could bring down a god and imprison her...I suppose you could only call such a being a demon.

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Background

Homura Akemi is one of the main characters in Puella Magi Madoka Magica. She is first seen by Madoka Kaname in a dream of her fighting a monster in a desolate landscape of skyscrapers. The day after the dream, Homura has transferred to Madoka's school where she gives her ominous warnings.

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Background Homura's backstory was revealed in episode 10. She was a transfer student who was hospitalized for a long period of time due to heart disease. The whereabouts and status of her family is unknown, as they are never mentioned in the series. In the original timeline, Homura at this point is physically frail and weak most likely due to her illness. She wears glasses and braided hair in her early insecure depiction shown in episode 10. Later in that episode with renewed determination she undoes her braids and uses her soul gem to correct her vision and to heal her heart condition. From then on she no longer required the use of glasses. Anime Homura's time-loop officially starts on the 16th of the month in the anime (speculated to be sometime between March and April). She was released from the hospital on the 16th, and transferred to Mitakihara Middle School on the 25th. In the original timeline, she is attacked by a witch and saved by Madoka and Mami. Sometime during the next month, during Walpurgisnacht, she becomes a magical girl while wishing to redo her meeting with Madoka, thus gaining the power to pause and/or rewind time one month. It is estimated Homura repeated the same month starting on the 16th nearly 100 times before the present timeline in the TV anime. Within these timelines, Homura was able to gradually improve her abilities and acquire items (such as ammunition and weapons from the Japanese military) to prepare for the battle with Walpurgisnacht. She was also able to memorize and deduce through statistics the major events that would occur within all timelines, giving her incredible knowledge about most of her adversaries. The corollary, however, was that Homura experienced the deaths of many of her friends repeatedly, often horrifically. As a general trend, Homura became increasingly distant to Madoka with each repeat of the month. By the timeline of the TV anime, Homura appeared as a cold and calculating character who is distant from all the characters. She failed to save all of her companions (apart from Madoka), and by Walpurgisnacht, was forced to face the witch alone. She was subsequently defeated by Walpurgisnacht, and seemed just about to succumb to despair before Madoka appears and rewrites the universe with her wish. After Madoka's revision of the universe, Homura is the only known character to retain her memories of the previous universe. She has possession of Madoka's ribbon, and has a new black bow as her weapon similar to Madoka's weapon. It is unknown if she retained her abilities to manipulate time and space. Homura is shown to have a much closer relationship with Kyubey, so much so she even confides an entire account about how the old universe worked. She also has the ability to create wings of energy, forming angelic wings when confronting Wraiths in the city, and jagged dark wings when walking through the desert. Wraith Arc Homura appears in the first pages of chapter 1 in flashback. She is shown saying her goodbyes to Madoka as in the last episode of the anime, with Madoka promising to meet her again and giving Homura her ribbons. She doesn't appear again until the end of chapter 2 after Sayaka has been led away by the Law of Cycles and Mami and Kyoko are standing at the station. Homura is introduced as the new transfer student and she leaves the class in order to meet with Mami and Kyoko on the rooftop, Homura wiping away a tear as she remembers meeting Madoka for the first time. They tell Homura about the giant wraith that has been seen lately and agree not to hunt it on their own. After several days of combing the city for the giant wraith and hunting down other more common wraiths, Homura has a short discussion with Kyubey about Madoka and the previous universe. Soon after, she encounters the giant wraith alone and attempts to defeat it herself by unleashing a large arrow of magic at it which takes on the form of a bird. However the giant wraith withstands the attack and is able to surprise Homura and overwhelm her, stealing a portion of her power. A smaller wraith steals Madoka's ribbon from her as well. After a nightmare, Homura wakes up in Mami's apartment, with Mami bringing her a tray of tea and many lecturing words. She asks Homura to transform into a magical girl, which she does successfully, and then to summon her weapon, which she cannot. Mami concludes that the wraiths stole a portion of Homura's power but has no idea on how to retrieve it. Homura is impatient to go and retrieve her powers, but Mami cautions her to play it safe and leave everything up to her and Kyoko. Homura alters her memories slightly before thanking Mami and leaving. In the city, Homura talks with Kyubey about the memory-manipulation magic she now has and her lack of time-stopping ability. She takes off to search the city when Kyoko runs into Homura while patrolling the streets. She assures Homura she won't tell Mami she saw her up and about knowing Mami would only lecture her further. When asked why she remains in the city despite Sayaka having disappeared, Kyoko responds she is still here to avenge Sayaka. Kyoko agrees to help Homura in finding and defeating the wraith provided she is the one to give the final blow. Despite using grief cubes, Homura finds her magical power has yet to recover which Kyubey explains is due to her soul gem's lack of capacity after the wraiths stole some of her power. As Homura sits in the park at night, Kyoko walks up to her telling her she's found a clue about the wraiths. Before Homura can come closer, Mami appears and fires at Kyoko, revealing her to be another mutant wraith that had taken on the form of Kyoko with the intent of attacking Homura. Mami summons several muskets and together her and Homura are able to hold off the wraiths but not for long. During the fight, Homura realizes the wraith is using time-manipulation magic. After a voice gives Homura advice, the two magical girls are able to overcome the wraiths' time-stopping ability and seemingly defeat the Wraith-Kyoko with Mami's Tiro Finale. After, the real Kyoko appears and informs them of the fake Sayaka and they agree on rules in order to limit their ability to be taken by surprise by the mutant wraiths. Mami and Kyoko leave, leaving Homura alone. She hears the voice from earlier once more and turns to see Madoka standing before her. However, this is not the real Madoka but a wraith who has taken on her form. She returns Madoka's ribbon to Homura before asking for her help in stopping the giant wraith. The fake Madoka explains how wraiths really work before explaining that the magic they took from Homura corrupted the wraiths, resulting in the mutant wraiths that take on human form. Despite Homura's reluctance in believing her story, she has the wraith follow her back to her apartment. There, Kyubey examines the wraith and confirms it carries a part of Homura's power in her. After several weeks of searching for the giant wraith, Homura and Wraith-Madoka are no closer to finding the whereabouts of the giant wraith. Wraith-Madoka asks Homura what she really thinks of her since she is taking the form of her most precious friend. Homura snaps at the wraith, telling her she is nothing more than a fake for which Homura holds no shred of emotion for and threatens to kill her for insulting Madoka's wish. But the wraith tells her she is lying to herself and that she is not only a wraith but also Homura's heart. Mami and Kyoko decide to begin their search from the beginning. Mami is upset to find that Homura had been searching for the giant wraith alone and worries that something may happen to her. Homura snaps at both Mami and Kyoko before taking off. Alone, Homura asks Kyubey what she wished for in order to become a magical girl but Kyubey doesn't know the answer to that. Homura worries that she may have used her memory-altering magic on herself in order to turn her dream of Madoka into memories instead. Wraith-Madoka catches up with Homura and offers to walk her home but not before Mami and Kyoko run into them. However, to Mami and Kyoko the wraith looks nothing like Madoka and only has the form of a mutant wraith wrapped around Homura. They transform into magical girls and prepare to rescue Homura, but Homura instead begs the wraith to save her from being a magical girl. The wraith takes Homura's soul gem and teleports them from the area, leaving Mami and Kyoko behind. At Homura's apartment, Homura and Wraith-Madoka sit in front of her many monitors and watch as a flashback plays out in which Homura makes her original wish to Kyubey to protect Madoka. Kyubey appears only to admonish Homura for having a wraith eat all of her emotions in order to avoid meeting the Law of Cycles. Outside, the wraiths begin their attack on the city, leaving people dead rather than simply emotionless. As Mami and Kyoko fight their respective battles, Wraith-Madoka and Homura watch from a nearby rooftop. Before the wraiths can bring the final blow to Mami, Wraith-Madoka takes the ribbon from Homura and unleashes several arrows from the air in Madoka's characteristic attack, protecting Mami. The wraith appears as Madoka to even Mami now that she has her ribbon. Together the wraith and Mami are able to work together to take down the two imposters. By this time the giant wraith has been consumed by the power it took from Homura and transforms into a witch-like creature complete with familiars. The wraith and Mami fight off the familiars but not before Kyoko and Mami are killed by the giant wraith. Wraith-Madoka continues in her struggle to defeat the witch-like wraith alone, but is overwhelmed and soon plummets to her death. Homura watches the battle dispassionately until she suddenly recovers herself and runs to catch the falling wraith. She realizes that Madoka is not a dream as the witch that stands before her is the proof that Madoka existed. Homura regains her original memories. Upon arriving to the new universe, she discovered that her time-manipulation shield no longer worked and she initially discarded it only to have the shield open a small portal to another world. Homura jumps into the world inside her shield and discovers Kriemhild Gretchen inside. Before she can destroy the shield, she realizes that if a witch is inside her shield then Madoka may also be inside fighting the witch. Instead, Homura used her magic to alter her own memories and causes herself to forget the existence of the time shield. After Homura and Wraith-Madoka land on the streets below, Homura reaches for the ribbon the wraith is holding and finds herself transported to another world. Her appearance changes to her original appearance with glasses and braids. There, she meets a doppelganger of herself who introduces itself as the personification of Homura's power that was stolen by the wraiths. It explains they are inside the world of her soul gem and that it was freed when the wraith that housed it was destroyed. After being stolen by the wraiths, her magical power was able to take control of one of the mutant wraiths in order to assist Homura. Homura asks her magical power what caused the wraiths to go rogue and her magic explains that it was due to the time manipulation magic coming from another universe with different laws. When Madoka and Homura parted ways in the space outside of the universe, their feelings for each other were so strong that a true miracle occurred and their feelings crystallized into a new soul gem for Homura. Because a miracle was granted to a magical girl without a normal exchange, it became separate from the laws of the universe and was considered in incomplete magic. After some time, this new magic began to interfere with her original magic, causing her shield and Madoka to suddenly link up. After Homura erased her memories of the shield, the wraiths stole the shield and were consumed by the curses that were contained within. Because the curses were a form of emotional energy not known in this universe, it corrupted the wraiths and caused the giant wraith to become a witch destined to destroy the world. Homura's thoughts take on the form of Sayaka, Kyoko and Mami who voice her self doubts in having rewritten her own memories rather than lose the shield and her proof of Madoka's existence. Homura takes off her glasses and undoes her braids, filled with a new resolve to protect Madoka even at the cost of her shield. She asks her magic to lend her power once more and her magic power takes on the form of her soul gem. Filled with power once more, Homura unleashes several hundred arrows that destroy the smaller wraiths and familiars before firing a single large arrow at the witch. As she drives the arrow further in, the witch cracks open and reveals the face of Kriemhild Gretchen and her shield inside. As Homura reaches for her shield, the witch uses its power to stab Homura through several times in an attempt to stop her. But Madoka appears before Homura and helps push her the last few inches towards the shield. As Homura touches the shield, it crumbles to pieces and the witch is obliterated. Back inside her soul gem, her magical power incarnate holds a sleeping Homura in her hands as she explains that Madoka has reset the timeline of this universe in order to prevent the curses of the previous world from interfering. Unlike last time however, Homura will lose her memories of the previous timeline. Homura snaps to alertness as she realizes she is standing at the station with Mami and Kyoko, Sayaka having just been led away by the Law of Cycles. Some time later, Homura is having the same discussion with Kyubey concerning Madoka and the previous universe. As Homura drops down to destroy the wraiths in the streets below, Kyubey reveals a piece of Homura's shield it managed to salvage and explains how he kept his memories of the previous timeline. Now that he has a piece of the shield and proof of Homura's story concerning the Law of Cycles, he and the other Incubators can now plan for a way in which they can capture Madoka. The chapter ends as Homura is walking in the desert, ready to take on a hoard of wraiths as several Incubators watch from atop some nearby ruins. The Rebellion Story In events prior to The Rebellion Story Homura was captured by the Incubators, and her Soul Gem was placed in an Isolation Field that blocked out the Law of Cycles. This strain led Homura to transform partially into a witch without her knowledge. In this form, she also unconsciously created a labyrinth that was a near-perfect replica of Mitakihara City, and unconsciously lured her former acquaintances into it. She even drew in Madoka from the Law of Cycles, who entered the barrier along with Sayaka and Nagisa Momoe. In this dream world, Homura unconsciously distorted almost everyone's memories (including her own) so that they believed they were living in the real world fighting new enemies called Nightmares. In order to stop the Incubators from fulfilling their goal, Madoka entrusted her memories and powers to Sayaka and Nagisa. Sayaka only pretended to have her memories altered, while Nagisa disguised herself as Charlotte/Bebe. Eventually Homura realizes that she's trapped in a witch's barrier and attempts to discover who is behind it. Near the end of her journey she has a conversation with Madoka that causes her to realize that she can't accept Madoka's sacrifice. At this point she begins to realize she is the witch, and confirms it when she separates herself from her Soul Gem without consequence. At this point Kyubey appears and explains the truth about Homura's present nature and the Incubators' plan to control the Law of Cycles. This causes Homura to go berserk and curse her existence, completing her transformation into a witch known as Homulilly. Madoka and the other magical girls manage to rescue Homura by destroying the stasis field containing them all, returning them to reality. Due to the Isolation Field, Homura only became a witch inside her own Soul Gem, allowing Madoka to save her. Ultimate Madoka arrives to take Homura away as per the Law of the Cycle. However, Homura grabs Madoka first. Her Soul Gem turns black, then fills with swirling colors that Nagisa calls worse than curses. Reality begins to crack as Homura separates Madoka from her goddess self. The colors burst out of her Soul Gem, and both the cracks and colors engulf the entire universe. Homura and Kyubey reappear in the same place where Madoka ascended in Episode 12. Homura shatters her Soul Gem in her mouth, and a new gem appears called the Dark Orb. Kyubey exclaims that Homura is rewriting the universe, and asks what happened to her Soul Gem. Homura explains that she remembered all of the times she repeated time, and all of the pain she suffered for Madoka's sake. She says that even this pain has become precious to her, tainting her Soul Gem with something greater than curses. As she swallows the Dark Orb, she calls it the pinnacle of human emotions: Love. Homura transforms into a new form and grows a pair of black wings. Kyubey says that Homura is no longer a magical girl or a witch, and asks what Homura is now. Homura that since she brought down and imprisoned god, it's only appropriate to call her a demon (akuma). Kyubey decides that it was a mistake to experiment with human emotions and flees, but Homura grabs him and says she still needs his existence to deal with all the curses of the world. Homura effectively becomes a goddess of this new universe. Apart from her true nature as a demon, she still exists with a human form in the real world and can interact normally with everyone else. She appears to have the power to manipulate the memories of virtually anyone she pleases, but otherwise the full extent of her abilities are unknown. It is assumed that Homura is a deity that primarily embodies love (whereas Madoka embodies hope). Homura is presently holding a fraction of the Goddess Madoka captive--specifically, the part that was Madoka Kaname before she became the Law of Cycles. It is also implied she is placing the world's curses onto Kyubey. Despite proclaiming herself as a demon, Madoka, Sayaka, Kyoko, Mami, and Nagisa are all given happy lives in her new world.

Statistics

Key: Pre-Wraith Arc | Post-Wratih Arc | Homulily | Akuma Homura

Tier: 9-A, Far Higher with Hundreds of Explosives. 2-B through Chain Reaction | At least 7-B | At least 7-B | 2-C

Name: Homura Akemi

Origin: Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Sex: Female

Age: 14, though Homura has reset time so much to the point that she's technically mentally far above the age of 14

Classification: Human, Magical Girl, Witch, Demon

Status: Alive, Other as Akuma Homura (She has the same level of existence as Ultimate Madoka, who after destroying her witch, her life has ceased to have either a beginning or end. Madoka's existence shfiting into a higher plane and becoming nothing more then a concept, where no one can perceive her any longer and likewise she can't interact with anyone else)

Alignment: Initially Lawful Good (A girl that simply wanted to become a magical girl and help Madoka Kaname and others save the world from witches), becomes Chaotic Neutral after several resets (Homura only cares to do whatever to make it where Madoka Kaname does not become a magical girl or die, though she does show some care as she went to get Sayaka Miki's soul gem after it was dropped off a bridge), Chaotic Neutral as Akuma Homura (While Madoka believes one shouldn't change laws even if it's to benefit others, Akuma Homura believes the exact opposite, removing Madoka's places as Ultimate Madoka and becoming a demon in order to make a world where there are no magical girls, wraiths, or witches)

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Room level (Easily defeated a large sized witch that killed Mami Tomoe. Comparable to the likes of Sayaka Miki who killed the likes of H.N. Elly who is this large in size. Comparable to Mami Tomoe, who can defeat a witch of this size), Far Higher with Hundreds of Explosives (Plantedd hundreds of explosives on Walpurgisnacht that caused a massive explosion beyond any of her other ones). Multiverse Cell level (Through Homura's constant resets, she's made it here so many threads of fate gather tightly around Madoka Kaname, making her into a powerful magical girl through Homura repeatedly turning back time, causing a side effect where multiple timelines converged together and centered them all on the existence of Madoka Kaname, where she now has threads of fate of seperate timelines linking to her current timeline self making her magical potential so impossibly huge, where all of the Karmic Destiny set spinning in all those different timelines all attached to Madoka) | At least City level (The power of her magic was so strong it completely defeated the Spindle Witch, a giant wraith that was fueled by the negative power of Ultimate Madoka's witch that was within Homura's shield, with it carrying enough power to bring an end to all life on Earth, due to its sheer power, it should be superior to Madoka Kaname from the previous timeline at the end of the original series, who took down Walpurgisnacht with a single shot. Walpurgisnacht upon merely waking up destroyed a huge portion of the city. Due to her sheer strength she should be far above the fusion of Walpurgisnacht and a witch which was noted that it would destroy the entire city from the shockwave alone) | At least City level (Became enough of a problem where Sayaka Miki from the laws of cycles needed to defeat her) | Universe level (Enveloped the entire universe after splitting Ultimate Madoka from her body and has an existence on the same level as her. Noted to have pull a sacred, godlike entity from heaven and overcome her authority. Noted that if she wanted to, she could destroy the universe. Ultimate Madoka's soul gems power was noted to bring forth enough hope to give birth to an entire univrse and enough despair to bring an end to the entire universe)

Durability: Room level. Her Magical Girl Physiology makes her difficult to kill | At least City level. Her Magical Girl Physiology makes her difficult to kill | At least City level. Her Witch Girl Physiology makes her difficult to kill | Universe level. Her physiology apart of the Law of Cycles makes her extremely difficult to kill

Striking Strength: Room Class | At least City Class | At least City Class | Universe Class

Lifting Strength: Superhuman (Comparable to Mami Tomoe who can lift a giant gun cannon with ease) | Superhuman | Superhuman | Unknown

Travel Speed: Superhuman (Comparable to Sayaka Miki, who is able to move so fast that she can only be seen as a blue beam or an afterimage) | Superhuman | Superhuman | Unknown

Combat Speed: Supersonic | FTL, Higher with Magic | FTL, Higher with Magic | Unknown

Reaction Speed: Supersonic (Avoioded various gunshots from Mami Tomoe during their gun fight. Comparable to Sayaka Miki, who was able to block hundreds of bullets from Holy Mami) | FTL, Higher with Magic (Magical Girls are able to dodge multiple lasers being shot at them at once by a group of Wraths. Sayaka was able to take on an entire hoard of these Wraiths while weakened without getting hit once) | | FTL, Higher with Magic | Unknown

Stamina: Superhuman+ (Comparable to Sayaka Miki who can fight for weeks straight without showing much tiring)

Range: Standard Melee Range, Dozens of Meters with Explosives, Hundreds of Meters with Guns, Kilometers with Curtain Fire (Can unleash a massive amount of blasts that come from the sky, covering near a city), Universal with Time Manipulation, Multiversal Cell with Fate Manipulation & Causality Manipulation (Through Homura's constant resets, she's made it here so many threads of fate gather tightly around Madoka Kaname, making her into a powerful magical girl through Homura repeatedly turning back time, causing a side effect where multiple timelines converged together and centered them all on the existence of Madoka Kaname, where she now has threads of fate of seperate timelines linking to her current timeline self making her magical potential so impossibly huge, where all of the Karmic Destiny set spinning in all those different timelines all attached to Madoka), High Multiversal with Time Travel (When Homura goes back in time, she is going to alternate universes which there are infinite universes) & as Akuma Homura (Comparable to Ultimate Madoka who unleashed a massive amount of arrow attacks across all timelines. Can travel across the many universes to stop witches from transforming, which has infinite universes)

Intelligence: Genius (Can easily solve math problems with no issue. Learned how to create explosives. Noted her marksmanship is up there with the best of them, being complimented by Mami Tomoe). Cosmic as Akuma Homura (As Akuma Homura she is comparable to Ultimate Madoka, who has become one with the laws of cycles, she can now see everything that ever has or will happen, both the universes that could have been and the universes that might one day be)

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Powers and Abilities

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Multilingualism (Magical Girls are able to understand Bebe, who speaks in only gibberish), Weapon Mastery (Homura is a skilled user of firearms, being capable of using guns in combat, along with this she can use bombs in combat), Acrobatics (Able to easily flip over the beam), Pressure Points (Chopped Sayaka Miki on the neck to knock her out), Dimensional Storage (Magical Girls are able to store weapons in their soul gems or other parts of their bodies), Magic (As noted by their name, Magical Girls are able to use magic, with in some cases their miracles being strong enough to form their magic as other versions of themselves that can converse with them and plan out ideas), Immortality (Type 6; Magical Girl’s bodies are stated to be like zombies or an empty shell for their souls to possess, where there body can take lethal blows without them dying), Pain Tolerance (The bodies of a Magical Girl experience far less pain than a normal human would. This insures that they are able to fight at peak performance despite receiving fatal injuries. Kyubey also states that their are able to completely block out the pain from their body), Healing (Mid; Kyubey states that if all of the organs in ones body get destroyed and every last drop of blood escapes ones body, Magical Girls are able to heal themselves to continue fighting. Magical Girls are able to heal their body parts with magic. Magical Girls can heal injuries on people such as when Mami healed Kyubey's injuries), Extrasensory Perception (Magical Girls can see witches, who are invisibile to normal people), Limited Avatar Creation (Magical Girls are able to possess fake bodies that are much stronger than their normal bodies), Limited Telepathy (All magical girls are able to use telepathy in order to communicate with other people around them), Limited Enhanced Senses (Magical Girls are able to pick up the magic trail of a witch with their soul gems), Limited Wish Granting (Through forming a contract with Kyubey, one wish can be granted from him), Limited Law Manipulation & Reality Warping (Magical Girls can cause miracles that overcome the laws of the world, with their desire taking form, allowing things such as Homura to remember Madoka even after she became a concept and has been conceptually erased from the entire multiverse), Transformation & Cloth Manipulation (Type 1; Magical Girls are able to create cloths to transform and can use these cloths in order to attack or restrain opponents. Type 3; Magical Girls through not purifying their soul gem can become corrupted and turn into witches), Air Manipulation (Casualy blew away all the smoke from a fire extinguisher), Curse Negation (Magical Girls can negate curses placed by witches), Power Bestowal (Magical Girls are able to give magical powers to regular objects, amplifying it’s normal properties), Summoning (Magical Girls are able to summon multiple weapons from their bodies), Restoration (Magical Girls are able to use their magic in order to keep their or another person’s body from decomposing), Dimensional Travel (Magical Girls are able to open up portals that send them to different locations or into labyrinths), Self-Destruction (Magical Girls can overload their soulgem to self-destruct), Forcefield Creation (Magical Girls are able to create forcefields to protect themselves from attacks), Telekinesis (Magical Girls are able to take control of and move objects with their magic), Flight (Magical Girls are able to fly), Clairvoyance (Magical Girls are able to see other Magical Girls through their soul gems), Dream Manipulation (Magical Girls are able to go into dreams and interact with them), Spatial Manipulation (Magical Girls are able to break open an isolation field, which is created by isolation a soul gem in a separate space so that the Law of Cycles can’t enter), Hair Manipulation (Magical Girls are able to change their hair style with magic), Subjective Reality (Magical girls are able to create things that they want, like when everyone created a fruit that they wanted to be. Sayaka was also able to pull a violin from a piece of paper and gave it form), BFR (Type 2; All magical girls are able to put objects and people inside of their soul gems and trap them there forever), Purification (Magical Girls are able to create Doppels that completely purify the user’s soul gems and give them an enormous power boost), Statistics Amplification (Magical Girls are able to create Doppels that completely purify the user’s soul gems and give them an enormous power boost. Magical Girls are able to connect with other magical sources, in order to greatly boost their magical powers and combine different properties to their abilities), Fusionism & Statistics Boost (Magical Girls are able to do a combined attack through forming in a line and holding up their soul gems), Pocket Reality Manipulation (Magical Girls have an entire pocket reality inside of their soul gem where they can directly speak with their magic), Time Manipulation & Time Travel (Homura is noted that she is able to turn back time to try and stop Madoka from becoming a magical girl. Homura has shown to stop time to stop a fight between Sayaka Miki and Kyoko Sakura, stopped time to get Sayaka's soul gem after Madoka's threw it off a bridge. Noted by Kyubey that she has time magic. Fully stopped time to run from Sayaka Miki in her witch form. With Suspend Time, skip enemies moves for five turns. With Space Leap, instantly moves to current floor's starting point. With Clockdown, inflicts slow status effect to enemy in front. With Clockup, grants fast status boost to all party members), Fate Manipulation & Causality Manipulation (Through Homura's constant resets, she's made it here so many threads of fate gather tightly around Madoka Kaname, making her into a powerful magical girl through Homura repeatedly turning back time, causing a side effect where multiple timelines converged together and centered them all on the existence of Madoka Kaname, where she now has threads of fate of seperate timelines linking to her current timeline self making her magical potential so impossibly huge, where all of the Karmic Destiny set spinning in all those different timelines all attached to Madoka), Weapon Dimension (Her shield contains an entire alternate dimension within it that's also described as a 4th-dimensional pocket that she can store all her objects in), Statistics Amplification (With MP control level 1, magic consumption goes down by 5%. With Weakness Analysis Lv 1, critical rate goes up by 10%, with range lv 1, range damage dealt by her goes up by 10%, with melee defense level 1, melee damage inflicted to her goes down by 15%), Statistics Reduction (With Range Resist Lv 1, range damage inflicted to her goes down by 15%), Power Nullification (With Negate Drain, negates magic absorb and drain effects, with negate spec. stat effects, negates madness, attack inefficency, hallucination, & sleep status effects. With Negate Slow, negates slow status effect. With Careful Caution, recieves no critical hits from enemies), Supernatural Thievery (With Steal, chance to steal enemy's held item when she attacks), Corrosion Inducement (With The Black Wings of Corrosion, black wings corrode the surrounding area, dealing huge damage). Resistance to Curse Manipulation & Empathic Manipulation (Magical Girls are unaffected by a Witches curse, which is noted by Kyubey that their curse causes people to commit suicide and fall to despair), Mind Manipulation (Magical Girls are unaffected by the witch’s kiss, which mind controls people to try and kill themselves), Memory Manipulation (Magical Girls can still remember the magical girls killed in the world of the witches, where no one else remembers their existence), Lifeforce Absorption (Magical Girls are unaffected by Witches ability to drain the life force out of the people who are weak minded), Soul Manipulation (They are able to survive having their souls ripped out of their bodies. They are also able to survive having their souls be apart from their bodies), Physics Manipulation (Magical Girls are not bound by the laws of thermodynamics), Body Puppetry, and Fusionism (Magical Girls are able to connect with a person’s mind, which makes them snap out of the trance and possession that they were under), Time Manipulation (Noted by Kyubey that Homura like Goddess Madoka can use magic that reaches beyond time), Reality Warping (As she has magic like Goddess Madoka that can be used beyond time, she is unaffected by the rewriting of the universe and can witness it)

All previous powers and abilities to a greater extent though she lost her ability to manipulate time, Empowerment (All Magical Girls strength comes from their will to keep fighting and emotions), Extrasensory Perception (Magical Girls can see wraiths who are mysterious life-forms normal people cannot see), Immortality (When magical girls die, they will have their souls anish and reach Ultimate Madoka in the law of cycles), Curtain Fire (Can unleash a massive amount of blasts that come from the sky, covering near a city), Divine Protection (Homura is seemingly protected by Ultimate Madoka, surviving her encounter with the wraiths), Memory Manipulation (Homura has memory manipulation magic that allows her to erase people's memories). Limited Resistance to Law Manipulation (Due to Homura and Madoka's miracle of wanting to remember each other, they overcame the laws of the world, allowing Homura to remember Madoka and the previous world that Ultimate Madoka rewrote, this also allowed Homura to store Madoka's witch, a power that lies outside the world's laws), Resistance to Corruption & Empathic Manipulation (Magical Girls resist the wraiths ability to fill the world with corruption and consume emotions)

Personal Domain & Pocket Reality Manipulation (All witches are able to make labyrinths, in which they are able to summon familiars and is where they are the strongest), Pocket Reality Manipulation (Witches are able to freely manipulate their labyrinths), Curtain Fire (Witches are able to shoot many various attacks within their labryinth), Curse Manipulation & Empathic Manipulation (Witches are able to able to spread curses that cause people to commit suicide), Mind Manipulation (Passive; With their curses, witches are able to brain wash people), Invisibility (Witches are completely invisible to humans), Life Absorption (Passive; Witches are able to drain the life force out of the people who are in despair), Duplication (Witches are able to create familiars, who will eventually turn into the same witch as they broke off from), BFR (Type 1; Witches are able to take people inside of their labyrinth forcibly), Immersion and Deconstruction (Witches are able to tear apart a person’s body and suck them into objects like televisions), Fire Manipulation (While turning into a witch, Homura was able to passively set the entire city on fire), Severing (Homura ripped Ultimate Madoka from her body, splitting her in two and gained her abilities)

All previous powers and abilities to a far greater extent, Invisibility (Cannot be seen by anyone except members of the law of cycles), Memory Manipulation (Messed with the memories of Madoka Kaname, Sayaka Miki, and Bebe), Empathic Manipulation (Homura is able to take all of the despair and sadness from the universe and put it into a person all at once), Has the abilities of Godess Madoka: Curtain Fire (Unleashed a massive amount of arrow attacks across all timelines), Law Manipulation (Notes that she will rewrite and destroy all laws. The universe reorders itself based on Madoka's new laws. Homura notes during the Wraith Arc that Madoka has changed the law of the world to where Magical Girls take on the duty of defeating the Wraiths that infest the world), Reality Warping (Was noted to be re-writing the entire universe), Dimensional Travel (Can travel across the many universes to stop witches from transforming), Life Absorption & Empathic Manipulation (Can absorb the magical lifeforce and despair from a witch), Explosion Manipulation & Unlimited Ammo (With Shooting Star, shoot infinite arrows foward, causing a massive explosion), Enhanced Extrasensory Perception (Sayaka and Madoka are able to see things that other Magical Girls can’t, such as Akuma Homura's existence), Cosmic Intelligence & Cosmic Awareness (As Ultimate Madoka becomes one with the laws of cycles, she can now see everything that ever has or will happen, both the universes that could have been and the universes that might one day be), Transcendence, Singular Existence, & Acausality (Type 5; Madoka's life no longer has a beginning or end, ceasing being a member of the universe, no longer having any proof that she exists, her existence shfiting into a higher plane and becoming nothing more then a concept, where no one can perceive her any longer and likewise she can't interact with anyone else. Through constantly fighting witches forever, she has lost all traces of her individuality), Abstract Existence (Type 1; Madoka's existence shfiting into a higher plane and becoming nothing more then a concept, where no one can perceive her any longer and likewise she can't interact with anyone else[117]. Noted that she continues merely as a concept, a principle that destroys witches), Immortality (Type 2; [https://imgur.com/a/mP5MrQz After destroying her witch, her life has ceased to have either a beginning or end), Omnipresence (Type 3; Madoka has both the past and future within her, being everywhere and anywhere within the universe), Immutable Will (Has been noted she will keep her hope and it will never change even after she loses all traces of her individuality), Wish Granting Negation (Madoka can negate all wishes made), Existence Erasure (Type 3; Noted that when a magical girls soul gets corrupted, its erased from existence as they become apart of the laws of cycles). Resistance to Fate Manipulation (Through making her wish, she broke the karmic destiny of fate itself), Law Manipulation (Notes that she will go against any of the laws), Power Nullification (Sayaka and Madoka are able to still use their Magical Girl powers despite magical girls not existing in the new universe), Memory Manipulation (Sayaka and Madoka were able to remember past events when nobody else was able to. Even when Homura tried to erase their memories, they were still able to remember some events from the past)

Purification (Magical Girls are able to purify their soul gems with grief seeds), Light Manipulation (Can summon a flash grenade to create a great flash of light), Explosion Manipulation (Can create and utilize explosives to cause masive explosions), Status Effect Inducement (With Flash Grenade, throws a flash grenade foward that inflicts the attack inefficiency status effect), Unlimited Ammo (With Anti-Tank Artillery, attack with infinite rocket launchers)

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Standard Equipment

• Shield: Her shield, which is actually a sand timer has given her the ability to turn back time approximately going back one month ago. Her shield can also make projectile protections. Her shield can also be used as a storage device for her weapons which she takes from Japanese military bases.

• Golf Club: A blunt weapon she uses for attacks.

• Magical Arrow: Pierce attack one line in front with a magical arrow.

• Time Bomb: Throw a bomb one line in front.

• High Caliber Pistol: Fire a bullet one line in front.

• Team Fire Support: Fire bullets at random one line in front.

• Anti-Tank Artillery: Attack with infinite rocket launchers.

• Anti-Ship Missile: Fire an anti-ship missile, dealing huge damage.

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Notable Techniques

*Time Manipulation: Her time manipulation comes from her shields ability and is the special ability she gained from becoming a magical girl, with it Homura can stop time for all people not in contact with her, and as long as her shield isn't attacked.

• Weapons Expert: As her time magic alone wouldn't be enough to deal with threats, Homura had to learn how to make explosives and use guns in combat, allowing her to use it in conjunction with her time abilities to defeat enemies.

*Blunt: Strike the enemy with a golf club.

• Blunts and More Blunts: Whacks the enemy with a golf club.

• Hazmat Class 4: Summons a tanker, causing a huge explosion.

*Magical Arrow: Pierce attack one line in front with a magical arrow.

• Time Bomb: Throw a bomb one line in front.

• High Caliber Pistol: Fire a bullet one line in front.

• Team Fire Support: Fire bullets at random one line in front.

• Anti-Tank Artillery: Attack with infinite rocket launchers.

• Anti-Ship Missile: Fire an anti-ship missile, dealing huge damage.

• The Black Winds of Corrosion: Black wings corrode the surrouding area, dealing huge damage.

*Delay Mine: Places a landmine right in front of her.

• Suspend Time: Skip enemy moves for five turns.

• Space Leap: Instantly move to current floor's starting point.

• Clockdown: Inflict slow status effect to enemy in front.

• Clockup: Grant fast status boost to all party members.

• Flash Grenade: Throw a flash grenade foward, inflicting an attack ineffiency status effect.

*MP Control Lv 1: Magic consumption goes down by 5%.

• Weakness Analysis Lv 1: Critical Rate increases by 10%.

• Range Lv 1: Range damage dealt by her increases by 10%.

• Melee Defense Lv 1: Melee Damage inflicted to her goes down by 15%.

• Range Resist Lv 1: Range damage inflicted to her goes down by 15%.

• Careful Caution: Receives no critical hits from enemies.

• Steal: Chance to steal enemy's held item when she attacks.

• Negate Slow: Negates the slow status effect.

• Negate Spec. Stat Effects: Negates madness, attack ineffiency, hallucination, and sleep status effects.

• Negate Drain: Negate magic absorb and drain effects.

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Other

Standard Tactics: Homura uses her time stop along with setting up various explosives and aims the bullets to hit a specific point of a target in time stop in order to defeat her opponents. | During the Wraith Arc, she has completely lost the ability to stop time and instead uses energy arrow attacks along with her ability to manipulate memories. | Once she becomes Akuma Homura she has not officially fought anyone, only being shown to have erased Sayaka and Madoka's memories and enveloping the entire universe when removing Madoka from her Ultimate form, thus she is likely a wildcard.

Weaknesses: Magical Girls lose control of their avatars if their soul gems are dozens of meters away from their bodies. If a Magical Girl blocks out the pain, their reaction time gets slowed by a bit. If there soul gem is at all destroyed, they will die. The more a magical girl uses magic, the more their soul gem becomes packed with impurities, making them unable to exert the full magic power. If the Magical Girls abuse their Doppels too much, they will fuse to them and become corrupted. Attacking her shield will make her unable to stop time. When the sand in the hourglass completely falls, Homura cannot use magic anymore and she can only stop time for a short period.

Note: When Homura is going back in time, she is crossing into different parallel worlds.

Note 2: There are alternate timeline Homura's all going to different alternate worlds.

Trivia

• At a Nitro+ Q&A Panel it was revealed that Homura went through almost 100 timelines. Q: How many timelines did Homura go through? A: Approaching 100.
  • If Homura really did loop the same month and a half nearly 100 times, she would technically be around 26-years old, having spent 12 years looping time. (Calculations here.) However, since her body is always reset along with time, she is still only 14-years old physically. In some interpretations, this would make Homura about twelve years older mentally than Madoka.
    • Since Homura's body stayed the same physical age throughout the loops, this implies that her brain does as well, and as such she would not have had the intervening 12 years of neurological development, and instead only an amount of extra memories from the loops that adds up to 12 years and the accompanying trauma.
• Homura finds a manual on how to make bombs from the internet. According to the Japanese Wikipedia, the manual is titled Hara Hara Tokei (腹腹時計, Hara Hara Tokei), published in March 1974 by a far-left terrorist organization.
  • Incidentally, the manual explains with illustrations that “Anyone with a middle-school level knowledge of chemistry can do it”.
• Homura is frequently referred to as "Homerun-chan" amongst Western fans, due to the similarity of the two names in Japanese, however she is frequently referred as "Homuhomu" (ほむほむ) within Japanese community. Homuhomu likely originated from the runes in Episode 3, one of which translates to "Homuhomu". Interestingly, when a homerun is enacted in sports, you (in addition to gaining a point/level) essentially get back where you started.
  • "Homuhomu" can be used as a verb as "do Homuhomu" (ほむほむする) which means to caress, console or take care of. The action of "do Homuhomu" is not defined exactly.
  • Originally started by the fan community it has been embraced and adopted by the industry to become part of the official language and usage.
  • Sometimes also jokingly refered to as "Homurika" due to shared similarity of circumstances (having to go through many timelines to prevent a tragedy) with Rika Furude (Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni) Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni spoilers.
• Some folks in 2ch nicknamed Homura's Residence Homu-home (ほむホーム, Homuhōmu) since Homu is a nickname for Homura, and Hōmu is "home" rendered in the Japanese syllabary. It should be noted that "homu" is more often used for dog houses and similar structures, with the English word "home" expressed using "uchi" (うち, which refers to one's own house or household), "ie" (いえ, which can refer to a physical house or a family lineage), or the honorific "otaku" (お宅, which refers to someone else's house or household).
• Apparently there is a rumor on the net that some weapons went "missing" at the JSDF and US military bases in Japan. There is only one official report regarding the missing/stolen weapons. It is not known if the rumors of the stolen missing weapons inspired their appearance in the series.
• In the Puella Magi Madoka Magica Official Guidebook "You Are Not Alone" Hanokage jokingly describes Homura as "Hommando" in her After-Recording Report comic, because of the excessive vast arsenal of weaponry she unleashes in Episode 11. Apparently the smörgåsbord of weaponry was added later, they were not originally depicted in the early stages of the screenplay.
  • One fan estimates that Homura used ¥ 1,383,040,300 Yen worth of military weaponry & equipment (that's $17,037,114 USD in today's dollars).[1]
• Homura is the strongest of the magical girls as long as no one discovers the nature of her power.
• In Audio commentary for Episode 4, Urobuchi liked Chiwa Saitou for the role because she had a "Dark Beauty" feeling.
  • In the Audio commentary for Episode 7, Chiwa Saitou explains she tried the role of Kyubey and Kyousuke first, until Gen Urobuchi convinced her to try the role of Homura.
  • Chiwa Saito explains that she found the character of Homura to be strong but also to be a weak/delicate girl. Aoi Yuuki adds that the Homura character had no other choice but to become strong.
    • Ryouko Shintani states that would be true for a character that has something or someone important to protect.

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