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Madoka Magia x Witch on the Holy Night Crossover Art Unveiled

The Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Witch on the Holy Night franchises unveiled on Wednesday a collaboration illustration between their films this year. The collaboration illustration features the main characters of Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Walpurgisnacht: Rising and Witch on the Holy Night, Madoka Kaname and Aoko Aozaki, respectively.

The illustration is also appearing as a large banner at the Shinjuku Wald 9 movie theater in Tokyo between October 17 and 29, as well as on special B5-size flyers distributed at the Shinjuku Wald 9 and at the former Mizuho Bank Tokushima Branch building during the Machi Asobi event in Tokushima between October 17 and 18.

Fans who submit a photo of a Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Walpurgisnacht: Rising ticket and a Witch on the Holy Night advance movie ticket dated between October 14 and November 6 can enter to win one of 100 posters of the art. Fans can enter the drawing between October 14 and November 9.

Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Walpurgisnacht: Rising opened on August 28 in Japan as the sequel to Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie Part 3: Rebellion. Prior to its release, the film's staff asked fans to refrain from posting spoilers of the film until September 12. The film also collaborated with the Monogatari Series for a series of crossover shorts on August 27. The shorts debuted over the opening weekend of Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Walpurgisnacht: Rising.

Witch on the Holy Night (Mahō Tsukai no Yoru) is the latest Type-Moon anime installment, set to open in theaters on November 20. The film was announced in December 2023.

The Witch on the Holy Night original visual novel's story is set in the late 1980s, and centers on protagonist Aoko Aozaki, one of two sister heirs to a long family line of modern mages. Although she is disinterested in magic, she is suddenly declared as the heir of the Aozaki family's magical art, and reluctantly begins her apprenticeship under Alice Kuonji, a young witch who lives in a lonely manor atop a hill. Aoko balances her duties of learning the arcane, while also serving as her school's student council president. She also makes the acquaintance of Sōjūrō Shizuki, a new transfer student who is unfamiliar with much of the modern world, and contends with the plots of her older sister Tōko Aozaki, who feels that her birthright has been denied.

Witch on the Holy Night was one of the first collaborations between Kinoko Nasu and artist Takashi Takeuchi in the mid-90s, preceding their founding of Type-Moon. Initially a novel, Nasu and Takeuchi only showed the draft to friends and did not officially release it. Type-Moon eventually developed it into a visual novel with graphics by Hirokazu Koyama that shipped in April 2012, with two sequels planned.

The story is noted for being one of the few tangible connections in the loosely connected "Nasuverse," the English-speaking fan term for the shared universe and cosmology in Type-Moon's works, including Tsukihime, Fate/stay night, and The Garden of Sinners. An older Aoko Aozaki is an early mentor to Tsukihime protagonist Shiki Tohno, while an older Tōko Aozaki is an employer to Garden of Sinners protagonist Shiki Ryōgi. Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon-, the remake of Type-Moon's Tsukihime dōjin visual novel game, launched in Japan for PlayStation 4 and Switch on August 26.

Aniplex released the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch version of the game in the West in December 2022, on the same day as the game's Japanese release date. The PS4 and Switch versions have sold more than 150,000 copies worldwide. Type-Moon most recently released the Witch on the Holy Night game on Steam in December 2023.

Sources: Puella Magi Madoka Magica's X/Twitter account, Witch on the Holy Night's X/Twitter account, Aniplex's website (link 2)