√Bestmadsofalltime ▪ Walpurgisnacht アニメMAD

I accept this as headcanon for a timeline when Homura rallied the girls together and still failed.

For anybody confused about this timeline: Homura goes back in time to save Madoka.  Unlike the anime timeline, when Mami offers her the grief seed as a peace offering, she accepts and forms an alliance with Mami.   Homura and Mami fight witches together while Sayaka and Madoka (who have yet to make contracts) watch; Homura kills Charlotte and Mami survives.   Sayaka makes her wish to save Kyousuke and becomes a magical girl, joining the team with Homura and Mami.  When Kyouko starts the duel with Sayaka, she's interrupted by Mami, her long-time old friend.  Realizing that Sayaka and Mami have an alliance, she drops the duel.  This causes her and Sayaka to become friends much more quickly than in the anime timeline, allowing her to save Sayaka from despair. Homura tells them that they all need to team up to fight Walpurgisnacht, which is going to manifest over their city.  They all work together in Homura's apartment coming up with their plans, and then they go to fight the witch. Meanwhile Madoka, tucked safely in the shelter, is worried sick about her friends.  Kyuubey tells her that becoming a magical girl might save them, and she decides to go find them and act as a potential backup. Mami is struck by a falling building and nearly killed, sapping most of her magic.  Realizing the true nature of magical girls, she shoots and destroys her soul gem rather than allow herself to turn into a witch. The other girls quickly realize that this witch is more powerful than they were anticipating, but keep fighting anyway.  Sayaka is injured and dies in Kyouko's arms despite Kyouko's desperate attempts to save her.  Empty with grief for Sayaka, Kyouko uses up most of her remaining magic in a blow to Walpurgisnacht and destroys her soul gem in the process. Homura realizes that she is now left to fight the witch alone.  Madoka, arriving on the scene, asks her what's happened to their friends and realizes that they've all been killed.  Believing that becoming a magical girl is the only way to save Homura, she prepares to make a contract with Kyuubey despite Homura begging her not to. In her desperation, Homura shoots Kyuubey to prevent the contract from being fulfilled.  But the situation is still incredibly dangerous, and still-mortal Madoka is struck by a falling building.  Homura is powerless to help, and Madoka is killed. Homura resets the timeline.

I think the most upsetting part about this video is that it's an absolute best-case scenario. Everyone is friends, everyone lives to work as a team to fight Walpurgisnacht... ...and they still get massacred.

man, even after years, i still come back to this amv. it's pure storytelling by visual and musics alone. you can tell sayaka turned into a magical girl because of the glimpse of her with kyosuke. you knew homura was talking about walpurgisnacht when kyoko was fighting sayaka. it is genuinely amazing.

my favorite part - when Kyoko sacrifices herself holding Sayaka in her arms :,D would've been pretty epic to see in the anime

This should seriously be an OVA.

Amazingly well done. The sad part is knowing that this story actually happened in some regard. Earlier timelines where Homura allowed herself to care about the others and cooperated as a team, only to watch everyone die one by one anyway.

Damn, whoever made this video did a great job. I could actually see a timeline like this being used in the anime. Plus I love the music.

2:00 basically what happens when you play as mami in grief syndrome, use tiro finale, and then get hit midway and lose most of your health and ragequit

I really like how this video creates a timeline all it's own, while remaining faithful to the original work. I can see something like this happening in the show or movies.

Whoever made this was the god of amv making

Head Canon: This is one of many failed timelines. ( It could be, ya know!)

The creator of this MAD, TeSh, also made an alternate version where the girls won (and Madoka was spared from making the contract). It is titled "進撃の魔弾" (Attack of the Magical Bullet) and set to the first OP of Attack on Titan. It is also awesome.

tbh this reminds me of the arc of Higurashi where Rika and her friends almost beat fate and make it out alive and things are going good and no one goes crazy and kills people, untill Takano starts killing everyone

The sad thing is that may have been canon......

Gotta say, the Madoka fandom has this uncanny ability to channel the skills of the source material that vastly outstripes any other fandom. This video creates an entirely new story that is just as sad as any official timeline, and the icing on the cake is that if you're like me you were probably too naive to see the ending coming this time, either.

This actually happened in the psp game. All of them survive, but at the end Homura creates a new timeline.

Few pieces of fanfiction match the tone of the original work so perfectly as this. (The tone of Madoka, of course, being doom. Doom doom doom doomy-doom. To be a magical girl is to be doomed.

Timeline #7, everyone. Now, shall we move on? opens portal to Timeline #8

Just translated what was on 1:26 Kyoko: Die Sayaka: Die Homura: No Future Mami: Die