Puella Magi Madoka Magica
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica, also known simply as Madoka Magica, is a Japanese anime television series created by Magica Quartet, and animated by Shaft. The story follows a group of middle school girls,
Volume 1 Blu-ray cover, featuring the two protagonists, Madoka Kaname (right) and Homura Akemi (left)
Blu-ray box set for the anime series
Cosplay of Puella Magi Madoka Magica's cast at Comiket 83 in August 2013
Psychopomp
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Psychopomps are creatures, spirits, angels, demons, or deities in many religions whose responsibility is to escort newly deceased souls from Earth to the afterlife.
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
…makes a wish to stop the creation of all witches in the past, present, and future. The paradoxical nature of the wish causes her to transcend into a psychopomp form, called the "Law of Cycles", which is a new rule of the universe where magical girls are purified and disappear into a higher plane instead of…
Relief from a carved funerary lekythos at Athens: Hermes as psychopomp conducts the deceased, Myrrine, a priestess of Athena, to Hades, c. 430–420 BC (National Archaeological Museum of Athens)