Aniplex has released a new trailer for the Puella Magi Madoka Magica -Walpurgisnacht: Rising- anime film, revealing the theme song “Kanata” by Fiction Junction.
Puella Magi Madoka Magica -Walpurgisnacht: Rising-will open on August 28 in theaters in Japan. Previously, the film was delayed from its original February 2026 release timing to an unannounced date due to “production circumstances.”
The cast and staff members include:
Cast
- Aoi Yūki as Madoka Kaname
- Chiwa Saito as Homura Akemi
- Kaori Mizuhashi as Mami Tomoe
- Eri Kitamura as Sayaka Miki
- Ai Nonaka as Kyōko Sakura
- Kana Asumi as Nagisa Momoe
- Emiri Katō as Kyubey
- Shion Wakayama as Shichōka
- Tomoyo Kurosawa as Selma Therese
Staff
- Original Creator: Magica Quartet
- Chief Director: Akiyuki Simbo
- Scriptwriter: Gen Urobuchi
- Character Designer: Ume Aoki
- Animation Charter Designer: Junichirō Taniguchi
- Composer: Yuki Kajiura
- Alternate Space Designer: Gekidan Inu Curry
- Studio: SHAFT
- Chief Animation Directors: Junichirō Taniguchi, Hiroki Yamamura
- Storyboard/Visual Concept Design: Tomohiro Furukawa
- Visual Concept Design: Kazuki Kawada
- Color Key Artist: Jin Hibino
- Art: Ken Naitō, Shūichi Kusamori
- Art Setting: Morihito Ōhara
- Compositing Director of Photography: Takayuki Aizu
- Editing: Rie Matsubara
- Sound Director: Yōta Tsuruoka
Aniplex initially released the horror fantasy anime in 2011, and over the years, it has received several anime, movie, and video game spin-offs. One recent example is the Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story anime, which aired with three seasons from 2020 to 2022. The entire series is streaming now on Crunchyroll.
Lastly, here’s an overview, via Crunchyroll:
She has a loving family and best friends, laughs and cries from time to time… Madoka Kaname, an eighth grader of Mitakihara middle school, is one of those who lives such a life. One day, she had a very magical encounter. She doesn’t know if it happened by chance or by fate yet. This is a fateful encounter that can change her destiny- This is a beginning of the new story of the magical witch girls-
