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Madoka Magica Anime's Story 'Draft #0' to Be Published

The Japanese publisher Kadokawa Shoten announced that it will publish the Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Beginning Story book in November. The book will reproduce the entire "draft #0" of the story treatment that Gen Urobuchi (Fate/Zero) wrote for the television anime series that aired earlier this year. The book will cost 1,260 yen (about US$16.40).

Aniplex of America will release the anime itself with English subtitles and dubbing in North America at a date to be announced later. Aniplex describes the story as follows:

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 a 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 girls —

Urobuchi discussed the original concepts of the story in an interview with the Asahi Shimbun paper in August.

Source: Getchu via 0takomu

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