Recaps

Cangyue Yuri found Haihara Lily Chou wandering alone in the cold and brought her into the café, where she tried to warm and question her. Haihara revealed that she remembered Cangyue Yuri was a Magical Girl, leaving Cangyue Yuri scrambling to respond.

• Cangyue Yuri spotted Haihara Lily Chou outside the café and brought her inside to warm up.
• Haihara said she was waiting for someone, while Cangyue Yuri made her coffee and dealt with a customer who had confessed to her.
• Cangyue Yuri touched Haihara’s cold hand, and Haihara teased her about being popular before calling herself Cangyue Yuri’s little girlfriend.
• Haihara said she was joking and recalled that Cangyue Yuri had once told her she was a Magical Girl.
• Cangyue Yuri tried to dismiss the claim as a joke, but Haihara pointed out that Cangyue Yuri’s past behavior at her house supported it.

Cangyue Yuri learned that the amnesiac Haihara planned to meet a woman claiming to be a villainous female executive, and agreed to accompany her. Meanwhile, Takanashi, Kirishima Ai, and Kuroki Yuka sneaked into Star Flower Agency to find Sakaki Chika, unaware that a blood-red eye was watching them.

• Cangyue Yuri introduced herself to Haihara as Takanashi’s classmate, a Magical Girl, and Haihara’s little dog, then explained what she knew about Haihara’s past.
• Haihara showed Cangyue Yuri a message from a woman calling herself a villainous female executive and explained that she wanted answers about her past.
• Haihara told Cangyue Yuri she did not want others to make all her decisions for her, and Cangyue Yuri understood her unease.
• When Haihara’s contact arrived, Haihara asked Cangyue Yuri to accompany her, and Cangyue Yuri stood ready to go.
• Takanashi, Kirishima Ai, and Kuroki Yuka wore sunglasses and used magic to enter Star Flower Agency while searching for Sakaki Chika.
• A blood-red eyeball hidden inside a wildflower watched the Magical Girls, while agency staff mistook them for newcomers.

Takanashi found Sakaki Chika, who was using her idol name Tachibana Aeruru, and followed her into an ecological park where Chika vanished. Takanashi transformed into Thousand Sins and confronted the Black Goat Black Death Cult, which opened a portal to a world with a colossal tree and invited her to search for Chika.

• Takanashi split from Kirishima Ai and Kuroki Yuka to search the building, then spotted Tachibana Aeruru in footage and found her backstage.
• Takanashi followed Sakaki Chika toward an ecological park, but Chika vanished as the plants began moving and Monsters emerged from flower buds.
• Takanashi transformed into Thousand Sins and destroyed the budding-stage Monsters with a burst of magic and a stomp.
• Thousand Sins recognized the Black Goat Black Death Cult as a former servant of the Flower-type Demon King and demanded to know what it had done with Tachibana Aeruru.
• The Black Goat opened a doorway to a world dominated by a colossal tree and invited Thousand Sins to follow it and search for her companion.

Thousand Sins crushed a Black Goat offspring and entered the portal to investigate, while Kirishima Ai and Kuroki Yuka found Sakaki Chika behaving oddly at the agency. Chika revealed she planned to quit being an idol and asked about Teacher Haihara, leaving the Magical Girls uneasy about what was happening.

• Thousand Sins seized and crushed the Black Goat offspring, then entered its portal after realizing she could not contact the others.
• Kirishima Ai and Kuroki Yuka received Takanashi's message saying she had found Sakaki Chika, but then encountered Tachibana Aeruru where Chika should have been.
• Kirishima Ai and Kuroki Yuka visited Sakaki Chika in her private room and watched her record an idol video that included a casual mention of her mother.
• Sakaki Chika's manager brought her fan letters and said they would likely be the last batch, and Chika explained she had decided to graduate after her next performance.
• Sakaki Chika asked Kirishima Ai and Kuroki Yuka how Teacher Haihara had been, and Kuroki Yuka said she seemed happy staying at Takanashi's house.

Kirishima Ai and Kuroki Yuka discovered that the person posing as Sakaki Chika was a hostile Magical Girl called Prison Flower. Meanwhile, Thousand Sins entered a ruined version of Maple Plain City and fought the mindless Malicious Apostle as she searched for the real Sakaki Chika.

• The disguised Sakaki Chika spoke of her Mommy and wanting to get close to Teacher Haihara, prompting Kirishima Ai to prepare to transform.
• The impostor bit a black Pendulum crystal and transformed into Prison Flower of the Black Death Cult.
• Thousand Sins entered a magical doorway and found Maple Plain City overrun by giant plants beneath an enormous magical tree.
• Thousand Sins encountered Malicious Apostle, who seemed controlled and attacked her with corrosive bandages.
• Thousand Sins caught Malicious Apostle’s attacks and hurled her into the distance before continuing her search.

Thousand Sins discovered that Prison Flower had impersonated Sakaki Chika and learned that Star Flower was being held by the enemy’s Mother. After Prison Flower multiplied into a host of identical witches, Thousand Sins prepared to fight them, while Kirishima Ai and the others faced another Prison Flower outside the agency.

• Thousand Sins investigated the giant tree and met Prison Flower, who revealed that Phantom Wind was the person their enemies feared most.
• Prison Flower admitted she had been disguised as Sakaki Chika and said Star Flower was receiving the Mother’s education.
• Thousand Sins fought Prison Flower, whose magic came from the giant tree, and apparently destroyed her with a powerful magical blast.
• Another Prison Flower appeared and explained that the one Thousand Sins had defeated was dead, then dozens or hundreds of identical Prison Flowers surrounded her.
• Thousand Sins raised Cross Nail and vowed to eliminate the witches and their Mother, while Kirishima Ai and the others transformed to fight a separate Prison Flower outside the agency.

Fate Kite and Dark Kite defeated a mass-produced Prison Flower, while Sakaki Chika awoke captive in Tachibana’s lair and learned that Tachibana had created her grandmother, Tachibana Aeru. Chika challenged Tachibana over why she had taken her, but the reason remained unknown.

• Dark Kite defeated Prison Flower with little help from Fate Kite, and the two found only a withered black flower where their enemy had fallen.
• Fate Kite and Dark Kite encountered another mass-produced Prison Flower, which threatened to capture them for Mother.
• Sakaki Chika woke bound in a dark cavern and discovered that Miss Tachibana had taken her transformation wand.
• Tachibana revealed that she was a Flower-Type Devil King and had created Chika’s grandmother, Tachibana Aeru, as an experiment to make a beautiful Magical Girl body.
• Tachibana described Aeru as a failed creation whom she had raised before abandoning her, and Chika recognized the story from her grandmother’s memories.
• Chika asked Tachibana why she had taken her and told her that she and her grandmother should have nothing to do with her.

Tachibana revealed that she had created Ailulu and condemned Sakaki Chika’s grandmother for how she had raised Chika, undermining Chika’s cherished memories. She then challenged Chika’s belief that Teacher Haihara cared for her personally and conjured bubbles showing familiar faces.

• Tachibana said she had been angry that Ailulu abandoned her Magical Girl identity to marry and have a child, but praised Ailulu’s descendants for producing Sakaki Chika.
• Tachibana called Ailulu a terrible mother who had failed to correct Chika’s parents or protect Chika from their neglect.
• Sakaki Chika defended her grandmother, insisting that the woman had been gentle and that her advice to keep smiling had helped her endure.
• Tachibana questioned why Ailulu had only taught Chika to endure her suffering instead of fixing its cause, leaving Chika pale and silent.
• Tachibana told Chika that Teacher Haihara had saved her only because she was a student, then conjured magical bubbles showing familiar faces.

Tachibana tried to make Sakaki Chika call for Teacher Haihara by exploiting her jealousy and fear, but Chika refused and said she did not need her. Tachibana sent Chika into a nightmare recreating her painful past, where Chika found herself trapped inside her former home.

• Tachibana showed Sakaki Chika scenes of Kirishima Ai, Kazama Kiriori, and Takanashi spending time with Teacher Haihara, insisting they had taken Chika's place in her affections.
• Tachibana revealed that she had sent Prison Flowers to attack the Magical Girls and warned that Thousand Sins faced dangers from the tree.
• Tachibana urged Chika to call for Teacher Haihara, but Chika shut her eyes and said she did not need her and did not want to hear more.
• Tachibana loosened the vines and pushed Chika into a nightmare of the chaotic home she had lived in before Star Flower helped her.
• Chika tried to escape the alcohol-strewn house, but the front door would not open.

Sakaki Chika found herself reliving her painful trainee years, terrified by her return to her old home and the loss of her grandmother’s Pendulum. In the agency changing room, she discovered a black crystal and heard Miss Tachibana urge her to transform when she could no longer endure her past.

• Sakaki Chika returned to her old home, encountered the despondent man from her memories, and fled to her room.
• Sakaki Chika realized she was back in middle school, discovered her grandmother’s Pendulum was missing, and went to the agency after the man called her to work.
• Sakaki Chika faced the trainees who had mistreated her and found trash in her locker and a hole in her dance shoes.
• Sakaki Chika searched her bag and found a black Pendulum-like crystal resembling the ones used by Prison Flower.
• Miss Tachibana’s voice told Sakaki Chika to transform when she could no longer endure the nightmare.

Tachibana watched a nightmare replay Sakaki Chika’s painful childhood and the hardships that preceded her becoming Star Flower. Though Chika faced her worst memories without becoming a Magical Girl, she said she would endure the nightmare herself.

• Tachibana’s nightmare showed Sakaki Chika’s memories of her absent mother, irresponsible father, and grandmother’s death.
• Chika became an idol to help with her household’s debts, but struggled at school and work and was ostracized by other trainees.
• Overwhelmed by debt, fear, and isolation, Chika fell into despair and began harming herself before her grandmother’s gift made her Star Flower.
• Tachibana expected the nightmare to leave Chika terrified and begging for help, but the girl silently endured her sorrow.
• When Miss Demon King asked whether she was afraid and what she would do without becoming a Magical Girl, Chika admitted she was afraid but said she would endure it herself because it was only a nightmare.

Sakaki Chika resisted Tachibana’s attempts to torment her with memories of her past, then faced questions about her dreams, her feelings for Teacher Haihara, and her decision to leave idol work. Tachibana approved Chika’s retirement application, leaving Chika stunned.

• Sakaki Chika gathered her courage and told Tachibana she would resist until she could leave the dream.
• Tachibana shattered the bubbles of Chika’s painful memories and brought her to a dream of the Star Flower Agency.
• Tachibana asked Chika what she desired, and Chika said she wanted to bring smiles to others as an idol and protect people as a Magical Girl.
• Chika admitted she liked Teacher Haihara, then struggled to explain why she had applied to retire from idol work and had not approached Haihara.
• Tachibana stopped questioning Chika and told her she had approved the retirement application.

Tachibana guided Sakaki Chika through a dream that reached the eve of her idol graduation and asked whether she wanted to see what came next. Meanwhile, Sha Qina met the amnesiac, childlike Haihara and learned that she had lost her memories and powers, leaving Sha Qina and Cangyue Yuri wary of each other.

• Tachibana approved the dream-version Sakaki Chika's idol graduation, then showed her a scene set backstage on the day before her real announcement.
• Tachibana asked Sakaki Chika if she wanted to see what her life would be like after graduation, and Chika showed concern as she considered the offer.
• Sha Qina waited in a park to meet Ms. Haihara and was approached by a little girl carrying a white dog.
• Haihara Lily Chou identified Sha Qina as a villainous female executive and explained that she had become a child and lost her memories.
• Cangyue Yuri told Sha Qina that Haihara had also lost her powers, while Sha Qina insisted she remained loyal to Haihara despite Yuri's suspicion.

Sha Qina revealed that she had chosen to serve Haihara, and she suggested that magical crystals might help restore Haihara’s memories. After learning more about her grown-up self and her relationships, Haihara agreed to try touching Cangyue Yuri’s transformation crystal, and a warm presence began flowing into her.

• Sha Qina told Cangyue Yuri that she sensed the Demon King within Haihara and had decided to serve her.
• Sha Qina recalled that Haihara had regained magical knowledge after touching special crystals, suggesting they might help restore her memories.
• Haihara asked what kind of person she had been and learned about her villainous activities and complicated relationships with Magical Girls.
• Worried but curious, Haihara decided to try touching a crystal to recover her memories.
• Cangyue Yuri offered her Shadow Wolf transformation crystal, and Haihara touched it, feeling a warm presence flow into her body.

After touching the magic crystal, Haihara Lily Chou experienced fragments of Lilith's memories and memories of Cangyue Yuri, but recalled nothing from her own adulthood. She offered to help investigate the missing colleagues and later met Roland, searching the school's Christmas wish tags for cards written by her students.

• Haihara Lily Chou absorbed a small amount of magic power from the crystal and experienced vivid fragments of Lilith's memories and Cangyue Yuri's past.
• Haihara told Cangyue Yuri and Sha Qina that she had gained memories but still remembered nothing from after she grew up, then offered to help investigate the missing colleagues after confirming some things.
• Roland received Cangyue Yuri's message asking her to meet Haihara and agreed, while noting that Shiori and the others planned to do something because they were worried about Chika.
• After school, Haihara met Roland by the school's Christmas wish tags and used the students' essays to compare handwriting and search for cards written by people she knew.

Haihara Lily Chou recovered memories while searching with Roland for the girls’ Christmas wish tags, including Sakaki Chika’s wish to keep everyone safe and complete her graduation concert without anyone being hurt. Recognizing Roland as Lord Gemstone and the witch’s only student, Haihara told her that contact with a Magical Girl’s transformation crystal had brought memories of Roland into her mind.

• Haihara found Kirishima Ai’s and Kuroki Yuka’s wish tags, then remembered that the notebook she carried after losing her memories had listed other people’s wishes.
• Haihara and Roland searched for Sakaki Chika’s tag, and Roland lifted Haihara so she could reach two tags hung high above the others.
• Haihara read her own wish and Sakaki Chika’s wish to keep everyone safe and finish her graduation concert without anyone being hurt.
• Haihara recognized Roland as Roland Eldritch, the Magical Girl called Lord Gemstone and the witch’s only student.
• Haihara told Roland that touching a Magical Girl’s transformation crystal had brought memories that did not belong to her, including memories of Roland.

Haihara asked Roland why she had seen memories that did not feel like her own, and Roland suggested that Haihara’s wish to remain a child might explain her return to high school age and loss of memories. Roland offered her alcohol that could temporarily lift the curse and let her become an adult again, leaving Haihara unsure whether she wanted to recover her memories.

• Haihara asked Roland whose memories she had seen, and Roland told a story about a witch who wanted a wishing stone to make everyone happy.
• Roland said she believed Haihara had wished to avoid growing up and taking on adult responsibilities, though she admitted she could not know Haihara’s thoughts for certain.
• Roland explained that drinking the liquor would temporarily lift Haihara’s curse and let her become an adult without restoring her memories.
• Haihara took the bottle and asked Roland whether she should remember her past.
• Haihara admitted that she was a little scared but also happy.

Haihara Lily Chou told Roland that she wanted to remember and help the Magical Girls but did not want to be forced to grow up, and Roland encouraged her to choose at her own pace. When Haihara’s glowing Pendulum seemed to connect her to missing Sakaki Chika, a Monster disaster alarm sounded nearby, while Fate Kite and Dark Kite struggled against multiplying Prison Flowers and awaited help.

• Haihara Lily Chou admitted that she cared deeply about the Magical Girls and felt torn between remaining herself and recovering her lost memories.
• Roland reassured Haihara that she could make her own choice and promised to wait patiently for her.
• Haihara discovered that her pink Pendulum was glowing, and Roland explained that it was linked to another crystal and might be responding to Sakaki Chika’s loneliness.
• Roland suggested that the crystal Haihara had gifted away might grant wishes and bring a witch to someone who called for help.
• Fate Kite and Dark Kite struggled against the multiplying Prison Flowers, and Dark Kite revealed that she had sent a text asking Magical Bird for support.

Dark Kite and Fate Kite fought the Prison Flowers until Shadow Moon arrived to help, while Thousand Sins faced a larger force and narrowly escaped the Crown Spell Flower Above. The spell depleted her flower-element magic and left her armored claw gone, as a vast sea of flowers spread across the ruined city.

• Dark Kite was struck by a hidden attack and nearly overwhelmed, but Shadow Moon arrived and rescued her with a powerful arrow.
• Shadow Moon told Fate Kite that Dean Roland was protecting Miss Haihara while another ally supported Thousand Sins.
• Thousand Sins struggled against Prison Flowers, Monsters, and two ancient Black Death Cult members who kept her from reaching the tree.
• The Prison Flowers used suicidal attacks to stall Thousand Sins while they prepared Flower Above, a Crown Spell that gathered the aura of Mother Earth.
• A Malicious Apostle bound Thousand Sins, but black flames burned away the bandages and Thousand Sins broke free and hurled Cross Nail through the gathering flowers.
• Flower Above activated incompletely, stripping away Thousand Sins's flower-element magic and armored claw as the power spread into flowers across the ruined city.

Sha Qina joined Thousand Sins and the other Magical Girls in World Apart while Tachibana continued manipulating Star Flower’s dream inside the giant tree. A tiny bubble slipped into the dream, where Haihara Lily Chou awoke at Tachibana Aeruru’s graduation concert and saw the idol take the stage.

• Sha Qina restrained the Malicious Apostle and learned that Thousand Sins had entered World Apart to find Star Flower.
• Thousand Sins asked how Sha Qina had entered, and Sha Qina avoided explaining who had opened the door.
• Tachibana watched the battles through bubbles, then resumed unfolding Sakaki Chika’s dream without noticing a tiny bubble merge into it.
• Haihara Lily Chou woke among fans at Tachibana Aeruru’s concert, holding a pink Pendulum and a wish tag while unable to remember how she got there.
• The stage lights came on, and Haihara saw Tachibana Aeruru appear for the next part of her performance.

Haihara attended Tachibana Aeruru’s concert and was captivated by her performance, only for Aeruru to announce her graduation without warning. Haihara found Aeruru afterward and got her autograph, while Sakaki Chika reflected on the uproar and her own decision to leave.

• Haihara watched Tachibana Aeruru perform and gradually became absorbed in the concert.
• Tachibana Aeruru unexpectedly announced her graduation, leaving Haihara and the fans stunned.
• Haihara searched through the snowy streets and found Aeruru beside a Christmas tree and idol posters.
• Haihara asked Aeruru for an autograph, and Aeruru signed her wish plaque and encouraged her to smile.
• Aeruru waved goodbye as Haihara wondered whether they would meet again.
• After the performance, Sakaki Chika heard the crowd’s reactions, stood alone in the snow, and acknowledged Tachibana’s voice in her mind.

In a dream where Sakaki Chika had graduated from idol life and returned to an ordinary school routine, Tachibana questioned whether she could be happy without her bonds as a Magical Girl. Chika recognized that her friends and Teacher Haihara might have no reason to remain in her life, and Tachibana asked how she could obtain smiles and happiness.

• Sakaki Chika watched a Christmas tree while Tachibana described how her fans would gradually forget her after her idol career ended.
• A female student asked Chika for an autograph and encouraged both her and Tachibana Aeruru, and Chika noticed the girl's pink Pendulum.
• Chika returned to school after graduating as an idol and initially felt content with her peaceful routine and the people around her.
• Tachibana explained that Kirishima Ai and Takanashi Shiori would not have become Chika's friends without their shared experiences as Magical Girls.
• Chika hoped Teacher Haihara might remain close to her, but Tachibana pointed out that their teacher-student connection would soon end and asked how Chika could find happiness.

Tachibana guided Sakaki Chika through dreamlike memories to help her recognize the loneliness and envy she had long kept subdued. The dream then shifted to an unfamiliar home filled with signs of family life, leaving Chika wondering why she was seeing it.

• Tachibana showed Chika that her wish tag was missing from the Christmas tree because she had been away performing, and Chika admitted she felt a little lonely.
• Tachibana led Chika to a scene of her leaving school alone, where Chika recognized her loneliness and confessed she felt envious.
• After Chika and Tachibana left, an unseen girl ran after the younger Chika in the memory.
• Tachibana brought Chika to an unfamiliar apartment filled with family photos and everyday belongings, and Chika wondered why she was seeing a family unrelated to her.

Tachibana led Sakaki Chika through dreams that revisited her lonely childhood and her grandmother’s final moments. Confronted with the memories, Sakaki Chika’s forced smile finally broke, and she admitted she had never wanted to smile.

• Sakaki Chika watched a dream of Kazama Kiriori being comforted by her mother, and the scene unsettled her.
• Tachibana showed Sakaki Chika memories of being left alone as a child, watching classmates with their parents, and relying on her grandmother for comfort.
• Sakaki Chika relived the night her mother left home without answering where she was going.
• Sakaki Chika saw her grandmother on her deathbed, urging her to smile whenever she wanted to cry.
• Tachibana repeated her grandmother’s words and asked why Sakaki Chika was not smiling, and Sakaki Chika said she had never wanted to smile at all.

Tachibana drew out Sakaki Chika’s buried grief and desire, then used magic to turn her drunken father into a Monster in a memory of his abuse. Chika, as Star Flower, forced him to apologize, but her trembling arm showed she still hesitated to act.

• Sakaki Chika broke down over being told to smile through grief and pain, and Tachibana comforted her.
• Tachibana used the black Pendulum to bury Chika’s feelings and took her to a memory of her old home.
• Chika saw her younger self pleading with her drunken father as he tried to sell her grandmother’s keepsake.
• Star Flower seized her father’s arm as he raised his fist, but hesitated to strike him.
• Tachibana transformed the father into a Monster, and Star Flower demanded that he apologize.