CATDOLL: "Yuuki Yuna is a Hero" Episode 8: The tragic past of the magical girls played by Hanazawa Kana gradually emerges

The October anime "Yuuki Yuna is a Hero" which has a bit of a "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" feel to it seems to have been smooth sailing after the "bento mystery", but underneath this calm surface is the unknown past of the magical girls. And this secret is gradually revealed in the eighth episode. What we are going to reveal today is not only the new addition of Hanazawa Kana, but also a spoiler of a past event that is crucial to the plot!

The new character is called Nogi Sonoko, but unlike the promotional image, she is lying on a hospital bed covered in gauze. This is related to the series "Wabi Sumi is a Brave Man" (the magazine image above) serialized in "Dengeki G's Magazine". This is the prequel to "Yuuna Yui", telling the story of 2 years ago, with Wabi Sumi and Nogi Sonoko as the protagonists.

According to the setting, when the magical girls "full bloom" once, they will permanently lose part of their body functions , but they will also gain an elf. The more elves there are, the stronger the power. The protagonist of the prequel, Sagi O Sumi, lost the ability to walk and her memory of several years because she fully bloomed twice; Nogi Sonoko could no longer take care of herself because she fully bloomed more than ten times and had to lie in bed. Sagi O Sumi changed back to her old name because she lost her memory of recent years. Her previous name was "Togo Mimori".

So we can know why Togo was so calm and skillful in his first battle. Although Sagi O Sumi and others defeated the attacking Vertex two years ago, because they knew that the sacred tree would be attacked by Vertex again, Sagi O Sumi, who had "become" Togo Mimori, found Yuuki Yuna and others with high bravery value to continue fighting. At the end of "Sagi O Sumi is a Brave", when Togo met Yuuki Yuna, the next story is naturally the first episode of "Yuuki Yuna is a Brave".

Knowing this, I guess everyone's sense of déjà vu of "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" appearing in this film has deepened by 10086 layers...