Homura Akemi

Homura Akemi is a female anime and manga character who features in Puella Magi Madoka Magica.

Biography

Homura Akemi (Japanese: 暁美 ほむら, Hepburn: Akemi Homura)

She initially transferred into Mitakihara Middle School as a timid, shy, and unsure girl before getting encouragement from the first person who reached out to her, Madoka Kaname, who also complimented her name, which she mentioned being self conscious about. After finding out Madoka was a magical girl after wandering into a barrier, along with meeting Mami Tomoe, she felt inspired by them and looked up to them after they saved her life. All is seemingly going well until Walpurgisnacht appears. Mami dies at the hands of the witch, and before Homura could get hurt, Madoka turns and goes to fight the witch by herself. Madoka ends up dying in front of Homura, and she cries over her body, and then makes her wish. With Madoka dead, Homura fell into despair where she wanted a chance to meet Kaname once again and to be strong enough to protect her. This caused her magic to first activate where it paused time and then reversed it to the time of her first meeting with Madoka. Thus, she was immediately thrust back in time to her first day of school in the beginning of the month.

After coming to the realization that Kyubey is tricking everyone, she does her best to try to convince everyone of that truth, to which Sayaka, who had become a Magical Girl, doesn't believe her and presumes she's only trying to turn everyone against each other, and also adds that Homura would be useless to their team because bombs are the only offensive attack that she has. Following Sayaka's words, Homura steals firearms from a locker and is presumably accepted into their team. Once Sayaka became a Witch, Homura apologizes before using these firearms to defeat it. After the Witch battle is over, Mami shoots and breaks Kyoko's soul gem, before tying up Homura with ribbons and aiming her gun at her, in an attempt to "save" all of them by killing them all and herself so no one would suffer. Madoka shoots and breaks Mami's soul gem with an arrow before she can break Homura's soul gem, and then bursts into tears. Homura comforts her and assures her both of them can defeat Walpurgisnacht by themselves. This timeline ends when Madoka and Homura are lying together in the wreckage of Walpurgisnacht's destruction, defeated. Both of their soul gems are clouded. Homura doesn't have any Grief Seeds, but Madoka secretly had one saved, so she used it on Homura's soul gem suddenly, healing her. Madoka asks Homura to go back in time and save her and everyone else from making a contract with Kyubey. Homura agrees. She shoots and breaks Madoka's soul gem at Madoka's request, killing her, all while crying and wailing. It's at the reset of this timeline -- the fourth timeline -- where Homura gets rid of her glasses and braids and transforms herself into the Homura we see from then on.

Homura, now a Magical Girl, with newfound confidence and excitement, transfers into school all over again, walking straight up to Madoka after her name is written on the board and introducing herself as a Magical Girl, to the dismay of the class and the embarrassment of Madoka. After an indefinite amount of time, she meets up with Madoka and Mami again. With Madoka and Mami as her coaches, she begins training to use her time magic alongside close combat weaponry, and ends up constructing bombs to use as her offensive weapons. In this timeline, Homura fights her first Witch, and with Mami and Madoka's help, she's able to defeat it. This timeline ends when Madoka's soul gem becomes corrupted during the battle with Walpurgisnacht, and is about to become a Witch.

Overview

Personality and attributes

Since her arrival at Mitakihara Middle School, she is immediately depicted as being a very intelligent, athletic, distant and cold girl. It was revealed that she was like this because she has seen so much suffering during her tenure as a magical girl. Because of this, she does not want Madoka to become a magical girl and tries to do anything in order to stop her from making a wish with Kyubey, going as far as attempting to injure the cat-like creature despite knowing her attempts are futile.

Homura's self portrayal as a cold, antisocial, hardened Magical Girl who lacks empathy is actually nothing more than a front she built for herself; those traits were not a part of her original personality. Homura had a heart disease which left her bedridden for a long time, likely leading to her becoming unsocialized.

As she was in a time loop, her former personality had changed after seeing the countless deaths and led to her become more cold as well as distant.

Powers and abilities

After becoming a Magical Girl, Homura's magic stemmed from controlling time itself which allowed her to turn back the clock or even stop it. She demonstrated no limitations in the number of times she could turn back time though she only used this to re-do events if it did not follow her intended path. Thus, she did not use this power in battle but rather used her time stopping magic when fighting enemies. This was used in conjunction with non-magical firearms that she stole from organisations whenever she stopped time.

Upon succumbing to her transformation, she turned into the witch called Homulilly who was known as the Nutcracker Witch.

Notes

• Homura Akemi was created by Gen Urobuchi, Akiyuki Shinbo and Ume Aoki where she featured in the setting of the Puella Magi Madoka Magica universe.

Appearances

• Puella Magi Madoka Magica:

External Links

• Madoka Wiki Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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