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Episode 1

• Single-track railway
  • Uncommon in developed areas. Probably not a realistic expression.
  • A reference to the single-trip Galactic Railroad bound for heaven as well as a metaphor for magical girls' destinies with no recovery?
• "I did it again... Mom...?"
  • The second lunch isn't prepared for Iroha's mother, but for Ui, who has just disappeared from the world but remains faintly in Iroha's memory.
• Iroha's conversation with Kyubey
  • The dialogue probably takes place in a dream or a imaginary, labyrinth-like space created by Kyubey.
  • Bears riding unicycle, turning round and round when Iroha is talking to Kyubey
    • Probably a metaphor for the cycle and instability of magical girls.
  • "Do not escape midway."
    • No escape from magical girls' destinies? Normal people cannot escape unscathed once enter magical girls' world?
  • "Customers are precious goods."
    • Ordinary girls who witness the "performance" (magical girls' world) could potentially become new magical girls? Witches consume humans?
  • "Do not throw things at performers."
    • It is no use to resist the mechanism of magical girls? Ordinary people should not intervene in magical girls' world?
  • Kids (apparently include boys) are collected by bear performers after the performance ended.
    • Magical girls turn into witches at the end of their lives and claim other people's lives?
• Slogans in the school
  • Signs of social engineering?
• "She is always doing something" & Mop "dance"
  • お見舞い?
• Iroha's conversation with Kuro in a train
  • All other passengers are facing train windows, never noticing their conversation about magical girls until Kuroe says she is going to Kamihama.
    • A sign that the train and its passengers have probably been manipulated by a witch (Boxwood)?
  • "The only Good Witch is a Dead Witch!"
    • Derived from "The Only Good Indian Is a Dead Indian." by Philip Henry Sheridan
    • Probably by Boxwood since she is the witch in control of the train, though paradoxically it shouldn't. Either by Boxwood or no more than artistic expression.
  • The train doesn't stop at Iroha's station.
    • The train, rather than Iroha, misses the station.
    • A sign that the train has probably been manipulated by a witch?