#I’ll probably do more art related to this against my better judgement ehehe

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XD Well if you really wanna hear (HUGE spoilers for Madoka; DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THAT SERIES YET.):

First off, the term “magical girl” is replaced with a more gender neutral “magi” (the sorcerer definition). Misa still sometimes calls herself “Magical Girl Misa” when she first gets her powers, but magi is still used as the general term of what Kyubei turns them into. Witches are the same and are all referred to as female. Yes, you lose the clever wordplay reveal, but sacrifices must be made for the sake of indulgence.

My personal Death Note/Madoka Magica splice cast:

L is Madoka. I love the image of him being a small child who looks up to his awesome mom. The dramatic irony of him eventually becoming a literal god instead of a certain other character is delicious~. Like Madoka when she isn’t aware of the fate of magical girls, he would find being a magi fun and worth doing despite the danger, throwing himself into it like he did detective work. And I can see L coming to the same solution Madoka comes to at the end of the series by taking everything he’s learned and seen throughout. Even though he’s not as sympathetic or caring in DN’s canon, I do think he’d be disturbed by the systematic suffering the Incubators put the kids they contact through for the sake of collecting energy (using human souls as a disposable power source), and that he’d deal with it by becoming the being in charge of dealing with the ultimate fates of magis would be a practical solution given his power. Given his DN canon reclusiveness, he wouldn’t mind being an ultra powerful omnipotent being dedicated to his job in exchange for never interacting with anyone solid ever again aside from the people he saves. If boredom was an issue, again, able to see all things and it seems he’d be able to communicate with the magis he liberates, so y’know, there’s plenty to occupy himself with. Also, the dying all the time or becoming an incredibly powerful witch… Yeah. Madoka’s hair ribbons are replaced with a cute scarf. His magi form is basically a slightly fancier version of his winter outfit in episode 25’s flashback.

Light is Homura. From a meta standpoint, with how many adaptations there are floating around, it certainly feels like Light as a character is jumping around different timelines executing the same plan and hoping for a better outcome. Changing his goal to saving L… Aside from a shipping sense, I like the idea of Light becoming obsessed with him like how Homura attaches herself to Madoka to the point of making protecting/possessing them their number one priority. And eventually becoming a godlike being by usurping L’s position matches Death Note’s canon and is perfect. I just need that Rebellion sequel so I can see how Homura gets dealt with and complete the anime’s story…. The role reversal of Light being the veteran is pretty darn cool. His magical form shifts from a more suit-ish version of Homura’s magical girl form to the bright, fluffy jacket and body suit-ish(?) attire from chapter 46’s “cover” page.

Misa is Sayaka. Selling her soul to help her crush in the hopes of earning his love is super in character. Although, she’s not as forward as DN!Misa with love, so that kind of doesn’t work here, but the first half of the concept works, lol~. However, both methods do doom her in the end though, which does work (yay for mental gymnastics)! This was the series that made me realize how much I love the idea of Misa and L as platonic friends. L being disturbed by her descent into despair and her pushing him away is so tragic. The guy she crushes on in this story is Hideki Ryuga. She’s pretty hostile towards Light in this, lol. They get a truly adorable Trio scene in the Magia Record anime series at least~.

Teru Mikami is Mami. Him as a lonely magi veteran who made a desperate wish to survive a car crash that killed his other family (his mother’s canon death being hit by a car) and being completely dedicated to erasing Witches and Familiars just works for me. Him putting on a strong front until confronted with the undeniable truth (the thing he’s dedicated his life to being horrifying and/or not living up to his expectations — the Witches he’d been fighting this whole time were actually former magis, and that was the fate awaiting him despite all of his hard work, or that the person he looked up to as a god and killed thousands for ended up being a human as fallible and flawed as everyone else), upon which he destructively breaks down. He’d be ecstatic that someone would fight evil alongside him, that he wouldn’t have to better the world all by himself, which I feel is part of why he latched onto Kira, who did what he did as a prosecutor but “better.” Although, here’s another instance where a former member of Team Kira is kind of antagonistic towards Light, seeing him as a shallow person who didn’t want to be overshadowed by L’s potential and stop him from becoming a magi with Teru. He would be able to stand toe-to-toe with Light in a fight. And Mami’s theme being called “Believe in Justice,” I imagine that’s what he hears when he deletes criminals~. It’s so hopeful and triumphant that it makes what happens later so much more heartbreaking.

Art of him in Mami’s role

Beyond is Kyoko. Coming to town and immediately stirring up trouble by picking fights with Misa…. He’s an aggressive, fiery magi who wholly fights for himself until he learns the truth. He then notices she’s making the same mistakes he did, and tries to encourage her to deal with her situation better like how he has. He’s “figured out how things work and wants to save her some grief.” Not much to say for this casting, just that I like it, the fire association, and it’s another casting that makes me like the idea of Misa and Beyond interaction.

I feel Kyubei and Ryuk are similar enough for a typecast to happen here, but it’s hard to see Ryuk as an emotionless objective being, so Kyubei’s basically a self insert~. After all, I am the one making these characters suffer by making them act out this story~.

Other cast:

Hideki Ryuga as Kyosuke Kamijo (replace actor with former musical prodigy)

Kiyomi Takada as Hitomi (the third friend who reaps the rewards of Misa healing Hideki by “stealing” him away. They even talk about it over a meal like in DN’s canon, albeit more respectfully. One of them still briefly wishes the other were dead, though, lol)

A is pulling double-duty as L’s baby brother (named Alex) and as Beyond’s little brother that gets killed in his father’s rampage.

This series made me decide that L’s mother’s name is some variation of “June” or “Junko.” He is supposedly part Japanese, so it’s from his mother’s side of the family now~.

Alternate castings I’ve considered:

Madoka is so damn pure while L decidedly… isn’t. So, I’ve entertained making her Matsuda. Always wanting to help while feeling so below average but is actually brimming with potential fits him very well. Then, making Homura Aizawa would make the most sense (I feel weird making it Soichiro or something, lol). I considered Ide, but he’s more dedicated to Aizawa than Matsuda in my opinion…. He’d be more of a Sayaka, what with his bad luck in the dating scene.

Then, that would reserve the roles of Light and L to Sayaka and Kyoko respectively (sorry, they have to be there, lol). Same relationship that goes from clashing to caring works. L being the jaded veteran and Light being the naïve newcomer works magnificently. However, I don’t know who Light would love enough to make his wish for outside of his own family. Maybe another friend like Yamamoto or a Yotsuba member turned classmate he ends up having unrequited crush on. Then the one who steals them away could again be Yamamoto or some other character. Light would mainly beat himself up for making the wish at all and despairing his lack of results, which L sympathizes with. Matsuda seeing Light deteriorating as his best friend breaks my heart so good. It’s an extremely appealing scenario, but I just can’t fully commit to it, ehehe.

Art of the Drama versions in the pose from Kyoko and Sayaka’s end credits

As for remisa: I enjoy the idea of Rem trying desperately to protect Misa at all costs, but I can’t see her usurping Misa and trapping her. They’d have to go with the manga ending where Misa takes her away into the Law of Cycles, and they’re together forever that way~. ✨❤️✨

I do have a recasting of Magia Record, but I go about that one much more haphazardly, pulling from multiple sources for the cast, not just Death Note~. Definitely more ladies, lol.

And so… this beast explains my splicing of Madoka Magica with Death Note characters acting it out! The main things I’ve gotten out of it are interactions between characters that don’t generally interact, interesting similarities, and coming to conclusions about other things outside of the provided story.

I know I posted a redrawing of the scene in Rebellion where Homura/Light is introduced to the class with the DN characters, but I can’t find it here for some stupid reason. 😑

I DO have an original post-canon Death Note x Magical Girl/Boy idea swimming around in my head, but it much less fleshed out aside from a few concepts and scenes. I’m not that much of a hack~. 😆

remisa but homumado, i may or may not expand upon this.

Oh my goodness… Yessss~.

I’m all for splicing Death Note and Madoka Magica (I have my own selfish version of said splicing, too)~. ✨❤️✨