Mami Tomoe

''"If you want to make a wish for someone else, then you really need to take the time to think about what you actually want." "Miki-san, do you really want to make his dream to come true? Or do you just want to be his benefactor? The two may sound the same, but they are actually completely different."''  - Mami Tomoe

Mami Tomoe 巴 マミ, Tomoe Mami
Voiced by: Kaori Mizuhashi (Japanese), Carrie Keranen (English)

Mami is a veteran magical girl and a third-year student at Madoka's school. She lives alone in a penthouse after the death of her parents in a car accident, during which she was only able to survive by contracting with Kyūbey to save her own life. Her magical abilities revolve around yellow ribbons, which can suspend enemies, and be manipulated to produce nearly infinite amounts of Tanegashima-like flintlock rifles, as well as also possessing healing magic. Mami is particularly focused on saving those a

round her, with a traditionally selfless perspective on the role of magical girl, and has a habit of giving names to her finishing attacks. She had previously been Kyōko's partner - as shown in the drama CD "Farewell Story", and expanded on in the PSP Game and The Different Story - but was left alone after they fought over their ideals.

In the final timeline, Mami is alive again, and fights along Homura and Kyoko.

Personality
Mami first appears as an older, more experienced girl, and is one of the first magical girls introduced in the series. She is shown to have feminine tastes, such as drinking tea and dressing with flower clips in her hair and bows on her shoes.

She has a strong sense of personal justice, which keeps her on the path of helping innocent

s despite gaining little reward for it. This sense of justice also makes it difficult for her to team up with other magical girls for more than short periods, as many will only fight witches for the chance of finding a Grief Seed or in self-defense, and many others are against teaming up with their "competition" in hunting witches. These circumstances compou

nd with her lonely nature as an orphan who has trouble

making friends at school due to her having little time for much outside of witch hunting, which has turned Mami into a very isolated person looking for friends.

Mami always uses honorifics and calls people by their surname with the honorific '-san'. This shows her age and emotional distance to the other girls, who are younger than her and closer in age to each another.