Where to Watch Madoka Magica: Walpurgisnacht Rising

Short answer: Walpurgisnacht Rising opens in Japanese cinemas on Friday, August 28, 2026 — and nowhere else, yet. No overseas theatrical or streaming date has been announced. What you can do outside Japan is catch up, and that is where it gets strange: the 2011 series is on a different service in almost every country, and in Germany it is on no subscription service at all.

What is confirmed: August 28, in Japan

The official site carries the date plainly: Friday, August 28, 2026. Aniplex’s own news post puts the film in 287 theatres, and Anime News Network reported the date when it was set in February. It is worth stating what that number does and does not mean — 287 screens is a wide Japanese release, and it is the entire announced footprint of the film right now.

The film is a direct sequel to Rebellion (2013), which makes this the first new Madoka story in the main line for thirteen years. It has also moved four times: winter 2024, then winter 2025, then February 2026, and finally August 28 (ANN, Siliconera). The full trailer arrived on June 28 with a theme song by FictionJunction. That history is the reason we are careful about dates below.

Outside Japan: nothing has been announced

There is no overseas theatrical date, no streaming date, and no distributor announcement for most territories. As of the main trailer’s release on the Aniplex USA channel on July 2, no English-language release date had been set in any form — that is the Puella Magi Wiki’s tracking, and nothing in Aniplex’s own communications contradicts it. The single exception on record: a Thai distributor announced on June 1 that it would handle a Thai release, without naming a date.

This matters because several aggregator and listings sites already show local dates for countries that have had no announcement. Some of those pages present August 28 as a worldwide date. Until Aniplex or a local distributor says so, treat those as unconfirmed. A film that has slipped four times is exactly the wrong one to plan a cinema trip around on the strength of a database entry.

Where to watch Madoka right now, country by country

Here is the part you can act on today. We checked JustWatch’s per-country pages on 1 August 2026, and the spread is remarkable for a series this famous — there is no single global home for it.

Three things stand out. In Germany there is no subscription option at all for the series or the films: it is buy-or-rent only, even though the Magia Record spin-off is on Crunchyroll there. In the United States the series is on three services but the three films are purchase-only — no subscription carries them. And France is the outlier in the other direction: ADN has the series and all three films included. Catalogues move, so confirm in your own app before you plan an evening around it.

What to watch before August 28

The order is simple: the 12-episode series, then Rebellion. The two 2012 recap films — Beginnings and Eternal — retell the series in compressed form with new footage; skip them if you have seen the show, watch them if you want the theatrical cut. Crunchyroll’s own watch-order guide agrees on this shape. Walpurgisnacht Rising picks up directly from Rebellion’s ending, so that film is not optional.

If you are in Japan, there is a built-in catch-up plan: Rebellion returns to cinemas on August 14 for two weeks, in the same 287 theatres, in a video-master version with Dolby Cinema screenings at some sites — and the official site confirms a roughly five-minute preview of Walpurgisnacht Rising plays after it. The two earlier recap films had their own revival from July 10 and July 17 across 192 screens. One more Japanese option lands first: Amazon’s own August line-up confirms that from August 7 the TV series and all three films join Prime Video Japan as included viewing — timed deliberately ahead of the August 28 opening, and the cheapest catch-up route if you already pay for Prime.

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Watching from abroad? As the table shows, Madoka’s licensing is set country by country, and a subscription that carries it at home may show nothing where you travel. How region locks work, and how existing subscribers handle travel, is in our anime streaming VPN guide. Each service sets its own terms; where a local official option exists, start there.