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Apparently, both titles are produced by Shaft. The Madoka Magica Rebellion
movies have short into animation that uses Monogatari characters to ask the
viewers to behave in the cinema theaters. I'm interested if there are any
other notable connections between the two.

<http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-10-07/madoka-magica-monogatari-
casts-teach-manners-in-crossover-shorts>


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Is there any connection between Madoka Magica and Monogatari series?


There aren't any substantive connections between the two series, in terms of
content.

From a production perspective, though, there is a lot of overlap between them.
First, as you noted, they're both produced by Shaft, which means they share a
lot of staff, most notable among them director [SHINBO
Akiyuki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akiyuki_Shinbo), whose directorial
flourishes are easily seen in both series. IWAKAMI Atsuhiro is also the
producer for both of them, though I'm not sure how much influence he has
relative to Shinbo.

The short intro animations you mentioned are primarily amusing because the
voice casts of the two series have a lot of people in common:

  * SAITOU Chiwa, who voices both AKEMI Homura and SENJOUGAHARA Hitagi
  * KITAMURA Eri, who voices both MIKI Sayaka and ARARAGI Karen
  * EMIRI Katou, who voices both HACHIKUJI Mayoi and Kyuubey
  * MIZUHASHI Kaori, who voices both TOMOE Mami and OSHINO Ougi

Hence, the four different intro animations, each of which features one of
these four voice actors.

Generally speaking, Shaft does tend to hire a lot of the same voice actors for
their shows, as you can see in [this
chart](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xbXfg.jpg "Shaft VA chart, Summer 2013
edition"). Especially Saitou Chiwa - she's all over the place in Shaft
productions.

Oh, one more interesting connection between the two series - Bakemonogatari
and Madoka are the first- and second-top-selling late-night anime of all time
in terms of discs sold.1 Shaft is clearly doing something right.

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[source](http://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1tpvev/alltime_tv_anime_bestsellers_rankings_update/)
\- note that Evangelion was not a late-night anime, nor was The World of
Golden Eggs (which was, in my opinion, [really
dumb](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm53BgUvYok) anyway).


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