Madoka

For the Otomedius character, see Madoka (Otomedius).

“	A classmate of Light and his classmates at Dessert Junior High School and a close friend of Pastel. She is also the granddaughter of Dr. Mardock and runs a coffee shop called "Café Fantasian" with him. The coffee that Madoka makes is very good, but the cookies she makes are very bad. However, she believes that the cookies are delicious. She worships a Cookie God who lives in his own world. She is a calm girl who goes at her own pace. But when it comes to Light, she is a little different.	„
	~ Translated description from TwinBee PARADISE in Donburi Shima

Madoka (マドカ, Madoka^?) is a supporting character in the TwinBee series. She is a cute and friendly girl who manages the "Café Fantasian" coffee shop in Donburi Island. She is Dr. Mardock's granddaughter, as well as Pastel's best friend and Light's everlasting crush.

She is voiced by Mariko Kouda.

History[]

Madoka was introduced in the TwinBee series in the 1993 Super Nintendo game Pop'n TwinBee, as part of the newly redesigned universe that had been previously established a couple of years before. She is a blond girl with pigtails who lives in Dandelion Town (also known as Tampopo Town) in Donburi Island and who loves her grandfather, the eminent scientist Dr. Mardock, a longtime friend of Dr. Cinnamon. She attends classes at the Dessert Junior High School in the mornings and manages the "Café Fantasian" coffee shop for the rest of the day.

Since her introduction, Madoka was stated to be very good friends with the two "bee" androids' pilots, being best friends with Pastel and sort of an everlasting crush to Light.

She makes a prominent appearance in the packaging and documentation of Pop'n TwinBee, appearing on the game's cover art, as well as in many pages of the instruction booklet. The booklet contains a mini-comic where she can be seen contacting Light as he's patrolling the skies of Donburi Island flying on the TwinBee ship, informing him that her grandfather, Dr. Mardock, has suddenly gone insane and is wreaking havoc on the island with his Acorn Squad.

In this same game, Madoka is seen flying her very own "bee" ship, although this concept was dismissed in following productions, where she only appears as a school friend of Pastel and Light, and is mainly seen managing the "Café Fantasian".

Madoka is known to be very amicable and the coffee she sells at her shop is highly sought by the island's locals. She also loves baking cookies, which she can often be seen presenting to her friends. However, unlike her coffee, these treats are famous for making people sick and are often the center of many of the series' humorous incidents. In at least two productions –the TwinBee PARADISE radio drama and TwinBee RPG– her cookies are stated to be made with vinegar, with the former stating to be also made with cuttlefish and squid.

Madoka also frequently appears in the diverse media that comprise the TwinBee PARADISE subseries, such as the radio drama, the anime, and other related products. In Tulip Beach Stories, she can be seen selling her goods at the beach inside a branch "Café Fantasian" stand and her cookies make everybody sick. In WinBee's ⅛ Panic, a batch of her cookies (apparently treated with an experimental formula invented by Dr. Mardock) make Pastel reduce in size, giving place to all sorts of hilarious misadventures.

Appearance and personality[]

“	A kind girl with pigtails living in Dandelion Town who loves her grandfather.	„
	~ Description from Pixel Puzzle Collection

Madoka is generally seen wearing a purple country dress and has blond hair tied in two long pigtails with equally purple ribbons. She is very friendly and loves singing and baking cookies, which she can frequently be seen presenting to her friends. She also acts as a sort of vigilante for the TwinBee Team and she can occasionally be seen sending them distress signals whenever trouble arises.

In TwinBee RPG, she wears a brown country dress instead, although conserving a similar design to the original, and wears a white apron over it.

Appearances[]

TwinBee series[]

Pop'n TwinBee (1993 - SNES): Madoka appears at the end of the first level of the game, where she must be rescued from a monster robot called Bronco that is chasing her while she's riding her very own bumblebee airship. Once the monster is destroyed, a cutscene will play where she kisses TwinBee (Light), who blushes in surprise. Madoka appears again in the next cutscene, where the bumblebee androids are running circles around her. TwinBee suddenly stops to stare at her, making WinBee to bump into him while Madoka giggles.
TwinBee Taisen Puzzle-Dama (1994 - PS): Action puzzle game where Madoka is a selectable character.
TwinBee PARADISE in Donburi Shima (1998 - PC): Interactive multimedia CD-ROM for Windows 95 featuring several minigames and software utilities, and hosted by the characters of the TwinBee series. Madoka can be visited at Tulip Beach, where you can listen to one of her stories, or she can be visited at her shop, the "Café Fantasian", where you can enjoy having a conversation with her. Lastly, you can attend her "Fantasy Live" concert, where she takes on the stage and sings and dances two of the most popular themes from the series, "Twin Memories" and "Gift of the Wind".
TwinBee RPG (1998 - PS): A friend of Light and Pastel who manages the Fantasian Coffee Shop in Tampopo Town while also attending middle school. Depending on the game's conditions, the protagonist can date her in Muddler Land (the most orthodox of all places). Although her coffee is popular among the locals, her cookies (made with vinegar) boast a mighty killing power.

Cameos[]

Tokimeki Memorial ~forever with you~ (1995 - PS): Madoka makes a cameo apperance as a plush doll along with Pastel, Melora and Chichibinta Rika.
Snatcher (1996 - PS, Saturn): The picture of Madoka can be seen on an information board.
Jikkyō Oshaberi Parodius (1996 - PS, Saturn): Madoka makes a brief cameo in Stage 3, appearing as a cloud in the background along with her grandfather, Dr. Mardock. Near the end of the level, she appears again standing on an island and makes a reverence as the player passes by. If the player shoots her, she will start crying (worth 100 points in the Super Famicom version and 3,000 points in the PlayStation/Saturn ports).
Mitsumete Knight R: Daibouken-hen (1998 - PS): When starting a New Game+, the background on the Print Station in the first town changes showing numerous Konami characters, including Madoka.
Otomedius Excellent (2011 - X360): A billboard advertising Madoka's coffee shop can briefly be seen in the background of the downloadable stage, Donburi Island.
Pixel Puzzle Collection (2018 - iOS, Android): Madoka appears as a nonogram puzzle image.

Notes[]

According to character descriptions from diverse productions in the TwinBee PARADISE series (radio drama, anime, video games, etc.), Madoka, Light and Pastel study at the same high school, and the former two are even classmates. Also, Dr. Cinnamon and Dr. Mardock are stated to be childhood friends. However, the plot of Pop'n TwinBee (SNES/SFC, 1993), which marks Madoka's introduction to the series, is inconsistent to this lore, as it instead states that Madoka first meets the TwinBee Team when she asks them for help because her grandfather, Dr. Mardock, has gone insane, a person which apparently Light and Pastel had no previous knowledge of.