After being delayed for a month due to the recent earthquake and tsunami disaster that occurred in Japan, a new episode finally airs. In this episode, it is revealed that Homura is the cause for Madoka's ultimate demise and misfortune. For everytime Homura travels back in time to change the past, the amount of misfortune in that timeline will transfer to Madoka in the current timeline, being the only connection and the center of all the unfinished parallel timeline that Homura created.