Puella Magi Oriko Magica: Sadness Prayer manga volume 1 features story by Magica Quartet and Art by Mura Kuroe.

The prequel to Puella Magi Oriko Magica, a spinoff of the critically bestselling Madoka Magica franchise, following Oriko Mikuni's wish to know her reason for living and the beginnings of her life as a magical girl. After becoming a magical girl, Oriko Mikuni befriends other magical girls at her school-and not always on initially positive terms! Complications arise when Oriko's friends, unaware they both know Oriko, fight over a grief seed, leading to someone's death.