The Different Story presents an alternate timeline from the Madoka anime that gives Mami and Kyoko a more detailed, shared backstory and changes some major events. I like that the original plot allows for this kind of tinkering and exploration of different ways that things could have turned out, even if the way they turn out is always depressing. But hey, no one comes to the Madoka franchise to be happy. We come to it for the magical girl trope subversion and lesbian subtext.