Mahou Sensei Negima!

[Kaylia]

edit: I'm also one of the few who reads Negima solely for Negi

Negi is awesome, you're definitively not the only one who enjoyed the story because of him. However, I can't agree with this anymore, because there is a bunch of characters I like now. The current arc made me realize how much I liked some of the side characters, when all of them got their mini-story.

What chapters are you on now anyway? Before kioto arc still?




I hope what Ken akamatsu said about making a movie/new series if DVD sales were good is true. I wouldn't mind seeing more negima animated.
Negima!: Shiroki Tsubasa Ala Alba OVA 1 (festival arc spoiler)

[AkashiXI]

I'm on chapter 30 or something, college really puts a damper on reading the manga. I really like the series though, and once I have more free time I'll read like 10/20 chapters a day probably.

[Eaglestrike]

That OVA doesn't look terrible, I haven't gotten used to many of the VA's as those characters yet, but that often takes some time anyway. I'll have to look into getting the full OVA's sometime.

And I agree, Negi is an awesome character but I really started to enjoy the side characters. Early on I think I liked Ku Fei and Kaede just because they were badass early on. But I'd say I like about half the class now, lol.

[Wakabo]

I just recently started to read this. I picked up volume 7 the other day but no time to read it ; ;. I love the fan service and the story so far. I peeked in further volumes and saw some fights and can't wait to see what that is all about.

[Kaylia]

I'm on chapter 30 or something, college really puts a damper on reading the manga. I really like the series though, and once I have more free time I'll read like 10/20 chapters a day probably.

Oh damn. Thought you would be ahead since you said chapter 30 earlier in this thread. Thing get much better soon imo. If you liked the beginning, you should enjoy the rest even more.

That OVA doesn't look terrible, I haven't gotten used to many of the VA's as those characters yet, but that often takes some time anyway. I'll have to look into getting the full OVA's sometime.

And I agree, Negi is an awesome character but I really started to enjoy the side characters. Early on I think I liked Ku Fei and Kaede just because they were badass early on. But I'd say I like about half the class now, lol.

Ku fei is awesome. Her expression crack me up every time. I agree those two were pretty good early (and they still are). Every characters who trained Negi at some point rank pretty high in my "favorite character list".

The 3rd episode of Ala Alba arc is going to be released in 1-2 weeks I believe, the 2nd isn't subbed yet. Negima Spring OVA looked good and was based on a manga chapter (vacation on the island), but it was all fanservice.


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new eva avatar, shamelessly stolen from the internet.

[EagleCeres]

If youre new to the series, just remember that Akamatsu made his fortune of FanService (Love Hina, Ai ga Tomaranai... and people speculate he or someone he approves of does the BigBoss H-doujins).

Aaaanywhoo... yes, regretfully there are too many characters, so a lot of them get the short end of the stick while the fan favorites + author favorites get more attention. Definetly a lot of action and campy comedy (not just the ecchi) with some drama; although (as stated before) it takes a while to ramp up.

The tv series (both) give you a good general idea of what the main story is about; the OAV's flaunt the fanservice but do tie in what I believe are pretty critical storylines from the manga that the anime ignored. While the manga gets better (and someties ecchi'er) as the series progresses; great character design and growth and if you dont have a clear cut favorite by the end of the first 5 books... your gonna have a top 5-10 list by the time you hit book 10.

Spoiler: show

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7-11-17 are the only one I don't really know. Everyone else did something interesting at least once imo.

those are the cheerleaders, they get more air time in the anime... but still kinda forgettable compared to the current 'main cast' in the last 3-4 books.

I personally cant wait for the current Tournament Finale and Negi getting all the lost girls back together (and maybe getting lucky enough to find out about his parents).

[Eaglestrike]

I laughed hard at how Negi and Kotaru looked when they came out of training. It seems we have our answer about who got the artifact with the latest pactio, can't wait to see its power, it'll be pretty crazy I'm sure.

[Zilong]

I wonder what it'd be...

It's probably a staff, but that'd mean he'd abandon Nagi's staff.

Unless it's dual wielding...which would be kinda awkward.

Sword artifact seemed too boring though...

[Kaylia]

"No need to make shockwave about it" .Chiame's comments are awesome.

This chapter was decent. I love how quick they set thing up compared to many mangas.

The next fight is going to be great for sure, but something tell me it will be interupted before it end. With Yue guarding the stadium, you the stadium will be attacked, and Negi will be involved soon after. Well, it should be interesting either way, but we probably won't know the winner.

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And Negi is going to hit 15 years old pretty fast at this rate. He spend half of his time in the training chamber. I hope they will make him age faster because of this, or at least, consider it somehow.

It's probably a staff, but that'd mean he'd abandon Nagi's staff.

Unless it's dual wielding...which would be kinda awkward.

Sword artifact seemed too boring though...

It has to be an upgraded staff, but a sword might work better against Rankan..dunno. My money is on an upgraded staff. Hopefully, he will get a cool outfit upgrade in the process, even if Eva gave him a new one 20minutes ago.

[yayaok]

how the fuck are we suppost to wait for the next chapter guessing doesnt satisfy...

[Imitarate]

I'm pretty happy. Ken takes a lot of breaks sometimes, but he still manages to keep things going. I really thought we were going to have to slog through a bunch of tedious, pre-ordained-outcome fights a la Standard Shounen Tournament Procedure. Glad to see the story cut to the chase.

It really does look like Ken's going to advance Negi's age according to the time he spends in othertime; he seems a bit older already, in the undisguised scenes. I suspect this will be an alternative to a timeskip (though I am honestly kind of hoping to see one of those as well, once we reach the culmination of the Fate storyline; it doesn't seem too likely with Rapid Aging Bottle, but it might be neat).

I thought it pretty likely Negi would become Princess Whatever's Ministra, though I do kind of hope it's a temporary pact. We don't know much about the rules of the magical world, but I think it would be kind of contradictory to be a Magister Magi and a Ministra Magi at the same time. Well, whatever makes the story work is fine. He at least has a good reason to keep it for the forseeable future, though.

[Kaylia]

I wonder why they aren't spamming pact. There is no real drawback so far, and you get a great power boost for free. I would like to see Ken address this issue somehow, but whatever, it's not the worst loophole I've seen in a shonen.


It was announced a long time ago this fight would be the finale. He already did his conventional tournament earlier in the series, and doing this again would be stupid.

It really does look like Ken's going to advance Negi's age according to the time he spends in othertime; he seems a bit older already,

His look is what triggered the comment earlier, but he was still in "SSJ Negi" mode. I'm not certain he aged.

Well, new clothes + new hairstyle usually mean you aged, so maybe you're right.

[Zilong]

I wonder why they aren't spamming pact. There is no real drawback so far, and you get a great power boost for free. I would like to see Ken address this issue somehow, but whatever, it's not the worst loophole I've seen in a shonen.

I was gonna mention that too...

What's stopping a bisexual magus with no moral qualm about kissing from building an army of superpowered temporal pactio receiver? Beside the eventual exhaustion of saliva.

[Kaylia]

Well, we might get a better explanation soon. They usually give us enough details when Negi (or anyone) get a power upgrade.


In one of the early manga, Camo said the magic power flow from the mage to their partner. That itself would probably limit most mages, but Negi's magic supply are infinite...like any shonen heros.


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And oh fuck, I just had the horrible idea Negi might be crossdressing or something in the next fight, because woman is definitively one of Rankan's weakness. I hope not...that would be so anti-climatic.

[Eaglestrike]

Well, we might get a better explanation soon. They usually give us enough details when Negi (or anyone) get a power upgrade.


In one of the early manga, Camo said the magic power flow from the mage to their partner. That itself would probably limit most mages, but Negi's magic supply are infinite...like any shonen heros.

Yeah, that's what I remember about it earlier, the artifact and pactio draws power from the mage in the likeness of the partner. For Negi who has a lot of magic power in reserve it's not a huge deal to have many pacts, especially for more "minor" roles as that won't draw much on his power. For lesser mages it could be a big deal and why most mages simply make 1 partner to do everything with.

That also brings even greater meaning to when they once said the "Thousand Master" is said to be the one with a thousand partners, heh.

Edit: I wouldn't really see cross dressing happening. Like most super powerful perverts they have a "weakness" for women but never lose serious fights because of them. Jiraiya was like this, Rakan still didn't lose even against those 2 girls and he was mostly just playing around and not being serious overall, I wouldn't say it was specifically because it was against women.

[EagleCeres]

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And oh fuck, I just had the horrible idea Negi might be crossdressing or something in the next fight, because woman is definitively one of Rankan's weakness. I hope not...that would be so anti-climatic.

Actually I think the girls will parade around in uber skimpy gear to get Rakan (or maybe Negi) all rilled up... (not like they already haven't shown Negi pretty much all the goods by now). But it will be interesting to see if find Jack's "weakpoint" for Negi to exploit; also I get the feeling they are both going to tag out for a while to heal up so Kotaro and the shadowy dude get some screen time also.

[Zilong]

I wonder if 2 mage can create a pactio loop of some sort, since we know now that the pactio source can be also under pactio.

Fuck, for all we know that's what he just did.

[Imitarate]

Pactio is confusing not necessarily because of what it does but because we have no real understanding of its limits. Double pacts on a single person seem to be possible, or else Konoka has just been trying to trick Setsuna into kissing her (which isn't unreasonable) and Negi's going along with it. A mage getting a pact is perfectly possible, as we've seen with Negi himself now, Konoka, and the broomstick girl in the ta'ounament arc. Because our only perspective is Negi, and he's easily forged a pact with a dozen different people and nobody's mentioned other limits, so apparently it's possible to pactio a whole city.

Of course, Kamo mentions early on that there's a difference between a temporary pact and a permanent pact. A temporary pact can be made with multiple people at once, but a permanent pact seems to be with one person only. The question is, unless permanent pact is incredibly overridiculously more powerful than temporary, why would anyone do that?

[Kaylia]

Assuming there is some sort of "energy conservation" rule (magical physics!) , it doesn't make sense to create pactio loop.

Double pact on a single person make sense, but I'm wondering if they could open both "chanal" at the same time.

[GRT]

----------I am the bone of my card

----------Kisses is my body,and pactio is my blood

----------I have created over a thousand cards
　　
----------Unknown to Death.

----------Nor known to Life.

----------Have withstood pain to create many harems.

----------Yet,those hands will never hold anything.

----------So as I pray,unlimited card works!