Goddamn I loved the ending. I wasn't expecting Fate to actually strike Nodoka, and I really like how she was conversing with him in this chapter.
Ken Akamatsu thread (A.I. Love You, Love Hina, Negima, UQ Holder)
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First the school festival was fun
than the martial arts tournament made it interesting.
than negi and his group plan on an all out attack on chao just to get sent to about a week later from the final day of the festival. Having the students fight against the teachers.
Negi and co go back to the final day using the world trees power an establish an army with the students using a game as a camouflage.
and i'm not even done reading this arc…THIS IS FUCKING AWESOME!
Good as the school festival arc was, the next arc is when the series really hits its stride.
As for the current chapter. Well. I do believe it is on like Donkey Kong.
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I have high, high hopes for this fight. Akamatsu has always lived up to expectations and thensome in stuff like this. Negi vs Rakan anyone? And this is a fight hyped up for almost 300 chapters.
IT'S GONNA BE BEASTLY.
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First the school festival was fun
than the martial arts tournament made it interesting.
than negi and his group plan on an all out attack on chao just to get sent to about a week later from the final day of the festival. Having the students fight against the teachers.
Negi and co go back to the final day using the world trees power an establish an army with the students using a game as a camouflage.
and i'm not even done reading this arc…THIS IS FUCKING AWESOME!
school festival arc… good times. You might be happy to know that this mangas gets more and more awesome with each arc.
as for the latest chapter... not much to say, escept for
oh
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:blink:Negima certainly deserves to be in my top 3 mangas
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http://www.mangareader.net/mahou-sensei-negima/317
Better quality scans are out. Translation seems better too.
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I've got some news here - it's not exactly relevant yet, but it may be soon.
Kodansha Acquires Vertical Manga
Kodansha bought out an American company (much like how Shueisha bought out Viz Communications way back when) to take over US manga operations from Del Rey. While this doesn't imply Negima! will be taken away, it's a strong possibility given its performance. From what I've heard, Kodansha didn't recall the rights from TOKYOPOP for Kodansha manga, but I'm sure we all know about what Nintendo did when Pokemon USA came to down about five years ago.
The whole matter saddens me, as I enjoyed supporting the Kodansha-Del Rey partnership and frown upon Japanese companies having subsidiaries in the US (my inflammatory statements against VIZ Media were famous here, once upon a time) but it looks to be at least two years off. So we don't have to worry, since the world ends next December anyway. :happy:
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New chapter is finally out!!!!!!!!!
http://www.mangareader.net/mahou-sensei-negima/318
IT IS FUCKING ON!!!
God if the typical face-off prelude to the fight was THIS exciting…!!!
I'm smelling something even greater than Negi vs Rakan!!!
! Also lol at Super Saiyan state
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! Alright, the clash has started…to be honest I don't see this fight lasting more than two chapters...maybe three. I am almost sure the big baddie will show up and interupt this fight, most likely mortaly wounding Fate.
! To me,Fate's life expectancy is close to nil after this arc. -
@Shuhan1288:
! Alright, the clash has started…to be honest I don't see this fight lasting more than two chapters...maybe three. I am almost sure the big baddie will show up and interupt this fight, most likely mortaly wounding Fate.
! To me,Fate's life expectancy is close to nil after this arc.! That short? Negi vs Rakan was way longer. But then again that did have the whole Ako subplot going on as well. Still I give it five chapters at least. Then Big bad will awaken, revive the beaten Fates and then Principal and his army of badasses will show up. Fate's probably gonna die though.
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! Nice chapter, does this mean his lightning form is obsolete, or will it make him strong than he is now if he decides to use it?
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I don't give a damn about Negima, but I heard there's gonna be a debate here soon.
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I don't give a damn about Negima, but I heard there's gonna be a debate here soon.
huh? what kind of debate
or are you refering to its questionable future due to the whole tokyo ruling thing
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Zephos vs. TLS regarding Negima's art.
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my only comment regarding art is, there is what 1000 girls in the series, and i can tell teh difference between all 1000 of those girls. (well besides the twins)
thats a great job there by the author.
And i'm sure we can all agree on these
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my only comment regarding art is, there is what 1000 girls in the series, and i can tell teh difference between all 1000 of those girls. (well besides the twins)
What if Asuna and Chisame were cosplaying as one another?
It's true Akamatsu does a great job of trying to make each character look unique, and give them a personality distinctive enough so that even if you can't tell them apart in the action visually, you can tell who's talking…
...but given the cast size, there's going to be some overlapping. The cast is HUGE, and unlike Oda, Akamatsu doesn't seem willing to forsake human anatomy for the sake of distinguishment. I'm actually a bit thankful I don't have to see Lolas running around the magic world.
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I had a whole thing written up there with my take on Negima's art. But then I saw what the actual source of your argument was and realized you guys are going to debate on a different point entirely. So I deleted it, but I'll undelete it later after ya'll are done.
Long ramble short. The art has technical proficiency up the yinyang, but not a lot of soul.
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What if Asuna and Chisame were cosplaying as one another?
It's true Akamatsu does a great job of trying to make each character look unique, and give them a personality distinctive enough so that even if you can't tell them apart in the action visually, you can tell who's talking…
...but given the cast size, there's going to be some overlapping. The cast is HUGE, and unlike Oda, Akamatsu doesn't seem willing to forsake human anatomy for the sake of distinguishment. I'm actually a bit thankful I don't have to see Lolas running around the magic world.
Bullshit excuse.
I'll go to my fave standby, Akira Volume 3.
Nezu's army of identically haired and clothed bodyguards. And yet each one is distinct.
And Akira is a more or less realistically drawn series, certainly in comparison with friggin' Negima.
There is no excuse, fuck why am I even invoking a comic book? People don't look that identical in real life, even in a genetically isolated biome like Japan. Ken Akamatsu has failed here.
And if you say it's just that style of manga art, well here's a thought, maybe that style of manga art is inherently stupid.
Long ramble short. The art has technical proficiency up the yinyang, but not a lot of soul.
That was my conclusion. And frankly not a flattering one, a damning one in my eyes, don't know if you agree.
Technique is nothing, it's what you do with it that decides quality. And hell, a lack of technique with good results as so often happens in art can effortlessly beat souless technique any day of the week.
Jimi Hendrix never learned to read a note of music.
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Thousand Lion chan stands very little chance against Jerk.
It's like an ant going against a dinosaur.
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The faces of Negima characters aren't actually faces at all, they're internet emoticons
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So, will this be a death pact argument? That'll definitely raise the stakes more.
Loser is banned from AP…...forever.dun, dun, duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun
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Wait why… TLS... What the hell did you do?! Why is JD here?!
Must you pick fights with giants.... T_T
*gets over his feak out moment.
The artwork of Negima is not the greatest, to be sure. Most of the background characters are cgi no-face nobodies that react like a crowd should. The main cast each have thier own distinct look about them.But like it has been said before, it is bound to interlap. The thing i kind hold reguard for Akamatsu is his ability to draw drasticlly different girls, unlike, and I am sorry to say this, Oda.
Am I knocking on Oda's artwork, certainly not. Each artist has their own style that they have, some better than others. Oda's backgrounds are far superior to Akamatsu's 3d rendering buildings and scenery, but that does not mean that they shouldn't both be commended for thier efforts.
I like how you handle things around here JD, but slighting a manga inspires fights. I may be inexperienced, but i am ready to back Negima if need be.
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I had a quick break so I came to ask, Zephos how do you want to do this? Do you want me to reply to the comments in the other thread or do you want to whip up something new?
Thousand Lion chan stands very little chance against Jerk.
It's like an ant going against a dinosaur.
I stood a chance?
@MasterKingJC:So, will this be a death pact argument? That'll definitely raise the stakes more.
Loser is banned from AP…...forever.dun, dun, duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun
There is no death pact.
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Wait why… TLC... What the hell did you do?! Why is JD here?!
Must you pick fights with giants.... T_T
*gets over his feak out moment.
The artwork of Negima is not the greatest, to be sure. Most of the background characters are cgi no-face nobodies that react like a crowd should. The main cast each have thier own distinct look about them.But like it has been said before, it is bound to interlap. The thing i kind hold reguard for Akamatsu is his ability to draw drasticlly different girls, unlike, and I am sorry to say this, Oda.
Am I knocking on Oda's artwork, certainly not. Each artist has their own style that they have, some better than others. Oda's backgrounds are far superior to Akamatsu's 3d rendering buildings and scenery, but that does not mean that they shouldn't both be commended for thier efforts.
I like how you handle things around here JD, but slighting a manga inspires fights. I may be inexperienced, but i am ready to back Negima if need be.
This is mano to mano dude. Just be happy for the attention I'm generating for the series and this thread. No such thing as bad publicity after all.
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@Thousand:
This is mano to mano dude. Just be happy for the attention I'm generating for the series and this thread. No such thing as bad publicity after all.
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If you say so…
*Prepares for TLS's wake
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Back home. I'm ready to go whenever Zephos is.
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This is going to be hilarious
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Just do whatever TLS. You're in different time zones, just start by throwing in your argument, whatever you think it is.
As for me…
[hide]Negima has overall good art. The characters are a bit similar in the face and lacking in detail and rendering, but the designs are usually pretty strong, the poses and action sequences are dynamic and generally well choreographed and thought out, energy effects are very well done, and its suitably actiony. The artist's willingness to regularly do massive group shots with many distinct characters is pretty commendable.
It's strongest points by far are the backgrounds which are consistently fantastic, (albeit computer aided, but in this day and age that's not damning in and of itself.) and the toning is some of the best in the industry, aside from maybe Ah My Goddess or Bastard!, but that doesn't ever come out. (The art on Bastard blows away pretty much everything though.)
The fanservice is incredibly gratuitous and needless and takes away from the much stronger product, particularly since they can't even show anything, so its a ridiculous tease anyway.
Decent character designs with simple clean art, good choreography, fantastic backgrounds and tones, horrendous fanservice.
As far as technical profiency goes, the art does its job well. there's no denying the team makes some great looking work fairly often and there's a lot to like, and its one of the best looking weeklies currently running.
But. The argument is soul versus technical skill.
Yes, the series has sweeping vistas and impressive backdrops, but when its real heart you're talking about… Then yeah, the basic blandness and uniformity of the characters loses the argument right away. It does everything well in technical terms, and it serves the story which is its strong point, but you can tell its made by a large team of 7 or 8 people. It's too... consistent.
The story is good and the overall package is great (and I will defend the toning to the end. Amazing water and skies and various effects and whatnot there) and the actual character designs and fights are good, but it IS generally pretty bland and clean, and looks like 1,000 other things out there, like its prepped for an animation studio to do rather than one artist having a lot of fun with it. You could take a character design from any number of generic series, and say "Hey, this is a Negima character" and most people wouldn't be the wiser.
The actual character emotions never really read on their face, they're more pasted on emoticons usually. The jawline is never disturbed by an emotion, wrinkles never appear, the noses look the same from every angle, and basically, you have 500 identical characters with different haircuts.
It's a little too uniform, a little too consistent, like the artist is afraid to go off model for a panel for the sake of having fun or conveying a greater emotion. (To use a One Piece example. Luffy's expression upon the death of Ace. People may make fun of it, but that freaking crazy anguish on that face and it was unlike any emotion shown before in the comic. Or who can forget Enel's surprise face? )
Its telling that there's a spinoff series by a completely different artist and you can barely tell the difference between the two series since the same assistants work on both products.[/hide]
In terms of ongoing weekly (more or less) shonen titles, when taking in account the story, characterization, and fight scenes, and the consistency of the art, its pretty hard to argue with the result. The whole package of Negima is pretty solid. It will have some amazing sweeping vistas at times, and the juggling of the huge cast is fantastic, the fights are good, and a lot of the design stuff (especially Negi's battle modes and monsters in general) looks pretty cool, but… its being drawn like an animation, not a manga. No crosshatching or depth or rendering or deviation or real genuine heart in it.
Its over-produced and too clean. There's no unique life in any given panel, no joy.
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Hey Robby, I respectfully disagree with you saying the character designs are 'decent' there are some of the most blandest, uninspired things I've ever seen.
I remember Batter throwing examples at me and I was horrified at them.http://kurogane.animeblogger.net/2008/04/04/negima-208/
http://animummutare.wordpress.com/2010/04/25/mahou-sensei-negima-ch286/Here's my take on the Negima's art in comparison to part 2 Naruto. I feel its fair.
Now, now Batter just because I don't see Kishimoto's art like you infamously said 'a disgrace to manga' doesn't mean I don't consider it terrible, with Kishimoto he can still pump up some decent designs like Hidan and Kakuzu and sockpein and the art can be impressive like the Kyuubi scene, or the rain village with Pain which surpasses anything in Negima that you have shown me . Actually Negima is better than part 2 Naruto in terms of consistency and dedication, with Kishimoto it's simply the matter of a manga that continued longer then it needed to, so naturally it would degrade. The author is clearly apathetic about his comic. It's really lifeless and he has a shading impediment, if anything Negima merely wins by default for at least have some form dedication to it, and having decent shading for backrounds unlike Naruto which is now the fat hasben and sad reflection of it's former self but design wise I pick Naruto for obvious reasons
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Its over-produced and too clean. There's no unique life in any given panel, no joy.
I'm with this sentiment.
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The thing i kind hold reguard for Akamatsu is his ability to draw drasticlly different girls, unlike, and I am sorry to say this, Oda.
'Drastically different girls?' Am I reading this right?
Most of Akatmatsu's girls look the same. What are you talking about? Oda's girls tend to look similar body proportion wise, and sometimes you have your Vivi's, Nami's and Mikino's but then you have Robin, Perona, Kalifia and to some extent Camie and then Konkoro and Lola and fake Robin . Also some of the bodies can vary unlike 90% of Negima's girls which creeplily contain that same 'slim figure' and wide eyes and 'cute jawline' that are Otaku pedo oscar bait for someone like Chris-chan. -
Also to Batter, good luck.
Your gonna need it.
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K, I might as well throw something out then. Zephos can do what he will afterwards. Forgive me if I use some similar terminology. I just read your post and it's still fresh in my mind so obviously it's going to influence my choice of words.
I've never really thought of the art of Negima as anything short of fantastic. Engorging backgrounds, great designs, awesome dynamics to display action and the energy effects are to die for. So I was quite bamboozled when people started calling the art awful. But I suppose I never considered the "soul" of the art. The little things here and there which speak of the author's own character. And I can see where Zephos is coming from when they call the art itself bland. I can appreciate that point of view, heck I even find myself agreeing that on PURELY artistic terms…yeah I always found everything a bit too fabricated. Like a cold, heartless, souless factory mass-producing goods. So basically not enough grit. The drawback of a bunch of assistants, not enough blood and sweat and tears.
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I find to call the overall art and in turn the overall series by implication is substandard because of that is too much. I'm sorry but I find it a bit too idealistic and narrow-minded especially when you're not even considering how the WHOLE PACKAGE comes together. Results matter. And while I appreciate how a more soul-bearing style would be more someone's cup of tea it doesn't mean they should act all elitist and chalk anything less as automatically inferior and not worth attention. With that said I reject the notion that Negima doesn't have soul. The thing is unlike with other series you can't tell that from the art. Some find that damning in of itself, fine. But I've experienced the whole package and let me tell you that it's quite clear that there is joy, that the author IS having fun with his work. You can't create a work with such a huge scope in world building, willingly work with so many characters giving each one individual development or constant interactions, put in so many Easter eggs and little paragraphs you have to squint in order to read on the side that add to the characterization and the atmosphere and the mythos without loving your job. Even in the art it is apparent. Setting aside the art technique itself and its high proficiency but little character, the art direction is a different matter. It shows a lot of thought and insight. Take this example
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I don't know about you but I find the direction to be fantastic. Great perspective, dynamics, progress between panels, a firm understanding into the action and location of the individual characters. If that's not expressing yourself in some way…This is definitely not an author who doesn't care at any rate. With all that said, the art with the whole package works. Now be it an art style (probable) or lack of talent (less probable) or not caring (extremely improbable) it works. Simple character art with great backgrounds combined with a story you can easily immerse yourself with...it works. Now you can hold the art itself against the whole package, that's up to you but I think one should be a bit more open minded about things especially if one has never read the actual material (the good parts not the terrible beginning bad parts). At the very least, that along with the feel-good shojoey atmosphere of the series give a sharp, scintillating contrast to some of the more gruesome scenes like these:!
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To frame the issue, my point is that while the art is bland, it does not mean the series itself doesn't have heart. I doubt that one who truly reads the series, one who constantly immerses himself into the story can ever really say "This author is just doing this for the money, he's not having any fun at all, he doesn't care about this series".
One other point which I've intentionally not mentioned until now. The designs own. First of, I wanna put this here in case people thought that terrible anime shot (which totally messed up the color schemes, Chisame and Natsume with green hair, Yuuna with brown hair wtf!?!) was representative of the status quo.
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(For reference, number 20 always has her eyes closed, she looks way different from her picture).
Maybe you see a huge difference, maybe you don't but I think we can at least agree that it's better than the fucking awful anime. It's simple but there is rather good effort in distinguishing the characters further accentuated by their contrasting personalities. Even the closely overlapping ones have well expressed their differences. I remember reading in character profiles how Makie is shy and Ako is timid and I thought what the hell is the difference? But Akamatsu did a great job in distinguishing their character quirks and nuances to the point where you never for one minute think they're clones of each other. Awesome characterization aside, at the very least I find the designs of the cast decent. Whether the art itself looks bland or not is another issue entirely. Of course let's not get into Akamatsu's awesome designs of monsters, Negi's dark forms and powerups in general and his impeccable fashion sense (though he has kind of a fetish with gothic lolita when it comes to Asuna but I suppose that's Evangeline's doing). Again,you can hold the art against the designs but calling them terrible let alone Naruto level?
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Get the fuck out.
I have no doubt that Zephos is going to come in and rip my posts to shreds and slam me to the wall with me exuding blood from every orifice but whatever, I've said my piece. Let the debate or (blood bath) commence. It's a shame he doesn't have any interest in this series but it can't be helped. There is more to it than soulless art though even if that's a thing that matters a lot or the only thing that matters to some people.
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). Again,you can hold the art against the designs but calling them terrible let alone Naruto level?
This is me on my comparison on the part 2 Naruto and Negima art.
Now, now Batter just because I don't see Kishimoto's art like you infamously said 'a disgrace to manga' doesn't mean I don't consider it terrible, with Kishimoto he can still pump up some decent designs like Hidan and Kakuzu and sockpein and the art can be impressive like the Kyuubi scene, or the rain village with Pain which surpasses anything in Negima that you have shown me . Actually Negima is better than part 2 Naruto in terms of consistency and dedication, with Kishimoto it's simply the matter of a manga that continued longer then it needed to, so naturally it would degrade. The author is clearly apathetic about his comic. It's really lifeless and he has a shading impediment, if anything Negima merely wins by default for at least have some form dedication to it, and having decent shading for backrounds unlike Naruto which is now the fat hasben and sad reflection of it's former self but design wise I pick Naruto for obvious reasons
I never called them Naruto level, now your stupidly putting words in my mouth. I at least gave some positives to Akatmatsu for having some form of dedication to his work, and backround toning unlike the growingly apathethic Kishimoto where he can't even even draw the Kyuubi as threatening as he used to. But with any nice scenery you post its also this.
http://5.p.s.mfcdn.net/store/manga/71/28-257.0/compressed/daas_mahou_sensei_negima_c257.01.jpg
http://8.p.s.mfcdn.net/store/manga/71/25-223.0/compressed/mahou223_01_ns.jpgSorry I don't see Naruto's art as a disgrace to mangaka like you do, I won't bother anymore against your points since your opponent is Jerk not me.
Get the fuck out
I have no doubt that Zephos is going to come in and rip my posts to shreds and slam me to the wall with me exuding blood from every orifice but whatever, I've said my piece. Let the debate or (blood bath) commence. It's a shame he doesn't have any interest in this series but it can't be helped. There is more to it than soulless art though even if that's a thing that matters a lot or the only thing that matters to some people
This is hilarious…. Damn is this one hilarious emotional outburst if I ever saw one calm down Batter It's a children's comic book for gods sake you don't have throw a tantrum . If you do respond to this I won't bother responding back since I believe in letting the baby have it's bottle so I will let you have the final word after you see my reponse. None of your points you posted have convinced me in the slightest; if anything most of which you posted were slim bishonen and female's with bambi eyes playing with Yugioh monsters, the toning is decent(I know you hate that word) but perhaps it's just me but I've seen better in other shonen especially One Piece. It's average to me, amazing to you. I don't care. You have yet to post a Negima design and or spread that matches Oda and I don't think you ever will. Hell, you haven't even posted one that as impressed me as part 2 Kishimoto(when he works harder)
http://www.mangareader.net/93-404-12/naruto/chapter-399.html
http://view.thespectrum.net/series/naruto-volume-01.html?ch=Volume+36&page=183
http://www.mangareader.net/93-444-6/naruto/chapter-439.html
http://www.mangareader.net/93-444-13/naruto/chapter-439.htmlI said Negima wins BY default because Kishimmoto dosen't challenge himself every week. While the Negima author does, he has dedication and some passion in his series and puts it in his stuff every week. That and I perfer the Part two's designs because despite the many flaws and blandness in them facial versatility is at least to my linking and most of the females of part two still look more appealing than that godawful 90% otaku pedo dolls clones style as exhibited by Negima.
Fuck, give me one Negima design that looks even remotely good, other than some decently shaded RPG monster and a boring bland super saiyian Cloud-like buff guy that is drawn by pratically every talentless hack that uses a DA account.Post one right now that impresses me, or will impress Jerk when he stomps your arguments to the ground with no mercy.
Like I said before, you might reply to this with an even worse response but I will not continue this childish fibble any longer( before I'm thread banned by Robby) because I believe in letting the baby have the bottle. Sorry, saying Naruto has better designs and art then Negima when Kishomto tries hard enough is not as much as taboo you're making it out be. Good day, to you sir.
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For crying out loud
you know there's poorly drawn panels even in one piece, one panel doesn't mean the whole series is bad
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'Drastically different girls?' Am I reading this right?
Most of Akatmatsu's girls look the same. What are you talking about? Oda's girls tend to look similar body proportion wise, and sometimes you have your Vivi's, Nami's and Mikino's but then you have Robin, Perona, Kalifia and to some extent Camie and then Konkoro and Lola and fake Robin . Also some of the bodies can vary unlike 90% of Negima's girls which creeplily contain that same 'slim figure' and wide eyes and 'cute jawline' that are Otaku pedo oscar bait for someone like Chris-chan.The jaw line feature is a weak arguement…
The fact that each girl has their own style makes them very diverse. They aren't all cookie cutter as you seem to wanna put it. Have you seen Satsuki Yotsuba??
the only similar appearance between the girl's is the said jaw line...give me another example...
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The jaw line feature is a weak arguement…
Alrighty if you say so…...
The fact that each girl has their own style makes them very diverse.
Which style are talking about in particular? That makes them look diverse?
http://cardcaptor.moekaku.com/files/negima-178/negi-party.jpg
They all look almost the same.They aren't all cookie cutter as you seem to wanna put it.
Pretty much are.
Have you seen Satsuki Yotsuba??
I don't see mentioning another anime/manga gulity of doing the same thing is help your argument
Negima is at least somewhat freerer from that, but both are still pretty bad and bland.
the only similar appearance between the girl's is the said jaw line…give me another example
I think it goes more beyond the jawline, don't forget insanely similar body structure, similar legs and body posture…..
http://tomopop.com/ul/8066-550x-negima%20copy.jpg
If anything even there are slight variations in face, there are still essentially the same.
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I will note to Negima fans that I have no definitive opinion on the series and even if I have castigated the art I have never bashed the series in on its self, like characters, story or even characterization but only one aspect which I feel the series fails in. Truthfully, I have no qualms with anyone liking this series and I respect its fans that enjoy it and I have never said the entire series was awful just that one aspect in which in fails to deliver for me. In fact niether Jerk or I, have bashed anything about the series as whole with the exception of Akatmatsu's lifeless designs and thats really it. Just because I say it has bad designs does not mean I think its a bad series in its entirety, if I did that, that would be narrow-minded of me.
Just saying.
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I'm not going to argue that the female characters are amazingly diverse in design, but he's certainly better at it than Oda.
I think it goes more beyond the jawline, don't forget insanely similar body structure,
Besides the fact that most of them are thin, this isn't true. All the girls are different heights and have different breast sizes. This is more than I can say for One Piece, except when Oda Deforms them.
similar legs
What are you expecting, some characters to have goat legs? Most normal people have similar looking legs. It's pretty hard to draw diverse legs without deforming them, which would look retarded and out of place in Negima.
and body posture…..
What manga do you know where each character has their own distinct posture? The only time mangas take note of posture is when people are seriously hunched over, otherwise posture is pretty much the same among all characters in all manga. Calling Negima out for posture is like calling One Piece out for toes.
The only one of those criticisms that even made sense was body structure, and that wasn't even true. I will admit that all the girls have the exact same chin, mouth and nose and that is a significant strike against it, but the things you noted were stupid.