You guys are so dumb!
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Also.
WHERE DID MY POST GO...?! o_O
Ken Akamatsu thread (A.I. Love You, Love Hina, Negima, UQ Holder)
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just wow
just….just wow
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@Daisuke:
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just wow
just….just wow
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/5097/mahousenseinegima20818iu0.jpg
I think this is the epitome of Negi "going too far". I really wish there was another way instead of either embracing his father or embracing Eva.
Y'know, Negima WAS awesome…
For the first 18 volumes.
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@Tokoro:
I think this is the epitome of Negi "going too far". I really wish there was another way instead of either embracing his father or embracing Eva.
I still don't get you. Anything is better than following Nagi - he's a gosh awful character. :(
That said…I have to agree, Negi using the technique is a bit wuuuh...he looks all sickly and gross too.
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I still don't get you. Anything is better than following Nagi - he's a gosh awful character. :(
That said…I have to agree, Negi using the technique is a bit wuuuh...he looks all sickly and gross too.
I didn't say he should follow in Nagi's footsteps. I think that following in Eva's footsteps is the exact same thing.
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I'm cont. w/ the manga now. I want to know do they start all over in the manga as they do in the anime (I watched the anime because it was on tv, and come to think of it, it's the main reason why I read the manga too)?
What I mean is, I see that the anime always have a new storyline every season, is it the same w/ the manga? If so, can you tell me the different arcs in the manga? Oh wait, n/m (it says it in wiki)
I forgot to say, how much chapters are in each volume (is it like 11, or something like that)?
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Hrm. this thread's been dead for half a year. Oh well…
You know... I was really enjoying Negima... I liked the school festival arc despite how over-long it was, and I was evern really enjoying this other world arc for its ambition and scale... and I was even cool with Negi constantly going into redundant training arcs, despite already being one fo the strongest guys around, but these latest chapters dissapoint me enough I have to actually complain about it.
Does the series HAVE to bring in a visible power level chart that showcases EXACTLY how outclassed Negi is? Isn't it enough to know that he's fighting the uber legends of the world? Do we have to know that Negi's ability level after all his training is 2000, his new shadow mode is 4000, and that his foe is 22000000000000? It gives exactly a sense of the kind of bs scale in power he's going to have to jump in the course of this arc. Basically, a ridiculous ammount, so far in increment beyond any of his other power ups that is silly, and he's even leaving his equal sparring partner Kotaru totally in the dust. After this jump, any other opponent will have to be even THAT much more uber, which is just silly and slides into Dragonball territory. Wasn't it enough that Fate was Negi's even mach, but just a bit better and more experianced?
I hope that after this arc he just goes on and finds his father and the series ends, or we get a timejump and see all the girls older and who he ends up with, because its purely downhill from here. Its been a fun ride, but once you introduce concrete poer levels to be topped and beaten, instead of just sheer visual displays of power... just... uggh. I can't imagine the series running for another 20 volumes now that its introudced a power level chart. How is it an entire generation of manga artist can grow up on and be inspired by Dragonball, but not be aware of the inherant problems in storytelling a specific power level provide?
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Personally I've been disgusted with Negima as well since the summer and Magic World stuff started. Up through the Festival, it was a fun, diversionary series with good action, cute girls and such, regardless on how some characters get more development and obsession by fans and the author than others (cough…Eva...Setsuna...cough), Akamatsu was at least trying to allow for some development here and there for those who needed it whether it was one chapter (Akira) or a mini arc within a bigger one (Ako). But since then, I pretty much got more and more annoyed with the series by the chapter for multiple reasons, from the selectiveness of who gets development and who doesn't to the crap with the power levels and Negi's "I'm more uber than anyone except those important to the plot" to abandoning a good chunk of the cast with no sign of them ever coming back due to the plot. I gave it up around the point of Negi's training with Eva...and I haven't regretted it.
Y'know, Negima WAS awesome…
For the first 18 volumes.
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Can't say I haven't been bothered either, but my major beef with the story has been alleviated somewhat with Rankan. He's acknowledged Negi as his own person and not seen him merely as "Nagi's son" like nearly all other characters who admired Nagi have. I think it's because of his own "I'm just as good" attitude but otherwise, it has renewed my faith that Akamatsu isn't oblivious to how the characters treat one another. He even admitted that Negi is exceeding Nagi at the same age, which was a complete reversal of how Negi had to get his arse kicked in the finals of the festival tournament that Nagi won.
As far as the power-leveling goes, I don't think Negi is going to make that gap in the span of a single fight. He'll have to outsmart Rankan, which is what Eva was trying to hint at by calling him an idiot.
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As far as the power-leveling goes, I don't think Negi is going to make that gap in the span of a single fight. He'll have to outsmart Rankan, which is what Eva was trying to hint at by calling him an idiot.
I'll be much, much, MUCH happier if thats the route they go. If he wins through smarts and luck, rather than sheer overwhelming power upgrade. I'd be happy with that.
I suppose I may have had such a harsh reaction to it due to Naruto suddenly pulling a riduloucs power jump out of HIS ass… but yeah, smarts would be good.
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@robbybevard:
I'll be much, much, MUCH happier if thats the route they go. If he wins through smarts and luck, rather than sheer overwhelming power upgrade. I'd be happy with that.
I agree with that too.
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Mahou Sensei Negima is neat. Specially how everything go after when they got separated.
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I can understand the logic behind how Negi is beating Rakan, but i was kind of dissapointing. It was good writing but the fanboy in me is not satisfied. I'm thinking that its not the end of the whole bussiness yet .
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Mahou Sensei Negima is one of the best series for me right now… so hilarious and fanserving manga. And of course those fights... specially newest fight, superb. Great serie.
ΠΛΑΝΗΤΕΣ [Air Gear 243\. The best. Chapter. Ever.]
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I liked how Negi won. Fusing of his own ideas and Eva's…that's what he needs to do to start developing new techniques. Luring Rankan into a fist-fight where Negi had the advantage was a good call as well, the first trump was just a diversionary tactic.
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Hmm, Rakan's fight was kinda disappointing.
All I've gotta say is that he should go and make a pact with Zazie, Mana (How does that work if the previous partner is dead?), Ku Fei, Chachamaru, and uhh… I don't know. Those are just my favorite that have been left out (Especially Zazie, I mean, she gets like no screen time ><).
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@Malintex_Terek: Negi have yet to win the battle.
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Found this thread in the back.
Hmm. Not sure why I'm still reading this…
Anyway, just a question. I thought mages were allowed to make as many pacts as they like, but unlike mages, "contractees" can only have one master. Meh, maybe I'm just confusing Negima with something else.
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You can pactio with as many people as you want, wizards can have as many backup fighters as they want, and backup figters can serve more than one wizard. Pactio is just a friendship temporary binding. (How temporary remains to be seen. It lasts for at leat a year, or possibly forever until its forcibly or intetionally broken.) Negi himself is now under a contract to…someone...else, which allows him a new bonus ability of using the powers of any of HIS contacted pupils...
Theres a stronger more permanent version of the linking contract, which we haven't seen yet, so we dont know the strengths, weaknesses or disadvantages of it, or why its better or worse than the temporary version. THAT permenent bonding one I think is limited to one partner and one partner only. I think.
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Dang it finally happens. And those heavy magic whatever guards are cool looking bunch of… guards.
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negi x nagi
easily the best pairing
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Finally caught up with the manga so I'm reviving this thread. I must say this is one of the best manga series I have ever read (hell, it became my number two!!!) and I'm surprised this series isn't as talked about in this forum as the other series. it's definitely far better than shitty Naruto and Bleach and even series like Faiy Tail, Reborn etc. The art, pacing, fights, visuals, god everything is amazing!!!
What I especially love about it is the characterization. it's freakin' godly. Despite how high the stakes go up and all the magical word mysteries and conspiracies to unravel, Mr. Akamatsu still has time to give us some sweet romance chapters delving in and expanding the female cast. It shows no matter how uber things get, the series hasn't lost sight of itself and one of it's core principles that make it great/
Rakan fight is fucking godly. A sheer masterpiece, definite best fight of the series.
The only thing really bugging me is fake Asuna. She's really grating on me:/ I mean I know even the fake believes she's Asuna and it was supposed to make things easy and everything but goshdarnit, every time Asuna has an awesome scene, a little voice in my head needles me saying "She's fake!" and it totally like ruins her scenes for me:/
Other than that. Great great series!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Asuna in general just makes me angry, but I do enjoy the series. Now if they only gave characters I like more screen time then I'd be happy. =DD
P.S Rakan is the Beast << >>
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With the way things are going, I wouldn't be surprised if every student of Negi becomes deeply involved with magic lol
No seriously, there are like seven left of the entire class, the three cheerleaders, Ayaka, the twins and Chiduru.
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I still enjoy reading it, but it lost something with the Rakan blackboard power rankings.
Chachamaru's pactio was beyond awesome though.
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This series doesn't get discussed as much as others because the ampant fanservice early on was just outright DUMB, and gave a really bad first impression. The first 20 chapters or so were pretty bad. It wasn't until Eva showed up that it got better, then it went downhill again… Then it finalyl balanced out around volume 7 when Kotaru shoed up and started sidekicking with Negi full time. But thats a long distance to go of giving a series a chance before it gets really good.
nd even still, the abundance of fanservice is obnoxious. Its not cute or sexy when it happens EVERY chapter.
@Thousand:
With the way things are going, I wouldn't be surprised if every student of Negi becomes deeply involved with magic lol
No seriously, there are like seven left of the entire class, the three cheerleaders, Ayaka, the twins and Chiduru.
Don't forget Zazie Rainyday.
Everyone always forgets Zazie. Just because she hasn't said a single word the whole series. Which is actually one of the most interesting quirks of all. She also seems to hang around with demons.
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I'd say the fact shes hanging around with spirits and stuff would suggest she's already involved in the magic side of things in some capacity.
And you can't have a magical harem manga without the fanservice, and KA does it well imho. I can understand people not caring for it, but there was a pretty good story behind it from the beginning in my eyes.
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@robbybevard:
This series doesn't get discussed as much as others because the ampant fanservice early on was just outright DUMB, and gave a really bad first impression. The first 20 chapters or so were pretty bad. It wasn't until Eva showed up that it got better, then it went downhill again… Then it finalyl balanced out around volume 7 when Kotaru shoed up and started sidekicking with Negi full time. But thats a long distance to go of giving a series a chance before it gets really good.
nd even still, the abundance of fanservice is obnoxious. Its not cute or sexy when it happens EVERY chapter.
I always liked the series because harem series don't bug me and I didn't get my hopes up. Indeed the amount of characterization for a harem series impressed me. I never imagined it would get so awesome though. Even now the ecchi doesn't bug me because I see it part of the series character.
@robbybevard:
Don't forget Zazie Rainyday.
Everyone always forgets Zazie. Just because she hasn't said a single word the whole series. Which is actually one of the most interesting quirks of all. She also seems to hang around with demons.
Zazie's definitely involved in magic.
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Shortly, it just got everything. Awesome manga, shamely hard to find in europe as manga. And Zazie did say things in begining of mahora festifall when she did invite Negi. Fanservice is todays must, in my option.
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Anybody here have already seen the live action series?
Here's the op:
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@Triple:
Anybody here have already seen the live action series?
Here's the op:
I must admit i like the song.
Tick tick tick
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Finally, the two week wait is over and boy was the wait worth it. Freaking awesome chapter. In only 19 pages we got
! a well handled Negi Berserker mode and him subsequently being calmed down in a very reasonable and heart-warming way, Godel becomes more intriguing, Asakura shows her badass side (heck all the girls were great in the chapter) and even a little extra Eva-chan on the side.
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Has anyone seen the Another World ova yet?
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@robbybevard:
Don't forget Zazie Rainyday.
Everyone always forgets Zazie. Just because she hasn't said a single word the whole series. Which is actually one of the most interesting quirks of all. She also seems to hang around with demons.
Looks like, she is a demon herself:
see Zazie, in the middle…
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http://www.onemanga.com/Mahou_Sensei_Negima!/266/01/
New chapter out.So after all that craziness last chapter and his overall character development in general, Godel was a good guy?!?:/ Dunno how I feel about that.
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The new chapter was one of the biggest cliffhangers I've ever seen>
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Erm, read the chapter, i don't wanna spoil…
And even if I wanted to, I couldn't do so effectively, the majority of the power of the cliffhanger was how the atmosphere was set up. Let me just say it felt depressing and the way the chapter ended was so sudden and intense...=/
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its not… that much of a cliffhanger. She obviously survived and reunites with Nagi, since Negi hasn't even been concieved, let alone born yet...
What happens to her AFTER that, well THAT is still in question.
Powerful chapter all the same.
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Well Asuna is a 25 year old in a 15 year olds body, maybe Negi is a 20 year old in a 10 year olds body and is already alive :P
Yeah ok maybe not, shes gonna live >_>
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@robbybevard:
its not… that much of a cliffhanger. She obviously survived and reunites with Nagi, since Negi hasn't even been concieved, let alone born yet...
What happens to her AFTER that, well THAT is still in question.
Powerful chapter all the same.
Yeah I know but I was like expecting Nagi to show up on the last page to give a little hope after all that depressing stuff. For it just to end with her one foot into the grave was quite shocking especially with how bleak her life was being portrayed. I guess that's what Mr. Akamatsu was going for:/
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Well Asuna is a 25 year old in a 15 year olds body, maybe Negi is a 20 year old in a 10 year olds body and is already alive :P
Yeah ok maybe not, shes gonna live >_>
Kid already has issues with timetravel, repeating days, spending a day training for an hour every day in a pocket dimension,and switching between a 10 and 15 year old identity while masquerading as a reincarnated version of his father.
And you want to complicate his age MORE?
Poor kid is probably 13 already and doesnt know it.
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Guys, I have a question with all this confusing royalty hierarchy stuff. I know that Arika was the Queen of the oldest royal blood line and former ruler of Vespertatia who's capital is destroyed now, Tomboy Theodora is the Queen of another country which is the Hellas empire, Megalosembria has no leader and is ruled by a senate (with Rikardo being one of its senators) and Ariadne is ruled by Seras and her knights (if I made any mistakes or left any known nation and it's political leader and system out, please say so). OK, so considering all this, what is Asuna's relation to this royal stuff?
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Leaving out names and titles and making it as simple as possible…
Basically, Asuna is Negi's aunt.
Because she is the little sister of Negi's mother. (Its part of the reason Nagi's group is so involved in protecting Asuna)
Its also why she reminds him so much of his sister in the earlier chapters.
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Damn...
Part of me had figured it out (it was the only possibility that fit with the story) but the other part was in denial.
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There kills my favorite shipping.
Wait, what about all those kisses and the romantic tension between themO_O!?!
And what about all those NegixAsuna doujins!?!?!
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Well, I was thinking that they might not necessarily be blood relatives (Arika and Asuna). Even Muscle-head presents it as a question in that scene. Now that I think about it, the confusion between Nekane and Asuna doesn't even make sense. Nekane is Negi's cousin, and not at all connected by blood to Asuna. Why would they look similar at all?
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@Thousand:
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Wait, what about all those kisses and the romantic tension between themO_O!?!Pactio only. And big-sisterly love. Asuna always wants to protect Negi, and gets annoyed by his habits/accidental pervisions, she's actually one of the few girls that HASN'T regularly flirted with/wanted him. I believe Nodoka was, and still is, the only girl in the class to kiss Negi outside of a Pactio contract. (But I could easily be wrong, the series is running pretty long at this point with a lot of characters.)
And despite the royalty aspect, they still might not be blood related. There is (obviously) still a big chunk of backstory missing that's been intentionally left vaugue where family trees and Asuna especially are involved, a lot of which we might actually get next week. (and also two Asunas running around at the moment. A fact that is easy to keep forgetting.)
And just because they don't end up making out, doesn't mean they can't be partners.
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@robbybevard:
Pactio only. And big-sisterly love. Asuna always wants to protect Negi, and gets annoyed by his habits/accidental pervisions, she's actually one of the few girls that HASN'T regularly flirted with/wanted him. I believe Nodoka was, and still is, the only girl in the class to kiss Negi outside of a Pactio contract. (But I could easily be wrong, the series is running pretty long at this point with a lot of characters.)
And despite the royalty aspect, they still might not be blood related. There is (obviously) still a big chunk of backstory missing that's been intentionally left vaugue where family trees and Asuna especially are involved, a lot of which we might actually get next week. (and also two Asunas running around at the moment. A fact that is easy to keep forgetting.)
And just because they don't end up making out, doesn't mean they can't be partners.
Evangeline has kissed Negi:P
Anyway, I always felt that their relationship was a tad closer than brother and sister :E I mean there had been so many gags with Asuna being in love with Negi from that chapter with the love potion to that confession to Misora at the church:/
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@robbybevard:
Basically, Asuna is Negi's aunt.
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@robbybevard:
I believe Nodoka was, and still is, the only girl in the class to kiss Negi outside of a Pactio contract. (But I could easily be wrong, the series is running pretty long at this point with a lot of characters.)
Ako and Eva have both kissed Negi outside the Pactio. (Ako with Nagi but yeah, same deal). I think that's it :S
