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| Hmm apparently there was a possibility that outside reasons were affecting him to abruptly come to this almost brick wall of an ending. If you look at this link it says something about Ken having said something in his twitter about how he's fighting some copyright debates? http://astronerdboy.blogspot.ca/2012/03/new-proposed-japanese-law-reason-ken.html Would explain a few things, but still I agree with a majority of the readers who are bothered with some unanswered questions. Like what happened to negis mother and who was that cloaked figure/small boy who was maybe part of nagis old past group (that little kid he called master) or was he at the grave temple tower that stopped the doll or whatever? Also what's the story about nagi and how he was put in the position that he was in/life enemy dude (how'd he turn bad). Correction not some unanswered, SOOOOOoooooooooo many unanswered questions. Obviously it would anger many readers who felt that continuing reading would eventually answer the unknown, but nope they were denied that. Truly a sucky move lol. However, I really do hope that he continues something afterwards for this I don't really mind that he didn't chose anyone, but still there were a lot of things that were left in the dark that he teased us with lol. Overall was a pretty nice series just wish explained some things before ending it that way. RL issues or not. *COUGH*Where's his mom*COUGH!!*Who's that fricking tiny blonde dude in the group photo *COOOUGH HACK* |
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| Although i didn't like the ending with all its unanswered questions I still loved the story. I just wish that for some reason they will create an anime for this that actually follows the story since the manga has ended just like what happened with Fullmetal Alchemist. I'm pretty sure it would be popular. |
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| ^Yup, we need a true Negima adaptation :) |
NJZanDatsu said: ^Yup, we need a true Negima adaptation :) |
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| So many emotional up's and down's, I wept here and there ; ; (Especially at the Asuna waking up in the future x.x) I was putting off reading the ending but *sniff* It was lovely. Class Rep!! I'll miss you!!! PS: I especially loved all the little passages that showed what each of he girls was doing in the future, really made it feel complete. |
-KazuSep 4, 2012 4:57 AM
-Tsukkomi said: Eh, I'm satisfied with Konoka & Setsuna :3 That said, Akamatsu told that was ended temporaly. So we can expect some kind of sequel in the future in a other timeline. In this one it seems that Negi's wife will be Makie. |
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finaluprising95 said: Although i didn't like the ending with all its unanswered questions I still loved the story. I just wish that for some reason they will create an anime for this that actually follows the story since the manga has ended just like what happened with Fullmetal Alchemist. I'm pretty sure it would be popular. Yeah need anime that follows the manga. MSN actions are one of the best, infinitely. |
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| I just want one arc, one last arc, detailing how the hell he found his father, since that was like the first conflict in the series. |
Natsu12345 said: finaluprising95 said: Although i didn't like the ending with all its unanswered questions I still loved the story. I just wish that for some reason they will create an anime for this that actually follows the story since the manga has ended just like what happened with Fullmetal Alchemist. I'm pretty sure it would be popular. Yeah need anime that follows the manga. MSN actions are one of the best, infinitely. I need! to see Negi vs Jack Rakan animated. |
| And I was still expecting something BIG to happen when i got the last volume of it from my local bookstore, and man, seriously a letdown. Even if the author wanted to skip everything so that it'll reach its end, he still mustn't skip the part of how he find his parents. It was like he rushed it to an end so that he can take his own personal holiday from all the weekly release stress, and that is so not good for the fans of the series. So no, 8/10 would be enough for this. Had it not for the ending, this series could have easily scored a 9/10 or even 10/10. Oh well,the T-virus ( Troll Virus ) has now even infected the manga industry. |
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| Well it was one hell of a fun ride (though I still need an answer or two about the Lifemaker). |
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| Really should've been cut off two chapters earlier. Just throwing all the pointless disjointed stuff in left quite a bit of bad aftertaste. |
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| A bit of a letdown, but not nearly as bad as I heard. I really like that Konoka and Setsuna hooked up, I started rooting for them in volume 4 I think however.... Yeah who the heck did Negi hook up with? I think it is down to Nodoka, Yue, and the darkhorse Chisame and that is it, maybe Makie, maybe. |
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IXI_JAM3S_IXI said: But isn't it common practice for younger friends who is very close friends to call their friends' father, father? Well in Japanese of course. Otou-san being the word. Because calling Nagi by Nagi-san means she is real close with him, (ex: daily basis meeting and friends) and Springfield-san is rarely used in the manga, so Otou-san is the respectful way of greeting him. Granted she was the first to greet him, but Makie's nature just makes her nervous around his father because of course she likes Negi.Seriously, am i the only one that caught up on this? Makie called Nagi father and was all super nervous about meeting him, so that obviously means Negi was dating Makie at the end there! Also later it goes on stating "While gaining the frenetic support of her male students and colleagues, she is still focused on Negi. She looks forward to going up on days off in order to meet with her friends and Negi." This shows she doesn't actually live with Negi or meets with him in a relationship manner. Negi is probably as thick headed as ever when it comes to something serious. |
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| I still feel that Makie is the one who ended up with Negi specifically for the reason she calls him father. Everyone else casually refers to him as "Nagi-san", but Makie is quite nervous in meeting Negi's father, hence why she calls him "otou-san". On another note, I enjoyed Negima's ending specifically because it's a troll ending. It'll be great getting some of my other friends to read all 38 volumes only to have them flip the table on the last few chapters, bwahahaha! |
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Zephinism said: Read UQ Holder bro it's the sequel of Negima and hopefully answer a lot of question.I had actually read the chapter when it came out but never commented. I've been re-reading it and just wanted to say, again, how let down I am by the ending. It's on par with Mx0 for worst manga endings ever. |
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| Yup a bit disappointing to end it with such a troll ending. But at the same time it holds the same troll feelling the manga had during non battle times. The ending sadly fits the manga. With a bit of an optimistic view on the ending I can even vote for Makie to be the bride. Forgetting the nervous Father!!! and jealous of Yue parts, rather looking at her position in the group sceens (in the middle - assuming its next to Negi's position and also present in the panel of discovering Nagi beeing the special guest) and the seemingly non-heartbroken ending + most of Asuna's comments have an passing mark. P.S. I hoped for Nodoka to be the lucky gal - would have been a nice and powerfull couple. What a shame but can settle wit Makie. |
| Welp, I figured they would do a timeskip. Good to know about their futures though rather than leaving the readers in the dark. Oh how I wished the anime adapted this faithfully..the manga is definitely imo better than the anime and the crappy remake. The finale felt a bit odd though and rushed. Good thing there's still UQ Holder which will keep me busy. As for the series, rating it 7/10. Despite the cliches and gags going on, I found this additively entertaining. |
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| Ok finally finished, troll ending. My final thoughts It wasn't clear, but I think Negi chose Makie. She called Nagi a "father" and she was also nervous at their meeting. I was not much paying attention about her in the entire manga, but I just researched she's one of the most popular heroines early in the series based on the survey. Asuna, Nonoka, Yue and Ayaka were already out of the shipping during Asuna's sleep. It was stated that Nonoka and Yue were broken hearted and Ayaka married someone. Not a fan of same sex pairing, but Secchan x Konoka seems to happen. =( Konoka was my fave heroine, so I initially shipped for Negi x Konoka. Well, so many things weren't explained. 6/10 |
blessofcurseMar 21, 2015 7:10 PM
| going to give a 6/10. Shitty harem ending (everyone got a chance my ass.), nagi showed up (come on, really? after 356 chapters...), konoka and setsuna married each other (lol?). Too many bad points to make a list. It was one of the few mangas i almost dropped... |
| I don't remember when I started to read Negima but it was probably early to mid-2013. Anyone who can read the post-date for this post, realizes it's mid-2015, meaning it took me about two years to finish this series. That should leave an indicator of how I felt about this series & by the way, 225 of those chapters were in this month, as part of my Manga May theme month. I'm really happy to have finally finished this series off, though I'm not yet done with the franchise as UQ Holder exists. But regardless, time to start my review on this part of the franchise. Clearly the place to start is the story. Like any other battle shonen, this series was divided into many arcs. Unlike most battle shonen however it's arcs weren't always from of that genre (yes, I know shonen is a demographic, it's just easy to associate action series [intended for a younger audience] as battle shonen, since those series contain various tropes from eachother, we cool?). It's not unheard of for a series to introduce the action element at a later date as both Medaka Box & Yu Yu Hakusho did, the main difference for me here is that I liked Medaka Box & YYH pre-fights (heck, I might've liked YYH better in those stages). But unfortunately Negima starts off as a harem, which is quickly becoming my least favorite word in anime/manga. The Child Teacher arc that begins the series is easily my least favorite in the manga. Look if you're a fan of the typical humor found here such as nudity & misunderstandings then you'll love it. Humor isn't always sexual in nature or Three's Company but a good amount of the time it is and I recall it being pretty rampant back then. Regardless, the series doesn't line up with my personal sense of humor, so it was just reading a bunch of unfunny gags for me. The second arc, Evangeline arc wasn't much better but I'd be lying to say I can remember much aside from the short Nagi stuff. Luckily, while reading the series (& several other long-runners [One Piece, Toriko & Medaka Box) I catalogue my rating for each arc. I gave the Child Teacher a 3 & the Evangeline a 4. The final arc I kept track of was the Kyoto Field Trip arc, which got a 7 & may have been the highlight of the series. It has its faults, several unfunny diversions & one of the least satisfying conclusions to an arc I've ever seen however this is when the series started hitting the direction that Ken wanted it to be from the get-go, a battle shonen. There are some unique powers & the fight with Kotarou at least was interesting & character-wise we saw some good development from Nodoka, one of my favorites. It also was the first time Asakura became prominent, another one of my favorites. One of the strongest points of this arc, & the next one, was it's length was relatively short. There's not much to say about the Wilhelm arc, except that it probably features my favorite resolution to an arc in the series. This is mostly attributed to the other arcs featuring weak conclusion but this one wasn't to bad albeit being fairly standard shonen. The last two arcs of the series go on forever. First up to bat it is the Mahora Festival, which is a little under 100 chapters in length. I think a lot of people in these threads consider this to be peak of Negima & I can see why. There's a lot of good stuff in here. The first half of the tournament was really strong, several off the side-stories thrown in throughout were entertaining & well-executed plus Ku:Nel Sanders added a lot of fun & intrigue into the series, as well as the first meaningful developments on the Nagi front. But the Chao arc that permeated throughout the tournament & dominated in the last third was, to put bluntly, boring. I've talked enough about this in an earlier discussion thread but outside of boredom, it was way too redundant with Negi's dilemma. Finally we got the Magic World arc & even though I'm already sick of quickly recapping my brief thoughts on the series so far, I barely touched half of the series. Because the Magic World arc is about 167 chapters long, which is probably the longest arc I've seen in anything (beating out Chimera Ant by about 35 chapters). So much happens in this arc but I'll just quickly state that Negi vs. Rakan is the peak of Negima & the ending to the conflict was pretty bad. To be honest, once a bunch of other Averruncus where introduced I just kinda lost interest. Not necessarily because they were late introduction villains (not something I'm usually keen on) but because there introduction clearly only existed to make sure Negi had someone to curb when he got back. Though one of them was for Fate to curb since Negi's team fooled him pretty hard & he needed to look stronger than those guys for his battle with Negi to hold any weight. But the ending itself wasn't that fulfilling either, mainly the last-minute twist about Nagi that is never elaborated on or even acknowledged for longer than a page (Negi acknowledges it's him, next page until his last minute appearance in the final chapter, nobody ever brings this up again [it was irritating to say the least]). The last two chapters were especially pretty bad, focusing the penultimate chapter on a boring side-story about Yue is a decision that baffles me & the final chapter definitely suffered for it. The "Where are they Now?" ending was a pretty uninspired way to close off the series but mostly a boring slog to sit through & read everyone's finale. One of the biggest problems with Negima's story is the sheer amount of chapters devoted to one or two side-characters that don't necessarily advance anything important. A lot of chapters come across a filler (though most of them aren't completely pointless) & while I appreciate trying to give screen-time to other characters, it gets annoying that the main plot is put hold on so frequently & it also makes the series pacing incredibly slow. The Magic World arc isn't 160+ chapters long because it had that much content in it, it's that long because of the amount of diversions taken there. People have commented in previous discussions how the plot didn't advance in four months of new chapters or that it took 70 chapters for anyone to figure out that Asuna may have been kidnapped & they've been travelling with a fake. Oddly enough though, when it comes to fights, the arc we skip pretty much every fight that Negi wasn't directly involved with. Of course, that's not entirely true but Mana/Zazie's sister barely got any screen time (we got Mana turning into a demon to confront her, Mana noticing Negi did something [I don't remember what he did, though I do remember Zazie's sister was not shown despite them still fighting] & the conclusion of the fight [this is a more egregious version of Mana/Kaede, since we actually saw combat in the interlude]). Despite being perhaps my favorite, Mana isn't a huge character in the grand scheme of things, Setsuna however is much more important but she got shafted almost as badly. Her fight with Tsukuyomi actually had build up towards it yet we only see snippets from it. It's odd that the series would skim a fight with character relevance to Setsuna yet focus an entire chapter on the characters taking a bath & getting molested. Speaking of it's characters, none of them are anything too complex or brimming with depth but a handful of them certainly are likable, entertaining and/or badass. For me though, I found most characters boring at best (Negi was this for the longest time, though I think he grew out of it a bit in the Magic World arc). Outside of Mana & Asakura, all my favorites are outside his class, like Takamichi, Ku:Nel Sanders, Fate, Rakan, Nagi & Kotarou (Tosaka's cool too). Honestly, I developed a hatred for anyone character who had feelings for Negi, so right there I hate half of them right off the bat (Nodoka & Ayaka [to an extent] survived this by being two of the earliest examples). Oh right, that reminds me, Negima is one of the most incestuous manga I've ever seen. Ayaka's love for Negi early on was implied to be a substitute for her dead little brother, although it's clearly sexual due to those nosebleeds & her pactio. All the shipping moments with Asuna & Negi get a little creepier when the series reveals their related and the most blatant case being Yuuna & her father (though, that's called out in-series as wrong). While I'm not really being fully serious here, I will say I do think the idea of all these teens trying to get in bed with a ten year old does bother me, part of the reason I didn't enjoy the beginning of the series. God this has gone on for too long, the visuals were okay. Consistent but (usually) improving, the difference between chapter 1 & 335 is pretty huge in term of quality. However, the constant "fanservice" brings it down a bit for me & the lack of variety in faces is a downer too (at the very least, Ken admits he has a problem with this & it's not as noticeable as Oda's constant Nami's [though Oda has more notable exceptions). Character designs are varied enough, though there are certainly a lot of stinkers out there. For the most part, I didn't have any trouble transition from panel to panel during the action scenes, which is definitely a positive. I've spent 1,500+ words on this series already & I certainly don't have the passion to go on for it. Considering it's the longest manga I've completed I figure I'd out to air out some of my thoughts, especially since pre-magical world most of the threads for this series were created by me. Overall, Negima gets a 6/10. |
| I feel like this final chapter skipped an arc. So many unanswered questions! I hope it gets addressed in the sequel. A really fun ride overall with some enjoyable characters. Loved the over the top action as time went on. Setsuna was best girl :) |
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| For those who haven't kept up on UQ Holder, the question of who Negi ended up with has been answered (but I won't go spoiling that here!). |
| fuck this, why it does to ended this way!?? who's the one Negi likes? damn I think they left it for the sequel. although I hoping for a harem end. at least we know that Chachamaru is his mistress. so Nagi is back, I think my theory in the chapter 334 thread are more likely true. too bad we don't get to see Negi's Mother (Arika) or how she died. Eva couldn't be more happy than that, having a tea together with beloved Nagi, lol Kotarou and Natsumi actually got together, good for them. I am still curious who Ayaka married to and how Fate Tertium do after Negi completed the project. is he dissapear, or join the Ala Alba? overall, it's 8/10 from me. it would be 9/10 if only they explain everything before ending the manga though. |
AbyhapeDec 17, 2017 1:40 AM
Abyhape said: fuck this, why it does to ended this way!?? Because the Kodansha forced Akamatsu to finished this manga quickly due to he offended them for not following their marketing rules. But still if you readed UQ Holder! (Negima's sequel) official actual ending flashback of the Negima manga, that ending is even worse than this one due the ending to being half-asses without actual explanation on something else. |
MahiaErebeaNegiDec 20, 2017 7:02 AM
MahiaErebeaNegi said: Abyhape said: fuck this, why it does to ended this way!?? Because the Kodansha forced Akamatsu to finished this manga quickly due to he offended them for not following their marketing rules. i see, what is it all about? would you be kindly to explain in a simple way? |
Abyhape said: MahiaErebeaNegi said: Because the Kodansha forced Akamatsu to finished this manga quickly due to he offended them for not following their marketing rules. i see, what is it all about? would you be kindly to explain in a simple way? Read this topic and it will answer your question: https://anime.astronerdboy.com/2012/03/new-proposed-japanese-law-reason-ken.html Oh it's not marketing rules but a copyrights problem, sorry I miswritten the comment. |
MahiaErebeaNegi said: Read this topic and it will answer your question: https://anime.astronerdboy.com/2012/03/new-proposed-japanese-law-reason-ken.html Oh it's not marketing rules but a copyrights problem, sorry I miswritten the comment. i see. whatever happened back then, I think Akamatsu gonna explain the unexplained things from Negima in the next series (UQ Holder), since it's the sequel (I haven't read it yet so I don't know). |
| Whilst not the worst rushed ending I've read, this certainly isn't good. At least the Fate conflict came to an end before the manga finished, at least there was resolution on that front. In terms of Nagi being the mage of beginnings and who Negi ends up with, guess I'll have to read UQ Holder for that (or browse the wiki). All in all, Negima was far better than I expected it to be. Written with a sense of passion and competence, it's clear that Akamatsu had a fairly decent idea of where he was taking his story (least till this bullshit). All in all, I'd say Negima was a good read, with decent characters, nice enough art, some decent jokes, far to much Ecchi, and a legitimately good fight every now and then. |
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