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It's been a while and I only skimmed Negima as an obligation after the Rakan portion got excessive, so can someone remind me what the alternative timeline is and when alt-versions of the negima cast showed up? Also where is Kaede?
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Serious Frolicking posted:Honestly, I'm surprised that the future isn't a dystopia following the mold of DNA^2. The idea that Negi overcame being a natural gigolo seems incredibly unlikely. I wonder why he doesn't seem to be all that famous, though? No one ever mentions him even though he was responsible for most of the defining features of the setting. Heck, even the slum is unbelievably pleasant (for a slum), which says a lot about the rest of the world. Maybe he is only famous on Mars? It really seem likely that this will be a plot point for UQ. Akamatsu ended Negima early to make sure he could still keep the rights to it didn't he? And the fact that we have Eva and Magica Erebrea really makes it seem like he'll wrap up whatever untidy ends he left with the sparse Negima ending.
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Feb 18, 2014 06:47
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The Kyoto arc is actually my favorite - we've gotten past the fanservice explicitly for the fanservice, but Negi isn't just a generic invincible shounen hero - the first fight at the gates with Kotarou was clever. As much as ADTRW loves Rakan and manly men, he's pretty boring. Also, character development stopped after Akamatsu decided that Negima would be pure shounen. Something about the early chapters and learning a little about everyone in the class was great and I wish it had continued.
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Feb 23, 2014 23:15
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chumbler posted:What? Character development didn't stop when it became more shounen. If anything he got better at it as the series went on. Up to the end the characters, including minor side characters, were regularly being paired off with new or different people and put in a variety of new situations, learning new skills. Yue and Chisame off the top of my head were two of the biggest ones. I'll admit that the tournament arc was great but everyone that wasn't in the main cast got dropped hard.
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Feb 24, 2014 06:00
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Serious Frolicking posted:We saw what happens when one of the completely uninteresting characters gets some focus. (Ako sucks.) The thing is I don't think they would have sucked if he didn't transition to full-on shounen so quickly.
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Feb 24, 2014 22:07
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You're forgetting Asuna's crush with the chi/ki skill and one of the other teachers and the loli twins with the furry princes
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Jun 3, 2014 05:27
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KittyEmpress posted:The last few chapters of Negima are so disappointing, I am glad UQ Holder eventually came out. I still laugh at Chisame's ending though "Oh yeah, she became a total recluse, and doesn't ever leave her home now." I'm a fan of his daily life chapters - ignoring the fanservice and how well choreographed his fights are, the atmosphere of the worlds he creates is where he really shines
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Jul 19, 2014 14:32
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Ken writes a pretty good love story who knew
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Dec 3, 2014 18:27
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rizzen posted:I stopped reading this right after Karin got buried. Imagine my surprise to see a zombie apocalypse a few chapters later. Jesus. Was not expecting that. Didn't they both show up all lovey dovey with no explanation near the last chapters?
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Dec 6, 2014 21:04
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HellCopter posted:Setsuna managed to be both a lover and a fighter, so there's precedent I guess Motoko's whole arc in love hina was about that too so it's just a case of Ken recycling the same loving swordwoman AM I WEAK OR AM I WOMAN with a genderbender twist plus you know that he's going to win the harem war because of first girl precedent, Akamatsu isn't exactly innovative
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Dec 10, 2014 07:51
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Blhue posted:Just like in Negima. didn't end on his terms, and before he decided to turn it into a full battle manga and stopped playing the romance angle straight Asuna was always the front runner. Kuromaru is a terrible character whose whole identity is literally do I fall in love and morph into a girl or be best buds and turn into a guy. Zhe's a walking trope
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Dec 10, 2014 08:00
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chumbler posted:
Do you have a link to it? I don't remember it at all.
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Mar 30, 2015 00:37
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PerrineClostermann posted:So as a side note, I found out that the group that scanlated a lot of Negima has disappeared from everywhere but IRC. Website, forum, it's all gone. It's really weird because I worked with Meow when I was back in middle school and now I'm finishing grad school.
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Sep 11, 2015 20:29
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I can't really figure out how this works, but wasn't Eva in love with Nagi? I'm all in favor of a Tota is Nagi ending but..
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Oct 15, 2015 04:40
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digging love hina 2.0
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Oct 21, 2015 06:21
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It's moderately less creepy since it's not middle school girls/elementary school kids and refreshing that it's taken so light-heartedly. Love Hina took years for confessions and the romance/ecchi was the least interesting part of Negima (for all the love ADRTW has for Rakan it's creepy as gently caress for him to be smacking elementary school rear end.) Having Touta move back to shounen save the world through his love for his surrogate mom is a good compromise. I'm still not convinced it's romantic love, and I'm sure Ken's going to play that distinction for laughs for another few years before having Touta drop "uh I meant I want to be with my family for the rest of my life, peace."
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Oct 28, 2015 05:00
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all yall forgetting Ken's just going to retread the final Motoko arc "I'M STRONGER WHEN I HAVE SOMEONE I LOVE TO PROTECT"
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Nov 18, 2015 21:13
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http://www.mangapanda.com/uq-holder/112 I wiped Negima's ending from my memory, can someone explain what this means in terms of timelines? EDIT: maybe also a summary of the entire magical world final arc, I just remember there was some dumb queen that was related to both Negi and Asuna that Nagi fell in love with??? Was she Negi's mom and Asuna's sister or something? Also don't remember who the lifemaker actually is or why she was revealed to be a girl. Crampy Grampaw fucked around with this message at 02:56 on Feb 17, 2016 |
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Feb 17, 2016 02:50
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Kirie moe fans are just as bad as people who liked early pre-Kyoto Negima; they just haven't had the pedophile veil thrown on them yet because Kirie is a meme character. UQ holder going in boring directions.
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Apr 18, 2016 18:38
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PerrineClostermann posted:Fights are neat and can be visual spectacles, but, especially in comic form, they often become boring and are effectively filler. What ends up usually mattering in a fight is who wins. Non-fight stuff is more entertaining. Character development, character conflict, plot advancement, etc. The opposite of character development is happening. A moeblob is not a character. Kuromaru's development was interesting because s/h/ze avoided it. Karin's development suffers for it. Yue suffered from it too.
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Apr 19, 2016 03:15
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[quote="" post="459204379"] The mass naked child event has gone on long enough. Embarrased Kirie is boring. Naked Kirie is bad. I mean poo poo, there is no point in reading an akamatsu manga if you are allergic to fanservice, but this is a bit much. [/quote] Also shows how boringly similar Touta's harem (and by extension UQ holder since this current arc) is, all the stripped children look identical and act identically Akamatsu really is a weak writer. Great concepts, great artistic detail, and decent characterization when he remembers, but this is really the most boring drivel that he could have taken the concept of "consequences of immortality" and fan favorite Eva to. Making even Eva a boring character is a crime.
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Apr 27, 2016 07:21
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 New Chapter.
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May 11, 2016 03:22
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Skychrono posted:Speaking of heroine crushes, did we find out where Takahashi (sp?) ended up in Negima? I think he may have shown up at the end of the Magical World arc for a minute. He shows up in the backgrounds of Mahora with tits sensei after they hook up
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May 16, 2016 22:21
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Serious Frolicking posted:a race with no particular stakes could have been fine. not something i particularly care about, but not every chapter has to be great. only this bullshit was just an excuse for akamatsu to draw naked children. it isnt like the man went easy on that crap before, what with all the bath scenes and title pages, but the race has really been too much. so i have to ask myself, is the rest of the manga good enough to make up for the softcore kiddie porn? the answer is obviously no. it could be the most amazing work of fiction known to man and the answer would still be no, and this is just a shounen fighting manga. I love your posting, but seriously goons were in love with let's-strip-prepubescent-girls-and-grope-them Rakan which is worse than this. Don't pretend that Akamatsu has gotten any worse since then. I don't enjoy the direction this manga has gone either.
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Jun 3, 2016 18:45
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Excluding that which we aren't talking about being worse this chapter, the weirdest thing was that out-of-place realistic panel with mostly Japanese-featured humans. Even in UQ Holder Akamatsu's been using his generic half anime humans, half magic sentient beasts crowds. From how the Ala Rubra/Alba members are acting either it's brainwashing or illusions?
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Jun 8, 2016 06:16
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