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Negima! Magister Negi Magi #8
Negima! Omnibus Vol. 8
THE GOAL IS OSTIA! After his students were scattered to the wind, Negi knows he needs to get stronger before once more facing his nemesis, Fate Avernucus. Rakan, a mysterious man with ties to Negi's father, tells him of black magic created by Eva herself. Dare he try to master this forbidden art? Meanwhile, Chachamaru and Kazumi head out to search for their missing classmates. Can everyone make it to Ostia before time runs out? Contains Negima! volumes 22-23-24!
- GenresMangaFantasyYoung Adult
546 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 15, 2013
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Ken Akamatsu
641 books231 followersKen Akamatsu (赤松 健, Akamatsu Ken, July 5, 1968 -) is a Japanese mangaka from Tokyo.
In his teenage years, Akamatsu failed the entrance exam to Tokyo University, and applied for Film Study instead (it is speculated that this is where he got the idea for Love Hina). Eventually, he became famous as an illustrator featured in Comiket (short for Comic Market, a comic convention bi-annually held in Japan). He used the pen name Awa Mizuno (水野 亜和, MIZUNO Awa). Akamatsu, still in college, then proceeded to win the Weekly Shonen Magazine award twice. His "A Kid's Game for One Summer" was awarded the coveted 50th Shonen Magazine Newcomer's Award soon after he graduated.
After a big hit with A.I. Love You, he finally made a grand success with his new manga, Love Hina. The series appeared in Weekly Shonen Magazine and has been collected in eleven volumes (with fourteen volumes in total), which have sold over 6 million copies in Japan, and received the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen in 2001.
Akamatsu had added elements of his own life experiences to the story, and this was said to have induced a unique feeling to the manga especially for Western readers, whose lack of familiarity with Japanese culture for the most part added to the effect. The series, published in America in 2002, was especially well received in many overseas countries - Akamatsu was surprised that even foreign readers found Love Hina to be "cute" and to their liking.
He is now married to his wife 'Kanon' Akamatsu, who was previously a singer/idol. He is currently working on his latest manga series, Negima!: Magister Negi Magi, which is his longest running manga so far. Like Love Hina, has also been made into an anime series. A second independent retelling of Negima was made called Negima!?. Both series were produced by XEBEC (Negima!? was produced by SHAFT).
In his teenage years, Akamatsu failed the entrance exam to Tokyo University, and applied for Film Study instead (it is speculated that this is where he got the idea for Love Hina). Eventually, he became famous as an illustrator featured in Comiket (short for Comic Market, a comic convention bi-annually held in Japan). He used the pen name Awa Mizuno (水野 亜和, MIZUNO Awa). Akamatsu, still in college, then proceeded to win the Weekly Shonen Magazine award twice. His "A Kid's Game for One Summer" was awarded the coveted 50th Shonen Magazine Newcomer's Award soon after he graduated.
After a big hit with A.I. Love You, he finally made a grand success with his new manga, Love Hina. The series appeared in Weekly Shonen Magazine and has been collected in eleven volumes (with fourteen volumes in total), which have sold over 6 million copies in Japan, and received the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen in 2001.
Akamatsu had added elements of his own life experiences to the story, and this was said to have induced a unique feeling to the manga especially for Western readers, whose lack of familiarity with Japanese culture for the most part added to the effect. The series, published in America in 2002, was especially well received in many overseas countries - Akamatsu was surprised that even foreign readers found Love Hina to be "cute" and to their liking.
He is now married to his wife 'Kanon' Akamatsu, who was previously a singer/idol. He is currently working on his latest manga series, Negima!: Magister Negi Magi, which is his longest running manga so far. Like Love Hina, has also been made into an anime series. A second independent retelling of Negima was made called Negima!?. Both series were produced by XEBEC (Negima!? was produced by SHAFT).
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August 11, 2021
Negima! Omnibus, Vol. 8 (M Kindle Review)
Negi and company’s journey, while temporarily separated from each other in the magical world, get a huge look at it while also make new friends.
Vol. 22 - While in disguise, Negi and Kotaru have managed to succeed in the fighting tournament and win their freedom and are reunited. Back on their journey to find the others, we get to see how some of the girls are doing without Negi and see some interesting changes. He surprisingly runs into Rakah, a buff magical fighter who has ties to his fathers and helps him train with such intensity.
Vol. 23 - The Class 1-A girls are slowing finding each other and hoping to reunite with their teacher, who gets in a surprise battle with Evangeline who still sees him as weak. We even see some of the girls embrace the magical world and get to learn it.
Vol. 24 - At a massive festival, Negi finally reunites with Asuna and some of the girls and they learn how he has mastered more magical powers and now must find a way to evade from the crown and find the remaining others, but end up meeting the boy who nearly killed him, Fate.
A (100%/Outstanding)
Negi and company’s journey, while temporarily separated from each other in the magical world, get a huge look at it while also make new friends.
Vol. 22 - While in disguise, Negi and Kotaru have managed to succeed in the fighting tournament and win their freedom and are reunited. Back on their journey to find the others, we get to see how some of the girls are doing without Negi and see some interesting changes. He surprisingly runs into Rakah, a buff magical fighter who has ties to his fathers and helps him train with such intensity.
Vol. 23 - The Class 1-A girls are slowing finding each other and hoping to reunite with their teacher, who gets in a surprise battle with Evangeline who still sees him as weak. We even see some of the girls embrace the magical world and get to learn it.
Vol. 24 - At a massive festival, Negi finally reunites with Asuna and some of the girls and they learn how he has mastered more magical powers and now must find a way to evade from the crown and find the remaining others, but end up meeting the boy who nearly killed him, Fate.
A (100%/Outstanding)
April 3, 2019
This is a combat heavy omnibus. You can really see it that with the fight Kagetaro of Bosporus and, of course, the start of the tournament arc. Without Mahora Academy as the setting, the harem comedy elements that originally defined the series have been swept away. There are still romance jokes, naturally, such as Ako's crush on Negi's older alter ego and Asakura taking a picture of her pactio, but they are further back; jokes and side plots.
We also have the introduction of Jack Rakan. I've heard of him but this is my first time seeing him in the manga itself. I can see why he is so popular. He has endless comedic potential with his eccentrics and buffoonery ("ETERNAL NEGI FEVER!" hahahaa) but can shift to serious easily. He definitely has a battle-hardened war veteran vibe to him, which is displayed in both his badassery and also his contemplation about the last war and regret during it. Being of Nagi's comrades also plugs him into plot-and-background heavy stuff.
Magia Erebea. That is some creepy stuff. Its presentation and set up give it the gravitas deserving of something that could be called "dark magic". On that note, fantastic character development for Negi and Chisame. They've come far from their roots in earlier volumes but still the same.
The side plots with the other students, those still separated from the A-Party of Negi, are also fantastic. Yue joins a magic knight academy and without certain mental hang-ups to inhibit her, she is no longer a "baka ranger". That is so fun I think it could stand on its own. There's also Nodoka the treasure-hunter/adventurer. Now THAT is definitely something I want to read more about. The way Ken Akamatsu introduces it, her party running away from a collapsing dungeon, is irresistibly tantalizing.
We also have the introduction of Jack Rakan. I've heard of him but this is my first time seeing him in the manga itself. I can see why he is so popular. He has endless comedic potential with his eccentrics and buffoonery ("ETERNAL NEGI FEVER!" hahahaa) but can shift to serious easily. He definitely has a battle-hardened war veteran vibe to him, which is displayed in both his badassery and also his contemplation about the last war and regret during it. Being of Nagi's comrades also plugs him into plot-and-background heavy stuff.
Magia Erebea. That is some creepy stuff. Its presentation and set up give it the gravitas deserving of something that could be called "dark magic". On that note, fantastic character development for Negi and Chisame. They've come far from their roots in earlier volumes but still the same.
The side plots with the other students, those still separated from the A-Party of Negi, are also fantastic. Yue joins a magic knight academy and without certain mental hang-ups to inhibit her, she is no longer a "baka ranger". That is so fun I think it could stand on its own. There's also Nodoka the treasure-hunter/adventurer. Now THAT is definitely something I want to read more about. The way Ken Akamatsu introduces it, her party running away from a collapsing dungeon, is irresistibly tantalizing.
March 11, 2016
This omnibus had a lot of unique, if not clichéd, twists and turns that managed to keep this segment of the story interesting. There was definitely an increase in the action factor of the story, as opposed to the last omnibus, and a creative direction for Negi's growth as he tries to become a magister magi. I'm looking forward to the next omnibus, which will also have the last review of this series except for when I finish the series.
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