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Negima! Magister Negi Magi #1
Negima! Magister Negi Magi, Omnibus 1
Ten-year-old prodigy Negi Springfield has just graduated from magic academy and is sent to Japan to teach English at an all-girls school. But as Volumes 1, 2, and 3 of Negima! show, life is not so easy when Negi must face troublesome students, labyrinthine libraries, vampires stalking the night, and, of course, final exams--all while hiding his magical powers! With friends like a skirt-chasing, wisecracking weasel from Wales, Negi has his hands full in his new role as teacher. But these challenges are just what are needed to prepare Negi to one day achieve his dream of becoming a master wizard.
624 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2007
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Ken Akamatsu
639 books232 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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September 28, 2014
Awesome Manga Series
Every time I read this series I like it more than the last time. This is one of if not the best manga series for comedy, magic, action, romance (including lots of fan service) and school all combined into one great series. Every single one of Negi's 31 students are explored and fully developed in this series (not in the first omnibus), and they make a loveable and interesting set of characters. Of course being a harem manga you can be sure many will fall in love or at least have a crush on cute little Negi!
Every time I read this series I like it more than the last time. This is one of if not the best manga series for comedy, magic, action, romance (including lots of fan service) and school all combined into one great series. Every single one of Negi's 31 students are explored and fully developed in this series (not in the first omnibus), and they make a loveable and interesting set of characters. Of course being a harem manga you can be sure many will fall in love or at least have a crush on cute little Negi!
October 6, 2014
Must Read Manga - School Harem/Comedy/Magic
If you enjoy magic, comedy and harem in a manga this series is worth reading at least a few times. Most books I enjoy best the first reading, but with this series each time you read it you get more out of it and enjoy it even more than the last time. Of course even the first time it is a great read. Despite the many characters they are all very well developed in this series. This is one of the best manga series ever.
If you enjoy magic, comedy and harem in a manga this series is worth reading at least a few times. Most books I enjoy best the first reading, but with this series each time you read it you get more out of it and enjoy it even more than the last time. Of course even the first time it is a great read. Despite the many characters they are all very well developed in this series. This is one of the best manga series ever.
March 20, 2019
Apart from cute girl scenes nothing much happened here. I did like the underground library chapters, it was cool. And the one and only real battle was somewhat good. But I guess expecting something epic like Hunter X Hunter from it will be really a bad choice.
Good artwork btw.
Good artwork btw.
September 4, 2013
Genius! I heard good review about this manga and decided to give it a try.
It has a perfect mix of comedy, drama, action, and some good fanservice!
It has a perfect mix of comedy, drama, action, and some good fanservice!
July 27, 2014
Loved this fun series. Reading 1-3 in a row giving you a great start into the variety of characters. This is rated 16+. I agree that it's more mature than others with similar plot lines.
March 10, 2021
While loving every bit of Akamatsu’s Love Hina manga so far, I’ve been eyeing his other omnibus series for a while and it’s really a funny and magical surprise.
Vol. 1 - Negi Springfield is a ten-year-old magister magi who just graduated from his magic school and learns that his purpose is to be a teacher and must follow that path. A big surprise waits for him as he finds out he will be teaching at Mahora Academy, an all-girls junior high school. He immediately gets not so acquainted with friendly but rowdy Asuna, who turns out to be one of his students in Class 2-A. In the meantime, he tries to adjust to his new job and keep his magic skills a secret and to stop being on Asuna’s bad side. He manages to get to know some of his students, gets in trouble with a love potion and he and his class get into a dodgeball battle with snarky upperclassmen.
Vol. 2 - Negi faces his first challenge in the first half of this volume. Final exams are coming up, and it turns out his class isn’t that well educated and have previously been in last place in the school’s class rankings. He must get them to become top notch students or he might have to go back home. They all venture to an secret library island to help with their studies and also end up on an adventure full of traps and surprises, and manage to pass by a landslide. After all that, he gets to know his students better such as cold student Chisame who’s secretly a internet idol, rich and prideful Ayaka who suffered a family tragedy as a child, and Asuna’s sweet and lovable best friend Konoha.
Vol. 3 - Negi’s class are now three-year students and he get a surprise when one of them, Evangeline, is a vampire and knows of his wizardry. Worried over the encounter, his students try to cheer him up with a pool party, and another surprise includes his fast-talking and frisky turret friend, Chamo who wants to help him find a partner. Meanwhile, he wants to learn more about Evangeline and why she’s targeting him and leads to a surprise battle and Negima learns of her past.
It’s very unique than Love Hina, and it also has the same amount of humor going in all directions while being more on fantasy. Negi’s character, right away, definitely reminded me of Harry Potter but will still win you with his lovable personality and determination. There’s certainly a large cast of interesting female characters, notably no-nonsense Asuna who’s the main girl, and it will take a while to learn about them all. The story goes steady at first, but it quickly get into something exciting. Can’t wait to see where Negima! will go cause it has a lot of fantasy and excitement you’ll still go hungry for. A (100%/Outstanding)
Vol. 1 - Negi Springfield is a ten-year-old magister magi who just graduated from his magic school and learns that his purpose is to be a teacher and must follow that path. A big surprise waits for him as he finds out he will be teaching at Mahora Academy, an all-girls junior high school. He immediately gets not so acquainted with friendly but rowdy Asuna, who turns out to be one of his students in Class 2-A. In the meantime, he tries to adjust to his new job and keep his magic skills a secret and to stop being on Asuna’s bad side. He manages to get to know some of his students, gets in trouble with a love potion and he and his class get into a dodgeball battle with snarky upperclassmen.
Vol. 2 - Negi faces his first challenge in the first half of this volume. Final exams are coming up, and it turns out his class isn’t that well educated and have previously been in last place in the school’s class rankings. He must get them to become top notch students or he might have to go back home. They all venture to an secret library island to help with their studies and also end up on an adventure full of traps and surprises, and manage to pass by a landslide. After all that, he gets to know his students better such as cold student Chisame who’s secretly a internet idol, rich and prideful Ayaka who suffered a family tragedy as a child, and Asuna’s sweet and lovable best friend Konoha.
Vol. 3 - Negi’s class are now three-year students and he get a surprise when one of them, Evangeline, is a vampire and knows of his wizardry. Worried over the encounter, his students try to cheer him up with a pool party, and another surprise includes his fast-talking and frisky turret friend, Chamo who wants to help him find a partner. Meanwhile, he wants to learn more about Evangeline and why she’s targeting him and leads to a surprise battle and Negima learns of her past.
It’s very unique than Love Hina, and it also has the same amount of humor going in all directions while being more on fantasy. Negi’s character, right away, definitely reminded me of Harry Potter but will still win you with his lovable personality and determination. There’s certainly a large cast of interesting female characters, notably no-nonsense Asuna who’s the main girl, and it will take a while to learn about them all. The story goes steady at first, but it quickly get into something exciting. Can’t wait to see where Negima! will go cause it has a lot of fantasy and excitement you’ll still go hungry for. A (100%/Outstanding)
September 1, 2014
Having read this vol. at least 4 or 5 times, it's hard not to look at this with a nod that says, "ohhhh that's where this was said," or "ohhhh that's what they did with this little factoid." But seeing as how I never really reviewed this series (as far as the Omnibus editions have gone on, at least) I am going to try and review it in that manner. I will try to put out everything I know about the series, and review it just as a first time reader. I may fail. Oh well :P
So a few things first:
Negima! Omnibus is the collection of three mangas in one.
Negima! (alongside Rosario+Vampire, Vol. 1) is a guilty pleasure.
And now onto the review.
So this concept is simple. A ten year old prodigy wizard must become a teacher in order to become a Magister Magi. The catch? He is from Wales and must go to Japan, and he must teach at an all girls school. What could possibly go wrong?
As an introduction it works just well setting up the rather large roster of students that Negi must pay attention to, while also pushing the several main characters into the light and to become acquainted with them. The cast consists of 30+ students, making it rather difficult to keep track of which is which, but halfway through you see that there isn't much a problem anymore. They each come with a different personality, set of friends, skills, and their own manner of jokes.
The thing that caught my attention about Negima is that it's very self aware. It knows what kind of manga it is, often making remarks that break the fourth wall (such as an instance where a character says "wow he looks like he's from a different manga" and so on and so forth). Some characters even question the logic, as to how there are so many abnormal girls in one class or even how there is a robot as a student and no one really pays it any mind.
Another fun thing is, that for all the set ups for a the jokes or scenes that would normally set this up as a rather X-rated manga, it doesn't go there. This is more about the funny jokes and situations that are rather adult oriented but nothing in the way of going that extra mile to make sure it remains an adult audience.
As for plot, the first half of "episodes" focus on building on Negi's and Asuna's relationship while also slowly developing other characters in the background. These usually lead to embarrassing moments where someone loses their clothes, or a huge misunderstanding between characters.
The second half is where the plot begins and sets it's arrow straight ahead as to where they want this series to grow. It sets up the logic of the magical world, the ground rules basically, as well as questions that are going to need to be answered. It's in these areas that it become less of a perverted sitcom that it feels comfortable in, and more of an action oriented piece, showing precision with the fancy spells and the last minute strategic moments. But as of right now, it doesn't allow itself to become quite comfortable enough to give us that huge showdown that Negima feels like it wants to give us.
That's it for this volume. Unless I think of anything else...nope that's about it. Until next time!
So a few things first:
Negima! Omnibus is the collection of three mangas in one.
Negima! (alongside Rosario+Vampire, Vol. 1) is a guilty pleasure.
And now onto the review.
So this concept is simple. A ten year old prodigy wizard must become a teacher in order to become a Magister Magi. The catch? He is from Wales and must go to Japan, and he must teach at an all girls school. What could possibly go wrong?
As an introduction it works just well setting up the rather large roster of students that Negi must pay attention to, while also pushing the several main characters into the light and to become acquainted with them. The cast consists of 30+ students, making it rather difficult to keep track of which is which, but halfway through you see that there isn't much a problem anymore. They each come with a different personality, set of friends, skills, and their own manner of jokes.
The thing that caught my attention about Negima is that it's very self aware. It knows what kind of manga it is, often making remarks that break the fourth wall (such as an instance where a character says "wow he looks like he's from a different manga" and so on and so forth). Some characters even question the logic, as to how there are so many abnormal girls in one class or even how there is a robot as a student and no one really pays it any mind.
Another fun thing is, that for all the set ups for a the jokes or scenes that would normally set this up as a rather X-rated manga, it doesn't go there. This is more about the funny jokes and situations that are rather adult oriented but nothing in the way of going that extra mile to make sure it remains an adult audience.
As for plot, the first half of "episodes" focus on building on Negi's and Asuna's relationship while also slowly developing other characters in the background. These usually lead to embarrassing moments where someone loses their clothes, or a huge misunderstanding between characters.
The second half is where the plot begins and sets it's arrow straight ahead as to where they want this series to grow. It sets up the logic of the magical world, the ground rules basically, as well as questions that are going to need to be answered. It's in these areas that it become less of a perverted sitcom that it feels comfortable in, and more of an action oriented piece, showing precision with the fancy spells and the last minute strategic moments. But as of right now, it doesn't allow itself to become quite comfortable enough to give us that huge showdown that Negima feels like it wants to give us.
That's it for this volume. Unless I think of anything else...nope that's about it. Until next time!
October 23, 2014
This manga is one of my favourites. The artwork is really well done and the story interesting. Negi is a really interesting lead character and his harem/class is full of some wonderful girls. Even though there are about 30 girls, they are all fully developed and each has an interesting personality too.
October 12, 2011
anime Harry Potter with panties
November 28, 2014
The beginning of one of my favorite series :)
August 4, 2018
I didn't get very far into this before stopping. I know it has a 16+ warning on it, but it didn't say what for, and seems to be for near nudity. I was reading this at work, only to turn the page to see a girl in a bra and panties, and I hurried and shut the book. Violence, I can handle, but I don't want to constantly be seeing girls in their undergarments. So, while the premise behind the story sounds super interesting, and I've liked what I've read, I'm not going to continue it.
January 17, 2019
This was an interesting read, I liked the premise of the story and have enjoyed how it played out so far. I like the fact that despite being a wizard in training and a teacher, Negi is still portrayed as the child he is sometimes. He might have a lot of knowledge etc. but at the end of the day he is still just a kid.
September 2, 2020
Read this originally when I was in middle school and never thought much of all its various problems. It's a fun read with lots of interesting characters, but rereading it as an adult offers a lot of discomfort at the way underage girls are treated and the levity in which it takes sexual harrassment.
July 1, 2017
A.J. liked "all of it" and recommends it to "anyone."
March 1, 2018
It grew on me towards the end
August 31, 2020
ha sido uno de los comics mas divertidos que he leido y me ha gustado mucho .
October 26, 2020
Fun
It's fun but it isn't exactly rocket science. It's a fairly creative harem manga, and that is enough. Review finito.
It's fun but it isn't exactly rocket science. It's a fairly creative harem manga, and that is enough. Review finito.
July 8, 2021
Top 5 fav manga series for sure! Addicted to the art style, Ken Akamatsu is the best of the best imo!!! I have decided I’m going to read all 38 volumes.
July 26, 2021
Loved it
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April 20, 2014
Negima! is an interesting series. It was written by Ken Akamatsu of Love Hina fame. Essentially, it is the story of a ten year old (well, nine going on ten, as we find out in the series) magical prodigy named Negi Springfield. Young Negi has graduated with honors from a magical academy in his native country of Wales, and so he now has to do some field work. This is a type of practicum designed to give him real-world experiences on his path to become a "Magister Magi". This is a high-level of wizard who is a champion that helps people in trouble. All budding young wizards who want to be Magister Magi have to do go through such real-world living and training. For Negi though, well, let's just say this is not what he probably expected.
He is sent to be an English teacher at Mahora Academy, Middle-School Girls Division, in Japan. Mahora Academy is what is called in Japan an "escalator school". Normally, students in each level of education in Japan take tests to progress, at least for High School and University. In other words, it is like how education was formerly in the US and Canada pre-20th century. But if one goes to an escalator school, then you automatically are approved for the next division upward if you pass your classes.
Anyways, young Negi is already a little surprised to be sent to this school, but his surprises are just starting, as this is no ordinary Japanese school. It seems that if there were to be a magical center in Japan, it lies within Mahora Academy. Moreover, so does an old enemy of Negi's missing father, one who sees Negi's death as the way to free themselves from the curse placed upon them...
This is combination action fantasy/slice of life comedy/love comedy parody (emphasis on the "parody" part) all rolled into one. The antics and high-jinks are off-the-wall, as is the fanservice. Though to be fair, while the fanservice is abundant, it is mostly for humor, and even then, the humor is less of the bawdy and more of the "cringe" comedy type. It also highlights and is woven into the plot of Negi's developing powers and the story of our hero and his class growing up and dealing with all that entails.
My favorite characters are Evangeline (she is too spoilerific to describe herein), Asuna (who, along with her room mate care for Negi, as he is only nine), and Nodoka (a shy library club member called "bookstore-chan" by the others). Especially the big sister relationship of Asuna to Negi is touching and heartwarming. Nodoka is cute and adorable in her uber-shyness, and is, for me, a character I instinctively want to see happy.
One thing I really liked was how the story kept the honorifics. A lot of manga, light novels, and so on, when translating into English, drop the honorifics, but that is a mistake to my way of thinking. In Japan, honorifics are important, and the use of them, absence of them, and general placing of them in the conversation can reveal a lot about what is happening in the scene in question. The removal of them thus makes some of the context disappear from the story.
I know some may not like the level of fanservice here, but none of it really gets inappropriate, as I earlier said, and when there is some revealing shot, it is usually done tastefully for a purpose, such as bathing, and even then it is not at all titillating.
There is, of course, the magic adventure part of the tale. The spells, the system for chanting and having a partner protect you, and so on, are all explored. This aspect of the comic is consistent in a way Brandon Sanderson would like, and the stories of magical battles are typically shonen exciting.
I loved this Omnibus volume containing the first few volumes of Negima!, and look forward to reading more as time goes on.
He is sent to be an English teacher at Mahora Academy, Middle-School Girls Division, in Japan. Mahora Academy is what is called in Japan an "escalator school". Normally, students in each level of education in Japan take tests to progress, at least for High School and University. In other words, it is like how education was formerly in the US and Canada pre-20th century. But if one goes to an escalator school, then you automatically are approved for the next division upward if you pass your classes.
Anyways, young Negi is already a little surprised to be sent to this school, but his surprises are just starting, as this is no ordinary Japanese school. It seems that if there were to be a magical center in Japan, it lies within Mahora Academy. Moreover, so does an old enemy of Negi's missing father, one who sees Negi's death as the way to free themselves from the curse placed upon them...
This is combination action fantasy/slice of life comedy/love comedy parody (emphasis on the "parody" part) all rolled into one. The antics and high-jinks are off-the-wall, as is the fanservice. Though to be fair, while the fanservice is abundant, it is mostly for humor, and even then, the humor is less of the bawdy and more of the "cringe" comedy type. It also highlights and is woven into the plot of Negi's developing powers and the story of our hero and his class growing up and dealing with all that entails.
My favorite characters are Evangeline (she is too spoilerific to describe herein), Asuna (who, along with her room mate care for Negi, as he is only nine), and Nodoka (a shy library club member called "bookstore-chan" by the others). Especially the big sister relationship of Asuna to Negi is touching and heartwarming. Nodoka is cute and adorable in her uber-shyness, and is, for me, a character I instinctively want to see happy.
One thing I really liked was how the story kept the honorifics. A lot of manga, light novels, and so on, when translating into English, drop the honorifics, but that is a mistake to my way of thinking. In Japan, honorifics are important, and the use of them, absence of them, and general placing of them in the conversation can reveal a lot about what is happening in the scene in question. The removal of them thus makes some of the context disappear from the story.
I know some may not like the level of fanservice here, but none of it really gets inappropriate, as I earlier said, and when there is some revealing shot, it is usually done tastefully for a purpose, such as bathing, and even then it is not at all titillating.
There is, of course, the magic adventure part of the tale. The spells, the system for chanting and having a partner protect you, and so on, are all explored. This aspect of the comic is consistent in a way Brandon Sanderson would like, and the stories of magical battles are typically shonen exciting.
I loved this Omnibus volume containing the first few volumes of Negima!, and look forward to reading more as time goes on.
March 9, 2016
I first encountered Negima through the Funimation-dubbed anime, and I'm pleased to report that it was more or less true to the original manga (although much, much shorter.) Negima is essentially a harem manga, though it has more substance beyond simple pornography. Still, with naked middle-school girls on every other page and jokes about pubic hair and a different type of girl for every fetish fuel you can think of (ninja, quiet/shy book nerd, lolita vampire, rhythmic gymnast, online idol, ghost) it's hard not to see the roots of the series, which are firmly placed in harem-style manga.
Still, there's an innocence to the characters, and there is an actual story behind all the hormones. The story is fairly slow-moving in the manga (with 8 omnibuses, I'm sure you've already guessed that.) But there are numerous interesting sideplots to keep the pages turning (and some are not-as-interesting.) The central figures in the story are Negi and Asuna, and it's one of those stories where it's hard for the characters to see what the reader guesses from page one: they're going to end up together, aren't they? Still, their constant bickering and misunderstandings and magical accidents are amusing, and the huge cast of supporting characters is very well fleshed-out. I love the art--the detail in some panels is amazing, and the characters are vastly different-looking--and most of the plotlines. (I especially enjoyed Chisame's small chapter, and Ayaka's.) Overall, if you're a manga fan, magic fan, or a fan of underage girls, these books are for you.
Still, there's an innocence to the characters, and there is an actual story behind all the hormones. The story is fairly slow-moving in the manga (with 8 omnibuses, I'm sure you've already guessed that.) But there are numerous interesting sideplots to keep the pages turning (and some are not-as-interesting.) The central figures in the story are Negi and Asuna, and it's one of those stories where it's hard for the characters to see what the reader guesses from page one: they're going to end up together, aren't they? Still, their constant bickering and misunderstandings and magical accidents are amusing, and the huge cast of supporting characters is very well fleshed-out. I love the art--the detail in some panels is amazing, and the characters are vastly different-looking--and most of the plotlines. (I especially enjoyed Chisame's small chapter, and Ayaka's.) Overall, if you're a manga fan, magic fan, or a fan of underage girls, these books are for you.
April 1, 2020
Es lo que es
Revisitar algo que apreciabas en tu adolescencia no termina siempre tan bien como esperabas. Este es el tipo de obra que sólo recomendaría a alguien que a estas alturas aún sienta afición por los llamados "harems" o que cuya nostalgia por las obras de Ken Akamatsu lo hagan conectar con su juventud a través de esta obra.
La verdad no todo es malo en esta obra, pues el diseño y la variedad de pesonajes , así como el desarrollo de los mismos es bastante consistente y hasta agradable. El problema radica en la ola de clichés relacionados a lo que muchos consideran los peores tropos del manga japonés, el llamado "Fan Service".
Esto nones nada raro en las obras de Akamatsu, pero... Si no te molesta y te gusta la magia... De todos modos no lo recomiendo, lee un resumen de Este ómnibus, quizás el siguiente no sea tan juvenil pero lo dudo.
-Winser
Revisitar algo que apreciabas en tu adolescencia no termina siempre tan bien como esperabas. Este es el tipo de obra que sólo recomendaría a alguien que a estas alturas aún sienta afición por los llamados "harems" o que cuya nostalgia por las obras de Ken Akamatsu lo hagan conectar con su juventud a través de esta obra.
La verdad no todo es malo en esta obra, pues el diseño y la variedad de pesonajes , así como el desarrollo de los mismos es bastante consistente y hasta agradable. El problema radica en la ola de clichés relacionados a lo que muchos consideran los peores tropos del manga japonés, el llamado "Fan Service".
Esto nones nada raro en las obras de Akamatsu, pero... Si no te molesta y te gusta la magia... De todos modos no lo recomiendo, lee un resumen de Este ómnibus, quizás el siguiente no sea tan juvenil pero lo dudo.
-Winser
April 13, 2019
This was fun, but the gratuitous fanservice with panty shots and nude drawings of underaged girls drags it down. Against my better judgement I still rate it high as it did really entertain me.
The characters here are really strong and simple; not simple as in slightly boring but simple as in wanting to know more about them but being satisfied with just having them around in the first place. They also gain a lot of depth when they're the subject of focus and their personalities are really interesting. One of the best chapters was with Negi visiting the class representative during a holiday and finding out some secrets of hers, for an example of the point I'm making.
And the development of Negima and Asuna is very well done. I laughed at their odd couple antics but I felt pride when they accomplished something spectacular by the end of the book.
The characters here are really strong and simple; not simple as in slightly boring but simple as in wanting to know more about them but being satisfied with just having them around in the first place. They also gain a lot of depth when they're the subject of focus and their personalities are really interesting. One of the best chapters was with Negi visiting the class representative during a holiday and finding out some secrets of hers, for an example of the point I'm making.
And the development of Negima and Asuna is very well done. I laughed at their odd couple antics but I felt pride when they accomplished something spectacular by the end of the book.
July 18, 2019
It pains me to give such a low score probably my most-read volumes of my favourite manga of all time, yet I really do have to. These volumes really do kinda blow. Not completely, stuff like the Evangeline fights and some character moments are nice and more in line with what the series would later become (there's even a few tidbits here and there you pick up on knowing what happens). But that doesn't change the fact it reeks of fanservice cliches and dumb tropes aplenty. As I understand it Akamatsu was pressured into writing this kind of stuff since he was fresh of the success of Love Hina, and by god, every single day I imagine the utopian society we'd live in if he was just allowed to write this as an action adventure manga from the start.
April 3, 2018
Just a super fun series. I found it on TV Tropes as it is jam packed of so many types of characters it touches many, many pages. I also loved the subversive nature of the series, in that the author was asked to create a new harem genre comedy (like his famous Love Hina), but he wanted to write an action series, so he took the money, created the setting of a young teacher with a class room of varied female students and preceded to change it into a magical fight series training the students to use their newly given powers in war for the sake of two planets. Brillant.
August 16, 2014
If Harry Potter knew enough Japanese to teach at an all-girls school, and had a magic allergy which allowed his sneezes to blow the clothes off people, this is what it would look like.
The characters are engaging and sympathetic, though, with 31 students in his class, not all have time to become major characters
Warning; there is a lot of 'fan-service' in this one.
Entertaining, but not my favorite.
The characters are engaging and sympathetic, though, with 31 students in his class, not all have time to become major characters
Warning; there is a lot of 'fan-service' in this one.
Entertaining, but not my favorite.
November 1, 2015
I really enjoyed reading this first section of the story. Before reading this omnibus I had watched the anime series that was based on this story and thoroughly enjoyed it. So far the manga doesn’t add any new content to what I watched, but it was still an enjoyable read none the less. I can’t wait to jump into the second omnibus and witness some of the real action that the story has to offer!
November 18, 2015
Four stars for this book. Five stars for the series
This is a series that starts off good but gets better the further in you get. There are so many characters that you could never actually get to know them all in the first few volumes but by the end of the series you know and like the whole class. It doesn't hurt that they are all cute girls!
This is a series that starts off good but gets better the further in you get. There are so many characters that you could never actually get to know them all in the first few volumes but by the end of the series you know and like the whole class. It doesn't hurt that they are all cute girls!
October 15, 2014
741.5952 AKA V.1
Total: 38 Volumes
Negima! omnibus. 1 741.5952 AKA V.1
Negima! omnibus. 2 741.5952 AKA V.2
Negima! omnibus. 3 741.5952 AKA V.3
Negima! omnibus. 4 741.5952 AKA V.4
Negima! omnibus. 5 741.5952 AKA V.5
Negima! omnibus. 6 741.5952 AKA V.6 (Vol 16-18)
Negima! 19 - Negima! 38
Total: 38 Volumes
Negima! omnibus. 1 741.5952 AKA V.1
Negima! omnibus. 2 741.5952 AKA V.2
Negima! omnibus. 3 741.5952 AKA V.3
Negima! omnibus. 4 741.5952 AKA V.4
Negima! omnibus. 5 741.5952 AKA V.5
Negima! omnibus. 6 741.5952 AKA V.6 (Vol 16-18)
Negima! 19 - Negima! 38
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