Mahou Sensei NEGIMA!

[Nekketsu]

Way to ignore the twit I posted.

[MDL]

interesting. hopefully he's not just teasing and we really will get one eventually.

[Marano]

Way to ignore the twit I posted.

I saw it, I'm just now sure how great the chances of a sequal to this are at all anymore. This may very well be all we see of it.

[Pix]

Okay, series is over now. Should or shouldn't I read it from Chapter 1?

[Nekketsu]

Okay, series is over now. Should or shouldn't I read it from Chapter 1?

Yes, you should.

[Thousand Lion-chan]

Spoiler:

This ending would have been perfect if we got the rest of the manga:/

Sigh, I mean each character getting a large text panel of where they are now? Fucking love that! Brilliant, totally in tune with the great characterization that I love about this series.

But god, all the left out potential. Not even getting to see the final battle with all of them!?! Something that would have easily been a crowing glory for any series to have this huge shot of all these long built up characters against the final big bad?

I think what pisses me off even more than all the dropped plot points especially the huge effin' one is...we didn't even get to see Arika in the finale!? We didn't even get to see Anya and Nekane (you know, Negi's sister who's every bit the child of Nagi as Negi is?).

God, where's the rest of this manga, that final page was absolutely perfect, where is the rest><?!?

[MDL]

@Pix:
go for it, it's very enjoyable.
after it first sets itself up as a harem comedy, it then begins to shift into "battle manga" mode and it gets pretty fun.
it's over the top in places, it's funny, it's got a good chunk of action, and very likable characters.
the art and the world building is worth a mention too.

[Thousand Lion-chan]

I mean man, the more I think about it, the more things that were just unexplained and/or abandoned keep rushing to my head. What happened to Fate's girls, who was that hooded figure that intervened against water Fate, what was the other thing Ayaka's artifact could do, what was the point of giving Akira and Chizuru artifacts, what is the demon realm, where the hell is Arika...gah stop brain stop.

[Nekketsu]

I mean man, the more I think about it, the more things that were just unexplained and/or abandoned keep rushing to my head. What happened to Fate's girls, who was that hooded figure that intervened against water Fate, what was the other thing Ayaka's artifact could do, what was the point of giving Akira and Chizuru artifacts, what is the demon realm, where the hell is Arika...gah stop brain stop.

Yes, you should stop breaking your head and wait for what Akamatsu has prepared for us.

[mcdreamy]

I liked Chisame's ending the best lol.

[Nekketsu]

Spoiler:

Definitely it's Makie. Even when Negi's wobbling, a heart icon pops up next to her. Plus that "nice to meet you, father".

[x20a]

Spoiler:

Are you guys sure he ended up with Makie? The future thing simply says: "she is still focused on Negi" which could mean anything.

As for calling Nagi "father," it could just be because he is Negi's father - similarily to how someone can be addressed as being called mother, brother, sister, etc. because of their relation to someone you know.

If he did end up with her then it's just like Shaman King's ending with Ren and Iron Maiden...

[Thousand Lion-chan]

Yes, you should stop breaking your head and wait for what Akamatsu has prepared for us.

Wait for what? I'm not holding my breath for a sequel based on one very vague tweet.

[Big_Bad_Lith]

Spoiler:

Everyone says "must be Makie", but I honestly don't remember which one she was. Was she the gymnastics one? In any case, I obviously wasn't rooting for her.

I'll just take condolence in the idea that in the parallel universe that spawned Chao Lingshen, Ku Fei and Negi must have been an item.

[RobbyBevard]

Way to ignore the twit I posted.

Yes, you should stop breaking your head and wait for what Akamatsu has prepared for us.

Yes, we should hinge a great deal of faith in the fact that "I plan to do future projects or sequel[s]". At BEST we might get a one shot focusing on a character at some point. He's clearly done with Negima, or he wouldn't have ended it now, the way he did.

Quit holding your breath or expecting more. I waited for the ending before passing judgement, to see how he handled the lingering stuff, but... yeah. He really just totally dropped the ball. And while there's sequel bait on a couple of those endings, there's... really not. I guess he was just tired of it. I don't blame him, 10 years is a loooong stretch, but still.

If there was going to be a proper sequel in the wings, he wouldn't announce "it's ending" or do it the way he did. He would have said "I'm taking a break to recoup, or switch to a monthly, here's a stopping point."

Spoiler:

Are you guys sure he ended up with Makie? The future thing simply says: "she is still focused on Negi" which could mean anything.

Spoiler:

Yeah. She was one of four valentines candidates, and the other three were explicitly ruled out. With her in mind I want to reread some of the last hundred chapters and pay more attention to her and Negi specifically.

I wonder why she was the choice? Sometimes the characters decide, and not the author, I know that well. But... her? Its a little weird.

I honestly don't remember which one she was.

http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Makie_Sasaki

Yeah, she's the rythmic gymnist. She was one of the "civilians' that got caught up in the magic world, but not one of the three that were slaves. She started learning some magic there, but she's definitely been one of the more background characters for most of the series.

Interesting side note.
Her seiyuu, Yui Horie also voices Naru Narusegawa in Akamatsu's previous work Love Hina. Huh.

[Gizmo]

Spoiler:

I have no idea on how reliable the Negima wiki is, but according to that Makie was originally supposed Asuna's best friend originally and be called Kozue Migara. If she was supposed to have a bigger role maybe Makie was always supposed to be the one.

Then again, and I'm relying on the Negima wiki, she was the winner of the first few popularity polls, so maybe that also played a part?

[RobbyBevard]

Spoiler:

Then again, and I'm relying on the Negima wiki, she was the winner of the first few popularity polls, so maybe that also played a part?

"She's the most popular one in Japan popularity polls". Well, i guess that could do it, even if Ken wasn't doing much with her.

[mcdreamy]

"She's the most popular one in Japan popularity polls". Well, i guess that could do it, even if Ken wasn't doing much with her.

I guess I find it a bit strange since I thought a lot of the other girls had more of a chance with Negi than she did. And I don't really understand her popularity either...

[RobbyBevard]

He went with the answer that would make the most people happy, rather than one of the five or six that had actual screentime, I guess. And that being the answer might also be why there wasn't a big deal made out of it, since there was... no buildup to it. It would be terrible payoff. As is its so ambiguous its up for debate ANYWAY... aside from those explicitly left out.

Mostly it just confuses me because now there's REALLY no reason or context to that Yue chapter last week. Hell, she even got that color spread in this last chapter, and htis series NEVER has color pages! What the hell?

But hey. Sometimes its the character's that make the choices. I know that well.

[Maron]

Spoiler:

I have no idea on how reliable the Negima wiki is, but according to that Makie was originally supposed Asuna's best friend originally and be called Kozue Migara. If she was supposed to have a bigger role maybe Makie was always supposed to be the one.

Then again, and I'm relying on the Negima wiki, she was the winner of the first few popularity polls, so maybe that also played a part?

No that's true. Ken stated it in one of the early volumes.

Spoiler:

Ahahaha, just snooped around the Negima Wikia and found out that the seiyu for Naru Narusegawa in Love Hina is the SAME seiyu for Makie! Another funny thing I forgot to mention a couple of chapters ago was that Negi's birthday on his tombstone is the same day of birth as Negi's seiyu.