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xokker7
Oh boy, OH BOY where do I even start. This used to be one of my favorite mangas. I remember hearing that it had a anime adaptation, wait MULTIPLE adaptations 2 of them being almost nothing like the manga. But I didnt know that at the time so i peeped it. Disappointment hit like a fucking 100 pound rock. If you want to start this series, read the manga, no matter what. This is a similar situation to Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) where the anime cut corners and made up their own ending. Manga is a 10/10 imo purely because of the magic fights. There are OVAs that are much better/more faithful but they start later on in the series. So you should just read Negima!
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Warning ! This review is biased, the Negima anime is the first anime I watched whilst knowing it was Japanese animation. (I had seen anime before without knowing what ''anime'' meant) And is Therefore my favorite anime and manga, and the holder of Best Waifu which I won't name. So extremely biased indeed.
Negima, also known as abandonment issues and autism the animation, is an anime full of dumb soft ecchi and funny jokes.
First, the art-style is old and might not be ''newbie'' friendly, but it sure has it's charms.
The Ost is legendary, it's so good that 15 years later, I'm still listening to it and changing from one music to another depending the situation I'm in, when outside.
The sound effect are also quite good, the one when they are reciting spells might be my favorite.
The Chara…
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"Success has a thousand fathers but failure is an orphan"
When it comes to Negima this isn't true at all. It's failure has more family than you can shake a stick at. You have lazy writing taking the part of the father. A difficult concept failed in its execution the mother. Poorly animated art is the c airhead of a little sister, while ridiculous and unrelatable characters are the bratty brothers. Finally very good music used for nothing but obvious emotional manipulation is the older sister trying to hold it together but being ground down into dust. Negima is no orphan but its family makes the Bundy's from married with children look good.
Lets start with older sister music. She's beautiful and if she could get out of this family could really be something on her own, instead she is tryi…
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I knew exactly what i was in for when i saw the first few minutes of the first episode of this anime. The beginning of the show has a girl in a fish suit dancing, floods of school girls running towards their school in an empty city, and a bear panty flip skirt scene, and all this sets the mood for most of the show. I still continued on mostly for the fact the this series is having a sequel (in some sense) coming out soon, and i just had to see what it was all about. I just wanted to know what would allow for this show to have a spinoff, 3 separate ovas, and a sequel 13 years later.
The anime follows Negi, a 9 year old kid who is a mage and is also the newest teacher in an all girls school, i think. Because you see, the setting takes place in this school/city that has different areas for d…
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A ten year old mage is a teacher!? When I first heard about the show, its concept really attracts me to go and watch it. The first thing you'll need to understand is that this isn't some fast-paced science fiction. The shows really takes it time to show us the aspect of each character's life, and in the end, making me care more about them as time passes. The show has 31 characters (I'm not even counting the staffs in the school). This could be a huge turn off to some people. It certainly made me feel a bit hesitant when going in. However, the show does a descent job in introducing the huge cast. But, honesty, I felt like I cared for only 6 characters, which is not necessary a bad thing, since the show mostly focus on them anyway. Nevertheless, sometimes the show seems to be trying too hard…
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= Spoiler free, opinions based on my view back in 2010. =
Well. Back in early 2008, i think. This anime was broadcasted in my place, and its really extremely censored, probably this was broadcaster fault for showing ecchi anime.
But after watch whole episodes back then, I fully regret the whole of it.
The main reason maybe this occurs is when :
1 + You read the manga before watching anime.
2 + You watched the anime then after done, read manga.
"Ecchi". Isn`t. Do not mistakes "Ecchi" and non "Ecchi" in thiis anime, conpared to manga which completely ecchi genre. Probably this is because the anime fix to Shounen anime, which to make appeal to younger children rather than teen. Yeah.
Plot are much butchered in this anime, trying to create original plot rather than manga plot, of course n…
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Mahou Sensei Negima is rather odd. It is kind of like if you take a harem, made the girl population about thirty times the boy population, and then made the boy, like, four years younger than the girls. Actually, that pretty much sums up this series. Ken Akamatsu, who created the show's manga, is also rather well known for his previous series, Love Hina. In my opinion, this show far surpasses Love Hina, and here's why.
Story 8/10
The story of Negima starts off like your typical harem, but gradually evolves to become so much more. By the end of it, the girls aren't entirely the main focus, as the wizardry and magic also plays a strong role. It becomes somewhat of an unpredictable roller coaster of fun, from computer battles to a haunted mansion/pillow fight to an adventure into the depths…
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In short, if you have read the manga, I do not recommend watching the series, it's all the same characters, some elements of the manga's original story, but half way through, it's been altered so much that it no longer feels like negima. It's far too cutesy, it doesn't have any of the more serious elements of the original manga and they even portray the characters differently. I think they should have relabeled the anime as a spin off rather than the anime interpretation of the manga.
That aside (I'm going to pretend that i haven't read most of the manga.
It's a great anime, very cutesy, a little, slightly disturbing romance, some good fight scenes and some moments that will make you cry. If it wasn't negima, I probably would have watched anyway, as it does have a good storyline and make…
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As I started watching this, I was frankly afraid of falling into a pit of lollicon Ecchi with tons of pre teen boobs fallin all over the screen, but I was gladly surprised with a heartwarming comedy about friendship and loyalty.
Story: 8.
I don't give it a higher grade ONLY because you can tell it's unfinished. I mean, it all wounds up in the last episode, but you can tell the story doesn't stop there(that actually led me to the manga , - that continued for several more years after the anime ended - which I started reading after the finale).
So, I think the concept is actually quite good, Negi Springfield is a Wizard apprentice who has to complete a mission in order to become a minister magi, and that mission is to be the teacher for a middle school class at an all girls boarding school.…
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Negima, also known as Mahou Sensei Negima, Negima Magister Magi Negi and numerous other titles, is based on a long-running manga by Ken Akamatsu, best known for the archetype-setting harem series Love Hina. Love Hina was adapted by Xebec, and subjected to a not-particularly-great adaptation. Negima is almost the same in that respect, except that rather than a not-particularly-great adaptation, here we are presented with an appalling one.
For starters, this series came out several years sooner than it should have done. The manga is, to this day, still running, and promises to be around 40-50 volumes in length by its completion. This, however, was made when they were still only few volumes in. When Akamatsu was going to make this series, he wanted to make a Shonen manga, but was forced to…
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I'll start off by saying the original manga is one of my current favorites and I went into this one with high expectations for the first anime adaptation, so this review is in the perpective of person who is already a fan of the series.
STORY: If you know plot of the beginning-
*10 year old child prodigy magician Negi Springfield becomes a teacher for an all girls school of a class of about 30 girls with each one having their own unique and some what quirky traits and has to keep the fact about him being a magician a secret while the genre slowly evolves into an actual shounen story while retaining it's other genres*
-then I guess this adaptation does "follow" the source material, but only just a very limited amount of the original's story.
The majority of the episodes tend to mostly…
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I'm a really big fan of Negima. The manga, that is. SHAFT also made a borderline gag series (Negima!?) that somehow worked really well. However the first anime, made by XEBEC, is, by far, the worst version of Akamatsu's weird magic harem fighting manga. Yes, even worse than Neo.
As for the story, you all know the drill. 10 year old mage becomes a teacher at an all-girls junior high. Hilarity ensues. Now, adapting an ongoing manga into 26 episodes is, well, impossible, (which is why I applaud SHAFT for coming up with their own plot in their version) so a premature, anime-only ending was inevitable. I accept this.
However, the ending arc here is complete nonsense, and has some of the most ridiculous mood whiplash of all time, complete with a handy Deus Ex Machina to save the day. Joy.
No…
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i have watched everything negima so far, and this is by far the worst version out there
lets hit the animation first and formost here. it suits what i can only assume is the original concept art, look at chapter 1, and the student book, thats what the characters look like, but by the time chapter 1 came out, the characters changed to the point they look like they are from a different manga. i bring the manga up because the animation look almost NOTHING like the manga.
characters are over all the same, though i have to say they are a bit toned down from the original manga version. i cant complain, about it but it bugs me a bit.
sound, like i always say, i dont really have a way to tell if its good and almost dosent factor into any of my reviews unless it is glaring bad. this was a 5 beca…
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The first thing I'm going to say is that I am a fan of Akamatsu-sensei's work and may be a bit biased. Now, the next thing I am going to say is that Xebec did not do "Negima" the justice it deserves. Why? There are several reasons.
For starters, the character designs throw you off right at the get go. Any Akamatsu character, more specifically females, have a sensual feel to them. Xebec's designs lacked that. The cheacters looks stiff and unnatural.
This leads me to my second point, there was no fan service. An story from Ken Akamatsu without fan service is like a cold bowl of ramen, it's just damn disappointing. What's worse is they include Negi's sneezes that reveal Asuna's panties but leave out said panties. When I first saw this I thought it was edited and actually e-mailed Funi to lear…
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Watch episode 19, then pretend the rest of the series doesn't exist. Rarely does the series succeed in rising above the mark of generic in any aspect, more often taking advantage of being an adaptation of a work by Ken Akamatsu and assuming fans will mindlessly race to hand over money (which they did).
Many fans laud the anime for originality because it features a harem surrounding a preteen teacher who happens to be a wizard. However, the magical aspect is used only infrequently, as are the child-teacher jokes. The preteen harem lead aspect is used fairly often, but is of limited improvement over the typical spineless loser harem lead.
Negima's most obvious problem is the visual. The art is unpleasing, and the animation is lackluster. For all the vibrant colors, the characters look fla…
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An interesting twist within the harem genre, introducing a somewhat original plot. It entertains the viewer enough as to keep them watching.
It includes comedy, drama, fantasy, and a bit of action. The comedy is just fine, like any other average comedy serie; drama is a bit tacky since it relies on the average romantic plot where two characters meet but do not accept their feelings until the very end of the serie; fantasy doesn't even needs to be explained i guess (Negi, the main character, is a wizard; I think that's enough explanation); and the action part is just above the borderline of being acceptable.
The show is missing a definite storyline throughout the whole series, it seems just like a whole bunch of different things put together in each episode (except, maybe, in the last few…
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Before I start this review, take into consideration that when I watched this, I did not read a single chapter of the manga yet. This was also the first anime I was hooked on.
During my last vacation to America, I got bored. So bored that I resorted to waching anime in desperation. When I first heard about Mahou Sensei Negima, I decided to give it a shot and watch it. I was surprised at what I had stumbled upon.
The story was very original. I'd never expect a 10 year old teacher who teaches in an all girl's school. To make things more interesting, he's also a magician. To make things spicier, the class he teaches is full of strange and interesting people such as a vampire, a person from the future, a robot etc. The combination of all these weird, crazy and wacky ideas makes the series r…
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This is a great anime for people who likes a little bit of everything. There is action, a tad bit of romance, comedy, fantasy. There is always something new happening. I believe this is one of those originals that isn't really a knock off of something. Very Unique with a small twist every now and again. I know I said it once but I must say it again. It is HALARIOUS!
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If you read the manga, you may hate this because they change the storyline and the characters hair color.
The animation is really quite bad with no shading and many distorted drawings. There is almost no real storyline because almost all the episodes are fillers from the manga.
The only thing I really liked about this anime was the opening song and the music.
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A comedy series full of stupid fun and fan service, for you to enjoy. However this Shounen anime seems to be aimed more at the female demographic, leaving most guys cringing at all the cuteness. ^_^
Negima! is a Magical, Supernatural, Harem, Comedy about 10 year old boy Negi, who has become a teacher at an all girls school. There's one other shocking piece of info about him and that is, he's a Mage (Magician).
Well that's the basic idea of this simple show and what helps it stand out is the shear number of girls (31 in fact), so learning their names are impossible. Even though this harem, comedy has the advantage of being a magical one it seems to start of fairly normally, which can be quite dull for anime fans that are used to this genre. The story manages to become good and fun to watc…
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