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** Or perhaps the artifact stops working if you know she's there.

*** This is confirmed.

** Maybe there's some Japanese in the family. Heck, we know ''nothing'' about Negi's mother. For someone willing to die just to find out about his father; Negi is curiously ''uncurious'' about her.

*** It's possible she's {{spoiler|among the petrified villagers he visits in Hour 185 and Hour 186, as Anya's is shown to be}}, but if so, he's still strangely uninterested in her.

*** Eva ripped a chunk out of Nagi for not petting her head, and it grew into a whole new boy. Like starfish. Or something.

**** The manga is finally getting around to at acknowledging the question. {{spoiler|Princess Akira in particular looks like a strong candidate for Negi's mom}}; even Negi is considering that possibility. (Although it's highly likely Akamatsu is just screwing with us.) Of course, everybody in the manga who actually knows the answer has been sworn to secrecy about it, so we're not probably getting an answer anytime soon.

* In volume 9, Negi sends his sister a letter with language options - but which did he ''record'' it in? Logically, he would've been speaking English, yet Asuna seems to have understood what he was saying.

** Then again, Asuna's {{spoiler|not from Japan}}.

*** If that's the case, then why did Negi not comment on her suddenly understanding a language she was having trouble with in class?

*** Well, it ''would'' be just like Negi to insist on speaking Japanese, even when talking to someone who speaks English, just so he doesn't get rusty.

*** And there's strong evidence she never made it on the trip even unnoticed by anybody - Zazie and Setsuna mentioned three students never showed up (in the manga), we see later that Setsuna at least would notice her if actually ''looking'' for a student named Sayo in the vicinity, and we immediately cut to two of the three missing students - Evangeline and Chachamaru on a rooftop.

** Tied to the school, yes, but why in all these years has she not attended classes for higher grades? Sitting through the same middle school level over and over has ''got'' to be mind-numbingly dull. She could have gained so many college degrees-worth of knowledge, and in the short run this would have allowed her to stay around her old classmates as they moved up. Wasting this opportunity bugs me greatly. Same deal with Eva, perpetual loli-ness be damned.

**** I know that if I had to go through the same classes for 15 years I'd eventually stop caring. She's probably just doing the bare minimum to keep people from bothering her about it. She probably never takes the trouble to study or hand anything in. She's already one of the powerful people alive anyway, so it's not like getting good grades really matter. As long as the barrier keeps her at the school, she can't graduate anyway, and as soon as the barrier is down, she'll go off and do some dark evil vampire magic stuff or something.

*** Sayo has been haunting the same seat in the same classroom for sixty years. The living students rotate out every three years as they graduate and a new section is formed. Eva's been stuck similarly, but everyone else can see her. Sayo has been "wasting" her educational opportunity because ''she's dead''. Priorities change when you're dead.

** Did it actually say that Sanders' [[Ho Yay|pactio was with Nagi]]?

*** Chapter 163, page 13: ''Sanders: This is the card between me and the Thousand Master. This card is alive. This is the proof of his survival.''

*** This is pretty clearly true, as Albireo has ''at least twelve dead Pactio cards'' that all show him in the exact same pose with the Bublio Biographica. It seems either he's been around for a LONG time or he's had really bad luck picking Magisters.

**** And/or he's a pactio whore and he tends to have multiple pactios at a time so even if Nagi's didn't work one of his others would.

**** When {{spoiler|Konoka and Setsuna form their pactio, the kiss takes ''forever'', and Chamo makes a crack about how they should just go for the full Pactio. This seems to imply that, had they continued what they were doing, they would have formed a full contract. This was most likely due to [[Rule of Funny]], or perhaps the comment was just based on their enthusiasm, but ''still...''}}

**** Since the permanent contract is as it says on the packet, it's probable that a much more complicated ceremony is involved, not just extending the kiss. (Which ties in to the whole marriage thing i.t.o ceremonies... no other implication)

*** One of Yue's comrades says that, a member of a group of young girls who have been shown to be both easily excitable and not particularly worldly. Or maybe pactios really are that rare, but the shop was a special one - Asakura mentions it being expensive.

***** But, if artifacts aren't always given with pactios, wouldn't that make it seem REALLY unlikely that so far ALL of the pactios we've seen have granted an artifact to the partner? Especially in the case of Negi and his partners... if it's so rare, then somebody (Chamo, Rakan, etc.) should have pointed out how unlikely it is that all of his partners have artifacts.

******* Confirmed in the tankoubon Q&As; pactios only make artifacts if the mage is particularly powerful to begin with.

******** We don't know how powerful Kokone is. Could be that her powers lie in something other than combat magic, as she's never been particularly proactive in battle.

* Speaking of pactios, does anybody else find the Neo-Pactios of Negima!? to be a huge failure once [[Fridge Logic]] sets in? It seems cute on paper, but when you think about it, invoking a Neo-Pactio has a 30% chance of rendering your protector not only ''useless'', but fundamentally ''helpless'', right when you need them.

** I was coming here to post something about that. Yes, whoever came up with that (in-verse wise) obviously didn't think it through. "So, you draw your partner's power at random and it runs out whenever they're hungry? And you have the chance of him/her being completely useless, possibly getting yourself and them slaughtered in battle? But they will look cute while it's happening? This is a brilliant idea!"

** Wasn't it stated that the Dud is a 10% chance? Duds showed up for [[Rule of Funny]].

* Yue's pretty close to Ostia. Shouldn't her pin be in range of Chachamaru's sensors by now? I think it's something like 900 klicks in range.

**** I forget where, but it was mentioned that the giant warships provide a shielding effect. So if Yue leaves her pin on the warship (since it's not part of her uniform), its signal is blocked/weakened. The same goes with telepathy; if Yue was on the warship whenever Negi tried telepathy, it could be blocked by the ship's shields.

** No, it was going to be on the third day, but the Battle of Mahora ended up taking up that day.

**** In 8 days later however Negi says he still has to go to Natsumi's play, Zazie's circus and Fuka and Fumika's strolling club.

**** Supposedly we were going to, but Akamatsu dropped it after realising the festival arc was going on for so long. A shame - we now know nothing about Zazie.

*** I believe this is an effect of Mr. Akamatsu making stuff up as he goes along. The only thing you mentioned that he planned from the beginning was Evangeline. Negi couldn't call on any other teachers for help back then because back then the other teachers were just teachers and wouldn't have any idea what he was talking about. Later he made Mahora into a magic school and the teachers all became mages. And so on.

*** Time travel, dude. That *** is messed up, and they're lucky that nothing worse occurred. Sayo was actually born sometime in the next generation, but ended up being eaten by flying time monkeys about sixty years ago.

*** Except that if I were a teacher, and I saw a note like that, I would assume that she was just disruptive in class or something; not that she's an ubermage who holds a grudge against my father.

*** One of the scanalations translates that note as "Talk to me if she becomes a problem". A subtle but important difference. Of course, Eva ''did'' threaten Negi off of asking for help.

*** If I remember right, the headmaster ''did'' rein in Eva during her arc, after he found out about the bloodsucking. It's possible he and everyone else just didn't think she'd be a problem (and she wasn't, until the whole "breaking down the Mahora barrier" thing).

** By my count, seven members of the class were in on [[The Masquerade]] to some degree when Negi got there. (Eva, Setsuna, Misora, Mana, Chao, Hakase, and Chachamaru. I think I've got all the names spelled right.) Someone might have mentioned that he could have called on three of them (Setsuna, Mana, Misora) for assistance if need be. Of course things didn't really get out of hand until the [[Class Trip]], and the headmaster never expected things would get as bad as attempted kidnapping of Konoka. That was when a lot of students started joining [[The Masquerade]]. (Asakura, Nadoka, Konoka, Yue, and Ku Fei. Kaede had found out during the scrap with Eva, but kept quiet.)

* Something trivial that bugs me, and may be common to multiple translations/manga (Negima's the first I've actually read): If the characters are speaking English, I don't really think one needs to keep the honorifics. It just kind of violates my WSOD - I'm supposed to believe that in Britain, they speak Japanese or use Japanese honorifics?

** They're speaking Japanese. One of them compliments Nekane on how well she speaks it. Of course the ala-alba, and mages in general might be a different story, but that's magic for you.

**** Maybe people always hear it in the language they understand, so for the audience's convenience it's in Japanese.

**** It's magical letter which can be played in any language the receiver can understand. See difference in Negi's and Nekane's letters. Letter in hands of Nekane had more language options.

*** It was indeed translated into Japanese, but it was written horizontally (like English) rather than vertically (like Japanese).

** Back to the original bugginess: presumably, the translators keep the honorifics because it's easier to pick out how the characters see each other and the characters do reference honorifics and whatnot in they're dialogue. Why the translators bother to keep verbal tics, when we have pefectly good punctuation, is what bothers me.

** Also, while Asuna was hitching a ride with Misora during the Mahora Festival arc endgame, her anti-magic interfered with the flight magic, but didn't completely cancel it out.

*** Ditto back in an early episode when Negi tried to help her on her paper route. Negi thought it was a weight issue at the time.

*** I'm pretty sure that Asuna herself weighs more than those things.

*** But she got hit by that freezing spell from Evangeline in Volume 20. I believe someone even wonders aloud about how that happened. Is it because Eva-chan is just that powerful or something?

****** It was ten years. Which might have been [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v31/c284/7.html foreshadowing] - or [[Time Travel Tense Trouble|whatever you call it when you "foreshadow" backstory]]...

* Similar to an above troper's complaint about all the "I wanna get stronger stuff" and another's complaint about everyone being neglectful to Negi, I find it incredibly anooying that Negi is putting all this time and effort, taking entire days out of his training, in some vague effort to find his father, and nobody is stopping him. Nobody ever says "Stop, you don't have to do this", or "Stop you should be focusing on your life". It's not healthy, he's training for days. Asuna tries some half-hearted attempts at telling him to calm down, but they never stick. And everyone else says it makes him look mature. He's ten years old, maturity can only go so far. No one even says something like "Hey, maybe you should try a training regime that isn't so horribly abusive."

** It's Shonen-land. With sufficient determination, there ''is'' no upper limit on how hard one can work and remain reasonably healthy.

*** As of chapter 219, it looks like {{spoiler|Negi's health might actually be in danger from all that stress and magic}}.

** Remember kids, Japanese comic originally intended for a Japanese audience. Unless you're somehow related to the person, or otherwise in a position of authority over said person (teacher, police, boss, etc.), it's considered rude to try to stop someone from doing whatever they want with their body/life. His students, while they are older, are in an inferior social position, so it's not their place to say that his training is good or bad, even if it is detrimental to his health. The Mahora mage staff probably are at worst ambivalent about it, since magic itself is not inherently "good" or "evil". The mage's actions determine alignment. And Evangeline would certainly be happy to see Negi kill himself through her training, since it means she can get his blood and break Nagi's seal on her.

* There's really no other explanation for this IJBM other than magic system peculiarities, but it sort of irritates me how Nodoka's mind reading - which you'd think is pretty elementary magic - is apparently a significant weakness of Fate's that he has no abjuration against. And why can't they just restart Nodoka's artifact and say "tertium" again? You'd think being able to read the enemy mastermind's, well, ''mind'' 24/7 would sort of give them the upper hand. I don't recall a mention that Diarium Ejus has some sort of upper distance limit to its target or anything.

** One limit of Diarium Ejus that they have mentioned, is that it only gets surface thoughts. Use it randomly, and the odds are you'll get random junk. By asking someone a question, they rather strongly tend to think of the answer, and Diarium Ejus can record all of it. Reset it, and that record is cleared. This also answers why Fate didn't cast some anti-mind reading abjuration, it was too late for that to do any good. Now, however, he could be keeping a shield up.

** IIRC activation distance is 7.5 meters. Given exactly when DE was introduced. Reading range is arguably shown to be more than that - but all activations we had seen to date was in 7.5m range. So it's not possible.

** As for it being elementary magic... Where does it say that? It's the sole power of an artifact, so it should be fairly unique/surprising, and the likely well-travelled bounty hunters who encounter it are surprised by it. Why should involuntary mind-reading be elementary?

** Because Negi can read minds, too...though only if chapter 1 of the entire freaking series is still considered acceptable reference. Fair enough, Negi's own mind-reading is considerably limited, but my main gripe is just that something so many other series take for granted is suddenly mindblowing here.

** Well, now we know there's an active government conspiracy, that targeted Negi six years ago with that demon attack. They might not have been the ones who actually framed him, but trying to use political clout to get them to acknowledge the innocence of someone they've already tried to assassinate at least once before sounds both futile and dangerous, even for a very highly-placed person. Godel [[Unreliable Narrator|says]] he has enough authority as Governor-General, and he also specifically says Seras, Theodora, and Ricardo don't.

* My question is why the heck hasn't the headmaster linked Yue and Negi yet? She knows Yue has a pactio card because she watched the Griffin Dragon battle, and it seems that Pactio's aren't exactly common. Yue even noted herself that ''the name on the back of the card is "Negi Springfield".'' One would think that if one of her students who appeared out of nowhere happens to have a rare magical artifact, it's worthy of a ''little'' investigation. Like, oh, I don't know, looking at the card and seeing Negi's name on it?

** Although that still doesn't explain why she hasn't told Negi about Yue. If she thinks that Yue is one of his partners, she would probably tell him where she's been, inform him about the amnesia, etc.

** Probably Rakan or someone else stops her. Yue now is in perfectly good shapes (learning magics and stuffs), and Negi is learning to be stronger, focusing himself to defeat Rakan. Why would do anything that disrupts it?

* An old one, but one that watching the ''Ala Alba'' OADs definitely brought back to mind: In chapter 179, after the 3-A girls have just met Anya for the first time, they're spying on her and Negi talking. Alone. One-on-one. During the conversation, Haruna points out to the other girls that Negi drops [[Keigo]] when speaking to Anya. Which begs the very big, obvious question: ''why on Earth would he be speaking Japanese with Anya?'' Especially since [[Translation Convention]] doesn't seem to be in effect (or am I supposed to believe that Japanese middle-schoolers who haven't gotten particularly great grades in the subject would be able to tell the difference between formal and informal English?)

** The only explanation that comes to my mind is "because they're still in Japan", but it doesn't really satisfy me...

** [[Completely Missing the Point|No, Read it again]]. Two characters, both of whom speak English as their native tongue and wanted to have a ''private conversation,'' speak in a language they both only just learned to each other. The '''''only''''' reason that happened was because them being overheard was a plot point, but it makes absolutely no sense! Aaargh!!!

** They actually might be speaking English. Note that since they are not very good at it, the girls might interpret the lack of honorifics as informal speech, like it is in Japanese. The ones who are good with the language would surely be able to tell if he is using formal speech or not, since the rules of that are pretty straightforward.

** Except Takamishi told Negi she got him with a [[One Hit KO]] when he hesitated.

** She could have simply used the bullets on only those that she found to be a great enough threat to her plan. Takamichi was probably one of the few people powerful enough to be a serious problem, so she used the time displacement on him. During the new timeline, the time displacement bullets were the only way to get that many students out of the way. In the [[Bad Future]], there wasn't enough opposition to make widespread use of the bullets.

*** Except they may not have identified them as time displacement. They could have thought that they were simply teleportation, maybe with some form of Magical [[One Hit KO]] attached.

* What happened to Kotarou ? The last time I saw him, he prevented Rakan from moving, but somehow, he must have been unconscious when the match ended, otherwise team negi would have had one standing, but the fight ended in a draw. The only thing i can think of right now is that he got cought up in some of Negi's lightshow, but I found no reference to something like that ...

* Going all the way back to chapter 3, where the hell would Negi learn a [[Breast Expansion]] spell? (''aer aer amplificet mammas'' which translates as something like "air air amplify breasts"). If Negi makes an enormous deal of being a "proper British Gentleman" why on earth would he know a spell that does that? And it's not something he made up either, much later on Anya uses the ''exact same spell'' on herself, so this spell apparently specifically exists for this purpose. At least it makes sense for Anya to know it. Although Negi did hang out with her a lot, so maybe he learned it from her.

** Or they just think alike. How many ways ''are'' there of saying "inflate breasts" in latin anyway?

*** I think it's OBVIOUS that this is what happened. I mean, look at the end of the chapter again: the "breasts" BURST. There was never blood splatter, Asuna never mentioned her boobs exploding (and she obviously still has them), Negi's speciality is AIR MAGIC, etc. I think the person who posted this really didn't pay much attention.

 

* How come the bystanders at the Mahora festival, whenever witnessing magic firsthand, they immediately dismiss it as CG. That doesn't even make sense. CG is Computer Graphics/Generated, therefore is created on an engine/program inside the computer, not outside therefore cannot even be projected to be as real as reality. Even if it is claimed to be holograms, the destruction of the area around the characters is as real as getting stabbed and bleeding such as the tournament stage getting destroyed or even the Tyrannobot getting decapitated by a girl wielding a Big freakin' sword that appeared out of nowhere.

** [[Rule of Funny]]?

** Factor in the fact that for Mahora, this really isn't ''that'' unusual for them. With a reputation like that, would ''you'' assume Aha! Magic! rather than a [[Hand Wave|rather iffy explanation?]]

** Also factor in that there is a global [[Weirdness Censor]] put in place by the mages. Unless someone is confronted with incontrovertible proof of magic, they are predisposed to accept alternate explanations. (This is what Chao was trying to reverse.)

** Most likely "CG" was being used incorrectly for the broader term "Special Effects"(SFX), which could include pyrotechnics, animatronics, stunts, etc. Just a miss from the Japanese side using the wrong acronym perhaps.

* Could someone refresh me on the sub-plot with Asuna? I'd rather not go on an [[Archive Trawl]] right now.

**** Well, we've seen that there are "spare" bodies for Chachamaru, including ones that look younger. It's never actually been established if she's using them or age mis-representation magic. But she'd need magic of some kind to carry them around, at least until they linked up with Paru again. Then Paru's ship could provide storage space. Hmmm, did Chachamaru appear younger in ''Mundis Magikus'' '''before''' they linked up with Paru? I need to review the manga. Paru just recently provided Sayo with a robot body, was that a redress of one of Chachamaru's, or did Paru create it with her artifact? Maybe Paru has been providing Chachamaru with the loli body. Edit: OK, Chachamaru first used a loli apperance on ''Mundus Magikus'' in chapter 193. Negi, Kotaru, and Chisame all used Eva's age mis-representation pills, I naturally assumed Chachamaru did also. This is long before they linked back up with Paru. Where they got the change of clothes from, I don't know. Maybe a wizard did it. :)

*** [[Word of God]] is that Chachamaru is using the pills just like everyone else. And I quote:

'''Taken from the Q+ A section of volume 21''' }}

** I'd like to note that Konoka when she was younger had slightly shorter hair, while her magically de-aged self reflects her current hair length.

* So, we have a 10 year old moving to a foreign country to teach at a boarding school... why didn't anyone see the need to figure out living arrangements for Negi BEFORE he showed up so he wouldn't have to board with one of the students or sleep outside?

** Given the person in charge and both Negi and Asuna's now-being-unveiled backstory, its entirely possible that Konoemon ''wanted'' Negi to room with Asuna to ensure that the two would bond, pulling Asuna back into the fray and/or providing Negi with valuable backup. Its also possible he was going on the "he should room with his closest relative, whether they know they're related or not" theory.

*** And what does this have to do with, well anything? I'm not following your line of thinking.

*** Did you read the page? Close relatives who are not raised together are sexually attracted to each other because of their similar genetics. So rooming Negi with a close relative he didn't grow up with would just encourage a romantic love, not a familial love.

** It's probably just a combination of [[Only Six Faces]] combined with the fact that they both have their [[Eyes Always Shut]]. Or, if you prefer [[Wild Mass Guessing|wild speculation]], it's because Albireo is Kaede's father.

*** While it would be awesome, I think it's more that I saw [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDyaFGg_Ajc&feature=response_watch this] a couple of times before that chapter came out.

** My best guess is that killing Negi would be an excellent way for Fate to get Rakan royally pissed at him. While recent events seem to imply that Fate thinks he could win that fight, it's understandable that he's rather not have to face Rakan if it's at all avoidable. It also means that Fate was able to use Negi as a scapegoat for the Gateport incident, which is a good way limiting Negi's influence (he can't act openly) and getting himself off scot free. If Fate killed him, then Rakan (and likely other important figures like Seras, Theodora, and Ricardo) could pose a significant threat to his plan. And it's been clear from the beginning that Fate doesn't really try to kill anyone unless they make themselves an obstacle to him.

** Not to mention the possibility that Fate and {{spoiler|Kurt Godel}} may be working together. The most recent chapters imply that {{spoiler|Godel}} has his own plans for Negi, and if Fate kills him, those plans get shot to hell. As a result, Fate leaves him alive.

*** {{spoiler|Extremely early foreshadowing.}}

* Is being kissed by and generally fondled by a bunch of older women going to mess with Negi psychologically once hormones start kicking in?

* Nagi's defeat of Eva way back in a flashback shown near the beginning. He won by tricking Eva into falling into a pit filled with water which had garlic in it. Okay. But later, it turns out that Eva is a Shinso vampire who has outgrown traditional vampire weakness. Like garlic. And she can fly, which means that she probably wouldn't have fallen into that pit anyway. What's going on here?

** We never see what happened. We don't even see a memory. We see a dream she had about what happened. Are YOUR dreams usually true to fact?

*** Asuna's first flashback showed her being used by someone as an antimagic weapon. There is ample evidence, held by the faculty who no doubt are in communication with him (via Konoemon, no doubt), that Hermann was connected to Fate. Hermann was performing experments in manipulating Asuna's antimagic. Ergo, Fate ordered experments with manipulating her antimagic, ergo he wants to use it for something. Albireo is much too smart not to figure this out if informed, and Konoemon is much too smart not to pass vital information along to the war hero in his basement.

** Another thing, Asuna wasn't necessary for Fate's plan; he didn't even expect to see Negi and the others in the magical world.

*** Unless, of course, the [[Epileptic Trees]] are right, and he can do that ''because'' he got his hands on her. It ''has'' been noted that the power of the Royal Family, the power Asuna inherited, is "the power that created the Magical World". If he can do that because he got his hands on her, her going is literally all that prevented Rakan from winning that fight.

**** And now Rakan is implying that yes, he's got the Mage Of Beginnings back- the source of his reality warp- because he got his hands on Asuna.

** Maybe something happened 1018 years ago that prompted the Magic World calendar to reboot, and its actually older than that? We've certainly had our fair share of calendar changes here on the Old World.

** Before Magicus Mundus, Mages all lived on Earth. So, he wouldn't exactly have been "bumming", since all the other mages would have been there too.

** Besides, don't demons have their own plane of existence? I think it's just more common for them to show up in the magical world rather than them actually being natives.

** True, but its unclear whether Rakan was speaking literally or figuratively when he called Zect a demon. Everyone calls Ala Rubra "monsters," after all.

*** Everyone "else" calls Ala Rubra monsters. Jack is one of THE most monstrous in the group, and called Zect a demon. That's pretty telling.

*** Link (or Links) to where Zect was interacting? I keep hear him getting mentioned, but I can't find him at all.

*** [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v29/c267/8.html Chapter 267] would be the scene in question.

** ''I'' think it is her large sword (or one that looks like it), and its tassels, partially seen, are what some people are intrepting as an axe head. Hopefully we'll find out soon.

** Chapter 274 previes images are out. {{spoiler|Setsuna's artifact appears to be a [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_abkMP58OLUA/Syj_ridb9OI/AAAAAAAARSY/zPZ0M7sKEuM/s1600-h/643080.jpg sword upgrade].}}

* WHERE DID THE MUNDANES GO?! It's been around 100+ chapters since we've seen hide nor hair of Chizuru, Ayaka, the Twins, the Cheerleader Trio, Zazie, Satomi, Satsuki, or Evangeline! (Not counting Eva's magic clone that popped up for the Negi-Rakan fight). Akamatsu-san had better have something planned for them, 'cause I'm starting to think that he's literally forgotten about them.

** We're in the middle of a [[Trapped in Another World]] plot. Showing the other members of 3-A without having them provide a way to resolve the current dilema (which would be a standard [[Deus Ex Machina]]) is [[Filler]], badly timed filler at that. Given that Ken is showing actual plot relevent characters from Mahora to recap what's been happening (Both Eva and Albireo are apparently [[Genre Savvy]] enough to guess what's going on and be right)kinda disproves your hypothesis that he's forgotten the norm's.

** 1. Negi is their homeroom teacher and English language teacher. That's all. All other subjects are taught by different teachers. If you're ask about him being their homeroom teacher - they either change class each year... and not in "every year I teach class 2C", but they can be homeroom teach for 1st year, then for 2nd year, then again for 3rd year - etc; actually in many Japanese schools classes are formed anew every new year. Or they teach same class from start to end like in this case.

** 2. Mahora Academy Campus is an agglomeration of a number of different schools with Mahora Junior High Girls School being only one of them, and actually not the most important one. There is Mahora Elementary (where Asuna and Ayaka met), there is Mahora Junior High Boys School (Ako is their soccer team manager) and there is at least one girls' and one boys' high schools + college/research university. St. Ursula's High School is a girls high school on campus. I don't know if the elevator system would make current 3A those school's students in the future or if there is a different high school on campus called something like Mahora High (Girls) School, but it's still a different school from Mahora Girls Jr. High School.

** A moot point; [[Word of God]] says Negi's Pactio with Theodora was cancelled after the tournament.

** My best guess is that, for the purposes of the rules of magic, Negi's artifact was a completely different thing with coincidently similar effects to his harems' artifacts. So he could probably have, say, used the healing fans while Konoka was using hers.

*** Judging by Asuna's quick learning (I don't mean the remembering old techniques, I mean the original training), it might have something to do with [[Royal Blood]] and all that. Throw in the above...

**** I believe Dynamis has summed it up very nicely in Chapter 306. And I quote "The blood of the final descendant of the line of Vespertatia... the magical force of your hero father... a sheer talent all your own... and finally, a technique descended from the works of my own great master..."

** Fictional characters lack true free will; they speak only when their Creator desires them to, and so on. Whereas, as Rakan's fighting of Fate shows, the inhabitants of the Magical World ''do'' have true free will and act independently of the mind of the Lifemaker, although he can override that will- but it still exists, unlike for fictional characters.

** This analogy doesn't really work. In the Negima universe, Mundus Magicus is a real world in an [[Alternate Dimension]]. Sure, the world and its inhabitants are artificial (created by magic), but they are real because they truly exist. In [[Real Life]], fictional characters are also artificial (created by man's imagination), but they are not real because they do not really exist outside of their source materials. It also helps that the inhabitants of Mundus Magicus all possess free will and sentience, 2 things that fictional characters don't possess.

** It's implied that the inhabitants of Mundus Magicus ''don't'' normally exist in the Old World without some sort of complicated spell or whatever. That's why the senate was only trying to save the humans, and that might have something to do with Cocone's status as an "experimental immigration subject;" the Hellans were trying to see if there was a realistic way to move all the non-humans over to the Old World. It's unclear what the answer is.

** According to Akamatsu, there's [[Translator Microbes]] magic in effect for them. He describes it as "extremely basic" magic, so it stands to reason most Magical citizens would know how to cast it (some of the girls might have even learned it themselves).

** Also, it is mentioned somewhere that "Japonese" is another major language in Mundus Magicus. It makes some sense: Eastern-style magic (talismans and ki usage) is present in that world, and Eastern mages in Mundus Magicus could easily have selected Japanese as their ''lingua franca''. Not to mention all the mages that have Japanese names for some odd reason (Nagi, Negi, and Nekane Springfield; Arika and Asuna; Tosaka, Shiori, etc).

** She's in Kaede's cloak so that Ala Alba won't risk losing her again; she's just been rescued, so she's probably not in the shape to fight (and she's likely not strong enough to face CE anyway).

*** I thought of that too, but Kaede wasn't with Kotaro's group when they rescued Anya, and Anya wasn't with Kotaro's group when Kaede showed up to meet with them.

** Ki. Especially as it's supposed to be an opposite of sorts of Magic (being able to wield both is a rare trait).

** It appears to have been lampshaded since right after she says that she mentions that someone like her shouldn't be surprised.

 

* How does Quintum know lightning shundo? Think about it for a second: lightning shundo works by transforming yourself into lightning. The only known way to do that is by absorbing two "Thousand Thunderbolts" spells<ref>Quintum's obviously using Perpetual Lightning Form in his fights</ref> through Magia Erebea, binding the lightning spells to the user's body and soul. Negi also has to use some subtle wind magic to control himself in lightning form, so this is a fairly complex and advanced technique that not just anyone could pick up. On top of that, the only people who should know Magia Erebea are Evangeline (who invented it), Rakan (who is... [[The Ace|well, Rakan]]), and Negi (who learned it from Eva's scroll). So... how the heck does Quintum know how to do it? Yeah, he's supposed to be the Lightning elemental Averruncus, but that ability should still be beyond him, as far as I can tell.

***** [[Big Yes|YES!]] An idea that took out almost all the tension in the story!

* Why is Chamo so partial toward human girls? Shouldn't he be more attracted to female ermines?

** Or it's further evidence toward the "Chamo is a transformed human" theory.

* Fate and his co. stated that the collapse of the Magical World would begin in 10 years time. Negi proposed a plan that would stop the collapse. But he says in {{spoiler|chapter 338}} that the plan would come into effect in {{spoiler|30 years}}. What.

* A minor one. What is Negi's age now as of {{spoiler|chapter 338}}?

** 12 at the oldest. More likely 11.

* Chacharmaru has been going around in an upgraded body with no visible joints since before the Magic World arc. So why is it that by Chapter 337 her body is all puppet-like again? And I don't remember her having that little headband thing going from one ear to the other around the back of the head, nor the little mic thingy attached to it.

** Her upgraded body got trashed by Quartum. She's probably switched to an older model while the upgraded one is being repaired.

 

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