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Created by [[Ken Akamatsu]], this series has been summed up (with hotly-contested accuracy) as "''[[Harry Potter]]'' [[X Meets Y|meets]] ''[[Love Hina]]'' [[X Meets Y|and]] ''[[Dragonball]]''". Rumor has it that when planning out ''Negima!'', Akamatsu wanted to do a [[Shonen]] fighting manga. However, his publisher (wanting to cash in on the success of ''[[Love Hina]]'', Akamatsu's previous work) insisted on another romantic [[The Unwanted Harem|harem comedy]]. So, Akamatsu created a fighting story that ''looked'' superficially like a harem comedy. The story has since changed into a action comedy/drama with a huge cast (30+ "regulars") and an expanding [[Backstory]].
The first anime, ''Negima!'' (take note of the punctuation; it becomes important), concluded in late 2005 after only 26 episodes. Understandably, the plot was tremendously telescoped -- the anime parallels the volumes one through six of the manga in its first 20 episodes or so, and then hurtles into a sudden and somewhat hasty [[Grand Finale]] [[Story Arc|arc]], in the process skipping over a vast landscape of storyline and character development and abandoning several plot threads just set in motion. It would appear that the studio had planned for more than one season to tell the full manga story, and then were disabused of that notion with less than a third of season left to tie things up. The result is a conclusion that, while dramatic and fulfilling the promise of the show's premise, is [[Gecko Ending|abrupt and seems to come out of left field with no warning]] -- especially the shocking event that sets the concluding action in motion. The [[
In Autumn of 2006, a new series was released: ''[[Negima Second Season]]'' It is a [[Re Boot]] of the storyline, with a earlier time slot (leaving the [[Fan Service]] packed off to the [[OVA|OVAs]] until later in the story), a more obvious [[Shounen]] bent, and a distinct flavor of humor courtesy of [[Studio Shaft]], the production company that made ''[[Pani Poni Dash]]''. A manga adaptation loosely based on this reboot, titled ''[[Negima Neo]]'', began running in late 2006, taking plot points from both the original manga and the ''[[Negima Second Season]]'' anime and running through both in very different ways than its predecessors. And now has its own page ''[[Negima Second Season]]''.
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''{{smallcaps|While this entry was originally written for '''Negima!''', be aware that the trope listings linked below now include many entries that are specific to one or more of the various adaptations. Over time, the franchise has become much more [[Trope Overdosed]] than aforementioned series, and at this point, most of the tropes that place it as being Overdosed come from Mahou Sensei Negima due to sheer length if nothing else}}''
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