Mahou Sensei Negima: Difference between revisions

And life doesn't get any easier. Although he's supposed to keep his magic secret, he's having control problems, and blows his cover in front of some of the girls almost immediately. Also, he can't get properly licensed until he finds a partner. His style of magic requires a "defender" who handles physical threats while he casts his spells; the contract between mage and partner is sealed with a kiss and empowers the partner to near-superhuman levels. It soon becomes obvious that, by the ''sheerest'' coincidence, almost ''all'' of Negi's students are excellent candidates for partnership. And now that you mention it, the school itself isn't quite as "normal" as it appears at first glance...

 

 

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 [[FUNimation]] adaptation took nearly ''all'' of the studio's most frequently-used voice actresses, some of them playing [[Talking to Himself|two or three of the girls at a time]].