10-year-old Negi Springfield is a wizard-in-training, and needs only to pass one more test in order to become a Master Wizard. Unfortunately, his final task is a bizarre one—to become a English teacher at an all-females boarding school. As soon as he arrives, he completely embarrasses one of his students, Asuna Kagurazaka, and replaces the teacher she loves, which garners her hatred. To make matters worse, Asuna learns that Negi is a wizard, and promises to tell unless he helps her out. But unfortunately, circumstances force them to work together to do many things, from fighting evil wizards to helping the class pass their final exam, with a lot of humor, magic, and romances thrown in.
(Source: ANN, edited)
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blackdash
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 thingsmore 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 really interesting to watch.
Now the animation is the series' weakest point. Everything looks like it was colored with watercolor. Everything looked kinda pale and lightish is hue. Also, the characters could have been drawn a lot better.
The music is where the series really shines. The opening and ending themes are really cute and are very addicting to listen to. 4 months after watching Mahou Sensei Negima, I'm still not bored of the songs.
The series also has the best bgms I have ever heard. They are composed so well that they could rival Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
Character development was good. The relationship Negi had with some of his students was shown pretty well. My only problem was some of the students in Negi's class were given so little airtime that I couldn't remember who they were much less thier names. Well with a class of 31, it's obvious this problem could not be avoided.
Personally, I enjoyed Mahou Sensei Negima. It was fun and entertaining to watch and it took away most of my boredom. It even made me shed a tear or two. But after reading part of the manga, I can say that the manga totally owns the series XD.
Lindle
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, wasmade 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 make a harem manga in an attempt to repeat the success of Love Hina. As a result, he kicked off with a blatant harem setup, and gradually shifted away to becoming a Shonen series instead. In the process, it eventually became something of a Shonen manga for Harem fans.
Of course, while battle Shonen series are increasingly becoming a patch on the anime industry, with repetitive fights, contrived plots, one-dimensional characters, and optimal capability to be completely recycled by another series with a quick, unconvincing makeover, the Negima manga is absolutely none of those. Negima knows what it is, and gleefully runs through all the battle shonen tropes and harem tropes in hilarious tongue-in-cheek fashion. But even while happily resigning itself to being a generic shonen series, it manages to be utterly exemplary as one, building three-dimensional characters, rich fantasy worlds, plots that skilfully manage god knows how many characters and still manage to make most of them interesting an memorable, fights that are well-constructed and compelling, and humour that is outright hilarious. In effect, Negima is something that every shonen series should strive to be.
That is, however, something this series decides to completely ignore. It kicks off mostly faithful to the first part of the series, but promptly decides to deviate whenever any of the story arcs pop up. Yes, rather than actually following the plot of Negima, regarding Negi's exploits to find his long-lost father, they just decide to do... well, pretty much nothing. All the series ever focuses on are the protagonist Negi Springfield's day-to-day activities as the teacher of an all-girl high school. In a nutshell, what this is series has done is taken every piece of filler from the manga and put it together into a series. The only time they really touch on any of the manga's story arcs is the Kyoto arc, which took about 3 volumes of the manga to cover. They then proceed to dedicate about 2 episodes on this, cutting out pretty much everything of importance, and cutting a major character (Kotaro) out of the story altogether. The end result is a rushed and butchered version of what was previously a good story arc.
Of course, Negima is a character-driven series, which it would really have to be considering that it starts off with around 35 characters, and in the current arc of the manga it must be nearing 100. Problem is that the series stops at around 45, and only remembers to make a handful or two remotely interesting. The only ones that are really worth mentioning are as follows: Negi, our protagonist, a ten year old Welsh magician. As part of their training, young wizards are sent off to work to test their abilities, with Negi's test being to teach a school of Japanese students who are older than he is. He has a fantastic backstory that spans childhood horrors, parental abandonment, and a crippling need to become a great wizard for reason I won't dare spoil. This adaptation covers approximately none of it.
We also see his first of many sidekicks, Asuna Kagurazaka, whose backstory digs so far back that I can't even say a word of it without spoiling anybody. But naturally, not a single bit of it was adapted, so we are left with a one-dimensional character who is bossy and annoying. It's worth noting that even in the manga she's not particularly likeable. We also have Evangeline A.K. McDowell, a vampire who was imprisoned in the school by Negi's father and needs Negi's blood to escape, Nodoka Miyazaki, the clumsy, hyper-moe bookworm girl and primary love interest, and Yue Ayase, friend of Nodoka and general deadpan snarker. Other than that, most of the remaining 40-something cast members aren't used much. Some of them get their episodes in the spotlight, but none of them ever really shine as a result. Several cast members get as many as one or two lines in the entire series. Some others are also quite out of character, in particular Sayo Aisaka, the ghost.
On the technical side of things, Negima is as poor as it is anywhere else. The animation is awful, littered with animation mistakes absolutely everywhere, and the colouring is horribly bland and undersaturated. The music is all either annoying J-pop or completely forgettable. Negima was a series I watched before I was in the habit of watching subbed series, so I regretfully sat through the horrible dubbing. Don't get me wrong, I actually like dubs, but this is a really bad one. Greg Ayres as Negi is the highlight of how bad it gets. Effectively, Ayres is the Michael Cera of English dubbed anime. He has a distinctive, whiny voice, that can either be amusing, loveable and endearing, or horribly annoying. And the absolute pinnacle of just how annoying Greg Ayres can be when casted poorly is Negi Springfield. His voice is, in addition to its usual nasally whine, made considerable higher and given something of a British accent. To simulate the experience of hearing this, find your nearest chalkboard and scrape your nails down it. Despite the large cast, there are very few decent performances here (Brina Palencia as Yue Ayase and Laura Bailey as Evangeline A.K. McDowell are the only good ones in here), as well as several other irritating ones such as Leah Clark (Nodoka) and Monica Rial (Konoka) both putting in extremely shrill voices, with the remainder of the cast simply being either poor or unremarkable.
At this point I'm sure that several readers are annoyed at how much I've prattled on about the differences in the adaptation, but the thing is that when you take that away there is very little to talk about. When depleted of all the manga's positives, what we are left with is a series that is honestly lifeless. The comedy is mostly absent, and when it does it falls flat. None of the characters are enjoyable in the least. The plot is almost nonexistent. This series doesn't even have any fanservice to carry it for the lowest common denominator (ecchi fans).
Being an ongoing series, Negima of course had an anime-exclusive ending. While it was very contrived and the drama was laid on awfully thick, the plot itself honestly wasn't that bad and at least saves this anime from being absolutely, 100% terrible, alongside a very small handful of funny moments.
Thankfully, Negima has since left the hands of Xebec, and moves into those of Shaft. Shaft have gone on to make a TV series that is essentially Negima in name only, although it is still a damn sight better than this, two random filler OVAs, and most likely due to complaints, two series of OVAs covering later arcs in the manga, which are easily the best animated chunks of Negima. Sadly, this pretty much rules out any kind of full series adaptation.
Thanks, Xebec. You ruined it.
Final Words: For the love of god, buy the manga first.
Animation/Graphics: 1/10
Story/Plot: 2/10
Characters; 3/10
Music/Background: 4/10
English Dub: 2/10
Overall: 2/10
For Fans Of: Love Hina, Harry Potter.
Master10K
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 thoughthis 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 watch at times, but with its cheesy outcomes it may leave little to be desired. With a pretty basic story, the romance is what supposed to help keep it going however he male protagonist is only 10 and with 14-15 year old girls it can be really hard to take it seriously. So throughout the show it has to rely on the slapstick comedy and fan service, which can be pretty weak at times.
The animation quality is as basic as it can get, with not an ounce of detail put into it at all. Because this is a comedy it could be forgiven however there actually is a fair bit of action in this series, which is quite disappointing to watch. The music is there but it does absolutely nothing to help and is just there to fill in the silence.
To summarize Negima! It had the potential of being one of the greatest harems, having every single type of anime girl crammed in, but the fact that Negi is a 10 year old teacher is just far to unbelievable. At least the story improves in the 2nd half where some of the girls are individually developed however it had to rely on a shocking tear-jerking moment in the end. The majority of the negative issues were addressed in the 2nd series (Negima!?) but the fact still remains that this is an overrated series that doesn't really deserve the recognition it has.
^_^
rmmr111
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 isactually 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. It can be kinda difficult if we take in account that he's a 10 years old boy. during his teaching period we get to follow some of his adventures with the all magic world getting entangled with his school teaching world, while getting to know his students bit by bit.
The story is kinda slow developing at first, and it's a bit rushed in the last 4/5 episodes, yet it's still quite enjoyable.
Art: 7
I would give it a 6,5 but well, there goes a 7.
Akamatsu's art is really pretty and clean and detailed, and somehow i think the animation was a little below that if you see the original art and compare it with the one in this series. Is not bad, it could just be a little better I think.
Characters: 8
The staff that adapted the whole manga into an anime had a though job with character development, if you think about it.
It consists in Negi Kun, 31 students plus the school staff, and they all appeared frequently in each episode. In only 26 episodes you couldn't possibly ask fo lots of character development with so many characters, still you got to know most f them at a superficial level, and in the overall they're all really likeable and spiffy.
Overall: 8
Okay, i really liked the all package. It was a really enjoyable story, about young love, crushes, friendship, growth, and a fairly happy ending, and I gotta say, I'm really a sucker for happy endings.
Dorcas_Aurelia
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 typicalspineless 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 flat and lack dynamic. The action scenes are done so lazily, such as Negi's battle with Eva in episode 8, that they are almost painful to watch. The quality was so bad that Xebec had to change the entire animation team about halfway through the series and reanimated the earlier episodes for DVD release. While this was an improvement, it is akin to stating that dog food tastes better than chalk; much of the series only matches the quality of shows ten years older. Also, while generally a rainbow of hair colors is common to distinguish characters who look similar among a large cast, how many other series make fun of that point in the actual dub.
The dub cast was not really a strong point of the show either. While there weren't any bad performances, unless you couldn't stand Greg Ayres attempt to speak in a pitch several octaves above normal to play Negi, the number of characters required several actresses to play multiple roles. This in itself is not exactly a problem, except that in many cases the drastic efforts they made to sound distinctly different did not match the character. The Japanese audio track would be preferable, except that the English script took liberties with the dialogue that made the series if not interesting, more tolerable.
The music - background, OP, ED, all of it - was like audio cotton candy: light, fluffy, and sugary. A perfect, borderline obnoxious, match for the visual pallet of the series.
I've mentioned before that the cast of the show is rather large, and that is another of its failings. It is unreasonable to assume that over 30 characters could be properly fleshed out and given interesting backgrounds, but the anime was unwilling to concede screen time from the ensemble to allow individual characters to be given their 15 minutes of fame. Ayaka's story, for instance, had potential to be touching and personal, but the animators felt compelled to include the generic madcap hijinx of the rest of class 3-A. Such an inclusion did nothing to expand the personalities of any other characters, as the only character-specific goofy antics were based around the one-dimensional stereotypes the girls were slotted into. Seeing a robot go on an accidental rampage because someone pushed the wrong button is barely amusing the first time it happens, but in Negima it serves to undermine the nature of the character because lazy writers can only think in cliches.
Much of the series lacks an ongoing narrative. This wouldn't necessarily be a problem, but that few of the episodes are truly amusing or interesting. To make matters worse, the drastic rearrangement of the chronology of events adapted from the manga to the anime eliminates significant plot arcs and, at least once, undermines character growth. For example, in the manga, the dodgeball arc was Negi's first real trial as a teacher, requiring him to demonstrate leadership and competence. In the anime, this is placed after the vampire arc, in which Negi had to muster his courage and work with some of his students to defeat a powerful opponent, thus reducing its importance to filler material.
The closing arc of the anime, an original plot line, was well enough done that it evoked genuine emotion, but unfortunately created a number of plot holes and required a deus ex machina to complete.
The one truly bright spot of the series was episode 19. Interestingly, the best episode of this harem comedy romp is an episode that features very little of the harem, and almost no comedy. Also, the episode is not adapted from a corresponding manga chapter, demonstrating that the writers were capable of creativity, and the series could have benefited greatly had they attempted to use it more often (like in parts of the last four episodes). The story revolves around Sayo, the ghost girl that nobody notices, and how the class reporter looks into the circumstances of her death. The tale is tender and tearful, and it manages this by following only two characters and resisting the urge to cheapen the plot with the silly games of the rest.
Negima has its shining moments, but they are few and far between. If you're looking for an accurate adaptation of the manga, you'll be sorely disappointed. If you're looking for a harem comedy, there are better out there.
Lirima
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!
DarkRoseOtaku
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.
DarthDaimyo
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 fanservice 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 learn it was uncut.
The Japanese dub was very well done. All the girls sounded very natural and like what i imagine a class of Japanese jr high students would sound like. The English dub however, I cannot say the same. No usually I hold Greg Ayres in good standing i believe he did poorly with Negi. He spoke so quietly taht at points i couldn't understand him and the accent sounded ridiculously fake. I couldn't get enough of the opening song though, however I have a bias toward that type of music.
So you may ask yourself why i gave the series an '8' if I had so many quarrels with it. Well, the truth is it was still the story and characters that I love. Also, the ending was done very well, even if the rest of the story wasn't, and proobablly made the overall difference of a '7' and an '8'. The last five or six episodes are a very intense watch.
Overall though it's not hard to see why SHAFT was able to remake the series. I recently saw the trailer for the second version and actually watched two of the OVA's that go along with it. It looks like an improvement so I'm very anxious to see how it turns out. And if nothing else has changed, ladies and gentlemen WE HAVE FAN SERVICE. I give you...Asuna's panties!
kawaii123456
"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 familymakes 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 trying to carry her family on her back and suffers for it. The music really may be the best part of Negima. It's a bit schmaltzy which isn't surprising seeing as it's used to try and carry scenes that the writing and art just can't pull off.
Little sister Art, how she dreams of seeing her work in the Louvre, but even mom has trouble hanging her work on the refrigerator. She may do better one day but today isn't that day.
Time for the match made in hell that birthed this family. Lazy Writing that took on a project far too large and characters were just not there. The source material for this anime is large far larger than can be fit into a single season of an anime, and therein lies the problem. If the story is to be told well, parts have to be left out, unfortunately instead of biting the bullet and doing the job Lazy Writer dad just makes a hash of everything. This is doubly so for the characters, who have plenty of change but no development.
***************Spoilers Ahead******************
How lazy is your writing ? Let me count the ways.
Lazy as retroactively mindwiping characters.
Lazy as bringing in time travel at the last moment to solve everything
Lazy as filler episodes that contribute nothing while the plot and characters languish.
Lazy as characters that act for no reason at all
Lazy as completely unresolved plot lines.
Lazy as characters who can't recognize their friends when they put on a hat.
Lazy as just being told what's happening instead of having the characters figure it out for themselves.
Lazy as I want to kill you becoming, I want to serve you for the rest of my life for no reason.
Lazy as turning death into something vanquished at whim.
Lazy as endlessly interrupting people whenever they try to say something important.
And as lazy you are, you fail in being funny.
artist-retired
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 intoan 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 spend time trying to introduce each girl by doing seemingly non cannon wacky episodes with Negi and several other characters (And his perverted mascot pet, Chamo) pretending to be the main characters with no actual plot going on (Yeah it's episodic as hell).
In fact, all it really just felt like they did was simply pick random chapters from the manga, stuff them with filler, and called it a day, but it's not necessarily a bad thing, the episode's can be little enjoyable as light harem entertainment, and the whole filler-ed up episodes is pretty normal since the majority of long running manga series tend to get the filler treatment all the time (Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, etc).
However, I would go as far as to say these episodes are very pointless, besides the few episode arcs, these episodes have almost nothing to actually do with any sort of story build up, but even with those arcs, the adaption still manages to screw it all up.
Especially for one arc in particular towards the end, which was done in about roughly 2 to 3 episodes, literally butchering the story at that point with this anime skipping events, rushing through important story elements, and even cuts one of the characters out completly, which stops any source for certain future events from the source material (Although the anime is only 26 episodes).
So what does an anime company normally do when they seriously tamper with important elements to the original story? They pull the old anime only ending routine.
The plot of the final episodes is about (the main female character) Asuna Kagurasaki, being killed off out of no where and Negi has to try to bring her back to life by stopping an event in Asuna's past that would cause her random death in the future by traveling back in time. with his whole class coming along for the ride (For a surprising lack of any kind of fun or zanyness from the early episodes had).
The end result has Negi's entire class of girls gaining magical powers to fight an army of demons led by, what the plot strongly suggests, the devil himself, with the fights ending up being very silly and comical.
Pretty much ends it out of no where with the mood going from happy and wacky school days to gloomy plot shredding, mood killing, and even a little depressing.
ANIMATION: Very poor, the animators even had to redraw some of the frames (One of the characters head disappears for a couple of frames and apparently also had six fingers). And I can't imagine this anime looking worse than it does.
Though it kinda recaptures the look of the early manga art style with the character designs, it's shoddy and pathetic overall.
SOUND: I watched the dubbed version by Funimation and I have to say; this is honestly one the better dubs I've heard from them.
Luci Christian is well suited for her role as Asuna, and I enjoyed Chris Carson as the perverted mascot, Chamo. However, Greg Ayres who played the lead, Negi, sound like he had cancer or something. While the rest of the cast range from great to good enough.
Happy Material, the opening theme song which gets a remix mutiple times throughout the anime, is an okay song but not really something thats in my taste and I would rather skip (Especially because pf how repetitive it is).
OVERALL:
The Good:
+ Light and fun
+ Good english dub
The Bad:
- Wastes a lot of time with filler
- Several story arcs are poorly done with little source material covered
- Crap-tastic animation
- Repetitive theme music
- The overall mood of the anime derails at the end
FINAL WORD: I for one was very disappointed with the end result, but at the very least I enjoyed some of events from the manga that were (poorly) animated, so in the end it's not an absolute let down (Though, I feel like I'm being lenient), but it should have been done much better in my opinion.
Keirik
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.
Now, if there's any aspect in which Negima! absolutely fails, it's animation, which doesn't bode well, to say the least. Off model shots are common, and the character designs look ugly, blocky, and very much unlike Akamatsu's designs. The last few episodes look better, though, with better looking characters and more fluid, less jerky animation. Not to mention the fact that the animation lacks any sort of detail, which the manga and Negima!? were overflowing with.
Also, the opening animation, with all its fantastic music, is one of the most hideous displays of gratuitous, er, "fanservice" I have ever seen.
Now, if there's any aspect in which Negima! actually succeeds in, it's sound. I've never seen the dub, so I can't judge that, but the voice acting is absolutely top-notch. The background music, while not quite at the level of Negima!?, is at least memorable.
However, the real success is Happy Material, the opening song. Really, the opening is the only reason I'm not pretending this anime doesn't exist. It's iPod worthy.
Character development is more akin to character derailment, as the rather huge cast is nothing but mere shadows of their former selves. Really boring, really obnoxious shadows. I mean, Negima!? successfully quirked them up to the maximum without making them annoying, or derailing them.
If you're looking to get into Negima, skip this. Just skip this. Read the manga, watch Negima!?, and check out the OVAs. Hell, even Negima Neo is at least worth a read.
When your series is worse than Negima Neo, there's a problem.
A big problem.
erwinmm89
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. Theshow 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 episodes). Art is nothing out of this world, missing out on lots of detailing. The intro song is kinda fun, it's very lively; it suits the series pretty well. The characters are all very different and fun, each one of them being a different stereotype, basically.
You can spend your time watching this series, you'll have fun with it. ^^
wenchnewwave
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 mainfocus, 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 of a library. Very entertaining.
Art 7/10
The art for Negima looks good for 2006, but now.... Not so much. This looks aged, and the style is very simplistic. Still I have to give it props for looking good for 2006... When it isn't being compared to Haruhi or Black Lagoon.
Sound 8/10
The soundtrack is good, but not amazing. It has tracks that provide good atmosphere, but nothing more. What I do have to give props for, however, is the dub. The dub was done by Funimation, and quite frankly, it sounds amazing. Memorable performances include Luci Christian, Laura Bailey, and Caitlin Glass. Trust me, dub is the way to go for this one.
Character 8/10
This is Negima's problem with having such a large female cast: not everyone gets an episode or even 5 minutes. But when they do, it's good. Stand-out characters include Asuna, our tsundere-baka, Evangeline, our Loli, Yue, our sarcastic bookworm, Chisame, our tsundere computer chick, and Kazumi, our hyper photographer. The rest are just okay.
Enjoyment 9/10
Negima is one of those series that you know isn't good, but is entertaining to watch. It has some solid humor, a cool plot, and some interesting characters. It's more popcorn material than anything, yet remains entertaining. I recommend watching it with friends.
Overall 8/10
It has it's flaws, but is still solid enough to watch. Stream at your leisure!
SHivayogimaTH
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, theshow 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, dragging the main characters along side with the minor characters so that the viewers won't forget about them. This happens a lot with Asuna. I the show can certainly sometimes get boring (especially the 4-mid-episodes of the show), but it was not too mundane to put me off. Sometimes I found my self wondering, "why the fuck are they dicking around instead of doing some shit relating to magic." But towards the last half of the series, I felt that this is a wonderful story about how a group of students had gone through trails and tribulation and became friends. In the end, I could say that I enjoyed the show. This show is for those of you who like a moderately paced slice of life show, with some element of fantasy sprinkled into it.
HiGHFLYiN9
Very easy, lighthearted watching. Rather than following the typical "take a guy and throw him in a house full of girls" ala Shuffle or Sister Princess, Negima takes a guy and throws him in a school filled with girls. Negi, the main character, is a 10 year old genius who has graduated college at the age of 10 and is teaching at an all girls middle school. He also happens to be a young British wizard, which helps pull in the Harry-Potter-watching demographic I suppose. Many of the episodes unfold like a typical date-sim turned into an anime series, where there will be a concentration onone of the girls in the class. The whole series remains pretty fluffy and lighthearted until episode 21 or so, and then becomes a bit serious so there can be some form of conflict and climax to end the series. I could pretty easily watch 100s of Negima episodes, as it's a good way to wind down at the end of the day, but those of you looking for more serious fare or something less cookie-cutter should look elsewhere. Animation is very typical, nothing poor nor exceptional.
Moeruattack
= 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 Shounenanime, 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 no need to follow manga completely. But when anime stays into that plot, while manga already go further, well anime stays dead on that scenes, unless reboot occurs.
And while to look at the arts, arts are really pale and blant. Probably because its 2005, but I seen there`s more 2005 anime that has good animation back then.
But hey, I don`t really cons this anime, there`s still good points through. Such as numerous characters with different personality but memoriable characters. Voice acting was pretty solid, even through music isn`t great in whole anime. OP was good.
Then again. Like I said.
I prefer manga than anime. I read the whole chapter. This anime devoid most of its charming. It makes coffee taste like drainage.
mwalimu
I wasn't sure what to expect coming into this anime, described as being about a 10-year-od teaching a class of middle school girls, tagged as harem and ecchi. On the whole, I found it to be easy to watch and enjoy without it getting too heavy with the drama. The story was well done and at times delightful. I especially loved the characters and how they developed over the course of the show. Negi is portrayed well in terms of the balance between having to be the teacher and authority figure in the classroom, and being a boy younger than the class he teaches. Asuna isflawed yet likeable as the lead female character, and Chomo is amusing as the comic relief ermine. Something that especially impressed me is that all 31 of the girls in Negi's class had faces and names, and most of them had a significant supporting role in at least one or two episodes of the series. By contrast, most series in a setting like this would focus on no more than about 8 or so characters while the rest become nameless background characters, whereas this one does a surprisingly good job of making the whole class look real without distracting too much from the primary characters.
The music is kind of odd-sounding at times, yet oddly fitting. The art generally very good, though not particularly exemplary or stylistically notable.
Let me also address that ecchi tag. There are a few instances of characters in their undergarments, or even portraying them nude in such places as public baths, but they generally have a sort of youthful innocence about them. There is little if any of the sexual innuendo or eroticism commonly seen in ecchi portraying characters a few years older. What relationships develop between characters are reasonably in keeping with the ages of the characters - middle school crushes and such.
The final story arc has some heavier drama in it than the rest of the series up to that point, and I felt uncertain going into the last couple of episodes. Let it suffice to say that the final episode has a couple of surprises that some might say are over the top but I thought they worked well and were a pleasant turn of events to see. It ended well and left me liking it more than I expected to, or thought I would even a few episodes in.
Magister_Jakene
(I don't know why i'm just now writing a review for one of my favorite manga's anime adaptation) Mahou Sensei Negima!? (Also known as Negima!? Magister Negi Magi in the US [Or was that Japan? I dunno, doesn't matter which name you use]) as I have already stated, is one of the best mangas I have read to date and probably my favorite manga. I have different opinions about the anime though, despite Ken Akamatsu's genius manga. Negima!? (what I will call it for now on during this review) is one of the worst adaptations of a manga I have ever seen. The art isATROCIOUS! I only gave it a four because it is an......aged...... show so the graphics won't be as good as the modern day graphics in anime. My problem is not only with the art. The story in the beginning is loose, not making sense to me, but in the end it kinda gets better (I guess) and pieces start coming together. I'm trying to break this into as many paragraphs as possible so I will come back to the flaws later. On to the good stuff.
Despite those other flaws I was talking about, the rest of the show is kinda good. I can particularly note how much I binge watched this show. After watching the second adaptation (I like calling the first Mahou Sensei and the second Magister Negi Magi), Negima!? Magister Negi Magi, which was made by a different studio, resulting in different graphics, you realize how bad Mahou Sensei was and how much better Magister Negi Magi was. I binged both.
The characters in this show are developed well, but the less relevant characters (Misora, Madoka, Satsuki) get less story time than the more relevant like Asuna, Chachamaru, and Chamo (who me and my friend got in a heated argument about how to pronounce his name. Is it Camo [as in military camo] or Chamo [as in Chamo but pronounced how it looks: Cha-Ammo, now put it together. Chamo. Note: I say Camo]). My personal favorite is Asuna (Not pronounced the same as SAO Asuna), mainly because she is my waifu. There aren't really any main characters (Other than Asuna and Negi) because most of the critical characters get the most story time (Example: Evangeline, although she has a part in almost every episode) but aren't classified as main characters during the anime.
I can't really rate sound. It is okay I guess. The voice actors can play the part. The thing I just HAVE to mention before the end of this review. The story tries to make something the manga is not. This is partly why it got another adaptation. The story gets derailed after the first few episodes and it kinda becomes crap after a while. I understand why it got a second adaptation after seeing this anime. The art, the story, ugh. It was enjoyable despite all these flaws. At least it was entertaining.
LaLeLuLiLo
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 allowfor 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 different schools, and is pretty much why there was a lot of girls running in the beginning since that is there section of the town. Why is this such a thing? I really don't know, and they really don't delve into it. Anyway Negi is assigned to a all girl middle school for his mage training although i don't see how any of this connects together other than that the principle, and some of the staff are mages or at least connected to the magical world. It's never delved into as well. It's mostly just a setup for the school harem that will take place with a teacher , but it's ok now since the the teacher is a kid. Well it's easy to say that all the girls take a liking to him due to how cute he is, and it could have been left just as girls liking a cute kid. However the show goes beyond that and has some of the girls having romantic feelings for him, and even setting out to get a kiss from him.
Nothing really interesting happens in the show with most episodes focusing on a character. While there are “story arcs” in the show it still for the most part focusing on a character or two. There is action and tension in the show, but it falls flat most of the time because it tries to set out to be something else but it still maintains the same tone. There’s also no buildup to anything which allow things to happen without any proper reasoning. It does later in the story shift tone pretty well, but when it gets there, it gets absurdly over dramatic until finally going back to status quo. For much of a story it was at least easily digestible, but mostly for the part that there wasn’t a lot of meat in it
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31! That’s how many students are in the class and given that this is only 26 episodes long be unamazed that many of them are glossed over. Not only them but all the other characters as well from the staffs of the school, and even the antagonists. All these girls are defined mostly by a quirk or hobby that they have, and that’s about it. However some of the girls do get an episode of their own, and they sure do leave an impression on the viewers, but once it’s done they usually go back into the background. There are really three characters that have more relevance in the show than anyone else. First is negi the young welsh mage who is sent to teach at school for no apparent reason other than just because. Negi was never supposed to reveal that he was a mage or else he would be kicked out of the school, but that’s kicked to the wayside when more than ⅖ figures him out but no consequences ever happen to him. Next is Asuna who is more of the main girl since the show really does focus on her a lot more than anyone else. She basically a tsundere who has a crush on one of the teachers, and was one of the first to figure out negi was a mage because of her special ability that’s never really explained. Finally is Nodoka who is a shy girl who gets more screen time than for her own good with her defining characteristic is liking negi and her character development being have the courage to confess.
The art looks pretty basic. The character designs are basic and sometimes some characters look like each other, the background designs are basic, and the color palette doesn’t look any special. The animation is also just as basic but it really shows how substandard it is when anything worth of action occurs, and it just feels so underwhelming. Everything is still easy to put up with, but nothing really stands out. The soundtrack to the anime is decent for the most part although there are probably only two tracks that really stand out, and even they are forgettable. Everything else is standard fare when it comes to a comedic school story. The voice acting is ok as well, it’s rather diverse with each character sounding unique but not much else.
This show was dumb which was pretty much what i expected from it. I had a decent time, and there was nothing really wrong with how the show played out even though it was quite dumb. However it was the last few episodes that made the show less enjoyable to watch.
Overall it is a really forgettable show, and nothing really stand out that makes this anime any special.
