History Characters / NegimaAlaAlbaFighters

! Ala Alba

Meaning "the White Wing" in Latin, this school club is Negi's TrueCompanions and BadassCrew, dedicated to finding his DisappearedDad, having fun while doing so and [[MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours training a lot]]. This page is dedicated to the combat members of Ala Alba and those who have joined the group in all but name. Better go and make yourself a sandwich or something, because [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters this is gonna take a while.]]
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Negi is our [[KidHero ten year old]] protagonist, a [[TeenGenius precocious]] [[{{Scotireland}} Welsh]] mage assigned to be the [[WackyHomeroom homeroom teacher]] of an all-female Japanese middle school class as his on-the-job magic training. Just in case your WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief isn't sobbing and cutting itself in a dark corner of your mind yet, he also develops into a pretty {{Badass}} {{Shonen}} protagonist, as well as the object of [[UnwantedHarem several of his students' crushes]].

Negi's principal goal is to find his father Nagi, a legendary mage and hero of a recent magical war, [[DisappearedDad presumed to be dead for a decade or so]]. With good reason, the boy thinks otherwise and devotes a lot of his energy, with the help of his friends, toward unveiling the secrets of his disappearance. Sadly, but predictably, the Ala Alba is often sidetracked by one or more of the {{Muggle}} students being endangered by the various hazards of the magic underworld.

As a fighter, Negi specializes in wind, light and lightning spells, later supplementing his magic with martial arts when the weaknesses of a pure wizard become apparent.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RinaSato (Japanese), Creator/GregAyres (English)
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* AbnormalAmmo: During the fight with Evangeline Negi uses [[DepletedPhlebotinumShells Magic rounds]].
* AccidentalPervert: Tends to stumble in on girls naked or magically make them naked on accident.
* AchillesHeel: [[spoiler:His lightning techniques that turn him intangible are vulnerable to exorcism techniques like the Shinmeiryu arts. Can't block those with deflector shields either. However, further mastery of this ability makes damage taken in this manner less serious.]]
* AdorablyPrecociousChild: He struggles hard to being formal and mature, which makes his students find him adorable.
* {{Adorkable}}: He can be so adorably awkward.
* AesopAmnesia: Despite more than once getting his butt kicked after going into a fight alone, just to be saved by reinforcements, Negi just can't seem to get the idea of teamwork. This becomes a plot point later.
* AllLovingHero: Negi has to be the single sweetest, kindest and most ''forgiving'' ShonenGenre hero since [[DragonBall Son Goku]]. Until someone touches his {{Berserk Button}}s.
* AllYourPowersCombined: [[spoiler:Mile Vincula, his Pactio artifact from Theodora, is a notebook that lets him summon and use the artifacts of his Ministra Magi, such as Asuna's [[AntiMagic Ensis Exorcizans]]. The bigger his harem, the more powerful it becomes, which means [[StoryBreakerPower he doesn't get to keep it past its debut fight.]]]]
* AlwaysNeedWhatYouGaveUp: During an early arc, he sacrifices his magic to keep himself from the temptation to cheat. He promptly enters a situation where just his basic physical reinforcement would have been quite helpful.
* AnimeAccentAbsence: Despite being from Wales and teaching English, he still has no accent.
* ApologizesALot: Whenever he says "sorry", [[DrinkingGame take a swig]].
* AttractiveBentGender: Forced to wear a miniskirt-style fox-girl kimono during the Mahora Festival. And again, due to Chamo's suggestion, wears a SailorFuku when asking for a favor from Ayaka. [[{{Shotacon}} Ayaka]] nearly died from a massive {{nosebleed}} in both occasions.
* {{Badass}}: Whether he be taking on ageless vampire witches, or participating in the {{Dragonball}}-like fight scenes later on, undoubtedly so.
** BadassAdorable: He looks completely non threatening, but even as early as the Mahorafest tournament he could throw around adult men about ten times his size.
** BadassBookworm: After his fight with Jack, both he and Evangeline observe that Negi's primary strength isn't raw power, but his skill at developing new forms of magical theory and application. At one point, Jack states that his degree of genius is such that the magic he has developed at age ten is superior to that of those who've been studying the same thing for decades, even centuries.
** BadassTeacher: During much of the manga one of the quickest ways to get into conflict with Negi is to attack his students rather than him directly.
** BroughtDownToBadass: After having his magic sealed temporarily by Yuuna in a class event based around the idea of getting Negi to make relationship progress, he's challenged to a duel by Ku Fei [[spoiler:after she confesses]]. With no chance to explain, he instead is forced to rely on sheer physical prowess and manages to throw her. It wouldn't have been enough to win, but it shows amazing reflexes even without supernatural power.
** TookALevelInBadass: The most obvious levels taken in badass were post Kyoto arc when he got some good teachers and later when picking up Magia Erebea.
* BadPowersGoodPeople: Negi is definitely a NiceGuy, but Magia Erebea isn't exactly powered by rainbows and sunshine.
* BalloonBelly: In chapter 56, Makie prepared food for him knowing he was training for Evangeline's Apprenticeship Test and overdid it. Then she brought out the "secret" diet technique of the gymnastics club, which went too far the other way.
* BattleAura: The first sign that Negi is actually angry. Being a wind mage, it also appears when he uses his more powerful spells. And then there's [[spoiler:Magia Erebea Demon Form]].
* BerserkButton
** Messing with his students lets him [[NormallyIWouldBeDeadNow pull a rock spear out of his chest and try to beat someone to death with it]].
** Later, Jack discovers that a good way to get Negi to give it his all is to act condescending towards the effort he puts in.
** [[spoiler:And whatever you do, don't call Chachamaru a doll. Just don't.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's normally very gentle, but he's both the most flexible and most powerful character in the group despite his young age.
* {{Bishonen}}: His teenage form, "Nagi", is ridiculously pretty and makes girls very uncomfortable.
* BishonenLine: Upon using Magia Erebea he looked less and less human for many reasons, most notably [[spoiler:its encroachment]]. Eventually he began [[spoiler:mutating into a rampaging demon. However, while powerful, this form is not clever enough to fully utilize its strength. After mastering Magia Erebea by integrating it into his soul, he becomes nonhuman but retains the power and rationality of one.]]
* BondingOverMissingParents: Negi and Asuna smooth out some initial conflict by bonding over their mutual parentlessness.
* BoringYetPractical: Before he gains [[DeadlyUpgrade Magia Erebea]], Negi's magic style revolves primarily around Sagitta Magica, a very weak and basic attack magic. However, after months of experimenting and developing ways to use it, by the time of [[spoiler:his final battle with Fate]], Negi has built it up to the point where it's the equivalent of a full-scale war spell.
* BornWinner: He's the son of the WorldsStrongestMan [[spoiler:and the heir of an ancient magical bloodline]], taught from a young age by an immortal dark sorceress and later another legendary hero. He's also intelligent, can plan quickly, has excellent looks and a diligent nature to keep his talents from going to waste.
* BrokenHero: Negi is an extremely kind and helpful little boy, but besides ParentalAbandonment he has a traumatic DarkAndTroubledPast where demons invaded his village and [[TakenForGranite turned everyone to stone]]. Everyone was horrified to see his memories of said event, which worked exactly opposite to how it was supposed to.
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: [[DoomedHometown His village is attacked]] because [[spoiler:[[SinsOfOurFathers his mother's enemies find where he is and tried to kill him]]]].
* CantHoldHisLiquor: One sit of alcohol reduces him to a weepy drunk.
* ChasteHero: Oblivious to girls' feelings because he hasn't even hit puberty and doesn't think of girls like that yet.
* CheerfulChild: Subverted. He's quite sunny and pleasant in early appearances, but it's just a surface attitude that covers up an obsessive attitude and a lot of negative emotions.
* ChildProdigy: Graduated from university-level education at age nine while primarily attending a magic school.
* ClearMyName: At the beginning of the Magic World arc he was framed [[spoiler:for destroying the gate ports to the real world.]] This isn't addressed much for more than fifty chapters.
* CluelessChickMagnet: He's ridiculously popular with girls and never really seems to pick up on that. It's suggested once or twice, mostly by Chisame, that they really ought to kill him while he's young before he grows up and breaks everyone's hearts.
* TheCollectorOfTheStrange: Though it isn't brought up too much, he has a bunch of weird stuff, both magical and mundane. This is where he got the magic gun he used a couple of times early on, for example.
* CrazyPrepared: His fight against Rakan has him pulling out five different trump cards, many of which were merely to guide the flow of battle or stall.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: When Negi was four years old, a horde of demons appeared and attacked his village. Just as a demon was about to attack Negi, his father Nagi appeared just in time to save Negi from receiving a fatal punch from the demon. With a few strikes and a powerful spell, he destroyed all of the demons but the village was already in ruins and most of the villagers had been already [[TakenForGranite petrified]].
* DeathGlare: After gaining Magia Erebea he started to get some nasty, overpowering glares, likely complemented by his terrifying power.
* DeclarationOfProtection: He declares that [[spoiler:even though she's not Asuna]] Shiori is important to him and that he'll protect her.
* {{Determinator}}: When Negi puts a goal in his mind, there is basically nothing that can stop him.
* DistressedDude: When the group was [[spoiler:sent to the future]] by Chao's trap, Negi was briefly captured and locked away without any of his tools, thus rendering him unable to actually use his magic. Interestingly, he apparently somehow managed to use magic despite having no staff or ring, which allowed him to escape and meet up with the group that had just arrived to rescue him.
* DontYouDarePityMe: Negi goes berserk when Rakan sneers at the training he went through for his tournament fight.
* DopplegangerAttack: [[spoiler:His strategy to beat Kurt involves swarming him with waves of lightning clones so the latter has no idea which to attack, relying on his reserves of magical energy to overwhelm Kurt. Thus, while they do have some ability to do damage, it mostly functions as a DopplegangerSpin.]]
* DrowningMySorrows: The kid CantHoldHisLiquor; he accidentally takes one sip of sake and crashes.
* ElementalShapeshifter: With Magea Erebea, he can absorb spells to grant himself properties of the element in question. Incendium Gehennae, for example, grants him intense offensive power while Tempestus Fulguriens makes him incredibly quick. [[spoiler:The Thousand Bolts makes him as fast as lightning while applying it twice basically makes him lightning for real, granting intangibility and thinking fast enough to keep up with his speed.]]
* FamilyThemeNaming: Negi, son of Nagi.
* FirstKiss: With Asuna in Chapter 25. Asuna pretends that since it was a pactio it doesn't count, but she's obviously not even fooling herself.
* FragileSpeedster: The lightning based Magia Erebea techniques drastically increase Negi's speed, but lowers his defense. [[spoiler:Later compensated for by turning intangible.]]
* GenerationXerox: Played with. Negi is reserved, intelligent, and studious, the complete opposite of his [[IdiotHero his father]]. But as the manga progresses his fighting style and relationships with his friends are becoming more and more like that between Nagi and his Ala Rubra. Personality wise [[spoiler:he resembles his mother Arika quite strongly, although he's much more upbeat.]]
* TheGift: Negi is often called 'Prodigy' or 'a Genius' thanks to his ludicrous growth, amazing smarts and innate ability to master many fighting styles. Neither brash nor overconfident, he's instead insecure, self-sacrificing, somewhat power-hungry with a noted inferiority complex.
* GlassCannon: Early in the series he had good offense, but was slow and easily interrupted.
* TheGlassesComeOff: Later on in the story, Negi's glasses break/were never on in the first place/simply vanish whenever he becomes particularly violent.
* GuileHero: Negi's no slouch physically, but what really makes him dangerous as a fighter is his planning ability. Other characters say that he'd probably be a [[TheSmartGuy supporting character]] in a different series.
* HandBehindHead[=/=]ShyFingerTwiddling: Often seen doing one (or both) of these whenever he's nervous. Particularly when he has to say something he doesn't want to, like "confessing".
* HatesBaths: He doesn't like taking baths. He gets it from his father.
* HealingFactor: Magia Erebea starts granting him one the more he synchronizes with it. [[spoiler:When he eventually combines with it entirely, he's capable of healing off disembowelment and holes being blown through his torso in mere seconds.]]
* HereditaryHairstyle: He inherited his father's spiky red hair.
* HeroesFightBarehanded: Negi slowly phases out his weapons after he gets a ring to serve the same purpose as his staff.
* HeroicResolve: Capable of taking a massive spear to the chest and continuing on via willpower alone, though only briefly. Played straight during the tournament final.
* HeroicRROD: After pushing himself too hard with Magia Erebea, [[spoiler:the encroachment finally becomes too much and eventually causes him to collapse and give him magical poisoning.]] After this is temporarily dealt with, [[spoiler:his body petrifies itself to begin a metamorphosis process]] right in the middle of battle.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: He is insecure and has a noted inferiority complex.
* HonorBeforeReason: He really would win his battles a ''lot'' quicker if he didn't pull his punches against even the most black-hearted villains so much.
* HotBlooded: He starts out averting it, but eventually grows to enjoy fighting.
* HowMuchMoreCanHeTake: Beaten so hard during [[spoiler:his graduation match with Rakan]] that he begins ''puking'' blood.
* IAmYourOpponent: During the gateport incident, he attempts this one, but he's taken too much damage by that point.
* IdiotHair: Negi has one, but it's only when to comes to matters of the female heart and how to be a child. Otherwise he's a genius.
* IdiotHero: Averted, he's intelligent and thoughtful. Aversion lampshaded, it becomes obvious that he thinks ''too'' much about things. Invoked, he tries to find out a way to act with more thoughtless confidence. Averted again. [[spoiler:Which turns out to be a good thing: Idiot heroes have their strengths, but solutions more complicated than 'Punch bad guy in the face' tend to be beyond them.]]
* {{Immortality}}: One of the consequences of Magia Erebea is speculated to be that he'll become a mindless, immortal demon, though he tries to work out countermeasures. [[spoiler:The mindless demon phase is temporary, so he gets through this stage by accelerating it as quickly as possible. After completing the transformation, he has a powerful healing factor and at best only a few more years of aging before maturation ceases.]]
* ImprobableAge: He's ten years old and capable of teaching English while also being a magical prodigy that ends the series as one of the most powerful beings in existence.
* InASingleBound: Using wind magic with FlashStep, Negi can jump across the street and on top of buildings.
* IneptMage: Early on, before the series started taking a more serious turn.
* InnocentProdigy: He is very intelligent, but naive likewise.
* InstantExpert: Due to possessing TheGift, Negi learns things like martial arts and magic techniques far too fast, something that's sometimes commented on.
* ItsAllMyFault: He blamed himself for the destruction of his hometown when he was younger because he wanted to see his father. When his father did show up, it was during a massive demonic attack. [[spoiler:It is his fault indirectly after all, though, because it was an assassination attempt on him.]]
* {{Keigo}}: Negi converses with this to mostly anyone he doesn't consider as really close friends or family. When this is pointed out, the girls with crushes on him become worried that there is an emotional wall between them and Negi.
* KidHero: He's a ten year old hero, though he's less immature than the trope usually calls for.
* KungFuKid: With the tutelage of Ku Fei he becames an accomplished martial artist almost overnight. As shown late in the story, even without using any magic at all he's able to land an effective counter on super powered opponents.
* KungFuWizard: When it became clear his SquishyWizard ways weren't good enough, he picked up martial arts from Ku Fei and started blending magic and martial arts together.
* LightningBruiser: At the end of the story, he's the fastest known character with good but not amazing attacks and the best or second best defenses.
* LimitedWardrobe: Negi wears the same green suit for much of the story, but during the Magic World and school festival he shows a lot more outfits.
* LivingWithTheVillain: He's had to fight at least three of his own students. Has occasionally gone GoKartingWithBowser.
* LoveYouAndEverybody: Akira gives him a LoveConfession on behalf of Ako and Makie and he responds that he likes them too, causing her to go back and have to explain it again. He also pulls this off earlier on with Asuna twice.
* MarkedChange: Magia Erebea causes black runelike tattoos to appear beneath his skin when used.
* MartyrWithoutACause: He always throws himself into the most dangerous situations and rarely factors in personal harm when coming to decisions, which makes people uneasy more than impressing them.
* MeaningfulName: "Negi" means "spring onion" in Japanese, which is a reference to how the leek is the national symbol of Wales. Negi-''Bozu'' is slang for newbie.
* MightyGlacier: His ''Incendium Gehennae'' mode, as opposed to the LightningBruiser ''Jovis Tempestus Fulguriens'', grants amazing offense and improved defense, but leaves him quite slow. He never really makes use of this form.
* MinoredInAssKicking: He prefers TheSmartGuy approach and diplomacy, but in a fight his performance is exceptional.
* MulticoloredHair: He has red hair on the top and black hair in the back.
* NiceGuy: He is very kind and friendly, though rather serious.
* NighInvulnerable: [[spoiler:In his lightning form, he's the MadeOfAir variant: Almost all attacks just pass right through him.]]
* NormallyIWouldBeDeadNow: Rock spear to the chest. It ''would'' have been fatal were [[TheMedic Konoka]] not around.
* ObliviousToLove: The only way he ever learns if a girl has feelings for him is if she straight-out tells him.
* OlderAlterEgo: "Nagi", his teenaged form that he takes after taking a series of age-disguising pills. [[SexierAlterEgo Everyone finds him ridiculously hot]] though a few girls decide he's simply out of their league and go for Kotaro instead, who is ''only'' very attractive.
* OperaGloves: Negi's outfit designed to hide [[spoiler: his Magia Erebea tattoos]] includes these.
* OutOfClothesExperience: Negi gets to meet [[spoiler:his berserk form]] in person this way. He is guided by Evangeline's avatar, who is also naked. Not that she ever cares.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: ''The Thousand Bolts'', a spell he learns when first on the borderline of the monster tier with Rakan or Eva, is an anti army ability and the ultimate lightning spell. [[spoiler:In theory, since Negi comes up with a few lightning spear techniques.]]
* PostKissCatatonia: After his [[spoiler:second]] kiss with [[spoiler:Nodoka]]. Also, [[spoiler:Ayaka]]'s pactio leaves him twitching on the floor.
* PowerCopying: [[spoiler:Mile Vincula, his artifact with Theodora, gives him the power to copy the artifact of anyone he has a Pactio with, and his arsenal would improve with each new Pactio. It's canceled after the fight with Rakan for apparently political reasons. The obvious reason, though, is simply because [[StoryBreakerPower Asuna's sword alone is far too powerful, let alone all the others.]]]]
* PowerDyesYourHair: His hair turns white when using [[spoiler:Raiten Taisou]].
* PowerMakesYourHairGrow: When using [[spoiler:Raiten Taisou]], his hair becomes as long as he is tall.
* PunchPunchPunchUhOh: When Negi fights Rakan, he brings out his new ultimate move, [[spoiler:turns into lightning and pinballs Rakan around for an entire chapter]], at which point Rakan falls down. The next chapter starts with Rakan getting up, unharmed, and beating the crap out of Negi.
* PurelyAestheticGlasses: Negi values his minuscule pince-nez glasses as they are a [[ItWasAGift present]] from Nekane, but they do not seem to serve any purpose regarding his eyesight or anything else beyond [[NerdGlasses marking him as bookish]].
* RagsToRoyalty: Ostensibly a normal kid from a backwater village in Wales who just happens to have a famous father. [[spoiler:His mother, however, is from an ancient royal bloodline and [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse possibly]] deceased. However, his mother is the enemy of an organization that controlled the senate and was vilified for it, so his parentage was hidden and he was hidden away.]]
* RedBaron: Eva remarked that he is called 'Boy Genius Mage' and later he's referred to as 'Thunder God Negi.'
* RedHeadedHero: His hair is red and he's a hero.
* RelativelyFlimsyExcuse: When Negi uses some magic pills to age himself into a teenager, he identifies himself as his own cousin.
* ReplacementGoldfish: It's implied that Ayaka sees the little brother she never had in Negi.
* RightManInTheWrongPlace: Negi starts off as just a fresh magic school graduate assigned to teach English at another magic school (sort of) halfway across the world. However, just because he doesn't know he was sent doesn't mean he wasn't: Merdiana's choice of assignment and the dorm he ends up in are just a little too convenient to be coincidence.
* RubberFace: Asuna stretches his mouth when she thinks he's been withholding information.
* ScarsAreForever: During the Mahorafest tournament he gets a scar on his cheek from Setsuna and another during the finals. He ''could'' get them fixed, but he has an emotional attachment to both. [[spoiler:They both disappear after his Magea Erebea transformation completes.]]
* ShipperOnDeck: At the very least, he likes teasing Setsuna about Konoka.
-->'''Setsuna:''' In any case, I already have Konoka ojou-sama as...
-->'''Negi:''' Ah... [[SayItWithHearts So it really is that...]]
-->''(Beat)''
-->'''Setsuna:''' N-NO! That's not, um... That's not what I meant!
-->'''Negi:''' Ahahahahaha! Setsuna-san, so it really is Konoka-san!
* ShirtlessScene: More than once. Most prominently when he's put in the hospital.
* TheShortGuyWithGlasses: The youngest and shortest of the main cast, but also one of the smartest.
* ShowerOfAwkward: With Setsuna in Kyoto. He also caused an awkward shower situation when he attempted to do Asuna a favor by enchanting her brushes. She wasn't appreciative. And there was also the time he spotted Chachamaru bathing in a river, but she didn't mind.
* ShutUpHannibal: Negi reveals to Godel that he is well aware of his plan and the truth behind the Magical World.
* SinsOfOurFathers
** Evangeline was not happy to see the son of the man who sealed in Mahora. Justified by the fact that she also wants Negi for his blood, as it mitigates his dad's curse.
** There's the supported theory that [[spoiler:the Megalomesembrian Senate were responsible for launching the attack on Negi's village solely to kill Negi, because he is the son of their old foe Arika Entheofushia ''and'' Nagi Springfield.]]
* SkilledButNaive: A highly talented mage who at 10 years old has the sort of power and skill that most don't get even after decades of study and training, but he's still a ten year old and he thinks like one.
* SkySurfing: Courtesy of his staff.
* SlipknotPonytail: Negi's ponytail has a habit of coming undone during significantly violent battles later in the story. Together with the [[TheGlassesComeOff removal of his glasses]], this serves to give him a much rougher look.
* SmartPeopleSpeakTheQueensEnglish: In the dub.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Smartest character in the story barring maybe Chao and he wears glasses despite likely not even needing them.
* StepfordSmiler: While he's a genuinely NiceGuy, it is revealed that [[spoiler:his berserker fury at Godel]] wasn't something that come out of nowhere.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: He looks almost identical to his father Nagi, especially when he magically ages himself up.
* SuperIntelligence: Negi's great strength later in the manga lies in his ability to rapidly learn and create new techniques and strategies. It's remarked that governments would love to sit him behind a desk to just work on magical theory all day.
* SuperMode: The base form of Magia Erebea gives him a 50% power boost before he even starts using the actual Magia Erebea abilities.
* SuperPoweredEvilSide: Magea Erebea has an effect on his emotions because it's fueled by them. [[spoiler:When the encroachment goes out of control, he turns into a berserking monster with some rather heavy mutations. Surprisingly, this is never really used in combat after he's interrupted during its first real occurrence.]]
* SurvivorGuilt: Being one of the only two survivors of his DoomedHometown, Negi has lots of it.
* SweetheartSipping: During a shopping trip with Konoka. It gets misunderstood by the DatePeepers to hilarious ends.
* SwissArmyHero: It's noted early that by changing the spells he absorbs with Magia Erebea that he can give himself different strengths such as a StoneWall, FragileSpeedster or GlassCannon. However, he almost always uses the FragileSpeedster effect.
* TaremeEyes: Likely to complements his "innocent little boy" traits.
* TranquilFury: [[spoiler:After Quartum bisects Chachamaru, Negi appears and delivers a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.]]
* UnstoppableRage: First happens against Graf, though Kotaro manages to smack some sense into him. [[spoiler:Later occurs multiple times starting during a fight with Godel.]]
* UnwantedHarem: Does the collection of powerful girls crushing on him strike you with [[BlessedWithSuck pity]], [[CursedWithAwesome envy]], or fear for the day he hits puberty?
* VocalDissonance: When the 3rd OAD came out, his adult self is still voiced by Creator/RinaSato.
* WillfullyWeak: At one point decided that he would seal his magic and fulfill his duties as a teacher without relying on magic. [[AlwaysNeedWhatYouGaveUp He chose a bad time for it.]]
* WiseBeyondHisYears: Despite being ten, he is very wise, though this has pointedly come at the cost of sacrificing a real childhood.
* WorthyOpponent: Kotaro thinks of Negi as being the first mage he's gone up against that wasn't a loser who couldn't take a punch.
* WouldHitAGirl: Despite being an "English gentleman", he doesn't hesitate to fight Takane. Asuna does not approve; Setsuna and Evangeline do.
* YouShallNotPass: Stays behind to stop horde of demons from catching Ala Alba. He's not in any real danger though.
* ZettaiRyouiki: When his students capture him, they make him crossdress as a foxgirl complete with long stockings.
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[[folder:Kagurazaka Asuna]]
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Asuna is a girl Negi speaks to on the first day, informing her that her love is going to end unrequited. After this charming start, he's asked by the principal to move into her room and after a bit of initial friction ends up as his protective big sister figure [[{{Tsundere}} among hints of other kinds of affection.]] She is fairly dim, but she's also a hard worker with a strong sense of responsibility. Though intellectually weak, she's physically superhuman even more magic enters the equation, capable of running as fast as a bicycle and having both sight and hearing well above that of a normal human.

She becomes his first Ministra Magi and possesses incredibly rare antimagic abilities that confuse others due to Asuna being an apparently ordinary middle school student. Her artifact is a large metal fan with properties suited for exorcism, though as she gains more control over her abilities it gradually gets replaced by her actual artifact, a massive sword with antimagic properties. Both are known as either the ''Ensis Exorcizans'' or the ''Hama no Tsurugi'' depending on reading.

Despite being supposedly ordinary, strange dreams and abilities hint that she is far from it, leaving her something of a mystery for most of the story to the reader.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AkemiKanda (Japanese) and Creator/LuciChristian (English)
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* AbsoluteCleavage: Her outfit [[spoiler:during her second capture.]]
* ActionGirl: She is the first to come to Negi's aid early in the series, and also the first to get a pactio.
* AmnesiacHero: From early on, it's hinted that Asuna isn't the normal schoolgirl she believes herself to be and has a mysterious past she can't remember.
* AntiMagic: She has the ability to cancel magic, which is initially assumed to be because of her contract with Negi. Though initially unpredictable, she eventually gets control of this and can extend it as a field, punching out 100% unbreakable seals and dispelling giant falling pillars with a wave of her sword. Magic Cancel is a rare ability, which causes no end of confusion to experts who wonder why a normal person like Asuna can use it. [[spoiler:However, the true nature of this ability is actually considerably more complex and even rarer, a throwback to the found of the Ostian dynasty and creator of the Magic World who used the same ability to create it. Properly speaking, it's known as the Magic of Creation and Destruction and is extremely potent.]]
* ApocalypseMaiden: [[spoiler:Fate needs Asuna's AntiMagic abilities to erase Mundus Magicus and put its inhabitants into a LotusEaterMachine to keep them from disappearing when Mundus Magicus collapses on its own.]]
* ArmorPiercingSlap: So powerful it goes straight through Evangeline's shields, though it turns out to be due to AntiMagic.
* {{Badass}}: She grows into an excellent melee fighter with some really rare techniques
* BadassInDistress: [[spoiler:After meeting Fate's team, she gets surrounded and captured by one of Fate's partners, who assumes Asuna's form and joins the group pretending to be her. Asuna was held captive by Fate, with Fate successfully undoing her LaserGuidedAmnesia, to cause her to remember her past and go into a week-long HeroicBSOD.]]
* BarrierMaiden: Near the conclusion of the story, it was revealed that [[spoiler:she'll be sleeping for 100 years in the Gravekeeper's Palace, serving as the literal cornerstone for the plan to save the Magic World. Time travel hijinks make it complicated, however, since she technically doesn't go back to her own world when she wakes up and meets Chao.]]
* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:To Fate's surprise, Asuna Kagurazaka is a fully fledged identity that grew from her originally EmotionlessGirl state.]]
* BigSisterInstinct: She says she sees Negi as a little brother she must protect. [[http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg59/Xophien/KamoRankings.jpg Chamo's charts]] say that her sisterly/motherly feelings for Negi are the strongest out of all the girls.
* BookDumb: Her grades are so terrible that she is the one with the lowest scores out of all the Baka Rangers.
* BrokenBird: When she showed up in Mahora, she was an EmotionlessGirl that annoyed Ayaka with her blank expression, so she kicked her. [[spoiler:At that point, she had a very limited time of actually being a human, instead having been treated as a living weapon for a century or more.]]
* CharacterExaggeration: Asuna goes from being a regular {{Tsundere}}, having a job and more or less just trying to survive in the craziness around her in the manga and first anime series, to being completely nuts in Negima?!
* CoolBigSis: She acts as a big sister towards Negi, though there are hints of romantic interest.
* CuteLittleFangs: To match her aggressive personality she occasionally has little fanglike teeth.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[MysteriousPast We don't really know the details]], but [[spoiler:she underwent LaserGuidedAmnesia so that she could forget all that she had been through. What we do know is that it includes being [[GirlInTheTower imprisoned in a tower]] and used as a human weapon, and the destruction of a FloatingContinent.]]
* DeclarationOfProtection: Asuna is Negi's ministra magi and thus responsible for protecting the SquishyWizard while he casts his spells. In resppnse, Negi pushes himself to become stronger so she doesn't have to protect him and put herself in danger. While competing in Mahora Fest's Tournament [[spoiler: she loudly declared to Negi that she was plenty powerful enough to protect him. Then she became profoundly embarrassed because she was fighting at that moment and the entire crowd interperted her declaration as a love confession.]]
* DiesWideOpen: In the first anime's ending, she hits her birthday and then falls from the World Tree. Negi catches her, but she only fell because she was already dead. Negi magically undoes it with the help of his class.
* DontCallMeSir: Gets very upset when Setsuna starts acting like her servant and calling her "[[spoiler:princess]]" after she learns about Asuna's origins.
* EmotionlessGirl: As a kid she had a flat expression that irritated Ayaka. In the present, she's rather excitable. And irritable.
* EpicFail: Trying to light someone's cigarette and instead setting their beard on fire. Then she tried putting it out with hot tea.
* ExpressiveHair: In ''Negima!?'' her pigtails move according to her mood.
* {{Expy}}: She's stated to embody the "protective" aspect of [[Manga/LoveHina Naru's]] personality.
* FieryRedhead: She's a fiery {{Tsundere}} with red hair.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: [[spoiler:After she wakes up from sleeping for 130 years, Asuna finds herself alone in a strange time and place with all her friends gone. She at least hoped Negi (having a body like Evangeline's) would still be alive, but he died and after seeing all that her friends did in their lives while she was sleeping she breaks down in tears. However, Evangeline and Chao send her back in time and she reunites with her friends.]]
* FullFrontalAssault: After getting {{Clothing Damage}}d for the umpteenth time during the AggressiveNegotiations with Goedel. She's been stripped enough that she just ignores it, proves herself immune to DefeatByModesty and presses the attack. The viewers get a [[HandOrObjectUnderwear Godiva sword tassel]]. [[spoiler:Although that was actually Fake!Asuna/Shiori.]]
-->"Like I care!"
* GagBoobs: She gets them in one episode where the girls are using breast size for a contest to see who gets to share a room with Negi.
* GenericCuteness: Judging by the startled reactions of her friends at the ball and during her 'date' with Takamichi, Asuna is apparently supposed to look fairly plain most of the time.
* GirlishPigtails: Befitting her {{Tsundere}} personality. When the topic comes up, her friends note that its rather childish and that she looks better with her hair down.
* GodivaHair: Her hair reaches her waist, which really helps, since being around Negi has a tendency to suddenly leave you without clothing.
* GoofyPrintUnderwear: A... bear?
* HairDecorations: She wears a pair of bells on her GirlishPigtails. They're also a MementoMacGuffin since she wears those bells because they came from Takamichi, not because she thinks they make her look cuter. And on the rare occasions that she takes them off everyone notes that she looks better without them.
* HeavySleeper: [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] in ''Anime/NegimaSecondSeason''. [[spoiler:Then the manga reveals that she slept for thirty more years to wake up to a world where the otherwise immortal Negi inexplicably died, only for Eva and Chao to return her back 130 years to a world identical to where she came from mere seconds after her departure. The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue reveals that her extended sleep was partially caused by a war on Mars in the 22nd century, of which Mana was a participant.]]
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:Chapter 284 showed the tail end of a week-long one. Fate didn't expect her to come out of it at all]].
* HomeRunHitter: Does this to Evangeline using a thrown boat as the bat in ''Negima!?''.
* HotForTeacher: Has a crush on Takahata-sensei.
* IAmWhatIAm: The most difficult mental issue she has is the [[spoiler:duality between who she was as Princess Asuna and who she is now as Asuna Kagurazaka]]. At the end of the Magic World arc, [[spoiler:she's at terms with both sides of herself, proclaiming herself a genuine magic princess as she fixes all the devastation wrought by Cosmo Entelechia.]]
* IAmWho: Asuna certainly isn't who she believes herself to be and she has a long forgotten past that is slowly hinted throughout the series. [[spoiler:She's actually a princess from the magic world who was used as a human weapon because of her AntiMagic powers.]]
* IdenticalStranger: She looks very similar to Negi's cousin Nekane.
* IdiotHair: It fits thanks to her being an IdiotHero.
* IdiotHero: It's pointed out more than once that she far more closely resembles the trope than Negi himself. Kotaro even compares her to Nagi due to her idiocy and determination.
* InelegantBlubbering: When things don't go well with Takamichi, Negi bumps into Asuna streaming tears and with snot running out of her nose. After this, she spends a few days moping in Eva's resort before getting over it.
* InstantExpert: Though she's nearly as dim as Negi is brilliant, she picks up fighting and even kanka almost as quickly as he does magic and martial arts. However, in her case it's because she already learned at least some of this stuff when she was a kid. Of course, she ''also'' performed kanka perfectly almost instantly as a child as well, though in that case it was due to [[spoiler:being 'empty' from having no life experience, social interaction or anything for over a hundred years while being used as some type of weapon.]]
* {{Kemonomimi}}: Her disguise in the Magic World has cat ears and a tail.
* KickChick: Negi even notes in his class rooster how she has a very powerful kick.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: She doesn't have any memories from before ten years ago [[spoiler:after Takamichi had her memory sealed on behalf of the dying Gateau Vanderburg.]]
* LethalChef: Briefly, in the anime; looked like an AlienLunch. ''Negima!?'' also gave us a glimpse of her cooking. She burned down the kitchen.
* LightningGlare: Frequently to Negi after he manages to upset her yet again.
* LikesOlderWomen: {{Gender Flip}}ped. She has a preference for older guys. Ayaka calls her an "Ojicon" because of it.
* LongLostRelative: [[spoiler:She's part of the Ostian bloodline just like Negi and his mother, though where she fits on the family tree is rather unclear.]]
* MarilynManeuver: Does this once during the ''Pactio'' spell, [[PantyShot since there's wind blowing up]].
* MarkOfTheSupernatural: Right eye green, left eye blue. It's difficult to notice unless she's looking straight at the camera. She's definitely not normal either.
* {{Meido}}: During the TournamentArc, Asuna and Setsuna get pressganged into wearing maid outfits to appeal to the crowd.
* ModestyShorts: After GoingCommando in a skirt in Kyoto, this is a big issue for her.
* MysteriousPast: Especially when when she turns out to be [[OlderThanTheyLook far older than she looks]].
* MysticalWaif: She shows the canonical catatonic personality in flashbacks.
* NoSell: Her Magic Cancel stops ''any'' magic.
* NotAMorningPerson: She is known for being bad at mornings. She gets up early for her job during the week, but sleeps in late on the weekends.
* OlderSidekick: To Negi. He is only ten and she is a teenager.
* OlderThanSheLooks: Before too much time passes, it's clear that Asuna has a history she doesn't remember and is at least a little older than she appears. [[spoiler:She was used as a human weapon for at least a century, was involved in the War and only after that did she begin to age normally. Thus, she should be at least a hundred and thirty years old.]]
* OneHeadTaller: Than Negi. The romance is debatable, but when she hugs him during the Magic World reunion the effect is obvious.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Asuna appears to be a normal schoolgirl who just happens to get involved in magic because of Negi, but her AntiMagic powers and amnesia imply she's much more than that. [[spoiler:Turns out she's a princess from the Magic World.]]
* OutWithABang: PG version, after a WorldTree-controlled Negi catches her in a deep kiss that ends after she's passed out from lack of oxygen.
* OverlyLongName: Her full name is very long, but most people don't know it. [[spoiler:Her full name, Asuna Vesperina Theotanasia Entheofushia, notes her status as an imperial princess of the Ostian bloodline.]]
* PaperFanOfDoom: The weaker form of her pactio artifact is a fan that cancels all summons and dispels some forms of magic.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: [[spoiler:Her AntiMagic actually caused a FloatingContinent to crash and nearly destroyed the entire Magic World.]]
* PhlebotinumGirl: She was used as a human weapon at some point, but the story doesn't say how at the time. [[spoiler:Her antimagic abilities are actually a little more extensive than that and allow her to be used as a catalyst for a ritual that could destroy the entire magic world. On a smaller scale, they're still quite potent.]]
* PluckyGirl: She's very brave and never gives up.
* PrecociousCrush: She's had a crush on Takamichi for a few years now. She's turned down not necessarily because Takamichi doesn't like her (though he clearly doesn't) but because he feels he's unworthy of love in the first place.
* PutOnABus: She's captured and disappears from the story for about fifty chapters, [[spoiler:but she's replaced by a perfect copy during that time.]]
* RagsToRoyalty: She's just a normal middle schooler, [[spoiler:who is actually the last valid descendant of the Ostian bloodline. Negi is another, but his mother was imprisoned as a scapegoat, so Asuna is apparently considered the heir to the line.]]
* RapunzelHair: Even though she wears it in GirlishPigtails, her hair reaches her knees.
* RedHeadedHeroine: A heroic FieryRedhead.
* RipVanWinkle: [[spoiler:For Negi's plan to save the magic world to succeed, she has to be put into stasis for a century. She oversleeps by another thirty years. If she hadn't, she could have at least met Ayaka again.]]
* SacredFirstKiss: Initially reluctant to make a Pactio for this reason. Later she claims it doesn't count because it was a Pactio, not a ''real'' kiss. Judging by the way everyone else in the story views Pactios the only one she's fooling is herself.
* SharedUnusualTrait: She and Princess Arika have heterochromia. [[spoiler:They have a common ancestor in the Lifemaker.]]
* SheCleansUpNicely: She receives several reactions from her classmates after seeing her actually taking care of her appearance such as at the ball.
* ShipperOnDeck: She supports Konoka and Setsuna's relationship and enjoys teasing the latter about it.
* SplitPersonality: [[spoiler:When her memories are forcibly returned to her, her former self as Princess Asuna comes into conflict with her Asuna Kagurazaka self and nearly destroys it. She ends up accepting both sides of herself, though the Kagurazaka personality is the one she actually displays.]]
* SuperSenses: Asuna possesses both super sight and super hearing.
* SuperSpeed: Without using any magic she can run as fast as a professional bike.
* TomatoInTheMirror: Not only is she related to magic, [[spoiler:she's flat out a magical princess.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Her first level in badass was her pactio, her second was in learning kanka and finally after entering the magical world her growth rate skyrocketed [[spoiler:due to subconsciously remembering how to fight]] and ended up about on par with Setsuna [[spoiler:before being captured]].
* TookALevelInCheerfulness: Flashbacks show that Asuna originally was a smart-mouthed EmotionlessGirl, but frequent, violent interactions with Ayaka turned her into the cheerful FieryRedhead {{Tsundere}} of today.
* {{Tsundere}}: Aggresive type, though not as exaggerated as [[LoveHina Naru]]. As Negi himself describes her, Asuna is "overbearing, crude and violent", but an incredibly kind and caring CoolBigSis.
* UnskilledButStrong: In sheer specs, she's both quite powerful and fast, but isn't a trained fighter like Kaede or Setsuna. Thus, by the early parts of the Magic World, she appears to be almost on par with Setsuna, supposedly the strongest of Negi's ministra and a skilled shinmeiryu swordsman, simply by virtue of sheer speed and power. [[spoiler:By the ''end'' of the Magic World arc, she appears to be strong enough to actually work as Negi's partner while again showing no real sign of technique.]] Anti magic, of course, adds a great deal of utility to certain possible fights.
* YouCantFightFate: In the first anime's alternate story, Asuna was doomed to die on her 14th birthday due to a DealWithTheDevil so the demons would stop following her and bringing destruction wherever she went. Nagi attempted to save her and was promptly crushed under a bridge. She has to die and comes back in time to break the deal.
* ZettaiRyouiki: [[RankInflation Grade S]]!
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[[folder:Sakurazaki Setsuna]]
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Setsuna is a swordsman and exorcist who was friends with Konoka when they were both young. However, she was also supposed to be her bodyguard and after failing to protect her she started to grow distant from Konoka, believing she could guard her better from the shadows. As such, the relationship between them starts strained and Setsuna tends to be very quiet and aloof from the rest of the cast. However, after the relationship between them is mended she starts becoming friends [[ShipTease and possibly more]] with Konoka once more, as well as getting along quite well with Asuna.

Setsuna practices the Shinmeiryuu sword style, a set of techniques designed to allow practitioners to combat demons and spirits. She herself is [[HalfHumanHybrid half]] youkai and an outcast of the Tengu tribe, who feared her white wings, implied to be due to albinism. Though she has a complex about revealing her wings and is further rarely able to do so in public, they give her the ability to fly and are quite strong in combat. Further, she pactios with Negi early on, granting the artifact ''Sica Shishikushiro'', a wakizashi (short sword) that can have up to 16 flying duplicates using her mental power.

->'''Voiced by:''' YuuKobayashi (Japanese), Dana Schultes (English, ''Mahou Sensei Negima!''), Creator/CheramiLeigh (English, ''Negima!?'')
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* ActionGirl: Fights almost as much as Asuna.
* {{Adorkable}}: Can act like this when her cool demeanor flies out the window in the presence of her [[BodyguardCrush Ojou-sama]].
* AesopAmnesia: After seemingly getting over her self-image issues, she goes right back to being emo a few chapters later. Multiple times.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Setsuna's white wings mark her as an outcast of her species; she even was exiled by her tribe because of it. Viewing herself as an outcast is still an issue for her.
* BadassAdorable: She's one of the top three or four fighters in the group, but contrasting the tall and imposing Kaede she's small and waifish.
* BadassInANiceSuit: During the ball she wears a nice suit rather than a dress. When it's pointed out, she says it's easier to move in. A valid concern at the time.
* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' mess with Konoka.
* {{Bifauxnen}}: She fooled everyone that didn't know her while in her male period clothes during her NotADate with Konoka at the cinema town. Plus, they ''did'' [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer make her look fetching]].
* BigDamnKiss: Her Pactio with [[spoiler:Konoka]]. According to Chamo they even broke the length record.
* BodyguardCrush: She is very devoted to Konoka. As early as post Kyoto the romance starts getting teased at.
* ButNowIMustGo: At the end of the Kyoto arc, she tries to run away after revealing herself as a half-Tengu to Negi and co., but gets a lecture from Negi and decides to stay by Konoka's side.
* CantBatheWithoutAWeapon: She bathes with her demon-hunting sword.
* ChekhovsGunman: Akamatsu kept her OutOfFocus until the [[ClassTrip Kyoto arc]]; Negi once referred to her as one of the students he'd like to get to know better. Needless to say, she becomes one of Ala Alba's most trusted fighters.
* CherryBlossomGirl: Her family name contains Sakura, her attacks sometimes have a cherry blossom theme and she at least looks like a YamatoNadeshiko in universe.
* TheComicallySerious: Early in the series, her deadpan attitude comes off as funny in comical situations. It stops once she becomes more relaxed and easily flustered. In the anime ''Negima?!'', most of her funny moments come from her taking everything far too seriously.
* ContraltoOfDanger: Setsuna has a low and powerful voice for such a slender and petite woman, as befits a tough swordswoman. This also extends to the fact that [[{{Bifauxnen}} she can pass for a male]].
* CovertPervert: While detailing Asuna's abilities on a diagram featuring a [[BarbieDollAnatomy naked]] Asuna, she mentions her AntiMagic and her SuperSpeed... and then notes "Bust: Not bad", as well as a reference to Asuna's lack of hair anywhere aside from her scalp. Later, Zazie shows Negi Setsuna's "perfect world" [[spoiler:in the [[LotusEaterMachine Cosmo Entelechia dream world]]]] and apologizes for it being so perverse: Konoka making Setsuna breakfast... while wearing a NakedApron. And later, Setsuna concludes that the best future for her is finally having sex with Konoka.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She was exiled from her tribe due to her pure-white wings, which were considered to be a bad omen as she was born into the bird tribe of demons.
* DatePeepers: Joins the other girls watching Negi and Nodoka.
* DeathGlare: Setsuna will give a good one of these to anyone who threatens Konoka.
* DemonSlayer: Setsuna's style of combat was developed specifically to exorcise demons by targeting them instead of the person they were inhabiting.
* DualWielding: She occasionally uses the massive Yuunagi in one hand and either its scabbard or Sica Shishikushiro on the other.
* DyeOrDie: It's implied that she is an [[HeroicAlbino albino]], but she uses hair dye and colored contacts to live in normal society after being exiled her from tribe.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Besides being paired off with Konoka and getting Tsukuyomi's [[PsychoLesbian psychotic attraction]], Setsuna gains the admiration of many girls while wearing a {{Bifauxnen}} outfit.
* TheExile: She was exiled from the crow demon tribe for being a white-feathered half-demon.
* FailureKnight: During several years, she decided to protect Konoka from afar without speaking a word to her due to feeling ashamed of her failure to save Konoka from almost drowning when they were kids. All Konoka wanted was to be friends with Setsuna again.
* FantasticArousal: She appears to consider grooming her wings an intimate act, though since she uses them as shields or weapons they must be fairly insensitive.
* FashionableAsymmetry: Her hair, shaped like a single wing, possibly alluding to her halfling heritage.
* FreakinessShame: She's uncomfortable about her wings and half demon heritage. Nobody else minds.
--->'''Setsuna:''' "This is my true form. I'm a monster, just like them. Don't misunderstand, my desire to protect Oujo-sama is real! I've just kept this a secret... because I was afraid she would hate me in this ugly form..."\\
'''Asuna:''' "What are you talking about? I think they're cool!"
* HalfHumanHybrid: A half bird-demon.
* HeroicAlbino: Implied. Eva mentions that she dyes her hair, and asks if she's wearing contacts.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Due to feeling she isn't strong enough to properly protect Konoka, Setsuna has some serious self-worth issues and tends to beat herself up every time she feels she has failed as a warrior, just like when Tsukuyomi nearly defeats her.
* HunterOfHerOwnKind: While she is a half demon herself, Setsuna uses a style of combat that was developed specifically to battle demons.
* IAmWhatIAm: She's ashamed of her white wings, which the tengu believe means she's a sign of ill omen. Her friends tell her it makes her look like an angel and she relaxes about it in front of them, though Eva shows it's still a bit of a sore spot.
* IfItsYouItsOkay: Played with. Admits to feeling some attraction towards teenaged Negi, but is pretty clearly a lesbian paired off with Konoka and expressing some attraction towards Asuna.
* ImplausibleFencingPowers: Shinmeiryuu-style, which allows her to cut twenty-foot balls of solid ice and a HumongousMecha in half.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: She's rather socially dense, largely as a result of her having very strong ideas regarding social class. While most people don't seem to be bothered by her formality, those with a perceived higher status tend to get the princess treatment, which they hate. For example, she keeps referring to Konoka as ojou-sama/milady despite Konoka always telling her to use her name and near the end of the manga she even makes Asuna cry by acting like a servant instead of as one of Asuna's closest friends after Asuna is revealed to be [[spoiler:a princess]]. The reaction was exaggerated somewhat to make Setsuna cut it out ''right this instant'', but only a little.
* InsecureLoveInterest: Through the entirety of the manga, she always feels unworthy of Konoka for one reason or the other.
* {{Kemonomimi}}: Her disguise in the Magic World and her outfit from [[spoiler:her Pactio with Konoka]] have cat ears.
* LadyOfWar: At her best, she looks very graceful while she uses her sword.
* LettingHerHairDown: She starts to stop wearing her hair in a {{Samurai}} style side-pony tail in the later chapters once she starts growing out of her intensely serious, near-deadpan demeanor.
* LonerTurnedFriend: Starts out as a loner FailureKnight, but eventually opens up and becomes close friends with Asuna and Negi.
* LuminescentBlush: Whenever the conversation turns to her relationship with Konoka, she goes bright pink.
* MagicKnight: Chamo calls Setsuna by the trope name after he sees her using spell tags to form a defense.
* MagicPants: Appears to go between releasing her wings by [[SexyBacklessOutfit lifting the back of her shirt]] to having them appear directly through the cloth without tearing.
* MarriedToTheJob: She's very dedicated to her job as a bodyguard and seems to be unable to think of herself as something more than that, which usually makes it hard for her and Konoka to have a normal relationship.
* {{Meido}}: During the TournamentArc, Setsuna and Asuna get pressganged into wearing maid outfits to appeal to the crowd. Also [[spoiler:her outfit from her Pactio with Konoka]].
* MindControlEyes: During her BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind.
* ModestyShorts: She wears cycling shorts under her skirt.
* MyGreatestFailure: Setsuna's initial FailureKnight nature has its roots in an incident where she tried to save Konoka from drowning, fell in herself, and both were rescued by someone else. As a result, Setsuna constantly tries to train harder so it won't happen again.
* PerpetualMolt: Setsuna always leaves a dramatic shower of feathers behind whenever she spreads her wings.
* ThePioneer: [[spoiler:According to the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, she became one of the most famous first-generation pilots of the space age.]]
* PlayboyBunny: During the early Mahorafest arc, she gets dragged into a playboy bunny outfit. Chao snickers at her when she tries to use a cool line.
* PowerGivesYouWings: In ''Negima!?'' her wings come from her pactio card.
* RavenHairIvorySkin: She is considered beautiful because of her incredibly pale skin and raven-black hair. However, it's implied that she actually has [[HeroicAlbino white hair]].
* {{Sarashi}}: A trained swordswoman who wears the sarashi bra version.
* SchoolgirlLesbians: The subtext of her relationship with Konoka just kept getting more and more obvious, leading all the way to [[spoiler:the Pactio with one of the longest kisses ever]], then continues getting more blatant with Setsuna's CovertPervert fantasy sequences. [[TransparentCloset You're not fooling anyone there, Setsuna.]] This becomes MORE obvious in Negima?! and is the subject of several eyecatches.
* SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack: She is almost always seen wearing her school uniform.
* SexyBacklessOutfit: The traditional clothes of her people.
* SlipknotPonytail: When Chao wants to show that Setsuna can't match her, she casually yanks off her hair band before Setsuna even notices.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: She tries to show herself as a cold and levelheaded swordswoman, but she is actually very kind and caring. Konoka knows it and usually tries to bring out her warmer side.
* SuperSenses: Setsuna's Ki allows her to at least triple her senses.
* ThunderShock: At one point she makes a terrible joke and has to apologize for it after the thunder disappears.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: She's mostly a serious, samurai-like ActionGirl and seems to feel comfortable to wear masculine clothing on occasion, but she still has her has her bouts of girliness.
* TookALevelInCheerfulness: Started as cold as ice due to seeing herself as a FailureKnight, but after the events of the Kyoto Arc, she opened up a lot more and became friendlier. Lampshaded by Evangeline during their match in the Mahora Festival TournamentArc.
* TransparentCloset: Setsuna is so obviously lesbian for her "{{Ojou}}-sama" Konoka that practically everyone knows it despite her frequent denials.
* TsurimeEyes: She had much sharper eyes early on as a way to mark her as the serious and distant ActionGirl obsessed with maintaining her abilities as a swordswoman she was at the beginning and to contrast Konoka's TaremeEyes. When she starts letting her emotions out, they become noticeably rounder.
* WaifFu: She has a thin build and is quite short, but she's quite strong. However, she favors skill based techniques rather than strength.
* WingedHumanoid: Due to being a half bird-demon, Setsuna has a pair of wings that she can summon at will. Occasionally, Setsuna will have her wings in a cute little 'cupid' form, although this might just be for laughs.
* WingPull: During the end of the Kyoto trip Setsuna was forced to reveal the wings she normally keeps hidden.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Chamo thought she ''looked'' like one at first. She's not even close, though.
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[[folder:Ayase Yue]]
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Yue is an [[TeenGenius extremely intelligent]] but cynical girl with [[BrilliantButLazy demotivation]] issues stemming from [[ParentalAbandonment the death of her beloved grandfather]]. She's normally quiet, distant and snarky but very supportive of her friends and Nodoka in particular, who reached out to her when she was isolated. This has some emotional consequences for her when she ends up in a LoveTriangle with her and Negi, who is largely oblivious. Most people find it difficult to read her emotions.

Yue has a fair talent for magic, but her primary strength is her intellect and quick thinking skills, which allow her to quickly come up with strategies.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NatsukoKuwatani (Japanese) and Creator/BrinaPalencia (English)
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* ACupAngst: From early on, she's sure she's unattractive with her childlike body.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: She's not that strong even after the Ariadne arc, but she's ''very'' well prepared and thinks things through far further ahead than almost anyone else in the story, including preparing multiple contingency spells upon seeing [[spoiler:an electric Averruncus.]]
* BadassBack: Intercepts a shadow puppet coming up behind her with her massive Ariadne sword.
* BadassBookworm: She's tiny and looks weak, but is actually a part of the library exploration club and has some pretty good survival skills. She also ends up becoming a fairly competent mage.
* BookDumb: She's one of the smartest girls in the class, but she gets poor grades and is one of the baka rangers. It's implied on occasion though that she just doesn't like studying mundane subjects. Her position in the philosophy club might play a role in this.
* BrilliantButLazy: The reason for her poor grades is that for a TeenGenius, Yue is also ''extremely'' unmotivated and she refuses to put any effort in. Once she gets a goal she wants to accomplish, she can learn in mere weeks what takes others years.
* CannotSpitItOut: She spends a good two or three hundred chapters unable to admit her feelings to Negi for him despite everyone, even rivals, telling her to do it.
* CovertPervert: If [[http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg59/Xophien/KamoRankings.jpg Chamo's charts]] are accurate, her ero rating is slightly less than Nodoka, and on par with ''Evangeline''.
* CrazyPrepared: She predicted that [[spoiler:Quintum]] would leave her paralyzed and cast a paralysis release spell in herself. Furthermore, she had sixteen predictions of how [[spoiler:Quintum]] would take them down, and it's highly possible that she had prepared countermeasures for each outcome.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Purple hair and eyes. In Negima?! she gains purple stockings.
* CuteWitch: Her pactio outfit puts her in a cute witch outfit complete with black witch's hat.
* DarkMagicalGirl: Yue rarely expresses real concern about the danger she's in, but at the thought she might have hurt or offended Nodoka she's reduced to tears. Nodoka was the first person to really approach her during an isolated time of her life.
* DeadpanSnarker: She's almost always very flat and emotionless looking to go along with her sarcastic side.
* DullSurprise: In ''Negima!?'', in one of the early omake segments with the Baka Rangers, while the Bakas make ready to fight their enemies, with Yue wanting to call their "giant robot", Makie is complaining that she [[RunningGag never got to do her introduction properly]]. The Baka Rangers agree to let her go first (she had been last every time). She tries to do so, [[BrickJoke and the giant robot foot comes down on Makie]], [[RunningGag interrupting her]].
-->'''Yue:''' [[DullSurprise Hey guys,]] [[CaptainObvious the robot's here]].
* EmotionlessGirl: Not really emotionless, but much more stoic than her friends, due to showing the same blasé face most of the time. It's lampshaded during the exploration of Library Island.
-->'''Konoka:''' You're really excited aren't you?\\
'''Yue:''' … hehe, does it show that much?\\
'''Asuna:''' (thinking) No it doesn't, she just has the same expression as usual…
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Haruna [[LampShadeHanging lampshades]] this trope after observing the [[ClingyJealousGirl various reactions]] of Yue's mini-harem to Yue. Needless to say, Yue isn't amused at all.
* {{Expy}}: On top of her basic physical design, she matches the [[TheQuietOne quiet]] [[SugarAndIcePersonality and reserved]] nature of VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'s Patchouli Knowledge. She's also a magical librarian and tends to wear the same outfits.
* ForeheadOfDoom: Her hair keeps her bangs out of her forehead, leaving a giant forehead for all to see.
* GagBoobs: In her Drama CD, Collette points out to Yue how small-chested she is and wants to fix it, prompting her, Emily, and Beatrix to "help" her. We all know how this ends.
* GenreSavvy: In the first season of the anime, Yue is the only person to figure out that the "Negi" who has her isn't really him. How can she tell? He starts showing more of an interest in her.
* HeroicBSOD: When Nodoka finds out about Yue's crush on Negi, Yue completely freaks out, believing Nodoka will hate her because of "betraying" her and says she would rather [[DrivenToSuicide "disappear"]] than losing Nodoka's friendship. She only calms down after Nodoka's GetAHoldOfYourselfMan.
* HighPressureEmotion: Twice in rapid succession after meeting up with Negi again, though one could say it's just one continuous moment. Doesn't mean it's not ridiculously cute and funny, especially given Collet and Emily's reactions.
* HotWitch: In the DistantFinale she's grown quite a bit taller and has more adult proportions.
* IdiotHair: Subverted. She has the hair and is one of the baka rangers, but that's actually due to nearly going out of her way to do badly.
* InSeriesNickname: Yuecchi, Yuekichi and a few more in regards to her height and [[ForeheadOfDoom large forehead]]. [[EmbarrassingNickname She isn't fond of the latter nicknames.]]
* InsecureLoveInterest: Yue spends a couple of chapters angsting about how she can't confess to Negi simply because she can't remember the reason why she fell for him in the first place. She also states that "nobody would lay eyes on this body".
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: She only wishes for Negi to be happy with Nodoka, though Nodoka actually seems to get tired of her passivity.
* JumpedAtTheCall: Once she got in on the {{Masquerade}}.
* LittleMissBadass: Being vertically challenged doesn't prevent her from cementing her status on this page amongst her fellow {{Badass}} [[TrueCompanions Companions]] through a series of {{Awesome Moments}}.
* LittleMissSnarker: She's small and tends to be quietly sarcastic.
* LonerTurnedFriend: In her backstory, she used to be a loner, Nodoka was the first person to befriend her.
* MagicKnight: After her training at Ariadne she becomes a fairly good mage and acquires a massive sword.
* MarilynManeuver: Once did it to herself by accident when trying to demonstrate a spell.
* MatchmakerCrush: Tries to help Nodoka win over Negi, but then there's [[LoveTriangle the issue of her own growing feelings for him]].
* NewTransferStudent: Yue got to play the part for a while in the Magic World.
* OccultDetective: After the TimeSkip at the end of the manga.
* OlderThanSheLooks: She's fifteen, but looks only slightly older than Negi.
* ParentalAbandonment: The death of her beloved grandfather had such a negative effect on her that she shut herself off from the rest of the world. Since he's the only family member mentioned in Yue's life, it's possible he was the only one she had.
* ThePhilosopher: She normally averts the inaction bit of the trope, but it's noted that for all her high speed thinking she tends to get sidetracked and think about pointless things easily.
* PottyEmergency: Since she drinks juice so often she always seems to be in the bathroom. [[spoiler:Becomes a notable weak-point when consuming her large potion in 354.]] It's suggested that Yue wears more "adult" underwear as a result.
* PuttingOnMyThinkingCap: She seems to have the most going on in her head when she's calmly sipping an odd drink of some kind with a slightly blank look in her eyes.
* RapunzelHair: Down to her waist until the end of the manga.
* RedMage: While she primarily favors offensive magic, she also has a number of support and healing spells.
* RobeAndWizardHat: Her default pactio outfit gives her a long, open robe and a witch's hat.
* ShorterMeansSmarter: Her lack of height is the most emphasized in the main cast and she's also the most analytical and intelligent barring Negi himself.
* TheSnarkKnight: Initially a textbook example, complete with frequent thoughts of being "{{surrounded by idiots}}". These wanes later on, as she became part of the main group and developed a crush on Negi, though she's still quick to dissociate herself from the group whenever the insanity becomes overwhelming.
* TheStoic: She tends to be very calm and in control of her emotions [[NotSoStoic until she feels she's let Nodoka down]] or [[LuminescentBlush Negi gets too charming.]] She also doesn't handle [[spoiler:Emily's apparent death]] well either.
* StraightMan: In contrast to the quiet and polite Nodoka and the ridiculous Haruna, Yue tends to be quietly sarcastic.
* StrawNihilist: She pretty much felt that the world was without meaning following the death of her grandfather. Luckily, she got better when she befriended Nodoka, Haruna, and Konoka.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: She appears to be [[EmotionlessGirl emotionless]], but she cares very much about her friends and being part of a LoveTriangle with her best friend causes her to break down and reveal a very warm side.
* TeenGenius: Not only is Yue one of the smartest girls in Class 3-A, she's also one of the smartest characters in the entire series.
* ThrowTheBookAtThem: She once cheated during a pillow fight by hiding thick dictionaries in her pillows.
* TookALevelInBadass: At the start of the series she was a muggle and before going to the magic world she still wasn't as good as Negi was at the beginning of the series.
** Once in the Magic World, however, she enrolled in the Ariadne Academy for knights due to amnesia based lack of direction. With her memories not holding her effort back, she puts in some amazingly hard work and within about a month becomes the academy's top student [[spoiler:and planning out the successful defeat of a griffin dragon.]]
** During the chapters of the manga there's a brief skip forward to what Yue is doing now. [[spoiler:She has invented a completely safe, liquid-based Magia Erebea-like spell storage and release system. While she doesn't seem to get the physical benefits Negi does, Yue also doesn't seem to get any of the physical detriments. All she needs to do is take a swig of a potion, and she has a bunch of spells for instant cast whenever the hell she wants. Damn Yue.]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: She's often shown with a juice of outlandish composition in hand, though the actual contents are always different.
* TransformationSequence: In her spin-off {{OVA}} she gets a long pactio equipping scene. Her bra seems to pity her.
* TsurimeEyes: Fitting with her snarky and unsocial nature are her serious looking eyes.
* VerbalTic: Overuses ''desu'' and speaks like [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness an encyclopedia]].
* WeakButSkilled: She doesn't have much in the way of raw power yet, but she's already an expert in magical theory despite the short time she's had to really learn about it. [[spoiler:Taking down a griffin dragon with a ceremonial knife by exploiting tiny weak points? Yes, please.]]
* WeaksauceWeakness: Future Yue's potion power-up comes with one major weakness, namely that she only has so much time before all that liquid she drinks runs its course and leaves her with the natural consequences.
* WorthlessForeignDegree: In the epilogue Yue runs into this problem as [[{{Terraform}} ISS]][[SpaceElevator DA]] didn't accept her degree and career history from MagicWorld.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Her hair is purple.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Wears thigh high black stockings, which are purple in Negima?!
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[[folder:Inugami Kotarō]]
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Negi's [[FireForgedFriends best friend]] and [[TheRival rival]] ever since he got [[DefeatMeansFriendship pummelled by him]] during the Kyoto ClassTrip. In many ways, he's a textbook {{shonen}} action protagonist, and often contrasted to Negi, to whom he sometimes (futilely) tries teaching how to act like a [[IdiotHero brash and overconfident]] hero rather than a meek and [[{{Keigo}} polite]] BadassBookworm. Kotaro is still in the 'girls have cooties' stage of development, though Chizuru and Natsumi become surrogate older sisters for him.

As he's [[HalfHumanHybrid Half]]-[[{{Inugami}} Dog Demon]], he can [[VoluntaryShapeshifting change shape]]. Usually, he looks human, except for [[LittleBitBeastly his ears and tail]], but can transform into a giant wolf-like dog or [[WolfMan something in between]]. He favors pure hand to hand combat, but also has the ability to control dog familiars and shadows.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MarinaInoue (Japanese)
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* AdaptedOut: Didn't appear in the anime until the new OAD series.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Because of being a half youkai, he was an outcast of both human and youkai tribes. This makes him value both his friendship with Negi, and living with Chizuru and Natsumi, as they become the only true friends or family he's ever had.
* AnimalStereotypes: He styles himself as a [[IWorkAlone lone wolf]], but often lapses into [[IncrediblyLamePun doggishness]] and ends up being "domesticated" by Chizuru and Natsumi.
* {{Animorphism}}: Puppy when powers sealed, giant wolf when fully released.
* BattleAura: When unleashing his Shadow Hounds.
* BigEater: He eats a lot.
* BishieSparkle: In his teenaged form.
* {{Bishonen}}: His teenage form, much like Negi.
* BloodKnight: He loves fighting, though mostly because, as he admits, fighting is really the only thing he knows.
* BoisterousBruiser: He's rough and loud, but friendly to his allies.
* BrattyHalfPint: He's portrayed as a loud, overconfident, immature and troublesome kid, especially in his earlier appearances. This is why [[{{Shotacon}} Ayaka]] can't stand him. Some CharacterDevelopment allows him to become more mature.
* CanisMajor: His strongest form Kuon Eisou, in which he completely transforms into a wolf beast.
* CastingAShadow: He has the ability to summon vast swarms of autonomous spirit wolves made of darkness/shadow.
* ChasteHero: Just like Negi, he's oblivious to the romance thing because he hasn't even hit puberty yet.
* ChickMagnet: He attracts nearly as many ladies as Negi at the ball.
* CutlassBetweenTheTeeth: Carries Asuna's {{BFS}} between his teeth in the Magic World tournament. Not that he had much of a choice since [[spoiler:he had transformed into his monster wolf form]].
* DarkIsNotEvil: Post-HeelFaceTurn since his secondary skillset is shadow based KiAttacks.
* DeclarationOfProtection: Right before [[spoiler:their Pactio]], Kotaro tells Natsumi he will protect her because she's like family to him.
* {{Expy}}: By WordOfGod and obvious character design, he's a clear expy of Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'s eponymous character.
* GirlsHaveCooties: Plays this fairly straight (especially the romance thing), with a few exceptions in his adoptive sisters and girls who can fight. That said, he still thinks kissing is gross.
* HalfHumanHybrid: A Half-Dog Demon.
* HarbingerOfImpendingDoom: He returns after the Kyoto arc by being found injured by Chizuru and Natsumi.
* HealingFactor: He explains it as an "ability of the Inugami clan". It's not Wolverine-class, but he's taken multiple swords to the chest and recovered.
* HeelFaceTurn: He first appeared as one of [[StarterVillain Chigusa's lackeys]].
* HotBlooded: He is much more of a classic shounen protagonist than Negi himself.
* HowMuchMoreCanHeTake: During the tournament finals, Kotaro gets the unfortunate role of punching bag while Negi sets up for the finishing techniques. The mauling he gets is quite brutal.
* IdiotHero: A proud and acknowledged one.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: He hurts Natsumi's feelings without realizing it when [[spoiler:he says that having to form a Pactio with her is gross. After a series of misunderstandings, he explains to her that he meant that [[GirlsHaveCooties he thinks kissing is gross]], not kissing her in particular.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's rough, likes to fight and is much less of an overall NiceGuy than Negi, but still a good guy.
* KansaiRegionalAccent: He speaks with this kind of accent.
* {{Kemonomimi}}: He has dog ears and a tail.
* TheLancer: Contrasting Negi, he's much more aggressive and impulsive, though he's still the closest thing Negi has to a partner after Asuna.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Between Kyoto and Graf Wilhelm, his memory is briefly wiped to prevent him leaking information.
* LimitedWardrobe: He always wears the same casual attire.
* LonerTurnedFriend: Kotaro never had any friends before meeting Negi.
* MagicPants: His pants remain perfectly intact as he transforms into his beast form.
* MeaningfulName: "Inugami" means "dog spirit".
* MonsterRoommate: Chizuru and Natsumi find an abandoned puppy, which turns into a little boy with a tail and sharp claws. They basically adopt him.
* MrFanservice: What else do you call wearing a black leather jacket, black leather pants, sneakers and no shirt paired with said jacket?
* NoSocialSkills: Having been abandoned as a child and spent his whole life doing anything normal besides training to fight, Kotaro doesn't know how to socialize with people very well.
* ObliviousToLove: He doesn't understand why Natsumi has {{Luminescent Blush}}es and shows {{Tsundere}} tendencies when he's around her.
* OlderAlterEgo: His teenaged form "Kojirou".
* TheRival: To Negi.
* SarcasticDevotee: He always insults Negi, but he is also one of his most loyal friends.
* SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack: Explicitly states that his school uniform is his battle garb.
* SexierAlterEgo: His teenaged form "Kojirou" can be quite charming in a bad boy sort of way. Natsumi gets really flustered around him and even tends to forget his real age.
* ShonenHair: He has spiky black hair like the stereotypical shounen protagonist.
* ShortHairWithTail: He has a tail tied at the nape of his neck coming from his ShonenHair.
* StreetUrchin: His backstory.
* TastesLikeFriendship: Kotaro is first greeted by Chizuru and Natsumi with a homecooked meal (after an appetizer of MarshmallowHell); his constant complimenting of Chizuru's cooking pretty much seals it.
* WalkingTheEarth: At least seven years after Class 3-A's graduation, he simply ran off for some "ninja training". [[spoiler:Natsumi would follow suit, and after years of BelligerentSexualTension, they finally marry.]]
* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: He even asks IsItSomethingYouEat. By the ball he acknowledges familial love.
* WouldntHitAGirl: It's actually presented as a deeply stupid comportment, and several of the {{Action Girl}}s like Kaede have tried to ''literally'' beat it out of him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nagase Kaede]]
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As a {{Ninja}} of considerable skill, Kaede is generally a wise mentor figure to the group when she's not serving as its [[ActionGirl muscle]]. She is portrayed as more powerful than Negi himself in the early stages of the story despite initially [[{{Muggle}} not knowing about magic at all]] and it is not until a decent length into the story that Negi manages to catch up to and surpass her. Her grades are not that great, but she doesn't appear to be unintelligent. Rather, she apparently spends too much time training.

Kaede fights using her ninja abilities, making her very fast, able to use many powerful shadow clones and having a high degree of strength and skill.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RyokoShiraishi (Japanese), Clarine Harp (English)
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* ActionGirl: Comes naturally with being a ninja. During Mahorafest she was able to match up against Albireo, who should be ''much'' stronger than her, though he was obviously unwilling to use potentially lethal attacks.
* AntiquatedLinguistics: She uses a peculiar style of archaic speech patterns, notably ending her sentences with "de gozaru" or "nari", usually associated with Ninja or Samurai warriors. They are often left untranslated, or in the case of the anime, cut out entirely.
* {{Badass}}: Until around midway through the Magic World arc, she was probably the strongest fighter in the group. During the Mahorafest semifinals she demonstrated the ability to stall Albireo so well that in order to avoid losing by votes in overtime he was forced to pull out his TooAwesomeToUse pactio[[note]]It can only be used for several minutes and then becomes useless forever[[/note]] in order to subdue her non-lethally. [[spoiler:In the Magic World finale she had the best showing of any allied fighter not named Negi or Chachamaru by briefly matching Quintum before going for a non combat victory.]]
* BadassCape: Her artifact, Tengu no Kakuremino, takes the form of a ragged looking cloth worn as a cape.
* BadassInANiceSuit: During the ball she wears a nice suit rather than a dress because she wants to be able to move around easily.
* BigSisterInstinct: Towards Negi and Kotaro. The charts say that her romantic feelings for them are low, but the sisterly/motherly ones are [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale off the scale]]. She also seems to take care of the twins.
* BookDumb: She doesn't seem as dumb as Ku Fei and is a good strategist to boot. She still manages to be one of the five worst students in the class with the most commonly accepted explanation being that the {{Ninja}} training is probably interfering with her studies.
* CatSmile: Especially prominent due to EyesAlwaysShut.
* CoolBigSis: To Negi and Kotaro.
* EyesAlwaysShut: So far she has only been seen with both eyes open about a dozen times; each time signifies [[LetsGetDangerous she means business]].
* FlatCharacter: Tall, protective and wise ninja. Not much more to say about her.
* FuumaShuriken: Her shuriken is at least six feet from tip to tip and provides the Page image. [[Pantheon/BladedWeapons Deified, as well]].
* HaremNanny: Her romantic feelings are low, but her motherly feelings are very high. As a result, she's very protective and calm compared to the more emotional girls like Asuna or Ku Fei.
* HeirToTheDojo: Though it's only mentioned in [[AllThereInTheManual her character design notes]].
* IdiotHair: As one of the Baka Rangers, she gets to have an idiot hair. She seems smarter than most of the group though.
* {{Ninja}}: Although she doesn't necessarily [[HighlyVisibleNinja stick out like a sore thumb]].
* {{Sarashi}}: Being a {{Ninja}} and everything, she uses sarashi as a bra.
* ShortHairWithTail: Her hair has a short part in a straight bob and a long part of her hair in a ponytail tied at the nape of her neck that reaches her feet.
* SlipknotPonytail: Chao snatches her hair band to prove a point about the different levels of ability between the two and show Kaede can't hope to beat her.
* StaticCharacter: She's already calm and sure of where she wants to go in life, leaving her as one of the more stable and mellow members of the cast throughout its run.
* StatuesqueStunner: One of the tallest girls in the series with 183cm tall and the second largest bust. [[LampshadeHanging She can't pass for her actual age at all.]]
* TomboyishSidetails: Her sidetails are longer than the short part of her hair.
* TsurimeEyes: 95% of the time, she's EyesAlwaysShut, but when she does open them, they are this shape.
* VaporWear: Just look at that picture. She is probably not wearing underwear.
* WalkingTheEarth: The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue reveals that she has since become a wanderer helping her friends along the way when not training on Earth with Ku Fei.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: She's afraid of frogs. This is based on a pun that doesn't really translate.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has greenish brown hair.
* YoungerThanSheLooks: Neither she nor Mana can get their student discount when trying to get into the movies, so she uses a ninja technique to make her look ''much'' younger.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Karakuri Chachamaru]]
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Chachamaru is a robot designed by Chao and Hakase with a magic based power source fueled by Evangeline, her master. Despite looking older than many of her classmates, she is in fact the youngest person in the cast at only two years of age. She tends to appear emotionless, but is very kind and helpful. She also likes to tease Evangeline with a completely straight face. She has a crush on Negi, which causes issues for her since she's forced into conflict with him twice before she's able to act as an ally. During the second incident she makes friends with Chisame despite the latter's irritation with anything outside the ordinary, which definitely extends to humanoid robots going to middle school.

Chachamaru is designed to be quite tough and appears to know some form of martial arts. She also has many weapons hidden inside her body and as a robot has information warfare capabilities.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AkenoWatanabe (Japanese) and Creator/CaitlinGlass (English)
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* ActionGirl: She was Negi's entrance exam for Eva's training. Later, she beats up a dragon.
* {{Adorkable}}: She has her moments of cute awkwardness, especially around Negi.
* AnimalMotifs: She has an association with the better qualities of cats. They even feature into her pactio.
* ArmCannon: Part of her new {{Swiss Army Appendage}}s from her MidSeasonUpgrade.
* BadassAdorable: This RobotGirl can make [[spoiler:a KillSat]] look really cute.
* BadLiar: When her teasing antics are turned against her, she gets badly flustered and makes some incredibly transparent denials.
* BareYourMidriff: In her Pactio outfit.
* BerserkButton: Trying to harm a sick Negi while Chachamaru is around is a very bad idea. It's perhaps the only time [[NiceGirl Chachamaru]] has actually looked angry.
* {{BFG}}: Her body contains weaponry and thus she can morph her arm into a cannon.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Part of her new {{Swiss Army Appendage}}s from her MidSeasonUpgrade.
* BloodFromTheMouth: After Quartum [[spoiler:cuts her in two]] she begins leaking hydraulic fluid from her mouth since she doesn't have actual blood.
* CatGirl: Of the LittleBitBeastly variety; when her Pactio card is engaged she gains kitty ears.
* CovertPervert: She feels pleasure from being refueled via the key in the back of her head, which grows more intense as more magic energy is put in. After Negi fails to realize the awkward parts of this she apparently starts looking forward to it, which Asakura teases her about. For her part, she wonders if she's heading down the wrong path in life.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Green hair and eyes.
* EmotionlessGirl: Although she is less 'emotionless' and more 'expressionless'. She has emotions, but her face doesn't display it very well.
* EyeBeams: One of her abilities. She frequently uses these for her ranged attacks.
* FanservicePack: Halfway through the story, Hakase equips her with a realistic skin to hide her robotic body, making her look like, well, pretty much a normal woman. It doesn't take long for it to be shown in a bath scene.
* FantasticArousal: The key winding gives physical pleasure similar to that of a pactio, only it lasts longer, can be more intense if more energy is added and has to be done every day if she's to be in top performance.
* FriendToAllChildren: When Negi and Asuna followed her in an early chapter, they found her surrounded by a lot of children who're playing with her while she goes around doing good deeds, like handing a balloon stuck in a tree back to the little girl who lost it.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Along with helping all the townspeople as above, she also feeds a ton of cats, which all seem to love her.
* TheGadfly: After awhile it becomes clear that she's apparently fond of teasing Eva in a completely deadpan manner.
* GlassCannon: [[spoiler:Al-Iskandariya is quite possibly Ala Alba's most powerful weapon but it does nothing for her defenses. So with a full power blast, she not only knocked out Fate's shields, she knocked him out for a good ten minutes. In a single blow. And was immediately hit with a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from Quartum.]]
* HasTwoMommies: Hakase and Chao worked together to build Chachamaru with a little support from Evangeline on the power source. The former two are considered her parents and the latter her master.
* HimeCut: One of her YamatoNadeshiko traits.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: She's uncomfortable with showing her body when it looks obviously robotic, but after she gets artificial skin she's completely confused by Negi asking her to PleasePutSomeClothesOn.
* KindheartedCatLover: One of the first hints we get that Chachamaru is a lot nicer than being the minion of a vampire lord would suggest is her attitude towards cats.
* {{Magitek}}: She runs partially on magic.
* MeaningfulName: "Cha" is a common pronunciation of the Japanese character for "tea"; "karakuri" literally translates into "mechanism". The translated title for her pactio, Dreaming Doll, also ties in to her character arc.
* MoralityPet: Evangeline's treatment of her is one of the many signs that [[NobleDemon she's not as evil as she says]]. Sure, she picks on her, but she's also nearly her mother.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: She came into conflict with Negi twice despite her obvious feelings for him. Both times because were because she was unwilling to act against her parents or master.
* MySensorsIndicateYouWantToTapThat: Apparently [[TheGadfly just to pick on them]] Chachamaru at one point starts indicating the obvious signs of attraction the girls are feeling.
* PickYourHumanHalf: When the series started, she had obvious mechanical joints, antenna ears and with only a human looking face, but also possessed the full emotional spectrum even if she couldn't always express it well. Later, though, she does look more or less completely human, retaining only the ears.
* RapunzelHair: Her hair acts as heat dissipator; thus the longer her hair, the greater the exposed surface area and thus increased efficiency in heat dissipation.
* RescueRomance: Chachamaru started to have interest in Negi after he [[TakingTheBullet took the bullet]] from his own attack after he couldn’t bring himself to hurt her.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: She wasn't ''supposed'' to be one, [[InstantAIJustAddWater but she is]]. Hakase programmed her with rudimentary emotions and to mimic human activities she cannot perform otherwise like drinking tea, but she was ''not'' supposed to develop subjectivity, which is the basis of the majority of her CharacterDevelopment.
* {{Robosexual}}: Teased at. She has obvious feelings for Negi and feels an equivalent to sexual pleasure, but the idea of making a move on him doesn't even seem to occur to her. As far as being 'anatomically correct' goes, she refused upgrades several times.
* RobotGirl: She is a very beautiful female magic robot.
* RobotHair: She has hair which is [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair pastel green]]. It's a synthetic material which functions as her heat sink, but only the color visually distinguishes it from normal hair.
* RobotNames: To clarify the above, "Karakuri" means "mechanism".
* RocketPunch: Usually played for laughs, such as punching Hakase for checking out her memory files that she wanted kept private.
* SexySecretary: Volunteers to work as Negi's secretary while [[spoiler:works on the space elevator plan.]] It's a long term project with a lot of work involved and therefore suitable for an immortal being that doesn't require sleep.
* StatuesqueStunner: She is 174cm tall and has one of the more adult figures of the class.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: She's obviously a kind person and recognized as such, but she's almost always monotone and expressionless if not at an emotional peak.
* SwissArmyAppendage: Her new body's arms can [[MorphWeapon morph]] into [[ArmCannon assault rifles]] or [[BladeBelowTheShoulder swords]] -- and morph [[ShapeshifterWeapon ''back'' into arms]].
* SymbolicBlood: After [[spoiler:being bisected by Quatrum]] she "bleeds" coolant.
* TinmanTypist: This is how she fights in the Mahora Battle.
* UnusualEars: Her ears are actually antennae. Chisame is frustrated that she's the [[MetaGuy only one who seems to notice this]].
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Played with. Because she can take more damage it's not unusual for this to be shown. [[spoiler:She gets cut in half by Quartum at one point because he doesn't view her as alive. The scene is completely brutal with the level of violence inflicted upon her viewed as being as unacceptable as happening to anyone else especially with the damage shown: Her innards are showing, including a structural spine and SymbolicBlood everywhere.]]
* WildCard: Because of the whole "MyMasterRightOrWrong" thing conflicting with her desire to help Negi it becomes difficult to guess how she'll act until the Magic World arc begins.
* WindUpKey: She needs to be wound up every so often. It feels very good to her, so it often causes her embarrassment in the hands of an overenthusiastic winder.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Seeing as how she was created to be acquiescent, it is not surprising that she would have this sort of SilkHidingSteel programming; she fits many of the physical requirements as well. She's also part of the same tea ceremony club as Evangeline.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has long green hair.
* YoungerThanSheLooks: The only character who is younger than Negi because she was built to look the age she does. During the ball, she also points out to an angsting Natsumi that she isn't the only one with issues. She's two years old, so what life experience could she have?
* ZettaiRyouiki: Apparently a permanent fixture in her synthetic skin. With [[FingerlessGloves Fingerless]] OperaGloves to match.
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[[folder:Ku Fei]]
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Ku Fei is a Chinese exchange student with incredible skill in martial arts and immense strength. Seeing her skill, Negi asks her to teach him kenpo, which he picks up at a rate she considers unfair. Because she starts the series unable to use ki, she tends to lag behind the heavier hitters like Kaede despite being considered her superior when it comes to sheer skill in martial arts.

Her grades don't match her physical ability in the slightest and she speaks with an accent. She also has a rather straightforward and friendly personality.

->'''Voiced by:''' Hazuki Tanaka (Japanese, ''Mahou Sensei Negima!'' and ''Negima!?''), Creator/KanaAsumi (Japanese, ''Mou Hitotsu no Sekai'' onwards), Creator/CynthiaCranz (English)
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* ActionGirl: She is the captain of the martial arts club.
* AnimeChineseGirl: She usually wears a {{qipao}} and knows martial arts. She even puts her hair up in a pair of {{odango}} sometimes.
* BareFistedMonk: She is a good fist figther and wipes the floor with weapon-users routinely.
* BookDumb: By her own admission, Ku Fei is good at "everything but studying", to the point where, when it becomes a concern of the other girls that Negi might be developing a crush on her, they initially dismiss it because they think she's an idiot.
* CannotKeepASecret: She's told to keep a secret during Mahorafest twice, once regarding Albireo's true identity and another time regarding Chao planning to leave the class. She blurts it out almost instantly both times.
* DarkSkinnedBlond: A bit ditzy, but not out-and-out crazy.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: In a world filled with [[FantasyKitchenSink mages, vampires, half-demons, ninjas, robots]] and other beings somewhat cognizant of magic, she achieved [[BadassNormal exceptional strength in battle]] [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower by training a lot]] in her chosen style. Once the difficulty spiked for her, she started using ki rather than pure martial arts as well as making a Pactio with Negi. Her relative weakness often makes her more impressive looking in universe
--->'''Chisame:''' "She's just close enough to human that we can tell how ridiculously good she is."
* {{Expy}}: Of [[LoveHina Kaolla Su]] in terms of appearance and personality.
* FlashStep: Against Mana, during the ''[=MahoraFest=] Tournament''.
* GirlishPigtails: Her hair is bound up in spiky tails.
* HeirToTheDojo: She is the successor to the Ku warrior clan. [[spoiler:And as of the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, she has since set up a dojo to accommodate challengers and future followers alike.]]
* ImprobableWeaponUser: She weaponized cloth in her fight with Mana.
* KungFuKid: As far as martial arts go she's basically the highest level fighter in the group, but her control of ki lags behind the rest of the group.
* VerbalTic: She uses "Aru" instead of the proper sentence endings, which is anime code for "I am an anime character with a Chinese accent." In official translations she gets HulkSpeak instead while fan translations leave it untranslated. For some reason, she loses it in the first anime but regains it in ''[[NegimaSecondSeason Negima!?]]''.
* WaifFu: She looks rather scrawny, but when she flexes muscles suddenly start bulging everywhere.
* YouNoTakeCandle: She turns into this starting from around Volume 7 of the English manga, possibly to make it clear that she's Chinese rather than Japanese. Prior to that she speaks like a normal schoolgirl.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Starting in Chapter 55, when she is first seen in a non-school outfit. The formal qipao she wore when she got her Pactio also counts, even though it is quite long, but the cut is also quite high so it shows off her legs and socks nicely.
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[[folder:Anna "Anya" Yurievna Cocolova]]
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Anya is Negi's childhood friend and a fellow graduate from [[WizardingSchool Merdiana Magic Academy]]. Since she's known Negi longer than any of his students, he doesn't use {{Keigo}} when speaking to her. She's [[FieryRedhead extremely emotional]], [[{{Tsundere}} especially when it comes to Negi]] and is convinced that he is being led astray by all the pretty girls and their boobs. Though she shows up after Mahorafest intending to show him how much she has improved, she's stunned to see that he's way, way out of her league at this point. Further annoying her is the number of pactios he has at this point, which pisses her off until he manages to calm her down and invite her to the group officially.

She specializes in fire magic, of course, though her performance is less than stellar considering that the first time she tries to attack Negi she also sets her own clothing and hair on fire.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RyoHirohashi (Japanese, ''Mahou Sensei Negima!''), Creator/ChiwaSaito (Japanese, ''Negima?!'' onwards), Kate Bristol (English, ''Mahou Sensei Negima!'') and Creator/BrittneyKarbowski (English, ''Negima!?'')
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* ACupAngst: Seems particularly obsessed with her breast size relative to the older girls of the Ala Alba. At one point she states outright "those with big breasts are my enemies, those with small breasts are my allies". No wonder she made quick friends with Yue and Nodoka.
* AgeAppropriateAngst: Unlike the rest of the cast, she just has some body image issues that she'll grow out of and worrys that the boy she totally doesn't like or anything doesn't pay enough attention to her.
* AscendedExtra: Anya has a ''much'' bigger role in ''Negima!?'', and an even bigger one in the ''Negima!? Neo'' manga partially based on the former, where she becomes ''the'' 32nd member of Class 3-A come Chapter 15, and is all set up to take ninja lessons from Kaede and actually become useful in combat. [[ThrowTheDogABone Akamatsu must've felt bad for her.]]
* BrattyHalfPint: She comes across as violent, bossy and very bratty.
* ClingyJealousGirl: She doesn't like seeing Negi with other girls.
* ElementalHair: She uses fire magic and her hair is red.
* FieryRedhead: She's hot headed and what little offensive magic she does know is all fire based.
* FortuneTeller: Her assignment in London as a final mage test, akin to Negi's assignment as a teacher in Japan.
* GirlishPigtails: As part of her stereotypical {{Tsundere}} appearance.
* PlayingWithFire: She specializes in fire magic.
* RapunzelHair: Down to her waist.
* RobeAndWizardHat: Her standard attire before the Magical World trip.
* ShanaClone: She is a small {{Tsundere}} with RapunzelHair and a literal FieryRedhead to boot.
* TinyTyrannicalGirl: She's tiny, bossy and prone to comedic violence.
* TransliterationTrouble: Her surname. Until we got an official spelling, nobody knew how to spell it correctly.
* {{Tsundere}}: She's a definite aggressive 'hit first, ask questions ''never'' unless you have to' type.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Grade S, combined with a {{Meido}} outfit to complement her [[GirlishPigtails pigtails]] and [[{{Tsundere}} attitude]].
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* CantCatchUp: At the beginning of the magic world arc his abilities were generally rated as being a bit higher than Negi's, but come the tournament and Magia Erebea and Kotaro was suddenly vastly outstripped. He didn't catch up by the end of the manga.

* BestHerToBedHer: Played with. She made a rule for herself that she would only marry a man stronger than her; though she concedes to Negi's strength, his young age means she isn't comfortable with the idea. [[spoiler:When they made a Pactio, Chamo picked that exact moment to wonder why Chao looked so Chinese with a Welsh great-grandfather.]]

* BrickBreak: She moved on to ''boulders'' once bricks didn't provide enough of a challenge. And when those stopped being a challenge, she moved on to ''mountains''.

* CurbStompBattle: Every morning she gets challengers. Every morning she stomps them.

* FingerPokeOfDoom: Her bookcase-destroying forehead flick, or "dekopin".

* KiAttacks: She starts the series as a normal, but by the tournament rolls around she's a beginner with ki. She uses a FlashStep in her finishing strike against Mana and can hit monsters, shadow minions and spider-tanks hard enough to toss them around. After summer training she's advanced to ranged attacks, not to mention being able to shatter a cliff.

* NeverBringAKnifeToAFistfight: The only fistfighter among the girls of the group, and faces off against enemies with weapons many times.
* NoodleIncident: During her arm wrestling match with Negi, the crowd makes mention of an infamous organization in Mundus Magicus being wiped out, and speculates that she may have had a hand in it. Lampshaded by Chisame:
-->'''Chisame:''' Just what has that Kenpo-nut been getting up to?
* ShutUpHannibal: PlayedForLaughs, when she made Dynamis shut up with a poke from her staff.
* SupernaturalMartialArts: She is capable of killing demons barehanded.
* TelescopingStaff: The Shintetsu Jizaikon. Like the [[JourneyToTheWest Monkey King]]'s staff, it can grow and shrink at will. Her first use of it is as ''artillery''.
* TrainingFromHell: Subverted -- she tries to train Negi like this, and fails miserably because she took all the training techniques from movies and manga. When she starts teaching him normally, he picks it up quickly.

* WaifFu: She looks rather scrawny, but when her physique is given more emphasis muscles suddenly start bulging everywhere.

* AgeAppropriateAngst: Unlike the rest of the cast, her issues are just issues with body image that she'll grow out of and worrying that the boy she totally doesn't like or anything doesn't pay enough attention to her.

* CantCatchUp: She comes to find Negi, intending to show off her progress. Naturally, he's way ahead of her.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: She has a rather obvious crush on Negi, but due to her minor character status it doesn't go anywhere.

* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: She's able to beat Negi up as much as she wants (with ''flaming'' punches and kicks, no less).
* DynamicEntry: The first entry she made is via a diagonally angled ''fire'' kick from above.

* HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: When Konoka asks how she feels about Negi.
* MagicWand: She uses one of these as opposed to Negi's [[SimpleStaff staff]].
* MegatonPunch: Since Negi is so young, most of the girls don't feel embarrassed around him. Anya, though, is willing and capable of sending him flying - [[SubvertedTrope but only if he lets her.]]
* MissingMom: Mrs. Cocolova was turned to stone while Anya was away.

* RightBehindMe: She has a complete freakout when Evangeline pulls this off.

* RocketPunch: With the use of [[spoiler:lightning magic]] he fires off his fist for a distance punch [[spoiler:and then the rest of his body shoots after it, thwarting Tsukuyomi's attempts to take hostages.]]

* CryCute: Many times, the first being after Negi nearly drowned in Chapter 61. A sadder one occurs near the end of the manga [[spoiler:upon waking up 30 years too late, only to realize that Negi inexplicably died and that Ayaka [[{{Determinator}} lived to be 115 just to see her again]], just before Eva and Chao reappear to bring her back to 130 years ago.]]

* ActionGirl: She was Negi's entrance exam for Eva's training.

* AwesomeButImpractical: [[spoiler:Her pactio is perhaps the most powerful attack in the series, but since it's a kill sat it's hard to utilize effectively. Apart from the difficulty of using it in the middle of a fight, it also has a tremendous area of effect.]]
-->"The power of this weapon is so great that I was worried it would be difficult to find any practical use for it... but this opponent should make a perfect trial target. ...Captain! Please maintain a safe distance from the enemy."

* BecomeARealBoy: Chachamaru goes through this rather quickly, as she already has the emotions programmed in but simply doesn't know how to express herself.

* BigDamnKiss: Her pactio kiss involves Negi giving [[BeyondTheImpossible a big 'screw you!' to the laws of magic]] [[spoiler:by either ensouling her, convincing her she has a soul or forcing an artificial lifeform that already has a soul to be recognized by whatever governs the pactio system.]] The visual effects during this are impressive. The event lasts a full chapter, the kiss is four pages long and, according to Chamo, breaks the pactio length record set by [[spoiler:Konoka and Setsuna]] half a dozen chapters before.

* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: In chapter 337, Eva walks in on Chachamaru winding herself up while calling out Negi's name. HilarityEnsues since Eva is ''very'' amused.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Evangeline usually punishes her by winding her up. Given what we learn not long afterward, this has a fairly sexual slant to it.
* CovertPervert: She ''tried'' to [[DefiedTrope defy]] this, but post magic world Chachamaru has fallen into this trope hard. To her credit, she always refuses having "naughty bits" installed since she sees no need for them.
* CryCute: When Hakase begins violating her privacy and reading her memories in front of Negi, she rocket punches her and then runs away crying despite having no tear ducts.

* DefeatMeansFriendship: After Chisame beats her in a hacking duel, the two begin getting along well. Chachamaru drags her along to Ala Alba events.
* DoAndroidsDream: She begins stressing out and wondering if she has a soul around the time the Magic World arc begins. [[spoiler:She eventually gains a pactio and therefore proof that she has a soul.]]
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything
** Whenever she needs to replenish her energy, she needs to have her magic key wound, preferably by a mage channeling magic into her through it. It "feels good" and Chachamaru's reaction is far from subtle. The situation comes up again with even less subtlety during [[spoiler:her pactio]].
** Near the end of the story, she has to refuel herself with canned mana. Evangeline walks in and comes to [[ADateWithRosiePalms the reasonable conclusion.]]

* FantasticArousal: [[IDidntMeanToTurnYouOn The key winding]] and/or pure magical energy, especially Negi's.

* FriendToAllLivingThings: [[KindheartedCatLover Her cat scene.]]

* [[spoiler:HalfTheManHeUsedToBe]]: [[spoiler:Got cut completely in half by Quartum. Naturally, since she's a RidiculouslyHumanRobot, this ends up being non-fatal. Quartum didn't have the freedom to do that to things the Lifemaker recognized as alive but is rather AxCrazy.]]

* IAmYourOpponent: To a friggin' '''dragon.'''
* TheImmodestOrgasm: Chachamaru's mana recharging apparently 'feels good.' Negi is not one to be stingy or catch the subtext in what he's doing. End result? One very embarrassed (and apparently loud) robot.

* [[spoiler:KillSat: Al-Iskandariya's principal weapon is this -- and cat-shaped, at that.]]

* MacrossMissileMassacre: Did this at the end of the first anime adaptation using a pactio power.

* MidSeasonUpgrade: Gains one of these after her GadgeteerGenius creator Hakase gathered the observed battle-data of the previous arc. Among a few new weapons and a speed upgrade, one major aesthetic improvement has her concealing her mechanical joints with softer, more realistic skin. She still has a set of antenna ears on her head, so its not hard to figure out she's a robot.
* MoralityPet: Evangeline's treatment of her is one of the many signs that [[NobleDemon she's not as evil as she says]].

* OverrideCommand: The emergency shutdown button is on her chest.
* PetTheDog: Her love for cats is the reader's first hint that, despite her mistress, she isn't all that evil. Once Negi and Asuna decide to ambush her while she takes a "day off," they follow her with increasing discomfort as she literally wanders around the city performing random acts of kindness for complete strangers.
* PickYourHumanHalf: Starts with a pseudo-skin face, but antenna ears and visible joints make it obvious she's a robot. She later gets a full body pseudo-skin covery later, though, but retains her antenna ears. She's gone so far as to develop a crush on Negi.
* PostKissCatatonia: [[spoiler: Due to the extreme kissing of her Pactio.]]

* RoboticReveal: Played with -- no one seems to care that she has rockets in her feet.

* SchematizedProp: Her [[AllThereInTheManual character design page]].

* SlidingScaleOfRobotIntelligence: She is an “Average Joe Android." Her grades aren't great, but she's an excellent hacker.

* TearsFromAStone: It's actually lens-cleaning fluid. Which is basically what human tears are, really.
* TinMan: Chachamaru regards herself as one, few who know her agree.

* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Begins to feel troubled once she starts to develop feelings for Negi. When her creator discovers this, she goes on a wild, rapid rant about the ethical and philosophical implications of a robot learning to love.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Played with. Because she can take more damage it's not unusual for this to be shown. [[spoiler:She gets cut in half by Quartum at one point because he doesn't view her as alive. The scene is obviously siding with Chachamaru though and the level of violence inflicted upon her is viewed as being as unacceptable as happening to anyone else especially with the damage shown: Her innards are showing, including a structural spine and SymbolicBlood everywhere. Negi goes straight to TranquilFury and [[PunctuatedPounding explains to Quartum that Chachamaru. Is not. A DOLL.]]]]

* ActionGirl: Comes naturally with being a ninja. During Mahorafest she was able to match up against Albireo, who should be ''much'' stronger than her though he was obviously unwilling to use potentially lethal attacks [[spoiler:given the fact that he can create magic black holes.]]

* ArrowCatch: She catches a shot from an arrow trap while in the Mahora Library.

* BadassInANiceSuit: During the ball she wears a nice suit rather than a dress.
* BathtubBonding: With Negi.
* {{BFS}}: In this case, the "S" stands for [[FuumaShuriken Shuriken]], and is nearly twice as big as she is and is normally carried in pieces. This is quite a feat, considering her size.
* BiggerOnTheInside: Her artifact is not for combat: It contains a small pocket dimension filled with supplies.
* BigSisterInstinct: Towards Negi and Kotaro. The charts say that her romantic feelings for them are low, but the sisterly/motherly ones are [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale off the scale]].
** She takes this role with the twins on occasion, this is more prominent in the anime.

* DoppelgangerAttack: Kaede can make a large number of solid clones, each of which has good offensive power.

* FingerPokeOfDoom: She can perform a bookcase-destroying forehead flick, or "dekopin" just like Ku Fei.
* FlashStep: She's the best flash step user in Ala Alba.
* FlatCharacter: She's already calm and sure of where she wants to go in life, leaving her as one of the more stable and mellow members of the cast throughout its run.

* {{Hammerspace}}: The very nature of Tengu no Kakuremino.

* IAmYourOpponent: Intercepts Dynamis when he's after Nodoka, forcing him to retreat.

* JapanesePronouns: She uses the humble and archaic "Sessha" to refer herself.
* JapaneseHonorifics: … and the respectful suffix "-dono" when she talks to other people.
* MundaneUtility: She uses her ninja techniques to do things like hunt fish.

* NonchalantDodge: Against Sanders for epic, and against the Narutakis for a laugh.

* SelfSacrificeScheme: Non lethally. [[spoiler:After Quintum took back the Great Grandmaster Key from the group, Kaede enters a fight with him. While her offenses and speed would be enough to match him fairly well, she can't deal with his intangibility and simply steals the key from him and sends it back with a clone]].
* ShadowPin: Kage Nui (Shadow Sewing) which she uses by piercing the shadow with her FuumaShuriken, though it doesn't work long on rampaging Demon Negi.

* SupernaturalMartialArts: Can jump absurdly high, clone herself, and use a giant shuriken as a shield, among other things.

* WalkOnWater: One of her ninja abilities.
* [[spoiler:WalkingTheEarth: The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue reveals that she has since become a wanderer helping her friends along the way when not training on Earth with Ku Fei.]]

* SexyBacklessutfit: The traditional clothes of her people.

* AttackHello: During the early magic world arc when Negi has a fever, Kotaro enters the scene with a smile and a punch to the face.
* BackToBackBadasses: With Negi.

* BelligerentSexualTension: He's slowly developing this with Natsumi, since he's an ObliviousToLove JerkWithAHeartOfGold while she's an immature {{Tsundere}}. [[spoiler:The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue reveals that after many years of them arguing and denying their feelings, they finally tie the knot in 2015.]]

* BromanticFoil: To Negi.

* ChickMagnet: He attracts nearly as much ladies as Negi at the ball.

* DefeatMeansFriendship: He becomes TheRival after Negi defeats him during the Kyoto arc.

* FireForgedFriends: With Negi. They start out as enemies, have to join forces to defeat a demon, and are good friends after that.
* [[spoiler:FirstKiss: With Natsumi.]]
* {{Foil}}: To [[ThePhilosopher Yue]], who loves to deconstruct {{shonen}} tropes.
* FriendlyRivalry: With Negi.
* GetOutOfJailFreeCard: As an expression of gratitude for saving Negi and his students at the end of Volume 8, Kotaro is formally freed and is now free to hang around with Negi. It also helps that he has already performed a HeelFaceTurn.

* HeyYou: He never calls Yue by her name unless it's sarcastically. This gets turned around on him when Evangeline refers to him as a dog instead of his name.

* IgnoredEnemy: When he and Negi team up to fight Graf Wilhelm, the two begin to bicker before Graf forces them to work together.
* IGotYouCovered: [[spoiler:When he teams up with Negi.]]
* InASingleBound: Before he learns a hovering technique and even after, Kotaro finds the best way to get around is huge, rapid jumps.
* InnocentCohabitation: Lives with Chizuru, Natsumi and Ayaka mostly because at least Chizuru (and maybe even Natsumi) won't let him go.

* InsistentTerminology: He insists that he's a lone wolf, not a dog demon.
* InterspeciesRomance: With Natsumi.

* TheLancer: To Negi, being one of his main partners.

* LightheartedRematch: Due to Kotaro's love for fighting, post Kyoto arc he and Negi seem to squabble and fight a lot of fun to prove which is stronger. Negi initially doesn't care, but later he grows to enjoy such rematches.
* LikeBrotherAndSister: How he views his relationship with Natsumi, not realizing her feelings are beyond that.

* MonsterRoommate: To Chizuru and Natsumi.

* NakedFirstImpression: Since Chizuru and Natsumi find Kotaro while he's in his dog form, he's naked when he first meets them.
* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: He began fighting his past self.
* NonchalantDodge: First tournament fight in Mundus Magicus arc. He and Negi dodge a ''really'' big attack combo... only to appear leaning on the big guy talking about how much that would have hurt. He does it later on to one of Fate's Ministras when she tries to crush him to death... and it's only a clone.

* NotQuiteFlight: Kotaro can't fly, but his shadow hounds can, and being made of darkness, he just forms them into the shape of floating wheels attached to his feet so he can run through the sky.

* OnlyAFleshWound: Being part demon he can regenerate at a stunning rate.
* RelativelyFlimsyExcuse: Kotaro lives with Chizuru and Natsumi under the pretense of being Natsumi's little brother.

* RivalsTeamUp: With Negi, against Graf.

* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Manly Man to Negi's Sensitive Guy.

* TechnicianVersusPerformer: Negi is the technician, Kotaro is the performer.
* [[spoiler:WalkingTheEarth: At least seven years after Class 3-A's graduation, he simply ran off for some "ninja training". Natsumi would follow suit, and after years of BelligerentSexualTension, they finally marry.]]
* WalkOnWater: One of his ninja abilities.

* TheWorfEffect: Strongly implied against Fate in Chapter 303. [[GenreSavvy It doesn't happen]] and actually shows quite a bit of CharacterDevelopment on his part: the old Kotaro would have [[PunchPunchPunchUhOh attacked and endangered the whole group]].
* WorthyOpponent: He considers Negi this.

* DynamicEntry: She kicks Eva in the head when joining a fight.

* BeamSpam: Eventually, she becomes rather good with magical arrows.

* DeadpanSnarker: She has her moments.
* DefeatByModesty: In chapter 354, Paio II makes her reappearance, completely stripping her, and applying some serious SkinshipGrope almost to the point of BlackComedyRape. She even goes as far as to [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] that she should overcome this weakness to become a better fighter.

* DynamicEntry: Saving the class representative from [[spoiler:a Griffin Dragon.]]
* EasyAmnesia: After the Gateport incident, Yue had the bad luck to land right in front of a magic student who accidentally erased all the memories about her life with a memory erasure spell, and was too embarrassed to say so, so she just told Yue that she bumped her head.

* GeniusBookClub: She's often seen with rather advanced books, often dealing with philosophy.

* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: To Negi during the Mahora Festival trouble.
* GreatBigBookOfEverything: Orbis Sensualium Pictus is a book containing all information on magic, including spells, items, beasts, and even artifacts. The fact that it's a magic artifact conveniently removes the Great Big part of trope, condensing it into a small book.

* HomoeroticSubtext: With Emily Sevensheep and Colette. Volume 0 has a lot of fun with this one and Haruna seems awfully amused as well.

* IAmYourOpponent: During a [[CookingDuel dramatic pillow fight]]. [[spoiler:And to a ''[[TookALevelInBadass griffin dragon]]''.]]

* InstantArmor: Post Ariadne training she can instantly summon some magic armor.

* PantyShot: The spin-off {{OVA}} threw in a lot of panty shots for her, including a rather detailed bit during her TransformationSequence.

** Once in the Magic World, however, she enrolled in the Ariadne Academy for knights due to amnesia. With her memories not holding her effort back, she puts in some amazingly hard work and within about a month becomes the academy's top student [[spoiler:after planning out the successful defeat of a griffin dragon.]]

** [[spoiler: Manga/UQHolder reveals that she and Ku Fei are the 2015 Mahora Academy Martial Arts champs. Yue is even seen using a spell very much resembling Negi's Titan Slayer, if it isn't the spell itself. Her overall levels in badass taken are off the charts.]]
* TownGirls: The Neither to Nodoka's Femme and Haruna's Butch.
* [[TrademarkFavoriteFood Trademark Favorite Drink]]: She's often shown with a juice of outlandish composition in hand, though the actual contents are always different.

* ZettaiRyouiki: Wears thigh high black stockings. (These becomes purple in the Negima?! series)

* LingerieScene: She gets hit by Exarmatio on a regular basis.

* AffectionateNickname: Konoka calls Setsuna "Secchan".

* AlmostKiss: With Konoka. It was for a Pactio! [[TransparentCloset Really!]]
* BackToBackBadasses: When she and Asuna are fighting Chigusa's minions, they end up back to back. Also in Chapter 294 with Negi.

* BadassInANiceSuit: During the ball she wears a nice suit rather than a dress.
* BattleCouple: Her relationship with Konoka starts building towards a true partnership with hints of a pactio quite early on.
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Against Evangeline during the Mahora Tournament.

* {{BFS}}: Yuunagi is longer than she is tall, and [[spoiler:Takemikazuchi, courtesy of Konoka, has the ability to absorb Konoka's magic to grow to enormous size and she wields it one-handed]].

* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine: She plays the tsukkomi mostly; her comments when she's in the background definitely count. To the surprise of her classmates, against Chao she even brings out [[DopeSlap the fan]]!
* BridalCarry: She carries Konoka this way all the time, including on most promotional artwork.

* [[CareerVersusMan Career Versus Woman]]: She constantly struggles with holding on to both woman (Happiness with Konoka) and career (Not letting happines make her soft in her bodyguard duties to Konoka) but refuses to give up on them.

* ChildhoodFriendRomance: After being estranged for years, Setsuna started interacting with Konoka more and their relationship got a lot of ShipTease.

* DeclarationOfProtection: She says several times that she will protect Konoka with her life.
* DefeatByModesty: After some CharacterDevelopment to open up more, she becomes more susceptible to embarrassment and gets an AttemptedRape scene during a fight with Tsukuyomi as a result of getting distracted when her clothes are forcibly removed by a Demon Charm. Of all things, Setsuna was most humiliated by the fact that she was nearly defeated, since she takes it as a sign that she's getting rusty.
* DemonSlayer: Setsuna's style of combat was developed specifically to battle demons.
* DiagonalCut: The finishing blow to the [[spoiler:Tsukuyomi]] fight. Somehow.
* DishDash: When Chachamaru stumbles due to nervousness, Setsuna, Negi and Asuna grab all the falling plates before they smash.

* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Even [[ChasteHero Negi]] notices her BodyguardCrush on Konoka.

* FantasticArousal: Her wings are implied to be very sensitive.

* TheFinalTemptation: Eva tries to convince Setsuna to give up her swordsmanship in favor of living the life of a normal girl. She also says just focusing on being a bodyguard is fine, but that she can't handle both. Setsuna rejects both choices.
* FlashStep: Like all the top fighters, she uses this one, though it's not emphasized like with Kaede and Kotaro.

* FunctionalMagic: Her training includes {{Onmyodo}}.
* GroinAttack: When Setsuna stumbles across an 'enemy' (Negi) in the bath, she instantly goes for the groin attack. This becomes a FunnyMoment when she realises who it actually is.

* HideYourLesbians: Setsuna and Konoka are ''heavily'' implied to be lesbians, but it is never stated outright. [[spoiler:The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue states that both she and Konoka get married in 2017. And we see a picture of Setsuna holding Konoka bridal-style. It's pretty clear what's happening, but it's still stately indirectly as opposed to other marriages.]]

* IAmWhatIAm: She's not particularly ashamed of the fact that she's half-tengu, but she is ashamed of the fact that said wings are white rather than black, which marked her as a instant outcast of her demon tribe. Never mind the fact that her TrueCompanions think that the wings are awesome and that she looks like an angel.

* IGotYouCovered: With Negi during the Kyoto trip and later with [[spoiler:Konoka]].

* InASingleBound: Though she's capable of nonmagical flight, she prefers fast leaping techniques.

* InterClassRomance: Konoka is basically a princess. Setsuna is adopted from a clan that threw her out and works as a bodyguard.
* InterspeciesRomance: With Konoka, since Setsuna is a half bird-demon.

* LadyAndKnight: The Knight to Konoka's Lady character. Lampshaded several times. [[Pantheon/RoyaltyLesserGods Deified.]]

* LingerieScene: During the pre fight scene with Asuna, the two begin dressing themselves without paying attention and end up wearing some quite revealing undergarments.

* MacrossMissileMassacre: Her artifact from Negi is a set of knives she can throw at an opponent. They follow the target and are generally sent all at once.

* MorphWeapon: [[spoiler:[[{{BFS}} Takemikazuchi]]]] can change both size and shape.

* NerfArm: She wields a broom during the TournamentArc to get around a restriction on bladed weapons.
* NiceGirl: She is, overall, a kind and polite girl and treats Negi with respect.
* NotADate: She denies that her outing with Konoka is a date, despite everyone, including Konoka, treating it like one.
* OffhandBackhand: When a very large ball-and-chain comes flying towards her and Konoka, she slices it in half and doesn't even notice it... because she's beating herself up for getting ''weaker''.
* PaperTalisman: Setsuna is known to use ''Ofuda''. She once used them to protect the hotel from shikigami during the Kyoto arc.
** She gives a couple of these to Negi at one point. Hilarity ensues.

* PostVictoryCollapse: Setsuna passes out shortly after enduring (and ignoring) an intense force field to save Konoka.

* RazorWind: One of her techniques.

* SecretTestOfCharacter: Subverted during a tournament fight against Evangeline. The latter tries playing on her fears, [[BodyguardCrush feelings]], duty and [[FailureKnight difficulty protecting Konoka]]. Setsuna figures out Evangeline's technique and [[TakeAThirdOption rejects her choices]]. However, Setsuna doesn't realize that Evangeline had been fully intending to make her choose between duty and friendship and assumes it was this trope. Evangeline is baffled at this overly positive interpretation.
* SexyBacklessOutfit: The traditional clothes of her people.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: She is always saying this regarding her relationship with Konoka. Nobody buys that.
* TheShinsengumi: She is forced to dress up as one when she visits the Kyoto Movie Town. The title of the chapter was "The Bodyguard is a Member of the Shinsen Group". She doesn't think it suits her at first, but grows to like it.
* ShowerOfAngst: Takes a shower after her humiliating defeat by [[spoiler:Tsukiyomi]].
* ShowerOfAwkward: With Negi in Kyoto.

* TakeAThirdOption: Setsuna is forced by Evangeline in a SecretTestOfCharacter to either be a cold, limitless swordswoman to better serve her princess Konoka or take her happiness beside the girl and live her life in peace without protecting anything. She choose to have both.
* TakingTheBullet: For Konoka during the Kyoto trip, of course.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Tomboy to Konoka's Girly Girl.

* TooSlow: When Negi isn't focusing on their fight during the tournament, she gets annoyed and smacks some sense into him after delivering one of these.

* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Konoka. [[spoiler:Eventually resolved offscreen in the last few chapters. Although it's exposed in a roundabout way.]]

* WillTheyOrWontThey: With Konoka. [[spoiler:[[TheyDo It's heavily implied they get married in 2017.]]]]

* TheWorfBarrage: Sica Shishikushiro has been used repeatedly, and almost never does anything useful. Possibly why [[spoiler:Takemikazuchi is a different type of weapon and does prove useful]].

* [[spoiler:ApocalypseMaiden: Averruncus needs Asuna's AntiMagic abilities to erase Mundus Magicus and put its inhabitants into a LotusEaterMachine to keep them from disappearing when Mundus Magicus collapses on its own.]]

* BackToBackBadasses: When she and Setsuna are fighting Chigusa's minions, they end up back to back.

* [[spoiler:BadassPrincess: She is the princess of the fallen country of Vespertatia and fights very well alongside Negi.]]
* BarrierMaiden: [[spoiler:Near the conclusion of the story, it was revealed that she'll be sleeping for 100 years in the Gravekeeper's Palace, serving as the literal cornerstone for the plan to save the Magic World. And then she goes back in time, making the personal sacrifice meaningless.]]
* BathtubBonding: With Negi.
* BattleCouple: More than the rest of the others, Asuna is viewed as Negi's partner and has skills which complement his.

* BedmateReveal: With Negi, whenever he sleepwalks into her bed thinking she's his big sister Nekane.
* {{BFS}}: Her PaperFanOfDoom can upgrade into a big sword.

* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine: Both. Her personality is more suited to tsukkomis and her intellect is more suited to bokes.
* BondingOverMissingParents: With Negi.

* [[spoiler:BrokenBird]]: [[spoiler:Flashbacks show that being used as a human weapon made her an EmotionlessGirl that believed she wasn't human anymore.]]
* CantStayNormal: [[spoiler:She tried to forget about her past and live a normal life. It all went well, but then Fate ruined things.]]
* CharacterExaggeration: This is a minor example, but Asuna goes from being a regular {{Tsundere}}, having a job and more or less just trying to survive in the craziness around her in the manga and first anime series, to being completely nuts in Negima?!
* ChekhovsArmoury
** She has exceptional athletics. While never stated outright, this likely has to do [[spoiler:with her heritage and her past where it is implied she learned a little about fighting.]]
** She possesses the rather rare antimagic ability. While not unique, [[spoiler:it's actually a huge giveaway to her identity as an Ostian princess utilized as a weapon to those who know their history.]]
** She has close connections to people like Takamichi and Konoka's father Eishun, who are known as legendary war heroes. [[spoiler:She traveled with them for awhile.]]
** Her pactio card has Mars as her symbol. [[spoiler:Mars is the foundation of the Magic World, where she was a princess.]]
* ChildhoodFriends: She met Ayaka when she was a NewTransferStudent right after [[spoiler:her time with Ala Rubra came to an end]] and she was getting a fresh start. The two instantly began a [[VitriolicBestBuds vitriolic friendship]] that really helps Asuna loosen up and become the person she is. Though she doesn't appear much, Ayaka is generally considered to be Asuna's best friend.
* CombinationAttack: She does one with Negi during Magic World arc final. It's powerful enough to destroy [[spoiler:the projection of Lifemaker]] in one hit.

* DealWithTheDevil: Her backstory in the first anime.

* DishDash: When Chachamaru gets nervous and stumbles she sends her dishes flying into the air, with the help of Negi and Setsuna, Asuna catches the falling dishes.

* DueToTheDead: [[spoiler:Her funeral closes episode 23 of the first anime.]]

* EmotionlessGirl: As a kid, ''[[FieryRedhead not so much]]'' later on since ten years of being bugged by Ayaka taught her emotions, albeit mostly emotions regarding irritation.

* FirstKiss: Her kiss with Negi in Chapter 25; she even complains that she was saving it for Takamichi.
* FirstNameBasis: With Negi and most of the class.
* [[spoiler:FishOutOfTemporalWater: After she wakes up from sleeping for 130 years, Asuna finds herself alone in a strange time and place with all her friends gone. She at least hoped Negi (having a body like Evangeline's) would be still alive, but he died and after seeing all what her friends did in their lives while she was sleeping she breaks down in tears. However, Evangeline and Chao sent her back in time and she reunites with her friends.]]
* FlashStep: She begins learning these kinds of techniques from Setsuna.
* FriendshipMoment: [[spoiler:After Asuna's early graduation and before the planned ritual that will put her to sleep for a century, she tells Ayaka that she was the best thing that ever happened to her.]]

* GenericCuteness: Judging by the startled reactions of her friends at the ball and during her 'date' with Takamichi, Asuna is apparently supposed to look fairly plain.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfWoman: Delivers one to Setsuna during the Kyoto trip.
* GirlishPigtails: Befitting her {{Tsundere}} personality.
* GiveHerANormalLife: [[spoiler:Ala Rubra rescued her and had her travel around with them for awhile so that she could have a somewhat more normal life. After the death of Gateau Vandenburg, Takamichi wiped her memory somehow and enrolled her in Mahora to complete the process. She succeeded to have a normal life from then on, but then Fate ruined things.]]
* GodivaHair: Her hair are waist long, which really helps, since being around Negi has a tendency to suddenly leave you without clothing.
* GoGoEnslavement: After being captured by Hermann [[spoiler:and again after being captured by Fate]].

* HarmfulToMinors: [[spoiler:As a little girl, she was used for a century or more to power a country's defense system and was eventually used to cause a country to fall from the sky.]]
* HarmlessFreezing: She gets encased in a block of ice and recovers within minutes. Even Eva is impressed.
* HeavySleeper: [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] in ''Anime/NegimaSecondSeason''. [[spoiler:Then the manga reveals that she slept for thirty more years to wake up to a world where the otherwise immortal Negi inexplicably died, only for Eva and Chao to return her to 130 years past, mere seconds after her departure. The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue reveals that her extended sleep was partially caused by a war on Mars in the 22nd century, of which Mana was a participant.]]
* HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: Gets teased often about her relationship with Negi and nobody is convinced by her denials.

* IAmWhatIAm: She certainly has no reason to be ashamed but [[HeroicBSOD it was causing her grief]].
-->"I am, after all, [[spoiler:[[BadassPrincess a genuine, legendary princess]] from a country of magic!"]]

* InASingleBound: She begins picking up these kinds of techniques from Setsuna.
* InconvenientSummons: Early on, Negi summons Asuna to apologize to her... but she was in the shower at the time. And then Takamichi wandered by.

* InstantExpert: Though she's nearly as dim as Negi is brilliant, she picks up fighting and even kanka almost as quickly as he does magic in martial arts. However, in her case it's because she already learned at least some of this stuff when she was a kid. Of course, she ''also'' performed kanka perfectly almost instantly as a child as well, though in that case it was due to [[spoiler:being 'empty' from having no life experience, social interaction or anything for over a hundred years while being used as some type of weapon.]]
* ItIsDehumanizing: Flashbacks show that [[spoiler:the people that used her as a weapon]] referred to her as an "it."
* JustAKid: She has tried to force this on Negi several times.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: There are some early hints at this. Later [[spoiler:it was undone by Fate. She had a HeroicBSOD and Cosmo Entelechia reacquired her ability to cast Rewrite]].

* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: After the "Kissing Terminator" incident.

* [[spoiler:LongLostRelative]]: [[spoiler:She's part of the Ostian bloodline just like Negi and his mother.]]

* MegatonPunch: Following a ThanksForTheMammary moment during her practice date with aged-up Negi in a ''LoveHina'' homage.

* OddFriendship: With Ayaka, ever since they're children.

* OneDialogueTwoConversations: When Negi asks Asuna to accompany him on a trip to search for traces of his father as his magic partner, Asuna misinterprets it as a love confession, as do Yue and Nodoka, who overhear it. Haruna doesn't, but she does enjoy the ensuing hilarity.

* OnlySaneWoman: She's the only girl in her class that doesn't fall head over heals for Negi immediately. Well, barring Nodoka, but she's a [[DoesNotLikeMen special case]].

* OutOfClothesExperience: When she sees Negi's past through the dream spell, which works via a naked astral projection inside someone's mind.

* PensieveFlashback: How she learns of Negi's past.
* [[spoiler:PersonOfMassDestruction: Her AntiMagic actually caused a FloatingContinent to crash, and nearly destroyed the entire Magic World.]]
* [[spoiler:PhlebotinumGirl]]: [[spoiler:In her backstory. She was used as a human weapon to power a country's defense system for at least a century and she hated it because she was aware of how many lives she was destroying. She was rescued by Ala Rubra.]]

* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[spoiler:Asuna powered the magic-cancelling defense system of Ostia while bound in chains as a child. Later she was used to power the magic-cancelling spell that would have destroyed the whole Magic World. Thanks to everyone's joint effort at containment, only the whole of Ostia was destroyed. The resulting mental trauma from being used as the power source to destroy a whole country was probably one of the reasons Nagi and party decided to wipe her memory.]]

* PutOnABus: [[spoiler:Played with. She's captured and disappears from the story for about fifty chapters, but she's replaced by a perfect copy during that time.]]
* [[spoiler:RagsToRoyalty: A Sleeping Beauty type. It turns out she and Negi are members of the royal family of the Vespertatia Kingdom in the Magic World. It subverts the GenreBlind guardian bit, as they were probably both safer before they started getting involved with their legacies.]]

* [[spoiler:RipVanWinkle]]: [[spoiler:She has to sleep for 100 years in the Gravekeeper's Palace and she slept for thirty more years.]]
* [[spoiler:RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Fighting alongside Negi, trying to save the world and cutting God-like beings to ribbons probably qualify. After the end of the series, she continues working to bring peace to the Magic World.]]
-->[[spoiler:"I am after all a genuine legendary princess from a country of magic!"]]
* RunningGag: Her obsession with finding an undetermined creature called "Chupacabra" in ''Negima!?''.

* ShipTease: Of course there's quite a bit, but notable because [[spoiler:even when it's no longer Asuna, she's still getting ship tease because of Luna]].
* ShowerOfAwkward: With Negi when he attempted to do Asuna a favor by enchanting her brushes.
* [[spoiler:SplitPersonality: Asuna seems to have developed this as a result of having her LaserGuidedAmnesia forcibly undone: one is her "true" personality from before Ala Rubra rescued her from her life as a living weapon, and the other, currently dominant, is the Asuna we've come to know and love.]]
* SuperpowerLottery: Her [[AntiMagic Magic Cancel]] [[NoSell negates]] any magic/ki attacks, expands an energy sphere that only negates ''hostile'' magic, breaks seals and goes through any magic barriers like they weren't there, destroying them in the process. Ensis Exorcizans also has anti-magic capabilities and allows her to send back and/or destroy things/beings summoned by magic by mere proximity. She's also a [[YinYangBomb Kanka]] user which, besides of being literally "the ultimate art" of magic combat with a dozen enhancements, allows her to fight without draining Negi. Given that a Ministra is to serve as support, it's practically impossible to find someone better suited for the job.

* SuperStrength: Before starting the series Asuna already possessed amazing athletic ability.
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:Not only is she related to magic, she's flat out a magical princess.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Her first level in badass was her pactio, her second was in learning kanka and finally after entering the magical world her growth rate skyrocketed [[spoiler:due to subconsciously remembering how to fight]] and ended up about on par with Setsuna before [[spoiler:being captured]].

* VitriolicBestBuds: She fights constantly with Ayaka, her best friend. Their classmates ''worry'' about them if they aren't fighting.
* VSign: One of her standard poses is the V for victory sign.
* YinYangBomb: Kanka allows the user to combine magic and ki, which isn't normally possible.

* ScarsAreForever: [[spoiler:Subverted. After having a noticeable scar on his face for half of the story (by choice), it disappears after an AngstComa causes his skin to be turned to stone and arguably shed.]]
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Sensitive Guy to Kotaro's Manly Man.
* SeriousBusiness: [[SpotOfTea Tea]], though to be fair he was already angry.

* SneezeOfDoom: A MagicMisfire. Anytime he sneezes, it will blow up several skirts, shred clothes, underwear or both.

* StoryBreakerPower: There's a reason [[spoiler:his Pactio with Theodora]] had to go.

* [[spoiler:SuperPoweredEvilSide]]: [[spoiler:Magia Erebea demon mode is a rampaging monster run purely by Negi's id.]]

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: After Nodoka finally gets her courage and confesses to him.
-->Negi: "Nothing's wrong! No one confessed to me or anything!"

* TeacherStudentRomance: Negi constantly worries about maintaining a normal student-teacher relationship with all the girls of his class while several of them keep developing crushes on him.
* TechnicianVersusPerformer: Negi is the technician, Kotaro is the performer.
* {{Telepathy}}: With direct physical contact he can read someone's mind and pactio cards allow for two way communication.
* TellMeAboutMyFather: What he demands of Rakan if he wins the tournament.
* ThanksForTheMammary: ''All the frickin' time''. [[AccidentalPervert Poor kid]].
* TimeToUnlockMoreTruePotential: After the Kyoto arc, Negi realizes he isn't improving quickly enough and asks both Ku Fei and Evangeline to begin teaching him. Ku Fei teaches him martial arts and Evangeline gives him a hellish training regimen inside a time distorting alternate dimension, both of which lead to rapid growth. Later, he goes to Jack Rakan for more training and picks up the basics of Magia Erebea, though he's left to work out the details for himself.
* ToBeAMaster: He wants to be a world-class mage like his father.

* TurnOutLikeHisFather: Every time Negi learns something about his father, he wants to imitate him.
* UnstoppableRage: First happens against Graf, though Kotaro manages to smack some sense into him. [[spoiler:Later occurs multiple times starting during a fight with Godel. Magic Erebea appears to enhance emotions.]]

* [[spoiler:WarriorPrince: He is the son of the princess and last Queen of the kingdom of Ostia, making him a {{Badass}} prince.]]
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: A lot of Negi's problem solving abilities seems suspiciously linked to [[http://a.imageshack.us/img810/7335/problemsolving.png kissing girls until the problem goes away.]]

* [[spoiler:TheWisePrince: Besides being a prince, he's very wise.]]

* YinYangBomb: Magia Erebea is, quoth Evangeline, "the power to accept good and evil, strength and weakness, exactly as it is, and consume it all." What this means is that it means use of both light based magics and darkness based power ups. It requires accepting everything about yourself and a view that power is power with no moral qualities. This grants a power up by itself, but also allows for usage of a wide degree of magic and the ability to absorb them instead of use them directly.

* PapaWolf: Do not mess with his students. The best example is when Fate attacks the group at the gateport in the Magic World, impaling Negi in the chest with a stone spear. When he threatens the students, Negi ''pulls the spear out and sucker-punches Fate with it''.
* ParentsInDistress: [[spoiler:His father Nagi was possessed by the Lifemaker and he asks Negi to come find and kill him. In the final chapter it's revealed that Negi somehow saved him.]]
* PensieveFlashback: How Negi explains his past to Asuna (and half the class, since they were watching in).
* PersonOfMassDestruction: ''The Thousand Bolts'' is an anti-''army'' spell.

* PowerCopying: [[spoiler:Mile Vincula gives him the power to copy the artifact of anyone he has a Pactio with, and his arsenal would improve with each new Pactio. Admittedly [[StoryBreakerPower it was so powerful]] Negi ultimately cancels his Pactio with Theodora and loses it after his fight with Rakan.]]

* ThePowerOfFriendship: Saves him from [[spoiler:becoming a demon. For awhile.]]
* PunchPunchPunchUhOh
** Subverted when Rakan asks Negi to punch him as hard as possible. Activating all of his power-ups and channelling as much magic as he can to his arm, Negi punches Rakan in the stomach to no immediately apparent effect. In the following panel, Rakan suddenly coughs up a torrent of blood and hits Negi for punching too hard.
** Played straight later on when [[spoiler:Negi actually fights Rakan. He brings out his new ultimate move, turns into lightning and beats the crap out of Rakan for an entire chapter, at which point Rakan falls down. The next chapter starts with Rakan getting up, unharmed, and beating the crap out of Negi.]]

* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: Enjoys his SpotOfTea.
* [[spoiler:RagsToRoyalty: A Sleeping Beauty type. It turns out he and Asuna are members of the royal family of the Vespertatia Kingdom in the Magic World. It subverts the GenreBlind guardian bit, as they were probably both safer before they started getting involved with their legacies.]]

* RescueRomance: Several of the girls interested in him fell for Negi when he helps them out. In the very first case, he met Nodoka by catching her in midair when she fell off some stairs.
* RightManInTheWrongPlace: Started off like this, tasked with teaching an UnwantedHarem after he graduated from magical school.
* RivalsTeamUp: With Kotaro, against Graf.
* RocketPunch: [[ShockAndAwe It's based on lightning magic.]]
* [[spoiler:RoyalBlood: His mother was the princess and last Queen of the kingdom of Ostia. In this case there's a good reason that this is important, as the person who started the royal bloodline is heavily implied to be the mage that created the Magic World.]]

* RunningGag: He HatesBaths, prompting Asuna to give him regular dunkings.

* KirkSummation: Both [[spoiler:Chao]] and [[spoiler:Fate]] get one.
* KissingUnderTheInfluence: Due to a wish that Nodoka makes under the World Tree, Negi becomes magically compelled to attempt to kiss her. Asuna eventually intercepts him and nearly passes out due to how long it takes.

* LimitedWardrobe: Negi wears the same green suit for a great part of the story, but began changing clothes somewhat regularly after arriving in [[MagicWorld Mundus Magicus]].
** Averted during the School Festival, where he changes into a bunch of different costumes in both his kid and teenage forms.

* MagicStaff: He carries a staff most of the time when doing magic. It serves as a focus for his spells and he also uses it to fly in a manner resembling a FlyingBroomstick. It also is a MementoMacGuffin since Nagi was the one who gave it to him.
* MalfunctionMalady: He creates gusts of wind when he sneezes. Wind that seeks out and strikes girls' clothing like a heat-seeking missile.

* MentalWorld: During his Magia Erebea training, a copy of Evangeline yanks his mind into a magic scroll and creates a world for him to train in.
* MesACrowd: Negi attempts to make a single copy of himself using a traditional Japanese magic that animates a paper doll, with which he is unfamiliar. Eventually he succeeds and goes away, but afterwards the four failed paper copies also come to life.
* MightyGlacier: His ''Incendium Gehennae'' mode, as opposed to the LightningBruiser ''Jovis Tempestus Fulguriens''.

* MissingMom: Negi's absent mother gets absolutely no mention until we finally learn that his mother [[spoiler:is/was Princess Arika Anarchia Entheophysia]]. He didn't know either.

* MundaneUtility: Negi uses this almost continuously early on. He constantly infuses himself with magic so he can keep up with the girls as they sprint to school. It's more obvious after he temporarily seals his powers which makes him totally unathletic. He also tried to help Asuna do her paper route faster by giving her a lift on his flying staff, but it didn't quite work out.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: Played straight and averted; he is a ten-year-old boy who buffs himself with magic while [[WaifFu tossing aside foes larger than himself]], then there are big changes in his body after several months of training.
* NeckLift: The only thing missing is a NeckSnap; even then [[spoiler:it is nightmarish enough to even [[OhCrap terrify]] Tsukuyomi.]]
* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: Negi royally screws this up during the [[spoiler:Mahora Festival]], requiring some quick damage control from Kotaro of all people.
* NiceGuy: He is very nice.

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler:Absolutely shreds Quartum after he sees what he did to [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe Chachamaru]] and tears him in two as well, though he knew it wouldn't be lethal.]]
* NonchalantDodge: First tournament fight in the Mundus Magicus arc. He and Kotaro dodge a ''really'' big attack combo... only to appear leaning on the big guy talking about how much that would have hurt.

* OlderAlterEgo: "Nagi", his teenaged form that he takes after taking a series of age-disguising pills.
** SexierAlterEgo: "Nagi" is a very handsome {{Bishonen}}. Even some of his students don't recognize him. Improbable as it sounds.
* OneDialogueTwoConversations: When Negi asks Asuna to accompany him on a trip to search for traces of his father as his magic partner, Asuna misinterprets it as a love confession, as do Yue and Nodoka, who overhear it. Haruna doesn't, but she does enjoy the ensuing hilarity.

* OutdoorBathPeeping: Chamo tries to bring Negi along to do so [[AvertedTrope but]] Negi is too much of a gentleman.

* GiveHimANormalLife: Turns out that this is part of the reason that Negi ended up living with his cousin. [[spoiler:As a war hero, his father made enemies that still hold a grudge on him for foiling their plans. And when your mother gets wrongfully accused for starting a war, then escapes her execution by [[FakingTheDead faking her death]], it's probably best for you that you don't hang around her. Or live in [[MagicWorld her home world]].]] Just look at [[DoomedHometown his hometown]] [[AncientConspiracy when they]] [[TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive found where he lives]]...
* GlassCannon: Early in the series he had good offenses, but was slow and had bad defense.

* HarmfulToMinors: Negi's backstory is full of FamilyUnfriendlyViolence.

* HealingFactor: [[spoiler:Magia Erebea starts granting him one the more he synchronizes with it. When he eventually combines with it entirely, he's capable of healing off disembowelment and holes being blown through his torso in mere seconds.]]

* HeroicRROD: [[spoiler:After pushing himself too hard with Magia Erebea, the encroachment finally becomes too much and eventually causes him to collapse and give him magical poisoning. After this is temporarily dealt with, his body petrifies itself to begin a metamorphosis process right in the middle of battle.]]

* HighPressureBlood: With BloodFromTheMouth and outright TearsOfBlood from the beating.
* HomoeroticSubtext: The story really plays up the subtext during the Magic World finale [[spoiler:and after.]]

* HowMuchMoreCanHeTake: The whole of Negi's fight with Rakan, and later his fight with Fate.

* IDidntMeanToTurnYouOn: Chachamaru feels sexual pleasure when her magic is being recharged. It's normally not a big deal since Evangeline normally does it and is pretty stingy. Negi doesn't understand, so he isn't.

* IdiotHero: Averted, he's intelligent and thoughtful. Aversion lampshaded, it becomes obvious that he thinks ''too'' much about things. Invoked, he tries to find out a way to act with more thoughtless confidence. Averted again. [[spoiler:Which turns out to be a good thing: Idiot heroes have their strengths, but they can't think of a way to save the Magic World view magic/tech synthesis which includes the construction of a space elevator, terraforming Mars and an elaborate ritual to stabilize the Magic World using Asuna.]]
* IgnoredEnemy: When working with Kotaro, the pair tend to get distracted by their rivalry and ignore their opponents.
* [[spoiler:{{Immortality}}: As a result of learning Magia Erebea, Negi becomes an immortal like Evangeline, gaining a HealingFactor and at best, he only has a few more years of aging before maturation ceases. This and the consequences are discussed. Godel thinks LivingForeverIsAwesome because one can't be assassinated and can become an eternal king. Since Negi obviously cares not one bit for that, the [[WhoWantsToLiveForever downsides]] of "having kids is going to be difficult, you'll never look any older, any future lovers are going to be inconvenienced and you'll outlive everyone" are emphasized. Though Negi's not the only one who won't grow old.]]
* [[spoiler:ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: As a Magia Erebea demon, Negi will apparently cease aging with a few years and in the epilogue seems to be stuck at about 15. The only one to look on the bright side to the situation is Godel, who thinks about the advantages of being an immortal king.]]

* InnocentCohabitation: With Asuna and Konoka.
* InnocentInnuendo: After being informed of a coming physical, Negi asks his students to take off their clothes.

* IWillFindYou: Negi wants to find his father someday.

* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Magia Erebea was originally advertised as a technique quite dangerous to its user, though Negi seemed to have little trouble with it. [[spoiler:At least, not until after his fight with Rakan, at which point it began affecting his soul itself. While Negi's body was able to deal with this on its own eventually, this was only by first petrifying him and then turning into something non human, though with Magia Erebea finally under control.]]

* DarkIsNotEvil: Played with: a basic principle of Magia Erebea is accepting oneself, including one's worst emotions. In Negi's case, his [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge explicitly murderous thirst for revenge]]. While not necessarily "evil", it still leaves him unstable and the desire seems to be amplified by Magia Erebea.
* DeadlyUpgrade: In order to become strong quickly enough to beat Fate, Negi chose the "path of darkness" Magia Erebea, an ability set that isn't suited for human use. While first it appears okay, it begins badly affecting his health and mind. [[spoiler:Eventually, it stops killing him, but only because he stops being human at all.]]

* DishDash: When Chachamaru gets nervous and stumbles she sends her dishes flying into the air, Negi, with the help of Asuna and Setsuna, catches the falling dishes.
* DistressedDude: Briefly captured during Mahorafest. The proto Ala Alba group comes to back him up.
* DontYouDarePityMe: Negi goes berserk when Rakan sneers at the training her went through for his tournament fight.
* DoomedHometown: His village was invaded by demons and everyone [[TakenForGranite was turned to stone]].
* TheDoorSlamsYou: An early chapter has Asuna kicking the library door off its hinges and into Negi.

* ElementalShapeshifter: [[spoiler:By absorbing powerful lightning spells he gains the ability to turn into a pseudo lightning elemental, which is both incredibly fast and almost impossible to damage.]]
* EnergyAbsorption: [[spoiler:By constructing an elaborate spell circle, Negi can use Magia Erebea to absorb attacks his enemy uses. However, it's not very practical in large battles.]]
* EvilIsEasy: He chose Black Magic because the light path wasn't fast enough. The reward in this case was power. It's not quite evil, but it's psychologically damaging and a danger to himself and others.
* ExactWords: For Negi's apprenticeship test, Eva gave the conditions "If you can hit Chachamaru even once with your Kung Fu, then you'll pass. The match continues until you're dead and you can't attack anymore." This backfires on her when she declares the match over after Negi was completely thrashed, only for him to stand back up, stating that there's essentially no time limit since the condition was "until I die". He manages to get a hit in while Chachamaru is distracted.

* TheFinalTemptation: [[spoiler:Poyo puts him into a LotusEaterMachine that gives him the happy family he always wanted but can never have now. Negi chooses reality pretty quickly, knowing that spending too much time in there will cloud his judgment.]]
* FingerPokeOfDoom: [[spoiler:Pokes Sextum and causes some pretty heavy damage. Sextum is then incapacitated by the Gravekeeper.]]
* FireForgedFriends: With Kotaro. They start out as enemies, have to join forces to defeat a demon, and are good friends after that.

* FlashStep: A must when fighting professionals. Negi learns it from Kotaro before the Mahora Tournament.
* FragileSpeedster: The lightning based Magia Erebea techniques drastically increase Negi's speed, but lower his defense. [[spoiler:Later compensated for by turning intangible.]]
* FriendlyRivalry: There's a brief scene where his students joke that Kotaro and Negi call themselves rivals but spell it 'friends,' a joke which doesn't really translate well.
* FriendOrIdolDecision: Negi is forced to either stay behind and fight a giant monster so his students can escape with a magical book that can make them smarter (for the big exams) or dump the book so they can all escape safely. [[spoiler:Subverted in that Negi ends up ''trying'' to stay behind, but Asuna decides to make the "right" choice for him anyway.]]

* AdventureRebuff: Usually targeted at his students as he's feeling responsible for their well-being. It ''never'' works.

* AncestralWeapon: Negi's staff was [[TragicKeepsake left to him by his father]]. He started by using it a lot in combat as [[MagicWand a focus for his spells]], but nowadays it's mostly used for airborne transportation, and to look cool while [[SticksToTheBack inexplicably sticking to his back]].

* ArchEnemy: Fate Averruncus, who has ties to the demon that [[TakenForGranite petrified]] Negi's hometown and to the town where Nagi disappeared. He also endangered several of Negi's students during the [[ClassTrip Kyoto trip]] and attacked his party, blew a hole through his chest, scattered his students across Mundus Magicus and [[ClearMyName framed him for a crime Fate himself committed]]. As for Fate, he wants Negi's skin because he's the only one to have punched him (twice) and now [[ItsPersonal it's personal]].

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: During his fight with [[spoiler:Jack, even Evangeline is stunned by the fact that he had developed a way to absorb his enemy's power with Magia Erebea, succeeding in a few days in completing a spell she had worked on for ''centuries'']].

** BackToBackBadasses: With Kotaro at first, then in Chapter 294 with Setsuna.
** BadassAdorable: He may not look like it, but he's gone so far as to [[spoiler:take down Jack Rakan in a fistfight]].
** BadassBookworm: After his fight with Jack, both he and Evangeline observe that Negi's real strength isn't raw power, but his skill at developing new forms of magical theory and application. At one point, Jack states that his degree of genius is such that the magic he has developed at age ten is superior to that of those who've been studying the same thing for decades, even centuries.
** BadassLongRobe: Sometimes combined with InTheHood.
** BadassTeacher: Well, he is technically the girls' teacher.
** BroughtDownToBadass: After having his magic sealed temporarily by Yuuna in a class event based around the idea of getting Negi to make relationship progress, is challenged to a duel by Ku Fei [[spoiler:after she confesses]]. With no chance to explain, he instead is forced to rely on sheer physical prowess and manages to throw her. It wouldn't have been enough to win, but it shows amazing reflexes even without supernatural power.
** IJustWantToBeBadass: His quest for power increases after many of his students become his mischievous followers, making him constantly worried for their safety. It doesn't help that he's surrounded by a lot of powerful people such as his more combat-trained pupils, his father's friends, and Evangeline, some of whom are game-breakingly powerful.

* BathtubBonding: With Asuna, Kaede, and Evangeline.

* BattleCouple: Asuna is his most consistent partner and her abilities match his almost perfectly.
* BeamSpam: He uses his Sagitta Magica in giant waves, which often [[MacrossMissileMassacre act like a wave of missiles]].
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: When Negi was little, he usually got himself in trouble so that his father would come save to him. When his village was attacked, he believed it was because he wished for really serious trouble.
* BedmateReveal: [[SleepCute He crawls into Asuna's bed in his sleep]], because that's what he did with his sister in Wales.

* BigDamnKiss: His Pactio with [[spoiler:Chachamaru]] involved a huge explosion, [[spoiler:and possibly creation of a soul]].
* BishieSparkle: Occasional TwinkleSmile.

* BishonenLine: Upon using Magia Erebea he looked less and less human for many reasons, most notably [[spoiler:its encroachment]]. Eventually he began [[spoiler:mutating into a rampaging demon. However, while powerful, this form is not clever enough to fully utilize its strength. After mastering Magia Erebea by integrating it into his soul, he becomes nonhuman but gains the power and rationality of one.]]
* BlackMage: He started out this trope before moving to "Magic Fighter".
* BlackMagic: Magia Erebea draws power from negative emotions and is only usable by those who accept the entirety of their emotional spectrum, good and bad.
* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: The intended use of that spell that {{fanservice}} wind spell is a disarming spell by turning objects into flower petals.
* BlowYouAway and ShockAndAwe: His primary [[ElementalPowers elemental]] affinities.

* CantHoldHisLiquor: [[http://mangafox.me/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v09/c073/13.html this]] [[http://mangafox.me/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v09/c073/14.html is the]] [[http://mangafox.me/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v09/c073/15.html result]] of one sip.
* CasualDangerDialogue: While Yue's new classmates identify Negi as a criminal and are trying to beat him up, he dodges all their attacks and tries to reason with them "Erm, please could you..." Then he tosses them effortlessly while making them land on their feet and tries again. "If you could all just calm down, there's something I'd like to discuss". Negotiations fail and he blows off everyone else's clothes.
* ChasteHero: Oblivious to girls' feelings because he hasn't even hit puberty yet and doesn't think of girls like that yet.
* CheerfulChild: He's quite sunny and pleasant in early appearances, but he's got some trauma beneath that.
* ChickMagnet: He's ridiculously popular with girls and never really seems to pick up on that. It's suggested once or twice, mostly by Chisame, that they really ought to kill him while he's young before he grows up and breaks everyone's hearts.

* CluelessChickMagnet: Poor ten-year old [[SexyManInstantHarem Negi]] is also a ChasteHero.

* CombinationAttack: He does one with Asuna during Mundus Magicus arc finale. It's powerful enough to destroy [[spoiler:the projection of Lifemaker]] in one hit.
* ContagiousPowers: Negi's normal students start picking up magic or pactios over time.
* CooldownHug: He receives one [[spoiler:after he goes berserk on Godel]], but it took slightly more to get him back to his senses.