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* ForcedBath: A recurring RunningGag. [[WiseBeyondTheirYears Negi]] hating baths sometimes seems like the ''only'' part of his personality that's actually ten years old. Naturally, a good portion of his class enjoy hauling him off to various bathhouses, hot springs, etc. whenever possible; a later chapter even shows Konoka throwing around "Wash Negi-kun" coupons.
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* DisciplinesOfMagic: In the series, there exist two different disciplines of magic, western magic and eastern magic.
** Western magic is based around Europe's cultural sphere of influence. Western mages use mana as energy and require spells, incantations and catalysts to activate their magic, the two languages of incantation that Western mages use are Latin and Ancient Greek, the former is more commonly used for casting spells while the latter is used solely for high-level magic.
** Eastern magic is the general term for sorcery practised in the Asian world and utilized by eastern mages. These mages use Ki to cast spells. They emphasis the mage as a lone operative with many of their spells intended to confuse and disrupt the enemy rather than directly engage them in battle, as well as summon demons to assist the mage either by attacking the enemy or defending the mage that summoned them.
** Mages in the series can also form a Pactio or contract between a Magister and his Minister. The Pactio allows a Magister casting the spell to transfer some his or her magic to the other person involved in the Pactio, improving their natural abilities by an average of ten times than normal capacity. Another advantage to forming a Pactio is the ability to summon a magic artifact.
** Western magic is based around Europe's cultural sphere of influence. Western mages use mana as energy and require spells, incantations and catalysts to activate their magic, the two languages of incantation that Western mages use are Latin and Ancient Greek, the former is more commonly used for casting spells while the latter is used solely for high-level magic.
** Eastern magic is the general term for sorcery practised in the Asian world and utilized by eastern mages. These mages use Ki to cast spells. They emphasis the mage as a lone operative with many of their spells intended to confuse and disrupt the enemy rather than directly engage them in battle, as well as summon demons to assist the mage either by attacking the enemy or defending the mage that summoned them.
** Mages in the series can also form a Pactio or contract between a Magister and his Minister. The Pactio allows a Magister casting the spell to transfer some his or her magic to the other person involved in the Pactio, improving their natural abilities by an average of ten times than normal capacity. Another advantage to forming a Pactio is the ability to summon a magic artifact.
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* DecompositeCharacter: Most of the girls in ''Manga/LoveHina'' had their personality traits and character designs inherited by multiple girls in this series, the most obvious being Naru Narusegawa becoming Asuna (the protective side) and Chisame (the nerdy side).
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Chachamaru needs to be fueled with magic every day to stay in peak condition. It feels good on its own and even better the more magic is poured in. The subtext couldn't have been more obvious if there had been a subtitle saying, "OMGSEXLOL!" During the ball, she has the robotic equivalent of TheImmodestOrgasm when Negi gets too into it. After getting back home [[ADateWithRosiePalms refuels herself]] at one point, so of course Eva walks in.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Chachamaru needs to be fueled with magic every day to stay in peak condition. It feels good on its own and even better the more magic is poured in. The subtext couldn't have been more obvious if there had been a subtitle saying, "OMGSEXLOL!" During the ball, she has the robotic equivalent of TheImmodestOrgasm when Negi gets too into it. After getting back home [[ADateWithRosiePalms she refuels herself]] herself at one point, so of course Eva walks in.
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* FriendsTurnedRomanticRivals: Subverted. Yue ends up falling in love with Negi [[MatchmakerCrush while trying to Nodoka get together with him]], but the two girls refuse to let it affect their friendship and spend more time trying to help each other than the do pursuing him themselves. [[CovertPervert Nodoka]] even comes up with a rather... [[MarryThemAll interesting solution]] to try and bypass the rivalry [[spoiler:which sequel series ''Manga/UQHolder'' shows that Yue was totally on board with and at least one timeline has the three of them in a polyamorous relationship.]]
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* FriendsTurnedRomanticRivals: Subverted. Yue ends up falling in love with Negi [[MatchmakerCrush while trying to Nodoka get together with him]], but the two girls refuse to let it affect their friendship and spend more time trying to help each other than the they do pursuing him themselves. [[CovertPervert Nodoka]] even comes up with a rather... [[MarryThemAll interesting solution]] to try themselves.
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** After arriving at Mahora Academy, Negi starts living at Asuna's andbypass Konoka's dorm room, because Konoka is the rivalry [[spoiler:which sequel series ''Manga/UQHolder'' shows that Yue was totally on board with granddaughter of the headmaster. Negi and Asuna have a lot of ShipTease together, especially due to Negi's habit of sleepwalking into Asuna's bed.
** Kotaro ends up living atleast one timeline has Natsumi's and Chizuru's dorm room after the three girls take him in because he's an orphan. Kotaro thinks of them in a polyamorous relationship.his female roommates as family, but Natsumi's feelings for him are obviously very different. [[spoiler:According to the epilogue, Kotaro and Natsumi get married many years later.]]
* FugitiveArc: Negi and company go on the lam during the magic worldarc.arc, after the villains frame them as terrorists for ''their'' terrorism.
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** Negi's first meeting with Shizuna-sensei has him burying his face on her breasts when he bumps into her. It's used as a straight MarshmallowHell to establish that he's [[AdorablyPrecociousChild still a child]], when he's merely embarrassed. Although in this case, it's more of a "wumph" than a "boing."
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* EveryoneHasASpecialMove: Every Pactio featured in the series is completely unique, although Fate indicates that some are reused after a great period of time.
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** Also, [[spoiler:Chisame to Magia Erebea-fueled UnstoppableRage Negi, coupled with ArmorPiercingSlap and GetAHoldOfYourselfMan]] a GetAHoldOfYourselfMan slap]] in chapter 265.
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* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Only the fake, robotic ones, though. To his [[AdorablyPrecociousChild dismay]], Negi's time machine won't take him back that far.
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* DraggedIntoDrag: Poor Negi is subject to this by his class for their Haunted House exhibit, and Ayaka is nothing short of ''delighted''. [[spoiler:When Ayaka makes her Pactio with him, he's again crossdressing at her request]].
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* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: For some reason, the evil organization in the Kyoto Trip Arc used monkeys of all things to kidnap Konoka.
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* FriendsTurnedRomanticRivals: Subverted. Yue ends up falling in love with Negi [[MatchmakerCrush while trying to Nodoka get together with him]], but the two girls refuse to let it affect their friendship and spend more time trying to help each other than the do pursuing him themselves. [[CovertPervert Nodoka]] even comes up with a rather... [[MarryThemAll interesting solution]] to try and bypass the rivalry [[spoiler:which sequel series ''Manga/UQHolder'' shows that Yue was totally on board with and at least one timeline has the three of them in a polyamorous relationship.]]
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* DoorJam: Negi's party gets trapped in the Magical World with the villains when the Portals [[spoiler: are destroyed by Fate and Cosmo Entelechia.]] This cuts off all the alies that could help fend off the villains, raising the stakes.
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** FanServicePack: Yuna outright [[LampshadeHanging states]] that her breasts are getting bigger as the series goes on.
** And more than one FanserviceExtra: One girl that shows up for a single panel in the magic world encapsulates about 12 different FanserviceTropes and adds nothing whatsoever to the story except some eye candy.
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* FantasticArousal: Setsuna's wings seem to be very sensitive, and poor Chachamaru can't seem to impress on Negi to wind her up ''slowly and gently''.
** Her own damn fault in that she keeps telling him that it feels good and Negi, being only ten, thinks that more is naturally better. Chachamaru ends up talking in a wingdings-like font from the overwhelming pleasure.
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* FanservicePack: Yuna outright [[LampshadeHanging states]] that her breasts are getting bigger as the series goes on.
* FantasticArousal: Setsuna's wings seem to be very sensitive, and poor Chachamaru can't seem to impress on Negi to wind her up ''slowly andgently''.
**gently''. Her own damn fault in that she keeps telling him that it feels good and Negi, being only ten, thinks that more is naturally better. Chachamaru ends up talking in a wingdings-like font from the overwhelming pleasure.
*FantasticNukeFantasticFightingStyle: The Shinmei-ryuu is a swordstyle that uses KiManipulation. It was created to fight demons that threatened the people of Kyoto since the feudal era.
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* EmbodimentOfVirtue: The Pactio cards include a word in Latin that designates a virtue for the Ministra. The virtues that have been seen are Audacia (Courage) for Negi, Asuna, Nodoka, Ku Fei, Yuuna, Sakurako, and Rakan, Caritas (Charity) for Chachamaru, Konoka, Ako, and Chizuru, Fides (Faith/Loyalty) for Evangeline, Mana, and Misora, Justitia (Justice) for Setsuna, Ayaka, Zazie, and Madoka, Sapientia (Wisdom) for Yue, Kazumi, Chao, Satomi, Misa, and Albireo, Spes (Hope/Expectation) for Sayo, Natsumi, Makie, and Satsuki, Temperantia (Temperance) for Chisame, Kaede, Haruna, Akira, and the Narutaki twins.
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* EmbodimentOfVirtue: The Pactio cards include a word in Latin that designates a virtue for the Ministra. The virtues that have been seen are are:
** Audacia (Courage) for Negi, Asuna, Nodoka, Ku Fei, Yuuna, Sakurako, andRakan, Rakan.
** Caritas (Charity) for Chachamaru, Konoka, Ako, andChizuru, Chizuru.
** Fides (Faith/Loyalty) for Evangeline, Mana, andMisora, Misora.
** Justitia (Justice) for Setsuna, Ayaka, Zazie, andMadoka, Madoka.
** Sapientia (Wisdom) for Yue, Kazumi, Chao, Satomi, Misa, andAlbireo, Albireo.
** Spes (Hope/Expectation) for Sayo, Natsumi, Makie, andSatsuki, Satsuki.
** Temperantia (Temperance) for Chisame, Kaede, Haruna, Akira, and the Narutaki twins.
** Audacia (Courage) for Negi, Asuna, Nodoka, Ku Fei, Yuuna, Sakurako, and
** Caritas (Charity) for Chachamaru, Konoka, Ako, and
** Fides (Faith/Loyalty) for Evangeline, Mana, and
** Justitia (Justice) for Setsuna, Ayaka, Zazie, and
** Sapientia (Wisdom) for Yue, Kazumi, Chao, Satomi, Misa, and
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* DirtyMindReading: Nodoka gets a heavy dose of it from Paio: "Although one of them was just really screwed-up..."
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**when she uses her book Artifact to know Paio's thoughts only to see nothing but sentences about boobs. Heck, Nodoka gets this from ''[[CovertPervert herself]]''.herself]]'' when the book reveals that she subconsciously wants to get in bed with Negi ''and'' Yue.
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** The demons behave much like those from ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. Negi has a spell that can kill a demon permanently, but it's implied something very bad would happen if he were to cast it.
** Evangeline uses her "Boss"-level powers to freeze and completely shatter the Demon God that was released during the Kyoto Arc. Nevertheless, Konoka's father and the other priests still had to reseal it; presumably it would regenerate otherwise.
** Albireo Imma uses a more or less indestructible magical projection of himself to guarantee himself a spot in the finals of the Tournament Arc. The only ways to defeat it are to dismiss the projection, or attack his physical body (which is several miles away). Nobody except Kaede (a ninja who uses similar body replication techniques) figures out what he's doing, and admits that she can't really do anything about it.
** Later in the [[MagicalLand Magic World]] arc, Fate's minions use this to taunt Jack Rakan and Konoka after trapping them in their pocket dimension. Unfortunately for them, they were close enough for Chamo to [[TheNoseKnows spot them]].
** Evangeline uses her "Boss"-level powers to freeze and completely shatter the Demon God that was released during the Kyoto Arc. Nevertheless, Konoka's father and the other priests still had to reseal it; presumably it would regenerate otherwise.
** Albireo Imma uses a more or less indestructible magical projection of himself to guarantee himself a spot in the finals of the Tournament Arc. The only ways to defeat it are to dismiss the projection, or attack his physical body (which is several miles away). Nobody except Kaede (a ninja who uses similar body replication techniques) figures out what he's doing, and admits that she can't really do anything about it.
** Later in the [[MagicalLand Magic World]] arc, Fate's minions use this to taunt Jack Rakan and Konoka after trapping them in their pocket dimension. Unfortunately for them, they were close enough for Chamo to [[TheNoseKnows spot them]].
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* DanceOfRomance: Chapter 260 has two of them actually: one by Negi and Asuna and the other one by Kotaro and Natsumi.
* 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.]]
* DangerouslyShortSkirt: Plenty of the resident {{Action Girl}}s wear one, or ''have'' worn one.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Akamatsu-sensei appears to be rapidly accelerating his use of this trope. Chapters 277 and 278 feature [[spoiler: Rakan and a boatload of {{Mauve Shirt}}s being dissolved into flower petals]], and the dozen-odd chapters before it feature [[spoiler:an ominous secret that borders on GoMadFromTheRevelation, the story of someone who saved the world being sentenced to a brutal death for it, and Negi nearly murdering the wrong person for revenge.]]
* DarkestHour: Well, see above. Most of what happened after the Governor's ball trumps their previous predicament in awfulness.
** To see how bad it's gotten since ''then'', see [[spoiler: TotalPartyKill]]. It doesn't get much darker an hour than that.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Varies, but the few right bastards have all been humans with no explicit connection to darkness.
** Shadow magic is the [[ElementalPowers manipulation of shadows]], no relationship to alignment. The three prominent users shown so far have included an antagonist that [[DefeatMeansFriendship quickly became the protagonist's best friend]], a friendly character mostly known for ending up [[ClothingDamage embarrassedly disrobed]] and a PunchClockVillain bounty hunter who was simply doing his job.
*** Also, Kagetarou, who looks like a villain at first but turns out to be Jack Rakan's buddy. Now we have a shadow-user [[spoiler:named Dynamis]] in Fate's group, and this new guy is quite evil, [[spoiler:erasing people from existence and making it quite clear that he intends to kill Nodoka, even using her as a shield and coming close to snapping her neck before Setsuna saves her by hacking off his right hand]][[note]]He seems to believe that [[WellIntentionedExtremist he's doing them a favor by killing them]][[/note]]. Then there's the whole [[spoiler:summoning shadow demons thing he does, including a ''[[EldritchAbomination huge]]'' one.]]
** The demons showcased so far have all been perfectly amicable, at worst neutral characters who [[PunchClockVillain just happened to be hired by the enemy team]] and don't seem very pleased at having to cause serious damage. Justified in that the "Demons" are a race of the Magical World. The more demonic looking ones are a different kind of demons. The demons summoned in the Kyoto arc are oni. Setsuna and Kotarou are [[HalfHumanHybrid half]]-{{Youkai}} (Han'you). Demons like [[spoiler:Mana and Poyo]] are a different kind as well.
** 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.
* DayInTheLimelight: Almost every girl gets a chapter, or even an entire arc, devoted to her. Especially if she hasn't had much "screen time" yet.
** Lampshaded when Negi (in his bishonen form) tells Ako that `everyone's the main character in their own life'.
* 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.]]
* DealWithTheDevil: In Asuna's backstory in the anime, she made a deal with demons where they'd stop following her and breaking stuff, but she'd die on her fourteenth birthday.
* DeathOfAThousandCuts: Used humorously to illustrate Negi's confusion over a PowerLevel chart.
* DeathOfTheHypotenuse: Doesn't actually occur, but Haruna points out that this is how love triangles usually end, causing the two girls involved to freak out considerably.
* DeclarationOfProtection: Setsuna says several times that she will protect Konoka with her life. Asuna does this to Negi as well... Unfortunately for her, she does it in front of a very large crowd and it's very easily misinterpreted for [[LoveConfession something else]].
* DefeatByModesty:
** Rakan's favourite method of dealing with cute female enemies.
** After some CharacterDevelopment to open up more, Setsuna 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.
** In chapter 354, Paio II makes her reappearance, completely stripping Yue 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.
* DefeatMeansFriendship:
** After Negi beats Eva, he makes her agree to go to class properly and whatnot.
** Kotaro is just a mercenary, so after he has fun with his fight with Negi they become friends after Kotaro returns to give him a warning.
** Later, Negi declares he will make friends with [[spoiler:Fate Averruncus]] after realizing that [[spoiler:Fate and Cosmo Entelechia really are trying to do the right thing.]]
** After Chisame beats Chachamaru in a hacking duel, Chachamaru starts dragging her around everywhere, which apparently means they're friends. Well, Chisame ''does'' like being dragged around so she can pretend she isn't having fun.
* DefectingForLove: Given some developments involving [[spoiler:Negi inadvertently ''romancing'' one of Fate's most trusted subordinates out of her disguise against her will and creating a pactio with her ''at the same time'']]. Add the fact that her perfect disguise seems to drop only during times of intense emotion felt on her part, such as [[spoiler:love]], and it's as good as done.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Slavery is a state-sanctioned practice and completely normal in Mundus Magicus. Seeing how they use Latin as (one of) their main language and that the political powers date back to Middle Ages if not Ancient Rome, this is to be expected. The current slave system was created by [[spoiler:Queen Arika]] to deal with the [[spoiler:thousands of Ostia's homeless after the destruction of their country.]] Slaves can buy their freedom and are protected against "excessive mistreatment", which the SlaveCollar reports automatically, but the electrifying feature of the SlaveCollar doesn't seem to fall under "excessive mistreatment" until the heroes beat the the crap beat out of a guy who did it and told him that he was going too far. There might have also been other, off-screen punishments, it was explicitly stated that it's only supposed to be used if a slave revolts or a similar extreme scenario scenario.
* DemonSlaying: The Shinmei-ryu's specialty.
* DepartureMeansDeath: [[spoiler:Magic World natives cannot survive on Earth, so when the magic world goes they'll go with it. Albireo ''may'' be an exception, but he might just be a book instead.]]
* DePowerZone: The execution site in the Magical World completely nullifies magic. [[spoiler:Of course, Nagi Springfield doesn't care about that and rescues Arika from it anyway]].
* DesignatedGirlFight: Odd gender inversion: despite the series having far more women than men, the majority of Negi's opponents have been male. At this point, the only named male characters he hasn't fought are [[spoiler:Eishun, Johnny, Filius Zect and some of the magic teachers.]]
* DespairEventHorizon:
** [[spoiler: When Asuna dies in ''Negima!'', Negi splinters like a broken broomstick. His artificial cheerfulness masks it temporarily, but it quickly becomes ghastly.]]
** In the original manga, Negi probably crosses this after [[spoiler: Fate attacks his students at the Gateport and scatters them across Mundus Magicus.]] It isn't quite as bad as in the anime, but the fact that he was [[spoiler: completely unable to protect them after he promised to do so]] really gives him issues later on.
** Played for laughs after Rakan's hilarious first failed attempt to teach Negi Magia Erebea. '''''"I'M GONNA DIE."'''''
** Rakan MADE this happen, purposely depressing the crap out of Negi after his "Make a bad face and punch!" initial plan doesn't work. Also those were meant to be strong punches, Rakan told him to do 1000, which even for normal people would be quite tiring.
* DeusExMachina: During the GeckoEnding of the first anime, the [[spoiler:TimeMachine]] used to fix the DiabolusExMachina that kicked off the final arc. Fight fire with fire, they say...
** In the manga, this artifact has a completely different purpose and gets explained in detail. But [[spoiler:in the anime]] it's an AssPull that's immediately used to solve what had been an [[spoiler:[[KilledOffForReal apparently]] [[ReallyDeadMontage unsolvable]] [[AllDeathsFinal problem]]]].
* DiagonalCut: The finishing blow to the [[spoiler:Tsukuyomi]] fight. Somehow.
* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: Fate seems fond of his coffee parties.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu:
** The first couple times Asuna attacks Eva (literally with a punch), [[spoiler:before anyone understands her anti-magic abilities]].
** Also, [[spoiler:Chisame to Magia Erebea-fueled UnstoppableRage Negi, coupled with ArmorPiercingSlap and GetAHoldOfYourselfMan]] in chapter 265.
** When Nagi [[spoiler:punched the [[PhysicalGod Mage of the Beginning]] in the face.]]
** During the Magic World's final battles, a much more literal example: when [[spoiler:Quartum]] pulls out his final move, [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever Entei]] [[WreathedInFlames Shoukan]], [[spoiler:Negi]] jumps out with [[spoiler:Raisoku Shundou]] and literally ''socks it across the face!''
* DirtyBusiness: Negi wonders if [[spoiler:defeating Chao's plan to reveal TheMasquerade was the right thing to do throughout the Festival Arc.]] He's reassured [[spoiler:by Chao herself, no less]] that there are no hard feelings, though.
* DirtyMindReading: Nodoka gets a heavy dose of it from Paio: "Although one of them was just really screwed-up..."
** Heck, Nodoka gets this from ''[[CovertPervert herself]]''.
* 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.
* DispelMagic: A limited version of Magic Cancel is the "Dispulso" spell. The author notes this a "paradoxical" spell, being a magic that disperses magic.
* DisturbedDoves: {{Invoked|Trope}}. When he transforms into Nagi for his tournament match against Negi, Albireo has doves flying around him for dramatic effect. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by the hologram of Nagi.
* DivingSave: Negi and the cat.
* DoAndroidsDream: Chachamaru 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.]]
* DodgeballIsHell: Very early on, class 2-A engages in a pretty intense game of dodgeball with a class of high school girls.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Chachamaru needs to be fueled with magic every day to stay in peak condition. It feels good on its own and even better the more magic is poured in. The subtext couldn't have been more obvious if there had been a subtitle saying, "OMGSEXLOL!" During the ball, she has the robotic equivalent of TheImmodestOrgasm when Negi gets too into it. After getting back home [[ADateWithRosiePalms refuels herself]] at one point, so of course Eva walks in.
* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Every song to date.
* DoomedHometown: Negi's 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.
* DoppelgangerAttack: Kaede can make a large number of solid clones, each of which has good offensive power. Kotaro can do it as well, but he isn't quite as good at it.
* DoubleEntendre: The word "Partner" being the biggest one.
* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: While this doesn't occur much (likely due to the fact that Negi is only ten), in one story arc where Negi gets aged up to 15, he suffers a few smacks in the face. Anya, his best friend from home, is also able to beat him up as much as she wants since they're the same age.
** During the school festival when ever someone would confess Mana would only shoot the guy
* DramaticWind
* DroolHello: Twice, with the same occidental dragon in the underground beneath Mahora.
* DropTheWashtub: Characters can make a washtub fall on others' heads by casting it as a spell.
* DrumBathing: Kaede and Negi share a barrel in an early chapter.
* DudeHesLikeInAComa: Chisame tries to get her pactio kiss while Negi is asleep, but he wakes up in the middle of it and she has to do it the normal way (although she covers his eyes).
* DuelingMessiahs: Negi and Fate. [[spoiler:Negi and the gang eventually discover that Fate and the [[AncientConspiracy Cosmo Entelechia]] are trying to save the human inhabitants of the Magical World, which is about to collapse and in turn cause the humans to be stranded on Mars, the landscape of which was used to create the Magical World. Negi opposes their plan to send the humans to a [[LotusEaterMachine never-ending dream world]] by sacrificing Asuna and the Magical World's non-human inhabitants, and tries to get them to help him find [[TookAThirdOption another way]].]]
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
* DungeonCrawling: Library Island at first, then Nodoka's adventuring party. All also have...
** {{Durable Death Trap}}s: ...Though these can be explained by AWizardDidIt
* DynamicEntry:
** Anya's greeting to Negi is a flaming kick out of nowhere and Asuna kicks Eva right through all her barriers as a greeting sometimes.
** As a rather amoral, energetic girl Haruna is quite fond of saying hi by kicking people in the head.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Despite being listed in the class registry, Sayo didn't make her first appearance until chapter 74 in the manga. ''Every'' adaptation since have gone out of their way to introduce her earlier and most leave her visible to the audience long before any of the characters take note of her presence.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: {{Invoked}}. ''[[ParrotExposition Invoked!?]]'' Invoked! The author wanted to write an action series, [[ExecutiveMeddling but was forced to write a harem series]]. He bent the rules.
* 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.
* {{Ecchi}}: It is an Akamatsu manga, after all. At times the series stops just short of explicit.
* ElaborateUniversityHigh: Taken {{Up To Eleven}}, Mahora Academy encompasses a fair sized ''city''.
* EldritchAbomination: Two so far: the demon that Evangeline curb-stomped in the Kyoto Arc, and [[spoiler:the huge black shadow-demon summoned by Fate Averruncus' shadow-using minion in the Ch. 270's]].
** Appropriately, this one also gets curb-stomped, this one by [[spoiler: Chachamaru's KillSat Artifact]].
* ElementalBaggage: Subverted in the literal sense, but invoked by Evangeline and Chao's high-level elemental spells. The supplementary materials at the back of the tankobon explain that Kosmic Katastrophe breaks the Laws of Thermodynamics, and that freeze spells are considered higher-level than fire spells because they break more laws.
* ElementalShapeshifter: Negi has [[ShockAndAwe Raiten Taisou]] and Raiten Sousou, and [[PlayingWithFire Homura]] can transform into a fire spirit. [[spoiler:Recently revealed Quintum, the Averruncus of [[BlowYouAway Wind]] has an ability similar to Negi's transformation.]]
* ElephantInTheLivingRoom: Poor Negi...
* ElevatorSchool: Mahora Academy.
* {{Elopement}}: [[spoiler:Nagi]] suggested doing this with [[spoiler:Princess Arika]] when he realized she had developed feelings for him, getting a blast of magic in response. Ironically, they end up eloping after [[spoiler:he rescues her from her execution]].
* EndingTheme
* EnergyAbsorption: By constructing an elaborate spell circle, [[spoiler:Negi can use Magia Erebea]] to absorb attacks his enemy uses. However, it's not very practical in large battles.
* EnvironmentalSymbolism
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: At this point, Negi's harem consists of a whole ''lot'' of girls...and [[spoiler:''Fate''.]] (If that's what he meant by '[[HomoeroticSubtext he already belongs to me]],' anyway...)
* EverybodysDeadDave: [[spoiler: Asuna experiences this in chapter 352. Though to be fair she is 130 years in the future.]]
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Even [[ChasteHero Negi]] notices Setsuna's BodyguardCrush on Konoka. Setsuna tries to deny it, Konoka doesn't.
* EveryoneIsASuper: At least, in the magic world, magic is, understandably, very common, and nobody bats an eye at its use.
* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Only the fake, robotic ones, though. To his [[AdorablyPrecociousChild dismay]], Negi's time machine won't take him back that far.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: For some reason, the evil organization in the Kyoto Trip Arc used monkeys of all things to kidnap Konoka.
* TheEvilArmy
* EvilChancellor: [[spoiler: A group of them has been manipulating the Megalomesembria Senate and is responsible for every major event that has happened in the story so far, starting with the war. Even the events of the Festival Arc may have been a result of their actions.]]
* EvilIsEasy: Rakan laid out two paths for Negi. He could stay on the path of light and be as tough as Rakan or Nagi in, say, five years or so. He could also take the path of the heretic, choosing black magic to gain that kind of power in mere weeks. It's not quite evil, but it's incredibly dangerous to not only himself but those around him as well as damaging to both his mind and soul.
* 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.
* ExcitedShowTitle: ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', spinoffs tend to add more punctuation to the end of the title.
* ExplodingCalendar: Used in the TrainingMontage in the Magical World Arc.
* ExpositionOfImmortality: Evangeline reminisces about having known Negis' father and about her own, lengthy existence.
* {{Expy}}:
** A few of the girls are based off of the characters from ''Manga/LoveHina'': Naru (Asuna and Chisame), Shinobu (Nodoka), Kaolla Su (Ku Fei), Motoko (Setsuna, Akira and possibly Madoka), Kitsune (Asakura) and Mutsumi (Chizuru).
** On top of that, Kotaro is a tribute to ''Manga/InuYasha''.
** Plus Yuna seems to be based off of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2 a certain gun-wielding summoner]].
** Yue is very obviously based off of [[Franchise/TouhouProject Patchouli Knowledge]].
* ExtraStrengthMasquerade: After a while, characters' attempts to maintain the {{Masquerade}} start to seem kinda half-assed, but everyone still falls for it anyway. It's implied that there is a spell in place that [[WeirdnessCensor makes people less likely to accept the existence of magic]].
* ExtremeGraphicalRepresentation: Chisame's artifact lets her mentally enter the computer system, Tron style, for super-hacking. Some of the extreme graphics include viruses that look like jellyfish, MagicalGirl anti-virus programs which she leaves her Ayaka and Makie during Mahorafest, and ClothingDamage to represent data being destroyed.
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The Festival arc spanned only 3 days June 20-22, 2003 but took up half the manga up to that point -- 9 volumes.
** It's okay though, because they actually [[FantasticTimeManagement go through the three days]] four or five times at the end of it.They only run into themselves once, and manage to not cause [[TemporalParadox any issues]]. Never mind that [[TheWorldTree the World Tree]]'s magic that is letting Negi's [[TimeMachine Cassiopeia]] work, as well as power the then [[BigBad Big Bad]]'s [[ScrewDestiny plot]], [[NoConservationOfEnergy never runs down]].
* EyeCatch
* {{Facefault}}: A natural staple of anime.
* FalseCameraEffects: FishEyeLens
* FalseStart: Nodoka attempts a confession a few times before getting halted, but eventually gets it out. Unfortunately, she did it too early in the series.
* FanDisservice: There's a surprising amount of {{Squick}} in the series, since many fight scenes against ''[[PsychoLesbian severely]] [[AllAnimeIsNaughtyTentacles messed-up]] [[DissonantSerenity people]]'' occur with the girls in various states of undress. There's also guys in states of undress.
* {{Fanservice}}: Any excuse to get the characters naked, up to [[ClothingDamage clothes-destroying]] [[SneezeOfDoom sneezes]], lasers, and [[AllAnimeIsNaughtyTentacles octopodes]].
** FanServicePack: Yuna outright [[LampshadeHanging states]] that her breasts are getting bigger as the series goes on.
** And more than one FanserviceExtra: One girl that shows up for a single panel in the magic world encapsulates about 12 different FanserviceTropes and adds nothing whatsoever to the story except some eye candy.
* FanserviceFauxFight:
** During their Kyoto vacation[=/=][[ClassTrip school field trip]], several of the girls of 3-A have an [[CookingDuel epic pillow fight]] with their boy [[ChickMagnet teacher]]'s kiss as the prize. Staple of the harem series.
** [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Pillow_Fight.jpg Also take note that the girls will indulge in the occasional pillow fight given the opportunity]].
* FantasticArousal: Setsuna's wings seem to be very sensitive, and poor Chachamaru can't seem to impress on Negi to wind her up ''slowly and gently''.
** Her own damn fault in that she keeps telling him that it feels good and Negi, being only ten, thinks that more is naturally better. Chachamaru ends up talking in a wingdings-like font from the overwhelming pleasure.
* FantasticNuke
* FantasticRacism: Against woodnymphs and other demihumans by humans, who also had no problem cutting horns off them(a bit like real life, the horns, not hunting humans) and selling young girls into slavery.
* FantasticTimeManagement: Negi uses TimeTravel and YearOutsideHourInside techniques to get more things done during the Mahora Festival and also to have more time to train as well as do his job as a teacher.
* FantasyKitchenSink: [[{{Ninja}} Ninjas]], [[RobotGirl robots]], [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghosts]], [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]], [[ChurchMilitant nuns]], [[{{Miko}} priestesses]], [[HumanAliens aliens]], [[HalfHumanHybrid half-demons]], [[MadScientist mad scientists]], [[EverythingIsOnline hackers]], [[KidFromTheFuture Time Travelers]]...
** And that's just some of the girls in Negi's class.
*** Mana even lampshades it at one point, having figured that [[spoiler: Zazie Rainyday]] '''couldn't''' be normal, simply because hardly anybody in the class was.
*** Let's put it this way: Even the normal kids [[spoiler: Makie]] end up either with supernatural powers, or are so normal [[spoiler: Makie]] they're immune to reality warping effects because they [[spoiler: have no worries, Makie again.]]
* FictionalCurrency: "Drachma" are used in the Magical World. Based off of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drachma an ancient Greek currency.]]
* FightingAShadow
* TheFinalTemptation:
** During the assault on Cosmo Entelechia [[spoiler:following their attack on the Governor's Ball, Poyo]] uses a special artifact to show what Cosmo Entelechia ''is'': [[spoiler:Negi is placed in a LotusEaterMachine that gives him the happy family he always wanted, though some of his friendships have taken setbacks since it's the ideal ''possible'' world for him. The rest of the group apart from Chisame and Makie are shown similar temptations, though we don't see much of them. Negi chooses reality the instant he realizes he's not in it. Spending too much time in such a happy place would make it impossible to leave.]]
** 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.
* FingerPokeOfDoom: Negi manages to [[spoiler:stun Sextum briefly]] with a poke that also removes her clothing [[spoiler:before she gets up and is then incapacitated for real by the Gravekeeper, who attacks from behind.]]
* FingerSnapLighter: When Konoka asks Setsuna about trying out magic, Setsuna reveals she can do this with her own kind of magic.
* FingerSuckHealing: Konoka teases Setsuna once by starting to suck on her fingers and saying it's healing, then laughs and uses magic.
* FireForgedFriends: Negi and Kotaro start out as enemies in the Kyoto arc, after which Kotaro is arrested offscreen. A few chapters later, he shows up again to help Negi defeat a demon and becomes his rival/friend once they're done.
* FirstKiss: A lot of the girls on Negi's team have their's with him. Negi himself gave his to Asuna and her's to him.
** Almost every person acts very nervous as well, and then came Asakura's turn. Her pactio was the only one to occur off-screen and she was so not nervous about it that she got a ''commemorative photo'' for it.
* FirstNameBasis: In a similar vein, [[{{Ojou}} Konoka]] spends most of her time trying to get [[BodyguardCrush Setsuna]] to call her 'Kono-chan' rather than 'Ojou-sama'. It doesn't work.
* FlashBack: Sayo's memories in episode 19, Konoka's in episode 21. In the manga, Asuna also gets many flashbacks related to her mysterious past with Ala Rubra.
** The most hilarious take on this trope is when [[TheAce Rakan]] watches Homura's FlashBack.
* FlashStep: A must when fighting professionals. Negi learns it from Kotaro before the Mahora Tournament. You use magic or ki to push off the ground very quickly and then when landing at your destination quickly use the same kind of thing to stop. However, you can be intercepted mid step since it's impossible to change course. Masters can even perform the technique in midair, as seen with Kaede, the Ala Alba master of the move.
* FlexibleTourneyRules: Averted, with Asuna disqualified instantly when she broke a rule.
* {{Flight}}: If you're a mage and either have a staff or just that powerful, you get this.
* FloatingContinent: Ostia, though most of it has crashed.
* FlowerMotif: In the anime Sayo’s associated with the leopard plant based on how she died in that adaptation.
* FoodSlap: Chisame assaults Negi (who had just gotten his arm ''re-attached'') with some fruit from a fruit basket, that was meant for him, for being reckless.
* ForcefulKiss: Haruna forcefully stole a kiss from Negi for her Pactio. Twice, since the first time there was no magic circle set up.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** A lot of Asuna's abilities and fractured memories are a hint as to her true nature, especially her magic cancel.
** The location of the Magic World is suspiciously never mentioned. When the series actually gets to it, we get a few pieces of information from time to time that help point out where it must be. [[spoiler:Most importantly, we're given the size of the place (slightly less than one third that of Earth) and the location of features such as Olympus Mons.]]
* ForgotFlandersCouldDoThat: Given how most adaptations (and the later chapters of the manga) focus more on Konoka being Negi and Asuna's roommate and her relationship with Setsuna, some fans tend to forget that she is also a member of the Library Exploration Club.
* ForgottenPhlebotinum: An aversion occurs in the [[spoiler:kidnapping plot]] in the Magical World Arc. The Pactio cards ability to summon the partner to the master. However, it has been mentioned by Chachamaru that the functions of the Pactio Cards are very easily jammed. There is also a distance limitation, which is why Negi couldn't summon his students to him when they were scattered across a planet. It's more of a case of AwesomeButImpractical and UselessUsefulSpell. Also, Fate himself also used that function to summon his subordinates just before [[spoiler:confronting Negi and kidnapping Asuna]].
* FormulaWithATwist: ''Negima'' started as an on-the-fly example of the HaremGenre, albeit with a clear supernatural angle and focusing on a young teacher to a class full of girls. Slowly but surely, it turns more into a {{Shonen}} action series as more of the magical world starts to come to play, and thus his harem becomes a BattleHarem. The reason it's "on-the-fly" example is because the author wasn't really trying to make another harem series and ''wanted'' to do a more straightforward shonen series, but seemingly relented because the mangazine he worked for [[ExecutiveMeddling pushed him into it]]. So he did as they wished but turned it more into the shonen series he wanted to do, [[GenreMashup killing two birds with one stone]].
* ForScience: Hakase's justification for peeking into Chachamaru's 'treasured images' folder. Never mind that this effectively meant probing Chachamaru's mind against her will, on the subject of her crush, no less.
* FountainOfYouth: The Age Changing Pills can allow someone to look older or younger by several years.
* FreudianExcuse: Played with in Eva's case: after recounting the tale of her life, including how she became a vampire and killed her way through the centuries, Asuna's response is immediately "So... it's not your fault, right? Because you didn't choose to be bad?" Eva takes this as more evidence that Asuna is an idiot.
* FriendlyRivalry: There's a brief scene where his students joke that Kotaro and Negi call themselves rivals but spell it 'friends,'. It's a joke involving the Japanese writing system.
* FriendlyTickleTorture: The class pulls out a bunch of robot hands to do this to Chao during their farewell party in the Festival Arc. They wanted to see tears from her, and if they couldn't get them from emotion, ''laughter'' would do just fine.
* 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.]]
* FriendshipMoment: [[spoiler:After her early graduation and before the planned ritual that will put her to sleep for a century,]] Asuna tells Ayaka that she was the best thing that ever happened to her.
* FugitiveArc: Negi and company go on the lam during the magic world arc.
* FullFrontalAssault: [[spoiler: Dynamis]], '''of all people''', does this in the final battle. No one saw it coming and no one knows why he did that... (though Takane D. Goodman mentioned earlier that her Shadow-created clothes provide even higher defense with direct skin contact, and Dynamis does use Shadow magic)
* FullMoonSilhouette: Near the end of the Kyoto Arc, after Setsuna rescues Konoka from the clutches of the enemy.
** Eva has one at the beginning of the Mahora Blackout Operation.
* FunSize: Both Sayo and Setsuna have an absolutely adorable smaller form. Then there's Chachazero, who despite being psychotic can be quite cute.
%%%* FunbagAirbag
* FunctionalMagic: Most of the big spells will have enough explanation in-story for the reader to really get a feel as to what's going on and how it works. The appendices in the books give properly scientific and historical explanations for the spells, leaving enough room in the physics for the "it's magic" kind of WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief. This goes to create a very real-feeling system of magic that creates a link between ancient beliefs and modern scientific understanding, helping to tie the world together as "our world, but with magic".
* FunnyOctopus: The Magic World has the pseudo-octopus called Cerberus [[ClothingDamage Cloth Eater, which only eats and dissolves your clothes]], but is still greatly feared by travelers since it licks them thoroughly then leaves them naked in the jungle. Poor [[PlayfulHacker Chisame]] encountered one.
* FuroScene: Quite a few, starting with a furo the size of a swimming pool.
* 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.]]
* DangerouslyShortSkirt: Plenty of the resident {{Action Girl}}s wear one, or ''have'' worn one.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Akamatsu-sensei appears to be rapidly accelerating his use of this trope. Chapters 277 and 278 feature [[spoiler: Rakan and a boatload of {{Mauve Shirt}}s being dissolved into flower petals]], and the dozen-odd chapters before it feature [[spoiler:an ominous secret that borders on GoMadFromTheRevelation, the story of someone who saved the world being sentenced to a brutal death for it, and Negi nearly murdering the wrong person for revenge.]]
* DarkestHour: Well, see above. Most of what happened after the Governor's ball trumps their previous predicament in awfulness.
** To see how bad it's gotten since ''then'', see [[spoiler: TotalPartyKill]]. It doesn't get much darker an hour than that.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Varies, but the few right bastards have all been humans with no explicit connection to darkness.
** Shadow magic is the [[ElementalPowers manipulation of shadows]], no relationship to alignment. The three prominent users shown so far have included an antagonist that [[DefeatMeansFriendship quickly became the protagonist's best friend]], a friendly character mostly known for ending up [[ClothingDamage embarrassedly disrobed]] and a PunchClockVillain bounty hunter who was simply doing his job.
*** Also, Kagetarou, who looks like a villain at first but turns out to be Jack Rakan's buddy. Now we have a shadow-user [[spoiler:named Dynamis]] in Fate's group, and this new guy is quite evil, [[spoiler:erasing people from existence and making it quite clear that he intends to kill Nodoka, even using her as a shield and coming close to snapping her neck before Setsuna saves her by hacking off his right hand]][[note]]He seems to believe that [[WellIntentionedExtremist he's doing them a favor by killing them]][[/note]]. Then there's the whole [[spoiler:summoning shadow demons thing he does, including a ''[[EldritchAbomination huge]]'' one.]]
** The demons showcased so far have all been perfectly amicable, at worst neutral characters who [[PunchClockVillain just happened to be hired by the enemy team]] and don't seem very pleased at having to cause serious damage. Justified in that the "Demons" are a race of the Magical World. The more demonic looking ones are a different kind of demons. The demons summoned in the Kyoto arc are oni. Setsuna and Kotarou are [[HalfHumanHybrid half]]-{{Youkai}} (Han'you). Demons like [[spoiler:Mana and Poyo]] are a different kind as well.
** 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.
* DayInTheLimelight: Almost every girl gets a chapter, or even an entire arc, devoted to her. Especially if she hasn't had much "screen time" yet.
** Lampshaded when Negi (in his bishonen form) tells Ako that `everyone's the main character in their own life'.
* 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.]]
* DealWithTheDevil: In Asuna's backstory in the anime, she made a deal with demons where they'd stop following her and breaking stuff, but she'd die on her fourteenth birthday.
* DeathOfAThousandCuts: Used humorously to illustrate Negi's confusion over a PowerLevel chart.
* DeathOfTheHypotenuse: Doesn't actually occur, but Haruna points out that this is how love triangles usually end, causing the two girls involved to freak out considerably.
* DeclarationOfProtection: Setsuna says several times that she will protect Konoka with her life. Asuna does this to Negi as well... Unfortunately for her, she does it in front of a very large crowd and it's very easily misinterpreted for [[LoveConfession something else]].
* DefeatByModesty:
** Rakan's favourite method of dealing with cute female enemies.
** After some CharacterDevelopment to open up more, Setsuna 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.
** In chapter 354, Paio II makes her reappearance, completely stripping Yue 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.
* DefeatMeansFriendship:
** After Negi beats Eva, he makes her agree to go to class properly and whatnot.
** Kotaro is just a mercenary, so after he has fun with his fight with Negi they become friends after Kotaro returns to give him a warning.
** Later, Negi declares he will make friends with [[spoiler:Fate Averruncus]] after realizing that [[spoiler:Fate and Cosmo Entelechia really are trying to do the right thing.]]
** After Chisame beats Chachamaru in a hacking duel, Chachamaru starts dragging her around everywhere, which apparently means they're friends. Well, Chisame ''does'' like being dragged around so she can pretend she isn't having fun.
* DefectingForLove: Given some developments involving [[spoiler:Negi inadvertently ''romancing'' one of Fate's most trusted subordinates out of her disguise against her will and creating a pactio with her ''at the same time'']]. Add the fact that her perfect disguise seems to drop only during times of intense emotion felt on her part, such as [[spoiler:love]], and it's as good as done.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Slavery is a state-sanctioned practice and completely normal in Mundus Magicus. Seeing how they use Latin as (one of) their main language and that the political powers date back to Middle Ages if not Ancient Rome, this is to be expected. The current slave system was created by [[spoiler:Queen Arika]] to deal with the [[spoiler:thousands of Ostia's homeless after the destruction of their country.]] Slaves can buy their freedom and are protected against "excessive mistreatment", which the SlaveCollar reports automatically, but the electrifying feature of the SlaveCollar doesn't seem to fall under "excessive mistreatment" until the heroes beat the the crap beat out of a guy who did it and told him that he was going too far. There might have also been other, off-screen punishments, it was explicitly stated that it's only supposed to be used if a slave revolts or a similar extreme scenario scenario.
* DemonSlaying: The Shinmei-ryu's specialty.
* DepartureMeansDeath: [[spoiler:Magic World natives cannot survive on Earth, so when the magic world goes they'll go with it. Albireo ''may'' be an exception, but he might just be a book instead.]]
* DePowerZone: The execution site in the Magical World completely nullifies magic. [[spoiler:Of course, Nagi Springfield doesn't care about that and rescues Arika from it anyway]].
* DesignatedGirlFight: Odd gender inversion: despite the series having far more women than men, the majority of Negi's opponents have been male. At this point, the only named male characters he hasn't fought are [[spoiler:Eishun, Johnny, Filius Zect and some of the magic teachers.]]
* DespairEventHorizon:
** [[spoiler: When Asuna dies in ''Negima!'', Negi splinters like a broken broomstick. His artificial cheerfulness masks it temporarily, but it quickly becomes ghastly.]]
** In the original manga, Negi probably crosses this after [[spoiler: Fate attacks his students at the Gateport and scatters them across Mundus Magicus.]] It isn't quite as bad as in the anime, but the fact that he was [[spoiler: completely unable to protect them after he promised to do so]] really gives him issues later on.
** Played for laughs after Rakan's hilarious first failed attempt to teach Negi Magia Erebea. '''''"I'M GONNA DIE."'''''
** Rakan MADE this happen, purposely depressing the crap out of Negi after his "Make a bad face and punch!" initial plan doesn't work. Also those were meant to be strong punches, Rakan told him to do 1000, which even for normal people would be quite tiring.
* DeusExMachina: During the GeckoEnding of the first anime, the [[spoiler:TimeMachine]] used to fix the DiabolusExMachina that kicked off the final arc. Fight fire with fire, they say...
** In the manga, this artifact has a completely different purpose and gets explained in detail. But [[spoiler:in the anime]] it's an AssPull that's immediately used to solve what had been an [[spoiler:[[KilledOffForReal apparently]] [[ReallyDeadMontage unsolvable]] [[AllDeathsFinal problem]]]].
* DiagonalCut: The finishing blow to the [[spoiler:Tsukuyomi]] fight. Somehow.
* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: Fate seems fond of his coffee parties.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu:
** The first couple times Asuna attacks Eva (literally with a punch), [[spoiler:before anyone understands her anti-magic abilities]].
** Also, [[spoiler:Chisame to Magia Erebea-fueled UnstoppableRage Negi, coupled with ArmorPiercingSlap and GetAHoldOfYourselfMan]] in chapter 265.
** When Nagi [[spoiler:punched the [[PhysicalGod Mage of the Beginning]] in the face.]]
** During the Magic World's final battles, a much more literal example: when [[spoiler:Quartum]] pulls out his final move, [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever Entei]] [[WreathedInFlames Shoukan]], [[spoiler:Negi]] jumps out with [[spoiler:Raisoku Shundou]] and literally ''socks it across the face!''
* DirtyBusiness: Negi wonders if [[spoiler:defeating Chao's plan to reveal TheMasquerade was the right thing to do throughout the Festival Arc.]] He's reassured [[spoiler:by Chao herself, no less]] that there are no hard feelings, though.
* DirtyMindReading: Nodoka gets a heavy dose of it from Paio: "Although one of them was just really screwed-up..."
** Heck, Nodoka gets this from ''[[CovertPervert herself]]''.
* 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.
* DispelMagic: A limited version of Magic Cancel is the "Dispulso" spell. The author notes this a "paradoxical" spell, being a magic that disperses magic.
* DisturbedDoves: {{Invoked|Trope}}. When he transforms into Nagi for his tournament match against Negi, Albireo has doves flying around him for dramatic effect. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by the hologram of Nagi.
* DivingSave: Negi and the cat.
* DoAndroidsDream: Chachamaru 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.]]
* DodgeballIsHell: Very early on, class 2-A engages in a pretty intense game of dodgeball with a class of high school girls.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Chachamaru needs to be fueled with magic every day to stay in peak condition. It feels good on its own and even better the more magic is poured in. The subtext couldn't have been more obvious if there had been a subtitle saying, "OMGSEXLOL!" During the ball, she has the robotic equivalent of TheImmodestOrgasm when Negi gets too into it. After getting back home [[ADateWithRosiePalms refuels herself]] at one point, so of course Eva walks in.
* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Every song to date.
* DoomedHometown: Negi's 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.
* DoppelgangerAttack: Kaede can make a large number of solid clones, each of which has good offensive power. Kotaro can do it as well, but he isn't quite as good at it.
* DoubleEntendre: The word "Partner" being the biggest one.
* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: While this doesn't occur much (likely due to the fact that Negi is only ten), in one story arc where Negi gets aged up to 15, he suffers a few smacks in the face. Anya, his best friend from home, is also able to beat him up as much as she wants since they're the same age.
** During the school festival when ever someone would confess Mana would only shoot the guy
* DramaticWind
* DroolHello: Twice, with the same occidental dragon in the underground beneath Mahora.
* DropTheWashtub: Characters can make a washtub fall on others' heads by casting it as a spell.
* DrumBathing: Kaede and Negi share a barrel in an early chapter.
* DudeHesLikeInAComa: Chisame tries to get her pactio kiss while Negi is asleep, but he wakes up in the middle of it and she has to do it the normal way (although she covers his eyes).
* DuelingMessiahs: Negi and Fate. [[spoiler:Negi and the gang eventually discover that Fate and the [[AncientConspiracy Cosmo Entelechia]] are trying to save the human inhabitants of the Magical World, which is about to collapse and in turn cause the humans to be stranded on Mars, the landscape of which was used to create the Magical World. Negi opposes their plan to send the humans to a [[LotusEaterMachine never-ending dream world]] by sacrificing Asuna and the Magical World's non-human inhabitants, and tries to get them to help him find [[TookAThirdOption another way]].]]
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
* DungeonCrawling: Library Island at first, then Nodoka's adventuring party. All also have...
** {{Durable Death Trap}}s: ...Though these can be explained by AWizardDidIt
* DynamicEntry:
** Anya's greeting to Negi is a flaming kick out of nowhere and Asuna kicks Eva right through all her barriers as a greeting sometimes.
** As a rather amoral, energetic girl Haruna is quite fond of saying hi by kicking people in the head.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Despite being listed in the class registry, Sayo didn't make her first appearance until chapter 74 in the manga. ''Every'' adaptation since have gone out of their way to introduce her earlier and most leave her visible to the audience long before any of the characters take note of her presence.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: {{Invoked}}. ''[[ParrotExposition Invoked!?]]'' Invoked! The author wanted to write an action series, [[ExecutiveMeddling but was forced to write a harem series]]. He bent the rules.
* 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.
* {{Ecchi}}: It is an Akamatsu manga, after all. At times the series stops just short of explicit.
* ElaborateUniversityHigh: Taken {{Up To Eleven}}, Mahora Academy encompasses a fair sized ''city''.
* EldritchAbomination: Two so far: the demon that Evangeline curb-stomped in the Kyoto Arc, and [[spoiler:the huge black shadow-demon summoned by Fate Averruncus' shadow-using minion in the Ch. 270's]].
** Appropriately, this one also gets curb-stomped, this one by [[spoiler: Chachamaru's KillSat Artifact]].
* ElementalBaggage: Subverted in the literal sense, but invoked by Evangeline and Chao's high-level elemental spells. The supplementary materials at the back of the tankobon explain that Kosmic Katastrophe breaks the Laws of Thermodynamics, and that freeze spells are considered higher-level than fire spells because they break more laws.
* ElementalShapeshifter: Negi has [[ShockAndAwe Raiten Taisou]] and Raiten Sousou, and [[PlayingWithFire Homura]] can transform into a fire spirit. [[spoiler:Recently revealed Quintum, the Averruncus of [[BlowYouAway Wind]] has an ability similar to Negi's transformation.]]
* ElephantInTheLivingRoom: Poor Negi...
* ElevatorSchool: Mahora Academy.
* {{Elopement}}: [[spoiler:Nagi]] suggested doing this with [[spoiler:Princess Arika]] when he realized she had developed feelings for him, getting a blast of magic in response. Ironically, they end up eloping after [[spoiler:he rescues her from her execution]].
* EndingTheme
* EnergyAbsorption: By constructing an elaborate spell circle, [[spoiler:Negi can use Magia Erebea]] to absorb attacks his enemy uses. However, it's not very practical in large battles.
* EnvironmentalSymbolism
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: At this point, Negi's harem consists of a whole ''lot'' of girls...and [[spoiler:''Fate''.]] (If that's what he meant by '[[HomoeroticSubtext he already belongs to me]],' anyway...)
* EverybodysDeadDave: [[spoiler: Asuna experiences this in chapter 352. Though to be fair she is 130 years in the future.]]
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Even [[ChasteHero Negi]] notices Setsuna's BodyguardCrush on Konoka. Setsuna tries to deny it, Konoka doesn't.
* EveryoneIsASuper: At least, in the magic world, magic is, understandably, very common, and nobody bats an eye at its use.
* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Only the fake, robotic ones, though. To his [[AdorablyPrecociousChild dismay]], Negi's time machine won't take him back that far.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: For some reason, the evil organization in the Kyoto Trip Arc used monkeys of all things to kidnap Konoka.
* TheEvilArmy
* EvilChancellor: [[spoiler: A group of them has been manipulating the Megalomesembria Senate and is responsible for every major event that has happened in the story so far, starting with the war. Even the events of the Festival Arc may have been a result of their actions.]]
* EvilIsEasy: Rakan laid out two paths for Negi. He could stay on the path of light and be as tough as Rakan or Nagi in, say, five years or so. He could also take the path of the heretic, choosing black magic to gain that kind of power in mere weeks. It's not quite evil, but it's incredibly dangerous to not only himself but those around him as well as damaging to both his mind and soul.
* 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.
* ExcitedShowTitle: ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', spinoffs tend to add more punctuation to the end of the title.
* ExplodingCalendar: Used in the TrainingMontage in the Magical World Arc.
* ExpositionOfImmortality: Evangeline reminisces about having known Negis' father and about her own, lengthy existence.
* {{Expy}}:
** A few of the girls are based off of the characters from ''Manga/LoveHina'': Naru (Asuna and Chisame), Shinobu (Nodoka), Kaolla Su (Ku Fei), Motoko (Setsuna, Akira and possibly Madoka), Kitsune (Asakura) and Mutsumi (Chizuru).
** On top of that, Kotaro is a tribute to ''Manga/InuYasha''.
** Plus Yuna seems to be based off of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2 a certain gun-wielding summoner]].
** Yue is very obviously based off of [[Franchise/TouhouProject Patchouli Knowledge]].
* ExtraStrengthMasquerade: After a while, characters' attempts to maintain the {{Masquerade}} start to seem kinda half-assed, but everyone still falls for it anyway. It's implied that there is a spell in place that [[WeirdnessCensor makes people less likely to accept the existence of magic]].
* ExtremeGraphicalRepresentation: Chisame's artifact lets her mentally enter the computer system, Tron style, for super-hacking. Some of the extreme graphics include viruses that look like jellyfish, MagicalGirl anti-virus programs which she leaves her Ayaka and Makie during Mahorafest, and ClothingDamage to represent data being destroyed.
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The Festival arc spanned only 3 days June 20-22, 2003 but took up half the manga up to that point -- 9 volumes.
** It's okay though, because they actually [[FantasticTimeManagement go through the three days]] four or five times at the end of it.They only run into themselves once, and manage to not cause [[TemporalParadox any issues]]. Never mind that [[TheWorldTree the World Tree]]'s magic that is letting Negi's [[TimeMachine Cassiopeia]] work, as well as power the then [[BigBad Big Bad]]'s [[ScrewDestiny plot]], [[NoConservationOfEnergy never runs down]].
* EyeCatch
* {{Facefault}}: A natural staple of anime.
* FalseCameraEffects: FishEyeLens
* FalseStart: Nodoka attempts a confession a few times before getting halted, but eventually gets it out. Unfortunately, she did it too early in the series.
* FanDisservice: There's a surprising amount of {{Squick}} in the series, since many fight scenes against ''[[PsychoLesbian severely]] [[AllAnimeIsNaughtyTentacles messed-up]] [[DissonantSerenity people]]'' occur with the girls in various states of undress. There's also guys in states of undress.
* {{Fanservice}}: Any excuse to get the characters naked, up to [[ClothingDamage clothes-destroying]] [[SneezeOfDoom sneezes]], lasers, and [[AllAnimeIsNaughtyTentacles octopodes]].
** FanServicePack: Yuna outright [[LampshadeHanging states]] that her breasts are getting bigger as the series goes on.
** And more than one FanserviceExtra: One girl that shows up for a single panel in the magic world encapsulates about 12 different FanserviceTropes and adds nothing whatsoever to the story except some eye candy.
* FanserviceFauxFight:
** During their Kyoto vacation[=/=][[ClassTrip school field trip]], several of the girls of 3-A have an [[CookingDuel epic pillow fight]] with their boy [[ChickMagnet teacher]]'s kiss as the prize. Staple of the harem series.
** [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Pillow_Fight.jpg Also take note that the girls will indulge in the occasional pillow fight given the opportunity]].
* FantasticArousal: Setsuna's wings seem to be very sensitive, and poor Chachamaru can't seem to impress on Negi to wind her up ''slowly and gently''.
** Her own damn fault in that she keeps telling him that it feels good and Negi, being only ten, thinks that more is naturally better. Chachamaru ends up talking in a wingdings-like font from the overwhelming pleasure.
* FantasticNuke
* FantasticRacism: Against woodnymphs and other demihumans by humans, who also had no problem cutting horns off them(a bit like real life, the horns, not hunting humans) and selling young girls into slavery.
* FantasticTimeManagement: Negi uses TimeTravel and YearOutsideHourInside techniques to get more things done during the Mahora Festival and also to have more time to train as well as do his job as a teacher.
* FantasyKitchenSink: [[{{Ninja}} Ninjas]], [[RobotGirl robots]], [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghosts]], [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]], [[ChurchMilitant nuns]], [[{{Miko}} priestesses]], [[HumanAliens aliens]], [[HalfHumanHybrid half-demons]], [[MadScientist mad scientists]], [[EverythingIsOnline hackers]], [[KidFromTheFuture Time Travelers]]...
** And that's just some of the girls in Negi's class.
*** Mana even lampshades it at one point, having figured that [[spoiler: Zazie Rainyday]] '''couldn't''' be normal, simply because hardly anybody in the class was.
*** Let's put it this way: Even the normal kids [[spoiler: Makie]] end up either with supernatural powers, or are so normal [[spoiler: Makie]] they're immune to reality warping effects because they [[spoiler: have no worries, Makie again.]]
* FictionalCurrency: "Drachma" are used in the Magical World. Based off of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drachma an ancient Greek currency.]]
* FightingAShadow
* TheFinalTemptation:
** During the assault on Cosmo Entelechia [[spoiler:following their attack on the Governor's Ball, Poyo]] uses a special artifact to show what Cosmo Entelechia ''is'': [[spoiler:Negi is placed in a LotusEaterMachine that gives him the happy family he always wanted, though some of his friendships have taken setbacks since it's the ideal ''possible'' world for him. The rest of the group apart from Chisame and Makie are shown similar temptations, though we don't see much of them. Negi chooses reality the instant he realizes he's not in it. Spending too much time in such a happy place would make it impossible to leave.]]
** 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.
* FingerPokeOfDoom: Negi manages to [[spoiler:stun Sextum briefly]] with a poke that also removes her clothing [[spoiler:before she gets up and is then incapacitated for real by the Gravekeeper, who attacks from behind.]]
* FingerSnapLighter: When Konoka asks Setsuna about trying out magic, Setsuna reveals she can do this with her own kind of magic.
* FingerSuckHealing: Konoka teases Setsuna once by starting to suck on her fingers and saying it's healing, then laughs and uses magic.
* FireForgedFriends: Negi and Kotaro start out as enemies in the Kyoto arc, after which Kotaro is arrested offscreen. A few chapters later, he shows up again to help Negi defeat a demon and becomes his rival/friend once they're done.
* FirstKiss: A lot of the girls on Negi's team have their's with him. Negi himself gave his to Asuna and her's to him.
** Almost every person acts very nervous as well, and then came Asakura's turn. Her pactio was the only one to occur off-screen and she was so not nervous about it that she got a ''commemorative photo'' for it.
* FirstNameBasis: In a similar vein, [[{{Ojou}} Konoka]] spends most of her time trying to get [[BodyguardCrush Setsuna]] to call her 'Kono-chan' rather than 'Ojou-sama'. It doesn't work.
* FlashBack: Sayo's memories in episode 19, Konoka's in episode 21. In the manga, Asuna also gets many flashbacks related to her mysterious past with Ala Rubra.
** The most hilarious take on this trope is when [[TheAce Rakan]] watches Homura's FlashBack.
* FlashStep: A must when fighting professionals. Negi learns it from Kotaro before the Mahora Tournament. You use magic or ki to push off the ground very quickly and then when landing at your destination quickly use the same kind of thing to stop. However, you can be intercepted mid step since it's impossible to change course. Masters can even perform the technique in midair, as seen with Kaede, the Ala Alba master of the move.
* FlexibleTourneyRules: Averted, with Asuna disqualified instantly when she broke a rule.
* {{Flight}}: If you're a mage and either have a staff or just that powerful, you get this.
* FloatingContinent: Ostia, though most of it has crashed.
* FlowerMotif: In the anime Sayo’s associated with the leopard plant based on how she died in that adaptation.
* FoodSlap: Chisame assaults Negi (who had just gotten his arm ''re-attached'') with some fruit from a fruit basket, that was meant for him, for being reckless.
* ForcefulKiss: Haruna forcefully stole a kiss from Negi for her Pactio. Twice, since the first time there was no magic circle set up.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** A lot of Asuna's abilities and fractured memories are a hint as to her true nature, especially her magic cancel.
** The location of the Magic World is suspiciously never mentioned. When the series actually gets to it, we get a few pieces of information from time to time that help point out where it must be. [[spoiler:Most importantly, we're given the size of the place (slightly less than one third that of Earth) and the location of features such as Olympus Mons.]]
* ForgotFlandersCouldDoThat: Given how most adaptations (and the later chapters of the manga) focus more on Konoka being Negi and Asuna's roommate and her relationship with Setsuna, some fans tend to forget that she is also a member of the Library Exploration Club.
* ForgottenPhlebotinum: An aversion occurs in the [[spoiler:kidnapping plot]] in the Magical World Arc. The Pactio cards ability to summon the partner to the master. However, it has been mentioned by Chachamaru that the functions of the Pactio Cards are very easily jammed. There is also a distance limitation, which is why Negi couldn't summon his students to him when they were scattered across a planet. It's more of a case of AwesomeButImpractical and UselessUsefulSpell. Also, Fate himself also used that function to summon his subordinates just before [[spoiler:confronting Negi and kidnapping Asuna]].
* FormulaWithATwist: ''Negima'' started as an on-the-fly example of the HaremGenre, albeit with a clear supernatural angle and focusing on a young teacher to a class full of girls. Slowly but surely, it turns more into a {{Shonen}} action series as more of the magical world starts to come to play, and thus his harem becomes a BattleHarem. The reason it's "on-the-fly" example is because the author wasn't really trying to make another harem series and ''wanted'' to do a more straightforward shonen series, but seemingly relented because the mangazine he worked for [[ExecutiveMeddling pushed him into it]]. So he did as they wished but turned it more into the shonen series he wanted to do, [[GenreMashup killing two birds with one stone]].
* ForScience: Hakase's justification for peeking into Chachamaru's 'treasured images' folder. Never mind that this effectively meant probing Chachamaru's mind against her will, on the subject of her crush, no less.
* FountainOfYouth: The Age Changing Pills can allow someone to look older or younger by several years.
* FreudianExcuse: Played with in Eva's case: after recounting the tale of her life, including how she became a vampire and killed her way through the centuries, Asuna's response is immediately "So... it's not your fault, right? Because you didn't choose to be bad?" Eva takes this as more evidence that Asuna is an idiot.
* FriendlyRivalry: There's a brief scene where his students joke that Kotaro and Negi call themselves rivals but spell it 'friends,'. It's a joke involving the Japanese writing system.
* FriendlyTickleTorture: The class pulls out a bunch of robot hands to do this to Chao during their farewell party in the Festival Arc. They wanted to see tears from her, and if they couldn't get them from emotion, ''laughter'' would do just fine.
* 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.]]
* FriendshipMoment: [[spoiler:After her early graduation and before the planned ritual that will put her to sleep for a century,]] Asuna tells Ayaka that she was the best thing that ever happened to her.
* FugitiveArc: Negi and company go on the lam during the magic world arc.
* FullFrontalAssault: [[spoiler: Dynamis]], '''of all people''', does this in the final battle. No one saw it coming and no one knows why he did that... (though Takane D. Goodman mentioned earlier that her Shadow-created clothes provide even higher defense with direct skin contact, and Dynamis does use Shadow magic)
* FullMoonSilhouette: Near the end of the Kyoto Arc, after Setsuna rescues Konoka from the clutches of the enemy.
** Eva has one at the beginning of the Mahora Blackout Operation.
* FunSize: Both Sayo and Setsuna have an absolutely adorable smaller form. Then there's Chachazero, who despite being psychotic can be quite cute.
%%%* FunbagAirbag
* FunctionalMagic: Most of the big spells will have enough explanation in-story for the reader to really get a feel as to what's going on and how it works. The appendices in the books give properly scientific and historical explanations for the spells, leaving enough room in the physics for the "it's magic" kind of WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief. This goes to create a very real-feeling system of magic that creates a link between ancient beliefs and modern scientific understanding, helping to tie the world together as "our world, but with magic".
* FunnyOctopus: The Magic World has the pseudo-octopus called Cerberus [[ClothingDamage Cloth Eater, which only eats and dissolves your clothes]], but is still greatly feared by travelers since it licks them thoroughly then leaves them naked in the jungle. Poor [[PlayfulHacker Chisame]] encountered one.
* FuroScene: Quite a few, starting with a furo the size of a swimming pool.
