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Mahora Academy - Staff
Takamichi Takahata
Takamichi T. Takahata
Death Glasses
Voiced by: Norihiro Inoue (anime, Japanese), Keiji Fujiwara (games, Japanese), Tetsuya Kakihara (Ala Rubra Drama CD), Mark Stoddard (English)
Portrayed by: Hiroshi
Class 2A's original homeroom teacher, Asuna was quite upset when she learned that Negi was taking over that job. Takamichi is an old friend of Negi's, as evidenced when Negi greeted him in casual mode, when Negi first arrived at Mahora University.
- Alliterative Name: His family and given name both start with 'Taka' and his middle initial is T.
- Brick Joke: When discussing Takahata's popularity, Mei mentions the rumor that he had destroyed an entire evil secret organization by himself. Almost half the manga later, we meet a survivor of that organization who's holding a bit of a grudge.
- Cool Teacher: Basically every female student looks up to him.
- Dark and Troubled Past: He was a magical school dropout who was unable to cast spells, became a Child Soldier, and saw his mentor die right in front of him.
- Expy: Of Seta from Love Hina; an older man who mentors the younger hero, is considered The Ace, and also has a significant relationship with the heroine.
- First-Name Basis: Yue points out to the false Takahata that since the Baka Rangers stayed after school so often, he used their first names when referring to them, including herself.
- Flash Step: When Negi is getting better at it durning their fight, Takamichi reminds him that he also can use them.
- His Quirk Lives On: He took on several traits of his deceased teacher Gateau, such as smoking, his combat techniques, and the Perma-Stubble.
- Iaijutsu Practitioner: Like his deceased master, Takamichi uses what is called "iaiken"; in other words, pulling his fist out of his pocket, attacking and putting it back so fast it looks like he's just standing there. And he can use it to create Fist Beams. Lost in Translation: "Ken" can mean both "sword" and "fist" in Japanese. This is a pun.
- Insecure Love Interest: The main reason he rejects Asuna is because he believes he doesn't deserve to be loved by her or anyone else.
- Intergenerational Friendship: He gets along well with Negi, who he has known from a young age because of his connection to Negi's father. He's also close to Asuna, having acted as her caretaker in her childhood. Although, Asuna is actually way older than Takamichi. When he was a kid, they looked about the same age and she was already over 100 years old.
- Meteor Move: How Negi finds out why Takahata sensei was once a feared warrior.
- Mr. Fanservice: In-universe. In the Magic World, he's a sex symbol and often graces the cover of magazines.
- Muggle Born of Mages: Despite being involved in the magic side, he was born unable to cast spells.
- Mysterious Middle Initial: We never learn what the 'T' in his name stands for.
- Not So Above It All: He's a rather serious-minded fellow but delves into childish antics when dealing with Godel.
- Oblivious to Love: Asuna makes it very obvious that she's crushing on him hard, but he never picks up on it until she flat out tells him that she loves him.
- Perma-Stubble: His facial hair never changes once throughout the entire series.
- Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: He can use the Iaiken technique in which he uses his pockets in replacement for a scabbard, and throws punches faster than the eye can see.
- Red Baron: "Death Glasses" Takahata, and not just to unruly students.
- Smoking Is Cool: Asuna certainly thinks he looks cool when he smokes.
- Specs of Awesome: He has no magical abilities, but is one helluva fighter. He's even nicknamed "Death Glasses".
- Stoic Spectacles: He wears thin glasses and his expression ranges from bemused smile to mildly concerned frown even in the midst of combat.
- Tagalong Kid: He spent a good part of his childhood hanging out with Ala Rubra because his teacher was a member of the group.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Godel, tending to push and shove him like a schoolboy when talking to him.
- Walk on Water: He casually stands on water in his tournament fight with Negi.
- Weak, but Skilled: He can't invoke spells, but he makes up for it with Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs and mastery over the powerful Kanka technique.
- Yin-Yang Bomb: The kanka technique consists in Takamichi combining ki and magic power inside his body to unleash powerful attacks.
Konoemon Konoe
Konoemon Konoe
Voiced by: Mahito Tsujimura (Japanese), Randy Tallman (English)
Portrayed by: Gajiro Sato
University Headmaster, head of the Kanto Magical Association, and Konoka's grandfather.
- Amusing Injuries: Like when Konoka smacks him with a mallet for trying to persuade Negi to go out with her.
- Brick Joke: Early on there are a few jokes about how he wants to set up Konoka with Negi. This makes more sense when you realize A. She's got enormous magical potential, B. Negi is the son of the strongest mage alive (barring maybe Evangeline) C. Said mage is a world famous hero D. Negi is royalty and E. Negi has absolutely ridiculous potential. He was being serious and it actually makes perfect sense.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Heavily implied to be one of the more powerful characters in the series, but he has only been shown performing magic twice. First, at Library Island, he harassed Negi and the Baka Rangers by operating two golems. Second, during the Martian robot invasion, he levitated a few hundred feet above the ground during the Martian robot invasion (which, admittedly, is impressive, even with the extra ambient magic at the time).
- Confirmed as of chapter 331 and 332, he can easily battle two of the Averruncus series
- Deal with the Devil: A humorous variant, in that he managed to persuade Eva to aid Negi and Co. at Kyoto at the terrible price of letting her enjoy a few days of vacation while he stamps a permission for her absence... every 5 seconds. Hey, anything for the granddaughter.I think I'm going to die!
- Dirty Old Man: His head somehow finds its way into Shizuna's cleavage... She's not amused.
- Pass the Popcorn: During the Battle of Mahora, he and Evangeline spend the entire time sitting on the sidelines and watching while drinking sake.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: All he needs is his granddaughter, a lesbian half demon Samurai, and a talking ermine to show up with a message from a ten-year-old that said ten-year-old's supergenius Chinese descendant from the future is going to use an army of robots to break The Masquerade, and he sends out for a huge shipment of weapons from the Magic World, and helps organize the student body into a Redshirt Army.
- Repetitive Name: Like his granddaughter, his names sound very similar: Konoe Konoemon.
- Shipper on Deck: Wouldn't mind to have Konoka marrying Negi....
Touko Kuzunoha
Touko Kuzunoha
One of the magic teachers at Mahora, she's best known for being Setsuna's teacher of the Shinmeiryu arts. She is apparently quite skilled, capable of easily cutting a bullet in half. Not that it helped, but it's the thought that counts.
- Action Girl: She goes head-to-head with Setsuna and Kaede during Mahorafest.
- Berserk Button: In the future where Chao's actions result in Touko being sentenced to exile in the magic world, separation from her boyfriend sends her into an unreasoning rage, forcing a confrontation with Kaede and Setsuna.
- Black Eyes of Crazy: When she duels Setsuna and Kaede, she's shown having these. Like Tsukuyomi, she's essentially tapping into The Dark Side, but to be fair to her she was under a ton of stress at the time.
- Blank White Eyes: She gets these upon seeing Shakti and Seruhiko not killed, but instead stripped by invading demons.
- Hime Cut: She has blunt bangs, bra strap length sidelocks, and classic length straight hair. The hairstyle fits her calm and collected demeanor, as well as her ability in the traditional Shinmeiryu arts.
- Hot Teacher: The students certainly appreciate her attractiveness.
- Leg Focus: A student is seen snapping a picture of her and commenting that she's got great legs.
- Not So Stoic: According to Setsuna, Touko is normally calm and expresses little. In the "bad ending" where Chao makes magic public, however, Touko has become hysterical because she was sentenced to getting transformed into an ermine and exiled to the magic world, which surely will ruin her relationship with her boyfriend.
- Old Maid: Technically, she does have a boyfriend, but she seems to be kind of antsy about approaching 30 without being married.
- Stern Teacher: The students were surprised that she would participate in something as 'silly' as the Mahorafest finale.
- Stoic Spectacles: She wears glasses and rarely loses her cool, unless her dating life is in danger.
- Telepathy: Played for Laughs when she "hears" Setsuna thinking of her as an "experienced" fighter, and interpret it as "middle aged hag".
Professor Akashi
Professor Akashi
One of the magic teachers at Mahora and Yuna's father. He is quite disturbed by his daughter's Electra complex.
- Mistaken for Cheating: Parodied in Yuna's A Day in the Limelight chapter, where his daughter thinks he's "cheating" with a pretty blonde woman (who turns out to be her mother's old friend). Yuna's friends question who exactly is her father supposedly cheating on, since he's a widower.
- The Mourning After: He hasn't remarried and he says he still deeply loves his deceased wife.
- Porn Stash: He keeps the poster of a naked lady in his desk (to have something to divert Yuna from magic documents, probably).
- Unnamed Parent: His first name is not given. He is only known as Professor Akashi or Yuna's father.
Shizuna Minamoto
Shizuna Minamoto
Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue (Japanese), Colleen Clinkenbeard (English)
Portrayed by: Nao Oikawa
The head nurse and guidance counselor at Mahora.
- Hospital Hottie: She's a very attractive and buxom nurse.
- Marshmallow Hell: She was introduced to Negi when he bumped into her boobs.
- School Nurse: Her job is head nurse at Mahora Academy.
- Sexy Sweater Girl: She's often shown with a sweater, which really accentuates her maternal figure.
Mage Teachers
Seruhiko, Gandolfini, Mitsuru Nijūin, Kataragi, Sister Shakti
- Ambiguously Brown: Gandolfini and Shakti are dark-skinned. Their names imply they're foreigners.
- Church Militant: Sister Shakti heads the Mahora nun/mage patrol squad.
- Cool Shades: Kataragi wears sunglasses.
- Expy: Seruhiko is one of Serpico from Berserk. After Kentaro Miura's passing in 2021, Ken Akamatsu tweeted that Miura was a fan of Negima and Ayase Yue in particular, and that Seruhiko had his stamp of approval
. - Master of Illusion: Nijūin's daughter
- Razor Wind: Kataragi can launch it with a Badass Fingersnap.
- Stern Teacher: Sister Shakti is strict with her student and subordinate Misora.
- Suddenly Sober: Because of stress about the whole 'eremine camp punishment' Gandolfini drinks from hip-flask at work (saying he was supposed to have an off day) to the point of tottering, red cheeks, drunk rants and all (though Seruhiko says he's not good at drinking), but when they got a call about intruders (and imidietely meet them) he loose his drunk look and pick up his weapons instantly.
Mahora Academy - Other Students
Takane D. Goodman
Takane D. Goodman
Impregnable Shadow Master
Voiced by: Yumi Shimura (games, Japanese), Naomi Inoue (Drama CD, Japanese)
A zealous, by-the-book Mahora High school student who's also a secret dark mage. Also noted for her inability to keep her clothes on, or at least intact.
- Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: When Negi beats her without the usual clothing damage:"Why... aren't you stripping me? You won, and yet you do not undress me!! Is this supposed to be pity?! Or is this because I no longer allure you?!"
- Big Damn Heroes: What she, Mei, Cocone and Misora pulled late in the Magic World arc.
- Butt-Monkey: Despite being a talented mage, she tends to end up naked and/or humiliated due to terrible circumstances.
- Cannot Keep a Secret: She doesn't believe in keeping secrets and especially if that secret pertains to someone else, like the truth about Yuna's mother and she will say what she thinks.
- Casting a Shadow: She fights using powerful shadow magic. She uses her shadows to create golems, and clothes, and, presumably, anything else.
- Cleavage Window: Her outfit has an opening in the chest area.
- Clothing Damage: In a series where everyone gets this, she's so infamous that others call her "streaker".
- Dark Is Not Evil: While she's a shadow mage who uses creepy-looking shadow puppets, she's one of the good guys, if a bit too serious in her purposes.
- Elemental Armor: She uses her shadow magic to create armor for herself. Unfortunately, it always ends up getting dispelled, which leaves her naked.
- Embarrassing Nickname: To her indignation, her tendency of ending up naked in public has gained her the title of "Streaker".
- Genre Blind: "We're getting close to the final confrontation, so everyone needs to be clad only in my magic shadow armor that inevitably gets dispelled. What?" Surprisingly it actually stays intact.
- Girlish Pigtails: She ties some of her hair up into twin-tails.
- Glass Cannon: Her magic ability is on par with some of the best in the series, indeed Negi says he couldn't hold back against her because of this, but if you manage to get in close, like he did, she'll probably go down in a single hit.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She has blonde hair and a strong devotion to justice.
- Kryptonite Is Everywhere: When asked "Is Takane easily stripped because she's not good at defense?",
Akamatsu replied: "Takane's defensive capabilities is top-class amongst the magic students. She just meets a poor match every time." - Large Ham: She likes to make grand proclamations as a "hero of justice".THE APOSTLE OF JUSTICE, TAKANE D. GOODMAN, HAS COME!
- Mysterious Middle Initial: We never learn what the 'D' stands for.
- Naked People Are Funny: Her frequent clothing damage is played for laughs.
- Names to Trust Immediately: As her Surname suggest, she's a good person, if a bit too serious about it.
- Onee-sama: To Mei who addresses her as such. It falls under the appreciation subtype.
Lesbian undertones are undercut because of Mei's crush on Kotarō. - Overshadowed by Awesome: As far as magic ability goes, she is well above average and that's not even considering that she is only in high school, but in this series that just makes her an Elite Mook at most.
- Power Stereotype Flip: She's a shadow magic user, yet she's a passionate lover of justice.
- Reluctant Fanservice Girl: Zig-Zagged. She gets publicly humiliated in her matches at the Mahora Martial Arts Tournament where she ended up standing naked in front of the big crowd. However, when a fight with Negi ends with her not getting stripped, she complains about it and takes it as a sign of pity.
- Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist: As the leader of the secret student mage police, she's one of those who want Chao's memory about magic to be erased before she causes serious trouble, but Negi convinces the magic teachers to let her go. As a result, Takane starts antagonizing Negi during the Mahora Fest and enters the Mahora Tournament to discipline him.
- Took a Level in Badass: She was a sort-of comedic Inspector Javert in the Tournament arc. In the Magic World arc, she pulled her Big Damn Heroes, then she did what she could to keep Chachamaru alive - which included pulling a flame spear from her body, and it worked, since Chachamaru soon was in the hands of Hakase, who saved her.
- Tsundere: Harsh type for Negi. She acts hostile towards him because she considers him to be an irresponsible teacher who lets the troublemaker Chao run free, but a charming smile from him is all that's needed to leave her dumbfounded.
Mei Sakura
Mei Sakura
"I Love Cleaning" or "Cleaning Enthusiast" (for her Pactio)
Voiced by: Mei Kadowaki (games, Japanese), Tomoko Nakamura (OAD, Japanese)
Studies in Mahora Middle School as an exchange student from an American Magic School. Takane's usual partner-in-crime as they are often seen together (also her pactio partner).
- Big Damn Heroes: What she, Takane, and Misora pulled in the manga.
- Eagle Land: She's an exchange student from an American Magic School and fits a type 1 because she's a Nice Girl.
- Elemental Hair Colors: She's a redheaded mage who can use fire-based offensive spells.
- Expy: She's based off of Mei Narusegawa from Love Hina, though there is evidence to suggest that they're actually the same character.note
- Flying Broomstick: Her artifact is a broom that she uses for combat as well as transportation.
- Playing with Fire: When not using her broom artifact, she casts fire spells.
- Super Drowning Skills: She can't swim, and thus had to be rescued by Kotarō after he knocked her into the water during their fight at the Mahora Tournament.
Megumi Natsume
Megumi Natsume
Nutmeg
Takane's second ministra.
- Girlish Pigtails: Her hair is tied in cute twin low braids.
- Making a Splash: She uses water magic.
- Mission Control: She helps monitor and coordinate forces in the battle against Chao's army.
- Squishy Wizard: She even points out she had no chance against Ku Fei in close combat.
Cocone Fatima Rosa
Cocone Fatima Rosa
Voiced by: Yuka Inokuchi (Japanese)
A mysterious young girl connected with the Church, very little is known about Cocone. She speaks rarely, and almost never to anyone but Misora, her Ministra. Because she is capable of performing a Pactio as a Magistra, she possesses some level of magic power, but her strength and skill level are a mystery.
- Ambiguously Brown: She's dark-skinned, but it's unknown whether she's a foreigner. Later events suggest that she's a refugee, or at least an expatriate, of the Hellas Empire.
- Cross-Popping Veins: She gets annoyed at Misora a lot.
- Cute Mute: Never speaks. Ever.
- Emotionless Girl: The extent of the emotions she shows are just mild annoyance to Misora.
- Morality Pet: Not so much Morality as Responsibility; without Cocone around, Misora would run away from a lot more than she already does.
- Taking the Bullet: Did this for Misora in the School Festival arc, but it only resulted in her getting sent three hours into the future. It was a particularly jarring instance since she was one of the first we saw this happening to, and Misora felt very real despair, thinking she was dead.
- You Are Number 6: Empire Immigration Program Test Subject No. 18
Kaoru Gōtokuji
Kaoru Gōtokuji
Kaoru Gōtokuji is a minor reoccurring character that made his first appearance during the preliminary round of the festival fighting tournament. From there he has made appearances as a commentator during the tournament proper. He participated in the Mahora War with several other tournament participants getting seventh place out of the entire school. He has recently made a very minor appearance along with the other three fighters from the festival.
- Big Damn Heroes: When normal people got themselves invaded by demons leaking out from the Magic World, he just smacks one like it was nothing.
- Chew Bubblegum: Although Kaoru never says the line himself, he is shown to be carrying bubblegum on him at the time of the fighting tournament. It seems that by having bubblegum he was unable to bring the ass-kicking since he was knocked out of the preliminaries by Negi.
- Combat Commentator: Gōtokuji acts as a commentator alongside Chachamaru during the fighting tournament. He provides insightful information on the different competitors more obscure techniques, such as Mana’s Rakansen.
- Delinquent: Averted in that he looks like a delinquent, including pompadour, but his personality is nothing like a delinquents being very friendly.
- Ki Manipulation: Gōtokuji has some skill in ki attacks, being shown to be able to use the long hit technique in his fight against Negi.
- Loincloth: After getting inflicted with Clothing Damage.
Yuki and Haruki
Yuki and Haruki
A pair of elementary schoolers, showing up mostly durning school festivals.
- Adorably Precocious Child: The main reason why they won the competition for the best couple.
- Crush Blush: Both got quite a Luminescent Blush durning the confession.
- Dark Horse Victory: In The Mahora Festival Best Couple Contest, they won against aged up Negi with Ako, and a pair of highschoolers (which shocked the girl intensely).
- Girlish Pigtails: Yuki has these tied with ribbons, adding to the cuteness.
- Love Confession: Negi had to move them from the dangerous spot, but later it went rather smoothly.
- Puppy Love: They won the competition for the best couple and they are still in elementary school.
Kagehisa Sasaki
Kagehisa Sasaki
Makie Sasaki's younger brother, who appears seven years after the main story timeline, studying in high school.
- Continuity Nod: Mentions in passing the time Evangeline attacked Makie over three hundred chapters prior. Though considering Makie's memory of the event was wiped, you have to wonder how he knows about it.
- Last Episode, New Character: He's introduced in the penultimate chapter of the series.
- She Is Not My Girlfriend: Makie asks him if Makoto is his girlfriend, which he denies in embarrassment.
Makoto
Makoto
A close friend of Kagehisa. A Class Rep of one of the classes in St. Ursula Girls' Highschool.
- Class Representative: Pretty much the only detail known about her is that she takes her duty seriously.
- Last Episode, New Character: Like Kagehisa, she's introduced near the Series Finale.
Wales
Nekane Springfield
Nekane Springfield
Voiced by: Masami Suzuki (anime series), Miyuki Sawashiro (OAD) (Japanese), Gwendolyn Lau (English)
Negi's cousin from his father's side.
- An Arm and a Leg: Her legs were turned to stone and broke off. It is not clear if they were magically restored, or if she wears prostheses.
- Cool Big Sis: She's Negi's cousin, but he views her as his older sister since she's the only relative who has been present for most of his life. Negi's childhood friend Anya also looks up to her and Nekane appears to be the only person Anya truly respects.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's a kindhearted and gentle person with long blonde hair.
- Identical Stranger:
- She looks like a blonde Asuna with her hair down.
- In the manga, some members of Class 3-A thought Nekane and Ayaka looked fairly alike.
- Promotion to Parent: Her uncle Nagi went missing when Negi was a baby. As Negi's only relative who is present in his life, she acted as his primary caretaker until he went to Japan and she stayed in Wales.
- Satellite Family Member: She has little to no characterization or relevance unrelated to her being Negi's cousin and older sister figure.
Kyoto
Chigusa Amagasaki
Chigusa Amagasaki
Voiced by: Nanaho Katsuragi (Japanese), Christine Auten (English)
A young woman that is supposed to work for Eishun and their magic branch, but has issues with Western mages and magic. She plans to kidnap Konoka and unseal a demon god.
- Animal Motifs: Besides using monkey shikigami, she wears a monkey costume while trying to kidnap Konoka.
- Arc Villain: She's the main villain of the Kyoto Arc, where she orchestrates Konoka's kidnapping and uses her magic to release a monster.
- Big Bad Wannabe: Her plan to unseal the local sealed demon god failed spectacularly when Evangeline showed up.
- Faint in Shock: Chachazero scared her into fainting.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: She's a bespectacled Arc Villain.
- Freudian Excuse: According to Eishun, Chigusa blames the Kansai Association for the deaths of her parents and this was her motivation for trying to destroy it by summoning a demon.
- Impossibly-Low Neckline: She wears a strapless kimono with detached sleeves, exposing her shoulders, collarbone and cleavage.
- Paper Talisman: These are her casting medium - used one to make a massive wall of flames to prevent Negi and co. from following her.
- Smug Snake: Her arrogance - most of which is based on her admittedly competent and powerful minions - is surpassed only by her cowardice.
- Summon Magic: Unleashed a plague of frogs on 2-A during their train trip to Kyoto, and has summoned monkeys on other occasions, as well as using Konoka to unseal an Eldritch Abomination that Chigusa would then (presumably) control.
- Weak Boss, Strong Underlings: She's a fairly Harmless Villain on her own; Negi was clearly superior to her even before he Took a Level in Badass. Amusingly enough, all three of her "minions" are far more important and powerful than she.
Evangeline's Dolls
Chachazero
Chachazero
Voiced by: Yoko Teppozuka (Japanese)
Chachazero is Evangeline's other servant. Unlike Chachamaru, Chachazero is basically as crazy and vicious as Tsukuyomi... only she's about a foot tall and completely immobile without someone to supply her with mana, so she basically just gets to say funny things.
- Ax-Crazy: Subverted. The things she says make her sound like a homicidal maniac, but even when she's free to move, she never tries to hurt anyone.
- BFS: She's sometimes seen holding a knife that's twice her size.
- Curtains Match the Window: Like Chachamaru, her hair and eyes are green.
- The Dreaded: For her only "fight", she terrified Chigusa so much that the latter passed out from fear.
- Heroic Comedic Sociopath: She never actually gets to do the horrible things she suggests, so it's played for laughs.
- Murder Is the Best Solution: No matter the problem, killing is usually her answer to everything.
- Odd Friendship: She gets along very well with the perverted ermine Chamo.
- Perpetual Smiler: Her face is permanently locked in a wide smile.
- Perverse Puppet: She has a decently strong sense of free will above mere "puppet". That scale of free will just happens to be on the line between grimly humorous and psychotic.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Implied for when she has enough mana to actually move around. After all, Evangeline basically keeps her around for this as her only combat ally.
- Psycho Knife Nut: Her weapon of choice are knives, and she tends to speak about how much she wants to stab and kill people.
- Really 700 Years Old: Despite her miniscule body, she's at least a few hundred years old.
- Reflectionless Useless Eyes: For being a puppet.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: She's a bloodthirsty puppet, whereas Chachamaru is a sweet, pacifistic doll.
