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alt title(s): Negima; Magi Magister Negi 
"Our Magic is not omnipotent... a little bit of courage is the real magic."
If you were wondering about that show that pops up in nearly every single article on this Wiki, here you go...
Ten-year-old Negi Springfield has just graduated from a magic academy in Wales, and finds that his assignment for earning his full magic license is a job as a teacher — in a private all-girls school in Japan. Worse than that, though, is that it's a junior high class — most of the girls are four or five years older than him, and almost all of them think he's the cutest thing in the world since Hello Kitty.
Earning his license by getting through a semester or two of teaching his hyperactive and over-affectionate students is only one of Negi's goals, though. He's also looking for his long-absent father — Nagi Springfield, the mysterious "Thousand Master" who appeared once, gave Negi his staff, and then vanished again. The Thousand Master is said to be dead, but Negi isn't so sure. The fact that one of the girls in his class is secretly an old enemy of his father's and still holds a grudge doesn't help, either...
And life doesn't get any easier. Although he's supposed to keep his magic secret, he's having control problems, and blows his cover in front of some of the girls almost immediately. Also, he can't get properly licensed until he finds a partner. His style of magic requires a "defender" who handles physical threats while he casts his spells; the contract between mage and partner is sealed with a kiss and empowers the partner to near-superhuman levels. It soon becomes obvious that, by the sheerest coincidence, almost all of Negi's students are excellent candidates for partnership. And now that you mention it, the school itself isn't quite as "normal" as it appears at first glance...
Created by Ken Akamatsu, this series has been simply summed up (with hotly contested accuracy) as " Harry Potter meets Love Hina". Rumor has it that when planning out Negima!, Akamatsu wanted to do a Shonen fighting manga. However, his publisher (wanting to cash in on the success of Love Hina, Akamatsu's previous work) insisted on another romantic harem comedy. So Akamatsu created a fighting story that looked superficially like a harem comedy in order to fool the publisher. The story has since changed into a action comedy/drama with a huge cast (30+ "regulars") and an expanding Back Story.
As of this writing (May 2009), the Negima! manga has reached at least 250 instalments and 25 published tankoubon volumes — and according to the author, the story is only just over halfway done, with apparent plans of ending around 400 chapters, give or take. However, the anime concluded in late 2005 after only 26 episodes. Understandably, the plot was tremendously telescoped — the anime parallels the volumes one through six of the manga in its first 20 episodes or so, and then hurtles into a sudden and somewhat hasty Grand Finale arc, in the process skipping over a vast landscape of storyline and character development and abandoning several plot threads just set in motion. It would appear that the studio had planned for more than one season to tell the full manga story, and then were disabused of that notion with less than a third of season left to tie things up. The result is a conclusion that, while dramatic and fulfilling the promise of the show's premise, is abrupt and seems to come out of left field with no warning — especially the shocking event that sets the concluding action in motion.
In Autumn of 2006, a new series was released called merely Negima!? It is a Reboot of the storyline, with a earlier time slot (leaving the Fan Service packed off to the OVAs), a more obvious shounen bent, and a distinct flavor of humor courtesy of Studio Shaft, the production company that made Pani Poni Dash. A manga adaptation loosely based on this reboot, titled Negima!? Neo, began running in late 2006, taking plot points from both the original manga and the Negima!? anime and running through both in very different ways than its predecessors.
In October 2007, a Live Action Adaptation called Negima!! (note the different punctuation) was aired. Like Negima?! before it, the plot is a Reboot of the basic storyline. And like most Live Action Adaptations of anime, it tries to pull off the same kind of manic visual humour (and Fanservice) that its animated counterparts have, which sometimes succeeds but often comes off as awkward.
It seems the fourth time's the charm, though: a three-episode OVA called Mahou Sensei Negima!: White Wing/Ala Alba, covering the brief breather arc between the Mahora Festival and the trip to the Magic World, was released alongside manga volumes 23-25 and stuck as closely as possible to the storyline of the chapters it adapted. It will be followed up by a four-episode OVA titled Mahou Sensei Negima!: Another World, covering the beginning of the Magic World arc. The same studio that handled Negima?! is also in charge of this adaptation; so far, though, it feels like the manga itself, with added sound, color and movement. Things are looking up for Negima!...
An anime movie has also been announced. Details are not yet available, but it is expected to continue from after the Another World OVA.
Manga Story Arcs:
- Evangeline arc (vol. 3) — Negi discovers that things won't be as easy as he thought when one of his students turns out to be a powerful dark mage... with an axe to grind against his father.
- Kyoto arc (vol. 4-6) — Looking for more information on his father, Negi takes his class on a field trip to Kyoto. Unfortunately, another of his students happens to be the daughter of the Kyoto Magic Association, and finds herself targeted by renegades.
- Demon arc (vol. 8) — Negi opens up to Asuna about his past, as two old enemies come to Mahora looking for him.
- Festival Day 1 (vol. 9-10) — Mahora Academy is gearing up for its massive School Festival, an event famous around the world. Negi has his hands full with the activities of his students, plus having to deal with a secret involving The World Tree. Fortunately, one of his students has a means for him to easily take care of all his obligations...
- Tournament Arc (vol. 11-13) — A Fighting Tournament in the School Festival? Mahora's just that kind of place. Negi wants to win this tournament, just like his father did years before. But some of the strongest fighters in the school also want in on the action, and somebody threatens to expose The Masquerade to the entire world.
- Festival Day 2 (vol. 14-15) — Negi continues to see the sights of the festival, while taking care to help his students along the way. But the threat to his secret still remains, and the battle lines are drawn right through his class.
- Battle of Mahora (vol. 16-18) — How does one stop a giant robot army? With the most hyperactive students on the planet! Mages battle mechanoids, while Negi finds himself facing one of his girls once again with the fate of the world in the balance.
- Summer arc (vol. 18-20) — Negi plans to go back to Wales to continue searching for his father, but first, a much-needed rest. Too bad Negi's friend Anya has come all the way to Japan to come get him. (This is the source material for the Ala Alba OVA.)
- Magic World arc (vol. 20-ongoing) — Negi and his Nakama go to Wales, and from there to the Magic World. Unfortunately, the sudden appearance of an old enemy leaves the group, as well as a few stowaways, scattered all over the planet.
For tropes relating to the characters, head out to the characters' page. Warning: Your computer may implode from data overload.
While this entry was originally written for the first TV series, be aware that the trope listing below now includes many entries that are specific to the ongoing manga, as it has since become much more Trope Overdosed than aforementioned series.
This show provides examples of:
- Aborted Arc (The Nightmare Circus, which might have finally given Zazie some character development, was cut due to the Chao arc taking more time than Akamatsu expected.)
- Absurdly Sharp Blade (Setsuna slices a ball of iron in half with her sword and doesn't even notice.)
- Academy Of Adventure (Mahora. And how.)
- Accidental Kiss (How Nodoka got her pactio card. Though it certainly wasn't accidental on the part of the person who tripped her.)
- Adaptation Decay (The manga storyline was dramatically telescoped for the first anime, and many important plotlines and character details were dropped. Whether or not Negima!? is Decay as well is up for debate, but fans expecting a faithful adaptation of the storylines the first anime missed were sorely disappointed. We don't talk about the live-action one.)
- Adaptation Dye Job (Go ahead, try and find ONE member of class 3-A (besides Asuna) whose hair color has stayed consistent between the manga's occasional color illustrations, the first anime, and Negima!?. Go on. We're waiting.)
- Even Asuna isn't spared as in Negima!? She has two blue eyes instead of her Boat Lights
- Adjective Noun Fredma
- Air Jousting (A frequent element of the series' often high-flying magical battles.)
- Air Whales (The standard aircraft of the Mundus Magicus, probably because blimps were too mundane. They also come in various other fish-like shapes.)
- All Amazons Want Hercules: Ku Fei, apparently, was never interested in men who couldn't match her in a fight, and seems to have been waiting for one who could actually beat her. There are probably Unfortunate Implications in that.
- All Part Of The Show (The Mahora festival, when several thousand of Muggles were roped into fighting an army of demon-powered robots and mechas under the pretence of a giant role-playing game. Of course, the weapons used were only harmful to modesty. Also, the fight at Cinema Village. The comment "Is this for a movie?" was commonly seen in the background.)
- Sometimes used hilariously in the Magic Worlds as well, especially during the fight with Fate's minions in Ostia. The comment "Are they doing a movie?" is often seen in the background, said by various demons, anthropomorphic animals, and other magical creatures.
- Alternate Character Reading (Spell names are written in kanji, while their Latin/Greek/whatever pronunciation is shown in furigana.)
- Alternate Continuity (Negima!?, Negima!!, and the Negima Neo manga.)
- Alternative Calendar (The Magical World has a separate calendar, probably due to the fact that it's Mars.)
- Amplifier Artifact (The Pactio artifacts, in addition to their individual capabilities.)
- Amusing Injuries (This is the guy who wrote Love Hina, after all, although it's a bit less prevalent here due to the vastly increased likelihood of not-so-amusing injuries post-Genre Shift.)
- Anime Anatomy (They call it "Akamatsu nipples" for a reason.)
- Another Dimension (Mundus Magicus is technically an alternate plane of reality anchored to and templated on Mars.)
- Arc Number: Prime numbers seem to be very important to magic, especially when it comes to the "arrows of whatever." Those are always cast as prime numbers.
- Arc Words: "I shall be your opponent," and "That little bit of courage" (referencing the page quote) to a lesser extent.
- "You could... save the world."
- Arrow Cam (In an early episode of the first anime, we have an Arrow Cam without an arrow as Negi mentally homes in on his lost wizard's staff.)
- Art Evolution (To some extent within the series itself, but especially when compared with Love Hina.)
- Art Shift (Humorous — Makie in the infirmary after her "vampire attack".)
- Asspull (Any new pactio formed has a good chance of being exactly what the gang needs at that very instant.)
- This is averted and lampshaded in an episode of Negima!? Negi and his group are looking for Yue who ran away upon finding out that she'll have to kiss Negi. Haruna had just gotten her pact and goes "hey, maybe my power will help!" Negi spends about a minute activating the pact and Haruna's power is that things she draws comes to life....not at all useful in this situation.
- Ass Shove (Chizuru's repeated attempts to test out a folk remedy involving shoving a spring onion up a sick person's rear.)
- Author Appeal (Especially apparent lately. Why is Chisame still in loli form? Why do those fake cat ears now seem permanently grafted to Setsuna's head, even appearing on her new Pactio card? Because Akamatsu says so.)
- In-story, Chisame admits (albeit begrudgingly) that she likes the "Chibi-Chiu" form. Why that is (again, in-story, since the real reason is obvious) has yet to be explained.
- Author Avatar (Briefly, in the first anime.)
- Awesome But Impractical: The pactio cards allow telepathy between users — but in addition to a limited range, it can be blocked very easily. As Negi puts it, "Isn't a cell phone easier?"
- Bad Future (The Eight Days Later arc. Whether or not Chao's future also counts is left rather vague — she eventually claims that the tragedy she's trying to set right is no worse than any of the little tragedies that happen every day, but there are definite signs to the contrary.)
- Bad News In A Good Way (Frequently in Negima!?, courtesy of Motsu.)
- Balloon Belly (The result of Makie "helping" Negi prepare for Evangeline's training.)
- Battle Aura (Have started appearing around various characters since the Genre Shift.)
- Battle Couple (This is what most Mage-Partner relationships turn into after forming a permanent contract. Unless it's between two guys, in which case you get Bash Brothers.)
- Battle In The Rain (Negi vs. Evangeline.)
- Beach Episode (The Haru OVA.)
- Beam O War (Negi vs. Eva; later Negi vs. Chao as well.)
- Becoming The Mask: Fate's partner, the girl that replaced Asuna, combines this with Ship Tease; her imitation of Asuna is so perfect that even she herself has a hard time remembering that she's The Mole and she states that Asuna's feelings for Negi will overwhelm her if she goes on for too long. However, she cannot imitate Asuna's rare Magic Cancel ability.
- Beyond The Impossible (Negi vs. Rakan. Negi reveals that he isn't left-handed at least five times before the match is over, culminating in a spell that definitely deserves the name "Titan Slayer".)
- BFS (Asuna has one, Setsuna has one, Kaede has a shuriken but Rakan takes the title with his Ship Slicing Sword. No prizes for guessing what he uses it for.)
- But in weapon-to-wielder ratio, nothing beats the sword that Evangeline's puppet Chachazero uses, mostly in Negima?!. Not an unrealistically large sword, but not one that would be easy to wield one-handed. Chachazero does it just fine, though... and she's less than a foot tall, making the sword seem absolutely gigantic.
- Not true. Rakan's BFS is at least 50 feet long. And he can throw it at mach 3.
- Big Creepy Crawlies (The Magic World's wildlife is unusual, to say the least.)
- Big Damn Heroes (Happened once in the Kyoto arc. Has happened many times in the Magic World.)
- Big Damn Villains (Evangeline saves the gang's collective ass in Kyoto, demonstrating her true power in the process by curb-stomping both a recently-summoned demon god and a later arc's Big Bad in quick succession.)
- Big Fancy House (Ayaka, though Konoka's Big Fancy Temple Complex dwarfs it).
- There's also one stored in Kaede's Pactio-created cape.
- How about Eva's resort? Or her castle?
- Big Lipped Alligator Moment (The now famous furo scene of the magic world arc. A particularly good demonstration of the genre shift, since the scene matches the tone of the early chapters perfectly but qualifies as a BLAM in the arc in which it was set.)
- The note at the beginning of said chapter suggests it was meant as more of a Breather Episode.
- Bishonen: Negi in his teenage form (even specifically stated at the beginning of his first chapter) as well as a number of the members of Ala Rubra, including Nagi and Konoka's dad.
- Black Magic (There's a Deadly Upgrade explicitly called "black magic" in the manga, mostly because it's fueled by dark emotions. It's perfect for mopey worry wart Negi.)
- Bland Name Product (Starbooks Coffee, among many others.)
- Blank White Eyes
- Blasting It Out Of Their Hands (There is a spell specifically designed to do this, roughly equivalent to Harry Potter's "Expelliarmus". However, it also blasts clothing off of their bodies, for added fanservice!)
- Blatant Lies (It's all CGI. Honest.)
- Blessed With Suck (The pactio system in Negima!?, which has a decent chance of rendering the partner useless instead of powering them up.)
- Bloodless Carnage (There have been small amounts of bloodshed in every battle... but the beginning of Volume 21 throws this out the window with Negi being impaled by a stone spear, complete with enormous blood loss and the obligatory Blood From The Mouth)
- Blood Oath (Implied *
Directly stated in the English translation, but it's unknown if this is canon to be the preferred way of forming pactios when kissing would be...unpleasant.)
- Blue With Shock
- Boarding School (Mahora.)
- Book Of Shadows (Yue's Pactio Artifact.)
- Brand X
- Break The Haughty (Several times — Eva/Nagi, Kotaro/Negi (first meeting), Fate/Negi&Eva (the fight on the dock), etc)
- Breast Expansion: A breast inflation spell has been used twice, the results are hilarious.
- Breast Plate: Both played straight and interestingly subverted. While within the manga canon, Asuna is occasionally given armor that fits this trope, some of the side artwork includes her in very fetching, but still perfectly normal, armor.
- Breather Episode
- Bucket Booby Trap (In the very first chapter of the manga).
- By The Power Of Greyskull (The magic activation keys, as well as the artifact-summoning "adeat!")
- Anya Cocolova: Fortis La Tius Lilith Lilioth
- Chao Lingshen: Last Tale My Magic Scir Magister (it's possible that it's actually a deformation of Negi's, even an unintentional one)
- Collet Farandole: Anétte Ti Net Garnet
- Emily Sevensheep: Tarot Carrot Charlotte
- Evangeline Athanasia Katherine "Kitty" McDowell: Lic Lac La Lac Lilac
- Fate Averruncus: Visju Tal Li Sjutal Vangeit
- Mei Sakura: Maple Naple à la Mode
- Megumi "Nutmeg" Natsume: Rap Tjap La Tjap Ragpur
- Negi Springfield: Ras Tel Ma Scir Magister
- Yue Ayase: Vor So Kratika Socratica
- Calling Your Attacks (Parodied by Rakan, including using an attack, named Negi Fever, on Negi)
- Also of note in that many of the fighters use "silent incantations," so they aren't actually saying anything, but the name of the attack still appears so that the readers know what's going on.
- Call On Me
- The Cameo (The Mahora Budokai Arc has quite a few fighting game characters show up in the crowd, such as Athena Asamiya, Terry Bogard, Akuma, Yashiro Nanase, Chris, Hugo, and M. Bison)
- Can Not Spit It Out (Everyone to Negi's "Is this my mother?" question. It's finally revealed in a extremely off-hand comment)
- Censor Steam
- Cerebus Syndrome (Intentionally, as a Writer Revolt. It works quite well.)
- Chain Of Command (Slaver collars go "zap")
- Charles Atlas Super Power: Jack Rakan, full stop. He was originally a normal-sized slave fighting in the gladiatorial matches. Now he is an 8-foot tall mountain of raw muscle who can, among other things:
Shatter mountains.
Survive a magical technique that is supposed to kill anyone stupid enough to use it.
Track someone 30 KM by the scent of their panties.
Surf on a giant sword at speeds in excess of Mach 3.
Destroy alternate dimensions with raw willpower.
- Emphasis on the among other things. As one character so aptly puts it, he's Game Breaker powerful. This is in spite of him only casting low-level spells (most of his spells are weak, personal buffs, and he has no offensive magic outside of his Pactio). He still manages to make people think his daily warm-up is a terrorist attack.
- It's not that he can't use offensive spells in combat. He just doesn't, because they're not his strong point. Incendium Gehennae + Magia Erebea, anyone? "Practe Bigi Nar", indeed... Which brings to mind the Zanmaken Ni No Tachi, another example of Rakan showing someone else a technique he himself shouldn't have been able to do...
- Chef Of Iron (Chao owns a restaurant, yet can still pummel people with Tech Fu.)
- Cherry Blossoms (Even though it's not a cherry tree...; similarly, rose blossom petals are used for a similar effect in an imaginary moment)
- Christmas Cake (Subverted (maybe) in a... rather surprising way by Asuna, of all people.)
- Chunky Salsa Rule
- Chunky Updraft
- Chupacabra (A recurring joke from the anime)
- Clark Kenting (Justified, as they use magic glasses)
- Class Trip (Kyoto Arc)
- Clear My Name (Magical World Arc)
- Clothing Damage (Happens quite often)
- One of the only two weapons used by the robot army after the Tournament arc is a laser that only destroys clothing.
- The accompanying unsealed demons are bound by "scientific devices" that restrict their powers to the same.
- A clothing eating octopus appears briefly to sexually harass the poor Meta Girl.
- A spell exists solely for the purpose of clothing destruction. Negi casts it by accident whenever he sneezes, and a magical all-girls school that features later uses it in an athletic broom contest. Technically its effect is to 'blow away weapons and turn light objects into flower petals'.
- This editor's favorite totally-ridiculous-excuse-for-clothing-damage-that-is-actually-justified-somehow-by-the-plot is when Fate attempts to petrify Asuna during the Kyoto arc. Her magic cancel renders her immune to its effects. Her clothes, however, were not protected, and promptly shatter like a Gargoyle's skin when she moves.
- Combat Tentacles
- Coming Of Age Story
- Compressed Adaptation
- Concept Art Gallery (A few pages at the end of each tankoubon)
- Confessional (The girls and Negi spend two chapters going to a confessional, manned by a disguised Misora. They unload their anguish, from Genki Girl Makie's worry about having no worries to Negi's deep existential angst, in passing by Setsuna's questions about kissing girls (this is for her to have a pactio and not sexual in nature.... Probably.). None of it sounded like a true confessional session, of course)
- Made deliciously ironic or a horrible case of Did Not Do The Research considering the historical relationship between the Church and witchcraft.
- 1. There was period of differentiation between "good" and "bad" magic. 2. It's also competition for power thing. In result church patronized mages loyal to church seems plausible.
- The 'magic' forbidden by the church specifically involves consorting with devils in order to have them do stuff for you. Simply having/using unusual powers isn't forbidden, so if it were possible to reliably do magic without devils being involved (and in Negima it apparently is), there'd be no reason to forbid it.
- Necromancy is also prohibited. (Still not a problem for most of the mages.)
- This troper suspects that Ken Akamatsu just didn't care at all and wanted to have a nun to fill out the chart of Fetish Fuel he probably had up on his wall when coming up with the series.
- Continuity Cameo (Chizuru's Apron in Natsu OVA)
- Conveniently Seated
- Cooking Duel
- Cool And Unusual Punishment (The typical punishment for mages who break the masquerade? They turn them into ermines and make them spend a few years in the ermine camp.)
- Covert Pervert (Nodoka, the adorable bookworm. So much so that whenever she uses her artifact (a magic book with pictures) to read her own mind, it's practically a guaranteed Crowning Moment Of Funny.)
- Cranial Eruption
- Crazy Awesome (Once again, Jack Rakan. Look at the Charles Atlas Super Power entry and you'll get the idea.)
- Creepy Doll (Chachazero, who doubles as a sort of evil peanut gallery.)
- Crossdresser (Negi at one point. Setsuna at another.)
- Cross Dressing Voices (Rina Satou; subverted with Greg Ayres)
- Cross Popping Veins
- Cross Over (references to Love Hina and AI Love You)
- Crowning Momentof Awesome (has its own page)
- Crowning Momentof Funny (same as above)
- Crowning Momentof Heartwarming (Easily Negi and Chachamaru when Negi refuses to take "no" for an answer regarding whether or not Chachamaru has a soul — and just might have made one for her by sheer force of will.)
- Crystal Ball
- Cultural Cross Reference ("Ku:nel
Sanders")
- Curb Stomp Battle (Rakan vs. pretty much anyone. There was the gladiator match, where he took out two high-ranking fighters with a massive punch that left a giant indentation of his fist in the ground. And, most recently, when Fate's partners all came at him at once at full power... it was all over in one panel that started with the words "Five minutes later.")
- Cyberspace (Chisame's Artifact, anyone?)
- Cycle Of Revenge (The motivation for most of the villains in the series so far, and for Negi to a degree as well.)
- Dance Of Romance (Chapter 260 has two of them actually: One by Negi and *
faux Asuna and the other one by Kotaro and Natsumi.
- Darker And Edgier (The manga is rapidly moving into this in the recent chapters)
- Except for the periodic Fanservice interludes.
- You know the series is already getting darker the more chapters, but try Chapter 268. That's REAL HEAVY STUFF!
- Dawson Casting (most people in the Live Action Adaptation seem far from their supposed age)
- Day In The Limelight (Every girl generally gets her own chapter, or even entire arc, devoted to her, especially if she hasn't had much "screen time" yet.)
- Death By A Thousand Cats (Used humorously to illustrate Negi's confusion over a Power Level chart.)
- Death Of The Hypotenuse (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.)
- Defeat Means Friendship (Mostly subverted (in that the people fighting are already friends, and are in a tournament or whatnot), but played straight with Koutaro and Eva, to a lesser extent.)
- Demon Slaying (The Shinmeiryu's speciality)
- Deus Ex Machina (During the Gecko Ending of the first anime, the Time Machine used to fix the disaster that kicked off the final arc)
- Of course, the existence of a Time Machine in the Negiverse is not that farfetched...
- True; as a matter of fact they lifted it straight from the manga. But in the anime it does come out of nowhere, and is immediately used to solve what had been an apparently unsolvable problem, thus being pretty much a textbook example.
- Did Not Do The Research (Averted big time. Just see Chisame's battle against a TCP tuna swarm; she repels it setting up a bucket filter, even using the correct sentence to implement it in iptables!)
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu (The first couple times Asuna attacks Eva (literally with a punch), before anyone understands her anti-magic abilities, results in this.)
- Dirty Business (Negi wonders if defeating Chao's plan to reveal The Masquerade was the right thing to do throughout the Festival Arc. He's reassured by Chao herself, no less that there are no hard feelings, though.)
- Dis Continuity (The first two anime adaptations to some fans, though Negima?! is more of an Alternate Universe. The live-action adaptation, however...)
- Ditto Fighter ( Albireo Imma collects life stories. Normally, he can simply tap the knowledge therein, but if he chooses, he can actually become a person he recorded. However, such "replays" only last ten minutes, and each one only works once, turning the life story that created it into a regular biographic text.)
- If I remember correctly, the only ones with the one-use-ten-minute-limit are those stronger than him, and he can utilize anyone else's without such a limit, but since those he can use limitlessly are weaker than him, it's almost useless in that regard.
- The time limit and "one time use" thing apply whenever he uses the "replay" power to completely copy someone personality in addition to their power. If he's only copying their abilities he can use it limitlessly (if their weaker than him), or for a few minutes (if they're stronger).
- Diving Save (Negi and cat)
- Does This Remind You Of Anything (All over the place. A noteworthy example in the fifth panel of this page.)
- Doing It For The Art
- Do It Yourself Theme Tune (every song to date)
- Doomed Hometown (Negi's petrified hometown)
- Dramatic Wind
- Dude Shes Like In A Coma (Played straight mostly, normally on poor Negi, but inverted every once in a while with the sleeper doing the kissing.)
- Dungeon Crawling (Library Island at first, then Nodoka's adventuring party).
- Dynamic Entry (Everyone, and not just in combat either. Sometimes it seems that a kick to the face is just how the ladies of Mahora say "hello".)
- Elaborate University High (and how!)
- Elemental Baggage
- Elephant In The Living Room (Poor Negi...)
- Elevator School (Mahora Academy)
- Ending Theme
- Environmental Symbolism
- Everybody Remembers The Stripper (It's developed into an action series to rival One Piece or Naruto, yet try explaining that to a new reader when a chapter ends with two stark-naked girls hugging in the bath)
- Also played straight within the series itself: Whenever Takane introduces herself, everyone just says "Ohh...the stripper."
- Everyone Is A Super (At least, in the magic world, magic is, understandably, very common, and nobody bats an eye at its use.)
- Everything Is Even Worse With Sharks
- Everythings Better With Dinosaurs
- Everythings Better With Princesses
- Everythings Cuter With Kittens
- Everythings Squishier With Cephalopods
- Everythings Worse With Bears
- The Evil Army
- Evil Chancellor (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.)
- Executive Meddling (Perhaps almost a good example. The executives wanted another Harem Comedy, while Akamatsu wanted to make a shounen manga. Thus, the end result is Love Hina meets Harry Potter meets Dragonball Z, and perhaps one of the most awesome works ever.)
- Exploding Calendar
- Extranormal Institute
- Extra Strength Masquerade (After a while, characters' attempts to maintain the Masquerade start to seem kinda half-assed, but everyone still falls for it anyway)
- Eye Catch
- Facefault
- False Camera Effects (Fish Eye Lens)
- Fanservice (Any excuse to get the characters naked, up to clothes-destroying sneezes, lasers, and octopodes.)
- Fantastic Nuke
- Fantastic Racism
- Fantasy Kitchen Sink (ninjas, robots, ghosts, vampires, nuns, priestesses, aliens, half-demons, mad scientists, hackers...)
- Fetish Fuel: The girls are fourteen, although they're drawn more like petite seventeen year-olds. (Has its own page by the way)
- Who are we kidding? This is a case of Taste The Rainbow at work. The girls' looks run the gamut from loli-style (Eva, the twins) to Gag Boobs (Chizuru) and girls who look old enough to be in college (Kaede, Mana). And everything in between. The entire series is crammed with just about every type of Fetish Fuel imaginable.
- Note also that with all the time-manipulation going on, along with certain individuals who are or might be Really Seven Hundred Years Old, and god knows what else, many of the girls might well actually be physically seventeen. Or older. (Or, in the case of Chachamaru, much younger.)
- Fighting A Shadow
- First Girl Wins (Exactly who was first is definitely a problem though)
- First Kiss (A few of them, though not the entire class, nor all eleven of the girls Negi pactioed with)
- First Name Basis
- Fission Mailed (OH YES!!! Complete with a real full sized picture in fact. And the obligatory bleep at The End button.)
- Flash Back (Aisaka'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)
- Flash Step (Including in thin air, somehow)
- Flexible Tourney Rules (averted, with Asuna disqualified instantly when she broke a rule)
- Flight
- Floating Continent (Ostia, though most of it has crashed)
- Foe Yay (Anything involving Tsukuyomi and Setsuna.)
- Fountain Of Youth (The Age Changing Pills)
- Freudian Excuse: 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.
- Friend Or Idol Decision
- Frogs And Toads
- Funbag Airbag
- Functional Magic
- Funny Aneurysm Moment: A throw away joke in chapter 82 suddenly takes on a new meaning later on in the series.
- Furo Scene (A Furo the size of a swimming pool, but a furo nonetheless)
- Gag Series (Negima!?)
- Gecko Ending (The first anime series)
- Genre Shift (The current chapters barely even resemble the first few. The series essentially started as Love Hina WITH MAGIC, but eventually developed into an action series rivaling the likes of Naruto and Bleach.)
- Geometric Magic (Required for pactio)
- Giant Enemy Crab
- Giant Spider
- Gladiator Games
- The Glomp
- Godiva Hair
- Goldilocks And The Mines Of Moria
- Goldfish Scooping Game (Negi and Asuna play it during their date. Asuna isn't too good at this so Negi tries to help her... but this being Negima that doesn't go so well (or does it?) and he grabs her where he shouldn't and then they end up in a position strangely resembling one two digit number. To cut it short, we are not sure if his nose bleeds from the hit or... other reasons.)
- Grand Finale
- Gratuitous Foreign Language (Not just English, but Latin... and Greek... and Sanskrit...)
- Gravity Is A Harsh Mistress
- Grays Sports Almanac
- Green Lantern Ring (three examples)
- Haruna's artifact, which can basically generate anything she can draw;
- The time travelling pocketwatch, Cassiopeia, which Negi eventually learns to use to dodge the One Hit Kill Time Travel bullets after having been stricken with them. Chao even notes his ability to learn at such a quick pace. Interesting in that it's not a "kill," in the traditional sense, but in this situation the combatants tactically may as well be dead.
- Albireo's artifact, which can transform him into anyone he's met.
- Growing The Beard
- Gun Fu (Do not mess with Mana.)
- Let's not forget one of her best crowning moments of awesome: Ku-Fei spends half a duel dodging coins being flicked at her like bullets, and when she finally manages to get within melee range, Mana just says "I don't have any weak distances" and gets her right on the chin.
- Hammer Space: Used constantly, especially because the pactios allow the partners to summon "artifacts" out of nowhere. However, there is also the more traditional version, when people without access to magic pull out guns or what have you out of who knows where. In the latter instances, it is typically lampshaded with a small "Where did those come from?"
- Hand Behind Head
- Healing Hands
- Hermetic Magic (and traditional Japanese magic, too — an almost unheard-of combination at the time the series first appeared)
- Hero Insurance
- Hero Unit
- Hikaru Genji Plan (The rationale of at least one of Negi's "admirers")
- High Altitude Battle
- Honorifics (Many of the girls call Negi "Negi-bozu", which in addition to its literal meaning is a pun on "negibozu", a variety of onion and a slang term for an inexperienced youth; also, Negi uses yobisute with Takamichi and Kotarou, as well as Anya, indicating their close friendship)
- Hot Springs Episode (presumed, based on manga)
- Holy Shit Quotient (has been rising steadily as of late, taking an especially tremendous leap in Chapter 265)
- Humongous Mecha
- Hundred Percent Completion (Negi making contracts with everyone in his class in Negima!? is required to defeat the Star Crystal.)
- Hybrid Monster
- I Am Not Left Handed: Used by Chao in the Battle of Mahora arc, when Negi negates her power, she reveals she actually can use magic. Also, in the final tournament battle in the Magic World arc, done by Negi no less than five times. And every one of them is awesome
- I Am Not Shazam (why the "Ma"?)
- This troper believes it is a reference to a Japanese spring onion dish.
- Idiosyncratic Episode Naming ("By Asuna")
- Idiot Crows
- ILLKILLYOU
- Imageboards (During the Tournament arc, magical and scientific spam/rumor-bots compete with each other on 2ch(an?) over masquerade-breaking combat footage.)
- Image Song (every song to date)
- The Immodest Orgasm ( A near equivalent, when Negi overwinds Chachamaru in chapter 190)
- Taken to the extreme again in chapter 263 as the opening three pages of the chapter
- Improbable Food Budget
- Indirect Kiss
- Inertia Is A Cruel Mistress
- Innocent Innuendo ("Whip it out, boy!")
- Instant Awesome Just Add Dragons
- Instant Awesome Just Add Mecha
- Instant Bandages
- Instant Cosplay Surprise
- Instant Runes
- In The Hood (Akamatsu loves this one)
- Introdump (A very necessary one, in the form of Negi's class roster, which is reused in the tankôbon as a sort of Dramatis Personae)
- Invisible To Normals (There exist spells that act like a powerful Weirdness Censor, stopping the muggles from noticing, say, the young English teacher flying around on his staff)
- Invoked Trope
- I See London
- Jerkass (Chamo, Negi's "pet" ermine, readily qualifies for this in his dealings with the girls)
- Kabuki Sounds
- Ki Attacks
- Kimodameshi
- Kissing Cousins (Confirmed between Negi and Asuna, though it isn't romantic (possibly). Don't think he realizes it yet, either.)
- Language Of Magic
- Laser Guided Amnesia (Some memory altering spells help protect the Masquerade)
- Late For School (noted by Setsuna on one of the few days they weren't late and "Yet they run")
- Lawyer Friendly Cameo (Ku:nel Sanders)
- Leaning On The Fourth Wall
- Left Hanging (Kansai mages plot and others, at the beginning of the Grand Finale Gecko Ending of the first anime)
- Les Yay (When Konoka finally makes a pactio with Setsuna; she holds the kiss longer than any other seen previously — Chamo timed it. It's still damn cute.)
- The Library Of Babel
- Lightning Glare
- Live Action Adaptation (...we don't talk about this one much)
- Living Shadow
- Loads And Loads Of Characters (The series started off with thirty-one students, one teacher, one principal, and two advisors. It has since expanded with new characters coming in from the magical community.)
- Lolicon (Ken Akamatsu, maybe...)
- Akamatsu has stated in interviews that despite popular belief, he likes older women. The Token Loli characters throughout his series' are mostly for diversity in the cast.
- Lost In Translation (The Del Rey English adaptation of the original manga is distressingly spotty. In particular, the first volume (and to a lesser extent the next three) seems to have been a misguided attempt at a Gag Dub. Volume 5 reads like too much effort was spent on making it sound colloquial and not enough on making sure the translation made sense, and volumes 20 and 21 are just lazy — even the Latin got ruined. Things are looking up, though, with the Nibley sisters translating from volume 22 onwards...)
- Love Chart
- Love Dodecahedron (Chamo describes it as something of a web)
- Love Is In The Air
- Love Potion (twice, for mainly comedic reasons)
- Love Triangle
- Macross Missile Massacre (a common spell, with Roboteching for good measure)
- Magic A Is Magic A
- Magical Incantation
- Magically Binding Contract
- Magic Land
- Magic Missile
- Magic Wand
- Magitek (Chao's Deadly Upgrade and Powered Armor, as well as Chachamaru's very existence. Oh, and a magic gun)
- Magnificent Seven
- The Magocracy
- Male Gaze
- Mana
- Marilyn Maneuver (Every single eligible female on panel, every single time Negi sneezes.)
- Marshmallow Hell (trope namer)
- Masquerade (Mages are not supposed to reveal themselves to Muggles. Doing so puts them in danger of severe punishment, and Laser Guided Amnesia for all involved if discovered.)
- Mass Teleportation
- Measuring Day
- Medium Awareness (The characters comment several times on the images that appear in the back of the panel to illustrate one of their thoughts or a flashback)
- Konoka hastily readies the Relax O Vision card used some chapters back when Rakan's taunting of the Amazon Brigade that's trapped them edges too close to Hentai for comfort.
- Meido
- Min Maxing (Nodoka's magic item combo)
- Mobile Shrubbery
- Modesty Towel (sometimes...)
- Moe Moe
- Monster Mash
- Mood Whiplash (the first anime's left-field ending, the gateport incident in Vol. 21)
- Multiple Endings
- Mundane Utility - Heavily averted. On-panel, magic is used almost exclusively for combat. It's implied by one of the Petting Zoo People that magic is employed in things like cleaning, but we rarely get to see it a few times, with Negi levitating groceries or buffing his athletic ability, and with healing magic.
- How about that one cook with magic wand in Granicus tournament? Or all that flying ships used for transportation? Or magical analog of TV and Internet? Or... I think averted is wrong term. Do not shown because unimportant - yes, averted - no.
- Muscles Are Meaningless
- Mutually Exclusive Magic
- My Death Is Just The Beginning: Averted (for now): "It would have suited my purposes if you had killed me here..."
- My Kung Fu Is Stronger Than Yours (Oh boy, do they use that one. Negi started training obsessively at age four and never ceased intensifying his training ever since. The rest of the Ala Alba adopted the same attitude rather quickly too, spending months training in Eva's resort during their school break. Of course, the same seems to go for most of the particularly powerful people: Mana, who's lived most of her life on the battlefield as a merc till now, Kaede, who's left to continue the tradition of her dying art, Setsuna, who refuses to allow herself to be weak after a past mistake in protecting Konoka, Evangeline who's been forced to carry on for hundreds of years battling for her existence until now after her curse, and Takamichi, who's devoted most of his life to being worthy of fighting alongside the Ala Rubra, apparently nearly killing himself trying. Negi feels weaker than all of these people for good reason.)
- Mysterious Parent
- Myth Arc
- Narm Charm (The official English translation of the Manga)
- Specifically, Ku Fei's semi-Hulk Speak dialect. It's a spotty means of translating her tendency to stick '-aru' where it shouldn't be, but it grows on you after a while.
- Naughty Tentacles (upon landing in Magicus Mundus, Chisame is attacked by a clothes-eating-octopus that seems to exist solely for putting in tentacle-rape-esque scenes)
- Also, that one boob-obsessed merc had some sandworms handy, each of which had tentacles.
- Back in the Kyoto arc, Fate subdues Asuna by turning a bath into a bunch of watery hands that tickle her until she can't move. And this is after he accidentally destroys all her clothes.
- Don't forget the cyberspace jellyfish in the Battle of Mahora.
- Near Misses (stronger character vs. anyone using the time-warping bullets)
- Newspaper Dating (a short-term version)
- Nice Job Breaking It Herod (The attack on Negi's hometown was done by the Megalomesembrian Senate in a specific attempt to kill Toddler!Negi. It, obviously, failed, and now Negi knows, and boy is he pissed)
- Nigh Invulnerable: Rakan. There is a reason that prize fighters are about two steps away from worshiping him as a living god.
- Nipple And Dimed
- No Dialogue Chapter (Number 166, if you want to know)
- Non Fatal Explosions
- Non Lethal Warfare
- Noodle Incident (There're actually quite a few. One including "Chizuru and a large number of spring onions", and another about Chisame's "First time on the net")
- Chizuru believes that many ailments can be cured by shoving onions up the afflicted person's butt. Kotarou is terrified of her for a very good reason.
- Chizuru Naba. Artifact: Dual Negi. Powers: Butt Piercing. Benefits: May cure colds, may not. Power Level: 400. (For comparison, Kaede ranks 120 points.)
- Nosebleed
- Not The Fall That Kills You
- Not What It Looks Like
- The Nudifier (Negi essentially is The Nudifier. Also, just go read the Clothing Damage entry.)
- Obake
- Ocular Gushers
- Odango
- Oddly Visible Eyebrows
- Of Corsets Sexy
- Offhand Backhand (Setsuna, without even knowing that she was doing it... while worrying about getting weaker, no less.)
- Evangeline while contemplating new information about Negi's father. The poor guy never saw it coming.
- Off Model (fixed in DVD release)
- Oh Crap (regular occurrence)
- Ominous Multiple Screens (used often during important scenes in Negima!?)
- One Hit Kill (Time-displacement bullets)
- One Winged Angel: Played straight with Inugami Kotarou-kun. Big Bad Ass Wolf indeed.
- Subverted later on; after Negi single-handedly wipes out a gang of bounty hunters, the leader starts muttering about revealing his true form. Negi gives him a mean look, and he goes back to cowering on the ground.
- Used again when four of Fate's minions all revealed more powerful forms to fight Jack Rakan. Not that it helped any.
- Later it turns out that Negi can pull this off if he cranks Magia Erebea up high enough.
- Only Six Faces
- Only Smart People May Pass
- On The Money (Buying out slaves = one martial arts tournament)
- Actually an inversion: It makes perfect sense for a martial arts tournament to have a round million as a reward, but not so much for that to be the exact price of the slaves' debt.
- it's unlikely that there's any sort of fixed price on slaves; This Troper is of the opinion that the determining factor was the cost of the medicine; everybody else was just trying to avoid losing money in the process. Still, a nice coincidence.
- On The Next
- Our Demons Are Different
- Our Time Travel Is Different
- Out Of Clothes Experience (everyone when they use magic to wander into the mind of another character)
- Over And Under The Top
- Overdrawn At The Blood Bank
- Overly Preprepared Gag
- Overtook The Manga
- Panty Fighter (How exactly did Setsuna and Asuna get roped into wearing the clothes they did during the Mahora Tournament Arc, again?)
- This troper figures Konoka strongarmed Setsuna into wearing hers. As for Asuna... well, who knows?
- I believe it's said that they were required to wear the porn-maid outfits for the audience's viewing pleasure, due to the fact that the person in charge has a really evil sense of humor. As for the Sexy Ghost-Fighting clothes, I have no idea.
- Panty Shot (Hoo boy...)
- Papa Wolf (Don't attack Negi's students. Just don't.)
- Parental Abandonment (Beside the obvious examples of Negi and Asuna, both orphaned, nearly all the characters live alone in a boarding school with no parents in sight. The two dads that showed up were extremely plot relevant)
- Parental Incest (No actual incest occurs, but Yuuna really loves her dad. If he reciprocated, now then, that would be incest. As it is, it is merely incest in-potentia.)
- Peek A Boo (In an attack and subsequent Big Damn Heroes moment, Nodoka gets stripped to the waist. Negi gets a full-frontal eyeful when she forgets (!) and clasps his hand in gratitude for the save)
- Pensieve Flashback (Negi and Asuna use a spell to get an Out Of Clothes Experience inside Negi's memories of the destruction of his Doomed Hometown.)
- Person Of Mass Destruction (If you hear someone starting an incantation with "To Sumbolaion Diakoneto Moi", RUN.)
- Pillar Of Light
- Pillow Fight (During their Kyoto vacation/school field trip, several of the girls of 3-A had an epic pillow fight with their boy teacher's kiss as the prize. Despite what you may assume from the previous sentence, very little of it was used as Fetish Fuel. Also take note that the girls will indulge in the occasional pillow fight given the opportunity◊.)
- Pink Bishoujo Ghetto
- Pixellation
- Place Of Power (twelve of them, including Mahora itself)
- Please Put Some Clothes On (right after Ala Alba gets spread out across the Magic World, Negi comes to and finds a bathing Chachamaru. Interestingly enough, she's still wearing long Fingerless Gloves and thigh-high socks. Wait, is it still Zettai Ryouiki if the "skirt" component is completely absent?)
- I'm assuming that the socks and gloves were actually built into Chachamaru when she underwent her upgrade.
- To answer the original: yes.
- Plot Relevant Age Up (The pills everyone's favourite Ermine orders in. The author of the manga has a lot of fun playing with these)
- Pool Scene
- Porn Stash (subverted, it's merely used as a distraction)
- Post Episode Trailer
- Post Kiss Catatonia (After Chachamaru gets her artefact in a ravishing Pactio kiss that goes on for four pages)
- Power Levels (In the manga's Magic World arc, Jack Rakan, with his own personal ranking chart, puts a major villain's power in context with an oddball list that includes: a cat (0.5), a normal human teen girl (1), a tank (200), a magic teacher (300), Negi (500), a dragon (650), an Aegis Battleship (1500), and the villain (3000). Meta Girl Chisame doesn't even know where to begin in pointing out all the problems with such an arbitrary list (which probably shouldn't be taken very seriously).)
- Spoofed shortly after with Negi sinking into despair after getting nowhere in Rakan's "crash course" in darkness lesson, which made him experience delusions about his low ranking, being intimidated and defeated by the blitz rush of a thousand cats (0.5 x 1000). Of course, said one thousand cats formed into one.
- We later discover that Rakan places himself at 12,000 on this list.
- Which is interesting when considering he put himself as being roughly on par with Fate earlier.
- Never trust Rakan.
- There's also the matter that Rakan later remarked he could have been wrong about Fate, replacing his score with a question mark. Above 8000.
- The Power Of Blood
- Power Perversion Potential
- Isn't it only "potential" if they're not all already making use of it in exactly that fashion?
- They're not. At least, not fully; not on panel at least... Case in point: Haruna. Sure, she's done some pretty crazy things, but it could be much worse.
- Product Placement
- Psychic Link
- Psychic Nosebleed: Haruna experiences a form of this when she summons her ultimate defense golem to stop a massive attack, the amount of damage the golem defends is so great that the fraction of damage it transfers to Haruna gives her a head injury and knocks her out.
- Public Domain Artifact
- Puppy Dog Eyes
- Quivering Eyes
- Rain Aura
- Rain of (Magical) Arrows (there doesn't seem to be a limit to how many Magic Arrows you can shoot off, as long as it's a prime number)
- Rape As Comedy
- Although, normally the funny thing is that the Big Damn Heroes are talking about "avenging her honor," and whatever poor naked girl they're rescuing is just sitting in the back saying "But it wasn't that..." (She was actually tickled into submission). There are also the several Forceful Kiss incidents, such the whole deal with The World Tree, and Haruna's "Nugi" golem going on a deep-kiss rampage.
- Actual rapists are noticiably pretty much nonexistent in this series, the sole exception being the Psycho Lesbian who seemingly tried to rape Setsuna. That particular incident is not played for comedy.
- Razor Wind
- The Red Planet (Went from what at first seemed like a joke from Chao to being the real location of Mundus Magicus. Sort of.)
- The Red Sonja (Ku Fei has imposed this policy on herself)
- Red String Of Fate
- Reed Richards Is Useless
- Relationship Voice Actor
- The Remnant (Fate Averruncus in the manga)
- Rescue Arc
- Reverse Funny Aneurysm
- Ridiculously Fast Construction
- Robe And Wizard Hat
- Robot Maid (several owned by Evangeline)
- Role Called
- Roof Hopping
- Rousseau Was Right
- RPG Episode
- Rubber Face
- Rule Of Cool (A good chunk of the manga runs on this and...)
- Rule Of Funny (Anything that isn't totally logical or awesome is going to be this.)
- Running Gag
- Saintly Church
- Say It With Hearts
- Scenery Porn
- Scooby Dooby Doors
- Schematized Prop (Logistifying Chiu's artifact)
- School Festival (Quite possibly the largest one in fiction. It runs for about a week and takes in several million dollars)
- Sealed Evil In A Can (Waking up a legendary demon was the motivation for the villains during the Kansai arc. Also, Eva technically qualifies; although she was sealed less for her evil (which was, if you believe her, considerable) and more because Nagi couldn't get her to leave him alone. Ironically, the protagonists defeat the first abovementioned Sealed Evil by temporarily breaking the seal on the other one. )
- Sentai
- Serious Business (A tense meeting between Fate and Negi derails for one page into a heated argument over coffee and tea — Negi is British, after all. Negi prefers milk tea and refers to coffee as "muddy water". Fate drinks seven cups of black coffee every day, and occasionally lemon tea.)
- Seiza Squirm
- Shapeshifter Weapon
- Shipping (Chamo kickstarts an in-character Negi/Ku Fei ship after their pactio in 261)
- Also in-universe: Everyone Ships Konoka and Setsuna.
- Shirtless Scene (In-universe, on the poster advertising Negi's and Rakan's fight,and in the fight itself.)
- Shoot The Medic First
- Shotacon (Poor Negi is such a Chick Magnet that half of his fourteen-year-old class is outright discussing how to confess their love for him within days of his arrival. It's made somewhat less squicky by the fact that at least a few of them are more concerned with how badass he's going to be in a few years, but at least one girl is very happy to have herself a yummy little ten year old — although to be fair it's less about sex and more about replacing a baby brother who died at birth.)
- Shout Out (A "mission failed" screen like those seen in Excel Saga; the five "Baka Rangers" reference Super Sentai/Power Rangers)
- The Mahora-Budokai Martial Arts Tournament is an Affectionate Parody of the Tenkaichi Budokai of Dragonball, right down to the shape and design of its arena.
- Cosplay or cameo, Goku, Piccolo, and Buu can be seen within the crowd during the opening start of the Tournament.
- In keeping with the fighting game character cameos, Kaede's outfit during her fights in the budokai rather closely resembles that of King.
- Also, Evangeline's training resort is a clear allusion to the Room Of Spirit and Time in Dragonball Z, except that one hour in here equals one day as opposed to one-day-equals-one-year.)
- Yue is seen drinking a Last Elixir in one chapter.
- Mei Sakura's artifact is a broom. When it flies it gains wings near the back like another Sakura's fly card.
- On more than one occasion, we see garb suspiciously familiar to classic Final Fantasy White Mage wear.
- After discovering that he's got a time machine in a watch, Negi thinks of the DeLorean, the Terminator, the 2002 adaptation of Wells' The Time Machine and Doraemon.
- Kotaro Inugami is effectively a shout-out to Takahashi's Inu Yasha.
- A chapter titled "Rakan at 120%", a shout-out to Younger Toguro from Yu Yu Hakusho, who infamously stated he would use a certain percentage of his power, but his true true power was 120%. Another possible allusion is with the match between Negi and Rakan which rather resembles Yusuke and Toguro's final engagement and more...
- Chisame. Look at her theme, her infatuation with computer stuff, her pactio, all of it screams Corrector Yui.
- When discussing something which grants wishes, it is mentioned that it could not summon a pair of panties.
- When Nodoka uses her artifact on Mei in Chapter 141, the diary entry read "Eeeek! C-C-Could that be the Legendary Death No--!? I mean that artifact that reads"
- The interior of Ala Alba's "goldfish ship" looks nearly identical to the Bebop
- Chapter 261: Negi and Ku-Fei's arm wrestling match shouts out to a Sylvester Stallone movie named Over the Top. Especially Negi shifting his grip.
- Not to mention that during the whole thing, Ku Fei is dressed almost identically to Chun Li.
- Chinese Girl Ku Fei's family requirement that only a man who is stronger than she can kiss (or marry) her echoes the cultural imperatives of the Chinese Amazons from Ranma 1/2 (and Red Sonja, for that matter). Some fans are claiming that she is a Joketsuzoku Amazon, and that Negima and Ranma take place in the same universe.
- The manor in which cards are drawn from the girls in Negima?! often looks simmilar to scenes in which swords are drawn from people in Revolutionary Girl Utena
- Yue is dressed like Patchouli Knowledge during part of the school festival.
- Shower Scene
- Showgirl Skirt
- Shown Their Work (Shown mainly in the compiled volume extras and magazines, which give descriptions on both in-universe physics and real world data, such as the use of surprisingly good Latin... And Greek. And Sanskrit. Other examples are the Hakkyokuken, Negi and Ku-Fei's martial arts style and the physics behind Negi's Raisoku Shundo. And the geography of Mundus Magicus, which appears to be Mars+Oceans — which is finally pointed out by one of the characters in a July 2009 installment.
- Show Within A Show (Mahou Shojou Biblion, a Magic Warrior series)
- Shrines And Temples
- Single Stroke Battle
- Skinship Grope
- Sleep Cute (happened to Ako & Makie, Konoka & Setsuna, and Negi & Asuna. Kazumi & Ayaka, and Haruna & Yue were close...)
- The credits of the anime. (Awww...)
- Smoke Shield
- Sneezing (Negi used to be affected by frequent bouts of clothing shredding sneezes in the early volumes of the manga. The sneezing disappeared when the story grew more serious, the Fanservice didn't).
- Snot Bubble
- Snow Means Death
- Sorting Algorithm Of Evil
- Sparkling Stream Of Tears
- Special Edition Title (episode 24; also, in honor of the halfway point in the manga, the logo is changed for that one chapter)
- Spell Construction
- Spider Tank
- Spit Take
- Spotting The Thread: The Takamichi illusion.
- Squeaky Eyes
- Stable Time Loop
- Strip Poker
- Summoning Ritual
- Summon Magic
- Super Deformed (Infrequently, and usually only when characters are under stress)
- Superpowered Evil Side (What happens when Negi's Black Magic gets out of his control)
- Super Powered Robot Meter Maids
- Superpower Lottery
- Super Speed
- The Sweat Drop
- Swirling Dust
- Synchronization Haruna's golems have a slight version of this since when one is used to defend from an actual attack, it gives her a Psychic Nosebleed and knocks her out but doesn't pass on the full damage from the attack.
- Taken For Granite (Adds to the horror feel of the series, without too much Squick)
- Taking The Bullet (Several times, including a 'defendee-tossing-would-be-defender-out-of-the-way-to-take-the-hit' subversion)
- Talking To Himself
- Taste The Rainbow
- Tear Jerker (Multiple)
- Tele Frag
- Telepathy
- Teleporters And Transporters
- Tempting Fate (Ayaka claims that she has a bad feeling about going to the Magic World and Asuna claims that Ayaka's claims are usually wrong. Guess what happens to Ala Alba)
- That Didnt Happen
- There Are No Therapists
- There Is Only One Bed
- Thirteen Going On Thirty (Forward and reversed with the Age-disguising pills)
- Thirty Second Blackout
- Thirty Xanatos Pile Up: We still don't see it yet but from the looks of things, there's a ton of key players that are in here. Ala Alba (Negi's group) may turn out to be Xanatos Suckers or the Spanner In The Works.
- This Is Something Hes Got To Do Himself
- They Just Didnt Care
- They Wasted A Perfectly Good Plot: Averted! Do you remember, that Chao said she was from Mars? Guess where the magical world is hidden!
- This Is Your Premise On Drugs (Negima!? is Negima on... well, whatever Studio SHAFT is usually on.)
- Thundering Herd
- Time And Relative Dimensions In Space
- Time Machine
- Time Stands Still
- Time Travel (Stable Time Loop as Negi starts running into earlier versions of himself...)
- Timey Wimey Ball (...until the part where he has to change the future after being sent ahead)
- Title Drop (The White Wing initially call themselves the Negima Club until the better name is suggested)
- Title Montage (episode 26)
- To Be A Master
- Took A Level In Badass: Pretty much automatic if someone gets an artifact. This includes Negi, though overshadowed by the fact that he had just gained about eight others.
- Too Much Information
- Too Powerful To Live
- Tournament Arc
- Transformation Trinket (The pactio cards)
- Translation Convention (Scenes that take place in Britain are spoken in Japanese. The girls, even the ordinary ones, also have no trouble in the magical world — averted though, in that it was colonized from Earth (Mundus Vetus, "the Old World"), and two of its major languages are "Anglicum" and "Japonense." Interestingly, though, the writing dotted around the Mundus Magicus suggest that the lingua franca is actually Latin.)
- Translation Style Choices
- Trapped In Another World (The entire plot of the current arc)
- Training From Hell
- Triang Relations
- Troperiffic (Understatement), so naturally this leads to...
- Trope Overdosed
- Tug Lover War (Poor Negi)
- Two Teacher School
- The Unmasqued World
- Unsound Effect
- Unspoken Plan Guarantee
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight
- The Unwanted Harem (Double Subversion: The professor surrounded by 31 female students sure looks like a set up for one of these, but, while the students may find Negi cute, they don't want to go out with him. Except, of course, that several of them do develop romantic feelings for Negi, though nowhere near as much as the premise would lead you to believe.)
- Upgrade Artifact
- Urban Fantasy
- Vancian Magic
- The Very Definitely Final Dungeon (Lampshaded by Rakan.)
- Villain Ball
- Villain Decay (Notably subverted and twisted with Evangeline: Although after her first defeat, she is no longer really an enemy, she later reveals (several times) that she is far, far, far more powerful than she let on at first, making her absolutely terrifying. Among other things, she uses her ice magic to shatter a demon several hundred meters tall, she KOs an extremely skilled martial artist in one hit without her magic while she was distracted by thoughts of Negi's father, and draws a character into an alternate dimension (well, an illusion of it anyways) and proceeds to nuke said character multiple times. Motive Decay? Maybe. Villain Decay? Not even a little bit.)
- This troper questions if it is even Motive Decay. Did she really HAVE a motive, excluding getting out of the Academy, prior to her fight with Negi?
- Visible Silence
- The Voiceless: Zazie. Also played for laughs when she gets a call from the class president, asking what's going on. It seems to be an entirely one-sided conversation, until Ayaka hangs up the phone, cheerily announcing things she could have only learned from Zazie. The other characters don't understand any more than the audience.
- Not the first time, either. Ayaka seems to be the one person who can instantly understand her.
- Wacky Homeroom (On Steroids and/or Crack)
- Walk On Water
- Walk The Plank (Arika's execution in chapter 268)
- Wall Of Text
- The Watson (usually the normal or inexperienced girls. The trained warriors are usually the ones explaining)
- Wave Motion Gun
- Weapons That Suck
- We Are As Mayflies
- Well Intentioned Extremist Chao and her future-changing plan, and now both Fate (who said that he wants to save the world) and Kurt Godel (who wants to defeat Fate) seem to be like this. At this point those last two are not confirmed.
- What Could Have Been
- What Do You Mean Its Not Awesome (from the recent OVAs: Zazie. Chachamaru. PING-PONG.)
- And in Chapter 261, epic arm wrestling between Ku Fei and Negi. In formal attire.
- Note the damage they do to the floor.
- What Kind Of Lame Power Is Heart Anyway?
- White Magic
- Wingding Eyes
- Witch Species
- Wizard Duel
- Wizarding School
- The Worf Effect: Takane, the girl with the shadow puppets. She's supposed to be at least reasonably competent, but has a tendency to go up against stronger enemies (that is, Negi and friends), get her ass handed to her, and have all her clothes blown off.
- The World Is Not Ready
- The World Tree
- Writer Revolt (Akamatsu wanted to do an action series all along)
- Wuxia (Euro-centric magic and fantastic-setting aside, the manga is increasingly gravitating towards this genre. Ku Fei's, and therefore by extension Negi's fighting style is emblematic of those found in the Classic Shaw Brothers Kung Fu films and Jet Li films of the 1990s.)
- X Meets Y (Described somewhat deprecatingly as "Harry Potter meets Love Hina" when it first appeared. But mid-early way through, it shifted more to "Hunter X Hunter meets Love Hina with magic". Since the start of the Magic World arc, it gradually became a bit more like "Harry Potter meets Final Fantasy Tactics with Bonus Fan Service" — only later to have some Dragon Ball thrown into the mix.)
- Xanatos Gambit: If the fandom's theories are correct, Chao Lingshen defines this trope. Basically, she's trying to avert some disaster in the future. The best way to do this is to reveal magic to the world. But if Negi is able to stop her, then that means he will also be able to avert the future disaster...well done, my dear. Well done.
- Year Inside Hour Outside (Eva's "resort-in-a-bottle" (24:1 ratio), Theodora's similar training ground (10:1), and Eva's scroll (max of 72:1).)
- Years Too Early
- You Can Leave Your Hat On
- You Cant Fight Fate (Both straight and subverted, for the same event. Not to be confused with the character named Fate, though fights against him are rather unwinnable.)
- Although recent events imply that he might not be as much trouble as previously thought.
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair
- Youkai
- Young Gun (Yuna)
- Your Door Was Open (Negi wanders into Chisame's apartment while she's dressed as her alter-ego "Chiu-chan".)
- You Remind ME Of X: Everyone tells Negi about how he reminds them of his father.
- Your Vampires Suck
- You Wanna Get Sued
- Zettai Ryouiki
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