Negima's WMG, home to insane theories, speculation and playful guesses. Feel free to get a sandwich, but don't drink anything while you're here. It's a plot to sap and impurify all your precious bodily fluids.
- Bad news is, it looks to be done. Good news is, the epilogue was presented as one of several possible alternate endings, meaning Akamatsu might still be planning a more satisfying alternate conclusion.
- Negi is not a Welsh, British or English name. Nigel is.
- Not likely in this case. In a scene in Chapter 57, when Negi protests that Asuna doesn't need to bathe him, she responds that, if she weren't there, he'd just splash around with water and not use soap. His aversion to baths is probably the author's way of showing that, genius, teacher, and eventual hero or not, Negi's still just a kid — by giving him a childish foible so common that it has its own trope page.
1)This is why Negi was able to form a Pactio with Chachamaru. During the formation of the Pactio, his magical power surges and something which resembles a flame appears in his eyes. He goes on to think, "In fact, who cares if she is artificial, Chachamaru-san is our friend! She is real!" This statement differs from his earlier thoughts in that it is a statement of fact, not a request or demand.
He doesn't convince the Pactio to work, he redefines Chachamaru(and possibly similar entities) as Real(and thus possessing a soul). This is clearly within the capacity of the Power of Creation, as Pactios can be made with other constructs. Examples are Fate and the demi-humans of Mundus Magicus.
2)We may see Negi fighting Asuna(or someone controlling her power) at some point in the future, as the "Power of Creation" would be necessary to fight the "Power of Destruction." Another possibility would be the two cooperating to counteract the Lifemaker's complete "Power of Creation and Destruction."
- But isn't he becoming sort of Magic Erebea demon? He still won't be human.
- Didn't Eva say that a human trying to control that result of Magica Erebea was stupid, or something along those lines? It was designed for use by a single person, who's a shinso vampire. Turning him into one so he can actually subdue the demonic side would make sense. Otherwise he's liable to just become a mindless slaughterer...
- That's what he's trying to avoid now. Either he gets this under control or becomes a freaky immortal monster. Because it is too intense for a normal human. Even getting it under control is likely to lead to the WMG below.
- Didn't Eva say that a human trying to control that result of Magica Erebea was stupid, or something along those lines? It was designed for use by a single person, who's a shinso vampire. Turning him into one so he can actually subdue the demonic side would make sense. Otherwise he's liable to just become a mindless slaughterer...
- Pseudo-confirmed. While he doesnt actually become a vampire, the fusion of Magic Erebea to his soul has made him the same as Eva minus the blood sucking, with immortality and even the same swirly regeneration (for lack of any better term) that Eva has, although to what degree this is is unclear.
- He's already got his Titan Slayer spell, a BFS, so he doesn't need a BFS spell.
And tying this with a previous theory, then his ultimate skill will be Unlimited Lightning-Blade Works.
- It would be superfluous: Negi already has range and melee; he has no need to multi-class (when was the last time we saw the Caster Pistol)and it would take away from how Asuna learned Shinmei-Ryu techniques from Setsuna.
- In chapter 270 it is stated that those of the royal line can use a unique type of magic, in chapter 314 it is revealed that the Master of the Grave is Negi's ancestor meaning that she should be able to use royal magic and teach Negi how to use it.
- Nagi mentions offhandidly that Arika has some kind of extremely dangerous royal magic; its been a popular assumption for a while now that Negi does too. In chapter 144, he manages to do something magical with no ring or staff. Considering Akamatsu's very strong belief in The Law of Conservation of Detail, its doubtful it was just an Ass Pull. Alternatively, it might have something to do with the power of command, even over inanimate objects (he ordered the door to open, and it did).
- All There in the Manual: The Negima Bible spells out that focii are merely a tool to make magic easier, not a requirement. Similar to the Activation Keywords. A mage with proper training and ability can do magic without their keywords or a Focii. It's just easier with them. Proof of this being Evangeline's lack of focii (even a ring), because she's that scary.
- If this were to happen, chances are that the location shown on the final page would be Wales, Mahora, the classroom, or Negi's dorm room. Also, the girl would likely meet the criteria of First Girl Wins in some fashion.
- Ken Akamatsu's other 2 major works both did this.
- Love Hina's last four pages match this perfectly.
- In that case: The girl was Naru, the perverted act was accidentally stripping off her wedding dress, and the location was the roof of the Hinata dorm.
- As do A.I. Love You!'s last four pages.
- In that case: The girl was Saati, the perverted act was his tripping into a position where he was accidentally groping her, and the location was Koube's room.
- Love Hina's last four pages match this perfectly.
- Alternatively, he'll form a permanent pactio (whatever that may require) resulting in both him and his partner getting a massive stat boost (I think it's kind of implied, if not stated outright, that the permanent pactio makes the minister magi way stronger than the provisory one, remember how Asuna's "kiss on the forehead" pactio with Negi granted her only a very little increase in power?).
- It's been established that a contract gives the ministra access to the magister's power, but how would a permanent pactio give a boost to the Magister?
- This just ties in to the original WMG about Negi canceling other pactios, which he would have to do, if he formed a permanent one. He'd get a boost because there wouldn't be 16 other people drawing power from him anymore (again, don't know if that's exactly how it works).
- It's been established that a contract gives the ministra access to the magister's power, but how would a permanent pactio give a boost to the Magister?
- Said Foil will be carrying a Forged Hero Card.
- Seems to be getting more and more likely. We've just finished up a huge breather arc following Fate's Heel–Face Turn and The Reveal that the Lifemaker is possessing Nagi's body with only three more chapters remaining. The odds of there being a satisfying ending in just three chapters are slim. So either you're right or Akamatsu was recently slapped with a nasty Cosmic Deadline.
- The Pactios themselves. Where do they come from? Are the artifacts created out of thin air, or have they been around for centuries? Is there some sort of system to keep track of them? And can they be stolen? How many non-kiss ways are there to establish a Pactio? It's mentioned that Natsumi's Pactio Artifact is yet another Legendary Artifact - perhaps this isn't coincidence? Perhaps there's someone rigging this little magical lottery for whatever nefarious purpose?
- While I think magic will be revealed at some point, your argument has a huge gaping hole in the fact that they're already dismissing it as CG on their own without anyone claiming it.
- This WMG was made before chapter 321 spoilers came out.
- The general student populous was dismissing it as CG in chapter 320.
- Sakurako has placed a bet correctly identifying the Gatekeeper's palace. In order to win, the public at large must know that she is correct. It is physically impossible for Sakurako to lose a bet. Therefore, magic will be revealed to the public at large. QED.
- This may be subverted a little bit with Chapter 322 rolling. Ayaka, who already knows magic at this point, tells everyone that it's an event made by Class 3-A.
- Sakurako has placed a bet correctly identifying the Gatekeeper's palace. In order to win, the public at large must know that she is correct. It is physically impossible for Sakurako to lose a bet. Therefore, magic will be revealed to the public at large. QED.
- This would be a perfect way to end the series. Even without resolving the unrequited love of his class and finding his dad, though having those resolved would be better than not.
- Plus, he's legitimate royalty and very popular with the people. And also not corrupt like all the current politicians.
- Evangeline (either in battle against whatever final ultimate evil the heroes will fight at the end (the series is set to end around Chapter 400; there's no way they'll be fighting the Lifemaker and/or Fate for that long) or giving her life in defense of Nagi and/or Negi)
- Takamichi (again, being taken down in battle - perhaps against the Lifemaker or a member of the Megalomesembrian Senate - or sacrificing himself to save another)
- Asuna
- Arika
- Nagi
- At least one of Fate's Ministrae (maybe Tamaki sacrificing herself to save Koyomi, and dying in the latter's arms; it would be played for as much Tear-Jerking as possible)
- One of the mundanes of Negi's class (getting caught up out of nowhere in the middle of the secret war, barely having time to ask "what's going on?" before one of Negi's foes kills her)
- Setsuna (in defense of Konoka) (I'm particularly hoping this one doesn't come to pass, but considering how Darker and Edgier the manga's been getting...)
- Hundreds of random innocent people (Possible, considering the casualties of the Red Shirt Army)
- I meant civilians.
- And I meant that considering the death toll among the military, the civilians whom many doesn't have survival training will suffer even worse.
- I meant civilians.
- ...Dude... I predicted that five months ago! I just never put it up. I also predict that New Ostia will collapse before the good guys can get all the civilians off of it, resulting in hundreds of deaths and a massive BSOD for Negi over not being able to save them.
- Confirmed. Also, a previous chapter shows that she really doesn't need it.
- Confirmed! Sort of. It' not to boost his abilities, though. It's the opposite, actually.
- What about Eishun? He still appears fighting fit.
- May not be the case. Yue has demonstrated a startling ability to take down demons with a BFS, and she was fighting pretty close to the griffin during that one fight. More likely her powerset will end up looking like Nanoha's - mainly long range but with a decent selection of close-combat abilities.
- Confirmed, and with a surprise help from Eva as well...
- Confirmed. See above.
- Confirmed in UQ Holder!
- He was intended from the start to be Konoka's protector/friend/mentor. The other girls were deliberately assembled to maximize Negi's chances of finding both training and ministrae. Asuna has been intended as Negi's ministra from the time she was first rescued by Nagi and his team.
- Evangeline is being set up to transfer her affection/stalkerhood from Nagi to Negi.
- The assignment for Negi to teach at Mahora was all part of Nagi's Gambit Roulette planned out years before Negi was born, all so that Negi would become close to the girls in 2-A and be prepared to start the Human Instrumentality Project that was predicted in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the very act Chao came back to prevent!
- ...What? I can't be the only one who thinks those demons soldiers look just a bit like Eva units.
- Well, the previous teacher was "Death Glasses Takamachi".
- Some people, like Eva, Chachamaru, and Nagase are placed there for obvious reasons.
- Some students who appear normal, such as Konoka, Yue, and Nodoka, were placed in the class because they have the ability to learn magic and possibly become mages.
- Everyone who is unaccounted for by the first two categories is either being protected or hidden from magical enemies, or is suffering from Laser-Guided Amnesia.
- Chisame is the exception. She was put there either by accident or because there was no room anywhere else.
- Possibly, she was put there preemptively because she was considered Genre Savvy and otherwise cunning enough to break through The Masquerade. This theory also explains Asakura and Paru being in 2-A. Why the hell else would you put those two, of all people, anywhere near something you were keeping secret? The Powers That Be figured that it was inevitable they'd figure it out anyway, and so they put them in the centre of the madness to contain it.
- No no no. Chisame was more dangerous than anyone else before the Laser-Guided Amnesia; so not only was she given that, but she also was psychically conditioned to run screaming at the sight of "fantasy" in the real world.
- Mahora Academy is already a covert magic-teaching school. Furthermore, there are weird students elsewhere (all those ki-using martial artists, for one thing). Class 2-A is a representative sample of the student body as a whole. Scary, no?
- There are other mages in the student body, such as Takane, Moe and Mei. It does appear, however, that the vast majority of the students are Muggles (as seen in the end of the School Festival arc). This presents two possibilities:
- Most of the students have supernatural potential but don't know it.
- 2-A is indeed a disproportionate sample where they placed those "abnormal" students who weren't already working for them. Misora might have been tossed in with that lot for disciplinary infractions...
- A bit of support for that: "maho(u)" is the Japanese word for "magic".
- There are other mages in the student body, such as Takane, Moe and Mei. It does appear, however, that the vast majority of the students are Muggles (as seen in the end of the School Festival arc). This presents two possibilities:
- She is smart and powerful enough to use the fact that she looks like a ten year old to her advantage. That dream could be a remnant from that era. Or it could simply be a dream which is a distorted reflection of reality.
- My guess is that the actual battle was probably more dramatic, but it was still such a traumatic experience (the man you love rejects you, and then kicks your ass, leading to what is probably Eva's first defeat in centuries), that when her subconscious brings it up in her dreams, everything is exaggerated. It probably wasn't that bad, but she's embarrassed and ashamed by it, so that's what her dreams reflect.
- Accident, by someone important. They're covering up her death, which is why she is a ghost and why no one seems interested in how she died.
- The Headmaster, in his younger days.
- Flying time monkeys. She was born sometime in the future but, because of all the screwing around with time travel, died sixty years ago.
- The Kempeitai or the magical equivalent thereof.
- The main hole in that theory is that everyone in Japan was away on vacation about sixty years ago.
- ...in China.
- The main hole in that theory is that everyone in Japan was away on vacation about sixty years ago.
- Evangeline.
- The same magical authorities to whom Negi reports.
- Chamo, back when he was human, which is why he was sentenced to ermine-dom.
- Chao, either because Chao remembers her as being dead and thus killed her as part of a stable-time-loop, or The Plan of some kind - possibly to get Asakura acclimated to the supernatural.
- According to bonus info in the volume Sayo was introduced in, her planned backstory was that she was killed by a serial killer. Of course, that may have been abandoned.
- Her own clumsiness. (After all, she did manage to trip without feet...)
- She was a human sacrifice in some dark ritual.
- Tuberculosis, possibly magically induced to provide the "unfinished business" measure (such as the human sacrifice in some dark ritual to cure at outbreak at Mahora).(Ukitake may or may not be involved.) Alternately, polio! (see below WMG)
- Literal Chessmaster (with bonus points for being a gaijin Go master). After seeing the headmaster play Stealth Mentor and Eva as we-think-a-minor-villain, in the next arc we get the impression they regularly play Go, and that she regularly and casually wins these matches. She's accustomed to Obfuscating Stupidity of varying forms to covertly feed as a vampire, and can fake little-girl tantrums and take "jobs".
- She's old enough to have seen that The Power of Friendship works better in the long term than the survival strategy she grew up with of being the most aggressive and vicious villain around. Her mouthpiece Chachazero (taunting the talisman user from the Kyoto arc) praises the ideal of total commitment in the face of unavoidable sacrifice and risk. Eva could choose a road this rough, especially if she's still free to complain about being "forced" into it afterwards.
- She spent enough time stalking Nagi to know that he wouldn't kill her, wouldn't irreparably harm her, and would protect her when necessary after defeating her; with access to his communications with the Mahora headmaster, she could have guessed or even influenced where she'd end up.
- Like Hogwarts from Harry Potter, the safest place in the world (if you have both known supernatural enemies and basic self-defense skills) is Mahora... and the only safe way to reside there is licitly. She survived fifteen years depowered (with the word possibly out about that condition), which suggests it wasn't a foolhardy decision. There's even lots of magic-enriched blood around to drain, making her depowering less absolute.
- There are hints (from Nagi during their showdown and from her interactions with Takamichi) that she was from the outset offered an under-the-table job as night security at Mahora, giving her freedom of movement and chances to feed, and encouraging illicit access to the security and surveillance systems (and student records) in exchange for preventing anything that might make the Muggle-run school paper. Most of the mages on staff know nothing about this, as Nagi's endorsement wouldn't mean much to them.
- Between some access to magic and some influence with the most likely candidates to have secretly set up Negi to come to Mahora, she could have stacked that deck. And if she had just wanted a quick feed, she would have gone for his sister. Instead...
- She makes sure Negi is a Papa Wolf and no lethal threat to her before she confronts him and takes the necessary DMG Defeat Means Friendship fall. If it weren't for the huge Villain Ball around her neck, this would be textbook stealth mentor — she tells him just what he needs to do to protect himself (in general, not just for her), scares him enough that he does kiss a girl, and deliberately matches his fighting style and power (though we see that enough that it could just be her quirk). It's questionable whether the fall at the end would have killed her or just stuck her at the river's bottom in a broken body until the next full moon... and as for that Villain Ball, it's there in her (Kyoto) rescue scene, but planned for and controlled. Negi's trying to tackle her (if he died, everything would be ruined) was the one thing which came close to upsetting her.
- Knowing Negi's skill level, his chance (with his class there) of getting accidentally killed as opposed to needing some serious rescuing, and Konoka's heritage (all things she has to know by this point), she proposes the Kyoto field trip. She has plenty of time to ensure that nobody from Mahora is going to be free to rescue Negi. It's unlikely that she predicted she'd get the chance to come out and play, or just how close the bad guys got, but those weren't the point. Negi is facing real danger, spotting the "If I wanted you dead..." subtext in their fight, and coming to Eva for training/draining/braining... almost certain. The inner-inner circle at Mahora accepting her slowly regaining her power from this? Also almost certain. Her getting tasked to play host, teacher, and eventual True Companion (at least for mutual self-protection, which is the important point) to other students who could presumably have been assigned to the official teachers? Also predictable.
- Thats why she looks older than the other girls.
- She's actually one of the oldest being in the Magic World, having existed not long after the Magic World was created. She was periodically mind-wiped(or the power affected her memory) and the power somehow prevented her from aging. After Ala Rubra rescued her, they managed to modify the power, allowing her to age. This would make Eva's envy of her more obvious...
- Alternatively, she isn't actually aging. A highly complex illusion was cast on her to give that appearance; at some point her anti-magic will kick into overdrive and eliminate it, revealing her true form of a five year old.
- Nature vs. Nurture. They wanted to raise another Thousand Master, and they needed him to be motivated and believe in himself enough to accomplish this goal. It's a plot by the Philosophers, who gave him recessive genes as well.
- By Chao's time, they'd refined this technique down to VR training and soul tattoos.
- And then we have Kotaro, who was given all the superior, dominant genes, but was told he had the recessive genes to make him feel inferior so he would push himself harder. They're both just being manipulated by Fate, who got the perfect mix of both. It takes a well-balanced individual like him to destroy the world.[[WMG: Amagasaki Chigusa is actually a veryMagical world
- Negi was the son of some Big Bad, and they didn't want him to turn out like his parent.
- Evangeline, perhaps.
- So much Squick added with that line of thought...
- 'Confirmed as of ch. 252. He's not Eva's son,but that of a notorious witch who had "destroyed her own country and people".
- To clarify: It's been confirmed since then that Arika is Negi's mother, but it's generally believed by just about everyone that she was framed for the whole "destroying her own people" thing. She was a good guy who took the fall for somebody else. My guess is that she took the blame when Asuna's Anti-Magic destroyed most of Ostia.
- It should be noted that the source of this revelation was Governor Kurt "Liar Liar Pants On Fire" Godel. Just saying.
- Evangeline, perhaps.
- The real Negi died all those years back in the village; the 'Negi' we know was one of his childhood friends pulling a Dead Person Impersonation and possibly Becoming the Mask.
- Nagi's blood type is O, while Negi's is AB, which shouldn't be possible if they're father and son.
- Could be Hand Waved. Magic, Artistic License – Biology, etc.
- Yes, the blood types were probably assigned by personality without regard to the laws of inheritance. But if the laws of heredity mean anything at all, that bloodtype mismatch confirms the main theory.
- Not necessarily. We don't know his mother's blood type, and he could have inherited from her in that regard. My father is type B, I'm type O. That doesn't mean I'm not related to him, it means my mother is type O.
- Not possible in Negi's case, O blood type means having both recessive alleles for the O blood type (ii) and having an AB blood type means having the A and B alleles combined (AB). We know for sure that Nagi has no A or B alleles so there's no way his children can be AB, Negi's mother is irrelevant in this case.
- Negi died in that attack, and something else walked away.
- Thank you very much, you have just given me nightmares.
- Think about it. Pactio requires a kiss. All of Nagi's pactio partners were male. Ergo...
- One of the characters actually lampshades this. A kiss might not be the only way to form a Pactio though.
- Or she's just been using the Magical De-Aging Pills.
- Nagi can't face her; that's why he's hiding. Ala Rubra got disbanded and Takamichi's teacher killed when they tried to force Nagi to take responsibility.
- Alternatively, Nekane busted out her Woman Scorned when Ala Rubra tried to help Nagi evade responsibility, and Takamichi's teacher got wasted.
- Realistically, given that Negi's mother was apparently blamed for destroying a country, it makes some sense that she would leave the magic world and disguise herself. It also makes sense that she would be willing to essentially raise Negi after Nagi disappeared.
- To restate in light of current info: Nekane is Negi's mother Arika in disguise.
- Anya and other characters note Asuna and Nekane look alike. Tosaka even noted that it's funny that Arika was supposed to have died eight years before Negi was even born. Then laughs, saying that it looks like she fooled everyone. So yeah, everyone assumes she's dead but her actual status is rather vague.
- Not to mention that it would be an effective way to hide them both, and fits the timeline. And this way Arika gets to remain with her son. Also gives an additional reason why the village was attacked, if the Senate wants to destroy the Royal Family, it would take out the Queen and Prince in one fell swoop.
- Which explains even more why Nagi is so pissed at the demons for attacking, and why he's so crushed when he has to leave again.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia may have been a part of it. Or Arika's a really good actress.
- One should also note that while everyone else in the village is petrified almost instantly (or at least really fast), Nekane appears to be resistant to it, which would make sense if she's related directly to Asuna.
- Also the Chekhov's Gunman comment above.
- Fate claims to have been created.
- If someone created Fate, who's to say that they couldn't have made Ako too? That would make them 'siblings'. She got her scar when she went rogue and their mutual creator sent her 'brother' to take her out.
- Maybe he's a Replacement Goldfish for her brother or something.
- Or maybe Fate and Ako are the Last of His Kind, and Ako who was sent to the human world and adopted by a human family to have a 'normal' life.
- So when she inevitably develops her powers or becomes a Pactio partner, she'll be Hancock Izumi?
It's implied that Takamichi erased Asuna's memories somehow, but it's never stated he did it all at once. It's possible that she may have spent some time in Wales after having Gateau erased from her mind. She could then fall in love with an apparently lolicon man and have Nekane. Later, it's decided that it would be safer to erase her memory and send her to Mahora and away from her daughter - possibly when Nagi died. Even if Nekane had spent around 5 years with her mother, she'd remember very little now due to being too young. Even what she does remember would be of a loli Asuna, not one seemingly her age. If Asuna is Negi's aunt, this would explain why Nekane looks about as much like her as Negi does to Nagi, as well as their relationship as cousins.
Additionally, when the village was attacked, while Stan petrified only a few moments after being hit, Nekane only petrified up to her legs at that point. The petrification was implied to have continued, as "Nagi" states he has stopped it after fighting off an army of demons. Stan, who is implied to be a stronger mage then Nekane, petrified in moments despite logically having a stronger magic barrier; Nekane took what could be as long as an hour just to petrify more of her legs. This could easily be a sign of a weaker version of Magic Cancel inherited from her mother.
- Well, now that the tournament is over, maybe we'll get some answers about Negi's parents.
- Others have come up with wilder guesses with less, so ... But Only Six Faces, and Princess Arika and Evangeline don't have similar personalities.
- Eva has an alibi. She was still on her island fortress thingy, being evil or lonely. Arika seems too grounded in the royalty, too much personal history, to secretly be an immigrant vampire.
- Unless Arika/Evangeline just makes everyone around believe that she is a princess with some form of hypnosis. After all, she had several hundreds of years to learn every skill possible. She is still lonely because she cannot tell this to anyone. This leaves the questions of whether there is a real princess Arika and what happened to her when Eva took her place.
- This could explain why Rakan and the other members of the Ala Rubra seem to know Evangeline. Both Rakan and Theo both have a scroll that contains fake Eva, both Rakan and Albireo Imma seem to have met her before, Rakan knows a bit about the Magica Erebea, and the fake Eva from Theo's scroll seems to be familiar with the other members of Ala Rubra gathered there.
- The other possibility is that Evangeline is a cover identity for Arika which was concocted to protect her from the Senate. In this case, her "history" with Nagi would be entirely an act (after all, everything we've heard about her history has come from Ala Rubra members), and her actions during the main story would have been motivated by wanting to train and protect Negi. The child appearance would then be a disguise, and the adult appearance her true self. According to this theory, Nagi and Evangeline deliberately arranged for her to be "imprisoned" in the Mahora campus, in a disguised form, to protect her from Senate agents. They may have had the help of the Ala Rubra.
- This could also explain why Evangeline keeps claiming to be eeeeeevil.
- As of vol. 30, Evangeline has said that she met Nagi "after he was already married", so her identity could have been invented at that point - but the flaw in this is that she was only with two Ala Rubra members at the time, so she had no reason to deceive them. Two possibilities present themselves: one, the Ala Rubra changed her memories to protect her, or two, the Ala Rubra weren't aware of her own private masquerade and only she and Nagi knew that it was fake.
- False memories is the most likely explanation; remember that Negi visited one of her dreams, and it collaborated her present identity. Of course, given that other people have heard of her, it would also mean that between her false memories being given and her being sealed in Mahora, she went on a murderous rampage...
- Anya is Russian iirc. She isn't supposed to be Welsh/English. Honestly, does Negi's name sound Welsh either? But that's a different point, lets avoid that one. Ahem. And I would say his cousin was secretly Arika except that it does seem a little too obvious. That was a WMG from ages back before we knew anything at all about her to begin with. Although this troper suspects that it really isn't Arika... Negi was called the last of the Ostian blood line. So who the hell is she then?
- Her current surname may have been the surname of her deceased Magister Magi partner.
- Just look at the inscription on her pendant at the bottom left; the "T" in the name on the guy's picture could be where she got the surname, probably as her way to honor his memory.
- Furthermore, it was customary for Pactio cards to have the Ministra's surnames on top of their first name. Thus, the theory can be inferred from there...
- We have two women who wear their hair in a Hime Cut, have exceptional strength and speed, and a usually placid exterior that conceals a great deal of emotion. Akira is reluctant to kiss Negi even though she cares about him a great deal. Why? Because she unconsciously realizes that this is her son.
- Best of all, this is something that the Japanese readership would never see coming, because the similarity between the two names isn't apparent in Japanese! Mixing up parts of syllables like this is just Not Done.
- Canonically she feels more big sisterly towards Negi than anything. Her romance rating is surprisingly low on the love charts.
- Ayaka thinks Negi is like the little brother she would have had and treats him accordingly. Mostly.
- Negi is exactly the right age to be the little brother that died.
- Ayaka looks a lot like like Arika and took an instant interest in Asuna.
- The plot has kept her strangely out of the way for a character who by all rights ought to be someone important.
- This one is just a personal suspicion, but Ayaka's shotacon attitude towards Negi is not portrayed as something to be taken seriously at all. Thus, it may be an attempt to keep the two paired in the minds of readers for future Fridge Brilliance on reveal but done in a way that makes it harder to ship them together and thus eliminate any hint of Brother–Sister Incest. Well, as much as possible anyway.
- Based on claim of the Gravekeeper, that says she is Negi and Asuna's ancestor, its much more likely that she is actually Amateru herself instead.
Explains:
- Numerous Power of Love moments
- Why everyone at Mahora, a place saturated by magic, seems to be falling in love with everyone else
- Everyone is attracted to the most powerful wizard in the vicinity (Negi, Nagi, Fate)
- Sacred confession tree also acting as a portal to the magic world
- This, in UQ Holder:
- Nah, nothing new for an ojou.
- Explicitly stated a few times that they were a gift from Takamichi, and that they have the power to either summon him or let him know where she is when rung.
- Akira Okochi: Aloof Dark-Haired Girl, rather quiet, too. Has shown the ability to catch up with a character using a magic artifact to run on top of the water, and jump several feet into the air (in midair, yet!).
- I once read a fanfic that subscribed to this portion of this theory. The author's answer? Akira's a sealed water elemental. Here's a link.
- Chizuru Naba: Gentle and motherly, adopts half-demon Kotaro pretty much on a whim. Slaps a high-ranking demon for threatening her "kid" and not only knocks him out of his attack, but also bloodies his nose (impressive, considering that guys like him usually have barriers up during battle to avoid that kind of thing). Despite doing his best not to attract undue attention to his actions, the Demon subsequently kidnaps her too, despite her not being anywhere near his list of assigned targets.
- The Nosebleed and kidnapping might be related. Alternate interpretation.
- Sakurako Shiina: Appears to have improbably good luck. Every time that there has been some kind of contest or competition based on a random element, such as a lottery or drawing, Sakurako has won it. Her luck is so extreme, it allowed her and a small band of "ordinary" girls from school to find the (mystically obscured) gateway Negi and the White Wing were about to use to go to the Magical World just in time to ("accidentally") go with them.
- Or, she knows exactly what she's doing. She's not lucky so much as she's a master of The Plan with a touch of Obfuscating Stupidity.
- It was noted during Yuuna's Flashback that they (Yuuna and Shiina) are appearently childhood friends, and since Yuuna appears to be a sheltered mageling, it could very well be that Shiina is as well and her luck is just an afterglow of it.
- Negi's reaction to his Muggle students' presence at the gateport suggests that Fate had hacked the system to allow unmonitored movement.
- Keep in mind that while Shiina found the gate, she was also lucky enough not to get caught in it and sent to the other side.
- Or, she knows exactly what she's doing. She's not lucky so much as she's a master of The Plan with a touch of Obfuscating Stupidity.
- There must be a good reason why the Narutaki twins look and act like ten-year-old children when they are older than the likes of Konoka and Chisame.
- The Narutaki twins are demon princesses. When the twins were under the impression that Negi might be a prince, they seemed more excited than any of the other girls. The twins fear ghosts, and the supernatural would fall in line with the typical ironic jokes in the manga. After all, having heirs to a demon king be deathly afraid of ghosts and monsters would be funny.
- Continuing this line of thought: In their joke-pactio card, it is written that their special attack is a splitting technique; but we all know that they suck at it. But what if they aren't "real" twins? What if they are the same person (or demon)? They might just be split. The twins were conveniently left out of the Magic-world arc — because if they went to that world, their magic powers would have to be revealed, or demons or people there would recognize them for what/who they are.
- The most logical explanation would be that they're actually one demon with splitting powers, but they somehow got stuck in separate forms. It explains why they would be so weak, their power is divided and whatever power keeps them apart prevents them from combining their abilities for full power. It also explains why they got a single botched pactio card when they both kissed Negi. Everyone seems to operate on a one-card-per-person basis, so the twins must actually be a single person. Alternately, they might be a Hive Mind of some sort, but that got separated into two distinct minds, or maybe a single soul spread across 2 bodies.
- The Narutaki twins are demon princesses. When the twins were under the impression that Negi might be a prince, they seemed more excited than any of the other girls. The twins fear ghosts, and the supernatural would fall in line with the typical ironic jokes in the manga. After all, having heirs to a demon king be deathly afraid of ghosts and monsters would be funny.
- Heck, even the mundanes... Insert Girl Here is a sleeper agent for Insert Faction Here. Kinda like The Manchurian Classmate.
- Maybe to go with the above theory that Negi is Nagi and also the Big Bad, the sleeper agent(s?) are there to terminate Negi/Nagi when he gets out of line.
- Akira Okochi: her superstrength and superspeed were tacked on with the brainwashing to provide her with the edge needed to get the job done.
- Ako Izumi She's got the scar, the weird appearance, and the lack of backstory. She may be a sleeper agent, or she may be the Negima equivalent of Jason Bourne.
- Misa Kakizaki and Madoka Kugimiya They seem to be the only pure Muggles who seem to have no idea about the weirdness around them left! Man, is that suspicious! Just you wait. Misa will turn out to be Arika (Misa's the one with the reverse Wife Husbandry plan, while Arika may be Nagi's love interest despite their age gap); Meanwhile, Madoka will uhh... turn out to be Kotarou's long-lost sister? I got nothing.
- She's Nodoka's long lost sister. They have similar sounding names and both have dark hair. It would make a great unreveal. Everybody in the class is revealed to have some magic power or something and then when we get to Madoka it's something really anticlimactic.
- How much you want to bet that Sayo Aisaka died as a human sacrifice in a dark ritual? Quite possibly voluntarily?
- Would that make her an incarnation/equivalent of Hanyuu? Auu~
- Because hey, it'd be funny, considering Chisame's views on the magical existence she's found herself sucked into ("Normal people are a precious commodity in our class!", etc). Just imagine her reaction upon finding out...
- That and she's related to Chigusa. Seriously, Chisame is practically a younger Chigusa with brown hair...
- Maybe she's a Kappa (Water Demon), kind of like Setsuna.
- Setsuna's more bird than kappa. Note the wings.
- I think the salient point was "Demon", hence "kind of like".
- Setsuna's more bird than kappa. Note the wings.
- Maybe she's a Rusalka; fortunately, she's at an all-girls school, and so there's no young men around to drown. (Negi doesn't count - he's too young.)
- Takamichi survived teaching her because he's just that badass.
- Jossed. Or rather, Inverted. Her pactio item effectively turns her into a Mermaid in water.
- Love Hina has references to AI Love You via Love Hina's Sara McDougal and AI Love You's Cindy McDougal.
- Santa Claus' of the one shot manga Itsudatte My Santa are mages that does not enforce the Masquerade. They do not fall under the jurisdiction of the Mage Associations and Magic World authorities. The Yakuza thugs that appeared in Love Hina also appeared in Itsudatte My Santa.
- Ground Defense Force Mao-chan whose character designs and story was made by Ken Akamatsu occurs years after Love Hina.
- Volume 29 Q & A confirmed that we saw Motoko Aoyama and her sister in one panel, when Konoka was little.
- Damn it!
- All very well, but what's his element? And given Negima's powerlevels, I highly doubt he's the only Exalt in the story. (Someone on the White Wolf forums theorized that Negi is a Solar Twilight and Kotaro a Lunar. Fate, with a name like that, is likely Chosen Of Battles; Konoka is a Solar Zenith and Setsuna her crow-totemed Full Moon mate; Evangeline an Abyssal; Chachamaru an Alchemical...)
- Bullshit he's a dragonblooded. If that man is not a Dawn Caste I will eat my fedora. And I really like that fedora.
- The Lifemaker = Palpatine. They're both black cloak wearing, Big Bad characters who engineered a war through a Government Conspiracy for their own gain.
- Nagi = Anakin. In this timeline he realized that Lifemaker/Palpy was evil, and fought on the other side. He easily fits the whole "chosen one" position, is more powerful than anyone else, and ends up in the same relationship with...
- Arika = Amidala. Lets see, the queen of a country/planet who takes personal action to protect her people; married to the main hero.
- Negi = Luke. Son of the hero of the previous generation, raised by relatives after the parents go missing, trains with the intent of following in his father's footsteps, eventually aims to take on the Big Bad himself after training with his father's old allies. And has a similar relationship with...
- Asuna = Leia. Action Girl, similar Plucky Girl attitudes, Princess , starts a potentially romantic relationship with the current lead which later turns out to be incestuous, saw her home country/planet destroyed.
- Evangeline = Yoda. Really 700 Years Old, likes to screw with their pupils, both are smaller than average but still extremely powerful and are considered top tier, if not as strong as in their younger days.
- Rakan = Obi-Wan. Briefly trains the son of his close friend, is a master-class fighter, fought on the frontlines of the war, both are known for their defensive strength, and dies in an Obi-Wan Moment, and temporarily comes back as a sort of Spirit Advisor.
- Kotaro = Han Solo/Chewie in one character. Hot-Blooded, tends to rush into things, used to use questionable means of making a living but joined with the hero, is covered with fur depending on the situation.
- Fate = The apprentices of Palpatine. Rather emotionless like Darth Maul, and quite arrogant like Dooku. He may be doing a Body Surf, which is remeniscient of Palpatine's clone-hopping in the Star Wars Expanded Universe.
- Chachamaru = R2D2/C3PO (mostly R2, except for form and speech capability). Humanoid robot with a distinct personality, ability to interface with electronics, has a jetpack, and is capable of manifesting numerous abilities and weapons on demand.
- Takamichi = Bail Organa. Acquintance of the great hero who later takes care of the hero's female child relative to put her away from danger.
- The library was most likely built by mages, who were expecting the readers to be able to fly. And they might have built it in hurry, so it wasn't meant to give access to the books as much as simply store them. Because they were saving the library from a war. Based on what was said about a library being expanded because they had to hide books from a war.
- Alternatively, the library is magical or even alive and builds itself. It doesn't need any readers, so it doesn't bother being convenient.
- Following that idea: Gunnerkrigg Court is Library Island's cousin.
- Or, the library is so labyrinthine and dangerous for the same reason the Unseen U library is Bigger on the Inside: books warp space and libraries do strange things to dimensional borders.
- I propose it was created by Dwarves. Think about it. Massive labyrinthine underground structure filled with pointless death traps and bizarre design decisions. And a few forgotten beasts at the lower levels. Or it might have been a fort that failed at some point and was later reclaimed by evil librarians.
When Evangeline was first turned into a vampire, she really was a "normal" vampire, although exceptionally strong as she regained full sentience within a day (not unlike Yumizuka Satsuki). She used her new-found powers to hunt down the magus who turned her, thereby becoming a full Dead Apostle. Eventually, though, she invented the heretical technique Magia Erebea, which requires that one "accept the world as it is" in order to "fuse magic with the user's soul", and prolonged use is explicitly stated to induce "evolution into a higher life form". Magic, or rather, magecraft is the art of drawing in mana to fuel one's spells and is explicitly referred to as "the Power of the World". In Nasuverse terms, Magia Erebea is a technique that merges "the Power of the World" with the user's soul, forcing the user's internal logic closer to the logic of the World - in other words, a proto-Marble Phantasm. In the case of Negi, a human, this was sufficient to transform him (possibly permanently) into a Lightning Elemental; Eva, a Dead Apostle with the blood of the True Ancestors running in her veins, was able to gain the powers of a True Ancestor, herself. Elementals and True Ancestors are both noted as wielders of Marble Phantasms in the Nasuverse, so this would be a perfect explanation for how Eva/Alt can be both Dead Apostle and True Ancestor.
- Wait, where's Primate Murder? Where did she hid it?
- It's Chachazero: to control better the monster, she put its soul into a doll, and she keeps the shrunken body in her pocket. When she's really pissed she brings out the body and puts it soul back in before enjoying the massacre.
- Maybe he's away to do his master's bidding with Rizo-Waal Strout and Fina-blood Svelten.
- She occupies two places in the list of the Dead Apostle Ancestors. A low one as Evangeline "The Dark Evangel" while looking as an adult, and the Ninth as Altrouge Brunestud with her true looks (somewhat more powerful because she's not using prana to look adult) and her Queen of Ice form. Zelretch and the members of Ala Rubra are the only ones who realizes it, even if Negi (who is really smart and has seen all her forms and Magia Erebea) and Arcueid (who had to fight Chachazero, who is normally associated with The Dark Evangel) suspect it.
- This would mean that the Lifemaker is a manifestation of Crimson Moon Brunestud... And would explain why Altrouge is considered unstable: she killed or helped killing the creator of all vampires, thrice. With the final one being apparently for good...
- Following on the point above... Chao's future is Angel Notes, caused by the return of Crimson Moon during the war between Muggles and the Mage's Association on one side and the Martians on the other, and by killing the Lifemaker for good the class prevented it. Oh, and they prevented the war too...
- Alternately, Negima may be set in a universe where the rules to reality were rewritten by Madoka (or a future Magical Girl who made a similar wish, if you subscribe to the "Madoka wasn't the first girl to rewrite the rules" theory) again, in order to make the Magical Girl system even more fair: now Magical Girls no longer get a wish as a signing bonus, but they also don't eventually run out of magic and vanish. They instead are now paired with a Master, and the Incubators get their emotional energy to stop Entropy from the True Companions emotions they all feel for each other.
Negi, due the effects of Magia Erebea, will join the Dead Apostle Ancestors as The Thousand Harem Master (name chosen by Evangeline, of course), but doesn't need to drink blood. He dies when Misora accidentally slips the identity of the Thousand Harem Master and the Church get him in his sleep. The Vatican is then devastated by Class 3-A in revenge.
The Lifemaker is actually Brunestud of the Crimson Moon, who periodically possesses someone to try and advance his plan to conquer Earth and reincarnate in either Arcueid or Evangeline. Class 3-A managed to reproduce Heaven's Feel to force him to reincarnate, and then killed him for good.
Chao comes from the world of Angel Notes, where she's one of the few actual humans still alive (Gun God is not the last). Her future, that will not come to pass as the series' 3-A put down Brunestud, was created in a titanic royal battle between Evangeline's group of Dead Apostle Ancestors and other allies (including survivors of Class 3-A and Negi's descendants), Brunestud (who reincarnated in The Dark Six) and his followers, the Church (without Merem Solomon but allied with Arcueid, Shiki and the Tohnos), the Mages Association, the United Nations, the Martian exiles and the Demons from Venus, that ended with Evangeline, Brunestud and a version of Dust of Osiris (allied with the Mages Association) as the last Dead Apostles (Evangeline and Brunestud are crippled and recovering), most combatants dead and the planet itself dying. Chao's mother and Evangeline are the ones who created the A-Rays, causing the dying Earth to call for the Aristoteles (as Arcueid and Primate Murder, the closest approximations to Type Earth, were dead, and Evangeline, who had taken the role, is the one responsible for this abomination). Chao is trying to unify the last humans, and, with the help of the series' class 3-A, succeeds in defeating Brunestud for good in her timeline too, bring world peace (with herself as empress) and revive the planet (using the blood of the killed Aristoteles, Brunestud and Primate Murder included), Arcueid, Shiki and his harem (now all immortal), joined by the Evangeline of Chao's future out of curiosity on what her sister saw in Shiki.
Mana's partner is Kiritsugu Emiya, on which she had a crush. She missed the Fourth Grail War due a combat wound right before it started, preventing Kiritsugu from utterly annihilating the opposition in one day with the combination of Saber's power, Mana's ability to shoot anything and Kiritsugu's own mind (had that happened, Mana would have shot the corrupted Grail with Kiritsugu's gun and an Origin Bullet, thus saving the world and killing all the Einzbern but Illya). Mana is Shirou's legal guardian, but delegates on Taiga to keep as many of Kiritsugu's enemies away, but rushes to Fuyuki as soon as she finds out of the new Holy Grail War from Archer (he called her on the phone, but it had been destroyed during a job and he had to send her an e-mail and hope she'd read it soon), but arrives too late to make any difference in the Heaven's Feel path, and can only kill Zouken right as Shirou and co. destroy the corrupted Grail in the other paths. She also gets Sakura to Evangeline, and kills the remaining worms (the soul worm having been killed by Mana to finish Zouken) by asking Evangeline what she was to do to remove them (the worms were scared to death), and later tutors Shirou in combat.
- At least it doesn't stand for Chamillionaire... or does it?
- It's a Line-of-Sight Name.
- The punishments for what happened in the Chao arc only amounted to a handful of years in ermine form. Is Chamo capable of topping that?
- It's stated that Negi's punishment was lighter than normal because of his age and because he wasn't intentionally breaking the masquerade, but merely failing to maintain it. If Chamo was an adult mage who deliberately broke the masquerade or attempted to conquer a country or something, he would probably get a much longer sentence. Furthermore, Chamo and Negi only met five years ago, so Chamo's sentence might only be 6 or 7 years long.
- This could be related to whatever he's getting "Ermine dollars" from...
- Or maybe he was punished for trying something else, like taking over the magic world... like Salem from Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
- Think about it, he showed up with nothing, as if the [[Terminator field generated by a living being were required for long time travel]].
- This means that Negi was fated to win that duel, because after he won he'd travel back in time to prepare himself to win.
- Perhaps he's an Incubator?
- Also, note that both names I listed, both of which are the names they're usually referred to as, are only a letter apart.
- Jossed.
- Could also overlap with:
- Also Jossed.
- Chao does not practice a similar style to Ku Fei; Ku Fei uses Hakkyokuken and Hakkeshou, while Chao uses Hokuryuu Shourinken, which have opposite styles to one another.
- OK, clarification on a detail. Ku Fei by her own choice falls somewhat under Best Her to Bed Her, though being able to out fight her isn't her only criteria. As Heir To The Warrior Clan, she feels it's necessary for her future husband to be an even mightier warrior. And the reason this guess probably hadn't been mentioned before, is that Chamo implied it during the episode where Ku Fei and Negi pactoed, so it's not so wild a guess.
- Even if Chao is the descendent of Negi and Ku Fei it doesn't necessaries mean they get together. I choose to believe the initial theory is true but their kids or something hooked up to birth Chao
- Alternatively, it's actually the second queen who is jealous of her mother
- Jossed, fortunatelly. She does show up to save the day in the end, sorta kinda.
- Chao's not from that far in the future though, 100 years is 3-5 generations. Being a desendent of the 29 students that can get pregnant (Eva's 10, (though her ovaries should still be good, with enough Science! it might work.) and Chachamaru's a robot) would mean that she's 15 generations removed of Negi which is about 500-2500 years. And current events makes it seem implausable that the Magic World has 500 years left let alone 2500.
- Except it's not 15 generations, best case scenario is a binary decontruction, so it is only six generations (30 kids in first generation if everyone can somehow reproduce, and if those children all pair off you get 30->15->8->4->2->Chao). If each generation is only sixteen years that's 96 years.
- That logic requires that half of the 30 ancestors be male, which one of them is. So short of magical transformation allowing half of the class to be fathers, it can't happen in 6 generations (Though your implication of polygamy in the second generation is amusing (15/2=7R1 you have 8)). Also 16 years between generations? Unlikely, given Negi's... popularity with his students and many of his students would sixteen when he's twelve, sex is unlikely until he's 15, placing many of the mothers at 20-50 (Asuna's roughly 35-40 years old as of the current chapter which really drags out the out lying, most of the class would be 20-21 with Asuna at ~45-50). 20 years between generations is far more likely, doubly so after Negi stops reproducing.
- No, it requires that half of the girls in Negi class have at least one male offspring and the other half have at least one female offspring. Pair up and repeat for five more generations. And, of course, Negai has to be the father of one of the offspring. Note, we are trying to track down to Chao, so other descendents not in her ancestral tree are simply ignored.
- If you take only the Ala Alba, exclude Chachamaru, and allow for Konoka and Setsuna
- Except it's not 15 generations, best case scenario is a binary decontruction, so it is only six generations (30 kids in first generation if everyone can somehow reproduce, and if those children all pair off you get 30->15->8->4->2->Chao). If each generation is only sixteen years that's 96 years.
Third, compare the spell effects with those from Ala Alba's trip to the Magic World. They're identical.
It's a Gambitoulette...
- Note that there have been subtle hints that the Magic World is on Mars...
- It's true that the maps of the Magic World are basically Mars turned upside down, but that could just be Ken Akamatsu taking a shortcut to gen up a detailed map.
- It's not. One character just recognized the world map as Mars and the narration and layout made a big deal out of it. How exactly this works out remains to be seen.
- It's true that the maps of the Magic World are basically Mars turned upside down, but that could just be Ken Akamatsu taking a shortcut to gen up a detailed map.
- In chapter 287 is revealed that there is a gate between Mahora academy and old Ostia. the gate probably is in the same place where they go go back to the past beneath th world tree and the place where Chao supposedly goes back to the future has some pilar like the other gates.
- Cassiopeia couldn't handle a jump of centuries, so Cho set up a delayed spell to return home with. It doubtless took her a long time to prepare, and had to be triggered during the World Tree high energy phase to work at all.
- Well, now that it seems that Magicus Mundus is a parralel-world Mars, I'd probably guess sooner rather than later.
- Confirmed, but she saves Asuna instead.
- Which is the reason Chao went back in time in the first place. If he was an ermine for a couple of years, he would be behind in his training and wouldn't participate. But seeing how strong he was in the tournament, couldn't bring herself to fully go through with it if she lost to him, and set up the contingency plan.
- If such was indeed Chao's motivation, it means little Negi will procreate before the series is over! Go for it, little dude!
- Confirmed but it was a bad future
- Even though Negi defeated her, the Forced Recognition Magic could still have been activated. Instead, she decided to wish for a day of world peace even though she could have successfully completed her plan. She didn't even though she could have; this shows that it wasn't her real plan.
- If it was necessary for her to win, then she could have simply timetraveled back again and double-teamed Negi during the final battle or brought reinforcements or something. She didn't, which implies that her goal was different.
- Second possibility: ending the masquerade was the fallback plan if Negi failed. The parent WMG was the main goal and hope for Chao.
- Chapter 162 supports the whole "Chao's goal was different theory"; after Negi defeats her, she states that her wish had already been granted.
- Another supporting statement from Chapter 199 has Chao laughing to herself about how the tournament she just finished running was "beneficial beyond expectations for Negi-sensei".
- Jossed.
- Except that Chao said specifically that her plans were moved ahead a year because of the abnormal cycle. That doesn't mean she didn't do it by accident, of course.
- The obvious flaw in either this theory or her plan is that the Magic World's first reaction to Magic being revealed is to call every mage back and close all borders...
- It couldn't be permanent though, what with sites like the Great Tree at Mahora existing in the "Old World". At best the recalling of the mages would be their punishment for failing to protect the masquarade, and a new group dispached to cover those sites.
- Possible, but not sure. The "home country" is already highly isolationist, and in face of the unveiling, its leaders could consider earthly magic sites a liability rather than an asset... Even if it's temporary, reverting this decision could take more than two months, thus facilitating Fate's job instead of preventing it.
- Confirmed. She's still busy repairing her own future though.
It was established with the "Love Confession" storyline that it's wrong to control the minds of others. Yet the Mages have an extensive network throughout the world to do exactly that, forcing Muggles minds to conform to their way of thinking. Chao was fighting against that; in the future, the control Mages have over Muggles has absolutely corrupted them. The reason Chao stopped her spell was that Negi's resistance broke the momentum to break Mage control of Earth: a prolonged war with deaths on both sides would occur if she kept it up. "Having obtained her objective" means she hopes that having Negi consider whether it's right or wrong to enslave the minds of Muggles will change the future.
- One major hole in this theory - the stuff keeping the mages hidden isn't mind-magic; it's the standard MIB stuff, memory erasure at most. Furthermore, Chao was the one doing mind-altering. Hers was a "forced recognition" spell, brainwashing people into believing in magic. There was even a metaphorical scene with her hypnotizing the Narutaki twins with a pocketwatch and "You will bellliieeeeeve", which is closer to "enslaving minds" than laws about hiding and a few good neuralizers.
- The "forced recognition" spell isn't brainwashing; it adjusts people's suspension of disbelief. The metaphorical scene with the Narutaki twins said "You want to believe" and had the twins saying that magic might be real, not that it definitively was.
- It's called "forced" recognition, not "encouraged" recognition. It alters perceptions, making magic more likely to their minds; that's a form of mind control. It comes a lot closer to "enslaving the muggles' minds" than rules about secrecy and the occasional memory wipes, which mostly keep away from the sense of self and processes of thought.
- You're forgetting the point of the tournament in the plan; by the time the spell came into effect, the videos from it would have spread all over the internet. The spell lowers the mind blockers, and a large number of people accept the events as the magic it is.
- Negi states that there are spells on people to prevent them from noticing him flying in the air. Chachamaru comments that magic spells that mages are using on the Internet to cause skepticism. There are wards that enter a muggle's head and forces them to leave an area if a mage doesn't want them around. This isn't "natural" skepticism; mages have clearly broken their own taboo of no mind control for their own
protectionconvenience. Are mages portrayed as any more ethical than normal human beings? No. That kind of power should not be given to anyone.
- The "forced recognition" spell isn't brainwashing; it adjusts people's suspension of disbelief. The metaphorical scene with the Narutaki twins said "You want to believe" and had the twins saying that magic might be real, not that it definitively was.
A. Chao wanted to prevent Mars from becoming habitable in 100 years time, much less in the current time, leading to the conquered Mundus Magicas theory above, (or its reverse)B. Chao was trying to ensure that it wasn't UNTIL 100 years from now that it becomes habitableC. Chao was trying to make it become habitable now by ensuring Fate's sucess.
If C is correct, then her actual stated intention to reveal magic was real, she intended for Negi to be turned into an ermine, and thus he couldn't stop Fate.
- The troper proposing this theory is merely stating C as a possibility, he does not believe it is true.
If either A or B are correct, then Chao's real plan to prevent that tragedy actually starts when she loses to Negi. The entire festival was The Plan by Chao to ensure that Negi and Co. (`and Co.` is extremely important here) learn some valuable lessons, get stronger, and give him the impetus to go to the magical world over the summer in the first place, also insuring he'll actually bring everyone along (and that certain people are likely to follow him to wales, having heard about his story.)
Part of this plan involves knowing that not only will Negi oppose her, but that he might need a little help. To those who have read the festival arc, hopefully everyone reading this page, had Negi not had the backup up 1/3 of his class plus Kotaro, he would not likely have stood any chance at all of defeating Chao. Yue in particular will be noted for convincing him to fight when everything else kept him doubting.
The Tournament is particularly important for the growth Negi experiences during it, and getting to meet his Father's image. In addition, the story of Negi's motivation, and his missing father, are revealed to, among others, his entire class. It is mostly thanks to this that Iincho understands and wants to assist Negi (also she follows him to wales, and doesn't follow to the magical world). It also leads 5 other girls from his class, none of whom knowingly have anything to do with magic, to follow him to the magical world.
Shortly, 3 of them are made slaves, this becomes the driving force, or 50% of it, behind Negi reaching the level of Monsters like Rakan, his Father, or Eva (although i don't think he quite equals Eva... of course, does anybody?)
- Confirmed.
- Strangely confirmed, in that she arrived, entered a space ship and saved Chachamaru.
- Alternatively, it's inherited and Negi devised & applied the seal to stop it from going out of control.
- This... makes a lot of sense considering what's going on right now. And couple it with her reticence to explain exactly how she got those markings, her ambivalent attitude and surprise at how nice Negi is. What kind of reputation does this kid have in the future?
- Or, she can use magic even without the markings, but the markings "speed up" Magica Erebea? The only indication we have that she isn't a mage is the Magic Association saying so, and 100 years is a decent amount of time to find a way to fool whatever test they use if you don't want to draw attention. But still, the markings... What kind of person does the Negi from her timeline become? Is Negi turning evil the disaster she went back to avert?
- Note that Poyo specifically states that she believes Fate's plan will prevent Chao's future if it succeeds - which necessarily means that something must be different than the original timeline. Poyo, at least, knows about Chao's future, and since Fate would win for certain if not for Ala Alba's intervention, she must believe that Fate's plan never happened. This implies that someone from the future (read: Chao) specifically altered things so that Fate could enact his plan in this timeline. Which means from Chao's perspective there were three possible outcomes:
- 1: Chao wins in the Mahora festival arc, the world recognizes the existence of magic. The Mundus Magicus still collapses, but with Earth recognizing the existence of magic many of the residents are saved and the centuries-long war is prevented. Chao's future is averted.
- 2: Chao loses at Mahora, but Fate's plan succeeds. The residents of the Mundus Magicus are saved, but trapped within Cosmo Entelecheia. Chao's future is averted.
- 3: Chao loses at Mahora and Negi stops Fate. However, Negi, being the honorable hero and all, wouldn't stop Fate unless he found another way to save everyone - which means the Mundus Magicus is saved in its entirety. Best outcome, Chao's future is averted.
- That last one is the one Chao has really been pushing for - giving Chachamaru her artifact, arranging a tournament to force Negi to get stronger, making sure he wouldn't be paralyzed by morally ambiguous choices, giving him just enough data to conclude the final secrets of the magical world, etc. But, and this is the important part, even if Negi fails, Chao still wins. In other words, everything in the manga from the Kyoto arc onwards has been going exactly according to plan.
- The only problem here is that McGuinness mentions at one point that they have conclusively proven that Chao has no connection to Fate. Of course, that doesn't mean she's not wrong; Chao is more than smart enough to do it without being detected. In fact, recent evidence suggests Zazie and her sister may have been the ones who acted on her behalf.
- Jossed.
- Wait, Chao is Negi's descendant, and Negi himself is descended from the creator of the Pactio system! This would make Chao the founder of her own family line!
- She seems a little too smart to be lacking the delta brainwave.
- Alternate explanation: The artifact is, and always was, part of Chachamaru. Chao included a "black box" designed to respond to pactio energy in an unusual way. Letting the plan hinge on Chachamaru's personality not having any unplanned major developments wouldn't be clever, after all.
- Other alternate explanation: The pactio system itself wasn't invented by Chao, but the Artifact system was. That is, the basic system was invented by someone back in the mists of time, but some unknown mage showed up and added a bit to the design. Either that, or the Artifact system allows powerful mages to make their own contributions.
- This would explain in part her magical powers. Let's make another assumption: she's a mundane, normally. If she is descended from Negi, she could have inherited Magia Erebea. However, since only one ancestor possesses it, it would be watered down some. So, it might need some kind of catalyst to activate it like a... ritual circle. Why not make it portable? Inscribe the ritual circle to invoke Magia Erebea as a full-body tattoo. Together, this all explains why she a) has no powers normally, and b) becomes deadly after activating the runes on her body.
- Confirmed, but it has nothing to do with Evangeline being her ancestor.
Yes, all of them, even Negima Ito Bun (she was using age deceiving pills). Given that she has a device that can cross timelines, this isn't beyond the realm of possibility.
- Going the knowledge that overuse of dark magic is turning Negi into a demon I assume that it did the same to the Lifemaker over the centuries he used it, This explains how Fate plans to bring him back from the dead without introducing Necromancy into the mix.
- That, or the D means she has the Will of D.
The theory does fall apart if you assume that either Godel or Tsukiyomi stole the knowledge. However, the only person able to duplicate the Ni no Tachi without being formally educated in the technique is Rakan, so it's probably beyond most people/everyone.
- This is related to his remarkable ability to create Uber-class powers through "Temporary" Pactios. Note below examples of Pactio powers resembling the Lifemaker's.
- Chamo was actually hired to "drain" the Lifemaker abilities from Negi via Pactio; thus keeping the power seperate.
- Notice how the non-Negi pactio that we've seen in action; the BFS that Setsuna has; requires Konoka to actively concentrate to send mana to in order to activate. Negi doesn't even blink when someone activates his.
- Kokone doesn't seem to have any issues when Misora uses hers.
- There is a distinction between the ministra drawing power by activating the card, and the magister channeling extra power to the ministra. Recall that when Negi focused on Asuna during the budokai, she got an extra charge up. And Setsuna had already activated her card with Kanoka when she asked her to concentrate.
- Chamo was actually hired to "drain" the Lifemaker abilities from Negi via Pactio; thus keeping the power seperate.
- Do we really want people to make "Ore wa Kaminari" jokes?
- Or probably in the lines of :"By defeating the Lifemaker, you become him."
- Confirmed. Negi has become the new Lifemaker in the sequel series UQ Holder!.
- This was hinted at back in Yuna's focus chapter; the document on Fate that her father was reading stated that the gender was unknown.
- Fate's physical body is likely male. Of the three new Averrunci recently introduced, one (Sextum) has a very obvious feminine shape with breasts and wide hips. All of the other 3 have male proportions. They may have genderless personalities, but their bodies are likely to be one or the other.
- The Curious Fan hereby predicts that this WMG will be the basis for Tsukuyomi turning good.
- Hell, this is practically guaranteed. The real question is how she'll react when he inevitably strips her in combat, and if her reaction will be pleased or tsundere.
- Since she is a female Fate, then it's possible that she might just be emotionless about it, or pissed.
- Given Negi's history, I think "pissed" can safely be categorized as "Tsundere". There is no such thing as a female that isn't attracted to him, after all.
- The stripping part has been confirmed, as for the tsundere part, take a look at the blush on Sextum's face.
- Since she is a female Fate, then it's possible that she might just be emotionless about it, or pissed.
- Note the matching titles: The Gravekeeper is Master of the Crypts, signifying the end. The Lifemaker is the Mage of the Beginning, which should be self explanatory. Both are Negi's ancestors. The Gravekeeper is immortal just like the Lifemaker. The Gravekeeper has been assisting CE. The Gravekeeper simply vanished when she was supposed to be keeping an eye on Dynamis, and was never stated to be defeated and finally has not been mentioned since, setting up the future dramatic reveal.
The inhabitants of the magical world were made from humans that were critical ill or dying and the LM made MM to give them a chance at another life. Albeit one dependent on magic, but at least they could live. He traveled around saving people and populating his world. He asked before he sent, and they had other volunteers. The reason for all the different types is that to cure what ever ailed them he got creative, and plus he always had a bit of making crazy stuff for fun in him.
The Lifemaker didn't just make the magical world he IS the magical world. When he was creating the system that is the magical world he discovered that it was not quite about to handle itself. It was not a self regulating system ie to much mana over here to little over there ect ect.
The spells he created to regulate the system were just not good enough. It had to have much more intelligence behind the system to pull it off it needed true sentience to run it. In the end the only person that the LM could or would trust to regulate the system was himself. He used his own soul and mind to become the central AI for the system in the process making himself immortal and completely unkillable so long as MM existed.
The spell(s) he used more or less made two separate parts of himself, one that was still independent and could go anywhere what we know as the Lifemaker, and the other that was MM and was incapable of thoughts outside of maintaining it. The independent part created Asuna and her Anti-Magic as a delete function in his system to destroy errors in his code because he knew that even he was not perfect. So the Code of the Lifemaker abilities is literally him just forgetting that part of the system no longer exists. The reason why the spell to destroy the Magical World even exists was the shut down command in case his integration with the world was a failure.
Now fast forward a few millennia and the LM is weary of life and sees that he is dying. MM is slowly losing it's magic. Nothing lasts forever not even him. So he decides he will shut down his system let himself die and send everyone into his "paradise" which while I'm not sure how that works yet so let's say it's natural and self sustaining.
Part of the reason I think this may be true is that each generation of his constructs seems weaker. Nagi mentions it to one of them at one point and the three that are summoned during Negi's attack are just pathetic. Fate and Negi both one shot them. The LM is literally on his last legs by the point. Still overwhelmingly powerful compared to normal people, but not as much as he should be as a living god.
That's also why Red Wing couldn't kill him. Their objectives of save MM and destroy LM are mutually exclusive.
The last hurdle in Negi's plan will be purging the LM from the system and setting up something new in its place. I'm betting some sorta science magic hybrid.
- Mundus Magicus could also be considered as a giant magical construct Sim world. And the creatures are shikigami.
now, let's just say the computer (alternate Mars) was already breaking down on you and that you wanna change parts already due to the fact that you need to upgrade the computer. One problem: you need to back up the data files (aka the people of Magic World) and transfer it to another computer. Let's say that the Code of the Lifemaker (Grand Master Key) is the one that backs up all of the registry files, the most important files running and the rest of the Keys are USB hubs where you transfer the files. The Operating System of the Magic World that we know (let's say it was Vista cause Vista sucked IMO) and that the Lifemaker (who may or may not be the owner of the computer aka the one great rulder) wanted it to change to Windows 7 (aka Kosmo itself where Fate and Rakan were having tea.)
He wouldn't need to upgrade the OS but there was a problem: the minor border conflict. Let's say that border conflict was the data files stealing RAM (aka stealing more stuff than what they would really need) so he launches a game (the war twenty years ago) so that the RAM gets distributed evenly. The protagonists get to be Nagi and Ala Rubra while Fate and his merry men were the villains and the Man Behind the Man was Lifemaker him/herself (we don't even know the gender of that person so let's just call him/her gender neutral). Anyways, he disappears into the shadows and created another back up person for the fruition of that person's plans (Fate III aka Tertium who developed a conscience by himself). 20 years later, Tertium aka the Fate we know reenacts the plans given to him by his master Lifemaker.
Now, unless Negi knows what he can do about the situation, there's really not much hope for Magic World. Unless, Chisame (who's the computer tech savvy of the group) figures out the problem and solves it converting computer terminology and shizz to Magic World stuff.
tl;dr: anyone knows what computers are will probably laugh at this theory.. of course, if you put in the fact that KA did AI Love You, he may probably be sending a message here about computers... and maybe.. just maybe.. he's teaching us how to repair computers on our own...
wait... OH SHI-!!! HE'S A GENIUS!!!! Disguising a manga into an instruction manual on how to fix your computers by your own self!!! FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!! (this troper may have gotten the terms wrong so if you guys want to, you can edit it and put in the correct stuff please. Thanks.)
- Maybe Negi would just overclock the PC and add water cooling? It is pretty easy but it is gonna take time. And that might be the point of his 'Plan B'.
- If this is true, it implies the Lifemakers plan is it can only be carried out for a short period of time after the tree transmits power. The war Ala Ruba participated in happened about 20 years before the start of the series, and the tree last glowed about 21 years ago according to the Festival arc.
- Only "our world" is not only "= Earth" but it could be "= our universe as whole" in which case it still exactly right description.
- Yeah, except she said "our." Referring to herself. And she's not from earth.
- It's been stated several times in the manga that the demon realm is separate from both Earth and the magical world. In his notes in the end, Negi wonders if it could be Venus.
- More precisions: In order to fool the enemy he will create an incredibly convoluted, 3-hour plan, whose first half-hour would involve the gate. None of the girls will be informed of the plan as a whole, to hide the fact that only the first half-hour is important, the rest will only be for Fate to think he has more time left. Then he would start it earlier than planned. When Fate's countermeasures will thwart Negi's plan, Negi will smugly inform him that the actual plan was too late.
- Already said: see "Negi will save the Magic World by swapping it with the real Mars before the pocket dimension is destroyed".
- It would actually take a good deal of time for earth-bound scientists to notice the spontaneous change in light from Mars, however due to the various Mars Rovers on the surface, the sudden lack of signal will be infinitely more noticable.
- There are also three still-operational orbiters (ESA's Mars Express, NASA's Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) around Mars, so it won't just be the loss of signal from the rovers that clues in terrestial scientists. Optical telescopy will hardly be necessary.
- True, but that signal still only travels at the speed of light, and the lack of signal from the few still working rovers will prove that it's not something immediately explainable (Sudden Terrestrial Atmospheric Reorginzation {Heh STAR} or some other scienciey name) and make them look much closer, to see the cities, and the people and the flying whales.
- The first thing the people monitoring the orbiter's transmissions will notice are the oceans, then the forests. It would be a while before they spot and recognize the cities as cities. The end of the rover's signals, the signals from the orbiters showing the change, and the optical change will all travel at the speed of light. Depending on where Earth and Mars are in relation to each other, the distance in light-minutes could be from under four to over twelve. It will take longer than that for all the various monitoring teams to get around to comparing notes with each other.
- I'm pretty sure anyone who looked at Mars with a powerful telescope would notice those changes pretty darn quick. It's not like Mars is so far away most people can't see it. Plenty of people have telescopes more than powerful enough to show a sudden switch from dead dry red Mars to a vibrant and life filled mars that, by necessity, would be greenish and blue. It's not like the magical world's trees are all red or something.
- 1) To serve as a gathering ground for mages who wanted to leave
- 2) To contain the devices necessary to create the Magical World, in other words the ruins below the school. The gathering device from which Ala Alba made the time jump during the festival was the central piece of Original!Mahora. That would make Ostia the original Gateport and centerpoint of the magical world.
The setup of the Magical World is basically the following: The World tree serves as a power regulator. It continuously sends energy to the Magical World, and can receive excessive amounts of Energy from the Magical World (The later happens right now ~Ch 320). The whole cycle was set up to boost the energy levels every 22 years to maintain a sufficient level of magic. What screwed up the whole setup was the creation of additional gateports. Imagine a bucket with a small hole in it. You occasionally pour water into to keep it from running dry. That is the original Setup. The additional gateports are additional holes, but you didn't adjust the puring cycle/pouring amount. Magic runs out and with that you have the requirement for drastic means.
- Jossed left and right throughout the manga.
- In the official translation, Chamo speaks of mixing blood as being "too bothersome". Kissing is a gesture of commitment; mixing blood should be at least as effective.
- How well would a spit-palm handshake work? It should rank slightly higher than a kiss; they both mix the same bodily fluid, and a handshake is commonly used to seal working agreements, among other things. A blood brothers ritual should result in something higher than the handshake, given The Power of Blood.
- Then again, the kiss could be seen as a romantic gesture of commitment, which would seem more relevant to the pactios, given the romantic subtext...
- To form a Permanent Pactio, the mage and the partner must trade internal organs, or some other body part. As theorized below, the permanent pactio requires a stronger level of commitment, and this would be the equivalent in a "blood brothers" style pactio. It sounds bad, but keep in mind that White Magic makes stuff like reattaching severed arms fairly easy. It wouldn't be a big hassle for two guys to each cut their fingers off and switch them around.
But on the other side of that statement...
- Just to add to the whole "WTF is going on" to her sudden appearance.
- This could also overlap with:
- Which might make Fate homosexual. Must remember to investigate.
- So Chao comes from artificial insemination, then?
- Yes. Konoka wanted a kid.
- She's just never going to live down the saishoudoukin incident, is she? Naturally, Haruna will push this, for the entertainment value if nothing else.
- Or Yue attracts other girls. I mean, her relationship with the Class Representative could be considered Ho Yay, and just look at Emily's "death" scene and tell me it doesn't look like the setup for a Last Kiss.
- Exactly what it says. Soon, if not immediately, after this, Negi will somehow learn the definition of Tsundere and thus be told - or figure out - that Chisame is developing, or has developed, feelings for him that she's trying and failing to hold back, and Negi will not only know that another girl is possibly after him (he already knows about Nodoka, Ako, and Makie), but he will likely then ask who else amongst the girls he knows has feelings for him... and he will be utterly flummoxed upon learning just how many girls he has trying to "win" him.
- We're never told how she amassed all that money. Perhaps she did it by using her artifact to cater to people's er... tastes:Random Customer: I want to watch Nagi and Rakan getting it on - Nagi topping.
Haruna: Okay. Pay first,please. Do you have a picture? {lightning sketch} En~joy! hnng. RakanisNEVERtheUketype... Joe? Drool cleanup in tent one!- Jossed. Suppelmental chapters revealed that she got the airship from royalties for her boys love doujin. And because of that, she's been on the Hellas Empire's wanted list.
- When she's first introduced to Asuna, the first thing she does is oggle her T&A.
- She does the same to pretty much all of Negi's students when she meets them in the hot springs. When she meets the ... largest members of the class, she's visibly drooling.
- Makes sense to me. It would be funny seeing Ayaka worrying who to choose. I'm guessing that Ayaka's card would have something to do with Flowers going off some other pactio cards that Akamatsu drawn. Don't know about Chizuru, something to with scaring everyone half to death maybe?
- Spring onions. I don't know how, but it will involve spring onions.
- Natsumi (Naturally.)
- Chizuru (Also naturally.)
- Madoka (Briefly hinted to be interested in aged-up Kotaro during the Festival Arc.)
- Kaede (With whom he may or may not form another pactio.)
And with possible cross-overs with Negi's harem, including:
- Ayaka (Tsundere type, obviously. Ayaka's conflicted feeling over whether she loves Negi or Kotaro more would be comedic gold.)
- Yue (More of a stretch, but also a possibility; they do have something of a rivalry.)
- This Troper doubt the last three (probably because he want to see them with Negi), but add Mei Sakura as a higly possible one.
- A new pactio for Kaede is unlikely, as she hasn't gone through the amount of character development that justified Setsuna's new artifact.
- By now, Negi's got to be at least eleven, maybe approaching twelve? It's reflected in the art, too (look at his hair and general build).
- Okay, he added a quite a few months in basic combat training with Eva by adding an extra day (possibly more), plus around 8 months or so in preparation for traveling to the Magic World. He most recently added another month while training to fight Rakan. He's aged himself at least a year, minimum, just with the training in the resorts. If you add in the normal time spent outside of the resorts...He's definitely at least eleven biologically, and well on his way to being twelve. Not counting festival days, repeated God knows how many times over...
- Also note that Negi has been spending more and more time in his aged-up form as the story goes on.
- This wouldn't be without precedent, either; it's implied that Takamichi looks older than he is because he did the same thing Negi is doing now.
- Genius! It won't be long before the Toy Shipping becomes real Shipping..
- Mana Tatsumiya also looks older than her age. And she was involved with magic as well when she was much younger
- Not quite Jossed, but now that Word of God says Negi can no longer age naturally...
- Well, it has already happened several times in the baths (the most recent I can think of is the "mute" chapter in vol. 18), so it can happen again...
- Maybe he'll have... "grown"/"matured"... since the last time, and one of the girls will comment on it. ("Wow... Negi-kun's... gifted for a 10-year-old...")
- The girls haven't seen him naked in his aged up form yet...
- Except for Ako, yes. Lots of potential here... And as for his "normal" form, anybody remember the bottom panels of chapter 137, page 8?
- That is the perfect setup for when he finally returns to the Old World, and Eva tries to seduce him again. Cue amazement concerning his "growth" while he was gone.
- Pactio seems to work based on sharing bodily fluids. The reason a kiss on the cheek is less effective than a full "love-love kiss" is not that it's less significant, but that the fluids are not shared. The mixing of blood is noted as another possibility. Taking this method to its logical conclusion would presumably produce a more powerful effect.
- There's also the fact that when Konoka and Setsuna make their pactio, upon seeing the length and intensity of the kiss, he makes the comment "Maybe you should go for the full contract", implying that if they kept it up, they would have created a permanent pactio.
- Yet if the home-run theory is true, this brings up another question: How is achieving a full pactio different for two girls?
- Different bodily fluids?
- Technically, that's the main difference between kissing or mixing blood, and "hitting a home run", even with a heterosexual couple. With lesbians, the only difference is that both sides would be "contributing" the same fluid...
- Nonsense. In what way was Chigusa wholesome? She's pretty clearly a minor villain introduced before the concepts of moral ambiguity were introduced and explored.
- Well, Negi definitely is going to hit puberty; and considering that recent events imply a timeskip, it's very likely we'll see it.
- Jossed. Negi no longer ages as a human. But he did grow a few inches in height, seeing as he's nearly the same height as the girls and is just close enough to his father's...
- Akira- Something that lets her manipulate water (given her being a really good swimmer.)
- A trident that causes earthquakes. Given how much Akamutsu does the research, it's not impossible that he'd reference the signature item of a god from Classical Mythology.
- Well we were sort of right, it's actually a swim suit that lets her travel between different bodies of water without expending any magical energy.
- A trident that causes earthquakes. Given how much Akamutsu does the research, it's not impossible that he'd reference the signature item of a god from Classical Mythology.
- Ayaka- A horse riding crop that motivates people (given her being in the Equestrian club and her spot as class rep.)
- The title on her pre-series pactio card is "The Aristocrat of Flowers", and the joke pactio says her special ability is producing flowers from behind her back. Green Thumb, maybe?
- Chapter 340 translation says that her artifact lets her meet with people without an appointment. Somehow.
- Misa- A karaoke microphone that forces people to dance (also fits with her being a cheerleader.)
- Chizuru- A leek or a telescope that can see people she knows anywhere they are (similar to Asakura's only you don't have to find them to see them and it can only lock onto one, plus she hates long distance relationships
- Chapter 340 spoiler shows her card with a leek on it. It also has her asking for another pactio from Kotaro, so something astrological is still possible.
- The way the leek works is that it will cure any ailment of the person she uses it on. Also that person has to do whatever she says.
- Chapter 340 spoiler shows her card with a leek on it. It also has her asking for another pactio from Kotaro, so something astrological is still possible.
- Madoka- Some sort of jewelry
- Her pactio clothes will be boyish, just because it would annoy her.
- But people have complete control of what their pactio clothes look like. Actually, now that I think about it, it'd probably be something like a ring that changes the gender of anyone she punches. It fits with pissing her off with the boyish traits, her love of jewelry, and adds another fetish to the growing list.
- Her pactio clothes will be boyish, just because it would annoy her.
- Satsuki- Probably something cooking related.
- Something koala-themed and absurdly powerful.
- Sayo- Some sort of pen or pencil (ghost writing!) That whole pencil twirling thing seems a little suspicious.
- A gatling gun, maybe?
- Fuka and Fumika - Fuka gets something that causes chaos, Fumika something that fixes it.
- Sakurako - The info page suggests that it's a megaphone that boosts other people's luck.
- Hakase - Technopath powers.
- Some kind of support artifact similar to Ako's, that affects Chachamaru (and possibly other constructs, like Chisame's mice, Chachazero, and maybe even Haruna's golems).
Nah, those are boring. It's like saying that Ako's artifact should be a foot-ball, or Yuna's a basket-ball. And that's what happened in the anime(s) - lame and half-assed stuff galore. Artifacts have to be more creative!
- The animes gave Ako a giant syringe as an artifact, not a football.
Volume 0 may-or-may not turn out to be canon pactios herenote and translation here.
- First prospect: Evangeline. When Asuna mentioned that line after hearing it from Negi, she may have meant it in a literal sense in that both Negi and the person he likes are possibly immortals. Asuna's being surprised at first, but then deciding that it makes sense, suggests that it's someone that is a lot like Negi—and as has been emphasized before, Negi's now more like Evangeline than he is like a normal human, mage or otherwise.
- Furthermore, there have been documented scenes where he openly stated that he likes her (although, knowing Negi, this too is a massive WMG): First was during his training with Rakan, when he decided to open Eva's Magia Erebea scroll; and second was when he sought the help of Eva's construct in the same scroll to find a way to fully-control its aftereffects, prior to their raid of the Gravekeeper's palace.
- In connection with the second, the reason for Negi being rather reluctant to spill the beans as to who he likes most may be connected to when he openly stated it to Eva's construct... Who ordered him never to say that to the real Eva under fear of death... By delivering an entropy-powered Shoryuken.
- The epilogue is also quite dodgy regarding Eva's fate, and it does mention that despite winning her freedom, she continues to watch over Negi's fate.
- OTOH it implies that she's still trying to hook up with Nagi, now that he's back. Whether or not she succeeds is not confirmed. In any case, the epilogue is presented as one possible ending to the manga, not the One True Ending.
- Furthermore, there have been documented scenes where he openly stated that he likes her (although, knowing Negi, this too is a massive WMG): First was during his training with Rakan, when he decided to open Eva's Magia Erebea scroll; and second was when he sought the help of Eva's construct in the same scroll to find a way to fully-control its aftereffects, prior to their raid of the Gravekeeper's palace.
- Second Prospect: possibly Nodoka. Do remember from way back that it was her who was the first to confess to Negi, the first to go on a "proper date" with him, AND the first to give him his first "true romantic kiss." Even before her first stage of Character Development, she also had similar problems in dealing with her feelings for Negi - a trait that the latter seem to have been cursed within the span of possibly the entire series (being the son of a tsundere princess with No Social Skills, and the fact that he's only 10 years old...)
- Furthermore, try looking on this page, when he silently discloses his secret to Asuna. The heaviness of the shadow lines on his blush seem to be on the very same level as when he went to the confession room.
- ...or when Rakan got hold of Negi's pactio cards and started to interrogate him as to his favorite (Check the second and third panels in the sequence...)
- And that's even without reference to her stats in the Chamo Chart...◊
- Still, the epilogue does seem to be vague in itself as it does not flat-out state how Negi's relationship with every member of Class 3-A ended up (Although it was stated that she often meets Negi on her route; it was not properly stated on which occasion since she's also busy doing some treasure hunting, and working alongside Yue in the latter's detective job.)
- Apparently Semi-Jossed as of Bonus Chapter 335.5, getting Played for Laughs. As Asuna sums it up:Asuna: HOW CAN YOU ONLY HAVE ROOM IN YOUR HEAD FOR MEN?!?! (Blasts Negi away with one swipe of her pactio artifact)
- Evidence: when Negi was looking for training after the Kyoto trip, Makie accidentally refers to Eva as "master". She then goes on to wonder (mentally) why she did that.
- Evidence against: A little while after Makie makes accidentally calls Eva "master", she defends and talks back to Eva when Eva is making fun of Negi's kung fu training, causing Eva to wonder if Makie had any lingering memories of when she was Eva's servant.
- Eva was wondering if Makie had any residual memories, not if she could still piggyback off of Makie's senses. All that the "master" proves is that a tiny bit of power remains, and seeing through someone's eyes passively should take much, much less energy, effort, and influence than active control. Eva may have just been wondering if either more power was left over than she thought, or if memories remained past a wipe (which could prove problematic).
- For the sake of argument, she could have followed that line of thought into partial control. 'Oh, there are still some tiny tiny effects on her from when I bit her. How about (for example) I suck Negi's blood and get a bit of magic energy from it and channel that into Makie, upping control until eventually I can turn her into my puppet? Then I can use her
to stalk Nagi/Negi for meas my unwitting pawn. For evil, evil things.' - She tried to suck his blood early on in the series, unsuccessfully.
- For the sake of argument, she could have followed that line of thought into partial control. 'Oh, there are still some tiny tiny effects on her from when I bit her. How about (for example) I suck Negi's blood and get a bit of magic energy from it and channel that into Makie, upping control until eventually I can turn her into my puppet? Then I can use her
- Eva was wondering if Makie had any residual memories, not if she could still piggyback off of Makie's senses. All that the "master" proves is that a tiny bit of power remains, and seeing through someone's eyes passively should take much, much less energy, effort, and influence than active control. Eva may have just been wondering if either more power was left over than she thought, or if memories remained past a wipe (which could prove problematic).
- It is also possible that Fate is helping in this plan. If this is the case, then he is pretty much doing what happened in the last war, except that he has no intention of succeeding. This time, Asuna would be executed, and further compound the notion that the royal family is not fit to govern. He did mention that he believed in what he was doing, and establishing a new world order may be his real goal.
- Godel named Fate as one his group's enemies and Nodoka confirmed it was true with her artifact.
- The hair: Even by the standards of the manga, that 5-pronged hair is just weird. However, we have seen hair somewhat similar to it before... On Wilhelm.
- Megalomesembrian Senate: He's a senator from the government that, if Kurt Godel is telling the truth, attacked Negi's hometown. He's already shown to have been a senator in the flashbacks to Nagi's adventures, meaning he must have taken part in the vote for whether the town should be attacked or not, and may actually have taken part in the attack itself. Sure, we don't know which side he took on the matter (if there were any sides to be taken, that is), but then again...
- Chapter 267: Specifically, page 6, in the third and fourth panels. Is that the face of a man you can trust?
- Unlikely. Chapter 269 makes it clear that Ala Rubra knew that the Megalomesambria senate of the time were a bunch of total douchebags out to get Akira. If Ricardo was a member, I doubt Jack would have been so kosher with him when he shows up in chapter 236 or when he goes off to train Negi. Given how Jack was supposedly working with Donette from the beginning, I sort of doubt that the Megalomesambria of today is the Megalomesambria that executed Akira. Governments change, and 18 years can be a long time in politics. For all of Jack's supposed idiocy and laziness, I think the man has top-notch instincts for trouble and enemies.
- Rakan is overpowered through judicious use of Level Grinding.
- Alternately, Rakan used a bug in the "code" to break the universe. He is explicitly referred to as "broken" after all.
- Negi is using a combo of level grinding and manipulating the system (without actually breaking anything) to make himself a Disc-One Nuke.
- Kotaro just level grinds.
- We could also throw in a side theory that Sukuna is what killed Gatou.
- Chachamaru was either created by different means, or she's Eva's nice side. It would explain why Chachamaru's pactio took so long to work; she would have only a partial soul, which made it take longer for the pactio to register correctly.
- Perhaps souls work like they do in Xanth, namely, that a partial one can grown into a whole one over time.
- Another possibility is complex cultural Take That!. Consider that Negi originally mentioned how some Japanese beliefs states that all things have souls. (Slightly odd, as he's Welsh, but whatever). When Chachamaru disregards that instantly; going the Western route of looking at it; he goes along with it and just muscles the magic system into accepting her. He already thought of her as a person, he just wanted the magic to work so she wouldn't be upset. She is, essentially, complex Shikigami.
- The basic idea is that if you believe you have a soul, you have a soul. Chachamaru doubted that she did, so at that point she didn't have a soul, which is why the pactio stalled at the beginning. However, since the pactio is a 2-person thing, and Negi obviously believes she has a soul, his force of belief was enough to make the pactio go through/give her a soul. Since she now has tangible evidence of a soul (the pactio card), she believes that she does, in fact, have a soul, so now she does. That makes it even more
- More than that. The Gazebo is the real big bad. Looks like we're heading for a downer ending.
- How did her Pactio ruin her for anyone else? Can you explain that a little more?
- After all that, would you be able and/or willing to go to anybody else for your charging needs?
- Yes! Negi, while enthustiastic, goes overkill on everything. I'd prefer to go back to the Noble Demon master or one of other students.
- Dude, charging by Eva=daily maintenance. Charging by Negi=sex. Not a very hard decision to make for most people.
- Except the pleasure part is so intense it becomes pain. So you're right it's not a very hard decision to make.
- That... wasn't exactly pain.
- After all that, would you be able and/or willing to go to anybody else for your charging needs?
- Why "or"? Most likely it was both... You need the first to teach something to that dumbhead, you need the second for him to start studying at all...
- Rakan makes the comment, "I would've though that old demon wouldn't die no matter how many times you killed him!" Given Rakan's own reputation, that's a pretty heavy statement.
- It's also where Arika and Theodora were being held captive by CE before Ala Rubra broke them out.(In chapter 232)
- OMG, it looks like you may be right here. They indeed look remarkably similar. That just further supports the whole Generation Xerox thing they seem to be pulling off here.
- The schematic of the Great Paru-Sama included in the Volume 28 strongly implies that this is the case:A used light freighter built nearly 40 years ago. It was mainly used as a smuggling vessel, but there are plausible rumors going around that the Royal Family used it to flee their country during the Great War.
- Come to think of it, that sounds awfully familiar....
- No, Negi is the Big Good. The actual Sixth Ranger is Evangeline: after all, she has the worst grades, after the Baka Rangers and Chachamaru, and Chachamaru is her assistant. After all, who does pull the Big Damn Heroes in the end?
- Probably not ALL of the senate, but just a good chunk of them.
- As long as it means that the last two volumes and UQ Holder! are no longer canon, I'm fine with that.
Hence, it likely that Nodoka and Yue, realizing that their fellow students are stopping anyone who tries to interfere with the "Sports Festival" event that they planned, decided to stay in the sidelines and make it appear is if they're siding with the rest of 3-A, then, at the right moment, show their true colors by rescuing Negi.