Mahou Sensei Negima

A bunch of schoolgirls that are much stronger than the vast majority of soldiers, gladiators ect. in the Magic World. And before you start questioning the idea of teenagers being much stronger than adults... stop, this is shonen, that'd be like cutting the branch we are all sitting on.

Adults Are Useless is a trope for reason. There are probably some tropes about protagonists and main characters that could be applied here as well.

edited 5th Dec '15 10:23:18 AM by WorldTurtle2

When does it say this? Last I remember it went Arika and AR saves world to Ostia collapsing, no one going back to Ostia except CE and CE nearly destroys the world again because no one thought of checking their old hideout.

And by 'school girls' I didn't mean to describe them as weak I meant more that with the large armies with ships and also badass AR affiliates walking around it isn't until 3A arrives that anyone beside CE decides to look in old Ostia?

edited 6th Dec '15 3:27:30 PM by Archivist10

Kaede's scouting of the area found the place filled with dragons and other dangerous stuff, It was implied that the rubble of collapsed country was a breeding ground for the worst kinds of monsters.

And again; entire armies and Takahata were too scared to go in there?

Armies, probably. The real military muscle seems to be bound up with a few strong individuals. The place is filled with what were considered endgame boss type monsters which would just wreck any number of mooks.

The area is already a diplomatic landmine between the countries, sending in an army unit could start another war. Not to mention they are pretty weak outside of a few really strong men and dragon.

Death Glassses would have probably went there if he knew about it but he was probably focused on eliminating the secret orgs that were a direct threat.

edited 6th Dec '15 4:39:25 PM by Memers

Oh for...I already told you. If you can obtain licences to explore the area itself and conduct tours of around its surroundings, then yes, armed forces and probably Takahata scoured the area to some extent some time later after the war. We're talking at least over a decade at this point, and two when CE was considered functionally dead and probably not hiding out in the ruins forever and ever like the idiots you think everyone is.

Dude, are you not even bothering to look at the pictures? The Lifemaker was staring at the palace with Megalo ships flying about it, and the Senator was questioning Arika on the basis of them not being able to get to where Asuna was locked away. We know for a fact that they maintained some force there almost ten years after the fact, and probably abandoned on the counts of the immediate threat being long thought dead, and their prize being plucked away.

edited 6th Dec '15 7:58:36 PM by SkormSnow-Strider

Sometimes I feel that Negi's learning curve is impossible and then I come across examples like this that remind me that it in fact isn't.

Number 3 on this 50 Interesting Facts list tells of a 10-year-old girl who is already in university and has the best scores in her class.

Reality Is Unrealistic

EDIT: In hindsight it also would probably have been a good idea to go look under the Real Life folder on the Child Prodigy page.

edited 7th Dec '15 5:26:35 PM by WorldTurtle2

Looked back at some of the early-to-mid volumes.

And I'm pondering: What is more infuriating, the romantic arc that went nowhere or the major plot arc that went nowhere?

Why they can't both just be equally infuriating? Nothing wrong with that.

edited 28th Aug '16 11:02:36 AM by kkhohoho

The main plot arc is more important but the shipping angle gets bonus points for Akamatsu going out of his way to sink all the reasonable ships out of what appears to be nothing more than spite.

Yeah, what he said.

This.

Because it wasn't done because he needed to Torch the Franchise and Run, he didn't need to do that. He did it because he wanted to spite all the shippers. Which I'm normally okay with, but it wasn't done in a funny way, so it sucks.

It's not like the fanbase had anything to do with him cutting things short, so spitting it by just sinking all the ships was pointless, And of course it probably bitten him in the ass come UQ Holder.

> I say in interviews harems are dead, try to steer my series from a harem into a pure action manga, end up sinking all ships so I'm not seen as a harem author anymore.

> In my next series, I fall back on all the same old harem cliches and routines all over again.

Not sure if karma, stupidity, or a combination.

I'm pretty sure Akamatsu has just become apathetic to harem romances. Just look at the MM arc where they became less of a focus IIRC, aside from Ako's arc which could have been editor's mandate due to her popularity. And he just said 'fuck it' to the romance because honestly he hadn't thought it through outside of 'editors say audience wants more harem then just add another girl easy peasy'.

Which he's also doing in UQ. He's just going through the motions with, aside from Kuromaro who has had some build up, the hero simply has to do something nice and girls instantly fall for him for no reason.

edited 28th Aug '16 1:37:25 PM by Archivist10

Going from his pre-UQ commentaries on how he'd rather be an editor, and now on cutting back on the manga workload and delegating more responsibilities on a new generation, I'd say he's becoming apathetic towards active manga creation in general. His plotting overall has become sloppy and erratic, his character arcs barely try anymore, and so on. The artwork is pretty much the only part still keeping a high profile, and even there it's been hinted he doesn't do as much of the heavy art load anymore.

The sad thing is, if he didn't torch Negima he could have finished it to satisfyingly by now and retire on a high note, instead being stuck with UQ Holder.

Akamatsu doesn't want to actually try anymore, so he wouldn't have given Negima a satisfying conclusion anyway. Honestly I don't think he could've finished Negima well even had he not torched it.

Well, presumably it'd still have been better than what we got.

The movie's plot allegedly was the original manga endgame, but then Akamatsu complained SHAFT had changed things, so until which point it reflected Akamatsu's original ideas we'll most likely never know. On one hand, the whole 'choose a partner within a day before we erase everyone's memories' is asinine and speaks very badly of the magical community, and the 'Mars will fall on Earth' event was almost as stupid (although more excusable since Mundus Magicus had been tampered with so much), but at least the girls didn't come as complete jerks there, unlike the Sports Festival.

However, neither ending had the final defeat of the Lifemaker, you know, the Big Bad and the father Negi spent the whole story looking for, so it'd have been a disappointment in terms of wrapping the core plot points, anyway.

Its remarkable that this series somehow produced two of the worst endings for an anime I've ever seen. Three if I count the first anime from which I hear is stupid but I never got pass episode 1.

Negima had a lot of potential to have a good and satisfying ending. While there were many dangling plotlines, it was not impossible to resolve them.

Yeah, Akamatsu basically just needed to keep giving a shit long enough to wrap everything up, and all would have been well.

Okay, people would still bitch about UQ Holder, but there wouldn't be quite the same undercurrent of bitterness and betrayal.

Don't worry, I'm sure if there's big enough outcry, he'll rewrite Negima's ending!

And publish it as End of Negima