All Purpose Negima Fanfiction Thread

How did they get them to pose for the picture?

Offer them food, I daresay.

The internet has taught me that cats will always pose for pictures.

At least Santa's a ghost. Otherwise...ew. Can you imagine how nasty his hair would be if he wasn't? I mean, personal hygiene isn't always top priority for shut ins after all...

Magic is a thing, you know. Yes, I know, A Wizard Did It is a lazy-ass way to handwave something. But hey, it's Santa. You know, the guy who is supposed to be able to visit every goddamn chimney in the world on Christmas Eve exactly at midnight to drop off the Christmas presents? How would he be able to do that if not for magic (or some Sufficiently Advanced Technology)?

Well, nixing the Sufficiently Advanced Technology bit. UQ Holder isn't really futuristic at all. Even with the cyborgs and occasional Magic App doing something.

It also had flying car.

It's also got a space elevator. That's kinda futuristic.

Alongside standard limousine, Mahora's blimp, goddamn telephone booths (With, holograms, but still), a modern quadski...and...the flying car looks like something I drove in the nineties! I mean, Akamatsu could at least give things a sleeker look instead to at least push the whole future thing. Even just a little bit would work!

edited 4th Mar '15 3:30:56 PM by SkormSnow-Strider

Maybe they're pushing more for the space development when it comes to technology. Normal cars are fine, so are planes and boats, if people still use them, why spend millions of [place currency name here] on them when you can spend most on space?

Also, it may be the=at mostly rich people and government officials (ie police) use them.

Except that's not how the world works. It makes absolutely no sense that such technology wouldn't become commonplace eventually, unless it was dependant on some super rare, super expensive material that was vital and irreplaceable as a material for its construction.

And even then, people would still figure out workarounds.

Akamatsu wants to have futuristic technology, but he also doesn't want to step out of his comfort zone and have to actually figure out what a futuristic society would be like.

Normal cars are fine, so are planes and boats, if people still use them, why spend millions of [place currency name here] on them when you can spend most on space?

... because that's not the way actual human development works. People didn't stop the development of land motor vehicles to focus only on airplanes and rockets just because the old horse carriages 'still worked fine'. Most enterprises and industries are more focused and interested on day to day developments that are easy and fast to comercialize rather than ambitious global projects with iffy success perspectives. Today, we have a new console generation coming out every three years while we haven't had any actual progress on stopping global warming, erradicating famine or curing cancer.

In real life, most mega corporations and governments would probably laugh at the three young men coming out of nowhere with false names and no 'real world' pedigree to demand massive global resources for a magical world in Mars with the backup of a few Japanese industries that are most likely relatively minor in the global scheme of things (otherwise, you'd probably see Chizuru and Ayaka surrounded by bodyguards and chased by paparazzi every day). Or at best, just stall them with vague promises and minor investments. For Earth, it's not really that much of a concern if Mundus Magicus collapses. We don't even care enough about Africa, will we care enough about Fantasy Martian Land?

edited 4th Mar '15 5:52:34 PM by NapoleonDeCheese

If anything, the focus on the space elevator should result in more new technology for the masses. NASA's been involved in the development of stuff ranging from memory foam mattresses and freeze-dried ice cream to those lightweight blankets in first aid kits and the masks firefighters wear.

Africa doesn't have magic. If you can't exploit literal magic to make money, you're probably not running any company Negi'd care about anyway.

Freeze-dried ice-cream is an atrocity.

@OM

To be fair, it's very likely that Chizuru and Ayaka's parents' companies are massive heavyweights at a global scale. I'd imagine that sneaking papparazzi into Mahora is a few hairs short of impossible, though, given the fact that the mages probably don't want the Japanese equivalent of TMZ stumbling onto something they shouldn't.

Which also explains why Mahora is a prime place to send important people's children to. Even if they are crazy, they'll fit right in, and the mages will make sure no one who can catch your children doing something thoroughly embarrassing and post it on youtube or niconico would be around to do so.

Not of the western variety. /headcanon

Hell, even aside from indigenous practices and the like, I'd be surprised if there was no magical presence in Africa, organized mages or not. Shit, Egypt is probably just crawling with all sorts of weird stuff alone, never mind the rest of the continent. The world just isn't exposed to that stuff.

As for the stuff OM pointed out, true, though Ayaka's artifact conveniently makes arranging meetings viable...I guess. Hell if I know. At that point you need to start hand waving a lot of stuff to even try to make it work remotely. Hence why I don't like the elevator/space angle one bit.

I doubt the families are aware of Mages and the like running around, but (before UQ Holder shoehorned "TRAGEDY" into it) Mahora supposedly has a great track record of safety for being a safe location. Even the mages themselves claim its due to some other force (The world trees blessing or something) beyond their own.

edited 4th Mar '15 7:09:40 PM by SkormSnow-Strider

edited 4th Mar '15 7:11:36 PM by rikalous

I think he's talking on how real world Africa doesn't have any magic, not the Akamatsuverse's.

Still, while the exploitation of magic is indeed a tantalizing prospect, it's also a very risky and long-term depending one. Suits are greedy, but also can be very, very wary about opening to new things, especially things on which they don't already have the homefield advantage.

edited 4th Mar '15 7:11:56 PM by NapoleonDeCheese

It's because Dumbledore is headmaster. Even during the war, no one wanted to cross Dumbldore...

No, Dumbledore was a way more involved Headmaster than Konoemon. Even if Mahora has a better safety record than Hogwarts. Somehow...

Well, until UQ Holder, anyways.

Well I guess Mahora has a better "not getting targeted in the first place" record than Hogwarts.

It's always how I felt about Hogwarts, it can still be the "safest place in the world" from outside attacks (though yeah, I'll admit the inside is not all that safe, what with the forbidden forest, mandragora culture etc.), it still becomes a lot less safe when under assault... but still safer than anywhere else under the same assault.

edited 5th Mar '15 1:51:14 AM by Medinoc

OM might want to read the most recent UQ Holder. It shows Touta getting horrifically tortured.

Nah.

See, my hatred isn't towards Touta himself; in-story, he might be an annoying and idiotic little kid, but there's no valid in-story reason to see him suffer. He's still a good natured person who truly wants the best for his friends. I hate what Touta represents, which is the loss of Negima for the vastly inferior UQ, and the kind of shallow cliche character he is, but I don't see the point on seeing him skewered. It doesn't bring Negima back, and it really doesn't fix UQ's own problems either.

If I was that petty, I'd be writing UQ Bashfic, and I hate Bashfic and the reasoning behind it. I think Naruto is overall rancid crap, but I won't waste my time writing revenge fantasies on Naruto over being bad. Writing should be a work of love, not hate.

Those who follow the UQ thread will remember I was unhappy Touta was saddled with a huge debt over something that wasn't his fault when he was saving innocent lives, and then basically became a glorified slave. And then I was upset when he was treated like crap she owned by Gagahime, and then further taunted and mistreated by Kirie and Karin (God, that mysoginistic streak again! It's something your wife did to you, wasn't it, Akamatsu? That's why we don't have any more clones of her around?) I don't get any kicks out of seeing Touta brutalized. That's pointless. That doesn't give me anything I would want.

... although, I might make an exception for actually wanting to see Fate brutalized and killed. Because really, fuck fucking Fate. Everyone has their limits. But then he's actually been an overall far crappier person than Touta has ever been, morally speaking. Cheap sob stories about helping orphans and all. That was undone in my eyes the moment he sent Chao the Rapist after other orphans, or at the very least allowed it to happen despite having them watched and clearly having the power to stop Powerful Hand.

I find the worst thing about Fate is that he doesn't even regret his actions.

I refuse to feel sympathy for someone who nearly killed Negi at the beginning of MM, despite Negi not even being registered as a threat (he could have just as easily petrified him) and they guy wouldn't have interfered in his plans if he didn't feel the need to Kick the Dog.

He never even apologizes for that.

edited 6th Mar '15 1:31:08 AM by Archivist10

He never apologizes on anything, and he isn't ever even called out on it. Instead, after every awful thing he does, the universe seems fit to reward him instead and we're expected to accept him as this actually very noble guy, but even with his good deeds in mind, a bad deed tarnishes a good one far more easily than the a good one cancels a bad one.