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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
** Konoka acts like a GeniusDitz at first glance, but her excellent academic record, too-flirty-to-be-totally-innocent remarks to Setsuna and masterful handling of berserk {{Tsundere}} Anya point to ObfuscatingStupidity. The fact that we've only directly seen her thoughts twice (both for minor things) in the ''entire series'' helps.
** Negi. Is he a ChasteHero who cares for his friends and wants to find his father? Or is he a selfish MagnificentBastard who only cares about his goals of finding his father, becoming a Magister Magi and [[spoiler: saving Mundus Magicus]] and making sure that his students don't get hurt is just a way to make sure he doesn't fail his training and is apathetic to anything that doesn't involve those three things?
** Evangeline's ambiguous DarkAndTroubledPast has led to some of this with her backstory, given not much of is revealed and [[UnreliableNarrator her word on it isn't very trustworthy]].
* AntiClimaxBoss: The TrueFinalBoss of the series. [[spoiler:After coming back and oneshotting Negi and Fate, the Lifemaker]] does absolutely nothing [[spoiler:to prevent the girls from freeing Asuna]], holding the VillainBall until [[spoiler:he's oneshotted himself by Negi and Asuna]] in a single chapter's span. Then he's defeated one final time ''off panel'' [[spoiler:during a TimeSkip]].
* ArcFatigue:
** The [[SchoolFestival MahoraFest]] arc had taken up more than half of the whole series at its conclusion (96 of 168 chapters) and was so long Akamatsu was forced to drop a few plotlines, including Zazie's formal introduction.
** The [[TrappedInAnotherWorld Magic World]] arc was even longer, spanning '''166 chapters'''. After the defeat of the ArcVillain, the next few chapters quickly wrapped things up in time for TheMovie.
* {{Asspull}}:
** Most new pactio formed has a good chance of being exactly what the gang needs at that very instant, but most of them are predicted due to the girl's personality, a fact that's taken advantage of on several occasions.
** [[spoiler:Jack Rakan's return]].
** [[spoiler: Chao's Inter-dimensional Travel machine]]
* AwesomeEgo:
** The fandom does not appear to mind Jack Rakan's self-aggrandizing statements about his power and abilities (To quote him, "I have no weaknesses!") - probably because he more or less lives up to his claims, and then some.
* BaseBreakingCharacter: Negi. Some consider him a dull protagonist with little CharacterDevelopment, mostly due to having probably one of the worst cases of AesopAmnesia in shonen history. Others find him genuinely compelling in his goals with an intriguing backstory and character dynamic, especially in comparison to other protagonists in the Harem or Shonen genres (who can often be quite dull compared to their co-stars).
* CrackPairing: The WhereAreTheyNow epilogue very strongly implies that Hakase eventually marries [[spoiler: Kurt Godel.]]
* CrazyAwesome: Jack Rakan tends to break the rules of magic just because he feels like it and the fans absolutely love him for it.
* CreepyCute: Chachazero often falls into this, since her psychotic tendencies are entirely played for laughs. And she has miniature sized wine bottles [[OddFriendship that she drinks with Chamo]] − whether she can actually drink is anyone's guess.
* DamselScrappy: Ako somewhat comes off as one during the first half of the Mundus Magicus arc. The initial problem involves Ako getting herself, Akira, and Natsumi sold into slavery, resulting in Negi's mission to find the rest of his students to take a back seat somewhat due to him and Kotarou having to take part in a tournament in order to get the money to buy their freedom. However, most of the main ire comes when Negi receives [[GameBreaker an artifact that allows Negi to use the artifacts of his Ministra Magi]], and rather than using this as an opportunity to allow her to make her Pactio, Ako instead just wishes good luck in the final match against Rakan, resulting in the whole "slavery/tournament" sub-plot (outside of Negi meeting Rakan and training with him) being almost pointless.
* DuelingShows: With ''Manga/FairyTail''. Both being mangas centered on magic and serialized on Weekly Shonen Magazine.
* EndingAversion: The ending of the manga is considered quite unsatisfactory, to say the least. The main plot with Negi's father is resolved off-panel, a bunch of unanswered questions are left behind, and in general, lots of plot points are brought up right at the end and then quickly set aside. [[Manga/UQHolder The sequel]] has addressed a few of these complaints, though not all of them.
* EnsembleDarkhorse:
** Yue dethroned Setsuna in the final character ranking. Must be because of her [[TookALevelInBadass time in the Magic World.]]
** Makie topped the first two character polls despite not having done much of anything.
** Eva is quite possibly designed for this: She doesn't appear very much, but when she does she tends to dominate the scene.
** According to WordOfGod, Madoka's involvement in Ako's first DayInTheLimelight arc boosted her popularity.
** Jack Rakan.
** A poll held to celebrate the debut of the Manga/UQHolder anime had Nodoka topping the polls.
* FoeYay:
** Anything involving Asuna and Ayaka. They seem to be more of friends and rivals.
** [[PsychoLesbian Tsukuyomi]] and Setsuna, although that's more of an AttemptedRape Yay.
** Also Negi/Kurt.
** Fate with Negi of course. So much so that Tsukuyomi lampshades it.
*** The Foe Yay levels just [[UpToEleven increase exponentially]] after Fate realizes that his only desire is to fight Negi again.
*** It doesn't help [[spoiler:that in the next chapter Negi conquered his inner demon by deciding to befriend Fate!]] [[Franchise/LyricalNanoha Here we go again...]]
*** And in chapter 311, [[spoiler:it turns out that Fate isn't the only Averruncus, there's actually 4 of them and one of which is FEMALE!!]]
* FunnyAneurysmMoment:
** As part of Negi's and Kotaro's [[TrainingFromHell training]] in a [[YearInsideHourOutside diorama]] for their match against their mentor Jack Rakan, they do press-ups with huge rocks engraved "Defeat Rakan-san" on their backs. [[spoiler:Later, they return to the diorama after Fate defeated and erased Rakan from existence to discuss strategy; the rock is [[{{Irony}} still there]].]]
** During Tsukuyomi's first appearance, she mentioned wanting to make Setsuna and Konoka hers. That comes off a lot differently now given... what we know now.
* GameBreaker: A few examples:
** Negi's Pactio artifact, which allows him to use all of his Ministra's artifacts. There is a good reason it was cancelled.
** Jack Rakan's whole existence. Even {{lampshaded}} by other characters.
---> '''[[MetaGuy Chisame]]''': He's so broken it's not even funny!
** [[RewritingReality Code of the Lifemaker]]. As said by some person on forums:
--->...using these keys in battle always feels like playing any Franchise/TheElderScrolls game, opening the console, selecting an opponent and typing "kill".
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: ''Negima'' is fairly popular in Japan, it's also one of the best selling manga in America and one of the few that had put a dent in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'''s numbers.
* GrowingTheBeard: Somewhere between the Evangeline arc and the School Festival arc.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** The scene of the Slime Sisters attacking a group of naked girls is amusing now that there's [[Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl a series that features a slime girl who's infamous for molesting people.]]
** Long after the debut of Natsumi Murakami in this series, a Japanese voice actress of the same name went on to voice a girl named Ako in ''Anime/AikatsuStars''.
* HoYay: [[HoYay/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi Has its own page]].
* IAmNotShazam: Why the "Ma"? May be a reference to a Japanese spring onion dish.
* IronWoobie: Ako and Chao.
* LauncherOfAThousandShips: Just about everyone, although mainly Negi.
* MemeticBadass: Jack Rakan, and he deserves every bit of it.
* MemeticMolester: Tsukuyomi's InLoveWithYourCarnage tendencies have made her this, which is pretty much in character. Ayaka too her incredibly creepy attitude whenever Negi is around can make her a borderline child molester and get her arrested in some countries.
* {{Moe}}: The series in general, especially in regards to the female characters.
* MoralEventHorizon: Tsukuyomi goes beyond the point of redemption when she tries to [[AttemptedRape rape]] and kill Setsuna.
* NarmCharm: The official English translation of the Manga, specifically Ku Fei's semi-HulkSpeak dialect. It's a spotty means of translating her tendency to stick '-aru' where it shouldn't be, but it grows on you after a while.
* NeverLiveItDown:
** We're never gonna let Nodoka forget her "desired solution", are we?
** No one is ever, ever going to forget Chachamaru's winding incident. Probably 'cause they just keep happening.
** There's also Chachamaru getting chopped in half. It's become a sort of mini Meme in certain parts of the net to photoshop various reasons for her to be cut in half, [[Franchise/KamenRider like a Rider Kick]] [[http://i1098.photobucket.com/albums/g370/roman551/Owned.png for instance]]. It was even animated in ''Final''. Cue videos and animated Gifs to the same effect popping up.
* RoboShip: Negi/[[RobotGirl Chachamaru]]
* TheScrappy:
** Anya is markedly less popular than most of the other characters. The two main reasons for this are her BrattyHalfPint / {{Tsundere}} behavior (made worse by the fact that she appears extremely immature and petty compared to the rest of the cast), and because she has very little actual plot importance, making her presence seem kind of pointless. It doesn't help that you'd think Negi's childhood friend would play a big part in things or at the very least shake things up a good deal by appearing, but she ultimately didn't amount to much and was soon lost in the tidal wave of characters.
* {{Shipping}}: Far too many to list; more of a Love Buckyball than a LoveDodecahedron.
* SignatureScene: Nodoka stealing Dynamis' key and announcing that her counterattack has begun.
* {{Squick}}: To some people, the fact that ''alot'' of 15 year old girls fall in love with or even are merely attracted to a 10 year old is Squicky. Especially with Ayaka her FreudianExcuse doesn't do much to lower the {{squick}}.
* TastesLikeDiabetes: Most of the interactions between minor characters Yuki and Haruki.
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Pretty much anything involving the first anime. While it was understandable the ending would likely be changed since the manga's monthly status made it impossible to keep from catching up (This was in the days where anime didn't adopt a seasonal approach and often opted for GeckoEnding). Some were disappointed with the shortening of a few of the arcs (Evangeline's arc for example severely cut down the climax where Negima fights the vampirized girls while chasing Evangeline, instead just using a spell instantly knocking them out) and the oddness of last few start arcs. Likewise some where annoyed that the last few arcs were regulated to [=OVAs=] and a movie, making a very annoying task watching the rest of the story.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Chapter 352: [[spoiler: Asuna is now 130 years in the future on her own, though sad because of the fact that she has lost everyone she loves. It almost seemed like the premise for a new series centering on Asuna in a new world and becoming the heroine of her own story. But no, instead Akamatsu decided to take the WriterCopOut, by having Chao conveniently appear with not only the Time Machine, but the gigantic AssPull that is the Inter-dimensional travel machine, and have Asuna go back to the exact moment that she left, making her supposed sacrifice redundant.]]
* TooCoolToLive: In chapter 278, [[spoiler:Rakan finally succumbs to the might of the Code of the Lifemaker and disappears in front of Negi]]. Then he [[spoiler:comes ''back from the grave '' (briefly) to BrightSlap Negi out of his UnstoppableRage. It just takes spirit.]]
* VillainDecay: Notably subverted and twisted with Evangeline: although after her first defeat, she is no longer really an enemy, she later reveals (several times) that she is far, far, ''far'' more powerful than she let on at first, making her absolutely terrifying. Among other things, she uses her ice magic to ''shatter'' a demon several hundred meters tall, she [=KOs=] an extremely skilled martial artist in one hit without her magic while she was distracted by thoughts of Negi's father, and draws a character into an alternate dimension (well, an illusion of it anyways) and proceeds to nuke said character multiple times. MotiveDecay? Maybe. VillainDecay? Not even a little bit.
* TheWoobie:
** Ako, to an incredible degree.
** Being a happy little boy with an UnwantedHarem of hot cuties aside, Negi has been through enough [[DarkAndTroubledPast pain, horror, and trauma]] in his short life to give the most hardened Child Welfare officer nightmares for ''months''.
** Nekane is also one.
** Poor, poor [[spoiler:Shiori. And then the truth came finally out... Of all things, did she have to look like this?!]] [[{{Moe}} It's outright impossible to be angry with her]]! Also includes some CryCute for good measure.
* WriterCopOut:
** Chapters 352-53 [[spoiler:Asuna is now stuck alone in the future with everyone dead, so what does Akamatsu do? Have Chao and Eva appear out of nowhere to take Asuna back to the exact moment she left]].
** Might be also the reason why both Negi and Setsuna suffer from so much AesopAmnesia, because once it seems that they have finally overcome their issues and insecurities a few chapters later, they're exactly the same as they were before. It's possible that Akamatsu had no idea how to have these two characters develop after overcoming their insecurities and so had these two forget everything they had learned just so that they could learn all over again, because otherwise he'd have no idea what to do with them.
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** Konoka acts like a GeniusDitz at first glance, but her excellent academic record, too-flirty-to-be-totally-innocent remarks to Setsuna and masterful handling of berserk {{Tsundere}} Anya point to ObfuscatingStupidity. The fact that we've only directly seen her thoughts twice (both for minor things) in the ''entire series'' helps.
** Negi. Is he a ChasteHero who cares for his friends and wants to find his father? Or is he a selfish MagnificentBastard who only cares about his goals of finding his father, becoming a Magister Magi and [[spoiler: saving Mundus Magicus]] and making sure that his students don't get hurt is just a way to make sure he doesn't fail his training and is apathetic to anything that doesn't involve those three things?
** Evangeline's ambiguous DarkAndTroubledPast has led to some of this with her backstory, given not much of is revealed and [[UnreliableNarrator her word on it isn't very trustworthy]].
* AntiClimaxBoss: The TrueFinalBoss of the series. [[spoiler:After coming back and oneshotting Negi and Fate, the Lifemaker]] does absolutely nothing [[spoiler:to prevent the girls from freeing Asuna]], holding the VillainBall until [[spoiler:he's oneshotted himself by Negi and Asuna]] in a single chapter's span. Then he's defeated one final time ''off panel'' [[spoiler:during a TimeSkip]].
* ArcFatigue:
** The [[SchoolFestival MahoraFest]] arc had taken up more than half of the whole series at its conclusion (96 of 168 chapters) and was so long Akamatsu was forced to drop a few plotlines, including Zazie's formal introduction.
** The [[TrappedInAnotherWorld Magic World]] arc was even longer, spanning '''166 chapters'''. After the defeat of the ArcVillain, the next few chapters quickly wrapped things up in time for TheMovie.
* {{Asspull}}:
** Most new pactio formed has a good chance of being exactly what the gang needs at that very instant, but most of them are predicted due to the girl's personality, a fact that's taken advantage of on several occasions.
** [[spoiler:Jack Rakan's return]].
** [[spoiler: Chao's Inter-dimensional Travel machine]]
* AwesomeEgo:
** The fandom does not appear to mind Jack Rakan's self-aggrandizing statements about his power and abilities (To quote him, "I have no weaknesses!") - probably because he more or less lives up to his claims, and then some.
* BaseBreakingCharacter: Negi. Some consider him a dull protagonist with little CharacterDevelopment, mostly due to having probably one of the worst cases of AesopAmnesia in shonen history. Others find him genuinely compelling in his goals with an intriguing backstory and character dynamic, especially in comparison to other protagonists in the Harem or Shonen genres (who can often be quite dull compared to their co-stars).
* CrackPairing: The WhereAreTheyNow epilogue very strongly implies that Hakase eventually marries [[spoiler: Kurt Godel.]]
* CrazyAwesome: Jack Rakan tends to break the rules of magic just because he feels like it and the fans absolutely love him for it.
* CreepyCute: Chachazero often falls into this, since her psychotic tendencies are entirely played for laughs. And she has miniature sized wine bottles [[OddFriendship that she drinks with Chamo]] − whether she can actually drink is anyone's guess.
* DamselScrappy: Ako somewhat comes off as one during the first half of the Mundus Magicus arc. The initial problem involves Ako getting herself, Akira, and Natsumi sold into slavery, resulting in Negi's mission to find the rest of his students to take a back seat somewhat due to him and Kotarou having to take part in a tournament in order to get the money to buy their freedom. However, most of the main ire comes when Negi receives [[GameBreaker an artifact that allows Negi to use the artifacts of his Ministra Magi]], and rather than using this as an opportunity to allow her to make her Pactio, Ako instead just wishes good luck in the final match against Rakan, resulting in the whole "slavery/tournament" sub-plot (outside of Negi meeting Rakan and training with him) being almost pointless.
* DuelingShows: With ''Manga/FairyTail''. Both being mangas centered on magic and serialized on Weekly Shonen Magazine.
* EndingAversion: The ending of the manga is considered quite unsatisfactory, to say the least. The main plot with Negi's father is resolved off-panel, a bunch of unanswered questions are left behind, and in general, lots of plot points are brought up right at the end and then quickly set aside. [[Manga/UQHolder The sequel]] has addressed a few of these complaints, though not all of them.
* EnsembleDarkhorse:
** Yue dethroned Setsuna in the final character ranking. Must be because of her [[TookALevelInBadass time in the Magic World.]]
** Makie topped the first two character polls despite not having done much of anything.
** Eva is quite possibly designed for this: She doesn't appear very much, but when she does she tends to dominate the scene.
** According to WordOfGod, Madoka's involvement in Ako's first DayInTheLimelight arc boosted her popularity.
** Jack Rakan.
** A poll held to celebrate the debut of the Manga/UQHolder anime had Nodoka topping the polls.
* FoeYay:
** Anything involving Asuna and Ayaka. They seem to be more of friends and rivals.
** [[PsychoLesbian Tsukuyomi]] and Setsuna, although that's more of an AttemptedRape Yay.
** Also Negi/Kurt.
** Fate with Negi of course. So much so that Tsukuyomi lampshades it.
*** The Foe Yay levels just [[UpToEleven increase exponentially]] after Fate realizes that his only desire is to fight Negi again.
*** It doesn't help [[spoiler:that in the next chapter Negi conquered his inner demon by deciding to befriend Fate!]] [[Franchise/LyricalNanoha Here we go again...]]
*** And in chapter 311, [[spoiler:it turns out that Fate isn't the only Averruncus, there's actually 4 of them and one of which is FEMALE!!]]
* FunnyAneurysmMoment:
** As part of Negi's and Kotaro's [[TrainingFromHell training]] in a [[YearInsideHourOutside diorama]] for their match against their mentor Jack Rakan, they do press-ups with huge rocks engraved "Defeat Rakan-san" on their backs. [[spoiler:Later, they return to the diorama after Fate defeated and erased Rakan from existence to discuss strategy; the rock is [[{{Irony}} still there]].]]
** During Tsukuyomi's first appearance, she mentioned wanting to make Setsuna and Konoka hers. That comes off a lot differently now given... what we know now.
* GameBreaker: A few examples:
** Negi's Pactio artifact, which allows him to use all of his Ministra's artifacts. There is a good reason it was cancelled.
** Jack Rakan's whole existence. Even {{lampshaded}} by other characters.
---> '''[[MetaGuy Chisame]]''': He's so broken it's not even funny!
** [[RewritingReality Code of the Lifemaker]]. As said by some person on forums:
--->...using these keys in battle always feels like playing any Franchise/TheElderScrolls game, opening the console, selecting an opponent and typing "kill".
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: ''Negima'' is fairly popular in Japan, it's also one of the best selling manga in America and one of the few that had put a dent in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'''s numbers.
* GrowingTheBeard: Somewhere between the Evangeline arc and the School Festival arc.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** The scene of the Slime Sisters attacking a group of naked girls is amusing now that there's [[Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl a series that features a slime girl who's infamous for molesting people.]]
** Long after the debut of Natsumi Murakami in this series, a Japanese voice actress of the same name went on to voice a girl named Ako in ''Anime/AikatsuStars''.
* HoYay: [[HoYay/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi Has its own page]].
* IAmNotShazam: Why the "Ma"? May be a reference to a Japanese spring onion dish.
* IronWoobie: Ako and Chao.
* LauncherOfAThousandShips: Just about everyone, although mainly Negi.
* MemeticBadass: Jack Rakan, and he deserves every bit of it.
* MemeticMolester: Tsukuyomi's InLoveWithYourCarnage tendencies have made her this, which is pretty much in character. Ayaka too her incredibly creepy attitude whenever Negi is around can make her a borderline child molester and get her arrested in some countries.
* {{Moe}}: The series in general, especially in regards to the female characters.
* MoralEventHorizon: Tsukuyomi goes beyond the point of redemption when she tries to [[AttemptedRape rape]] and kill Setsuna.
* NarmCharm: The official English translation of the Manga, specifically Ku Fei's semi-HulkSpeak dialect. It's a spotty means of translating her tendency to stick '-aru' where it shouldn't be, but it grows on you after a while.
* NeverLiveItDown:
** We're never gonna let Nodoka forget her "desired solution", are we?
** No one is ever, ever going to forget Chachamaru's winding incident. Probably 'cause they just keep happening.
** There's also Chachamaru getting chopped in half. It's become a sort of mini Meme in certain parts of the net to photoshop various reasons for her to be cut in half, [[Franchise/KamenRider like a Rider Kick]] [[http://i1098.photobucket.com/albums/g370/roman551/Owned.png for instance]]. It was even animated in ''Final''. Cue videos and animated Gifs to the same effect popping up.
* RoboShip: Negi/[[RobotGirl Chachamaru]]
* TheScrappy:
** Anya is markedly less popular than most of the other characters. The two main reasons for this are her BrattyHalfPint / {{Tsundere}} behavior (made worse by the fact that she appears extremely immature and petty compared to the rest of the cast), and because she has very little actual plot importance, making her presence seem kind of pointless. It doesn't help that you'd think Negi's childhood friend would play a big part in things or at the very least shake things up a good deal by appearing, but she ultimately didn't amount to much and was soon lost in the tidal wave of characters.
* {{Shipping}}: Far too many to list; more of a Love Buckyball than a LoveDodecahedron.
* SignatureScene: Nodoka stealing Dynamis' key and announcing that her counterattack has begun.
* {{Squick}}: To some people, the fact that ''alot'' of 15 year old girls fall in love with or even are merely attracted to a 10 year old is Squicky. Especially with Ayaka her FreudianExcuse doesn't do much to lower the {{squick}}.
* TastesLikeDiabetes: Most of the interactions between minor characters Yuki and Haruki.
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Pretty much anything involving the first anime. While it was understandable the ending would likely be changed since the manga's monthly status made it impossible to keep from catching up (This was in the days where anime didn't adopt a seasonal approach and often opted for GeckoEnding). Some were disappointed with the shortening of a few of the arcs (Evangeline's arc for example severely cut down the climax where Negima fights the vampirized girls while chasing Evangeline, instead just using a spell instantly knocking them out) and the oddness of last few start arcs. Likewise some where annoyed that the last few arcs were regulated to [=OVAs=] and a movie, making a very annoying task watching the rest of the story.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Chapter 352: [[spoiler: Asuna is now 130 years in the future on her own, though sad because of the fact that she has lost everyone she loves. It almost seemed like the premise for a new series centering on Asuna in a new world and becoming the heroine of her own story. But no, instead Akamatsu decided to take the WriterCopOut, by having Chao conveniently appear with not only the Time Machine, but the gigantic AssPull that is the Inter-dimensional travel machine, and have Asuna go back to the exact moment that she left, making her supposed sacrifice redundant.]]
* TooCoolToLive: In chapter 278, [[spoiler:Rakan finally succumbs to the might of the Code of the Lifemaker and disappears in front of Negi]]. Then he [[spoiler:comes ''back from the grave '' (briefly) to BrightSlap Negi out of his UnstoppableRage. It just takes spirit.]]
* VillainDecay: Notably subverted and twisted with Evangeline: although after her first defeat, she is no longer really an enemy, she later reveals (several times) that she is far, far, ''far'' more powerful than she let on at first, making her absolutely terrifying. Among other things, she uses her ice magic to ''shatter'' a demon several hundred meters tall, she [=KOs=] an extremely skilled martial artist in one hit without her magic while she was distracted by thoughts of Negi's father, and draws a character into an alternate dimension (well, an illusion of it anyways) and proceeds to nuke said character multiple times. MotiveDecay? Maybe. VillainDecay? Not even a little bit.
* TheWoobie:
** Ako, to an incredible degree.
** Being a happy little boy with an UnwantedHarem of hot cuties aside, Negi has been through enough [[DarkAndTroubledPast pain, horror, and trauma]] in his short life to give the most hardened Child Welfare officer nightmares for ''months''.
** Nekane is also one.
** Poor, poor [[spoiler:Shiori. And then the truth came finally out... Of all things, did she have to look like this?!]] [[{{Moe}} It's outright impossible to be angry with her]]! Also includes some CryCute for good measure.
* WriterCopOut:
** Chapters 352-53 [[spoiler:Asuna is now stuck alone in the future with everyone dead, so what does Akamatsu do? Have Chao and Eva appear out of nowhere to take Asuna back to the exact moment she left]].
** Might be also the reason why both Negi and Setsuna suffer from so much AesopAmnesia, because once it seems that they have finally overcome their issues and insecurities a few chapters later, they're exactly the same as they were before. It's possible that Akamatsu had no idea how to have these two characters develop after overcoming their insecurities and so had these two forget everything they had learned just so that they could learn all over again, because otherwise he'd have no idea what to do with them.
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to:
** Konoka acts like a GeniusDitz at first glance, but her excellent academic record, too-flirty-to-be-totally-innocent remarks to Setsuna and masterful handling of berserk {{Tsundere}} Anya point to ObfuscatingStupidity. The fact that we've only directly seen her thoughts twice (both for minor things) in the ''entire series'' helps.
** Negi. Is he a ChasteHero who cares for his friends and wants to find his father? Or is he a selfish MagnificentBastard who only cares about his goals of finding his father, becoming a Magister Magi and [[spoiler: saving Mundus Magicus]] and making sure that his students don't get hurt is just a way to make sure he doesn't fail his training and is apathetic to anything that doesn't involve those three things?
** Evangeline's ambiguous DarkAndTroubledPast has led to some of this with her backstory, given not much of is revealed and [[UnreliableNarrator her word on it isn't very trustworthy]].
* AntiClimaxBoss: The TrueFinalBoss of the series. [[spoiler:After coming back and oneshotting Negi and Fate, the Lifemaker]] does absolutely nothing [[spoiler:to prevent the girls from freeing Asuna]], holding the VillainBall until [[spoiler:he's oneshotted himself by Negi and Asuna]] in a single chapter's span. Then he's defeated one final time ''off panel'' [[spoiler:during a TimeSkip]].
* ArcFatigue:
** The [[SchoolFestival MahoraFest]] arc had taken up more than half of the whole series at its conclusion (96 of 168 chapters) and was so long Akamatsu was forced to drop a few plotlines, including Zazie's formal introduction.
** The [[TrappedInAnotherWorld Magic World]] arc was even longer, spanning '''166 chapters'''. After the defeat of the ArcVillain, the next few chapters quickly wrapped things up in time for TheMovie.
* {{Asspull}}:
** Most new pactio formed has a good chance of being exactly what the gang needs at that very instant, but most of them are predicted due to the girl's personality, a fact that's taken advantage of on several occasions.
** [[spoiler:Jack Rakan's return]].
** [[spoiler: Chao's Inter-dimensional Travel machine]]
* AwesomeEgo:
** The fandom does not appear to mind Jack Rakan's self-aggrandizing statements about his power and abilities (To quote him, "I have no weaknesses!") - probably because he more or less lives up to his claims, and then some.
* BaseBreakingCharacter: Negi. Some consider him a dull protagonist with little CharacterDevelopment, mostly due to having probably one of the worst cases of AesopAmnesia in shonen history. Others find him genuinely compelling in his goals with an intriguing backstory and character dynamic, especially in comparison to other protagonists in the Harem or Shonen genres (who can often be quite dull compared to their co-stars).
* CrackPairing: The WhereAreTheyNow epilogue very strongly implies that Hakase eventually marries [[spoiler: Kurt Godel.]]
* CrazyAwesome: Jack Rakan tends to break the rules of magic just because he feels like it and the fans absolutely love him for it.
* CreepyCute: Chachazero often falls into this, since her psychotic tendencies are entirely played for laughs. And she has miniature sized wine bottles [[OddFriendship that she drinks with Chamo]] − whether she can actually drink is anyone's guess.
* DamselScrappy: Ako somewhat comes off as one during the first half of the Mundus Magicus arc. The initial problem involves Ako getting herself, Akira, and Natsumi sold into slavery, resulting in Negi's mission to find the rest of his students to take a back seat somewhat due to him and Kotarou having to take part in a tournament in order to get the money to buy their freedom. However, most of the main ire comes when Negi receives [[GameBreaker an artifact that allows Negi to use the artifacts of his Ministra Magi]], and rather than using this as an opportunity to allow her to make her Pactio, Ako instead just wishes good luck in the final match against Rakan, resulting in the whole "slavery/tournament" sub-plot (outside of Negi meeting Rakan and training with him) being almost pointless.
* DuelingShows: With ''Manga/FairyTail''. Both being mangas centered on magic and serialized on Weekly Shonen Magazine.
* EndingAversion: The ending of the manga is considered quite unsatisfactory, to say the least. The main plot with Negi's father is resolved off-panel, a bunch of unanswered questions are left behind, and in general, lots of plot points are brought up right at the end and then quickly set aside. [[Manga/UQHolder The sequel]] has addressed a few of these complaints, though not all of them.
* EnsembleDarkhorse:
** Yue dethroned Setsuna in the final character ranking. Must be because of her [[TookALevelInBadass time in the Magic World.]]
** Makie topped the first two character polls despite not having done much of anything.
** Eva is quite possibly designed for this: She doesn't appear very much, but when she does she tends to dominate the scene.
** According to WordOfGod, Madoka's involvement in Ako's first DayInTheLimelight arc boosted her popularity.
** Jack Rakan.
** A poll held to celebrate the debut of the Manga/UQHolder anime had Nodoka topping the polls.
* FoeYay:
** Anything involving Asuna and Ayaka. They seem to be more of friends and rivals.
** [[PsychoLesbian Tsukuyomi]] and Setsuna, although that's more of an AttemptedRape Yay.
** Also Negi/Kurt.
** Fate with Negi of course. So much so that Tsukuyomi lampshades it.
*** The Foe Yay levels just [[UpToEleven increase exponentially]] after Fate realizes that his only desire is to fight Negi again.
*** It doesn't help [[spoiler:that in the next chapter Negi conquered his inner demon by deciding to befriend Fate!]] [[Franchise/LyricalNanoha Here we go again...]]
*** And in chapter 311, [[spoiler:it turns out that Fate isn't the only Averruncus, there's actually 4 of them and one of which is FEMALE!!]]
* FunnyAneurysmMoment:
** As part of Negi's and Kotaro's [[TrainingFromHell training]] in a [[YearInsideHourOutside diorama]] for their match against their mentor Jack Rakan, they do press-ups with huge rocks engraved "Defeat Rakan-san" on their backs. [[spoiler:Later, they return to the diorama after Fate defeated and erased Rakan from existence to discuss strategy; the rock is [[{{Irony}} still there]].]]
** During Tsukuyomi's first appearance, she mentioned wanting to make Setsuna and Konoka hers. That comes off a lot differently now given... what we know now.
* GameBreaker: A few examples:
** Negi's Pactio artifact, which allows him to use all of his Ministra's artifacts. There is a good reason it was cancelled.
** Jack Rakan's whole existence. Even {{lampshaded}} by other characters.
---> '''[[MetaGuy Chisame]]''': He's so broken it's not even funny!
** [[RewritingReality Code of the Lifemaker]]. As said by some person on forums:
--->...using these keys in battle always feels like playing any Franchise/TheElderScrolls game, opening the console, selecting an opponent and typing "kill".
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: ''Negima'' is fairly popular in Japan, it's also one of the best selling manga in America and one of the few that had put a dent in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'''s numbers.
* GrowingTheBeard: Somewhere between the Evangeline arc and the School Festival arc.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** The scene of the Slime Sisters attacking a group of naked girls is amusing now that there's [[Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl a series that features a slime girl who's infamous for molesting people.]]
** Long after the debut of Natsumi Murakami in this series, a Japanese voice actress of the same name went on to voice a girl named Ako in ''Anime/AikatsuStars''.
* HoYay: [[HoYay/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi Has its own page]].
* IAmNotShazam: Why the "Ma"? May be a reference to a Japanese spring onion dish.
* IronWoobie: Ako and Chao.
* LauncherOfAThousandShips: Just about everyone, although mainly Negi.
* MemeticBadass: Jack Rakan, and he deserves every bit of it.
* MemeticMolester: Tsukuyomi's InLoveWithYourCarnage tendencies have made her this, which is pretty much in character. Ayaka too her incredibly creepy attitude whenever Negi is around can make her a borderline child molester and get her arrested in some countries.
* {{Moe}}: The series in general, especially in regards to the female characters.
* MoralEventHorizon: Tsukuyomi goes beyond the point of redemption when she tries to [[AttemptedRape rape]] and kill Setsuna.
* NarmCharm: The official English translation of the Manga, specifically Ku Fei's semi-HulkSpeak dialect. It's a spotty means of translating her tendency to stick '-aru' where it shouldn't be, but it grows on you after a while.
* NeverLiveItDown:
** We're never gonna let Nodoka forget her "desired solution", are we?
** No one is ever, ever going to forget Chachamaru's winding incident. Probably 'cause they just keep happening.
** There's also Chachamaru getting chopped in half. It's become a sort of mini Meme in certain parts of the net to photoshop various reasons for her to be cut in half, [[Franchise/KamenRider like a Rider Kick]] [[http://i1098.photobucket.com/albums/g370/roman551/Owned.png for instance]]. It was even animated in ''Final''. Cue videos and animated Gifs to the same effect popping up.
* RoboShip: Negi/[[RobotGirl Chachamaru]]
* TheScrappy:
** Anya is markedly less popular than most of the other characters. The two main reasons for this are her BrattyHalfPint / {{Tsundere}} behavior (made worse by the fact that she appears extremely immature and petty compared to the rest of the cast), and because she has very little actual plot importance, making her presence seem kind of pointless. It doesn't help that you'd think Negi's childhood friend would play a big part in things or at the very least shake things up a good deal by appearing, but she ultimately didn't amount to much and was soon lost in the tidal wave of characters.
* {{Shipping}}: Far too many to list; more of a Love Buckyball than a LoveDodecahedron.
* SignatureScene: Nodoka stealing Dynamis' key and announcing that her counterattack has begun.
* {{Squick}}: To some people, the fact that ''alot'' of 15 year old girls fall in love with or even are merely attracted to a 10 year old is Squicky. Especially with Ayaka her FreudianExcuse doesn't do much to lower the {{squick}}.
* TastesLikeDiabetes: Most of the interactions between minor characters Yuki and Haruki.
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Pretty much anything involving the first anime. While it was understandable the ending would likely be changed since the manga's monthly status made it impossible to keep from catching up (This was in the days where anime didn't adopt a seasonal approach and often opted for GeckoEnding). Some were disappointed with the shortening of a few of the arcs (Evangeline's arc for example severely cut down the climax where Negima fights the vampirized girls while chasing Evangeline, instead just using a spell instantly knocking them out) and the oddness of last few start arcs. Likewise some where annoyed that the last few arcs were regulated to [=OVAs=] and a movie, making a very annoying task watching the rest of the story.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Chapter 352: [[spoiler: Asuna is now 130 years in the future on her own, though sad because of the fact that she has lost everyone she loves. It almost seemed like the premise for a new series centering on Asuna in a new world and becoming the heroine of her own story. But no, instead Akamatsu decided to take the WriterCopOut, by having Chao conveniently appear with not only the Time Machine, but the gigantic AssPull that is the Inter-dimensional travel machine, and have Asuna go back to the exact moment that she left, making her supposed sacrifice redundant.]]
* TooCoolToLive: In chapter 278, [[spoiler:Rakan finally succumbs to the might of the Code of the Lifemaker and disappears in front of Negi]]. Then he [[spoiler:comes ''back from the grave '' (briefly) to BrightSlap Negi out of his UnstoppableRage. It just takes spirit.]]
* VillainDecay: Notably subverted and twisted with Evangeline: although after her first defeat, she is no longer really an enemy, she later reveals (several times) that she is far, far, ''far'' more powerful than she let on at first, making her absolutely terrifying. Among other things, she uses her ice magic to ''shatter'' a demon several hundred meters tall, she [=KOs=] an extremely skilled martial artist in one hit without her magic while she was distracted by thoughts of Negi's father, and draws a character into an alternate dimension (well, an illusion of it anyways) and proceeds to nuke said character multiple times. MotiveDecay? Maybe. VillainDecay? Not even a little bit.
* TheWoobie:
** Ako, to an incredible degree.
** Being a happy little boy with an UnwantedHarem of hot cuties aside, Negi has been through enough [[DarkAndTroubledPast pain, horror, and trauma]] in his short life to give the most hardened Child Welfare officer nightmares for ''months''.
** Nekane is also one.
** Poor, poor [[spoiler:Shiori. And then the truth came finally out... Of all things, did she have to look like this?!]] [[{{Moe}} It's outright impossible to be angry with her]]! Also includes some CryCute for good measure.
* WriterCopOut:
** Chapters 352-53 [[spoiler:Asuna is now stuck alone in the future with everyone dead, so what does Akamatsu do? Have Chao and Eva appear out of nowhere to take Asuna back to the exact moment she left]].
** Might be also the reason why both Negi and Setsuna suffer from so much AesopAmnesia, because once it seems that they have finally overcome their issues and insecurities a few chapters later, they're exactly the same as they were before. It's possible that Akamatsu had no idea how to have these two characters develop after overcoming their insecurities and so had these two forget everything they had learned just so that they could learn all over again, because otherwise he'd have no idea what to do with them.
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** The Anime Final movie also seems to be causing this, for similar yet different reasons.
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* HolyShitQuotient: Rising steadily, taking giant leaps in Chapters 265 and 77.
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* MagnificentBastard: Dynamis.
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** Negi. Is he a ChasteHero who cares for his friends and wants to find his father. Or is he a selfish MagnificentBastard who only cares about his goals of finding his father, becoming a Magister Magi and [[spoiler: saving Mundus Magicus]] and making sure that his students don't get hurt is just a way to make sure he doesn't fail his training and is apathetic to anything that doesn't involve those three things.
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** Negi. Is he a ChasteHero who cares for his friends and wants to find his father. father? Or is he a selfish MagnificentBastard who only cares about his goals of finding his father, becoming a Magister Magi and [[spoiler: saving Mundus Magicus]] and making sure that his students don't get hurt is just a way to make sure he doesn't fail his training and is apathetic to anything that doesn't involve those three things.things?
