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Strong Hand
A private mercenary force hired to oust refugees living in the slums protected by UQ Holder. Three of them, all Immortal Hunters, proceed to attack the slums, but are intercepted by Touta, Kuroumaru and Karin.
Shion Nagumo
Shion Nagumo
Voiced by: Takaya Kuroda (JP), Josh Morrison (EN)
A blind swordsman who leads the attack force on the slums protected by UQ Holder.
- Affectionate Nickname: Kaito always calls him "Old Man Nagumo". Conversely, Jinbei calls him "Lil' Nagumo".
- Black Eyes of Crazy: The sclerae of his eyes are black on the rare occasion that he opens them.
- Blind Weaponmaster: A master swordsman who is more than a match for Kuroumaru and Karin, despite being blind.
- Bus Crash: Being an old human when he first appeared, it's no suprise that Nagumo passed away during the 45 year timeskip.
- Changed My Mind, Kid: Was willing to retreat after Kaito and Xingzai get defeated by Touta and Karin, respectively. Then he gets a call from his sponsor, offering him even more money to finish the job.Nagumo: Sorry about this, kid, miss. Looks like I've got to do some overtime.
- Cutting the Knot: How do you deal with an immortal, Nigh-Invulnerable being who shrugs off all of your attacks? Teleport her away to the Moon!
- Eyes Always Shut: He almost always keeps his eyes closed because he's blind.
- Flash Step: Instantly goes from carrying Kaito away to appearing in front of Touta and Karin once he gets new directives from his sponsor. Even Touta is caught off-guard.
- I Am Not Left-Handed: Just when Karin thought she disarmed him, he pulls out a small item which teleports Karin away to the Moon.
- Iaijutsu Practitioner: He's able to draw his sword in a flash, and performs a quick series of slashes on Karin, although the latter comes off unscathed and claims it couldn't have been a worse matchup for him.
- Magnetic Weapons: His sheath has an electromagnetic coil that, when charged, fires out his katana. This allows him to perform quick-draws faster than physically possible.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Big time. Twenty years prior to the series, he was chasing the Mage of the Beginning, only to be forced to get rescued by Negi's party, which ultimately led him to despise the idea that only other immortal beings are able to fight hostile ones on equal footing. He especially hates Negi Springfield for making him feel humilated in needing his help.
- Van Helsing Hate Crimes: Believes that all immortals are dangers to humanity and must be destroyed.
- Weaponized Teleportation: Through the use of a small item, he is able to warp away individuals into a far away location, which he does to neutralize Karin, sending her 384,400 km away from Earth and into the Moon.
Kaito
Kaito
Voiced by: Hideo Ishikawa (JP), Andrew Love (EN)
- Blood Knight: The only reason he does mercenary work is to get the chance to fight other immortals. Specifically, he's looking for a Worthy Opponent that can give him a "warrior's death".
- Catchphrase: "Grasp the earth, grasp the world."
- Flash Step: His instant movement technique allows him to move at absurdly high speeds. He teaches this to Touta too, and ends up fighting clashing with him during Strong Hand's assault on the slums.
- Get It Over With: Constantly taunts a berserk, Magia Erebea-powered Touta to kill him after he's defeated, even though the latter insists on not doing it.
- Handy Feet: His favorite training method for instant movement is performing any task with his feet. He gets Touta to give it a try.
- Holy Hand Grenade: Right at the start of his encounter against Touta and Kuroumaru, he seals the former by puncturing him with several finger pokes in the shape of a cross, after which he uses a small rosary to blast Touta unconscious up until he comes back with the power of Magia Erebea.
- Lightning Bruiser: Despite being very muscular in his werewolf form, he has no trouble outspeeding Kuroumaru and Touta.
- Our Werewolves Are Different: Is presumably from the same tribe as Kotaro Inugami, although his fur is light-coloured when transformed.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Whenever he fights in his werewolf form.
Xingzai Chao
Xingzai Chao
Voiced by: Ryōta Ōsaka (JP), Alejandro Saab (EN)
- Break Them by Talking: He tries to do this to Karin by reminding her of the time villagers captured and tortured her so she loses her will to fight. It fails and Karin answers to his speech by kicking him in the nuts.
- Casting a Shadow: He's able to create multiple shadow hands in order to capture Karin, completely restraining her. However, she's able to break free with the use of her Nimbus Holy Light. He can also create a pool of shadow to restrain his targets, allowing his allies to get the drop on the victim.
- Combat Pragmatist: He's not above attacking immortals while they're taking a shower, or using his shadow powers to slip past more powerful opponents and go straight for his target.
- Combat Tentacles: He practically uses his shadows as an extension of his arms.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: His fights against the Numbers never go well for him.
- First, despite being able to pin down Karin, he taunted her one too many times, prompting her to unleash her real power and beat the living crap out of him.
- Next, just when he thought he was sure Touta wouldn't be able to save Kirie in time, Ikkuu simply steps in to disarm, pummel and blast him off with an Eye Beam.
- Eyepatch of Power: Wears one on his left eye. And he gives a rather tough fight to Karin up until she reveals the true nature of her power.
- For the Evulz: He kills a defenseless little girl. Why? She's from UQ Holder and he enjoys massacring immortals.
- Groin Attack: Gets his nuts kicked by Karin once she finally gets serious.
- Hate Sink: Even more detestable and repulsive than Psycho Lesbian Tsukuyomi from Negima. He's a depraved, sadistic Psycho for Hire who takes pleasure in torturing and sexually harassing pretty immortal girls. The only good thing that comes out of his appearances is the satisfaction of seeing the creep getting his ass kicked.
- I Have You Now, My Pretty: He assaults Karin when she's taking a shower, wraps her in his shadows and sexually harasses her by stabbing her with a knife as he gets his kicks from seeing her pained expressions and engages in some Lecherous Licking. Karin then brings out her Holy Hand Grenade to make clear she's not letting him have his way with her.
- Lecherous Licking: Just to show how much of a creepy Psycho for Hire he is, when assaulting a naked Karin in the shower, his tongue tries to reach out for her face.
- Love Before First Sight: He has been looking for Karin ever since he heard a story about her that said she couldn't be harmed by any form of torture inflicted on her, which sounds perfect for a Sadist like him.
- Marionette Master: The automatons assaulting the slums are all controlled by his shadows.
- Sadist: His interest in Karin stems from the fact that he can torture her as much as he likes since her body cannot be harmed, despite the sensation of pain she feels.
- Shadow Walker: He can jump from one shadow to another.
- Stalker with a Crush: Has been digging up info on Karin's identity, and makes lecherous advances at her while still fighting, even going as far as telling her that they're the same.
- Van Helsing Hate Crimes: He also believes that immortals are the enemy of mankind.
- Villainous Crush: This creep tells Karin that he loves her, all while assaulting her in the shower and tying her up with his shadows.
- Would Hurt a Child: He kills Kirie, who is physically a little girl, for sport and justifies by saying an immortal doesn't count as a child.
Ala Alba
The self-proclaimed "world-saving organization" that is antagonistic towards UQ Holder. Their name means "white wing" in Latin as before.
Fate Averruncus
Fate Averruncus (real name: Tertium)
Averruncus of Earth
Voiced by: Akira Ishida (JP), Daman Mills (EN)
The most powerful mage in the Solar System
A former ally of Yukihime and a comrade of Negi Springfield, Fate Averruncus now works against UQ Holder as their true enemy, and is widely renowned as the greatest wizard in the solar system.For his previous appearance in Negima! Magister Negi Magi, check the series' respective Characters Page.
- The Ageless: Yukihime points out that fighting her is not a good idea, as while he may be ageless, unlike her, he is not immortal and can still be killed.
- Ambiguous Situation: Fate claims that he killed Touta's parents. However, it's left vague whether he's telling the truth or not. Especially since Touta is an artificially created pseudo-clone of Negi, meaning he probably doesn't have parents in the strictest sense, so what exactly Fate meant by that proclamation is up in the air.
- Anti-Villain: While he is, in general, antagonistic towards the main party, the truth turns out that his goals are similar with one major point of disagreement. As such, there are moments where he is willing to cordially discuss information in cases where that disagreement isn't a factor.
- Arc Villain: The second major arc of the series is about Fate's attempt to kidnap Touta. The Numbers try to prevent it by trapping Fate under their headquarters. It doesn't really work because an underground cave is the worst possible place to imprison an earth mage, but Fate just leaves while promising to try to get Touta later. From then on, though, Fate never poses a direct threat again since the Life-Maker-possessed-Negi usurps the position of the Big Bad.
- The Archmage: Said to be the greatest wizard in the entire solar system.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: A white, clean vest with a black tie.
- Big Bad Wannabe: During his reintroduction, Fate and his Ala Alba appear to be set up as a main villain group and a major threat to UQ Holder. Then, the Life-Maker shows up and completely takes over the Big Bad role, pushing the conflict with Fate to the side. Eventually, a powered-up Touta ends up handling Fate and his minions all on his own and gets Fate to put his plan to make everyone immortal on hold by pointing out its big flaws. To add insult to injury, Nikitis Laps arrives out of nowhere and beheads Fate. From that point on, the High Daylight Walker Ba'al becomes the Arc Villain.
- Big Good: He becomes this during the final arc, being the one on the side opposing Ialda with the most authority.
- The Comically Serious: He doesn't bat an eyelash when describing in detail what Dana does to Yukihime in the former's introduction.Touta: You! Take that serious look off your face if you're gonna go with that random train of thought!
- Curb-Stomp Battle: The ruthless strength he demonstrated in one of Kirie's "saves" was, to put it bluntly, overkill, even against immortals. During the encounter proper, he pulls a similar feat on Touta, despite being caught off-guard by the latter mastery of the Gravity Blade. However, he overlooked Kirie's de-petrification magic app, which allows her to carry on her mission and successfully warp him to UQ Holder's headquarters.
- Disc-One Final Boss: Fate is initially built up as the Big Bad, but not long after it is revealed that the Mage of the Beginning is still around, and is a far more pressing threat. Played with in which he is not defeated and remains at odds with UQ Holder, though they join force as soon as the Big Bad brings her ugly mug around. Still, they are in a truce of sorts, and Fate is on rocky yet quite amiable terms with Evangeline and Touta.
- Dishing Out Dirt: He is the Averruncus of Earth, so that was a given.
- Face–Heel Turn: Despite having made a Heel–Face Turn near the end of Negima! to help Negi with his plan, as well as being shown supporting him in a flashback twenty years prior to UQ Holder!'s story, in the present he has turned against UQ Holder and is currently looking to capture Touta Konoe as a part of his plot to save Negi, which is opposed to Evangeline and UQ Holder's decision to kill him instead. Additionally, it seems he has taken over the leadership of Ala Alba.
- Finger-Tenting: He does this when discussing with Nikitis what should be done now that UQ Holder has Touta back after 45 years.
- Homoerotic Subtext: His fixation with Negi was already very suggestive in the first series, but here it's all but spelled out that Fate is head over heels in love with the guy.
- Kung-Fu Wizard: Outside of using Earth magic primarily, Fate is extremely strong in hand-to-hand combat. The Averruncus of Earth is said to be physically the strongest of the Averrunci series.
- Not So Stoic:
- He loses all composure in Chapter 65 when he is shown a vision of Negi and Nagi alive...in the grip of his former master, The Mage of the Beginning.
- When Fate reveals that Negi's mind is about to be overwritten by the Life-Maker, he actually begins to shed tears. Consider his status otherwise as the series' poster child for emotionally stunted stoic.
- He loses his composure again when Eva criticizes his plan to save the world and starts to cry when Negi tells him that regardless of what he did, he would need to kill him to save the world.
- Official Couple: His final appearance in the epilogue chapter implies he ultimately ended up with his follower, Shiori.
- Sadistic Choice: Presents Touta with either joining Fate's side, or see the latter petrify everyone, including his childhood friends, who just happened to be at the same location.
- Stalker with a Crush: If there's a place with signs of the missing Negi, Fate will be there. Hell, even the author's notes call him out on his obsession.
- Taken for Granite: His usual powers, unchanged from the previous manga, mainly consist of turning foes into stone, sometimes shattering them in the process. His signature Aionion Petrosis spell is especially nasty for Kirie, who can't come back to her previous save point as being petrified doesn't count as a death.
- Taking the Bullet: In Chapter 157, Fate gets beheaded as he takes an attack from Nikitis meant for Touta.
- Took a Level in Badass: In comparison to the previous series. Fate was always a strong magician but during the later part of the manga he admits that he never trained which is the main reason he was defeated. Here? He is strong enough to be The Archmage in this world, the strongest in the solar system.
- Villain in a White Suit: Fate returns as an antagonist in this series and now wears a white suit instead of the uniform of the Averruncus models.
- Visionary Villain: Fate seeks to create a world where everyone is immortal by using the same method that made Touta immortal. He believes that if no one dies anymore, tragedies will never come to pass again and Negi will be freed from the suffering of the Life-Maker's Resonance. However, Negi tells Fate that plan won't satisfy Ialda because Fate is only trying to save the people of the future.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: He claims that his goal is to save Negi and the world. Despite his methods, Touta thinks he's probably a good person, but Evangeline feels that he's in danger of becoming a Knight Templar. Chapter 132 reveals that he also plans on making all people immortal through the same process that made Touta immortal.
Tsukuyomi Iwai
Tsukuyomi Iwai
Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya (JP), Jessica Calvello (EN)
- Ambiguously Evil: Since we don't see much of her in this series, it's hard to tell how evil Tsukuyomi is now. On one hand, she doesn't seem to be that Ax-Crazy anymore even if she still flashes a Slasher Smile often and it's mentioned she trained Honoka and Isana as a favor to their grandmother and her former Villainous Crush Setsuna. On the other hand, she's still working for Fate, who is once again a Well-Intentioned Extremist at best, and her first interaction with Honoka and Isana has her throwing poisoned knives at them, which would have killed them if Honoka haven't used her Paper Talismans to magically leave their bodies in suspended animation. We last see her helping Honoka and Isana escape from prison at the Tougen Shinmei School.
- Black Eyes of Crazy: Par for the course for most experienced Shinmei-ryuu swordswomen.
- Brain Uploading: Like Ikkuu, Tsukuyomi is a human who had her consciousness transferred to a robotic body.
- Dark Action Girl: She's a highly skilled fencer, and is noted to have far more experience than Ikkuu, another full-body cyborg.
- Defector from Decadence: She's disappointed by the way the Tougen Shinmei School has degenerated over the past decades and chooses to retire from it.
- Dual Wielding: She fights with a hiltless katana and a short sword, much like she did in Negima!.
- Green Rooming: The most glaring example out of Fate's minions. She appears out of nowhere to attack Ikkuu and then she doesn't come back for over a hundred chapters. We see briefly see her again in the vs. Immortal Hunters mini-arc only to let us know she's Honoka and Isana's teacher and the same Tsukuyomi who was Setsuna's enemy.
- In the Hood: When she makes her reappearance during the vs. Immortal Hunters mini-arc, Tsukuyomi shows up wearing a hood.
- Older Than She Looks: As someone who was around during Negima, she should be over 90 years old by now. She still looks like a young woman because she transferred her mind to a robotic body at some point.
- Poisoned Weapons: She throws poisoned knives at Honoka and Isana.
- Slasher Smile: She flashes a wicked grin while she casually pierces Ikkuu with her sword.
- The Smurfette Principle: She's the only woman of Fate's minions.
Asura Tu
Asura Tu
Voiced by: Chiharu Sawashiro (JP), David Matranga (EN)
- Badass Long Robe: He loosely wears a Black Cloak that's ragged at the ends.
- Bandaged Face: His face is covered in bandages, and only his left eye is visible
- Black Swords Are Better: All his swords are black.
- Demihuman: Kuroumaru notes Asura is a demihuman hailing from Inverse Mars like them.
- In the Hood: He wears a hooded cloak.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: He's got six arms, each wielding a black sword, and is more than a match for Kuroumaru, himself a skilled swordsman.
Shaba Gyurei
Shaba Gyurei
Voiced by: Hideyuki Umezu (JP), John Swasey (EN)
- Gonk: His eyes are uneven, his lips are swollen, and he has a big nose. This is rather nonstandard for Ken Akamatsu's character design.
- Warrior Therapist: Tries to get a confessional out of Karin, but the latter refuses.
Amano-Mihashira Academy City
Sayoko Minase
Sayoko Minase
A schoolgirl from the Amano-Mihashira Academy City, she asks Kuroumaru to help Santa because the latter is unaware of the fact that he is dead. In truth, she's a necromancer that revived Santa and is the one behind the murders in Mahora.
- Adapted Out: She and the arc surrounding both her and Santa are completely omitted from the anime.
- Alas, Poor Villain: When the time arrives for Sayoko to fade away, Santa weeps for her because even though she was an insane Yandere who tried to commit omnicide, she was the girl he liked.
- The Archmage: She's called the best necromancer in the world and she's a dreadfully powerful mage too. Karin speculates Sayoko is near Yukihime's level in magical prowess and Yukihime is one of the strongest mages ever.
- Arc Villain: The true antagonist for Santa's recruitment arc, after which we don't see her.
- Ax-Crazy: She's a deranged psycho who murders her victims in gruesome ways. Turns out hosting thousands of evil spirits has destroyed her sanity.
- Bathroom Stall of Angst: Santa first met her when he found her crying in an abandoned bathroom stall.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: Her attachment to Santa originates from how he wasn't afraid to approach her and become her friend.
- Body Horror: Kuroumaru cuts her in half, along with her left arm, with a technique made to bifurcate ghosts without harming those they possess, but Sayoko simply uses the miasma in the atmosphere to turn the missing parts of her body into monstrous, spider-like legs and multiple Creepily Long Arms. Kuroumaru can only describe that transformation as an abomination. She changes them into normal-looking jet-black limbs when she realizes Santa is watching her. During her fight with Santa, the lower half of her body degenerates into a grotesque Blob Monster-like mass growing tentacles with Lamprey Mouths.
- Bully Hunter: In every of her murders, she always targeted privileged students who abused their power and bullied others. When Karin confronts her, Sayoko claims she only kills scumbags that are basically asking to be killed. That's until her short time left and the influence of thousands of evil spirits push her into going full-on Omnicidal Maniac.
- Chastity Couple: With Santa. They're the closest thing the manga had to an Official Couple for a long time, but the most physically intimate they ever got was a hug before Sayoko leaves him behind to go to the afterlife. Sayoko did try kissing him once only for Santa to pull away in embarrassment.
- Create Your Own Hero: She empowered Santa originally, and he ends up being the one who managed to stop her in the end.
- Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: She gets dark circles around her eyes when she's under the influence of evil spirits.
- Cute and Psycho: She can smile like a sweet girl one minute and go full-on homicidal maniac the next. Santa feels conflicted by this because he's attracted to Sayoko's cute side, but finds her psycho side terrifying. Before Sayoko vanishes, Santa figures out her cute personality was an act, but turns out he still likes her when she's scary.
- Dark Action Girl: Within the span of Santa's introductory arc, Sayoko zombified most of the campus, and used various clever tactics to ensure a swift victory over Touta, Kuroumaru, Ikkuu and Kirie.
- Dark Is Evil: Not only is she a necromancer so potent she can turn nearly the entire campus into ghouls, but it's also clear her motives are far less savoury than she suggests to Santa.
- Dating Catwoman: She loves Santa very much and he cannot help to still have feelings for her even though he finds what she does horrifying and agrees she must be stopped at all costs.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: After Santa releases her from the control of the evil spirits, Sayoko Disappears into Light in his arms. She's briefly brought back by Kirie's reset power so she can say goodbye to Santa while in her right mind.
- Disappears into Light: She vanishes in a rain of flower petals.
- Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: All shine disappears from her eyes whenever the corrupted souls take control over her.
- Dying as Yourself: She dies happy once Santa succeeds in talking her back to her senses, as she is now freed of all those hateful spirits.
- Dying Declaration of Love: Before passing on, she tells Santa that she loved him.
- Even Evil Can Be Loved: Santa deeply cares about Sayoko despite her sheer madness and ambitions of omnicide, as he can understand the cruelty of humankind made Sayoko into an insane monster.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She's a nutjob who wants to get rid of all the scum of the Earth indiscriminately, but her attachment to Santa is the real deal.
- Evil Wears Black: She dresses in a black Sailor Fuku, is the Serial Killer that has been targeting students at the academy for about 80 years and later attempts to destroy the world with a Zombie Apocalypse.
- Exorcist Head: Her head turns 360 degrees as she recites a Madness Mantra when Santa asks her why she's trying to kill all mankind.
- Faux Affably Evil: She puts on a charming demeanor and speaks politely when addressing the Numbers, but she's a totally Ax-Crazy psycho who starts a Zombie Apocalypse to kill everyone on Earth.
- Flowers of Femininity: Played With. She wears a headband decorated with flowers. It makes her look cute and girly. Her personality is also very sweet around Santa... But she's also highly unstable and murderous.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: It seems she was a regular girl with some talent for magic. Then she died somehow and returned as a Vengeful Ghost to kill bullies, becoming the host of thousands of evil spirits to obtain more power. Now, she's horror personified.
- Go Out with a Smile: She smiles happily as she bids her final goodbye to Santa before passing on to the afterlife.
- Gory Discretion Shot: Whatever she did to Santa's killers was so bad he ran away and she had to change his memories. We are not allowed to see this.
- Graceful Loser: After Santa manages to stop her and Kirie turns back time to undo the Zombie Apocalypse, Sayoko dignifiedly accepts her defeat and leaves to the afterlife without causing more trouble (although not without pretending to start the apocalypse all over again as a joke).
- Humanoid Abomination: She was human once and still looks like it most of the time. Her current self, however, is practically nothing but the representation of countless corrupted souls.
- Innocently Insensitive: A rather dark take on it. She goes after Santa's killers and does something to them, but leaves them alive for Santa to finish them off. Instead of being happy about her "gift", Santa runs away from her and asks her to erase him, now thinking of her as a crazy monster.
- Intangibility: As a ghost like Santa, she also has the ability to make herself and anyone she touches intangible. This is how she murdered all the students by phasing their bodies through concrete and making them fuse with it.
- Knight of Cerebus: While the series started out somewhat bloodier than its predecessor, she ramped up the threat and violence level.
- Last Request: As she begins to fade away, Sayoko pleads Santa to not go to the afterlife with her yet and stay in the world of the living "in her place".
- Many Spirits Inside of One: She is classified by Karin as an "Onryou", a vengeful god-like being who has become an amalgam of the spirits of at least 340,000 people who died in torment. Her original personality is all but gone as a result. All that is left is the hate.
- Mask of Sanity: She tries her best to appear sane and understanding in front of Santa, even though the latter becomes increasingly terrified by the amount of chaos she causes.
- Mysterious Past: Whatever her past was before she met Santa is a complete mystery. All we get is Karin speculating that Sayoko was a young girl with an affinity for magic who died somehow and became the vessel for thousands of evil spirits.
- Necromancer: She identifies herself as one, and has in fact used her powers to revive Santa after the latter committed suicide. She also turns most of the campus into ghouls following her reveal, and the end of Chapter 55 has a news channel announce that various parts of the world have been infected as well. Later in the series, Ku:Nel and Dana comment on the fact that Santa was made so well that she must have been among the best in the world.
- Non-Human Lover Reveal: She didn't tell Santa that she was a ghost until he died and she made him into a ghost too. Santa was actually happy about it because if both were ghosts, they could be together forever.
- Omnicidal Maniac: She unleashes a world-wide Zombie Apocalypse to destroy all of humanity.
- People Puppets: She bites Kirie to make sure she's under her control, at one time talking in unison. Then, when Touta and Kuroumaru try to attack her together, she reveals that she developed a particular strand of hair that zombifies an immortal like Kuroumaru, stabbing Touta in the process.
- Please, Don't Leave Me: Santa ran away from her and asked her to erase him after she did something horrifying to his murderers. Sayoko begged him to stay with her because she wouldn't bear to spend the last few years she had left all alone, but Santa still wanted to disappear. Not wanting to erase Santa, Sayoko altered his memories so he would forget about his own death.
- Powered by a Forsaken Child: She's empowered by tying herself to thousands of corrupted souls of people who died in agony and misery.
- Prehensile Hair: She can freely manipulate the growth and movement of her hair, using it to immobilize and attack her enemies.
- Prone to Tears: She starts crying whenever she thinks about all the injustice in the world.
- Psycho Supporter: She will make sure anyone who threatens or hurts her dear Santa pays for it. Exaggerated when she unleashes a Zombie Apocalypse to destroy the world that allowed Santa to die so tragically since that's what he said he wanted (even though he clearly wasn't in his right mind at the moment).
- Satellite Love Interest: Her character is entirely linked to Santa and his backstory. She exited the plot as soon as Santa's story arc was over.
- School Uniforms are the New Black: She's always seen wearing a Sailor Fuku.
- Self-Harm: She violently scratched her own face as she kept repeating how she was going to make Santa's murderers pay for their crime.
- Serial Killer: She's the one behind the series of murders on the campus for the past 80 years.
- Shadow Archetype: Sayoko is essentially what Santa would be if he took his hatred of bullying and social inequality to the most gruesome extreme possible.
- Shock and Awe: She can cast powerful lightning spells.
- Slasher Smile: As much as killing intent as she possesses, her expression appropriately contorts into a psychotic grin whenever she's in control of the situation.
- Stepford Smiler: The mentally unstable type. She often has a smile in her face when she's completely insane and murderous.
- Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: A variation. Sayoko is clearly meant to be an onryou-type ghost, but her hair doesn't obscure her face which lets her pass off as a Cute Ghost Girl when not in psycho mode. That said, her thirst for revenge and bloodlust are still something to be greatly feared.
- Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum: Sayoko feels sick at all the injustice and suffering in the world. Knowing she will vanish soon anyway, she attempts to wipe out Earth's population with a global Zombie Apocalypse.
- This Is Unforgivable!: She made clear she wouldn't let Santa's bullies get away with the crime of murdering him. When she caught them, she did something so horrifying to them that we aren't allowed to see it.
- Too Powerful to Live: She managed to bypass Karin's immortality with mental attacks and then bury her 1000 meters below ground, rip Ikkuu apart, infect Kirie and Kuroumaru, and keep Touta down for an extended period of time. Had she not been stopped by Santa at the end of their arc, Sayoko would've carried on the infection of the entire world. No wonder she was offed as soon as her arc was over.
- Troll: After Santa manages to stop her and time gets rewinded by Kirie, Sayoko makes it look like she's going to start the Zombie Apocalypse all over again. As everyone is freaking out, Sayoko goes "Just kidding!" and leaves to the afterlife.
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: Horrifically so. She mutilated Santa's bullies after they killed him and wants to eliminate anyone who tries to hurt him. Even Santa is freaked out by her protective efforts.
- Walking Spoiler: Talking about her role in the school arc is difficult since we were led to believe that Santa was the serial killer.
- Winged Humanoid: When fighting, she turns several strands of her hair into pitch-black wings in order to fly around.
- With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Sayoko apparently used something like a downgraded version of the Life-Maker's Resonance to gather power from thousands of evil spirits and make herself into a god-class Vengeful Ghost. In exchange, her mind has been completely consumed by the hatred of the spirits and there's probably nothing of her original self left.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Her mind and spirit were utterly broken by carrying the hatred and suffering of thousands of tormented human souls. Since she's screwed anyway, Sayoko unleashes a Zombie Apocalypse into the world to bring everyone down with her.
- Yandere: A grossly exaggerated example towards Santa. Despite her methods, she's quite dedicated to him, basing many of her whims on Santa's condition; when she thinks Santa is being mistreated at school ever since he got resurrected, she slowly started hating the world, and when he himself started loathing the campus for shunning him, Sayoko begins a sinister plan to infect the rest of the world, with the rationale that this is what Santa wished for.
- Your Days Are Numbered: She states several times that her time is running out for some reason. So, she decides to take the whole world down with her before she vanishes.
Mitsuhashi, Shiraishi, Nikumaru & Nowa
Tooru Mitsuhashi, Shiraishi, Nikumaru Tanaka & Nowa
Mitsuhashi is voiced by: Jun'ya Enoki (JP), Bryson Baugus (EN)
Shiraishi is voiced by: Yuusuke Nagano (JP), Avery Smithhart (EN)
Nikumaru is voiced by: Chado Horii (JP), Andrew Love (EN)
Nowa is voiced by: Ryohei Arai (JP), Ned Gayle (EN)
Mitsuhashi
Nikumaru
Shiraishi
Nowa
Four young teenagers who often hung out with their friend, Touta before he left the village with Yukihime.- Beautiful Singing Voice: Mitsuhashi. According to Touta, Mihashi is an aspiring singer.
- The Bus Came Back: While Nikumaru and Mitsuhashi briefly appear in the Capture Fate Arc, the four as a whole, return to the story in chapter 174.
- Bus Crash: Mitsuhashi and Shiraishi both die of the Net bug in the intervening years of the 45 year Time Skip.
- Character Shilling: Touta talks about how these guys are much more awesome than himself because they have better goals in life. However, the audience can't see what makes them amazing when they don't even show up in the story except for the start and near the end.
- Chubby Chef: Nikumaru is the fat guy of the group and his specialty is cooking.
- Cool Old Guy: Nikumaru and Nowa after the 45 timeskip.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: All except Mistuhashi, react in utter jealousy to Touta on a three way date with two cute girls.
- Gonk: Nikumaru is fat, has swollen lips, Big Ol' Eyebrows, and a big nose, making him stand out in a group of otherwise attractive teenagers.
- I Should Write a Book About This: According to Touta, Shiraishi is an aspiring writer. We see one of his anthology books, which contains a story he greatly enjoyed that's all but said to be written in honor of his friend, Touta.
- Mayfly–December Friendship: From the moment Touta learns he's immortal, he thinks about how his friends will become old men while he won't ever change. When they reunite 45 years later, Touta learns Mitsuhashi and Shiraishi are dead while Nikumaru and Nowa are now middle-aged men.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: By 45 year timeskip, Nowa rose to become a prominent government official.
- Smart People Wear Glasses: Nowa is the only one in the group who wears glasses. His field of study's more intellectually focused than the others.
- Social Circle Filler: Touta hung out with these guys for the two years he lived at the countryside and they gave him the motivation to drink Yukihime's blood in order to save their lives. After Touta leaves the village and joins UQ Holder, Touta mentioning them here and there is the only way to remember they exist since they don't even appear again until the story starts its final arc.
- Supreme Chef: Nikumaru. According to Touta, the reason why he's such a good cook is thanks to the skills he's picked from Nikumaru. He eventually becomes an entrepreneur in the food business.
- Unwitting Muggle Friend: While they were kept up to speed on Touta's actions thanks to Yukihime, she left out the parts of Touta being immortal. They remained unaware, till they were told by the other Numbers, and even then, doubted it till reuniting with Touta years later.
- We Are as Mayflies: Being normal humans in a manga about immortals, the passage of time couldn't be more clear. We first see all four as preteens and reunite with two of them as old men, and the other two die in the interm.
- Youthful Freckles: Nowa has freckles as a teenager. He loses them after he grows old.
Mahora Martial Arts Tournament
Laszlo / Afro the Forever
Laszlo
Voiced by: Kenjiro Tsuda (JP)
- Demoted to Extra: His role in the anime is reduced to a cameo in the final episodes.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He first appears a bit ungrateful and manipulative in dealing with Touta, but he turns out to be able to peg Touta as a runaway in a glance and only wants to win the tournament to prove the effectiveness of his friend's magic apps.
- Kill Steal: How he and Touta met. Touta accidentally intervened to save him while he was in a preliminary fight, taking all the points he could have gotten.
- Powers as Programs: He not only uses, but develops Magic Apps.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The loud and braggart red to Ray's friendly blue.
- Uncertain Doom: It is unknown if he survived or died from the Net Bug. Touta later counts him among the deceased.
Ray Chikage
Ray Chikage
A magic app developer, who runs the junk shop with Afro.
- Adapted Out: He didn't get to appear in the anime.
- Genius Cripple: He's bound to a wheelchair, and Afro praises him as being much more talented at developing the apps Afro uses.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The sociable and collected blue to Afro's brash red.
- Supreme Chef: He's a decent cook if his stew is anything to go by.
- Uncertain Doom: It is unknown if he survived or died from the Net Bug. Touta later counts him among the deceased.
Returning cast members of Negima! Magister Negi Magi
Class 3-A
Mana Tatsumiya
Mana Tatsumiya
Voiced by: Miho Sakuma (JP), Katelyn Barr (EN)
For her previous appearance in Negima! Magister Negi Magi, see Negima: Class 3-A.
- Badass Long Coat: A very badass one.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Mana was briefly seen in Nagumo's flashback in Chapter 24. She officially appears 38 chapters later when she meets Touta at Amano-Mihashira Academy City.
- First Love: She confesses that her previous master was her first love, and she watched him die in front of her eyes at the age of nine.
- Guns Akimbo: Uses them in her sparring match against Touta.
- Older Than She Looks: Looks the same as she did 80 years ago. Being a half-demon probably has something to do with it.
- Victoria's Secret Compartment: She pulls a sniper rifle out of her cleavage.
Sayo Aisaka
Sayo Aisaka
Voiced by: Yuri Shiratori (JP), Kira Vincent-Davis (EN)
For her previous appearance in Negima! Magister Negi Magi, see Negima: Ala Alba.
- Cute Ghost Girl: She's a ghost with the appearance of a cute girl, which is why she's still around.
- First Love: In a flashback she admits that her first love was Headmaster Konoe, something that was alluded to in the previous series.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: When she talks about her First Love, she mentions that it was a
story that never got told, referencing how the previous series was cut short and didn't get to a number of stories that were mentioned in Negi's class roster.
Zazie Rainyday
Zazie Rainyday
Voiced by: Yuka Inokuchi (JP), Christina Kelly (EN)
For her previous appearance in Negima! Magister Negi Magi, see Negima: Class 3-A.
- Adapted Out: Her actual appearances weren't included in the anime. She just appeared in an illusion where her past self and all of 3-A attack the Life-Maker.
- Badass Adorable: Cute and powerful.
- Cute Monster Girl: An uber powerful Demon Royalty looking like a pretty teenage girl.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Zazie was briefly seen in Nagumo's flashback in Chapter 24 before she officially appeared over 70 chapters later.
- Guardian Entity: Zazie's power manifests mainly through a gigantic demonic construct surrounding her, similar to that of her older sister in Negima!.
- Little Miss Almighty: Looks like a teenage girl, packs as much punch as Fate and Evangeline, if not Dana herself.
- Older Than She Looks: No one knows how old she really is, considering she is a demon and her age was never stated in Negima! and she doesn't look any different eighty years later.
- Our Demons Are Different: The younger sister of the Queen of the Demon World, who looks-like a teenage girl in a Sexy Jester outfit.
- The Quiet One: A striking aversion. Readers unaware of her role in Negima! might not understand why Zazie talking as much as any other character is such a big deal when you could count the number of lines she had prior to Chapter 297 on your hands.
- Rank Scales with Asskicking: The second in line to the throne of the Demon World, and just as obscenely overpowered as her older twin sister.
- Sexy Jester: She wears a revealing jester costume.
- Shipper on Deck: She tells Kirie to hook up with Touta.
- Supernatural Elite: Demon Royalty are described as on par with Vampire Nobles, considering their sheer level of power, it puts her straight into divine-tier. In Negima!, she stated to be as powerful as her overpowered Final Boss level sister, but she did not have much chance to shine. Now she proves that it was no iddle boast. Even Fate knows that he stands no chance against both her and Evangeline.
- Winged Humanoid: Zazie has bat-like wings at hip level.
Ayaka Yukihiro
Ayaka Yukihiro
Voiced by: Junko Minagawa (JP), Shelley Calene-Black (EN, Old), Cat Thomas (EN, Young)
For her previous appearance in Negima! Magister Negi Magi, see Negima: Class 3-A.
- Cool Old Lady: She's still got this vibe.
- Did Not Get The Guy: Despite being one of the girls who had the most love for Negi in the original series, Ayaka is explicitly shown to not have entered a relationship with him and instead has married an unknown man who she would start a family with and has at least one great-granddaughter by the time UQ Holder starts.
- Dirty Old Woman: Cut into a conversation Mizore and Chachamaru were having because it involved hot boys.
Chachamaru Karakuri
Chachamaru Karakuri
Voiced by: Akeno Watanabe (JP), Joanne Bonasso (EN)
For her appearance in Negima! Magister Negi Magi, see Negima: Ala Alba.
- Ambiguous Situation: One would assume that Chachamaru would be one of Negi’s lovers due to the feelings she had for him and her being in the final group shot of the remaining Negima cast but her inability to have children makes it difficult to confirm unlike Negi’s other lovers.
- The Caretaker: She's currently working as the personal caretaker for an elderly Ayaka.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Chachamaru was briefly seen in Nagumo's flashback in Chapter 24. She makes her official appearance over 70 chapters later.
- Freudian Slip: She sometimes still refers to Ayaka as "Class Rep" after all these years.
- Older Than She Looks: She should be around 85 years old, but her robot body is designed to always look like a teenager.
- Robot Girl: She's a robot with the appearance of a teenage girl, which is why she looks the same after so many years.
Asuna Kagurazaka
Asuna Kagurazaka (real name: Asuna Vesperina Theotanasia Entheofushia)
Voiced by: Akemi Kanda (JP), Luci Christian (EN)
A member of 3-A and Negi's first Minstra Magi.
For her appearance in Negima! Magister Negi Magi, see Negima: Ala Alba.
- Babies Ever After: After deciding to stay in the future after her unsealing, Asuna becomes one of Negi’s lovers and would eventually have a son who looks remarkably like him.
- Barrier Maiden: She's still sealed in Mars to serve as its cornerstone.
- BFS: Her Artifact from Negi, Ensis Exorcizans, is a large sword.
- Deus ex Machina:
- In the middle of the attack of the Life-Maker's faction, Asuna shows up out of nowhere inside Phantasmagoria to save Touta and Yukihime from the mental attack of the Life-Maker. Soon after, she somehow manifests in the battlefield through Touta and convinces Negi-Ialda to withdraw, putting his faction out of action indefinitely.
- In the Happy Ending timeline, Asuna is brought back from the future by Chao. With Asuna's White of Mars, Negi can track down the Life-Maker, defeat her and save his father in the span of a few years. Dana even lampshades this perfect outcome was only made possible by a cheat code.
- For Want Of A Nail: Her presence alone has consequences for Negi's fight against Ialda and the world as a whole. To be brief, everything goes to hell if Asuna stays sealed in Mars.
- Fusion Dance: This version of Asuna fuses with the Princess version of herself to become whole and would live out the rest of her life as a normal human.
- I Choose to Stay: Unlike in the Negima! timeline, when Asuna is unsealed in the future in UQ Holder, she chooses not to return to the moment when she got sealed because she didn’t want to leave the future versions of her friends behind after all they did to make this future.
- Literal Split Personality: This Asuna represents her life as a student at Mahora Academy.
- The Lost Lenore: While not dead, Asuna being sealed away in Mars leaves a giant hole in the lives of her friends, especially Negi, who in the UQ Holder timeline spent the next 60 years of his life trying to help the world in ways he hoped would make her proud.
- Overly Long Name: Her full name is Asuna Vesperina Theotanasia Entheofushia. It's easy to see why she chooses to go with Asuna Kagurazaka.
- Projected Man: Her corporeal body is still sealed in Mars, but she somehow manages to materialize through Touta's Magic Cancel so she can stop Negi-Ialda's rampage.
- Supernaturally Young Parent: She's technically Touta's grandmother and still looks about the same age as him. It's a result of Asuna being sealed away when she was fifteen.
Chisame Hasegawa (Walking Spoiler Warning)
Chisame Hasegawa
Voiced by: Daria Midou (JP), Kalin Coates (EN)
For her appearance in Negima! Magister Negi Magi, see Negima: Ala Alba.
- First Love: She's ultimately confirmed to be the girl Negi had a crush on back when he was ten. Depending on the timeline, they eventually marry or Negi gets into a relationship with Nodoka and Yue and later, Eva.
- Satellite Love Interest: Chisame plays no role in the plot of UQ Holder and the only noteworthy detail about her is that Negi confessed he had a crush on her and married her in another timeline.
- Walking Spoiler: Pretty much everything about what happened to her between Negima and now, in either timeline, is a spoiler.
Tropes specific to timeline A (UQ Holder! timeline)
- Disposable Woman: Chisame is unceremoniously killed off in a flashback for no purpose other than giving Negi something more to feel miserable about.
- Human Pincushion: She was killed by the Mage of the Beginning by being impaled with multiple shadowy tendrils.
- Posthumous Character: She is long dead in timeline A, having taken the bullet for Negi during the fight with the Life-Maker. Whether or not her timeline A Prime counterpart is still alive is never specified.
- Taking the Bullet: She was killed when shielding Negi from the Life-Maker.
Tropes specific to timeline A Prime (Mahou Sensei Negima! timeline)
- Age-Gap Romance: Chisame was five years older than Negi. He confessed he had a crush on her and while Chisame did like him back, she wasn't going to date a ten-year-old. She told him to try again when he was older and indeed, they married several years later.
- Didn't See That Coming: Subverted. Chisame is one of the most Genre Savvy characters introduced in Negima! and not Oblivious to Love at all. It dawned on her immediately when she saw Negi blushing and stumbling on his words, but, after a series of misunderstandings before, she didn't see an actual love confession from Negi coming at all.
- I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me: When Negi confesses his love to her, she asks him why he would confess to a "loser" like her, instead of any of the other girls in his class.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Chisame turns down Negi's confession not because she doesn't like him (she does very much), but because he is too young and she thinks he has too many other important things on his mind, like saving the world. Her classmates realize that her mature consideration for him is probably one of the reasons why Negi fell in love with her. They married five years after Negi defeated the Life-Maker.
- Insecure Love Interest: Chisame asserts that Negi could and should choose any of the other girls in his class, as he has many options and she considers herself a nobody next to them.
- Interspecies Romance: In a manner of speaking, considering that use of Magia Erebea had basically turned Negi into a demon by the time they were married.
- Mayfly–December Romance: Chisame and Negi married at some point in the timeline A Prime, but given that Negi was made an immortal demon by Magia Erebea, Chisame will surely die very long before him unless she becomes immortal somehow.
- Offscreen Romance: When Negi confessed he had a crush on her, Chisame turned him down because she thought he deserved a better woman. According to a picture Dana brought from timeline A Prime, though, Chisame did end up marrying Negi several years later. Dana says the manga just doesn't have enough pages to show how Chisame changed her mind and hooked up with Negi.
- Teacher/Student Romance: Negi was her middle school English teacher, though he didn't confess until after she graduated.
- Tsundere: While she clearly does like Negi, she's too gruff to admit it even after he confesses his feelings for her. Years later, her wedding photo with Negi has her looking away from the camera, blushing, and furrowed brows in obvious embarrassment.
Others
Nagi Springfield
Nagi Springfield
Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu (JP), Alan Brincks (EN)
- Demonic Possession: He was the Mage of the Beginning's host before Negi. He's freed from her control in both timelines, but ended up dead in the one without Asuna.
- Has a Type: In the timeline with Asuna, Nagi gets remarried to Eva who is a blonde Tsundere with a misconceived criminal reputation like his first wife Arika.
- Mayfly–December Romance: The immortal (fake) vampire Eva had a crush on Nagi, a mortal man about 700 years younger than her. The feeling didn't appear to be mutual, but they got married at some point in the timeline with Asuna. Still, Eva most definitely will outlive Nagi unless he also becomes immortal.
- Offscreen Romance: According to a picture from the timeline A Prime, Eva and Nagi got married there. Like Negi and Chisame, it's never shown or explained how that came to be. The marriage is especially strange in this case because Nagi only ever seemed annoyed by Eva's stalking, so one has to wonder what changed his mind so drastically.
- Posthumous Character: He's long dead in the timeline where UQ Holder takes place.
- Replacement Goldfish: Retroactively. It seems Yukihime felt attracted to Nagi because of his similarities to his great-grandson Touta, who she fell for hundreds of years before Nagi because of Time Travel shenanigans.
- Second Love: Contrary to what was initially believed, Nagi was actually the second man Eva ever loved. Before him, there was Touta, his great-grandson from the future. A picture from the timeline where Asuna is around shows Eva becomes Nagi's second wife there. It's never mentioned what happened to Nagi's first wife Arika. Meanwhile in the timeline with no Asuna, Nagi couldn't be saved and Eva moved on from Nagi to Negi. Eva thinks it's ridiculous that another version of her managed to get Nagi.
- Teacher/Parent Romance: Eva was Nagi's son's magic teacher and she was in love with Nagi. Although, he never seemed interested in her that way and trapped her inside Mahora just to put a stop to her stalking. According to Dana, however, Nagi married Eva in the timeline A Prime.
- Unexplained Recovery: Negi rips his heart out to get the Life-Maker out of his body. In the timeline A Prime, Nagi inexplicably survives by a miracle and fully recovers a couple of years later. That timeline's Fate and Dana have a hunch the Life-Maker may have something to do with it. Nagi wasn't so lucky in the Asuna-less timeline, though.
- Walking Spoiler: It's difficult to talk about his role in UQ Holder without giving away his fate in both timelines.
Albert Chamomile
Albert Chamomile
The perverted ermine who was once Negi's sidekick. He comes back now with the form of a mustached old man.
- Adapted Out: He makes no appearance in the anime, but he does play the role of Gag Censor.
- Black Bead Eyes: He has a pair of black dots for eyes even in his human form.
- Cool Old Guy: While still a panty-stealing pervert, this elderly Chamo is an amicable fellow.
- Dirty Old Man: Old age didn't make any less of a pervert at all.
- High-Class Glass: He wears a monocle now he's in elderly age.
- Humanity Ensues: He now spends most of the time in the form of an old man, only going back to his true ermine form occasionally.
- Impossible Theft: At some point, he mastered Rakan's skill for stealing a girl's panties while she's wearing them.
- Lovable Sex Maniac: He's still the same Dirty Old Man obsessed with female underwear and his perverted antics are played for comedy like before.
- Non-Standard Character Design: His human form's design stands out as more skinny-looking, big-nosed and cartoonish next to the rest of the cast.
- Panty Thief: The first thing he does when he's reintroduced is to steal the panties of all the girls in Touta's harem.
- Took a Level in Badass: In Negima, Chamo had zero offensive ability. In UQ Holder, he actually knows a few spells and successfully incapacitates most of the main numbers.
Chachazero
Chachazero
Evangeline's former puppet partner, now reduced to a mere doll capable of playing movies.
- The Gadfly: She relentlessly antagonizes Evangeline for not acting on her feelings.
- Odd Friendship: The perverted ermine Chamo is (or was) her dear friend.
- Perverse Puppet: Pretty much her calling card. Her solutions to most problems are either "Push them down and have your way with them" or "Kill them".
- Small Role, Big Impact: She comes up with the name UQ Holder for the organization Evangeline's set to run.
- Taking the Bullet: She takes a blow for a distracted Negi. While she was outwardly repaired, the damages she took rendered her far from fully functional.
