UQ Holder!'s WMG page. The home to many crazy theories to come as the manga develops. There will almost certainly be spoilers.
- Update: Turns out the date of death on the Tombstone was 2084 rather than 2064.
- Yes: it is another Harry Potter reference after the reference of the begin of Negima.
- Pretty well Jossed by Chapter 24, Touta's Magia Erebea is strongly implied to be inherited from Negi.
- Confirmed in a way. Touta isn't actually a relative of Negi's, but a clone of him.
- Update: From Chapter 69 apparently this is a known problem, in that some people are just incapable of using magic apps.
- Confirmed since Touta is a clone using Negi and Asuna's DNA.
- Given that we get a brief shot of a janitor that has a striking resemblance to 30-something Negi...
- That might be his Grandson though, Negi and Nagi look very similar to each other as well.
- Confirmed, he's alive but is the current vessel of the Lifemaker.
- Jossed, he's a clone made using Negi and Asuna's DNA.
- And when or if he does the character to mentor him on it may possibly be an alive and well Setsuna.
- I certainly agrees, but I think the Fate/Nagi master looking one will be revealed immortal. Why didn't he say anything well, "Nobody ever asked"
- Well, in chapter two Touta keeps mentioning a mechanic friend. Could be the guy with a robot-arm.
- Touta met Robot and Glasses Guy in chapter 7 already. All the characters in the colour spread also made a short appearance in chapter 6, when Yukihime recited the different types of immortality.
- Jossed, the real Fate makes an appearance later on.
Clue Evangeline is said to come from the top of the tower, orbital elevator. Another we see the Orbital Elevator of New Tokyo and there is no World Tree in sight.
According to Mana's epilogue Mars would be embroiled in a war for independence. UQ Holder being more Shounen genre and darker could takcle this war.
- Unlikely, since it's mentioned to be in Japan. Also they actually show a map of Japan several times in chapter 3.
- Jossed, now that Tōta's team has infiltrated (what was) Mahora academy. The World Tree is still here too.
In the True Ending of Negima Timeline C as illustrated by Chao magic was disclosed a few years later. As a consequence magic crime increased after two years of disclosure. Which Negi and his Ministra had to handle.
In the UQ Holder timeline or Timeline B magic was only disclosed 10 years earlier. The current year being 2086. Normal people can use Magic Apps for magic but each slot cost half a million Yen. As Evangeline aka Yukihime said as it gets cheaper the chances of magic crimes also increases.
The factor for these changes is Asuna's presence. If she goes back in time when she left Mahora with her position as princess of Ostia she can politically push for a disclosure of the existence of magic.
If Asuna didn't return magic disclosure would be delayed for 70 years due to the problems to Negi's plan of integrating Old World Earth and Magic World societies.
This problem resulted to the Mars independence war in both timelines. Which Mana participated.
- One potential problem for this is Evangeline of Timeline B. This WMG depends on Evangeline having a character arc where she'd be willing to return to her normal form (to travel to Timeline C), leave behind UQ Holder (admittedly again but in a more permanent way) and basically be upbeat/unchanged in personality. The last issue is the biggest at it means Yuki!Evangline's character arc is from what she was to Yuki to whatever happens to Yuki and back to how she was at the end of Negime. Then again, Timeline-B!Evangeline planned on timeline hopping in hopes of finding a spare Nagi. Then there is the problem of Timeline-C!Asuna still sleeping and what happens when she wakes up. We might even be looking at a Timeline-D here where TL-C!Asuna goes back to TL-D and warned of the magic crimes. Thus resulting in magic being made public being postponed.
- Confirmed as of Ch. 137. The timeline where Asuna returns is fully explored, and shown to be an alternate timeline from the main UQ Holder storyline.
- Possibly inferred from a part of her introductory speech in the first chapter: "You'll grow tired of the things you loved. Devotion and attachment become impossible. You'll rapidly forget just about everything." If this holds true then, during that flashback in the same chapter, she may have possibly gone back to her Dark Evangel days, but nonetheless held back on killing Touta out of mercy.
- Add the fact that there were people after her for an undisclosed bounty.
- Jossed. Chapter 42 reveals that it was Fate who killed them. Although, knowing him, this may be jossed as well...
- It's pretty clear at the end of Negima that Konoka and Setsuna got married... and if Kuromaru was related to Konoka, he'd probably recognize the family name. It's more likely that somebody unrelated from the school ended up moving somewhere else and that person was Kuromaru's teacher/parental figure.
- However, the fact about Negi and Konoka ending up together remains heavily jossed since the story's setting was about 80 years after the events of Negima!. Refer to the YMMV Page for details.
Uzoku are described to have beaks and white hair. Well Kuromaru's clan has bird masks and they have white hair.
Much like Setsuna Kuromaru is being ostracized by the clan for being an oddity. In Kuromaru's case he/she is an immortal.
Which why Kuromaru's brother sent him/her on an impossible mission so Kuromaru will die. Hoping Evangeline will kill Kuromaru and rid of a person that the clan prejudiced against.
Jossed: Kuromaru is from the Yatagarasu tribe, not the tengu, and thus does not have albinism like setsuna.
- Confirmed. Sorta. Karin reveals that yes, Kuromaru's body is indeed that of a girl. (S)He still vehemently insists on being referred to as male, however.
- he has a female body but that isn't the same thing as being a girl. so confirmed or jossed depending on how you look at it.
- Chapter 16 clarifies that Kuroumaru's body lacks any sex traits. Kuroumaru's tribe (the Yatagarasu tribe) have sexless bodies until they reach 16, when they either choose a sex and become that one from that point onward, or their body naturally transitions into one should they not decide. Presumably, Karin just saw that Kuroumaru didn't have a penis, and so immediately thought girl.
- he has a female body but that isn't the same thing as being a girl. so confirmed or jossed depending on how you look at it.
- Kuromaru's brother referred to Kuromaru's "cursed" body. He could just be referring to his immortality, but he could also be referring to Kuromaru going through life effectively as an "it". The way the girls at Mahora gawked at him as he played basketball suggests life as a Bishonen wouldn't be bad. Life with no gender at all? That could really suck.
- My only problem with this is that Kuromaru would most likely recognize the name "Konoe" if that was the case.
- Jossed. Since Touta isn't a "child" of anyone, he was artificially created.
Evangeline in UQ Holder has a parallel with Takamichi Takahata of taking care of a VIP with amnesia. If indeed Touta is Negi's descendant then he is by blood a prince of the Ostia monarchy like Asuna. Touta is also of the prestigious Konoe family who are one of the five families of the Fujiwara clan of Japan, where the brides of Japan's emperor comes from. So she may have done that in order to protect him and to let him have a normal life.
- Ayaka lived to be 115 in Negima's Asuna-less timeline, so she might possibly be alive.
- Confirmed. Still alive and, well, maybe "kicking" is the wrong term to use here...
- Asuna had the body of a teenager but we know she was a lot older, so she may still be alive.
- Mana was part demon so she may be able to live a long time. AND there was a mention of an independence war on Mars where she participated in.
- Confirmed as of Chapter 62, although the reason for her reappearance is still under debate.
- Sayo is a ghost so she may still be "alive".
- Confirmed
- Chachamaru is a robot so she may be alive.
- Sort of confirmed and Jossed: While there were no mention thereof, the fact that the Al-Iskandariya Orbital Weapon is still operational in this settingnote sort of raises the probability. The question now lies with how Ikku Ameya got hold of the said artifact.
- Officially confirmed.
- Zazie is a full demon and it was mentioned in Negima's "where are they now?" ending that her story was for another time so she is most likely alive and will likely make an appearance in the series.
- Confirmed.
- Setsuna since she's also part-demon.
- Chao can time-travel and hop dimensions. We know she comes from the future of Negima, but not how far in the future; it's not a stretch to imagine that she originally came from the universe and time of UQ Holder. Even if it's not her home timeline, it's already been established that she has the ability to travel to it at some point.
Just look at that face and tell me he doesn't look like Kotaro.
- Then wouldn't he be part dog demon
- Seeing as he'd only be 1/8th demon, I don't think any traits would manifest.
- Jossed. He's a clone made from Negi and Asuna's DNA. No relation to those two whatsoever.
- Seeing as he'd only be 1/8th demon, I don't think any traits would manifest.
Claim that you're late bloomer probably won't work very long, so he might resort to Age-Pill sooner or later.
Jossed. At the start of chapter six, Evangeline is still shown with her "Yukihime" body after Touta strips the towel off of her.
The suspicion being raised is enough to present the possibility, at least, that Kuroumaru is a biological woman who feels that he should be a man. According to Karin, Kuro is indeed biologically female, but continues to identify as male nonetheless. It could just be a Gender Bender, though, so we can't call it confirmed yet.
- Again, mostly Jossed. Kuromaru has the body of a girl.
- transgender is still transgender even if the person doesn't try to change their body to match their gender. his regeneration would probably prevent him from changing his body without magic (and most magical changes would probably be healed as well) so he is probably stuck in a female body unless he finds a Gender Bender spell (assuming his current situation isn't caused by one which would mean he would have to find another one.) this is as far away from Jossed as you can get without being officially confirmed. Kuromaru is a male in a female body the only question is if he was always that way or if his body was changed.
- Jossed by Chapter 16. Kuromaru is a hermaphrodite. Specifically from a group of demi-humans who don't finalise their gender until they're sixteen.
- Kuroumaru is sexless, not a hermaphrodite (Kuroumaru has a body lacking any sex traits, not one bearing both male and female ones).
- the end result is still that he is not physically male but wants to be, but the situation is different enough for this exact WMG to be jossed. (no one could have guessed the actual situation. so, trans man was probably the closest thing to his situation we could have guessed )
- transgender is still transgender even if the person doesn't try to change their body to match their gender. his regeneration would probably prevent him from changing his body without magic (and most magical changes would probably be healed as well) so he is probably stuck in a female body unless he finds a Gender Bender spell (assuming his current situation isn't caused by one which would mean he would have to find another one.) this is as far away from Jossed as you can get without being officially confirmed. Kuromaru is a male in a female body the only question is if he was always that way or if his body was changed.
- Jossed. She was completely naked under the towel.
- later on? the series has had one from the beginning. Eva is not only a Magia Erebea user, she created the technique.
- Eva stopped using it once she had no need for it (as in she grew strong enough, after surviving for centuries, until she could be independent of its boosts). We all also know that she created it. No one likes a smart aleck.
- Confirmed, Touta somehow activated it in chapter 21
- it could just be that she hasn't done any of the really big spells in a few decades and needs a bit of practice to get back to her previous level of power. not mentioning the strength of her own immortality is odd but it could just be that there was no need to explain it after explaining Touta's since they are the same. that or the next WMG is right.
- Seemingly confirmed in chapter 30.
- I like the idea that Yukihime is really Chachamaru mimicking Evangeline's powers (with a human-like body, able to bleed, to explain facts of the first chapter). The real Evangeline appears sometimes to preserve the Masquerade.
- The body has to be more shinsoid than humanoid: it would have to contain a part of the blood of Evangeline, or a clone with the mind of Chachamaru taking the identity of Eva taking the identity of Yukihime. It would be a sophisticated maneuver.
- Or the body is not really a clone; the transformation in shinso is induced by magic, so the "blood" could be a magic potion. It can be a magic android, really.
- That's up to debate: The shot there depicts Eva's friends, which she didn't seem to count Chao among.
- When Mizore mentions 3-A, she says there were only 30 students. Hmm...
- Then again, she also mentions that Nagi had a harem of a hundred women, and that Negi was capable of impregnating women at a glance, so her statements should probably be taken with a grain of salt.
- Chapter 137 seems to point to something similar to thins.
- Since when is Touta's current skill and power at the level similar to that of endgame Negi's? Sure, Touta has good battle instincts, but he was OHK Od by Kaito. He has a lot of power, but he can't make proper use of it since he can't even do proper instant movement (as of this time of writing) yet.
- Jossed
- Confirmed.
- CONFIRMED
- Kuroumaru's brand of immortality(a strong Healing Factor)is usually depicted as only preventing characters from aging past their prime. Kuroumaru doesn't seem concerned about it so it likely applies to him as well.
- Cue to two years from now after Kuromaru turns 16. Touta: "So Kuromaru, got a d**k yet?" Kuromaru with what panicked look he gets (you know the one): "Shut-up Touta! It's none of your business! It just needs more time."
- Jossed
- Semi-confirmed. While they both share the same name, it is still unconfirmed if she is the same person.
- Kinda Jossed. Ikyuu was a human boy who had his mind uploaded in a robotic body due to ill health. Cool idea though. If Negi could force the universe to give Chachamaru a soul, why not make it let him knock her up?
He just happens to share the same family name coincidentally. This, and his teaming up with a Setsuna look-alike, are just a good ol' trolling from Akamatsu. (yeah, not very plausible I know… probably)
- Confirmed. He has no relation to the Konoe family at all, just has their surname.
- Jossed, Chapter 147 reveals that Konoka actually gave birth to him as a surrogate mother.
- And then after all of this has been discovered, some time in the future Eva will have Touta clear her memory, revert to her childhood self.
- Jossed, but also confirmed in a weird way. The real Negi showed up in person, and Touta is confirmed to just be a clone of him.
- In addition to the fact that he has no memories from before his parents die, Santa's data in Stage 45 states that Touta is 4 YEARS OLD
- He might be some kind of biological construct using Negi's DNA. This would make the Konoe's Tota's caretakers rather than his parents. Maybe Yukihime didn't turn him into a vampire after the accident because she didn't need to. When Tota's dying "parent" asked Yukihime to save Tota, we assume she was starting to say "But he's already dead". Maybe she was really saying was "But he's already immortal". Maybe they didn't even know. They might have been told that Tota was Negi's orphaned grandson and needed caretakers and they volunteered.
- CONFIRMED
- Setsuna is also a Yatagarasu, possibly Kuromaru's distant relative. It will just depend on how Akamatsu will connect Setsuna's purported "albinism" to Yatagarasu attributes (She was stated before to be a member of the Tengu tribe, but her backstory was apparently not discussed further, apart from her first meeting with Konoka... Possibly an abandoned Yatagarasu adopted as a baby by a family of Tengus, perhaps?
- The implication will eventually clarify how Touta got the Konoe name while still being related to Negi, for clarification: Setsuna chose to be male in order to be together with Konoka, possibly adopting the latter's surname in the process (Konoka's father did the same - his former surname was Aoyama), and then one of their children hooked up with Negi's child, and the rest is history...
- Setsuna was definitely female at 14 years old in Negima. No mention was ever made of her being able to change gender. Besides, gay marriage is probably legal in Japan.
- Plus unlike Kuromaru, Setsuna definitely is shown to have breasts (albeit smaller one).
- Negi did eventually end up with Evangeline, and supposedly co-founded the titular organization before he was reportedly killed prior to the story... Cue the Powder Keg from the prequel's Ship-to-Ship Combat...
- Zigzagged as of Chapter 149: the UQ timeline did not have Asuna, thus presenting a Downer Ending for the battle against Nagi!Ialda (resulting in a lot of character deaths, including Chisame); as a result Negi DID apparently end up with Eva, though she is more of his Living Emotional Crutch. What happened afterwards is still up for speculation...
- Beside similar appearances (Mihashi and Asura's bangs, Nikumaru and Shaba's large lip and eyebrows), they somehow are with Fate at the elevator and disappear when the battle started. Possibly, they're assigned by Fate to spy/protect Touta and probably used "Age Pill" or something as masquerade.
- Jossed. As far as we know, Negi had no children, Touta is a clone made from Negi and Asuna's DNA.
- First off, Touta resembles Negi to a degree, but he's obviously not 1 to 1 copy of Negi, or he wouldn't have black hair. The most obvious explanation is that in an effort to preserve Negi's abilities, they combined his DNA with someone else's. The most likely candidate is that he's a clone made from a combination of Negi and Konoka's DNA, given his name. It also makes sense from a practical standpoint, as Konoka was stated to have an amount of magic power that rivaled Nagi's, so it wouldn't be weird if whoever created Touta was trying to essentially create another Negi with an even more impressive power base. He might even be the product of several people's DNA, if they added Asuna to the mix, it would explain why Touta's so incompatible with magic.
- Second, it makes sense that Touta wouldn't be the only person to be created in that manner; they might try different DNA combinations to try to get the power to manifest. The mysterious girl who claims to be Touta's sister could easily be another clone made from Negi and someone else's DNA. The most likely candidates:
- Zazie: She's apparently demonfolk, which would give another power boost, and the skin/hair color combination is similar.
- Ku Fei: Similarly, her appearence implies someone who looks like Ku Fei. Also, we saw that Ku Fei was a winner of the Mahora tournament, meaning that she wouldn't be an unlikely candidate for somebody who wanted to create a powerful clone.
- Asuna: The girl's weapon is obviously a version of Asuna's artifact, and her magic cancel ability was implied to be at least partially genetic. And if somebody is trying to create a genetic super soldier, they'd be idiots not to at least attempt combining Negi's power with Asuna's ability to nullify damn near any magic attack.
- Confirmed, outright said by Yue that he is a clone made from combining Negi and Asuna's DNA.
- Unlikely, because the Lifemaker's form of immortality (as Al once said) is ceaseless rather than deathless like a Vampires. The Lifemaker can still be killed, they just make the person who killed them their next vessel.
- Another possibility is she is or thinks she is a clone of The Lifemaker (similar hairdo and taste in cloaks), in which case she still has the wrong gender and skin color.
- Confirmed, somewhat, Touta is the only succesful clone of Negi and Asuna out of 72, so her skillset means she is one of the failed ones.
- I at least had always assumed that with a name like Mc Dowell that Evangeline was born in Scotland. From seeing more of her back story and piecing it together with what we had already seen, I'm thinking that Eva was the daughter of a Scottish Knight in the service of a Lord in the English controlled part of France (or a French Lord, France & Scotland were allies back then).
- When Eva was changed she killed someone, maybe a servant and then ran off. When she tried to return she found the castle in flames and her family killed as a result of a French (or English) attack. I'm not an expert on the Hundred Years War, but I believe most of the fighting was in France, not Scotland.
- When Touta first met past Evangeline he thought she was speaking French, not old English or Gaelic (although it's possible that a lot of Norman/English aristocracy probably still spoke French rather than English at that time).
- I don't think she was a princess, that was just Asuna & Setsuna assuming that when they heard Eva lived in a castle.
- Confirmed, more or less. The exact time wasn't given, but the events are spot on.
- Kindasorta. In Chapter 84, Touta tells Evangeline she's gonna fall for a red-headed guy much more awesome than him. He means Negi, but as we know, Nagi fits that bill first.
- Confirmed in a way. Al makes note that Eva might have been attracted to Nagi due to his similarities with Touta. However also Jossed because it also makes it clear that her love for Negi was largely unrelated to Touta, since Negi and him are two very different people in terms of everything aside from looks.
- Considering that kiss-activated superpowers do exist in the world of Negima and they kissed at the beginning and end of the glitch in Kirie's powers, it is possible the method of savepoint creation was transferred to it.
- Related to that, Kirie's savepoints kinda remind me of a birthday cake with a candle. Considering the Parental Neglect Kirie suffered, she might have made one out of loneliness and that somehow became her method of savepoint creation by default.
- Jossed: kissing Touta allows them to stop time.
- Confirmed in Chapter 152.
- First of all, Nodoka and Yue don't appear to have aged since their appearances in the previous series, when Ayaka is already shown to have aged considerably.
- Karin mentions that she thought they lost their lives in the previous war, but here they are alive and well. They also don't appear to be illusions since the artifacts they use are the genuine article. It's also plausible that the Lifemaker did something to them akin to what happened to Evangeline long ago, making it a bit personal in her case.
- Yue was shown near the end of the parent series to have concocted a liquid Magia Erebea type potion that allowed her to cast spells with ease. It's not unthinkable that she could've discovered a method of immortality using her artifact, or even invented one.
- Given the series' theme of immortality it would only make sense for Negi to have a few on his side.
- Confirmed, in a disturbing way, as disciples of the Lifemaker, they are granted inmortality/resurrection like those back in Negima
- This is certainly possible but Eva would've likely been able to tell if this was the case. After all she knew Fate wasn't human after their first meeting.
- Jossed. They're actually acting as a sort of buffer to keep Negi's mind from being entirely consumed by the Lifemaker.