Mahou Sensei Negima!

10-year-old Negi Springfield is a wizard-in-training, and needs only to pass one more test in order to become a Master Wizard. Unfortunately, his final task is a bizarre one—to become a English teacher at an all-females boarding school. As soon as he arrives, he completely embarrasses one of his students, Asuna Kagurazaka, and replaces the teacher she loves, which garners her hatred. To make matters worse, Asuna learns that Negi is a wizard, and promises to tell unless he helps her out. But unfortunately, circumstances force them to work together to do many things, from fighting evil wizards to helping the class pass their final exam, with a lot of humor, magic, and romances thrown in.

(Source: ANN, edited)

Springfield, Negi Main

Satou, Rina Japanese

Miyazaki, Nodoka Main

Noto, Mamiko Japanese

Kagurazaka, Asuna Main

Kanda, Akemi Japanese

Ayase, Yue Main

Kuwatani, Natsuko Japanese

Konoe, Konoka Main

Nonaka, Ai Japanese

McDowell, Evangeline Athanasia Katherine Supporting

Matsuoka, Yuki Japanese

Sakurazaki, Setsuna Supporting

Kobayashi, Yuu Japanese

Hasegawa, Chisame Supporting

Shimura, Yumi Japanese

Karakuri, Chachamaru Supporting

Watanabe, Akeno Japanese

Nagase, Kaede Supporting

Shiraishi, Ryouko Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Chino, Takatoshi Producer

Ikeda, Shinichi Producer

Nakanishi, Go Assistant Producer

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Apr 15, 2020

Rukako122

Recommended

Warning ! This review is biased, the Negima anime is the first anime I watched whilst knowing it was Japanese animation. (I had seen anime before without knowing what ''anime'' meant) And is Therefore my favorite anime and manga, and the holder of Best Waifu which I won't name. So extremely biased indeed.

Negima, also known as abandonment issues and autism the animation, is an anime full of dumb soft ecchi and funny jokes.
First, the art-style is old and might not be ''newbie'' friendly, but it sure has it's charms.
The Ost is legendary, it's so ... good that 15 years later, I'm still listening to it and changing from one music to another depending the situation I'm in, when outside.
The sound effect are also quite good, the one when they are reciting spells might be my favorite.
The Characters are ok-tier, there is 30+ ''main characters'', most of them seems to be there just to include ever anime tropes, but in the manga, they all end up being good characters.
And for the most anticipated part, the story. Even though a bit lacking and following the Akamatsu Curse that says that each and every manga made by Ken Akamatsu must have an anime adaptation before it is finished and that therefore they are gonna have an alternate ending. It is still fairly good. It's not crazy good and super long like the actual manga it's adapted from, but it's still good enough that it made me cry when I watched it as a kid and once more when I re-watched it as an adult, which is rare since I'm not the kind to cry over an anime.
Also the humor in this anime is quite good.

Overall an all rounded Ok-tier anime. Which I gave a Ten, because to me, it's a masterpiece (less than the manga but still).

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Mar 5, 2021

xokker7

Mixed Feelings

Oh boy, OH BOY where do I even start. This used to be one of my favorite mangas. I remember hearing that it had a anime adaptation, wait MULTIPLE adaptations 2 of them being almost nothing like the manga. But I didnt know that at the time so i peeped it. Disappointment hit like a fucking 100 pound rock. If you want to start this series, read the manga, no matter what. This is a similar situation to Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) where the anime cut corners and made up their own ending. Manga is a 10/10 imo purely because of the magic fights. There are ... OVAs that are much better/more faithful but they start later on in the series. So you should just read Negima!

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Jan 13, 2020

kawaii123456

Not Recommended

"Success has a thousand fathers but failure is an orphan"

When it comes to Negima this isn't true at all. It's failure has more family than you can shake a stick at. You have lazy writing taking the part of the father. A difficult concept failed in its execution the mother. Poorly animated art is the c airhead of a little sister, while ridiculous and unrelatable characters are the bratty brothers. Finally very good music used for nothing but obvious emotional manipulation is the older sister trying to hold it together but being ground down into dust. Negima is no orphan but its family ... makes the Bundy's from married with children look good.

Lets start with older sister music. She's beautiful and if she could get out of this family could really be something on her own, instead she is trying to carry her family on her back and suffers for it. The music really may be the best part of Negima. It's a bit schmaltzy which isn't surprising seeing as it's used to try and carry scenes that the writing and art just can't pull off.

Little sister Art, how she dreams of seeing her work in the Louvre, but even mom has trouble hanging her work on the refrigerator. She may do better one day but today isn't that day.

Time for the match made in hell that birthed this family. Lazy Writing that took on a project far too large and characters were just not there. The source material for this anime is large far larger than can be fit into a single season of an anime, and therein lies the problem. If the story is to be told well, parts have to be left out, unfortunately instead of biting the bullet and doing the job Lazy Writer dad just makes a hash of everything. This is doubly so for the characters, who have plenty of change but no development.

***************Spoilers Ahead******************

How lazy is your writing ? Let me count the ways.
Lazy as retroactively mindwiping characters.
Lazy as bringing in time travel at the last moment to solve everything
Lazy as filler episodes that contribute nothing while the plot and characters languish.
Lazy as characters that act for no reason at all
Lazy as completely unresolved plot lines.
Lazy as characters who can't recognize their friends when they put on a hat.
Lazy as just being told what's happening instead of having the characters figure it out for themselves.
Lazy as I want to kill you becoming, I want to serve you for the rest of my life for no reason.
Lazy as turning death into something vanquished at whim.
Lazy as endlessly interrupting people whenever they try to say something important.

And as lazy you are, you fail in being funny.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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