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| Wouldn't she have been the descendant of Negi and Ayaka? Even thought I still hate how stupid of a pairing that was considering how much bloody screen-time Asuna x Negi got together and how long they had been together. This manga let me down in the end which is unfortunate as I loved the rest of this series. |
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| I give this manga a 9/10 since it's my favorite. But that last chapter somehow reminded me of School Rumble ending chapter years back. I hope there is some extra chapter or some spin-off to give details about some unanswered questions. |
| I feel as though one of my favourite manga was happily being chatty and smiley walking along, and then suddenly gets hit by a bus and is killed in a split-second. Ken Akamatsu, I hope you take all the feedback you will no doubt receive from this and learn from it. Take all the good parts (Mahora festival arc was the most amazing thing I had ever read at the time) and make sure your next work will be remembered more than the ending to this bitter-sweet ending to an otherwise great series. |
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PrometheusZero said: I feel as though one of my favourite manga was happily being chatty and smiley walking along, and then suddenly gets hit by a bus and is killed in a split-second. Ken Akamatsu, I hope you take all the feedback you will no doubt receive from this and learn from it. Take all the good parts (Mahora festival arc was the most amazing thing I had ever read at the time) and make sure your next work will be remembered more than the ending to this bitter-sweet ending to an otherwise great series. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1fsVx5ZFgM Not a bus but close. Chances are that maybe they will make a movie or something to cover the "Rescue Nagi" plot thing someday. It was fun. Hope next manga will be even better :) |
| It is going to be hard o beat 31 girls. That is, unless Ken makes another group of 31 girls and puts in another teacher, this time without any magic so we can just have some comedic ecchi slice of life stuff. Anyways, ┐(￣ー￣)┌ |
| Troll of 2011 Tite Kubo (might redeem himself this year).. Troll of 2012.. Ken Akamatsu..heard he got tired of Negima!, he should have taken a year hiatus like Togashi.. |
| This has to be the worst ending to anything i've ever watched or read in my life. It's clear that Ken just lost faith in his manga and made shit up on the spot. |
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| I'm with the earlier posters, that definitely looked like a wedding scene with Ayaka as bride's maid and Fate as the best man, so Negi x Asuna (thus fulfilling the standard rule of all harem series). |
TheTsunami said: I'm with the earlier posters, that definitely looked like a wedding scene with Ayaka as bride's maid and Fate as the best man, so Negi x Asuna (thus fulfilling the standard rule of all harem series). http://www.mangareader.net/mahou-sensei-negima/355/16 Their wedding, http://www.mangareader.net/mahou-sensei-negima/355/17 Guests to Natsumi big moment :) If it was Negi and Asuna wedding he would stand right by her side. Why would Asuna end up with Negi when 1-2 chapters ago she was shocked about who he likes? Chao comes from alternative world where we got the "bad ending" that She had to fix. She was not born in the normal time line since events were changed and Negi probably didn't end up with her ancestor. I still think some Final Anime series or movie would be nice to cover all the missed manga parts. At least he ended it when he got burned out. Bad ending but better than dragging it forever with pointless plot twists. |
| Fair enough. =) |
| I think the one Negi likes is hidden in this chapter but I can't seem to find out who it is... several people seem to have gotten married so it must be one of them... >.< |
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| Nice 9 year troll. Thanks for killing me. The past 3 months just jumped off a cliff. :sad: No words to describe how I'm feeling right now. |
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| yeah, too many things left unexplained. A rather bleak and lacking ending. Excellent troll ending though! I'll give you that much. Now for discussion! It's interesting though. The Asuna from the current timeline doesn't actually belong there. What would happen when the ordinal one awakes? That would be funny to see haha (I'm assuming that the Asuna that came into the current timeline is immortal). And Chao became a dimensional hopper... that's an interesting concept, seeing that she still visits the current timeline (and probably even more) likes is nothing just to visit her friends and have some R&D that way, while at the same time fighting a war on her original one lol. There just was so much left unexplained though. Like how Nagi was rescued. Who was the Lifemaker, really. Who was Negi's crush. And I could go on... Oh well I guess. Maybe Mr Ken just go bored of doing this manga or something? The best Arc was doubtfully the Magic World one, and since it was the longest one, I think it defines this manga the best. And Just for it I'll leave it at an 8 rating (not that it matters much). If it wasn't for that one arc, I'd rate this manga a 7 best, probably even a 6... (It would've been a 5 without that Festival arc by the way) O_o Yerocha said: I suppose there are much worse final chapters you can have than this. At least we got confirmation on a few pairs (Hakase/Godel, WTF?). I was still hoping for Negi/Chisame, or at least Negi/Anyone. Exactly. I grew to like Chisame as a character alot during the Magic World arc. At least SOMEBODY should've ended up with him... even the ghost lol. Incidentally, my top choices were Chisame, and Asuna. Yue was a high tiered one too. |
TheTsunami said: I'm with the earlier posters, that definitely looked like a wedding scene with Ayaka as bride's maid and Fate as the best man, so Negi x Asuna (thus fulfilling the standard rule of all harem series). Oh yeah. I didn't think too much of that panel at the time. You might be right! Probably not though. It's either unintended, or the author being a tease (ie. an ass, seeing as we'll never know for sure now) hahaha. |
| I can't believe this ending... I can't even really put into words what I'm feeling... haha Seeing how it ended, I would have far preferred for Asuna to wake up after her "sacrifice", and we find out that the manga was actually about her all along. Eva could just recap the events of the battle to save Nagi, and briefly recall how each person lived their lives. And as for the question of who Negi ended up with, Eva could start to tell and then have Asuna say "No, I'd rather not know... I'd feel sorry for the other girls"... And then end with Asuna changing her looks to blend in with society, since she's now more than likely famous for having saved the world, and heading off to start her new life... It would have been a sad end, but it would have at least made the chapters after the Magic World arc mean something... |
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| 9 year troll. Dammit, I think he ended up with Eva. Since Asuna said "Well you two are the same type of people". |
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| In the first chapter, Negima told Asuna "Your love will be unrequitted" (in other words, unfulfilled or un-returned). Asuna's love is indeed unrequitted when she returns in 2135 to find Negima dead. Until Chao (in her long-long awaited return) rewrites history to 'a blank page' using her awesome hacking stopwatches of hacks. ^ THAT was a good ending. But the last chapter (and 354) were complete trite (the 2nd time skip was uneccessary because the future details of all the characters could have easily been shown after chapter 353, Yue being assaulted should be left to the doujins, too vague about the true route and Nagi has no right to show up so casually after such a long journey). I'd still give it 9/10. It was an amazing manga for it's 9 years, but the last 2 chapters need to be ignored. I would suggest that Ken planned to finish Negima at the events of 353, but his plotline ended too quickly and he had to write 2 more chapters from nothing. |
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Loftyz47 said: In the first chapter, Negima told Asuna "Your love will be unrequitted" (in other words, unfulfilled or un-returned). Asuna's love is indeed unrequitted when she returns in 2135 to find Negima dead. Until Chao (in her long-long awaited return) rewrites history to 'a blank page' using her awesome hacking stopwatches of hacks. ^ THAT was a good ending. But the last chapter (and 354) were complete trite (the 2nd time skip was uneccessary because the future details of all the characters could have easily been shown after chapter 353, Yue being assaulted should be left to the doujins, too vague about the true route and Nagi has no right to show up so casually after such a long journey). I'd still give it 9/10. It was an amazing manga for it's 9 years, but the last 2 chapters need to be ignored. I would suggest that Ken planned to finish Negima at the events of 353, but his plotline ended too quickly and he had to write 2 more chapters from nothing. Let's treat the last two chapter as two different one-shot. |
| KEN, HOW DO U DO IT? JUMP THE SHARK? NUKE THE FRIDGE? YOU'RE JUST SO GREAT AT IT. 5/10 for the entire chapter. KonoSetsu being married is the only one that I only enjoy. Manga overall 6/10..... |
| Bad ending. Oh well. 5/10. |
| Man, the ending is just so incredibly lackluster and unfulfilling compared to the rest of the manga. I don't think it negates the other chapters though, so 8/10 from me. Still, what a huge slap in the face. I read this so called ending then just sat stupefied for a while, amazed at how much of a NON ending this was to such a long running project. Meh. Nothing more to say really, the last few chapters were one big "meh" |
| I'm pretty bummed out as well, but I recall a majority of manga out there having pretty unsatisfactory ends. I think the problem might be a lot of these manga authors go in without the vision as to where they intend the series to go which is why a lot of manga ends are so unsatisfactory and crappy. At the same time they kind of can't because the editors and publishers have the final say and keeping a steady income means writing grand plots with a ton of elements that may or may not go anywhere. An example of an author having such vision (in recent memory) is Kozue Amano. She said herself that by the time she had the second chapter of Aqua finished she already had an ending in mind. She sat on this for 8 years. Aria, despite the speedup in later volumes, had a pretty satisfying end. Now I might be oversimplifying since writing skill plays into it a lot but from my experience what gets a project/organization off the ground and used to gauge its success is vision. I get the feeling Akamatsu chose to end it because of the lack of/poorly defined vision for the series. Probably why the anime adaptations for Negima are all over the place as well. |
| What a roller coaster. First I thought Yue was picked, then no one was picked, the NAGI OUT OF FUCKING NOWHERE, then YAY KONOSETSU! and YAY NATUSUMI/KOTARO!, then WTF DID YOU DO TO CHISAME YOU MOTHERFUCKING TROLL!!! then end. 8/10 for the whole thing, though I wish it had ended 25 chapters ago... |
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| I seriously think he picked Eva. It makes the most sense tbh. |
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| A lil' bit disappointed. I personally think that it's better to end the series at #353 and make it open but good ending (also sequel can be prepared afterwards if he wanted), compare to this two crap ending chapters. |
| Well could have been worse. 8/10 I was a nice ride of 9 years. I was there since the very beginning... |
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| People You can talk if i'm wrong, but i tell for you what i thought about the finale. I after reading the manga as everybody else think The mangaka don't tell anyone with who Negi gets, but after a bit of thinking i found out something. Ken akamatsy tells at the manga that Cho is Negi's descendent, that's means he finishe with someone obviously. When the mangaka've been commenting about each students's life fineshed he show as Asuna as ayaka wearing withe dress with Negi and Fate. Later i deduce myself they could be a double couple but don't know which would of who, but Negi couldn't get wit Asuna because he talks her who he liked and for her expression isn't she. It does remain Ayaka, so i looked for something to prove my ideas, when at the chapter 355 describe what happens to Ayaka it show that she get pleased and so much happy just stay by his side, but at the chapter 353 when asuna is looking at the time box Ayaka has a grand-grand-grand-granddaugther, in orther words, How she got the parent if she If she ever was at his side(negi), that's means negi might married with Ayaka. only can be two people ayaka or asuna. |
hyoga11Mar 16, 2012 1:36 AM
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| What kind of ending is this!?? It doesn't even say WHO he ended up with and what happened! So many loose ends... Negima Darkness coming? |
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Swifteh said: 9 year troll. Dammit, I think he ended up with Eva. Since Asuna said "Well you two are the same type of people". Would have been pleased if that's the case actually, any of these girls would do in fact: Nodoka Evangeline Yue Chisame Hasegawa Holy shit... I forgot who the other girls were, but yeah these girls would've made great end heroines for Negi to me |
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| Though I did dislike the ending, it could be worse. If he had omitted the final 2 chapters, we would have had a possibility of a sequel series that could have filled in a lot of questions and loopholes in this ending. I honestly believe that he was pressured to end it quickly, by either fans, his publisher, or someone close to him. This might explain the lack of thought put into these final 2 chapters, as it seems they were rushed compared to other chapters. I'm still hoping he starts a sequel/in-between to fill in the holes at least and please explain how he died in the future. This has been stumping me for a while. |
| The ending didn't disappoint at disappointing. Still that "did they or did they not" trolling with Konoka and Setsuna was funny. They did, I don't care what anyone can say against it, they did |
undead_blopaMar 18, 2012 8:45 PM
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| Well, they left it ambiguous. But if you look at their positions. at back [Fate] [Negi] at front [Asuna] [Inchou] I am assuming Inchou (Ayaka) got married to Negi, as I don't like Asuna. And to their positions, this is the conclusion I could make. Remember the part where Negi whispered to Asuna who Negi likes? It is not Asuna herself. It is another person. So I guess she got married to Ayaka alright. Eva is now with Nagi, so Eva can't end with Negi. Can't wait for your next work, Akamatsu-sensei! |
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| Eh, I'm satisfied with Konoka & Setsuna :3 |
| well, whatever. it ended lets move on. i did enjoy reading it though. |
| This manga was excellent until the "defeat" of the mage of the beginning. That whole ending was just confusing as hell. And after that it was just "oh the bad guy died so the manga is over so lets just wrap it all up really quick." |
kuropon said: I can't believe this ending... I can't even really put into words what I'm feeling... haha Seeing how it ended, I would have far preferred for Asuna to wake up after her "sacrifice", and we find out that the manga was actually about her all along. Eva could just recap the events of the battle to save Nagi, and briefly recall how each person lived their lives. And as for the question of who Negi ended up with, Eva could start to tell and then have Asuna say "No, I'd rather not know... I'd feel sorry for the other girls"... And then end with Asuna changing her looks to blend in with society, since she's now more than likely famous for having saved the world, and heading off to start her new life... It would have been a sad end, but it would have at least made the chapters after the Magic World arc mean something... I would have actually liked this ending much more. Except I don't agree with Negi dying. He should be immortal because he's no longer human. He defeated the mage of the beginning so what the hell else on this planet and the magical one could freaking kill him? |
Aezile said: Satisfying ending. Thank you. Couldn't have said it any better, that's exactly how I felt. |
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ichigo03 said: Aezile said: Satisfying ending. Thank you. I don't mean to offend but.....HOW THE HELL is this a "Satisfying ending"? This is the biggest Troll job...EVER! Not only did they not show who Negi ended up with (Although, I personally guess it was Ayaka). They show Nagi??? LOL...OK, skip one of the biggest moments in this manga by not even showing it. There are no words to properly describe what just happened. I expected an ending like this when there were still 5 chapters left, it's hardly trolling it's not like it came out of know where. It had to be wrapped up somehow, and knowing that Ken Akamatsu could not go in depth anymore with what's left, I would say it's a satisfying ending and I'm leaving it at that. Earlier on I was raging quite a bit with what's left and still unsolved...and especially at that crap of an anime final, but now I rather have some kind of closure with the characters (if the immediate ending to the story was inevitable for Akamatsu...such as being pressured) It's either he sucked at planning or he was suddenly cut off, and I'm betting on the second one because I find it hard to believe the mangaka was planning on leaving it at that. |
giraffe13280Mar 28, 2012 12:50 AM
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| Ending didn't seem satisfying to me. At the very least it showed what happened to his class. I'm pissed off though, ken doesn't say who he ends up with, well whatever I bet he couldn't make up his mind who negi ends up with is probably why. It seemed like an open ending to me. Maybe more story material can be produced....... who knows. |
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| I expected such an ending. I mean, the whole manga has been like that ever since the magic world arc began - NOTHING. EXPLAINED. AT. ALL! So yeah, it sucked. Fortunately I don't care for this manga enough to be offended. The lesbian marriage is just wrong. |
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| I dropped the manga 40 chapters ago and decided to catch up yesteday. 40 bad chapters and I expected a good ending? More fool me, really. |
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