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razisgosu said: The thing I've never understood is why has Negima never gone the manga route? We've had two separate series and a number of OVAs. The OVAs are the only things that have any semblance to the manga. The original school festival and magic world arcs could have been amazing animated, yet they left the major fights and arcs to OVAs. Both anime series had anime original endings which made very little sense. On topic: The movie was... meh. I was actually expecting one person to be selected not "the entire class" what a bullshit cop out. Ken Akamatsu said that Negima may be revived one day, and that the current manga ending is just another alternative, or something like that. I hope that when he is ready to really tackle Negima again and give it a proper ending, that Shaft will also produce a proper animated series for it too. I don't care if it's OAV, season series, movies, or a combination. Just a beginning to end coherent series!! They could even keep the OAVs they have now, as they're pretty good except for the WTF-is-happening factor that is included if you've only seen the anime. Some expansion would be nice too. |
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| wondering if anyone knows what the song is that plays during the scenes where negi and asuna fight the lifemaker? |
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| I love Negima but... the ending for both the manga, and the anime final were not that good. I just hope one day we'll get a real adaptation of the manga because I need! to see the Mahora Budokai, and Negi vs Jack Rakan fully animated lol. Overall movie rating: 6/10 |
NJZanDatsuAug 26, 2012 10:46 PM
| I thought it was going to be really bad. But compared to the Manga ending this was actually much more preferable. Or at least this timeline is a bit better than the original one lawlz. |
| Just finished the movie. Few thoughts:
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| I was so disappointed by this movie. I expected some follow up after the other OVA but no this was a total random new ending plot unrelated to the story. No wait. First few minutes were good with the final clash of Negi and Fate but rest was horrible. I'm glad this was not the last Negima I watched. Thank the Gods I watched Yue OVA after the "final" Movie. I still have high hopes for a good anime based on whole Negima manga or at least the skipped magic world parts. Would be great if it was made as some sort of UQ Holder pre-anime release. For some reason I can't shake the feeling that after the awesome intro and final battle with Negi and Fate everyone were forced into Cosmo Entelecheia and this whole movie is just a dream (nightmare for us). I hope it's true and that one day we will see how awesome Jack Rakan is (his power lvl might be too much for anime to handle). |
| For an anime watcher for this series, it's totally WTFs going on at the beginning. I guess I watched it for the fights and fanservices. |
| I have no idea what are those fights at the beginning. |
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| Well that was pretty decent, not exactly how I pictured this "ending" if you can even call it that, but in general it wasn't too bad. All in all a pretty decent movie! |
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| It felt more like a long special than a movie when you compare it to the 4 Part Magic World Arc. I like that one better than this movie. However, it was still fun to watch through and through to the end. Still wished we could've gotten that Negima Anime to do the Manga Justice. |
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| ASUNA <3 Aww, Nodoka :'( I felt for her in that moment in the library. But the conversation between her and Yue later on made me happy. :) Ku Fei was cool. Mana should get her own spin-off show. I liked how honest Ayaka was with Asuna. Asuna, Ayaka, Setsuna, and Konoka are definitely my favorite group out of them all so it's always nice when they get screen time together. Even though this is an alternate ending to the manga, how cool would it be to get a show about the girls' high school experiences!? I won't hold my breath, but if that ever gets made, I hope it has a similar feel to Mahou Sensei Negima and isn't far too comedic or cute or chibi-ized lol. Something serious and amusing would be great. |
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| The idea that everyone had to forget about him made very little sense to start with and the solution was about as boring as you could get. Chao returning also made little sense. The lack of explanation with why Mars also started moving 30 years early was also really annoying. Meh movie. |
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| Mahou Sensei Negima: The Movie was what it clearly set out to be—fun! Negi Springfield, a mage and sensei, has to choose one girl from his thirty girl harem to form a contract with. This contract has the cruel side effect of erasing the memories of those with whom he doesn't choose. The action and spectacle were outstanding, a roller coaster flying on the tracks of Shaft's gorgeous animation. You get the sense that this movie wasn't meant to be taken with total seriousness. Nonetheless, some underwhelming story developments will—understandably—disappoint the more dedicated fans of this franchise, and the no-fucks-given fanservice will inevitably offend others. Enjoyment: 5/5 Rating: 7/10 Side note: This is my 500th completed anime. ^_^ |
| it's not that good, if we compared to manga route. I still think manga route are the true route, even though it dissapoint me a little bit because he didn't choose anyone. last day battle seems forced, and I don't get why Kaede stronger than Mana. Mana should have easily beaten Kaede with her demon form. the ending they choose to merge mars and earth also seems absurd to me. fusing two planets with magic because "it's possible if if you're magister magi". does any of those magical people doesn't have a magister magi title? I thought magister magi is a title where the mage in training get after passing the test. despite all of that, I still enjoyed the fighting scene and finally I can see each of their "adeat" transformation. |
| So they skipped the battles we were looking forward to after watching the OVAs and returned to some SoL stuff? C'mon, you can't do this to me after letting me watch those nice animated fights with those bad magical guys... Overall I can see where the disappointment for this movie comes from. |
| If nothing else, I really enjoyed the past few OVA, and I've added the manga to my plan to read list. I haven't necessarily heard anything good about this movie, and it has an overall lower score than the OVAs, but we'll see what happens. Well, that's one way to open a movie, I guess? I kind of feel like they could've added a few extra minutes onto this film to animate a little more of the battle with grey haired boi. They had only spent all of the OVAs building up to it after all. In the end I never got to see any of the dark magic either eh? Not sure what the point of dragging out this "everyone will lose their memories" thing. In the span of following the girls all night, we've basically learned that numerous characters aren't even going to lose their memories. I will be fairly surprised if anyone loses them at all. So, after having to only pick one he comes to the conclusion to pick everybody. And then the universe is just like, "Well, alright. No one said you couldn't do that." I thought he had to pick one. Feels a lot like a copout if you ask me. ಠ_ಠ Having them go one-by-one and shout attacks was already a bit of drag, so by the time we got to the end and they went through and showed all the students I felt like I wanted to just drop this. Like, that was such an unnecessarily drawn out scene. I'm so glad it's over, and it's no surprise that Negi is their teacher indefinitely. They do have contracts for life after all. |
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