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魔法先生ネギま! [Mahou Sensei Negima!] #11
Negima! Magister Negi Magi, Vol. 11
FOUR’S THE CHARM
The first lo-o-o-o-o-ng day of the Mahora Academy Festival is finally coming to a close. Of course, Negi needed to repeat the day four times, courtesy of a bit of magic, in order to make it through his to-do list. And thanks to Evangeline’s enchanted resort, Negi has had enough training and rest. But will he have the courage to face fellow magic-teacher Takamichi in the premiere round? It’s time to do what Negi’s father did before him–not only survive the “Budokai” Martial Arts Tournament, but win it!
The first lo-o-o-o-o-ng day of the Mahora Academy Festival is finally coming to a close. Of course, Negi needed to repeat the day four times, courtesy of a bit of magic, in order to make it through his to-do list. And thanks to Evangeline’s enchanted resort, Negi has had enough training and rest. But will he have the courage to face fellow magic-teacher Takamichi in the premiere round? It’s time to do what Negi’s father did before him–not only survive the “Budokai” Martial Arts Tournament, but win it!
208 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2005
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Ken Akamatsu
641 books231 followersKen Akamatsu (赤松 健, Akamatsu Ken, July 5, 1968 -) is a Japanese mangaka from Tokyo.
In his teenage years, Akamatsu failed the entrance exam to Tokyo University, and applied for Film Study instead (it is speculated that this is where he got the idea for Love Hina). Eventually, he became famous as an illustrator featured in Comiket (short for Comic Market, a comic convention bi-annually held in Japan). He used the pen name Awa Mizuno (水野 亜和, MIZUNO Awa). Akamatsu, still in college, then proceeded to win the Weekly Shonen Magazine award twice. His "A Kid's Game for One Summer" was awarded the coveted 50th Shonen Magazine Newcomer's Award soon after he graduated.
After a big hit with A.I. Love You, he finally made a grand success with his new manga, Love Hina. The series appeared in Weekly Shonen Magazine and has been collected in eleven volumes (with fourteen volumes in total), which have sold over 6 million copies in Japan, and received the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen in 2001.
Akamatsu had added elements of his own life experiences to the story, and this was said to have induced a unique feeling to the manga especially for Western readers, whose lack of familiarity with Japanese culture for the most part added to the effect. The series, published in America in 2002, was especially well received in many overseas countries - Akamatsu was surprised that even foreign readers found Love Hina to be "cute" and to their liking.
He is now married to his wife 'Kanon' Akamatsu, who was previously a singer/idol. He is currently working on his latest manga series, Negima!: Magister Negi Magi, which is his longest running manga so far. Like Love Hina, has also been made into an anime series. A second independent retelling of Negima was made called Negima!?. Both series were produced by XEBEC (Negima!? was produced by SHAFT).
In his teenage years, Akamatsu failed the entrance exam to Tokyo University, and applied for Film Study instead (it is speculated that this is where he got the idea for Love Hina). Eventually, he became famous as an illustrator featured in Comiket (short for Comic Market, a comic convention bi-annually held in Japan). He used the pen name Awa Mizuno (水野 亜和, MIZUNO Awa). Akamatsu, still in college, then proceeded to win the Weekly Shonen Magazine award twice. His "A Kid's Game for One Summer" was awarded the coveted 50th Shonen Magazine Newcomer's Award soon after he graduated.
After a big hit with A.I. Love You, he finally made a grand success with his new manga, Love Hina. The series appeared in Weekly Shonen Magazine and has been collected in eleven volumes (with fourteen volumes in total), which have sold over 6 million copies in Japan, and received the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen in 2001.
Akamatsu had added elements of his own life experiences to the story, and this was said to have induced a unique feeling to the manga especially for Western readers, whose lack of familiarity with Japanese culture for the most part added to the effect. The series, published in America in 2002, was especially well received in many overseas countries - Akamatsu was surprised that even foreign readers found Love Hina to be "cute" and to their liking.
He is now married to his wife 'Kanon' Akamatsu, who was previously a singer/idol. He is currently working on his latest manga series, Negima!: Magister Negi Magi, which is his longest running manga so far. Like Love Hina, has also been made into an anime series. A second independent retelling of Negima was made called Negima!?. Both series were produced by XEBEC (Negima!? was produced by SHAFT).
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June 17, 2021
Negi and his class are still enjoying the academy festival as they participate in a cosplay contest and tsundere Chisame gets a grand reception. In the ongoing martial arts contest, Negi goes up against a formidable opponent and he’ll use all of his magi martial arts strength to win. A (100%/Outstanding)
March 31, 2018
Although it sports one of the silliest covers of the series (and almost completely unrelated with what's inside), this is a winner volume, as it kicks off the Mahora Budoukai in earnest, with the first (almost) no-holds-barred matches between characters, amazingly complexly drawn by Ken Akamatsu.
My favorite is obviously Negi vs Takamichi, since the protagonist starts connecting with his father's past, as his fists connect with one of his old companions. The combat itself is pretty amazing and reminiscent of the golden age of shounen martial arts manga.
As part of this speed-re-read, I decided to generally write about story arcs, rather than individual volumes, but this one here really starts moving the main underlying plot.
My favorite is obviously Negi vs Takamichi, since the protagonist starts connecting with his father's past, as his fists connect with one of his old companions. The combat itself is pretty amazing and reminiscent of the golden age of shounen martial arts manga.
As part of this speed-re-read, I decided to generally write about story arcs, rather than individual volumes, but this one here really starts moving the main underlying plot.
January 27, 2013
The artwork for Negima is beautifully dull. I love this comic book series, but honestly, with all the girls and all the characters, I have to say that one of Akamatsu-sensei's weaknesses is his very plain and repetitive art style. It doesn't help any that he makes all of Negi's students secondary characters in the story. They are all of them designed a lot alike, and he doesn't do much about their differences in design. He tries again and again in the books to flesh out the different female students by giving them their own interests and clubs but time and again he fills his panels with too many of them talking and except for the more interesting ones like Chairman Ku Fei, Evangeline and the class president who has a naughty crush on Negi, all the other female students just tend to blend into each other.
The other thing wrong with Akamatsu-sensei's art is that its so bloody and needlessly detailed. I know, this sounds like a ridiculous contradiction to what I have just said about how his characters are all sadly, very much look alikes, but that's likely the fault of the fact that he spends so much time detailing the backgrounds of his comic books, which is something I seriously love, but I feel is effort spent on the wrong thing. I wish Akamatsu-sensei would spend more time trying to make his characters distinguishable from one another, or maybe he could write less of them into the stories instead of making these elaborately illustrated backgrounds that only serve as setting for the story, and should not be the main focus of the book.
The main focus of the book is the characters not all the pretty backgrounds.
That said, another aggravating thing about the books is that so many background characters are talking all the time, the book seems needlessly filled in with text and speaking that coupled with the constant repetition of spells only serves to obscure the beautiful artwork. Do we really need to read about five dozen people cheering Negi or Ku Fei during the fight? It detracts from the story, and obscures the overly beautiful backgrounds.
As far as the story is concerned, as usual Negi has to make time for all of his students by being the greatest teacher that ever lived, even though he's ten year's old. But all of this works to make Negi adorable which is the biggest draw of the book. So its only really a so-so story with beautiful artwork and it delivers a lot of story which is why I consistently give the works of Akamatsu-sensei such high praise.
Its definitely worth reading, if you're a fan of Harry Potter, good art, or funny girl manga. But I have to dadmit that I do miss the whole Negi sneezing and blowing off the girl's clothes schtick that first got me into this gag-manga.
The other thing wrong with Akamatsu-sensei's art is that its so bloody and needlessly detailed. I know, this sounds like a ridiculous contradiction to what I have just said about how his characters are all sadly, very much look alikes, but that's likely the fault of the fact that he spends so much time detailing the backgrounds of his comic books, which is something I seriously love, but I feel is effort spent on the wrong thing. I wish Akamatsu-sensei would spend more time trying to make his characters distinguishable from one another, or maybe he could write less of them into the stories instead of making these elaborately illustrated backgrounds that only serve as setting for the story, and should not be the main focus of the book.
The main focus of the book is the characters not all the pretty backgrounds.
That said, another aggravating thing about the books is that so many background characters are talking all the time, the book seems needlessly filled in with text and speaking that coupled with the constant repetition of spells only serves to obscure the beautiful artwork. Do we really need to read about five dozen people cheering Negi or Ku Fei during the fight? It detracts from the story, and obscures the overly beautiful backgrounds.
As far as the story is concerned, as usual Negi has to make time for all of his students by being the greatest teacher that ever lived, even though he's ten year's old. But all of this works to make Negi adorable which is the biggest draw of the book. So its only really a so-so story with beautiful artwork and it delivers a lot of story which is why I consistently give the works of Akamatsu-sensei such high praise.
Its definitely worth reading, if you're a fan of Harry Potter, good art, or funny girl manga. But I have to dadmit that I do miss the whole Negi sneezing and blowing off the girl's clothes schtick that first got me into this gag-manga.
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October 9, 2023
Another enjoyable volume. I'm amazed at the amount of information packed into this manga!
April 2, 2009
As expected, this volume is mainly action, but that's okay by me because it had two matches I was absolutely dying to see. I will say that it sometimes bugs me when a character can take a pounding severe enough to kill a whole group of people several times over and still walk away like it was little more than a simple trip-and-shove, but since we're talking about magic users and people very in tune with chi, I guess I'll let it slide. Akamatsu-san draws action extremely well, and even though the book starts out with yet another do-over of Day One of the Festival, there's not a single dull moment here.
I'm glad I chose to stick with the Negima! series; it's been enormously entertaining so far, and I'm looking forward to more.
I'm glad I chose to stick with the Negima! series; it's been enormously entertaining so far, and I'm looking forward to more.
October 19, 2008
The first lo-o-o-o-o-ng day of the Mahora Academy Festival is finally coming to a close. Of course, Negi needed to repeat the day four times, courtesy of a bit of magic, in order to make it through his to-do list. And thanks to Evangeline’s enchanted resort, Negi has had enough training and rest. But will he have the courage to face fellow magic-teacher Takamichi in the premiere round? It’s time to do what Negi’s father did before him–not only survive the “Budokai” Martial Arts Tournament, but win it!
October 4, 2007
i watch the anime version :
it is about Ten year old boy name Negi Springfield who has just graduated from magic academy. He have a dream to be a master wizard.
For that he sent to Japan to teach English at girls high school.
and the story begin ..
it is about Ten year old boy name Negi Springfield who has just graduated from magic academy. He have a dream to be a master wizard.
For that he sent to Japan to teach English at girls high school.
and the story begin ..
October 25, 2008
Some interesting duels between different characters, and as always I enjoyed the bits of character history throughout. Like with the previous volume, the second half felt much stronger than the first half, which felt like filler.
June 4, 2010
The best of the series thus far, Volume 11 strikes the perfect balance between traditional shonen and harem genres with a light comic touch and strong characterization.
October 10, 2016
The start of this volume was meh. But it got fun once the tournament started. The ending was good. I'm really curious to see what happens next!
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