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魔法先生ネギま! [Mahou Sensei Negima!] #16
Negima! Magister Negi Magi, Vol. 16
SERIES Ken Akamatsu, the creator of the hugely popular series Love Hina, Negima follows the adventures of ten-year-old Negi Springfield. He has just graduated from a British school for magic only to find himself assigned to teach English in an all-girl's Japanese high school! All Negi wants is to become a great wizard - but he's forbidden to use magic in his new post. Still, he can't help himself when his powers can solve somebody else's problem. Of course, sometimes his magic only makes things worse...Full of the sly humour that made Love Hina such a huge success, Negima is manga at is funniest!
208 pages, Paperback
First published October 17, 2006
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Ken Akamatsu
643 books232 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 6, 2010
The excitement continues to build as this series continues a strong run with inventive yet logical consequences of the world paradigm Ken Akamatsu has developed. I'm beginning to feel like I'm repeating myself but he continues to use events not only to tell a story, but to give his dozens of characters the opportunity to grow as well.
December 18, 2008
Mage Negi Springfield has confronted some tough challenges. After all, he's an English teacher at an all-girls school. But even though hes faced one of his students in battle without using his magic, its getting harder and harder to keep his powers secret.
Too many people already know, so who's next to find out?
Too many people already know, so who's next to find out?
April 14, 2009
The story is really exciting now! Can't wait for more!
June 16, 2017
Well, thankfully things are getting a little bit more interesting again. I'm getting close to the halfway mark. Akamatsu-san better have some good stuff up his sleeve if he intends to keep this series interesting for 20 more volumes.
August 6, 2020
The cover actually had to be edited for an American release because it was too explicit for shelving. Class Rep had to have an extra bodice piece and her underwear was made a flat red rather than white with string.
July 29, 2017
I thought it was funny that Yue's artifact was pretty much a high schooler with Wikipedia.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 17, 2023
The Chao Lingshen arc continues with some interesting wrinkles.
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 ..
July 31, 2008
Series...going...downhill...
I guess as this progresses more and more toward a resemblance to the awkward cut scenes in role-playing-games, I'm less and less interested.
I guess as this progresses more and more toward a resemblance to the awkward cut scenes in role-playing-games, I'm less and less interested.
November 10, 2008
More fantasy action and plot and a whole lot less of the silly, awkward romantic scenes that plagued the beginning of the series. Definitely preferring the cheesy fantasy action!
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