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UQ Holder [ユーキューホルダー!] #15
UQ Holder! Vol. 15
IN ONE’S FOOTSTEPS After travelling all the way to Kyoto, Tōta and Kirië finally track down Nagi’s old workshop, where they meet Albert Chamomile, Negi Springfield’s old partner. There, Albert shows Tōta memories from Negi’s past, including an alternate timeline of how Negi’s life would have been if Tōta didn’t exist. Tōta watches from the sidelines as a decisive battle unfolds between Negi and Nagi, and finally sees firsthand the overwhelming power of the two mages that came before him.
178 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 9, 2017
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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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November 19, 2020
A happy ending...in the middle of the story!?
Following in his grandfather's shoes Tota and Kirie find themselves in one of Negi's old workshops when they are discovered by an elderly man who appears to be a guardian to the place. However there is more then meets the eye with this old timer as we discover his true identity then get a visit by the rift witch Dana who has a surprise for everyone (in the book and for us readers of the original Negima series) in a video of one possible reality if things had gone differently. With this little tidbit it seems even though this series is based after the Negima series we can't assume it follows up after events that happened in the original series as we remember them. So get ready for a lot of action, humor, heart break, love confessions, and history as we see a little more about the end of the original series here and now. :)
Following in his grandfather's shoes Tota and Kirie find themselves in one of Negi's old workshops when they are discovered by an elderly man who appears to be a guardian to the place. However there is more then meets the eye with this old timer as we discover his true identity then get a visit by the rift witch Dana who has a surprise for everyone (in the book and for us readers of the original Negima series) in a video of one possible reality if things had gone differently. With this little tidbit it seems even though this series is based after the Negima series we can't assume it follows up after events that happened in the original series as we remember them. So get ready for a lot of action, humor, heart break, love confessions, and history as we see a little more about the end of the original series here and now. :)
June 24, 2023
The moment I'd been fearing finally happened. This volume was mostly driven by Negima. It wasn't a catastrophe for two reasons. First, the story was good; now I look forward to reading Negima even more. Second, I can think of Negima as a prequel; if prequels work for Star Wars, they ought to be okay here.
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