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魔法先生ネギま! [Mahou Sensei Negima!] #26
Negima! Magister Negi Magi, Vol. 26
HIS FATHER’S SON
After hearing about his father’s heroics, Negi vows to prove himself—by winning the martial arts tournament and freeing his students from slavery. With his teacher’s help, Negi has gotten much stronger, so it should be a piece of cake! What possibly could go wrong? Turns plenty!
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After hearing about his father’s heroics, Negi vows to prove himself—by winning the martial arts tournament and freeing his students from slavery. With his teacher’s help, Negi has gotten much stronger, so it should be a piece of cake! What possibly could go wrong? Turns plenty!
Available on DVD from FUNimation Entertainment
192 pages, Paperback
First published May 15, 2009
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About the author
Ken Akamatsu
642 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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November 7, 2019
Now that I've started reading again to wind down, I realised I am in desperate need of completing Negima. I mean, it's been sitting on my (digital) shelf for so long now I swear I can see cobwebs!
If only it wasn't so looooong. And so looooong between excitement... And we probably shouldn't talk to much about the artists perchance to get all the girls naked at the drop of a hat, for no other reason then pure titillation...
I have no idea what's going on, and the series is too long to start again to figure out what is going on. I'm just going to have to grit my teeth, remember how much I loved the anime, and get through this bout of nostalgia and hope we get an awesome ending.
12 books to go.....
If only it wasn't so looooong. And so looooong between excitement... And we probably shouldn't talk to much about the artists perchance to get all the girls naked at the drop of a hat, for no other reason then pure titillation...
I have no idea what's going on, and the series is too long to start again to figure out what is going on. I'm just going to have to grit my teeth, remember how much I loved the anime, and get through this bout of nostalgia and hope we get an awesome ending.
12 books to go.....
September 8, 2019
Ken Akamatsu's beautiful artwork is very evident in this book. But I had to read it a second time after having read later books in the manga series to fully make sense out of the story. I am impressed by his stylized, yet real-feeling human figures and his magnificent computer-assisted architectural drawings like the brick bridge in Ostia. As always, however, the story is over-packed with magical combat maneuvers, demons, and characters who are too similar to other characters. I enjoyed this book again, but the basic fog of confusion still lingers over parts of it.
July 21, 2017
A little more boring volume, but I'm curious to see what the next volume will bring!
November 9, 2017
This volume was pretty meh. Next volume should be decent
August 6, 2020
Must complete the tournament!
October 30, 2023
This volume ramped up the action, especially towards the end. I'm curious about what happened to Asuna. Will we find out?
December 7, 2010
The big thing I learned is that protagonist likability is a huge factor. I guess that's not really surprising, but when comparing this with the other shonen manga I've been reading,Tite Kubo's Bleach, it's clear that having a protagonist whom I actually want to win overcomes a lot, including Ken Akamatsu's over the top fan service.
This volume covers more of Negi's father's past as well as preparations for the finale of the tournament as Negi takes on new teachers and the Shonen requisite new abilities. Still much fun to be had and I look forward to a volume of fighting in 27.
This volume covers more of Negi's father's past as well as preparations for the finale of the tournament as Negi takes on new teachers and the Shonen requisite new abilities. Still much fun to be had and I look forward to a volume of fighting in 27.
March 11, 2011
Akamatsu is true to form in this 26th volume of Negima, as the students of Mahora go to that magical of all magic places, the hot spring.
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