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魔法先生ネギま! [Mahou Sensei Negima!] #25
Negima! Magister Negi Magi, Band 25
Book by Ken Akamatsu
192 pages, Paperback
First published February 17, 2009
About the author
Ken Akamatsu
650 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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July 11, 2019
That was... unexpected, given the previous volume; this must be my least favorite Negima to date, from the cover, to the interior to the back cover. First off, are we still not over maid costumes by this point? This reminded me why I couldn't stand most manga / anime as I got older.
Secondly, the whole volume feels like Akamatsu was just buying time. The exposition is grindingly and pointlessly slow, all the battles serve is to give you a feel for power levels and introduce Fate's coterie (who are mind-numbingly boring) and there is no serious threat to anyone, while we see Rakan just messing with little girls and show how rule-breakingly awesome he is.
It's not a filler, in that it does not deviate from the main plot, but rather a staller until we get to the next volume and ACTUAL revelations.
Secondly, the whole volume feels like Akamatsu was just buying time. The exposition is grindingly and pointlessly slow, all the battles serve is to give you a feel for power levels and introduce Fate's coterie (who are mind-numbingly boring) and there is no serious threat to anyone, while we see Rakan just messing with little girls and show how rule-breakingly awesome he is.
It's not a filler, in that it does not deviate from the main plot, but rather a staller until we get to the next volume and ACTUAL revelations.
April 10, 2018
Meh.... Yay back story?
October 28, 2023
There seem to be lots of diversions from the main story in this series. Perhaps they are needed to make the final story clear . . . perhaps.
March 14, 2010
I am loving this series to death. It's hard to believe that there was a time I ever had my doubts about it. Every recent volume has been tremendous fun and enormously entertaining. I could go on all day about it.
The situation has become particularly dire for Negi and co. as the seemingly ageless villain Fate attempts to resort to some cruel trickery to get the increasingly-powerful Negi out of the way. Negi's team and Fate's team finally test their mettle against one another, and though Fate's team has powerful weapons and magic at their disposal, Negi's team has experienced so much that they manage to put up a fight Fate's cronies didn't expect.
We get plenty of laughs from Chamo and the ever-oddballish Jack Rakan (I swear this guy is the very poster boy for "totally f****** bonkers") while Negi, Asuna and the other girls play it mostly straight. Other favorites like Evangeline and Zazi are sorely missed, but I continue to hope they'll have big parts to play later on.
Volume 25 keeps the party going with a big bang (or rather, a few big bangs), including Negi getting some good hits in on Fate and Setsuna facing what can only be described as a SERIOSULY disturbed opponent/admirer/stalker/insert-your-choice-of-words-here. As always, it leaves me wanting much more. I can't wait to see where this goes.
The situation has become particularly dire for Negi and co. as the seemingly ageless villain Fate attempts to resort to some cruel trickery to get the increasingly-powerful Negi out of the way. Negi's team and Fate's team finally test their mettle against one another, and though Fate's team has powerful weapons and magic at their disposal, Negi's team has experienced so much that they manage to put up a fight Fate's cronies didn't expect.
We get plenty of laughs from Chamo and the ever-oddballish Jack Rakan (I swear this guy is the very poster boy for "totally f****** bonkers") while Negi, Asuna and the other girls play it mostly straight. Other favorites like Evangeline and Zazi are sorely missed, but I continue to hope they'll have big parts to play later on.
Volume 25 keeps the party going with a big bang (or rather, a few big bangs), including Negi getting some good hits in on Fate and Setsuna facing what can only be described as a SERIOSULY disturbed opponent/admirer/stalker/insert-your-choice-of-words-here. As always, it leaves me wanting much more. I can't wait to see where this goes.
January 23, 2012
I really liked this volume because of the amount of action coming from the main character Negi and from the supporting characters. Negi and fate are battling against each other because they were in a disagreement on how the world should be run. Their fight was cool but the highlighted parts in the volume for me was Nodoka's part of the action as a supporting character. My favorite character is Nodoka and i was really happy to see her use her mind reading power to the max in this volume. She used her powers to read the mind of her enemy to her advantage and found out what their next move was so she could avoid it when she was fighting with her friends. I thought it was very cool and courageous of Nodoka, I was very proud of Nodoka because she turned from a very shy girl to a very courageous one as the series processed. The biggest moment in this volume for me was when Nodoka and Kotaru saved Negi by interrupting Fate's attack and then read his mind. I loved this book because my favorite character was kicking ass.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 11, 2010
This volume is a hard one to evaluate. It has great moments, especially between Negi & his nemesis, but it also has some perverse elements that I would rather do without. I go with a barely earned 4 to cover the great backstory being revealed.
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