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Summary: Akamatsu strikes back
Review: Ken Akamatsu has a fairly interesting plot going on with Negima. I am glad it wasn't a spinoff of Love Hina, or just a copy with different character names. Though, it still has that obscure humor I have come to love.Maybe he's overdone it making 30 main characters, not including Negi and the other people he meets, but they are all so much different, it's easy to tell them apart after a few chapters. Bottom line, if you loved Love Hina, this will be worth buying, but if you loathed the previous Akamatsu series... maybe read a bit of it in a bookstore.
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Summary: Pages are starting to come apart, I've read it so much!!
Review: Ken Akamatsu has done other graphic novel series besides Negima, like Love Hina and A.I Love You. Both look like they'd be good graphic novels to read {no, I don't own any of those series}. So I was a little of Ken's work on this one. But after I read it, I realized that I would have been stupid not to get it. There's good characters, a good plot, a good setting...and definately enough girls ^-^!!! If you have read any other Delray manga, then I would highly recommend this book to you. And I'd also recommend it if you've read Love Hina or A.I Love You.
Negi Springfield is a 9 year old wizard. When he graduates from magic school, he is chosen to be a teacher at a boarding school in Japan!! Course, it doesn't help that the school is an all girls school full of sex girls {ecspecially the ones in Negi's class}. So who blames Negi that he doesn't think he can teach his class, since the fact is that the girls in his class thinks he's adorable and don't take him seriously as a teacher. But all that changes when the girl with the lowest amount of brain cells {Asuna Kagurazaka, a girl who doesn't like kids... and it doesn't help that she and Negi got off to a bad start} sees him perform magic to help a girl in his class. After that, however, things start to be looking up for Asuna and Negi. Sexy girls, love potions, and dogdeball mathches to see who gets Negi, geez.
This book is rated OT for older teen, like 16+ but if you're parents are reasonable and think you're mature enough to handle these, then I'd say a person who's entering their teenage year could probely read this.
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Summary: Harry Potter meets Love Hina
Review: Ken Akamatsu-san, the brains behind Love Hina, returns to create a wonderful and exciting story. The young wizard Negi graduated from magic academy, only to have his career teaching english in a all girl japanese school! Things get off to a rough start as Negi not only humiliates Asuna, one of his students and his dorm mate. Luckly for Negi, the other thrity girls in his class adore him. There are suprises around every corner with laughs abound.This truly is Harry Potter meets Love Hina.
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Summary: Ken Akamatsu Doesn't Quit!
Review: Love Hina was one of the first comedic mangas I have ever read. To this day, it is still the funniest manga ever. But finally, a rival has come forth: Negima!
Negima! contains a setting familiar to fans of Love Hina. A 10-year old wizard prodigy named Negi is sent to teach English at an all-girls junior high school.
There is a fair amount of the usual nearly hentai-esque comedy. Everytime that Negi sneezes, a ferocious wind blows, which wreaks disaster on the skirts and blouses of the girls at the school. However, for me at least, this humor doesn't get old as he combines it with an intriguing storyline and lots of other comedy. The fact that the teacher is a 10 year old boy is well seized upon, with fairly consant "HE'S SO CUTE!!"
Overall, this is a wonderful, wonderful manga. At this point, I can't say that it's better than Love Hina (I've read 14 issues of Love Hina, only 4 of Negima), but it certainly seems quite close.
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Summary: AMAZING
Review: OH MY GOD!!! This is amazing, Ken Akamatsu has really out dont himself on this one. I couldn't stop laughing! Page after page of greatness! I really liked Love Hina and i really love this. I would give this 10 stars if i could.
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Summary: More "child exploitation".
Review: Oh, it's exactly like Love Hina, which I hate with great relish, only that the colleged-aged "pervert" is replaced by a little TEN-YEAR-OLD boy!!! What exactly is this kind of manga doing? Raising young boys to be voyeurs? As usual, this book is full of wide-eyed toys in pleated placid skirts and knee-high stockings who exist to show off their ill-fitting underwear or to accidentally straddle some kid's face. Even if he WOULDN'T hit his puberty in a few years! And why the eternal fascination with life in Catholic-style high school?
Perhaps the author would come up with a new idea in his next manga: a one-year-old toddler whose face keeps getting smashed into some giggly young floozie's crotch. Maybe the kid would end up a dad to another baby...THAT would be a new and interesting plot indeed!
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Summary: Comedy, magic, and romance from the creator of Love Hina
Review: One of the most anticipated new manga titles this year is the new project from Ken Akamatsu, creator of Love Hina, A.I. Love You, and Mao-chan. Negima - Magister Negi Magi is a story about a boy who has just graduated from the magician's academy, and in order to become a full fledged wizard, he must complete his training with a real world job assignment. Due to an error, he is assigned to teach English at an all girls academy. As he begins his job, one girl isn't too thrilled about his being a teacher, Asuna Kagurazaka, since he's replacing a teacher that she had a crush on. This is just the beginning of the story as a lot of comedy, magical battles, fanservice, and a touch of romance make this yet another cute and fun series for fans of Ken Akamatsu's work. If you enjoyed Love Hina, this title definitely has a lot of the same elements going for it that made Love Hina so popular. On occasion, there are even some references in Negima to that series. 31 girls each with different personalities, interests, and backgrounds at Mahora Academy turn out to be an adventure in teaching and fun for Negi Springfield. And just like Love Hina, there are many hints at romance which really add to the charm of this series. Currently, this series is still going with more chapters in Japan, along with character voice CDs and an anime series planned. Overall, an excellent series that will leave you wanting more as you get to know the students of Negi's class and the young mage himself.
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Summary: He still hasn't lost his touch
Review: One thing Ken Akamatsu is best at, is giving every character in his stories a fun and deep personality. In his earlier manga Love Hina, he had 5 girls to give a different face to each. Now he's splitting his ability between 31 female characters, a 10 year old wizard, and an whole staff of unique teachers, and he still hasn't lost his incredible ability. Like his manga's before, Negima is original, funny, displays beautiful artwork, and is fun to read. Unfortunately, he hasn't dropped his perverted side, so this manga isn't exactly for the younger generation, but this is still a great manga that I have high hopes won't sit in the shadow of Love Hina for much longer. Definetly a must-have for manga fans.
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Summary: If you are an insensitive creep don't get this manga
Review: Reviewer: tweedldum65 (see more about me) from Chardon, Ohio United States
This is one of the worst mangas I have ever read it is so boring. Its about kids at school want to know something amazing I go to school everyday and they dont make that into a manga. So dont read this manga it is absolutely horrible. Ok then, this guy deserves to die.
Love hina was the best manga... ever. And now that he's released his new work don't you think it might be... how do I put this... better? Oh yes I have read up to book three in Japanese and I can say that if you dont like this book you have to like those to come. For the love of god just buy the damn book or you will be missing out on something great.
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Summary: It's not a plot, it's a scene set
Review: So, what we have here is a scene. Take a 10 year old boy, surround him by girls, then spend 200 pages recycling the same dumb stuff to show off undies and boobs galore.
Now, it's not that I am anti-fanservice. It's usually just a side note to some plot, and that's okay. But when it's taking the /place/ of the plot, it gets problematic. It seems like every five pages, one of the teenage girls is tripping over something so they can sprawl over Negi.
Several times, I contemplated just giving up reading it entirely, but I'd already invested time in it so I stubbornly persevered. I will not be following the rest of this series.
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