/a/ - Animu & Mango

>>734866

I love Negima and UQ Holder, if other people don't like it, who cares? If I don't like it, I don't care either, because I already read the manga.

OP, your concerns are that of a Producer, and as a Fan they're meaningless.

>>734873

>OP, your concerns are that of a Producer, and as a Fan they're meaningless.

I'm simply tired of adaptation after adaptation after adaptation failing and flubbing so badly, time and time again. Whatever is done with Negima on the animation front seems doomed for failure, which is a fucking shame because it's a wonderful series.

Battle shounen adaptations are almost always cheap and bad, and the girls won't be as cute as the manga.

I'll still give it a shot though, since it's probably at least as good as the other fantasy harem series running in it's season.

>>734866

Why do people like Negima?

I read the whole thing multiple times back when I had shit taste and regret it. It's all cliche wankery

What am I misremembering?

>>734949

There was the meta narrative of Ken basically outwitting his publisher. Aside from that there's a lot of attention to detail when it comes to language of magical spells, the overall art quality is nice and high, and the plot doesn't totally shit itself (though it does drag on, it's still unfinished despite multiple series).

Negima also confirms that all of Ken's works take place in the same universe at different points in time, as well.

>>734956

>the plot doesn't totally shit itself

I thought it shat itself when it forgot it was about Wizards and became DBZ

>>734961

Let's be fair here, anything that doesn't use a vancian system becomes DBZ anyway unless you go to comical lengths to codify or restrict your casters. What I mean is that the plot progressed in a sensical manner, had decent pace, and had interesting beats with few drags.

>>734961

It kind of shit itself before they could get off Namek.

>>741826

Is it SHAFT animating Ken's stuff again? I really don't want to see SHAFT memes 24/7 and the potential of them ruining the show like they did with Nisekoi.

>>741865

Nisekoi was ruined because it was a harem, not because anything shaft did.

>>741849

Yukihime is hilariously OP, so anything she sires will be similarily OP. As someone who's read this series in manga form, and read Negima, this is going to sound weird:

This is a shounen anime where almost all of the main characters and many of villains have different kinds of immortality, invincibility, or unkillability. Main character has fast healing, can reattach his bits, can no-sell most normally lethal attacks...

But he takes time to heal, can be immobilized, etc. So the tension doesn't rise from actual death, but from failure (such as in this episode, his friends getting killed). The stakes get pretty high, though, so in the end it's the same difference, but the characters can toss around hilarious attacks that would sever limbs and shit, have them hit, and not have the fight end instantly. It's an interesting dynamic.

...Honestly, I really don't know what COULD kill Evangeline. She can walk in sunlight at this point, I don't really know what could stop her.

>>741869

I just don't want them to touch mai waifu. SHAFT does terrible things.

>>734949

I only picked up Negima because of Love Hina. I was disappointed that the story was not simply ecchi harem shenanigans but it had its moments. Apparently Ken was heavily influenced by Togashi after hanging out with him. It seems to be the effect that Togashi has with artists, that once you start hanging out with him you want to make a shounen series that has lots of rules and fights that hinge on one character breaking bypassing them.

>>734956

>There was the meta narrative of Ken basically outwitting his publisher.

I'd really like to hear more about this.

>Aside from that there's a lot of attention to detail when it comes to language of magical spells, the overall art quality is nice and high,

Negima is one of those series where names, terms, and spells hits the right spot. It's one of those subtle "little things" that goes unappreciated in some series that does that right. Ken Akamatsu's art is really understated. I thought that as my tastes changed and my library increased I would see it as mediocre or average but that's never happened. Then again, he has a really good staff that he pays compliments to in his notes.

>and the plot doesn't totally shit itself (though it does drag on, it's still unfinished despite multiple series).

What do you mean by multiple series? I agree it does drag but mainly in the final arc that ended up taking more or less a third of the series' chapters. I feel like Ken wanted to end Negima because he wanted to focus more on shounen than ecchi harem and since Negima started as one he couldn't have it both ways for so long - especially after introducing so many girl characters that never got their proper development. The ecchi dies down significantly within the first third. I have a feeling that it was also tough to market after the failed attempts to adapt it as an anime/OVA.

>>741849

>What is the Japanese mythology on killing vampires? Do they have to dismember vampires more than that guy did or what?

Short explanation: japanese mythology on vampires do not play much of a factor in most if not all anime vampires.

>>741877

>...Honestly, I really don't know what COULD kill Evangeline. She can walk in sunlight at this point, I don't really know what could stop her.

She already did. Sunlight was never a factor if you remember Negima. Even if it was ever mentioned it's obvious from her activities in Negima that it doesn't affect her.

>>741881

Good news for you then, JC Staff is handling this.

>>741894

It did! Set several hundred years later, mind, but it's in the same setting like all of Ken's works.

>>741826

>OP is well-animated but song is pretty average

Why do I recognize the song? I never watch any of the other prequels.

Whoo man. I don't usually pay attention to translation errors and I caught like three typos. Ever get the feeling you're the only person watching something, to the point that not even the translation crew care?

>>741940

Are they going to explain why there are even timelines or how the found out that there were any to begin with?

>>742005

Why did that even happen? It makes no sense. It's obvious that the designs of the girls were composites or splinters of the girls from Love Hina. Chisame was a personification of Naru's tsundere side like how Asuna was a personification of Naru's tomboy side. Both basically had the same hair color.

>>744044

It was the theme for the 1st Negima anime that everybody hated. This is the 3rd time it's been used in some form in one of these

>>745155

>Are they going to explain why there are even timelines

I assume the mere presence of a time-traveling item in Negima would explain that.

>>734866

>>741877

>Yukihime is hilariously OP

She's not in that. She was in the first and that's the thing that bothered me in UQ holder, they nerfed her like crazy when she was basically the strongest being of that universe (but trapped on the academy grounds) save the BBEG because of poor affinity.

So you have a character that was literally used to pull off a deus ex machina, at least twice, (she's the reason Nagi wins the two big fights including the one against the BBEG, because he manages to temporarily summon her, they even do an epilogue battle where she's clearly stronger than him) that is suddenly overwhelmed by B grade opponents later on...

>>742008

Why didnt he get with Nodoka? the girl that likes him

>>747344

Oh god it's awful

Episode 5 was ok actually. I'm sure there will be plenty more for Ken Akamatsu to blueball me and dissapoint me over and over again

god damn it I keep coming back

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