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Graphic novel, 190 pages

English language

Published March 16, 2004 by Del Rey/Ballantine Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-345-47046-1

(1 review)

Ten-year-old prodigy Negi Springfield dreams of becoming a master wizard, but he's sent to teach English at an all-girls high school instead. The students are delighted with their new teacher--except for Asuna. Sometimes Negi can't resist using magic and when Asuna discovers his secret, she sets out to make his life as miserable as possible.

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admin reviewed Negima by Ken Akamatsu (Negima!: Magister Negi Magi (English) (2))

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1 star

Have you ever read a manga where one of the characters were just so tsundere/ridiculous that it hurt? It hurt so much that you put down the book and could not continue further? This is that book. Usually I take ~1 hour to read manga but this one took me three days. THREE. DAYS.

I JUST. KEN AKAMATSU. WHY?

I should know by now that 99.9% of the time, I do not enjoy light hearted romantic comedy bull. Especially light hearted comedy MANGA bull. Yet I pick this up! Somehow I assumed that this might be a nice fantasy series with minimal boobs. Then I realized why the name Ken Akamatsu sounded so familiar.

Now, I whipped through Akamatsu's Love Hina rather quickly when I was younger and I just... Did not appreciate 90% of the humour. Is it guy humour? Weird lonely guy otaku humour? I will never know. …

Have you ever read a manga where one of the characters were just so tsundere/ridiculous that it hurt? It hurt so much that you put down the book and could not continue further? This is that book. Usually I take ~1 hour to read manga but this one took me three days. THREE. DAYS.

I JUST. KEN AKAMATSU. WHY?

I should know by now that 99.9% of the time, I do not enjoy light hearted romantic comedy bull. Especially light hearted comedy MANGA bull. Yet I pick this up! Somehow I assumed that this might be a nice fantasy series with minimal boobs. Then I realized why the name Ken Akamatsu sounded so familiar.

Now, I whipped through Akamatsu's Love Hina rather quickly when I was younger and I just... Did not appreciate 90% of the humour. Is it guy humour? Weird lonely guy otaku humour? I will never know. But holy crap do these characters get on my nerves! And the lead female... I'm probably using the wrong term but... SO MUCH TSUNDERE.

Maybe I'm too bitter and have too high of expectations for manga nowadays.

The public library needs a better selection of manga... To bad 90% of English translated manga are like this...

Subjects

Wizards -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Magic -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Teachers -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Teenage girls -- Japan -- Comic books, strips, etc.