STORYLINE
Negi Springfield is a ten-year-old wizard from Wales, who dreams of becoming a Magister Magi
(Approximate Latin translation: "Master of Magic" or "Master Mage"), a
special wizard who uses his powers to help normal people, using covers
such as working for NGOs.
Negi's reason for becoming a Magister Magi is to find his father, Nagi Springfield, the legendary mage also known as the "Thousand Master", who is believed to be dead.
After graduating from the Merdiana Magic Academy in Wales, Negi is
given a duty as a cover in the real world, and training, before he
actually becomes a Magister Magi. That duty is to become an
English teacher at Mahora Academy in Japan. The task will not be easy,
however, as Negi will become a teacher to a Middle School
class of 31 older girls, each very special in her own way. The series
details his time and adventures in Japan as he gains acceptance and
respect from his students, helps them in their problems, and faces
magical threats from inside and outside Mahora Academy. Although each of
the girls has her own back story and personality, Negi's main
relationship is with Asuna Kagurazaka,
his student and roommate, who dislikes him initially but later accepts
him as a friend and becomes his partner, helping find clues about his
father and his life.
The series, while initially appearing to be another romantic comedy work featuring numerous bishōjo characters like Love Hina, has progressed into a mix of shōnen action, fantasy, horror, romance and comedy. Akamatsu stated that he specifically wanted to do something "different" than Love Hina.
Negi himself is prepubescent, and many of his scenes with Asuna are
specific subversions of the "awkward romantic scene" tendency of harem
manga, quickly diffused and only played for laughs. In addition, many of
the girls are able to fawn over him in a childish sense without any
romantic expectations from the reader.
In keeping with this style, Negi himself is seen as a contrast to Love Hina's Keitaro
and other typical male leads of manga. He is hardworking, capable, and
treated kindly, but due to his appearance and age (well below most of
his students), he feels completely non-threatening and finds it
difficult to be taken seriously as a teacher; many of his students treat
him as a cute little kid, if not a playmate (or plaything).
CHARACTERS
Negi Springfield (ネギ・スプリングフィールド Negi Supuringufīrudo)
is a mage in-training and the homeroom and English teacher of Class
2-A/3-A of Mahora Academy Middle School for girls. He is the son of Nagi
Springfield, known as the legendary "Thousand Master", and Arika
Anarchia Entheofushia, princess and last Queen of the Vespertatia Empire
in the magic world, known as "Queen of Calamity" . He is raised by his
cousin and the people around his small village because of his father's
disappearance. After numerous demons attack his village, he is saved by
Nagi, who gives Negi his staff and mysteriously leaves. Negi, determined
to find his father, quickly joins a magic academy and graduates at the
age of ten under the kazoe system which makes him nine years old as the
kazoe system starts a newborn infant at 1 and adds a year every new
years. He is sent to Japan to act as a teacher at Mahora Academy as part
of his training.
Negi quickly bonds with most of his students, especially Asuna, and
many learn of his magical background. Several develop feelings for Negi,
citing his maturity for his age, and the fact that he will be suitable
to be with in five years. He forms a number of pactio with most of his
students, which helps him to become stronger. He tends to overwork
himself, often hurting himself for the sake of others. He is still
childlike in various ways, such as hating baths, sleeping in the same
bed as his sister, resulting in him clutching anyone nearby while he is
away from her, and being rather naive and gullible.
Negi is a master of basic magic, though he is initially lacking in
battle experience. He eventually becomes a master of using delayed
spells as a battle tactic. He initially uses wind and light magic,
though he begins to master lightning spells as well. He later trains
under Kū Fei in martial arts to make up for his weakness in close
combat, advancing very quickly (even learning how to do instant
movement, otherwise known as shundou), and applies a strong magical
barrier around himself to avoid damaging his frail body. His proficiency
at learning is shown when he masters techniques Kū Fei says would
usually take a month in only three hours. He also trains under
Evangeline and Jack Rakan, which increases his combat and magical
capability exponentially.
He also learns and improves upon Evangeline's "Magia Erebea" to "load (supplementum)" & infuse the body with magic (Supplementum Pro Armationem).
- "Hell's Refining Fire (Sim Fabricatus Ab Incendio)": Absorbing the magic from the "Flames of Hell (Incendium Gehennae)" strengthens physical resilience and creates resistance to heat. The sinister nature of the magic also absorbs magic from living things upon physical contact.
- "Lightning Speed (Agilitas Fulminas)": Absorbing the magic from "Thunderous Gale (Jovis Tempestas Fulguriens)" grants the caster extreme mobility and "lightning attribute" to his physical attacks, as well as granting some immunity to weather magic.
- "Thunder in Heaven, Great Vigor (Ê Astrapê Uper Ouranou Mega Dunamenê)": Absorbing the magic from "Thousand Lightning Bolts (Kilipl Astrapê)" transmogrifies Negi into a mass of electrically charged particles capable of incredible speeds by becoming lightning with a type of lightning-style Shundō called Raisoku Shundō (雷速瞬動 lit. "Lightning-speed Teleportation").
- "Thunder in Heaven, Great Vigor 2 (Tastrapê Uper Ouranou Mega Dunamenê)": Absorbing two "Thousand Lightning Bolts" spells, Negi obtains a "constant lightning form", liken to a high-level lightning spirit, he can maintain lightning-speed indefinitely. Also with "Twin Vigor", both Negi's physical maneuverability and mental-processes increase dramatically, overcoming the fundamental weaknesses of the regular "Great Vigor".
He also came up with a new spell: "Spell Synthesis: Lightning God
Lance: Titan Slayer" which is a new high class lightning spell that he
used to lure Jack Rakan into a trap in their gladiator match. Negi is
also able to use a magic circle to stop and absorb an opponent's power
in order to use their own strength against them (Agite Extractio, Negica
Magia Erebea: Circuli Absorptionis Ex Tempore). Negi used this ability
to fight Rakan to a draw. According to Evangeline's spirit clone, this
is the ultimate ability of Magia Erebia, one that not even she was able
to master. He developed these abilities of Raisoku Shundou, Perpetual
Lightning Form, Spell Synthesis and enemy magic absorption in ten days;
Jack Rakan noting that any one would be enough to impress the most
advanced professors of magic development. In a recent chapter, Negi lost
control of Magia Erebea while fighting his father's old comrade,
Governor General Kurt Godel. As of Chapter 314 Negi has mastered his
inner demon, and in doing so, has become something that can't be called
human. in recent chapters it has been stated that Negi has become an
immortal/vampire like Evangeline.
He also forms a probationary contract (pactio) with Theo and is awarded the Mile Vincula
(The Thousand Bonds), a passport-holder-like artifact that allows him
to freely use his partners' artifacts. Ken Akamatsu has noted, however,
that Negi cancelled the contract after his match with Jack Rakan was
finished; he should no longer be able to use his exceedingly rare
artifact.
Ako Izumi
- Voiced by: Kotomi Yamakawa (Japanese), Avery Rice-Williams (English)
Ako Izumi (和泉 亜子 Izumi Ako)
is student number five in the class, and a member of the band "Dekopin
Rocket." She does not consider herself anyone special and is very
insecure due to a large scar on her back. After being accidentally
transported to the Magic World, she is forced to become an indentured
servant along with Akira and Natsumi to pay for medication she received.
After Negi, disguised as "Nagi" using "Age Deceiving Candy", helps her
overcome her insecurities somewhat, she develops a crush on him,
believing him to be Negi's cousin. She eventually finds out that Nagi is
actually Negi, which leaves her heartbroken. Over time, she gets over
it and accepts "Nagi" as Negi. By Chapter 289, Negi tried to form a
pactio with Ako using the aging pills to appear as "Nagi", but Ako stops
him and forces a reverse aging pill in his mouth so he reverts back to
Negi, after which Ako chides him for putting a facade on her, and
admitting that she'd rather make a pactio with "Negi" rather than with
"Nagi" by now. They then do so afterwards. Her artifact is a giant
syringe, which injects a drug that can boost the abilities of the one
injected to amazing levels; while Ako herself calls it the ultimate
support item, her classmates are disturbed by the fact that the drug
apparently must be injected into the rump.
Ayaka Yukihiro
- Voiced by: Junko Minagawa (Japanese), Laura Bailey (English)
Ayaka Yukihiro (雪広 あやか Yukihiro Ayaka)
is student number twenty-nine in the class. She comes from a wealthy
family, and is the class representative. As such, she is frequently
referred to by other classmates as "Iincho," (Japanese: 'class
representative') She is one of the top ranking students in the school,
and she is well trained in martial arts. She has a heated rivalry with
Asuna that often causes conflict between the two, although the rivalry
is in truth a cover for a caring friendship. She is obsessed with Negi,
claiming that he needs a mother figure, and is the most vocal in her
class in her open desire to "claim" him. However, most of her classmates
feel that it is an unhealthy obsession, as Negi is only 10 years old,
but she seems to have no qualms at all about his age. She later reveals
that she would have had a younger brother, had he not died during
childbirth, and she greatly wishes for that sort of connection, although
her obsession with Negi still appears to be romantically based. In the
latest chapter, her Pactio is revealed to be made about 3 weeks prior to
the events of said chapter. the Artifact she received gives her the
ability to meet anyone, no matter how imporant without prior permission.
Fate points out that this would allow the user to find and assassinate
anyone without worry of being stopped on the way there.
Chao Lingshen
- Voiced by: Chiaki Osawa (Series 1) Megumi Takamoto (onwards) (Japanese), Trina Nishimura (English)
Chao Lingshen (超 鈴音 katakana: チャオリンシェン Chao Rinshen)
is student number nineteen in the class. She self describes herself as a
martian, and claims not to lie. She is known as the smartest student in
the class, and one of the smartest people on campus. She spends most of
her time on robotics research, Chinese medicine, life sciences, and
atomic research with Satomi Hakase, though she also works at the Chao
Bao Zi restaurant with Satsuki Yotsuba. Chao is also a master of various
Chinese martial arts, having learned from Kū Fei. During the Mahora
Festival Arc, she is revealed to be a descendent of Negi from the future
who has traveled back in time to expose the existence of magic to the
world, thus serving as the arc's primary antagonist. After Negi and his
comrades successfully stop her, she accepts her defeat and returns to
her own time, but not before revealing a family tree which contains who
Negi would eventually be with, this however was quickly destroyed
without anyone seeing its contents. It is suggested that the Family Tree
may have been a fake since no one saw if anything was written in it
before it was destroyed (thanks to Asuna), though it was still enough to
incapacitate Class 2/3-A in 57 seconds.
Chisame Hasegawa
- Voiced by: Yumi Shimura (Japanese), Caitlin Glass (English)
Chisame Hasegawa (長谷川 千雨 Hasegawa Chisame)
is student number twenty-five in the class. She is grumpy, unsocial,
and views her classmates as idiots and freaks, citing that it is obvious
that Chachamaru and Mana don't belong in the school and that 10 year
old Negi teaching the class does not make any sense. However, as much as
Chisame avoids any and all attention in the real world, in the privacy
of her own room, she takes on the role of Chiu (ちう), a famous Net Idol,
devoted to cosplay. Although she is, fitting with her character, rather
disturbed by the idea of other students being openly attracted to
and/or in love with 10 year old Negi, she eventually becomes very close
with Negi as he convinces her to interact with the real world. After
finding out about the existence of magic, she reluctantly becomes part
of Negi's group.
Chisame is extremely skilled with computers, and she is able to hack
into large databases with minimal effort. After forming a pactio with
Negi, she gains the artifact, Sceptrum Virtuale, a heart-topped staff
that allows her to actually enter cyberspace
as a physical realm, upon which she can internally hack into systems.
She can allow others to enter with her while their bodies stay in the
real world. She is assisted by virtual "spirits", Kincha, Hanpe, Konnya,
Chikuwafu, Negi, Daiko, and Shirataki, who can communicate with her
while she is nearby an electronic device. They can watch out for any
viral attacks, and manipulate data, which allows her to increase the
ranking of her site. However, her Pactio ability has the drawback of
being near-useless when not connected to the internet, although her
spirits can also navigate the magic worlds systems which might be
electrically powered. Her spirits disappear when her laptop's batteries
are exhausted. Her Pactio has an additional ability which she uses more
often, which allows her to transform into various Net-idol cosplay
outfits. During the "Magical World" arc she takes Asuna's place as
Negi's "Guardian" temporarily.
Chizuru Naba
- Voiced by: Misa Kobayashi (Japanese), Amy Rosenthal (English)
Chizuru Naba (那波 千鶴 Naba Chizuru) is student number twenty-one in the class. She is a kind person to everyone, one trait among many others she shares with Mutsumi Otohime from Love Hina,
which is another of Ken Akamatsu's works. She volunteers at the daycare
center in Mahora City and has exceptional domestic skills. According to
notes taken down by Kazumi of Class 2-A/3-A, Chizuru is the girl with
the biggest breasts
of all the class. After Kotaro comes to the school for Negi, she forces
him to live in their dorm under the identity of Natsumi's younger
brother, although he lives in great fear of her home remedies, which
invariably consist of spring onion suppositories. In chapter 340 it is revealed that her family runs a conglomerate.
Fumika Narutaki
- Voiced by: Mari Kanou (Japanese), Alison Viktorin, Cherami Leigh (Series 2, episodes 23-26) (English)
Fumika Narutaki (鳴滝 史伽 Narutaki Fumika)
is student number twenty-three in the class and the younger of the
Narutaki twins. She is the opposite of her sister, often telling her
that her ideas are bad. Her pactio in Negima! allows for the creation of unlimited cloning as well.
Fuka Narutaki
- Voiced by: Kimiko Koyama (Japanese), Alison Viktorin, Cherami Leigh (Series 2, episodes 23-26) (English)
Fuka Narutaki (鳴滝 風香 Narutaki Fūka) is student number twenty-two in the class and the elder of the Narutaki twins. She constantly causes trouble, often using ninjutsu "skills" taught to her by Kaede to sneak around or run away. Her pactio in Negima! allows for the creation of unlimited cloning.
Kaede Nagase
- Voiced by: Ryoko Shiraishi (Japanese), Clarine Harp (English)
Kaede Nagase (長瀬 楓 Nagase Kaede) is student number twenty in the class and a member of the Koga ninja clan.
She has an easy-going attitude and is almost always seen with her eyes
almost closed, a trait shared with Mitsune "Kitsune" Konno of Akamatsu's
previous work, Love Hina. Kotaro admires her strength very much since
she's the first girl who has ever defeated him. She refers to herself as
"sessha" and she frequently ends her sentences with "de gozaru", an archaic verb form historically used by samurai.
She trains in the mountains, displaying a wide range of cinematic ninja
abilities such as the ability to create clones. After learning about
the existence of magic, she helps Negi in various situations, including
traveling to the Magic World in search of his father. She later forms a
pactio with him, which takes the form of "Tengu no Kakuremino", a cloth
that contains another plane of reality, complete with a house while
under the cloth. In the anime, Kaede is the blue Baka Ranger (known as
Dummy Force in English). She is close to Kotaro and often trains with
him.
Kazumi Asakura
- Voiced by: Ayana Sasagawa (Japanese), Monica Rial (English)
Kazumi Asakura (朝倉 和美 Asakura Kazumi)
is student number three in the class and the class reporter. She likes
to get the inside scoop on everything that goes on, and is part of the
Mahora Paparazzi.
Her dedication to digging out the "truth" extends to knowingly working
with her friend's enemies so long as she gets a "scoop." She is also
very sadistic and loves to take embarrassing stories/pictures of her
classmates. She discovers magic while spying on Negi, though she is
persuaded to keep it a secret in exchange for a probationary contract.
She is close friends with Sayo and often has her spy on people for
information. She later obtains a doll for Sayo to possess, so that she
can leave the school grounds. Her pactio, "Oculus Corvinus", creates up
to six small golem cameras that she is able to manipulate and send to
any part of the world. It is also revealed during the story and in the
character bios that she has the 4th largest breasts in class 2/3-a
Setsuna Sakurazaki
- Voiced by: Yu Kobayashi (Japanese), Dana Schultes (Series 1), Cherami Leigh (Series 2) (English)
Setsuna Sakurazaki (桜咲 刹那 Sakurazaki Setsuna)
is student fifteen in the class. She is a half-demon thrown out of her
tribe due to her pure-white wings, which were considered to be a bad
omen as she was born into the bird tribe of demons. She is later taken
in by Eishun Konoe. She is hinted to be albino, due to the
aforementioned white wings and is stated that she dyes her hair and
wears colored contacts. She is also a Shinmeiryuu swordsman, similar to
Motoko Aoyama from Akamatsu's previous work, Love Hina. She becomes very
close to his daughter, Konoka, who she promises to protect. After being
unable to save Konoka from almost drowning as a young child, she
distances herself personally, while still protecting her. She generally
refers to Konoka as "Ojō-sama," a deferential term used for the daughter
of an important figure. After joining with Negi's group to stop
Chigusa's plan in Kyoto, she resumes her personal relationship with
Konoka, and learns that her friends do not care that she is a
half-demon. She also has a habit of wearing more masculine clothing to
events, like wearing a suit instead of a dress to the ball in the magic
world.
Setsuna is a kenjutsu expert of the Kyoto Shinmei-ryū (京都 神鳴流 Kyōto Shinmei-ryū, literally "God's-Cry School") of fighting. She wields a nodachi passed down to her from Eishun Konoe named "Yūnagi" (夕凪, literally "evening calm").
She is able to sprout a pair of pure white wings from her back, which
are proof of her bird tribe heritage. Evangeline has implied that
Setsuna dyes her hair and wears colored contacts, and Negi himself has
observed that Setsuna has a very pale complexion, which could mean that
her white wings are a result of albinism.[4] Besides her fighting skills, Setsuna also has some ability to manipulate magic, such as using paper dolls to create doppelgangers
of other people, and creating a miniature version of herself, so that
she can be in two places at once. She forms a pactio with Negi, which
takes the form of the artifact, Sica Shishikushiro. It allows her to
create up to sixteen independent wakizashi that can be manipulated with her mind. She later forms a pactio with Konoka, after much hesitation, that grants her a new card.[5]
The resulting artifact is named "Tsurugi no Kami: Takemikazuchi" (named
after one of the patron deities of martial arts,
Takemikazuchi-no-Mikoto, also a war god; the one who rode a deer into
the city of Nara), a sword that grows larger and more powerful as Konoka infuses Setsuna with more of her magical power.
Nodoka Miyazaki
- Voiced by: Mamiko Noto (Japanese), Leah Clark (English)
Nodoka Miyazaki (宮崎 のどか Miyazaki Nodoka)
is student number twenty seven in the class at Mohora Academy. She is a
shy bookworm, who spends most of her time in the library or the
bookstore. She is among the top ranking students in the school, and she
possesses knowledge of a wide variety of topics from her constant
reading. She often uses her hair to cover her eyes completely, but when
brought out of her shy shell, gains confidence, and shows one of her
eyes. Although Negi is several years younger than her,(Negima being 10,
and herself 15) she still has a crush on him because she believes he
carries the maturity of an adult. She is also very close to Yue, and
after learning of Yue's feelings for Negi and her distress of having the
same crush as her friend, Nodoka comforts her, although she still has
normal jealousy on occasion. [8]
Nodoka is the second person to hold a pactio with Negi, which takes
the form of the artifact, "Diarium Ejus", a diary that shows the inner
thoughts and feelings of any person whose name she calls using writing
and illustrations. The book can levitate and automatically turn its
pages, and she can edit or delete anything in it. The thoughts appear in
the way Nodoka would write them and draw them, so they are always
polite and simplistic. Nodoka finds this book she caries quite useful
for finding out what Negi thinks of her. However, Nodoka must know the
name of the person she wants to read the mind of or it will not work; if
she does not call a name, it reads her own thoughts, which often
embarrass her due to her (apparently unconscious) sexually explicit
thoughts. She later gains the ability to split the book into multiple
smaller diaries, which allows her to read multiple minds at once. During
her stay in the magic world with a group of treasure hunters, she gains
the (non-Pactio) artifacts "Comptina Daemonia", which allows her to
instantly know the true name of anyone who she asks, and "Auris
Recitans", which allows her to hear the thoughts written through an
earpiece by placing clips in her artifact. When she gets serious, she
can be a force to be reckoned with, such as stealing the Grand Master
Key and escaping with it single-handedly.
Evangeline A.K. McDowell
- Voiced by: Yuki Matsuoka (Japanese), Laura Bailey (English)
Evangeline Athanasia Katherine (Kitty) McDowell (エヴァンジェリン・アタナシア・キティ・マクダウェル Evanjerin Atanashia Kiti Makudaweru), listed as Evangeline A.K. McDowell (エヴァンジェリン・マクダウェル Evanjerin Makudaweru), and usually called by her classmates as Evachan, is student number twenty-six in the class. She is a "high daylight walker" pure-blooded-vampire (真祖 Shinso, true Ancestor) who was turned at the age of ten during the Hundred Years' War.
After many years of struggle, hiding, and hardship, she eventually
became known as one of the most feared mages in both worlds. After
coming into contact with Nagi Springfield, she starts following him
around out of love until he seals her within the Mahora Academy grounds,
telling her to "live in the light for a change" and promising to free
her upon graduation. He disappears soon after, which means that she
cannot be freed without blood from his bloodline, which makes her target
Negi.
Evangeline attempts to obtain Negi's blood and free herself from the
curse, but as she cannot regularly access her power, she is eventually
defeated. She takes an interest in Negi afterward, and decides to not
pursue him any longer. She takes him as a student sometime later,
helping him improve his combat and magical abilities. She occasionally
takes his blood as payment, and they train within a special miniaturized
world, which she refers to as her "resort," which is located within a
glass sphere where a day inside the sphere is only an hour in real life.
She also trains Asuna, Setsuna, and several other members of Negi's
group. During regular school activities, she is in the tea ceremony club
out of enjoyment, and she often visits Konoemon Konoe, the School Dean,
and occasionally Albireo Imma.
Evangeline's power is notorious in the Magic World, which leads to
nicknames like "Advent of Evil", "Apostle of Calamity", "Gospel of
Darkness", "Dark Evangel", "Puppet/Doll Master", "Maga Nosferatu", "The
Girl Queen of Darkness", "The Visitation of Woes", and "The Disciple of
Dark Tones." As a dark mage, Evangeline specializes in ice-based spells
and dark magic, and is shown to be incredibly powerful once in her full
capacities. She created the style "Magia Erebea", which absorbs magic
into the users body; bonding it to the user's soul. Her vampire
abilities allow her to fly and give her extremely fast regeneration.
Even while under the curse, she is incredibly skilled at defending
herself, using Aikido
to take down a large man with her ten year old body, though Chachamaru
is generally used to fight for her. She is also a master of puppetry,
and she is able to control hundreds of marionettes at once, or use the
ability on her opponents. She currently only uses one sentient doll, Chachazero (チャチャゼロ),
a very rude and violent being, though she cannot move without a large
concentration of magic. In her resort, she makes use of several other
sentient dolls who can move due to the high concentration of magic
within her resort.
Chachamaru is a servant to her. She refers to Evangeline as "master"
and does anything she orders. While Chachazero is a puppet, Chachamaru
is a robot, and requires no power from Evangeline. Instead, she plugs
herself in
Asuna Kagurazaka
- Voiced by: Akemi Kanda (Japanese), Luci Christian (English)
Asuna Kagurazaka (神楽坂 明日菜 Kagurazaka Asuna) is student number eight in the class, and the lead female character. In the first season, the OADs and the manga, she has heterochromia
(in the second season and early OVA's both eyes are of the same color)
and appears to be 14 or 15 years old, but her exact age is unknown, as
her name was mentioned in a video that occurred 21 years ago. She is
very short-tempered and quick to resort to violence (especially towards
Negi), though she is very protective of those close to her. Asuna has a
crush on her former home room teacher, Takahata, and she spends a
significant amount of time attempting to become closer to him. She bonds
with Negi after he becomes her teacher, though she is initially wary of
him.
It is later revealed to Evangeline and Negi that she is actually Asuna Vesperina Theotanasia Entheofushia,
a princess of the fallen country of Vespertatia, who was saved by Nagi
and his group. She occasionally will have dreams regarding her past, but
cannot recall them at will due to Takahata erasing her memory. Negi
states that she has the same look and smell as Nekane Springfield and
has the natural ability to cancel magic, which is an exceedingly rare
ability. A number of Asuna's character traits and design are inspired by
Naru Narusegawa from Love Hina,
Ken Akamatsu's previous work, including her attraction to an older man
and violent personality towards the protagonist. While she claims to
hate children, she is easily the closest in the class to Negi, which
leads a number of her classmates believe the relationship is romantic, a
claim she repeatedly denies. Though she denies having feelings for Negi
it has been hinted throughout the story that she harbors some form of
love towards him, though it be brotherly or romantic it has not been
explicitly expressed.
After forming a pactio with Negi, she gains the artifact "Ensis Exorcizans", which can take the form of either a harisen
or a massive sword which enhances her natural ability to cancel magic.
Initially, she can only summon the harisen on command, however she is
later able to call upon both at will. She also has a degree of mastery
over Kankahō (咸卦法 also, xiánguàfǎ),
a strong combination of magic and ki which enhances all of her
abilities. Although her memories are erased by Takahata, they are
restored by Fate.
She is somehow related to Negi Springfield, though the specifics of
this relation are unknown, and she is the only relative of Negi's that
lives in Japan. She became Negi's guardian before she knew their
familial bond. It is implicated that her real age are around 25 years
old, on the other hands she is about 15 in both civil registration and
physical appearance. That makes her one of the
look-younger-than-her-real-ages girls in Negi's class (the others are
MCDowell,the twins and the ghost)
Recently, Asuna was put into a hundred-year sleep; however, she
overslept by thirty years, and in this time most of the people she knew
in her class has died, with the exceptions of Evangeline and Chao
Lingshen.
In the anime, Asuna is the Red Baka Ranger (known as the Dummy Force
in the English anime), a group widely accepted as the most unintelligent
in the class. However, the Baka Rangers are seen as capable of
performing great feats either by luck or by strong physical prowess
Haruna Saotome
- Voiced by: Sawa Ishige (Japanese), Jamie Marchi (English)
Haruna Saotome (早乙女 ハルナ Saotome Haruna)
student number fourteen and the local rumor-monger. She is a talented
artist who draws a manga series, and a frequent companion of Yue and
Nodoka. After finding out about the existence of magic, she is initially
hurt that she wasn't told, though they explain it was because of her
gossiping. Much to her classmates' chagrin, she is unusually perceptive
about romantic entanglements, such as when she quickly identifies
Natsumi's developing feelings for Kotaro. She forms a pactio with Negi,
"Imperium Graphices", which takes the form of a sketchbook able to bring
any drawing to life for a short time. She becomes very adept in using
her artifact, able to create complex drawing in seconds that can attack
or defend. She can also draw copies of herself, allowing her to draw at a
much faster pace. She is also a good pilot, able to drive the
goldfish-ship Paru-sama.
Konoka Konoe
- Voiced by: Ai Nonaka (Japanese), Monica Rial (English)
Konoka Konoe (近衛 木乃香 Konoe Konoka)
is student number thirteen in the class. She is a very cheerful and
optimistic young girl, who is the daughter of chief of the Kansai magic
association, the granddaughter of the school dean, and a member of the Konoe family one of the Five regent houses.[3]
She has a hobby of fortune telling, before and after learning about
magic, though most predictions are jokes. Though she initially knows
nothing of magic, she is said to hold great potential, on par with Negi,
the son of the man regarded as the strongest mage. She is kept unaware
in order to protect her from groups looking to exploit her, as well as
the fact that her father wanted her to lead a "normal" life. However,
she is eventually told the truth and chooses to begin magical studies.
She lives in the same dormitory with Asuna and Negi, and she often
mediates the frequent fights between them. She is very close to Setsuna,
who is Konoka's protector and childhood friend, although Setsuna
becomes flustered when Konoe tries to do anything with her. Later on,
Konoka's relationship with Setsuna appears to grow closer to romantic
rather than that of just friends; as Konoka frequently flirts with
Setsuna and holds a long, passionate Pactio kiss with her.
Konoka has two Pactio agreements; she first forms one of these with
Negi, which takes the form of the artifact, Flabellum Euri, fans which
are able to heal most injuries, including fatal injures, as long as it
occurred within three minutes. While treating fatal injuries, her soul
leaves her body, and she uses much more power than she normally has to
treat the wound, though she is left drained and unable to use her
artifact for a period of time. She also practices in minor healing magic
to heal small wounds. Her second Pactio agreement is formed with
Setsuna with Konoka as the Magistra.
Kū Fei
- Voiced by: Hazuki Tanaka (first voice), Kana Asumi (onwards) (Japanese), Cynthia Cranz (English)
Kū Fei (古 菲; katakana: クー フェイ; romaji: Kū Fei; Pinyin: Gǔ Fēi) is student number twelve in the class. She is an extremely skilled Chinese martial artist,
who is very energetic and joyful. She ranks near the bottom of the
class, and she has problems studying due to her native language being Chinese, while she is still learning Japanese. In the original manga, she ends her sentences with "aru" (アル) to address her depiction of the language, while the English adaptation has her speak in "pidgin" English. She is a close friend of Chao Lingshen, often working at her restaurant, sparring with her, or eating her nikuman.
Additionally, she becomes very close to Negi, becoming his master in
martial arts. She is a previous winner of the martial arts tournament at
the academy, so she constantly fights others looking to prove their own
strength around campus. In the anime, Kū Fei is the yellow Baka Ranger
(known as Dummy Force in English).
While Kū is extremely skilled and knowledgeable about Chinese kenpo
style martial arts, Kū lacks knowledge and control of magic, but has
strong ki, which rises to otherworldly levels after learning of the
magical world. Mana states that "as a normal human, Kū Fei is without a
doubt the strongest". Kū is a highly skilled warrior both unarmed and
armed. She sometimes uses knives, swords, Chinese war hammers, and she
can use the tail on her clothing in a spear-like fashion in order to
restrain opponents. While in the Magic World, she was presented with the
idea of forming a pactio with Negi, but initially held out due to her
embarrassment and family rules; she later made a pactio with Negi after
losing to him in an armwrestling match; followed with telling Negi as
the man who took her lips he is indebted to become her husband. She than
says she is kidding, but Kamo quickly takes into account that Negi's
descendent, Chao Lingshen, is Chinese; making for an interesting
situation. Her artifact is Shintetsu Jizaikon, a staff said to be the
replica of the Ruyi Jingu Bang.
After the events of the Magical World trip, Kū was inspired by the
Courage Nodoka and Yue showed in confessing their Affection to Negi, and
as a result, became the third of the students of Class 3-A to confess
to Negi. She admitted that her feelings were a bit complicated, and was
not overly confident in them herself, but she was able to confess
nonetheless, even though she later thought it was probably too early for
a confession
Madoka Kugimiya
- Voiced by: Mami Deguchi (Japanese), Lucy Small (Series 1), Mary Morgan (onwards) (English)
Madoka Kugimiya (釘宮 円 Kugimiya Madoka)
is student number eleven in the class and one of its three
cheerleaders, along with Sakurako and Misa. She attempts to keep the
other two out of trouble, but usually fails. She likes gyūdon,silver accessories, and Western
music. It looks like she had an interest towards Kotaro's older form.
She is not often shown in "Negima!?" but she is probably the most calm
and quiet cheerleader.
Chachamaru Karakuri
- Voiced by: Akeno Watanabe (Japanese), Caitlin Glass (English)
Chachamaru Karakuri (絡繰 茶々丸 Karakuri Chachamaru)
is student number ten in the class. She is a two-year-old robot created
by Satomi Hakase to serve Evangeline and protect her during time where
the spell binding weakens her. She is initially without any real
emotions, although after her confrontation with Negi she begins to
exhibit emotions and develop feelings for Negi. These feelings go
against her original programming, which excites Hakase. She spends most
of her free time helping people and rescuing stray animals. She strongly
fears the idea that she is nothing more than a soulless doll and that
she does not have a soul; however, during the Governor's ball in the
Magic world she forms a pactio with Negi, proving that she does indeed
have a soul, as Pactio contracts can only be formed between those with
true souls.
Chachamaru's body is powered by an internal spring combined with
magic, and it has to be wound with a key by someone with magical energy
to power her. The actual winding process is apparently pleasurable
and/or arousing, although too much magic can intensify the feeling to
"uncomfortable" levels (usually when Negi does it, but always on
accident). She is skilled in hand to hand combat, being equipped with
weapons such as rocket fists and laser emitters, and is also proficient
with various types of high-powered weaponry. She has been upgraded
several times, increasing both her combat capability and her human
resemblance.
Her pactio artifact, "Al-Iskandariya", includes a combat armor suit
with a jet pack, a cat-eared battle-gear for her head, and a cat-shaped
hand-held laser-alignment system/"portable control terminal"[1] for an orbital bombardment
from a satellite cannon known as the "Type-2130 Chao Bao Zi Satellite
Support System", which is also summoned whenever and wherever the pactio
card is activated. It is extremely powerful, destroying Cosmo
Entelecheia's summoned beast in a single blast. All parts of the set
have the Chao Bao Zi logo on it, implying that they were all Chao's
inventions
Misora Kasuga
- Voiced by: Ai Bandō (Japanese), Wendy Powell (English)
Misora Kasuga (春日 美空 Kasuga Misora) is student number nine in the class, and one of the many secret mages at the school. She is an active member of the track and field
club, rivaling Asuna in the class sprint runs. She always wears a
crucifix and is sometimes seen wearing a nun's habit, although she has a
serious streak of mischief. She has an active pactio with Cocone, and
her artifact, Joculatrix Monachans, is a pair of sneakers that allow her
to run and jump with superhuman ability.
Misa Kakizaki
- Voiced by: Shizuka Itō (Japanese), Gwendolyn Lau (English)
Misa Kakizaki (柿崎 美砂 Kakizaki Misa)
is student number seven in the class and one of its three cheerleaders
along with Madoka and Sakurako. She implants the idea in others heads to
groom the ten-year-old Negi as a future boyfriend, many of them basing
the idea off seeing Negi using age changing pills and the illusion of
Negi's father. Misa also enjoys dressing up Negi or other classmates in
embarrassing outfits.
Akira Okochi
- Voiced by: Azumi Yamamoto (Japanese), Jenny Phagan (Series 1), Cherami Leigh (Series 2) (English)
Akira Okochi (大河内 アキラ Ōkōchi Akira)
is student number six in the class. She is very active in the swimming
club, and the high school's swimming club also wishes to recruit her.
Unlike her friends, Akira only talks when she needs to. She accidentally
travels to the Magic World with Negi's group, where she ends up as an
indentured slave after having to pay for medicine for Ako. In chapter
166, it is revealed she is very strong, and was able to catch Misora,
even when the latter was using her artifact. After learning that Nagi is
just a disguise for Negi, she attempts to hide the truth from Ako.
After Ako does find out the truth, Akira consoles her. It is also
implied that she is falling in love with Negi. In chapter 349 she gains
an artifact that turns her into a mermaid but it is never named. It
allows her jump from the surface of one body of water to another with a
maximum range of three-hundred meters.
Yue Ayase
- Voiced by: Natsuko Kuwatani (Japanese), Brina Palencia (English)
Yue Ayase (綾瀬 夕映 Ayase Yue)
student number four in the class. She is highly intelligent, but has
some of the lowest grades in the class because she hates studying and is
very lazy. She has a marked like for strange juices, and is very close
friends with Nodoka, who shares her interest in books. Yue initially
fully supports Nodoka's pursuit of Negi as a love interest by helping
Nodoka overcome her shy personality, but eventually realizes that she
also has feelings for Negi, which she tries to suppress, but eventually
comes to terms with it as Nodoka's opinion of Yue doesn't change when
this fact is revealed. Yue is also the leader of the Baka Rangers (known
as Dummy Force in the English dub of the Anime), wearing the black
uniform.
Yue forms a Pactio with Negi, which takes the form of the artifact,
"Orbis Sensualium Pictus". Although it gives Yue only basic magical
equipment, it also provides her with a complete magical encyclopedia
that can instantly access any magic-related information that is updated
in real time. Yue also studies magic under Negi, and quickly progresses
due to her constant training and her artifact. 'While in the magical
world, she suffers from a memory loss spell, and enrolls at Ariadne
Magic Academy while waiting for her memory to return. During this time,
she throws herself into her studies for magic, and is soon recognized as
a masterful mage and candidate for becoming an Ariadne Knight. She has
shown a strong affinity for lightning-based and wind-based spells.
After the events of the Magical world arc, she is able to muster
enough courage to tell Negi she loves him. Immediately after that event,
her forgotten memories come back to her, and she again feels a wave of
guilt for falling in love with her best friend Nodoka's crush. However,
when the opportunity arises to learn of Negi's 'favorite' of the girls
by forcing it out of him with magic, Yue and Nodoka stop the spell out
of respect for Negi's feelings
Makie Sasaki
- Voiced by: Yui Horie (Japanese), Kate Oxley (English)
Makie Sasaki (佐々木 まき絵 Sasaki Makie) is student number sixteen in the class. She is an energetic rhythmic gymnast,
who constantly competes in competitions. She is, in the second anime,
the roommate of Ayaka, which often leads to conflicts over their shared
obsession with Negi, although Ayaka's desire for Negi far outstrips
Makie, or anyone else in the class for that matter. In Negima! Chapter
56 however she is shown to be the roommate of her best friend, Ako Izumi
(room number 662). In the anime, Makie is the pink Baka Ranger (known
as Dummy Force in English).
Makie has extremely honed reflexes, but she lacks mental strength,
which is detrimental to her gymnastics. She has mastered control over a ribbon,
which she carries with her at all times, the point where she can use it
to easily grab a balloon out of midair. She is accidentally brought to
the Magic World with Negi's group, where she eventually begins to learn
basic magic.
Makie's possible feelings towards Negi seem to surface after Negi
starts to become consumed by the Darkness magic he's trying to master.
After Negi goes berserk at one point and is pacified by Evangeline,
Makie quickly takes his hand and holds it firmly, which somehow has the
effect of clearing the darkness from him. By Chapter 289, Makie has
formed a pactio with Negi, while admitting that she likes him.
Makie's 1st artifact is revealed in Chapter 291: The "Liberum
Lemiscus" (Universal Ribbon). This ribbon can extend to any length,
increasing the range and ability she usually has with her "normal"
ribbon. The second and third are named "Bombus Globus" (bomb ball) and
"Frango Stipes" (Breaking clubs).[7]
Their actual abilities are unknown yet, as well as if there are more
artifacts in Makie's pactio which would most likely refer to her
abilities in Rhythmic gymnastics, as do the others and the image on the
pactio card. If this would be the case, the tools still missing to
complete the set would be rope and hoop
Mana Tatsumiya
- Voiced by: Miho Sakuma (Japanese), Stephanie Young (English)
Mana Tatsumiya (龍宮 真名 Tatsumiya Mana) is student number eighteen in the class and the daughter of the keepers of the Tatsumiya shrine. She acts as a priestess, exorcist, and mercenary, employing guns with spellbreaker bullets as her tool of exorcism.
She is not particularly sociable, keeping to herself most of the time
and not engaging in conversation. She carries a pactio card, which is
the remnant of a contract she had with a mage who is now deceased. Mana
possesses a number of mystical abilities, one of which is her Demon-Eye,
which allows her to see demons and spirits. As well as being a skilled
gunman and sniper, she is also skilled in close combat, using a style
that utilizes coins as projectiles. It has been heavily suggested in a
recent chapter that her abilities are due to her being a half-demon.
Although she is somewhat friendly with Negi and the rest of her class,
she is a true mercenary, taking on any assignment which will pay her
sufficiently, even if it directly competes with Negi's goals, such as
when she acted as a sniper for Chao Lingshen in Chao's bid to alter the
future. In the end of chapter 299 she shows a form that she hasn't used
in 5 years before the series. Mana has revealed that she is a half demon
in her fight with Zazie's sister.
Natsumi Murakami
- Voiced by: Mai Aizawa (Japanese), Majken Kunishima (English)
Natsumi Murakami (村上 夏美 Murakami Natsumi)
is the twenty-eighth student in the class. She is a shy girl, who is an
actress in the theatrical club. She feels that her body is
underdeveloped, so she is constantly depressed and jealous of her more
developed classmates. She bonds with Kotaro after he arrives at the
school; and begins to develop slight jealousy of his interactions with
other girls. She is accidentally brought to the Magic World, where she
is forced to become an indentured servant. After being saved, Haruna
convinces her to form a pactio with Kotaro, rather than Negi. Although
she is very embarrassed by the idea of kissing Kotaro to form the
contract (due to the romantic implications and the age difference
between herself and 10 year old Kotaro), she is convinced due to
Kotaro's speech in which he states that he thinks of Natsumi and friends
as the closest things to family he has and that he loves her. She
succeeds in the formation of the Pactio and then suddenly tells Kotaro
that she has feelings for him; she immediately regrets this and runs
off. Her Pactio artifact is Adjutor Solitarius, a mask that has the
ability to suppress her presence and the presence of anyone she is
holding hands with when held up to her face
Sakurako Shiina
- Voiced by: Akane Omae (Japanese), Colleen Clinkenbeard (English)
Sakurako Shiina (椎名 桜子 Shiina Sakurako) is student number seventeen in the class, and one of the three cheerleaders along with Madoka and Misa. She loves karaoke and her pet cats, Cookie and Biscuit, and is in the lacrosse
club. She constantly gambles, though she wins very often. It appears
she has almost supernatural luck, which makes it nearly impossible for
her to be wrong when she makes a wild, uninformed guess - when they lost
track of the group going to the magical world it fell upon Sakurako to
guess the correct direction to take. The odds of doing so were about the
same as winning the lottery. She also managed to guess correctly what
was actually in the sky in the recent chapters, saying that the castle
in the sky was "A castle from the magic country that suddenly appeared"
in a random guess. (Though Evangeline was thinking how she was spot on)
She is extremely positive and hyper, often being the first to respond to
a question or inquiry, and mixing up words constantly
Satomi Hakase
- Voiced by: Mai Kadowaki (Japanese), Jayme Westman (Series 1), Carrie Savage (Spring and Summer Specials, Series 2) (English)
Satomi Hakase (葉加瀬 聡美 Hakase Satomi)
is student number twenty-four in the class, and an expert in robotics.
She is very close to Chao, actively taking part in the plan to reveal
magic to the world, and utilizing Chao's magic and technology from the
future, although she defers to Chao in judging whether they are doing
the right thing. Her great intelligence, obsession in her work, and lack of common sense
lead her classmates to refer to both her and Chao as mad scientists.
She is the creator of Chachamaru, and essentially acts like her mother.
She constantly upgrades her and takes special interest in the ways she
develops, such as developing feelings for Negi. Her last name, "hakase",
is a homophone of 博士, which means "doctor" (i.e., a person who has
obtained a doctorate). Often, she is referred to as Hakase-Hakase (or
just "Hakase", but with the alternate meaning). The English manga
translates this as "Professor Hakase" or "Professor"; even the meaning
"Professor-Professor" would be correct, depending on which version of
the pun is in use
Satsuki Yotsuba
- Voiced by: Naomi Inoue (Japanese), Monica Rial (English)
Satsuki Yotsuba (四葉 五月 Yotsuba Satsuki)
is student number thirty in the class, and an aspiring chef. She is
part of the school's cooking club, and cooks at a streetcar restaurant.
Satsuki's dream is to have her own restaurant, as she likes making
people happy through her food. Most other students state that they
admire her for following her dream, especially Evangeline, who thinks
nearly everyone else in 3A lacks direction. Satsuki has a unique way of
speaking that is shown in the manga by depicting her words without a speech bubble.
Although not directly linked or involved in the various incidents that
take place throughout the manga, she seems passively aware of the
magical students and events that take place in throughout the school and
unsurprised at the feats of magic that occur in her presence
Sayo Aisaka
- Voiced by: Yuri Shiratori (Japanese), Kate Bristol (English)
Sayo Aisaka (相坂 さよ Aisaka Sayo)
is student number one in the class, though she is actually a ghost that
no one can initially see. She died 60 years before the series, and she
has been unable to leave the school campus or interact with anyone. She
still goes to the same class, and sits in the same seat, which always
remains empty. She desperately attempts to make friends, though she
always ends up being treated as an evil spirit. While trying to scare
people as a ghost, she fails miserably and often trips, despite not
having feet. After Negi starts teaching the class, she is eventually
noticed by him over time.
After befriending much of the class, she becomes very close with
Kazumi, often helping her by spying for her journalism reports. Kazumi
later obtains a doll from Evangeline that Sayo can possess and control,
which allows her to leave the school campus and go with Negi's group to
the Magic World. She later gains a robotic body similar to Chachamaru,
though she controls it from the inside with her doll body.
Yūna Akashi
- Voiced by: Madoka Kimura (Japanese), Amber Cotton (English)
Yūna Akashi (明石 裕奈 Akashi Yūna)
is student number two in the class and an active member in the sports
clubs. Her father is Professor Akashi, one of the Mage-teachers at the
Academy, though until recently she knew nothing about the existence of
magic. She is very close to her father to the point of feeling jealousy
about other women, occasionally to the point of disturbing her
classmates. She is capable of using magic-powered weapons even without
the presence of ambient magic in her area. Yūna is among the group of
students who secretly follow Negi and Ala Alba into the Magic World, but
is separated from the group, along with Makie, after a battle between
Negi and Fate Averruncus. She and Makie manage to find work, and
eventually make their way to where Negi is located. She takes Negi's
being a mage rather well, and as of late, the truth about her parents
being Mages was revealed to her by Takane, which she also takes rather
well. She also verifies this by performing a simple magic spell, one she
recalls from her childhood. By Chapter 289, she has formed a pactio
with Negi. In Negima!?, she is also a military buff.
Yūna's artifact is revealed in Chapter 291 as the "Iris Tulmentum"
(Seven Prismatic Colored Gun), which takes the form of a pistol. The
shots fired from her gun are highly powerful, and may also take
different forms of ammunition. It is hinted that that gun might be the
gun her mother used before she died.
Zazie Rainyday
- Voiced by: Yuka Inokuchi (Japanese), Carrie Savage (English)
Zazie Rainyday (ザジ・レイニーデイ Zaji Reinīdei)
is student thirty-one in the class. She rarely speaks, and doesn't
associate with anyone out side of the school's acrobatic club. She often
spends time juggling and hanging around with a group of masked
monster-like black blobs she simply refers to as "friends". In the
Mahora Festival Arc it is the first she spoke to anyone with more words
than one. Her lack of character development and speaking lines is
occasionally the subject of in-character jokes; when Ayaka claims to be
speaking to Zazie on the phone (although in truth all that Zazie said
was "Bye"), the other students express disbelief that she is even
talking. Recently, she had appeared before Negi and his group at the
lower entrance of the Gravekeeper's Palace; however, that was revealed
to be in fact her older sister. Zazie's sister used her pactio to put
Negi and the people of his party who were not satisfied with their life
into a copy of Cosmo Entelecheia, to show it's effect and try to
dissuade Negi from trying to stop Fate. Zazie herself aided Negi while
he was in Cosmo Entelecheia, bringing more questions as to her
involvement with Fate, and what her powers are.[9] Her Negima! pactio is a set of magical slicing cards. She speaks much more often in Negima!?, and makes very bad puns
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