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It seems like it's about time for us to get an explanation on why Eva said that only Touta and Karin would survive forever.
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Silento posted:To the contrary, I'd love to see Touta take the Rakan route! gently caress that, bring back Rakan himself. 
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Jan 16, 2014 08:51
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Yasser Arafatwa posted:gently caress that, bring back Rakan himself. Well yeah, who else is going to teach Touta how to be a man?  Also, Kotarou might be alive too! He's not human, after all.
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Jan 16, 2014 11:30
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A lot of the Negima cast are probably still alive, though elderly.
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Jan 16, 2014 11:33
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New chapter: http://readms.com/r/uq_holder/19/2220/1 drat, Akamatsu is such a tease. These little bits of action are so good, I need more RIGHT NOW. 
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Jan 19, 2014 04:21
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This is everything great about Negima and taking it to 11. Yes, more, now. 
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Jan 19, 2014 04:29
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I am so glad Akamatsu was finally able to realize his true calling of drawing action manga  . Also based on the previous chapters, I wonder how many kids and townsfolk are even going to be left alive by the time the fights end. My gut says that he's not going to have killed off the kids and nuns, but then he's not exactly pulling punches elsewhere.
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"I don't care if you're male or female, you're attractive either way."  I've really been enjoying this series! Such great action! It bears repeating that the immortality thing is great since it provides a nice loophole to show really brutal, raw physical contact fighting without the sense of artifice that most other shonen action manga have. DrSunshine fucked around with this message at 04:37 on Jan 19, 2014 |
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Jan 19, 2014 04:35
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DrSunshine posted:I've really been enjoying this series! Such great action! It bears repeating that the immortality thing is great since it provides a nice loophole to show really brutal, raw physical contact fighting without the sense of artifice that most other shonen action manga have. Yeah, this chapter in particular made me realize just how true that is. And as has also been said, it actually makes things more suspenseful; in any other manga it would be obvious that Touta and Kuromaru were going to manage, somehow, but here you really do worry what's going to happen to them.
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Jan 19, 2014 04:46
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It's also interesting because there's so many things that are worse than death when the stakes are this high. Also, I'm already invested in Kuromaru and Karin at this point but even though I don't despise Touta like some seem to he hasn't exactly made me cheer for him either.
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Touta lacks motivation. He does whatever seems fun, and latches on to other people's dreams on a whim. I'm sure this will change, but right now he isn't all that interesting.
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New chapter: http://readms.com/r/uq_holder/20/2227/1 I'm getting more and more curious about Karin's backstory. Gods? I don't remember those being in Negima. Well, maybe the Lifemaker was one. I guess we might never know, now. 
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Silento posted:New chapter: http://readms.com/r/uq_holder/20/2227/1 gently caress every other character, this needs to just be the Karin show. She is by far the coolest character we've seen so far, and I can see why she's supposedly th top tier of immortality, considering she essentially doesn't exist in the same plane.
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Kid's got huge dragging balls.chumbler posted:gently caress every other character, this needs to just be the Karin show. She is by far the coolest character we've seen so far, and I can see why she's supposedly th top tier of immortality, considering she essentially doesn't exist in the same plane. Looks like she might be an angel proper. Fallen angel maybe?
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Honestly not sure how he's going to survive this. I'm sure he will somehow, though, because named little kids don't die in shonen manga, unless it's a flashback. (I'm sure someone is going to find an exception to this rule that I've missed.)
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Jan 28, 2014 05:50
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Jesus Karin. Maybe even literally.
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Silver2195 posted:Honestly not sure how he's going to survive this. I'm sure he will somehow, though, because named little kids don't die in shonen manga, unless it's a flashback. (I'm sure someone is going to find an exception to this rule that I've missed.) Definitely forgot someone. 
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korrandark posted:Definitely forgot someone. Oh yeah.
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New chapter, not sure if I can link since Crunchyroll does it in America. Is that Magica Erebea? It'd make sense, since overuse of that supposedly turned Negi into a demon/monster, that it might have passed on something similar
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Aaaaaaaand, Touta does his best Rakan impression on page 14. That sneer This is the Akamatsu I know and love
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THAT WAS loving AWESOME Touta was totally channeling Negi in the full body shot there... I wonder if its Magica Erebea or something new, either way, I love the way that it manifested as a loving rocket punch. How can Akamatsu have wasted so much time doing Harem manga, as good as he is at them. He is so suited to writing battle manga!
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FiftySeven posted:How can Akamatsu have wasted so much time doing Harem manga, as good as he is at them. He is so suited to writing battle manga! Even after reading through all of Negima, I still find it kind of hard to believe that the guy who wrote and drew Love Hina of all things (which is still a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine and is better than most harem manga because it has actual character development) has proven to be one of the best battle manga authors. I hope that all along this is the kind of thing he really wanted to draw. I want him to be really happy with this series. vvvv I am pretty sure he wasn't happy with that ending either, but he had a justifiable reason for doing it. chumbler fucked around with this message at 02:17 on Feb 3, 2014 |
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chumbler posted:I want him to be really happy with this series. After he made that terrible ending for Negima? gently caress what he wants, I deserve closure!!! To be serious though, UQ Holder is awesome so far. I have no idea where it will go, but I have complete faith it will be amazing. Akamatsu is not only great at drawing battle scenes, his character development and plotting are top notch too! I'm such a fanboy... 
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To be fair, even Love Hina got a little shonen battle manga-y towards the end. Didn't he get his start drawing porn or something? That's probably the easy way to get started, and now his transformation is nearly complete. fake edit: Actually maybe that was the Excel Saga guy.
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Bremen posted:fake edit: Actually maybe that was the Excel Saga guy. It was both of them. That's (apparently) one of the reasons he puts his wife in everything, she married him even when he was a penniless doujin artist.
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Bremen posted:To be fair, even Love Hina got a little shonen battle manga-y towards the end. Didn't he get his start drawing porn or something? That's probably the easy way to get started, and now his transformation is nearly complete. Akamatsu used to do doujins. There's one floating around with horrible quality and translation with the ladies of FF7. That said... chumbler posted:Love Hina of all things (which is still a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine and is better than most harem manga because it has actual character development) Don't get me started on this. I have an issue with the "character development" of Love Hina. Also he ended up with the wrong girl Oh Motoko, one day your love will be fulfilled...
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PerrineClostermann posted:Akamatsu used to do doujins. There's one floating around with horrible quality and translation with the ladies of FF7. That said... Fun fact: I believe he even did one for obscure Squaresoft action RPG "Threads of Fate." Akamatsu was just a Square guy, I guess. I didn't know that trivia about his wife marrying him when he made doujin, though. That's really badass.
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Shinjobi posted:Fun fact: I believe he even did one for obscure Squaresoft action RPG "Threads of Fate." Akamatsu was just a Square guy, I guess. Really? I just started playing through that on my Vita. Neat. Man, Akamatsu's gone from straight up porn to not being sure how to draw a nipple. Being a manga author must be hell.
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Shinjobi posted:I didn't know that trivia about his wife marrying him when he made doujin, though. That's really badass. After that, I can't really fault the guy for putting his wife in everything.
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Hahaha "YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS?" "Nope, it's just gross."  This manga is just so drat good, Akamatsu has really improved his pacing.
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The Fresh Prince posted:Dicks are important. A hilarious thought...did Touta think that Kuroumaru just hadn't regenerated the dick yet? He's just that dense.
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greatBigJerk posted:I started reading Negima since this looks good, and I may as well get all of the back story. Slogging through Harry Potter sneezing the clothing off of women is going to be a chore though.
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I started reading Negima at the point where they teleport to the magic world and felt I hadn't missed much.
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I would suggest reading the Kyoto arc, the back end of the Magical Festival arc, and then going to the magical world, because it gives you a lot of background, since you meet the main bad guy of the magic world arc in Kyoto, and find out a lot of stuff in the festival arc from the bad guy that makes a reveal in the magic world arc (and the ending) make a little more sense.
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KittyEmpress posted:I would suggest reading the Kyoto arc, the back end of the Magical Festival arc, and then going to the magical world, because it gives you a lot of background, since you meet the main bad guy of the magic world arc in Kyoto, and find out a lot of stuff in the festival arc from the bad guy that makes a reveal in the magic world arc (and the ending) make a little more sense. Someone reading Negima for background would also need to read the Eva arc. And the tournament arc because the tournament arc owned and had some great fights.
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