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Merxamers
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While on one hand it is nice to see some familiar faces from Negima again, it's at this point in the series where i got wary of how much it was becoming a "Negima 2.0" manga. The more characters from Negima that make their appearance, the less important the supposed main cast of this series seems to be. Oh well; personal preferences being what they are, i admit i'd be happy seeing Chao Lingshen make an appearance (i'm pretty far behind the current chapters)
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AksaraKishou
Joined: 16 May 2015
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| Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 10:55 am |
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| Merxamers wrote: | | While on one hand it is nice to see some familiar faces from Negima again, it's at this point in the series where i got wary of how much it was becoming a "Negima 2.0" manga. The more characters from Negima that make their appearance, the less important the supposed main cast of this series seems to be. Oh well; personal preferences being what they are, i admit i'd be happy seeing Chao Lingshen make an appearance (i'm pretty far behind the current chapters) |
Taking into account that this was around the time where the actual JP title of UQ Holder changed to Negima 2 more or less, i'm not sure you'll be happy going forward. lol
It went from "UQ Holder" to "UQ Holder!: Magister Negi Magi! 2"
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johnnysasaki
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| Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 9:35 pm |
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it's also noteworthy that Akamatsu felt forced to end Negima earlier than he wanted to,so he's just using UQ Holder to tell the rest of the Negima's story he couldn't before.
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nargun
Joined: 29 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2018 7:32 pm |
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| johnnysasaki wrote: | | it's also noteworthy that Akamatsu felt forced to end Negima earlier than he wanted to,so he's just using UQ Holder to tell the rest of the Negima's story he couldn't before. |
It's pretty clear that the original plan for Negima's school-festival arc included a Zazie loop that would have set up the backstory to the mage-of-the-beginning &c. Cutting this for time meant the narrative became fundamentally unsalvageable; there was no place in the magical-world arc to dump the information early, so it had to come as a deus-ex-machina at the end.
Not exactly the only badly-structured thread, either. The problems with Negima are not just that it was cut off early; the story had huge structural problems virtually from the beginning. Too big, too many moving parts, too many plates in the air. Cutting to a timeskip and telling the missing bits in flashback is a pretty sensible way to write yourself out of that sort of tangle. The actual cut might have happened because of copyright issues, but I don't think Akamatsu was that reluctant to pull the trigger.
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