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Animegomaniac
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Negima! is a lot of things and that includes wearing the "action adventure" beard on top of the comedy harem antics. I am still amazed at how people to this day think the series is the beard and not the other way around. "Ken Akamatsu wanted to do an action adventure shounen story and that's what he did!" If that was true, he would have ditched the harem comedy altogether, not double down on it. The action starts late, the long serious adventure starts much later, the comedy and the sex run through out. Overall, it makes it impossible to successfully adapt the work because the people here just for the battles completely dismiss its harem heart while those who liked the perverted harem antics found the adventure tedious and drawn out. And the first anime was terrible because the animation was awful and it was really ugly, not because of what it adapted. |
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Chrono1000
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BigHeadClan
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Such a shame that a manga as good as Negima had to suffer such poor and random Anime releases.
Each anime had their own merits but aside from the 5 episodes at the end of it's run it was pretty forgettable. Hopefully they learned from this regarding UQ Holder. |
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myskaros
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For me, one of the big draws of continuing to follow Negima was to find out what everyone's artifact ended up being. It was a rare case of characters obtaining not generic powers, but a whole outfit plus weapon! Or maybe I just don't watch enough Precure/Sentai.
Also wanted to comment how distracting the "Negima!?" titling in the article was, considering that's the name of the spinoff manga series by another author that I frequently see in used book stores. |
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LuScr
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One other thing worth pointing out about the original Xebec anime--it was cut short. During its original broadcast run in 2005, ANN had it listed as a 52-episode series; apparently, it did so poorly (I want to blame the atrocious mishandling of the story, but it probably had more to do with ratings) that it was killed off after 26.
As it turned out, that was an omen when it came to Negima adaptations. |
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EricJ2
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The Negima anime, with or without punctuation, is one of the two titles that's become almost literally synonymous with the problems behind the 00's Anime Bubble: It was sold on the strength of its manga, on the strength of its TV brand at home, on an easily fan-marketable concept, and on a lot of wishful thinking on the part of its licensor. The only problem, as noted, was that nobody liked it. (I remember giving up early after finding out that the hero's harem actually needed a scorecard, to identify his cliche' trope-girls by number. So I never found out HOW weird things got after that.) One early harbinger of the causes that Popped the Bubble was when "a major anime studio" complained that the initial sales of new currently-airing series to licensed US anime companies were being undercut by the trans-Pacific rise of the anime community on the Internet, and that Japanese fans were "warning early bad word-of-mouth" to US fans about new series before they'd reached the states. Guess who the studio turned out to be. |
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dark13
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jr240483
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and there wasnt a problem with that. wasnt there? sure it wasnt perfect, but he was definitely solid to say the least. though the main breakthrough for the dub version for the series was his perverted ermine chamo. though considering how long its been, its highly unlikely that he could even do negi's voice anymore. besides. the series is licensed by sentai, not funimation. and due to this fact, its more likely that the original dub cast wont be in UQ Holder unless their independent like evangeline's va or their former ADV Films VAs like the voice actresses that did asuna and konoka. |
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dragonrider_cody
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Pretty much all Texas VA’s are independent. For acting roles, they are paid by the part. They aren’t regular, salaried employees. So if Sentai is willing to dub it, they could get a lot of the VA’s back. The mains were also voiced by actors who work with them regularly anyway. The only issues would be those who are unwilling to travel to Houston and those who are no longer active or living in Texas. But given the history of the series, I would actually be quite surprised if Sentai did dub it. I guess we will have to wait and see. |
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Takkun4343
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Uhhh... anime#2259 |
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njprogfan
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Watched both series once, never to watch again. Classic 'source material monumentally better then adaptation/adaptations' scenario.
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Showsni
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My problem with it is that he didn't try to do a Welsh accent. Negi lives in Wales, Wales has a long tradition of magicians, and it's a nice, distinctive accent, but he goes for some generic English accent instead. Negi will always have a Welsh accent in my head when I read the manga! |
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Wondername
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I was never much of a fan of Negima as it's just not my cup of tea, but this article was a nice read. This part is something I seriously had no idea about:
What happened here? I remember the manga being ultra popular, how did it happen that Akamatsu was forced to rush the ending and even had problems later with what should have been a satisfying final anime adaptation? |
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Animegomaniac
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Negima never changed though and I've been trying to explain it to people for over ten years now. Negima went from a harem fantasy comedy... with fighting... to a harem fantasy with fighting. I've pretty much settled on the "harems are bad but I like Negima! so it's not a harem." answer. "No, no, it's a serious adult fantasy now! Look, people are dying, anyone can die!" Yeah, they were all spoiler[fictional/unreal characters that died and they came back anyway] so, yeah... what was the point again? That story took several years to get nowhere? About why Negima was cut short, the rumored reason is a right's issue between Akamatsu and the publisher but I lean towards to the idea that Akamatsu did a quick outline of the series as planned... a full year of 30 plus characters up to graduation... considered what he managed to do.... ten years of his life to make it through about 6 months of storyline... and just immediately pulled the plug after the summer vacation plot took years and only resulted in more characters and more stories to tell. It was ambitious plotting to be sure, just probably too ambitious. |
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dark13
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