REVIEW: #53 Negima! Magister Negi Magi (Vol. 1)
Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes
Synopsis: (Taken From Amazon.com)
DON’T TOUCH THAT WAND!
Ten-year-old prodigy Negi Springfield, has just graduated from magic academy. He dreams of becoming a master wizard. Instead he’s sent to Japan to teach English . . . at an all-girls high school! All the students are delighted with their cute new teacher—except for Asuna, who resents Negi for replacing the teacher she secretly has a crush on.
Although he is forbidden to display his magical powers, sometimes Negi can’t resist. And when Asuna discovers Negi’s secret, she vows to make his life as difficult as possible— just the thing to prepare Negi for the challenges of life as a master wizard!
Review:
I love Ken Akatmatsu’s books and am a HUGE Love Hina fan. When I saw this series (which happens to be many volumes long in length – even longer than Love Hina’s 14 book run) I thought I had to give it a try. I picked up Negima! Vol. 1 at Half-Off Books, and read it in just a period of a few hours.
What draws me to manga, in the first place, is that I find the adult sense of humor in Japan a little bit more free-willed with a tad of raunchy-truth. Ken Akamatsu tends to write for an older audience (teen/adult) so you tend to see more of this type of situational humor. While books like Honey Mustard are geared more towards younger pre-teens and are much more innocent.
Negimi Vol. 1 is the beginning story of how ten-year old Negi Springfield lands a roll teaching English in an All-Girls school. On top of that, he can’t use magic! Just like any 10 year old little boy, he is at odds with himself on figuring out how to be taken seriously when all his students (girls for that matter) are older than he is. (How serious can you take someone who is “just so darn cute!”)
Asuna, one of the students at this All Girl’s Academy is hell bent on making his life miserable and threatening to expose his secret as a wizard – which will inevitably ruin his wizardry career if any one found out! Negi and Asuna are forced to work together in many different situations – causing a variety of tensions (making neither of them very happy!)
Overall the book was cute, funny, and charming. It had it’s errors (on the back it says Negi is going to work at an all girl’s highschool) but in the book it says they are Junior High. But I am interested in seeing where these characters will end up – and if Asuna and Negi will finally make peace.
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I was a fan of Love Hina too, I’ll have to give Ken Akamatsu’s new work a read.
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