Characters of Negima (16-31)
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NOTE: The following Character descriptions are drawn primarily from the original manga. Any notable differences in the anime series will be noted. Also, the student numbers are based on the ordering of surnames according to the gojūon.
[edit] Makie Sasaki
Student Number 16: Makie Sasaki (佐々木 まき絵 Sasaki Makie?) Birthday: 7 March 1989. She is the energetic (and sort of childlike) rhythmic gymnast. Although she is a gymnast, her spirit is her strong and weak spot, as told by her coach, Ninomiya. She is a friend of Yūna, Ako, and Akira, who are also in sports clubs, and is "Baka Pink" of the "Baka Rangers" study group, standing out as the second lowest scorer (with only Asuna performing more poorly than she does). Makie really likes Negi (She thinks that he's very cute, but at the same time, can recognize his maturity), but because of his age, does not like him in any romantic way. She is still jealous of his affection so usually ends up in the middle of any competitions for Negi's attention. Makie is extremely skilled with a gymnastics ribbon, and can use it to grab things out of her reach, such as fruit, books, and adorable preteen teachers. She is enthusiastic when it comes to rhythmic gymnastics and achieving her dream of competing in the Olympics.
Despite her ignorance about Negi being a mage, Makie is among the students that have had the most encounters with the supernatural side of her teachers life. She has gone down into the labyrinth under Library Island, been turned into a vampire by Evangeline (And somehow remembers that Negi defeated her), helped Negi gain training from Evangeline, seen Negi battle in the Mahora Festival tournament, fights in a "virtual game" with Ayaka due to Chisame's Pactio and has a botched Pactio with Negi she got when she kissed a copy of Negi during the "Kiss Negi" game in Kyoto.
Trivia:
- According to volume 2, the character design of Makie was originally used as Kozue Migara the "Heroine's Pal".
- Her Japanese seiyu is also the seiyu for Naru Narusegawa, the main character of an earlier series by Ken Akamatsu, Love Hina.
- Negima!: Her artifact is a gymnastics ribbon that she wields like a whip. Her hair is also pink.
- Negima!?: Makie is used as the butt of many jokes in this series, much to her chagrin. Although she rooms with Ayaka, the blonde consistently belittles her for her lack of drive, exclaiming that "she fails at being Makie Sasaki" and making her further depressed. Her bad luck also carries over to the Baka Ranger shorts, where she never gets to finish her speech, squashed by a giant robot and even turned into a servant! She also gains a weird admiration of Motsu, adopting him as her "father" which he plays with great enthusiasm. (during the final episode, she reveals that "father" was the name of a dog she kept when she was younger) During the "Suka incident", she turns into a monkey.
(Seiyū: Yui Horie, English VA: Kate Oxley, Spanish VA: Ana Lobo)
[edit] Sakurako Shiina
Student Number 17: Sakurako Shiina (椎名 桜子 Shiina Sakurako?) Birthday: 9 June 1988. She is the most cheerful of the three cheerleaders in the class. She likes Negi, but only because she thinks he is cute. She loves karaoke and her pet cats, Cookie and Biscuit (translated as Kukki and Bikke in Japanese) and is in the lacrosse club. As a hobby, Sakurako gambles a lot (it was probably a habit instilled in her younger days). She wins her bets most of the time, with great profit, as seen when the Love-Love Kiss Operation concluded and it was discovered that she was the only one who bet on Nodoka to win. She had also bet on her class to get the highest scores during the final exams. She has been in the same class as Asuna and Ayaka for a very long time, so she knows a lot about them (and bets when they fight since Asuna first transferred).
During the Mages Vs the Martian Attacks game, she is stripped to her underwear along with her cheerleader compatriots.
(Seiyū: Akane Omae English VA: Colleen Clinkenbeard Spanish VA: Irina Indigo)
Trivia:
- According to character design notes in volume two, the idea for Sakurako sprang from the character design of Kozue Migara who was in the Lacrosse Club.
- Negima!: Her Pactio ability, combined with Misa and Madoka, is an energizing cheer.
- Negima!?: Like Misa and Madoka, Sakurako is rendered as part of one cheer unit, speaking alongside the other girls and even finishing sentences. The only time she shows enthusiasm similar to her manga counterpart is during certain songs, most notable in the anime for the cheerleader version of "A-LY-YA!". During the "Suka incident", she turns into a dog. (of interesting note: a pic in the final episode pairs her "dog form" with Makie in her monkey suit. This has many multiple meanings: Makie's backstory about "Father", the bad relationship between dogs and monkeys in Japanese folklore, as well as Makie and Sakurako's common ancestry as Kozue Migara)
[edit] Mana Tatsumiya
Student Number 18: Mana Tatsumiya (龍宮 真名 Tatsumiya Mana?) Birthday: 17 November 1988. She is the daughter of the keepers of the Tatsumiya shrine (which is on campus), and works part-time there as a priestess (miko), employing guns with spellbreaker bullets as her tool of exorcism. She is not what one describes as sociable, since she keeps to herself most of the time and does not engage in conversation. She is also a mercenary, and mostly takes on contracts that pertain to hunting/destroying/exorcising demons and ghosts and will take on any job as long as she is paid well. Her assignment during the Mahora Festival was to prevent confessions of love from occurring, although Chao also employs her during the Mahora Fighting Tournament. When on the job, she is extremely serious and straightforward, which at times can make her seem cold-hearted and quite frightening. She discovered Negi's secret when she helped rescue Konoka at Kyoto. She is also in the Biathlon club, as her apparent crush is the captain of the club. Mana has the second largest breasts in class, and is the second tallest girl. Strangely, Herrmann never captured her when he fought Negi and Kotaro under the world tree.
Mana carries a pactio card, which is the remnant of a contract she had with a mage who is now deceased (whom the biathlon captain resembles, though she still shot him when he tried to confess to her). It should also be noted that the name written in Latin on her Pactio card is "Mana Arkana" (arcana meaning secret). This, and an exchange with Chamo, seems to hint that Mana is attending Mahora under an assumed identity, and may even be older than she claims. Mana possesses certain abilities, one of which is her Demon-Eye, which allow her to see demons and spirits, (though she did not notice Sayo until much later). It is unclear if this ability is due to her former contract or some natural power. It is also shown in one panel that she is capable of story high building jumps (ch86 p.8). She also took part in the Fighting Tournament, but lost to Ku Fei. It is later shown that she may have thrown that fight, as Chao offered her some kind of payoff, but Mana turned it down saying that she was serious in the fight and she acknowledged Ku Fei's strength as the strongest of the group. It was later revealed that she took part in Chao's plan to reveal the existence of magic to the world, as she had prevented people like Takahata-sensei from interfering.
On the third day of the Mahora Festival, Mana carries out her contract with Chao, using her skills as a sniper to take out the more powerful mages, and even some of her fellow classmates who are participating in the Mars Attacks Vs Mage Order 'game.' But she has found some resistance in Kaede, who separated from Negi's group to take her on. The duo continued to fight through the defeat of Chao, when the two of them stop fighting and watch the end festivities of the festival. (Seiyū: Miho Sakuma, English VA: Stephanie Young, Spanish VA: Anabel Mendez)
Trivia:
- According to her character design notes in volume 6, Mana is half-Puerto Rican, half-Japanese. It also states her name as Ryūgū Mana (Where the Kanji is the same as Tatsumiya Mana).
- Guns she has used until now are listed in Mana's guns in the List of Items and Artifacts in Negima.
- Negima!: In the first anime series, she is darker skinned and her hair is blue, with her hair ties being red. Her Pactio is a rifle that fires magic bullets.
- Negima!?: Mana is much more distant to Negi and the other students in this version, usually just appearing to make a side comment alongside Zazie. During the "Suka incident", she turns into a bear.
[edit] Chao Lingshen
Student Number 19: Chao Lingshen (超 鈴音 Kana: チャオリンシェン Chao Rinshen?) Listed Birthday: 1 December 1988. She is the top student of the entire year group (also referred to as the "smartest kid in the school"). A rich Chinese girl, she is in many clubs and is particularly into cooking. Before the Mahora Festival, she runs the "Chāo Bāozi" (lit. "Super-Bāozi", as well as "Chao's Bāozi") restaurant out of a specially modified streetcar, (which is apparently able to fly, as shown in ch. 160), along with Satomi, Satsuki, Ku Fei, and Chachamaru. She is best friends with Satomi, and both enjoy using Satomi's inventions on Ku Fei. Her origins are mysterious (No records of her have been found dated any earlier than 2001) and she claims to be related to Negi by blood. This may explain why she is so intelligent. She was the primary sponsor of the Mahora Fighting Tournament and offered a cash prize of ¥10,000,000 to the winner. She has come into conflict with the school administration for spying and trying to reveal the existence of magic to the world at large. She even went as far as imprisoning Takamichi T. Takahata and "Mini" Setsuna when they started to investigate the truth of the tournament. She also leaked details of Negi's search for his father, which, combined with his performance in the festival tournament, turned him into an instant celebrity. Her intentions are mostly secret (although world domination is listed as her primary interest, she dislikes war, hatred, and the unilateral control of major powers), but even Evangeline warns Asuna that Chao's kind of evil is far worse than her own. Chao later reveals her intention to quit school and return home on the last day of the Festival, and says that if she missed that chance she would not be able to return home for another 22 years. Chao has often claimed that she is a Martian to those who have asked, more specifically that she is from a a Martian colony a hundred years in the future, and that she is a descendant of Negi.
Chao sets a trap for Negi during the festival, confining him and his partners inside of Eva's resort for a whole week. This gave her the opportunity to deploy a massive army of robots and capture several key points on the Mahora campus, as well as other locations around the world, and activated a powerful spell to cause people to freely recognize the existence of magic, bypassing the usual skepticism most people would have. She presumably returned to her own time afterwards, but Negi was able to use the World Tree to travel all the way back in time to the final day of the festival to try again to stop her. The final day of the school festival has become a battle as a large portion of the festival's attendees have been used to raise an army to fight her robot forces. Chao then makes her appearance before Asuna and Setsuna, equipped with what appears to be a futuristic battlesuit and promptly defeats them. Negi battled Chao on a zeppelin high over the war game, where she revealed her connection to both her teacher and the Thousand Master. With her time-watch apparently destroyed, she showed that she is also capable of using magic, much to the surprise of everyone, and especially Negi. Her elemental affinity is fire. However, unlike Negi, her magic is derived from magical pattern which are drawn on her body.
During the battle, Negi warns her not to use such power as it may endanger her life, but Chao ignores the advice stating that this was for all or nothing and she had worked hard for over 2 years. Everything else didn't matter. When Negi asked Chao if the two years she had spent with her classmates were irrelevant, Chao had paused momentarily and admits that it was the one factor she had not counted on. At the climax of the battle, the magical symbol on Chao's head bursts, causing her to be engulfed in Negi's final attack. Chao was defeated, but the battle left them both exhausted and out of power, both magical and mechanical. Fortunately, they were saved by their classmates. But the fight also gave Hakase enough time to complete their spell, Just as Chisame managed to break through Chachamaru's attack in cyberspace to restore the school's barrier. However, as per Chao's orders in the event of her defeat, Hakase was not to cast the Forced Recognition Magic spell, but instead a spell to remove hatred and sadness from the world for one day. After the end of the plot, she prepares to head back to the future, keeping her word for losing and to protect the past from knowing of the future. However, Negi stops her, both in defense of the people who want her to stay and to offer her to become a "Magister Magi" like himself, hoping the two of them will fight in the past to change her future. However, seeing that she did lose and that she must keep her part of her promise, Chao chooses to return to the future. After distracting most of the class with a book revealing her own family tree, which would also include who Negi marries, she says goodbye to her closest classmates (Satsuki, Satomi, Chachamaru and Ku Fei), as well as a goodbye to her ancestor Negi, she travels back promising to meet again.
Trivia
- In The Chuang Yi version, her name is rendered as "Chao Rinshen".
- In Chinese, 音 is never pronounced as shen or sheng in any district of China. The precise pronunciation of 音 in Chinese is yīn.
- According to her character design notes in volume 8, Chao was going to be called Lin Mei-Fa.
- Negima!: Towards the end of the series, Chao gives Negi a Casseopeia watch (similar to those used in the manga) to change Asuna's history for the better. Her Pactio is a fan-wielding warrior, but her power is not shown.
- Negima!?: Although Chao's personality is closer to how she was prior to the Festival arc in the manga, she does gain some more notice in this series than in the first anime. She is one of the few girls from the Mass Pactio in this series to invoke all three cards. Her Armor form transforms her into a martial arts warrior with a metal tessen. She also is transformed during the "Suka incident" where she turned into a panda. And during the final Pactio invocation, she uses a Cosplay form with a variety of nikuman. Because manga events have prevented Chao from ever Pactio with Negi, this may be one of the only times she could demonstrate power as such. She also has a special omake where she and Satomi create a "Super Power Hand"...that assists in the distribution of nikuman. In the final episode, the data screen reveals that, like in the manga, she is a Martian.
(Seiyū: Chiaki Osawa (Negima!), Megumi Takamoto (Negima!?), English VA: Trina Nishimura, Spanish VA: Christine Byrd)
[edit] Kaede Nagase
Student Number 20: Kaede Nagase (長瀬 楓 Nagase Kaede?) Birthday: 11 November 1988. She is the gentle and calm yet strong and tall girl. She has an easy-going attitude and is almost always seen with her eyes almost closed. She frequently ends her sentences with "de gozaru", an archaic verb form historically used by samurai. She also has a tendency to address people, particularly in the second series, with the honorific "dono" (example: Konoka-dono, Setsuna-dono) In her free time, she trains in the mountains, displaying a wide range of ninja-like abilities such as kage bunshin. She later uses her abilities to great effect when aiding Negi and his companions during their battles. She actually comes from the Koga ninja clan, but was born a generation too late, since her parents do not carry on the family ninja traditions (Volume 3). As a result, many of her abilities are self-taught. She is "Baka Blue" of the "Baka Rangers" study group, meaning that she is among the lowest scorers on tests in the class. She is also a member of the Mahora Walking Club, along with Fuuka and Fumika.
Kaede was the second girl in the class (Asuna being the first) to learn about Negi's magic. When Negi had fled into the woods during his conflict with Evangeline, Kaede found him while training, and helped cheer him up. She saw Negi flying off the next morning, but kept this a secret even from him until she helped Negi rescue Konoka at Kyoto where she fought and defeated Kotaro. During her fight with Kotaro, Kaede introduced herself as a Chūnin (中忍?) of the Koga ninja clan (甲賀流?). Kaede is the tallest girl in the class, and has the third largest breasts. Herrmann did not capture her when he fought Negi and Kotaro under the world tree, but she was watching the battle with Evangeline and Chachamaru from a distance. She did quite well during the Mahora Fighting Tournament, but she knew that she was no match against Colonel Sanders and although she lost to him, she was happy to know that she did her best, and even forced him to invoke his artifact in order to defeat her in the time allotted for the match. She later suggested that she and Kotaro train together to become stronger. She and a few other girls were trapped in the future with Negi after Chao succeeded in revealing magic to the world. After returning to the past, she chose to fight alongside Negi, where she fought with Mana until well after the end of the battle, when their fight carried all the way into the middle of the post-festival celebration.
- Negima!: Her artifact is a giant shruiken, but what it does isn't seen. Her hair is also somewhat darker.
- Negima!?: Although she primarily is seen alongside the Narutaki twins, she does make a Pactio with Negi early in the series. During her only true battle, she reveals a Cosplay card that turns her into a tengu with transformation abilities. However, she also turns into a kappa during the "Suka incident".
(Seiyū: Ryoko Shiraishi English VA: Clarine Harp Spanish VA: Karla Falcón)
[edit] Chizuru Naba
Student Number 21: Chizuru Naba (那波 千鶴 Naba Chizuru?) Birthday: 29 January 1989. She is a gentle, motherly, and loving, yet strange girl. She is a kind person to everyone, volunteers at the daycare in Mahora City and is in the Astronomy club. She is a good cook, and has exceptional domestic skills. Even though she is nice, she can be sometimes be scary; an example of this would be her attempts give Kotaro a suppository of spring onions to relieve his fever (this is an actual folk cure), and her intimidation of Kotaro and Natsumi to go along with her ideas. (Part of this is connected to Natsumi wanting to find Negi regarding Kotaro's arrival, reminding Chizuru of this cure since "negi" is "leek" in Japanese). Shortly after Golden Week, she found an injured dog on the side of the road. She took the dog in, which turned out to be Kotarō Inugami. Unfortunately, Graf Wilhelm, a powerful demon, attacked Kotaro, and kidnapped Chizuru when she stood up to him. She all but adopts Kotaro after Negi and Kotaro defeated Wilhelm and has him to stay in their dorm under the identity of Natsumi's younger brother. Chizuru is extremely courageous, as shown in her encounter with Wilhelm, where she calmly confronted him for his intrusion and even slapped him when he was about to petrify Kotaro. While Chizuru stays out of the fighting during the mock-battle at the festival, she does take part in the search for Chao late in the conflict, and wins a gift pack for finding her (which she promptly intimidates Kotaro and Natsumi into not disclosing). Her roommates are Ayaka, Natsumi and Kotaro. Chizuru has the largest breasts and has a bouncy butt in the class. In the volume 8 character notes and the Negima Workshop, Akamatsu mentions that Chizuru and Mutsumi Otohime from Akamatsu's earlier work, Love Hina, are very similar.
- Negima!: Her artifact in the anime is a group of magic spheres that explode.
- Negima!?: The second anime takes advantage of Chizuru's character development since the first series, developing both on her motherly personality and nosy, inquisitive nature. Her relationship to Natsumi is further emphasized as she consistently bugs her roommate with bizarre sayings and forcing Natsumi to suffer for her own amusement. Furthermore, her knowledge and understanding of astronomy becomes key towards the events in discovering the mastermind of the troubles in the series. During the "Suka incident", she transforms into a cow.
(Seiyū: Misa Kobayashi, English VA: Amy Rosenthal, Spanish VA: Irma Carmona).
[edit] Fūka Narutaki
Student Number 22: Fuka Narutaki (鳴滝 風香 Narutaki Fūka?) Birthday: 6 December 1988. She is the elder of the Narutaki twins and the class prankster who always seems to be looking for some way to get into trouble. More often than not, she winds up getting Fumika to help her out as well. Both she and her sister claim to be taking ninjutsu lessons from Kaede, (Vol.5), but whether they have any appreciable skills is questionable. Both twins took part in the "Kiss Negi" game, where the both kissed a clone of Negi at the same time, resulting in a single Botched Pactio Card featuring both of them. The twins are members of the Academy Walking Club, and Fūka enjoys teasing Negi by exaggerating things.
Trivia:
- According to character design notes in volume two, Fūka was going to be called Saya Narushima.
- Negima!: In the first anime, Fuka's hair is pink. Her Pactio abilitiy, like her sister, is the creation of an unlimited amount of clones.
- Negima!?: Little changes have occurred to Fuka in this series, either in look or in her mischievous personality. Both she and her twin gain Pactio early in this series, with her only release being a Cosplay card turning her into a Japanese-style detective. During the "Suka incident", she becomes a bumblebee.
(Seiyū: Kimiko Koyama, English VA: Alison Viktorin, Spanish VA: Rocío Garcel)
[edit] Fumika Narutaki
Student Number 23: Fumika Narutaki (鳴滝 史伽 Narutaki Fumika?) Birthday: 6 December 1988. She is the younger of the Narutaki twins. Truth be told, she is almost the complete opposite of Fūka. Her hobby is cleaning, and while she goes along with Fūka's pranks, constantly tries to tell her sister that they are bad ideas. The twins claim to be undergoing ninja training from their roommate Kaede, and are seen wearing ninja outfits during the "Kiss Negi" contest in Kyoto, and afterwards, when they wanted to play with Negi. She and her sister are the only girls in the class that have not yet gone through puberty[citation needed].
Trivia:
- According to character design notes in volume two, Fumika was going to be called Fumi Narushima.
- Negima!: Fumika's hair is pink and her hair accessories are yellow. But her most radical change is becoming a twin of Fuka in personality as well as biologically, becoming just as mischievous and troublemaking. Like her sister, her Pactio ability is the creation of a limitless amount of clones.
- Negima!?: Fumika finally retains her more cautious personality in this series, but her eyes are now blue in color to differentiate from Fuka. Both she and her twin gain Pactio early in this series, with her only release being a Cosplay card turning her into a Western-style detective. At a later time, she discovers that this form gives her a magic magnifying glass that can see the future. During the "Suka incident", she becomes a bumblebee. Fumika also has a habit of ending all her sentences with 'desu'
(Seiyū: Mari Kanou, English VA: Alison Viktorin, Spanish VA: Rocío Garcel)
[edit] Satomi Hakase
Student Number 24: Satomi Hakase (葉加瀬 聡美 Hakase Satomi?) Birthday: 14 July 1988. She is the robotics expert. She is best friends with Chao, and created Chachamaru with her help. Her nickname is "Professor" (博士, meaning "expert, learned person", a play on her last name as it is also pronounced "Hakase"). She and Chao enjoy testing her inventions on Ku Fei. She is also a member of the Robotics and Jet Propulsion Society of Mahora University. Her great intelligence, obsession in her work, and somewhat lacking common sense, lead her classmates to refer to both her and Chao as mad scientists. In her biography, she dislikes things that cannot be explained or scientifically proven, despite the fact that she is well aware of magic and uses it frequently in her work, especially in the creation of her greatest achievement, Chachamaru. She becomes especially amazed when Chachamaru began displaying human emotions, following her interactions with Negi. During the Mahora Festival, she aided Chao with her plan to reveal the existence of mages to the world. She is not seen during the time Negi and some of her classmates are trapped in the future. She makes her reappearance on the 3rd Day of the festival as she and Chao prepare the spell to reveal magic to the world, though she appeared to be having second thoughts. At that point, Negi arrived to stop them. However, by the time Chao was defeated by Negi, she was able to complete the incantation for the Forced Recognition Magic, though the spell was changed with Chao's loss into an enchantment to remove hatred from the world for a day.
- Negima!: Her Pactio ability is a magic backpack, allowing her to use a "Plasma Punch" attack.
- Negima!?: Usually seen alongside either Chao or her own creation Chachamaru, Satomi assists in the technical upkeep of the class. During the "Suka incident", she becomes an axolotl. (also known as a "wooper looper") She also retains her mad scientist roots in the omake, both assisting Chao with her nikuman-making "Super Power Hand" and even upgrading the Baka Rangers to animal-like cyborgs. (exactly like their Suka forms in continuity)
(Seiyū: Mai Kadowaki, English VA: Jayme Westman, Spanish VA: Connie Madera)
[edit] Chisame Hasegawa
Student Number 25: Chisame Hasegawa (長谷川 千雨 Hasegawa Chisame?) Birthday: 2 February 1989. She is the grumpy computer geek with a double life. An overly serious pragmatist in public, in private she becomes Chiu, a famous Net Idol who cosplays and displays glamourous and sexy photos of herself on her website after editing them in "Photoshock" (Photoshop). She particularly dislikes the more eccentric members of her class: Chachamaru (a robot), Mana (who appears somewhat mature), the Narutaki twins (underage), Ku Fei, Chao, Evangeline ("foreign" students), Kaede (ninja), Zazie (a clown), Negi (underage teacher), and (in the anime) Akira. Actually, she worries that public revelation of her own hobby would label her as crazy as the rest of them. The only people who know about her double life are Negi, Kotaro, Kazumi, Ayaka, and Makie. Unfortunately, not only does Negi find out about her secret, he even accidentally embarrasses her in front of the entire class by blowing her clothes off. She also learns, to her dismay, that Negi has become a big fan of her alter ego Chiu and goes to her webpage every day. Chisame has seen and recognized Negi's inherent gift for attracting girls' affections, and has tried to keep him at arm's length. This proved to be more and more difficult as she was pulled deeper and deeper into Negi's world during the Mahora Festival arc.
Though initially skeptical, and desperate to rationalize the events of the Martial Arts Tournament, Chisame deduced that Negi was a mage while conversing with him and Chachamaru while watching the Tournament. During a later conversation with Chachamaru, she once considered forming a probationary contract with Negi. Though she immediately said that she was just joking, events quickly pulled her in that direction.
Eventually, Chisame and some of the girls were trapped in the future after Chao had succeeded in her plan to reveal magic to the world. Though still reluctant about accepting the concept of magic, she joined the other girls in Negi's rescue and returned to the third day of the school festival.
As things became desperate with Chao's armies attacking, Chisame (with much reluctance on her part) finally agrees to make a Provisional Contract with Negi. She had planned to do so while Negi was still unconscious, but to her embarrassment, he woke up just as she was about to touch lips with him. She immediately kissed him while covering his eyes. This was enough to create a proper Pactio, rather than a botched card, making her the seventh student to form a contract. Her artifact is an elaborately decorated staff, which used in conjunction with her laptop had teleported her (as well as Makie and Ayaka) into cyberspace, when she took part in an electronic battle against Chachamaru to stop Chao and secure the magical barrier. Although she does reconstruct the barrier, she becomes quite frustrated when Chachamaru informed her of the orders to unconditionally surrender in the event that Negi defeated Chao (which he did just before Chisame had broken through Chachamuru's defenses), and that the spell had been changed to remove sadness and hatred in the world for a day.
In Negima Workshop, it is noted that Chisame and Narusegawa Naru (of Love Hina), are similar in appearance.
- Negima!: In the first anime series, her hair was made green instead of the red pictured above. However, when using her Patcio in the final episode, her hair was magically changed to its right color as Chiu.
- Negima!?:In the "Negima!?" anime, Chisame's hair color is brown. However, she has the seemingly magical ability to change her hair color to pink as Chiu and has the possibility of having her hair color change with a possible Pactio in this series. During the "Suka incident", she turns into a fox who also can turn from Chisame to Chiu while keeping her playful, sexy persona in a younger body and mind. Although we do consistently see small little Chiu snippets from her website, several characters end up annoying Chisame about knowing her secret, calling her "Chiu-Chiu-san" in public.
(Seiyū: Yumi Shimura, English VA: Caitlin Glass, Spanish VA: Martha Ceceña)
[edit] Evangeline A.K. McDowell
Student Number 26: Evangeline Athanasia Katherine 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 Makudaueru?), listed as Evangeline A.K. McDowell (エヴァンジェリン・マクダウェル Evanjerin Makudaueru?) on the seating chart. The only Caucasian girl in the class, her birthday is not known; although her body stopped aging at age 10, she is over 500 years old. A cold and devilish little girl, she is actually a hunted witch and vampire, once having a six million dollar bounty on her head, nicknamed the "Dark Evangel" among other names. She rarely says much in class, and what she does say tends to lean towards an attempt to seem as evil as possible. She does have a soft side, however, which she rarely shows. She enjoys playing Go and is in the Go and Tea Ceremony clubs. She has two Ministra Magi, Chachazero and Chachamaru.
She was born in a castle in Europe during the Middle Ages, possibly in Ireland or Scotland (McDowell's Mc means grandson of~ in Celtic languages), although it is not known if she was royalty or not. When she awoke on her tenth birthday, she found she had been turned into a vampire while she slept. Initially she had the customary weakness of a vampire towards sunlight and so on that she learned to overcome, becoming a Shinso (真祖?) vampire or "high daylight walker". She developed her magical powers in order to get revenge on the man who turned her, whom she killed. She was initially forced to lead an itinerant life since she could not hide the fact that her body no longer aged, though she shows she can disguise herself as a much more physically mature version of herself, which she may have used to try and seduce Nagi, then later Negi.
Little more is known about her history until more recent times when she was saved by the Thousand Master and pursued him mercilessly out of love thereafter until he managed to shake her off. Feeling rejected, she finally tracked him down in Japan, but was tricked into walking into an "anti-vampire soup" composed of garlic and leek. Employing the powerful Infernus Scholasticus curse, the Thousand Master confined her to the grounds of Mahora Academy and put in place a barrier to restrict her abilities. He claimed that Eva should try to "live in the light for a change" and promised her that he would free her from the curse when she graduated. Unfortunately, 5 years later, he "died", thus her chance of being free from the curse was gone until his son Negi came. Konoemon Konoe, the School Dean, employed her as a security guard, personally keeping him informed about events occurring in the school. With this in mind, it is no surprise that Mr. Takahata wrote "Ask her advice if you are in trouble" in Negi's class roster.
Evangeline eventually turned on Negi, claiming that, as son of the Thousand Master, draining his blood would enable her to break the curse, although on close examination of what she actually said, it is questionable about whether she really intended to go through with it or not. Furthermore, now that she is draining some of Negi's blood as payment for instructing him in combat spells, she is still unable to break the curse. This may imply that it would take more than draining the blood of Nagi or his descendant to undo the spell.
Evangeline specializes in ice-based spells and dark magic, and is shown to be incredibly powerful once in her full capacities. This is shown in her easy win over both Fate Averruncus and the demon-god Sukuna. Even devoid of her magical powers, she is still a very skilled fighter and can effortlessly take down a man twice her size, and was even able to overcome Setsuna with her physical abilities alone (though that may be due to the fact that Setsuna at the time was hesitant to strike at the body of a 'child'). Her title of Doll (or Puppet) Master stems from the fact that, not only is she able to animate dolls, but she can also control people against their will as if they were puppets. Negi convinces her to become his master in magical combat after he sees her true power in Kyoto, and she becomes a demanding teacher, expecting (as well as a daily payment of blood for the lessons) from her student. Despite the assistance she gave Negi in Kyoto, Herrmann never captured her when he fought Negi and Kotaro under the world tree, and in fact deliberately avoided her. But she was watching the battle with Chachamaru and Kaede from a distance. There are clues that she may have a romantic interest in Negi, including her jealousy when she found out that he was also taking lessons from Ku Fei and more recently, the rather sensual kiss she gave him in her resort.
She has mentioned that she does not want to be involved in Chao's plans, and that she will just sit and watch the whole thing. She also gave Chao full permission to do whatever she wants to Negi.
Trivia:
- Evangeline's Stats: B:67, W:48, H:63
- Evangeline's last name is a possible pun on the Japanese pronunciation of the phrase "make doll."
- Evangeline's titles include:
- Several publications refer to Evangeline's whole name as Evangeline Athanasia Kitty McDowell, however the original pactio card that Akamatsu released writes her name in Latin as Evangelina Athanasia Ecaterina MacDovell. This should have led it to become Evangeline Athanasia Katerina McDowell. Ecaterina, Katerina, and Kitty are all different versions of the name Catherine (the latter being a nickname).
- Negima!: Although consistently a thorn on Negi's side, she does assist when needed. In the final battle, her Pactio ability awakens her true power once again.
- Negima!?: After her defeat against Negi, Evangeline tries to stay on the sidelines during the Star Crystal crisis, watching from a distance and spending more time eating ramen and drinking tea with Takamichi and Chachamaru. However she finds herself a target of the true enemy, first turned into a giant and then possessed by the Star Crystals themselves. With the assistance of his students, Negi defeats Evangeline again by doing a Pactio on her, freeing her from the evil influence.
(Seiyū: Yuki Matsuoka, English VA: Laura Bailey, Spanish VA: Ana Lucia Ramos)
[edit] Nodoka Miyazaki
Student Number 27: Nodoka Miyazaki (宮崎 のどか Miyazaki Nodoka?) Birthday: 10 May 1988. She is the shy bookworm. A member of the Library Exploration Group, who also helps in the book store, she spends so much time in the library that people outside the Library Exploration Group refer to her as "librarian girl" or "bookshop." (本屋ちゃん Hon'ya-chan in the original Japanese: Del Rey translates it as "librarian girl" or "Librarian-chan", and also by the literal meaning "Bookstore", while Tong Li and Chuang Yi translate it as "Bookshop") When Negi first arrived, she uses her hair to cover her eyes completely. Her current hairstyle usually leaves enough of an opening in her hair that one (and only one) eye and later both eyes can be seen, created by wearing a short ponytail. She is among the highest-scoring students in Negi's class.
Despite having no interest in the opposite sex, Nodoka developed feelings for Negi after he saved her when she fell down some steps. During the second day of Kyoto field trip, Nodoka, after gaining the courage to do so, eventually confessed her love to Negi. However, due to Negi still being a kid, he didn't know how to properly respond to the confession. So he suggested that they should start off as friends, which Nodoka accepted.
Nodoka is the second student Negi makes a probationary contract with, if inadvertently (She won the "Kiss Negi" contest by accident when Yue tripped her, causing her to fall and kiss Negi). Actually, she was supposed to be the first person to make a contract to Negi (thanks to Chamo's scheme, telling Negi that she was kidnapped while putting a love letter to her from Negi himself) but was interrupted by Asuna after she discovered Chamo's true intention. Her magical artifact is the "Diarium Ejus", a diary that shows the thoughts of any person she speaks the name of. A humorous joke concerning her artifact is that her fantasies about Negi are also shown, including thoughts of French-kissing him. During the first day of the festival, she invited him to a date where she gained enough courage to kiss him a second time, after very unfortunate yet insane events. Nodoka and Yue are learning magic from Negi, though it seems that her best friend is ahead of her in terms of spell casting.
During the third day of the Mahora Festival she was part of the group that was caught in the time-trap set by Chao, along with Negi. After escaping from an alternate future she became part of the group fighting Chao's robot army in the Mars Attacks Vs Mage Order 'game'. As they made their way towards Chao, Negi was nearly struck by the time-warping bullets fired from a Tanaka robot. Nodoka saves Negi by pushing him out of the way and taking the hit. Immediately, Negi tries to use the Cassiopeia, which is the only thing that can cancel the effect of the bullets, but she pleads with him to go on because she believes that she can't be of any help to the situation. She disappears, but Chamo assures a stunned Negi that she is safe and will be waiting for him 3 hours in the future, which she does at the end of the battle.
Following the events of the Mahora Festival, Nodoka becomes concerned about her relationships with both Negi and Yue. Thanks to an incident that took place during the second day of the Festival, she has become aware that Yue also has feelings for Negi, but is afraid that these feelings will tear apart her friendship. As a result, Nodoka wants to avoid a bitter love triangle situation and wants to be sure that both she and Yue can be in love with Negi while still being able to remain friends. Unfortunately, after seeing Yue understand the problems that Negi's having during the festival, Nodoka becomes jealous of Yue and begins to question what her true desire is when it comes to Negi. After confessing to Misora about this situation, Nodoka uses the Diarium Ejus to discover what she really wants, and is shocked to see that her desire is that she wants her and Yue to be part of a threesome with Negi.
Nodoka is slightly different in the anime series of Negima; initially she has a mild case of androphobia (fear of men).
Trivia:
- "Nodoka" means "quiet, calm" (source: Ken Akamatsu, "Negima! Esquisses Préliminaires, Tome 2")
- In the character notes of Volume 1, her image is noted to be similar to Shinobu Maehara of Love Hina, albeit with long front hair, and lack of the Naru-esque violent tendencies she began developing at the end of the series.
- According to the character notes in volume 2, Nodoka's name was originally to be Meiko Miyazaki.
- In the manga, the personality of not liking men is strikingly similar to that of Motoko Aoyama (from Love Hina).
- Negima!: Although she gains the same Pactio as the manga, she becomes the third student in the class to gain it and the first of the infamous "Mass Pactio".
- Negima!?: Nodoka once again becomes the second to gain a Pactio, assisting in the battle with the Star Crystals from the beginning. Her Cosplay card gives her the same diary as the manga, but also gives her a pair of glasses. (which somehow get to a website and end up rivaling Chiu's) Her Armor ability is a more powerful set of books that determine an enemy's weakness. Finally, she also gains a Suka form that turns her into a seal. Though she continues her admiration towards Negi, the feelings between her and Yue are also explored in this series.
(Seiyū: Mamiko Noto, English VA: Leah Clark, Spanish VA: Patricia Acevedo)
[edit] Natsumi Murakami
Student Number 28: Natsumi Murakami (村上 夏美 Murakami Natsumi?) Birthday: 21 October 1988. She is a sweet yet shy girl who is an actress in the theatrical club. She loves acting but dislikes her ad-libs as well as her own appearance (underdeveloped figure, unmanageable hair, and in the manga, freckles) because her body is not very 'mature'-looking. In the manga, she also has freckles, and a complex about them as well. This is made worse by being roommates with Ayaka Yukihiro and Chizuru, who both have mature bodies and bigger breasts. Kotarō, who is also staying with them, assumes the identity as her younger brother. Although the role was forced on her by Chizuru, Natsumi seems to be adapting well to the role of being an older sister.
- Negima!: Her Pactio allows her to disguise as a mature woman and use a magic motorcycle.
- Negima!?: Natsumi's hair color is changed to green in this series. Natsumi is stuck most of this series under the shadow of her roommate Chizuru, consistently being belittled mentally by the supposedly helpful but ultimately confusing or damaging comments and actions. During the "Suka incident", she turns into a hamster.
(Seiyū: Mai Aizawa, English VA: Majken Kunishima, Spanish VA: Maru Guerrero)
[edit] Ayaka Yukihiro
Student Number 29: Ayaka Yukihiro (雪広 あやか Yukihiro Ayaka?) Birthday: 5 July 1988. She is the rich iincho (いいんちょ, class representative) as she is mostly called. She is the second daughter of the Yukihiro family. More often than not, she winds up being the only thing keeping the class in order, due to Negi's inexperience with handling large groups. She is currently the 3-A class president and is among the highest scorers on school exams, where she was last seen as ranked 4th in her whole grade. She and Asuna seem to hate each other, with the two often getting into fights, but it eventually becomes clear that they merely have an odd, but surprisingly close friendship that neither is willing to admit to. She is the girl most overtly fond of Negi, though she stands by the position that she is only interested in Negi because he "needs a mother figure". A Botched Pactio Card is made, when she kissed a paper double of Negi during the trip to Kyoto. An interesting thing is that while she likes Negi, she frequently gets into arguments with Kotaro, who is also of Negi's age (This is because in the manga he head butts her trying to escape from Chizuru, then calls her old). The reason being Negi in her mind is the perfect boy (smart, polite & nice), while Kotaro is just the opposite (rude, mean, and more street smarts than intelligence). She tends to be aggressive in pretty much everything she does, which tends to wind up with her being misunderstood. However, she is very good at hiding her own past (such as the story about her younger brother who died at childbirth, which may explain her fixation on Negi). She is roommates with Chizuru, Natsumi, and later Kotarō (whom Chizuru introduced to her as Natsumi's little brother), and is in the equestrian and flower-arranging clubs. Even though Ayaka is a rich man's daughter (her family owns a zaibatsu/konzern), that did not stop her from being well-versed in several unnamed martial arts, culminating in having a "ryuha" of her own (Yukihiro Ayaka-ryū). Her affection toward Negi increases substantially after witnessing his performance during the Mahora Fighting Tournament and learning about his missing father. While on the outside, she may appear to be a typical spoiled brat; she is really a kind and caring person who wants to help Negi as much as she can. She even helped him speak with Asuna when the two were briefly avoiding each other. She and several of the girls in the class have vowed to aid Negi in his quest to find his father, though Ayaka may be the most sincere in this case.
Though she is highly intelligent, she can often be clueless in relation to the events surrounding her. Thus, many of her classmates incorrectly think of her as a fool (even if they won't say so out loud).
After Chao succeeds in her plan to reveal magic to the world, Ayaka remains devoted to Negi. When Negi and his group returns to the third day of the Mahora Festival, she is asked to make some changes to the big event being planned, as a favor for Negi. In the initial stages, the participants are armed with magic guns and engage in combat with Chao's robots, under the pretense that it is part of a game. After accidentally being sucked into cyberspace with the activation of Chisame's Pactio, she and Makie assist in the protection of the barrier while Chisame fights against Chachamaru. After the battle ends, she appears to celebrate with the rest of the class...only to magically reappear when she finds out Chao has a book revealing whom Negi marries.
Trivia:
- Ayaka means "fleur-de-lis", the emblem of Mahora Gakuen.
- A fun tidbit about Ayaka is that nearly every time she appears in a scene, flowers appear from behind her. (Manga Only)
- Early in the manga, she is referred to as a "half-breed," as one of her parents (her mother, apparently) is from Europe.
- Negima!: Her Pactio ability ends up having her throw flowers at her opponent, which ultimately do nothing. In one episode of the anime, it's also shown that she plays violin, however it's unknown how well she can play (it was shown when Sayo was trying to pass the time)
- Negima!?: Ayaka retains most of her character traits from the manga: her bossiness, her love/hate feelings towards Asuna (and at one point her Chupacabra/magic club) and her amorous affections towards Negi. (seen through a collection of Negi-themed merchandise she has all over her room) Similar love/hate feelings are also directed towards roommate Makie, who she keeps belittling for having no drive. Although she gains Pactio abilities during the mass contract, she is one of the few students to have all three forms invoked. Negi ends up invoking her Armor form at one point to save Asuna, turning her into a whip-wielding female warrior. During the "Suka incident", she turns into a cheetah. And during the "Final Pactio invocation", she reveals her Cosplay form: a perfumer who can trace things by their scents.
(Seiyū: Junko Minagawa, English VA: Laura Bailey, Spanish VA: Maria Fernanda Morales)
[edit] Satsuki Yotsuba
Student Number 30: Satsuki Yotsuba (四葉 五月 Yotsuba Satsuki?) Birthday: 12 May 1988. She is the gentle cook. She enjoys cooking and is in the cooking club. She also cooks at Chao Bao Zi, a restaurant operated out of a streetcar that sells meat buns and other foods with Chao Hakase, Ku, and Chachamaru. She is also the school dining officer. A very nice and hard-working person, Satsuki is liked by everyone in Mahora, even Evangeline (who sees the rest of the class as a pack of air-headed beasts). Her very presence creates an atmosphere of serenity, and she can quickly put a stop to fights even between the hot-headed students in the High School and University martial arts clubs. Satsuki's dream is to have her own restaurant, as she likes making people happy through her food. Satsuki has a unique way of speaking that is shown in the manga by depicting her words without a speech bubble. Satsuki seems to be privvy to the details of Chao's true identity, and presumably the existence of magic, as she had helped Takamichi, and later Misora and Cocone escape from Chao's underground complex, and even pilots the Chao Bao Zi car, which is capable of flight, to rescue Negi and Chao at the end of their battle. The manga and anime also tend to associate her with Koalas.
Trivia
- Her family name, Satsuki, literally means the "fifth month" of the solar calander, May.
- Negima!: Her Pactio ability is a magical version of her Chao Bao Zi stand to feed hungry demons.
- Negima!?: Satsuki gains slight prominence as leader of the domestic/caretaker group after the class is sent to an alternate universe. During the "Suka incident", she turns into a squirrel.
(Seiyū: Naomi Inoue English VA: Monica Rial Spanish VA: Leyla Rangel)
[edit] Zazie Rainyday
Student Number 31: Zazie Rainyday (ザジ・レイニーデイ Zaji Reinīdei?) The silent acrobat, and one of the most mysterious girls of the class. Nothing much is known about her, as she rarely associates with anybody, and even when she does, she rarely talks (she has spoken only seven times in the serialized manga thus far), although in volume 6, a snapshot hints that she may have a mature body. What is known is that she is a member of the Nightmare Circus, the school's Acrobatic Club, and is seen directing a group of "monsters" or "spirits" when she offered to cover for her classmates during the school festival, and gave Chao a tiny living dragon as a farewell gift. According to Negi's Class Register, Zazie is also a member of the school's Magic Club, (though if she knows real magic like Negi is still in question). In the anime, she is shown to have proficiency in all kinds of circus tricks such as juggling, sleight of hand, and costume changing. She has dark skin, and has two particular face paint marks: a large teardrop under her left eye (strongly resembling the carnival character "pierro"), and a vertical line resembling a scar crossing the right side of her face. A splash picture of the cast shows her with claws growing from her fingers.[1] She is always seen with her pet bird. So far, she is the least known of all the students in Negi's class and very little has been revealed about her. When Zazie's name is seen written down it uses the Latin alphabet, rather than being written in Japanese. This is similar to Evangeline's written name which is also written with the Latin alphabet. This may indicate that Zazie isn't from Japan and may be from another Latin based culture, like Evangeline being from Europe. This is backed up by the fact the Chisame referred to her as a transfer student in volume 2.
- Negima!: After gaining Pactio, she gets a set of magical slicing cards. She also gets in her only line of the series in the final episode.
- Negima!?: Although usually quiet and seen juggling around items in this series, Zazie does speak more often, primarily in small conversations with roommate Mana. Also, when she is accidentally captured in a trap intended to catch the Black Rose Baron, Asuna refers to her as a foreigner (just like the accusation in the manga). During the "Suka incident", she turns into a squid. (which is also her card representation during the final battle, while all the other girls are represented by Armor cards)
(Seiyū: Yuka Inokuchi English VA: Carrie Savage Spanish VA: Mayra Arellano)
[edit] References
- ^ Mahou Sensei Negima manga; chapter 1, page 6-7.
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| Series: Negima!: Magister Negi Magi | Negima!? |
| Characters: Negi Springfield | Students 1–15 | Students 16–31 | Other characters |
| Other: Episode list | Magic | Items and artifacts | Music | Pactios | Shinmei-Ryū |
