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Negi
Springfield has now been accepted by his students as an English teacher
at the all girls Mahora School District Middle School in Japan even
though he is only 10 years old. While helping his students prep for the
upcoming high school exam, he realizes that his class has always come in
last place. He learns that he will become a regular teacher if he can
get his girls to raise their scores high enough to no longer be in last.
Realizing they only have three days to study, some of the girls decided
that they should travel to Library Island and search for a magic book
they will help them achieve the higher scores they desire. So, they head
out towards the largest library in the world only to find that 3 days
may not be enough time to escape from all of the dangers that lie in
this empty, yet foreboding, building. Negi knows that normally he could
get them out of any sticky situation that arises, but he had cast
a spell on himself so that he could not use any magic to help the girls
study. Now he is just as moral as his students...and danger is lurking
just around the nearest bookshelf.
Negima!: Magister Negi Magi
- Volume 2 is
a manga book written and drawn by Ken Akamatsu. This collection of nine
periods (chapters 7 - 15) was translated by Douglas Varenas and adapted by
Peter David (one of my favorite comic book writers) and Kathleen O'Shea
David. This book contains the following periods: 7) The Baka Rangers and
the Secret Library Island: The Big Game Plan for the Final Test, Part 1,
8) The Baka Rangers and the Secret Library Island: The Big Game Plan for
the Final Test, Part 2, 9) The Baka Rangers and the Secret Library
Island: The Big Game Plan for the Final Test, Part 3, 10) The Baka
Rangers and the Secret Library Island: The Big Game Plan for the Final
Test, Part 4, 11) The Baka Rangers and the Secret Library Island: The
Big Game Plan for the Final Test, Part 5, 12) Egirl Life, 13)
Recommended! The Child Strolling Brigade, 14) Yesterday's Enemy is
Tomorrow's Nemesis, and 15) Negi-Sensei's Wedding!? There
is also some information About the Creator, Character Sketches,
Litium Lexicon Negimarium, Class Roster, Translation Notes, Honorifics Explained, and a Preview of Volume
3,
although the preview is in Japanese. The book reads from right to left
and back to front, just like a book from Japan. This manga book is
intended for readers ages 16 and up.
This is
probably my favorite manga series so far. The English translation is the
best of all the books that I have read. The text flows quite nicely and
the story is easy to follow. The artwork, once again, is wonderful and
the first story about Library Island was quite a surprise. I loved it.
Then in the last couple of chapters, some of the girls are falling for
Negi. It is all quite funny. What I like about this manga series is that
all of the characters are so unique and diverse. There are so many girls
to feed off of that the storyline possibilities are endless. And if
Peter David stays on adapting the story from the original Japanese, the
books all promise to be extraordinary. Overall, I absolutely loved the
second volume of Negima!: Magister Negi Magi. I look forward to
seeing what fun and exciting things are happening at Mahora School
District Middle School in Negima!: Magister Negi Magi
- Volume 3.
I rated
this book a 9 out of 10. |
