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Negi Springfield is an
English teacher at the all girls Mahora School District Middle School in
Japan even though he is only 10 years old.
The 78th Annual Mahora
Festival has started. Negi's class has created a haunted house with
three different sections: School Curses, Japanese Ghost Story, and
Gothic Horror. When Negi arrives, he enters the School Curse section
with his guide, Akira. Upon seeing all the scary things in the haunted
house, Negi is taken to Nurse's office so he can rest. Upon awakening,
Negi realizes that both he and Setsuna must have fallen asleep and he
has missed the entire first day of the festival. When Setsuna checks the
watch that Chao gave her, both Negi and Setsuna are transported back in
time to the beginning of the day of the festival. When they find Chao,
she admits that the watch is a time machine and that she isn't human. In
fact, she is a Martian and she is somehow related to Negi by blood. When
Negi and Setsuna return to the first day of festival, it is almost time
for Negi's date with Nodoka. Some of the girls convince Nodoka that she
should French kiss Negi. Never having thought of that, Nodoka is at
first appalled, but then starts to think about the kiss more and more.
When Nodoka wishes aloud for Negi to kiss her after he saves her, the
magical power of the World Tree takes over and Negi cannot be stopped
until he kisses her. Realizing that she has made a mistake, Nodoka tries
to take her wish back, but it is too late. Asuna and Setsuna arrive and
try to defend Nodoka from Negi, but his fighting skills have increased
dramatically and he is hard to beat. When Asuna gets in his way, Negi
ends up deeply kissing her, which breaks the spell. The next day, Negi
and Kotaro get ready to enter what they think is a minor martial-arts
tournament. But when it is announced that the winner will receive 10
million yen, Negi realizes he may have bitten off more than he can chew
as master fighters are coming out of the woodwork to battle. This is
true until Negi hears about what his father did 20 years ago in this
tournament when he was also ten-years old.
Negima!: Magister Negi
Magi - Volume 10
is a manga book written and drawn by Ken Akamatsu. This collection of
nine periods, 81 through 89, was Translated by Toshifumi Yoshida,
Adapted by T. Ledoux and Lettered by Steve Palmer. This book contains
the following periods:
81st
Period: MahoraFest Begins
82nd Period:
MahoraFest Begins . . . Again?!
83rd Period:
Date With a Bookstore
84th Period:
"Kiss Machine" Negi?!
85th
Period: So What is a Grown-Up Kiss Like??
86th Period:
The Object of One's Long-Ago Love
87th Period:
That Lovin' Feeling That Just Won't Hide
88th
Period: Return of the Ver-r-ry Dangerous Martial-Arts Tournament
89th
Period: The "Ba-Bump
Nuthin'-But-the-Strongest" Battle Royal
There are also some
special extras in the following sections: A) A word From the Author, B)
Honorifics, C) Contents, D) Fan Art, D) Mahora Academy Concept Sketches, E)
Pactio Card Art, F) CG Backgrounds,
G) About the Creator, H) Translation
Notes, and I) a Preview of Volume 10. 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.
Who doesn't love a big theme-park with
ride and tons of things to see and do? Basically, that is what the
78th
Annual Mahora Festival is, except it is on the campus of a school. I sat
down and read
Negima!: Magister Negi
Magi - Volume 10
in one sitting and it took a solid two hours or more. There is so much
to see and a ton of dialog that it took a long time to read this Negima
book. You really get your moneys-worth with this series. As for the
storyline, it is quite excellent. I loved it when Negi deep-kissed Asuna.
We all know that there is an age difference, and we often forget that
Negi is only ten-years old because he doesn't act like a little boy. As
for Asuna being three years older than him, nothing would happen in the
real world. But this is fantasy, so, who knows? The artwork is excellent
and the translation is great. I am always happy when I sit down with a
Negima manga book because I know I am bound for a lot of fun and
adventure. This series never fails to keep the reader totally engrossed
in the story with heaps of things that are going on in each chapter. The
only thing I didn't like was when Chao declared that she was a Martian.
Huh? Now we have aliens from another world at this school? I though that
this was a Fantasy series, not a Science Fiction series. Although . . .
I did like the time-machine idea. Overall,
Negima!: Magister Negi
Magi - Volume 10
is another excellent book and I am really looking forward to more of the
martial-art tournament in
Negima!: Magister Negi Magi - Volume 11. Let's just hope that Negi
can follow in his father's footsteps.
I rated
this book a 9½ out of 10. |
