Screw-up 50&51: Negi was never working on any potions when Konoka came in. In the manga chapter for this episode it just starts with Negi and Konoka in the city and the cheerleaders spot them. The whole goddamn opening scene for the anime never happened.
Screw-up 52: The cheerleaders never picked a fight with Negi and he never sneezed.
Screw-up 53: Negi and Konoka weren’t shopping because they broke Asuna’s clock. They were shopping because the next day was Asuna’s birthday. Hell, it wasn’t even an alarm clock it was a small organ that played her favorite song.
Screw-up 54: The whole class never showed up to Ayaka’s house it was just Negi, Asuna, and Konoka.
Screw-up 55: This scene never happened in the manga. Negi and Ayaka are just talking and when Ayaka hugs Negi that’s when Asuna kicks Ayaka from behind.
Screw-up 56: The event for this episode does happen but not in the way the anime portrays it. I’ll come back to it later.
Episode 17 never happens in the fucking manga! It was all made up except for Honoka’s confession which once again I’ll get in to that later.
Episode 18: Nothing in this episode happens what so goddamn ever in the manga! Nothing! Nothing! This is beyond embarrassing. It’s almost insulting how much they screwed-up. It’s like they had no respect or idea of the events in the manga and just decided to make their own up when they had so much material to work with.
Episode 19: Now to be fair I can’t really get mad at this episode because we never find out how Sayo dies. In the manga the origin of her death is left a mystery, nobody really knows how she dies including herself. Ken said he originally was going to make her backstory a little darker by saying she was murdered but at the last minute he decided to just leave it a mystery. While I have no problem with her backstory in the anime the reveal of her in the manga is done better. In the manga the school paper says that the class has a ghost so a few of the students decide to exorcise her from the class. When Nodoka tries to use her magic powers to communicate with her the class misunderstands her and she tries to use her powers to communicate with but instead causes havoc in the class and makes things worst. When they corner her Negi and Kazumi stop them and tell them all she wanted was to be friends with everyone. After finally having friends she vanishes and the group believes she became a Buddha but in actuality she just moved to the side. Here’s the chapter right here if you wanna read it:http://www.mangahere.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v09/c074/2.html.
Episode 20-21: This is where we begin the Kyoto arc which is one of the best arcs in the manga and the arc the anime really screwed-up on. They left out so many events and characters during this arc and it’s a shame too because this would have been a good stopping point for the anime. Okay, the story of between Setsuna and Konoka does happen in the manga, as well as the whole kidnap Konoka to summon a legion of demons. On the second day of the trip Nodoka confesses her feelings to Negi which leaves him in a state of shock. Later on, the class notices that he’s acting weird so they have Kazumi follow him to find out what he’s hiding. While following him she sees Negi use his magic to save a kitten from being hit by a car and she quickly comes to the conclusion that Negi is a mage and tries to get Negi to confess to it. When she finally gets her proof Negi unleashes his magic power because he can’t handle the stress of being discovered and dealing with Nodoka’s confession. His crying causes Kazumi to fly into the air but he quickly saves her and her proof gets destroyed. After talking with Chamo she decides to keep it a secret and they both plan an event for the second night of the trip where they have a Negi kissing contest to earn money.
This is where the event for episode 16 takes place, not during summer vacation but during the second night of the school trip. The teams were essentially the same except in the manga Ayaka and Chisame were a team. The Negi clones weren’t caused by Negi passing out they were caused by substitution stencils that Negi got from Setsuna in which he was trying to write his name on one of them but kept messing up (here’s how they explain it:http://www.mangahere.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v05/c035/20.html). He was using them as his stand-in since Kazumi disguised as a teacher told him to stay in his room for the night but he decides to patrol the hotel for intruders in case they show up for Konoka again. When he leaves the room the thrown away Negis take physical form and stay in the room waiting for orders. When Nodoka comes in and sees the five Negis she passes out and they get the idea that their mission is to kiss a girl and leave the room. During the competition Yuna and Chisame get captured by one of the teacher’s and are forced to squat in the lobby until morning and Makie and Ayaka form a team. In the anime nobody wins but in the manga after all the teams kiss the fake Negi’s and they explode the real Negi returns where he meets Nodoka and Yue in the lobby. Yue causes Negi to trip and he falls on top of Nodoka where he kisses her and Nodoka is declared the winner and receives her very own pactio card because Chamo formed a pactio circle around the hotel.
The next day Negi and Asuna get attacked by a character the anime left out called Koutaru a half man half wolf mage who is the same age as Negi and would later go on to become Negi’s friend and rival and was hands down one of the best characters in the series and one of my favorite characters. Unlike Negi who is mature, well-mannered, thought things through, and smart for his age Koutaru is the complete opposite. He was a hothead who enjoyed seeking out strong opponents and fighting them, he would fight using his instincts instead of his mind like Negi. He wasn’t well-mannered like Negi; he had manners and respected others but he would occasionally talk back to people and get mad a lot more easily than Negi when it came to people he cared about. He wasn’t smart like Negi but he was more street-wise so he caught on to tricks and lies better than Negi did. Finally, he’s chivalrous, he would never hit a woman unless she was a powerful fighter like Ku-fei or Kaede and even then he was uncomfortable with the idea of hitting a female that he would usually hold back when fighting them and instead would try to knock them out without causing any harm to them. Anyway, in the manga he fights against Negi but loses to him thanks to Nodoka who uses her magic book which allows her to read the minds of her opponents as long as she knows their name and there within a reasonable distance from her. While Negi fights him Setsuna is having another fight against Tsukiyomi who shows up in front of Setsuna’s group and challenges her to a sword fight in the middle of town which everyone mistakes as a tourist attraction.
After the fights they make it to Konoka’s house where everyone is turned into stone and Konoka gets captured again. During the fight to save Konoka, Setsuna reveals that she’s half-human half-crow demon and has crow wings that she uses to fly. In the anime we never see them. Eva does show up and save everyone. At the end of the fight Konoka doesn’t save Setsuna from dying Setsuna doesn’t have the near death experience Negi has the near death experience because he overexerted his magic and Konoka saves him by kissing him and forming a pactio with him. Setsuna also formed a pactio with him in a scene earlier when they were fighting the hoard of demons trying to get to Konoka. Also, for those of you wondering how Kaede, Ku-fei, and Tatsumiya knew the group was in danger and needed help Yue called them and told them about the situation. In the manga, Yue along with Nodoka, Haruna, and Kazumi go with Negi and the others to Konoka’s house and she somehow managed to escape being turned to stone. It’s also at this battle she comes to the realization that magic is real and wants to become a mage. Another thing the anime messed up on is that Sayo wasn’t on the school trip. At this point in the manga she was not introduced yet. The Kyoto arc had so many fight scenes, events, surprises, and characters the anime skipped entirely and was a completely insult in the anime that they rushed into just 2 episodes. Why!? As I said before this would have been a good stopping point for the anime and earn the show enough popularity to get a second season.
Episode 22: The thing the anime got right in this episode was Negi wanting to become Eva’s apprentice but what the anime messed up on was that Eva doesn’t accept Negi right off the bat. In order for him to become her apprentice he has to pass a test which is to land a hit on Chachamaru in a fight without using magic. So he gets Ku-fei to train him in Chinese-kenpo and when the test comes around Negi manages to hit Chachamaru and become Eva’s apprentice. This would have been a great OVA for the anime. Maybe.
As you all know episodes 23-26 are all made up. They never happened in the manga; it came out of nowhere, and was a dumb ending to the anime that was already messed up from the beginning. Do you see why I don’t like this anime so much? There was no respect or attention to the source material and was a rushed anime that showed all the events out of order, made up their own events that were stupid and weird, skipped many important events, and downplayed a good chuck of the characters. For me, this was one of the worst animes I’ve ever watched and one of the worst manga to anime adaptions I’ve seen. There are other animes of the series out there and I’ll get to them down the road but just know that this anime sucks, you shouldn’t watch it and if you really wanna get into the series read the manga. The manga is way better, the characters are developed greatly, the story is good, the action is great, and despite the loose ending that the manga had it is a manga worth checking out and reading. If you were a fan of Harry Potter or enjoy that magic element in reading than I highly recommend this manga. Thanks for reading; I’ll see you next time on Project Nitsuj.
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