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EspañolCHARACTERS OF NEGIMA (16-31)
'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.
Student Number 16: 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 Yuna, Ako, and Akira, who are also in sports clubs, and is "Baka Pink" of the "Baka Rangers" (or Dummy Force in the FUNimation dub) 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 teacher's 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 which she got when she kissed a copy of Negi during the "Kiss Negi" game in Kyoto. She is now involved in Evangeline's Badge Collection game to win the right to go to England with Negi's group. However the girls fail in their attempt to steal Yue and Nodoka's badges. She becomes especially shocked that her 'Sure Kill Ribbon Technique' is defeated not only by Asuna, but also by Yue.
During the outing to the beach following the festival, Makie, the Sports Girls and the Narutaki Twins were about to gang up on Asuna for another attempt at her badge, but were surprisingly stopped by Ayaka. It was at that time that the class president announced that she would be going to England separately, and Makie was included in her party. Recently she got fourth place at a local gymnastics competition and wasn't as bothered by the appearance of Ayaka's Negi Jet as the other girls. She joins along with Ayaka to Britain and she was the first person to find Negi's group near the London bridge. She and the others are currently enjoying the hospitality of Nekane's home and touring Negi's hometown. As Negi and the White Wing secretly head toward the place where the gateway to the Magic World is located, Makie and several other girls tail them, not knowing of their final destination. Currently, she and the other Sports Club girls are being detained by the Magic Country security force and are in a state of shock after learning of Negi's magical background and seeing him skewered by Fate's attack.
'Trivia:'
★ According to Volume 2, the character design of Makie was originally used as Kozue Migara the "Heroine's Pal".
★ Her seiyū is also the voice 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. Because she shares her room 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). Also, like the first anime, she has pink hair, but with green eyes.
(Seiyū: Yui Horie, English VA: Kate Oxley)
Student Number 17: 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 katakana) 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). A recent chapter also shows that she was known to Yuna from elementary school as well.
One of Sakurako's noticeable traits is her extremely hyper personality, cheerful and always in search of a good time. Her spontaneous reactions, particularly in class or around Negi, usually ends up making her the first to do something in response to a question or inquiry. (usually seen blocking off her seatmate Ayaka, whose feelings for Negi make her think of going first yet are particularly blocked by Sakurako's reaction time) Another peculiar trait of Sakurako's hyperness is the strange words that she makes up that are supposed to stand for other words in the Japanese language. One particular case is the word , a word that is Sakurako's representation of the Japanese expression . Many of these "Sakurako words" have the word in them, which may have something to do with her keeping cats on campus. There are even occasions where her spontaneity and strange language come together: when Negi tries to ask for suggestions at one point for an English training exercise, Sakurako ends up leading the class to playing "yakkyūken". (the word translates as "baseball fist", but the game is about translating English words to Japanese at the risk of losing an article of clothing like in strip poker)
During the "Mages vs the Martian Attacks" game, she is stripped to her underwear along with her cheerleader compatriots. During the start of the Summer Festival, she and the other members of the Cheerleader girls get involved in Evangeline's Badge Collection game. Instead of trying for the badges themselves, they send members of the various martial arts groups to attack Ku Fei and Haruna. However, the two targets easily vanquish their opponents.
She and her cheerleader compatriots are among the invitees to go on Ayaka's private 'Negi-Jet,' though she and several other classmates are reluctant to fly in such a ridiculously-painted aircraft.Yet in the end, she and her other friends join her to Britan. As Ayaka's group covertly follows Negi's team to magical world, she was forced by Misa to use her "luck abilities" to determine the direction the other Mahora team went, pointing in a direction that makes the group head off further into the unknown. Although she was successful in reaching the gate to Magic Country, she and the other cheerleaders were left behind when Yuna breaks away from the stalking group and the other sports girls follow and find their way through to the magic world.
'Trivia:'
★ According to character design notes in Volume 2, 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. She also has red hair.
★ '''Negima!?:''' Like Misa and Madoka, Sakurako is rendered as part of one cheer unit, speaking alongside the other girls and even finishing sentences (although they do speak to each other to give their individual thoughts). 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). She also has blonde hair with blue eyes.
(Seiyū: Akane Omae English VA: Colleen Clinkenbeard)
Student Number 18: 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 has been shown to be a bit of a skinflint, and does not readily spend money unless she has to, or if there is a way to get a discount. She is also a mercenary, and mostly takes on contracts that pertain to hunting/destroying/exorcising demons and ghosts but 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 employed 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 club's captain. Mana has the third largest breasts in class, and is the tallest girl. As such, she (and Kaede) are often mistaken for being older than middle school students. Strangely, Graf 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 allows 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 (Chapter 86, Page 8). She also took part in the Mahora 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 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 until Kaede catches her in her own time displacement bullets, and when they reappear, the battle is over. The two of them stop fighting and watch the end festivities of the festival.
During the beginning of the summer break, due to her mature appearance, Mana becomes annoyed when she and Kaede were charged the adult price for movie tickets, (even after showing their school IDs), while the Naturaki twins were allowed in at a child's rate. She takes a blue "Age Deceiving Pill" later in the summer to get the child's rate, (most likely out of pride), but ends up further frustrated when she realizes that the combined cost of the ticket and one pill actually came out to be MORE than the adult ticket price, (¥2700 Vs ¥1800). She later ended up fighting with Kaede as she uses her ninja skills to make herself look younger, the same idea Mana had, but cost Kaede nothing at all.
'Trivia:'
★ According to her character design notes in Volume 6, Mana is half-Puerto Rican, half-Japanese. It also states her name as ''Ryū-gū'' Mana (where the kanji is the same as ''Tatsu-miya'' Mana).
★ Guns she has used until now are listed in Mana's guns in the List of Items and Artifacts in Negima.
★ She has the third largest breasts in Class 3A, only to lost out to Kaede by 0.1cm.
★ '''Negima!:''' In the first anime series, she is darker skinned and her hair is blue, with her hair ties being red. Her pactio artifact 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, and is usually seen carrying or polishing a gun of some sort, even in the middle of class or in the bath.
(Seiyū: Miho Sakuma, English VA: Stephanie Young)
Student Number 19: 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. She is also seen occasionally sparring with Ku Fei, hinting at a supposedly high proficiency of Chinese martial arts. 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 Chapter 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 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 Martian colony a hundred years in the future, and that she is a descendant of Negi. Hints given in her own words to her friends, plus the spell pattern on her body, imply that the future she comes from may not be a happy one.
Chao sets a trap for Negi during the festival, confining him and his partners inside of Evangeline'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 an airship 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, on top of a very high proficiency in Chinese martial arts, 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 a magical pattern which was inscribed 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 two 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. Just as they were plumetting to their death, Chao embraced Negi in a rare gesture of selflessness, intending to use her body to shield Negi from the fatal impact of the fall. Fortunately, they were saved by their classmates. But the fight also gave Satomi 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, Satomi 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. The family tree booklet was eventually burned by Asuna, although Chao did not seem bothered by it, instead laughing happily at the way Negi's party was fighting for it.
Naturally, with the smartest student in Mahora now gone, Class 3-A's test average took a nosedive during the mid-semester exam before the summer break. However unlike before, they didn't end up in last place. Rather somewhere near the middle.
'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 9, Chao was going to be called Lin Mei-Fa.
★ '''Negima!:''' Towards the end of the series, Chao gives Negi a Casseopeia watch (similar to the one used in the manga) to change Asuna's history for the better. Her speech also seems to hint that she is from the future as well ("Humans in this time wouldn't be able to understand a machine like this.") Chao's 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 giant 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 (which, to a casual viewer, may be just for laughs since she has shown no hints of her being from the future, let alone being from Mars).
(Seiyū: Chiaki Osawa (Negima!), Megumi Takamoto (Negima!?), English VA: Trina Nishimura)
Student Number 20: Birthday: 12 November 1988[1]. 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 refers to herself as "sessha", 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"'' ("lord", used by samurai towards superiors; 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" (or Dummy Force in the FUNimation dub) 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 Fuka and Fumika and taught them ninja abilities.
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 Inugami. During her fight with Kotaro, Kaede introduced herself as a of the . Kaede is the second tallest girl in the class, and has the second largest breasts. Graf Herrman 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 but she put up a terrific fight, and even forced him to invoke his artifact, submitting only after he told her of his purpose. 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.
Currently, she and Ku Fei are training in Evangeline's resort as they will join Negi, Asuna, Setsuna, and the Library Expedition Group in their upcoming trip to Wales. Her English Club badge is also a target in Evangeline's Badge Collection game, though Yuna and the others are reluctant to try for it, considering her ninjitsu skills. The Narutaki Twins however try for hers and are promptly knocked out by Kaede.
During the summer, Kaede went to a movie theater, and transformed herself in her school uniform and showed her Student ID. However, like Mana, the ticket clerk charged her full price for an adult ticket. To add insult to injury, the Narutaki Twins got in at a child's rate and told the clerk that Kaede was their guardian. Yet the second time she went into the theater, she uses a ''Henge'' Jutsu (Transformation Jutsu) to make herself look young enough to get the child's discount. However, she ended up getting into a fight with Mana, who had the same idea, but had to use an Age-Deceiving pill to do it.
Kaede, after enjoying the hospitality of Negi's home along with several other of her classmates, went through to the Magic World. After Negi is attacked, she attempts to fight one of Fate Averruncus's minions, but is quickly defeated.
★ Both anime series depict her having grayish brown hair rather than the yellowish brown that she has in the manga.
★ '''Negima!:''' Her pactio artifact is a giant shuriken, but what it does isn't seen.
★ '''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". Also, she often dresses in old-fashioned brown robes, taking on an appearance similar to how a kitsune looks, and acts as a surrogate mother figure for the Narutaki twins.
(Seiyū: Ryoko Shiraishi English VA: Clarine Harp)
Student Number 21: 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 center in Mahora City and is in the Astronomy club. She is a good cook, and has exceptional domestic skills. Even though she is very nice, she can be sometimes be equally scary. 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 a young boy named Kotarō Inugami, who had come to Mahora looking for Negi. Unfortunately, Graf Herrman, a powerful demon, attacked Kotaro, and kidnapped Chizuru when she stood up to him. She all but adopts Kotaro after Negi and Kotaro defeat Graf Hermann, 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 Graf Hermann, 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 in the class. In the Volume 8 character notes and the Negima Workshop, Ken Akamatsu mentions that Chizuru and Mutsumi Otohime from his earlier work, ''Love Hina'', are very similar.
She is among the invitees aboard Ayaka's private 'Negi-Jet' to England. Unlike her classmates, she thinks the jet's garrish paint job was in good taste. She and the others meet up with Negi's group and are currently enjoying the hospitality of Nekane's home and touring Negi's hometown.
★ '''Negima!:''' Her pactio artifact in the anime is a group of magic spheres that explode. She also has blackish brown hair, similar to Natsumi's hair color in this series.
★ '''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.
(Seiyū: Misa Kobayashi, English VA: Amy Rosenthal)
Student Number 22: 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 (Volume 5), but whether they have any appreciable skills is questionable. The only notable skill they have displayed is their 'Spy Run Jutsu' (which is basically just eavesdropping and then running away). 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 Fuka enjoys teasing Negi by exaggerating things. She and her sister learn of the formation of the new club that will accompany Negi to England, and are now competing in Evangeline's Badge Collection game. She along with Fumika try for Kaede's badge and are both promptly knocked right out.
During the outing to the beach following the festival, the Sports Girls and the Narutaki Twins were about to gang up on Asuna for another attempt at her badge, but were surprisingly stopped by Ayaka. It was at that time that the class president announced that she would be going to England separately, and both sisters were included in her party. She and the others meet up with Negi's group and are currently enjoying the hospitality of Nekane's home and touring Negi's hometown.
★ '''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 regular 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)
Student Number 23: Birthday: 6 December 1988. She is the younger of the Narutaki twins. She is almost the complete opposite of Fuka. Her hobby is cleaning, and while she goes along with Fuka's pranks, constantly tries to tell her sister that they are bad ideas. The twins claim to be undergoing ninjutsu 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. She and her sister spy on Negi's group as they plan to head to England and spread the news to the other girls in the class. At present, the twins are competing to win the right to accompany Negi to England. She along with Fuka try to steal Kaede's badge, and fail spectacularly.
During the outing to the beach following the festival, the Sports Girls and the Narutaki Twins were about to gang up on Asuna for another attempt at her badge, but were surprisingly stopped by Ayaka. It was at that time that the class president announced that she would be going to England separately, and both sisters were included in her party. She and the others meet up with Negi's group and are currently enjoying the hospitality of Nekane's home and touring Negi's hometown.
★ '''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 (although she does retain some of her cautious personality). 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 regular 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)
Student Number 24: 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. She also has a love interest named Kenji Tachibana, which is never shown.
At present, Satomi is upgrading Chachamaru's body with more humanlike skin and softer appearance.
★ '''Negima!:''' Her pactio artifact is a magic backpack, allowing her to use a "Plasma Punch" attack.
★ '''Negima!?:''' Usually seen alongside either Chao or Chachamaru, Satomi assists in the technical upkeep of the class. 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)
Student Number 25: 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 costume-plays and displays glamorous 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 (robot), Mana (too old for junior high school), the Narutaki twins (underage), Ku Fei, Chao, Evangeline ("foreign" students), Kaede (ninja), Zazie (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. During this time, she was reduced down to a 10-year-old due to the Age-Deceiving Pills. She initially refused to try one when Negi offered it to her, but Chachamaru popped one into her mouth. Chisame came to like her new appearance and decided to use pictures of herself as Chiu's Little Sister on her webpage.
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.
After the festival, Chisame has found her artifact to be extremely useful, helping her homepage skyrocket to the top rankings all over the Internet. This newfound fame, however, leaves her feeling strangely empty. She later comes to Evangeline's Resort along with Kazumi, Sayo and Chachamaru to enjoy a barbecue with Negi and the others. Though she was very reluctant to take part in any of the White Wing group's activities, she later decided to accompany Negi to England as she makes a surprise arrival at the airport. She states that things on the Internet has become dull, (most likely due to her Pactio ability to control it with ease), and denies any other reason for joining the group other than having nothing else to do.
Chiasame and the others are currently enjoying the hospitality of Nekane's home and touring Negi's hometown. When last seen, she and the rest of the White Wing club were about to enter the portal to the Magic World.
In Negima Workshop, it is noted that Chisame and Naru Narusegawa (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. Although she has Pactio with Negi in the manga prior to the start of the series, she only gained Pactio with him during the mass Pactio and released when everyone else did at the same time. 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. Similarly, her Cosplay release in the final episode also turns her into Chiu, allowing her to improve the ratings of her website. Because viewers 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 (even Zazie, who appears to avoid all interaction in class outside occasional short talks with Mana, imagines a Chiu scene at one point).
(Seiyū: Yumi Shimura, English VA: Caitlin Glass)
Main articles: Evangeline A.K. McDowell
Student Number 26: , listed as on the seating chart. The 26th student in Japanese alphabetical order of class 2/3-A, she is in actuality a centuries-old vampire cursed and locked away within a younger body due to the actions of Nagi Springfield, the father of her teacher Negi Springfield. Initially an antagonist for Negi due to his father's actions, she eventually becomes an important teacher and guide for the young mage and his allies as they fight and search for his missing father. Yet whether fighting or teaching, Eva remains a cruel, powerful mage in her own right, yet with the sensitivities of her former human life.
(Seiyū: Yuki Matsuoka, English VA: Laura Bailey)
Main articles: Nodoka Miyazaki
Student Number 27: Birthday: 10 May 1988. The 27th student in Japanese alphabetical order of class 2/3-A, this shy, introverted bookworm falls for Negi at first sight after (literally) falling for him and tries to go beyond her emotions to win his heart. Eventually, Nodoka becomes a major ally of Negi's team, gaining a Pactio ability in reading minds and attempting to learn magic all in the name of winning Negi (even at the possible cost of losing her friend, fellow Library Exploration Club member Yue Ayase).
(Seiyū: Mamiko Noto, English VA: Leah Clark)
Student Number 28: 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 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. Recently however, she seems to be showing signs of jealousy regarding the girls Kotaro has been talking to after the festival (Yue and Nodoka, Kaede, Mei, and Takane). She is one of the invitees aboard Ayaka's private 'Negi-Jet' to England. She and the others meet up with Negi's group and are currently enjoying the hospitality of Nekane's home and touring Negi's hometown.
★ 'Negima!': Her Pactio allows her to disguise as Fujiko Mine from Lupin the 3rd and use a magic motorcycle. Ordinarily, however, she has brown hair.
★ 'Negima!?': Natsumi's hair color is changed to green in this series and her freckles are more visible. 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.
(Seiyū: Mai Aizawa, English VA: Majken Kunishima)
Student Number 29: Birthday: 5 July 1988. She is the rich iinchō (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. Ayaka is well-cultured in both Japanese and European social customs. 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 has proven to 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.
During the start of the summer break, Ayaka returns with a folder that contained some information concerning Negi's father and his whereabouts. When she learns that Asuna will go with Negi to England, she immediately tried to get the folder back, but was unsuccessful in the attempt as Asuna demonstrates her new evasion skills. She is now currently involved in the Badge Collection game that Evangeline set up, in order to win the right to accompany Negi and his group to Wales. She tries for Asuna's badge but gets defeated easily after a few attempts even with her new moves, (though she does manage to score one hit on Asuna). In the end, Ayaka reluctantly accepts defeat and admits that Asuna and the others are more prepared than her to go with Negi, though she still wants a thorough explanation for when they return.
At present, (chapter 178), during a trip to the beach, Ayaka announces that she, the Sports Girls and the Narutaki Twins, will be traveling to England separately, despite protests from Asuna. Though she claims that it would merely be a personal vacation, (and any encounters with the White Wing Club would be purely coincidental), it is most likely an excuse for her to accompany Negi to Wales. With the appearance of Negi's old friend Anya, Ayaka and the rest of the girls are curious as to what kind of relationship she has with the child teacher, and the class president is especially wary of anything of a romantic nature. However, even as Negi and his group begins to set out to Wales, Ayaka finally has her own plane for the trip ready: a special jet with Negi's image painted on the side. She and the others meet up with Negi's group and are currently enjoying the hospitality of Nekane's home and touring Negi's hometown. It also appears that Ayaka is becoming fast friends with Nekane. She makes an appearance just before the White Wing Club are about to leave for the portal to the Magic World. However, she keeps her promise not to interfere or go with them, and gets assurances from Asuna to watch out for Negi.
'Trivia:'
★ Ayaka means "fleur-de-lis", the emblem of Mahora Gakuen.
★ Early in the manga, she is referred to as a "half-breed," as one of her parents (her mother, apparently) is from America.
★ 'Negima!': Her Pactio ability ends up having her throw flowers at her opponent, which ultimately do nothing, (though this could be due to her innate personality and not her actual Pactio power). 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). She is rarely called Ayaka, but instead linchou (Japanese for class representative). 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. Finally, during the "Final Pactio invocation", she reveals her Cosplay form: a perfumer who can trace things by their scents. Promotional materials and the ending sequence show her playing the flute. But like the violin in the first series, it is not known how well she plays it. Also, while she is an able equestrienne, as shown in the first series, she is also adept at other sports, particularly volleyball. This is shown when she carelessly uses her spiking ability to drive a literally red-hot Star Crystal into a column and later tells Asuna that her athletic abilities have become "sharper than ever before" during that moment.
(Seiyū: Junko Minagawa, English VA: Laura Bailey)
Student Number 30: 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 (possibly similar in style to Sumiyoshi of the Excel Saga series). Satsuki seems to be privy 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 personal name, Satsuki, literally means the "fifth month" of the solar calendar, May, which is the month she was born.
★ 'Negima!': Her Pactio ability is a magical version of her ''Chao Bao Zi'' stand to feed hungry demons to death.
★ 'Negima!?': Satsuki gains slight prominence as leader of the domestic/caretaker group after the class is sent to an alternate universe. And unlike the manga and the first anime series, in which she is visibly overweight, she appears slimmer in this version, though her face is still squarish.
(Seiyū: Naomi Inoue English VA: Monica Rial)
Student Number 31: Birthday: 17 March 1989. 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" (similar to No-Face from Spirited Away, or possibly Hollows from Bleach) when she offered to cover for her classmates during the school festival, and gave Chao a tiny living dragon as a farewell gift. She also has been shown to see Sayo without the assistance of Negi or holding a closeness towards her like Kazumi. 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.[2] She is sometimes seen with her pet bird, but more recently with her "friends" (the black spirit-monsters). 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 Roman alphabet. This may indicate that Zazie isn't from Japan and may be from another culture which uses the Roman alphabet, like Evangeline being from Europe. This is backed up by the fact that 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, as well as her only ever time she smiled.
★ 'Negima!?': Although usually quiet and seen juggling around items in this series, Zazie does speak more often, primarily in small conversations with roommate Mana, which primarily involve her making very bad puns and being scored on them by Mana or whoever else is present. 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). As an added note, unlike events in the manga, she does not see nor sense Sayo until the mass pactio, only sensing her in one scene when she sees her costume seemingly move by its own (Sayo is actually wearing it).[3] Furthermore, the teardrop mark on her face is painted blue (similar to a water droplet) instead of brown.
(Seiyū: Yuka Inokuchi English VA: Carrie Savage)
1. ''Mahou Sensei Negima: Official Fanbook''; page 93.
2. ''Mahou Sensei Negima'' manga; chapter 1, page 6-7.
3. ''Negima!?'', episode 7
Makie Sasaki
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 teacher's 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 which she got when she kissed a copy of Negi during the "Kiss Negi" game in Kyoto. She is now involved in Evangeline's Badge Collection game to win the right to go to England with Negi's group. However the girls fail in their attempt to steal Yue and Nodoka's badges. She becomes especially shocked that her 'Sure Kill Ribbon Technique' is defeated not only by Asuna, but also by Yue.
During the outing to the beach following the festival, Makie, the Sports Girls and the Narutaki Twins were about to gang up on Asuna for another attempt at her badge, but were surprisingly stopped by Ayaka. It was at that time that the class president announced that she would be going to England separately, and Makie was included in her party. Recently she got fourth place at a local gymnastics competition and wasn't as bothered by the appearance of Ayaka's Negi Jet as the other girls. She joins along with Ayaka to Britain and she was the first person to find Negi's group near the London bridge. She and the others are currently enjoying the hospitality of Nekane's home and touring Negi's hometown. As Negi and the White Wing secretly head toward the place where the gateway to the Magic World is located, Makie and several other girls tail them, not knowing of their final destination. Currently, she and the other Sports Club girls are being detained by the Magic Country security force and are in a state of shock after learning of Negi's magical background and seeing him skewered by Fate's attack.
'Trivia:'
★ According to Volume 2, the character design of Makie was originally used as Kozue Migara the "Heroine's Pal".
★ Her seiyū is also the voice 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. Because she shares her room 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). Also, like the first anime, she has pink hair, but with green eyes.
(Seiyū: Yui Horie, English VA: Kate Oxley)
Sakurako Shiina
One of Sakurako's noticeable traits is her extremely hyper personality, cheerful and always in search of a good time. Her spontaneous reactions, particularly in class or around Negi, usually ends up making her the first to do something in response to a question or inquiry. (usually seen blocking off her seatmate Ayaka, whose feelings for Negi make her think of going first yet are particularly blocked by Sakurako's reaction time) Another peculiar trait of Sakurako's hyperness is the strange words that she makes up that are supposed to stand for other words in the Japanese language. One particular case is the word , a word that is Sakurako's representation of the Japanese expression . Many of these "Sakurako words" have the word in them, which may have something to do with her keeping cats on campus. There are even occasions where her spontaneity and strange language come together: when Negi tries to ask for suggestions at one point for an English training exercise, Sakurako ends up leading the class to playing "yakkyūken". (the word translates as "baseball fist", but the game is about translating English words to Japanese at the risk of losing an article of clothing like in strip poker)
During the "Mages vs the Martian Attacks" game, she is stripped to her underwear along with her cheerleader compatriots. During the start of the Summer Festival, she and the other members of the Cheerleader girls get involved in Evangeline's Badge Collection game. Instead of trying for the badges themselves, they send members of the various martial arts groups to attack Ku Fei and Haruna. However, the two targets easily vanquish their opponents.
She and her cheerleader compatriots are among the invitees to go on Ayaka's private 'Negi-Jet,' though she and several other classmates are reluctant to fly in such a ridiculously-painted aircraft.Yet in the end, she and her other friends join her to Britan. As Ayaka's group covertly follows Negi's team to magical world, she was forced by Misa to use her "luck abilities" to determine the direction the other Mahora team went, pointing in a direction that makes the group head off further into the unknown. Although she was successful in reaching the gate to Magic Country, she and the other cheerleaders were left behind when Yuna breaks away from the stalking group and the other sports girls follow and find their way through to the magic world.
'Trivia:'
★ According to character design notes in Volume 2, 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. She also has red hair.
★ '''Negima!?:''' Like Misa and Madoka, Sakurako is rendered as part of one cheer unit, speaking alongside the other girls and even finishing sentences (although they do speak to each other to give their individual thoughts). 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). She also has blonde hair with blue eyes.
(Seiyū: Akane Omae English VA: Colleen Clinkenbeard)
Mana Tatsumiya
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 allows 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 (Chapter 86, Page 8). She also took part in the Mahora 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 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 until Kaede catches her in her own time displacement bullets, and when they reappear, the battle is over. The two of them stop fighting and watch the end festivities of the festival.
During the beginning of the summer break, due to her mature appearance, Mana becomes annoyed when she and Kaede were charged the adult price for movie tickets, (even after showing their school IDs), while the Naturaki twins were allowed in at a child's rate. She takes a blue "Age Deceiving Pill" later in the summer to get the child's rate, (most likely out of pride), but ends up further frustrated when she realizes that the combined cost of the ticket and one pill actually came out to be MORE than the adult ticket price, (¥2700 Vs ¥1800). She later ended up fighting with Kaede as she uses her ninja skills to make herself look younger, the same idea Mana had, but cost Kaede nothing at all.
'Trivia:'
★ According to her character design notes in Volume 6, Mana is half-Puerto Rican, half-Japanese. It also states her name as ''Ryū-gū'' Mana (where the kanji is the same as ''Tatsu-miya'' Mana).
★ Guns she has used until now are listed in Mana's guns in the List of Items and Artifacts in Negima.
★ She has the third largest breasts in Class 3A, only to lost out to Kaede by 0.1cm.
★ '''Negima!:''' In the first anime series, she is darker skinned and her hair is blue, with her hair ties being red. Her pactio artifact 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, and is usually seen carrying or polishing a gun of some sort, even in the middle of class or in the bath.
(Seiyū: Miho Sakuma, English VA: Stephanie Young)
Chao Lingshen
Chao sets a trap for Negi during the festival, confining him and his partners inside of Evangeline'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 an airship 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, on top of a very high proficiency in Chinese martial arts, 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 a magical pattern which was inscribed on her body.
Chao in her battle against Negi on the 3rd day of the MahoraFest.
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 two 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. Just as they were plumetting to their death, Chao embraced Negi in a rare gesture of selflessness, intending to use her body to shield Negi from the fatal impact of the fall. Fortunately, they were saved by their classmates. But the fight also gave Satomi 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, Satomi 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. The family tree booklet was eventually burned by Asuna, although Chao did not seem bothered by it, instead laughing happily at the way Negi's party was fighting for it.
Naturally, with the smartest student in Mahora now gone, Class 3-A's test average took a nosedive during the mid-semester exam before the summer break. However unlike before, they didn't end up in last place. Rather somewhere near the middle.
'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 9, Chao was going to be called Lin Mei-Fa.
★ '''Negima!:''' Towards the end of the series, Chao gives Negi a Casseopeia watch (similar to the one used in the manga) to change Asuna's history for the better. Her speech also seems to hint that she is from the future as well ("Humans in this time wouldn't be able to understand a machine like this.") Chao's 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 giant 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 (which, to a casual viewer, may be just for laughs since she has shown no hints of her being from the future, let alone being from Mars).
(Seiyū: Chiaki Osawa (Negima!), Megumi Takamoto (Negima!?), English VA: Trina Nishimura)
Kaede Nagase
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 Inugami. During her fight with Kotaro, Kaede introduced herself as a of the . Kaede is the second tallest girl in the class, and has the second largest breasts. Graf Herrman 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 but she put up a terrific fight, and even forced him to invoke his artifact, submitting only after he told her of his purpose. 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.
Currently, she and Ku Fei are training in Evangeline's resort as they will join Negi, Asuna, Setsuna, and the Library Expedition Group in their upcoming trip to Wales. Her English Club badge is also a target in Evangeline's Badge Collection game, though Yuna and the others are reluctant to try for it, considering her ninjitsu skills. The Narutaki Twins however try for hers and are promptly knocked out by Kaede.
During the summer, Kaede went to a movie theater, and transformed herself in her school uniform and showed her Student ID. However, like Mana, the ticket clerk charged her full price for an adult ticket. To add insult to injury, the Narutaki Twins got in at a child's rate and told the clerk that Kaede was their guardian. Yet the second time she went into the theater, she uses a ''Henge'' Jutsu (Transformation Jutsu) to make herself look young enough to get the child's discount. However, she ended up getting into a fight with Mana, who had the same idea, but had to use an Age-Deceiving pill to do it.
Kaede, after enjoying the hospitality of Negi's home along with several other of her classmates, went through to the Magic World. After Negi is attacked, she attempts to fight one of Fate Averruncus's minions, but is quickly defeated.
★ Both anime series depict her having grayish brown hair rather than the yellowish brown that she has in the manga.
★ '''Negima!:''' Her pactio artifact is a giant shuriken, but what it does isn't seen.
★ '''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". Also, she often dresses in old-fashioned brown robes, taking on an appearance similar to how a kitsune looks, and acts as a surrogate mother figure for the Narutaki twins.
(Seiyū: Ryoko Shiraishi English VA: Clarine Harp)
Chizuru Naba
She is among the invitees aboard Ayaka's private 'Negi-Jet' to England. Unlike her classmates, she thinks the jet's garrish paint job was in good taste. She and the others meet up with Negi's group and are currently enjoying the hospitality of Nekane's home and touring Negi's hometown.
★ '''Negima!:''' Her pactio artifact in the anime is a group of magic spheres that explode. She also has blackish brown hair, similar to Natsumi's hair color in this series.
★ '''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.
(Seiyū: Misa Kobayashi, English VA: Amy Rosenthal)
Fuka Narutaki
During the outing to the beach following the festival, the Sports Girls and the Narutaki Twins were about to gang up on Asuna for another attempt at her badge, but were surprisingly stopped by Ayaka. It was at that time that the class president announced that she would be going to England separately, and both sisters were included in her party. She and the others meet up with Negi's group and are currently enjoying the hospitality of Nekane's home and touring Negi's hometown.
★ '''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 regular 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)
Fumika Narutaki
During the outing to the beach following the festival, the Sports Girls and the Narutaki Twins were about to gang up on Asuna for another attempt at her badge, but were surprisingly stopped by Ayaka. It was at that time that the class president announced that she would be going to England separately, and both sisters were included in her party. She and the others meet up with Negi's group and are currently enjoying the hospitality of Nekane's home and touring Negi's hometown.
★ '''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 (although she does retain some of her cautious personality). 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 regular 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)
Satomi Hakase
At present, Satomi is upgrading Chachamaru's body with more humanlike skin and softer appearance.
★ '''Negima!:''' Her pactio artifact is a magic backpack, allowing her to use a "Plasma Punch" attack.
★ '''Negima!?:''' Usually seen alongside either Chao or Chachamaru, Satomi assists in the technical upkeep of the class. 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)
Chisame Hasegawa
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. During this time, she was reduced down to a 10-year-old due to the Age-Deceiving Pills. She initially refused to try one when Negi offered it to her, but Chachamaru popped one into her mouth. Chisame came to like her new appearance and decided to use pictures of herself as Chiu's Little Sister on her webpage.
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.
After the festival, Chisame has found her artifact to be extremely useful, helping her homepage skyrocket to the top rankings all over the Internet. This newfound fame, however, leaves her feeling strangely empty. She later comes to Evangeline's Resort along with Kazumi, Sayo and Chachamaru to enjoy a barbecue with Negi and the others. Though she was very reluctant to take part in any of the White Wing group's activities, she later decided to accompany Negi to England as she makes a surprise arrival at the airport. She states that things on the Internet has become dull, (most likely due to her Pactio ability to control it with ease), and denies any other reason for joining the group other than having nothing else to do.
Chiasame and the others are currently enjoying the hospitality of Nekane's home and touring Negi's hometown. When last seen, she and the rest of the White Wing club were about to enter the portal to the Magic World.
In Negima Workshop, it is noted that Chisame and Naru Narusegawa (of ''Love Hina'') are similar in appearance.
Chiu, Chisame's web-idol alter ego, as seen in "Negima!?"
★ '''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. Although she has Pactio with Negi in the manga prior to the start of the series, she only gained Pactio with him during the mass Pactio and released when everyone else did at the same time. 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. Similarly, her Cosplay release in the final episode also turns her into Chiu, allowing her to improve the ratings of her website. Because viewers 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 (even Zazie, who appears to avoid all interaction in class outside occasional short talks with Mana, imagines a Chiu scene at one point).
(Seiyū: Yumi Shimura, English VA: Caitlin Glass)
Evangeline A.K. McDowell
Main articles: Evangeline A.K. McDowell
Student Number 26: , listed as on the seating chart. The 26th student in Japanese alphabetical order of class 2/3-A, she is in actuality a centuries-old vampire cursed and locked away within a younger body due to the actions of Nagi Springfield, the father of her teacher Negi Springfield. Initially an antagonist for Negi due to his father's actions, she eventually becomes an important teacher and guide for the young mage and his allies as they fight and search for his missing father. Yet whether fighting or teaching, Eva remains a cruel, powerful mage in her own right, yet with the sensitivities of her former human life.
(Seiyū: Yuki Matsuoka, English VA: Laura Bailey)
Nodoka Miyazaki
Main articles: Nodoka Miyazaki
Student Number 27: Birthday: 10 May 1988. The 27th student in Japanese alphabetical order of class 2/3-A, this shy, introverted bookworm falls for Negi at first sight after (literally) falling for him and tries to go beyond her emotions to win his heart. Eventually, Nodoka becomes a major ally of Negi's team, gaining a Pactio ability in reading minds and attempting to learn magic all in the name of winning Negi (even at the possible cost of losing her friend, fellow Library Exploration Club member Yue Ayase).
(Seiyū: Mamiko Noto, English VA: Leah Clark)
Natsumi Murakami
Natsumi (with green hair) being confused by Chizuru in "Negima!?" during a game of Rock Paper Scissors
★ 'Negima!': Her Pactio allows her to disguise as Fujiko Mine from Lupin the 3rd and use a magic motorcycle. Ordinarily, however, she has brown hair.
★ 'Negima!?': Natsumi's hair color is changed to green in this series and her freckles are more visible. 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.
(Seiyū: Mai Aizawa, English VA: Majken Kunishima)
Ayaka Yukihiro
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.
During the start of the summer break, Ayaka returns with a folder that contained some information concerning Negi's father and his whereabouts. When she learns that Asuna will go with Negi to England, she immediately tried to get the folder back, but was unsuccessful in the attempt as Asuna demonstrates her new evasion skills. She is now currently involved in the Badge Collection game that Evangeline set up, in order to win the right to accompany Negi and his group to Wales. She tries for Asuna's badge but gets defeated easily after a few attempts even with her new moves, (though she does manage to score one hit on Asuna). In the end, Ayaka reluctantly accepts defeat and admits that Asuna and the others are more prepared than her to go with Negi, though she still wants a thorough explanation for when they return.
At present, (chapter 178), during a trip to the beach, Ayaka announces that she, the Sports Girls and the Narutaki Twins, will be traveling to England separately, despite protests from Asuna. Though she claims that it would merely be a personal vacation, (and any encounters with the White Wing Club would be purely coincidental), it is most likely an excuse for her to accompany Negi to Wales. With the appearance of Negi's old friend Anya, Ayaka and the rest of the girls are curious as to what kind of relationship she has with the child teacher, and the class president is especially wary of anything of a romantic nature. However, even as Negi and his group begins to set out to Wales, Ayaka finally has her own plane for the trip ready: a special jet with Negi's image painted on the side. She and the others meet up with Negi's group and are currently enjoying the hospitality of Nekane's home and touring Negi's hometown. It also appears that Ayaka is becoming fast friends with Nekane. She makes an appearance just before the White Wing Club are about to leave for the portal to the Magic World. However, she keeps her promise not to interfere or go with them, and gets assurances from Asuna to watch out for Negi.
'Trivia:'
★ Ayaka means "fleur-de-lis", the emblem of Mahora Gakuen.
★ Early in the manga, she is referred to as a "half-breed," as one of her parents (her mother, apparently) is from America.
★ 'Negima!': Her Pactio ability ends up having her throw flowers at her opponent, which ultimately do nothing, (though this could be due to her innate personality and not her actual Pactio power). 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). She is rarely called Ayaka, but instead linchou (Japanese for class representative). 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. Finally, during the "Final Pactio invocation", she reveals her Cosplay form: a perfumer who can trace things by their scents. Promotional materials and the ending sequence show her playing the flute. But like the violin in the first series, it is not known how well she plays it. Also, while she is an able equestrienne, as shown in the first series, she is also adept at other sports, particularly volleyball. This is shown when she carelessly uses her spiking ability to drive a literally red-hot Star Crystal into a column and later tells Asuna that her athletic abilities have become "sharper than ever before" during that moment.
(Seiyū: Junko Minagawa, English VA: Laura Bailey)
Satsuki Yotsuba
'Trivia'
★ Her personal name, Satsuki, literally means the "fifth month" of the solar calendar, May, which is the month she was born.
★ 'Negima!': Her Pactio ability is a magical version of her ''Chao Bao Zi'' stand to feed hungry demons to death.
★ 'Negima!?': Satsuki gains slight prominence as leader of the domestic/caretaker group after the class is sent to an alternate universe. And unlike the manga and the first anime series, in which she is visibly overweight, she appears slimmer in this version, though her face is still squarish.
(Seiyū: Naomi Inoue English VA: Monica Rial)
Zazie Rainyday
Zazie hanging out with Sayo and her "friends"
★ '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, as well as her only ever time she smiled.
★ 'Negima!?': Although usually quiet and seen juggling around items in this series, Zazie does speak more often, primarily in small conversations with roommate Mana, which primarily involve her making very bad puns and being scored on them by Mana or whoever else is present. 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). As an added note, unlike events in the manga, she does not see nor sense Sayo until the mass pactio, only sensing her in one scene when she sees her costume seemingly move by its own (Sayo is actually wearing it).[3] Furthermore, the teardrop mark on her face is painted blue (similar to a water droplet) instead of brown.
(Seiyū: Yuka Inokuchi English VA: Carrie Savage)
References
1. ''Mahou Sensei Negima: Official Fanbook''; page 93.
2. ''Mahou Sensei Negima'' manga; chapter 1, page 6-7.
3. ''Negima!?'', episode 7
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