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The answer is no. This animation would be considered OVA-grade quality only back in 2005. I want Shaft back on the train. Mou Hitotsu no Sekai was one of the most beautiful things to ever happen.

But if I am melting so much just from hearing Kitty speak, I don't even want to imagine how would I react to seeing Nodoka again.

My eyes are bleeding.

Ah, yes, excuse me. I forgot that there was a thread.
So was Nejima always this edgy?

>>20714
This is a pretty standard Call to Adventure for a fantasy.

But yeah, everybody knows the editors forced Akamatsu to write another harem after Love Hina, so Negima was indeed not this edgy for the first 50 chapters or so.

That aside, I actually don't mind the new designs that much. It's just the old cast that is godawful.

Frankly, anything with Eva-chan-senpai goes a little edgy. Except when she's playing old games naked.

Oh, but is Happy Material gonna stay as the opening, or it's just first episode-specific pandering so that they REMIND you AGAIN that this is indeed NEGIMA? Because the other clues are just not enough? I have no idea.

I started watching the anime recently with the plan to just rush through it and the OVA's to get caught up asap, but I really enjoyed it and heard that a lot of stuff is skipped if you just watch the OVA's so I'm going to take my time with the manga instead.
Will watching this one without finishing Negima first affect my enjoyment of either series too much?
Yue a best

>>20756
I have no idea what the pacing is going to be. There are two possible futures:

1) The pacing is sane and they don't skip much. Then UQ Holder won't reach the stage where knowledge of Negima is pretty much required, and will mostly be over while they still establish the new characters. In that case you will miss mostly the numerous background references, and knowledge who Eva-chan-senpai is and how she acted 80 years ago.
This variant is corroborated by the pacing of the first episode.

2) The pacing is insane and they jump through material. We get Fate and the bombing really fast, and the UQ Holder anime progresses after that too. Then you need to read the manga.
The anime adaptations of Negima cover a really small portion of the manga. What you just watched (the first tv season) is with anime original last few episodes, which replace the sudden turn into fantasy epic that the manga took. You thought they were fantasy-ish enough? Nah. The manga does it on a much larger scale, and way better.
Then there is Negima?!, which while quite enjoyable, has nothing to do with the manga, so it can't help you here.
Then there is Ala Alba and Mou Hitotsu no Sekai. They plainly don't make any sense if you haven't read the manga first. Great animation, great everything, but what they reveal of the plot is barebones, just enough so that they can show the scenes they want to show.
The objectively best part of the manga, the School Festival, exists only in its culmination scene in the first minutes of Ala Alba. Other memorable arcs, like Negi vs Rakan and the Palace Defense, are after the end of Mou Hitotsu no Sekai. It's best if you watch these ovas only after you finish the manga.

P.S. There are no such things as a Negima film or Tsukihime anime, don't let internet lie to you.

>>20756
>>20757
Of course, I must mention two more things. First they obviously want to make the connection to Negima as strong as possible, so they may indeed skip to the part where the Negima cast starts turning up. And second, I'd never dissuade anybody from reading the Negima manga. I'd be hard pressed to name even five works of fantasy from the whole world as better than it.

>>20757
>>20758
Wow, thanks for all the info, guess I will just play it safe and enjoy everything in order. I can probably survive without watching this one as it airs.

Bland 1:1 adaptation. They are indeed skipping stuff. For example the introduction of the racer girl. And it was quite the good chapter, even if it was left as something out of place for quite a while. I wonder what next episode is gonna be. There's the underground tunnels arc, but they may skip that, just directly giving him the gravitational sword. Then there's the slums arc, which was great worldbuilding, and great everything, and was important intro to Karen, but who knows if they'll decide to skip that too. The first is most probably around 1 ep worth of material, the other is at least 2-3 eps worth of material. And then we have Fate. If they skip to Fate directly, they are probably trying to shoehorn in as much Negima as possible; if they actually adapt the underground tunnels next ep, they are probably adapting everything in turn. Who knows. We'll see next week.

>>20758
I kinda wanna read it now, just to honor the passion that you obviously have for the franchise.

I won't, at least not right now, since I have a job and am already following like 15 shows this season. But maybe when I have some time off.

I don't get this adaptation. Why is it so half-assed? They don't grasp anything of why the fights in UQ Holder are so enticing. They don't have any idea what to skip and what to show. They should adapt one arc in detail, not several arcs superficially. What we get right now is just bad, through and through. It's disgusting, it reads like a resume and nothing else. Hence there is nothing of the atmosphere of the manga. And somehow in their effort to make this even more Negima than it is, they are putting in effort only for the rare in the manga fanservice scenes. Sheesh.
What's even worse is that they are actually following the episode count I predicted. Well, they will do exactly 2 episodes for the slums arc, while I thought 3 is more realistic, but I did still say 2-3.

Pic unrelated, I snapshotted it because it was a nice moment.

>>21392
The animation is fucking horrible too. And yeah, there's even more Negima flashbacks this time.

PATRICIAN TASTE

I can't believe it

By episode 3 I don't feel like watching more.
The first two were fine, they skipped on a lot in terms of pacing and hardly had any fun fights, but they were fine in terms of directing.
Then episode 3 hit.

Not only did the animation take a huge nosedive with those CG monsters, the musical score would play at the most inopportune moments (epic music playing as characters are exchanging mundane quips about sake), and the fights would be terribly choreographed.
Mostly about shouting attacks and close up shots of angry faces, although not as bad as other shows, it still takes away from actually clever ways of using cool superpowers.

With the new episode not being out yet it is probably a good time to drop it and then pick up Negima during the Christmas holidays.

>>21667
I'm sorry, Anon. It sucks when a manga you're so clearly fond of as you are of this gets a shitty adaptation. No one deserves that.

I hope something nice happens to you today.

>>21667
The fourth episode was way worse than the third, don't worry.