I bought this manga because there were many possibilities for funny and sweet relationships between the ostensibly smart main character and the kids. What it turned into, though, is mostly magic fighting. I don't like magic because as far as I know no-one except some marginal folks have believed in it for several hundred years. And I don't like fighting, manga variety, because it's all just nothing—people jumping around in the air and waving things at each other, and NO ONE EVER ACTUALLY GETS HURT.

What a waste of thousands of hours of drawing work and a few hours of my time 'til I figured out what it was and trashed it!

Alright, I've read a few of Ken Akumetsu's works and its always obvious and apparent right off the bat who the protagonist is going to be with at the end. If Negi ends up with anyone but the Female protagonist, Asuna, I will litterally be shocked. Plus Asuna is a lot like Naru the female protagonist from love hina so the actual real love story is not really going to come as a shock to anyone.

If you havent read love hina yet then I would reccomend Negima to you but if you have well... instead of a few girls its now an entire classroom and then some so be prepared for a really long on-going series.

I mean the goal is to eventually acquaint the protagonist Negi to the entire classroom and throughout the story not only has the author yet to achieve that but he's also added even more characters, tons!

I guess if you're really in it for the magic action shonen aspect of the manga then you might not be dissappointed but personally I've seen better action scenes else where.

I guess this is what you might call a shonen-shoujo hybrid and that is pretty much all I find interesting about this series.

I also find it hard to relate to the ten year old protagonist being mixed into love situations with women significantly older than him. I also find it hard to believe that besides his young friend at home that anyone above his age finds him attractive outside of the supposed cuteness factor the series focuses so hard on.

I guess all in all what I'm saying is This is an improvement on AI Love You but to consider it an improvement on Love Hina would be venturing too far since it seems to have too many similar characters and situations (its also quite common to find traits of a single character in Love Hina spread out to three people in this series).

Objectively (not thinking with your penis), this is not even close to a 10. Like Oh!Great, Ken obviously has artistic talent, which is alone the only reason I'm going as high as a 4. However, as another pointed out, it mainly consists of straight male fanservice with a cliche harem theme. The characters are flat and the story is mediocre. The art is really good, but is quickly overtaken by all the other negative aspects. Like all harems, it is all about the lead male and any supporting males are just tossed aside as cruft. Sadly, interesting characters like Kotaro do not get the chance to shine. And the girls, well they are pretty much Stepford Moes.

Honestly, if what you want is horny girl harems, hentai has much more to offer you and you'll find it much more satisfying.

yet another Ken series.Expect the to find every cliche you could ever imagine in this one.Crappy, repetitive harem plot, copy/paste characters, it's just horrible.Of course it pleases the large anime fanbase who will eat anything up as long as it has cute girls they can fantasize about.

This is a really horrible series, just like all other of Ken's works.

But hey, people dig this kind of stuff, Ken's just supplying, suit yourselves.

This series is just a rehash of the harem Shounen story: innocent boy becomes powerful and gets all the girls. There's no risk of anyone getting hurt, dying, or having to make hard choices because everything just magically works out and everyone lives happily ever after.

There's a ton of characters, which would be impossible to development through good storytelling; so the manga just skips all of that and uses walls of text to tell you about huge shifts in a character's personality/outlook. Most of the dialogue/scenes are completely pointless filler, I was skipping 3/4 of the chapters and could still follow the main story.

... Last updated on June 7th, 2012, 12:24am

1. Terrible little kid harem with ecchi (they look like little kids, claimed ages: 11 yo male protagonist, 9-13 years old girls)
2. Weak, broken, time travel plot. (for last arc)
3. Real world politics (they even directly discuss the war in iraq and president bush)
4. Tournament arcs (they suck, a cheap pointless excuse to not have character development).
5. Stupid cliches

I think there were a few other things. I read this one from begining to end, it started interesting but quickly deteriorated till it was unreadable. Terrible manga!

... Last updated on July 2nd, 2008, 8:04pm