“Epic Badasness” would be the most appropriate word to describe this chapter.

Fate is pissed off at Negi because he has a better idea than his idea of destroying the world. N0 one believes this, and I actually started doubting it even more when Negi mentioned that it involved the Class Rep… How exactly could an annoying blonde shoutacon help saving anything?

Anyways, Zazie’s Sister raises again from the rubble she was buried under and exclaims that she doesn’t believe it either, and goes Xenahort’s Heartless. Chisame’s comment: “Oh, God! She’s totally a Final Boss character! Just look at that design!“. Apparently, she’s one of the Demonfolk, and yes, she holds high enough status to be Final Boss Material.

Zazie’s Sister is seriously sceptical to how a 10 years old kid could possibly save the world (I am too!), and has her Guardian do a seriously overkill attack that’s parried by Mana, Kaede, Setsuna and Ku-Fei who awakens from Cosmo Entelecheia. Kaede apparently “spent an excessive length of time in the company of my late grandparents” in there, Mana looks silly, Harumi apparently dreamed of World Domination (anyone surprised?), Setsuna is ashamed of her dreams involving a lesbian relationship with Konoka, and Ku-Fei is also getting all embarassed despite her dream seems to have been to fight someone whom I can’t recognize.

Zazie’s Sister, whom Negi decices to rename to “Poyo Rainyday”-san (Chisame: “…we’re calling her Poyo now? Seriously?”), decides to go overkill again. Negi tells the others to go after Fate while he fights Poyo-san. However, he is stopped by Mana who triggers a bunch of Gravity Mines (made by Chao Lingshen) she had apparently put in there (Chisame: “Yep, she’s a monster”), which presses Poyo into the ground and creates a huge crater (just how thick is that floor!?) and jumps after her down into the crater. Poyo theorizes that Negi’s method will lead to the future which Chao Lingshen came from (the one where everyone dies, remember?), but Mana bets that Negi’s method works while loading some of the Time-Space Displacement Bullets used for disqualifications during the Mahora Festival Arc (I sure hope she modified them, having a Xenahort’s Heartless-ripoff appear out of nowhere outside school could scare anyone out of their minds), then transforms into a… Demon!? Mana is a Demonfolk!? Okay, it was pretty clear already that she wasn’t human, but a Demonfolk? Random but awesome!

Next week there will be yet another break (hopefully we won’t have to wait a month like last time)… But there will also be a special One-Shot of Love Hina included!! Woo-hoo!

Yeah! Go get her, Negi! No one is gonna miss her!

Here it is! The first Single Chapter coverage on this site! And also, it is a chapter in the middle of a story arc so if you haven’t read the past chapters, this post (and the chapter) will make no sense. If you actually haven’t read Negima, I really recommend you start since it’s a real masterpiece.

Tsukyomi is caught by the neck by Negi, who has turned into his Dark Lightning form(Come on! Break her neck! No one will miss her!). She tries to cut his arm off with her Zanmaken-ni-no-Tacchi attack, but Negi dodges it by turning his arm into lightning. She instead attacks him directly with Resshuuzan-ni-no-Tacchi, which he can’t block in time, and drops her. She then threatens to “slice up” Nodoka, something that actually makes Negi angry and he fires his arm, again turned into lightning, into her stomach, unleashes a violent series of Lightning-Powered attacks which actually blows a rock outside the ship to pieces, and tells her to quit if she’s just a mercenary hired by Fate. Tsukyomi just laughs at him, saying that she doesn’t do this for money, but instead just for the fun of killing (something here also seems to turn her on completely), and delivers a message from Fate: “I’ll be waiting”. She then pulls out Code of the Lifemaker, and uses it to summon a huge bunch of Shadow Demons. Negi stays behind to stop the demons, while the others escape in Paru and Johnny’s airships – something that actually even gets Asuna (actually Luna) worrying about him. The rest of the chapter is spent on a long, unfinished scene where the two airships escape from Tsukyomi and the Shadow Demons, protected by Ku-Fei, the Battle Maiden Squad(Yue, Collette and Bea), Saiyo (still playing with the Sagitta Magica-Turret Gun), Mana(who is for the first time in the series actually getting worried, and seeing our cool and collected mercenary sniper actually worry is not just a bit odd), Kaede, Koutarou and Yuuna, the latter mostly experimenting with her Twin Gun Artifact and seemingly not helping that much – her similarity with Yuna from Final Fantasy X and X-2 is getting even more prominent here.

My feeling that Negima is turning a bit too much towards Dragonball is getting even stronger now with Negi’s Dark Lightning Form (named by me, the actual name is a very long phrase of mixed Japanese and Latin). But, knowing Ken Akamatsu, he’ll probably find some way to correct this. Unlike Dragon Ball, Negima still has side characters (a whole lot of them, and they’re all quite capable on their own) and, more importantly, a Story. A good story at that. Dragonball stopped haing a story after book 17, Negima has been announced to be at least 400-500 chapters long so he can’t really let it slip out of his grip this early. My guess is that Negi will be unable to use Magica Erebea outside of the Magic World, since the normal world has much less magic power in the air, as someone explained a few chapters ago, or something along the lines of that. I also wonder why there hasn’t been much comedy in a while, but I guess it’ll be more of that soon enough…

Next chapter: Enter the Gravekeeper’s Palace!

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