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Slayers, Negima, Hellsing, Vandread, Chrono Crusade

A quick look at the encylcopedia would have told you most or all of this.

Negima ... I think Negima is getting a second season though,

psycho 101 wrote:

Negima ... I think Negima is getting a second season though,

It's not a second season, but more a remake by a different creative team. Rather than let Xebec tarnish the series any further (as, let's face it, nobody was satisfied with that little trainwreck, even Akamatsu hated it), the people that hold Negima!'s rights handed them off to Shaft, who're also responsible for Pani Poni Dash and Tsukuyomi ~Moon Phase~, among other series. The Shaft version is a complete restructuring, with re-designed characters, a new storyline, and really little similarity to the manga or the Xebec anime series beyond the use of the characters themselves and the very root premise of mage-in-training Negi Springfield teaching a class of thirty-one vastly different girls.

And if you ask me, so far it's soundly beaten the snot out of its predecessor in terms of quality.

Nagisa wrote:

psycho 101 wrote: Negima ... I think Negima is getting a second season though, It's not a second season, but more a remake by a different creative team. Rather than let Xebec tarnish the series any further (as, let's face it, nobody was satisfied with that little trainwreck, even Akamatsu hated it), the people that hold Negima!'s rights handed them off to Shaft, who're also responsible for Pani Poni Dash and Tsukuyomi ~Moon Phase~, among other series. The Shaft version is a complete restructuring, with re-designed characters, a new storyline, and really little similarity to the manga or the Xebec anime series beyond the use of the characters themselves and the very root premise of mage-in-training Negi Springfield teaching a class of thirty-one vastly different girls. And if you ask me, so far it's soundly beaten the snot out of its predecessor in terms of quality.

I guess there is a God after all. I read volumes 1-7 before picking up the anime. I am so glad I rented that through Netflix first instead of buying it. There's so much potential for it so I hope this new group can capture some of it and make it work.

The first OVA is based on a couple of chapters from volume 7 of the manga, which is shortly after the material the Xebec version butchered. The second one must be based off of something that hasn't been shown in the U.S. release of the manga yet. It must be from a recent chapter after the current (U.S./Del Rey) arc wraps up. However, it shouldn't contain any spoilers if you are caught up to the most recent U.S. volumes.

if you're familiar with those Shaft titles that Nagisa mentioned (Pani Poni Dash! and Moonphase), then you'd know that you have nothing to worry about

Also, the current (U.S./Del Rey) arc is only just wrapping up in Japan. There's a bigger spoiler in the final episode of Xebec's series than either of the OVAs.

Dorcas_Aurelia wrote:

Also, the current (U.S./Del Rey) arc is only just wrapping up in Japan. There's a bigger spoiler in the final episode of Xebec's series than either of the OVAs.

I was under the impression that the main plot of the current arc was wrapped up in Japan leaving a less action oriented day three to wrap up the arc and I could see something similar to the OVA happening in day three. But obviously I was wrong. I haven't seen the Xebec TV series and I have no interest in being spoiled on the manga.