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NEWS: Negima Spinoff Manga UQ Holder! Gets Anime

johan.eriksson.9003 wrote:

Um, yeah. That's exactly what I meant. It is a spinoff rather than a sequel because it takes place in the alternate timeline that Negima diverged from at the end of the series.

Actually, i don't think this is an alternate universe at all:

spoiler[In Negima, Asuna returns to earth late, so the President character (forgot her name...) had already died at the age of 115. I think she returned more than 100 years later, while UQ Holder takes place something like 80 years after Negima. So they both fit perfectly within that timeline.]

Merxamers wrote:

spoiler[In Negima, Asuna returns to earth late, so the President character (forgot her name...) had already died at the age of 115. I think she returned more than 100 years later, while UQ Holder takes place something like 80 years after Negima. So they both fit perfectly within that timeline.]

Yes, but...

spoiler[according to the exposition in the latest chapter, Asuna is "no longer with them" at the time of UQ Holder, which would fit in nicely with the timeline where she is still sealed away.]

Irru wrote:

"Spinoff" Really? It's a full-blown sequel.

We wrote "spinoff" (it can be described either way) in the headline so people unfamiliar with the story would not get the impression that UQ Holder! centers on Negi.

N7_Jaeger wrote:

glad it finally got an anime adaptation just bummed that its gonna switch to monthly manga now instead of weekly -_-

bummed too, but maybe he'll add more pages to each chapter

Most monthly manga are 35-45 pages. So hopefully it will take. Load off him and let him get a head of himself. Weekly seems like a killer.

It was expected. Now the studio animating the anime better not be Shaft or Xebec!

I thought Akamatsu-sensei swore he would never let a TV anime of his work ever happen again after Negima was botched. I mean, the record so far with good anime based of his work is zero, so this is surprising.

The next question is when does the hiatus start and end?

I thought Akamatsu-sensei swore he would never let a TV anime of his work ever happen again after Negima was botched. I mean, the record so far with good anime based of his work is zero, so this is surprising.

WitchWatcher wrote:

N7_Jaeger wrote: glad it finally got an anime adaptation just bummed that its gonna switch to monthly manga now instead of weekly -_- bummed too, but maybe he'll add more pages to each chapter

Generally speaking, monthly titles get about 24 pages per chapter, but they can have more.

j Talbain wrote:

Most monthly manga are 35-45 pages. So hopefully it will take. Load off him and let him get a head of himself. Weekly seems like a killer.

None of the ones I read are that high. Generally, they are 24 pages, but occasionally go above that. Don't get me wrong, I'd love the new UQH to have an even higher page count as I think that would rock.

MrTerrorist wrote:

It was expected. Now the studio animating the anime better not be Shaft or Xebec!

Xebec got the first one 'cause they did Love Hina. (Ironically, I loved that anime until I read the manga and saw all of the idiotic changes they made there.) I suspect Shaft has first crack at UQH.

Splitter wrote:

I thought Akamatsu-sensei swore he would never let a TV anime of his work ever happen again after Negima was botched. I mean, the record so far with good anime based of his work is zero, so this is surprising.

That's why I think we might get an OAD anime and not a TV anime.

thecritter wrote:

The next question is when does the hiatus start and end?

My understanding is that chapter 128 is the last weekly chapter. We won't see the first monthly chapter until October.

Xebec got the first one 'cause they did Love Hina. (Ironically, I loved that anime until I read the manga and saw all of the idiotic changes they made there.) I suspect Shaft has first crack at UQH.
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My understanding is that chapter 128 is the last weekly chapter. We won't see the first monthly chapter until October.

Splitter wrote:

I thought Akamatsu-sensei swore he would never let a TV anime of his work ever happen again after Negima was botched. I mean, the record so far with good anime based of his work is zero, so this is surprising.

Akamatsu said he would accept an anime adaptation if it's faithful. He also said that one of the most important thing for his approval would be for Eva to keep the same VA ie Yuki Matsuoka. He answered to these questions at Japan Expo in France, I was there. He also said he'd be fine with Shaft doing it so it could very well be them.

Mune wrote:

To be honest, this seems like it will not be very successful to fans. I mean, it makes little sense if you haven't read Negima entirely. Plus, every attempt at an anime adaptation of Negima ended up with an alternate ending (which were basically all the same), with the exception of the OVAs that came with manga volumes. So, I'd rather have a full-fledged Negima adaptation before the UQ Holder! adaptation.

Ditto. All other Akamatsu manga adaptations have been terrible before, with the exception of the aforementioned Negima OVAs, so I'm not exactly holding out hope for this adaptation. Is there even enough material to make a faithful adaptation worth it, or is this destined to become another Akamatsu based anime that spins off its own ending?

#Zero wrote:

You don't have to read Negima to understand it. Negima helps since readers are more familiar with returning characters but it's in no way necessary.

Meh, I feel that some things lose their impact if you're not familiar with Negima. I mean, why is one supposed to care about the identity of Yukihime as Eva in the first page if you don't know who and what Eva is and has done in the previous series? Same with all of the callbacks to Negima sprinkled in the chapters where they return to Mahora, and now the last couple of ones where they introduce Negi and other characters that people who have read Negima are intimately familiar with?

I mean, you can still read Holder without knowing who everyone from Negima is, but it just doesn't have the same impact and hype when you see all of these callbacks and returning characters.

switchgear1131 wrote:

The only you miss are connections to Negima characters and really at this point that doesn't even matter all that much.

Man, these last couple of chapters, it's started to matter a hell of a lot. If you have no idea who the characters who just dropped in are, their appearance loses a hell of an impact on the reader.

johan.eriksson.9003 wrote:

Actually, some hints dropped in the latest chapter suggests that "spinoff" might be more accurate.

Nah, it seems to be an alternate timeline, the one where Asuna stayed asleep decades late and instead of using Chao's Cassiopeia to return to the present like she did in the last couple chapters of Negima.

Actar wrote:

I still want a proper Negima anime adaptation now that it's over...

Me too, but I really doubt it's gonna happen because it's been too long. At least we have the OVAs!

Terrible? Far from it. Just not as comprehensive or faithful.

Love Hina the anime with the OVAs is just as good on it's own from the Manga because of what it does different from the comic. And is one of my favorite anime of all time.

Would I prefer and loved an entirely faithful adaptation of the comic in the same art style as LHAgain? Absolutely. I honestly wished they would have done it for years.
But that doesn't temper my love for the first series.