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Sayo Aisaka
Student Number 1: Sayo Aisaka (相坂 さよ, Aisaka Sayo?), the hapless and meek yūrei
(ghost). More often frightened than frightening, she is invisible to virtually everyone, and her presence goes mostly
unnoticed (Takahata had her included in Negi's class registry, however, with a note not to change her seat) until Negi
absentmindedly counts her during a class vote. She still wears the school uniform of Mahora from over half a century
ago, (standard fuku, Sailor Moon type). Presumably, Evangeline is the first one able to see her.
At times, she looks down upon her own worth as a ghost (such as tripping when she doesn't have feet, and her feeble
attempts at scaring using "Boo!"). Sayo has been friendless and lonely for around 60 years since her death, which made
her very desperate for a friend. Her attempts to talk to the rest of the class led a series of hilarious events during
the preparations for the School Festival as everyone mistook her for an evil spirit. She nearly ended up being
exorcised by Mana and Setsuna, but Negi and Kazumi, having caught a photo of her crying and realized what was really
happening, came to the rescue and offered to be her friends. She thanked them, then faded away, leading the others to
think she had crossed over, until she showed up later to ask Negi to spend some time at the festival with her. She
currently hangs around (haunts) Kazumi, who sits beside her in class, and is currently able to see her. A pair of
hitodama occasionally accompanies her. Like several other girls she seems to have developed a slight crush on Negi.
Recently, she's begun somewhat of a friendship with Zazie and her phantoms. She accompanies Kazumi to most of the
meeting hold by Negi and his friends and is currently traveling with the group to England by the usage of a special
magic doll. By possessing the doll, she is able to leave the Mahora School Grounds and can even physically interact
with the living world, though making the doll walk is extremely difficult for her (having been a ghost with no feet for
over half a century). At present, she and the others are enjoying the sights of Britain and visiting Negi's hometown.
According to the character notes at the end of Volume 9, Sayo's past was supposed to take a darker turn as it is stated
that Sayo was one of the victims of a series of murders taking place around the founding of the school. However, having
been dead for so long she has lost her recollection of the events surrounding her murder. Because of this, the idea
seems to be scrapped, as Sayo has no interest in recalling the events regarding her death.
In Negima?!, the class seems to know about Sayo before Negi's arrival. They know she's friendly, but she seems to creep
out the other girls all the same. She also shows an ability to appear in monitors and other screens, and Kazumi usually
carries a camcorder around so others can see her. Later, she became Kazumi's helper as she can't be detected like
exposing Asuna wearing a Chupacabra suit.
Several of Negi's students from the first Negima! anime looking at Chamo (center, held by Makie). Note Sayo's (second
from right) summer school uniform in the midst of the winter/spring uniforms of the other students.
Several of Negi's students from the first Negima! anime looking at Chamo (center, held by Makie). Note Sayo's (second
from right) summer school uniform in the midst of the winter/spring uniforms of the other students.
* In the manga, she is depicted to have no feet (being a ghost). In both anime series, however, she is depicted to
have feet (although an eyecatch of her in the Spring OAV shows her without feet). As a further comparison, however,
Sayo is depicted as a walking ghost in the first anime, while she is sometimes seen in Negima!? floating in midair.
* Negima!: Sayo died protecting her little sister's flowers from a storm, but it is not any more specific then
that. Her flashback self bears a small resemblance to Konoka. She is invisible to all except Kazumi who (with a little
help from Nodoka) became able to see her while researching her history. Before her discovery she use to hang around
Nodoka more often than the other girls because as she put it Nodoka "Goes at the right pace" for her. Afterward it's
revealed that she and Nodoka seem to share the same love of books. Evangeline casts a spell to allow her to interact
with the rest of the class. The school dean seems to have known her as well, as he recited a poem she wrote when she
was alive: "Tsuwabuki planting small hand of hers, looking forward to when time gets filled..." In the anime, she
attacks with her pactio hitodama that she throws rather lazily at the opponent (mostly due to the fact that she's been
out of shape for 60 years (65 in the English Version script)). It is also speculated that Principal Konoemon had known
Sayo when he was younger. Not actually saying her name, but referring her as to a girl whom he liked long ago through
her poem, possibly signifying he had a crush on her back then. It's also an interesting point to notice that she is
constantly seen in her summer uniform despite the change of seasons.
* Negima!?: In this anime, Negi decides to cast a spell so he can see her. Yet, she goes a bit too far after
enjoying herself in the girls' apartment, and nearly scares most of the girls. Fortunately, Negi manages to save her
from being shot by Mana. She also shows an ability to appear in monitors and other screens, and thanks to Evageline's
spell (who secretly cast a spell onto Kazumi's digital camera) everyone manages to see Sayo's face in Kazumi's digital
camera after she gets caught. Later, Sayo becomes permanently visible and tangible after joining in on the mass pactio
with Negi, while even using one of these abilities to assist him later. As an added note, she tells Negi something that
implies that she has been dead for 40—rather than 60—years. She also breaks the fourth wall twice, first apologizing
to viewers after she becomes aware of them as she flies across the screen and later asking the unseen narrator if he can
see her.
(Seiyū: Yuri Shiratori, English VA: Kate Bristol)
[edit] Yuna Akashi
Student Number 2: Yuna Akashi (明石 裕奈, Akashi Yūna?) Birthday: 1 June 1988. She is an
athletic girl who plays basketball and is often seen together with Makie, Ako, and Akira (i.e. the sports clubs group).
Her father is Professor Akashi, one of the Mage-teachers at the Academy. She is very close to him, to the point of
feeling jealousy about other women. Despite this fact, she knows nothing about magic herself (although a flashback
shows Yuna holding a wand while with her mother, though it was probably just a toy). Yuna is the most mischievous one
amongst the sports girls. She has a weakness for strange products from a TV shopping channel (the show is on during
class time, but since she can't stand to miss it, she tapes it). During the Final Day Event of the Mahora Festival,
Yuna has shown a surprising amount of skill with a pair of magic guns. Though she is unaware of the truth of the "game"
she is playing, she has become one of the top "scorers" in the game, and has helped hold the last remaining magic point:
the World Tree Plaza, standing up to one of the unsealed giant demons until Negi arrived to take it down. Yuna was also
one of the few to avoid being hit by the strip beams, although she was grazed by one, and time displacement bullets.
After taking fourth place in the "Mages vs. Mars" game, she ends up winning 300 free meals and giving herself the
nickname "The Kid" (leading to the other girls trying to force her to share the prize). She also becomes popular with
the martial artists in the academy due to her fighting abilities in the battle. It was also revealed that her guns
seemed to have had a stronger punch than most of the other players'. This could be due to the fact that she had once
been shortly taught by her mother to use magic, or at least try to use it when she was alot younger.
After the end of the Festival and mid-semester exams, she and several of her classmates go shopping for the summer
break. Her friends become jealous of her body's recent growth (especially on how easily she fills out a swimsuit). Yuna
also spends some time with her father, and gets into a bit of a misunderstanding with an old friend of her mother's,
Donnet McGuiness, (whom Yuna assumed was dating her father). At present, she is now taking part in the game to collect
the badges from Negi's group in order to go with him to Wales. Once again, she is unaware of the truth of the game.
Apparently, she still retains the same magical guns from the Mahora Festival, specialized weapons made to combat large
armies of magic powered dolls or in the festivals case robots, harmless to humans. She had targeted Yue and Nodoka's
badges because she believed they were "Sitting Ducks", but the girls fail in their attempt to steal their badges thanks
to Yue casting a few spells to give them the slip, and Nodoka's Artifact usage to evade their pursuit.
During the outing to the beach following the festival, Yuuna, the Sports Girls and the Narutaki Twins were about to
gang up on Asuna for another attempt at her badge, but were surprisingly stopped by Ayaka. It was at that time that the
class president announced that she would be going to England separately, and Yuuna was included in her party. She and
the others meet up with Negi's group and are currently enjoying the hospitality of Nekane's home and touring Negi's
hometown.
Yuna during the Mages vs. Mars battle
Yuna during the Mages vs. Mars battle
Trivia:
* A note written by Akamatsu reads "huge chest" by her picture in Volume 16's character notes. This is followed up
after the festival, where Yuna is shown worrying about her breasts growing larger and the sports girls questioning her
after she fills out a new swimsuit rather easily.
* Yuna's surname, Akashi, comes from the Japanese city of the same name in Hyōgo Prefecture.
* In the manga, she is depicted to have black hair. In both anime series, her hair is depicted to have a shade of
brown: in the first series, her hair is somewhat close to sandy taupe; in Negima!?, her hair is colored brown.
* Negima!: Her pactio items are basketballs and a pair of shoes allowing her to jump very high.
* Negima!?: Due to more recent manga events, Yuna becomes a military buff—particularly on World War II German
weaponry—as opposed to a mere basketball player. Often, she is shown playing with model military toys, including a
toy tank and a battlefield model. Once, she is drawn to one of Mana's guns (mistaken by the cheerleaders as infatuation
to Mana herself); but Mana denied her access to it. Asuna also claims that she is a member of the Chupacabra club, but
Yuna states she only goes there when she's bored (one of those times being during an omake).
(Seiyū: Madoka Kimura, English VA: Amber Cotton)
[edit] Kazumi Asakura
Student Number 3: Kazumi Asakura (朝倉 和美, Asakura Kazumi?). Birthday: 10 January 1989. She
is the resident class reporter with a camera always on hand. She likes to get the inside scoop on everything that goes
on, and is part of the Mahora Paparazzi. She was one of the first girls in the class to learn Negi's secret, which she
discovered accidentally in Kyoto while investigating the rumor that someone had proclaimed her love to Negi. Though
initially she intended to reveal Negi's secret to the world, she was persuaded to keep quiet about it, and is
occasionally seen plotting with Chamo. She had been promised a Probationary Contract in exchange for keeping the
secret, though it has yet to be fulfilled. She frequently elects herself as Negi's manager when it comes to scheduling
time with him, (even though Chamo is actually the one pulling the strings). Both she and Chamo were the instigators of
the "Kiss Negi" game during the Kyoto field trip. Asakura sports the fourth largest breasts in the class. She signed on
with Chao's plan, acting as the lead announcer and referee at the Mahora Fighting Tournament, where she often
deliberately pointed out the more fantastic feats performed by her teacher and classmates, drawing the attention of the
audience towards them. However, she later reveals she had completed her contract with Chao and helped Negi to stop
Chao's plan to reveal magic. She became the announcer for the "Mars Attacks vs. Mage Order" game. Kazumi has become
close friends with Sayo, and has started carrying a charm of her around when the ghost isn't following (or haunting)
her. She is friends with Sayo and is one of the few people who can see her, having sat next to her for so long. She
often drops by Negi and his partners training sessions in the beginning of the summer, and seems to be interested in
their new "club." As the White Wing prepares to leave for England, Kazumi decided to join them. She has purchased a
special "Sayo doll" so that the ghost girl can accompany her and the group off campus to Wales. She and the others are
currently enjoying the hospitality of Nekane's home and touring Negi's hometown.
In Negima Workshop, she is noted to be one of the two girls similar to Mitsune Konno of Love Hina (Kaede being the
other).
Trivia
* Her surname, Asakura (meaning "morning storehouse"), is also the name of a former village, a city, and a district
in Japan, as well as that of a daimyō clan.
* In one of the group shot artwork from the first volume, she is depicted wearing glasses. However, she never
appears wearing them in the actual manga.
* Negima!: Her artifact is a scope camera that allows her to record, capture, and focus in on anything. She is also
responsible for Sayo's discovery and is the only one to see her before Evangeline casts her spell.
* Negima!?: Although one never to turn down a scoop, her main focus in this series is on her relationship with the
ghostly Sayo, whom she sits next to and consistently checks on through her camera after Negi reveals her to the class.
(Seiyū: Ayana Sasagawa English VA: Monica Rial)
[edit] Yue Ayase
Student Number 4: Yue Ayase (綾瀬 夕映, Ayase Yūe?). Birthday: 16 November 1988. She is
the cool slacker. She is often seen drinking unusual beverages from juice boxes, unfortunately her constant drinking of
these juices often leads to her using the restroom quite frequently. Despite being a talented bibliophile, she hates
studying and is amongst those with the lowest grades in the class, and hence is a member of the "Baka Rangers" or
"Dummy Force" study group (A play on the Power Rangers series and the Super Sentai genre they came from) - she is "Baka
Black", and considered the team's leader. It was revealed in Volume 14, that after the death of her beloved grandfather,
Yue had lost interest in the world in general and considered everything, especially studying, as pointless. She was
initially disinterested in making friends, though Nodoka was the first to make an impression on her, by saying that
anyone who likes books cannot be a bad person.
Yue is also a member of the Library Exploration Group, often hanging around with Nodoka and Haruna (who calls her
"Yuecchi" ゆえっち . After the Kyoto field trip, having witnessed the attack on the Kansai
Magic Association headquarters, and helping out Negi figure out the clues left by his father, Yue had deduced Negi's
secret about being a mage, and also about Mahora Academy's connection with mages. In Volume 7, she helps Negi in
figuring out a clue to his father's whereabouts (even though the clue was ridiculously obvious). Another trip into the
depths of the Mahora Library is thwarted by the dragon that lives there, though Yue swears revenge on the beast for
drooling on her. She and Nodoka later ask Negi to teach them how to use magic, and Yue even suggested forming a pactio
with him (though she immediately changed her mind once she learned about what was involved in making a contract from
Chamo and Kazumi).
Nevertheless, Yue has learned a bit of magic by the time of the Mahora Festival. She also forms an odd friendship with
Kotarō in Kyoto after his fight with Kaede. Unlike her regular schoolwork, Yue studies the subject of magic with
dedication, (she spends over 3 hours a day practicing). She is a strong supporter of Nodoka's feelings for Negi and
encourages her to develop a relationship with him. However, she also begins to develop feelings for Negi herself, a
fact she manages to keep a secret from Nodoka until the school festival. Nodoka forgave her, and with her approval
(although not with Yue's or Negi's consent), Yue became the fifth person to form a probationary contract with the child
teacher. Her artifact is a set consisting of a book, cloak, and a witch's hat and broom, which is practically a
Beginner's Set for all Mage trainees. Its power is gradually being revealed. The beginner set contained a book, which
was recently revealed to be a magical encyclopedia that updated itself.
After the Mahora Festival, Yue and the rest of the Library Exploration Club has been invited to join Negi on his trip
to Wales during the summer break. Currently, she and Nodoka are studying magical spells in Evangeline's Resort. She has
found a better way to learn by using her Artifact to download the latest beginner books from various magical academies,
much like the way Negi learned.
She and Nodoka became aware that their new England Club badges are being targeted by Yuna and the other girls of the
Athletic Club. However thanks to some quick thinking she used a few magic spells that she had learned to allow her and
Nodoka to escape.
During a trip to the beach, she and Nodoka are present when Negi's old friend Anya suddenly appears and attacks him and
Asuna. After a bit of excitement and some misunderstandings, Yue and Nodoka apparently become fast friends with Anya as
she approves of the two Library Girls, (most likely due to their similar chest sizes). At present, she and the rest of
the White Wing are visiting Negi's hometown in Wales.
Trivia:
* As a footnote on the early character design profile in manga book 5, Ken Akamatsu commented that she does have
the feeling of ROD when he first saw the settings by his helper.
* One line in the Del Rey translation implied that she may be Konoka's cousin, but this was a misprint (the wording
on the bubble that was directed at her was supposed to be for Konoka). In Volume 10, she says that her grandfather was
Taizo Ayase, a philosopher.
* Negima!: Yue uses the broom to cast thunder spells on the enemies. Yue's feelings for Negi were also showcased
much sooner and faster than in the manga, and came to a head when she kissed Negi in front of Nodoka after questioning
her friend's own feelings for him. Later, Nodoka accepted Yue's feelings and said she was glad to have her as a
romantic rival.
* Negima!?: Yue's romantic feelings towards Negi are more developed in this series with two episodes focusing on
her dilemma both personally and with her relationship to Nodoka. The first episode, similar to the manga, focuses on
her feelings in having to kiss Negi for a Pactio contract. However, while she does finally succumb to these feelings,
her kiss leads to the remainder of the class to learn of magic and many of the events for the remainder of the series.
Later, Yue continues to ponder her feelings as well as how it relates her to Nodoka, both as a friend and romantic
rival. Although the last to gain a Pactio on an individual basis, her only activations were during the two mass Pactio
that affected the whole class. As an added note, her hair color is switched with Nodoka's with Nodoka having blue hair
and Yue having purple hair.
(Seiyū: Natsuko Kuwatani, English VA: Brina Palencia)
[edit] Ako Izumi
Student Number 5: Ako Izumi (和泉 亜子, Izumi Ako?). Birthday: 21 November 1988. She is a shy
athletic girl. She does not consider herself anyone special and is one of the better-behaved members of the class,
quite a contrast to the more mischievous Yuna. She has some talent with a bass guitar. Despite working as a nurse
assistant, she has a fear of seeing blood. She has a large scar across her back, which she makes every effort to hide
from others and is the source of her low self-confidence, as she believes that the mark makes her ugly and unwanted.
The scar may also be connected to her fear of blood, as seen in Chapter 123. She particularly names Makie (her
roommate), Yuna, and Akira as her friends. She is also the manager of the boy's middle school soccer club, and in
charge of 3-A's sanitation department.
She had once confessed her love to an older boy but was rejected. Ako, who never really showed much interest in the
10-year-old Negi, develops a huge crush on the older, teenage version of him (after taking Age Deceiving candy), whom
she believes is his cousin "Nagi". She was so infatuated with him that she immediately invites him to her festival's
activity, even though she said it was nothing at all. Some of the other girls also have shown attraction toward Negi's
older form, though Ako is by far the most interested. Recently, Negi, in his older form, took Ako out on a date in
order to help her relax before the Mahora Festival's live concert. They take part in the Mahora Best Couple Contest and
win 2nd place. During this date, Negi encourages Ako to think of herself more as the main character, rather than just
part of the supporting cast. This helps her build more confidence in herself, to the point where she almost confesses
her love toward the handsome "Nagi" twice. The first time she chickened out by asking him if he liked Japanese squid,
(rather than saying that she really loves him), and the second time during the Mahora Live Concert. She narrowly
avoided getting shot by Mana, who was watching out for love confessions during the festival. Luckily, she ended up only
asking for his e-mail address.
With the end of the Mahora Festival, she assumes that Nagi has already left for England and is now pining away at his
absence. Recently, the Cheerleaders talked her into sending pictures of her in different outfits to Nagi... then
knocked her out and sent one last one of her dressed as a bunny-girl. At present, she appears to be taking part in the
game to collect badges from Negi and the group who are traveling to Wales, under assumption that if she goes to
England, she will be able to see "Nagi" again. However she along with the other sports girls fail in their attempt to
steal Yue and Nodoka's badges.
During the outing to the beach following the festival, Ako, the Sports Girls and the Narutaki Twins were about to gang
up on Asuna for another attempt at her badge, but were surprisingly stopped by Ayaka. It was at that time that the
class president announced that she would be going to England separately, and Ako was included in her party. She and the
others meet up with Negi's group and are currently enjoying the hospitality of Nekane's home and touring Negi's
hometown.
She also mentioned that she likes to collect cute band-aids.
Trivia:
* In the Del Rey translation of Volume 9, her surname, Izumi, was misspelled "Waizumi" during the ghost incident.
Her surname comes from the city of the same name (as well as that of an ancient province) in Osaka Prefecture.
* Her given name, Ako, means "second child".
* An early design of Ako (known as Ayu Izumi) had her trademark scar right across the front of her body. She was
also experimented with a long ponytail, more akin to fellow classmate Akira.
* In the manga, she is depicted with blue/lavender hair. Both anime series however depict her with gray hair.
* Negima!: Her pactio weapon is a huge injection needle complete with a nurse uniform.
* Negima!?: Although the first anime only revealed it pronouncedly with her pactio, Ako's nursing skills are
further emphasized in this series: she is consistently healing other members of the class and even comes up with
strange medicines and needles to help them out. During one incident, she tries to inject Negi with a giant syringe
filled with an energy formula, but instead hits Chamo making him literally become super-powerful! The anime also
acknowledges her membership in Dekopan Rocket with the cheerleaders, but she is only seen with them in one scene
acknowledging the massive noise Asuna made in the dorm.[1]
(Seiyū: Kotomi Yamakawa, English VA: Avery Rice-Williams)
[edit] Akira Okochi
Student Number 6: Akira Okochi (大河内 アキラ, Ōkōchi Akira?). Birthday:
26 May 1988. She is a tall, athletic, and very quiet girl in the swimming club. She is so good at swimming that the
Mahora High School swimming club is already looking to recruit her. She is a friend of Makie, Ako, and Yuna. She is not
always comfortable with Yuna's stunts (For example, being forced to dress as a bunny-girl). She is noted to be similar
to Motoko Aoyama of Love Hina, though in looks only. After Chao completes her plot to reveal magic to the world, Akira
is one of the very few girls in the class to stay calm when Negi "reappears". Of course, her knowledge of magic's
existence along with everyone else's is erased when Negi and the group return to the third day of the Mahora Festival.
Akira also participates in the "Mars vs. Mages" battle, fighting alongside her friends using a staff. After the
festival, she assists Negi in getting back his spellcasting ring (though she is unaware of its true nature) after he
loses it in the bathing area and nearly embarrasses himself in front of the other girls to get it back, making him note
of her "strong yet kind" nature in his class guide. She had tagged along with Yuna and the other sports girls as they
followed Nodoka and Yue for their new club badges. However thanks to some magic spells that Yue casts they fail in
their attempt to steal their badges.
During the outing to the beach following the festival, Akira, the Sports Girls and the Narutaki Twins were about to
gang up on Asuna for another attempt at her badge, but were surprisingly stopped by Ayaka. It was at that time that the
class president announced that she would be going to England separately, and Akira was included in her party. She and
the others meet up with Negi's group and are currently enjoying the hospitality of Nekane's home and touring Negi's
hometown.
Trivia:
* While the manga writes "Akira" in katakana, without kanji, the Chinese version gives it the pinyin "Jīng"
(the kanji of "Okochi" is converted to Dàhénèi). The only "Akira"-kanji with this pinyin is that of Akira Watase,
Japanese adult film actress.
* Negima!: Her pactio attack is "water thrust". She also has blue hair.
* Negima!?: The omake reveals that she keeps a pet arowana named Yamamoto that she was originally meant to teach to
swim, but she has adopted as a family member, much to the chagrin of the other sports girls. In the "Suka incident", her
form turned out to be a frog, similar in appearance to Motsu to the point that the duo competed against each other in an
experiment conducted by Satomi.
(Seiyū: Azumi Yamamoto English VA: Jenny Phagan)
[edit] Misa Kakizaki
Student Number 7: Misa Kakizaki (柿崎 美砂, Kakizaki Misa?) Birthday: 15 May 1988. She is the
leader of the class's cheerleaders, Madoka and Sakurako, and a member of the chorus club. She loves shopping and hates
carbonated drinks. She also has a fondness for karaoke. Misa also has some "adult" tendencies, far more than any of the
other girls in the class (see also chapter 120, where she thinks to "educate" Negi as her future "hot" boyfriend... in 5
years time, although it is believed that noticing how Negi's "father" looked like in the festival, a red-haired
super-hottie, instigated her "reverse Hikaru Genji" plan). She also uses the term onee-san when she talks about
herself, if Negi is around. This tendency also is support by her obsession to scare (force them to look at a ghost
picture), tease (saying that they are cute without breasts), and dress up (during the Kyoto arc) the Narutaki twins.
(She thinks that their reaction is "cute.") Sakurako often helps bring out her scene. She is the only girl in the class
to have a steady boyfriend. Although obsessed with shopping and personal grooming, Misa is infamous for her own ideas of
dressing up Negi or other classmates in outfits she herself picked, including turning Negi into a kitsune female and
several costumes for Ako to send to "Nagi Springfield". Along with her fellow cheerleaders, she takes part in the "Mars
vs. Mages" game and is stripped to her underwear when she is hit by the robots' beam weapons. Recently, she has started
considering the implications of falling for a ten-year old, leading to suspicions she could be a closet shotacon like
Ayaka. During the start of the Summer Festival, she and the other members of the Cheerleader girls get involved in
Evangeline's Badge Collection game. Instead of trying for the badges themselves, they send members of the various
martial arts groups to attack Ku Fei and Haruna. However, the two targets easily vanquish their opponents. She and her
cheerleader compatriots are among Ayaka's invitees to fly aboard her private 'Negi-Jet,' though she and several other
classmates are reluctant to fly in such a wildly-painted aircraft. At present, she and the rest of Ayaka's party are in
Wales, visiting Negi's hometown.
Brunette Misa (left, with Asuna, Madoka & Sakurako) in the Introduction OVA
Brunette Misa (left, with Asuna, Madoka & Sakurako) in the Introduction OVA
Trivia:
* Misa's hair color was originally brown (as used in the Introduction OVA and the cheerleader CD of the monthly
collection), but changed to purple when she became one of the infamous "hair color changes" in the original Negima
anime, leading to Akamatsu to admit that she had purple hair all this time (however, Misa's hair was purple in the
initial colorspread of the series, showing that the color change to brown was wrong in the first place).
* Negima!:: Her pactio is a team cheer attack with Madoka and Sakurako, energizing those who hear it.
* Negima!?: Misa and the other cheerleaders seem to become one character, either speaking at the same time or
completing each other's sentences (although they do speak to each other to give their individual thoughts).
(Seiyū: Shizuka Itou, English VA: Gwendolyn Lau)
[edit] Asuna Kagurazaka
Student Number 8: Asuna Vesperina Theotanasia Entheofushia, listed as Asuna Kagurazaka (神楽坂
明日菜, Kagurazaka Asuna?) on the seating chart. Birthday: 21 April 1988 (in anime 23 October 198
[Although, in the anime it shows that her 14th birthday is on 23 October 2003, so some believe her birthday may be in
the year 1989]. She is the irascible dunce, incredible runner, and physically powerful lead female heroine. She is
often in conflict with other people, especially Ayaka. Asuna has a crush on her former homeroom teacher, Takahata, whom
Negi replaces. Asuna is an orphan who was allowed into the school free by the school dean, yet still tries to pay
towards her schooling with her wages earned delivering newspapers. Much to her chagrin, she is "Baka Red" of the Baka
Rangers (or Dummy Force in the FUNimation Dub) and has the lowest test score average in the class, especially in
English. She has heterochromia (her left eye is blue and her right eye is green).
Negi and Asuna's relationship starts on very shaky ground, but quickly improves as they get to know one another. Asuna
tends to act like an older sister towards Negi, and is fiercely protective of him, whether from enemies, the
overly-affectionate (and perverted, in her opinion) schemes and actions of her classmates, or even Negi's own drive and
ambition. Asuna has also openly expressed a desire to be Negi's permanent pactio partner, but just as frankly denies the
usual romantic overtones that have developed with partnerships. Even so, there are moments which hint that their
relationship could develop into a less platonic one.
Asuna was the first to find out about Negi's secret when she saw him saving Nodoka from falling down some steps and was
the first person that Negi made a probationary contract with. Her artifact is the Ensis Exorcizans, the demon-banishing
sword, a giant sword that usually manifests as a large metal harisen; despite its appearance it still keeps its
demon-banishing ability. The Ensis Exorcizans first appeared when Asuna tried to save Negi from the "sharks" in Chapter
61, and later during the tournament, and on her date with Takahata. At first, summoning the Ensis Exorcizans was
dependent on her emotional state, but that seem to change when she learned to use kankahō. Despite its size, Asuna
wields the large sword with no known difficulty.
She has partial immunity to most magic used against her, such as love potions or petrification spells. When she forced
Negi to take a love potion he'd made for her, it affected every girl except for her. When she accidentally ate one of
the love candies Negi had purchased, it made her somewhat attracted to him - unlike Konoka, who took one and went crazy
over Setsuna. She also, after Alberio jogged her of her past memories and unleashed the sleeping powers within her, has
the ability to use kankahō, an ability that combines ki and magic to infuse the wielder with great strength and
speed. Because she is under experienced, she is unable to use this ability with the same effectiveness as Takahata, but
her kankahō is almost equally fierce as his when it comes to sheer power.
Asuna met the Thousand Master as a child when he saved her life during a battle, and traveled with the members of his
group both before and after his disappearance. Asuna retains no memories from this period in her life, but has begun to
re-experience them in dreams since Negi arrived.
She has demonstrated a fetish for older men, based on her crush on Takahata, her reaction to meeting Konoka's father
(although this may be related to her dormant memories of them from the past). She also expressed interest in going back
in time to the Prohibition-era United States after learning about Cassiopeia. This is because she believes that many
well-dressed older men (such as Al Capone and other gangsters) existed then.
Recently, she went to tour the Mahora Festival with Takahata (as close as a date with him as she could possibly get)
which predictably ends in heartbreak for Asuna, as her former teacher gently turns down her admission of love. She
spends four days inside of Evangeline's Resort moping about it, but is cheered up by her friends and is informed about
Negi's latest Probationary Contracts with Yue and Haruna. Upon leaving the resort, she, Negi, and a few other girls are
trapped in the future where Chao had already revealed the existence of magic to the world and Negi was arrested by the
school board. After reuniting with Negi, they successfully traveled back to the third day of the School Festival. With
their new knowledge of Chao's plans, they implemented a plan by Negi to stage a "mock-battle" against Chao's robot
army. Asuna and Setsuna became "Hero Units", aiding all other participants in the "Mars vs. Mages" event, and helped
Negi fight his way to Chao's airship. After the festival, Negi has asked Asuna to come with him back to Wales to help
him find his father, and if he doesn't come back to Mahora, to be his permanent Partner, (though considering that Negi
still only 10 and Chamo previously stated that he's too young to make a Permanent Contract, this may not be possible at
this time).
Asuna and several other of the girls had decided to form an investigation club in order to help Negi find his missing
father during his trip to Wales. However, when it came time to elect a club president, Eva (who had been elected as a
club advisor), vetoed the idea of giving Asuna the position. In order to prove her worthiness, Eva set up the same
apprenticeship test as she had given to Negi, only this time, Asuna needed to score one clean hit on Negi himself. It
was at that event that Asuna learned that Negi is ahead of her in terms of combat skills and she was soundly defeated.
Kotaro notes, however, that her abilities are still rather impressive, as she had lasted fifteen minutes against Negi,
though the child teacher couldn't bring himself to finish her off quickly, despite Eva's insistence. Thereafter, Asuna
underwent somewhat cruel training sessions under Eva, which recently finished. Her dodging skills have greatly
improved; she evades both Ayaka and Makie's attempts to restrain her when it is revealed that she will be accompanying
Negi to Wales. She then later attacked again by Ayaka as a part of the Badge stealing game, but easily defeats her
after only receiving one blow from Ayaka.
Asuna is feeling quite vexed after Ayaka tells the other girls to stop trying for Asuna's White Wing Badge, (reminding
them of how easily she could defeat all of them), then turning around and inviting them on a personal trip to Wales
aboard her private plane. It is at this point that Negi's childhood friend Anya appears.
It should also be noted that as of Chapter 169 Asuna's true age has come into question. Albireo, in one of Asuna's
dreams, says that, like himself, her age can not be determined by her appearance alone. Also Asuna is shown to have
taken part in a battle that, although yet to be dated or named as such, appears to have happened during the Magical
wars, which took place 20 years ago. Given this new information, some have estimated her real age to be probably 27-32
years.
At present, she and the rest of the White Wing are in Wales visiting Negi's hometown.
* Negima!: Her magic cancelling ability was the result of a contract with a demon king (the Devil in the English
dub). Asuna agreed to the contract in order to lose or at least suppress a natural magical ability she possessed since
early childhood: the power to summon demons. This ability caused destruction and carnage wherever she went, causing
Asuna great heartache. Her demon-given ability was the indirect cause of Nagi's disappearance, as she inadvertently
nullified his magic barrier during a fight with a demon. The price of the contract was that Asuna was to die at 12:00
midnight on her 14th birthday.
Just before her death, it is possible that Asuna was about to tell Negi that she liked him, as she had been turned
down by Takahata, but the clock struck midnight before she could get the words out.
After Asuna's death, Negi desperately searches for a way to bring her back. Eventually, he uses Chao's time machine
watch to go back in time. However, due to using too much magic, he is instead transported back to nine years ago, also
unintentionally dragging the entire class with him. During his stay in the past, he meets his father Nagi and learns
about Asuna's contract with the demon king.
After Nagi's disappearance, the demon king absorbed young Asuna and planned to use her as a barrier. After some
convincing by Negi and his students, young Asuna assists them in destroying the demon king. However, even with the
demon king's demise the contract could not be terminated.
After returning to the present day, to the time where the class was celebrating Asuna's birthday, Chao, Satomi and
Evangeline invented a special device that, working right under the World Tree, combined with all the special powers of
Negi's students, successfully terminated the contract for good.
* Negima!?: Although Asuna keeps her well intentioned, Negi-assisting nature, this version has made her slightly
daffier in her ways. She is a slacker and not quite as smart as she appears, making her a true member of the "Baka
Rangers". She is also obsessed with the chupacabra in this version, at first believing it as the assaulter on Mahora
campus (instead of Evangeline) and founding a club to discuss and even try to capture the creature (which would
eventually evolve into a magic club for Negi and his Magistra). While once again the first to gain pactio in this
series, the powers and artifacts she gains are slightly different: her main manga pactio ability is split in two
(harisen in Cosplay form, sword in Armor form) and she has the Suka form of a miniature wild boar with her human face.
Towards the end of the series, she is turned evil by the power of the Star Crystal infecting Evangeline, but this only
lasts until her vampiric host is defeated in battle. It should be noted that in this series, both of her eyes are blue,
instead of her having heterochromia, and her hair takes a life on its own depending on her state of mind (it even spells
out words). She is also the last one to know Sayo after the latter made a Pactio with Negi (she was asleep when the rest
of the class became aware of their ghost classmate through Kazumi's digital camera).
(Seiyū: Akemi Kanda, English VA: Luci Christian)
[edit] Misora Kasuga
Student Number 9: Misora Kasuga (春日 美空, Kasuga Misora?). Birthday: 4 April 1988. A
hyperactive tomboy in the track and field club, who had rivaled Asuna in the class sprint runs. She always wears a
crucifix and is sometimes seen wearing a nun's habit. Later in the manga, she is revealed as a mage-in-training (a
member of the Mahora "mahō shōjo team") as well as a Ministra Magi. Her pactio artifact is a pair of sneakers
that allow her to run and jump with superhuman ability (this is a tribute to Cyborg 009, to the point of Misora shouting
"Acceleration Mode!" when using the sneakers). She has also been seen wielding a cross as a weapon, but it has yet to be
seen how it is used. She seems to be self-conscious about her abilities, and tries to hide it from friends and
acquaintances, even when it is obvious. During Chao's attempt to reveal magic to the world, she is reluctant about
becoming involved, seeing her own possible magical background. However, she does use her pactio item to help Asuna and
Setsuna escape from a situation and helps them assist Negi to get past Chao's robot forces.
After the end of the festival, Misora begins to have suspicions about Negi and several of the classmates seen
consistently around him. After Asuna, Yue, and Nodoka mistake her for a priest while she and Cocone were cleaning at
the church, she inadvertently listens to their concerns and uses a voice manipulation as if she was the priest. Later,
after Nodoka's turn, Nodoka tells everyone in the class about it and most of the 3-A students (as well as Negi and
Takane) confess their concerns. During this incident, she overhears, among other things, Negi concerns after Chao's
departure, Asuna's attempt to hold back her feelings towards Negi, and the love triangle between Negi, Nodoka, and Yue.
But after hearing Negi's confession, she and Cocone were given the divine punishment by Sister Shakti.
The yoga of lighter-haired Misora (and Nekane Springfield) practicing the halasana pose in "Negima!?"
The yoga of lighter-haired Misora (and Nekane Springfield) practicing the halasana pose in "Negima!?"
Trivia:
* If looked at very carefully, in Chapter 156 on Page 11 in the second panel of the page, the broom that Misora is
flying on, for that one panel becomes Negi's staff. This was corrected in Tankōbon number 17, which collected
Chapters 150-159.
* Most depictions of Misora since the start of the series has made her a redhead. However, some colorings have
shown her hair color as gray, similar to her Negima!? rendition. Since the hair has gone back and forth between red and
gray even in the same publication, either can be taken as correct at this point.[2]
* Her surname, Kasuga ("spring-day"), is the name of several locations in Japan. Her given name means "beautiful
sky".
* Negima!: Her weapon is an Iron Cross allowing her to commune with God and use His powers. She also has chocolate
brown hair.
* Negima!?: Misora is a yoga enthusiast in this series, where she is paired with the other sports girls as a
replacement for Makie. Also, compared to her work at the Mahora church in the manga, Misora takes a more Eastern
religious turn in this anime. Like the first series (and unlike the manga), she forms a pactio with Negi, yet her only
releases were during both mass Pactios for the whole class. She also has gray hair and somewhat darker skin.
(Seiyū: Ai Bandou, English VA: Wendy Powell)
[edit] Chachamaru Karakuri
Student Number 10: Chachamaru Karakuri (絡繰 茶々丸, Karakuri Chachamaru?) Manufactured 3
January 2001, activated 1 April 2001. A robot created by Satomi and Chao for Evangeline, and is powered both
mechanically and by magic. She is essentially a technological golem. Karakuri is the Japanese word for "machine" or
"mechanical parts". Despite her robotic parts showing very clearly, only a select few in her class actually seem to
have noticed, or ascribe her appearance to mere cosmetics; to date, only Chamo and Chisame seem to have realized
without having it pointed out to them. As well as being Evangeline's Ministra Magi, she performs maid duties at the
cottage they share on the Mahora campus. While Chachamaru displays few outward emotions, she spends most of her free
time helping people and rescuing stray animals, including regularly taking care of stray cats, and is very popular with
young children, who seem to know that she is a robot. She is also in the go and Tea Ceremony clubs, but only because
Evangeline is in those clubs as well (the cha in her name means "tea"). Perhaps because of the magic used in her
creation, Chachamaru begins to show human-like functions and emotions she was not programmed for, such as her internal
gears increasing in speed during moments where a human's heart would beat faster, and even leaking lens-cleaning fluid
from her eyes when she's upset. The most likely trigger for this seems to be that she started developing feelings for
Negi after he stopped an attack on her when she was unable to defend herself, turning his own Sagitta Magica spell back
on himself rather than hurt his own student. Chachamaru eventually rocket-punched Satomi, her own creator, out of
embarrassment when she was about to tell everyone about her crush on Negi, and nearly resulted in a complete breakdown
of her cognitive abilities.
Despite her assisting Negi in Kyoto, Graf Herrmann declined to go after her, lest he risk drawing the attention of
Evangeline, whom he wanted to avoid. Even so, she, Evangeline, and Kaede, who avoided being kidnapped, did discover his
presence, but held back, preferring to see if Negi and Kotaro could handle the situation themselves. She attended the
Mahora Fighting Tournament, where she performed match commentary with Kaoru Gōtokuji (providing useful exposition
for readers), and performed a Tea Ceremony for Negi afterwards. She supported Chao's plot to reveal magic to the world,
perhaps because of her affiliation with Satomi. She often asks for forgiveness from Negi whenever there is a
confrontation between their sides. On the third day of the Mahora Festival, she engaged in a cyberspace battle against
Chisame and her pactio artifact, along with Ayaka and Makie playing as magical girl characters. Once Chao was defeated,
she unconditionally surrendered to Chisame, much to her classmate's dismay after fighting so hard to get the magical
barrier back online.
Chachamaru is equipped with several devices, which include a Magic-Canceller (to undo Binding Circles), laser emitters
in her eyes, magic-powered thrusters on her legs and back, retractable rocket fists, and whatever else her creator
Satomi can come up with. In the anime, she was also equipped with an aquatic mode, which allows her to swim on the
surface of water like a speedboat. Furthermore, she can launch mini-missiles and other kinds of ordinance. Though
Satomi is constantly upgrading and improving on Chachamaru's systems, some of her modifications leave much to be
desired (such as having an umbrella-like heat plate so she can wear her hair up without overheating).
Chachamaru is the latest in a series of androids. A number of other androids, previous models in the series, work for
Evangeline as maids, and refer to Chachamaru as their little sister. During the final battle of the Mahorafest war, a
number of other female-styled androids, as well as an advance combat body designed for her fitted with a basic combat
AI were sent out to slow down Negi and his group as they tried to reach Chao. Some time after the festival, Chachamaru
has been transplanted into a smaller body, while her original is being overhauled. The new form features shorter hair
(that resembles exactly as Ku-Fei's hairstyle without the buns), and has realistic 'human skin' coating which hides her
joints, (Satomi also has a 10-year-old version available, in case Chachamaru wants to interact more closely with Negi).
Chachamaru also seems to develop an attachment to Chisame as she often "arrests" her to join Negi's new "club" meeting.
As the new White Wing group prepares to leave for Wale
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