Negima! Magister Negi Magi, Vol. 2

You know how everyone always says the original is the best? Not in this case, cause Harry Potter ain't got jack on Negi! The capers of the pint-sized wizard continue in Negima! volume 2. Negi is thrown for a loop when he receives a "Final Challenge" from the headmaster of Mahora Academy- stating that if he can manage to get class 2-A out of last place by the end of the semester finals, he will be made a permanent teacher at the Academy. Problem for him, though, is his class contains the Baka Rangers ("baka" being Japanese for "idiot"), five students who are much less than average intelligence- and of course, Asuna Kagurazaka is one of them (the others being Kaede Nagase, Fei Ku, Yue Ayase [surprising, considering her love for anything philosophical], and Makie Sasaki). He tries to do it by magic, but Asuna gets onto him about it, so Negi places a magical restriction on himself so that he can't do magic for the three days prior to the test. This proves to be a bad move, however, as Negi gets dragged along with the Baka Rangers and the Library Exploration group (Haruna Saotome, Konoka Konoe, and Nodoka Miyazaki, with Yue Ayase as the third member) on a quest below the library to find a mysterious magical book that will somehow make them smarter. Of course, hilarity ensues, including one final showdown between Negi and the "rock-and-roller", as he calls it. This volume of Negima! is I think better than volume 1 in many ways. I liked the subplots, which I will list here: - Chisame Hasegawa, in which Negi catches her in her secret life of the Internet's hottest cosplay bunny; - Konoka Konoe, where her and Negi run from her grandfather's attempts to set her up as an o-miai and her confessing a big secret to Negi; - Fuka and Fumika Narutaki, the twins... as the Strolling Club takes Negi on an abbreviated tour of the campus designed to show Negi what the girls have to offer, you could say. And as always, the fan service is there, although (disappointedly) there isn't as much as there was in the first novel- just a bathing scene with Fei Ku, Makie, and Kaede, and a solo bath scene with Asuna. Enjoy!! ~andy~

In this book, Negi is told that if his class passes the finals above last place, he'll be made an official teacher. Of course, his class has been in last place since the beginning. Negi's five worst students, nicknamed "the Baka Rangers" seek out a magical book that is said to make the reader smarter. Only it's inside a giant library full of dangerous traps. Negi comes along, but he has sealed his magic until after the finals, making him an ordinary boy. A few more of the girls and their personalities are shown to the reader in this book. You can't really expect all 31 different girls in Negi's class to be fully characterized in the first two books, can you?

The manga series about the ten year old British boy magician (Negi) who becomes an English teacher at a girls middle school in Japan continues here. This time around, Negi finds out he will lose his job if his class comes in last in the big exam. So, the worst students go to Secret Library Island, where there is rumoured to be a magic book that makes you smart. I don't want to give away the ending, but the series would be over pretty quick if Negi lost his job. Some different girls get highlighted this time, including the loner, the class rep and the twins. But with 31 girls, some of them have not been developed at all yet. Hopefully, we will get to know them all in future volumes. So far this series has been delightful, and I'm looking forward to reading more.

Negi is once again put to the test as he must rush the 2A class into studing (normally they wouldnt ever do work!) and if they fail a test to see what grade group is the smartest, that means no job for Negi! Fun and detailed graphic novel! I thought this book was exciting and funny. I liked this novel the best of the first three Negimas so far! Have fun!

This second volume in Ken Akamatsu's "Magister Negi Magi" finds Negi Springfield and his wacky all-girl students off on a quest to find a magic book in the Mahora school's Library Island, an enormous maze littered with traps, giant metal golems and other very unlibrary-like things. If they can find the magic book, and the girls can manage to not place at the bottom of all the classes, Negi can get granted full-teacher status. It should be no problem, because leading the way are members of the Library Island Explorers club. What could go wrong? Additional stories in volume 2 feature single adventures with a few students, including Chisame Hasegawa, a girl who can't stand Negi or her classmates, but lives a secret life as an internet pin-up cosplay girl, the cute twins Fuka and Fumika Narutaki, who take Negi on a tour around the vast school grounds, and Class representative Ayaka Yukihiro and the story of her and Asuna'a bitter rivalry. "Magister Negi Magi" is really starting to pick up with this volume. The characters are getting fleshed out and the girls are starting to get their own personalities and motivations. Of course, Negi is still the star and the book is packed with Akamatsu's trademark humor. A great comic, that I highly recommend!