Negima! Magister Negi Magi

Negima! Magister Negi Magi
	Cover of the first tankōbon volume, featuring Negi Springfield (left) and Asuna Kagurazaka (right)
魔法先生ネギま!; (Mahō Sensei Negima!)
Genre	Adventure, fantasy, harem
Manga
Written by	Ken Akamatsu
Published by	Kodansha
English publisher	NA: Kodansha Comics; UK: Tanoshimi;
Imprint	Shōnen Magazine Comics
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Magazine
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	February 26, 2003 – March 14, 2012
Volumes	38 (List of volumes)
Directed by	Hiroshi Nishikiori
Further information
Original video animation
Mahō Sensei Negima! Introduction Film
Directed by	Hiroshi Nishikiori
Studio	Xebec
Released	August 25, 2004 – March 24, 2005
Episodes	3
Anime television series
Directed by	Nagisa Miyazaki (#1–13); Nobuyoshi Habara (#14–26);
Produced by	Shinichi Ikeda (Yomiko Advertising); Takatoshi Chino (Xebec); Yōsuke Gorōmaro (#14–26, King Records);
Written by	Ichirō Ōkouchi
Music by	Shinkichi Mitsumune
Studio	Xebec
Licensed by	AUS: Madman Entertainment; NA: Sentai Filmworks (expired); UK: Revelation Films;
Original network	TV Tokyo
English network	US: Funimation Channel, Anime Selects on Demand; ZA: Animax, SABC;
Original run	January 6, 2005 – June 29, 2005
Episodes	26 (List of episodes)
Original video animation
Negima!? Magister Negi Magi: Spring
Directed by	Akiyuki Shinbo; Shin Oonuma;
Produced by	Gō Nakanishi (King Records)
Written by	Kenichi Kanemaki
Music by	Kei Haneoka
Studio	Shaft
Licensed by	NA: Sentai Filmworks (expired); UK: Manga Entertainment;
Released	October 25, 2006
Runtime	25 minutes
Original video animation
Negima!? Magister Negi Magi: Summer
Directed by	Akiyuki Shinbo; Shin Oonuma;
Produced by	Gō Nakanishi (King Records)
Written by	Katsuhiko Takayama
Music by	Kei Haneoka
Studio	Shaft
Licensed by	NA: Sentai Filmworks (expired); UK: Manga Entertainment;
Released	November 22, 2006
Runtime	28 minutes
Television drama
Magister Negi Magi Mahō Sensei Negima!
Directed by	Ryu Kaneda
Studio	Deep Side
Original network	TV Tokyo
Original run	October 4, 2006 – March 27, 2007
Episodes	26 (List of episodes)
Original video animation
Mahō Sensei Negima!: Shiroki Tsubasa Ala Alba
Directed by	Akiyuki Shinbo; Hiroaki Tomita (#1); Yukihiro Miyamoto (#2); Tomoyuki Itamura (#3);
Produced by	Gō Nakanishi (King Records); Yōichi Ishimoto; Noboru Ōno;
Written by	Ken Akamatsu
Music by	Hajime Kikuchi
Studio	Shaft; Studio Pastoral
Released	August 17, 2008 – February 17, 2009
Runtime	30 minutes
Episodes	3
Original video animation
Mahō Sensei Negima!: Mō Hitotsu no Sekai
Directed by	Akiyuki Shinbo; Kōbun Shizuno (#1–2); Tomokazu Tokoro (#3–4); Tatsufumi Itou (#5);
Produced by	Gō Nakanishi (King Records); Noboru Ōno; Kensuke Tateishi (Kodansha);
Written by	Ken Akamatsu
Music by	Kei Haneoka
Studio	Shaft; Studio Pastoral
Released	September 17, 2009 – November 17, 2010
Runtime	29 minutes
Episodes	5
Anime film
Mahō Sensei Negima! Anime Final
Directed by	Akiyuki Shinbo
Produced by	Noboru Ōno; Kensuke Tateishi (Kodansha); Haruki Hayashi (King Records);
Written by	Akiyuki Shinbo; Shaft;
Music by	Kei Haneoka
Studio	Shaft; Studio Pastoral
Released	August 27, 2011
Runtime	76 minutes
Related
	UQ Holder! (sequel); Negima!? (anime alternative story); Negiho (manga alternative story);
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Negima! Magister Negi Magi, known in Japan as Magical Teacher Negima! (Japanese: 魔法先生ネギま!, Hepburn: Mahō Sensei Negima!), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ken Akamatsu. It was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from February 2003 to March 2012, with its chapters collected into 38 tankōbon volumes.

Negima! was adapted into a 26-episode anime television series produced by Xebec that was broadcast on TV Tokyo from January to June 2005. A second 26-episode series produced by Shaft titled Negima!?, which is alternate retelling, was broadcast on TV Tokyo from October 2006 to March 2007. In addition, four different sets of original video animations, an anime film and a live-action television series have also been produced.

In North America, the manga was licensed for English language release by Del Rey Manga and later by Kodansha USA. In the UK the first sixteen volumes were published by Tanoshimi. Both anime and the second OVAs were licensed by Funimation. Sentai Filmworks re-licensed the series in 2018.^[3] In 2023, Sentai lost the streaming rights to Negima and it was removed from HIDIVE.

Akamatsu collaborated with an artist named Yui to write the spin-off Negiho in 2010. In 2013, Akamatsu began a sequel/spin off titled UQ Holder! that focuses on Negi's grandson, Tōta Konoe. Due to the two anime series and live action TV shows having plots that are totally different from that of the Manga and the existence of spin-off manga that are fresh new takes of the Negima plot, Negima has become subject to Transmedia storytelling.

^ Brenner 2007, p. 89
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^ Ressler, Karen (February 4, 2018). "Sentai Filmworks Licenses Both Negima TV Anime". Anime News Network. Retrieved January 18, 2018.

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[6] Ressler, Karen (February 4, 2018). "Sentai Filmworks Licenses Both Negima TV Anime". Anime News Network. Retrieved January 18, 2018.

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