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!)
GenreAdventure, fantasy, harem[1][2]
Manga
Written byKen Akamatsu
Published byKodansha
English publisher
ImprintShōnen Magazine Comics
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Magazine
DemographicShōnen
Original runFebruary 26, 2003March 14, 2012
Volumes38 (List of volumes)
Further information
Original video animation
Mahō Sensei Negima! Introduction Film
Directed byHiroshi Nishikiori
StudioXebec
Released August 25, 2004 March 24, 2005
Episodes3
Anime television series
Directed by
  • Nagisa Miyazaki (#1–13)
  • Nobuyoshi Habara (#14–26)[a]
Produced by
  • Shinichi Ikeda (Yomiko Advertising)
  • Takatoshi Chino (Xebec)
  • Yōsuke Gorōmaro (#14–26, King Records)
Written byIchirō Ōkouchi
Music byShinkichi Mitsumune
StudioXebec
Licensed by
Original networkTV Tokyo
English network
Original run January 6, 2005 June 29, 2005
Episodes26 (List of episodes)
Original video animation
Negima!? Magister Negi Magi: Spring
Directed by
Produced byGō Nakanishi (King Records)
Written byKenichi Kanemaki
Music byKei Haneoka
StudioShaft
Licensed by
  • NA: Sentai Filmworks (expired)
  • UK: Manga Entertainment
ReleasedOctober 25, 2006
Runtime25 minutes
Original video animation
Negima!? Magister Negi Magi: Summer
Directed by
  • Akiyuki Shinbo[b]
  • Shin Oonuma
Produced byGō Nakanishi (King Records)
Written byKatsuhiko Takayama
Music byKei Haneoka
StudioShaft
Licensed by
  • NA: Sentai Filmworks (expired)
  • UK: Manga Entertainment
ReleasedNovember 22, 2006
Runtime28 minutes
Television drama
Magister Negi Magi Mahō Sensei Negima!
Directed byRyu Kaneda
StudioDeep Side
Original networkTV Tokyo
Original run October 4, 2006 March 27, 2007
Episodes26 (List of episodes)
Original video animation
Mahō Sensei Negima!: Shiroki Tsubasa Ala Alba
Directed by
Produced by
  • Gō Nakanishi (King Records)
  • Yōichi Ishimoto
  • Noboru Ōno
Written byKen Akamatsu
Music byHajime Kikuchi
StudioShaft
Studio Pastoral
Released August 17, 2008 February 17, 2009
Runtime30 minutes
Episodes3
Original video animation
Mahō Sensei Negima!: Mō Hitotsu no Sekai
Directed by
Produced by
  • Gō Nakanishi (King Records)
  • Noboru Ōno
  • Kensuke Tateishi (Kodansha)
Written byKen Akamatsu
Music byKei Haneoka
StudioShaft
Studio Pastoral
Released September 17, 2009 November 17, 2010
Runtime29 minutes
Episodes5
Anime film
Mahō Sensei Negima! Anime Final
Directed byAkiyuki Shinbo
Produced by
  • Noboru Ōno
  • Kensuke Tateishi (Kodansha)
  • Haruki Hayashi (King Records)
Written by
  • Akiyuki Shinbo
  • Shaft[c]
Music byKei Haneoka
StudioShaft
Studio Pastoral
ReleasedAugust 27, 2011
Runtime76 minutes
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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.

  1. ^ Brenner 2007, p. 89
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference thompson was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Ressler, Karen (February 4, 2018). "Sentai Filmworks Licenses Both Negima TV Anime". Anime News Network. Retrieved January 18, 2018.


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