UQ Holder (Ken Akamatsu's new series)
 

The new manga by Ken Akamatsu the writer of Love Hina and Negima.

Figured I should get one going for this rather than only talk about it in the Negima manga discussions.

I thought you're going to put it in the OP ;_;

intended to but forgot when i initially posted. went back but you had posted it before i could get it lol.

Probably, yeah.. someone in /a/ mentioned some spoilers too though I dunno whether it's legit or not

Right now I'm pretty sure the guy on the far right is Negi..

I thought the setting was only 10 years after the end of the masquerade?

Since it's 10 years after magic was known and IIRC considering that magic doesn't seem to become public yet in negima end (at least not completely), it's possible that it's not actually 10 years after negima but a couple of years more.

You know, if that spoiler is true:

OP should change the topic title so people will know this is Ken's new work.

Eva... All grown up, or just an illusion?

-spits out drink-

n the non-colored panel, Eva says she is 700 old, more or less the same age she had in Negima, so this should be in the same century, just a few years in the future...

Wait, I think it's ambiented in this year, 2013. That's because every Akamatsu work is ambiented in the year it started (like 1999 Love Hina and 2003 Negima)...

If that's the case then Negi should be about 18 to 20 years old and current Asuna should be sealed while future Asuna should have come back to the past and be around 20+ years old.

hmm so is this a alternate universe version of negima?

makes sense given the split time line factor in negima but still confusing as heck, guess we will see as it proceeds.

Actually near the end of the Magic World arc Eva said she was 600. Of course, in both cases she probably don't mean exactly values. But I would expect this to be at least 50 or so years afterwards. There is also the hint that Eva may have been born during the 100 years war (chachazero comment when Eva is telling her story during chapter 109), and quoting someone else:

Another possible direction I think this may take:

Well, that depends on whether she was born in the 1300's or the 1400's.

I don't quite like the art shift. Late Negima is what I consider Ken-san's golden style.

I swear, if he uses this to kill the whole Negima cast off...

I mean, first that ending, now that would be like stomping on the series' grave and going to kick its fans in the crotch.

Strangely, I just finished Akai Hanataba from Takahashi Rumiko before I saw this.

And every time I think about what reading the raw or scan of UQH will be like, my mind keeps going back to the lesson of chapter 1 of Akai Hanataba, and not because it was from Takahashi's better season in the sun. I laugh because there's something to be said about looking back at mistakes people make, without rancor or nostalgia on my part.

It'd be kinda funny if Akamatsu thought that courage here for Evangeline would be accepting the reality she's been given and painfully but surely, moves on even though she's been hurt. But lol time travel.


Without the right assistants (who left), no can do.

New Eva is weird.

My guess is this is the timeline where Chao won in exposing magic and Negi had to run to an alternate past to prevent her victory in that timeline (and avoid being turned into ermine in this timeline).

Whoa, wait a minute. Are we saying that in the first image, that is...

?

That's the same woman in the promo image with Touta and the other sword girl (I'm assuming that's a girl).

Yes and yes. On the image it says:

It is just such a radical change. Wow. Never even suspected based on that first promo image.

New spoiler:

Eva as an onee-san? I approve.

My my..... Eva has certainly gone down the cougar route.

You can actually see ChachaZero in the 3rd panel on the left, above the speech bubble.

Wow seems the new male protag is strong too

Technically she always has :eyespin: At Full speed.

To me it looks like Eva imposed herself on the main protagonist's household and is taking care of him from now on... or I guess to him it's the other way around since he's the one who cooks and probably does the rest of the housework too.

In Negima it was always halfway. Now it's full-blown.

That pic made me think... Eva would be an awesome mom.

Working MILF Evangeline Athanasia Katherine McDowell

Whose group do you guys think will be doing this? RHS?

I guess it doesn't hurt that she looks like part now as well ^^

It finally happened! That fact it happened means something weird is going on.

...okay, that earlier lame Eva pic was misleading, because turns out we still get troll Eva. A not-too-bad start, I guess...