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Old 2012-05-20, 11:51   Link #8469
TnAdct1
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Not to mention Yue and Nodoka needed to be ashamed and nudged, AFTER allowing Chizuru to use her artifact on Negi (despite the fact Nodoka HAD an artifact that would have achieved the same effect much less painfully and without humiliating him. Just have her hidden somewhere near while another student walks up to Negi and asks him out of the blue "Who do you like?" Negi won't answer, of course, but the answer will come to his mind all the same). They'd actually have had more success there, since Negi couldn't have resisted the way he did to Chizuru's pactio (some Pactio, BTW. The only time it's used for anything, it's against its own magister. And it FAILS).
I still think that Nodoka and Yue are pretty much forced into this by Haruna and just "played along" until they they found an opportunity to come to Negi's aide. After all, unless Ken Akamatsu is really showing that he doesn't give a crap about the story anymore, pretending to side with 3-A is the only explanation as to why Yue would even try to use a magic attack on Asuna (as she would know better that magic doesn't work on Asuna). Of course, him caring about the stort also explains why Nodoka didn't simply use the Diarium Ejus on Negi (as it goes against the whole idea of why she got the book in the first place)

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Really, any story where that happens, AND Setsuna draws her sword against Asuna for no good reason (and right after devoting a chapter to how much she idolizes Asuna now, AND she knows they'll lose Asuna "forever" now), AND Kaede tosses shurinken at her own classmates, isn't anything but Character Derailment. All for the sake of aping Love Hina, which wasn't a bad series at all (it ended much better than this), but just wasn't the same thing. It's as if Akamatsu just lost view of what each of his stories was supposed to mean.
That's percisely the biggest problem with the Sports Festival arc: it's pretty much Ken Akamatsu devolving back into his days of writing Love Hina, and given all the character growth we've seen between the "Kiss Negi" contest (which serves as the last real "harem comedy" bit before the story really became more shonen-focused) and the Sports Festival arc, that pretty much requires a lot of character development to be thrown out the window.
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