(L) UQ Holder (Ken Akamatsu's new series)

[Sian]

Originally Posted by 4th Dimension

Soo, seeing as the anime is coming out, it finally spurned me to take a look at UQ Holder. I was previously putt off by tvtropes calling it darker and edgier, but it isn't that dark.

A good part of the Darker and edgier is that it 'abuses' the fact that the plot surrounds immortals, by not pulling any pounces by doing things that would otherwise kill everyone several times over...

[Malicre]

I started reading UQ Holder for Touta's Journey and dropped the series once it turned into a negima sequel but i am glad that they aren't having any false advertising with the anime and are letting people know straight away that its a Negima sequel. Most of the cover art says UQ HOLDER NEGIMA SEQUEL, that at least let's the anime fans know right off the bat that it is indeed a sequel and not its own story.

[Sian]

Originally Posted by Malicre

I started reading UQ Holder for Touta's Journey and dropped the series once it turned into a negima sequel

It wasn't ever really a well kept secret that it was a sequel to Negima (Evangeline, and visiting Negi's grave should be major hints), only it wasn't advertised as such, due to disagreements (surrounding intellectual ownership of Negima IIRC) between Akamatsu and Kodansha

[Twi]

There's been an update. Exactly how easy is it to hack into UQ Holders database if Evil Sis can do it too. But I could do without the guy fighting naked. And... and is that the Gamer-powers?

[Shippuu]

Well, I wasn't expecting the second flashback to come immediately after the first one, but I was still disappointed.
Holder continues to devalue old characters considering Cutlass is literally Homura, Koyomi, (Negi?) and Asuna thrown into the DNA blender with the Black of Venus to boot.
At least the side characters are finally getting some screen time.

Yukihime's Ialda class remark reinforces my belief that Ialda is just the Disc One Final Boss, and the story will continue after she is dealt with. There is still other "gods" to deal with, after all, and Ialda was just a demiurge anyway.

[SilverGlavenus]

Originally Posted by Shippuu

Well, I wasn't expecting the second flashback to come immediately after the first one, but I was still disappointed.
Holder continues to devalue old characters considering Cutlass is literally Homura, Koyomi, (Negi?) and Asuna thrown into the DNA blender with the Black of Venus to boot.
At least the side characters are finally getting some screen time.

Yukihime's Ialda class remark reinforces my belief that Ialda is just the Disc One Final Boss, and the story will continue after she is dealt with. There is still other "gods" to deal with, after all, and Ialda was just a demiurge anyway.

I hope Ialda is not the last boss. But we all know that Ialda is not overwhelmingly more powerful than other boss-tier characters. And after all the things that happened, I don't think we should put so much thoughts on the logic.

[Twi]

God-class isn't new. Remember, Sayoko was considered that class of revenant because she took in hundreds of thousands of souls and it chipped away at her sanity until she was just like Negi. Ialada just took in even more.... wait, was that foreshadowing?

[SilverGlavenus]

Now that I've reread the chapter, it seems that Gengorou's power has something to do with games, seeing how he can "respawn" and see the stats and levels of others.

[Shippuu]

Originally Posted by SilverGlavenus

Now that I've reread the chapter, it seems that Gengorou's power has something to do with games, seeing how he can "respawn" and see the stats and levels of others.

That was already pretty much made clear in chapter 6. We didn't really learn anything new about him here other than the stats thing.

[TnAdct1]

Originally Posted by Hata

...and now you can vote for your favor Negima 3A characters, one vote a day, at the UQ site until the end of October.
http://uqholder.jp/special/vote/

no surprise the leading characters

Spoiler for current vote results:

Nodoka, Eva, Yue, Setsuna, Asuna, Konoka

in that order, all regular leaders in past Negima voting, I cast my lot with Yue, might drop some votes later on for Akira and Ku Fei.

Spoiler for current vote results:

Not surprising to see the the first five Ministra Magi and and Eva in the lead.

As for Nodoka being in first, this is part me being a Nodoka fanboy (yes, I voted for her here) and part me being well aware of anime, I think the bigger elements of this include her:

1. being a likeable character in the first place;
2. having a popular seiyuu (Mamiko Noto) voicing her, with Nodoka being one of her breakthrough characters;
3. being one of the most unlikely heroines in the manga, with her actually being proven to be just as awesome as fighters like Asuna and Setsuna (heck, the main reason I checked out the manga in the first place was because I was curious about her Pactio after Xebec ruined its anime adaptation of Negima);
4. being a character that all-around anime fans can like (i.e. her being the only one on Animage's monthly list of top 100 anime characters when the SHAFT version came out).

[Sian]

One thing that's nice is that we now know 'for certain' that Eva is French (that she speaks French earlier on proved nothing since that wasn't uncommon even in non-French noble houses, specially in England and southern Italy), somewhere in Eastern France to be more exact.

[Tenzen12]

Good we are back to plot and especialy to UQ holders band. Hopefuly it stay that way for while with Negi cast just making occasional cameo how it is supposed be.

Anyway I love these two guys.

[Ultragunner]

would Touta get teleported back to HQ?
Considering Dana, that's totally plausible
and it doesn't feel right if either Cutlass wins or gets done in by those two. I'd be very disappointed if she escapes again though

[wuhugm]

Who's Negi's wife? Chisame?

[SilverGlavenus]

Originally Posted by wuhugm

Who's Negi's wife? Chisame?

That's right. And Kirie is happy about this (implying that megane girls maybe the winners)

[wuhugm]

^Uheee, it wasn't alternate timeline stuff? I want Karin route

[NapoleonDeCheese]

Originally Posted by Twi

There's been an update. Exactly how easy is it to hack into UQ Holders database if Evil Sis can do it too. But I could do without the guy fighting naked.

Cutlass is working for Negi, and I wouldn't be shocked if this Negi also has his own Chisame to do hacking for him (again, I suspect we haven't seen the full extent of Negi's forces yet, it makes sense they're saving something for future confrontations). Even if not, Chisame could've left them with enough computer expertise, or Chachamaru might be even be a mole for Negi's team out of loyalty to him (and to Chisame/Chisame's memories). It wouldn't even be the first time Chacha is brought in as a sympathetic antagonist of sorts. I don't think this is the case, mind, and the hacking will most likely be left unexplained like so many other things, but it'd still be something interesting to see.

I could've done without the butthurt 'internet' gag, which most often is the type of kind to come from authors who can't take criticism, but otherwise this was an okay chapter giving some much needed panel time to two characters (Jinbei and Gengorou, Cutlass the Edgelady still can go jump into a ditch and stay there) who deserved better. And the manservice was fine, if we took the female fanservice we can take this too, it's just fair and square.

[SilverGlavenus]

Originally Posted by wuhugm

^Uheee, it wasn't alternate timeline stuff? I want Karin route

It is alternate timeline. Touta and co are looking at the happy ending of that timeline. The megane part is probably due to the author's fetish.

[XFire]

Originally Posted by SilverGlavenus

It is alternate timeline. Touta and co are looking at the happy ending of that timeline. The megane part is probably due to the author's fetish.

Well, for us it's the original timeline, since that's what we missed at the end of Negima.

[Tenzen12]

Originally Posted by SilverGlavenus

That's right. And Kirie is happy about this (implying that megane girls maybe the winners)

It's not just glasses, they have practically same personality too.