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Originally Posted by DKN117
What are the "High-Ancient"/Greek names for Fate's "Tearing Earth" spell and Evangeline's new "Endless White Nine Heavens" spell? The latest scanlations translated them directly to English, so we don't have their "proper" names (a la Ourania Phlogosis, Kosmike Katastrophe, Khilipl Astrape, and Dios Logche: Titano Ktonon).
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after Akamatsu's assistant who was responsible for the Latin/Greek translation quit a couple of years ago, (yes, it had been that long.) Negima no longer offer the Latin/Greek names of the spells during the weekly serialization, instead the Japanese name are listed, which is the version most western people read, now you have to wait for the whole things (9-11 chapters) being compiled into a book, then an editor from Kodansha will do all the translation at once and the proper spell names then would replace the Japanese name in chapter or a complete appendix in the back of the book.
the spells you asked are in Negima BK36, which you can also find under Vetus's new recent posting.
this all started when Ken did a series of reader surveys, and according to them, Negima is encounter a flux of new readers after 6 years (meaning 12-18 years old, when the original shonen readers all graduated from high school and onto other things.) and those younger readers complains that the Latin/Greek spells are too complicated and too hard for them to imitate in speech, you can notice a "dumb down" effect from then as Ken's making an effort to accmodate the new readers, it is at the same time when Negima also increased actions with all the fighting and decreased the fan services because there are a lot of new readers who are females, and they are not interest in fan services, but we won't talk about those things this post, the high rating Ken got from Negi vs Rakan is why we are reading the kind of Negima today compares to 8 years ago, also why Negima is one of the most trolled manga title I saw on internet discussions today, Ken can't please everyone.