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Originally Posted by TnAdct1
Akira, Nodoka and Yue shouldn't be the only students that know better and defend Negi here.
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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).
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.
It's funny how, other than Akira and Asuna, the only two students who actually stick to Negi's side all the way through are Yotsuba and Hakase, who have zero romantic interest for him.