Student Number 25:

Chisame Hasegawa (Hasegawa Chisame?) Birthday: 2 February 1989. She is the grumpy computer geek with a double life. An overly serious pragmatist in public, in private she becomes Chiu, a famous Net Idol who costume-plays and displays glamorous and sexy photos of herself on her website after editing them in “Photoshock” (Photoshop).

She particularly dislikes the more eccentric members of her class: Chachamaru (robot), Mana (too old for junior high school), the Narutaki twins (underage), Ku Fei, Chao, Evangeline (”foreign” students), Kaede (ninja), Zazie (clown), Negi (underage teacher), and (in the anime) Akira. Actually, she worries that public revelation of her own hobby would label her as crazy as the rest of them.

The only people who know about her double life are Negi, Kotaro, Kazumi, Ayaka, and Makie. Unfortunately, not only does Negi find out about her secret, he even accidentally embarrasses her in front of the entire class by blowing her clothes off. She also learns, to her dismay, that Negi has become a big fan of her alter ego Chiu and goes to her webpage every day. Chisame has seen and recognized Negi’s inherent gift for attracting girls’ affections, and has tried to keep him at arm’s length. This proved to be more and more difficult as she was pulled deeper and deeper into Negi’s world during the Mahora Festival arc.

Though initially sceptical, and desperate to rationalize the events of the Martial Arts Tournament, Chisame deduced that Negi was a mage while conversing with him and Chachamaru while watching the Tournament. During a later conversation with Chachamaru, she once considered forming a probationary contract with Negi.

Though she immediately said that she was just joking, events quickly pulled her in that direction. During this time, she was reduced down to a 10-year-old due to the Age-Deceiving Pills. She initially refused to try one when Negi offered it to her, but Chachamaru popped one into her mouth. Chisame came to like her new appearance and decided to use pictures of herself as Chiu’s Little Sister on her webpage.

Eventually, Chisame and some of the girls were trapped in the future after Chao had succeeded in her plan to reveal magic to the world. Though still reluctant about accepting the concept of magic, she joined the other girls in Negi’s rescue and returned to the third day of the school festival.

As things became desperate with Chao’s armies attacking, Chisame (with much reluctance on her part) finally agrees to make a Provisional Contract with Negi. She had planned to do so while Negi was still unconscious, but to her embarrassment, he woke up just as she was about to touch lips with him. She immediately kissed him while covering his eyes.

This was enough to create a proper Pactio, rather than a botched card, making her the seventh student to form a contract. Her artifact is an elaborately decorated staff, which used in conjunction with her laptop had teleported her (as well as Makie and Ayaka) into cyberspace, when she took part in an electronic battle against Chachamaru to stop Chao and secure the magical barrier.

Although she does reconstruct the barrier, she becomes quite frustrated when Chachamaru informed her of the orders to unconditionally surrender in the event that Negi defeated Chao (which he did just before Chisame had broken through Chachamuru’s defenses), and that the spell had been changed to remove sadness and hatred in the world for a day.

After the festival, Chisame has found her artifact to be extremely useful, helping her homepage skyrocket to the top rankings all over the Internet. This newfound fame, however, leaves her feeling strangely empty. She later comes to Evangeline’s Resort along with Kazumi, Sayo and Chachamaru to enjoy a barbecue with Negi and the others. It is unknown if she will accompany Negi to England. As of now her badge was never targeted.

In Negima Workshop, it is noted that Chisame and Naru Narusegawa (of Love Hina) are similar in appearance.

  • Negima!: In the first anime series, her hair was made green instead of the red pictured above. However, when using her Patcio in the final episode, her hair was magically changed to its right color as Chiu.
  • Negima!?: In the “Negima!?” anime, Chisame’s hair color is brown. However, she has the seemingly magical ability to change her hair color to pink as Chiu and has the possibility of having her hair color change with a possible Pactio in this series. During the “Suka incident”, she turns into a fox who also can turn from Chisame to Chiu while keeping her playful, sexy persona in a younger body and mind. Because viewers do consistently see small little Chiu snippets from her website, several characters end up annoying Chisame about knowing her secret, calling her “Chiu-Chiu-san” in public.

(Seiyū: Yumi Shimura, English VA: Caitlin Glass, Spanish VA: Martha Ceceña)

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