Student Number 13:

Konoka Konoe (Konoe Konoka?) Birthday: 18 March 1989. She is a cheerful and caring girl who lives with Asuna and Negi. If anything, she is the mediator of the group, being both Asuna’s best friend and Negi’s biggest supporter. Her test scores are top-notch. She is also the school headmaster’s granddaughter, and occasionally endures his attempts to arrange an omiai (Japanese arranged marriage) for her.

A fan of fortune-telling, she has tremendous magical potential, having come from a family of powerful mages. Her father, Eishun Konoe, is the chief of the Kansai Magic Association, who married her mother, the school headmaster’s daughter, in an arranged marriage in order to ease tension between the Kansai and Kantō (where Mahora Academy is located) Magic Associations. She is a member of the Konoe family of the Fujiwara clan, the source for all imperial brides from the 8th through 19th centuries.

Konoka was not informed by her father of her magical potential or of her family’s mystic history, as he wanted her to live a normal life. Before learning of Negi’s magical background, she was very interested (and still is) in fortune-telling and anything pertaining to the occult. She is the President of Mahora’s Fortune-Telling Club. As soon as Konoka saw Asuna’s pactio card, she wanted one of her own. Chamo was all for it (so he could get 50,000 Ermine Dollars) though Negi was initially against it. This led to a Botched Card and caused the magic in her blood to awaken.

Konoka’s magic ability first manifested on the tip of her finger during a shopping trip with Negi, and was briefly released when she healed Setsuna’s arrow wound during a fight in Kyoto. When Negi was caught in the effect of a petrification spell, Konoka formed a full temporary pactio with him in order to reverse the petrification.

The pactio process had also reversed the petrification spell on those affected at her home at the same time. Her artifact is an outfit with fans that allow her to heal any injury within three minutes. She is beginning to learn magic from Negi and Evangeline, and is able to cast a few simple spells like Yue.

She has strong affection for Setsuna, and this often makes their friendship seem more akin to a romantic relationship (although this mostly is from Setsuna’s side, as Konoka has admitted in Volume 2 that she isn’t ready for any serious relationship with anybody), and has occasionally shown interest in Negi Springfield (especially when he was magically altered by the Age-Deceiving Pills). She is sometimes shown in the manga dressed similar to white mages from the Final Fantasy series.

Recently, she along with Negi and some of the other girls had become trapped in the future where Chao had succeeded in revealing magic to the world. After a series of battles and narrow escapes, the group had returned to the past to stop Chao’s plan.

During the “Mage vs. Martian” battle, she worked in the infirmary, using her powers openly to heal those who manage to get injured in the mostly bloodless fighting.

At present, she and Setsuna are invited to join Negi in his trip to Wales. She and Setsuna are currently practicing magic in Eva’s resort, in which Konoka reveals a variation of her Pactio Healing outfit. She is also showing promise during a telekinesis exercise when she starts knocking down targets with psychic waves with relative ease.

She is also a target for the Badge Collection game, but Yuna and other Athletic club members consider her as difficult with Setsuna always protecting her. Her badge is never targeted.

According to the Class Register in Volumes 7+, and Chapter 128, Konoka is also a part-time member of the Library Exploration Club.

  • Negima!: It was mentioned in the anime series that Konoka’s powers are comparable to those of the Thousand Master, while in the manga, it said that she has the magic potential to even surpass that of the Thousand Master’s. She potentially has enough power that she can heal those who were petrified by the high-class demon Graf Hermann during his attack on the village where Negi and Nekane grew up.
  • Negima!?: Although she is a major member of Negi’s team and an early Pactio in this series, none of her abilities are connected in any way to her massive healing potential like in the manga or the first anime. Her Armor card involves a set of magical chopsticks she can manipulate like a whip, her Cosplay card lets her manipulate water parlor tricks, and her Suka card turns her into a koala. Konoka is also consistently emphasized with her connection to Setsuna in this series.

(Seiyū: Ai Nonaka, English VA: Monica Rial, Spanish VA: Xochtil Ugarte)

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