Student Number 27:

Nodoka Miyazaki (Miyazaki Nodoka?) Birthday: 10 May 1988. She is the shy bookworm. A member of the Library Exploration Group, who also helps in the book store, she spends so much time in the library that people outside the Library Exploration Group refer to her as “librarian girl” or “bookshop.” (Hon’ya-chan in the original Japanese: Del Rey translates it as “librarian girl” or “Librarian-chan”, and also by the literal meaning “Bookstore”, while Tong Li and Chuang Yi translate it as “Bookshop”) When Negi first arrived, she uses her hair to cover her eyes completely. Her current hairstyle usually leaves enough of an opening in her hair that one (and only one) eye and later both eyes can be seen, created by wearing a short ponytail. She is among the highest-scoring students in Negi’s class.

Despite having no interest in the opposite sex, Nodoka developed feelings for Negi after he saved her when she fell down some steps. During the second day of Kyoto field trip, Nodoka, after gaining the courage to do so, eventually confessed her love to Negi. However, due to Negi still being a kid, he didn’t know how to properly respond to the confession. So he suggested that they should start off as friends, which Nodoka accepted.

Nodoka is the second student Negi makes a probationary contract with, if inadvertently (She won the “Kiss Negi” contest by accident when Yue tripped her, causing her to fall and kiss Negi). Actually, she was supposed to be the first person to make a contract to Negi (thanks to Chamo’s scheme, telling Negi that she was kidnapped while putting a love letter to her from Negi himself) but was interrupted by Asuna after she discovered Chamo’s true intention.

Her magical artifact is the “Diarium Ejus”, a diary that shows the thoughts of any person she speaks the name of. A humorous joke concerning her artifact is that her fantasies about Negi are also shown, including thoughts of French-kissing him. During the first day of the festival, she invited him to a date where she gained enough courage to kiss him a second time, after very unfortunate yet insane events. Nodoka and Yue are learning magic from Negi, though it seems that her best friend is ahead of her in terms of spell casting.

During the third day of the Mahora Festival she was part of the group that was caught in the time-trap set by Chao, along with Negi. After escaping from an alternate future she became part of the group fighting Chao’s robot army in the Mars Attacks Vs Mage Order ‘game’. As they made their way towards Chao, Negi was nearly struck by the time-warping bullets fired from a Tanaka robot.

Nodoka saves Negi by pushing him out of the way and taking the hit. Immediately, Negi tries to use the Cassiopeia, which is the only thing that can cancel the effect of the bullets, but she pleads with him to go on because she believes that she can’t be of any help to the situation. She disappears, but Chamo assures a stunned Negi that she is safe and will be waiting for him 3 hours in the future, which she does at the end of the battle.

Following the events of the Mahora Festival, Nodoka becomes concerned about her relationships with both Negi and Yue. Thanks to an incident that took place during the second day of the Festival, she has become aware that Yue also has feelings for Negi, but is afraid that these feelings will tear apart her friendship. As a result, Nodoka wants to avoid a bitter love triangle situation and wants to be sure that both she and Yue can be in love with Negi while still being able to remain friends.

Unfortunately, after seeing Yue understand the problems that Negi’s having during the festival, Nodoka becomes jealous of Yue and begins to question what her true desire is when it comes to Negi. After confessing to Misora about this situation, Nodoka uses the Diarium Ejus to discover what she really wants, and is shocked to see that her desire is that she wants her and Yue to be part of a threesome with Negi.

Currently, she and the other members of the Library Exploration Club are invited to travel with Negi to Wales. She is furthering her studies in magic along with Yue in Evangeline’s Resort in preparation for the trip. At present, she, Yue and Konoka are practicing simple telekinetic exercises, which include pushing over pencils and erasers from a distance using psychic waves. Negi applauds the three in their progress and predicts they will be ready to begin casting magical arrows within 78 hours.

With the trip scheduled to begin within 2 weeks, Nodoka and Yue decide to tour the summer festival. However they were both the primary targets of Yuna, Ako, Makie and Akira in Evangeline’s Badge Collection game, since they were seen as the weakest of Negi’s group to England. But thanks to some fancy magic tricks from Yue the two of them manage to give Yuuna and the other sports girls the slip. Nodoka then invokes a new variation of her Pactio artifact. Her Diarium Ejus split apart into 4 smaller, notebook verstions of itself, allowing her to read the thoughts of Yuuna, Makie, Ako and Akira simultaneously. This allowed them to stay several steps ahead of their pursuers.

Nodoka is slightly different in the anime series of Negima; initially she has a mild case of androphobia (fear of men).

Trivia:

  • “Nodoka” means “quiet, calm” (source: Ken Akamatsu, “Negima! Esquisses Préliminaires, Tome 2″)
  • In the character notes of Volume 1, her image is noted to be similar to Shinobu Maehara of Love Hina, albeit with long front hair, and lack of the Naru-esque violent tendencies she began developing at the end of the series.
  • According to the character notes in volume 2, Nodoka’s name was originally to be Meiko Miyazaki.
  • In the manga, the personality of not liking men is strikingly similar to that of Motoko Aoyama (from Love Hina).
  • Negima!: Although she gains the same Pactio as the manga, she becomes the third student in the class to gain it and the first of the infamous “Mass Pactio”. Like the Manga, during the dodgeball game with the high school girls she is saved from being hit by Asuna. However unlike the manga she turns around and gets hit a little later in the head and is knocked out of the game, which by the way is considered an illegal hit in the official dodgeball rule book. She was also slightly haunted by Sayo before her discovery.
  • Negima!?: Nodoka once again becomes the second to gain a Pactio, assisting in the battle with the Star Crystals from the beginning. Her Cosplay card gives her the same diary as the manga, but also gives her a pair of glasses (which somehow get to a website and end up rivaling Chiu’s). Her Armor ability is a more powerful set of books that determine an enemy’s weakness. Finally, she also gains a Suka form that turns her into a seal. Though she continues her admiration towards Negi, the feelings between her and Yue are also explored in this series. As an added note, her hair color is switched with Yue’s with Nodoka having blue hair and Yue having purple hair. Also, her hair is bouncier and at least one of her eyes is exposed (most of the time both); they are only covered mostly when she looks down or in her Suka form.

(Seiyū: Mamiko Noto, English VA: Leah Clark, Spanish VA: Patricia Acevedo)

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