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Satomi Hakase (Hakase Satomi?) Birthday: 14 July 1988. She is the robotics expert. She is best friends with Chao, and created Chachamaru with her help. Her nickname is “Professor” (meaning “expert, learned person”, a play on her last name as it is also pronounced “Hakase”). She and Chao enjoy testing her inventions on Ku Fei. She is also a member of the Robotics and Jet Propulsion Society of Mahora University.

Her great intelligence, obsession in her work, and somewhat lacking common sense, lead her classmates to refer to both her and Chao as mad scientists. In her biography, she dislikes things that cannot be explained or scientifically proven, despite the fact that she is well aware of magic and uses it frequently in her work, especially in the creation of her greatest achievement, Chachamaru.

She becomes especially amazed when Chachamaru began displaying human emotions, following her interactions with Negi. During the Mahora Festival, she aided Chao with her plan to reveal the existence of mages to the world. She is not seen during the time Negi and some of her classmates are trapped in the future. She makes her reappearance on the 3rd Day of the festival as she and Chao prepare the spell to reveal magic to the world, though she appeared to be having second thoughts.

At that point, Negi arrived to stop them. However, by the time Chao was defeated by Negi, she was able to complete the incantation for the Forced Recognition Magic, though the spell was changed with Chao’s loss into an enchantment to remove hatred from the world for a day.

At present, Satomi is upgrading Chachamaru’s body with more humanlike skin and softer appearance.

  • Negima!: Her pactio artifact is a magic backpack, allowing her to use a “Plasma Punch” attack.
  • Negima!?: Usually seen alongside either Chao or Chachamaru, Satomi assists in the technical upkeep of the class. During the “Suka incident”, she becomes an axolotl (also known as a “wooper looper”). She also retains her mad scientist roots in the omake, both assisting Chao with her nikuman-making “Super Power Hand” and even upgrading the Baka Rangers to animal-like cyborgs (exactly like their Suka forms in continuity).

(Seiyū: Mai Kadowaki, English VA: Jayme Westman, Spanish VA: Connie Madera)

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