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Student Number 30:

Satsuki Yotsuba (Yotsuba Satsuki?) Birthday: 12 May 1988. She is the gentle cook. She enjoys cooking and is in the cooking club. She also cooks at Chao Bao Zi, a restaurant operated out of a streetcar that sells meat buns and other foods with Chao, Hakase, Ku, and Chachamaru. She is also the school dining officer. A very nice and hard-working person, Satsuki is liked by everyone in Mahora, even Evangeline (who sees the rest of the class as a pack of air-headed beasts).

Her very presence creates an atmosphere of serenity, and she can quickly put a stop to fights even between the hot-headed students in the High School and University martial arts clubs. Satsuki’s dream is to have her own restaurant, as she likes making people happy through her food. Satsuki has a unique way of speaking that is shown in the manga by depicting her words without a speech bubble (possibly similar in style to Sumiyoshi of the Excel Saga series).

Satsuki seems to be privvy to the details of Chao’s true identity, and presumably the existence of magic, as she had helped Takamichi, and later Misora and Cocone escape from Chao’s underground complex, and even pilots the Chao Bao Zi car, which is capable of flight, to rescue Negi and Chao at the end of their battle. The manga and anime also tend to associate her with Koalas.

Trivia

• Her personal name, Satsuki, literally means the “fifth month” of the solar calendar, May.
• Negima!: Her Pactio ability is a magical version of her Chao Bao Zi stand to feed hungry demons to death.
• Negima!?: Satsuki gains slight prominence as leader of the domestic/caretaker group after the class is sent to an alternate universe. During the “Suka incident”, she turns into a squirrel.

(Seiyū: Naomi Inoue English VA: Monica Rial Spanish VA: Leyla Rangel)

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Student Number 29:

Ayaka Yukihiro (Yukihiro Ayaka?) Birthday: 5 July 1988. She is the rich iinchō (class representative) as she is mostly called. She is the second daughter of the Yukihiro family. More often than not, she winds up being the only thing keeping the class in order, due to Negi’s inexperience with handling large groups. She is currently the 3-A class president and is among the highest scorers on school exams, where she was last seen as ranked 4th in her whole grade.

She and Asuna seem to hate each other, with the two often getting into fights, but it eventually becomes clear that they merely have an odd, but surprisingly close friendship that neither is willing to admit to. She is the girl most overtly fond of Negi, though she stands by the position that she is only interested in Negi because he “needs a mother figure”. A Botched Pactio Card is made, when she kissed a paper double of Negi during the trip to Kyoto. An interesting thing is that while she likes Negi, she frequently gets into arguments with Kotaro, who is also of Negi’s age (This is because in the manga he head butts her trying to escape from Chizuru, then calls her old).

The reason being Negi in her mind is the perfect boy (smart, polite & nice), while Kotaro is just the opposite (rude, mean, and more street smarts than intelligence). She tends to be aggressive in pretty much everything she does, which tends to wind up with her being misunderstood. However, she is very good at hiding her own past (such as the story about her younger brother who died at childbirth, which may explain her fixation on Negi). She is roommates with Chizuru, Natsumi, and later Kotarō (whom Chizuru introduced to her as Natsumi’s little brother), and is in the equestrian and flower-arranging clubs.

Even though Ayaka is a rich man’s daughter (her family owns a zaibatsu/konzern), that did not stop her from being well-versed in several unnamed martial arts, culminating in having a “ryuha” of her own (Yukihiro Ayaka-ryū). Her affection toward Negi increases substantially after witnessing his performance during the Mahora Fighting Tournament and learning about his missing father.

While on the outside, she may appear to be a typical spoiled brat; she is really a kind and caring person who wants to help Negi as much as she can. She even helped him speak with Asuna when the two were briefly avoiding each other. She and several of the girls in the class have vowed to aid Negi in his quest to find his father, though Ayaka has proven to be the most sincere in this case.

Though she is highly intelligent, she can often be clueless in relation to the events surrounding her. Thus, many of her classmates incorrectly think of her as a fool (even if they won’t say so out loud).

After Chao succeeds in her plan to reveal magic to the world, Ayaka remains devoted to Negi. When Negi and his group returns to the third day of the Mahora Festival, she is asked to make some changes to the big event being planned, as a favor for Negi. In the initial stages, the participants are armed with magic guns and engage in combat with Chao’s robots, under the pretense that it is part of a game.

After accidentally being sucked into cyberspace with the activation of Chisame’s Pactio, she and Makie assist in the protection of the barrier while Chisame fights against Chachamaru. After the battle ends, she appears to celebrate with the rest of the class… only to magically reappear when she finds out Chao has a book revealing whom Negi marries.

During the start of the summer break, Ayaka returns with a folder that contained some information concerning Negi’s father and his whereabouts. When she learns that Asuna will go with Negi to England, she immediately tried to get the folder back, but was unsuccessful in the attempt as Asuna demonstrates her new evasion skills.

She is now currently involved in the Badge Collection game that Evangeline set up, in order to win the right to accompany Negi and his group to Wales. She tries for Asuna’s badge but gets defeated easily after a few attempts even with her new moves, (though she does manages to score one hit on Asuna). In the end, Ayaka reluctantly accepts defeat and admits that Asuna and the others are more prepared than her to go with Negi, though she still wants a thorough explanation for when they return.

As for whether or not she and the other girls will stay behind or try to go England, (either with Negi’s group or by any other means), remains to be seen.

Trivia:

• Ayaka means “fleur-de-lis”, the emblem of Mahora Gakuen.
• A fun tidbit about Ayaka is that nearly every time she appears in a scene, flowers appear from behind her. (Manga Only)
• Early in the manga, she is referred to as a “half-breed,” as one of her parents (her mother, apparently) is from Europe.
• Negima!: Her Pactio ability ends up having her throw flowers at her opponent, which ultimately do nothing, (though this could be due to her innate personality and not her actual Pactio power). In one episode of the anime, it’s also shown that she plays violin, however it’s unknown how well she can play (it was shown when Sayo was trying to pass the time)
• Negima!?: Ayaka retains most of her character traits from the manga: her bossiness, her love/hate feelings towards Asuna (and at one point her Chupacabra/magic club) and her amorous affections towards Negi (seen through a collection of Negi-themed merchandise she has all over her room). Similar love/hate feelings are also directed towards roommate Makie, who she keeps belittling for having no drive. Although she gains Pactio abilities during the mass contract, she is one of the few students to have all three forms invoked. Negi ends up invoking her Armor form at one point to save Asuna, turning her into a whip-wielding female warrior. During the “Suka incident”, she turns into a cheetah. Finally, during the “Final Pactio invocation”, she reveals her Cosplay form: a perfumer who can trace things by their scents.

(Seiyū: Junko Minagawa, English VA: Laura Bailey, Spanish VA: Maria Fernanda Morales)

Student Number 28:

Natsumi Murakami (Murakami Natsumi?) Birthday: 21 October 1988. She is a sweet yet shy girl who is an actress in the theatrical club. She loves acting but dislikes her ad-libs as well as her own appearance because her body is not very ‘mature’-looking. In the manga, she also has freckles, and a complex about them as well.

This is made worse by being roommates with Ayaka Yukihiro and Chizuru, who both have mature bodies and bigger breasts. Kotarō, who is also staying with them, assumes the identity as her younger brother.

Although the role was forced on her by Chizuru, Natsumi seems to be adapting well to the role of being an older sister. Recently however, she seems to be showing signs of jealousy regarding the girls Kotaro has been talking to after the festival (Yue and Nodoka, Kaede, Mei, and Takane).

• Negima!: Her Pactio allows her to disguise as Fujiko Mine from Lupin the 3rd and use a magic motorcycle. Ordinarily, however, she has brown hair.
• Negima!?: Natsumi’s hair color is changed to green in this series. Natsumi is stuck most of this series under the shadow of her roommate Chizuru, consistently being belittled mentally by the supposedly helpful but ultimately confusing or damaging comments and actions. During the “Suka incident”, she turns into a hamster.

(Seiyū: Mai Aizawa, English VA: Majken Kunishima, Spanish VA: Maru Guerrero)

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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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Student Number 26:

Evangeline Athanasia Katherine McDowell (Evanjerin Atanashia Kiti Makudaueru?), listed as Evangeline A.K. McDowell (Evanjerin Makudaueru?) on the seating chart. The only Caucasian girl in the class, her birthday is not known; although her body stopped aging at age 10, she is over 500 years old and because of that she has the habit of refering to herself as old.

A cold and devilish little girl, she is actually a hunted witch and vampire, once having a six million dollar bounty on her head, nicknamed the “Dark Evangel” among other names. She rarely says much in class, and what she does say tends to lean towards an attempt to seem as evil as possible. She does have a soft side, however, which she rarely shows. She enjoys playing Go and is in the Go and Tea Ceremony clubs. She has two Ministra Magi, Chachazero and Chachamaru.

She was born in a castle in Europe during the Middle Ages, possibly in Ireland or Scotland (McDowell’s Mc means grandson of~ in Celtic languages), although it is not known if she was royalty or not. When she awoke on her tenth birthday, she found she had been turned into a vampire while she slept.

Initially she had the customary weakness of a vampire towards sunlight and so on that she learned to overcome, becoming a Shinso (真祖, Shinso?) vampire or “high daylight walker”. She developed her magical powers in order to get revenge on the man who turned her, whom she killed. She was initially forced to lead an itinerant life since she could not hide the fact that her body no longer aged, though she shows she can disguise herself as a much more physically mature version of herself.

Little more is known about her history until more recent times when she was saved by the Thousand Master, then pursued him mercilessly out of love thereafter until he managed to shake her off. Feeling rejected, she finally tracked him down in Japan, but was tricked into walking into an “anti-vampire soup” composed of garlic and leeks.

Employing the powerful Infernus Scholasticus curse, the Thousand Master confined her to the grounds of Mahora Academy and put in place a barrier to restrict her abilities. He claimed that Eva should try to “live in the light for a change” and promised her that he would free her from the curse when she graduated. Unfortunately, 5 years later, he “died”, thus her chance of being free from the curse was gone until his son Negi came. Konoemon Konoe, the School Dean, employed her as a security guard, personally keeping him informed about events occurring in the school.

Evangeline eventually turned on Negi, claiming that, as son of the Thousand Master, draining his blood would enable her to break the curse, although on close examination of what she actually said, it is questionable about whether she really intended to go through with it or not.

Evangeline specializes in ice-based spells and dark magic, and is shown to be incredibly powerful once in her full capacities. This is shown in her easy win over both Fate Averruncus and the demon-god Sukuna. Even devoid of her magical powers, she is still a very skilled fighter and can effortlessly take down a man twice her size, and was even able to overcome Setsuna with her physical abilities alone (though that may be due to the fact that Setsuna at the time was hesitant to strike at the body of a ‘child’).

Her title of Doll (or Puppet) Master stems from the fact that, not only is she able to animate dolls, but she can also control people against their will as if they were puppets. Negi convinces her to become his master in magical combat after he sees her true power in Kyoto, and she becomes a demanding teacher, expecting (as well as a daily payment of blood for the lessons) menial servitude from her student.

Despite the assistance she gave Negi in Kyoto, Herrman never captured her when he captured the girls who helped him in Kyoto, and in fact deliberately avoided her. But she watched the ensuing battle from a distance with Chachamaru and Kaede, noting with satisfaction that Negi’s adversity helped him develop his abilities further. There are clues that she may have a romantic interest in Negi, including her jealousy when she found out that he was also taking lessons from Ku Fei and more recently, a rather sensual kiss she gave him in her resort.

She has mentioned that she does not want to be involved in Chao’s plans, and that she will just sit and watch the whole thing. She also gave Chao full permission to do whatever she wants to Negi.

After the festival, Evangeline puts Asuna through boot camp to help her improve her fighting skills, as it was painfully apparent that Asuna was below Negi’s abilities. She forcefully made Asuna her second apprentice after she clear the boot camp. With her training finished, Evangeline began pitting her classmates against each other once the news of Negi’s plan to go to England got out.

Amused after seeing Makie, Ayaka and the Twins fail to capture Asuna, she then sets up the Badge Collection game, (most likely to test the results of the training Negi’s group had underwent). The rules were simple. One has to only steal away a special badge from one of the members in Negi’s new club. Doing so will give the person the right to accompany the club to Wales. However, the member who loses her badge will be forced to stay behind. Naturally of course, she didn’t inform Negi or the other club members of the game. In the end, their training proved true, and no badges were taken.

According to Chachamaru, Evangeline dislike the name “Negima-dan” as the temporary group name for the new “club” Asuna started. The badges she give out during the collection game is one of the attempt she try to rename the club.(As she was asked to become the Supervisor of the club by Asuna earlier) The badges are shape like a wing and contains the new group name “ALA ALBA”, which means “White Wing” in Latin. Chachamaru explain that this name is driven from Thousand Master’s group name “ALA RUBRA”, which mean “Crimson Wing”.
Trivia:

• Evangeline’s Stats: B:67, W:48, H:63
• Evangeline’s last name is a possible pun on the Japanese pronunciation of the phrase “make doll.”
• Evangeline’s titles include:
  -Dark Evangel (Kana: Dark Evangel?)
  -Doll Master (Kana: Doll Master?)
  -Maga Nosferatu (Kana: Maga Nosferatu? meaning “the Undead Mage/Wizard”).
  -The Queen of The Night (Kana: The Queen of The Night?)
• Several publications refer to Evangeline’s whole name as Evangeline Athanasia Kitty McDowell, however the original pactio card that Akamatsu released writes her name in Latin as Evangelina Athanasia Ecaterina MacDovell. This should have led it to become Evangeline Athanasia Katerina McDowell. Ecaterina, Katerina, and Kitty are all different versions of the name Catherine (the latter being a nickname).
• Negima!: Although consistently a thorn on Negi’s side, she does assist when needed. In the final battle, her Pactio ability awakens her true power once again. In a rare act of kindness she casts a spell to reveal Sayo to the rest of the class because as she says “She’s the only one to know how it feels to be trapped at the school.”
• Negima!?: After her defeat against Negi, Evangeline tries to stay on the sidelines during the Star Crystal crisis, watching from a distance and spending more time eating ramen and drinking tea with Takamichi and Chachamaru. However she finds herself a target of the true enemy, first turned into a giant and then possessed by the Star Crystals themselves. With the assistance of his students, Negi defeats Evangeline again by doing a Pactio on her, freeing her from the evil influence.

(Seiyū: Yuki Matsuoka, English VA: Laura Bailey, Spanish VA: Ana Lucia Ramos)

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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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Student Number 24:

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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Student Number 23:

Fumika Narutaki (Narutaki Fumika?) Birthday: 6 December 1988. She is the younger of the Narutaki twins. She is almost the complete opposite of Fuka. Her hobby is cleaning, and while she goes along with Fuka’s pranks, constantly tries to tell her sister that they are bad ideas.

The twins claim to be undergoing ninjutsu training from their roommate Kaede, and are seen wearing ninja outfits during the “Kiss Negi” contest in Kyoto, and afterwards, when they wanted to play with Negi. She and her sister are the only girls in the class that have not yet gone through puberty. She and her sister spy on Negi’s group as they plan to head to England and spread the news to the other girls in the class. At present, the twins are competing to win the right to accompany Negi to England. She along with Fuka try to steal Kaede’s badge, and fail spectacularly.

Trivia:

• According to character design notes in Volume 2, Fumika was going to be called Fumi Narushima.
• Negima!: Fumika’s hair is pink and her hair accessories are yellow. But her most radical change is becoming a twin of Fuka in personality as well as biologically, becoming just as mischievous and troublemaking (although she does retain some of her cautious personality). Like her sister, her pactio ability is the creation of a limitless amount of clones.
• Negima!?: Fumika finally retains her more cautious personality in this series, but her eyes are now blue in color to differentiate from Fuka. Both she and her twin gain Pactio early in this series, with her only release being a Cosplay card turning her into a Western-style detective. At a later time, she discovers that this form gives her a magic magnifying glass that can see the future. During the “Suka incident”, she becomes a bumblebee. Fumika also has a habit of ending all her sentences with desu.

(Seiyū: Mari Kanou, English VA: Alison Viktorin, Spanish VA: Rocío Garcel)

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Student Number 22:

Fuka Narutaki (Narutaki Fūka?) Birthday: 6 December 1988. She is the elder of the Narutaki twins and the class prankster who always seems to be looking for some way to get into trouble. More often than not, she winds up getting Fumika to help her out as well.

Both she and her sister claim to be taking ninjutsu lessons from Kaede (Volume 5), but whether they have any appreciable skills is questionable. The only notable skill they have displayed is their ‘Spy Run Jutsu’ (which is basically just eavesdropping and then running away).

Both twins took part in the “Kiss Negi” game, where the both kissed a clone of Negi at the same time, resulting in a single Botched Pactio Card featuring both of them. The twins are members of the Academy Walking Club, and Fuka enjoys teasing Negi by exaggerating things. She and her sister learn of the formation of the new club that will accompany Negi to England, and are now competing in Evangeline’s Badge Collection game. She along with Fumika try for Kaede’s badge and are both promptly knocked right out.

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Student Number 21:

Chizuru Naba (Naba Chizuru?) Birthday: 29 January 1989. She is a gentle, motherly, and loving, yet strange girl. She is a kind person to everyone, volunteers at the daycare center in Mahora City and is in the Astronomy club. She is a good cook, and has exceptional domestic skills. Even though she is very nice, she can be sometimes be equally scary.

Shortly after Golden Week, she found an injured dog on the side of the road. She took the dog in, which turned out to be a young boy named Kotarō Inugami, who had come to Mahora looking for Negi. Unfortunately, Graf Herrman, a powerful demon, attacked Kotaro, and kidnapped Chizuru when she stood up to him. She all but adopts Kotaro after Negi and Kotaro defeat Graf Hermann, and has him to stay in their dorm under the identity of Natsumi’s younger brother.

Chizuru is extremely courageous, as shown in her encounter with Graf Hermann, where she calmly confronted him for his intrusion and even slapped him when he was about to petrify Kotaro. While Chizuru stays out of the fighting during the mock-battle at the festival, she does take part in the search for Chao late in the conflict, and wins a gift pack for finding her (which she promptly intimidates Kotaro and Natsumi into not disclosing).

Her roommates are Ayaka, Natsumi, and Kotaro. Chizuru has the largest breasts in the class. In the Volume 8 character notes and the Negima Workshop, Ken Akamatsu mentions that Chizuru and Mutsumi Otohime from his earlier work, Love Hina, are very similar.

• Negima!: Her pactio artifact in the anime is a group of magic spheres that explode.
• Negima!?: The second anime takes advantage of Chizuru’s character development since the first series, developing both on her motherly personality and nosy, inquisitive nature. Her relationship to Natsumi is further emphasized as she consistently bugs her roommate with bizarre sayings and forcing Natsumi to suffer for her own amusement. Furthermore, her knowledge and understanding of astronomy becomes key towards the events in discovering the mastermind of the troubles in the series. During the “Suka incident”, she transforms into a cow.

(Seiyū: Misa Kobayashi, English VA: Amy Rosenthal, Spanish VA: Irma Carmona).

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Student Number 20:

Kaede Nagase (Nagase Kaede?) Birthday: 12 November 1988[1]. She is the gentle and calm yet strong and tall girl. She has an easy-going attitude and is almost always seen with her eyes almost closed. She frequently ends her sentences with “de gozaru”, an archaic verb form historically used by samurai. She also has a tendency to address people, particularly in the second series, with the honorific “-dono” (”lord”, used by samurai towards superiors; example: Konoka-dono, Setsuna-dono) In her free time, she trains in the mountains, displaying a wide range of ninja-like abilities such as kage bunshin.

She later uses her abilities to great effect when aiding Negi and his companions during their battles. She actually comes from the Koga ninja clan, but was born a generation too late, since her parents do not carry on the family ninja traditions (Volume 3). As a result, many of her abilities are self-taught. She is “Baka Blue” of the “Baka Rangers” study group, meaning that she is among the lowest scorers on tests in the class. She is also a member of the Mahora Walking Club, along with Fuka and Fumika and taught them ninja abilities.

Kaede was the second girl in the class (Asuna being the first) to learn about Negi’s magic. When Negi had fled into the woods during his conflict with Evangeline, Kaede found him while training, and helped cheer him up. She saw Negi flying off the next morning, but kept this a secret even from him until she helped Negi rescue Konoka at Kyoto where she fought and defeated Kotaro Inugami. During her fight with Kotaro, Kaede introduced herself as a chūnin (中忍, chūnin?) of the Koga ninja clan (甲賀流, Koga ninja clan?).

Kaede is the second tallest girl in the class, and has the second largest breasts. Graf Herrman did not capture her when he fought Negi and Kotaro under the World Tree, but she was watching the battle with Evangeline and Chachamaru from a distance. She did quite well during the Mahora Fighting Tournament, but she knew that she was no match against Colonel Sanders but she put up a terrific fight, and even forced him to invoke his artifact, submitting only after he told her of his purpose. She later suggested that she and Kotaro train together to become stronger.

She and a few other girls were trapped in the future with Negi after Chao succeeded in revealing magic to the world. After returning to the past, she chose to fight alongside Negi, where she fought with Mana until well after the end of the battle, when their fight carried all the way into the middle of the post-festival celebration.

Currently, she and Ku Fei are training in Evangeline’s resort as they will join Negi, Asuna, Setsuna, and the Library Expedition Group in their upcoming trip to Wales. Her English Club badge is also a target in Evangeline’s Badge Collection game, though Yuna and the others are reluctant to try for it, considering her ninjitsu skills. The Narutaki twins however try for hers and are promptly knocked out by Kaede.

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Student Number 19:

Chao Lingshen (katakana: Chao Rinshen?) Listed Birthday: 1 December 1988. She is the top student of the entire year group (also referred to as the “smartest kid in the school”). A rich Chinese girl, she is in many clubs and is particularly into cooking. Before the Mahora Festival, she runs the “Chāo Bāozi” (lit. “Super-Bāozi”, as well as “Chao’s Bāozi”) restaurant out of a specially modified streetcar (which is apparently able to fly, as shown in Chapter 160), along with Satomi, Satsuki, Ku Fei, and Chachamaru. She is best friends with Satomi, and both enjoy using Satomi’s inventions on Ku Fei.

Her origins are mysterious (no records of her have been found dated any earlier than 2001) and she claims to be related to Negi by blood. This may explain why she is so intelligent. She was the primary sponsor of the Mahora Fighting Tournament and offered a cash prize of ¥10,000,000 to the winner. She has come into conflict with the school administration for spying and trying to reveal the existence of magic to the world at large. She even went as far as imprisoning Takahata and “Mini” Setsuna when they started to investigate the truth of the tournament.

She also leaked details of Negi’s search for his father, which, combined with his performance in the festival tournament, turned him into an instant celebrity. Her intentions are mostly secret (although world domination is listed as her primary interest, she dislikes war, hatred, and the unilateral control of major powers), but even Evangeline warns Asuna that Chao’s kind of evil is far worse than her own. Chao later reveals her intention to quit school and return home on the last day of the Festival, and says that if she missed that chance she would not be able to return home for another 22 years.

Chao has often claimed that she is a Martian to those who have asked, more specifically that she is from a Martian colony a hundred years in the future, and that she is a descendant of Negi. Hints given in her own words to her friends, plus the spell pattern on her body, imply that the future she comes from may not be a happy one.

Chao sets a trap for Negi during the festival, confining him and his partners inside of Evangeline’s resort for a whole week. This gave her the opportunity to deploy a massive army of robots and capture several key points on the Mahora campus, as well as other locations around the world, and activated a powerful spell to cause people to freely recognize the existence of magic, bypassing the usual skepticism most people would have.

She presumably returned to her own time afterwards, but Negi was able to use the World Tree to travel all the way back in time to the final day of the festival to try again to stop her. The final day of the school festival has become a battle as a large portion of the festival’s attendees have been used to raise an army to fight her robot forces.

Chao then makes her appearance before Asuna and Setsuna, equipped with what appears to be a futuristic battlesuit and promptly defeats them. Negi battled Chao on an airship high over the war game, where she revealed her connection to both her teacher and the Thousand Master. With her time-watch apparently destroyed, she showed that she is also capable of using magic, much to the surprise of everyone, and especially Negi. Her elemental affinity is fire. However, unlike Negi, her magic is derived from magical pattern which are drawn on her body.

During the battle, Negi warns her not to use such power as it may endanger her life, but Chao ignores the advice stating that this was for all or nothing and she had worked hard for over two years. Everything else didn’t matter. When Negi asked Chao if the two years she had spent with her classmates were irrelevant, Chao had paused momentarily and admits that it was the one factor she had not counted on. At the climax of the battle, the magical symbol on Chao’s head bursts, causing her to be engulfed in Negi’s final attack.

Chao was defeated, but the battle left them both exhausted and out of power, both magical and mechanical. Fortunately, they were saved by their classmates. But the fight also gave Satomi enough time to complete their spell, just as Chisame managed to break through Chachamaru’s attack in cyberspace to restore the school’s barrier. However, as per Chao’s orders in the event of her defeat, Satomi was not to cast the Forced Recognition Magic spell, but instead a spell to remove hatred and sadness from the world for one day.

After the end of the plot, she prepares to head back to the future, keeping her word for losing and to protect the past from knowing of the future. However, Negi stops her, both in defense of the people who want her to stay and to offer her to become a “Magister Magi” like himself, hoping the two of them will fight in the past to change her future. However, seeing that she did lose and that she must keep her part of her promise, Chao chooses to return to the future.

After distracting most of the class with a book revealing her own family tree, which would also include who Negi marries, she says goodbye to her closest classmates (Satsuki, Satomi, Chachamaru and Ku Fei), as well as a goodbye to her ancestor Negi, she travels back promising to meet again.

Naturally, with the smartest student in Mahora now gone, Class 3-A’s test average took a nosedive during the mid-semester exam before the summer break. However unlike before, they didn’t end up in last place. Rather somewhere near the middle.

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