Jason casts a love spell on some Japanese school girls
Publisher: Madman
Tue, 23 January 2007
by: Jason
We find ourselves at Mahora academy: a typical Japanese girl's middle school, and student Asuna Kagurazaka is in the middle of what she believes to be a spell to capture the romantic attentions of her beloved professor Takahata (quite how this is going to work with a fish costume and a shitload of fried tofu I don't know). Yep just another day in an ordinary, normal school.
That is until class 2-A is introduced to their home room teacher for the year, one professor Negi Springfield, a young man from England. What isn't instantly obvious (at least in this review) is that the esteemed professor Springfield isn't even 10 years old yet.
Normally it would be a bit questionable for a ten year old to be teaching a class - but this is the world of anime, where anything can happen and usually does. Besides, young Negi is genius having already attained his bachelors degree. However, his main reason for being in Japan is to further his training as a wizard, as he hopes one day to become a great magister magorum (Wizard among wizards, Mr. wizard, wizard not to f**k with, etc... you get the idea)like his missing (presumed dead) father.
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Of course during all the commotion of Negi's arrival nobody bothered to find him somewhere to live after the required amount of hijinx, Asuna feels sorry for him and allows him to move in with her and Konoka, thus setting up the ground work for the almost but not quite improper sleeping arrangements needed for comedy anime to work.
Every great wizard needs an assistant, but in Negi's case an exception could have been made. Enter a cigarette smoking, hormone driven, panty thief of an ermine (small weasel like rodent) named Chamo (short for Albert Chamomile - so one would assume at one stage he was human). Chamo has made it his business to find Negi a partner as every great wizard needs a partner, a protector if you will. Although it is uncertain whether his usefulness comes from a genuine desire to help Negi, the boy who saved him from a trap when he was 5 years old or the need to make a quick buck. (How can you not love a rodent with a panty fetish and access to a Zippo and flashbangs?)
So is Negima V1 - The Basics of Magic any good? Well, coming from Ken Akamatsu, the man behind Love Hina (one of my personal favorites), its really a no brainer for me. While being quite different from Love Hina there are enough similar themes to keep fans of romantic or highschool anime comedy very happy. I for one will be haunting the releases at Madman for the next DVD
by: Jason
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