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UQ Holder - Negima rebooted [message #353757] Mon, 02 October 2017 21:52
Dave Baranyi is currently offline  Dave Baranyi
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“UQ Holder! Mahou Sensei Negima! 2” is the first big release of the new anime season. This is based upon Ken Akamatsu's re-boot/sequel to his big hit “Mahou Sensei Negima!” of 10 plus years ago.. The new story is set 70 or so years after the original series, although as with most Japanese manga and anime “future” settings, the “future” is just today, with the occasional flying car.

Touta, the grandson of Negi of the original series, is being cared for by the immortal vampire Evangeline (going under the name “Yukihime”) who provides a link to the previous series and whose reminiscences allow for some early fan-service in the opening episode. Touta is getting visions of a red-haired man who is inviting Touta to go up the space cable and meet him. So Touta wants to go the the Big City so that he can go up the space cable. But Yukihime won't let Touta go until he defeats her.

But then an assassin goes into motion to kill Yukihime and attacks Touta too. In dire straights, Touta drinks some of Yuki-vangeline's blood, becomes an immortal vampire too, and defeats the assassin. Now that Yuki-vangeline's locale is known she and Touta have to leave their sleepy little rural town and go to the Big City.

The UQ Holder manga didn't do much for me when it first came out and I didn't bother following it. I didn't care for or about the characters or their situations, which was also the case for me with the original Negima. The first episode of the UQ Holder anime is much the same for me. There wasn't anything particularly new or original in the set-up or the characters. The SHAFT treatment of the second Negima anime series was bizarre, but at least it was a bit ambitious. I would like to see more SHAFT-like experimentation here, but we're not likely to get that.

In any event, the first episode wasn't bad enough for me to walk away from it immediately and I will try another episode or two, but if it ends up just being “yet-another” shounen magical fighting anime I won't bother with it in the long run. My initial rating is B-.

Dave Baranyi
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