“ | The envy of the losers will eventually destroy this world. Surely you know this, Touta-kun. If you want to stop it, your only choice is to come with me. | ” |
—Negi imploring Touta to join him. |
Negi Springfield (ネギ・スプリングフィールド Negi Supuringofīrudo?) was an immortal mage and the son of Nagi Springfield, the Thousand Master, and Arika Anarchia Entheofushia, the Vespertatia's queen, as well as Touta Konoe's grandfather. Negi is the main character in UQ Holder's previous series, Negima! Negi Magi, Magister. Negi, also known as The Greatest Mage ( Saikou Madou-shi? ), began his career as a teacher for class 3-A at Mahora Academy Middle School For Girls. Following his adventures, he gradually established himself as a powerful mage, much like his father, Nagi, and his teacher, Evangeline A.K. McDowell, had done before him.
Appearance[]
In terms of overall physical appearance, Negi resembles his father, Nagi Springfield. He has spiky, reddish-brown hair that darkens to pure brown and reaches the nape of the neck.
Negi experienced a form of delayed and finally ceased ageing at around 17 years of age, locking his appearance in that physical state, due to his own immortality from the Magia Erebea, a type that mimics vampirism. Negi only resembled his father as an adult, and he went through a large growth spurt as well as an increase in muscle tone.
Negi's preferred attire appeared to be Chinese-themed outfits.
Personality[]
- This section covers only the behavior of Negi revealed in UQ Holder!. For his full profile, please see Negima! Wiki.
Despite being labelled an evil immortal by the Immortal Hunters, Negi has demonstrated a concern for people in general, even if they were Immortal Hunters. He defeated the summoned monsters that were threatening Shion Nagumo and stopped by to inform him that a rescue party was on its way, hoping for assurance that the Immortal Hunter would be alive by the time they arrived. Negi was also shown to immediately follow orders, as he rushed to Evangeline's side when she ordered the pursuit of the Mage of Beginning to continue.
History[]
- This section covers only the history revealed in UQ Holder!. For Negi's past exploits, please see Negima! Wiki.
By the time of 2065, 20 years prior to the start of UQ Holder!, Negi had become famous throughout the magical community, and made a name for himself as "The Greatest Mage". During Shion Nagumo and his squadron's attempt on the life of the Mage of the Beginning, revered as the most evil immortal, Negi, Evangeline, as well as a squad of UQ Holder members arrived in time to battle with the demons controlled by the Mage of Beginning when the situation got out of hand, and it is implied by Nagumo that, through Negi's immense powers, they killed the Mage of Beginning. This left a lasting impression on Nagumo, who came to fear Negi's power, and, due to his use of the Magia Erebea, branded him as "the strongest, but most evil immortal."[2]
At some point Negi managed to kill the Mage of the Beginning. However, this made him to fall victim to her revenge-type mental possession and awaken her special skill, the resonance. This causes him to feel the pain of every living being until his mind breaks, allowing the spirit of the Mage of the Beginning to take control of his body. He seems to have been traveling through space for the last 30 years while trying to resist the effects of the resonance.
Under unknown circumstances, Negi is thought to have died prior to the start of UQ Holder!, and is supposed to be buried alongside Touta's parents, leaving Touta Konoe, Negi's only living descendant, in the care of Evangeline A.K. McDowell.[3] However, as revealed by Fate Averruncus, Negi is in fact alive, but Touta's assistance is required to "save" him.[4]
Plot[]
The First Mission Arc[]
Upon seeing Touta's Magia Erebea, Shion Nagumo remembered Negi Springfield during the Third War against the Mage of the Beginning and stated that those who are immortal through Magia Erebea are the worse.
Mahora Martial Arts Tournament Arc[]
According to Mana Tatsumiya, Negi himself is believed to have submitted an application for the Mahora Martial Arts Tournament; a tournament held at the school he formerly taught at. Suspiciously, as Negi is treated as a missing persons, due to immortal status, the application was sent via old fashioned mail, so as to make it far more difficult to trace. [5]
When Yukihime and Fate Averruncus examined the signature Negi left on the application, the former concluded it was indeed the man's handwriting, and when she touched the signature, a delayed spell activated that took the present group to a different landscape. Negi appeared alongside Nagi Springfield; his father, the "Thousand Master". Negi decided that now was the time to explain things to his master and former comrade, both of whom expressed concern and worried for the long-missing mage. Before Negi could continue to speak, however, a shady figure emerged from beneath their feet, restricting the immortal and his father in bindings of shadow energy, seemingly pleased to have finally discovered Touta Konoe. [6] When Yukihime introduces Touta to the surviving members of Negi's class, Mana Tatsumiya reveals that Negi had been sighted. She then shows a picture of him on top of a space station trying to resist the effects of the resonance, seemingly reaching his limits. He is later seen on another space station, once again in pain from effects of the resonance until he falls to his knees. He then desperately reaches his hand out to the earth when he is confronted by two of his former students, Nodoka Miyazaki and Yue Ayase. The two tell him that he doesn't need to endure any longer and that they will put an end to everything, while Jack Rakan and Albireo Imma appear behind them. They all then watch over the earth and Nodoka says that they need to go save it. It is implied that Nodoka, Yue, Rakan and Albireo are just illusions and Negi's possession by the Mage of the Beginning is now complete.
In the wake of Cutlass' attack on the Good Bull Speeder Race in New Tokyo, Negi arrives.[7] Negi's sheer presence within the stadium alone causes an immense silence, and every being within the area feels nothing but fear. The effect is intense enough to resemblance necromancy, but Negi breaks the silence by sneezing, creating a powerful gust, shredding the clothes of every person within the arena. Negi laughs apologetically, explaining his bad habit of sneezing while nervous. Negi is joined, however, by his former allies, and formally greets his teacher, Yukihime.[8]
Despite Yukihime's protests, Negi crosses the distance between himself and his former teacher to embrace her. He tells her she's right, and that the cries of grief persist in following him, only to add that he should join her, as she wanted the same thing he's experiencing once before. Before he can say anything else, Touta pushes him away by his face, telling him not to get touchy-feely with "his" woman. Negi recognizes Touta, but before he can do anything else, two of the Touta's unleash a powerful Magic-Cancelling blow towards Negi. The attack is blocked by Rakan, who defends Negi and incapacitates Touta. [9]
After they were freed from the Phantasmagoria, Negi himself interrupted Touta and Kirie's combination attack on Cutlass, producing a weapon and swinging it down on Touta; telling Touta that the boy will now come with him.[10]
Final Battle Arc[]
During the final battle against Ialda Baoth and her apostles, Negi was brought back to life by Touta using the artifact he find at his workshop, after Touta declare that saving Yukihime will be pointless if there's isn't a world or future to live, both of them decide to team up to save the World from Ialda's Cosmos Entelecheia.
After the end of final batlle, Negi lost his immortality and spent the rest of his life stay together with his father Nagi and Class 3-A students on Planet Shinobu. Negi and the Class 3-A died peacefully at later date.
Abilities[]
- This section covers only Negi's abilities revealed in UQ Holder!. For his full set of abilities, please see Negima! Wiki.
“ | It was overwhelming. He moved at the speed of lightning, and manipulated a thousand spells. He was an immortal monster who destroyed everything. The strongest, but also, the most evil immortal. | ” |
—Shion Nagumo, describing Negi's immense powers |
Being the son of both the legendary Thousand Master and former Vespertatia Queen, Negi inherited their talents and magic power, which has been shown from an earlier age. Since becoming a Teacher at Mahora Academy, all his magic talents has allowed him to face some of the strongest magicians and opponents from his era. Entering Mundus Magicus and mastering Magia Erebea, Negi became able to defeat Jack Rakan and Fate Averruncus at ten-years-old, as well as becoming an immortal.
Following the next couple decades, he soon became viewed as the strongest being in the Solar System, which is a title otherwise held by Fate, who teamed up with Evangeline A.K. McDowell to fight against him as Negi Ialda possessed by Ialda Baoth; however, both together was barely able to keep up with him.
Immortality[]
At first, Negi started off as a normal human, however, he became an immortal because of the corruption of Magia Erebea. Because of his Royal bloodline, inherited from his mother, instead of becoming a full-on monster, he was able to make it apart of himself, turning into something that cannot be human similar to Evangeline, raising all his parameters to far greater heights. Following the UQ Holder Timeline, Nagumo described him as being "The Most Powerful and Most Evil Immortal".
Magic Abilities[]
Master Mage: Negi even at ten-years-old was known for his natural talent in magic with his skill honed under the training of masters such as Evangeline A.K. McDowell, his main teacher and Jack Rakan, the Thousand Sword and a hero from the previous war as Ala Rubra. His talents were proven as he could create original and powerful spells, as well as master spells beyond what should've been possible. By the year 2065, Negi wields a thousand different spells and moved at lightning speed.[11] He displayed his prowess by outmaneuvering both of Yukihime's and Fate's respective spell simultaneously altogether, knowing full well that it was not able to work on him.
- Iaculatio Fulgoris (
雷の投擲 , Yakurātiō Furugōrisu): A spell that attacks by releasing electrically charged magical javelins. Because the projectiles released are javelins and not arrows, each one of them is stronger than an arrow of thunder, and has greater physical destructive power.[12] - Jovis Tempestas Fulguriens (
雷の暴風 , Yowisu Tenpesutāsu Furuguriensu): This is one of the most potent long-range magic attacks. The caster combines Wind and Thunder magic and unleashes them at the enemy in a massive storm of destructive energy. - Deka Kilipil Astrape (
万雷招来 , Banrai Shōrai): An unseen lightning class spell, used in conjunction with "Iaculatio Fulgoris" to create Titanoktnon IV, that Negi used during his final fight against Nagi-Ialda. This spell is the Kilipil Astrape's upgraded form.[13] - Dios Lonchi Titanoktonon VII (
雷神槍 「巨神ころし VII」Raijinsō "Titanokutonon VII"): This original spell merges the magical power of "Deka Kilipil Astrape" with the magic spear of "Iaculatio Fulgoris," creating a giant, electrified pike many times bigger than Negi.[14]- White Phoenix Advent (
白鳳来迎 , Hakuhō Raigō): An original spell created by Negi and considered to be his ultimate secret move. The Banrai Shourai contained within the Titanoktonon VII is unleashed as a point-blank attack. This spell caused a sizable explosion on the asteroid Agartha.[15]
- White Phoenix Advent (
- Tactile Signature Seal Magic: Negi, when he signed his signature onto an application for the Mahora Martial Arts Tournament, inscribed the writing with a magic spell that caused the area around the person who touched the signature into a barren red landscape, possibly Mars. The seal itself seemed to be a direct way of communicating with Negi, as he spoke directly to Fate and Yukihime when the latter triggered the seal.[6]
- Unnamed Magic Circle: For his fight against his father Nagi Springfield (Ialda Baoth), Negi had designed a magic circle that keeps the magic power from his environment and residual magic power from his opponent flowing without limit, letting him maintain his Lightning Form without running out of magic when fighting his possessed father on Agartha as long as he maintains a certain flow.
Magia Erebea[]
Magia Erebea: Negi had learned this unqiue magic from Jack Rakan, the Thousand Swords, as such, he can absorb offensive spells meant to be used against his opponents and take on their attributes. Befitting its nature as the Dark Magic, Magia Erebea feeds on the negative emotions (hate, fear, and sorrow), as well as his body and soul, in exhance for greater physical and magical power. However, Negi has soon overcome this magic in his lifetime eventually mastering and making it his own, thus becoming an immortal like his master and its creator, Evangeline A.K. McDowell. Unlike his master and grandson (clone), the latter inherited it from him, he is the user of a completed Magia Erebea.[16] Because of his 76 years of experience and practice, he has mastered it to the point of being able to turn into his "Thunder in Heaven, Great Vigor" Form immediately after freeing himself from a binding spell from Fate and Evangeline, both of which are powerful magicians before incapacitated Yukihime and Fate within 0.03 seconds, and proved himself capable of handling even his grandson who was using the same Magia Erebea.[17]
- Raiten Taisō (雷天大壮, lit. Thunder in Heaven, Great Vigor): To activate this form Negi would need to absorb the spell "Thousand Lightning Bolts", once this form is activated the user is able to move at the speed of lightning (about 150 km/s or 93 miles/second) however his moves can be predicted and countered.
- Raiten Sōsō (雷天双壮 or 雷天大壮 II, lit. Thunder in Heaven, Twin Vigors or Thunder in Heaven, Great Vigor II): Otherwise known as "Perpetual lightning form". It is activated when Negi absorbs two "Thousand Lightning Bolts" spell, completely turning him into lightning. In this form, Negi's reflexes and physical capabilities are increased and also remove Raiten Taisō's weakness of being intercepted.[18]
Fighting Style[]
Master Martial Artist: Negi has become an adept combatant thanks to his training with Ku Fei; his skills became sharper from actual combat experience with adversaries such as Fate. His skill was enough to allow him to defeat an experienced gladiator without having to resort to using magic with ease. Through the usage of his "Raiten Taisō II", or "Perpetual Lightning Form" has shown himself to be able to fight on par with Rakan, who is said to be unmatched in unarmed combat. In the alternate timeline, his skill increased to the point of being able to fight on pair with Nagi, who was being controlled by Ialda, for five hours straight in "Raiten Taisō II" before being overwhelmed.[19]
Mahōken[]
- Full Power Raika Hōken (フルパワー雷華崩拳, Furu Pawā Raika Hōken, lit. Crushing Fist of Majestic Lightning):[20]
Movement Techniques[]
- Shundō (瞬動, Shundō): A movement technique that allows the user to move faster than the eye can follow. This is used by concentrating ki or magic power into the feet to get from point A to point B in the least amount of steps. It's important that when going from point A to point B that the users hold to the ground with the inside of their feet or they will trip.
- Raisoku Shundō (雷速瞬動, Raisoku Shundō): An original spell created by Negi, achieved via Magia Erebea's Raiten Taisō form. It is a type of Shundō that enables Negi to move in the speed of the return stroke of lightning, which is relatively 100000 km/s.[21]
Voice Actors[]
- Japanese: Rina Satō
- English: Greg Ayres
References[]
- ↑ UQ Holder! Manga: Chapter 140
- ↑ UQ Holder! Manga: Chapter 24, Pages 4-11
- ↑ UQ Holder! Manga: Chapter 1, Pages 19-20
- ↑ UQ Holder! Manga: Chapter 42
- ↑ UQ Holder! Manga: Chapter 64
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 UQ Holder! Manga: Chapter 65
- ↑ UQ Holder! Manga: Chapter 125, Page 17
- ↑ UQ Holder! Manga: Chapter 126, Pages 6-18
- ↑ UQ Holder! Manga: Chapter 127, Pages 5-17
- ↑ UQ Holder! Manga: Chapter 131, Pages 35-37
- ↑ UQ Holder! Manga: Chapter 24, Page 9
- ↑ UQ Holder! Manga: Chapter 130, Page 23
- ↑ UQ Holder! Manga: Chapter 139, Page 6
- ↑ UQ Holder! Manga: Chapter 139, Pages 6-7
- ↑ UQ Holder! Manga: Chapter 139, Pages 7-8
- ↑ UQ Holder! Manga: Chapter 24, Pages 4-8
- ↑ UQ Holder! Manga: Chapter 132, Pages 33-40
- ↑ UQ Holder! Manga: Chapter 133, Page 16
- ↑ UQ Holder! Manga: Chapter 139, Pages 9-21
- ↑ UQ Holder! Manga: Chapter 139, Page 15
- ↑ UQ Holder! Manga: Chapter 139, Page 10