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==Evangeline A.K. McDowell== |
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[[Image:Negima Evangeline A.K. McDowell.gif|left]]Student Number 26: '''Evangeline Athanasia |
[[Image:Negima Evangeline A.K. McDowell.gif|left]]Student Number 26: {{nihongo|''''''Evangeline Athanasia Kitty McDowell'''|エヴァンジェリン・アタナシア・キティ・マクダウェル|Evanjerin Atanashia Kiti Makudaueru}}, listed as {{nihongo|'''Evangeline A.K. McDowell'''|エヴァンジェリン・マクダウェル|Evanjerin Makudaueru}} on the seating chart. The only [[Caucasian race|Caucasian]] girl in the class, her birthday is not known; she looks about 10 but she is over 500 years old. A cold and devilish little girl, she is actually a criminal witch and vampire 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 (board game)|Go]] and is in the Go and [[Japanese Tea Ceremony|Tea Ceremony]] clubs. She has two Ministra Magi, Chachazero and [[Chachamaru]]. |
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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 {{nihongo|[[Shinso]]|真祖}} vampire or "high day 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, which she may have used to try and seduce Nagi, then later Negi. |
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 {{nihongo|[[Shinso]]|真祖}} vampire or "high day 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, which she may have used to try and seduce Nagi, then later Negi. |
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==Nodoka Miyazaki== |
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Revision as of 21:42, 20 October 2006
Makie Sasaki
Student Number 16: Makie Sasaki (佐々木 まき絵, Sasaki Makie) Birthday: 7 March 1989. She is the energetic (and sort of childlike) rhythmic gymnast. Although she is a gymnast, her spirit is her strong and weak spot, as told by her coach, Ninomiya. She is a friend of Yūna, Ako, and Akira, who are also in sports clubs, and is "Baka Pink" of the "Baka Rangers" study group, standing out as the second lowest scorer (with only Asuna performing more poorly than she does). Makie really likes Negi (She thinks that he's very cute, but at the same time, can recognize his maturity), but because of his age, does not like him in any romantic way. She is still jealous of his affection so usually ends up in the middle of any competitions for Negi's attention. Makie is extremely skilled with a gymnastics ribbon, and can use it to grab things out of her reach, such as fruit, books, and adorable preteen teachers. She is enthusiastic when it comes to rhythmic gymnastics and achieving her dream of competing in the Olympics.
Makie has gone down into the labyrinth under Library Island, been turned into a vampire by Evangeline, seen Negi battle in the Mahora Festival tournament, and has a botched Pactio with Negi she got when she kissed a copy of Negi during the "Kiss Negi" game in Kyoto. She remains ignorant of Negi being a mage (although may retain some faint memories from the time she was possessed by Evangeline). However, with the current storyline during the 3rd day of the Mahora Festival, she may not be out of the loop for much longer as she, Chisame and Ayaka are transported to a strange waterlike world (presumably the internet), after Chisame activates her Pactio artifact. (Seiyū: Yui Horie, VA: Kat Borneman)
Sakurako Shiina
Student Number 17: Sakurako Shiina (椎名 桜子, Shiina Sakurako) Birthday: 9 June 1988. She is the most cheerful of the three cheerleaders in the class. She likes Negi, but only because she thinks he is cute. She loves karaoke and her pet cats, Cookie and Biscuit (translated as Kukki and Bikke in Japanese) and is in the lacrosse club. As a hobby, Sakurako gambles a lot (it was probably a habit instilled in her younger days). She wins her bets most of the time, with great profit, as seen when the Love-Love Kiss Operation concluded and it was discovered that she was the only one who bet on Nodoka to win. She has been in the same class as Asuna and Ayaka for a very long time, so she knows a lot about them (and bets when they fight since Asuna first transferred). On the third day of the Mahora Festival, she takes part in the mock-battle event. Along with her cheerleader compatriots, Sakurako is stripped to her underwear when the robots blast her clothes off. (Seiyū: Akane Omae VA: Colleen Clinkenbeard)
Mana Tatsumiya
Student Number 18: Mana Tatsumiya (龍宮 真名, Tatsumiya Mana) Birthday: 17 November 1988. She is the daughter of the keepers of the Tatsumiya shrine (which is on campus), and works part-time there as a priestess (miko), employing guns with spellbreaker bullets as her tool of exorcism. She is not what one describes as sociable, since she keeps to herself most of the time and does not engage in conversation. She is also a kind of mercenary, and mostly takes on contracts that pertain to hunting/destroying/exorcising demons and ghosts and will take on any job as long as she is paid well. Her assignment during the Mahora Festival was to prevent confessions of love from occurring, although Chao also employs her during the Mahora Fighting Tournament. When on the job, she is extremely serious and straightforward, which at times can make her seem cold-hearted and quite frightening. She discovered Negi's secret when she helped rescue Konoka at Kyoto. She is also in the Biathlon club, as her apparent crush is the captain of the club. Mana has the second largest breasts in class, and is the second tallest girl. Strangely, Herrmann never captured her when he fought Negi and Kotaro under the world tree.
Mana carries a pactio card, which is the remnant of a contract she had with a mage who is now deceased (whom the biathlon captain resembles, though she still shot him when he tried to confess to her). It should also be noted that the name written in Latin on her Pactio card is "Mana Arkana" (arcana meaning secret). This, and an exchange with Chamo, seems to hint that Mana is attending Mahora under an assumed identity, and may even be older than she claims. Mana possesses certain abilities, one of which is her Demon-Eye, which allow her to see demons and spirits, (though she did not notice Sayo until much later). It is unclear if this ability is due to her former contract or some natural power. She also took part in the Fighting Tournament, but lost to Ku Fei. It is later shown that she may have thrown that fight, as Chao offered her some kind of payoff, but Mana turned it down. It was later revealed that she took part in Chao's plan to reveal the existence of magic to the world, as she had prevented people like Takahata-sensei from interfering.
Now on the third day of the Mahora Festival, Mana is carrying out her contract with Chao, using her skills as a sniper to take out the more powerful mages, and even some of her fellow classmates who are participating in the Mars Attacks Vs Mage Order 'game.'(Seiyū: Miho Sakuma, VA: Stephanie Young)
Trivia:
- According to her character design notes, Mana is half-Puerto Rican, half-Japanese.
- Guns she has used until now are listed in Mana's guns in the List of Items and Artifacts in Negima.
Chao Lingshen
Student Number 19: Chao Lingshen (超 鈴音 Kana: チャオリンシェン, 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 "Chao Bao Zi" restaurant out of a specially modified streetcar 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. She was the primary sponsor of the Mahora Fighting Tournament and offered a cash prize of 10,000,000 Yen to the winner. She has come into conflict with the school administration for spying and trying to reveal the existence of magic several times in the past. She even went as far as imprisoning Takamichi T. 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 a Martian colony a hundred years in the future, and that she is a descendant of Negi.
Chao sets a trap for Negi during the festival, confining him and his partners inside of Eva'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. (Seiyū: Chiaki Osawa, VA: Trina Nishimura)
Trivia
- In The Chuang Yi version, her name is rendered as "Chao Rinshen".
- In Chinese, 音 is never pronounced as shen or sheng in any district of China. The precise pronunciation of 音 in Chinese is yīn.
Kaede Nagase
Student Number 20: Kaede Nagase (長瀬 楓, Nagase Kaede) Birthday: 11 November 1988. She is the gentle and calm yet strong and tall girl. In her free time, she goes ninja training in the mountains, using real ninja weaponry and even having true ninja powers (such as the famous kage bunshin no jutsu, the art of shadow body-split as popularized by the Naruto series). She uses this to great effect (she can divide into up to 16 Kaedes, but only four if she wants them to be able to fight alongside her). She actually comes from a family line of ninjas, but was born a generation too late, since her parents do not carry on the family ninja traditions (Volume 3). Most of her abilities are self-taught. She is "Baka Blue" of the "Baka Rangers" study group.
Kaede was the second girl (Asuna being the first) to learn about Negi's magic, but kept this a secret even from him until she helped Negi rescue Konoka at Kyoto where she fought and defeated Kotaro. During her fight with Kotaro, Kaede introduced herself as a Chūnin (中忍) of the Koga ninja clan (甲賀流). Kaede is the tallest girl in the class, and has the third largest breasts. Herrmann 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 and although she lost to him, she was happy to know that she did her best. 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, though they do manage to find a way back the past. (Seiyū: Ryoko Shiraishi VA: Clarine Harp)
Chizuru Naba
Student Number 21: Chizuru Naba (那波 千鶴, 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 in Mahora City and is in the Astronomy club. She is a good cook, and has exceptional domestic skills. Even though she is nice, she can be sometimes be scary; an example of this would be her attempts give Kotaro a suppository of spring onions (negi in Japanese) to relieve his fever (this is an actual folk cure), and her intimidation of Kotaro and Natsumi to go along with her ideas. 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 Kotaru Inugami. Unfortunately, Graf Wilhelm, a powerful demon, attacked Kotaro, and kidnapped Chizuru when she stood up to him. She all but adopts Kotaro after Negi and Kotaro defeated Wilhelm 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 Wilhelm, where she calmly confronted him for his intrusion and even slapped him when he was about to petrify Kotaro (it should be noted that previously, only Asuna has shown to be able to strike mages, demons, and other magic-users like that). 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, Akamatsu mentions that Chizuru and Mutsumi Otohime from Akamatsu's earlier work, Love Hina, are very similar. Her artifact in the anime is a group of magic spheres that explode. (Seiyū: Misa Kobayashi, VA: Amy Rosenthal).
Fuka Narutaki
Student Number 22: Fuka Narutaki (鳴滝 風香, 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, but whether they have any appreciable skills is questionable. 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. (Seiyū: Kimiko Koyama, VA: Alison Retzloff)
Fumika Narutaki
Student Number 23: Fumika Narutaki (鳴滝 史伽, Narutaki Fumika) Birthday: 6 December 1988. She is the younger of the Narutaki twins. Truth be told, she is almost the complete opposite of Fūka. Her hobby is cleaning, and while she goes along with Fūka's pranks, constantly tries to tell her sister that they are bad ideas. The twins claim to be undergoing ninja 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. (Seiyū: Mari Kanou, VA: Alison Retzloff)
Satomi Hakase
Student Number 24: Satomi Hakase (葉加瀬 聡美, Hakase Satomi) Birthday: 14 July 1988. She is the robotics expert. She best friends with Chao, and created Chachamaru with her help. Her nickname is "Professor" (博士, 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. (Seiyū: Mai Kadowaki, VA: Jayme Westman)
Chisame Hasegawa
Student Number 25: Chisame Hasegawa (長谷川 千雨, Hasegawa Chisame) Birthday: 2 February 1989. She is the grumpy computer geek with a double life. She is serious in public, however in private she becomes Chiu, a famous Net Idol (and one of the most popular) who cosplays and takes glamorous and sexy pictures of herself which she posts to her website after editing them in "Photoshock" (Photoshop). She particularly dislikes the following students: Chachamaru, Mana, the Narutaki twins, Ku Fei, Chao, Evangeline, Kaede, Zazie, Negi, and (in the anime) Akira, considering them crazy (as they are quite eccentric-looking). Actually, she is afraid of being crazy because of her own hobby, but denies it herself. The only people who know about her double life are Negi, Kotaro, Kazumi, Ayaka, and Makie. It seems that the whole class knows her secret but do not actually understand the whole "Net Idol" concept. 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. In episode 16 of the anime, Kazumi is shown holding a cosplay picture of Chisame as blackmail. 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.
Though initially skeptical, and desperate to rationalize the events of the Martial Arts Tournament, Chisame deduced that Negi was a mage while conversing with him in between his fights, and through conversation with Chachamaru. During a later conversation with Chachamaru, she once suggested to form a probationary contract with Negi. Though she immediately said that she was just joking, events are beginning to pull her in that direction. Chisame has seen and recognized Negi's inherent gift for accidentally charming girls, and has tried to keep him at arms length. This is proving to be more and more difficult as she keeps being pulled deeper and deeper into Negi's world, from time travel and being turned into a ten-year-old, to going to Eva's resort and finding herself included in Chamo's plans for forming a team with Negi and his students (with the accompanying encouragement to form a pactio with Negi). Currently, she and some of the girls were trapped in the future after Chao had succeeded in her plan to reveal magic to the world. Though she is most reluctant to get involved in any of this magic business, Chisame joins the other girls in Negi's rescue and they were able to get back to the third day of the school festival.
Now with things getting desperate with Chao's armies attacking, Chisame, (with much reluctance on her part), finally agrees to make a Probationary 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 has teleported her (as well as Makie and Ayaka) into a strange water dimension (presumably the internet).
In Negima Workshop, it is noted that Chisame and Narusegawa Naru (of Love Hina), are similar in appearance. (Seiyū: Yumi Shimura, VA: Caitlin Glass)
Evangeline A.K. McDowell
Student Number 26: 'Evangeline Athanasia Kitty McDowell (エヴァンジェリン・アタナシア・キティ・マクダウェル, Evanjerin Atanashia Kiti Makudaueru), listed as Evangeline A.K. McDowell (エヴァンジェリン・マクダウェル, Evanjerin Makudaueru) on the seating chart. The only Caucasian girl in the class, her birthday is not known; she looks about 10 but she is over 500 years old. A cold and devilish little girl, she is actually a criminal witch and vampire 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) vampire or "high day 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, which she may have used to try and seduce Nagi, then later Negi.
Little more is known about her history until more recent times when she was saved by the Thousand Master and pursued him mercilessly 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 leek. Employing the 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. With this in mind, it is no surprise that Mr. Takahata wrote "Ask her advice if you are in trouble" in Negi's class roster.
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. Furthermore, now that she is draining some of Negi's blood as payment for instructing him in combat spells, she is still unable to break the curse. This may imply that it would take more than draining the blood of Nagi or his descendant to undo the spell.
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 without her magical powers, she is still a very good fighter and can easily throw a man twice her size. 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. She becomes Negi's master in magical combat after he sees her true power in Kyoto, and demands high performance (as well as a daily payment of blood for the lessons) from her student. Despite the assistance she gave Negi in Kyoto, Herrmann never captured her when he fought Negi and Kotaro under the world tree, and in fact deliberately avoided her. But she was watching the battle with Chachamaru and Kaede from a distance. 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, the 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. (Seiyū: Yuki Matsuoka, VA: Laura Bailey)
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 (闇の福音 Kana: ダーク・エヴァンジェル)
- Doll Master (人形使い Kana: ドール・マスター)
- Maga Nosferatu (不死の魔法使い Kana: マガ・ノスフェラトゥ, meaning "the Undead Mage/Wizard").
- The Queen of The Night (夜の女王)
Nodoka Miyazaki
Student Number 27: Nodoka Miyazaki (宮崎 のどか, 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." (本屋ちゃん 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 Chuang Yi translates 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 develops feelings of Negi after he saved her when she fell down some steps. 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 Asuna 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. (Seiyū: Mamiko Noto, VA: Leah Clark)
Nodoka is slightly different in the anime series of Negima; she has a mild case of Androphobia (fear of men) initially.
Trivia:
"Nodoka" means "quiet, calm" (source: Ken Akamatsu, "Negima! Esquisses Préliminaires, Tome 2")
Natsumi Murakami
Student Number 28: Natsumi Murakami (村上 夏美, 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 (underdeveloped figure, unmanageable hair, and in the manga, freckles) 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. (Seiyū: Mai Aizawa, VA: Majken Kunishima)
Ayaka Yukihiro
Student Number 29: Ayaka Yukihiro (雪広 あやか, Yukihiro Ayaka) Birthday: 5 July 1988. She is the rich iincho (いいんちょ, 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 considered the class president and is among the highest scorers on school exams. 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 may 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. What exactly is being done is yet unknown but it pertains to stopping Chao from revealing magic to the world, and involves nearly everyone attending the festival. 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. Currently, she is with Chisame and Makie, all of whom are inside a strange water dimension after the activation of Chisame's Pactio.
A fun tidbit about Ayaka is that nearly every time she appears in a scene, flowers appear from behind her. (Manga Only) (Seiyū: Junko Minagawa, VA: Laura Bailey)
Trivia: Ayaka means "fleur-de-lis", the emblem of Mahora Gakuen.
Satsuki Yotsuba
Student Number 30: Satsuki Yotsuba (四葉 五月, Yotsuba Satsuki) Birthday: 12 May 1988. She is the gentle cook. She enjoys cooking and is in the cooking club. She also runs Chao Bao Zi, a business that sells meat buns together with Chao, and is 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 2-A as a pack of air-headed brats). Her very presence creates an atmosphere of serenity, and she can quickly put a stop to fights even between High School or University students. 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. It has been alluded that Satsuki knew of Chao's plot to reveal magic to the world, and informed Takahata-sensei of her plot, although he was neutralized by Mana. This could have possibly been a trap for him, considering Chao's intelligence. It is possible that Satsuki knows of the world of magic because of her lack of reaction when Negi cried saying he was bad Mage (under the influence of alcohol) and her being underground helping Takahata out of Chao's prison. (Seiyū: Naomi Inoue VA: Monica Rial)
Zazie Rainyday
Student Number 31: Zazie Rainyday (ザジ・レイニーディ, Zaji Reinīdi) The silent acrobat, and one of the most mysterious girls of 2-A. Nothing much is known about her, as she rarely associates with anybody, and even when she does, she rarely talks (she has spoken only seven times in the serialized manga thus far). What is known is that she is a member of the Nightmare Circus, the school's Acrobatic Club, and is seen directing a group of "monsters" or "spirits" when she offered to cover for her classmates during the school festival, and gave Chao a tiny living dragon as a farewell gift. She has dark skin, and has two particular face paint marks: a large teardrop under her left eye, and a vertical line resembling a scar crossing the right side of her face. A splash picture of the cast shows her with claws growing from her fingers. She is always seen with her pet bird. (Seiyū: Yuka Inokuchi)