Thread: MSN Ch136

Originally Posted by lambchopsil

That would be a good idea. First, gotta have a mod do it though...

The only mod here is Jyuu, and I don't know if he has time. Always worth trying, though.

Send him a PM and he will get around to it when he has a chance.

what is the AQS web address

Umm...you ever read the credit page of the scanlations you read? It has all the info you need

That's why I hate noobs and the like, never pay a tiny bit attention to the credit pages... Wouldn't the problem be solved if you placed the credits on the first page of MSN ? removing those summary boxes and putting in IRC and site addy ?

Nah, then more of the picture would be blocked, which people don't want. Since the credit page is the first page for our stuff, it's their fault for not seeing it

I liked this chapter. I can't wait for a scanlation of it to match the dialogue with the art.

That aside, at the AQS board, one person started a topic showing a bit of concern since Haruna is a part of the team and seems to feel it was a bad move based on her personality in general, and how she lacks knowledge of the true danger she's in by joining up, and how lightly she's treating the situation. What do you all think?

I personally feel that she could be an asset for the team since she is such an otaku (well, I'd consider her one, anyway). I feel that since she's so into Mahou Shoujo, and is perceptive of people, she may be able to figure out an enemy's weakness based on just that. She reads enough manga to know how it works. lol

Now, the flaw here is the fact that she would more than likely take the situation lightly before getting serious if ever in a battle, therefore, having to learn from that mistake.

Now, as for why Chamo probably doesn't want Negi to do a pactio with both Ku Fei and Kaede could be due to the fact that maybe it'll be too much for Negi at his current state. Maybe the reason it's not a problem for Setsuna to be one of Negi's partners, is due to the fact that she does all that ki type stuff. Maybe since she has all that type of ki-training stuff (sorry I can't word this better), that it's not necessary for Negi to use his magic whenever she's fighting with him. For Ku Fei and Kaede, maybe the magic usage on those two would be too much for him. Hope what I said made sense there, because I can't think of a better way to explain what I'm trying to say, so sorry if I came across as confusing there.

The other reason could be because Ken just doesn't want every single girl of Negi's class to pactio with him.

You've got a good point there, and some has already pointed to the problems that may arise in regards to the new pactio contracts.

Originally Posted by SSJ Jupiter1981

That aside, at the AQS board, one person started a topic showing a bit of concern since Haruna is a part of the team and seems to feel it was a bad move based on her personality in general, and how she lacks knowledge of the true danger she's in by joining up, and how lightly she's treating the situation. What do you all think?

Most of the girls in 3A have a special ability, so it's easy to understand or accept that they can be valuable allies for Negi. Unfortunately there are some things that we don't know much about at this point. Like being turned into an ermine, when does that happen, and how many has to know a mages secret before he's/she's turned into an ermine... like I read somewhere once, "when you trust someone with a secret, you have to trust their friends with the secret as well" simply because people can't hold on a secret.

And I think it's way past time Negi to be turned into an ermine, Asakura, Yue, Nodoka knows of Negi's secret (I can't remember if Maki does too) and those are the only "normal" people who knows he's a mage, so perhaps that's why he hasn't been turned into an ermine yet, because it's less than a handful. We can only speculate about this at this time.

Haruna is imo a very big problem, she's strong and devious and doesn't seem to understand the first thing of how dangerous things are, and takes things very lightly. Aside from that I find her untrustworthy it's not because I have any specific argument in mind, it's just that her personality, and what the other girls say about her is often reflected in Haruna's behaviour. She's the "queen of gossips", and doesn't seem to be able to take things serious. Only example of her seriousness is when Yue made that "cliffhanger" trick in the Library expedition, imo jumping out without a safety line would have given us a better impression of what kind of a person Haruna is.

Originally Posted by SSJ Jupiter1981

I personally feel that she could be an asset for the team since she is such an otaku (well, I'd consider her one, anyway). I feel that since she's so into Mahou Shoujo, and is perceptive of people, she may be able to figure out an enemy's weakness based on just that. She reads enough manga to know how it works. lol

Now, the flaw here is the fact that she would more than likely take the situation lightly before getting serious if ever in a battle, therefore, having to learn from that mistake.

In regards to her as a partner, yes, she's probably very good and she may be able to draw things and bring them to life (we still don't know what she can do), but what if she starts flaunting around with her powers for fun... like you pointed out she has to feel the pain and suffering before she'll start taking things a bit serious.

Originally Posted by SSJ Jupiter1981

Now, as for why Chamo probably doesn't want Negi to do a pactio with both Ku Fei and Kaede could be due to the fact that maybe it'll be too much for Negi at his current state. Maybe the reason it's not a problem for Setsuna to be one of Negi's partners, is due to the fact that she does all that ki type stuff. Maybe since she has all that type of ki-training stuff (sorry I can't word this better), that it's not necessary for Negi to use his magic whenever she's fighting with him. For Ku Fei and Kaede, maybe the magic usage on those two would be too much for him. Hope what I said made sense there, because I can't think of a better way to explain what I'm trying to say, so sorry if I came across as confusing there.

The other reason could be because Ken just doesn't want every single girl of Negi's class to pactio with him.

I think having a pactio with Kaede and Ku Fei would be way better than having Yue, Nodoka and Haruna, but I have to admit that Nodoka's artifact at least is pretty nasty and useful. I don't know about Yue or Haruna.

Both Ku and Kaede are very good at controlling their "Ki" (call it physical energies in the body), but what puts Setsuna apart from them is that she knows "demon banishing art" (or something like that, "Shinmeiryu") and can use far eastern charms etc. Kaede is probably closest to resembling Setsuna in that area because of her "ninpo". Now as we know Negi does activate the card for his partners and thus, increase their power many times, and that may be what you're thinking of, but I don't think it has any meaning for Negi since he seems to have a bottomless amount of magic power, and only his physical endurance is a hindrace. But the power "drainage" must be the same for each partner, and the stronger the mage is the stronger his partners become.

Takamichi did show us that it's possible to combine magic power and ki power, so I think it would be best if Negi made a contract with Kaede and Ku (and Man if she can have more than one contract, which would raise new questions).

Hope I manage to answer some of your questions

But isn't combination of ki and magic a really hard to master thing?
So Setsuna, Kaede and Ku won't be able to get any powerup from Negi for a while, exept for the artifact. That's why there isn't much need for them to form a pactio.
Besides, didn't Kamo said once, that it's best to form a pactio with someone you have romantic relation with. (i don't remember where). That's why he didn't force a pactio i think.

Originally Posted by flannan

But isn't combination of ki and magic a really hard to master thing?
So Setsuna, Kaede and Ku won't be able to get any powerup from Negi for a while, exept for the artifact. That's why there isn't much need for them to form a pactio.
Besides, didn't Kamo said once, that it's best to form a pactio with someone you have romantic relation with. (i don't remember where). That's why he didn't force a pactio i think.

How can combining ki and magic be hard, when Asuna could do it when she was little (one of the flashbacks), you just have to know how to do it. (Young Takamichi couldn't do it because he didn't seem to understand it fully, and Asuna just seemed to do it without thinking).

Besides when you form a pactio you get magic boost when you use the card, look at all the times Negi activated the pactio for Asuna and even for himself. you really need to read the earlier volumes again............

Does that mean Haruna loves Negi, I don't think so, and Kamo is nowhere in position to force Negi to make a pactio.