also known as ''Mahora Little Girls'', is a one volume spin-off manga from

Negima ''Negima! Magister Negi Magi'', known in Japan as , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ken Akamatsu. It was serialized in Kodansha's ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' from February 2003 to March 2012, with its chapters c ...

, created by

Ken Akamatsu is a Japanese manga artist and politician who has served since 2022 as a member of the House of Councillors. He made his professional manga debut in 1993, and is best known as the author of ''Love Hina'' (1998–2001) and ''Negima! Magister Neg ...

and made into a manga by Yui. The manga originally ran in the magazine

Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine is a Japanese monthly manga magazine published by Kōdansha. The magazine was started in September 2009 as a spin-off of another Kōdansha magazine, ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine''. Currently running manga series Past series * '' ×××Holic ...

from September 2010 to November 2011. The name Negiho or "Negiho (Ito) Bun" derives its name from the word "negi" the Japanese word for spring (green) onion.

Plot

Mahora Academy has just gotten a new teacher, Negi Springfield. Asuna, a preschooler at the academy, falls in love with him at first sight.

Characters

* Negi Springfield is a young adult teacher at Mahora Academy preschool. He is shown to be very caring of his students, helping them and watching out for them in their time of need. * Asuna Kagurazaka is a five-year-old preschooler who has a massive crush on her teacher Negi. She refers to him initially as Skinny onion. * Konoka Konoe is shown to be friendly towards Asuna, giving her advice on how to manage her crush on Negi. In chapter three she was thought to have a stalker who later is shown to be Setsuna protecting her, Konoka thanks Setsuna soon afterwards. * Ayaka Yukihiro is a blonde haired preschooler and a rival of Asuna. * Nodoka Miyazaki is four years old and is a classmate of Asuna. She is first shown in the first chapter trying to stop her from climbing up a tree. Asuna climbed up a tree hoping Negi would notice and save her but instead both Nodoka and Asuna fell to the ground with Asuna landing on the ground while Nodoka landed in Negi's arms. Furious and jealous Asuna challenged Nodoka to a duel afterwards to see who was more "grown up". The duel later ended with Negi breaking it up out of concern for their safety. * Haruna Saotome * Setsuna Sakurazaki is a sword wielding preschooler. She is first shown in chapter three as a "stalker" who in reality was protecting Konoka from danger. She appears to have a crush on Konoka, calling her Ojosama (Respectful term for young miss). * Yue Ayase * Zazie Rainyday

Manga

The first and only volume was released on November 17, 2011 by

Kodansha is a Japanese privately-held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Kodansha is the largest Japanese publishing company, and it produces the manga magazines ''Nakayoshi'', ''Afternoon'', ''Evening'', ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' an ...

. Negiho was adapted into English by

Kodansha USA Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC is a publishing company based in New York, USA, and a subsidiary of Japan's largest publishing company Kodansha. Established in July 2008, Kodansha USA publishes books relating to Japan, Japanese culture, and mang ...

and was released on May 7, 2013. The series takes place in an alternate world from the series

where the characters are pre-schoolers and Negi their teacher.

Reception

Negiho has received mixed reviews. Nick Rowe from readcomicbooks.net gave the manga a negative review calling it creepy and an average comedy read that is not kid friendly. Sean Gaffney from mangabookshelf.com said that he felt that the manga was not creepy but went on to ask "Who was this written for?", citing that, "I can’t imagine fans of the original, especially in the West, being enthralled by preschool comedy adventures".

References

External links

(Kodansha)
(In Japanese) *Negiho a

* {{Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine 2010 manga Kodansha manga Negima Shōnen manga Comics spin-offs