So I just got around to reading this after putting it of for years, did anyone else who read this hate how basically every other chapter it kept repeating how useless and worthless Touta is compared to his "grandpa"? Like I get Negi is a genius but even at the end of the manga they kept repeating how awesome Negi is and how stupid Touta is.
>>292198685I liked it at the start, found it hilarious how little Touta cares about the comparison with being the most unmotivated MC in history. Good contrast to Negi chasing the legend of the legendary Thousand Master.Unfortunately, as the story shifted more into being a straight sequel to Negima the comparisons became far more grating. Touta was on his way to develop as his own person and the rug kept getting pulled on that to give some more fanservice to the MSN fanbase at least Chisame was confirmed as the canonical winner of Negibowl, thank fuck it made UQH worth it all by itself
>>292198685There wasn't really a good way to adequately deal with the baggage from Negima's ending.
>>292198817They showed later in that Touta not caring wasn't really true, he just had an inferiority complex that never really gets addressed.
>>292199440At that point I felt that Akamatsu just wanted a stronger connection to Negima so he threw that extra bit of motivation in.And the fact that it does not get properly adressed later just hows how much of an afterthought this was. So I'm treating the "revelation" as a retcon.
anal with Karin
