Mahou Sensei Negima/Tropes V-Z


 * Vampiric Draining: Evangeline uses type II.
 * Vancian Magic
 * Verbal Tic: Some of the girls show this from time to time, but Kaede is the most promanint in the manga with her saying "De Gozaru" in almost every sentence.
 * The Very Definitely Final Dungeon: Lampshaded by Rakan.
 * Victoria's Secret Compartment:
 * Mana prominently has one. In chapter 276, she pulls out an anti-tank rifle. It's lampshaded ("I mean... how the heck did you pull that thing out? From the "magical valley"?)
 * Earlier on, in chapter 35, Asakura stores Chamo in there. Bet he enjoyed it.
 * This rule isn't just limited to just big-breasted girls in Negima, as Nodoka, who is a bit of a Pettanko, is seen hiding one of the smaller versions of her Pactio item in her cleavage in chapter 280.
 * Villain Ball
 * Villainous Rescue: Evangeline saves the gang's collective ass in Kyoto, demonstrating her true power in the process by curb-stomping both a recently-summoned demon god and a later arc's Big Bad in quick succession.
 * Further along the line, parallel to another one of Negi's Big Damn Hero moments,
 * Chapter 330 shows
 * Visible Silence
 * Wacky Homeroom: On Steroids and/or Crack
 * Walk On Water
 * Walk the Plank: in chapter 268.
 * Wall of Text: Played for Laughs with Hakase's incredibly long rant about AIs and love in an early chapter.
 * Also often played for laughs when Yue is in a pinch, showcasing her tendency to overanalyze everything.
 * Waterfall Shower: Done on several occasions, most notably during the descent into the Library in volume 3, and then again much later in the Magical World by Asuna and Setsuna. and the Crowning Moment of Funny when Rakan and Chisame catch each other doing it.
 * The Watson: Usually the normal or inexperienced girls. The trained warriors are usually the ones explaining.
 * Wave Motion Gun
 * Weapon, Jr.: Small wands are used for magic training and as emergency magical foci. Chamo even describes them as beginner wands.
 * Weapons That Suck
 * We Are as Mayflies
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: want to "save the world" through means that others think are going too far.
 * We Will Not Use Photoshock In The Future: Kosmo Entelekheia edits video of the fight at the Gateport to make it look like Negi's group had destroyed it instead of themselves, causing Negi's group to become wanted criminals.
 * Chisame lampshades this early on, when Negi notices how much better she looks in her idol pictures but doesn't put two and two together.
 * Wham! Episode:
 * Chapter 277, in which the Big Bad's allies reveal they can simply, and do so to several minor-but-named characters.
 * Chapter 294: the reveal of  Fans shat bricks, and Chisame lampshaded it in the next chapter.
 * Note that
 * Her role may have been vaguely foreshadowed in the first chapter, but that's one hell of a delayed Chekhov's Gun if true. Small Version; Big Version.
 * And then, it's all undone by
 * (Then again, there's a lot of misleading foreshadowing in that collage, starting with the fact that the size of most of the characters' pictures is inversely proportional to their later role in the story.)
 * Chapter 311.
 * Chapter 329
 * Chapter 330 Doubles as Oh Crap.
 * Chapter 331 features  giving the impression that Akamatsu is out to either give his readers a concussion or just straight out split their skulls open.
 * Chapter 334 which ends up revealing the current Lifemaker to be.
 * Chapter 346 in which Negi reveals that
 * Chapter 352 alone blows them all out of the water.
 * What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?: From the summer OVAs: Zazie. Chachamaru. PING-PONG.
 * And in Chapter 261, epic arm wrestling between Ku Fei and Negi. In formal attire.
 * Rakan's technique "Eternal Negi Fever" that he wants to teach Negi.
 * Rakan's Secret ultimate technique: Silent flipping and stripping. Also his Rakan Gentle breeze tempest fist. Made exclusively to use against female enemies.
 * What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?
 * What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Negi and Team Good fall squarely on the side of "has a mind, is a person". seems to think only the human inhabitants of the Magical World are worth anything..
 * What Happened to the Mouse?: Numerous characters or plots are Left Hanging:
 * During the, no mention is ever made of Anya or her fate. Interesting, as almost every other 'harem member' is addressed.
 * Shiori and the rest of Fate's girls are similarly absent from not only the 6-month time skip, but also during the.
 * The whereabouts and activities of remain unclear, even though he survived his battle with Negi and promised that they would meet again. He suggested that he may know how to reverse the petrification cast on the inhabitants of Negi's village when he attacked it some time before the main story begins, but  and he vanishes completely.
 * Negi's mother, Queen Arika, despite being incredible important and surviving the events that destroyed her country, is never mentioned again. Her reasons for abandoning Negi, or her inability to help, for the less cynical, are never revealed.
 * What the Hell, Hero?: Not quite so serious one in chapter 349: Yotsuba calls out the girls for trying to force Negi to say . Her rationale? He's only ten, they already know about his magic and parentage, several of them have pactios with him and he's trying to save the world. Is he really not allowed to have any secrets at all?
 * When All You Have Is a Hammer: Negi has a tendency to solve his problems with kissing; such as
 * Whip It Good: Ayaka's weapon in Rare form.
 * White Magic
 * Who Would Want to Watch Us?: Asakura mentions that Negi would make a great main character, although Negi himself disagrees.
 * Wife Husbandry: The rationale of at least one of Negi's "admirers".
 * Who Writes This Crap?: Chisame is vocally annoyed by the lack of foreshadowing for
 * Wingding Eyes: More "wingding speech" than eyes. Negi, being ten years old, doesn't get the connotations of "winding up" Chachamaru, and does it pretty vigorously. Even with she clamps her hand over her mouth, her speech bubbles fill with wingding characters.
 * Witch Species
 * Wizard Duel
 * Wizarding School
 * The Worf Effect:
 * Takane, the girl with the shadow puppets. She's supposed to be at least reasonably competent, but has a tendency to go up against stronger enemies (that is, Negi and friends), get her ass handed to her, and have all her clothes blown off.
 * Any dragons that appear are likely going to be defeated in a spectacular manner.
 * The World Is Not Ready
 * World of Badass
 * The World Tree
 * Writer Revolt:
 * Akamatsu wanted to do an action series all along.
 * Also, the series' seemingly abrupt ending could be attributed to this, as Akamatsu ended the series early in protest to a proposed Japanese law giving publishers greater control and ownership over writers' work. This would also be a guarantee that he keeps the rights to his own work if the law passes.
 * Wrong-Context Magic: Negi can break the rules by kissing hard enough.
 * In the situation of Negi and Jack Rakan, whenever they break a seeming rule, it is brought to our attention, such as Chisame calling Rakan the man with infinite cheats, the one time he doesn't break a rule.
 * Wuxia: Euro-centric magic and fantastic setting aside, the manga is increasingly gravitating towards this genre. Ku Fei's, and therefore by extension Negi's fighting style is emblematic of those found in the Classic Shaw Brothers Kung Fu films and Jet Li films of the 1990s.
 * Xanatos Gambit / Crazy Prepared: If the fandom's theories are correct, defines this trope. Basically, she's trying to avert some disaster in the future. The best way to do this is to reveal magic to the world. But if Negi is able to stop her, then that means he will also be able to avert the future disaster... well done, my dear. Well done.
 * It goes even further. Turns out that the entire "Martian Invasion" event was . Dear gods girl.
 * Note that there is no proof for any of this.
 * Year Inside, Hour Outside: Eva's "resort-in-a-bottle" (24:1 ratio), Theodora's similar training ground (10:1), and Eva's scroll (max of 72:1, though it can only be used for mental training, not physical).
 * Years Too Early
 * Yin-Yang Bomb: Kanka.
 * Magia Erebea also counts, given that Negi uses the darkest of magic with the light based lightning spells he's most proficient at.
 * Magia Erebea itself is not dark, and lightning spells are just lightning spells. Magia Erebea is 'dark' because of how badly it screws around with the person using it. Magia Erebea actually counts for Yin-Yang Bomb out of technicality, but would really be better called an 'Everything Bomb'. Which is how it works: Magia Erebea accepts all facets of magic equally, light and dark.
 * You Are Not Alone: The last two episodes of Negima! (the first anime) revolve around this on multiple levels.
 * You Can Leave Your Hat On
 * You Can't Fight Fate: Both straight and subverted, for the same event. Not to be confused with the character named Fate, although fights against him have been Unwinnable more often than not.
 * Jack Rakan vs Fate played this straight as can be.  And he ultimately
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair
 * Youkai
 * Younger Than They Look: Most of the girls. Lampshaded when two of them try to get discount tickets to a movie, but the ticket saleslady refuses to believe that they're middle school students.
 * Later, Mana gets a hold of a de-aging candy and is able to buy an elementary student ticket. After having a big laugh about beating the system, she realizes that, with the cost of the candy, she actually lost money overall, making it something of a Pyrrhic victory. Then Kaede shows up in a child's body, but tells Mana that it's due to one of her ninjutsu techniques, so it's free.
 * Your Door Was Open: Negi wanders into Chisame's apartment while she's dressed as her alter-ego "Chiu-chan".
 * You Remind Me of X: Everyone tells Negi about how he reminds them of his father.
 * Your Vampires Suck
 * You Shall Not Pass:
 * You Wanna Get Sued?
 * Zettai Ryouiki: Lots, but notably both Asuna and Anya have achieved Grade S, although sadly it isn't a consistent thing.
 * Wuxia: Euro-centric magic and fantastic setting aside, the manga is increasingly gravitating towards this genre. Ku Fei's, and therefore by extension Negi's fighting style is emblematic of those found in the Classic Shaw Brothers Kung Fu films and Jet Li films of the 1990s.
 * Xanatos Gambit / Crazy Prepared: If the fandom's theories are correct, defines this trope. Basically, she's trying to avert some disaster in the future. The best way to do this is to reveal magic to the world. But if Negi is able to stop her, then that means he will also be able to avert the future disaster... well done, my dear. Well done.
 * It goes even further. Turns out that the entire "Martian Invasion" event was . Dear gods girl.
 * Note that there is no proof for any of this.
 * Year Inside, Hour Outside: Eva's "resort-in-a-bottle" (24:1 ratio), Theodora's similar training ground (10:1), and Eva's scroll (max of 72:1, though it can only be used for mental training, not physical).
 * Years Too Early
 * Yin-Yang Bomb: Kanka.
 * Magia Erebea also counts, given that Negi uses the darkest of magic with the light based lightning spells he's most proficient at.
 * Magia Erebea itself is not dark, and lightning spells are just lightning spells. Magia Erebea is 'dark' because of how badly it screws around with the person using it. Magia Erebea actually counts for Yin-Yang Bomb out of technicality, but would really be better called an 'Everything Bomb'. Which is how it works: Magia Erebea accepts all facets of magic equally, light and dark.
 * You Are Not Alone: The last two episodes of Negima! (the first anime) revolve around this on multiple levels.
 * You Can Leave Your Hat On
 * You Can't Fight Fate: Both straight and subverted, for the same event. Not to be confused with the character named Fate, although fights against him have been Unwinnable more often than not.
 * Jack Rakan vs Fate played this straight as can be.  And he ultimately
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair
 * Youkai
 * Younger Than They Look: Most of the girls. Lampshaded when two of them try to get discount tickets to a movie, but the ticket saleslady refuses to believe that they're middle school students.
 * Later, Mana gets a hold of a de-aging candy and is able to buy an elementary student ticket. After having a big laugh about beating the system, she realizes that, with the cost of the candy, she actually lost money overall, making it something of a Pyrrhic victory. Then Kaede shows up in a child's body, but tells Mana that it's due to one of her ninjutsu techniques, so it's free.
 * Your Door Was Open: Negi wanders into Chisame's apartment while she's dressed as her alter-ego "Chiu-chan".
 * You Remind Me of X: Everyone tells Negi about how he reminds them of his father.
 * Your Vampires Suck
 * You Shall Not Pass:
 * You Wanna Get Sued?
 * Zettai Ryouiki: Lots, but notably both Asuna and Anya have achieved Grade S, although sadly it isn't a consistent thing.
 * Zettai Ryouiki: Lots, but notably both Asuna and Anya have achieved Grade S, although sadly it isn't a consistent thing.