Mahou Sensei Negima/Tropes D-F


 * Dance of Romance: Chapter 260 has two of them actually: one by Negi and Asuna and the other one by Kotaro and Natsumi.)
 * Dangerously-Short Skirt: Plenty of the resident Action Girls wear one, or have worn one.
 * Dark Fic: Negimaru.
 * Darker and Edgier: Akamatsu-sensei appears to be rapidly accelerating his use of this trope. Chapters 277 and 278 feature, and the dozen-odd chapters before it feature
 * Darkest Hour: Well, see above. Most of what happened/is now happening after the Governor's ball trumps their previous predicament in awfulness.
 * To see how bad it's gotten since then, see . It doesn't get much darker an hour than that.
 * Dark Is Not Evil: Varies, but the few right bastards have all been humans with no explicit connection to darkness.
 * Shadow magic is the manipulation of shadows, no relationship to alignment. The three prominent users shown so far have included an antagonist that quickly became the protagonist's best friend, a friendly character mostly known for ending up embarrassedly disrobed and a Punch Clock Villain bounty hunter who was simply doing his job.
 * Also, Kagetarou, who looks like a villain at first but turns out to be Jack Rakan's buddy. Of course, now we have a shadow-user in Fate's group, and this new guy is quite evil,  . Then there's the whole
 * The demons showcased so far have all been perfectly amicable, at worst neutral characters who just happened to be hired by the enemy team and don't seem very pleased at having to cause serious damage. Justified in that the "Demons" are a race of the Magical World. The more demonic looking ones are a different kind of demons. The demons summoned in the Kyoto arc are oni. Setsuna and Kotarou are half-Youkai (Han'you). Demons like are a different kind as well.
 * Magia Erebea is... pushing it. It is not explicitly evil, but not the kind of power expected from a paragon of virtue either.
 * Dawson Casting: Most people in the Live Action Adaptation seem far from their supposed age
 * Day in The Limelight: Almost every girl gets a chapter, or even an entire arc, devoted to her. Especially if she hasn't had much "screen time" yet.
 * Lampshaded when Negi (in his bishonen form) tells Ako that `everyone's the main character in their own life'.
 * Death Of A Thousand And One Cats: Used humorously to illustrate Negi's confusion over a Power Level chart.
 * Death of the Hypotenuse: Doesn't actually occur, but Haruna points out that this is how love triangles usually end, causing the two girls involved to freak out considerably.
 * Defeat by Modesty: Rakan's favourite method of dealing with cute female enemies.
 * Defeat Means Friendship: Mostly subverted (in that the people fighting are already friends, and are in a tournament or whatnot), but played straight with
 * Recently Negi declared he wants to become friend. Given the characters you can guess how this "befriending" is going to happen.
 * Deliberate Values Dissonance: Slavery is a state-sanctioned practice and completely normal in Mundus Magicus. Seeing how they use Latin as (one of) their main language and that the political powers date back to Middle Ages if not Ancient Rome, this is to be expected. The current slave system was created by to deal with the  Slaves can buy their freedom and are protected against "excessive mistreatment", which the Slave Collar reports automatically, but the electrifying feature of the Slave Collar doesn't seem to fall under "excessive mistreatment" until the heroes beat the the crap beat out of a guy who did it and told him that he was going too far. There might have also been other, off-screen punishments, it was explicitly stated that it's only supposed to be used if a slave revolts or a similar extreme scenario scenario.
 * Demon Slaying: The Shinmei-ryu's speciality
 * Departure Means Death:
 * Designated Girl Fight: Odd gender inversion: despite the series having far more women than men, the majority of Negi's opponents have been male. At this point, the only named male characters he hasn't fought are
 * Despair Event Horizon:
 * In the original manga, Negi probably crosses this after  It isn't quite as bad as in the anime, but the fact that he was   really gives him issues later on.
 * Played for laughs after Rakan's hilarious first failed attempt to teach Negi Magia Erebea. "I'M GONNA DIE."
 * Rakan MADE this happen, purposely depressing the crap out of negi after his "Make a bad face and punch!" initial plan doesn't work. Also those were meant to be strong punches, Rakan told him to do 1000, which even for normal people would be quite tiring.
 * Deus Ex Machina: During the Gecko Ending of the first anime, the used to fix the Diabolus Ex Machina that kicked off the final arc. Fight fire with fire, they say...
 * In the manga, this artifact has a completely different purpose and gets explained in detail. But it's an Ass Pull that's immediately used to solve what had been an.
 * Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: Fate seems fond of his coffee parties.
 * Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: The first couple times Asuna attacks Eva (literally with a punch),.
 * Also, in chapter 265.
 * When Nagi
 * During the Magic World's final battles, a much more literal example: when pulls out his final move, Entei Shoukan,  jumps out with  and literally socks it across the face!
 * Dirty Business: Negi wonders if He's reassured  that there are no hard feelings, though.
 * Dirty Mind Reading: Nodoka gets a heavy dose of it from Paio: "Although one of them was just really screwed-up..."
 * Heck, Nodoka gets this from herself.
 * Diving Save: Negi and cat
 * Does This Remind You of Anything?: All over the place. A noteworthy example in the fifth panel of this page.
 * The most blatant occurence of this is any time between Negi and Chachamaru wherein Negi...turns her crank. Akamatsu couldn't have been more obvious if he'd included a subtitle saying, "OMGSEXLOL!"
 * At another point Chachamaru turns her own crank while moaning loudly. She is then caught doing it by Evangeline.
 * And, as if it weren't clear enough, the mana-in-a-can that she's using looks like a WD-40 can...which is, for all intents and purposes, a machine lubricant.
 * Doing It for the Art: The tankobon extras reveal just how much effort Akamatsu-sensei and his team put into this manga.
 * Do-It-Yourself Theme Tune: Every song to date.
 * Doomed Hometown: Negi's petrified hometown.
 * Double Entendre: The word "Partner" being the biggest one.
 * Dramatic Wind
 * Drool Hello: Twice, with the same occidental dragon in the underground beneath Mahora.
 * Drop the Washtub: Characters can make a washtub fall on others' heads by casting it as a spell.
 * Drum Bathing: Kaede and Negi share a barrel in an early chapter.
 * Dude, She's Like, in a Coma: Played straight mostly, normally on poor Negi, but inverted every once in a while with the sleeper doing the kissing.
 * Dungeon Crawling: Library Island at first, then Nodoka's adventuring party. All also have...)
 * Durable Death Traps: ...Though these can be explained by A Wizard Did It
 * Dynamic Entry: Everyone, and not just in combat either. Sometimes it seems that a kick to the face is just how the ladies of Mahora say "hello".
 * Elaborate University High: Taken Up to Eleven, Mahora Academy encompasses a fair sized city.
 * Eldritch Abomination: Two so far: the demon that Evangeline curb-stomped in the Kyoto Arc, and.
 * Appropriately, this one also gets curb-stomped, this one by.
 * Elemental Baggage: Subverted in the literal sense, but invoked by Evangeline and Chao's high-level elemental spells. The supplementary materials at the back of the tankobon explain that Kosmic Katastrophe breaks the Laws of Thermodynamics, and that freeze spells are considered higher-level than fire spells because they break more laws.
 * Elemental Shapeshifter: Negi has Raiten Taisou and Raiten Sousou, and Homura can transform into a fire spirit.
 * Elephant in the Living Room: Poor Negi...
 * Elevator School: Mahora Academy.
 * Ending Theme
 * Environmental Symbolism
 * Even the Guys Want Him: At this point, Negi's harem consists of a whole lot of girls...and (If that's what he meant by 'he already belongs to me,' anyway...)
 * Every Girl Is Cuter With Hair Decs: A lot of examples here. Asakura has a hair clip, and whatever holds her hair up in that pineapple shape. Asuna has her trademark hair-bells. Yue has baubles at the ends of her braids. Ku Fei has those things giving her hair those... spike...things. A form of cloth binding is used in the hair of Chao, Hakase, the Narutaki twins, and Mana. Even Negi has his hair bound back into a ponytail.
 * Something this troper found funny happens at the climax of
 * Everybody Remembers the Stripper: In-Universe example, played absolutely literally in the first chapter, which features Asuna getting stripped twice in front of Takahata. Despite the fact he's known her since she was a little child, this is the result when Asuna gets Negi to read his mind to see what he thinks about her.
 * Also, Takane's constant Clothing Damage has become a running joke. Everyone just says "Ohh...the stripper" when she introduces herself, and even she's started thinking of herself this way (bottom left panel).
 * Seems to be a Shadow Mage thing...
 * Asuna experiences this in chapter 352. Though to be fair
 * Everyone Is a Super: At least, in the magic world, magic is, understandably, very common, and nobody bats an eye at its use.
 * Everything Is Even Worse With Sharks: Especially sharks that know Kenpo.
 * Everything's Better with Dinosaurs: Only the fake, robotic ones, though. To his dismay, Negi's time machine won't take him back that far.
 * Everything's Better with Princesses
 * Lava Adds Awesome: The Ultimate Spell of Earth element wouldn't be awesome enough without it.
 * Everything's Squishier with Cephalopods: Chisame learns the hard way just how squishy things get.
 * Everything's Worse with Bears: On the contrary; Chief Mama one of the nicest people in Mundus Magicus... so long as you're on her good side.
 * Everything's Better with Monkeys: For this page of the manga
 * The Evil Army
 * Evil Chancellor:
 * Evil Counterparts
 * Executive Meddling: Almost a beneficial example. The executives wanted another Harem Comedy, while Akamatsu wanted to make a shounen manga. Thus, the end result is Love Hina meets Harry Potter meets Dragonball Z, and perhaps one of the most awesome works ever.
 * Also the reason for the abrupt ending of the manga. The publishing company of Negima were attempting to steal the copyright to Negima from Ken Akamatsu. Full story can be read here.
 * Exploding Calendar
 * Expy: A few of the girls are based off of the characters from Love Hina: Asuna, Chisame, Nodoka, Ku Fei, Setsuna, Asakura, Akira, Chizuru, and possibly Madoka.
 * On top of that Kotaro is a tribute to Inuyasha.
 * Plus Yuna seems to be based off of a certain gun wielding summoner.
 * Exposition of Immortality: Evangeline reminisces about having known Negis' father and about her own, lengthy existence.
 * Extra-Strength Masquerade: After a while, characters' attempts to maintain the Masquerade start to seem kinda half-assed, but everyone still falls for it anyway
 * Extremely Short Timespan: The Festival arc spanned only 3 days June 20-22, 2003 but took up half the manga up to that point -- 9 volumes.
 * It's okay though, because they actually four or five times at the end of it.  and manage to not cause . Never mind that  magic that is letting Negi's  work, as well as power the current Big Bad's
 * Eyecatch
 * Face Fault
 * False Camera Effects: Fish Eye Lens
 * Fan Service: Any excuse to get the characters naked, up to clothes-destroying sneezes, lasers, and octopodes.
 * Fan Service Pack: Yuna outright states that her breasts are getting bigger as the series goes on.
 * And Fan Disservice: There's a surprising amount of Squick in the series, since many fight scenes against severely messed-up people occur with the girls in various states of undress.
 * There's also guys in states of undress.
 * And more than one Fanservice Extra: Check out the girl in the lower left panel of this page. She encapsulates about 12 different Turn-On Tropes and adds nothing whatsoever to the story except some eye candy.
 * Aside from the waitressing gig, she must have a second job as a Fetish Fuel Station Attendant.
 * Fantastic Arousal: Setsuna's wings seem to be very sensitive, and poor Chachamaru can't seem to impress on Negi to wind her up slowly and gently.
 * Her own damn fault in that she keeps telling him that it feels good, Negi, being only ten, thinks Good Feels Good, so more is naturally better. Chachamaru ends up talking in a wingdings-like font.
 * Fantastic Nuke
 * Fantastic Racism: Against woodnymphs and other demihumans by humans, who also had no problem cutting horns off them(a bit like real life, the horns, not hunting humans) and selling young girls into slavery.
 * Fantastic Time Management - Negi uses Time Travel and Year Outside, Hour Inside techniques to get more things done during the Mahora Festival and also to have more time to train as well as do his job as a teacher.
 * Fantasy Kitchen Sink: Ninjas, robots, ghosts, vampires, nuns, priestesses, aliens, half-demons, mad scientists, hackers, Time Travelers...
 * And that's just some of the girls in Negi's class.
 * Mana even lampshades it at one point, having figured that  couldn't be normal, simply because hardly anybody in the class was.
 * Let's put it this way: Even the normal kids  end up either with supernatural powers, or are so normal   they're immune to reality warping effects because they
 * Fighting a Shadow
 * Finger-Snap Lighter
 * First Kiss: A few of them, though not the entire class, nor all fifteen of the girls Negi pactioed with
 * First-Name Basis: In a similar vein, Konoka spends most of her time trying to get Setsuna to call her 'Kono-chan' rather than 'Ojou-sama'. It doesn't work.
 * Fission Mailed: The, parodied in Haruna's fanart.
 * Flash Back: Sayo's memories in episode 19, Konoka's in episode 21. In the manga, Asuna also gets many flashbacks related to her mysterious past with Ala Rubra.
 * The most hilarious take on this trope is when Rakan watches Homura's Flash Back.
 * Flash Step: Including in thin air, somehow.
 * Flexible Tourney Rules: Averted, with Asuna disqualified instantly when she broke a rule.
 * Flight
 * Floating Continent: Ostia, though most of it has crashed.
 * Foe Yay: Fate and Negi, dear god. Especially after chapter 336.
 * As far as Fate's concerned, Negi "belongs to" him and he even rebuffs the potential love interests' plans to confess with that very excuse. Said love interests hilariously decide Fate to be one of their biggest rivals for Negi's attention. They're right.
 * Foreshadowing
 * Forgotten Phlebotinum: The Pactio cards ability to summon the partner to the master, no matter where they are. You'd think that would ruin the current quite nicely.
 * Not forgotten, Fate himself also used that function to summon his subordinates just before . Also, it has been mentioned by Chachamaru that the functions of the Pactio Cards are very easily jammed. More a case of Awesome but Impractical and Useless Useful Spell.
 * For Science!: Hakase's justification for peeking into Chachamaru's 'treasured images' folder. Never mind that this effectively meant probing Chachamaru's mind against her will, on the subject of her crush, no less.
 * Fountain of Youth: The Age Changing Pills
 * Freudian Excuse: Played with in Eva's case: after recounting the tale of her life, including how she became a vampire and killed her way through the centuries, Asuna's response is immediately "So... it's not your fault, right? Because you didn't choose to be bad?" Eva takes this as more evidence that Asuna is an idiot.
 * "Friend or Idol?" Decision: The end of "The Great Baka Rangers and the Secret Library Island Final Exam Operation" arc.
 * Frogs and Toads: Motsu is a frog.
 * Full-Frontal Assault
 * Fun Size: Both Sayo and Setsuna have an absolutely adorable smaller form. Then there's Chachazero, who despite being psychotic can be quite cute.
 * Funbag Airbag
 * Functional Magic
 * Furo Scene: Quite a few, starting with a furo the size of a swimming pool.