Mahou Sensei Negima/Characters/Class 3-A

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


That's right, Mahou Sensei Negima is so overstuffed that it broke the folder system, and it's just going to get worse from here. So we decided to split the page. Again. This page is for the rest of Class 3-A. Time to go grab a soda to wash down those two sandwiches.

This page is full of Spoilers, naturally. You Have Been Warned.

Chao Lingshen

Voiced by: Chiaki Osawa (Japanese, Negima!) Megumi Takamoto (Japanese, Negima!? onwards) and Trina Nishimura (English)

Class 2/3-A's top-scoring student, Chao is a seemingly ordinary 14-year-old with an unholy level of skill in various talents, being the owner of a highly-successful restaurant, a talented martial artist, and is a member of the university quantum physics research society.

All that, however, is a facade to what she is behind the scenes.

As it turns out, Chao is the first serious Big Bad of the manga and the main driving force of the MahoraFest arc, as well as Negi's great-granddaughter from a Martian colony in a dystopian 22nd century. Persuaded that revealing the existence of magic and Mundus Magicus to Earth will avert the Bad Future from which she came, she planned an elaborate stratagem to remove the Weirdness Censor of every Muggle on the "Old World".

Despite all her planning and the help of other students she converted to her cause, she was foiled by Negi (who actually considered joining her before refusing at the last second) and returned to her own time after saying goodbye to rest of Class 3-A, though promising to come back someday as one of them.


Evangeline Athanasia Katherine McDowell

Voiced by: Yuki Matsuoka (Japanese) and Laura Bailey (English)

An ancient, extremely powerful and classically aristocratic vampire, tricked by Nagi into being de-powered and bound within the limits of Mahora.

When, implausibly, Negi arrived in Japan to teach the very class she's been attending to soothe her boredom, Evangeline attacked him half-heartedly, then took a shine to him and accepted his request to teach him all she knows.

She looks ten but acts eighty, having been vampirized as a child. Turns out she was a young noblewoman who was vampirized right after her tenth birthday courtesy of the Lifemaker, waking up covered in blood after her birthday, and thus her story began....

  • And I Must Scream: Her ultimate spell put essentially every Cosmo Entelechia member in a state where they are all frozen and immobile, but can still think. She says she has no plans to release them.
  • Anti-Hero: Claims she's an evil, evil mage while the most morally objectionable thing we ever see her do is pick on her students, making her more or less a Disney antihero.
  • The Archmage: Due to her great age and experience, when she has access to her magic, none of the other characters can compete with her. Except for the Lifemaker, who is even older.
  • Bandage Babe
  • Badass: Probably the greatest of them all in a World of Badass. After the Mundus Magicus arc where Negi supposedly ascends to her ability level, all he can do is to hold out for a minute or two against her in a duel, and even with Asuna's intervention on his behalf their match ended on a stalemate with the latter two on the defensive.

(To Chigusa) "Keh heh heh! You chose your opponent poorly, woman! What you're seeing is a spell that creates near-absolute-zero temps in a 150-square-foot area! Even that big nasty won't be able to avoid it. For lo, I am the vampire Evangeline... the "Dark Evangel"!! Look upon my magics, ye mighty, and despair...!! MWAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

Asuna: "Eva-chan is really getting into this."

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

    • There is another example during the ball, as quoted by Negi:

"Where there is distress, therein lies a story.
Where there is a story, therein lies a will.
...And wherever there is a will, therein lies a soul."

  • Who Wants to Live Forever?: Stated this when she revealed her true nature to Negi, though it was less 'living forever' and more 'living forever trapped in a school waiting for Nagi to come back like he promised'.
    • Living Forever Is Awesome: Otherwise she'd pretty happy with her eternal life and made good use of it. In the main narrative her only major complaint is she's stuck as a preteen.
  • Wrestler in All of Us: Post-Mundus Magicus arc, while berating Setsuna, she locks her in an octopus stretch, then a sharpshooter.
  • Zettai Ryouiki


Tatsumiya Mana

Voiced by: Miho Sakuma (Japanese) and Stephanie Young (English)

Ex-mercenary (arguably) with an expertise for firearms, and has fought around the world since childhood. A bit cheap, and will work for any side if the price is right (or so she says). Half-demon, though not in the same way as Setsuna apparently.

While not an official member of Ala Alba, she provides them some backup in storming the Gravekeeper's palace, defeating Poyo in the process.

"Don't ever think of touching my classmate with that filthy hand of yours. You wooden doll."


Yukihiro Ayaka

Voiced by: Junko Minagawa (Japanese) and Laura Bailey (English)

Class Representative of 2/3-A, a filthy-rich lady, and Asuna's friend/enemy of sorts. She also displays an unnaturally-close relationship to Negi, though hints abound that she may be seeing him as a Replacement Goldfish for a stillborn little brother who would've been around Negi's age. 

She was revealed to have formed a pactio with Negi behind everyone's back during the post Magic World breather arc, in a rather enthusiastic display that nearly resulted in her becoming magistra by accident.
  • Big Sister Instinct: The Love Chart seems to lean more towards that: she's tied with Nodoka for the "selflessness" factor, but has it way lower than most in the "sexual lust" department.
  • Big Fancy House
  • Break the Haughty
  • But Not Too Foreign: Fuka states that Ayaka is, in fact, half-Japanese, which explains the blonde hair. She angrily denies it.
  • Can't Catch Up: Ayaka started as Asuna's rival -- both being athletic teens with a skill for martial arts able to match each other blow-for-blow. But she's also kept in the dark about Asuna's secret life of fighting vampires, demons and other supernatural powerhouses. Thus Ayaka was crushed when she realized that, despite her own mundane progress, Asuna was already way ahead, even beating her with a flick of her hand.
  • Charles Atlas Superpower: With everyone in Ala Alba having actual superpowers, she's the closest the Class has to one.
  • Chekhov's Gunman: When Negi reveals that he has a plan to prevent the collapse of Mundus Magicus, he briefly mentions that he needs Ayaka's help.
  • Class Representative
  • The Collector of the Strange
  • Crazy Prepared: In Negima!? Neo, during a kiss Negi competition, she and most of the other girls get caught on a bridge that collapses. Four pages later, she re-enters the story with the other girls caught up in a net, wearing a bridal tress and doing her trademark Noblewoman's Laugh.

"I thought this might happen. So I had them prepare the Yukihiro Conglomerate's private helicopter!"


Zazie Rainyday

Voiced by: Yuka Inokuchi (Japanese) and Carrie Savage (English)

Zazie is the one member of Class 2/3-A that's gotten almost no Character Development at all. From what little information is given on her, she almost never speaks, appears to be some sort of circus performer, and has a number of weird black ghost blobs that accompany her pretty much everywhere. She can also apparently see Sayo.

Her older sister Poyo was recently revealed to be working for one of Fate's allies and has attacked/impeded Ala Alba, making it clear she intends to stop them from saving the denizens of Mundus Magicus. Zazie herself seems to be following Poyo's orders, being inside the Lotus Eater Machine artifact, but then lets Negi and the others go after defeating her, and decides to come back to Mahora, waiting for them to be done with their mission. And as of the post-Mundus Magicus arc, she has shown more of her abilities as she officially joins Class 3-A's pursuit of Negi.

"My apologies. That was an inappropriate example."

  • Cute Mute
  • Darkskinned Blonde
  • Dark Magical Girl
  • Facial Markings: A teardrop over one eye, and what looks like a scar (may actually be one) over the other.
  • Genre Savvy: Not her, but everyone else are aware that she's probably neither human or normal just because she was weird and in a class full of robots, ghosts etc. What they didn't know was what she was up to... Although it's not even her.
  • The Quiet One: At least, up until she enters the main storyline...
  • Sexy Jester
  • Silent Bob: Ayaka, at least, can understand her perfectly over the phone despite her not saying a word. When asked how, Akamatsu said "It seems to be an obvious power of class representatives to understand the intentions of their classmates".
  • Stealth Mentor: Implied, towards Negi.
  • Tareme Eyes: Unlike "Poyo", who has Tsurime Eyes.
  • Visible Silence
  • The Voiceless: Though she suddenly begins speaking in complete sentences with Evangeline while watching Negi's fight with Fate.
  • White-Haired Pretty Girl


Hakase Satomi

Voiced by: Mai Kadowaki (Japanese), Jayme Westman (English, Negima!) and Carrie Savage (English, Negima!? onwards)

Class 2/3-A's other resident super-genius after Chao, Hakase is basically a Mad Scientist. Apparently aware of the existence of magic long before the series started, Hakase is primarily interested in its scientific applications and the development of Magitek, resulting in Chachamaru, who, with Evangeline's help, was developed as a joint product of magic and science. Personality-wise, Hakase is somewhat obsessive about her work, often working so late she simply falls asleep in the lab. She also approaches things from a very logical perspective, meaning that she often fails to consider how her experiments might affect others personally.

Hakase: "Unfortunately, his weapons systems aren't lethal..."
Commentator: "Unfortunately?!"

"I tell you, that's impossible! It just can't happen! Eva-san's automatons are robots with their anima magically ensouled! Did you hear me just then?! "Ensouled!" How unscientific is that?! Of all things - love!! Love, the one emotion that defies all rational thought and explanation!! Am I to become a philosopher, then? Am I to unravel one of the greatest mysteries of the human condition?! For an artificial intelligence to even experience such a thing - to fall into the realm of the subjective rather than the objective - that can lead only to one, inevitable conclusion - that Chachamaru has become self-aware! When one can monitor one's internal thought patterns with an 'inner eye' - that is self-awareness! We're talking meta-consciousness here! There's no scientific rationale for that!! Chachamaru was never intended to develop such a thing.. then again - then again - when it comes to emotions, who can say what is or isn't rational?! To be human is to have emotions, and to have emotions is to have love. And, once there's love, he, why not throw reproductive endocrinology into the mix! I mean, why not, right?! And reproduction means death - which is all well and good if we're talking about replicants, but we're not - we're talking about robots! Robots don't have emotion - they just can't. Or could it be that - maybe, just maybe! - it's only the ghost of an emotion, generated by her auto-learning program...? Still - even so - from a strictly methodological standpoint - it's all too bloody subjective for a scientist to wrap her mind around, don't you think? Science is absolute!! It's... ohmigawd, what am I saying, it sounds like I've given up! This isn't good - it's not good, I tell you! - Since when has the lack of an easy answer been an excuse to... For what did I sell my soul to science if not to answer those very same hard questions?! Was it the magic based power system that Eva-san gave me which caused an unforeseen side-effect on her systems?! No. No! I can't accept that. That's just another easy answer - that's what that is!! Then again, there is that brother-sister team at M.I.T. that supposedly engineered an artificial intelligence capable of independent emotion, so maybe..."


Yotsuba Satsuki

Voiced by: Naomi Inoue (Japanese) and Monica Rial (English)

One of the more down-to-earth members of Class 2/3-A, Satsuki is notable for her excellent cooking skills and easygoing, caring personality. Always there to offer a word of practical advice or a bit of comfort food when someone needs it, Satsuki is well-loved by students and teachers alike. She is also the head cook (and, after Chao left, owner) of the popular student restaurant Chao Bao Zi.

Kasuga Misora

Mysterious Sister

Voiced by: Ai Bandou (Japanese) and Wendy Powell (English)

Another student aware of the existence of magic long before Negi came, Misora belongs to an order of resident magic-combat nuns. Apparently an apprentice under Sister Shakti, Misora also has a Pactio card which gives her a pair of Sprint Shoes. Rather than find less obvious and more effective uses for it, Misora usually uses it to simply run away whenever danger rears its ugly head. She's also got something of a mischievous streak, at one point using her magic to impersonate a priest in order to get her classmates to spill their secrets in a confessional.

Misora also ventured in Mundus Magicus, albeit independently of Ala Alba, becoming frustrated with her inability to get back home; eventually, she did return after the completion of the arc.

Q: "Did Misora and Cocone make a pactio by kissing?"
A: "That is unknown, but my hope is that it was more, like ... she gave her a rosary or something. (laugh)"


Naba Chizuru

Voiced by: Misa Kobayashi (Japanese) and Amy Rosenthal (English)

Chizuru is gentle, motherly, and caring. And she's absolutely terrifying because of it. Her most continually touted feature is her fame as the bustiest girl in Class 2/3-A (no mean feat), but like many of her classmates, there's apparently more to her than meets the eye. After more or less adopting Kotaro, she slaps a high-level demon hard enough to make him consider her a legitimate threat, and in general seems extremely protective of her close friends and capable of handling herself. She's revealed to have formed a Pactio with Negi at the same time as Ayaka, much to Kotaro's surprise. Her artifact is a leek that clears any "ailments or status effects", but at the same time puts the subject under her control.

Kotaro: "Four hundred points!"


Narutaki Fuka and Fumika

Fuka (right) is voiced by: Kimiko Koyama (Japanese) and Alison Viktorin (English)
Fumika (left) is voiced by: Mari Kanou (Japanese) and Alison Viktorin (English)

Fumika (Right) Fuka (Left):

The cheerful childlike twins of Class 2/3-A, the Narutaki twins are known for their rambunctiousness, with an apparent hobby of catching people off-guard with their appearances fit for a nine-year-old. They're also good friends of Kaede, who has taught them some basic techniques of her craft.


Kakizaki Misa

Voiced by: Shizuka Itou (Japanese) and Gwendolyn Lau (English)

Misa is more or less a stereotypical cheerleader. She and her fellow cheerleaders Sakurako and Madoka love to hang out, shop, wear stylish clothes, and talk about boys. She's also the vocalist/guitarist of their band "Dekopin Rocket". Misa is the only student said to have an actual long-term boyfriend, though it's implied to be not that serious (and said boyfriend seems to have vanished altogether post-Mundus Magicus). She's best remembered for proposing a "Reverse Hikaru Genji Project" for Negi, after seeing just how cool he was in the Mahora Budokai. Although she followed Negi to the gate to Mundus Magicus with Yuna and the others, she was not transported there.

Shiina Sakurako

Voiced by: Akane Omae (Japanese) and Colleen Clinkenbeard (English)

Sakurako's biggest claim to fame is her otherworldly luck. Otherwise, she's just another cheerleader, doing what cheerleaders usually do. She's also the guitarist and main vocalist of "Dekopin Rocket", a band consisting of her and her fellow cheerleaders Misa and Madoka.

  • Alliterative Name
  • Born Lucky: Never bet against Sakurako. You will lose. This ability came in handy when Yuna, Makie, and the rest of the group following Ala Alba got lost on a fog on the way to the gate to Mundus Magicus. The odds of a normal human making it though the fog were, according to Donet McGuinness, about equal to a standard lottery odds, but Sakurako led them through. Word of God even states that were she to get a Pactio, she could increase her partner's luck.
  • The Cheerleader: Much nicer than the standard stereotype.
  • Date Peepers
  • Genki Girl: Almost as cheerful as the Narutaki twins.
  • Girlish Pigtails: Has two sets of them.
  • Hive Mind: With Misa and Madoka in Negima!?.
  • Idol Singer: Not as much as Misa, but she also happens to be the main vocalist of Dekopin Rocket.
  • Instant Cosplay Surprise: Sans the "surprise" element -- she, Misa and Madoka did it to themselves to peep on Konoka and Negi without being noticed.

Kugimiya Madoka

Voiced by: Mami Deguchi (Japanese), Lucy Small (English, Negima!) and Mary Morgan (English, Negima!?)

The third cheerleader, Madoka appears to be one of the only two Ordinary High School Students left in Class 2/3-A besides Misa. She is also the drummer for "Dekopin Rocket". She appears to have a crush on an aged-up Kotaro, though is also a bit boyish, and is apparently an Avril Lavigne fan.

  • Armor-Piercing Slap: To the aged-up Negi and Kotaro, when they accidentally walk in on Ako while she's changing and they accidentally see her scar. Played for Laughs when Kotaro casually blocks it at first, then she punches him.
  • The Cheerleader: Again, much nicer than the archetypical portrayal.
  • Date Peepers
  • Expy: Appearance to short haired Motoko and act somewhat like her to Naru to Ako.
  • First Love: Technically, first crush; but her attraction towards Kotaro's aged up form causes her to be attracted mainly to black-haired dog eared people.
  • Hive Mind: With the other cheerleaders, in the Negima!? anime.
  • Instant Cosplay Surprise: Sans the "surprise" element -- she, Misa and Sakurako did it to themselves to peep on Konoka and Negi without being noticed.
  • My Name Is Not Kugimin
  • Ordinary High School Student: She and Misa appear to be the only ones left... for now.
  • Rescue Romance: She started having a crush for the aged-up Kotaro after he saves her from some thugs. Unfortunately the age deceiving pills wear out and he de-ages right in front of her...
  • Tomboy: Madoka has a lot features which makes her one (notably short hair and a husky voice), but an important part of her character is that she actually hates them. Making her play a male role is pretty much a Berserk Button for her (though more often than not she'd end up reluctantly accepting the role).
  1. ↑ Even Eva
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