Mahou Sensei Negima: The Next Semester

[Jorlem]

Yeah, I can see that. It's just, when it takes up this many chapters, it gets old kinda fast. I wouldn't mind so much if the focus stayed more on the core characters, who got development time during the whole magic world arc. For most of the class that didn't show up that arc, I can't even remember their names without referring to a wiki. For most of those characters, I can't even remember what their distinguishing traits/skills are. One of the risks in a story with an overly large cast, I suppose.

It ends up being a bunch of characters who I have no emotional investment in, lusting after a ten-twelve year old boy that they have no chance with, which they've been doing since the very first chapters, which has been a year in world. I'm just waiting for the manga to get back to the plot, or at least to the characters that he's spent time developing beyond one note wonders.

Something similar happened when I read through Homestuck. I ended up skimming through the entire arc devoted to the Trolls, as I couldn't bring myself to care about them (and their dialogue was literally painful to read). Then

Spoiler

Hussie ended up killing off most of the Trolls, which meant that all the plot they had gone through was relatively meaningless. The only survivors of that culling were ones I actually was interested in, so that worked out fairly well for me.

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