April 18th, 2009 
AstroNerdBoy Negima! 249 SPOILER Images
魔法先生 ネギま！Chapter 249 (Images)
Here’s what I know many of you have been waiting for — the original-sized, sneak-peek images for Mahou Sensei Negima! 249 as brought to you buy anonymous Japanese fans (click pic to make bigger, y’all).
Hmmmm — slaves freed, some prize money, and is that darkness I see with Negi? Very interesting.
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Yay! the slaves are free! So…it was a draw? As Rakan handed Negi half of the prize money…or Rakan won? I wonder which it is…as unlikely as it would seem, Rakan might have decided to give half of the prize money to Negi even if Rakan had won…we’ve been led to believe that Rakan is a perverted, selfish, money-grubbing, hard-working, over-powered, muscular idiot who breaks the rules of logic and magic…but perhaps he might also have a heart? Or is he expecting Negi to pay him back with interest someday?
anyway, with the page numbers this blurry, I’m not sure if we’ll yet again be left wondering what is up with ME’s side-effects…as it is, it seems that yet again Negi was “saved” by someone interrrupting them just as he was about to be “consumed”…
On another note, seems Kotaro will get some teasing from Rakan with regards to Natsumi…since Rakan has Paru-sama/Chamo “love-love” radar sense as well…or is it only Natsumi who’ll get the hot seat? 😛
If Negi gets 500.000 I suppose the fight is a draw…
By the way… No chapter until May 13th!?
Is this real!? I need a confirmation…
Hope Negi gone crazy soon
srry for my poor language and also sorry i though that friend of Ranka (forgot name) is the father of the takena d goodman(forgot name) I think i am wrong after all
O MY God!!! Negi’s darkness is…taking him over?!
This is confirmation that he’s going to overuse ME and end up losing control over himself. There’s gonna be a Negi retreival arc.
Hmm… I see they’re starting to show some repercussions of the Magic Erebrea. I always thought it was weird that people kept saying that it “fed off the soul of the user” and Negi was walkin’ away fine. So I think it’ll be interesting to see how he copes with it.
@meganekko =@-@=
Naaah…. I don´t think Rakan has a “heart” (anymore), I´m pretty sure it got destroyed ages ago ^^
As for ME side effects: those side effects can´t be too serious, cause if someone speaking to you or just touching you stops ME consumung you…. you know…
I don´t think saying “Hey, what´s up?” would do anything if you were about to be ripped into pieces by “the darkness”
Hmm, Just how long before would Yue and Anya be returnning yet? There are still lots of problems yet our characters are already celebrating…
@Chuse Terán — I’m hearing this is the case. I already knew there would be a break next week because of Golden Week in Japan but it looks like Akamatsu-sensei is going to actually take some time off too. Makes sense seeing as how the current sub-arc with freeing the slaves is completed.
It will be interesting to see which plot thread is picked up next.
@ Anon#2: Well I did say that Rakan probably expected Negi to pay him back, with an additionally ridiculous amount of interest 😛 But then there’s Theo to keep him in line…maybe
True that ME side-effects seem to be easily “dispersed” but that does not mean that just because it isn’t surfacing/obvious most of the time, it is not serious or of immediate concern. I’m thinking that by “dispersing” it so easily, it is only actually building up and soon Negi will be unable to suppress the side-effect. Rakan had already warned him as much. I believe it has to do with actively “guarding” one’s mind/emotions against it, so that it surfaces when Negi is either physically exhausted or emotionally unstable…
That said, this time it may have been “stopped so easily” by Rakan only because Negi was at least trying to suppress it himself once he felt something wrong. Well, we shall see, and hopefully find out what exactly these side-effects are…
The 3 week long break: GW + KA’s usual 1 wk break I think.
I’m thinking also that 250 will be a continuation of 249’s “winding down” from the battle arc so that latter parts of 250 will setup the next arc, perhaps going back to Anya or addressing Yue’s amnesia…well still, this is all speculation, and after first batch of 249 spoilers, no less…hehe. We still have 6 pages missing, maybe there are hints there? Though I doubt it.
@meganekko =@-@=
Naw, I don’t think Rakan has a love radar or anything like that. Looks to me like right as soon as Natsumi saw him, she was just so terrified cause of all the strength and brutality he showed during the fight. Then seeing how scared she was he started chasing her around to mess with her until Chisame stopped him.
Seems Negi has even more reason to talk to the real Eva now. He needs some advice on Magia Erebea before he’s consumed.
I knew it. He’s taking another damn break. Only, this time it looks like two weeks. Argh!
Well Negi’s technique is the move is fused with his soul [or something like that]. So could the technique be taking over his soul?
Hm….
“I knew it. He’s taking another damn break. Only, this time it looks like two weeks. Argh!“
Well, this time it is his usual 4+1 break (which is normally used to get back ahead on the manga and to actually get a day off) plus Golden Week, where the magazine isn’t being published. Golden Week is where Japan all but shuts down and nearly everyone takes a vacation at the same time since there are a number of official holidays throughout the week.
Hmp. I wasn’t able to buy the Weekly Shonen Magazine for this week. 0_o.
Though I’m in Japan, I can’t read Japanese. 😐
It’s good to know that the fight is over and all the slaves are freed. Though the Imperial Princess was there, I think she conducted the “releasing of the slaves” ceremony.
And Negi needs 1,000,000 to free the slaves right?
So 500,000 would not be enough.
Then it would seem that the Imperial Princess helped Nagi (Negi old form) free the others.
Golden Week here is coming near here. 😛
YEY! 😀
I’m thinking their fight was a drawn and the prize was splitted between Negi and Rakan. And Rakan just gave his part to Negi. =]
It looks like this will be a good chapter. And the upcoming week will be BOOOOOOORING. D: D:
seems so though i doubt that it will be to boring it may actually be quiet good we don’t know yet now do we so even if ya think you have got what the chapter is don’t get your hopes up it may be totally diffrent from what you think ok that is my tips.hehe 🙂
Ooh, I just thought of something. What if they had decided to go with their original plan to free the girls by using Asuna to bypass the the magic security on the locks? Since it’s not the real Asuna they would’ve had splattered Natsumi/Akira/Ako all over the place *_*
So new spoilers won’t be out for two weeks either, right?
I’m thinking not but I remember last winter during the 3-week break when the spoiler came out unexpectedly because the magazine was shipped prior to the official week off for the magazine. I’ll keep my eyes open on 2ch though.
I wonder what the second story supposed to be starting is going to be about.
I wonder if they will explain what that demon guy with the slimes meant by the experiment. my guess is that he was testing an item that allows the magic cancel ability to be transfered to another.
Will they explain what Fate meant when he said ” it would be troubling to let you die”?.
Will we find out why Alberio Imma is under library island?.
Who is Negi’s mom is it Arika or someone else?.
Who was responsible for the attack on Negi’s village?.
Where are Takamichi and Mana?.
Just how powerful is Kaede?.
What happened ten years ago?.
Who is Fillius Zect?.
Now that you think about it there are plenty of unanswered questions left in the manga.
Well, regarding Fillius Zect, he may be the same race as Fate, starting from his apearence to his impresive barier. I mean he withstood an atack from the Life Maker, while Rakan lost his hands, and it took two “Thousand Bolts” combined with Rakan’s own power to even do some damage in Negi’s case.
CONFIRMED
The match was a draw.
Not surprising that it is a draw since Jack gave Negi DP500K. I like it though because it means that Negi did not win.
Heheh, somewhat guessed correctly about the match conclusion.
So could 250 show Yue and her fellow knights watching the fight on video? Or will they get “rick-rolled” 😛
Chisame should become a fighter, she can easily hit Rakan with that knee-attack ^-^’ But then again, she plays her role well. Curious that Asuna and Konoka didn’t make an appearance this chapter. Perhaps next chapter then? And maybe Misora and co. will drop by and say hi to Negi’s team as well.
Rakan does have a heart! But those ominous words of his and the conversation with Eva are worrying…then again, Rakan was worried about the “LifeMaker” and Nagi took care of that quite anti-climatically… =@-@=’ *sweatdrop*
Quoting myself:
“Curious that Asuna and Konoka didn’t make an appearance this chapter. Perhaps next chapter then?“
Umm..well I forgot about that part with the “freeing” scene and the party/celebration after that. What I meant anyway was that Konoka, (Shiori)Asuna and Makie and Yuuna didn’t say anything…so maybe in 250 they will.
Also wondering if the girls(Ako or Akira/Natsumi, assuming she knows Ako knows Negi=”Nagi”) will tell Negi that Ako knows about Negi=”Nagi” by then
ARRRGGGHHH!!!!!
I thought that the Negi releasing Ako picture was a pactio!
i hope the next chapter will be about magic girl yue
Here are a few questions i forgot to put into my previous comment.
What happened to Nagi and Arika.
When will Yue recover her memories.
What happened in Asuna’s past.
How did Nagi know who Negi was didn’t he go missing before Negi was born.
Is Fillius Zect stronger or weaker than Nagi since Nagi did call him master.
Will we see Chao again.
Point of clarification about Fate saying “it would be troubling to let you die” he said this to Negi during the gateport incident.
How will Negi get stonger now that he is no longer Jack Rakan’s apprentice.
Will the real Eva show up to help Negi deal with the side effects of Magia Erebea.
What are the side effects of Magia Erebea.
Will Setsuna join the list of people that have romantic feelings for Negi since she had a very high score in the love parameter on Chamo’s list of peoples feelings for Negi.
Did Nagi have any other children.
How is it that Eva knows every member of Ala Rubra personally.
Why was Negi’s village attacked.
What is Fate’s plan.
one last thing though the translation for the latest chapter is on Mangahelpers.
That and sorry if i accidentally double posted this.
one last thing though the translation for the latest chapter is on Mangahelpers.ANB will have a review up tomorrow evening for the current chapter.
Enigma scanlations are out :]. A nice, but short chapter (imo) but it IS setting up something. And two weeks huh? T T Ah well XD
“How is it that Eva knows every member of Ala Rubra personally.”
Well, maybe the reason Nagi was traveling alone was that the other members of Ala Rubra left, to avoid being pestered by Eva.
6pm, in fact. ^_^