July 16th, 2010 
AstroNerdBoy Negima! 296 SPOILER Images
魔法先生 ネギま！Chapter 296 (Images)
Here’s what I know many of you have been waiting for — the original-sized, sneak-peek SPOILER images for Mahou Sensei Negima! Chapter 296 as brought to you by anonymous Japanese fans (click pic to make bigger, y’all).
Sorry for the delay. Bloody time sinks. ^_~
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Arika? … Chao?
magically enforced Dream Sequence or … ?
Likely a forced illusion, courtesy of Zazie’s artifact. Negi is likely seeing certain things he secretly wishes for — parents, a return to teaching, seeing Chao (and Eva) as students, etc.
WOW Arika and Nagi’s faces and the first pic is the last page of the chapter
Thanx Astro
Chao And Eva ooh
An offer of living in Eternal Garden with perfect ending?
This does seem to confirm that Magic Lantern Circus is an amped-up version of chapter 143.
so … good old fashioned http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LotusEaterMachine ?
I learn something new from Tropes all the time. *lol* I didn’t know that was called “Lotus Eater Machine” but yeah, that’s what this appears to be.
Regarding chapter 143, I’m guessing it will be Negi to break them out. Question is, do the others share in Negi’s illusion or are they in their own world?
Most likely, each of them are experiencing their own perfect world. And i have a feeling that Chisame will be the one to break the spell; being the one most linked to reality and all, she knows there’s no such thing as perfection.
If they are all in their own world, I expect most of them to break free on their own though I don’t expect us to see much of that.
I think I got an Idea on what the other members are in stored…
Nodoka; married Negi!
Chisame; becoming an idol
Kaede; ???
Mana; being RICH!!
Konoka; seeing her mom?
Setsuna; not being abandoned from the bird tribe?
Ako; seeing Nagi again
and a lot more…
Sorry people! I have weird imaginations… ;p
LoneWolfx03 -]===-
I think the last bubble in the third image(the one with stars) is actually Zazie chiming telling Negi what’s happening and stuff
But good way to get Negi on his weak side!
Playing to his hearts deepest desires 🙂
This will last about 2 chaps I think, then return to reality
Well, like others I think Negi’s now trapped inside an illusion.
Although I doubt its Negi’s deepest desire like others claimed. Otherwise Negi would be playing with his father in some green garden and Arika watches them from the distance with Nekane. Of course with Negi’s village in the background, ful of life.
And well, it’s not. So it’s either:
1.) entirely artifical illusion. Zazie imagined up everything to the smallest detail to convince Negi. It’s bound to get some faults and errors.
2.)An ideal peaceful world grafted directly from Negi’s mind with some reasonable compromise with reality(like Negi’s still a teacher and his parents are missing).
Anyways, Zazie tries to make more weight on her suggestion and probably presents him this illusion to see how great would be his peaceful life.
Also I think it’s only Negi, since she doesn’t care about anyone else. If Negi abandons his objective it’s good enough for her. When Negi wakes up, he would be either on the ground or in the arms of someone when he wakes up crying out his name.
Random thought: Isn’t KE supposed to be a Nexus-like paradise?
In which case, did Zazie take Negi inside her artifact, or KE itself?
@AnonyLoneWolf: Just a couple of slight changes…
Nodoka and Yue: Sharing Negi
Mana: Gets her old flame back
Konoka: Getting to be kids again with Secchan
If everyone is living their “dream life” then.
Yuna is living a life where her mother never died.
Chachamaru is finding herself now “human”.
Sayo is finding herself to be alive again.
Mana similiar to Yuna is living a life where her master Kouki never died.
When the illusion breaks some people are going to be very unhappy with Zazie.
You know, after the tragedy with MangaToshokan, I was so sad I thought I was never going to read manga anymore, and that left me with a void sensation. But alas, life goes on. It’s nice to see spoilers of my favorite manga series. Thank you, ANB. Maybe you think it’s foolish, but you don’t know the good you did to me.
On the spoilers: Is Zazie trying to project to Negi what the “Total World” is like? That seems to be the idea… Will Negi be corrupted? Will he say that, yeah, he wishes for that world, but he’ll make it a reality himself? Possibilities, possibilities…
I wonder what the other are seeing… Her partner back to life (Mana)? Her life as a Kage (Kaede)? Her normal, ordinary life (Chisame)?
Zazie’s pactio is Kyoka Suigetsu.
zazie is really starting to mess with negi’s kind
YES, this is the greatest chapter in so long. I know it’s Zazie’s pactio doing this, but even so. Even Chao is back, kinda. Please let this last a few chapters, back to the normal chapters just for a little while.
cCould it just be a flash back?
lol to nagi and arikas expressions. negi seems to have broken down, and nagi seems to have a oh-crap-what-do-i-do-face, and arika does the same thing, just in a different expression. dang, i cant wait for him to meet them in real life, assuming he does. DANG YOU ZAZIE, U FOUL TEMPTRESS!!! DONT YOU KNOW THIS COULD SCAR NEGI FOR YEARS??!!
Eva is 15… That’s just weird.
And actually this form of the “Lotus Eater Machine” is the type known as the “Final Temptation”.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheFinalTemptation
(Lol it’s already on the page)
i’d say chisame is also likely to succumb on the Forced Illusion seeing that she strongly wishes to go back to Mahora, right? 🙂 if then she is a realist then her heart is also attached to that of the normal world in which she seeks thus forcing her to see a Forced Illusion of her own..
This reminds me of a justice league episode. An alien plant fuses with Superman’s mind on his birthday. Superman is then trapped in a world that fulfill all his desires: living on a not destroyed Krypton, meeting his father, a beautiful wife(Not the reporter woman), and a son.
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That last pic looks like someone’s trying to reach Negi through the illusion via Pactio telepathy. Personally, I think it’s only Negi that got caught. Trying to force ALL the members of Ala Alba into this just creates unnecessary filler chapters and another mini-arc that doesn’t need to be there. Especially when we’re this close to wrapping up this whole Magical World arc.
lol on the first pic. i love seeing arika squirm for some reason
This seems like a good time to have a one-on-one between negi and zazie, having their tender moment together.
How many more days until this chapter is released as a raw? I hope it’s tomorrow.
ohh… i really want to read this chapter so badly
when the translation come out?
Raw is out.
-Zazie appears to use her artifact to control the world/illusion
-Negi wakes up in Asuna’s bed
-the GPS appears on TV, Negi and co don’t seem to recognize it
-Negi’s skirt lifting sneeze makes a return
-Setsuna is back to being the silent bodyguard
-things seem to be back how they were in the first chapters of Negima
-Negi is spending time with the sports 4
-Nagi and Arika make an appearence
I really wish I knew what they were saying.
OneManga is shutting down…I’ve always linked to this place from there for the latest spoilers…but now I dunno what will happen…
Onemanga has fallen… =[]= that’s it man… We’re done… It’s over…they finally did it TT,TT what shall I live for now
It really is a shame that the authors decided on such a harsh action, I guess it would be money related, not enough people buying the mangas and just reading them.
I’d just like to say I never read a scan I intended not to buy. I hold nearly all the negima volumes to date (well I need to catch up a bit with the whole moving house and everything in boxes thing been a bit busy). But again it is a shame that the authors thought this was the best choice I wouldn’t of started reading manga if it weren’t for online scans, they got me hooked.
Well I guess it’s been a long time coming, there have been quite a few C&D orders before so you could kinda see it building. Not to be rude to the will of the authors but I hope. There will still be some way to enjoy these scansafter this. But there’s always the volumes for now.
In times of economic hardship, companies go to drastic means to make money. IBM keeps forcing contractors to take more and more unpaid furloughs. Other companies are still laying off people. Steve Gibson is suing blogs for the tiniest of copyright infractions for his client, Las Vegas Review-Journal. Japanese publishing companies are cracking down on scanlation aggregation sites.
There are other aggregation sites out there and I agree with ANB that there will be new ones that appear in places harder to sue and take down.
The Japanese absolutely hate the selling of used manga volumes. Technically, the selling of used books and videos in the U.S. angers those publishers too but thankfully, they have no legal legs to stand on to prevent that.
I still say that a legal site to post manga on is the best solution. However, because of all the competition, there won’t be a single site to do it but rather multiple ones, assuming something like this even gains momentum.
Anyone have a link to a translated / scanlated english version of 296?
I love how nagi in dream world says they came 4 months ago as well. Sep 1 -4 months = around May 1st
So taking from how the school trip took place during April 22–>26th,
he last came to visit right after the school trip.
So it looks like they still at least found out that Setsuna used to be good friends with Konoka, but the incident in the trip was small enough that they only just got to find out [like the pesky pranks may have happened, but it was stopped due to lack of strong mercenaries?]
But still, even a small enough incident would be enough to have your overprotective parents rush on over? At least thats how I look at it