March 26th, 2014 
AstroNerdBoy ユーキューホルダー! Manga Review
UQ Holder Chapter 28 Manga Review
SPOILER Summary/Synopsis:
With efforts to collect Touta underway, impossibly, Touta starts to break free. The troops open fire to subdue Touta again, but a large ice wall appears to shield him. Further, massive ice shards take out the Osprey aircraft hovering overhead. In the distance, Touta sees Yukihime on top of an electrical pole. After teasing him a bit, she moves instantly to where he’s at, teasing him once again over his tears of joy. Nagumo starts wondering who she is, so Yukihime changes into her true form as Evangeline. Eva greets Nagumo, confirming his worst fears, as the commander of the troops calls for a mechanized reinforcement over Nagumo’s saying it is a waste of time.
The six-legged mecha arms its anti-magical being weapon and fires at Eva and Touta. When the smoke clears, Gengorou (UQH #6) is there having defending them. After Gengorou chastises the troops, Jinbee shows up to introduce himself (UQH #2), then tosses a boulder at the mecha unit, knocking it back. The android Ikkuu arrive to fire projectiles into the mecha. Jinbee and Gengorou then take out the troops before joining Ikkuu to form a humanoid shield in front of Eva and Touta, telling the troops that it is time to pay.
Thoughts/Review:
Heh. Well, those of you not wanting an Eva dues ex machina moment, but who did want other UQ Holder members to show up are getting their wish. ^_^
I did enjoy Eva teasing Touta in an “oneechan” kind of way. We may not to have gotten to see her go “mama bear” on Nagumo and company, but she did give us a peek at the goods (in more ways that one). So, we Eva fans got a bone (or two) tosses or way.
One of those bones was Eva returning to her true form. While Eva was not a character I found “hot”, I’ve liked her better in her true form vs. her Yukihime form. That’s just me (not that there’s anything wrong with her Yukihime form).,
What I found myself really liking was Eva bringing Jinbee, Gengorou, and Ikkuu into the fight. I’ve no doubt that Eva could have handled things on her own, but I’m a big proponent of bringing in overwhelming firepower to a fight. All Eva has to do is make sure Touta doesn’t get snatched while the other three do their thing.
Also, having the other guys show up may be where Akamatsu-sensei has them take Touta under his wing to properly teach him.
I hope that Eva gives us more information about Touta’s past. I figure that will happen since the troops were from Mundus Magicus rather than the terraformed surface of Mars. Further, I figure Mundus Magicus officials had something to do with Touta’s parent’s death.
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Hahaha, that was better than expected!
1- We got to see Eva “showing her goods” in the form of icy destruction! Nice! Wonder if the ppl in the chopters died?
2- As bonus, we get 3 UQH members to show off their skills as well (I wonder what kind o bullet Ikkuu used?)!!!
3- This has been on my mind for a while now: Eva said “other mars”, right? That means we got: 1- Mundus Magicus and 2- Human colonized mars. If it is possible for 2 worlds to coexist in a single planet… If I left Mundus Magicus and went to Earth… what would I find? Hmmm…
P.S. Hahaha…Nagumo was about to say Eva’s name, but got “cut” by the mob captain lol
If they did, I doubt we’ll know about it.
Sadly, I was thinking, “where are these bullets stored?” ^_^;;;
I suspect you’d just find Earth as is, which is what happened when the Ala Alba bunch returned to Earth from Mundus Magicus.
*lol* Well, we are talking about Eva there. ^_^
No, no, I mean:
1- These two worlds (Mundus Magicus and Human Mars) exist in the same physical space, but diferente “frequences”, right? In a sense, they are completely separated. Thats why you need a portal to travel from one frequency to another.
2- Now, imagine I leave Mundus Magicus WITHOUT using the portal. I take my spaceship and go to Earth just like that. Since I am in a diferente frequency, what would I find here?
3- So, it goes like this:
3.1. In the Human World we have: Colonized Mars — Human Earth;
3.2. In the Mage World we have: Mundus Magicus (other frequency mars) — ??????
Thats my doubt.
You make a good point. That being said, from Earth, folks could see the Mundus Magicus surface of Mars, not the actual. Of course, one could argue the sheer amount of magic in the air caused that.
Using your frequency analogy, I think that is only in effect for the surface of Mars, and that due to massive amounts of magical energy. Once off the surface of Mars and away from said energy, one would think that the surface of Mars would look as it does from space — like a lifeless planet. I don’t think that one is shifting to another frequency while in space.
Of course, if this frequency effect were true for the entire solar system and beyond, then that would be interesting as it would explain youkai, ghosts, and the like on Earth as entities who’ve shift one frequency to another. Actually, the whole “planes of existence” thing would come into play with the frequency theory.
Jinbei hair keeps bugging me it negi like… Anyone besides me think there something serious happening in Mundas magicus
I think the solution that Negi came up with in Negima is not working out as planned. ^_^;;;;
It would make sense, since I assume the reason chao came back in time to bring peace to the world is all because what negi does in negima is a fix point in time with many divergence to give various different results that will ultimately lead to war on mars.
Chao presence was essentially a hint for negi to come up with the terraforming plan which in the end still revealed magic and people still went to war (epilogue stated that mana was part of the battle).
Also I hope you can review kill la kill ASAP, there is so much in that one ep that does satisfy me and yet doesn’t satisfy me since trigger made a all out finisher for gurren lagaan and has pretty much rinse out all of the ideas and plot to be used in kill la kill I just don’t know…
It is at the top of my Saturday to do list (well, #2 actually, after staring some laundry). I’m even skipping Japanese class to do it.
Chuunibyou also ended and nagi no asukara so pretty much the top three anime I keep track of are finished…
Just re watched kill la kill in hd with subs, finding the ep better but prefer the previous few… I personally feel it not over, I’ll look forward to your opinion in your post but yeah the whole thing now giving me the this is basically first half of gurren lagaan… Trigger might pull put second half later next year
Yeah, end of the winter 2014 anime season.
I’m hoping to get to watch it later today.
Hallelujah! Finally some other UQ members, even if they’re ones we already know. I guess they’re gonna whoop ass next chapter, those PMC guys have like no chance whatsoever against four UQHs.
Man, this series is like a sine wave for me – going from great to abysmal in a continual motion. I’m both enthusiastic and disappointed at the same time. I mean, the premise is so awesome, but Akamatsu doesn’t do anything with it (at least not yet).
Heh!heh!heh! Knew you’d be pleased. ^_~
I hear ya. I hope Akamatsu-sensei smooths things out better and improves Touta’s character.
I wonder if it’s Megalomesembria stirring trouble again, they had a bone to pick with Springfield family in the past after all. The fact that Powerful Hand used, what they called, a state-of-the-art super-advanced tech would point at their backers being someone really rich and powerful.
Then again the Captain mentioned Japanese Industry, I wonder if maybe Ayaka or Chizuru’s families are involved with the production of that baby. If I remember right Chizuru’s family owned Naba Heavy Industries…
I suspect it will be Megalomesembria.
I suspect that this will be part of the issue. Negi gets Ayaka and Chizuru to enlist their families, but years later, that backfires.
Dear god, I hope not. That would make all of Negi and 3-A’s efforts already look like a collosal waste of time, so the super cool ‘better then those little girls’ immortals can come in and supposedly fix everything.
Not really in my opinion. Negi’s goal was to terraform Mars and save Mundus Magicus which he apparently succeeded at. But while he was it he changed the world, a lot. Development of new technologies, changes in societies as stuff like Magic or other planets become available. All of those were huge shocks for the humanity and with such shocks come big changes. Some changes are for the better, some for the worse. Then there are people who take advantage of those changes. Negi succeeded but as with everything on that scale there are equally big consequences which must be dealt with.
Which is exactly what I think we are seeing now.
I know why a lot of folks hate that idea, but in reality, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. To me, that doesn’t make what Negi and Ala Alba did bad, but it make things interesting in that while trying to do the right thing, they end up causing the problems they were trying to avoid.
The girls going into their twilight years and watching the world go down the shitter is just too damn depressing for me to stomach, even worse is the insult that characters I could care less about come in and take what was supposed their moment of triumph. Them having a hand in all of it even makes all of Negima look like an exercise in futility more then it already was, and actually makes CE’s plan look like the preferable option when you get right down to it.
As for what timeline we’re in, it can’t be Chao’s. That would involve MM already being destroyed and the refugees fighting earths natural inhabitants.
I was thinking that timeline wise, we are approaching that fight.
Dargor : Wait … You were the one who complained that uq -Holder was too cliché ? And then you’re full because we called sensei in drug substance : “The plan was successful Negi and magic is revealed to the world , but everything is far from perfect ” ?
You are nothing but a hyppocriste ! I found the contrary all very mature and very boring here ! Ala Rubra either had not solved everything ! Why ala- alaba have managed to make everything perfect ?
Each era a lot of problem solved. More must I remind you that no sum or in 2080 and not in 2135 ( dated Asuna red alarm clock in a dream world ) . But hey I guess as you Tota doomed to eternal anathema on TOTALemeNTs bogus arguments ! Nothing will satisfy the time it will replace Negi . Although it evolved and became wiser (as already starts fleeing face Nagumo ) you would continue to say that it is zero.
You want a manga stuff perfect happy ending ? Read Fairy- tail lol !
Fate better plan ? So according to you if universities become not perfect and rosy must cause GLOBAL GENOCIDE (as the mundus magicus is an entire planet ) lol fortunately the world is fictional negima you ‘d be the worst dictators !
pfff … You realize you’re currently one of the ONLY continues to pour out his hatred on the work of sensei eh ? Almost everyone here (Astro in first^^) is excited about the final chapters and development they could made … Except you, there is ALWAYS something that you qu’elque – facts say that this manga is zero.
All because he does not fit YOUR criteria , but Akamatsu grieve not bump for YOU but for thousands (or even millions) of fans.
Sorry but yes. Me I prefer to follow the adventures of an immortal cool bands that continue to follow a ribanbelle schoolgirl (although I loved Negima but just had for adventure, history, the heroic- Fantaisy and bastons I always HATE harem aspect ! UQ -Holder finally meet my attantes and those of many others I am sure ! Continue university of Negimaa without harem ) .
An immortal band CONTINURONT the work of Ala- Alba (again this is not because the world does not look like “Little House on the Prairie ” that the work of Negi and 3 a was luck! dualism What stupid ! ” or everything is perfect or is null ” ? was completely puerile !
And it pleignait that UQ -Holder was a ” snapshot of Shonen ” . Pathetic!
Is despair ……
Dargor :
ps : I wanted to really old typewriter “TOTALLY stupid arguments” not “stupid arguments TOTAllEmant” sorry, these are misspellings and translation. ^ ^
I think it is in the future Asuna Dargor already provide arguments and is probably the only thing that we are agreements and even if I criticize his whining (lol) the fact that he could not bear the idea that the 3-A does not realize the “world Casimire” (re-lol) ^ ^) I do not see either provided Sensei turn the last page of his official university after four story interconnected on a bad- ending.
I think if Akamatsu causes Negi avoids future Chao is not for us after the show . I think rather effectively ( as Dargor ) we are really in a timeline along the plane of Negi but where there is evidence that between 2003 and 2135 ( Asuna alarm) all is not necessarily become perfect. Akamatsu Semme chaos in the world not to get Holder inutil the work of the 3-A (huh Dargor ) but to give a goal to raise hero instead of just make them fight ” big bad not good who wants destroy the kingdoms of the little elves ” ( and before you tell me that the life -maker will antagonniste I say ” exactly! areas Under his “Lord of Evil” is a very complex character of places miles Manichaeism , he wanted him also to save the world -magic I remember even if his methods were questionable , I am also curious to know the reasons for his return in 2065 and its presence more than probabledans era Holder) . so yes Tota and his band will complete the work and will lead to Negi radieu future as seen Asuna in 2135 .
You may be right, but it feels like things are being set up for war. We have the introduction of the war machines and paramilitary forces. We have conflict between folks on Mars (Mundus Magicus) and Earth. I just don’t know the timeline of events to site specific times when “X” or “Y” happens.
Dargor :
ps (2) : I wanted to write: “I think it rather exciting and very mature” and not “I find mature cal and very boring” (my translator told me that “boring” means “uninteresting” So here I rectify still Grrrr. thank you google trad!
Dargor : “Akamatsu does not work for you” and not “akamatsu not bump for you.”
Definitely. That’s what it is to use the French language expressions typical of an automatic translator lol.
Astro: You know, the fact that the plan Negi is successful does not mean that there will be no more war . Even in the mundus – magicus there were . The Great War on well but there are surely other fronts them and there will be more. War belongs intelligent sociétées ( ie ” human ” would not make sense in this case) .
Even in the epilogue which is considered by Akamatsu as “the most Happy Future ‘ a finished broke out between Mars and Earth, but for different reasons than in Chao here war it is a war of independence Martian ( a global version of the war of Independence of the United States if you want ^ ^) I think that a similar war is brewing . It is said that in the future or not Asuna back in time ( probably the Holder ) is a war that has delayed for 30 years waking Asuna . This also indicates that the war lasted only 30 years. In the world of Chao war started due from the collapse of the mundus magicus ie in 2010, louise is not the case ^ ^
Dargor : Moreover it proves that the 3A is well , i Fate had led his plan property when there was an alternative to have condoned it been a global genocide and I stress if the plan had not worked Negi we would be in the world of Chao 100 times worse than UQ -Holder ! It is also implied that the state of the world is due to climate Holder chengement . SAME as that which hangs in our faces ! Except that we have no one magic ( inexhaustible source of energy) to replace oil and that there is no technology to terraform the planet! So at the same time, our situation will be WORSE ! So luckily Negi and 3-A have saved the world , magical and made them what they have done!
If I recall avoire read one of your comments on manga -fox or you said that for now the only character was boring Yuuki shinobu because it was normal and full as soon as you’re “normal humans were a ” race endangered “So . :
1 . Yes is a breed endangered , the Earth becomes very similar to the magical world I was expecting something from the epilogue of Negima .
2 . And I am glad , because it means that there is more barrier between science and magic, between the natural and supernatural. Otherwise sorry but I found instead that normal humans are the least interressants characters . I bed a heroic- fantaisy cyber -punk manga manga n not sentimental like ” kimi iru machi .” Moin ^ ^ So we’ll see mundane human characters better I would wear . Besides, I think Yuki will soon get power , I feel that very good !^^
True, but it just seems like we might be in the timeline that Chao wanted to prevent. Not saying I’m right, but just saying that’s what it seems like to me at this moment ^_^
ps: to be more precise I prefer a world as UQ-Holder or mages act the grand day that a world like that of the Magi Negima or hide common as in Harry Potter, folks, I’ve always wanted, Negima by reading the version of the Land of Akamatsuvers resembles mundus-magicus, has done and is really great ^ ^
BTW the most obvious proof that is not in the world of Chao has that magic is perfectly acceptable (as in the mundus magicus) while in the world of Chao was not the case (because invasions megalosembria of 2010-2100 people saw the Magi and the supernatural in general as a threat to counter or even kill).
I would just say that not all of the facts are in. It is highly likely that we are in another timeline altogether.
ps (2) : j’ai voulu écrire : “le seul personnage ATTRACTIF Yuuki shinobu” pas “ennuyeux” décidément google trad ne m’aime pas xd.
Astro : Astro: you’re right we can very well be in another timeline where the project Negi managed BUT where there were some problems. After all as it has been said, there are at least 3 timeline :
1 . one where the mundus – magicus is provoquznt collapses wars on Earth and rejection by people wizards ( timeline Chao
2 . Or that Negi saves the world -magic reveals laa magic in the world and that Asuna to stabilize the world during the time that is done terraforming Mars
3 . Same as “2” except that Asuna future back in time .
It can be very BRead :
4 . identical to ” 2é but there were problems nture unknown in 2050.
But seble IMPOSSIBLE me qu’n either in the timeline Chao , otherwise the magical world has already disappeared. In passing the presence of Fate Averruncus with Negi (probably as one of the founding fathers of UQ -Holder ) and the best indicator that he told Negi : “If your plan fails I relence plan CE” . The fact that he is always alongside Negi after 60 years indicates that nothing has failed. ^ ^
Moreover, if the risk of failure there was , I think Chao would not welcomed back when she Negi Asuna . Instead , she joined future-eva for the congratulations !^^
Well it might not be that bad. I was thinking that Naba company was cooperating with Mundus Magicus and built those things and Powerful Hand acquired some thanks to money/connections.
Also one more thing about that spider tank. You discussed it earlier in the spoiler image posts how it can be more powerful than Chao’s. I actually doubt that. You see Chao herself said that she came from some 100 years in the future, meaning she came from 21xx while now we have 208x. This would mean that her version of spider tanks would be far more advanced, this one here is a newest cutting edge tech, Chao’s on the other hand would be battle-tested and upgraded versions. Like what M1A3 Abrams is to M1A1.
Regarding the tank, what I meant was that Chao did not have any of her weapon platforms seriously armed. A fully armed M1A1 is more powerful than an M1A3 armed with only blanks that scare the crap out of people but don’t do any real damage. That being said, Chao’s more advanced weapons only had stripper beam weapons (as I recall it) while Powerful Hand’s mecha was actually designed to take out magical beings.
1- I really hope to see a change in touta´s character in future arcs, but only time will tell.
2- Did anyone notice in this chapter when yukihime changes to eva her personality also changed.
3- You forgot to say in your review that you want Akamatsu to draw fan-service for these three new male caracters. C´mon don´t be afraid to admit it.
4- The sales for the second volume of uq holder are up, you should be able to see it in anumenewsnetwork.
1) Ditto!
2) Yeah, though there was a hint of Eva-chan in her Yukihime moment of enjoying seeing Touta crying. That being said, since Yukihime is a disguise appearance, it makes sense to give that appearance a disguise persona as well.
3) *LOL* I admit to nothing, sir! ^_~
4) I’ll have to look. Thanks for the alert.
I couldn’t find any numbers, and ANN’s site sucks for searching. *_*
If you want I can give you the Link
Links are always good. ^_^ (I think someone may have done that though.)
I wondering, but do you think Akamatus Sensei is going to turn UQH into a inverter (male) harem series? He did after all just added three pretty boys for Eva, compleat with number, just like with Negima and his students.
As for Negi’s plan being a failure, remember that in the end, there existed three separate time lines, and we have no idea which timeline we have here. This maybe Chao original line for all we know.
BTW the tilt-rotor were not Osprey’s but a combination of a Mi-26 with tilti-rotor, an interesting idea.
I can’t help but think that Akamatsu-sensei may be making a subtle protest of Japanese laws by doing things that are allowed, thus questioning why somethings are OK and somethings aren’t. I could be wrong here, but that’s what I think. Male fanservice would fit into that.
Personally, I think that is the timeline we are in.
Thanks for the correction. My window for bloggings is quite small at the moment, so I have to push things out quick. Thus, no research (though I probably would have still gotten that bit wrong).
[…] SPOILER image from the upcoming UQ Holder chapter 28, courtesy of the VERY gracious Southrop. (My review of UQ Holder Chapter 28 should come out […]
Here you go:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-03-26/japanese-comic-ranking-march-17-23
Thanks. ^_^
Interesting seeing that chart. I knew One Piece was very popular, even among non-manga readers in Japan, but I didn’t realize it was that popular.
Regardless, I guess those are OK numbers for UQ Holder. I’ll be interested to see how future weeks pan out (if new lists are generated).
Dargor : ps (2) : I wanted to write: “I find it rather exciting and very mature” and not “I find mature cal and very boring” (my translator told me that “boring” means “uninteresting” So here I rectify still Grrrr. thank you google trad!
“You want a manga stuff perfect happy ending ? Read Fairy- tail lol ”
“You are nothing but a hyppocriste”
If it were up to me, I’d ban you. Are you really that hurt because people criticizes your precious manga to resort to insulting and mocking others? Grow up.
Overmaster : is easy for you to say you’re a ” hater ” ^ ^ . So to begin:
1 . ” Hyppocrite ” is not an insult ! Critical that you serve me the references I will ! And you, can not you accept to meet people who do not share your view and you try remmettre in question rather than dir ” grow up” as if those who do not share your opinion and criticizing you, were idiots !
2 . Since the beginning Dargor and you had NO reconnuent positives manga , you’re just the bashing and I emphasize the word! Dargor is the ONLY to continue to pleindre without stops ! Even Astro (who was hurt by ” Touta ” ) is pleased last dévelloppements Touta and hope that will change ! Dargor (and you probably) continued by saying against a constantly ” is zero ! It is worth nothing ” .
His last argument is : “It is unbearable to think that the 3-A failed to make the ideal world and Tota will steal all the glory. ” . Me, me, ME! ! As if Sensei will bend your only criteria ! Who needs to grow up here? Before criticizing others is swept its own door thank you ! Summarize what pisses me off is that I apperceois you have decided that UQ -Holder ” is shit ! “.
And unless Sensei make a custom scenario for YOU AND ONLY YOU, you will NEVER ready to quit your ” bashing ” free .
The fact that M, Astro and other shady love manga are you strictly avaz NOTHING TO DO . That Volume 2 of UQ ‘s been 10,000 sales over the first volume you have nothing to do. To those who love are retarded morons ( not called me otherwise you have yourself said ” it’ll work just as well as Negima not actually you, kids in Japan 12 years Morons like goods shonen ” and yes I remember ! So who insult people!? who should get a ban ! )
3. Astro critical , he said, the strengths and weaknesses of the manga. You get the ” bashing ” is different!
For example, I am unfan Nurarihyon no mago , yet I did not like the end of the manga ( is true). It does not prevent me the author did a good job! And if his next manga interest me I would read it if it does not interest me I not read . But I would not go on the forums say ” this manga is really bad Hiii Nurarihyon no mago was much better ! ”
Not like Dargor and you!
Again : “Who needs to grow up here? ”
To meditate !
We’re all passionate on this topic, and as Hayate the Combat Buter has pointed out, many times, fans of a series don’t see eye-to-eye on things.
Listening to you reminds me a little of American fans who use “otaku” in a positive sense, and then are surprised when a native Japanese speaker is shocked by it.
But very few of those fans would then go on to berate the native Japanese speaker for not understanding that they meant it differently.
We understand that you’re dependent on machine translation, which means that you’re going to misunderstand a lot of the time. But that doesn’t mean you’re entitled to use French definitions for words and then get upset at people who think you mean the English definition.
I’ve said this to you before in different words, so I don’t know if you’ll understand any better than the last time, but I’ll try anyway: The burden is NOT on other people to read your mind and understand what you meant (as opposed to what you actually said). The burden is on you to try to be as understandable as possible (which means avoiding non-literal idioms), and when you can’t be understandable, at least try to listen before getting angry at people for not reading your mind.