Random Musings - Watching The Negima Drama Wreck Unfold September 3
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As many of you may know, a Negima live-action drama has been in the works for several months now. Well, this past weekend, there was an unveiling of sorts in Tokyo with all of the girls and Negi, who is being played by 13-year-old Kashiwa Yukina. Also there were Takamichi (played by Hiroshi), Minamoto Shizuna (played by Oikawa Nao who I believe used to be an AV star), and the school headmaster (played by Satou Gajirou). I’ll let the pictures from Mainichi’s coverage of the event do most the talking, as the actresses seem to have all been put in the costuming and makeup that they’ll be in for the actual show (unlike the official site’s original class listing).
Frankly, I couldn’t stop laughing when I looked at some of those images, and it’ll be really interesting to see how bad the drama is what the drama is like. The official site now also has a look into classroom 3-A with some more images of the students, and they’ve announced the OP and ED too. I really hope Asuna, Konoka, and Setsuna’s actresses have some singing ability. Anyway, the Negima drama is set to premiere on TV Tokyo on October 3rd at 25:20, and it’s slated for 26 episodes. I wonder how many episodes I’ll be able to last - probably only one…
Dac at 9:04 pm on September 3rd, 2007
hmmm…negi doesnt look as bad as i thought…but the rest are a bit…>
Fearless at 9:07 pm on September 3rd, 2007
Negi with a female actress means Pactio kisses are gonna be girl on girl
Genestarwind at 9:16 pm on September 3rd, 2007
Asuna looks old ;_;
Tryptomine at 9:20 pm on September 3rd, 2007
Why must they insist on making so many horrible adaptions of such an entertaining manga?
Alien at 9:22 pm on September 3rd, 2007
harry potter
andi at 9:23 pm on September 3rd, 2007
so wait…
negi is a GIRL actress?
this is gunna suck.
Kyonne at 9:36 pm on September 3rd, 2007
@andi
Ever heard about Sh15uya?
Shuin at 9:36 pm on September 3rd, 2007
lol look what negi looks (lol) i cant stop laughing about this characters. the anime characters doesnt suit to them or in their personality.
Kageho at 9:38 pm on September 3rd, 2007
…this has fail written all over it. -_- As much as I like Negima, I just can’t see this succeeding at all.
Nekozama at 9:47 pm on September 3rd, 2007
Go wigs ~ Chachamaru owned them all in term of ridiculous look in live action …… ohh wait Head master is worse than ridiculous~
spixie at 9:50 pm on September 3rd, 2007
uhh… wow? and i thought it couldn’t get any worse with televised editions of negima… boy was i wrong…
the actors don’t really even look like the characters…
DC at 9:54 pm on September 3rd, 2007
Last though 1 episode? I don’t think I’ll be able to last 10 minutes.
Fuyumi at 10:09 pm on September 3rd, 2007
Wait… that kid is thirteen? Fuck, I thought Japanese kids were supposed to look young…
pakxenon at 10:43 pm on September 3rd, 2007
Negi, Shizuna-sensei, and Takahata-sensei don’t look bad (Takahata looks BADASS). The rest of the cast… 25% looks good, the rest is crap.
As for the 26 episode thing, I hope it’s not just character-story after character-story, cuz that’s really boring (and the whole TV filler thing); though being an hour long per episode, they might just be able to squeeze in everyone and have some sort of over-plot.
AznSoulboy at 10:49 pm on September 3rd, 2007
“lol” xD
Chiu^2 at 10:50 pm on September 3rd, 2007
oh god, I don’t know whether to die of laughter or the sheer fact this is not going to end well.
Luis at 11:28 pm on September 3rd, 2007
fisrt anime now real life they should put american people insted so that the girls look a lot better.
Nutty at 11:29 pm on September 3rd, 2007
Heh. The actress for Negi looks a lot cuter as a girl…..
Asrialys at 11:35 pm on September 3rd, 2007
What are you talking about? This is going to be awesome XD
*sigh* Seriously, I wish they’d do something decent with Negima…
AvexMode at 11:41 pm on September 3rd, 2007
And here I am hoping for some straight shota action, but the hope dashed. I mean how hard is it to find a Japanese talking boy from Wales. sheesh.