Japanese: UQ HOLDER!
English: UQ Holder!
Synonyms: Yuukyuu Holder, Eternal Holder
Type: Manga
Volumes: 6 +
Chapters: 127 +
Status: Publishing
Published: Aug 28, 2013 to ?
Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Ecchi, Fantasy, Gender bender, Harem, Magic, Sci-Fi, Shounen
Mangaka: Akamatsu Ken (Story & Art)Serialization: Shounen Magazine (Weekly)
Synopsis: In the decade since the world became aware of the existence of magic, the world has undergone massive upheaval. However, a boy named Touta lives in seclusion in a rural town far removed from these changes. His ordinary life is highlighted by his magic-using female teacher and his supportive friends. When his tranquil daily life is disrupted, he embarks on a unique adventure.
Related Series
Mahou Sensei Negima! (Prequel)
Adaptation: UQ Holder
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Licensed in English
Kodansha Comics (7 Volumes - Ongoing)
Source: MAL Manga info, Baka updates
Side notes: It's been quite some time since I tried to read this manga but I was not tooned with the same wavelength with it so I pushed it on hold -pile. Still it's here today mainly 'cause the news that announced that it's going to be an anime and I thought... well let's give another try for it.^-^
P.S. R+ marking 'cause according to Baka there is minor nudity involved with the manga.
Main characters
Evangeline Athanasia Katherine McDowell (エヴァンジェリン・A.K.・マクダウェル)
Seat Number: 26
Born: Sometime during the Hundred Year War
Blood type: unknown
Likes: the tea that Chachamaru makes, Japanese scenery, Go
Dislikes: garlic, class
Clubs: Go Club, Tea Ceremony Club
Hair: blonde
Eyes: blue
Height: 130 cm (4'3")
Measurements: 67-48-63
Evangeline A.K. McDowell is the 26th student in Japanese alphabetical order of class 2/3-A, she is actually a centuries-old vampire cursed to remain at the school by Nagi Springfield, the father of her teacher Negi Springfield. Initially an antagonist for Negi due to his father's actions, she eventually becomes an important teacher and guide for the young mage and his allies as they fight and search for his missing father. However, Eva remains a cruel, powerful mage in her own right, yet with the sensitivities of her former human life.
A teenaged vampire, as well as the grandson of Negi Springfield. Formerly human, he was transformed two years prior to the start of the series. Later events reveal that he might be a clone of Negi Springfield.
Touta became a vampire, immortal, after he drank Yukihime's blood. He also lost his memories from before he was twelve years old in an accident. He has a talent for martial arts, respected even by Yukihime.
When he was accepted into UQ Holder's immortal squad "numbers" he was given the number 7.
Touta is shown to be an energetic and carefree individual, always smiling and being rather optimistic. Among those traits, Touta is also a kind and friendly person, wishing to befriend many people and Immortals such as himself, and refuses to allow potential friends to slip away, evident by his desire to befriend Kuroumaru Tokisaka, despite the latter's known intention to kill him in order to get to Yukihime, before finally becoming friends.
Touta is known for openly speaking his mind, without much care for what people say, always boasting about his dreams and desire to make friends, or if he's simply being blunt. He does as he pleases, even if it gets him into trouble. This doesn't mean he's dumb. In fact he is surprisingly smart able to dupe, Fate, do extensive paperwork, and figure out what tricks his masters are teaching him. Also, he seems to hide a lust for vengeance and hate like his grandfather.
He cares a great deal for people close to him and always exhibits great rage towards those who attempt to or have harmed his friends. Touta claims that due to having no memories of his life prior to two years ago, he has nothing to look back to or remember, and envies those who do, he also claims to lack any real talent of his known, and as such, copies the talents of others around him, as he has been back at the countryside before leaving, saying the world is his "teacher".
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Kuroumaru Tokisaka (時坂 九郎丸)
Shinmeiryuu style swordsman.
Sex is neither male or female but gender identifies as male. Members of the Yatagarasu tribe choose their sex at the age of 16.
When he was accepted into UQ Holder's immortal squad "numbers" he was given the number 11.
Kuroumaru is in love with his partner, Touta Konoe, but when he finally confessed, Touta mistook his feelings and said he loved him back, along with everyone else in their group. For awhile, Kuroumaru started to question his gender, wondering if he really did want to become a woman after people consistently told him he should just become one if he wanted Touta to return his feelings. He later discovered that wasn't the truth though, that instead, he wanted to be someone who could stand by Touta's side and be strong enough to protect him.
Supporting
Negi Springfield (ネギ・スプリングフィールド)
Negi Springfield is the teacher of Mahora Girls' Jr High School class 3-A (formley 2-A) with formely 31 students, now reduced to 30. Negi Springfield is the son of master mage Nagi Springfield, famously known as the legendary "Thousand Master" and princess Akira of the Ostian Empire in the magic world. At present, Negi has formed 11 temporarily pactio with his students (Asuna, Nodoka, Setuna, Konoka, Yue, Haruna, Chisame, Kazumi, Kaede, Kuu Fei, and Chachamaru) and 1 temporarily pactio with Theo, which gives him the artifact that allow him to use any of his partner's artifact.
Negi specialize in Wind spells and Lightning spells (his father's specialty) though he is initially lacking in battle experience. He later trains under Ku Fei in Martial Arts to make up for his weakness in close combat, advancing very quickly (even learning how to do instant movement, otherwise known as Shundou), and applies a strong magical barrier around himself to avoid damaging his frail body. He eventually becomes a master of using delayed spells as a battle tactic. Due to the training he had with Evangeline and Jack Rakan, his magic and combat capability increases exponentially. Negi also learns and improves upon Evangeline's "Magia Erebea," which absorb offensive spells into his own body. He also came up with a new spell: "Spell Synthesis: Lightning God Lance Titan Slayer" which is a new high class lightning spell. Negi even manage to use Magia Erebea's ultimate ability by using a magic circle that can stop and absorb the enemy's attack whether it is magical or spiritual attack and use it against them, which even Evangeline herself could not master it. In the latest chapter, it is shown that Magia Erebea marks have begin to spread all over Negi's body and that Negi has formed a temporarily pactio with Shiori, one of Fate's subordinates.
His aim is to become a Magister Magi (master mage) like his father and find his father who is currently missing.
Nodoka Miyazaki (宮崎 のどか)
Seat Number: 27
Birthday: May 10, 1988
Blood Type: O
Hair: Dark blue
Eyes: Pink
Likes: Being surrounded by books, Sorting books
Dislikes: Males
Clubs: Library Coordination Committee, Library Monitor, Library Expedition Club
Class 2/3-A's resident bookworm, Nodoka is of the quiet but kind variety, harboring romantic feelings for her homeroom teacher, Negi Springfield. She has since confessed her feelings to him, but not much progress in their relationship has been made; they still remain friends. Nodoka is the second person to establish a probationary contract with Negi and gain a pactio card (it occured during the field trip to Kyoto). Her artifact is a book that can show one's thoughts in picture diary format.
Yue Ayase (綾瀬 夕映)
Seat Number: 4
Born on: 16th of November, 1988
Blood Type: AB
Hair: Violet
Eyes: Violet
Likes: Reading
Dislikes: Studying at school
Clubs: Children's Literature Research Society, Philosophy Research Society, Library Expedition Club
Yue is Nodoka's best friend, and is often seen around both her and Haruna. She's short and at times has a blunt way of speaking to people, but is generally a friendly person. She likes to read but (ironically) doesn't like to study, and is one of the Baka Rangers (a name for the 5 worst students in Negi's class). When she finds out that Negi is a mage she gets excited about learning magic herself.
At first she shows no romantic interest in Negi, but as time goes by she finds herself developing a crush on him. However she doesn't want to hurt Nodoka, so she tries to keep it bottled up as much as she can. She's supportive of Nodoka and wishes her the best of luck when it comes to her and Negi's relationship.
Yue became the 5th person in Negi's class to make a Pactio with him, following Asuna, Nodoka, Setsuna, and Konoka.
Albireo Imma (アルビレオ・イマ)
Albireo Ima is one of Nagi's former companions. He entered the fighting tournament during the Mahora school festival under the assumed name "Ku:Nel Sanders" and went largely unnoticed until he approached Asuna and was recognized by Evangeline. He appears to have information on not only Nagi's whereabouts, but also on Asuna's forgotten past. Albireo appears to be a perverted fellow, as his taste in making Evangeline wear costumes made apparent in recent chapters. He's also a cunning and shrewd man, akin to Nagi Springfield, and is considered as one of the two natural enemies which Evangeline has (he takes great delight in verbally tormenting her, even calling her Kitty), the other one being Nagi himself. Albireo Ima has a strong affinity towards gravity elemental magic.
An interesting fact revealed in the latest chapters is that Albireo has his very own Pactio card, which means that he, in addition of being a powerful mage, is also a Minister Magi. His artifact is a series of books, with an accompanying bookmark, that can be used to transform into a specific person, using all their skills and abilities. His present Pactio is with Nagi, but he has had at least ten contracts with other mages in the past, all of whom are dead.
Jack Rakan (ジャック・ラカン)
Jack Rakan (Jacobus Racan on his pactio card as the "k" in his family name is replaced with a "c" as is standard on all pactio cards), also known as "Rakan of the Thousand Swords," is the large, dark-skinned member of Nagi's group. He appears to be a powerful fighter, demonstrating incredibly destructive attacks with relative ease. His Pactio item is a blade that can transform into (in his words) "any shape imaginable" and can also take the form of a giant sword falling from the sky for an immensely powerful strike. He also demonstrated the ability to emit a high-powered laser from his body at a whim. Rakan initially encounters Negi (in his older disguise) in the Magical World witnessing his battles in the tournaments to raise money to free some of his students. Seeing him without a special ultimate technique, he offers Negi to teach him one for a huge fee. However, after the two of them are attacked by a shadow-manipulator who wants revenge on Nagi, Rakan is forced to save Negi's life for free as well as decides to become his teacher without the fee. Rakan then teaches Negi a technique called Magia Erebea, a forbidden technique created by Evangeline A.K. McDowell.
Fate Averruncus (フェイト・アーウェルンクス)
The last of the three mercenary children helping Chigusa. He supposedly came to Japan from the Istanbul Magic Association a month prior the school field trip to Kyoto, but was actually hired by Chigusa Amagasaki for her plan. She refers to him as "Newcomer". Fate is an expert in both Western and Eastern magic, is highly skilled in martial arts (noted by Negi to slightly resemble the chinese martial arts he practices), and is stronger and more skilled than Negi, as of the current story arc. He was the one that almost turned everyone at the Kansai Magic Association headquarters into stone, and kidnapped Konoka when Chigusa failed to do so on earlier attempts. The name he has may not be his real name, as noted by Eishun and furthed by Professor Akashi's report. He disappeared after he and the summoned demon god were defeated by Evangeline. He specializes in water-based and petrification spells and can perform Eastern magic such as summoning demons using ofuda. Recently, Fate has appeared outside the gate to the magic world, and, upon entering the magic world by following Negi's group, attacks Negi by piercing him with a spear-like projectile. He and a group of mages (whose identities are unknown- however, one of them seems to know Asuna) then engage in battle with Negi's ministras, separating the group with a forceful transportation spell, and accomplished the mission they were originally sent to do: destroying the gateway to the normal world (the group later set out to destroy the other gate keys). Fate and his group later framed Negi's team for this, putting a bounty on each of the Ala Alba members, making it harder for them to move freely. It is noted by Evangeline that Fate may not be human (saying he was something more akin to a puppet). His and his group's intentions are not known at this time.
Hajimari no Mahoutsukai (始まりの魔法使い)
The Life-Maker, properly known as the Mage of the Beginning. She is the primary antagonist of the series and its prequel Negima! Magister Negi Magi. She is an unfathomably powerful immortal archmage who created the Magical World and gave life to Fate Averruncus. She is repeatedly described as the archenemy of Evangeline Mc Dowell, Nagi Springfield, Negi Springfield, and Touta Konoe.
Because her unique skill, the Resonance, constantly connects her to all pain of every living being, the Mage of the Beginning is, as stated by Fate to be "broken". She wants to free herself from it by ending suffering for good, but she would not hesitate to take drastic measures such as banishing all life in a paradise dimension, like she attempted several times in the Magical World.
Although cruel, callous and willing to shoot her servants to strike her foes, she displays a melancholic, contemplative side, and seems rather fond of humanity. However, most of her personality remains mysterious.
Ikkuu Ameya (飴屋 一空)
Ikkuu is an immortal and one of the newer members of UQ Holder under the number of 10. He revealed that he was born 85 years ago, but when he turned 13 he was in an accident and rendered into a coma until he was given an artificial body. Since then he joined UQ Holder as thanks for their help and to defend the world he loves.
Dana Ananga Jagannatha (ダーナ・アナンガ・ジャガンナータ)
Dana Ananga Jagannatha also known as the Witch of the Rift (狭間の魔女, Hazama no Majo), is a vampire like Evangeline, but she belongs to nobility of vampires.
Adding charas.... after a little while.^-^
Source: MAL, Wikia
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