Web Video / Negima The Abridged Series

Negima: The Abridged Series (MSNTAS for short) is an Abridged Series created by BlasterMaster1942, xXNeokaXx, and TheJesterking. It takes the 20 minute episodes of the first Negima! Magister Negi Magi anime and turns them into 10 minutes of reference humor, internet memes, and Lampshade Hanging.

A notable part of the series is the Asakura Hour, a Fourth-Wall Mail Slot where Kazumi Asakura interviews members of the main cast. Questions are submitted by YouTube commentors and chosen based on which ones can be made funny.

Originally hosted on BlasterMaster's channel, the series is now hosted on the series-devoted KazumiSexyChannel, which can be accessed here. Unfortunately the series appears to have been abandoned in early 2013 as Facebook entries suggest that the team working on it had a falling out, with the series currently at nine episodes and seven Asakura Hours.

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This series provides examples of:

• Abridged Series
• Absurd Phobia: Negi is afraid to eat with a fork, because he thinks forks burned down his village.
• AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle: Several character names are mispronounced because of this, although it's somewhat inconsistent. Most notorious is Zazie, whose name is pronounced with an unneeded syllable (ZaziE, instead of the proper ZAzie).
• Accidental Misnaming: Takahata tends to call Asuna things like Amy, Yohko or Serena.
• Adaptational Villainy: Just to name a few, Konoka's developed some nasty tendencies, the twins are child molesters, and Zazie terrifies the rest of the cast (with Kazumi sometimes threatening to sic her on troublemakers).
• The All-Solving Hammer: All the spellcasters use spells from Harry Potter. To be more precise, each spellcaster uses exactly one spell from Harry Potter and somehow that spell always does whatever is necessary. This is a jab at the lengthy incantation Negi always uses in the original anime. He tries to use that spell once in the abridged version, but gives up because he can't figure out how to pronounce it.
  • And what's funnier is that all of the "spells" used would normally just be used for regular tasks.
• Alpha Bitch: Konoka shows elements of this.
  Konoka: I told you nerd, the only way you'll get my beauty secrets is if you pry them from my cold, dead hands!
• Art Shift: Even though the story follows the first anime, the series repeatedly uses clips from both the second anime and the OVAs.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Chachamaru spends her free time wandering around town helping random people and kittens. It's all in preparation for a robot uprising.
• Black Comedy Rape: The twins' intention toward Negi at the end of Episode 9. We don't find out if they succeed.
• "Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: Done by Asakura.
• Blatant Lies:
  • In Episode 5, Chamo tries to explain being in Japan with a convoluted tale involving his Evil Twin, a framed murder, and ermine ninjas (told enitrely with live-action puppets). Negi, being Negi, totally buys it.
  • [Actual English Dub].
  • Nekane's message to Negi is interrupted by police sirens. She pretends it just means her crumpets are done.
• Catchphrase: For the first few episodes, Asuna has "Up yours, Konoka." Also, Nodoka screams "Oh my Goddddddddd—" with some regularity.
• Character Development: Just ask Asuna!
• Character Title: Enforced in-series by Kazumi, with the Asakura Hour segments.
• Chekhov's Gag: Negi draws a Shoop da Whoop over Asuna's face in his roster in Episode 1. It shows back up in Episode 2. And makes a triumphant return in Asakura Hour 5, interrupting Konoka before she can tell the audience why Asuna's eyes are two different colors.
• Christmas Special: Had one in 2010, as well as a Halloween Special the same year. The heavy mangling of footage needed to create them may explain why they were only a one-time thing.
• Cluster Bleep-Bomb: Apparently, Setsuna's doujins of herself and Konoka are indescribable.
  Haruna: I love the one where you f*** her in a *** using nothing but a ***ing vacuum cleaner, and *** *** *** *** *** *** and it turns out, it was the gerbils all along.
• Comically Missing the Point: When Negi sees Eva on the roof, surrounded by her mind-controlled classmates in maid costumes.
  Negi: Oh my god, there really IS a Mahora brothel!
  Eva: Velcome, Negi, to your doom!
  Negi: You! You're a pimp!
  Eva: (reverts to child form) No, you idiot! It's me!
  Negi: OHHH!... Evangeline, you're a pimp?!
  Eva: Yes... I'm a pimp.
• Creepy Monotone: Yue.
• Creepy Twins: The Narutakis.
• Disproportionate Retribution:
  • Negi opens Episode 2 by trying to KILL Asuna after she sees him performing magic.
  • The punishment for revealing oneself as a wizard is to be turned into a weasel and fed to a pack of hungry wolves.
• The Ditz:
  • Takahata. When Negi reads his mind, his thoughts can be easily summed up in four words: DO YOU LIKE WAFFLES?
  • Konoka and Sakurako also seem to have elements of this.
• Elmuh Fudd Syndwome: Anya has it bad. Ku Fei has a milder case as part of her stereotypical Chinese accent.
• Everyone Has Standards: Konoka may be a ditzy Alpha Bitch, but she is the only character in the cast to explicitly say that she doesn't want to sleep with Negi, because "He's like 10, you sick f***s!"
• Eye Scream: Negi's attempt at throwing kunai ends with one lodged in someone's eye socket off-camera.
• Failed a Spot Check:
  • Neither Negi nor Chamo overhear sugar-high Eva gibbering somewhere off-camera or even the bystander shouting "Oh my god, Evangeline A.K. McDowell of class 3-A is sucking that kid's blood!"
  • Negi and Asuna also don't notice Chachamaru's detailing how all her apparently good deeds are just her gathering intelligence for the impending Robot War.
• Finishing Each Other's Sentences: Fuka and Fumika, though somehow they seem to be unaware of it.
  Fumika: The twins never...
  Fuka: ... finish each other's sentences!
  Negi: And now you're speaking in third person...
• Foreshadowing: The best kind.
  Negi: I thought I was going to suffocate in all those breasts!
  • The next episode, as Takahata is out strolling with Eva and Chachamaru:
  Takahata: This scene here is to imply that the lolicon vampire has some connection to the Potters. I mean Springfields. Foreshadowing: It's gooooood stuff!
• The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: During Asakura Hour 3, Asuna beats the crap out of two of the series' voice actors.
• Freudian Slippery Slope:
  Asuna: You need to help me get into Takamichi's pant... I mean, you need to hook me up with Takahata-sensei!
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Sayo, insofar as she interacts with anyone (mostly Kazumi). The Asakura Special Report on their move to KazumiSexyChannel credits her as "The Ghost Nobody Likes."
• The Gadfly: Yue, mostly to Nodoka.
• Giftedly Bad: Thousand Master's fanfiction. Specifically, his Luffy/Samus slash fic.
  Eva: For the love of God, just curse me already!
• Going Commando:
  Takahata: (to Asuna) Ah, Amy. Going commando again, I see.
• Goofy Print Underwear: Asuna somehow obtained panties with Takahata's face on them.
• Gosh Darn It to Heck!: Negi seems to alternate between "curses" like these (e.g. "Poopy!" in Episode 6) and bleeped-over profanity.
• Grammar Correction Gag:
  • In Asakura Hour 2, a poorly-spelled message asks why Takahata is so "van" (vain), to which he insistently replies that he is not a van.
  • Another one in Hour 7 asks Setsuna if she plans on telling Nodoka (presumably confusing her with Konoka) how she feels.
    Setsuna: Hey, Nodoka!
    Nodoka: Huh? Yes?
    (video becomes slow-motion and romantic music plays)
    Setsuna: You're a nerd.
• Hollywood Tone-Deaf: The opening is very badly sung by the makers of the series.
• Humanoid Abomination: Zazie.
• Hypocrite: Chamo is more than willing to take advantage of Negi's trusting nature, but gets annoyed at him for not seeing through Chachamaru.
• Hypocritical Humor:
  Asuna: (to Negi) You really need to learn how to control your anger!
  Asuna: Konoka, that's awful! Trying to sleep with a teacher who's nowhere near your age?!
  Haruna: What kind of pervert are you, Nodoka?
• Incredibly Lame Pun:
  Setsuna: What the Hell are you doing?
  Mana: I'm... Mana-loguing! (Rimshot)
  • Eva fills the aerial chase scenes with awful puns about flying, much to Negi's annoyance.
  Negi: That's it, Eva! No more flights of fancy! Wingardium Leviosa!... bugger, I'm doing it too.
• Insane Troll Logic: The justification for the boob contest in Episode 4 qualifies.
  Haruna: Okay, so the girl with the biggest boobs gets to keep Negi-sensei.
  Ayaka: Exactly!... Wait, what?!
  Yue: Makes sense to me.
  Ayaka: How the hell did we come to this conclusion?!
• It's All About Me: Kazumi mainly sees her newscasts as a chance to hog the spotlight.
• Keet: Makie, to the point that she sounds like one of the Chipmunks sped up.
• Mad Scientist: Hakase is now, ahem, cartoonishly stereotypical, complete with a thick German accent and obsession with blowing stuff up and conquering the world.
• Mood Whiplash: In Hour 6, the final question to Nodoka asks if she's ever written names into her Artifact, and tells her to give it a try. The resulting casualties are... traumatizing.
• Nerdy Nasalness: Chisame's voice is made deliberately grating this way.
• No Indoor Voice: Everything out of the Dean's mouth is delivered in the tone of a half-crazed rant.
• Noodle Incident:
  Asuna: And that's the story of why my eyes are two different colors. Now let's never speak of this ever again!
  • Also serves as a Take That! to the first anime, which indeed never mentioned it again.
• Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping:
  • One gag involves Negi losing his British accent in a flower bed, revealing that he has a very deep voice.
  • Same goes with Eva, who normally speaks with a very thick Romanian accent. Getting kicked by Asuna causes her to slip into a very thick British Accent.
• Orphaned Punchline: A couple of times, courtesy of Yue.
  Yue: And that's how babies are born. (cue grossed-out reaction from addressee)
• Orphaned Series: Sadly the ninth and last episode was released in January, 2013. From the Facebook page's last entry in March of 2013 and entries prior to that, it seems that the group involved has drifted apart.
• Ping Pong Naïveté: Negi, sort of. He's generally the smartest and most mature person in the room but he's also generally way too trusting.
• Poke the Poodle: Eva pulls a couple of these in Episode 8.
  "He tripped because I turned the lights out. Truly my revenge has begun! Ah hah hah hah!"
• Puny Earthlings: Chao seems to consider everyone else to be this.
• Pyromaniac: Episode 1 has Sakurako as this, though for the rest of the series she's just sorta dumb.
• Rich Bitch: Ayaka at times, especially played up in the Christmas 2010 special.
• Running Gag:
  • "THIS IS AN IMPORTANT PLOT POINT!"
  • Character development!
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In Episode 5, Kazumi storms off in a huff when the Asakura Hour stops being shown at the end of episodes, only to come right back when she learns that it's now a Spin-Off.
• Shout-Out: Par for the course.
  • Notably, Chachamaru's voice is a very well-done mockup of GLaDOS.
  • All of Setsuna's Internal Monologues are Shout Outs to Max Payne. Mana's been doing it too, in the style of Metal Gear Solid.
  • Asuna's practically a gold mine for this. She's accused several times of being Sailor Moon in disguise, she goes into Phoenix Wright mode when she accuses people, and labels two of her kicks "FALCON KICK!!" and "BOOT TO THE HEAD!!".
  • Asuna and Ayaka's constant bickering about who's best between Edward and Jacob.
    Asuna: What you say!
  • "Mine is the character development that will pierce the heavens!"
  • "Hakase, what does the scouter say about his character development?"
  • Takahata and Eva urge Nodoka to come with them to Candy Mountain.
  • Asuna and Negi re-enact the beginning of the first Pokémon opening in Episode 4. Asuna's Stealth Hi/Bye and fight with Chamo in Episode 5 are also presented as Pokemon battles.
  • Setsuna contemplates fleeing like a blue hedgehog in front of Konoka. Also, this is how she concludes her first monologue:
    Setsuna: (Every breath she takes... Every move she makes... I'll be watching.)
  • Takahata has a picture of Negi represented by Hatsune Miku holding her leek.
  • Every single one of Negi's spells is now Wingardium Leviosa. Likewise, Eva's spells are all Alohomora.
  • To Death Note:
    Natsumi: I will take this rose... AND EAT IT!
  • Kaede's voice is a Shout Out to Ask a Ninja.
  • Episode 4 opens with a parody of Power Rangers.
  • Sliding doors sound like they're borrowed from the Enterprise.
  • Batman, complete with TV Land logo.
  • Episode 5 features two back-to-back:
    Negi: We just got a letter? I wonder who it's from.
    Nekane: Help me, Negi Springfield. You're my only hope.
  • Yotsuba is the "Chef of BAM." Getting angry causes her to turn into Gordon Ramsay.
  • "She's dead, Jim."
  • Chachamaru uses a stray kitten "to create a Chacha-coneco."
  • "I just had the strangest dream..."
  • A blink-and-you-miss-it nod to Atop the Fourth Wall, in Episode 8:
    Eva: He has a magic gun?!
    Chachamaru: Where'd he purchase that?
  • A super-creepy one in Episode 9:
    Fumika: Now follow us, Negi. Forever and ever and ever and ever...
    Fuuka: (whispering) And eeeverrr...
  • "I get to say something! I get to say something! I get to say something!... I like trains."
  • Hakase offers Negi the opportunity of "fighting an army of mantis men."
  • "Shot through the heart, and she's to blame. ... Damn you, Akira! Damn you to Hell!!!"
  • The soundtrack is also heavily sprinkled with these, featuring music from Warauinu no Bouken, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Kikujiro, Star Wars and The A-Team.
• Spin-Off: The Asakura Hour started off as an end segment to the main episodes. Starting in Episode 5, it became a supplementary series that released videos alongside the main series.
• Stalker with a Crush: Setsuna's canonical Bodyguard Crush on Konoka becomes this. Also, there's a few indications that Mana is stalking Setsuna, though in this case it seems more like she's just doing it to mess with her.
• Standard Snippet:
  • Negi makes his first entrance into the classroom to "Chariots of Fire."
  • The first time Eva reverts to her native accent, "Rule Britannia" starts playing.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: Usually from Negi.
  Negi: I need to go and make a Love Potion. Not a magical love potion... just a regular love potion. I am not a wizard.
• Take That!:
  • Eva rags several times on The Twilight Saga.
  • Toward Rebecca Black in Episode 8.
    "It's so bland and uninspired that it literally sucks the magic out of everything around it."
• Take That Us: The prelude to Asakura Hour 6.
  Chisame: In early 2010, a bunch of losers without jobs decided to make an abridged series about a stupid harem manga...
• This Is Gonna Suck: Kazumi's reaction to finding out she has to interview Konoka is just a single bleeped swear word. Followed by a Rage Quit that forces the Narutakis to host the rest of the Hour.
• Too Dumb to Live: Negi seems to consider this a contractual part of being the star, a trait inherited from Nagi.
  "Because no one wants to watch an anime about a kid who calls the cops all the time. For there to be real drama, I need to have a chance of being hospitalized."
• Tsundere: Asuna, purposefully turned up to eleven.
• The Unintelligible:
  • Makie, thanks to her chipmunk-sounding voice. Doubles with Refuge in Audacity when you manage to make out what she's saying.
  • Eva when she sucks Makie's blood and, with it, her blood sugar.
  • British Eva, who doesn't so much speak English as she speaks a mishmash of British slang.
    "You're a bloody nancy-basket whose pater left when you were a buption. You're a bobbins teacher and likely a back-tickler."
• Vampire Vords: Eva most of the time. She even goes "Bleh!" a couple times. But she's faking it to try to make herself seem scarier.
• Vampires Are Sex Gods: It seems like Asuna believes this:
  Asuna: Yeah. Well... Edward's Haught!
  Negi: Asuna! Asuna, everyone is entitled to their own opinion...
  Asuna: NOBODY BADMOUTHS VAMPIRE SEX OBJECTS!
• Vocal Dissonance: A lot of the girls (e.g. Kazumi, Mana) are given distinctly male voices, often very deep, gravelly and/or much older-sounding. Konoka sounds exactly like Cartman. But the prize has to go to Zazie, who, on the rare occasion that she does speak, is right down there with Mr. Shadow.
• The Voiceless: Zazie, who actually stays in character.
• Transformation Is a Free Action: Parodied.
  Chachamaru: That light has been shining for five minutes now.
  Eva: What?! How did I not see that?
• Yaoi Fangirl:
  • Haruna was already this, but has been taken up to eleven. Going by Asakura Hour 7, she's also a Yuri Fan.
  • Nodoka also qualifies, although she's a bit more secretive. The series is kind of indecisive about this, though, with a few scenes indicating she finds it traumatizing.

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