blopa said:
"I cannot claim the same for Negima"... It seems you're not pretty good with explanations. Anyway, I read Naruto too and it REALLY slowed down since the 2 and a half years skip, contrary to Negima which keeps getting a faster pace. You're right that it's "fundamentally good", and that might be the reason people still read it along some others like boredom or habit (for me, are actually the last two) but waiting forever for something to happen really gets on my nerves filler chapters are neither funny nor interesting, again contrary to Negima.
PD: Even with the "not great" between brackets you still look like a narutard, otherwhise you wouldn't be posting here.
My simple point was that Negima is not and at this point, cannot be, a fundamentally good shounen (as opposed to Naruto). I think your criticism of slow pacing goes for Bleach, not Naruto (write down everything that happened in part 1 and part 2, I bet you there's a lot more in part 2). And tons of dialogue is no substitute for pacing. Anyway, pacing in itself contributes little to how good a manga is.
I'm also curious as to what you meant by 'filler chapters' - you do know that filler means contributing nothing to the plot, right? This is infinitely more a problem for Negima than Naruto, I think (a natural consequence of harem mangas).
Now, let's not insult my writing styles from just one post now. Actually if you head on over to the Naruto forums you wouldn't find a single post of mine complimenting a chapter of Naruto. I also read a lot of other shounen and make posts on tons of them. The only reason I mentioned Naruto is because someone mentioned it.
If you want me to go over in detail as to why Negima isn't fundamentallly good shounen, I can do that. But I'd be better for you to figure that out.