- #186
Anyways, I thought the finale was a bit rushed, but still good overall. I can't believe how many people are up in arms about Ken making Chisame a Hikimori though in the last chapter. IMO, that's not a bad thing for her. After all, in Ch. 298, Chisame is not affected by the false Cosmo Entelechia of Zazie's sister (which supposedly telling us that her current Hikimori lifestyle actually is enough for her - much to her hilarious chagrin). Here is a link to that page:
http://mangafox.me/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v33/c298/4.html
Because of that earlier chapter, I actually think it's awesome how Ken uses Chisame and the other character blurbs in the final chapter to show how everyone has their own path to happiness.
I definitely agree that Ken shouldn't have thrown Negi's father in at the last second like it didn't need any further explanation. That was terrible. It would have even have been fine to say that Negi was still looking for his dad with Asuna and hoped to eventually find him, or some other shounen trope of sorts so it wouldn't seem quite so contrived, IMO. It would have made a nice walking into the sunset image ending at the least (preferably in color!).
The chapter had some nice moments. We at least learned some of the girls that Negi DIDNT choose *cough* Nodoka *cough* Bonus marks on this ending for Setsuna x Konoka and beautiful character designs for everyone's older forms though <3
So yeah, the ending was a bit lackluster, but come on guys, it still had its good points and it doesn't negate how nice the rest of the series was.
TLDR; loved the series and sad it's over !!