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It's a shame Negima never really got an adaption that was faithful to the source material.

"When the man had a choice between doing what the publisher wanted his manga to do vs threatening to end the manga early, the latter was his choice. The publishers called his bluff and he proceeded to carry out his threat, sacrificing the manga he's put his heart into just to prove a point."

This is unconfirmed apologist fanboy bull. And if it had been true and he had any actual balls, he wouldn't continue working for the very same people who allegedly tried to screw him up.

"Many forget that the start of Negima was seen as rough for many fans. Much the same for UQ Holder. I wouldn't put it out of the battle quite yet."

No, by this point Negima already had lifted off, while UQ Holder continues being aimless crap.

"Unconfirmed apologist fanboy bull"?

Mate, do you even research? No? Didn't think so. Here, since you couldn't be arsed to do it :

http://anime.astronerdboy.com/2012/03/new-proposed-japanese-law-reason-ken.html

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3566624

There's plenty of other sites that had this information, most of which unfortunately are gone by now. Now if you're quite done talking about things you clearly know nothing about, then I suggest you keep your personal bias bullshit to yourself. Japanese politics are actually important to some of us adults that give a shit about the creators. We can read between the lines. Can you?

Also, I couldn't care less if you thought both series are garbage. That's your opinion. I respect it. Just don't sit there and act like it's the truth.

"There's plenty of other sites that had this information, most of which unfortunately are gone by now."

How convenient.

Oh yeah, sure, that prospect of law that was so important it forced everyone in the manga business to cancel their own series. Oh wait, no one else did it, just Akamatsu, after which the whole thing ended up in a big ball of nothing.

We got a 'confirmation' (based only on the word of a few people online, and yeah, that includes Akamatsu himself, but the man has lost a lot of credibility by now) there was such a prospect of law. We never got a confirmation it was necessary to axe Negima for it, and it certainly didn't necessitate a mass reaction from creators across Japan. Believe your fantasies of Akamatsu The Hero Who Single-Handledy Saved Manga By Cutting Off a Manga that wasn't Even Kodansha's Top Seller if you want, but just parroting the same old article in ANB's blog (and God knows how biased ANB can be at times) won't magically make that true.

And even so, he still basically undid his own point by keeping working for Kodansha after they allegedly were going to act in bad faith against him. One way or another, he proved being a flunk.

"Japanese politics are actually important to some of us adults that give a shit about the creators. We can read between the lines. Can you?"

Better than you, who takes what the first White Knight in the Internet goes around spreading (and without official confirmation from any other authors) at face value to excuse someone who has proved he's only winging things through both writing-wise and management-wise. And don't give me that on the 'adult' thing. Odds are you still were in your diapers when I began reading manga.

But CLAMP's most popular stuff was more popular than Negima, and combined, more popular than Love Hina as well (despite having less volumes and episodes than Negima, Love Hina, quality aside, left a bigger mark on anime and manga, basically defining the already existing modern harem genre).