Staff: 脚本：金巻兼一　絵コンテ：福田道生　演出：宮本幸裕　作監：杉山延寛       Opening: "1000% Sparking" - A quite stylish and surreal OP as expected, though I thought it'd be more colorful instead of being in a monochrome/sepia tone. The song is a bit different as well, starting out with rather interesting lines spoken by each character and then the chorus for the last 30 seconds or so. Very cool, fitting for a show that's supposed to focused on battles. I especially like the shot of Eva ;) There will be multiple arrangements of the song with different classmates singing as seen on this listing on Starchild's site (a 10 CD set), so I wouldn't be surprised if the OP arrangement changed every now or then.    Ending: "Hoshizora Letter" - Quite calming in contrast to the OP. Extremely cute, too.      Evagenline (in adult vampire form) has already bitten Konoka and now has Nodoka, who she drops to the ground. Thankfully, Negi makes a safe landing for her with his magic and then battles -- quite strong, able to deflect Eva's attacks quite easily back to her. At the last second before being hit, Chachamaru stands in front of Eva to absorb the blow and is damaged quite severely... she'll be back. Setsuna's rather worried about Konoka as you'd expect. The bite on Konoka's neck disappears a short while later, though -- seems Takamichi did it. Yue and Haruna are with Nodoka. Negi gets his first look at her eyes -- yes, quite cute, I agree. Nodoka seems to have fallen for Negi already ;) Only one problem for Negi after everybody else leaves -- Asuna saw it all. Ooops (^^;;)    Asuna calls Kamo-kun a talking rat and they argue back and forth (the screen splitting here and there and moving around) until Kamo-kun tells Negi to erase Asuna's memories. Doesn't work at all (as you'd expect if you read the manga) since Asuna still remembers that Negi's a マホゥ使い MAHOutsukai (it had to come sooner or later, didn't it?) Negi tries again, and here comes the usual gag from Tsukuyomi (ouch), and yet again when Negi tries a last time.
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