From Anime News Service –
Negima! Drama Lead Selected
13 year old actress Kashiwa Yukina will play the roll of nine and three quarters-year-old child prodigy, mage and teacher Negi Springfield in the forthcoming TV Tokyo Live Action drama Maho Sensei Negima! Parallel. The news came out during a production symposium held in Tokyo September 1st.
Ray’s take: Oh please, don’t do that on the keyboard! She’s 13 for God’s sake!
What the hell do you mean by she?!
I thought Negi was a guy character? I am getting very confused.
@shh227
Young boys in anime are often (always?) voiced by female voice actresses.
This is a live action drama, though. Are they changing Negi’s gender? How will the patented Akamatsu fan service work then? 🙂 Though I notice the title is “parallel”–does that mean they’ve reversed the sexes so that instead a little girl is teaching a class of 30 adolescent boys? That would be a riot. Literally, too, I bet.
shh227 – My guess is that they’ll have her playing a boy. So just imagine the possibilities…
Well, that explains why they added the “Parallel” to the title…
Wow loll… Well… What can I say… Uhhh let’s see Crossdressing gender bender? Has Negima changed it’s plot?
It appears that Negi is indeed going to be played by a girl pretending to be a boy. And “his” students will still be all girls, unchanged from before.
I will duly resist the obvious jokes now.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA
Hmmmm well it can’t be as good-I mean bad, as a Strawberry Panic live action.
-returns to giggling like a japanese schoolgirl-