Negima Live-Action - Negi's been cast

[robkelk]

Quoting from Anime News Service:

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9-1-07 (8:44PM EDT)---- 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.

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Following the link leads to a Japanese-language article and some photos of Kashiwa-kun. She's cute. I can't imagine her as a boy, though...
And Dave Baranyi mentioned one other thing over on rec.arts.anime.misc:

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I guess in this case we won't be getting a hot springs/pool episode for a swimsuited Negi to stumble in upon the girls in their swimsuits.

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[WengFook]

Hmmm maybe a brown wig, colored contacts and some glasses would help.. but no I don't see a Negi either :o_______________________________
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[Evil Midnight Lurker]

I can't imagine her as British. ^.^
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[Bob Schroeck]

I suspect there's a dearth of Japanese-fluent 10-year-old British boy actors from which to cast...

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[Bob Schroeck]

Oh, just a side note. Because of this, I went back to the web page for the series. There's a whole lot of new content, including production stills, and little film clips of the actresses attached to their individual entries below the class roster.
Nothing about the new Negi, though.

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[WengFook]

catmania.blog13.fc2.com/b...-1616.html
Here is a blog with some of the other characters in costume including the newly cast Negi
And here is a site with more pictures of the cast
mantanweb.mainichi.co.jp/...photonum=0
I think she'll work out :o_______________________________
We're definitely playing this game wrong. I thought Vampire was supposed to be a game of personal horror, not about ninja magic-carpet airstrikes at night.
- A friend after playing a session of Dark Ages Vampire.
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. THERE IS ONLY WAR!
-Same friend.
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[Bob Schroeck]

Huh. Not bad. The girl playing Negi is good enough to make me do a double-take.
I don't have the time to go through the other pictures extensively right now, but I spotted Chachamaru and it does look like they did a half-way decent job on her.
I'm beginning to have hope for this project...

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[Bob Schroeck]

The page for the live-action show has changed. Among the changes, a smaller class roster that shows at least some character makeup (Chachamaru). Zazie's got her facial markings, too. Evangeline isn't a blonde, but otherwise actually looks like she might work out just fine. (And a nice touch here -- Sayo's picture is in sepia-tone. )
There are also music samples, set photos, some behind-the-scenes pics, a couple episodes of a radio show version, and what appear to be synopses for three episodes, which begs the question, does anyone know if this is on the air now?-- Bob
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[Xenoproctologist]

Yep. First four episodes can be found in RAW form via route of tokyotosho.
I've downloaded but not watched it, so I can't attest to quality of execution. I suppose I should fix that...

Just briefly checked D-Addicts for the community's take. First impression is...not good. We'll see.


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[Bob Schroeck]

Keep us updated, please.-- Bob
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-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.