I rate this 7.5/10, rounded down.
The art is OK, but Mahou Sensei Negima is just so much better at the 'kid teacher undercover at academy' thing.
The secret is that action sequences are boring. Dramatic posing and cliché speeches are boring.
Do you know how many times I've seen mysterious hooded figures talk shit about a newly dead sub-boss and say things like "he was the least of us, I will do much better!"? It's a LOT.
It's the other stuff that makes a manga compelling. Jokes, references, world-building, characterization, clever tactics. MSN has a lot of that other stuff. This manga... doesn't.
The art is OK, but Mahou Sensei Negima is just so much better at the 'kid teacher undercover at academy' thing.
The secret is that action sequences are boring. Dramatic posing and cliché speeches are boring.
Do you know how many times I've seen mysterious hooded figures talk shit about a newly dead sub-boss and say things like "he was the least of us, I will do much better!"? It's a LOT.
It's the other stuff that makes a manga compelling. Jokes, references, world-building, characterization, clever tactics. MSN has a lot of that other stuff. This manga... doesn't.
