UQ Holder!
| UQ Holder! | |
Cover of the first volume, as published by Kodansha, featuring main characters Kurōmaru Tokisaka (left), Tōta Konoe (center) and Yukihime (right)
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| UQ HOLDER! | |
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| Genre | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Science fantasy, Harem |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Ken Akamatsu |
| Published by | Kodansha |
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| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Magazine (2013-2016) Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine (2016-present) |
| Original run | August 2013 – present |
| Volumes | 12 |
| Anime television series | |
| Original run | 2017 – scheduled |
| Episodes | TBA |
| Original video animation | |
| Released | 2017 |
UQ Holder! (later titled UQ Holder!: Magister Negi Magi! 2 ) is a manga series by Ken Akamatsu. Set in the same universe of his previous work Negima! Magister Negi Magi, but over 70 years later, it follows the adventures of a young boy who is transformed into a vampire and joins a secret society composed of immortal beings.
UQ (ユーキュー Yūkyū?) stands for 悠久 ("eternity"), the kanji that entwines inside the UQ logo, which alludes to the immortal nature of the characters.
The series is set in the year 2086, several decades after the events of Negima! Magister Negi Magi and ten years after magic is revealed to the world. Tōta Konoe is a young boy who is mortally wounded by a bounty hunter coming after his guardian Yukihime's life, who reveals herself as a vampire and saves him by transforming Tōta into one of her kind. Tōta discovers then that Yukihime is none other than the legendary vampire and magician Evangeline A.K. McDowell and joins her covenant of immortal beings, the secret society known as "UQ Holder".
As Tōta gets used to his new environment and trains himself to get stronger, he discovers that his grandfather, Negi Springfield, was once a great mage who saved the world from disaster, but now his body is possessed by an ominous entity known as the "Mage of Beginning" that threatens the whole mankind, and is slowly taking control of him, triggering a war between three factions: One is UQ Holder itself, led by Yukihime, who intends to uphold her promise to kill Negi should the Mage of Beginning assumes control of him for good, another is Negi's former brigade, "Ala Alba", now led by his former comrade, Fate Averruncus, that intend to find a way to separate Negi from the Mage of Beginning in order to save him, and Negi himself, accompanied by several of his former companions, who were supposed to be killed in a war decades ago, and gathered with an unknown agenda. It is also revealed that Tōta will have a main role in this conflict as he is an artificial clone with the powers of Negi and his former partner Asuna Kagurazaka, imbued with the powers of both.
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