PANI PONI DASH PART 2: NEGIMA!?
Shaft is well known for making another school anime called Pani Poni Dash, and with its stylistic changes and radically different artstyle, the new anime, Negima?! (Seriously how the fuck can you pronnounce that properly without sounding like a total jackass) essentially became Pani Poni Dash 2.
One of these changes of course involved the Pactio Cards. At this time, Negi still hadn't made out with all the girls yet...and so rather than try to wing it and make up powers like the Xebec counterpart, they decided to give the whole Pacio Card system a complete overhaul! Here's how it works:
After Negi kisses a girl and forms a Pactio with them, he can then grant them powers by activating their Pactio Cards...and yes it's cards plural. Negi will randomly draw one of three cards, each girl has an Armor Card, a Cosplay Card or a Suka Card.
ARMOR CARD: A Rare Card! Grants the user a very powerful artifact and badass costume. It's much more powerful than a cosplay card.
COSPLAY CARD: A Standard Card. Grants the user a magic artifact just like a normal Pactio Card. But it also comes with a cool costume.
SUKA CARD: A Bad Card. This card is like Negima's Dud card but much worse. The user becomes chibi, hyper and extremely useless. Draw this card and you're fucked.
This is actually a pretty interesting system. And it wasn't bad in concept. There's only one problem...IT'S ONLY 26 EPISODES! (again). That pretty much means that there wasn't really enough time to really cover all the cards and their powers...although the Suka cards are an exception since they ALL DO THE EXACT SAME THING.
So with 31 girls and 3 cards per Pactio, what is the purpose of having 93 cards? It's all about exploitation of collector mentality. Each card came with a promotion of some sort. A DVD here, a Drama CD there, an event elsewhere. These cards were extremely hard to get and the only way you could get access to these cards was to buy, buy, buy all sorts of shit.
So for the sake of all your wallets, here's all the Pactio Cards right here, armor, cosplay and suka alike. Enjoy!
Oy...Uploading alla these pics was pure hell...But at least you've got a complete collection!
I really loved Negima!?
ReplyDeleteIf you're into Marvel Comics, calling it "Ultimate Negima!" wouldn't be much of a strecth: same characters, new rules and new situations.
But yeah, 93 Pactios just to get everyone's money is a low blow. eBay bids with ALL of these cards peak around 500 USD (which is sometimes a bargain, since Haruna Armor alone is around 100 USD)
96 pactios, actually. There are three more pactio cards that were released as special items: Negi, Nekane, and Anya, all of which were Armor cards. Sadly, I cannot seem to find scans for them.
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