Using the accidental double meaning as an excuse...with so many similarities between characters in Mahou Sensei Negima, I do wonder whether Ken Akamatsu is a Touhou fan.... I mean, look at Patchy and Yue for example, or the relationship between Setsuna and Konoka and how similar it is to Youmu and Yuyuko...
Saphyr said: Using the accidental double meaning as an excuse...with so many similarities between characters in Mahou Sensei Negima, I do wonder whether Ken Akamatsu is a Touhou fan.... I mean, look at Patchy and Yue for example, or the relationship between Setsuna and Konoka and how similar it is to Youmu and Yuyuko...
Well, as TV Tropes has shown, Akamatsu doesn't slack when it comes to shout outs.
Yue's original character sketches were done by Akamatsu's assistant Ayanaga Ran (illustrator for the manga Read or Dream). This was stated in a comment, I assume by Akamatsu, at the end of volume 5 of Negima in the bonus material for some of the early character design sketches.
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