Why is Negima is still fondly remembered while UQ Holder is utterly forgotten?

series with bad endings don't make good sequels

That was UQ Holder, and it was actually glorious.
Shame about all the meandering and stalling we got from Kuromaru and Kirie character arcs. Seriously, putting multiple ToutaxKirie chapters with zero progression right as the publication switched to monthly was a major mistake on part of Akamatsu. Karin was amazing all the way through tho, even if it required serial jobbing.

I can't believe that Akamatsu fumbled it up twice.

Negima is still fondly remembered

Yes.

Negima never appealed to me because UQ Holder felt like it had better girls.

Negima started as generic harem shit, but morphed into some of the best shounen kino. It started off light hearted, but then when the action starts moving and a goal is set for the story, the momentum keeps chugging till the end. Unfortunately, it got axed so the story just skipped to the end, but that also added to the appeal to it since people could imagine what the lead up to the ending would have been like based on the info given.
UQ holder started as an average shounen with a cool concept, the started getting real good during the training arc in Dana's castle, but then it turns into brainless harem shit immediately after and later tries an edgy twist with the time skip only for the execution to fall flat due to its half hearted nature. UQ holder began as sort of light hearted, but with darker tones than the beginning of Negima. Touta had no goal and any time he tried to make a goal of his own, it was cucked from him by the author going "Negi thought of this first and already did it". This kept happening until the training arc where Touta actually started doing some self reflection separated from the rest due to his isolated training. During the training he meets a young Eva who works as a compelling love interest for Touta as well as providing him with an actual goal for the first time. This is then ruined when they return and Eva states she was already saved (cucked again by Negi) and the story is turned into a light hearted harem manga for a couple arcs, something the story never recovered from even after the time skip. Not only that, but the main heroine is used by the author to spout his retarded "free love' (cuck) nonsense about how staying loyal to one partner is dull and boring. Touta doesn't even save the day on his own and needs Negi to essentially do it for him despite claiming to not want to do things "on easy mode".

TL;DR: Negima was chad harem power fantasy while UQ holder was author's thinly veiled cuck fetish fantasy

For me, it was the Latin and Greek influence. It feels unique for me instead of throwing a Japanese attack. Shame it was gone in UQ Holder.

Dragon Ball had a good ending. Super's problem is that it's too cowardly to even be a sequel.

Negima was just overall better. Better cast of girls, better setting, better MC. Once the girl got established and started sparking together the whole thing was a blaze of fun.
UQH never developed an identity, it always felt derivative from Negima all the way to the end.

5 volume mahou shoujo Kirië spin-off when?
Gengoro sequel when?

Who?

It's immediately obvious that the thing that made Negima a masterpiece was the friction between Ken and his editors. Neither side was entirely right but their constant fighting produced a work in the middle that was like nothing else. Left to his own devices to make an action shounen, Ken only makes slop.

She was robbed so fucking hard.

joke on you, UQ holder is far superior.
it even has several sex scene

It's just that they tried really really hard to make Touta the center of everything, the saviour, the chosen one, the main hero, that it just didn't work.
Negi was just a child with a dark past with very reasonable goals (meeting his father someday) that was thrown into a ridiculous situation having to teach to a bunch of 10/10 girls.
So when shit hit the fan, and for real, it was a lot more captivating to follow as a story than Touta who was already destined for super serious stuff to begin with.

Why is Negima is still fondly remembered

Is it?

Yup

I don't think so. It's mostly forgotten these days.

asuna best girl

It sloppily ended a long-running, popular manga and effectively made it irrelevant. I never even bothered reading it and most others didn't either.

there's a timeline where Negima's popularity didn't decline that much and Anon Babble is still having best girl debates

I'm imagining a world a where Negima and.... Bleach are swapped around

There was no debate. It was Yue.

Did you miss the part where they mention Negi is a damn child?

The answer is actually Akira
But I wouldn't blame the unwashed masses for not being prepared for that conversation

Time to let the thread die I guess, the tripnigger really spoiled it.

I guess this is a deciding factor if you're 12

Because Negima was cool and UQ Holder was fucking crap? sex with judas in space was cool tho

Wish the school part had more focus. The fights were nice for sure, but I kind of missed the little bit of "slice of life" comedy between shota teacher and students that the later half missed.

fuck ken and fuck UQ holder