After many months of delays, wonderings and that eternal terror referred to by students and teachers world-wide as exams, I finally managed to get some free time together to finish off another drawing.

The character pictured below is Miyazaki Nodoka (宮崎 のどか) from Mahou Sensei Negima! This isn’t the actual version as featured in Ken Akamatsu’s manga – rather, this is the version featured in the spin-off manga Negima!? Neo drawn by Fujima Takuya. There aren’t any major differences though, and personality wise Nodoka remains pretty much the same.

Nodoka remains one of my favourite characters for various reasons. Despite being almost painfully shy and – initially – scared of men, she is probably one of the smartest, gutsiest and most capable characters in the series. She also doesn’t seem to have a jealous bone in her body, since she supports Yue’s love for Negi, despite being in love with him herself.

Not sure if that’s good or bad actually, but whatever.

At the start of the series Nodoka is 14 years old, she loves reading and is one of the top ranked students at Mahora. Her birthday is on the 10th of May, her blood-type is O, and her pactio artifact (which she received when she made a pactio with Negi), as pictured below, is the Diarium Ejus, which gives her the ability to read people’s thoughts once she knows what their name is.

Nodoka Miyazaki – Negima Neo by ~stellar-illusions on deviantART