Negima 22

The class is back from their trip to Kyoto this time. Negi learns magic from Eva -- make that Eva-sama ;) -- Konoka and Setsuna try to get along like old times, and Nodoka's still thinking about Negi, but our main focus is on Asuna this time. She's gotten sick, and is really overworking herself hard to make up for the time while she was on the school trip to Kyoto, and also to pay the costs of the trip. She gets worse and worse... seeing her beloved Takamichi being friendly with Shizuna-sensei certainly doesn't help things out. Though she pretends nothing's going on, it's pretty clear that not all is right...

I supppose one of the good things about breaking from the setting of the manga is that they can go in an original-ish direction to end things. The original stuff comes off much better to me than their adaptation of the manga in most cases (改悪 is the word that comes to mind when thinking of the treatment of some of the manga material). With only 4 episodes to go that would seem to be the route we're taking by concentrating on Asuna this time... Perhaps we'll learn why she has that 無効化 ability among other things. It could make these last few episodes at least somewhat interesting to watch -- so long as they keep it mostly original ;)