10 Second Anime - UQ Holder! - Episode 7

Touta meets kiriE, who warns him about a dangerous encounter with Fate Averruncus.

Episode 7 - "Reset and Restart"

Hmm.

I have been waiting for this episode. Oh, not for the particular plot elements. As I said at the beginning of the season, I don't care about the UQ Holder! part of this anime. I care about the Negima! 2 part of this anime. This is the moment this story becomes a true sequel to the original Negima!.

We've only had one original member of the old story featured so far, Evangeline, but we've been teased with a ghost of sorts for Negi and this grown-up version of Fate Averruncus. Touta's fateful meeting with him, and with familiar looking third parties on the perimeter of this meeting, makes me happy the anime rushed through the world building aspects of the UQ Holder! manga.

Look! There's somebody looking like Kuu Fei! Must be related, since her whole faction was chi related and would age naturally. But then why give us Chekhov's Gun with a maid with that sea foam green hair? That's got to be Chachamaru! Ikku is connected to the very orbital laser Al-Iskandariya that Chachamaru uses! And then Yukihime told us the quick version of Negi's death and Fate's sudden turn to villainy twenty years ago after being a legendary hero for 60 years. This story isn't about Touta anymore. It's about Fate and Negi, as it always was from the original story. This sequel is happening!

I can't wait to see what happens next.

Heh.

Oh, Karin. She's so obviously mad that she's going to end up with Touta instead of Kuromaru.

There's the girl with the weird name. kiriE Sakurame.

Wow. She is mad at Touta even though they just met. This is going to make sense later, isn't it? She needs to step on him six time because he didn't protect her six times? We just got a hint about how her immortality works.

Ah. That other dude isn't the only one playing video games with their lives. kiriE goes back to designated save points, which are those sand mounds she built. This explains why she looked so frantic the last time we saw her.

Still no explanation on what MFS or MBS means. Perhaps the manga had time to deal with it.

She's UQ Holder No. 9.

Oh. No wonder she's so mad at Touta. He kept running off too quickly before she could reset with him in tow. Well, he is an airhead, but having to replay the same escort mission 8 times would be frustrating.

I just remembered that a big part of the original Negima! story dealt with Chao Lingshen. This shadow guy who keeps getting turned into home runs couldn't possibly be related, right?

Touta finally brought Kurobo with him. Sheesh.

According to kiriE, Fate Averruncus wants to kidnap Touta.

Guh. This is the kind of fighting I always wanted to see animated from the original manga. These guys should have known better than to tangle with Fate! The only one to ever match him in battle was Negi, and he didn't even beat him. He just changed his mind through his stamina.

Yeah. Touta is correct. This is a lot of information to take in with just one brief violent encounter. I love it. Fate said that Touta is his legal property. Whoa. There is some interesting stuff going on here.

Some Kuu Fei lookalike just magically marked Touta. Methinks there are more than two factions getting involved in this encounter with Fate Averruncus.

I think those friends of Touta's next to Fate are illusions. We'll see.

Wah. Cliffhanger!

kiriE for the end card. Finally, someone else besides Eva.