RE: UQ Holder!
You do know that Touta probably has +stats for being a vampire right? Additionally, even if he is an idiot, he has also been living with and training with Eva for years (even if it wasn't heavy training like the Negi-tachi got). Even if he doesn't know it, he probably got some training in magical boosting and efficiency. You can assume this because that was one of the first key lessons that Eva teaches all her students because it is such an important foundation toward her fighting style(Negi, Asuna, and Takamichi, you can probably add in Kotarou too) using that winter mountain training. She likes the whole covert teaching by beating it into a student rather than actual instruction as evidenced by pretty much all of her teaching moments in Negima with Negi, Asuna, and Setsuna.
Plus, EVERYONE in this series and the series related to it uses magic and/or ki to boost their physical abilities. From Motoko to Kanako to Fei Ku to Sestuna to Nagi to Fate to Evangeline to Touta to even Nodoka. It is so ubiquitous that you have to assume that everyone is boosting their base abilities using mystical means. When talking about raw power, you cannot separate magical and physical because raw power is measured with both.
Like I said earlier, Touta is essentially Asuna in this tale. It would be a much better comparison rather than creating a contrast with Negi (which really doesn't exist in the manner that you are looking at).
Also, you have to remember that one arrow of light is equivalent to the power of one of Negi's unenhanced punches when he was a human. Even early on, he had the ability to spam these things like they were nothing. He was able to cast over 199 of them before he got training with Eva after exhausting himself by buffing his partners for 15 minutes. 7 of them were able to knock down a Takamichi going easy on him. A later version was able to actually hurt Rakan when he only had a 500 power rating.
TL;DR Negi was no slouch in raw power even before training. Eva specifically said so during a conversation after Kyoto when explaining magic to Konoka.
Edit: Also, Touta was using ki boosting to lift the car. It wasn't just pure brute strength. Negi was able to do similar feats of strength after he learned how to channel his power into himself (even when he improperly overloaded the technique in a rage causing lots of inefficiency) like when he was fighting that noble demon with the slimes after Kyoto and right when he started training seriously. That fight with the demon that attacked his town wasn't one that showed that he lacked ability, rather it was one that showed that he was truly gifted.
Keep in mind, it took only took him about a year to go from getting his butt defeated by monkey shikigami and high school girls to being able to go toe to toe with the most powerful people in the two worlds. Power was never the problem with Negi. It was learning to pace himself and being mature enough to trust other people with his burdens and problems rather than trucking alone as well as having the courage to move forward even when dragged down by doubts and worries. Honestly, this is one of the only manga series that stuck with it lessons from the first volume to the last.
You do know that Touta probably has +stats for being a vampire right? Additionally, even if he is an idiot, he has also been living with and training with Eva for years (even if it wasn't heavy training like the Negi-tachi got). Even if he doesn't know it, he probably got some training in magical boosting and efficiency. You can assume this because that was one of the first key lessons that Eva teaches all her students because it is such an important foundation toward her fighting style(Negi, Asuna, and Takamichi, you can probably add in Kotarou too) using that winter mountain training. She likes the whole covert teaching by beating it into a student rather than actual instruction as evidenced by pretty much all of her teaching moments in Negima with Negi, Asuna, and Setsuna.
Plus, EVERYONE in this series and the series related to it uses magic and/or ki to boost their physical abilities. From Motoko to Kanako to Fei Ku to Sestuna to Nagi to Fate to Evangeline to Touta to even Nodoka. It is so ubiquitous that you have to assume that everyone is boosting their base abilities using mystical means. When talking about raw power, you cannot separate magical and physical because raw power is measured with both.
Like I said earlier, Touta is essentially Asuna in this tale. It would be a much better comparison rather than creating a contrast with Negi (which really doesn't exist in the manner that you are looking at).
Also, you have to remember that one arrow of light is equivalent to the power of one of Negi's unenhanced punches when he was a human. Even early on, he had the ability to spam these things like they were nothing. He was able to cast over 199 of them before he got training with Eva after exhausting himself by buffing his partners for 15 minutes. 7 of them were able to knock down a Takamichi going easy on him. A later version was able to actually hurt Rakan when he only had a 500 power rating.
TL;DR Negi was no slouch in raw power even before training. Eva specifically said so during a conversation after Kyoto when explaining magic to Konoka.
Edit: Also, Touta was using ki boosting to lift the car. It wasn't just pure brute strength. Negi was able to do similar feats of strength after he learned how to channel his power into himself (even when he improperly overloaded the technique in a rage causing lots of inefficiency) like when he was fighting that noble demon with the slimes after Kyoto and right when he started training seriously. That fight with the demon that attacked his town wasn't one that showed that he lacked ability, rather it was one that showed that he was truly gifted.
Keep in mind, it took only took him about a year to go from getting his butt defeated by monkey shikigami and high school girls to being able to go toe to toe with the most powerful people in the two worlds. Power was never the problem with Negi. It was learning to pace himself and being mature enough to trust other people with his burdens and problems rather than trucking alone as well as having the courage to move forward even when dragged down by doubts and worries. Honestly, this is one of the only manga series that stuck with it lessons from the first volume to the last.
