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I go for nr , 2, 4 and 14
On side not I don't think i've seen this one on here so figured I'd put it here since i have no idea where else to put it. Since the Needless thread is kind of dead.
I give you..Saten!
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Lol, that second one is pretty epic
So.. with a huge assignment on the horizon.. I decided to catch up on this instead..
Haha, I find myself agreeing with you. Not something you can call original or coherent, but it was fun, no?Quote:
Originally Posted by KrayZ33
I was just itching to see Kongo's ability, and Aerohand turned out to be pretty cool. Jut give her some airspace (or exemption from collateral damage) and something to fling, and you're in for one troublesome fight. Despite our previous debates on Kuroko's ability, we've never seen her teleported objects carry any momentum. She doesn't usually teleport anything moving, but that fact still stands, so I liked how they considered each other rivals. One is fast, while the other packs a punch.
Still, it's not like Kuroko's ability can't take out big targets. She's just never been brutal enough to completely slice an enemy in half by putting a window in him, or taking out a chopper by replacing its chassis with truck.
Probably my favourite scene too. I always imagined Tandem scenarios with the pair, though I never came up with the "reload" scenario. They could have executed something a bit less cliche with Misaka overpowering the cannon (which is supposedly stronger) by having Kuroko jump in and take away a powerpack/arm or something along those lines (jamming it like she always does?). I was actually expecting something similar to happen as Kuroko just woke up to hear about Misaka's supposed "disadvantage", so I'm a tad disappointed there.Quote:
Originally Posted by shinta
As much as they tried to making that Misaka's "moment", it still didn't beat Kuroko pulling out an entire belt full of ammo.
<3 Kuroko.
edit: oh yeah, Uiharu was annoying as fuck. Good job Kuroko.
The manga has officially made this arc canon by including Harue-san recently... even though she never did appear before it. It helps that the original level upper arc and the 'next arc' had a month of difference already on the manga. Still, I can't help but dislike how most of the 2nd arc was developed.
Sure, I love Harue-san, Banri-chan and the conclusion of Kiyama's story, but Telestina is the worst character I've seen on this universe.
Nevertheless... Im waiting for my new Mikoto figurine to be released.
What about the Aegis figurine?Quote:
Originally Posted by RyougaZell
Its also preordered. Mikoto releases on July, while Aegis releases on September.Quote:
Originally Posted by Archangel
2nd To Aru Kagaku no Railgun Special
Only the yellow mouse joke was good. The rest was pathetic.
Something to look forward to.Quote:
A flyer included with a preview sample of the fifth Toaru Kagaku no Railgun (A Certain Scientific Railgun) manga volume has confirmed that production of an OVA version has been green-lit for an October 29 release.
There will also be an extra anime episode bundled on a DVD with the Toaru Kagaku no Railgun Official Visual Book on July 24.
Source
Is it?
I just hope they don't butcher it further...
The extra episode on the DVD will be another 'beach episode'. And we already had one...
I hope the new OAV covers 'that' storyline that came after Kiyama's arc. Though it would need to be longer than 30 minutes though.
Based on the flyer... I don't think it will be though. And placing the 5th manga on the same picture is very misleading of ANN.
Yeah. I doubt the extra ova will be anything really significant. Though I suppose it must be better than some dvd extra episode, which are practically never worth their bytes. But then again, if it just happens to feature both Mikoto and Touma in close proximity to each other, it will be hard to disappoint me.
It is bound to contain Kuroko.Quote:
Originally Posted by Archangel
Therefore, it is.
I think the opposite.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
A good Railgun episode needs to focus on Mikoto, like the manga, instead of side characters like Kuroko, Uiharu and Saten.
Yes, I am aware they are popular. Yes, I am aware people like those three. Specially Kuroko. But the manga doesn't give them that much screentime as the anime. And I want the 2nd Manga arc so badly...
Why hasn't anyone posted this yet?
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun: Entenka no Satsuei Model mo Raku Ja Arimasen wa ne
LULZ.Quote:
Originally Posted by Archangel
Perfect doujin material right there.
"Entenka no Satsuei Model mo Raku Ja Arimasen wa ne "
wat? I don't even know what this is about.
whats that stuff about?
It's about raep
The official site has a trailer up for the new OVA that comes out on 10/29. The OP single is already out.
[Nipponsei] To Aru Kagaku no Railgun OVA OP Single - future gazer [fripSide].zip
[Nipponsei] To Aru Kagaku no Railgun OVA ED Single - Special 'ONE' [ELISA].zip
I didn't feel much wiser after watching the trailer...Quote:
Originally Posted by Marik
Filler doesn't amuse me.
Railfun:
Railgun EX OVA - UTW-Mazui
That reminds me I never did download that 2nd beach filler episode...
This wasn't nearly as bad as I expected. In fact this wasn't bad at all. Nothing great either, but quite a decent watch. It even had a little of Touma-Mikoto interaction, which was, honestly, more than I dared to really hope for. I expected this to be a silly story with only the core girls and nothing new and nothing solid. But it actually sported a believable story (or as believable as anything is in the Railgun saga).
Poor boat, though. It was a nice boat.
It was pretty crap until it ended.
Kuroko = Entertainment.
I've always liked the character interactions in Railgun than Index. Too bad the title doesn't suggest that there'll be any more of these.
Kuroko = win (again).
What are you on and i don't want any of it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
In Index the characters have depth, here it's all moe sunshine and rainbows. Other than Kuroko's homolust increasing over 9000 i much prefer Index's depiction of its characters.
Index wins in plot and mystery.
Railgun's more slice of life with fun characters. They each have their strengths and I can appreciate Railgun's, even if it'sa bitvery biased.
Just started watching this, didn't want to read the thread and risk being spoiled, but does anyone have a timeframe on where this takes place in regards with the Index series (the first one)? During Index? Before, after? Seems like a prequel to me.
Anyways, I thought the first episode was enjoyable enough. At least the action was more fast moving instead of the annoying Touma monologues.
Munsu:
The Railgun anime takes place before the novels / anime of Index. One or two months I think.
It starts off as a prequel, then overlaps. I don't think it was meant to strictly tie in with the Index series anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Munsu
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Really? No overlap at all? Hmm....Quote:
Originally Posted by Zell
There's a slight overlap at the end... but the true overlap comes in the unanimated arcs.
Takes place as in starts 2 months before
We've met with plenty of overlap before, though it was more obvious in the manga. The very first scene in Index for example is explained in further detail.
Just finished what seems like the first major arc, with the Level Upper network. Enjoyable enough. Mikoto kicked some real ass. But I hear the 2nd half is bad?
Index's second half seemed bad too me, so it seems to run in the family.
If you found the first half of Railgun only "enjoyable enough", you are better off not watching the rest (except 13, which is hilarious).
The main problem of Railgun's Part 2 is that it wasn't in the manga (Railgun's source is a manga, contrary to Index which is a novel). The story itself was suggested by the author and made canon by being referenced by the manga itself... but seeing as it was only 'suggested' and not written by the author it suffered a lot.
Index's second half, on the other matter, is the author's complete problem. There are good novels and weak novels. The 2nd Novel (Himegami Aisa), for example, is the one most disliked by fans... to the degree of being ignored on the manga conversion.
It isn't nearly as good as the first half but i wouldn't say it's terrible either
I say you finish it for consistency, then move on to the gataris.
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Originally Posted by Munsu
I didn't think it's bad when I marathoned the second half. Perhaps that's what it takes to enjoy it?
I just watched the OVA (finally). It was quite better than the 2nd half, but still filler.
Well, right now I'm up to episode 18 and I don't care for this 2nd half of the season so far. Fun interactions in general, but nothing plot-wise I would care for. Mikoto also has had very little screen-time in these episodes and pretty much doing nothing of worth. Just going through the motions while the rest of the cast take the spotlight.
Hope it improves a bit towards the end.
That said, any news on this getting another season?
You would have been better off not coming back to finish the latter half of this show.
I don't think the Railgun manga has quite enough material out for a decent second season, unless they did it like this one and filled it with bullshit fillers. There's certainly jolly stuff I'd enjoy animated, but not enough of it yet.
They do have enough material for a 13 episode sequel. Maybe they can even manage the 26 eps. Lots of material is unanimated right now.
Just finished the 24 episodes, and although the last few episodes were a bit more action oriented, I really didn't care for it. I'm not a fan of bad guys who go this bad shit crazy.
Will watch the OVA later today and start on Index II.
You'll hate the OVA and find Index II thoroughly average until the last couple of episode where things will pick up and you'll wish they had animated more of that shit and less of the cutesy crap.
Calling it.
Someone somewhere is doing something feverishly perverted now that they know Onee-sama's returning.
I like that.
So 4 episodes of filler?Quote:
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S
Good, very good! I hope it won't veer too much off the canon road this time. Based on what has been translated of the manga so far, there ought to be some decent stories in the source material.
Unlike Bill, I'm not looking so much forward to seeing Kuroko, but Biribiri herself and some of the other people that hopefull will appear. Maybe there'll be an arc with Touma in as well.
The last arc was so bad I'm not even sure if I care. That's sad.
At least the story arcs in Railgun can end in ways other than Touma punching someone in the face. Used over and over and over and over again. She's got some variety in her techniques.
Season 2 officially begins!
[UTW] Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S - 01
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Another Level 5 introduced, right from the start!
And Mikoto can't deal with her any better than she can with Accelerator. Level 5 is a windy place.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryllharu
Considering the radicals seemed pretty petty, I wonder who lost, totally unnecessarily, a helicopter. It must have been stolen. Removing the wreck from the river in the middle of the city will be a nuisance as well.
Insurance premiums in Academy City must be astronomical, if the option is even available.
I assume a Certain Someone Floating in a Tank reimburses people instead if his prized subjects cause too much damage.
I wonder if we are going to get a scene where Misaki tries to control Touma, with the end result being that Touma only stares at Misaki and asks in his laconic way what she's trying to do.
I just wonder why she uses television remote controls for her power. Seems kinda weird for a Level 5 to rely on a device. Maybe she can't really control her power, and the remote is locking it down? Kinda like the soundwave stuff from last season, but on an individual basis.
Either way, it's only a matter of time before she uses it on Kuroko or Saten. Mikoto isn't going to be happy when that happens. She'll probably fry her to crispy bits even if she was only playing around.
Is she immune to her own power? I wonder what would happen if Accelerator automatically reflects her move. Will she just resist it? Or will she become a mindless doll with no controller?
I guess that would depend on how her power worked. If it is some kind of electromagnetic wave (I would say that it is likely because Mikoto naturally blocks it), then I suppose it would. If she is actually a pure psychic, and it is just a coincidence that Mikoto's fields intercept it, then maybe not.
I doubt you'd notice anything though, she's already in love with herself.
Was it ever mentioned if Kuroko can teleport organs out of a human body? For example, she teleports behind controller girl, touches her, then teleports her brain outside.
Depending on how well she calculates and adapts her power, I guess she could.Quote:
Originally Posted by shinta|hikari
(site note, it seems she's still only level 4 because her teleportation range is somewhat limited to a few tens or hundreds meters.)
She never intended to kill anyone, so she might never go to such a gory side.
That means she can easily kill people with her power, making her the perfect assassin that can even conveniently get rid of level 5s, excluding Accelerator of course.
Can she teleport anything she's not touching? She can't touch a brain: there's hair, skin, bone, and some membranes in the way. Although for all practical purposes she could simply teleport the whole head away from the body. More bloody, but the end result is hardly different. But then again, she's all the time telling people she will teleport those spikes inside their bodies, so that would likely be her preferred method of assassinating someone in Shinta's dreams.
A spike in the brain eh? Makes sense. I was just wondering because if she cannot defend herself against the controller girl, the best defense would be a good offense. Just make the bitch a vegetable and be done with it, instead of allowing herself to be made a hostage to be used against her beloved onee-sama.
I noticed that Accelerator didn't have his collar on so would this show take place before the previous Index? Because I believe he got shot in the head in that one. It's been a long time since I've seen it so I could be wrong.
I think so. Otherwise, Accelerator would be weakened without a loli, much like myself.
Yeah, remember how the first episode of Index actually took place around the mid of the first Railgun season? It's moving at a slower pace than the original.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoCybercoin
You seem to be considering Misaki very villainous. She did take control of the people in the library, but she didn't make them do anything at all. It was just a demonstration. Mikoto is going biribiri all the time. Misaki's power is controlling people, so that was the only sort of demonstration she could pull off. Controlling people ought to be as much a second nature to her as producing sparks is for Mikoto or blinking here and there is for Kuroko. Misaki would have never gotten level 5 if she didn't do it all the time for practice if for nothing else.Quote:
Originally Posted by shinta|hikari
She acted like a school queen, and arrogant like crazy, so she is a bitch.
The fact that she is a villain though, I derived from the OP/ED(?).
she is featured for like 0,5 seconds in the ED and all she did is smirk
Kuroko could also just teleport a plate between their neck and their shoulders. She's threatened to do the same before with a plate of glass, but only as a form of intimidation. This is why I like Kuroko so much. She could easily be the greatest assassin the world has ever seen, but she's doesn't even like to hurt people, she always goes for immobilizing them first. She has the capacity for truly terrible things, but doesn't use them that way.
I'm with shinta on this one.Quote:
Originally Posted by KrayZ33
Not to mention her words were, "Consider this a warning. You've been making far too many friends lately. If you start to move into my territory, I'll be forced to deal with you."Quote:
Originally Posted by shinta|hikari
If that isn't a blatant threat, I don't know what is. She's basically saying that all the girls at Tokiwadai are hers. She's been merely allowing Mikoto to have a few, namely just the two idiots Kuroko and Kongou Mitsuko. Becoming friends with the swim team girls was probably taken as a threat to Misaki's popularity dominance.
By simultaneously taking all the girls in the library in an instant, Misaki is also implying that while Mikoto is safe from her powers, her own friends aren't.
^This. There's a doujin where she teleports sheets of glass to slice apart monsters' heads. In one of the previous episodes, she also teleported window glass into the cement support of a building to totally collapse it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryll
Even if she didn't have anything to teleport, she could just teleport herself into someone (aka Mr Smith from The Matrix). She replaces matter with her teleported mass - she could probably wipe out Academy city's occupants faster than Misaka could.
I don't get why she uses the needles at all. It's really not that effective since they're so small. You have to aim for non-vital organs in a law-enforcement setting (which essentially means upper/lower limbs for guarantee - even then you could hit an artery). She should just use her judo moves that she showed off one time and just drop everyone on their backs (or give them a 3m free-fall.. whatever works). The pins are only good for disabling weapons and firearms.
What I hadn't thought of was sustained flight (she performed leaps and shorter bursts last season, but nothing like chasing a helicopter), so that makes her even more awesome.
Welcome Back, Kuroko. :3
I'm expecting (and looking forward) to seeing Kuroko being mind-controlled. We'd hopefully get to see some brutal applications of her power, and nothing would piss Misaka off more (except maybe hurting Touma, but he's invulnerable).. so we'd see some spectacular sparks from that.
Misaki's power is 100% EM-related. There's no doubt about that since she:
a) needs a remote to control EM
b) can't hurt Misaki's electro-shield
It'll be an ability where she can control brainwaves and/or neural impulses. I reckon finer control would involve grouping people into channels.
We never got to see Uihara's power last season, did we? All I remember was that she can use it after satisfying certain conditions (which were never elaborated on).
I'm also eager to see lvl5 #2. It'd better not be laser-lady from the OP/ED, because that would be boring.
Misaki's threat also worked because Misaka cares about reducing casualties. 1000 students might as well be 1 in the face of a railgun.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryll
PS: looked up the progress of real-world railguns a few days ago. Projectile reaches horizon in 6 seconds.. pretty scary stuff.
That's exactly why she uses the needles. They're light, she can carry a ton of them, and because they are both small and light, she can move them with pinpoint accuracy. The heavier an object, the more variance with her aim at distance (ref: the first episode of s1 when she and Kongou are bickering during the ability examinations, before Kongou sees a real Level 5's power moments later).Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
Kuroko teleports the needles all over a person's clothes, pinning them to the ground so she can work on the next threat. If your clothing is attached to the ground in eight places (and also very close to your body, gathering the loose fabric), you're not moving easily. Also as you mentioned, it renders guns and other weapons useless with immediate effects.
Uiharu's powers were brought up in the latter half of the first season, when she was holding a bag of taiyaki. I don't remember the episode. Uiharu can keep things at a constant temperature, though she can risk burning herself with something too hot. She probably controls the vibration rate of molecules. The obvious implications is that if she wasn't a Level 1, she would probably be both a pyrokinetic and a cryokinetic at the same time. Mikoto's Level 2 Sisters are a good indication, since they can barely even generate sparks without direct contact, and even then mostly only sense fields, so Uiharu can probably advance past having to touch things.
edit: Index Wiki tells me it was Railgun eps 22.
I assume Kuroko needs to touch things because she needs to use it as a frame of reference before she sends it across 11 dimensions. That way she only has to think/calculate where she wants it, not where it is.
UTW-Mazui - S Episode 02
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The inconsistence with this is that the pins could actually be heavy. Recall that episode where she flipped someone onto their back, teleported the pin above him before letting them drop. The pins penetrated the concrete below.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryll
We're not entirely sure of how her power works though besides that mass is proportional to difficulty. What about the number of things she has to teleport? She not only has to teleport each individual pin she touches, but they also have to be orientated and organised around a person's body shape/clothing. It's arguable whether or not simply relocating someone 4m higher than their original position and letting them fall is actually easier.
Don't forget that teleporting distance is also a factor. Whether or not it's simply a power/amplitutde limitation, or whether it's only reduced by Kuroko's knowledge/familiarity with the surroundings isn't clear cut. You'll be teleporting the culprit on contact, while the pins will have to be used from a distance. On the other hand, pins mean you can use them outside punching range.
True, and I believe that to be in line with what we've established in the Index threads too. It explains why Kuroko found teleporting herself more difficult than teleporting Uiharu(?) out of the bank robbery.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryll
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I'm starting to think that Kuroko's best parts aren't actually her Onee-sama lusting noises, but simply her grunts and other sudden moments of emotions. She had no rebuttal for being amused of a pervert at all.
Like usual I'll take a wait-and-see approach to this show (like most other anime), but I'm not so positive that I can be excited about Railgun S. We already know the conclusion of the Sisters arc. It's not like they're weaving a new story into a parallel story - this is a prequel to the Accelerator arc in Index and a direct prequel to Railgun.
Not too much to discuss about the actual episode given that this is the beginning of her perspective of the Sister's arc.
I thought that we had established in the Index threads that Kuroko, because she teleports through 11 dimensions, can have the pins come out any way she pleases. Their speed, the slight delay in their reappearance (since they often appear simultaneously, like in a gun, as often as they appear sequentially), their orientation, etc. If she was a Level 5, I imagine she could teleport through time as well, and probably transmute them as well (warping their properties through each of the higher dimensions). She can teleport them off her legs in a stationary position, but they can reappear with a vector.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
She changes her own orientation and vector all the time.
I did think that at one point, but it didn't really make sense. There's also no direct evidence to support it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryll
I can only remember one occasion where we saw the pins drop down on a suspect, and the pins emerged in a stationary position. Since Kuroko has shown no signs that she can teleport objects without touching them thus far, I reason that she can have no influence of an object after it emerges from her translocation.
Just from memory, everything she teleports has never emerged significantly fast. It either comes out either completely stationary, or appears to have a very slight (<0.5s of gravity, as a conservative observation) acceleration. Whether that's just for effect, I'm not sure.
As for Kuroko jamming the guns, I don't actually recall if we saw both her hands and their guns simultaneously. For all we know, Kuroko could be simply teleporting them sequentially.
I think Kuroko would be Level 5 if she could increase her quantitative limitations dramatically, or being able to overcome one or both her two weaknesses:
1) Kuroko needs to touch things to get an accurate bearing on what she wants to teleport. If she could teleport without touching, she'd be godly
2) Kuroko needs massive concentration to execute her powers. Punching her in the gun (or other forms of pain / medication) would render her powerless. If she could be more resilient in this regard it could make her more combat-able. Her current role is mainly supportive both because her power ideal, but also because she can't take a hit.
I don't want to keep having this conversation if you are going to keep being so recalcitrant to facts. You are only ever looking at incidents in Index, where Kuroko is a minor player. Look at Railgun.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
Just watch the first half of episode 24 from season one.
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Before this retort even comes up, people like to say that arc isn't even canon, but that's no longer true. Characters from it were woven into the Index novels, so yes, now it is canon.
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- Kuroko brushes across an entire belt of needles, but they reappear (and there are sound effects) in only five batches as they are stuck into the enemies' grenade launchers. She can delay the reappearance of a teleported object.
- The blown off robot arm of Telestina's mech is flying through the air, propelled by gravity and Mikoto's power. Kuroko matches its vector, and teleports it to a stationary position pointed the other way, for Mikoto to fire it.
I honestly cannot see how you are pretending she can't change the vector of things. She does it with herself or people she rescues ALL the time. Otherwise she or her friends would be smears on pavement each time she moves them to ground level and they skid at 40 mph along the pavement. When she teleports herself she usually gives herself forward momentum too, otherwise she's just fall straight down.
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Originally Posted by Ryll
- I don't expect the studio to count the number of needles she teleported (if they even knew), then to reproduce exactly the same number of strikes on the guns. While from the video, technically needles aren't being teleported at the same time I find it hard to think that that's really the case. On the other hand, why did she delay them into batches of 5 when there are only 3 guns to skewer? (The guy on the far right has his arm impaled, though one could argue that the target was actually the gun's stock).
At 3:22 (Ayako's release), Kuroko teleports 4 needles individually. Each of those have an individual teleportation sound as well as an impact sound. Note that the teleportation sound of the needles sound sonically different to Kuroko teleporting away.
During the belt scene at 3:32, the "mass needed teleportation" sounded exactly like Kuroko's self-teleportation. I have no idea what 10+ sounds at 3:22 being strung together would sound like.. I'm guessing not that.
From the above observation, I actually think it's the studio cutting more so than anything else. They pay attention when they can...
^ That's what I was originally writing.. but then I decided to flick through eps 1-09 for some other scenes.
Episode 1, 18:31 shows delayed teleportation if a very clear fashion. I'll agree with you that Kuroko can delay her objects.
Given that, I wonder how long she can delay the teleportation, and if she has to be actively thinking about them during her move (such that it can never be used as an 11th dimension storage move). If she stops thinking about it, does the matter disappear into the 11th dimension, or will it simply appear where ever she happened to lose concentration?
Delay doesn't make much sense though, when you think about it. If Kuroko couldn't teleport herself (which I believe is due to a change in the whole self-bearing idea of calculating teleport-exit points), then the cancel must have happened because the calculation as a whole failed.
Teleportation need not necessarily be instantaneous since there could be travel time, but I think it should be a process that only happens after you've successfully established an exit point. Travel time may exist, but should not be modifiable. If the guarantee-to-exit isn't established before teleportation is initiated, what's stopping someone from being lost in the process and never making it back to our dimension (3rd, I'll call it)?
Firstly, I must clarify that I used words wrongly in my exposition previously. What I meant was that Kuroko could only teleport things into a stationary position, regardless of their pre-teleport speed - not that she can't change their vectors. I had no issues with her re-orientating her objects.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryll
That's clearly not the case now since at Ep09 14:42 Kuroko throws a needle which she teleports to reduce the distance/time of travel. There would be no point to that unless the needle travelled fast post-teleport. The previous paragraph's conclusion was incorrect, and Kuroko's objects can carry speed.
On that point though, why throw the pin at all if you can speed it up (as per the "Kuroko can speed things up" theory)? Two ideas come to mind:
-Because she can't. She can let an object carry its pre-teleport velocity, or reduce it to zero. She can't modify it outside of those parameters.
-For ease of calculation. Instead of calculating the vector, perhaps she substitutes with "Vector as previous". I don't ever recall Kuroko ever throwing an object at one way (North, let's say), but have the item post-teleport and flying in another direction (North-East). Maybe she's never bothered, she can't, or it's too much trouble.
Established so far in this post regarding vector: Kuroko can reorientate an object (but not necessarily its vector). She can reduce the vector to zero. She can let it keep its vector.
We've never seen her accelerate anything yet. I'll accept "Matching the speed of the arm" as evidence, but I eye it suspiciously. "Landing with forward motion instead of dropping straight" will be something I'll look out for, since that makes some sense. (scenes from past episodes are hard to locate by skimming) I can't tell from memory whether they were truly forward vectors, or whether they were simply teleported with a forward tilt.
I had previously thought Kuroko jumps a little before teleporting, but that would have been the "teleport blur" instead.
Railgun is so slowly paced, basically nothing of importance (other than foreshadowing) happened in ep2
Mikoto is so gullible. The beginning of the document reveals to her she was lied to and fooled years ago, yet she immediately believes it when the end of the same document tells the project was terminated, despite the fact she now admits there at least existed clones.
But I guess being so honest and straightforward (in things other than her own tsundere feelings) is a part of what makes her so cute.
This is pretty boring so far. Mikoto's character per se never really appealed to me (in contrast to her design and ability), so seeing her doing some detective work (while new - especially the change of clothes) didn't really click. She's a front-liner. She needs characters to get angry at (I'm talking about you Kuroko/Touma), and bitches/robots to shoot railguns through.
Control Freak in episode one was promising, but she's yet to make another appearance. On that note, I wonder if the lvl2 sisters have the same immunity as Mikoto to that remote control.
If it's boring is because they're setting up an arc to which we already know the outcome. It's just a matter of waiting either for some backstory or actions scenes, but until we get there the snoozefest will be long.
Oh and by the way, what sort of rich bitch purchases a whole hotel room just to change?
My exact though. You cant change in toilets in Academy City because some robot might shoot you for it ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Archangel
I don't know, maybe she had a lot of those cash cards?Quote:
Originally Posted by Archangel
That kero kero wallet seems endlessly deep though. I actually thought she'd be too broke to pay for her clothes, since the wallet kind of looks like Naruto's.
She is a rich girl. Apparently everybody who goes to Tokiwadai is rich. It's obvious she was born an ojou-sama since nobody who had to make riches through hard work wouldn't behave so. However, I believe that's the whole point and charm of such characters.
All the more reason for Mikoto and Touma to become a pair: One is too rich to realise the worth of money and one is so poor that getting food can become a problem. They would balance each other nicely.
she also paid 37.000 yen for the pants and the t-shirt she wears probably only once
and the t-shirt had a 5.300 yen price tag on it
JUST SAYIN'!
in case you don't know
37000 yen =~ 300€ =~ 380$
"yo, thats fifty dollars for a t-shirt" and 300 for the pants
This episode felt really slow, but now things should speed up.
So each and every sister got an individual haircut?! Anyway, Kuroko was quite right - Misaka is quite modest around her chest already.
[Shin-S] To Aru Kagaku no Railgun S OP Single - sister's noise (FLAC) [fripSide].zip
[Shin-S] To Aru Kagaku no Railgun S OP Single - sister's noise [fripSide].zip
It's over 9000!!!
The hairdresser must be way beyond even the severing crime edge by now.
Finally, Accelerator appears. He is my favorite character in the Index series, so I am looking forward to the mayhem he will cause in this one.
Nothing of actual worth happened during most of the episode, but I still liked it. I always thought that Railgun had better slice-of-life parts than Index.
That's actually quite natural since Index is about Touma "Hero" Kamijou, who doesn't have an ordinary daily life, unlike the four main girls of Railgun. But of course Touma is so boring without somebody to help (usually at the expense of his own health) that we should be extremely thankful we don't have to follow what would go for slice-of-life for him.Quote:
Originally Posted by shinta|hikari
I was going to reply like you did, but then remembered that being unfortunate is also part of Touma's life - so really, running into shit all the time is just another day for him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kraco
More seriously, I do agree with you though. Touma's your unintended superhero while the girls here are part-time police.
Well... that was... wow.
What made this episode enjoyable (and also completely unexpected) was a cheeky MISAKA. Why did we not ever see one until now? Does that personality only emerge because of interaction with their Onee-sama, or is it chalked up as normal variance?
I was hoping to see Accelerator before this project, but crazy-ass Accel works too. I'm not fond of his "This is annoying / This is a drag" persona, but the preview's yes YES YES! Accel is up my alley.
Since there are so many Misakas and they had audience talks they could take into account, it wasn't very difficult to create a little sub-arc with cheeky Misaka as variance as you said.
And the way she's been utterly crushed (pun intended) did really contrast well.
Audience talks?
It makes me wonder even more just what kind of a level 6 person were the masterminds of this project planning to create. A psychopath, nothing else. If someone has to kill 20000 girls to level up, it's going to affect the personality. For example, he wouldn't likely mind killing a bunch of scientists or politicians later. It seems quite self-destructive. But I suppose it still perfectly suits a technocracy like the Academy city.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
In any case, an episode like this is building more background to why Mikoto was driven so crazy trying to save the sisters, since in Index we mainly saw Touma's side of things.
BBS, letters, and the likes?Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
Having a Cheeky Misaka, even to crush her in the next 10 minutes is some king of Fanservice?
Still, we had no Kuroko, and I clearly missed that.
Well, Mikoto is going to receive a ton of damage to her pride next episode. I wonder if Accelerator will injure her.
On a side note, this format is so much better than having an ED.
It serves the franchise better than showcasing some pop/j/rock/shit music band babbling in hope of selling CDs
Fuuuuck Accelerator is just as bad ass as he's always been. With that I mean crazy. But there's no way for her to beat him right now.
Or ever.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoCybercoin