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So what is this "potential" doing just sitting around at school? Potential needs to be realised, or else it's called wasted potential. Or are you suggesting that they're all kids at school learning to develop their powers, so their "profit" is measured by their projected contribution to Academy city when they graduate?Quote:
Originally Posted by Archangel
Mikoto is a middle schooler. I'm pretty sure middle school is still obligatory in Japan, even if high school is not. She's also a rich kid, so I imagine Misuzu will want her to continue to high school as well, and likely university after that. So, she's not really there to automatically profit anybody - aside from cloning her.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
Meltdowner, however, is mercenary, so one could say she's being exploited already for what little she's worth.
Ya, that was my point...Quote:
Meltdowner power would be awesome in destruction work (buildings for example?), escavating, drilling, and so on.
Since she trully vaporises the matter, rather than just displacing it, that would save even more ressources.
But Mikoto's power is a lot more versatile as she can use it from fine manipulations like server hacking to moving tons of metal scrapes, weapons, walking on walls and so on. Her range of possible is clearly vastly superior to what Meltdowner showed us.
I mean the potential for Electricity manipulation, not the potential for Mikoto herself. The whole point of Academy city is to develop esper abilities into their own useable tools. That's the cover up at least.Quote:
So what is this "potential" doing just sitting around at school? Potential needs to be realised, or else it's called wasted potential. Or are you suggesting that they're all kids at school learning to develop their powers, so their "profit" is measured by their projected contribution to Academy city when they graduate?
Touma isn't regarded very highly in Kuroko's mind... But at least the unassuming clones always treat him fairly.
You'd think the vending machine had a phone number where you could call in case they malfunction. Especially in Japan, the promised land of vending machines where even cars have been (even if half-jokingly) sold in vending machines. I have lost a 2 euros coin and didn't bother to call the number, but if the automat had eaten 20 euros (since there are no 15 euros bills to better match Touma's loss), I most certainly would have used my phone. Or an iron pipe.
Yeah, that didn't come back to bite her in the ass at all.Quote:
Touma isn't regarded very highly in Kuroko's mind...
It wasn't exactly like the Index version but it remained faithful enough, i really like to rewatch these scenes where the moments interline between the 2 shows. It'll also be pretty awesome to get to watch Touma vs Accelerator again.
He doesn't seem to remember the fights he had with her at all so I take it this is after he had lost his memories.
You take it? Did you even watch Index?Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoCybercoin
Yes, but a long time ago. Plus the timeline of the two shows always confuse me a bit so that's all there is to it.
And so Mikoto found out the result of the little incident with Index...
I personally find it a very cute aspect of Mikoto's personality how she always comes up with some grand plan that is sure to solve all of her problems - but in the end rarely turns out to work in practice.
It's never really her fault though, there's just too many unknown variables around this whole thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kraco
Yes, indeed, I'm not saying it would have ever been blatantly her fault as such. But it's just cute that she always believes the grand plan will work for sure, only to find out reality is not as straightforward as it seemed when she was making the plan. Considering the nature of her problems, there's nothing cute about failing to solve them; that's not what I mean, either.Quote:
Originally Posted by Archangel
Well everything about Biri Biri is cute, obviously :3
[UTW-Mazui] Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S - 12 [720p][20E590E0].mkv
Here’s the real non v0/v1 release.
I don't remember Index being as depressing as this.
On the other hand, what would happen if you reverse blood flow in a human? You've got valves in your heart and veins that would resist the flow, and the veins themselves aren't built to withstand high pressure like arteries are... but I'd think you'd have to have the reverse flow go at an extremely fast rate to blow up a body like that.
I'd guess that's the point the director is trying to make. Touma only knew about the clones' fate a little before the final showdown with Accelerator, but Mikoto has been agonized by it for a longer time. Since Index was from Touma's pov, this is an understandable difference. However, I have to say they could have shortened this arc by a couple of eps. Nevertheless, the best parts are beginning in the next episode, so it's all good at this point.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
Besides, according to ANN, the director lamented this lack of light fluffy and promised such a filler arc just for you, Bill, immediately after this sisters arc finishes.
...fuck!Quote:
Besides, according to ANN, the director lamented this lack of light fluffy and promised such a filler arc just for you, Bill, immediately after this sisters arc finishes.
Fuck indeed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Archangel
They won't stop shitting on their franchises, will they ?
So she was thinking of getting herself killed in order to save a bunch of Sisters?
Sounded like it. And it would have only saved 156 of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoCybercoin
Accel got some redeeming qualities in my eyes. He didn't start off being crazy, and one can only remain so sane after killing 10'000.
As for the next arc.. well, let's just say I don't mind fluffy. I do mind shitty, but fluffy's okay.
thats not "new" is it?Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoCybercoin
I believe she said so in Index too
Gotwoot has the memory span of a potato.Quote:
Originally Posted by KrayZ33
I didn't remember it either (nor did I remember pretty much anything from Index2 until I rewatched some segments)Quote:
Originally Posted by Archangel
Potato spotted.
/jk
Why would it save only 156 of them? I believe Mikoto's plan was to get herself beaten in the very first move, showing that the fundamental assumption used as a base for the experiment is wrong. If she is much weaker than predicted, 20,000 clones would not be enough to level Accelerator up, and she hopes that this will stop the experiments from continuing.
Yeah, she is still kinda stupid.
I don't know whether she was going to get beaten in the first move or not. We also had no information from the Tree Diagram about how difficult it would have been for Accelerator to beat Railgun (but from what we've seen.. not hard). Killing Railgun 128 times gives the same xp as killing a Sister 20K times, so I just worked the maths from there.Quote:
Originally Posted by shinta|hikari
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Glad to be a potato.
I'm shocked, surprised and bewildered.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
Wat? Mikoto's point was to lose far too easily to accelerator so as to fuck the computer's calculations. By math alone she's worth 156 lvl 3 electromasters like you said and that's the x value, if she's made to look weaker than she actually is the scientist will have no choice but to assume x is quite lower than they assumed meaning Y, the numbers of sisters equivalent, must be proportionally much higher. Seeing as they're not producing more sisters and Three Diagram is destroyed they would drop the project entirely, as not to waste any more resources.Quote:
Sounded like it. And it would have only saved 156 of them.
I think it's a stupid plan. I don't know what kind of fight Tree Diagram simulated for Railgun vs Accelerator, but if the computer has equal ore more knowledge than the audience, then it knows all Accel has to do is try and anything would get wasted.
Misaka's railgun might as well be the Sister's bullet. Anything requiring contact would be completely useless. Any fight against Accel (aside from Touma's) has been a case of Accel giving the opponent a few minutes of free time before crushing them. Power means nothing against Accel, so I'm not even sure why Railgun is worth more than those Sisters. Is it based on the Sisters having only 1/128th the power of Mikoto?
But... if that's her plan, then so be it.
edit: oh, right, so she was going to lose to Accel, and hack the Tree Diagram to give a bogus result based on that fight, right? The latter part makes sense if she could fuck up the interpretation of the results like that.
It's not if they can beat him, it's how much he has to sweat to beat them. Mikoto would be swirling around the place, probably dropping shit on top of him and then bailing with guerrilla tactics. That accel is stronger than her isn't the point, it's how much stronger he is that enabled those sort of calculations in the first place.
Considering how weak the sisters are, especially against Accelerator, I very much doubt their levels of power have anything at all to do with the plan. Esper powers are all about the personal reality. That is, what is inside their heads. The real plan must be to make Accelerator crazier than ever by having him slaughter 20000 girls one by one. There's no way that wouldn't affect a person's psyche. Considering how ruthless and insane bastards the scientists planning this operation are, they must think that it specifically makes Accelerator's personal reality stronger. Well, the one scientist we saw in this episode looked like a nazi doctor, so it makes sense he would think like that.
Thus, the real Misaka being beaten easily would throw the plan off because it would, theoretically, adversely affect the development of Accelerator's personal reality, as opposed to the plan. I don't really see why, but whatever. Regardless, getting beaten by Touma certainly made the scientists think so, and they were probably right.
I agree with your argument that Accel being stronger than Mikoto isn't the point, and rather it's how hard he has to try to get there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ark
My point however, is that the whole "difficulty" thing in practice isn't based on how strong Mikoto's strength is - it's based on how many shits Accel gives during that particular experiment. If he feels bored, he'll stand there till you're tired. If he feels like playing with you, he'll make things interesting on purpose. If he's hungry he'll just walk over you in an instant, then head for fast food.
Accelerator doesn't care for Mikoto raining shit on him. (Reflect trumps anything she's got). Accel doesn't care for guerilla tactics (he's faster and can just demolish buildings). The only reason guerrilla tactics get employed for as long as they do is because Accel allows them to. As soon as he's had enough, he goes "fuck this" and kills whoever.
It doesn't matter if it's a Sister running around with guns and grenades.
It doesn't matter if it's Mikoto running around with railguns and magnetised whatever.
The all do the same thing as far as Accel's concerned. Mikoto really doesn't make Accel sweat like you suggested.
You know it's not like Accel is some sort of omnipresent God, as powerful as he is he's within limits of his own reflexes for example and as we've seen Mikoto can be very nimble.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
I'm not going to go further here though because there would be too much speculation involved and i hate that shit, i'll just say i believe you're grossly overestimating Accel and underestimating Misaka and leave it at that.
Considering we have already seen Accelerator completely crush Mikoto's pride without even doing anything just a few episodes ago, I would say that Buff is not far off the mark.
The only thing about this whole affair making Accelerator sweat is the fact everything suggests this has become a huge chore for him. You can see he's really looking forward to the day when there won't be anymore another clone waiting to get killed.
the whole experiment is stupid, you don't get stronger by defeating weaker opponents, especially not if its always the same one... and even with the help of Last Order and after ~10000 clones they still go for him with weapons and machine guns. (learning? my ass...)
its more the other way around, HE is helping the other clones to "level up"
The way Accelerator looked when the first clone died was a bit strange. It seems like he did not actually want to kill Misaka, and even found it strange when the scientist suggested it. Maybe after he accidentally "killed" the first one, he decided to believe the scientists that the clones were just protein to avoid any feelings of guilt. His extreme cruelty and predatory blood lust when slaughtering the clones may stem from the fact that he is intentionally trying to see and treat them as inhuman to prevent his actions from taking an emotional/mental toll on himself.
Weapons and machine-guns themselves can't why the sisters are losing - it's more about figuring out how Reflect works. We saw that the Sisters hypothesised about Reflect not working from below because Accel could walk normally. I'm not sure how far they'd get (especially now that 10K have been killed with little difficulty), but once they do find a weakness, Accel might have to actually work.Quote:
Originally Posted by KrayZ33
The dude from Index-2 managed to thump Accel pretty hard since he knew how Reflect and vector calcs worked. In the end though, Accel's safe as long as he stays at a distance, turns on Reflect for protection and just throws shit at the opponent.
It makes perfect sense. We already know Accelerator isn't inhuman since he decided to save Last Order, sacrificing his own health to boot, and even took the onerous job of looking after her. In light of that it's more than obvious he made a firm mental decision not to view the clones as humans during the experiment. He wouldn't otherwise have been able to either keep going through the experiment or remain sane (or as sane as he is, which is a little less than any average joe). Keeping this in mind, even blowing up a clone like he did in this episode is only logical: He can't afford any mercy or sympathy, lest he accidentally lapses into considering them human, which would have marked the end of the experiment for him.Quote:
Originally Posted by shinta|hikari
God dammit, Touman is kakkoii as fuck.
On another note though, it dawned on me as i was watching that this is already the 14th episode and not a really big deal has happened when you really think about it. Maybe my perception is skewered from all the information given on this arc that we all already knew about but it seems to me that the pace has been really slow so far.
AKA: A 20-minute guide on "How to win over a tsundere"Quote:
Originally Posted by Marik
I really don't mind any inconsistencies (if any) as long as the overall product keeps improving as a whole.
edit: actually, I have to take that bit back.. since I can't let all inconsistencies go.. but this episode was alright.
What inconsistencies? Any of the small stuff can be written off as simple differences in perspective.
Yeah, but he chose a troublesome moment to pull off one of his cool guy acts, since it left him all beaten up before he even met Accelerator. But then again, it gave him some Misaka lap pillow time, so with the end well, everything was brilliant.Quote:
Originally Posted by Archangel
It's not just your perspective. Like I said before, this arc could have used a bit more aggressive cutting. The part with the exlosives girl and Meltdowner were jolly good additions to the story we already know, but otherwise it's still a story we know, nothing changes that, so it could have been told more briskly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Archangel
Should have have taken a page from Rozen Maiden, apparently the current anime skips something like 8 volumes of content in a single episode.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kraco
Touma's arm power raised eyebrows here. Why is it that if he holds it towards his side it does absolutely nothing, while if he holds it in front of him it becomes an absolute shield? There was an episode one time where his hand was used to protect him (and some other people) from an explosion blast, which would mean the hand has to work on an area other than JUST the palm, forearm and arm.Quote:
Originally Posted by Archangel
...you want to argue about shit we've already been aware of for 4 years now? I thought you were complaining about contradictions between what they're displaying now and what they did in the Index adaptation but you just had to take it a step further for that oh so Bill-esque full retard mode.
If his hand is what's closest to Misaka it will act as his lightning rod and dispel it the moment the 2 connect. If it doesn't the circuit between her, touma and the ground is complete and he gets shocked, i assume his right hand is the only part that didn't hurt like hell.
TL;DR: Why Bill, whyyyyyyyyyyyyy??!
Except that his arm hasn't been explained to be a lightning rod (and for something that has zero power, seems strange that it'd "absorb" it like that), but whatever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Archangel
I wasn't going to elaborate, but you asked for it.
guess what gets hit by lightning if you stretch out your arm towards it, your feet or your arm?
SCIENCE!
but that electrostuff should also be dispelled if it hits anywhere else, since it will reach his arm eventually a few milliseconds later or at whatever speed electricity travels through a human body
They have to explain logic?Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
Let me clarify: ... to be a lightning rod against supernatural powers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Archangel
If I stretch my arm out, it's not going to attract a flame that was directed towards my whole body.
I see it as being flawed for convenience's sake. Notice how the cat's fine in this episode even though the bridge was fucked? It's not outside the anime-level flaws, but remains one nonetheless.
[UTW-Mazui] Toaru Kagaku no Railgun_S - 15 [720p][CFCB76A2].mkv
dat filesize...
*sigh*.. Accel even figured out his right hand, but he was still dumb enough to lose..
While I like that it's as if Touma took some punching classes, it sucks that his ability varies so much in the series. He always lands his punches somehow in the end (even if they look as cool as they did here), but he's otherwise bumbling around the blattlefield usually.
Well, his "zero" ability forces him to close combat if he wants to take down an oponent.
Problem is, when the oponent understands that, there are many ways to stop Touma from getting close.
Accel did understand that in the first series, but did not choose to use that idea to the end. That's clearly a weakness in the scenario.
Again with the misconception that Accelerator is all powerful... obviously he could work something out if he had time to think and wasn't being punched in the face every 2 seconds but under this situation is perfectly believably for him to derp around while facing an enemy who's immune to auto reflect.
It's like when you're playing a videogame and you always use that same move because it's awesome and powerful and kills everything, until you face an enemy immune to it. Yeah you'll beat him after a quick reload but in that first battle he's probably gonna slap you around pretty hard.
If you want to bitch, bitch about how Touma manages to get up after being thrown off what looked like 20-30 meters up. Plot armor has always been around though so it's silly to start complaining about it now.
It's true that Touma flying around and surviving was annoying. I was at least waiting for some Misaka magnetic sand manipulation that would dampen Touma's fall. But seems she wasn't even able to play a supporting role.
I stop and think after the "usual" method doesn't work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Archangel
Accel did that - he wondered if he accidentally turned it off, so he tried again. The second time should have told him that it's not his fault, and that the opponent is doing something against his power. Sure, he worked it out in the end.. after getting punched shitloads. The thing that looked stupid was Accel lunging when he was obviously losing the exchange. Get some distance and recover.
Damn cool looking episode if you don't get stuck on the twisted details. Maybe they even serve a role in presenting the fight how Mikoto saw it: Hero Touma fighting against impossible odds she never hoped to beat herself. Certainty it's far flashier than I remember from Index, and Touma seems to suffer far more, yet still gets up eventually. He really should man up and take responsibility for making a girl fall for him that hard.
He continued it, for a while, precisely because he felt like he was losing. Unlike the supercomputer that got what it deserved and the idiotic nazi scientists, Accelerator understood he won't get any stronger by crushing thousands of helpless insects; instead he needs to fight an opponent that baffles him and forces him to seek new approaches.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
Man this episode was awesome as fuck.
So...let me just reiterate this again. We'll be 16 episodes in next week, and we'll have just six episodes of new material. Maybe seven.
This arc is great an all...the first time around...but we're not going to get anything out of this series, and there won't be enough time to start more than one other arc of anything good after the Index recap ends.
I don't watch Railgun to watch Touma punch people in the face again and again and again. I watch it for the shit like the three episodes with ITEM. The scene with Shokuhou Misaki back in the very first episode was the biggest tease ever.
it was wrong of you to expect more than a "revamp"
On what grounds? We knew that the Sister's arc was going to get animated. We didn't know it would take up the majority of the series and not be abbreviated in any way at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by KrayZ33
I agree that the amount of repetition is annoying but i can't say i regret it for this episode, they could make a 2 cour show of accelerator getting punched in the face and i wouldn't complain.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryllharu
Like the ANN article said earlier, the director intends to insert some light filler arc next. That leaves even less space for any canon arc following later. Though I'm sure the light novels are full of short stories they can animate. I would have liked to see the current manga arc animated, but it would likely be too long, based on how stretched this sisters arc was. Unless the director does a 180 turn in his directing habits.
I knewQuote:
Originally Posted by Ryllharu
description says it'll focus on the Sisters Arc and the show itself is called Railgun S....
Interesting theory, but you're making it all up with the benefit of hindsight.
J.C. Staff picks stupid names for their sequels all the time.
Shana -> Shana II -> Shana S -> Shana F
Slayers Revolution -> Slayers Evolution-R
Nowhere officially is this series referred to as Railgun Sisters, that's just stuff people put on ANN.
The problem isn't that the series has the Sister's Arc in it. The problem is that is basically ONLY the Sister's Arc, and we've already seen 70% of it. If Rozen Maiden (2013) can summarize 24 episodes and correct the anime original content of the previous series, then this certainly could have shortened the material from Index that we're largely seeing frame for frame.
edit:
This is like one step above the four back to back recap episodes in Wolf's Rain. I won't exaggerate and try to say this is a few steps above Endless Eight. Nothing is that bad.
That fight was done much, much better in Railgun than it was in Index. A lot of things made more sense. I was also annoyed by how much content is being repeated, but this made it fine for me.
So very tsundere... At least Touma didn't really lose anything since he's doing everything solely because of his hero complex and he's only interested in people who need help (Index needing that 24/7). But for fairness sake he would have deserved to get the cookies.
Now that it's over, it was a good arc. I hope the filler is short and we get something concrete to end this season.
MISAKA and Mikoto both got so much more development here - I'd say Railgun S is worth it just for that (as well as some Accel, but he's not all that interesting unless he's bashing the shit out of people. It still pisses me off that he couldn't come up with "I could break him if Itouch himthrow a rock at him really really fast". That's generally what you do as well if you're afraid of someone).
It's almost like Railgun S is doing what Shana S did in trying to emphasise the relationship between our two main romantic characters.
That doesn't work, unless you are a politician or some other scumbag, or a pos supercomputer called Tree Diagram. If he had killed Touma in a cowardly manner, he wouldn't have conquered his fear or achieved anything at all. He was getting his ass kicked fighting hand-to-hand, so he had to try to win that way to regain everything and power up (since powering up was all he cared about). When he seemed to be losing earlier he came up with the plasma bomb idea, feeling that was more progress than slaying 10000 Imouto had allowed him to make.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
The scientists and Tree Diagram thought life is based on experience points like an old rpg and thus instead of struggling to kill one dragon you can go and get away with grinding and killing 10000 rats instead, safely and comfortably. Accelerator realised otherwise fighting Touma, and rightly so.
Wehhh, that feel when Accel's finger broke
You and NeoCybercoin know what's up.Quote:
Originally Posted by KrayZ33
I could have gone without the mini redemption flashback though, he got punched because he was being a dick. Let him be a dick.
The idea is just to win. The whole point of fighting Misakas and everything was that it was supposed to make it more difficult for him by the end as the sisters learned how to counter his ability, NOT that the sisters were supposed to give him 1xp each. The prerequisite to levelling up is not to lose (in his case anyway). If you can't beat Touma in hand to hand, don't fight him in hand to hand. The problem was that his thought process wasn't even "If I have to level up, I have to beat him in hand to hand", it was "If I can touch him, he's dead" - whcih obviously wasn't the case as he should have learned from his previous exchange. The whole idea of gaining experience is to learn - Accel didn't learn.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kraco
I see you are supporting the scientists and Tree Diagram's view, but everything we have seen, that is, the evidence, speaks against it. Even after 10000 Imouto they couldn't do jack shit against Accelerator. Except make him really, really bored. I guess getting super bored might encourage him to make great discoveries but, to be honest, I think the plasma bomb was far better in that regard than reversing the blood flow of a person.
That said, if he had killed Touma in a single second by sending a rock at bullet speed, he wouldn't have learned anything at all. Touma would have been just another fly comparable to the Imouto clones. Winning in that manner doesn't teach him anything at all. At least not anything wholesome. I said much earlier in this thread that perhaps the Tree Diagram wasn't actually counting on the Imouto to become stronger or anything like that but simply making Accelerator utterly insane by having him kill 20000 persons in cold blood. Since esper powers are all about personal reality, insanity might be the best path to the strongest powers. Although I think the scientists wouldn't have much enjoyed an even more lunatic Accelerator, but they seemed the type who wouldn't care even if the experiment cost them their own life.
I think Accelerator going for a melee against Touma was stupid on his part, but believable. He was confused, pissed, and afraid all at the same time, having so many firsts happening to him in such a short span of time.
Indeed. Accelerator is a person who has never been hit in his entire life. He actually wondered if what he had felt was pain (though that one is a little silly, even someone like him should have suffered a stomach ache or something at some point in his life).
There is no doubt in my mind that he thought for a few moments that he had actually allowed it to happen for some reason.
The situation is very similar to how Touma defeated the self-hypnosis magic guy, except Touma actually knocked Accelerator out.
Espers and magicians alike are in a state of shock when initially fighting Touma. Only a few of them actually figure out that he is actively negating their abilities. Even Mikoto, in all her numerous fights with him, still thinks that Touma is using his ability to stop her electricity specifically, not just negating everything.
edit:
Oriana Thompson is one of the only few I can think of that decided to use it against him.
The best parts of this uneventful episode were the scenes of Saten teasing Mikoto with questions about the cookies. Mikoto's tsundere reactions never fail. As an added extra the expression on Saten's satisfied face reminded me of Rin's happy face in Usagi Drop.
This second part is gonna suck so much :/
From the looks of the preview, they're going to air the Index movie, probably with an additional scene to make it the "special" version. Did it get bad reviews?
I still find that hard to believe. First it's a remake of the sisters arc we had already seen, (then one-shot filler episode), and then an Index movie, huh? What was this second season of Railgun for if this is everything it has to offer?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryllharu
I guess it makes some sense to do what they're doing. The next arc in the Railgun manga is even longer than the Sister's arc, and isn't even over.
The alternative is to pad it with garbage fillers. As much as I'd like more Kongo, the made-for-the-anime stories just aren't any good.
Wat? Why would they air the movie, the Blurays aren't even out yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryllharu
It's probably just a special episode tie-in, hopefully not an epilogue.
They could have taken some shorter Mikoto heavy arc from the novels and made it even more Mikoto heavy. In an ideal world that would never happen...Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryllharu
I guess not too much stock should be put in the OP considering the first OP was hardly descriptive of what happened in the sisters arc, but it seems to me, assuming if has any relevance at all, that the ending of this season won't be so different from the bs ending of the first season. That is, they will be fighting pesky powered suits and whatnot. However, like I said yesterday, I'd rather agree with Archie at this point and think it'll be just a special episode doing little but advertising the movie.
I guess it's safe to assume this is an anime original arc to end this season? Looks like level 0 scientist wannabes trying to prove their worth by using terrorist tactics to outsmart the city and random espers.
Oh, well, I'll wait and see. I did finish the second half of the first season, so I have seen the worst already. Maybe this will be even good, you never know.
I watched this, and nothing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kraco
You expect emotions out of a production like this, I couldn't even be bored, or angry. That just fell completly flat for me
Had to skip parts to get through this episode
Well, I finally watched this. I didn't realise until I posted episode 18, that I hadn't actually finished episode 17 from the week before. Somewhere during the middle of it I just dropped out and didn't finish it.
Once again, thank you smartphones for bringing me anime when I have time for them.
Episode 19 - UTW-Mazui
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Is anything worthwhile supposed to happen in this arc? As stretched as the Sisters arc was, I can't help but wonder if the Japanese fans really prefer this over it.
The students commented that Misaka was the "real one", which gave me the initial impression that Febri was an attempt to reproduce an Electromaster. Then they threw in something about experimenting with Meltdown, and I have no idea anymore. The fluff is suffocating though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kraco
I thought they were building some fancy machinery or something that could stand a chance against espers. The beginning of the arc had Meltdowner annihilate those robots, possibly for some in situ ability measurements. Thus they were pleased to encounter Misaka as well; after all, just a single high level esper doesn't yet provide much in the way of statistics. However, I have absolutely no idea how Febri fits in, unless she's just some dummy they intend to use as a bait. That wouldn't really fit in very well with her initial fear of Misaka, though. Maybe she has some weird power the wannabe mad scientist students need in their experiments.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
In before Febri turns out to be an artificial esper/construct with either the power to have all powers through mimicry or absorption, or (hopefully less likely) some sort of general or wide area esper power nullification/countering ability. If it's the latter I'd bet on some sort of computer analysys program that figures out how an espers powers work and makes optimal suggestions about how to go about neutralizing them.
But we already have Touma and the power-down speaker system from last time! :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Yukimura
I'd very much rather they came up with a super-powerful esper instead... but then we also had that AMI monster from last time...
We can't step away from rehash, can we? :S
[Woun] To Aru Majutsu no Index Movie Miracle of Endymion [BDrip][720p][CNsub]+SPECIAL
Should we wait for UTW?
Did the Japanese BD have English subtitles or why do you ask? I assume that particular release has provided only Chinese subs, and Chinese isn't exactly my strongest language...Quote:
Originally Posted by Archangel
Hmm? I think those have english as well don't they?