Toaru Kagaku no Railgun

[Buffalobiian]

UTW-Mazui - S Episode 04

[Kraco]

This episode felt really slow, but now things should speed up.

[Buffalobiian]

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

[shinta|hikari]

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.

[Kraco]

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.

[Buffalobiian]

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.

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.

More seriously, I do agree with you though. Touma's your unintended superhero while the girls here are part-time police.

[Buffalobiian]

UTW-Mazui - S Episode 05

[Archangel]

Well... that was... wow.

[Buffalobiian]

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.

[Kraco]

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.

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.

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.

[David75]

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.

[Buffalobiian]

Audience talks?

[David75]

Audience talks?

BBS, letters, and the likes?
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.

[shinta|hikari]

Well, Mikoto is going to receive a ton of damage to her pride next episode. I wonder if Accelerator will injure her.

[Inazuma]

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

[NeoCybercoin]

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.

[shinta|hikari]

But there's no way for her to beat him right now.

Or ever.

[Buffalobiian]

Or ever.

At Accel's full capacity, yes.

Misaka could buddy up with MISAKA and Last Order though if she really wanted to take post-injury Accel down.

[shinta|hikari]

There is no way Last Order will take Mikoto's side over Accelerator's.

[Buffalobiian]

There is no way Last Order will take Mikoto's side over Accelerator's.

Let's try that again.

And I haven't even brought out the ice-cream or the childish underwear yet.