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To Aru Kagaku no Railgun (TV).

Well, it's been no hardship for me to stick by the show this far - I've liked it from the beginning. I do appreciate an actual arc kicking in, though. I felt bad for poor old Flowerhead: spoiler[pulled away just as she's about to tuck into a delicious looking parfait!]

Well we are getting something more serous, interesting that who looks like the perpertraiter from the preview, I kind of guessed watching. Guess I liked this episode Misaka in her flawed state, not always being level headed or her making small things big or missunderstanding. Actualy the best have to be her fear of creepy crawlies Laughing

and the kids.

At least it is good that this episode made me want to watch next week for this interesting story.

As much as I'd like to I don't see the "actual arc" starting, two-three episode filler at most. Though as long as Misaka is main character in these episodes I'll watch them with pleasure. And to be fair there is epic, no less, episode 4 that actually has story continuation of which I can't wait to see. I thought Railgun was the best series this season but thanks to filler it dropped to #2 spot for me and Darken Than Black now gets the spotlight.

i don't care what other people say, i've enjoyed this series i mean its just a spinoff and a nice little bit of filler until (hopefully) season 2 of index comes around.

this episode had some oddly excellent animation and wow did it ever get serious at the end. looking forward to next week.

I too have enjoyed it since the word go. I tend to enjoy shows that can jump from light and silly to serious and dangerous in a few scenes.

Anyways, this episode brought up a continuation on the theory that the City's database is either faulty or has been changed. You know, while we all "Luls'd" at spoiler[Marker Face Girl], it does bring up an interesting theory that maybe whoever is setting these people up to start attacking the civilians just used her as a test run?

From the preview, it seems as though that guy who told spoiler[Misaka "Why didn't you get here earlier" is Mr. Bomb Guy] Hmm. What do we have here, another angry civilian? While it's kinda of a stretch, maybe the spoiler[Marker girl and Graviton guy] somehow have a related experience or something. hmmmmm....

Well, I'm excited for 7. Engage Arc #1!

Okay. Now if every episode matched the quality of #6, I'd be gushing, and counting the days to the next episode. This was far better than previous eps. Everything just came together perfectly this time. Writing, pacing, story, animation, everything. I laughed out loud more than once, loving Kuroko's countdown to Misaka as well as their interaction overall. So nice to see the lead characters gain some depth and interact intelligently. Apparently now the few little intriguing clues dropped are working their way towards meeting in a plot.

But truthfully, if the writing was this good every episode, I wouldn't care if it had a plot or not. This is what I came for (what I was "sold")... to see a well-written, funny side story starring my favorite character from Index, with some of that often exceptional Index action animation thrown in as a bonus.

Here's hoping it has permanently turned the corner and this level of quality stays constant.

It was a good episode, I guess, but it didn't bowl me over. More of the same really, although it was nice to have it focus on Misaka again.

Now, I've no problem with the whole Judgement does more than fight crime aspect, like giving people directions and helping find lost things, but sweeping up trash? Doesn't the city have a type of robot specifically for that? We saw them constantly in Index. Also, has Misaka always been so overblown with her reactions to things? Immediately assuming the missing bag was the bomb is a bit of a stretch. I could understand if she were just thinking that it might be, but a rational person would have realized that Konori (that was her name, right?) was remarkably calm, and would imply that this probably was a separate incident. I didn't find her overreaction funny. Also, her panicking about bugs was a bit cliche.

Also, the situation around the explosion at the end of episode felt a little contrived. spoiler[A girl in a convenience store suddenly hurts her leg as Judgement tries to evacuate it, and she's right next to the bomb. What the heck caused her to fall, the flat tile floor? Also, the preview revealed the culprit, and it's the guy with the glasses who was getting beat up when Misaka passed him. I already don't care about him.]

No offense, Dorcas, but to me your trash comment is, for me, an example of somebody being too over-critical. Maybe it's because I'm still somewhat new to anime, but I really hope I don't ever become that fussy. My fear is if I did, then I would start picking apart every little thing and let's face it - a lot of anime wouldn't stand up to that kind of scrutiny. Naturally, I wouldn't be happy if a series established "rule A" and then broke that rule in an important plot point without explanation, but questioning why there wasn't a trash-bot around? Come on. The idea was to show, in a humorous way, that Judgment work wasn't all glamorous. Let's be a little reasonable, folks.

The thing about the trash though is that Judgment is essentially the city's law enforcement. How many other cities in the world utilize their law enforcement personnel as their sanitation workers? It's inefficient, and the less glamorous elements of Judgment could have been demonstrated through other means. Maybe something like directing traffic around a construction site would have been reasonable, or paperwork (nothing shows necessary monotony like paperwork) although that would have required a weird explanation as to why Konori (?) was out looking for an assistant.

That's not my real disappointment, though. It's that I was hoping for some action in this series. Character growth is nice, but that's mainly what we've had. We've got people with incredible super-powers performing mundane tasks. Also, the initial draw of Index was the slightly quirky banter it featured between characters. We're not getting very much of that here, with the exception of the often overplayed Kuroko/Misaka dynamic.

I agree it was nice to get back to Misaka for the better part of an episode. Sometimes the little snark inside of me wondered if the show was going to end up focusing more on Kuroko over the course, with the intention of putting out a third series: "A Certain Scientific Transporter" Wink

But like I said, that's just me being a smartass.

So we might get to see if spoiler[this mystery bomber with glasses gets handled by Misaka, Kuroko and company.] I wonder if they will tie it in at all to another, larger plotline hiding in the wings.

Last edited by dtm42 on Tue Nov 10, 2009 12:36 am; edited 1 time in total

Just as I tend to be slow to leave a series (it's something I rarely do), I'm also slow to come back to one. Railgun has lost me. The only really enjoyable episode I saw was the one with Touma in it, the rest were somewhere between bleh and "why am I watching this?"

It's too bad, because I really like Misaka. But her support characters do little to nothing for me, and in the case of Kuroko actively annoy me. I can find better things to do with my time than watch this series... and I'd hoped it would be one I liked. :/

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