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REVIEW: A Certain Scientific Railgun S DVD

On a slightly off topic note. Are we not going to discuss Saten's choice of summer beverage?

Stiles wrote:

Generally speaking, I don't understand for the life of me why some people like Railgun, but not Index. Index is the parent story and actually drives the plot forward. Both seasons of Railgun are mostly side story material and useless filler.

I started out watching a couple of episodes of Index first, then started checking out some Railgun, and eventually just stayed with Railgun and never finished Index. I just found it much more entertaining, and I like the slice of life elements, as well as the focus on Mikoto and her friends. I don't dislike Index, but I've never gone back around to finishing it.

I liked S, even though the sister's arc moved away from the s.o.l. that drew me to the series in the first place. The stakes were high, the episodes were intense, and the fight scenes were cool (although some of the fights dragged on a bit longer than I would've liked). It's a shame that Kuroko and company had less screen-time (for the record I actually like Kuroko and her crazy antics amuse me). I did prefer the Febri arc more though. I still need to watch the dub, though I like what I've heard so far of it (aside from sissy).


Oh, and as an aside, how much knowledge of Index does one need to know to understand the movie?

The entire index world is a toss up for me. I love the world building going on but there are moments that simply break any attempt to suspend my disbelief.

In particular, the end of the first season with scientists who have supposed PHDs but are unable to make basic inferences or assumptions using the scientific method...

Actually, it's really jarring how many of the "smart" people in this world are beyond stupid outside of our "heroes."

I started out watching a couple of episodes of Index first, then started checking out some Railgun, and eventually just stayed with Railgun and never finished Index. I just found it much more entertaining, and I like the slice of life elements, as well as the focus on Mikoto and her friends. I don't dislike Index, but I've never gone back around to finishing it.

I liked S, even though the sister's arc moved away from the s.o.l. that drew me to the series in the first place. The stakes were high, the episodes were intense, and the fight scenes were cool (although some of the fights dragged on a bit longer than I would've liked). It's a shame that Kuroko and company had less screen-time (for the record I actually like Kuroko and her crazy antics amuse me). I did prefer the Febri arc more though. I still need to watch the dub, though I like what I've heard so far of it (aside from sissy).