Mahou Meido Meganekko

I watched the Railgun omake last night, which is kind of funny, especially when Mikoto starts acting out of character. They reused a lot of shots from the show, but changed up the dialog.

Dr. Heinous writes that he noticed something while watching the last few filler episodes:

…I don’t think they were ALL filler. Odd that there was a tiny tremor of an earthquake that sent the Anti-Skill girl to hiding under a bench. Then at the orphan school there was a significantly stronger (though still minor) quake…

Hm. He may have a point. Color me Elvis — I’m all shook up. Something you just don’t see in anime set in Japan is an earthquake (Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 being the exception that proves the rule.)

That’s still no excuse for a crappy set of fillers, which the last two were. At least the first two were tolerable, but I’m disappointed that they don’t appear to be heading into the Sisters arc. I could forgive that if they do it as a movie, though. It would be a good move, I think.

write a fifth post about railgun, just to include this link. Bottom of second and middle of the third pages FTW.

ANN now claims Railgun is a 24 episode series, though they have only air dates for the last ten. Raws of ep. 14 are out, but the Nyaatorrent link was bad when I tried it. Not that I understand enough Japanese to watch it raw, but that’s a measure of how the show has captured my attention, that I’m willing to discuss its physics to death and even watch a raw to figure out where the story’s going…

Update: Mazui posted their subs, and there is a preview for ep. 15.

Steven posted his promised discussion about the physics of Touma’s Imagine Breaker power over at Chizumatic. It’s very spoiler-filled, as is my response below. It started as a comment, but just kept going. I don’t know how to characterize it; it’s not exactly an agreement, nor is it a rebuttal. I’m just killing a few more catgirls by pointing out some implications in the worldview. Below the fold, since there’s spoilers.

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Ok, I just finished watching the last few episodes of To Aru Majutsu no Index, and I have three observations, two of which are spoilers (one speculative) and so I’m putting them below the fold.

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At Chizumatic, Steven remarks in the comments,

“The potential present in the premise about Index is intriguing, but if it were fully developed she’d be too strong, too overwhelming.”

Indeed. In The Dresden Files, (series) the author takes the concept and runs with it in one book. With a small girl, no less. (I wonder if he was reading the manga….) And yes, she’s insanely powerful; she holds off three major demons with ridiculous ease. They only defeated her by luring her into a trap that cut off the flow of magic; once she exhausted her innate supply, she was vulnerable.

(Posted this bit of nothing here, since Steven doesn’t like sidetracks)

In any case, I’m downloading the season, and will give it a second chance; apparently it finishes strongly with an arc about the Railgun. Which I’m still following that series, and Kampfer. Don’t ask me why I’m still following Kampfer.

Forget the Goddesses’ parentage, Keichi’s are damned strange. His father Keima is an artisian glassblower and just as much a motorcyclist as his kids; Keichi’s never beaten him in a race (and still can’t). His ability on a motorcycle is almost inhuman, especially given that he looks about sixty. Don’t even get me started with his mechanical ability. That’s just not normal.

Keima’s also got extreme gynophobia; only Bell and Takano (his wife) don’t trigger it. And he’s amazingly spry, managing to avoid most of Sigel’s attacks and disable both her and Banpei — though it wasn’t easy, and he took a few licks doing so.

Keichi’s mother Takano is unusually like Belldandy without powers — and looks like she’s about 25 — if that! There’s no hint that she’s a second wife, plus she absolutely schools the goddesses at mahjongg despite their luck.

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