Raildex verse (A Certain Magical Index, A Certain Scientific Railgun, A Certain Scientific Accelerator)

The writing seemed to get better in the last two NT entries. I have no idea why it took him so long, or what changed. I may just be delusional.

NT 5 was the most enjoyable one I've read in a long time. I don't think I'd say the writing was good in it; it's still Kamachi writing it, after all. But it definitely didn't have a lot of the other problems I usually complain about.

6 was OK, I guess. General quality-wise, probably around the same as 5, if a little less. But there were two rather big things that made me dislike it: First, the fact that it ruined something that could have been absolutely amazing, and second the random, nonsensical resolution to the plot.

All I could say about Railgun S Episode 1:

Kuroko Shirai, the Yellow Flash of Tokiwadai.

Episode 1 was pretty much nothing but Arc Welding.

Gotta ask, but wasn't the level 5 (Queen, wasn't it?) in this episode only introduced in one of the later Index novels?

I hear she's only been mentioned in the novels? The scene itself was taken from Railgun's Daihaiseisai arc

She was name-dropped in the first novel as someone who might be able to fix Index's memories, but if I remember correctly she made her debut in the Railgun manga (in the scene adapted in this first episode). Although apparently she's on the cover of the next NT volume where she's making her main-story debut.

edited 14th Apr '13 12:13:59 PM by Clarste

So, saw the first episode. Yeah, the end was trying too hard to be cool, but that was the same as the first episode of the first season, so whatever. They're just trying to get off to a strong start.

I liked that they moved Misaki to here. Foreshadows her involvement later, instead of her just sort of coming out of nowhere like in the manga.

Also, I hope we're dealing with a Trailers Always Lie situation with the OP. I'll be greatly annoyed if Kuroko is involved in Mikoto's side of the Sisters arc. The whole point was that Mikoto had to do it all alone, and I'm pretty sure it's been confirmed in later novels and such that Kuroko doesn't know about the clones. And I'm gonna be pissed if Touma ends up involved in the fight against GROUP, though the scene in the OP was probably just symbolizing how he helps resolve the arc or whatever.

Yeah, I doubt they're gonna shoehorn Kuroko in.

The first time she appears and does something in the novels is in NT 5 where she is in front of Touma school and mind control a lo of people to annoy Mikoto who was trying to visit Touma school.

I'm sure you meant ITEM, not GROUP, right?

Yeah, you're right. I just mixed them up because I thought ITEM was the group of espers that had items they need for their power, like Misaki's.

I don't even try to justify the shameless, random English phrases.

"We're called SCHOOL because that's where we're supposed to go during the day!"

Pretty sure its so they can talk about it without sounding suspicious.

"Do you have that GROUP work done?"

"ITEM is meeting" etc.

I imagine that they're all acronyms of some variety.

ITEM isn't. They all carry around some item that helps them. Saiai carries around a container of nitrogen for some reason, Fremea has her bombs, Mugino has her craziness etc.

Saiai's nitrogen helps her use her powers.

It's not exactly unheard of for acronyms to have some bearing on the nature of what's being described.

Yeah, but the circumstances under which it would be useful are pretty unlikely. Honestly, it probably shouldn't have helped in the one situation where it did save her.

I never understood Saiai's need for nitrogen capsules. The atmosphere is already 78% nitrogen, and it should be trivial to collect it around herself.

If... If the names are supposed to mean something...

What the hell is BLOCK?

But what if an explosion happens and someone sucks all the air away (somehow) and in the split second it'll take to get all that nitrogen back around you really need it?! And the enemy's power isn't so strong that it'll just kill you anyway?!

^ They're all constipated.

edited 15th Apr '13 4:46:49 PM by Arha

They're a bunch of squares.

I guess it would be worth it to have it around in emergencies, but there's no need to rely on it.

The air might be high in nitrogen, but it's still not very dense.