Despite the many initial signals, it seems to have ended up incredibly innocent. There was that "This isn't quite over" teaser, so who knows what exactly that means, but as of now this arc seemed like a bunch of nothing.
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Need to catch up on the latest Accelerator.
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Index Season 3 scheduled for October.
Same animation staff and director/writer.
Season two got through, what, volume 13 or something? I suppose a two cour anime would be up through volume 18 or 19. And then a single season could cover 20-22.
This seems like it took awhile.
I can't be bothered to read the manga/light novels, so the anime is pretty much my only window into this universe. I really want to see how this... Fiamma of the Right business is handled outside of the text.
edited 9th Jun '18 6:23:47 AM by Soble
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Yeah, it's definitely been an amount of time. I doubt we'd be getting to Fiamma this season though - that's probably going to take a fourth.
I'm just hoping they don't make us wait while they alternate with a third season of Railgun, especially if they're going to keep insisting on putting in bad filler arcs.
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Hm. I wonder if it's possible for season three to be 37-39 episodes and cover the rest of volumes 14-22. Namely because seasons one and two cover 7 volumes each but if season three did that they'd be ending in the middle of/at the beginning of an arc.
Durarara adapted the remainder of its pre-Time Skip material with 3 1 cour anime back to back.
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No it didn't. There were three month long breaks between each cour of season two.
That's what I get for forgetting.
Railgun chapter 106 updated. So the jailbreak wasn't filler... it was to identify the best hacker in the city for something. Oh, and some new character we've never seen before used it to escape. So there's that. New girl's power looks similar to what Accelerator fought at the end of his first arc, so I guess that means it has something to do with artificial angels.
Could've used some better foreshadowing/pacing to not make it seem like useless filler for that whole time. Glad it wasn't a waste of time, though.
Also, NT 20's nearing completion of translation.
Translation of NT 20 is done. Certainly was a ride.
Accelerator enslaves a demon to use as magic-on-a-stick without dying, Samuel Mathers isn't dead, and Orsola kills an eldritch abomination of sorts with a brick.
Also, Mikoto's heading off to London for the next volume, and apparently her dad is there? So we might actually see him in a main novel.
Accelerator chapter 46 updated. Twin espers fighting. The onlookers are a little too meta for my taste.
Accelerator chapter 47 updated. More new characters. Yay.
I'm more interested in the fact that the Accelerator manga apparently has no editing staff.
Which, if true, explains so much.
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Looks like the character page needs some updating soon.
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A quick question for anybody reading the Accelerator series, or familiar with New Testament where I presume Accelerator has more fights against people who don't have specific counters against his power: how the flip does Accelerator's power work, and does it protect him from opponents with superhuman strength?
Seeing as how he can deflect bullets and rockets and arcs off electricity and railguns I'd imagine it's basically a force field that works on everything - but IIRC he has to know the scientific properties on how that thing works before he can deflect it. There are three known ways around his power - having a specific Anti-Magic weapon that cancels out Esper powers, stopping short in the middle of a punch so that his barrier brings the punch forward instead, and having a property or an element that Accelerator doesn't fully understand.
So I'm thinking that if someone like The Flash ran up and punched him Accelerator wouldn't be able to respond to it in time, or even if his barrier was up he wouldn't have the "specs" on The Flash's speed and would end up taking the punch anyway. I mean he can block sunlight apparently and I can't imagine he's calculating the exact properties of sunlight for several hours a day. Is his power conscious or is it passive once he understands how a force/object works?
Knowing the exact trajectory/force behind a bullet or a rocket sounds ridiculous though, and even if Accelerator just has that sort of analytical ability - I can't imagine he'd have any idea how much strength or force any average superhuman would put behind a punch. He wouldn't be able to block Superman or the Hulk for instance because he'd have no idea how strong they are.
I swear this isn't part of some stupid argument I'm having with a sibling or friend right now. Honest.
Edited by Soble on Aug 15th 2018 at 8:20:00 AM
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He doesn't actually need to know the exact stats, since he has reflected magic before, doing it while unconscious and subconsciously. His reflection is a passive filter that already takes account into the minimum amount of things he need to survive like oxygen and heat and reflect everything else, and can reflect anything that he can't possibly react to in time.
To elaborate, Kihara exploited his passive use of reflection and just reversed his punch, knowing that Accelerator would rely on it and not react fast enough to undo the reversal. Kakine uses vectors unknown to him, which he easily figured out afterwards, and with magic, while he doesn't understand it, he can just reverse the direction of the attack because the magic moves in straight.
If Flash doesn't use abilities that exploit the Speed Force extra-dimensional capabilities like speed stealing, he's basically just a really fast kinetic projectile, which can easily be reflected.
Edited by Ikedatakeshi on Aug 15th 2018 at 11:30:03 PM
Accelerator would absolutely be able to block a punch from Superman without even knowing he was there. And yeah, to get through you need something like antimagic or an ability he absolutely doesn't understand at all. And he also suspects that attacks that have no vector like a voodoo doll might work, but this has never been tested. Even teleporting him against his will won't work.
Accelerator seems to be able to "program" his mind to some degree. He can reflect anything he understands the math behind passively because he's doing all the calculations subconsciously.
The fact that he can choose what to reflect and what not to reflect and then let his reflection do its own thing is further evidence of that.
His reflection works without conscious thought but his mind is still doing all the calculations behind it. That's why he can't reflect things he doesn't understand. And of course, he can take control of it consciously if he chooses to.
Edited by DarkHunter on Aug 15th 2018 at 11:31:53 AM
Well, here's a season 3 trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecd1qxlFR0A
Sure looks like this is going all the way to the end, with some definite scenes in Russia during WWIII.
Do we know how many episodes this is going to be yet? This is either going to be rushed or it's going to cut out a whole lot of cruft.
Accelerator chapter 48 updated. Backstory on the twins, and some sort of underground entertainment thing, which I presume is some horrific gladiator match. Even for Academy City, that seems improbable.
Railgun chapter 107 updated. Details on who was manipulating the jailbreak and why.
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But this is the Accelerator manga, not El-Melloi Case Files, so better not get my hopes up.
Nice ending to the jailbreak, but yeah, filler. And Kongou fanservice, of course. So was the place evil after all, or was it just run by some random idiot who wanted to prove his superiority?