To Aru Kagaku no Railgun

[Quizap]

Originally Posted by Lenaxia

Ugh, I lost count of how many times I've watched episode 2 now... too many times.

Anyway, I may end up switching to watch Ayako. I just watched Mazui's version again and noticed something else they didn't catch:

In the pool cleaning scene, when Kuroko gets all depressed again and gives the generic "sou desu ne" response, Misaka asks "Who was the empress of china during (I forgot which period she referenced)".

Kuroko responds "sou desu ne", which can either be interpreted as "Is that so..." or "It was Sou" depending on context. Ayako uses the 2nd interpretation, while Mazui uses the first.

Neither are incorrect because technically Kuroko did mean it in the "Is that so..." context, but the joke is lost unless you're familiar with Dynastic periods/Chinese history, so Ayako's interpretation as "It was Sou" is more accessible to people who are watching.

Haha yea... about that.. I've seen Ep 2 about three times now The OP is amazing, the ED is great and I'm actually getting very used to Kuroko now. She makes me laugh every episode now. Especially the opening bedroom scene. And about the joke in the pool, I knew it and got it immediately even if there wasn't a sub. I laughed the first time.

[chii]

bleh it's like they took any aspects of the first one that were actually good and decided to make a slice of school life yuri toned S2

yes i know it's suppose to follow whatever her name is but i was hoping for a little bit more.... oh well at least the fan boys will be happy with all this fan service.

[Lucifer]

Well it is supposed to be a Side story... I don't think much relevant plot will develop or add to no Index.

[chii]

yeah i pointed that out already

[Lenaxia]

Well there is actually a decent plot to this and just as a fun fact, Railgun was more successful in Japan than Index was.

If you read the beginning of the thread, I mentioned that they are doing some of the chapters out of order to introduce the characters for newcomers (episode 2 is actually the final chapter and Saten-san wasn't supposed to come in until chapter 6 of 21). I can pretty much guarantee that they will follow the manga because of a few scenes from the intro that give it away.

Railgun is a bit more interesting too because there's less emo drama (see Touma) and more action. Compared to most Manga to Anime shows, they've done a very good job to make their own storyline adjustments seamless.

Anyway Addendum~
Nuke released episode 1 as well. I'm feeling lazy now so here's the run down:
-Typesetting was good, one of the better one's released so far but no Kanji/sync on karaoke.
-Editor must've been asleep, weird grammar in many places.
-Inconsistent translations. Literal in some places, heavily transliterated in others.

Overall: Not worth following.

[Pidjiken]

Disappointing so far.

Kuroko is ****ing annoying. She's heading for the list of characters I want to strangle.

Although Misaka as a Pikachu at the end was great. She's gone form the ability to fire a railgun to the ability to manipulate electricity. Nice.

[Quizap]

Originally Posted by Pidjiken

Disappointing so far.

Kuroko is ****ing annoying. She's heading for the list of characters I want to strangle.

Although Misaka as a Pikachu at the end was great. She's gone form the ability to fire a railgun to the ability to manipulate electricity. Nice.

She's always been able to do that, Index showed it quite a bit and that happens before this show

[azanimefan]

Originally Posted by Pidjiken

Disappointing so far.

Kuroko is ****ing annoying. She's heading for the list of characters I want to strangle.

Although Misaka as a Pikachu at the end was great. She's gone form the ability to fire a railgun to the ability to manipulate electricity. Nice.

I'm with you about Kuroko, that girl is borderline funny sometimes.. but mostly she's just annoying as sin...

As for Misaka... her ability always was electricity... she can control it so well she can create a magnetic field and use that to turn any metal object into a projectile... just like a railgun... hence her nickname.

[azanimefan]

ep 3

plenty of silly... nothing amazing, some yuri undertones... pretty much just like the first 2 (though less yuri)... though they finally had something happen other then scene setting... it was pretty much non-consequential.

[Lenaxia]

azanimefan, I'll give you a hint: Episode three was NOT inconsequential.

I'll leave why until later.

Anyway, I was pleasantly surprised, so this episode passes for the above reason. For those of you thinking about dropping this, the beginning of the plot has started to develop, though for someone not familiar with the manga, it's not all that obvious.

I enjoyed ep3 anyway. This part of the story isn't in the manga unlike the two previous episodes, despite that they managed to tie it in rather nicely. It had a good balance of drama, humor and for those who know the manga, seriousness.

I'll admit it could go a bit faster and have less of this day to day stuff, but all in all, even if it was just to turn into a slice of life, the characters are interesting enough in and of themselves to keep me watching.