To Aru Majutsu no Index - 14 January 10
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Summary:
Having survived the explosion, Touma manages to avoid Accelerator’s next attack and counters with a punch with his right hand. Realizing that he can keep doing this, Touma finds ways to continue pounding Accelerator with that hand until Accelerator uses his own power to manipulate the air into a powerful projectile attack. It is at this point that Mikoto shows up, and even though Touma doesn’t want her to get involved, she apologizes and wants him to live. Mikoto prepares to fire her railgun, but she pauses when she realizes that Accelerator is creating a plasma attack by controlling the direction of the wind and collecting it in one place. She figures out that she can counter this by controlling the wind, and the way to do it lies in all the Misakas. With the desire to protect Touma’s dream, Mikoto wakes up the Misaka who was knocked out while fighting Accelerator earlier, and she gets the Misakas across the city to change the direction of the wind by controlling all the wind turbines. This prevents Accelerator from finishing forming his attack, and when he approaches Mikoto and Misaka, Touma stops him. Accelerator tries to make one final lunge at Touma, but Touma dodges it and delivers the knock-out punch.
Touma loses consciousness soon after, and when he wakes back up, he’s in the hospital again. He’s being watched over by Misaka, and she’s holding his hand at her chest so that she can measure his brain waves and heart rate. She explains that although the experiment has been called off, there is still the problem of the bodies of all the clones. They have shortened lifespans due to their earlier rapid growth, and so they have to be taken to a research facility for some adjustments. Misaka promises that they’ll see each other again soon before leaving his room. Later that day, Touma wakes up to find Mikoto in his hospital room, and she’s brought him some cookies. After she finds out that Misaka had come by and what Misaka had revealed, Mikoto turns to leave, but Touma tells her that she should be proud that the Sisters were born based on her DNA map. And even though so many were killed, he knows that the Sisters don’t bear a grudge against Mikoto because if they hadn’t been born, then they wouldn’t have been able to feel happiness or sadness. Touma feels that it’s okay for Mikoto to smile and points out that the ones Mikoto wanted to protect aren’t the kind to satisfy themselves by forcing their pain on others.
Sometime after Mikoto leaves, Index finally arrives at the hospital room and bites Touma on the head. She had been worried about him and doesn’t want him always dealing with problems on his own. When she finally asks him what he was fighting for this time, he pauses for a moment before answering that it was for himself.
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Now that I think about it, I really can’t believe that Accelerator lost that fight. For someone who’s been through so many battles, you’d think he’d have better instincts than to fight Touma at close range where Touma has a small but distinct advantage. That entire plasma thing was a waste of time too when a quicker and less elaborate solution - such as continuing to throw steel rails from a distance - would have been much more effective. That is, of course, assuming that Touma doesn’t continue to magically live through the onslaught like he did in episode 13. In any case, I’m kind of amazed that Touma won that battle and am curious what happens to Accelerator now. He’s not exactly dead, and his powers are still there, so you’d think he’d be back with a vengeance.
Despite all that though, I still enjoyed the episode and the story arc in general. The pacing was a lot better than the previous arcs, and they seemed to cut down on the unnecessarily long exposition. I like Mikoto as a support character too (more so than say, Himegami) and hope she sticks around in the story. It looks like she will if the preview is any indicator. The main problem I have with the series now isn’t with the series itself but with the first channel that airs it, AT-X. AT-X’s broadcast quality is subpar, so I’ll probably stick with the Saturday airings on MBS and CTC unless there turns out to be some really exciting episode that I have to see a little early.
Kevz at 11:52 pm on January 10th, 2009
yay! last ep of the arc, next arc should be awesome!
mike at 11:55 pm on January 10th, 2009
next arc bodyswap beach arc
cutemi2 at 12:05 am on January 11th, 2009
http://randomc.maximum7.net/image/To%20Aru%20Majutsu%20no%20Index/To%20Aru%20Majutsu%20no%20Index%20-%2014%20-%20Large%2030.jpg
Eating Tohma’s Head…..
Wcastro at 12:08 am on January 11th, 2009
Charlieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, que onda jajajaja. Good episode.
Sadifn at 12:12 am on January 11th, 2009
lots of cheesy lines, I hope they come up with something better to say =.=
End at 12:14 am on January 11th, 2009
Accelerators’ body has always been weak and frail. Of course he would not withstand up close combat.
robin at 12:15 am on January 11th, 2009
http://randomc.maximum7.net/image/To%20Aru%20Majutsu%20no%20Index/To%20Aru%20Majutsu%20no%20Index%20-%2014%20-%20Large%2031.jpg
This is a really great picture that’s just screaming to be vectored into a wallpaper.
Xavier at 1:42 am on January 11th, 2009
i can’t wait for the subs… T.T
DAAAAAYMO at 1:58 am on January 11th, 2009
SWIMSUIT EPISODE NEXT YES YES YES YES
Theoneandonlyz at 1:58 am on January 11th, 2009
Omni…asking for intelligent tactics in a anime, much less a SHOUNEN anime, is like asking for air at the bottom of the ocean…not gonna happen.
Anime, actually most vision based artforms, as a medium depends largely on flash to give the impression of power…the bigger the flash the more the viewer can understand that a individual is powerful. Subtlety is not easily understood…much less appreciated, why do you think it is so effective in real life. it takes a special mindset to get it and sadly MOST people don’t have that.
Aizen at 2:05 am on January 11th, 2009
http://randomc.maximum7.net/image/To%20Aru%20Majutsu%20no%20Index/To%20Aru%20Majutsu%20no%20Index%20-%2014%20-%20Large%20Preview%2003.jpg
Touma now has a LOLI YELLOW CASTER now?! DAMNIT I WANT HIM DEAD! He’s taking away all the good loli out there!
http://aizen.usakochan.net/
Megas at 2:11 am on January 11th, 2009
Best part of this episode was Index biting Touma again - even though I don’t really like it, it was funny as hell. Also the pic after that is pure gold. OK, really, if I wanted to watch a fist fight, I could go down to the bar. Touma’s GD negation is one of the lamest superpowers in anime history. Aside from that, this anime is really moving isn’t it…
Shadow_Strider at 2:17 am on January 11th, 2009
Does anybody know if Touma ever gets his memories back in the visual novels? For some reason it just bugs me the main character has permanent memory loss.
TJ at 2:30 am on January 11th, 2009
That was a weak conclusion to the fight, especially given all the nice setup from last episode.
If the anime covers the fifth novel then Accelerator will be back, but not in the way people expects.
Chicle at 3:09 am on January 11th, 2009
You didn’t take enough pictures of the Accelorator getting his face caved in.
Nalface at 3:26 am on January 11th, 2009
I think Accelerator continued to try to fight at close range because:
* He still doesn’t know (or fully understand) Touma’s ability to dispel powers
* After getting punched a few times, he wants to destroy Touma personally (by reversing his blood flow, etc).
* Throwing metal beams at another guy is just no fun
The pacing for this episode was ok. Definitely better than some of the previous ones. But I still can’t get my head around Touma’s character. Something about his self-righteousness simply makes me mad (by the way, I used to be the kinda guy who impulsively help people, but have been weathered down by time and experience)… SH*T… am I turning into one of those cliche’d, calculative + manipulative bad guys now?
Chimasternmay at 3:34 am on January 11th, 2009
holy shit when i saw this http://randomc.maximum7.net/image/To%20Aru%20Majutsu%20no%20Index/To%20Aru%20Majutsu%20no%20Index%20-%2014%20-%20Large%2003.jpg i was like dam, reminded me of those wacky naruto and sasuke punches lol
kdp at 3:35 am on January 11th, 2009
I think Touma is living through these battles because of the “bad luck” that his right hand causes (based on what Index said in ep1). Touma also commented on how he was living through his battles with Mikoto in ep1 was that it was perhaps “her bad luck”. My guess is that he’s able to cause whoever he fights to have unaccustomed trouble, though the effect also gives him grief as well as evidenced by his numerous wounds.
BROOKLYN otaku at 3:51 am on January 11th, 2009
wow!! he tore that punk ass brat up.
GGear0323 at 3:55 am on January 11th, 2009
i somewhat agree with you kdp, like when Accelerator threw Touma into the air with the metal beams, it just happened to be perfect for Touma to fly right at him with a flying punch. really though, fighting in close was the only way fro Accelerator to lose, sure Touma can negate most powers, but with Accelerator, he can use his powers to move stuff and what not but after that, it is just a physical object, no powers in them, so Touma would have been pretty much useless. anyway, the pacing was good this episode but the ending felt a bit rushed, and i am not talking about the fight, i mean the after the battle part. he gets carried to the hospital, heals up and meets everyone he wanted, they talk a bit, Touma is 100% again, and now we go onto a beach episode. idk, it just felt like the ending made me think, what was the point. i know he saved the sisters and stuff, but they made it seem like the fight wasnt a big deal and that it was kind of pointless stretching the fight over 2 episodes if it was only going to end by Touma punching the dude in the face just one time. though Touma did have a point, with Accelerator’s powers, it seems natural that he would have 0 skill in hand to hand combat.