To Aru Kagaku no Railgun - 09 November 29
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Summary:
Since Kiyama Harumi is an expert on matters of the brain, Kuroko and Mikoto try to question her on the Level Upper. Saten and Uiharu join them, and Saten decides not to reveal the Level Upper she discovered after Kuroko mentions what’s been happening to the other users. It continues to bother her though, and she leaves the other girls behind to think about what to do. Mikoto follows her, so Saten tries to play it off as nothing, and in the process she drops a charm that her mother gave her. This leads to her reminiscing about her family and reminds her of the weight of the expectations on her since she’s a Level 0. The next day, Saten is still debating what to do with the Level Upper when she overhears some thugs roughing up a guy who is trying to buy a copy of the Level Upper from them. Against her better judgment, Saten steps in to try to stop them, but she’s powerless against the thugs. Fortunately for her, Kuroko happens to come across them and is able to take out two of the guys with relative ease.
The third thug, however, proves to be a much bigger challenge, and Kuroko finds it surprisingly hard to hit him with any of her teleport attacks. She gets injured in the process and has to flee up an abandoned building while trying to figure out a plan. Kuroko eventually realizes that the guy’s power is to distort the light around him, thereby throwing her off. To counter this, she decides to teleport the nearby window panes into the building’s support columns, cutting them in half. This causes the building to crumble, voiding the thug’s advantage and making him fear for his life. Kuroko saves him though and teleports both of them out at the last second. She then gets him to tell her about the Level Upper, so he reveals that it’s just a piece of music. Saten meanwhile has left the scene, and she’s even more conflicted about what to do with the Level Upper now that Kuroko has shown her what someone with an ability is capable of. By chance, she runs into a group of friends, and when they start talking about the rumor of the Level Upper, Saten reveals that she has a copy.
Preview
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Despite the lack of Touma for a second week in a row, I actually really liked this episode. It had a nice balance of humor, action, and character development, and there was some great production quality backing it up (the animation, the piano pieces during the Saten scenes). Actually the Touma scene that should have been here wasn’t as important a scene as the one that wasn’t in last week’s episode, so it’s even less of a big deal, though I do worry about his role moving forward in the series.
But my point is that what was in this episode was quite good. Aside from the fairly intense Kuroko battle (my only complaint about the episode was that the thug surrendered a lot more readily than I thought he would), they’ve also really dialed up the emotional conflict inside of Saten, making her into more than just another side/support character. It makes me start to wonder about the possibilities for her character, and since this is around the point I stopped reading the manga, I’m very curious to see if she actually uses the Level Upper and what her ability turns out to be if she does.
mike at 12:27 am on November 29th, 2009
Love to see Saten always changing her outfit.
macrohard at 12:43 am on November 29th, 2009
Pedophile alert!! http://randomc.maximum7.net/image/To%20Aru%20Kagaku%20no%20Railgun/To%20Aru%20Kagaku%20no%20Railgun%20-%2009%20-%20Large%2018.jpg
Syllen at 12:45 am on November 29th, 2009
i think they didnt show what her ability was or atleast it wasnt clear
Litho at 12:51 am on November 29th, 2009
No Touma, still not interested.
Will probably be a while till we see him, sadly
ahelo at 1:01 am on November 29th, 2009
kuroko’s battle was awesome.
Ayle at 1:05 am on November 29th, 2009
Next arc is the one with the mikoto’s clone and the accelerator experiment. Though Touma will only appear at the end of it, and I suppose To Aru Kagaku no Railgun will end at the end of the Accelerator Arc. I haven’t read the novel so I’d assume the focus will be shifter to Accelerator after he got his brain damaged.
pierce at 1:14 am on November 29th, 2009
Saten is SO gonna use that level upper now that she feels so useless. By comparing herself to Kuroko in being the same grade level yet so different, she will probably take this chance to make a change. The fact that she let her friends know she had LU could mean she was scared of using it alone.
Pw3age at 2:22 am on November 29th, 2009
Looks like a good action episode.
So Very Odd at 2:43 am on November 29th, 2009
Kuroko getting kicked through a glass window was the best part of this episode, particularly the way in which it was animated. I actually laughed out loud. No reason why that thug should have surrendered so readily. And finally, needs more Touma, no need to cut the little of Touma there is.
brianleung8912 at 3:34 am on November 29th, 2009
rate kuroko for doing this
http://randomc.maximum7.net/image/To%20Aru%20Kagaku%20no%20Railgun/To%20Aru%20Kagaku%20no%20Railgun%20-%2009%20-%20Large%2030.jpg
to the guy who did this
http://randomc.maximum7.net/image/To%20Aru%20Kagaku%20no%20Railgun/To%20Aru%20Kagaku%20no%20Railgun%20-%2009%20-%20Large%2017.jpg
Animeniac at 3:43 am on November 29th, 2009
SPOILER: Maybe ^_^
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Animeniac at 3:44 am on November 29th, 2009
ow btw… i’m interested in a “saten turns to evil” plot *grins*
panda monium at 4:44 am on November 29th, 2009
the less Touma shows up, the more I like this series.
666 at 4:51 am on November 29th, 2009
STILL, next future episodes need more touma appearance.
magnumslinger at 5:15 am on November 29th, 2009
Is it just me, or is Uiharu getting cuter with each episode?
Animeniac at 5:19 am on November 29th, 2009
@magnumslinger - yep uiharu gets so moe-fully cuter each episode have past…
Remy at 5:45 am on November 29th, 2009
The thing is with Touma…is that the writers (like America sitcom) made him a complete and utter moron. In the first series, I found myself screaming at the screen, “USE YOUR BLEEPING RIGHT HAND ALREADY YOU MORON! IT’S WORKED AGAINST EVERYTHING UP TO NOW! START USING THAT DAMN HEAD OF YOURS AND…etc etc…” at the end of each arc.
Even if he was in this ep, I’m sure he’d just get the crap beaten out of him until the last five minutes where he realizes, like every other instances involving magic/abilities he’d face prior, that his Imagine Breaker cancels out his enemy’s magic/abilities.
Kinny Riddle at 6:23 am on November 29th, 2009
http://randomc.maximum7.net/image/To%20Aru%20Kagaku%20no%20Railgun/To%20Aru%20Kagaku%20no%20Railgun%20-%2009%20-%20Large%2006.jpg
LOL at Uiharu’s reaction after getting her skirt lifted up by Saten-san as usual.
Another lol at Kuroko reprimanding Harumi for her blatant indecency, since she happens to be the least qualified to tell others that, considering her own track record with Biribiri. XD
It’s quite hard to comment on Saten’s dilemma when I already know what’s about to happen, all that I’ll say is here’s hoping people will cut her some slack in the events that will follow.
(BTW, anyone seen the latest poster?
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/11/28/mikoto-kuroko-yuri-swimsuit-chaos/
Saten turns out to be most well-endowed of the four girls, so what’s there not to like about her?
)
Jurkasz at 6:33 am on November 29th, 2009
It was a nice episode indeed, although I think the Kuroko-battle was somewhat better in the manga. Since they left out Touma again, this time with an obvious connection to the Index-story I guess they won’t link together Index and Railgun at all. Probably it’s better this way.
Island esper at 8:53 am on November 29th, 2009
It’s good to see that our yuri raep vixen can deal a good fight!!! I couldn’t believe my eyes, she has a new dimension now.
As for Saten
1. Love her clothes!
2. Her bikini poster is my wallpaper.
3. She’s about to surpass Biribiri in my list.
4. I can relate to her strugle of the lever upper. Geesh I have wished to have super powers every now and then. Frankly sometimes to kill off people that screw me off. So I’m glad I’ll never have the chance she has now; because I go to the darkside for sure.
Nice ep.