Summary: With Kurozuma clearly alive, Konori questions why he didn't get back in touch with her, but he notices her Judgment armband and tells her that he'll disappear soon.
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Konori and Kurozuma's connection is revealed.Aren't you girls getting a little too curious?So Big Spider was originally a dance club.Summary:After chasing off the Big Spider gang, Konori wonders why Kurozuma hasn't contacted her, but Kurozuma leaves without saying much. After that day, Konori took a few days off from her Judgment duties, which leaves Mikoto and friends to wonder about the relationship between Konori and Kurozuma. To get some answers, Mikoto and company visit Konori's dorm. Konori is at home, but her roommate knows about Kurozuma and reveals that Konori used to be a member of Big Spider. Mikoto can't understand why Konori can't leave this behind and get back to her Judgment duties, but Konori's roommate and Ruiko separately state that it may be hard for Konori to let go of her past because the past is what made Konori the person she is today. Mikoto still doesn't understand, and back in the Judgment office Mikoto and friends learn that the Anti-Skill are planning to sweep through Strange tomorrow to apprehend Big Spider members.Here's the lesson of the day: Say No to Gangs.Later in the day, Mikoto confronts Konori on top of the building in Strange. Konori reveals that two years ago, Kurozuma went alone to rescue Hebitani from a rival gang. When Konori had arrived at the scene, the building at the scene had burned down and the only thing left of Kurozuma was his jacket. Konori states that incident and her experiences with Big Spider is what made her the person she is, but Mikoto is still unsatisfied. At this moment, Kurozuma appears and states he will take care of Big Spider by himself. Kurozuma advises Konori not to come back to Strange again as she has a new place to be, but Konori emotionally declares that her heart hasn't changed.Ah Mikoto, always the one to use excessive force.Looks like Konori-senpai has a few moves of her own.At night back in her own dorm room, Mikoto thinks about Konori's situation and eventually comes to an understanding. The next day, Konori, sporting the red jacket she wore during her Big Spider days, arrives in Strange looking to help Kurozuma, but first she is joined by Mikoto and Kuroko who have also pledged to help. Not far away, Kurozuma has already tracked down Hebitani's gang and knocked out the door guard. Knowing that they are no match for Kurozuma in a fight, Hebitani and his gang pull out their guns, but Konori, Mikoto and Kuroko arrives and Kuroko puts spikes into all of the pistols. Hebitani then plans to use Capacity Down, but Mikoto blows up the van with a railgun coin. Kurozuma then proceeds to demolish Hebitani's cronies, and Konori lends a hand by knocking out a guy who was hiding a pistol. Soon only Hebitani is left standing. The desperate gang leader pulls open his jacket to reveal a belt of dynamite and threatens to blow himself up, but Kurozuma punches him out before he can light the fuse. After the fight, Hebitani and his gang are taken away by the Anti-Skill. Kurozuma also asks to be arrested, but before being taken away he jokes with Konori about drinking milk.What kind of thug are you, Hebitani?If you have a knife, you aim for the biggest target which is the body, not the head. I think the jacket fits just fine.Drinking milk helps you grow, including that area you two are looking at.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I wasn't expecting much out of this episode, but it turned out better than I thought mostly due to Konori's story. So Konori, the model senpai and dedicated Judgment member, actually used to be on the not-so-right side of the tracks. Konori certainly doesn't look like the type who would join a bunch of guys who rode around on motorcycles and raised a ruckus everywhere they went, but she was a loner back then and just wanted to find a place to belong. Kurozuma, despite being a hooligan and the milk thing, was a pretty charismatic leader, and it's not surprising that a young and slightly unbalanced Konori was drawn to him. This episode focused on the themes of "finding a place to belong" and "a person is influenced by their past", and I think the episode did a decent exploring these themes by telling Konori's story and having Mikoto question/think about Konori's motivations. Mikoto, having always been revered and respected, never had the sort of experiences that Konori and other not-as-talented students had, and so this was a good life lesson for her.That was the decent parts of the episode. The not so great part was the whole thing with Hebitani and his thugs. I don't understand why Kuroko and Mikoto didn't arrest the whole lot of them after the end of last episode. The thugs were beat-up, on the run, and the Capacity Down van was broken. I'm reasonably sure Mikoto can stop bullets (given that she can instantly form a shield out of nearby metal), so there was nothing to stop them from putting away those thugs. The fight at the end of the episode wasn't bad, but Hebitani wrapping himself with dynamite was kind of stupid. Konori's see-through sight was also poorly showed up during the fight. Let's see, this hostile thug is reaching into his pocket in the middle of a fight for something. What could it possibly be? You don't exactly need X-ray vision in that situation.Next episode looks like some random filler. Doesn't look too promising, but maybe it's a good thing that I'm keeping my expectations low.
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bitch spilled mah milk
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Even in the future the megacitys will have ghettos, and the ghettos will have gangs, and the gangs till have angst, and above all EVERYTHING WILL BE COVERED IN GRAFETTI. But what really concerns me is how on earth they got the super sound weapon in the first place? Sure, it was noted that they have
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After a couple of decidedly filler-esque episodes, To Aru Kagaku no Railgun's fifteenth instalment finally returns us to the world of the proper story arc, in a story which begins with Kongou Mitsuko surrounded by a bunch of unruly-looking delinquents. Such trifles should be of little concern to a level four esper, but when Kongou suddenly finds her head hurting and her powers not working, it's
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New arc new Opening and ending the only problem i don’t understand is these kind of show normally shows its new ending at half of its episodes.. but this came out a little bit off the mark ~ oh well who care when the song is good ^^”LEVEL 5 -judgelight-” by fripSide~ biri biri~ “REAL FORCE” [...]
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It’s been such a long time since I’ve been this hyped-up over anime opening songs. Previously, I was hooked on eufonius’ Megumeru ~cuckool mix 2007~, and had always then been looking forward to their next release, which was the opening song for True Tears, titled Reflectia. Right now, the song which keeps repeating itself on my [...]
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It’s been such a long time since I’ve been this hyped-up over anime opening songs. Previously, I was hooked on eufonius’ Megumeru ~cuckool mix 2007~, and had always then been looking forward to their next release, which was the opening song for True Tears, titled Reflectia. Right now, the song which keeps repeating itself on my [...]
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Saten goes to special lessons with other former Level Upper users. Impressions: Anti-Skill really needs to make a call to Skill-Out and borrow their stuff. I mean that Capacity Down is the perfect thing for them. Forget guns and riot shields. Use something like that and you will have no problem subduing espers of even the highest [...]
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Summary: There have recently been several attacks on espers by a group dubbed Skill-Out, and even Kongou Mitsuko is a victim.
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Mikoto and Kuroko investigate a gang of armed Level 0s called Big Spider who have been attacking abilities users.It wouldn't be a Railgun episode without a bit of yuri fondling.Summary:In a back alley, Kuroko, Konori and Kazari are investigating an attack against Mitsuko. Mitsuko was surrounded by a gang of Level 0s and a strange headache rendered her unconscious. However, before losing consciousness, Mitsuko remembers a man with a spider tattoo on his back intervened and beat up all the thugs. While listening to Mitsuko, Kuroko notices that Konori seems to be acting weird, but Konori tells Kuroko that there's nothing wrong with her. Later back at the Judgment branch, Kuroko and company discuss the case further and they determine that a Skill Out (armed Level 0s) gang called Big Spider is responsible for the attacks. Konori, appearing to be quite familiar with the subject, states that Big Spider used to have an honor code but has become ruthless in recently.Deep down, Kazari is wondering why she hangs out with these two weirdos.Later in the day, Mikoto learns about the attacks and inserts herself into the investigation. Back at the Judgment office, Kazari tells Mikoto and Kuroko that the leader of Big Spider is a man by the name of Kurosma who has a spider tattoo on his back. After learning that Big Spider is headquartered in the 10th district nicknamed "Strange", Mikoto and Kuroko decide to go investigate. They ask if Konori want to come along, but Konori lies that she has paperwork to do. Later back in her dorm room, Konori wonders if the man with the spider tattoo is a senpai she had known before.Drink milk, kids.Because this is what can happen to you if you don't drink milk.Shortly after arriving at the rundown "Strange", Mikoto and Kuroko are approached by a gang of thugs. Mikoto and Kuroko are about to hand the thugs a beating, but suddenly a milk-drinking man intervenes and beats up the thugs. Afterwards, Mikoto and Kuroko talk with the stranger who reveals that he hasn't been to "Strange" in two years. Kuroko asks the man if he knows anything about Big Spider and Kurosma, but the man warns Kuroko and Mikoto to not mention Big Spider before wandering off. Mikoto and Kuroko think the man is rather suspicious, but they decide not to follow the man.Nice sound system, although it's a bit weird that they use big speakers to generate high frequency sound.After beating up a band of thugs from Big Spider, Mikoto and Kuroko eventually find their way to Big Spider's headquarters and are confronted more thugs and a man who claims to be Kurosma. Mikoto and Kuroko think nothing of the thugs, but suddenly both are hit with a strange headache which renders them unable to control their abilities. Kurosma points to a speaker system in a nearby van and states that the device, called Capacity Down, emits a sound that has no effect on Level 0s but messes up abilities users. Things look bad for Mikoto and Kuroko, but suddenly the milk-drinking man from before appears and pulls the plug on the speakers. The thugs recognized the man from previous beatings, and "Kurosma" looks as if he is seeing a ghost. The man refers to "Kurosma" as Hebitani, and Hebita can't believe the milk-drinking man is still alive. Hebitani orders his thugs to attack the man, but the man easily takes out all of them and Hebitani runs away with a few thugs. After the fight, Mikoto and Kuroko figure out the milk-drinking man is the real Kurosma. Suddenly, Konori appears out of nowhere, and Mikoto and Kuroko are surprised that Konori and Kurosma seem to know each other.Had to include a screen shot of Konori, but I don't really have a good caption since she didn't do anything interesting this entire episode.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Firstly, we have new OP and ED this week. The OP song is still by fripside and the ED song still by ELISA. Both are okay songs, but I think the old ones were better. Maybe the songs will grow on me later on. As for the animation sequences, the ED is just Mikoto's 4-koma playing around. The OP is more interesting in comparison. Judging by the sequence, this season of Railgun won't be covering the Misaka arc in the manga. Rather there will probably be a story arc about the evil glasses lady (not the dorm supervisor) voiced by Sayaka Ohara. It's interesting that Kiyama still received a substantial amount of screen time in the OP, so perhaps she will make a return some time during this season. Lastly, there is a brief glimpse of Index along with Touma in the OP, but I'm guessing those two will be at most making brief cameos.Moving on to the episode, it was rather mediocre. The preview from last week was misleading since it only showed the brief action scene near the end of the episode, and that was the only action scene. I was expecting more beatdowns. The Skill Outs didn't turn out to be very interesting either since they mostly relied on numbers to take down abilities users. The Capacity Down system was the only somewhat cool trump card Big Spider had, but now that Kurosma has pulled the plug on that there's not much else left in regards to the present story. Without that noise generator, Hebitani and the thugs pose zero threat to Mikoto and Kuroko. It was also disappointing that despite all the hinting about Konori's connection with Kurosma, Knonori herself ends up doing nothing until the end of the show. Next episode will probably be Kurosma moping up what's left of Big Spider and maybe a trip down memory lane about Kurosma and Konori's history, which doesn't sound too exciting. Seeing that every episode will be anime-original from now on, hopefully this episode isn't an indication for the rest of the season. I'll be satisfied if Mikoto gets to blow stuff up every so often.
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All said and done, this was a simple heartwarming episode that I enjoyed. That’s about it. -_-
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loli sensei is the best sensei also lol i conquered the first page
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Garrick: After our fight with the giant baby of 10,000 brains… we’ve gotten several filler-tastical episodes… A swimsuit episode. Yeah… we don’t need that anymore. We’ve gone on and now, well… I’m not exactly sure what’s going on. But what I do know… is that we’re going more into the lack of ability in Saten… [...]
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Saten goes to special lessons with other former Level Upper users. Impressions: I think episode 13 could have been switched with this one for a better effect. This really felt like an epilogue for the whole Level Upper situation. It does show that Saten really wasn’t perfectly fine after all that went down. A lot of guilt [...]
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After treating us to that "swimsuit special" over Christmas, we still haven't exactly resumed normal service with this fourteenth episode of To Aru Kagaku no Railgun, leaving us with another stand-alone instalment which focuses primarily on Saten.If anything, this particular episode acts as something of an epilogue to the whole "Level Upper" arc, as all of the students who used said method to
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Ruiko gets remedial classes at taught by Komoe-sensei and Yomikawa-sensei.There is no way they're going to keep me, the cutest one of all, off of this show.Summary:It's a day off for most students, but Ruiko has been called to a remedial class with her three friends from class. The remedial class takes place at Touma's school and consists of students who have used the Level Upper (except for the Graviton Bomber, who is presumably still in jail). The morning session is a lecture by Komoe, which as expected bored everyone to sleep. When lunch break arrives, Ruiko realizes that she forgot to bring lunch. Ruiko goes to the school cafeteria but discovers that it's closed. As Ruiko prepares to go out to buy lunch, she runs into Miho (the eyebrow marker girl) who is also at the remedial class. Miho thanks Ruiko for returning her letters, and despite Miho being borderline creepy, the hungry Ruiko accepts the invitation to share Miho's lunch.Ruiko had better watch out, or she might have a stalker on her hands.I expected more out of a seasoned delinquent. Or maybe Yomikawa-sensei is just too good (except against people who have powerful abilities).In the afternoon the students have a physical training session with Yomikawa-sensei. In accordance to her "Spartan" training philosophy, Yomikawa makes the students run laps so they can find the will to exceed their limits. Ruiko does pretty well and ends up being the second last person to quit. A high school girl (the leader of the delinquents that Mikoto beat up in episode 8) confronts Yomikawa about the training methods, and Yomikawa points to the still running overweight guy (the guy Saten tried to save in episode 9) as a good example of exceeding limits. The high school girl doesn't understand and attacks Yomikawa, but Yomikawa effortlessly takes her down. Suddenly it starts raining and all the students are forced back into the building. While changing back to their uniforms, the delinquent high school girl complains about the remedial session being punishment for using the Level Upper. Ruiko confronts the high school girl and states that they deserved the punishment for cheating, and after a brief stare down the delinquent girl decides to back off.Intense! Ruiko shows off her dynamic range!Later back in the classroom, Komoe explains to the students that the remedial session is not punishment for using the Level Upper; instead, the goal is to inspire the students to work harder to develop their abilities. Afterwards the students undergo an abilities exam. Ruiko is a level 0, but the remedial session has made her feel better about herself and inspired her to work harder. At the end of the day, Ruiko leaves the school and sees that Mikoto, Kuroko, and Kazari are waiting for her.What Ruiko learned today:Friends are more important than abilities.Going to the pool is better than going to movies or the Gecko party.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Another filler episode this week, but it was not as blatantly filler as the swimsuit photo-shoot episode. This episode was actually an epilogue to the Level Upper arc, and as such it probably should have aired two weeks ago. It's not the most exciting of episode, but it wasn't bad either. The episode helped Ruiko and many of the other Level Upper users get some closure about the whole incident, and it was also a nice excuse to visit Touma's school and have Komoe-sensei show up ;).I don't really have much else to say about this week's episode, but the next few episodes look quite interesting. It's an anime-original arc, but it's developed by the author of the Index novels so it's not filler. The arc focuses on the Skill-Outs, a group of armed thugs who hunt ability users. The preview to next week looks pretty action-packed which is a good thing in my books. Let's see how the arc will turn out.
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Summary: Even though it's summer vacation, Saten has to take supplementary lessons at Touma's school.
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Mikoto gets dragged into swimsuit modelling with her friends. Impressions: This episode certainly decided to bring down the tension after what went down with the Level Upper situation. Nothing says light-hearted like an episode about being swimsuit models. Really it wasn’t a bad episode just really light and not big on plot. I think the fooling around [...]
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I am curious as to what “this and that” entail… After watching Kuroko be awesome and showing her prowess that marks her as and heir of Alphard and Liang Qi it was time to try and get back into the swing of things since training has tapered down somewhat, still I’ll try and keep it short. [...]
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