A problem begins to brew during the Academy City's sports festival. It's funny that Touma's dad was hitting on Mikoto's mom given their children's relationship. This is all the motivation you'll ever need. Summary: It's the Academy City's sport festival and many people from outside are inside the city. Among them are Touma's parents and also Mikoto's mother. Before the competitions start, Mikoto and Touma made a bet with each other as to which school would win, and the loser has to do whatever the winner tells him/her. Touma isn't too concerned, but Mikoto is a little embarrassed by the possibilities. After meeting Mikoto and ditching the hungry Index, Touma returns to his school and finds his fellow team members feeling down, but after some pep talk by acting class representative Seiri and moeness from Komoe-sensei, Touma and comrades work up the battle spirit and win their first event. Mikoto wishes this was the race to win Touma's heart. Too bad Kuroko will never follow through with the threat to put needles into Touma. After the event, Touma tries to get Index some food, but the street they want to cross is cordoned off for a parade and next crossing is far away. Touma is then dragged away by Mikoto who needed Touma for her competition. Mikoto drags Touma past the finish line and wins the competition and afterwards Mikoto gives Touma her water bottle. Elsewhere in the city, Uiharu is pushing the recovering Kuroko around on the streets and they both see Mikoto's win along with her post-competition interaction with Touma on a big screen. Kuroko vows to make Touma pay for getting so close to her beloved onee-sama. Feline attack!! Touma walks back to find Index, but he spots Motoharu talking with Stiyl instead. Touma joins in the conversation and finds out two magicians have sneaked into the city, and they are after an artifact that can kill saints. After the chat, Touma goes back to looking for Index, and he learns from Aisa and Maika that Index has joined Komoe-sensei for lunch. Touma eventually finds Komoe and Index in a park and catches Index in the middle of changing into an uniform. Index tries to bite Touma but accidentally kisses him on the cheek instead and this stuns her. Touma is then dragged away by Seiri for slacking off. Seiri notices that Touma seem to have his mind on something else, but during the conversation Touma bumps into a beautiful blond woman. The woman apologizes for bumping into Touma and shakes his right hand, and upon contact Touma and the woman notice Touma's right hand negation working. The woman is Oriana Thomson, one of the magicians who sneaked into the city. Oriana uses magical tag to call her comrade and reports that the spell on her body has been broken. Oriana also notices that Touma is following her and she plans to lose him. Another picture to prove that Touma is hardly unlucky. Can't blame Touma, since a kiss from Oriana is an offer too good to refuse. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A so-so episode to start off the new story arc. The main problem is that the narrative is disjointed and jumps all over the place. There some bits with Mikoto, some bits with Index, some bits with Seiri and in the middle of fooling around with all the girls, Touma randomly stumbles onto Stiyl and Motoharu chatting (or maybe Aleister planned it that way) and gets involved with yet another intrigue. Basically, it was a lot of fan service interlaced with random bits of plot progression, and this didn't work too well. The story doesn't sound terribly interesting either as it sounded like another kooky Catholic nun wants to do something naughty. Those Catholics, they never learn. On the bright side, at least there wasn't too much exposition and those looking for fan service should be satisfied. There was Index, Mikoto, Seiri, and even Oriana and Komoe to satisfy different tastes. It's amusing that Touma can actually dodge or deflect Index's biting to some degree, but then again this isn't that tough when compared to running up falling debris in the last episode. The fan service was clicking on all cylinders this week. Too bad the storytelling wasn't. From the feed of A Product of Wasted Time
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Episode 08 -  Grand Champion Star Festival – 大覇星祭 (Daihasesai) This episode starts the lengthy Daihasesai festival arc, which spans an entire two novels in the original series. There is a lot of material to cover in this arc, which is probably why the pacing of this particular episode felt very fast. It was a [...]
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The concept of a school-based anime series without a sports day episode is preposterous; so it goes that this latest story arc of To Aru Majutsu no Index II begins with this franchises version of just such an event - a massive, Academy City wide sports day involving all of the schools within said city known as Daihaseisai. Although this sounds like an excuse to throw in a filler episode, it
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Episode 7: Move Target (Move Point) Mikoto is standing in the work yard and looks at the bodies around her. She notices that Awaki was lying about using commoners as a shield preventing Mikoto launching an attack. Angry she runs off out of the yard. Awaki escapes into a building by teleporting herself there with [...]
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Fukou da. I’m surprised that this arc wrapped up so quickly. I was expecting at least three episodes, but I have to say that I liked how quick to the point this arc was especially when compared to the previous one. Kuroko and Awaki finished their fight up, which was also fairly exciting with all the teleporting going on, though I wish they was more clarification on a few things such as why Kuroko couldn’t teleport anymore and the deal with Awaki’s flashlight. I heard the light novels go into more ...
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This was definitely a huge improvement over last week. We got some... Continue Reading
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Summary: So it turns out that the hostage teleportation was a bluff, and as Awaki teleports herself to an empty restaurant, she congratulates herself on overcoming her fear of self-teleportation and escaping Mikoto.  However, Kuroko ambushes Awaki by hitting Awaki in all the same spots Awaki hit Kuroko last time.  The two are evenly matched, [...]
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Trap is a trap alright and there are many in To Aru Majutsu no Index II Following is the bundled OP & ED Single release; No buts! & Magical World To Aru Majutsu no Index II OP Single – No buts! Artist: Kawada Mami Tracklist: 1. No buts! 2. SATANIC 3. No buts! (Instrumental) 4. SATANIC [...]
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Touma once again gets caught up in magician trouble and has to do some rescuing. Impressions: Well late, but still here to give my thoughts on this arc. Really it was one that showed how political everything in the magician world is. A world tied together with magic and religion into a very strange, but also dangerous [...]
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Episode 7! Summary More crazy super power people in today’s episode of Index season two! we start the episode with Awaki teleporting away with the box to a near by building but appears she has injured herself on the way to her destination. Before she has time to catch her breath and relax she feels [...]
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At the site of the new building that is being constructed, Mikoto has lost sight of Awaki and the case with the remnant from Tree Diagram.  But Kuroko knows where she is, having been watching from the sidelines for a … Continue reading →
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I didn’t have any impressions up last week; I figured I just do both in one go since this story arc is only two episodes. Summary Hold on a second, I whip my hair back and fourth, I whip my hair back and fourth! Okay, I had to say that because the picture above. Anyway, [...]
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Kuroko tries to stop Awaki as various other characters join the fray. A corkscrew for a corkscrew. Summary: Mikoto runs in the streets trying to find Awaki, but Awaki is hiding inside a restaurant a few stories above ground level. Awaki thinks she's safe, but she is stabbed by several needles and discovers Kuroko sitting behind her. Kuroko has done her homework and knows that Awaki has trouble teleporting herself due to psychological trauma suffered from a teleporting accident two years ago. Kuroko declares that she'll stop Awaki and the two teleporters start to fight. Awaki manages to hit Kuroko with the carry case, but Kuroko teleports behind Awaki and knocks her down. Awaki responds by teleporting table and chairs above Kuroko, and Kuroko can't teleport away as her wounds are acting up and she is pinned by the pile of chairs and tables. Somewhere in the city, Misaka clone #10034 sneaks out of her room at the hospital and runs to Touma's apartment. Along the way, 10034 chats with other Misakas including Last Order about her intention to stop Tree Diagram from being rebuilt, and the other Misakas voice their support. Last Order's chatter with the other clones is overheard by Accelerator. At a phone booth, Mikoto uses her hacking ability to locate Kuroko and Awaki. She is soon joined by Touma who agreed to help after being visited by Misaka #10034. Now that you are trapped and can't teleport, you'll have no choice but to finish listening to my monologue. Aren't we a little too emotionally fragile to be a villain? After Kuroko is trapped under the pile of chairs and tables, Awaki reveals that she is working for a group outside of Academy City and starts telling Kuroko about how her bosses wants to reconstruct Tree Diagram and use it to give non-humans special abilities. Awaki wants Kuroko to join her group, but Kuroko refuses and tells Awaki that she's pathetic. Awaki is unsettled by Kuroko's speech, and this allows Kuroko to get up and grab a lamp pole. Kuroko attempts to hit Awaki with the lamp, but Awaki pulls out a pistol and shoots Kuroko in the torso. After Kuroko is down, Awaki has a breakdown and loses control of her powers, causing the windows to blow out and chairs and tables swirling around in the air. Awaki eventually recovers and tries to shoot Kuroko, but Kuroko manages to teleport a spoon into the gun. Awaki then decides she'll use her abilities to crash the entire building down on Kuroko and teleports away with the luggage case. As Awaki is warping the building with her ability, Misaka arrives on the outside and blasts a hole through the floors. Kuroko falls through the hole, Touma runs up on the falling debris, catches Kuroko, dispels Awaki's warp and lands safely on one of the floors. Kuroko looks at Touma and wants to say something, but she quickly falls unconscious. Touma: Here is me saving the day once again. Am I awesome or what? If you think I'm not going to punch you in the nose, you obviously haven't gone through my file very carefully. In an alley, Awaki calls her cohorts but discovers that they are in a losing gunfight against some woman. Wondering what to do, Awaki walks out onto an empty street and is confronted by Accelerator. Awaki knows that Accelerator had suffered a bad head injury, but Accelerator reveals that he can still use his ability when he wants to and sends debris flying everywhere. Awaki teleports into the air to escape but she is slowed down by her mental trauma, and this allows Accelerator to catch up to her with his "tornado wings". Accelerator destroys the luggage case with the remnants with a punch and then punches Awaki right in the nose. Awaki is sent flying into a building and falls down onto a platform where she loses consciousness, and Accelerator returns to the ground and walks back home. If it was Touma, he would've hit you on the cheek instead, so consider yourself unlucky that you ran into the other girl-hitter in the story. Man, I pulled a freaking ninja to save your skinny behind, and this is the thanks I get? Being a hero is such a thankless job. The next day, Touma attempts to visit Kuroko and Misaka #10034 at the hospital but ends up with a slap to show for his efforts as he walks in on both girls while they are naked/half-naked. Index asks Touma about the Remnants, but Touma explains that the culprit was beat up by some unknown person and the luggage case along with its contents were completely destroyed. Elsewhere, Last Order talks about how Yomikawa went out last night to take out the group behind the incident, but Accelerator doesn't want to hear it and goes to sleep. Back in the hospital, Mikoto and Kuroko share a nice moment between friends. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The episode had no shortage of action, but it didn't feel like a very satisfying ending. Sure, Touma, Misaka #10034, and Accelerator got in on the action and Awaki was defeated in a rather over-the-top fashion, but the resolution feels empty as Awaki's group were defeated off screen (by Yomikawa no less... they must have sucked really badly to be defeated by Anti-Skills) and it's unclear if there is someone else behind the whole thing. I'm also thought Kuroko should have done more before being bailed out by the other characters, but perhaps the show is trying the emphasize the value of friendship or something. In addition, Awaki didn't turn out to be an impressive villain. Despite her substantial abilities, Awaki is way too talkative but even worse she lacks the confidence and/or mental stability to back up the talk. Still, this certainly wasn't too bad as far as Index story arc finale go, and I probably should be glad that there was at least plenty of action. The action... it was entertaining in an over-the-top kind of way. The fight between Kuroko and Awaki was a bit subdued until Awaki had her breakdown, but everything after that was ridiculous. I know Touma is supposed to be pretty agile, but I never knew he was a freaking ninja who can run up falling debris. Things were then topped off by Accelerator flying and punching Awaki straight in the nose. And of course, every time Mikoto and Accelerator "get serious" they cause thousands if not millions of dollars in damage. I couldn't help but chuckle during both of those scenes, but it doesn't mean they weren't fun. Overall, this was an okay story-arc. It's no better or worse than the previous arc which also had its share of problems but wasn't bad as a whole. I still have yet to see anything that matched up to the first story-arc though. Let's hope the upcoming sports festival arc will be decent. From the feed of A Product of Wasted Time
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Episode 07 – Move Point – ムーブポイント With this episode ends the content of the entire eighth novel of the original source material. You would think that cramming the entirety of an entire novel into two episodes wouldn’t work out, but JC staff actually managed to pull off a decent job at it. There are [...]
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It was hard not to get excited about a To Aru Majutsu no Index story arc that revolved around Mikoto Misaka (as they tend to bring out the best in this show), and so last week's instalment duly managed to put together a far more fascinating storyline than the arc which preceded it managed overall. While the wider picture for this arc is all about Misaka as she works to prevent the resumption of
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Summary: For the last week, the weather’s been unpredictable and there’s a good chance it’s because Mikoto has been out beating up goons at night.  It seems that after the destruction of the Tree Diagram, everyone’s been scrambling to get their hands on the Remnants from space and Mikoto cannot accept the possibility that the [...]
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Index Episode Six. A new arc. Biribiri. This video doesn’t show that I have a thing for her, does it? ______________________________________ You can follow me on twitter: http://bit.ly/ak1W5y Subscribe to the FightingforNippon channel: http://bit.ly/djQ72J ______________________________________  
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Episode 6: Wreckage (Remnant) At home, Touma is making some food while Index is watching TV; the weather forecast. She asks Touma about what are these tree rings displayed on the map. He tells her that they are isobar contour lines which inform people about the forecast from pressure systems. She then asks if they [...]
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Blame Black Ops for this post’s lateness. Touma is a pretty cool guy, eh? Punches loli nuns and doesn’t afraid of anything. Well despite the ups and downs of this arc I was satisfied with the way it ended. Touma and Agnese’s battle was an interesting one due to the effect of Agnese’s holy staff and seeing Touma champing out her attacks was pretty awesome. Like I mentioned last week, the whole “stabbing their ears out” plan was pretty retarded, but I’m glad it effected them somewhat as portrayed by their ...
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