2013-08-08, 22:49 | Link #941 |
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She's an interesting main character. She's actually very flawed, but in a largely realistic way, and she's still easy to cheer for.
She's a very emotional person with a tendency to throw caution to the wind, and take big risks to accomplish things she feels strongly about. She's definitely not a cautious or cagey person. At the same time, she has a generally good tactical mind, and is a decisive person, so there are positive sides to this. She's smart in the sense that she's a quick, sharp thinker, but her high emotionality and somewhat impulsive nature means she sometimes makes dumb/questionable decisions. On the whole, this is all very fitting for a 14 year old girl with electricity-based powers. Judging just by Railgun S, she seems to be pretty cynical, which is somewhat unusual given her high-spirited and throw caution to the wind nature (cynicism usually makes people cagey and cautious in my experience). In fairness, Academy City seems deeply corrupt and very dangerous, so its hard to fault her for her being cynical. And her being cynical is actually good in a way because it makes Touma's strengths that much more compelling and powerful by sheer contrast. Her tsundere and genki girl aspects do a nice job of rounding each other off, creating a well-rounded character in general. On the whole, she's a very good main character with an interesting mix of flaws and strengths. The comic book fan in me wonders how she'd fare in a straight-up fight with Magneto. On the whole, she seems to have all of Electro's powers, a poor man's version of Magneto's powers, and some of SpiderMan's abilities. Probably would be a very good challenge for Magneto.
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2013-08-25, 05:17 | Link #942 | |
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It seems early spoilers from "Misaka Mikoto Maniax" (御坂美琴マニアックス) arrived.
For those that didn't know, a while ago you could submit questions that you wanted to know about Mikoto. And Misaka Mikoto Maniax is a collection of those Questions and ANSWERS. (It seems 2chan even posted even some screenshot but they 404 in less than 4 hours. ) Anyway (I believe) they rewritten some of those Questions and Answers and here they are: Quote:
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2013-08-25, 05:22 | Link #943 |
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If I'm not wrong... According to this Mikoto became a Level 5 at the age of 12 when she first arrived in Tokiwadai.
She first came to Academy City when she was in Elementary school. She knows French English Italian and Russian. The second half seems to be about her Railgun powers.
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2013-08-25, 08:04 | Link #944 |
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She knows five languages (those four plus her own Japanese)? At the age of 14? Wow, she never really gave me the impression of somebody that smart/studious. I thought she was reasonably smart, but this is the sort of character detail I'd expect to see only for genius-level kids.
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2013-08-25, 08:07 | Link #945 | |
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Both Accelerator and Mugino can understand English, Russian and French.
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2013-08-25, 08:13 | Link #946 | |
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2013-08-25, 10:33 | Link #948 | |
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js06 translated it, I wonder if they are more questions or not..
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2013-08-25, 12:12 | Link #950 | |
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Lol, what are the odds the person asking the question about the bullet was thinking about a sniper scenario and whether if she could survive one ? You mean sending to the cleaners or not knowing ?
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2013-08-25, 16:28 | Link #953 |
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In my case, on the same lines that Sumeragi-sama was talking about, I speak 4 languages pretty well and am picking up a fifth hopefully eventually (Japanese ) but it depends on where you live. In Africa people speak like 5 different languages often. Also, Federer who was the worlds' greatest tennis player arguably managed to speak 5 languages because of where he grew up. Depending on where you live, you automatically learn a lot of languages or 1 or 2. It also turns out that if you learn languages when you are young, it is supposed to be easier to learn other languages when you are older because your brain is more adaptive, so I don't think it is really related to smarts in this case, in the sense of being born smart. I think it's just that she started learning tons of languages when she was small. That's not saying it's easy
Anyway, she turned level 5 when she was 12... like 2 years later after the hospital scene (or was I just imagining she was 10 during that?) I'm curious about her railgun powers... I wish we learned about what it was like actually turning into a level 5... I want to see someone level up (successfully)... Is levelling up in 2 years really that much "hard work..." it seems way too short of a time frame to be able to say that... though now it makes sense why other Tokiwadai students didn't know she levelled up from level 1... because she became level 5 right after she joined Tokiwadai... this seems suspiciously similar to another level 5's timeframe of becoming level 5... |
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Kind of nice how Mikoto's characterization in this regard is a bit more subtle for a change. Quote:
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2013-08-25, 18:12 | Link #955 | |
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2013-08-25, 18:47 | Link #956 |
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About the subtleness of Mikoto's intelligence: It's basically an extension of the large gaps between people within Academy City. Mikoto just does things naturally, so to speak, and thus part of the time cannot comprehend the stress that many of the lesser-endowed students go through. Remember the Level Upper Arc?
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2013-08-25, 18:53 | Link #957 |
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The same could be said about her wealth; compared to other Animes, Mikoto's oujo status is relatively down-to-Earth
She hasn't buy up an entire airport yet right Although judging from this article, maybe most of her money comes from her participation in Experiments than from her Parents as we thought?
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2013-08-25, 20:07 | Link #958 | |
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2013-08-25, 21:14 | Link #959 | |
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2013-08-25, 21:44 | Link #960 | |
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in contrast mugino has her own butler, kongou is rich and egages in luxurious style having a snake her own pet,
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