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Old 2011-04-22, 07:53   Link #9821
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To add to the post: I think I have read somewhere that Index is the 3rd most sold LN franchise, with 1st and 2nd place taking two much older series.
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Currently, Index is the most selling Light Novel, but if we compare of all times then I think it'll fall short.

That said, the real test of strength is to pit New Testament v2 against the long awaited Haruhi 10. If Index can dethrone the God Queen, then we all have an additional bragging chip in our pockets.
Ouch, scratch my earlier statement; there's just no way Index can beat Haruhi That monster has more than half a million books sold already
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Old 2011-04-22, 07:56   Link #9822
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Ouch, scratch my earlier statement; there's just no way Index can beat Haruhi That monster has more than half a million books sold already
It didn't sell that much, thats how much copies the company made out of confidence. The books don't come out till may 25. I still don't think index can beat it but it would be nice. Haruhi is an international novel right? and index is Japan only?
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Old 2011-04-22, 08:06   Link #9823
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It didn't sell that much, thats how much copies the company made out of confidence. The books don't come out till may 25. I still don't think index can beat it but it would be nice. Haruhi is an international novel right? and index is Japan only?
It's not even out yet? Hmmm, so much for my source.

I don't know how international it is, but there's only two books in English out. Though both series have much more volumes in chinese and possibly some other language.

Before trying to over take Haruhi, Index might need to shake off IS first, which thanks to the anime has it's vol 7 reaching 100 000+ copies sold, dangerously close to New Testament's own 120 000+ copies sold. Index has one advantage though; it's author never even heard of the term 'writer's block' for every one Haruhi novel, there's like four of Index's.
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It's not even out yet? Hmmm, so much for my source.

I don't know how international it is, but there's only two books in English out.

Before trying to over take Haruhi, Index might need to shake off IS first, which thanks to the anime has it's vol 7 reaching 100 000+ copies sold, dangerously close to New Testament's own 120 000+ copies sold.
NT has sold 180,000 copies so far and IS 120,000
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Old 2011-04-22, 08:15   Link #9825
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NT has sold 180,000 copies so far and IS 120,000
Yes but NT has been out for almost close to two months already.
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Yes but NT has been out for almost close to two months already.
180 is from 2 weeks ago and 120 is from last week. It's only been about one month and it was released close to mid march.
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Old 2011-04-23, 01:45   Link #9827
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Out of curiosity, does anyone remember where it was stated that the Walking Church can last 3 days in the corona of the sun?

Or was that a mistranslation from a while back?
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Old 2011-04-23, 02:10   Link #9828
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Old 2011-04-23, 05:35   Link #9829
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Out of curiosity, does anyone remember where it was stated that the Walking Church can last 3 days in the corona of the sun?

Or was that a mistranslation from a while back?
About that... Have they actually tested it out? Like nobody knew if [Saint Destroyer] would actually work until they try it...

Still what's the point if the user isn't going to survive with it
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About that... Have they actually tested it out? Like nobody knew if [Saint Destroyer] would actually work until they try it...

Still what's the point if the user isn't going to survive with it
I'd assume that a suit should keep what's in it safe to be even called a suit.
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Old 2011-04-23, 11:00   Link #9831
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About that... Have they actually tested it out? Like nobody knew if [Saint Destroyer] would actually work until they try it...

Still what's the point if the user isn't going to survive with it
They knew because the Amakusa know how Saint's powers works based on their former leader Kanzaki just like Oriana had prepared a spel against a saint just in case and thats because magicians who fears saints always tries to exploit their weakness.

I don't recall the comparison between the Sun and the Walking Church but I can recall the relation between the Walking Church and Dragon King's Killing Breath where the WC can be only pierced by the latter.
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Old 2011-04-23, 11:04   Link #9832
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Out of curiosity, does anyone remember where it was stated that the Walking Church can last 3 days in the corona of the sun?

Or was that a mistranslation from a while back?
Funny how u ask this when volume 17 says that they can make carriages with enough magic to survive the surface of the sun
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I'd assume that a suit should keep what's in it safe to be even called a suit.
Depends, would you be cooked alive first, or die from a lack of oxygen, or have your atoms ripped apart from the magnetic and gravitational field? Either one could kill the user before destroying the suit.

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They knew because the Amakusa know how Saint's powers works based on their former leader Kanzaki just like Oriana had prepared a spel against a saint just in case and thats because magicians who fears saints always tries to exploit their weakness.
In theory, but they specifically mention that it's not like they can actually use a Saint to test out the spell, so they can't be sure what would actually happen when they use it. It's my same point, it's not like they can drop a walking church into the sun and see how long it can last.
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Funny how u ask this when volume 17 says that they can make carriages with enough magic to survive the surface of the sun
Seeing how lightning is 5x hotter than the sun's surface and that certain higher end spells trump mere lightning.....
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Seeing how lightning is 5x hotter than the sun's surface and that certain higher end spells trump mere lightning.....
Aside from heat, the Sun has a bunch of other dangerous stuff like Gravitational and magnetic field that could rip apart atoms, plus all those nice little charged particles...
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Aside from heat, the Sun has a bunch of other dangerous stuff like Gravitational and magnetic field that could rip apart atoms, plus all those nice little charged particles...
If the spell says heat then it protects from heat, but in this case says Sun which has to include all these factors in it. Sure they can't go to the Sun to test the spell but they can recreate the situations trough magic means just like science recreates situations through computer calculations.
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If the spell says heat then it protects from heat, but in this case says Sun which has to include all these factors in it. Sure they can't go to the Sun to test the spell but they can recreate the situations trough magic means just like science recreates situations through computer calculations.
Which is my point that it might work in theory, but we all know that in things don't go as plan in practice.

Still, my guess is that those magicians only account for the heat factor, and not any of those scientific stuff.
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Still, my guess is that those magicians only account for the heat factor, and not any of those scientific stuff.
Why not?
Styil estimated his strongest flames to be 4000ēC and Kanzaki's vison is 8.0.
How they did get those numbers?
Maybe from the empiric knowledge they got from a long time since the begining of magic in their story just like the study of the stars in ancient times so isn't strictely "scientific stuff".

Then, you have Knight Leader who can imitate how a star like the Sun expands to the point it collapses onto itself and forms a black hole, so he uses a gravity field to attack.

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Why not?
Styil estimated his strongest flames to be 4000ēC and Kanzaki's vison is 8.0.
How they did get those numbers?
Maybe from the empiric knowledge they got from a long time since the begining of magic in their story just like the study of the stars in ancient times so isn't strictely "scientific stuff".

Then, you have Knight Leader who can imitate how a star like the Sun expands to the point it collapses onto itself and forms a black hole, so he uses a gravity field to attack.
I mean scentific stuff like Radiation and magnetic fields. The Sun isn't really a ball of Fire, it's plasma, and because of that the magnetic fields on the Sun isn't as uniform or well define as a planet as Plasma doesn't rotate evenly. In turn because of this tangled up magnetic lines, occasionally the Sun would eject charged particles called Solar winds out of it's surface bah bah bah bah...

None of those stuff would be in any ancient text because the astronomers of those days didn't have the necessary tools to study them.
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