To Aru Majutsu no Index - Anime General Discussion [NO SPOILERS]

[Shiroth]

Originally Posted by Kinny Riddle

but let's face it, he's still best known to the very casual non-seiyuu aware fan as Kyon

Don't agree with that for a second.

Originally Posted by serenade_beta

The manga didn't adapt this volume though.

I'm sure orion meant for the whole series.

[yozaku]

My thoughts on eps 8

baka index... baka index... baka index... baka index... baka index... baka index... baka index... baka index... baka index... baka index... baka index... baka index...

[Sterling01]

Originally Posted by serenade_beta

The manga didn't adapt this volume though.

For some reason I think after the manga is done with Vol 3 it will go on to adapt Vol 2...

[Chaos2Frozen]

Originally Posted by Sterling01

For some reason I think after the manga is done with Vol 3 it will go on to adapt Vol 2...

I've thought of that as well, but I don't know if there would be any problems with the general storyline to switch Vol 2 and 3's position.

[Kinny Riddle]

Originally Posted by Shiroth

Don't agree with that for a second.

Nonsense. That's just you.

[Sinestra]

Theres nothing like using your partner cannon fodder while you escape. That was just so wrong yet funny i cant blame Touma for landing that punch at the end i think i would have done the same thing. The story has taken an interesting turn and has actually picked up my interest again. I was wavering for a while but im starting to enjoy the episodes more now.

[MagicaLideaL]

Why did the so call 3333 monks skill is used there and Izzard recovers it? Is it just to show Izzard real power?

[Kouvley]

Hmm...I'm still finding this show disappointing.

More vague explainations about things that may or may not turn out to be lies later on. So far this show has been rife with lies and contradictions.

In ep8 alone we had

- People on "the other side of the coin" can't see us
nope, the students in the cafeteria can

- Espers in academy city cannot use magic
nope, students in the cafeteria again

- Gregorio's choir needs a large amount of people for it to work, 3333 for the true version to be exact
nope, 7 guys can do it and it's the true version apparently

And off the top of my head, in previous eps we had

- Stiyl and Kaori are the bad guys out to harm Index
nope, they are Index's friends

- Index will die if her memories aren't wiped
nope, the church lied

- Index cannot use the magic stored in her brain
nope, in her automated defense mode she can

- The legendary Dragon's Breath White Feathers of Doom! Touch one and die!
nope, only causes amnesia even after a head shot

Speaking of Touma's amnesia, that's another thing that's been bothering me. I don't feel like we actually know Touma well enough for the amnesia to make a difference to his character at all, to me he is the same cookie cutter shounen protagonist as he was before except now he occasionally thinks "oh no I've lost my memories!" as if to remind us of that fact.

Back to ep 8, how does Index know Touma well enough to know for certain what he might or might not say in any given situation? They've only known each other for a few weeks at most right? And to be so bothered by it to go out and look for him? The answer is she probably shouldn't know but she has to end up in the clutches of the bad guys somehow! This is just poor writing IMO.

Wow it sounds like maybe I should drop this show
I probably will which is a shame because I was impressed by the first episode, I think I might have set my expectations too high because of it - like getting lured by the aroma of a plate of food with all the ingredients to be delicious and expecting it to be, only to find it was cooked by an amatuer upon actually eating it. Oh well, I hope the people who are enjoying this show continue to do so.

[Greenish Growth]

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

I've thought of that as well, but I don't know if there would be any problems with the general storyline to switch Vol 2 and 3's position.

Maybe they chose to reverse volumes 2 and 3 hoping that readers will forget about volume 1's mention of espers not being able to use magic.

[MrTerrorist]

Originally Posted by Kouvley

- People on "the other side of the coin" can't see us
nope, the students in the cafeteria can

- Espers in academy city cannot use magic
nope, students in the cafeteria again

Technically, those students were being control by Izzard so thus:

a) He was using them as his mind control watchmen and the magic they were using was probably an alarm to activated the spell to attack Touma & Styil.

or

b) In the 6th episode, Aleister allows Magnus to 'borrow' Touma since he was a Level 0, technically a normal human who's neither psychic nor magician. Those Cafeteria students were probably level 0's who still haven't got esper powers and Izzard just brainwash them to use magic and be his guards.

Originally Posted by Kouvley

Gregorio's choir needs a large amount of people for it to work, 3333 for the true version to be exact
nope, 7 guys can do it and it's the true version apparently

Actually, Gregorio's choir was actually done by 3333 monks at the Vatican and the knights were just helping being spotters to aim and increase the fire power of the spell.

[serenade_beta]

Originally Posted by MrTerrorist

a) He was using them as his mind control watchmen and the magic they were using was probably an alarm to activated the spell to attack Touma & Styil.

There was a system set on them to flip to the other side of the coin when they spotted intruders. And attack.

Originally Posted by MrTerrorist

b) In the 6th episode, Aleister allows Magnus to 'borrow' Touma since he was a Level 0, technically a normal human who's neither psychic nor magician. Those Cafeteria students were probably level 0's who still haven't got esper powers and Izzard just brainwash them to use magic and be his guards.

Regardless! Even level 0s have taken power development, thus! According to a previous episode, means they cannot use magic.
Or... it should have been...

@Kouvley

There aren't too many contridictions, but plot devices are many...

[Kouvley]

I'm sure there can be plausible explainations to most of my points but I guess my main point is, with the frequency it's been happening(lies, contradictions, plot devices etc), it's hard for me not to react with a "ORLY?" the next time someone "explains" something.

[SkoolRumble4Ya]

Touma uppercut is a win. It looks like Izzard is one strong bastard that could even reverse the buildings that was being destroyed. Can't wait for the next one.

[Chaos2Frozen]

@Kouvley

I believe I read before in a blog that- Oh wait, let me copy-pasta:

“Complication” and “consistency” are part of the reason why there is so much explanation in Magical Index. Kamachi, the author, likes to play with perceptions, and ends up having to explain away the audience’s original false impressions. For example, Stiyl looked like Index’s enemy in Episode 2, but it turned out he was her friend. So there had to be an explanation of why Index would be running from Stiyl and Kaori as though they were enemies. Index had lost her memories, Stiyl and Kaori periodically erased them, and had given up on being friendly to her because they were frustrated at her forgetting their friendship with each erasure.

That had to be explained. But the explanation didn’t stop there, because there had to be a reason why they were erasing her memories. And then after that, the reason turned out to be a lie and that had to be explained away as well. And so on.

Maaahh~ The original contents of the message was for the people who whines about explaination, but the point is still clear.

[serenade_beta]

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

@Kouvley

I believe I read before in a blog that- Oh wait, let me copy-pasta:





Maaahh~ The original contents of the message was for the people who whines about explaination, but the point is still clear.

Interesting. Well, putting overloaded amounts of explanations aside, it doesn't mean anything about plot devices and contradictions, which was something Kouvley was talking about.

[Chaos2Frozen]

That's fine too Lies makes everything interesting, you shouldn't buy what every/anyone says on face value, People are just people and they're capable of being lied to and lie themselves.


Well, not so much for you if/since you know all the answers already

[serenade_beta]

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

@Kouvley

I believe I read before in a blog that- Oh wait, let me copy-pasta:





Maaahh~ The original contents of the message was for the people who whines about explaination, but the point is still clear.

Sorry... Had a bit more on this.
I assume the person writing the blog is talking about the novel...
Yes, those things needed to be explained. Of course, after all. But that is not what bogs down the novels. It's the information required to even understand a centimeter of the plot. Explanation is okay, but when you get pages and pages of it, plus information that is unnecessary and sounds like it came from wikipedia, that's when we have a problem.

That's fine too Lies makes everything interesting, you shouldn't buy what every/anyone says on face value, People are just people and they're capable of being lied to and lie themselves.


Well, not so much for you if/since you know all the answers already

Unfortunately, that is what people might call bad/boring writing, when you can't keep to what you write and act too freely and contradict your own words. Well, you definitely won't win any awards at a writing contest if your story doesn't make sense, no matter how "interesting" it is.

[Sorrow-K]

It's not so much a matter of making sense or not, it's that the plot is overly convoluted. When you pretty much set every little plot point or explanation up to be contradicted down the road with a plot twist revelation, it ceases to be surprising after it's done often enough. We begin to expect the plot twists, so we aren't terribly surprised when they happen.

Mind you, I do find this show much more tolerable now that Touma has a brain and isn't so hot-headed. Funny that: lose memories, gain brain. And some of the music in this show is pretty good. Yeah...

Index walking into a trainwreck in the most recent ep to set up a cliffhanger is a pretty blatant plot device, but I'll live with it.

[Darco_emp]

With regards to using magic while you are an Esper, from novel volume four, while you can still use magic, however it becomes self damaging while you are doing so. Which is the case here in this ep.

[ellifeedn]

Despite the self-contradicting story, how are the ratings?