To Aru Kagaku no Railgun S - Episode 9 Discussion / Poll

[Pellissier]

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[Miraluka]

Today's episode preview:

[II Maestro]

Originally Posted by Wilfriback

Today's episode preview:

Based on the preview It's an awesome fight between Meltdowner vs Railgun.

[Chaos2Frozen]

Originally Posted by II Maestro

Based on the preview It's an awesome fight between Meltdowner vs Railgun.

And yet, what I'm really looking forward to is Shinobu getting pwned...

[dniv]

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

And yet, what I'm really looking forward to is Shinobu getting pwned...

You're so mean. I'm not looking forward to her getting pwned. I'm looking forward to seeing the one who's pwning her pwn her (not to be specific).

[Chaos2Frozen]

I don't mean physically pwned

[dniv]

That was better than the manga in my opinion. It was sooo good!!!!! OMG: I loved it!

Mugino's smile: yes it was the real thing. I feel confident for next episode. I liked most of the extra scenes they added even if the beginning was a little slow. I'll probably like all of them when there are subtitles. There was lag... at the beginning...

Takitsubo's eyes

Saiai was a boss when she blocked the bullet

That was just amazing on all fronts.

Edit: @Chaos: I just got what you meant... lol

[Master Assassin]

Right, so for tonight we have another steady episode, though it brings out the feel of a two-phase RPG boss battle. Not saying it's anything bad, in fact I feel far from it.

Let's have another good week, next week. .... hopefully.

[dniv]

Originally Posted by Master Assassin

Right, so for tonight we have another steady episode, though it brings out the feel of a two-phase RPG boss battle. Not saying it's anything bad, in fact I feel far from it.

Let's have another good week, next week. .... hopefully.

It's Mugino. Did you see that smile? How would it not be amazing next week?

[Master Assassin]

Originally Posted by dniv

It's Mugino. Did you see that smile? How would it not be amazing next week?

I know, I know. But for some, there are some... factors, as I would put it, that would weigh it down... Well, it's mostly a matter of preference, but yeah... namedly, "unnecessary scenes." Because that's how I thought it'd be called. I do hope I don't need to expand on this

[Marina2]

Did they change how [Body Clear] look like in anime?

[dniv]

Originally Posted by Marina2

Did they change how [Body Clear] look like in anime?

It's much better in the anime in my opinion and yes.

[Miraluka]

I won't lie the beams were cool but something was off, don't know what :S.


The art was inconsistent on some parts(Mugino...) and some scenes feels dragged too long. Still a good episode but far from perfect.

They changed Body Clear from drug to pills but that means:
- It would make pointless to carry the pills ona case, why not a bottle? lol.
- No sexy(?) licking from Takitsubo.
- Why not make it an injectable then?.

[R.LocK]

^Sorry, when I read your joke, it sounds... awfully eerie. Not in Raildex-wise.

Well. We always place our hopes on BDs. I hope they'll give us a canonical scene with Takitsubo and Body Clear.
Takitsubo's eyes were perfect. But they dragged the battle a little too much. And dammit, why did they use Mugino's grin as an endcard? X.x
BTW, didn't Nunotaba just slip from her lab coat in manga? Here, it was awesome, but... it was kinda weird.

[Marina2]

Originally Posted by Wilfriback

I won't lie the beams were cool but something was off, don't know what :S.


The art was inconsistent on some parts(Mugino...) and some scenes feels dragged too long. Still a good episode but far from perfect.

They changed Body Clear from drug to pills but that means:
- It would make pointless to carry the pills ona case, why not a bottle? lol.
- No sexy(?) licking from Takitsubo.
- Why not make it an injectable then?.

I will try to reason.....

- a case is easier to carry around
- Her yandere eyes made up for that.
- That will make it looks even more like a drug

[dniv]

Originally Posted by Wilfriback

I won't lie the beams were cool but something was off, don't know what :S.


The art was inconsistent on some parts(Mugino...) and some scenes feels dragged too long. Still a good episode but far from perfect.

They changed Body Clear from drug to pills but that means:
- It would make pointless to carry the pills ona case, why not a bottle? lol.
- No sexy(?) licking from Takitsubo.
- Why not make it an injectable then?.

I'm pretty sure that was the lag. The subbed version taken from actual Japanese T.V. or channels will be much much better. I was giving it a lot of credit. The voices looked off as well, but I'm sure that was because of the lag.

By the way... isn't it body crystal? Why are you guys all saying body clear? I just checked the wiki to make sure: it is body crystal. Even BT says body crystal...

For your information: pills are drugs They actually are. They aren't the drugs you are thinking about, but a pill is a pharmaceutical drug.

But as an answer to what you were saying:

Spoiler for comparison between manga and anime for clarification of why they did it this way:

the anime pretends as if drugs and other things from Light Novels I'm not going to mention are not used to become an esper and that instead all that is needed is a curriculum. Curriculum makes it sound like just learning. This is the point.

The anime/manga/light novels are very different. You should have already expected this change. They would make it a pill because having a reference to a powder is somewhat like crystal meth or something... (which isn't exactly consistent with what they've said you have to go though in the anime to get esper powers)...

I agree that it dragged on a little, but this was the lag. In HD, the episode will be perfectly fine. I don't think you noticed, but someone gave the link to the stream on the facebook page 5 minutes before so there were a ton of viewers, like 320 or something like that. Usually 250 viewers causes lag... so this was a very bad version. You should rewatch it when subtitles come out later, as will I.

Even if you don't need subtitles, then watch the better quality version when it comes out

[serenade_beta]

It was (cho)so~~ worth a grimace in the manga (yes, the oh-(cho)so~~~~brilliant way to make a character stand out, strange speech patterns!), but once you add a voice to it, her sentences get 87 times more (cho)so~~~ annoying.

[desrtsku]

I need to confirm something, was Hironori Tanaka involved for this episode? The sakuga near the beginning of this episode had a really similar style to that one from Yumekui Merry ep 5.

[GundamZZ]

Yet, they show one of the most overused anime cliche: The "stomach punch" would knock a person to a state of unconsciousness.

[II Maestro]

Damn this episode was awesome. The fight between Mikoto vs Mugino is so intense.