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View Poll Results: To Aru Kagaku no Railgun - Episode 14 Rating
Perfect 10 11 16.67%
9 out of 10 : Excellent 10 15.15%
8 out of 10 : Very Good 14 21.21%
7 out of 10 : Good 16 24.24%
6 out of 10 : Average 7 10.61%
5 out of 10 : Below Average 2 3.03%
4 out of 10 : Poor 3 4.55%
3 out of 10 : Bad 1 1.52%
2 out of 10 : Very Bad 0 0%
1 out of 10 : Painful 2 3.03%
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Old 2010-01-09, 01:55   Link #21
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Pretty mellow episode.
I'm actually not that big a fan of Saten-san, her story is just pretty boring.
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Old 2010-01-09, 03:14   Link #22
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Why is the Synchrotron girl in 5:20? o.o Isn't she a Level 4 already?

Whoa, epic shoujo-ai moment for Jufuku there. :O

EDIT: Miss Synchrotron's name is 釧路帷子. If I did translate it correctly, it reads as "Kushiro Ishi".
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Old 2010-01-09, 03:20   Link #23
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Can't really get any more filler than this.
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Old 2010-01-09, 03:22   Link #24
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Plenty of Saten here, not that I don't mind but I expected things to pick up after that swimsuit episode, as well as a new OP. Maybe next week?

Definitely an improvement from the last episode. It's just kinda disappointing that I waited for 2 weeks just go get another filler. Well at least we get to see our favorite loli teacher from Index

The preview definitely looks interesting, lots of fighting there and woah, skill out! I've always wondered what those guys are, or what they do for that matter.

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Why is the Synchrotron girl in 5:20? o.o Isn't she a Level 4 already?
I'm actually surprised to see her too. My guess is she probably is one of those early ones who discovered Level upper, and took the test when she got juiced up thus got her level increased in academy city's data base.
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Old 2010-01-09, 03:53   Link #25
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Needs more new OP

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Old 2010-01-09, 03:58   Link #26
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Or one more scenario is that she always go to the hospital that's why she was required to join in despite her power level.
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Old 2010-01-09, 04:35   Link #27
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Or one more scenario is that she always go to the hospital that's why she was required to join in despite her power level.
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Looks like Uiharu has gained a love rival in this episode. This is what happens when you draw all the female characters together, it saturates into yuri.

Komoe-sensei! She finally makes an appearance!

P.S The bad-girl looks like the FeMC from P3P. Does she have the ability to summon a Persona?
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Old 2010-01-09, 05:17   Link #28
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Or one more scenario is that she always go to the hospital that's why she was required to join in despite her power level.
yeah that too. But I dunno, its just too much of a coincidence that she was hospitalized when level upper was rampant, but the again, the anime never stated the reason why she was hospitalized in the first place, and those special lessons weren't exactly for those who used level upper. So yeah, I think it's most likely that scenario
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Old 2010-01-09, 05:29   Link #29
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If she wasn't perfectly fine, it was a mistake to have a whole episode following the Level-Upper arc showing she's perfectly fine.
The end of episode 12 showed she's better and back to her old skirt-lifting self. What's the point of following that up with her normal genki self in the next episode if they're just going to pull a 180 and have her mope all of a sudden? And I think you have some examples and correlations mixed up; we're not talking about "black or white" here. A person's personality/mood doesn't just shift around left and right out of nowhere, barring personality disorders and such, which I'm sure we can agree Saten doesn't have those.
Like I said, episode 12 was meant as a breather epiosde, wasn't meant to be any indication to anything in the actual storyline. If you think it's misplaced, well then it's misplaced, then. But it certainly wasn't meant to be any indication of Saten's status as proven in this episode.

I suspected this might happen but i didn't point it out earlier because I hadn't actually watched the episode yet, but my prediction was correct:
People don't just spontaneously mood swing as you said, but Satens case was hardly 'out of nowhere'. I'm pretty sure you (and Saten herself) can guess why she was having special classes in the first place. And other little things like it being a nice day and you having plans to go out with your friends and everything can have an affect. Besides, she wasn't really actually moping about it either. You can tell she's not very please but in the first half, she simply replied, "It can't be helped". She was more than active in the marathon running, that must've seem entirely pointless at the time. And afterwards, after that Spartan teachers speech she was considerate, rather than moping. And she was pretty pissed when that high school girl said there should be an easier way. "We cheated so it's obvious we should be here." is what she said. Is that moping? And Komoe sensei had confirmed that she wasn't actually moping but rather felt guilty about what she had done. Also that high school girl that was ranting, and that eyebrow lesbian girl were also showing that it wasn't really out of nowhere. In any case it was everyone else, except that big guy that was complaining. She wasn't complaining at all. She was just unhappy, which she was obviously going to be. You can hardly fault her for that.

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And thus you have illustrated my other point on the misplacement of this episode.
It is inconsistent because she's fine for a whole episode, then switches to mope-mode out of the blue. As I said, this episode should have been before the beach episode.
Only if you take it seriously enough. People are hardly going to call it out for such a little thing. Besides, like i said it was hardly out of the blue. She was fine in the beach episode because there was nothing to remind her of what she had done.

Anyway, I really liked this episode. It was meant to show some character development Saten had undertaken. Some may not have noticed but I noticed that she was actually concentrating in her class and making notes as well (even if they weren't particularly brilliant).
It was heartwarming too. 10/10 for me.

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Old 2010-01-09, 08:01   Link #30
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But nice episode, I was rooting for Saten, was hoping that she developed something, but, it can't be that easy.
She got an A for clairvoyance, makes me think that she wants to see Uiharu's underwear without flipping up her skirt.
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Old 2010-01-09, 09:24   Link #31
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Like I said, episode 12 was meant as a breather epiosde, wasn't meant to be any indication to anything in the actual storyline. If you think it's misplaced, well then it's misplaced, then. But it certainly wasn't meant to be any indication of Saten's status as proven in this episode.
A breather episode doesn't make this episode any less misplaced. And this episode would be a perfectly fine breather episode; everything is calmed down and all that's left is aftermath. So that's another reason for why this should have been after episode 12.
As for Saten's status, that's the very reason, as I've said, for why this episode is misplaced. As I also said, you don't just randomly place episodes in a series; you place episodes to make a flow of events and story. Having a character have a problem one episode, have no signs of it the next, then have that problem come back out of nowhere again in the third episode, upsets that flow.
They probably thought what you're saying; bring in the beach episode for a random fanservice filler breather, then come back with this episode. Problem is, it doesn't really work. You can't just sweep character dilemna under the rug for an episode like it never happened and go to the beach for fanservice filler, then bring the dilemna back out. This isn't a nonsense-comedy series like Seitokai no Ichizon, after all.

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I suspected this might happen but i didn't point it out earlier because I hadn't actually watched the episode yet, but my prediction was correct:
People don't just spontaneously mood swing as you said, but Satens case was hardly 'out of nowhere'.
Yes it did come out of nowhere; where was Saten thinking about any of this last episode? She recovers at the end of 12, goes through 13 without a single problem, now she's back to this in episode 14. You can't get much 180 than that.

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I'm pretty sure you (and Saten herself) can guess why she was having special classes in the first place. And other little things like it being a nice day and you having plans to go out with your friends and everything can have an affect. Besides, she wasn't really actually moping about it either. You can tell she's not very please but in the first half, she simply replied, "It can't be helped". She was more than active in the marathon running, that must've seem entirely pointless at the time. And afterwards, after that Spartan teachers speech she was considerate, rather than moping. And she was pretty pissed when that high school girl said there should be an easier way. "We cheated so it's obvious we should be here." is what she said. Is that moping? And Komoe sensei had confirmed that she wasn't actually moping but rather felt guilty about what she had done. Also that high school girl that was ranting, and that eyebrow lesbian girl were also showing that it wasn't really out of nowhere. In any case it was everyone else, except that big guy that was complaining. She wasn't complaining at all. She was just unhappy, which she was obviously going to be. You can hardly fault her for that.
You seem to be going off-topic a bit here. I'm not talking about the philosophy or reasonings or exact description of mer mood here. I'm talking about how it's out of place for her to be going back over the whole thing after she was shown to be perfectly fine for a whole episode. Again, this should have been episode 13.

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Only if you take it seriously enough. People are hardly going to call it out for such a little thing. Besides, like i said it was hardly out of the blue. She was fine in the beach episode because there was nothing to remind her of what she had done.
Inconsistency isn't a little thing, and you apparently haven't seen much of people gong nuts over things that really are little. You'd be surprised what people call on in anime.
To be perfectly honest, if she really had to be reminded of what she'd done before coming to terms with it, then that's a major character fault. I'm sure we can both agree she's more responsible than that.
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Old 2010-01-09, 09:25   Link #32
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Its enjoyable episode..More saten san please
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Old 2010-01-09, 10:40   Link #33
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A breather episode doesn't make this episode any less misplaced. And this episode would be a perfectly fine breather episode; everything is calmed down and all that's left is aftermath. So that's another reason for why this should have been after episode 12.
I would certainly not consider this to be a breather episode. This is a very important episode that provides further character depth for Saten.

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As for Saten's status, that's the very reason, as I've said, for why this episode is misplaced. As I also said, you don't just randomly place episodes in a series; you place episodes to make a flow of events and story. Having a character have a problem one episode, have no signs of it the next, then have that problem come back out of nowhere again in the third episode, upsets that flow.
They probably thought what you're saying; bring in the beach episode for a random fanservice filler breather, then come back with this episode. Problem is, it doesn't really work. You can't just sweep character dilemna under the rug for an episode like it never happened and go to the beach for fanservice filler, then bring the dilemna back out. This isn't a nonsense-comedy series like Seitokai no Ichizon, after all.
Like I said. It's not misplacing in anyway if you don't consider a breather episode to have any indication of anything to the actual storyline. It's just like you said: Saten's status is the very reason why you consider it to be misplaced. But if you don't consider a breather episode to have any relevance to the storyline in anyway, then you won't consider it to have any relevance to Saten's status either. In which case Saten's status shouldn't come into the equation in the first place and thus Saten's status won't make you feel like it's misplaced. Whether or not it works is purely a matter of opinion. I'd say it works well if you have a more liberal definition of a breather episode before going in.

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Yes it did come out of nowhere; where was Saten thinking about any of this last episode? She recovers at the end of 12, goes through 13 without a single problem, now she's back to this in episode 14. You can't get much 180 than that.

You seem to be going off-topic a bit here. I'm not talking about the philosophy or reasonings or exact description of mer mood here. I'm talking about how it's out of place for her to be going back over the whole thing after she was shown to be perfectly fine for a whole episode. Again, this should have been episode 13.
I think you've misunderstood me here. Saten had genuine reasons to think about the Level Upper, this episode, because of what was happening around her. She was feeling guilt because she thought she was being punished. That's why she was 'moping'. Why on earth would that occur beforehand if the reason she's feeling guilty isn't there? She wasn't being punished by attending special classes for those that used Level upper in the beach episode was she? The problem for Saten this episode wasn't the same problem as it was before. In any case exact descriptions of her mood are relevant if you want to avoid over-simplications and errors.

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Inconsistency isn't a little thing, and you apparently haven't seen much of people gong nuts over things that really are little. You'd be surprised what people call on in anime.
Incosistency can be a little thing and it can be a large thing, but it's not always a large thing. Only two other people have made a note of it here and neither of them are that bothered, and have simply identified it as a small error on the producers part, rather than any implication to Saten's character.
Besides I've seen pettier debates. I've seen Serious Buisness debates on what would be the correct romanization of a japanese name, or what would be the correct definition of 'evasion' or whether or not it's possible to tell whether the next episode will be filler based on the preview. etc....

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To be perfectly honest, if she really had to be reminded of what she'd done before coming to terms with it, then that's a major character fault. I'm sure we can both agree she's more responsible than that.
Like i said i think you're simplifing it somewhat. It's not like you've either come to terms with it or not. You can see a difference in Saten already in her attitude, even before sensei's speech. The only thing she actually needed to realise was that she shouldn't feel guilty, because it was preventing her from trying harder. In the end, all the problems that made her use Level Upper in the first place are still there and are still going to be there. The point wasn't just to learn that using Level Upper was wrong. She already got that (though some clearly didn't). The point was to have a better and more positive outlook so that she'll be better off in the long run, and have some more self-esteem (since it was the lack of it that caused her to use Level Upper in the first place). Not just regarding the idea of resorting to desperate measures, but regarding the general attitude to towards Levels as a whole. She was already half way there. She just needed a little push in the right direction and some positive encouragement.

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Old 2010-01-09, 11:45   Link #34
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Shinji103 and Haak, you guys are arguing about nothing. Shinji, Haak agrees that it was misplaced, but s/he also thinks it was a good episode. The only difference between you to is whether or not you like it, and you can just show that by voting.

For those that think its filler, this episode really wasn't. The anime studio already stated that they would be adding a lot more original content, so even if this isn't following the manga it's not necessarily filler. Heck, I think that the anime is doing a better job than the manga (with the exception of episode 13)
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Old 2010-01-09, 11:55   Link #35
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Shinji103 and Haak, you guys are arguing about nothing. Shinji, Haak agrees that it was misplaced, but s/he also thinks it was a good episode. The only difference between you to is whether or not you like it, and you can just show that by voting.
Not just that. I just think he's taking it a little too seriously and shouldn't make any implications of Saten's character as a result of the misplacement, and just see it as a misplacement.

And yes I agree, this is definately one of the better examples of Adaption Expansion.

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Old 2010-01-09, 14:12   Link #36
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I like this episode. It gave a chance for the minor characters to receive more screen time.

Looks like one yuri pairing is not enough for this series.

Glad to see they sneaked Komoe-sensei into the episode.
Considering the reason for the class, I guess the lack of a Touma cameo is to be expected.

The next episode looks interesting with the appearance of Skill-Out, and a Spider-Tattoo man. Makes me think of Inuyasha.
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Old 2010-01-09, 14:32   Link #37
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But nice episode, I was rooting for Saten, was hoping that she developed something, but, it can't be that easy.
She got an A for clairvoyance, makes me think that she wants to see Uiharu's underwear without flipping up her skirt.
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That might be the case, hence why Saten got an A on it. xP

Well, as for how the episode turned up for me, the only good stuff I saw is the yuri between Jufuku and Saten... even though I prefer Saten more with Uiharu, but if another girl makes a move on Saten, well...

Lol, is it me or is Saten sitting in Touma's chair? Or at least, they're using the classroom Touma uses... idk.

Next episode... I can't wait... 8D
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The next episode looks interesting with the appearance of Skill-Out, and a Spider-Tattoo man. Makes me think of Inuyasha.
The spider tatoo guy reminded me Hisoka from HxH..... ewww
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Is Skill-out mentioned in the novels?
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Yes, but you should ask this in the respective thread because it can have spoilers.
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