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[Minagi Mikoto]

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

A shock wave is still just a moving wall of air, basically with that one device, Kihara was able to nullify all of Accelerator's air vector movements.

Yes it seems that what anime tried to imply. Doesn't make sense though, since there is no sound noise which can do much distortion into a blast wave or even a strong wind. Unless we assume that that sound noise confuses Accelerator though he can't calculate correctly anymore.


With all that said there was still one option available for Accelerator (and will be if he encounters him again) and that was to throw objects like cars or building parts on him! Accelerator is just too proud of himself and doesn't think about such strategies.

[I_am_Kami]

Originally Posted by Minagi Mikoto

Yes it seems that what anime tried to imply. Doesn't make sense though, since there is no sound noise which can do much distortion into a blast wave or even a strong wind. Unless we assume that that sound noise confuses Accelerator though he can't calculate correctly anymore.


With all that said there was still one option available for Accelerator (and will be if he encounters him again) and that was to throw objects like cars or building parts on him! Accelerator is just too proud of himself and doesn't think about such strategies.

The way kihara sopped him is like how the mikOto sisters stopped him

[Chaos2Frozen]

Originally Posted by Minagi Mikoto

Yes it seems that what anime tried to imply. Doesn't make sense though, since there is no sound noise which can do much distortion into a blast wave or even a strong wind. Unless we assume that that sound noise confuses Accelerator though he can't calculate correctly anymore.

Butterfly effect, that doesn't have to knock out the blast- just introduce enough 'chaos' into the calculation to mess things up.

Originally Posted by Minagi Mikoto

With all that said there was still one option available for Accelerator (and will be if he encounters him again) and that was to throw objects like cars or building parts on him! Accelerator is just too proud of himself and doesn't think about such strategies.

Well it's not like the nearest starbucks is within arm's length...

[Minagi Mikoto]

Originally Posted by I_am_Kami

The way kihara sopped him is like how the mikOto sisters stopped him

It's not. The made use of strong winds produced using generators.

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

Butterfly effect, that doesn't have to knock out the blast- just introduce enough 'chaos' into the calculation to mess things up.

The physical effect "Chaos" is not about simply distortion.

Chaos is what occur in many of nonlinear physical systems with certain conditions. If you alter the initial conditions of such a system by a small bit, this little distortion grows in time exponentially (in contrast with linear systems where the distortion only varies near linearly or dissipative systems where the distortion decays over time). The growth rate is called the "Lyapunov's exponent".

The time in which that little small distortion can have significant effects is about the inverse of Lyapunov's exponent which for air which is a chaotic system is about a few days or so not just some seconds! So the butterfly effect cannot explain this.

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

Well it's not like the nearest starbucks is within arm's length...

He could have easily flied over there!

[I_am_Kami]

Originally Posted by Minagi Mikoto

It's not. The made use of strong winds produced using generators.

Throwing off his calculations like kihara does

[Chaos2Frozen]

Originally Posted by Minagi Mikoto

It's not. The made use of strong winds produced using generators.

That's because the scale of wind control during that time was much more massive.

Originally Posted by Minagi Mikoto

The physical effect "Chaos" is not about simply distortion.

Chaos is what occur in many of nonlinear physical systems with certain conditions. If you alter the initial conditions of such a system by a small bit, this little distortion grows in time exponentially (in contrast with linear systems where the distortion only varies near linearly or dissipative systems where the distortion decays over time). The growth rate is called the "Lyapunov's exponent".

The time in which that little small distortion can have significant effects is about the inverse of Lyapunov's exponent which for air which is a chaotic system is about a few days or so not just some seconds! So the butterfly effect cannot explain this.

Iyyaa~ When I said chaos, I'm really not think that far ahead Basically it's just enough to mess with the values of Accelerator's calculations.

Originally Posted by Minagi Mikoto

He could have easily flied over there!

Kihara seems to be faster than him, as shown in the 'slow-mo' scene

[Minagi Mikoto]

Originally Posted by I_am_Kami

Throwing off his calculations like kihara does

If it's confusing him, then it's acceptable.

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

That's because the scale of wind control during that time was much more massive.

Well, even this time a whistle is not enough!

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

Iyyaa~ When I said chaos, I'm really not think that far ahead Basically it's just enough to mess with the values of Accelerator's calculations.

Again, "If it's confusing him, then it's acceptable". If not, then still not!

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

Kihara seems to be faster than him, as shown in the 'slow-mo' scene

He could've flied above him! Well, Kihara again could've jammed his columns of winds to prevent him flying! (I'm still wondering how! )

[John_Smith]

Question, why do people faint after taking a glimpse or seeing Vento?
And why some of them don't, like touma, kihara, or the hound dogs?

[Minagi Mikoto]

Originally Posted by John_Smith

Question, why do people faint after taking a glimpse or seeing Vento?
And why some of them don't, like touma, kihara, or the hound dogs?

It's probably going to explained in the next episode but

Spoiler for Vento's spell:

She has a spell called "Divine Punishment". If you see her face, then you'll faint as soon as you have a bad feeling about her. About Touma it's like always, the "Imagine Breaker". About Kihara and hound dogs, it's because they don't kill out of hatred but just because of they're ordered to.

[Chaos2Frozen]

Originally Posted by John_Smith

Question, why do people faint after taking a glimpse or seeing Vento?
And why some of them don't, like touma, kihara, or the hound dogs?

The Hound Dogs do faint, you see later they all collapsed with not a scratch on their bodies.

[John_Smith]

i see
thanks for the info

[kaizerknight01]

any new info on the new testament ??

[KyriaL]

A question here, what happen to the students after they graduate from Academy City? Any info on that?

[I_am_Kami]

Originally Posted by KyriaL

A question here, what happen to the students after they graduate from Academy City? Any info on that?

i dont think thats ever been mentioned

[KyriaL]

are they even any graduates in the first place?

[Minagi Mikoto]

Originally Posted by KyriaL

A question here, what happen to the students after they graduate from Academy City? Any info on that?

Never thought about that before.

I guess useless (at least in the way that Aleister, Kihara, etc. think) level zeros will be thrown out. They should keep the Espers for now, at least for Kazakiri to be useful.

I don't know much about Fuse Kazakiri but maybe,

Spoiler for Fuse Kazakiri:

The use of Misaka network replaces the city of espers for her.

[I_am_Kami]

I got a question that someone might answer.

So this seasons animation was .... watever sometimes. It does have awesome animation but sometimes u actually take ur focus off the show and look at the character unlike season 1. Why is this happening?

[SuzushinaYuriko]

They're conserving their budget for the pivotal episodes. I really wish that they would make it consistent like Index S1 was.

[I_am_Kami]

Originally Posted by yukirosuzuka

They're conserving their budget for the pivotal episodes. I really wish that they would make it consistent like Index S1 was.

pivotal? whats that?

[StaticLord]

Pivotal = most important , key episodes.