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View Poll Results: Railgun Manga - Jailbreaker Arc Rating | |||
Perfect 10 | 1 | 14.29% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 0 | 0% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 0 | 0% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 2 | 28.57% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 0 | 0% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 2 | 28.57% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 1 | 14.29% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad | 0 | 0% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad | 0 | 0% | |
1 out of 10 : Painful | 1 | 14.29% | |
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2020-12-26, 22:35 | Link #183 | |
I’m sorry, Kamijou-san!!
Join Date: May 2013
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I really liked some of the character development in this chapter. I have a few very big questions that I'm very curious about. I'm excited for a new arc. I especially liked the tie in from GT3. Of course Kamachi would use this to setup that arc and vice-versa. Flowed really well thematically. Made this arc a lot darker in hindsight. And considering what happened last volume, I'm kind of curious to see if this will come up again soon in the main series. Would be very interesting.
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2020-12-27, 07:59 | Link #185 |
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Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Perth, Australia
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Not sure if anyone brought this up yet. But if Kimi is seriously an AC esper, there should be no way for her to turn out to be a Holism esper right? The whole premise of AC esper development is Personal Reality, the theory they operate on is completely different to, if not in total contradiction to a holistic esper. It's the whole reason why Othinus went outside of AC to look for a sample in the first place. When the idea was first brought up, they thought Kimi might be a theoretical holistic esper, which didn't set it in stone so it's still good, but it still felt like they entertained the possibility of seeing an orange sprouting from an apple tree which was very strange to me.
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2020-12-27, 09:12 | Link #186 |
Hu Tao
Join Date: Oct 2006
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The jailbreaker arc is promising at the beginning and ended up with mediocrity. This is what happened when you introduce an enemy that too strong for MC to defeat and have to relying on BS to end it. But on a positive note, no Touma saving the day in this arc but at the same time, maybe it is good to have Touma to save the day instead of what they did on Uiharu in this arc.
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2020-12-27, 11:42 | Link #189 |
Hu Tao
Join Date: Oct 2006
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Or even better, don't introduce "dragon" into Railgun.
Let's Misaka fight against someone that she can handle with her power level. The reason why I think the final fight in this arc is boring because there is nothing Misaka can do against "Dragon" until Uiharu's BS kicked in. Heck, even the fight between Misaka and Raifu is more engaging and fun to read. |
2020-12-27, 22:17 | Link #190 |
I’m sorry, Kamijou-san!!
Join Date: May 2013
Location: California
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I don't understand all of you, but I'm absolutely convinced the thing with Uiharu will come back up later. It's not Kamachi style to make something happen only one by now. Have you all literally learned nothing after reading his whole series? I have no words. It's super obvious this is a parallel to the latest arc in GT and y'all are blind.
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2020-12-27, 22:37 | Link #191 | |
Index III was a mistake
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Sydney, Australia
Age: 33
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Uiharu's asspull was essentially the final nail in the coffin for this arc. I thought Misaka was holding her own as well as she could. It was only the final problem of the arc (separating Kimi from the dragon) that needed an acceptable resolution to have me be more positive towards the arc. What we got instead was unacceptable.
I've collected my thoughts here: Fast facts before the main argument:
Kamijou didn't need to appear in this arc (and would be problematic for its own reasons) but now I wish that he or Noukan did appear considering what we got instead. Quote:
Please elaborate, dniv. I don't want to hate this arc but no one has successfully convinced me otherwise.
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2021-01-14, 22:59 | Link #193 | |
I’m sorry, Kamijou-san!!
Join Date: May 2013
Location: California
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I think that GT3 showed what happened when the adults are gone and the normal safety net isn't there in place. Spoiler:
Personally, I think that Uiharu is lying to the audience about what she did. And I think that she's downplaying what's really going on because it isn't the right time to bring it up right now. I don't think that Railgun usually leaves things hanging. Like Gensei was behind all the main incidents, and they had him come up later, and resolved things nicely with him in T. I think it's really likely that this is just setup for later. I guess you could say it's not fully certain, but knowing Kamachi, I think he'll make it relevant later either in the main novel or in Railgun. I think it's fine if it's not fully explained in the novel right now. It's not like the coins in GT 3 are fully explained either, but I'm not knocking that. You just have to take it for what it is. Whatever Uiharu has or is, it's not entirely clear if it's an esper power or something else or how she did it. I think there may be more to this than meets the eye and it just isn't relevant to this arc and that it'll be relevant later. Kamachi clearly aligns his arcs and plans them out to have specific elements at the proper times, so I think it's super unlikely that he backed himself into a corner or resorted into a one time plot armor. That seems incredibly unlikely. I'm almost certain it'll be relevant again since he introduced it now to the story. I'm just curious as to what it is. I'm still also super curious about the flashback in the latest chapter with Mikoto and those two girls. What was that? Am I missing something about who they were or do you not know either? The timing with how she got interrupted during it gave me weird vibes especially with the thematic timing of her talking to Uiharu just before.
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2021-01-15, 12:21 | Link #194 |
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I mean, in hindsight there are a dozen of different ways you can probably have handled it.
At the simplest, you probably could have just had the AIM Jammers at a higher concentration stop Kimi's black hole generation and because of that it could no longer draw power from her, so it wouldn't stay tethered. If Uiharu had the data then she could have inputted it into the AIM Jammers to account for her previously untraceable power and then calibrated it specifically to stop it. Then the only issue would be what happened to the Dragon, but they could have had it wilting away because the only reason it could exist outside of Touma was because it was feeding off her power.
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