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View Poll Results: To Aru Kagaku no Railgun S - Episode 18 Rating | |||
Perfect 10 | 9 | 15.00% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 5 | 8.33% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 22 | 36.67% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 13 | 21.67% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 5 | 8.33% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 6 | 10.00% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 0 | 0% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad | 0 | 0% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad | 0 | 0% | |
1 out of 10 : Painful | 0 | 0% | |
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2013-08-19, 20:23 | Link #61 | |
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It's not that they don't have a parent outside the city. The money shouldn't be a problem if they have an option to move out.
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2013-08-19, 20:33 | Link #62 | ||
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2013-08-20, 14:17 | Link #64 | |
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No, we know Anti-Skill can't do anything. Remember the Thelestina arc? Just another instance of higher ups blocking AS from interfering with an experiment (the rogue AS group bending the crap out of their orders aside). They were able to arrest her... after she failed her experiment and had no value, but AS was ordered to drop that case and Thelestina isn't even one of AC's higher ups. AS is just a bunch of pawns to keep day to day order. When it comes to the 'important' experiments, they get forced aside one way or another. I don't think its much of a stretch to say Mikoto has begun to realize this either. She saw the Thelestina incident where they were ordered off, she saw them not investigating any of those facilities, and rather than AS doing anything, she saw Item get sent in to stop her. I'm going to argue the other way, what has AS done that she should have any faith that they can do anything about the dark experiments in the city? She has seen 2 and they were forced out of both. You bring up the specific workings of the city, but details on that which would be required to actually discuss it wouldn't be allowed here due to the spoiler policy. |
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2013-08-20, 14:25 | Link #65 | |
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All for a "they might try to use them again"? |
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2013-08-20, 14:30 | Link #66 | ||
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If you want In-depth details on the world building of the Index/Railgun world go read the Index novels. Quote:
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2013-08-20, 14:45 | Link #67 | |
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There's thirty years of technological difference between the city and the outside, that's something even a common thug can appreciate.
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The fact is, the Sisters won't ever be safe until the bad guys are dealt with. That's not something that's easy to live with and you'd very naturally consider other options.
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2013-08-20, 18:42 | Link #70 | ||
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That was where she realized the futility of trying to take down the system. For every, institution or potential researcher she gets to, even more show up to take their place, especially if we consider knowledge to be shared within Academy City's academe. That was when she switched tactics to ones that work around the system instead of ones that go against it directly. There goes her plans of forging Tree Diagram's predictions and sacrificing herself to mess us the experiment's assumptions. That's where Touma comes in. Once again, I should say that I think it would be difficult and impractical to find those responsible when you have the entire scientific community of Academy City as the enemy. Quote:
One of her exchanges with Kuroko is telling in this regard. In the exchange, she makes it clear that becoming an enemy of Academy City, as she resolved to do while heading out to tamper with Tree Diagram, entails becoming an enemy of Judgment as well, which would apply for Anti-Skill as well by extension. As Kuroko puts it, she would protect the peace and order of the city even if it meant going against Mikoto. At this point, it's clear that she views them to be on opposite sides of the fence.
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2013-08-20, 18:45 | Link #71 | ||||
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But the sisters are currently safe. They would be in far more danger if Mikoto actually did get all of the AC higher ups held accountable. AC is watching after them now. You remove all those people running it and get rid of AC and who else is going to protect 10,000 illegal clones? |
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2013-08-20, 22:13 | Link #76 |
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Mikoto should ask her parents' help. After all, she is a school girl, not the member of Justice League or Avengers. If she wants to take on entire city, her parents can find some way. Mikoto's mother may not be helpful. She looks like a kind person. Mikoto's personality is the mix of her mother's personality and another personality. Mikoto most likley inheirts her bad temper from her father. He probably doesn't give a damn about any syndicate. It would be nice if he gives Superintendent a bad time. So, the city officers will behave.
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2013-08-21, 00:42 | Link #77 |
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The board is expendable maybe, though I doubt AS would be able to touch them regardless. However, given their huge importance, there is no way Aliester isn't on the list of people involved with the sisters project somewhere (he probably covered his tracks really well, but if you were to hold ALL of those involved accountable, hes in there). That is unless you guys really believe something that important just magically presented itself in front of Al and he coincidentally decided to make use of it...
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2013-08-21, 01:19 | Link #78 | |
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AC's leadership is great huh ? Anyway, this whole debate is a little funny. First of all, Mikoto is extremely naive. I don't think that it isn't that she's ignoring what is happening in the rest of the darkness of the city. She's just so pure that now that she helped her sisters, she went back to being the 14 year old cheerful girl that she always has been (in a way). Touma made her feel better about herself by not blaming her and this made her realize that being with her friends and doing things WITH her friends is being than doing things solo. This is probably the main reason why she stopped doing anything concerning the "darkness" of the city. Furthermore, Mikoto seeing ITEM just hanging out at a Cafe reinforces the idea that the dark side of AC probably isn't that "bad" in her mind because it must not suck that much to be able to go to restaurants in your spare time. She doesn't know anything about Accelerator or Mugino or anyone else except her sisters basically. She's naive and clueless... This is why it isn't out of character for her to be this way. She does justice when she notices there is a problem. She is a 14 year old so you should give it a break. Should every young girl with super powers be responsible for saving the world? Think particularly of a certain magical "girl" (pun clearly intended )... no... when you are young it isn't that weird if you ignore bad things that are happening and just live a normal middle school life with your friends. Anyway, Xellos... you are slightly wrong. Railgun has already gotten into some of the inner-workings of Academy city and might eventually go further. It mentioned the board of directors in season 1. It mentioned Terestina and Gensei... It mentioned the Level 6 Shift project. It's not like we haven't seen part of the darkness of AC. Heck, we saw ITEM. Saying this only scratches the surface might be right as of what has been animated now, but that doesn't mean it won't eventually delve deeper into AC later... (it's already been implied that AC sucks with its darkness in Railgun S and at the end of season 1...) Anyway, IMO I like having an arc that has ITEM, Team Railgun. It's nice to see. Febli seems very interesting as well. The evil guys actually look interesting... but I somehow doubt they are all that powerful if they are the antagonists of a Railgun Anime filler arc (sorry to say this...) |
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2013-08-21, 03:11 | Link #80 |
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Personally I see this as the team's attempt to bring this ship back to calmer waters to appease the other half of the fanbase. Rather than any plot/character based reason.
Most people probably aren't that interested in the talks of darker doings, thats not what they watch Railgun for. I myself wasn't really expecting them to do so either.
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