Campione!(カンピオーネ!) [Light Novel]

[belatkuro]

Originally Posted by tsunade666

Is there a timeline for campione? I'm asking for a year on the events happen or at least a timeline on the order of events.

More or less this I guess:

Spoiler for timeline:

Mid March: Vol3
Late March- late April(Golden Week): Vol11
Mid - late May: Vol1
Late June - early July: Vol2
Late July - early August: Vol4
September: Vol5, first chapter of vol8
October: Vol6 - 7, 2nd chapter of vol8
November: Vol8 last two chapters - Vol9
Mid - late November: Vol10
December - Christmas Eve: Vol12
Christmas - New Year's Eve(?): Vol13

It's not even a year and Godou has encountered a lot of things and made a name for himself. Quite a feat.

[whitecloud]

well...he's better off if you compare him to touma really...6 month off and he's already plunged into world war 3, battle with angel several time and almost die in antarctic, his hands cut off, his body stabbed, almost die of blood loss, have several magic group aiming for his life...quite a life..best of all he's only human, not a campione or anything special...

[Fwarlord]

Originally Posted by whitecloud

well...he's better off if you compare him to touma really...6 month off and he's already plunged into world war 3, battle with angel several time and almost die in antarctic, his hands cut off, his body stabbed, almost die of blood loss, have several magic group aiming for his life...quite a life..best of all he's only human, not a campione or anything special...

That fact is something I truly dislike about Index. Being a campione is like cheating but it in fact make Godou's life logical and understandable. He is important, powerful and inexperience and yet no human nor organization dare to lay a finger on him (except for one complete idiot who was already crushed by the [Boar]). It is because he is a campione, a being of power who born to hunt celestial beings and no matter how many of them gathered, human can never win against a [King]. And almost in every volumes, Godou experiences death at least once. For instance, in the fight against Melqart, after being struck by Melqart's clubs of wind and lightning, he was fried alive, his bones was broken and his organs was dissolved. But only after a sleep, he was revived completely by the power of the [Ram]. It is not considered deus ex machina because the [Ram] is his very basic ability, not something was made half way for the sake of the story.
And actually, Touma is the most special one with his Imagin Breaker. There are 7 campiones but only 1 Touma. But the fact Touma is still a human with a mudane body is really weird to me. He has a lot of enemies and organizations targeting his life. Why didn't anyone try to kill hime for real. Snipping, poisoning, stabbing him with a kitchen or even threatening him using his family or friends will work as well... I don't think he can use his right hand to deal with them...

[Yye1]

Lol, it even states in the LN itself that wat Godou has accomplished in such a short amount of time was incredible

[XFire]

Originally Posted by Fwarlord

That fact is something I truly dislike about Index. Being a campione is like cheating but it in fact make Godou's life logical and understandable. He is important, powerful and inexperience and yet no human nor organization dare to lay a finger on him (except for one complete idiot who was already crushed by the [Boar]). It is because he is a campione, a being of power who born to hunt celestial beings and no matter how many of them gathered, human can never win against a [King]. And almost in every volumes, Godou experiences death at least once. For instance, in the fight against Melqart, after being struck by Melqart's clubs of wind and lightning, he was fried alive, his bones was broken and his organs was dissolved. But only after a sleep, he was revived completely by the power of the [Ram]. It is not considered deus ex machina because the [Ram] is his very basic ability, not something was made half way for the sake of the story.
And actually, Touma is the most special one with his Imagin Breaker. There are 7 campiones but only 1 Touma. But the fact Touma is still a human with a mudane body is really weird to me. He has a lot of enemies and organizations targeting his life. Why didn't anyone try to kill hime for real. Snipping, poisoning, stabbing him with a kitchen or even threatening him using his family or friends will work as well... I don't think he can use his right hand to deal with them...

Spoiler for off-topic To aru response:

In general the enemies aren't after Touma in particular. His horrible luck, sense of heroism, and uncontrollable urge to protect the hell out of every one around him drags him into shit.

Two times this was changed. Terra came at him specifically and it took Kanzaki Kaori and her whole church to protect him. Then Gremlin tried to drop a mountain on Academy City. Again Kanzaki Kaori interfered, as did fucking Accelerator. And when Touma finally went on the offensive against GREMLIN, Misaka "Railgun" Mikoto went with him with the express intention of killing anything that tried to hurt him.

In other words, attacking Touma means going through every single person he has saved. And that includes several people who are more or less equivalent to Campiones in the Toaruverse.

I will agree that Godou's life basically makes sense. He can do the "everyday life" thing because no one can tell him not to. Except gods and campione, who he ends up fighting anyway.

[Fwarlord]

Originally Posted by XFire

Spoiler for off-topic To aru response:

In general the enemies aren't after Touma in particular. His horrible luck, sense of heroism, and uncontrollable urge to protect the hell out of every one around him drags him into shit.

Two times this was changed. Terra came at him specifically and it took Kanzaki Kaori and her whole church to protect him. Then Gremlin tried to drop a mountain on Academy City. Again Kanzaki Kaori interfered, as did fucking Accelerator. And when Touma finally went on the offensive against GREMLIN, Misaka "Railgun" Mikoto went with him with the express intention of killing anything that tried to hurt him.

In other words, attacking Touma means going through every single person he has saved. And that includes several people who are more or less equivalent to Campiones in the Toaruverse.

Spoiler for Question of To Aru:

But still, that doesn't sound right to me. Touma and his annoying herorism pissed of lots of people, especially from magic side, right? If they don't want to face him along with all of his followers, why didn't they just assassinate him? Like I said, snipping, poisoning or even hiring a street thug who know nothing of science and magic to stab him in his way to school will work. Touma screwed up lots of people's bussiness, hence, they end up fighting him and his full force right away. Then why didn't they just strike his weakness and get rid of him beforehand to prevent further troubles? Make no sense to me...

[XFire]

Originally Posted by Fwarlord

Spoiler for Question of To Aru:

But still, that doesn't sound right to me. Touma and his annoying herorism pissed of lots of people, especially from magic side, right? If they don't want to face him along with all of his followers, why didn't they just assassinate him? Like I said, snipping, poisoning or even hiring a street thug who know nothing of science and magic to stab him in his way to school will work. Touma screwed up lots of people's bussiness, hence, they end up fighting him and his full force right away. Then why didn't they just strike his weakness and get rid of him beforehand to prevent further troubles? Make no sense to me...

Spoiler for A Certain Off-Topic Response:

To assassinate him they'd have to get him either inside of Academy City or lure him outside.

Academy City has little distinction between the word "police" and the word "army", and the only people who actually get in are the ones who Alister lets in for his plan, or those powerful enough to force their way in. However, those powerful enough to do so are all well known and conspicuous that Touma's allies would find out about it.

And he normally only leaves Academy City at the behest of his allies and friends (normally you can't leave Academy City) who then make sure no one gets in his way while he gets in a fistfight with Cthullu or whatever.

And the most important thing to remember is that most of the big organizations don't really care about him until he shows up. He is basically a normal kid whose main focus is school life, taking care of Index, and avoiding Misaka.

Attacking him in his daily life involves confronting either the Science Side (if he's in Academy City) or the Magic Side (if he's outside). To do that normally requires an extremely powerful weapon or ability, which is useless against Imagine Breaker.

So basically if they tried to snipe, poison, stab, etc. they'd get killed by his super-powered harem and his even more super-powered frenemies. If they use something that can beat back the aforementioned harem and frenemies, it will fall prey to Imagine Breaker.

That said, we're way off topic and you'd be better off asking a real To Aru fan. I stopped after first two volumes of New Testament, so you may want a second opinion.

[tsunade666]

Originally Posted by belatkuro

More or less this I guess:

Spoiler for timeline:

Mid March: Vol3
Late March- late April(Golden Week): Vol11
Mid - late May: Vol1
Late June - early July: Vol2
Late July - early August: Vol4
September: Vol5, first chapter of vol8
October: Vol6 - 7, 2nd chapter of vol8
November: Vol8 last two chapters - Vol9
Mid - late November: Vol10
December - Christmas Eve: Vol12
Christmas - New Year's Eve(?): Vol13

It's not even a year and Godou has encountered a lot of things and made a name for himself. Quite a feat.

So this happens in a year right thanks.

question on year again. how many year had past since this event happen.
Voban doing his ritual to summon a heretic god that involves lots of sacrifice hime miko
Alice and Alec encounter with Lucretia or when did Alice and Alec first met. How many years is the gap from the current year.

[belatkuro]

Originally Posted by tsunade666

So this happens in a year right thanks.

question on year again. how many year had past since this event happen.
Voban doing his ritual to summon a heretic god that involves lots of sacrifice hime miko
Alice and Alec encounter with Lucretia or when did Alice and Alec first met. How many years is the gap from the current year.

Voban's ritual is 4 years ago from the current timeline.
Alec's encounter with Alice was 10 years before the timeline, because it said that Alec became a Campione at the age of 16 and they met 2 years after that. He's currently 28 years old.
That part where they meet with Lucretia at vol8 was 8 years from the timeline as it was said that it was 4 years since Alec became a Campione.

[blade82]

then Godou is not the youngest to become a Campione?

[OverNOut]

^Didn't Godou become a Campione at the age of 15.

[tsunade666]

I'm not sure on the timeline for Campione so that's why I'm asking but if I remember it right. He become one at the end of middle school or summer after middle school before high school so he is probably 15 but not sure on his birthday.

He is currently a freshman right?

[zzhk]

The Japanese school year starts in April after spring break and runs on a three term (trimester) system.

April till summer break: Term 1
September till winter break: Term 2
January till spring break: Term 3

[Ddraig]

Seeing that Godou been busy all year round after becoming Campione. I'm surprise that he didnt got called in by the teacher regarding his grade or test result. Maybe he got private tutoring by one of the girls thats how he survive

[ReaperxKingx]

Originally Posted by Ddraig

Seeing that Godou been busy all year round after becoming Campione. I'm surprise that he didnt got called in by the teacher regarding his grade or test result. Maybe he got private tutoring by one of the girls thats how he survive

Godou is the type of person who can do just "get by" when doing his studies. He is at best above average. Erica already brought up the issue that Godou continuing his studies would serve no purpose, and what we seen thus far make it so. Godou is a Campione, his only duty is to protect humanity from Gods and his own personal duty he added in is to not cause destruction as well (He definitely deserves a C-, only because he never got civilians killed, mess with their heads and destroying infrastructure he certainly did). As a 15 year old he is already capable, he can find jobs for money quite well (You know I really envy him, why can't it be like that in reality) and if he wanted to, get help from the girls (no matter how much he complains, he will always yield in the end if its an no other choice situation) since they do come from wealthy background (of course his pride wouldn't allow him to do so by just asking, more likely he will ask the girls for certain job he can do for him.......Yeah I suddenly thought what Erica would do and just chills).

I am surprise that Erica did not just quickly get her education to the point where she can mischievously become Godou's real teacher in school (only then he will drop out).

[Algester]

Originally Posted by Yye1

Lol, it even states in the LN itself that wat Godou has accomplished in such a short amount of time was incredible

let's not forget the monumental damage he incurs for every fight he takes... ancient and modern infrastructure are shown no mercy each time he do battle

[tsunade666]

Originally Posted by zzhk

The Japanese school year starts in April after spring break and runs on a three term (trimester) system.

April till summer break: Term 1
September till winter break: Term 2
January till spring break: Term 3

So he is already a highschool student when it all happens?

[Richocet]

I think he just graduated from middle school when he became a campione

Originally Posted by Vol 3 prologue

“Fine, I understand. I shall start from the very beginning. I am not used to telling this type of story so please forgive me for anything that you don’t understand.”

“...From the beginning, you mean right from the start of everything?”

“Ah, yes. We must trace back to the spring break after my middle school graduation.”

Kusanagi Godou back then was in a transition state, neither in middle school nor high school.

As it was not yet the first of May, he was still fifteen years old.

[tsunade666]

So its not really summer break but spring break. I'm still right when I say that its after middle school that it started it all. I'm really bad at remembering this dates and season.

[Yami no Ou]

well Godou is the youngest to become a Campione right?