A Certain Scientific Railgun #04 — Imagine Breaker

October 23rd, 2009

 

Thank you for providing some actual action, Touma.

You know, I get done with class and think to myself "time to watch me some anime!" and on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, that works out great. On Friday, however, the only thing that’s ever waiting for me is Railgun, and it’ll be at least an hour before Ken shows up. Thus we find ourselves here once again. At least it makes Hekiyoh taste all the sweeter.

Okay, so today I had a prelim and got out of class early and watched an episode of Japanese South Park as well. My point still stands.

Impressions:

The point that this episode got across to me is that the creators realized that they were light on certain brands of pandering, so introduced a new character who is prone to stripping in public and calls Mikoto a tsundere. Oh boy! Boobs! Whoopie doo! And public nudity! And just in case you have the craving for it, let’s take off her skirt and stick her on the toilet too. FANTASTIC. I always hoped that this show would have some overtures of defecation.  

However, this was easily the most enjoyable episode of Railgun to date for me and reaffirms my belief that for however irritating he is, Touma’s needed. Accelerator would probably work too though. Just… someone who’s willing and able to stand up against Mikoto and not have it be a huge joke. The rest of the Scooby Gang can only hope to win on good feelings, and since Totali’s long since checked out, the power of love remains nothing but a slightly irritating Huey Lewis song. Seriously, you can just watch the clip below (and the other part where Touma shows up) and you’ll catch about the only thing in this episode that wasn’t physically exhausting to endure.

Preview:

Oh boy! An Uihara episode! Fan-tastic.

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22 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • GF202020 says:

    …I can never take Uihara seriously because of that retarded as hell flower headband thing.

  • redlupine says:

    http://blog.seiha.org/images2/railgun4/railgun4_66.jpg
    Mikoto can make a sword out of dirt? how does that make sense?

  • Nanaya says:

    I love how Mikoto tries to grab Touma’s hand to electrocute him, and he just stares blankly at her and pretends like he’s about to punch her to scare her. And then mocks her until she snaps again.

    Aww, it’s like he WANTS her to think she has the upper hand and attack him.

  • Silver says:

    Actually that crazy stripper is part of the manga.

  • longhaul says:

    nice we are back following the manga

  • Lero says:

    Suddenly Touma, I don’t dont find him annoying, the cliches and arquetypal character ARE annonying coughRiecouhgkumigiyacoughcharacterscough.

  • TJ says:

    Biri-biri ain’t nothing without Touma lol.

  • Mentar says:

    Aroduc: You’ll see, the next episode will be pretty good, Uiharu notwithstanding. It’s an important backstory episode about how Kuroko and her met. It will also be quite action-laden and much more serious than the episodes we had so far.

    • Shinji103 says:

      Mmm, well I wouldn’t call it /important/, even in the manga it was only a special/extra chapter and not included among the main story, but it /is/ a nice episode and one I’ve been hoping to see animated. :)

  • Shinji103 says:

    Now /this/ is what I expect from JC Staff. 95% of this episode was anime-original (the Touma vs Mikoto fight being the other 5%), and they still pull it off great. Glad they’re pulling themselves back together.

  • The Phantom says:

    AAAAAHHHHHH!!!! crap you spoiled this episode fo me, I should not have arrived here w/o watching this first, damn you for putting Imagine breaker near the title together with pics of touma. Now I need to get the raws of this desesperately, Touma X Biribiri FTW!!!

  • Honoo says:

    FUCK YEAH TOUMA AND ZANNEN BIJIN COMBO APPEARANCE.

    Sorry I just had to do it.

  • Anonymous says:

    They should just include Touma in every episode in the show.

    Index can stay out though.

  • Yue says:

    The sarcasm [force] is strong is this one, lord Arudoc [Darth Vader].

    *insert synthesized breathing here* XD

  • passer-by says:

    …where’s blow’em-up-with-cans boy? Oh well, at least we get to see the crazy scientist and her awesome stripping :/

  • Rewriter says:

    Lolz I freaking love Kuroko!

  • LoliSauce says:

    Ah, now that a certain stripping researcher has been introduced, it looks like shit is finally going to start heating up soon. Get hype for Level Upper.

  • Solaris says:

    actually, the strip woman is an important char. I never imagined they’d introduce her like that.

    They are adding silly fillers but they’re actually moving in the same direction in the mangas.

  • Roze says:

    the BGM was cool ^_^ when biri biri start fighting Touma