A Certain Magical Index II #02 — Profane Images

October 15th, 2010

 

I can’t be the only one who can’t take Kugimiya seriously as a 3.5 foot tall nun.

Impressions:

A very boring setup episode chock full of that overly long and unnecessarily exposition that we all know and tolerate. JCStaff tried its usual tricks to liven it up, but unfortunately, the only trick they know is to randomly cram T&A into every possible crevasse possible, mostly in the form of figure hugging dresses and completely random underwear shots of nuns. Couldn’t they have at least let Anieze take a shot at Touma when he arrived? It wouldn’t have been much, but it would have at least been something in place of the endless stream of talking heads. Thankfully, the preview for next week’s a bit more action packed.

And also like usual, if you spent an entire episode with emotionless talking heads, then you probably didn’t say anything interesting. Faction A vs Faction B with Kaori in the middle of it… also, a scatterbrained nun with a wonderbra doing overtime wandering around to play the part of generic damsel in distress. I do find it amusing how a giant murder of nuns (what’s the term for a pack of nuns anyway?) descended onto a parking lot and set up a base camp. Nobody finds this the least bit strange at all? Forget the parking lot, how do you even move hundreds of nuns through Japan without attracting a swarm of fetish-crazed stalkers? 

Preview:

Movement? In my exposition?

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14 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • What’s Reinforce Zwei doing there?

  • rozen says:

    I agree with you Arodoc, I simply can`t take Kugimiya seriously in that role. Why did they have to change the original seiyuu (Yuuki Aoi AKA Korone in Ichiban)

  • Sterling01 says:

    Who’d they get to voice Itsuwa?

  • Nanaya says:

    To be fair, all that T&A was in the source novels for no goddamn reason at all. So it’s less of them adding it in and more of them not needing to make the effort to think it up.

    (what’s the term for a pack of nuns anyway?)

    A habit of nuns.

    • Solaris says:

      They packed half a novel in an episode so well but indeed took overly good care not to miss a single bit all of those fanservice at all, didn’t they?

  • longhaul says:

    Reading your review, the T&A shots sound exactly like how they were in the book.

  • Wilfriback says:

    “Forget the parking lot, how do you even move hundreds of nuns through Japan without attracting a swarm of fetish-crazed stalkers? ”

    Is magic!!!

    @Sterling01: Kayano Ai.

  • Mika says:

    “‘(what’s the term for a pack of nuns anyway?)’

    ‘A habit of nuns.'”

    Correction: It is actually “a superfluity of nuns”.

  • Solaris says:

    Anyway i didn’t feeel this episode was excessively made of talking heads. They actually did a good job fitting everything from the prologue to the first fight all in an episode. well they could leave out just some little fanservice detail. 3 Fanservice events in a single episode are a little too much to stomach for those who dislike it at all.
    I have just a couple of remarks to do. Nothing important.
    One is it just me or Style is a little out of proportions? I mean when he’s with Index she is as tall as his waist… Either one of them is too tall, or the other is to small or even both!
    http://tenka.seiha.org/images2/index202/index202_18.jpg Hina is it you? Could you please gather and take away some of Touma’s misfortune a bit? No? Is that too much even for you? Oh well…

  • jowny says:

    lol mugen at the last screenies

  • Wilfriback says:

    Mugen is one badass motherfucker.