A Certain Lesbian Teleporter II #06 — When In Doubt, Be Naked

November 12th, 2010

 

I was led to believe that there’d be more stabbing and less yapping.

Impressions:

Extremely dull and poorly handled episode. Particularly the transitions from one scene to the next, or rather, the total lack of them. I suppose it could be said that at least it’s moving quickly through this arc since after the dull underwear shopping scene at the start, it began disjointly leaping from one exposition dump to another… mostly taking place in bathrooms… but it’s all just generic plot without any actual emotion or soul. Said plot being just Kuroko starting to gather bits and pieces of the Sisters incident, but really not making a tremendous amount of sense along the way. Also, we’re into the Shana model of exposition now. "If you have something to say, the cast should be naked." At least a third of the episode took place naked, which should already give you an idea of how action packed it was.

I want to like the new villain, Awaki, what with stabbing Kuroko repeatedly, knowing how to thwart her, and her willingness to teleport human bodies around her as mobile meat shields, but aside from that, she really has absolutely no personality whatsoever. She appears, steals the briefcase "carry case," and then spends the better part of the next five minutes reviewing her dastardly plans like she’s a refuge from a 70s Bond movie. Blah blah blah. "You know nothing" blah blah blah "Misaka Mikoto" blah blah blah "Now I’m just going to wander off." At least drop her into a pool of laser sharks or something before you go. Even the director got bored enough to think that turning the camera upside down would be a good idea. Of course, compared to the five minutes of watching naked Kuroko talk on the phone and through a door, perhaps that was genius after all. Nice to see that along with the crappy Railgun cast we get the crappy Railgun budget.

Preview:

Dramatic faces! Maybe Misaka and Accel will get more than 20 seconds screentime.

Posted in Index | 17 Comments »

17 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Phocus says:
    November 12, 2010 at 6:24 pm

    I miss Accelerator.

    • Myssa Rei says:
      November 12, 2010 at 6:51 pm

      Eh, if this is going to follow the book verbatim, then accelerator will have his moment around… 5 minutes into the last episode of this arc.

    • tabs05 says:
      November 13, 2010 at 2:48 pm

      I actually find him quite boring.Never bothered to watch the full eps during his arc.I’d prefer Touma’s overbearing preahing than accelerator’s stupid swearing and psychopathic laugh any day.Although I admit it makes it more interesting being stark contrast of each other in more ways than one.

      • Nanaya says:
        November 14, 2010 at 7:22 am

        Funny you would say that, in one of the novel afterwords the author mentions that he made all of the series’ antagonists by taking Touma and twisting some of his personality/motivation aspects to an extreme.

  • tabs05 says:
    November 12, 2010 at 10:59 pm

    Uhmm…I thought this was an Index series?Why do I feel like it’s a lost ep of railgun or something.I know it’s part of the light novels but this ep blows.I’m watching this series because of Touma and Index first of all.

    • Nanaya says:
      November 13, 2010 at 12:51 am

      This is all of novel 8, I thought it was too much like filler too. It’s technically plot-related, but the main chars and Accelerator don’t show up until the very end.

      Although I did like how ridiculously impossible Touma’s ability seems from someone with 6+ senses (punch air, space and other dimensions screw themselves backwards to fix themselves :P ).

      Next arc will be more interesting, along with more potential for exposition and flipped cameras.

  • Longhaul says:
    November 12, 2010 at 11:04 pm

    The crosswalk sign gets me every time.

    Also Mikoto’s electricity seemed to be well animated.

  • Ransom says:
    November 13, 2010 at 12:48 am

    You have to admit that the last part and the fight between Kuroko and Awaki had a great ambientation :)

    Yet… It would be better is this was in a certain other spinoff and not here. Everybody wants to see Touma preaches and punches :P

  • TroytheSkull says:
    November 13, 2010 at 1:07 am

    Most of the time when Touma is off screen Index gets kind of meh. It’s funny when Touma is in Railgun it becomes a alright eps.

  • Solaris says:
    November 13, 2010 at 8:33 pm

    The main char is Kuroko here, so yeah no Touma and Accel till the end of the arc when they’ll appear to save the day. And a whole novel was cramped in two only episodes, so you were spared a long speech at the ligerie shop on why so many nations were launching missiles instead of listening to 15 seconds of anime. You will be probably spared of Iwaki’s problems that caused her to stop her power development, and many more stuff. You got only the fights and action with great cuts on exposition. What the fuck are you still whining about?

    • Kaisos says:
      November 14, 2010 at 12:08 am

      Not enough explosions.

    • Myssa Rei says:
      November 16, 2010 at 9:16 am

      Err, you do realize that this is Aroduc we’re talking about here? He pretty much has something extremely critical to say about ALL the anime he follows — which is why when he actually says something nice, it’s best to listen.

  • RaiKitsune says:
    November 14, 2010 at 4:34 am

    I thought railgun was much better animated then index. They seem to be taking a step back in index 2 to keep it like the original instead of making better art like in railgun.

  • Keith 'Azure Grimoire' Kurogane says:
    November 14, 2010 at 10:20 am

    Okay… I this episode saved me the trouble from reading the novel…
    But still… Touma and Accelerator will only show at the end of this arc.