A Certain Magical Index 3 #08 — Can You Hear Me Now?
November 23rd, 2018
Missing a real opportunity to shill some phones.
Lightbox attempt take three. First one broke the RSS completely, second broke the HTML on random pages, let's see what this one breaks. I don't see anything broken yet, but give feedback or notice if so desired.
Impressions:
What happened to this franchise? You'd think it was popular enough for them to put some actual effort into these kinds of episodes, but I guess they assume they've already got the fans on board, so why both trying at all, both in the action and on the story side. After berating Itsuwa for a few minutes, they spend most of the rest of the first half on their phones. It's literally just some crazy dude standing in the park demanding that people fight him and it's almost like they're doing bad improv trying to justify it.
Anyway, the action side was dismal this week as well. They drag out about twenty characters to fight the new midboss, but instead of a big knockdown dragout brawl like something like Tokyo Majin did for its big final fight, the boss just explodes about three times and everyone falls over. The end. Thanks for showing up, buncha randos. That was your whole purpose. To lazily job. And I'm not even joking about the exploding. Itsuwa tries to cheapshot him, so he explodes. They trap him in magic strings, so he explodes. Kaori pops up out of nowhere and he explodes before they just end the episode. The two hit each others' weapon I think twice, and we're calling it quits, which is also about as much as they feel like animating in a lot of the 'attacks.' And, obviously, for every one attack, there must be at least four or five paragraphs delivered, m
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Thanks for the lightbox, looks good!
Maybe left- and right-buttons (for clickers) and functionality to do the same with the cursor keys would be nice to browse through an album easier.
As it is now, you have to open-close-open-close-and so on each image.