天下制覇

I choose to substitute my own reality.

Impressions:

What an expectedly great episode. There was action, surprise plot, the works. Sure, the exposition about the Tree diagram went a little long and I’m not sure that we really needed Accelerator retconned into more of a good guy by having Misaka provoke him, but eh, I guess it makes his face turn a little more believable, so I’m not going to complain that much. Misaka #Whatever also did a pretty good job of holding her own with a couple tricks that may have well worked against Accelerator, creating the oxygen deprivation cyclone/flame trap and the magnetized dust storm to putz with his vectoring. They probably could have thought at least the former through a little better though. Forget redirecting the physics lesson about the amount of oxygen one exhales and cycling that, he could have just held his breath. The damn thing lasted all of 30 seconds. It took her longer to explain what she was about to do than to actually do it.

The other big thing of note was Judgment/Kuroko and Uihara stumbling onto the whole Misaka/Sisters experiment through Misaka #Whosit’s corpse before the other Misakas whisked it off. Well, Saten too I guess, but nobody cares about her. What’s she going to do anyway? She would probably end up accidentally killing Index’s cat by drugging it up on Level Upper. They could have certainly done Kuroko’s whole reaction and realization that it wasn’t Mikoto a little better, but at least they played it straight instead of resorting to a lesbian joke or panty check, even if it was still a little unintentionally creepy to get the naked side by side of corpse/Mikoto musculature. But regardless, they certainly could have done that far worse, so c’est la vie.

That’s how I choose to remember this episode and I do not care to hear otherwise. Good day.

Preview:

Accelerator versus Goku.