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TopicRobazoid Ranks 275 Anime and Top 100 Anime Characters (recommend me stuff too)
Robazoid
08/27/22 7:31:17 PM
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This is another anime I haven't seen everything in. I was caught up for a long time but then a bunch more came out. Index S3, Railgun S3, Accelerator... it's a daunting series to fall behind in! I'd probably need to rewatch it from the start at this point, but I don't feel like doing that any time soon.

189. A Certain Scientific Railgun
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6213/Toaru_Kagaku_no_Railgun
Fall 2009 (24 episodes), Spring 2013 (24 episodes), Winter 2020 (0/25 episodes, unfinished)
My Score: 4/10, MAL Score: 7.68/10 S1, 8.03/10 S2, 8.19/10 S3
Best Character: Mikasa Mikoto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK2Djnb4fMA

Premise: A spinoff series from A Certain Magical Index. Academy City is home to espers, and one of the most powerful among them is Mikasa Mikoto, known as the Railgun.

The Good: I enjoyed the Index series, so it was nice spending more time in that world. A Certain Scientific Railgun didnt match up to the original, sadly, but it still wasnt bad. Mikasa is a good character, and its always fun seeing her railgun ability in action. That said, the parts of Railgun that I liked best were the arcs already mostly covered in Index. The new stories werent as good.

The Bad: The main thing holding Railgun back is the characters. I loved Touma and Index in the original series. Mikasa was fine, but of the main three she was a distant third. One of my favorite things from Index was Toumas power-nullifying ability and seeing how hed use it to solve conflicts. Mikasas railgun is far more powerful but also more limited in what it can do. She couldnt carry a spinoff on her own, and the three other major characters dont help much either. Saten and Uiharu were boring. Kuroko, meanwhile, is basically the same horny fangirl as she was in Index. That was fine when she was a supporting character, but here shes the secondary main and it just wasnt enough. Its odd, too. Kuroko got a small arc in Index that I liked way more than anything she did in Railgun where shes supposed to be a major character.

Overall: A Certain Scientific Railgun wasnt bad, but I didnt enjoy it anywhere near as much as Index. Mikasa wasnt a strong enough character to carry it on her own, and the other major characters didnt help much either. Theres a third season I havent seen yet, however, and I wonder if thats when Railgun finally comes into its own.

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