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To Aru Kagaku no Railgun | A Certain Scientific Railgun [Series]
sdedalus83:
--- Quote from: erious on April 19, 2010, 03:43:32 PM ---I thought it was supposed to be located in Japan, not the UK.
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Well, it is run by a Brit, and a particularly psychotic one at that.
relic2279:
Something just occurred to me... The main character from Index, Tōma, is strikingly similar to the original main character in the Piers Anthony Xanth novels. Bink.
As far as powers are concerned, anyways. He's in a closed off country/land where everyone has a magical 'talent'. Everyone thinks he has no talent, so he gets sent out of the land. But he finds out he does have a talent. The nullification of others magic and talents...
Wow... It's been close to 17 years since I read those books.
erious:
--- Quote from: relic2279 on April 19, 2010, 05:36:41 PM ---Something just occurred to me... The main character from Index, Tōma, is strikingly similar to the original main character in the Piers Anthony Xanth novels. Bink.
As far as powers are concerned, anyways. He's in a closed off country/land where everyone has a magical 'talent'. Everyone thinks he has no talent, so he gets sent out of the land. But he finds out he does have a talent. The nullification of others magic and talents...
Wow... It's been close to 17 years since I read those books.
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Heh, got the first volume of that on my bookshelf. Pretty fun series, if memory serves me right.
EDIT: Aaaand finished the series.
Expect wall of text to come later(though I won't complain anymore), for now I'll just say that this is as close to perfect mainstream anime as you can get. I still wish that it wouldn't be so dumb, but most of that probably came from source material, and it didn't actually matter.
sdedalus83:
--- Quote from: erious on April 19, 2010, 05:56:23 PM ---Expect wall of text to come later(though I won't complain anymore), for now I'll just say that this is as close to perfect mainstream anime as you can get. I still wish that it wouldn't be so dumb, but most of that probably came from source material, and it didn't actually matter.
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The author has a serious problem with creating a plausible setting or any sort of continuity whatsoever. Yet the characters are great and it's fun to watch. If you don't take it seriously, and can appreciate the moments where it rips all over genre conventions, then it becomes brilliant.
mizore:
Lol @ erious.
Not getting into an argument over a mediocre series, but I just wanted to point out that the after-school sessions shown briefly showed improvements in their tests after only the first day of "trying harder." So, it seems that efforts such as these aren't so naive or worthless as you say.
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