General Anime/Manga/Otaku Thread

[Mass Distraction]

Okay, so. It kinda hurts me how excessively shonen A Certain Magical Index is at times and just how incredibly weird it is at other times.

The main character is a mid-class pervert yet acts all oblivious when a female shows interest. Speaking of, for some reason chicks dig him. A lot. He is ready to throw away his life for people he once saw walk over the road two blocks from where he lives (not something that actually happened but you get the picture). Oh, and the teacher... The hell is that character about? A midget that is portrayed as a child who is into alcohol? Throw that in the loli basket this series seems to be drawing from. Don't even get me started on the "tense" scenes that have a character running through a single room for about 5 damn minutes. That for the shonen, then for the weird.

He's not a pervert, he is literally just unlucky. If you listen they talk about AIM dispersion fields, in which an esper unknowingly radiates this aura, if you will, of their power. Meaning Touma's "Imagine Breaker" is giving him constant bad luck, as luck in their world is supernatural, and so he unknowingly is always cancelling out luck. I don't remember a single scene where he runs around a single room for 5 minutes unless you count the bit where he is reading books trying to save Index. Although, I'll give it to you, I don't know what the teacher is all about.

He does act all pervy at times. Not nearly as much as so many other characters I've seen, in this series and out, but that's why I said "mid-class". I understand the luck part, I should at least since my own luck is almost on par with his. At least I can relate :P There was a scene in one of the earlier episodes with the whole teacher using magic and something, something, then there was fire and something else happened, don't really remember. Anyway, in that scene Touma kept running for a good few minutes of the episode when Index was literally on the other side of the room. Maybe Touma's bad luck made him slow-mo. But that's just stupid.

Apparently people he used to know back when he was a kid were incredibly scared of his misfortune and thus his parents sent him away and his dad suffered some kind of mental breakdown (don't worry, not a spoiler as it was only briefly mentioned and doesn't really matter anyway). Honestly, if this was the case in everyday life, I would have been sent away too. Seriously, my luck is that bad and I'm well known for it. Then there's all the science and magic talk, most of which I understand none of and makes most of the "explanations" pointless, at least for me. Speaking of magic, the whole Chritsian church thing is just ridiculous and stupid. I'm no religious fanatic, far from it, but they could have just replaced it with any made-up cult and nothing would have changed. The only reason they used Christianity is to explain a brief appearance of an angel. Who is a little girl in a skimpy outfit, of course. But this is anime so don't worry, she's totally legal.

That's the point. The whole religious plot in the anime is meant to be a joke and to not be taken seriously. It's easier to take an existing cult and make fun of them then just making one up. Also, what skimpy girl? I haven't seen Index in a while, but I don't remember that part.

I honestly couldn't catch the "joke" part. Either I just don't get it or they did a really poor job getting the point across or even making this point explicit enough for the average viewer to notice. All I see is a series deseprately trying to act all serious in its tones when it really isn't.

Oh, and this thing right here:

I can understand them trying to take a new approach on the whole cliche angel appearance but seriously, what the fuck is this? Bondage night?

It's better to watch it Index, Index 2, then Railgun, Railgun S

Aww man, really? Oh well, I'm already going in the first season of Railgun so I'm just gonna roll with it.