Anime's Silly Season

[elfs]

So, let me get this straight: the most popular series right now is some vaguely high-school yurilicious show about a human railgun?

Okay, then.

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[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

?

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Toaru Kagaku no Railgun (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=10706)

I have no idea what the setting is supposed to be; anime encyclopedia describes it as a "side story." I watched the first episode last night, and am, well, baffled begins to describe it.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Ah. Thanks. Is it any good?

wikipedia has an entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toaru_Majutsu_no_Index

[featheredfrog.livejournal.com]

wiki page makes mah head hurt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toaru_Majutsu_no_Index

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Jinx!

[pieforeveryone.livejournal.com]

Well, I'd like to say that the story makes more sense if you've seen the "Index" series that this is a prequel to, since "Index" spends more time explaining the particulars of the world... But regardless it is a very silly premise. I started to call it a very silly world, but since one of the plot-lines involves someone being drafted into a program where he finds himself killing 10,000 clones of a girl, one at a time, in order to make him more powerful... I don't really know why I like these shows. But they are actually kinda cool.