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elfsSo, I just watched episode one To Aru Kagaku no Railgun (eng: A Certain Scientific Railgun), which has to be just about the stupidest super-powered girl, yuri-on-the-hoof anime series yet. The setting is basically an entire city turned over to the study of Marvel-style psionics: telepaths, telekinets, etc. etc.
The heroine, Mikoto Misaka, is the most ass-kicking telekinetic the city has ever seen. Her power manifests as electrical charges, so she has the nickname "The Railgun," and with a handful of coins she can destroy whole armies. She's introduced during testing; while her roommate and the sterotypical stuck-up rich older girl trade barbs, they're suddenly flung on their asses by a shockwave from the school pool. The roommate preens about how powerful this new girl is, they need to use the entire olympic swimming pool just to slow down the quarters she tosses. At the end of the epsisode, Mikoto, her friend Kuroko, and two other characters are introduced, and Mikoto becomes friends with an innocent and un-superpowered girl. They interrupt a robbery, and when one of the villains kick said girl in the face and then tries to escape in a high-speed car, Mikoto flips a coin in the air, and when it falls in front of her she destroys the car with it. All what you'd expect from an Episode 1. "Hi, here's our main cast, we're all magical girls, and here's what the heroine is capable of doing."
The art's quite good, although it devolves way too often when the plot get silly.
What is really sad about the series is the way it's already basically yuri hentai: Kuroko conspires constantly on how to convince Mikoto that they should both go to a love hotel, and in one scene even manages to get her hands under Mikoto's shirt and feel her up. Men show up in this episode only when being arrested.
I kinda want to watch this series, because I kinda like Mikoto: she's got a mix of personas all battling for identity: super-powered heroine besieged by fans, insecure girl unsure of her powers, stuck-up idol, stage-frightened but capable of powering through. But the extremely poorly-handled lesbian crush annoys the Hell out of me (shocking, isn't it?). Kuroko's crush on Mikoto isn't sexual, or romantic, or fannish, or... or anything. It exists because the writers want it to exist, and not because either character would otherwise really want it.
The heroine, Mikoto Misaka, is the most ass-kicking telekinetic the city has ever seen. Her power manifests as electrical charges, so she has the nickname "The Railgun," and with a handful of coins she can destroy whole armies. She's introduced during testing; while her roommate and the sterotypical stuck-up rich older girl trade barbs, they're suddenly flung on their asses by a shockwave from the school pool. The roommate preens about how powerful this new girl is, they need to use the entire olympic swimming pool just to slow down the quarters she tosses. At the end of the epsisode, Mikoto, her friend Kuroko, and two other characters are introduced, and Mikoto becomes friends with an innocent and un-superpowered girl. They interrupt a robbery, and when one of the villains kick said girl in the face and then tries to escape in a high-speed car, Mikoto flips a coin in the air, and when it falls in front of her she destroys the car with it. All what you'd expect from an Episode 1. "Hi, here's our main cast, we're all magical girls, and here's what the heroine is capable of doing."
The art's quite good, although it devolves way too often when the plot get silly.
What is really sad about the series is the way it's already basically yuri hentai: Kuroko conspires constantly on how to convince Mikoto that they should both go to a love hotel, and in one scene even manages to get her hands under Mikoto's shirt and feel her up. Men show up in this episode only when being arrested.
I kinda want to watch this series, because I kinda like Mikoto: she's got a mix of personas all battling for identity: super-powered heroine besieged by fans, insecure girl unsure of her powers, stuck-up idol, stage-frightened but capable of powering through. But the extremely poorly-handled lesbian crush annoys the Hell out of me (shocking, isn't it?). Kuroko's crush on Mikoto isn't sexual, or romantic, or fannish, or... or anything. It exists because the writers want it to exist, and not because either character would otherwise really want it.
