Railgun euphoria :: risks of misfire, recoil, meltdown
Like Dav, I am, of course, delighted with the news that we may get our wish for a Railgun anime.
If it's true there's still always a but - particularly with respect to that old adage: Be careful what you wish for. Kurogane, rightly, sounds a cautionary note:
But god. I hope it’s not the same staff as Index…. although I have a pretty damn good feeling it will be.
Is Kuro-chan being way too pessimistic?
A certain series diluted, spliced and distilled
Now that we've had the Biri Biri arc that Railgun fans have been clamouring for, I'm left with the ever so slight but undeniable taste of disappointment. Keiri's contention that the characters were diluted went some way to explain my funk.
Kuroko (aka 'Desu-no chan' LOL), in particular, felt incomplete, unwhole. Thinking back, it wasn't so much that she was diluted but that a facet of her personality was very deliberately and surgically spliced off - the crazy yuri jealousy which was the source of so much merriment when I was reading A Certain Scientific Railgun. Manga Kuroko's jealousy is definitely one of her charm points, she just isn't the same without it.
At least we got some of her perviness back. Washi eloquently described how the Index poster in Megami 105 distilled all his favourite things about the Index anime. Another big reason why the aforementioned poster is Good, for me, is because who's not there: Touma. Which is why I suppose I prefer the Railgun manga so much more -he's just an occasional cameo supporting chara.

















