The Fascinating World of Index/Railgun and Why You Should Watch It
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- Опубліковано 14 лип 2024
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I have no direction in life so accelerator can't control it
then he can give YOU a bit of direction so he can fuck you up
You could say lack of direction is a vector of (0, 0, 0)
You're never safe from bestboy.
You only provided a single grid position. You need at least two to make a vector.
I guess you could argue that there are infinite theoretical vectors stemming from a single point, but I've already lost interest in my own reply so who cares, really.
He will just cause a metal beams vector to intersect with your face.
"You only provided a single grid position. You need at least two to make a vector."
I don't think he was giving a grid position. There is such a thing as a zero vector .
Accelerator is the reason no one asked me the "if you could have one superpower.." question anymore.
It's basically just a step down from reality manipulation and truth/ fantasy boundary disintegration.
@@snowboundwhale6860 its waaay different though. Reality manipulation is leagues ahead while also being incomprehensively hard to resist. U would start out with tiny things and eventually end up being the sole dictator of reality.
Ah, but you have to touch the object in order to interact with it. Guy tends to bend that rule quite a bit, but the times when he does, it's reasonable to say that he's abusing momentum (i.e. a hurricane is a bunch of circling wind, but if you concentrated one stream of air then you could create the same affect). So you'd still be vulnerable to dying in a whole host of other ways.
Let me pontificate a few ways you may still die:
Poison gas, (non-visible) radiation, suffocation (either vacuum or drowning), sniped from out of sight (you're not a Jedi), murdered in your sleep, speed of light weapons (i.e. all the lasers in the show), collateral damage from mass destruction weapons (i.e. you can save yourself from a nuclear explosion, but not from the lack of cold, breathable air that no longer exists due to that explosion), and a whole world of micro-organisms ranging from bacterial infections and viruses to exotic chemicals like enzymes and acids.
I prefer the opposite, though almost equally over powered, choice of being able to infinitely absorb energy of all kinds. Can still die to most of the same stuff, but anything with energy to warm or bruise me would be immediately negated. Also, innate hovering due to absorbing gravitational acceleration!
@@megadeathx a lot of your things listed don't matter due to his barrier being that he subconsciously pushes away most things not required for life one perfect example is the reason he is pale is because he reflects all UV Ray's
I’m so confused, which anime should I start with first. Railgun? Index? Or a certain Scientific Accelerator? Are they interconnected in some way? And which anime are you referring to in the OP?
"Accelerator has to do the calculations in real-time"
*oh god not the matrices anything but the matrices*
Yeah...
God I fucking hate matrices
Accel's calculating literal layered infinities if he's not averaging them out (likely)
@M J nothing.
Bruh Matrices are way easier, the real problem is Calculus if you do Maths.
"Teleporting Lesbian" and "Pikachu Tsundere-Girl" that is the most accurate explanation of those two
And yur an actual note like literally
Teleporting Lesbian is a common nickname for Kuroko in the fanbase, but Pikachu Tsundere is definitely a new one.
@@depression_isnt_real Her character works because she has a reason to love Touma, who also has a reason to avoid relationships. Their rivalry was established early on and it served as a basis for their future relationship. This is why Misaka works as a tsundere.
Ikr but misaka is my waifu
@@FNihalJK Same here, but Tsundere Pikachu is a fitting nickname.
Gigguk: Without noticing....I became a fan
Index Fandom: Gentleman...We got him
Tell me about it, there's this dude who just tranferred at our college and then he saw i was looking at some of toaru stuffs
Instant friend appeared before me. It's been 3 years and we're like kids waiting for its animation and here we are season III with bonus misaka and accelerator next year yay!
All according to keikaku
Ich liebe deinen namen
@@anjaanja6448 like yours to mate
He is not wrong about that spreading the gospel bit. I've been preaching the good word of Index and Railgun for quite sometime now. Especially about how fights always require people to use their brains and even the kid with the power that basically cancels other powers gets his ass kicked because his opponents rather neatly figure out ways around his ability or how best to exploit obvious weakness he has.
"Pikachu as a tsundere anime girl." Yup, that's my Onee-sama.
I kind of want to see pikachu exploding and dying one day cuz these characters seem too overpowered cuz they never die it seems.
*ONEE-SAMA* (heavy breathing)
1 Mol mikoto misaka (Railgun) Can be tired out for using too much electricity. And pichachu Can be badly damaged at pokemon tournaments. And i Think they are about as Powerful. Railgun shot a bomb out of the sky and Pichachu have filled entre stadiums with electricity so yea its an interesting battle of the Zappers
Kuroko is the most relatable character
@@evaunit0014 ikr she's every fan
The Railgun and Accelerator “side story’s” are really what’s holding the Index anime together for any potential future. It’s not just the bad pacing, the Index anime at times butchers whole arcs, especially Index 3.
bruhhh imagine index 4 is actually a good adaptation
then touma punches you with imagine breaker😂😂😂
I’ve thought that The Index series hasn’t been bad. I honestly think it’s a little underrated. I think that accelerator was the worst season so far and Railgun has been the best series. But I don’t think that people underrate index. Idk if it’s because i haven’t read the LN or manga but I think it’s pretty good.
I am i definitely agree wirh ya bro
@@freedom8163 i agree.. I like Accelerator but Accelerator Spinoff was bad... Railgun S was the best, but only the first half...
My ranking goes
Railgun S
Index 2
Railgun T(First half was lit and I Hope the second half of the season is a bomb)
Index 3
Index 1
Railgun
Accelerator
O Kawaii Koto! I like your list ! The only thing for me is I would switch index 3 and Railgun bc I personally like slice of life so the beginning didn’t bother me at all. Nice list 👍🏼
P.S. I love the profile pic 😂
fate fans: "how do i get into index?"
index fans: "ti's but the same method yer used for yer own franchise mate"
Ah, so just watch it and don't let anyone else tell you where to start? Got it, I agree.
@@marcuslight751 mhhh, i actually just rolled dice to get a random fate anime and then rolled again for a random episode. it was probably the best way to watch fate.
@@__-kd8oz I just watched the Adapted animes then jumped to the visual novel and I was good at understanding the entire series and its characters. As much as people don't like the Deen stuff, it still gives you a base understanding of what's going on.
fate: read the visual novel
index: read the light novel.
Eyyyy Mongol Empire, r u Mongolian?
Gigguk: "...basically Pikachu as a tsundere anime girl"
Pikachi in 1998: "Am I a joke to you?"
I can eat pikachu
Eating a Pikachu isn't much different from feasting on -rats- children; they're both cute, cuddly, and doubly irritating. Mind to try some? ...Oh, the notion of sucking on bloody toes or nibbling nostrils hadn't ever occurred to you as a tempting possibility...? What a shame. As the fierce-hearted child of two lovely online consumers, it is my utmost duty to promote the welfare of the virtual community/pool. (...Actually, on second thought, they probably wouldn't like my promoting so freely... This may even come off as false advertising. Bummer.)
Good day.~~
Gigguk: goes into a 20 minute detailed explanation about why it’s good
Me: Accelerator
Oh, I actually don't like accelerator. Kinda wished he died.
I like all the main characters, I like to think that they all contributed to the series overall
You're forgetting stiles and that blond guy in the Hawaiian shirt.
👏
Except real best boy is shiage
(Edit: put what I thought was his last name, but I used the wrong name.)
The fact that Gigguk didn't mention how good the openings are like AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Omg I agree SO much!! Finally I've found a comment regarding this!! 😊
IKR the railgun ops are literally amazing!!!
Just hearing the opening its worth it
@@bloxianleyt3759 the first railgun opening might have been on of the best anime openings for me up there with the demon slayer opening
@@kylxlxnxdwxrds1856 I can't decide if My Railgun or Sister's Noise is the best.
*spoiler*
actually, Accelerator's limitation was getting shot in the head. He was perfectly able to do all the calculations by himself before getting shot
Which is absolute bullcrap xD There is no way he was able to calculate all that shit in real-time.
This is why I don't get the point of people talking about how this system is so thought out and clever. No, it's not. It's bullshit and they could have done it somewhat easier if they would just go 100% with espers having their own mini verse where all the science is happening.
Why wouldn't he be able to accelerate his brain function? @@Tavlin
@@Tavlin mabye becoming an Esper changes their brain or something Idk honestly but you could say that about almost any power if you dig farther enough for the reasons they can do the things they can do
@@xpcohiox Okay look, the brain is extremely complicated, so who knows if you could even overclock the brain by letting the current flow faster inside your brain. If you could it will be a nightmarish calculation by itself and the faster it goes the faster you need to compute, constantly. If you want to believe that he can do this fine, I just think it makes no sense and I don't get why so many seem to think this makes 100% sense.
@@nuclearnadal3116 Maybe.
And yeah almost all powers are busted but people keep on claiming that it makes sense in this series and it just doesn't (IMO). That's all I'm saying.
Gigguk: "Magic is supposed to be unexplainable through scientific reasoning"
Accelerator in Index III: Literally comes up with his own fucking formula derived from a spell and calculates its parameters
There is that scene, but I think he doesn't necessarily understand the whole mechanism of it.
Like "why do I have to sing to get rid of what's essentially a computer virus?!"
Just that he examined and studied how to do the ritual correctly as instructed.
Later in the novels Accelerator starts to understand how magic vectors work and is able to locate magic activity through feng-shui, but of course, being an Esper he cannot use magic or his blood vessels would explode. But he's no interested in magic.
Now he has Qliphah Puzzle 545, a demon as his magic advisor.
To be fair
It’s accelerator
Nobody:
Gigguk: *HERE'S MY MASTER'S IN ELECTRONICS AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING*
He said electronic. Those are two different things and he'd be a super bad ass if he had both.
Yeah got it from U.A. highschool no less
Series is amazing
*Electronics and Electrical Engineering*
Someone with ( Master in electronics and medical engineering ) can you expalain what the meltdowner ( Rank4 lvl 5's ) ability really is??... I just now get some interest in scient
After watching this I just realized...
Index was literally a book walker.
Hahaha nice one
Now this is a really good joke
Damn it take my like
I see what you did there! 👍
wait a minute
It is so nice seeing that comments about Touma. I totally realized how much LN readers that were defending Touma were right after the reading LN. Anime adaptation ruined him. No, not even like that. THEY FUCKING RUINED HIS CHARACTER !!!
Yeah, now it is more accurate.
Me too, he was even my favorite character before switching over to the LN.
Yeah. In the LN, we know was thinking and its crazy how far his character has gone trough.
@@brobro5493 I hated him for the entire S1 just cause I didn't read the LN
Nah they ruined the complete series except the animation and va too
No.
Jesus in Index is a Magic User
Jesus in Jojo is a Stand User
Jesus and Buddha becoming roommates
Jesus Christ that's a lot of roles
Wait until he becomes a hipster character
In Beyblade, Moses used a Beyblade to split the sea. I think I win.
Jesus could also reasonably appear as a op servant in Fate
Well he's jesus... he's the first OP written character to exist
@@craytherlaygaming2852 Well that would be Gilgamesh the anciant Mesopotamian Hero
Jesus is the most widely known Op character ever written
"The deeper you go, the more rewarding the experience becomes as a whole"
-Gigguk 2018.
Thunder Voltz hole* ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
"IN the HOLE" - fixed.
How is this possible?! I was scrolling down the comment section and when I happen to read yours Gigguk was saying the exact same words! Must be the work of God
@@isthisyoutube7961 Same thing exact word by word i was reading this when he said this
Bro I didn't even think about it like that 😂
Touma is him, he's the MAN, the TouMAN. Let me share you guys the greatness of TouMAN, The one who purify god and slays demon, the right hand user, Imagine breaker, God of Pestilence, Kamijou (above god).
TouMAN, the gender equality god:
- If you are a villain, prepare, even Joker can be save if it's TouMAN. BE WOMAN, BE MAN, BE CHILDREN, BE THE OLD, BE PREGNANT, BE HOMO, you won't escape the punch if you're a villain that need their mind fixed with a punch in the face, TOUMAN, the chad of all chad, the gigachad before gigachad was even a thing, will come and say: "do you need to have a reason to save someone?" further escalated to "Hero? Villain? Stop kidding around! Can't you save someone if you're not standing at that spot?! In front of your eyes are people that don't wish to cry that are crying!". A gigachad that doesn't shout out I want to be a hero, a gigachad that doesn't shout out because I am this and that, I have to save them, he just save them as they need his help.
He will save you:
- Be his enemy, be his friend, be a stranger, be a killer, be killing him billion of times, be torturing him endlessly, if you can be saved, TouMAN will save you, even if he need to face the whole world. He won't follow you into your hell, because it would be very suffering for the two, instead, he drag you out of it.
A chad with a taste:
- Touman cares about no girls, he flushes like other man, he loves Onee-san types, but he never loves anyone romantically nor wasting time for it, he isn't a simp, he doesn't fap, he's a healthy boy with a healthy right arm that he only use to save people who need his help, the very hand who people say brought him unfortunate, he said that thanks to that very hand, he was able to save people.
A chad that deemed himself as normal:
- "I'm just a normal high school boy you could find anywhere". A normal highschool boy who worries about a family member of him everyday, though struggling with life at times, complaining about his unfortunate, he never meant to complain his very life even once.
A gigachad with a mental of a gigachad:
- I'll take revenge? I can't do this no more? It's suffering? Reject all of that, the normal highschool boy himself will survives through an endless hell of death loop mix toturments and will safe the one who did that to him. A strong will to the point that he could endure all of that and end up broken, but saved with just a person that care about him, he just need to express his emotions and all that hell was left behind like it's nothing.
A gigachad with eggs priority.
-he need food, help this man, though he survived without a need of a help, what a chad.
A chad where in conversations, you don't talk about how ridiculously strong of a character this chad is in fiction, but how chad TouMAN is.
A chad that is original:
- As a chad, he's original, his power is originally uninteresting turned originally interesting and unique. His character is too well built to be replicated by anyone. His power, his characteristic and the way he's developed is the original, the unique, he's one true best of the best of all protagonists to ever exists, only rivalled by Accelerator the god himself and the other one that spoiler spoiler.
Over all, Kamijou TouMAN is the chad, the humble, the Gender Equality, the Self-called normal chad.
.........i like you🤝
As a person who is currently reading new testament volume tenth, this is an example of the most mentally estable Magical Index fan.
If you ever want to be part of the community, remember this:
Make sure you know what you're saying and read the novels, you'll get a storm of corrections if you don't.
Therefore when going online, remember one foot in and one foot out.
Reading the novels is a better experience anyways.
I want to read the light novel but i dont know where and order to read it
@@MrWeebs-gc2jj Starting from the Beginning
There are a few different orders that one might use to go about reading the series from the beginning.
Simplified Order
This order lists the most simplified way to read the series, only listing Side Story volumes that the moderator team deem as "essential" reading.
Toaru Majustu no Index Vol. 1 to 13
Toaru Majustu no Index Vol. SS1
Toaru Majustu no Index Vol. 14
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun SS: Liberal Arts City
Toaru Majutsu no Index Vol. 15 and 16
Toaru Majutsu no Index Vol. SS2
Toaru Majustu no Index Vol. 17 to 22
Toaru Majutsu no Index SP
Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Norse Mythology
Toaru Jihanki no Fanfare
Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Vol. 1 to 22
Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Vol. 22 Reverse
Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Vol. 1 to current
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun Ch. 1 to 39 can be read any time after OT6; Toaru Kagaku no Railgun Ch. 40 to 71 can be read any time after NT6
Other Manga, Side Stories, and Parody Stories can then be read at your leisure.
@@MrWeebs-gc2jj You can read it on Bakatsuki
"Mom, can I have money for electrical engineering degree?"
"To be electrical engineer?"
"Yesssssss"
*Actually becomes ani-tuber like a boss*
"Disappointment time"
epic gamer moment 👌😎🔥
Ok this is epic
we live in a society
Twe * bottom text
Gigguk is UK born so probably didn't take on that much debt to get his degree, at least compared to the worst cases in the US. Especially when you consider that student loans over here are really more like a graduate tax than a regular loan, in that interest isn't really a thing, you only have to pay if it you earn above a certain amount, and it gets forgiven after like 30 years. He also got it before they tripled the tuition fees a few years ago.
"Solving every problem by punching it in the face"
I wonder how many people would love that😂
KillerKingKevin
Every single fight
Toma ends with a right.
KillerKingKevin that’s how I solve all my problems 🤷🏼♂️😂😂
Noe Hernandez I like index, but that is true, for all three seasons he has been punching with his fucking right hand. He doen't hone any new skills, doesn't try doing smth different....
Also I hate the way he talks about justice and lectures everyone, he forces his fuckin opinion on others.
Yet I still like watching this show)))
@@almasospanov536 How you can hate someone that just want to everyone be good with everyone? And also he can't learn magic because he is a esper AND his right hand makes it have literally ZERO effect, he also can't get more power as a esper again because his right hand... so that's why he always punch the others...
~With all that said, he still Kamijou...
Touma could beat One Punch man if he could catch Saitama's punch. Would they cancel each other out though?
Giggly explaining vectors
Me: “Sir, you have my respects”
What was the song at like 1 min in
C28 OA its Railgun OP 1
@@connorgriess3927 wait a minute-"Giggly"?
I have never been so simultaneously excited about reading a series while also bored out of my mind. I don't know how it manages this but Index has literally everything I want from a series yet reading it is like a grim trudge. It's so good.
This is the only franchise where I was never intimidated by the sheer amount of content it has. I never expected the light novel to be this good. I finished the entire thing in about two and a half months, SS and parodies included.
@@_simon.s_ I think it was the fact that I watched the anime first. Even with the extra information and development, when I know where it's going to go I can't help but think "Yeah, okay. Get on with it." I finally got past the point I had seen in the anime and am super excited.
I watched both the anime and read the manga (cause I'm a lowkey M) and then decided to go into the LNs. Same experience: it felt like hell but it was also hella rewarding seeing the thought processes behind EVERYTHING. It was glorious seeing how much detail and research was put into the work to make it grounded and believable yet entertaining af
"A unique world that blend fantasy and science in a way I had never seen before"
There it is. There's the reason that drew me into raildex.
If it wasn't cause of the generic plot it the first dozen of episodes, it would have been awesome.
@@zettovii1367 yeah but when considering the time index came out it makes sense
And best boy accelerator is getting his own show
Saiki x Accelerator crossover when.
Will Iam wait really?
OMFG ACCELERATOR SHOWWWW
Well we need saiki season 3 by next year.
Accelerator will get some great development in the dragon ark and ww3 ark
"Accelerator is our best boy", yeah i do agree about that 😂
Same
I started this series because of him.
It was fun seeing him get a deserved beating when he was still a villain though.
This is a series you can't fully enjoy unless you put in some time or effort to do some research. However once you start unraveling every tiny nook and cranny about the universe, everything about this series becomes infinitely better.
Book and cranny… NOOKS CRANNY OMGMRNWID ENW
yea i do things like that quite a bit
The problem is, you shouldn’t have to do that to enjoy a series. Books and visual entertainment should stay separate. They can mirror or be identical to one another, but you shouldn’t have to read or watch something to understand what’s happening in the other. Anime with anime. LN/manga with LN/Manga. Don’t intermingle. 👌
nah if you're simple you can enjoy it even if you exclusively watch the anime (and I am really not talking about me...)
@@IvanKinkle thats not how it works for toaru. adaptation is shit
"And characters you absolutely love... which, let's be honest, is going to be Accelerator because Accelerator is best boy..."
A man of culture has shown himself to me.
He didn't even fuck around with that one he knew who's the Best Boi... though to be honest my favorite Toaru character is in NT soo spoilers ahead
My Favorite Character is Othinus aka literal odin aka Not useless Goddess
@@craytherlaygaming2852 A MAN OF CULTURE!!! That one is, indeed, the best character.
@@MrFreakHeavy One must alway give a God what she wants
Best boi accelerator best girl misaka mokoto
@@betternew4749 Ahem... a Fool who is anime only i see Misaka is not best girl... she failed to give Touma the ring
Gigguk doing a Video about Toaru??
Truly the right timeline
el...
psy...
congree
It is the will of stein's gate
Now he just needs to do a video on the monogatari series and the Holy Trinity will be complete
@@someoneelse5005 It's El Psy Congroo you uncultured swine.
I actually like Toma's Imagine Breaker, both in what it does and as a concept. In the world of Index, it's a power that can't be explained by magic or science, it's a power that others might undoubtably have, mysterious super powers that can't be explained by magic, which has it's place in lore and mythology. It also can't be explained by science, the superpowers of human physics and science. It's a power of imagination, it honestly reminds me of Bungo Stray Dogs' skills, the supernatural abilities that people can be born with and are unexplainable. It's a power that an ordinary person could have without knowing it.
The other reason I like Toma's ability is because of reasons I like the abilities of the likes of Osamu Dazai, Shota Aizawa, and even Asta from Black Clover to an extent. Their abilities that make supernatural powers stop, it forces people to fight as an ordinary person, with kicks and punches and being really strong as a normal human. Make it so they have a fight scene that's all about hand to hand combat or have the opponent realize that they are nothing with their powers. Or another way to fight this nullification of abilities is to work around it's limitations to use their superpowers. Dazai's 'No Longer Human' skill only works on other skills and with physical contact, so you could just shoot him or be a more skilled fighter that him, though I feel Aizawa was the one who truly embodies and has had happen to him in the 'work around the limitations of his ability in this part.
Aizawa's quirk manifests in his line of sight, so how did the villains work around his limitation? By waiting for him to blink, that's when he's vulnerable and you can use their quirks against him, or by using a superiorly physical being, the Nomu. The blinking and eyesight limitation was what the Momo and Todoroki used during the end of the year exam, when he has his eyes closed, they can use their quirks, and Aizawa's quirk also had a secondary and much less important limitation that was exploited in the form of "the effects after the use of a quirk are not negated", which is how Momo was able to use her creations even though Aizawa was using his quirk on them.
All to say, I like abilities that negate abilities, I also like the characters that have these abilities.
Edit:I just realized this a bit after commenting, but it also gives a chance to interact with people with powers that are uncontrollable or would just kill a person with a single touch, or both.
Amazing explanation, really dont know why this have only 10 likes
Thank You! Finally someone gets it!
When I first saw touma's ability I thought the same thing
Imagine breaker is a reference point for reality. It eliminates the distortions in reality caused by the abnormal. It's also a lock to keep something within touma in check.
Touma is an amazing character and I love his ability Imagine Breaker. It's always great to see Touma using Imagine Breaker, espescially hearing the sound effect of Imagine Breaker gets me really hyped!
if you read the light novel，you will see Touma is the best character ever
I second
I Third
I don't care, I'll never read the Index novel so it doesn't matter to me if he is better there.
@@lightchaos4204 that's okay, light novel readers just acknowledge he is a great character, you don't have to do anything
@@foxhayes1256 yea let it be for that 2 percent of people. The season 3 made me cringe well enough that i went as far as drop the series midway. Railgun still good tho
"This black cat will be called "Dog" declares MISAKA. A cat, yet "Dog"....hehehe....."
Misaka 10032 best girl
@@ErebosGR actully Misaka 10031 is best girl
Actually misaka 00001is th......
Wait she ded
Misaka 20001 best loli
Yes
Touma DESTROYS magic users with FACTS and LOGIC
anime Ben Shapiro
All hail the right hand of gender equality!
And FIST
Tip my fedora, sempai
Punch
What fascinates me about this world is how everything makes sense.
No matter how you put it, everything stays in what would normally happen in the world: the actions follow a logical procedure and it is really well thought. The powers have their own limitations like Index or Accelerator and there is a huge analogy between science and magic powers.
If there is something convenient in science like phones, there is something which serves the same function in the magic side, like the communication spells.
Kazuma also has the story really well thought as concepts of magic return to define other spells making it feel like studying science; and the foreshadowing is in a whole other level.
It might scare people to get into, specially further the anime since there are more than 70 LN, and that's why it has not been doing as good as it did 10 years before. However, it is very rewarding.
Just as a reminder, it will be the series anniversary the April 10th, making Magical Index one of the few 20th year long series.
I was hoping that Gigguk do some justice for Touman....
Raildex is one of my absolute favorites and deserves to be more popular~ ty gigguky
Gigguk is finally seeing the light
No its exactly as popular as it deserves
lolyou gay confirmed? :o
Well it is the most popular ln in Japan so...
ofc youd be a weeb
"control electricity and shrug off teleporting lesbians" Gigguk 2018 I bet you 5 pounds that you never thought you'd say those two things in one sentance!!! brilliant!!
Touma isn't boring. Touma is everyman who struggles against the excesses of science and religion (magic).
Yeah I agree the most unique aspect of him is he check everyone reason to fight first (like how he talk to accel first checking if he is forced too or not) and of course he is quite a mysteries with his power and what he do in the past is unknown in the anime
Just wait for Index New Testament And you Will see what happens to Touma XD
He is the normal anime protagonist who struggles to save every girl that he comes across. What world elements he struggles against isn't something that makes him more or less interesting.
@@howaito did you read this on manga
@@angelcrush1582 yeah i read the light novel
I still like Touma in the anime because his VA is really good and he gets a lot of funny lines, but he's a lot weaker than his original light novel version. One of his strongest traits is decisive thinking, and it elaborates on his thought processes to stop a bad guy or help a friend, whereas in the anime he'll just run at them and do a Terry Bogard Power Dunk
I'm on ep 6, right now, so far, your light novel description of Touma also can be applied to Anime Touma, I don't know whether it changes later on.
@@nnnnmhughuuhhjiijj9457 it does, kind of after the Sisters/Level 6 arc
Yeah, the Japanese VA gives it his all.
Abe Atsushi a goat for putting the work with Touma even if his characters gets butchered so bad in the anime (still my fav of all time). Really hope they do him justice in NT when (or if) it comes out :(
@@michaelcordero7061 hes done much more than just that when facing gun fights :) but yeah that was one way of solving the issue. His thought process when fighting in the novels is incrdible
Yeah but can we talk about how the most consistent thing in all the Index/Railgun anime seasons is how banging the OPs are?
Yo Facts! Only My Railgun is the most banging
osmosis453 See VisionS disagrees
@@osmosis453
Only My Railgun and Sister's noise for me.
See VisionS, Sister's Noise and Roar for me
Sisters noise, no buts and level 5 judgelight for me
Joke’s on you, I'm a new anime fan! I've never been exposed to cliches, so all cliches I see are new to me. HAHAHAHAHAHHA
I'm watching this anime.
While the cliches are foriegn to you good luck getting through railguns first season as a new anime fan. Correct me if I was wrong
@Lee Worley I got through the entirety of Railgun rather quickly, and the first season of Railgun was easier to get through than the first season of Index.
@@bluesleeper8677 damn I feel like im the only one who literally hated first season of railgun aside from some moments. Didnt think index 1 was special loved railgun s didnt like the begining of index 2 and loved the ending of index 2 .
@@leeworley6727 didnt really like the first few episodes of railgun (because of the fanservice) but i really liked the rest
@Mardel Guajardo yeah, that was kind of annoying, I gotta agree.
Before I couldn't really get into LNs because I preferred manga and anime. After this video I decided to read the LN for this and I don't regret it one bit. I should've read it sooner, I've been reading fan translations and thinking of saving up to get the official translations to support Kamachi Kazuma.
Official translations? Do you mean buying them from Amazon (or bookwalker) or do you mean a more direct way to support the creator?
@@AnimeACNT yea I think he means Amazon or bookwalker. Man if only there was away to read NT officially lmao
Kamachi Kazuma is one of the authors I admire the most. His speed in writing multiple novels are the best. His world building and connecting multiple events are good. It feels like he can write quality novels and pump out words nonstop.
If there is one downside from him that I can think of, then that would be the slow pace of his novels.
I would argue that the pace of his story is the result of the narrative constantly changing. Though, IMO, I gotta say, Kazuma’s lack of confidence in his ability to write romance is his greatest weakness.
@@connorgrynol9021 romance isn't really necessary in Toaru cause I feel it might end up becoming some sort of a meh rom com which would completely take away it's brutality
Pretty sure Gigguk's made this video so he can show of his *MASTER DEGREE*
It's understandable how it might be mildly frustrating to work your ass off going for a degree in Electrical Engineering only to end up making anime shitpost videos for a living
Shout out to the weebs like me who watched index and railgun before and watched this video because none of their friends had seen it and wanted someone to share opinions with.
You understand the struggle :(
Ah and what about those of us weebs who did than and then consumed all media asscociated with it... oh on a side note... Nice Toothless Pfp
I'm glad this video exists because its presented well and explains the appeal of the series
@@w7r443 He explains it soo fucking well if i hadn't seen the series at this point i would have watched it because of him i send people to this video if i want to introduce them to the series and their curious about it
Hi
Girl in Academy City: *dresses like a stripper and does evil*
Touma/Accelerator: "The Hammer of Justice is Unisex."
Wait, so he have a "Masters in electronic and electrical engineering" degree, and the Career path he took is "Professional Weeb" ?
*+1000 Respect*
"a tsundere Pikachu"
I'm convinced
But it sound like Ryan Reynolds though?
So we’ve got deadchu and a tsundere pikachu. I just need a yandere pikachu and my life will be complete.
@@justyouraverageweebwhocana2924 Well, if you count Misaka Worst, I might have some good news for you.
Thank god more people are finally seeing the light
Novel
Accelerator doesn't need to calculate everything that comes his way, since his reflective barrier is mostly passive, as explained by Kakine. Accelerator doesn't calculate everything in real time. He sets his vector reflection to avoid most of the harmful things that come his way, and allows everything else to come through. It's a whitelist, so he only needs to set the vectors that he wants to get through, meaning less calculations.
So it doesn't really matter how fast you are, it's not going to get past as long as the passive barrier identifies the vectors coming at his way as harmful. (Or something like that, haven't read Index for a while now)
It doesn't cover everything of course. If you could identify the specific vectors that Accelerator uses to defend himself, you could use that against him.
Still kinda fun when you realize his kriptonite is algebra
Top 10 characters in MAL
1 - Mikoto Misaka
2 - Accelerator
3 - Touma Kamijou
4 - Kuroko Shirai
5 - Last Order
6 - Misaki Shokuhou
7 - Ruiko Saten
8 - Misaka 10032
9 - Gunha Sogiita
10 - Othinus
Accelerator deserves the top 1 because he's the Number One.
I would put Tôma and Index pretty much at the bottom, I really can’t stand Index and Tōma, they’re both annoying and there’s so many things wrong with their characters. Mikoto is the only main character that you can argue is good, and Railgun is done much better than Index.
Ben Greene Ya it sucks that the anime didn’t convey Touma’s and Index’s characters as good as they are in the LN. Touma would literally be number 1 if not top 3. As a light novel reader its just unfortunate to see their characters like this.
iVan 920 well I’m just goin off the anime cause I haven’t read the novels, and based of the anime Touma and index would be lucky to make it into a top 10 best characters list
Ben Greene we heard you the first time.
Thanks for explaining vectors better than my teachers
It’s actually much more and much less complicated than how he explained it...
The way Gigguk explains it, and the direction the show takes with it, is based in physics and the natural sciences. But vectors and matrices are a mathematical concept first and foremost. Mathematically speaking, a vector is simply an ordered series of numbers. That’s it. We USE vectors to represent a lot of things, usually things with magnitude and direction, but vectors are simply a way to structure data.
Which is why Accelerator’s ability makes ABSOLUTELY NO GODDAMNED SENSE. Pretty much ANYTHING can be represented as a vector, so having the ability to “manipulate vectors” is like having the ability to “change numbers.” It’s so broad-you could argue that he should be able to represent someone’s physical size as a vector and make someone tiny or gigantic, or someone’s age, or any number of things.
@@Necroskull388 u cant make someone's size into a vector. Vector consists of a magnitude and direction. Sending accelerator to space or vacuum would mean he would be pretty useless with his powers of vector manipulation
@@Necroskull388 imagine his powers to be like a hydraulic pump. He can change the direction of the input vector and also its magnitude. Thats all. He also had a very small range for powers. Also his powers require very meticulous calculations
@Another Random Cuber They do mean it in a physics sense. While energy and heat aren't vectors, the transfer of heat and energy are.
Vectors are how forces are described in a sense of word. Vectors consist of magnitude (scalers) and longitude /direction which is a general definition of forces (Magnitude with direction). He over-explained vectors a bit too much. I’m only 14 lol but I really like science and wanted a superhero who could have vectors as their powers.
"I became a fan"
*plays Only My Railgun*
Dayum he ain't lying
Sister's Noise is better tho...
@@Gibinhafilho You're wrong
@@manuelsputnik No i'm not.
If you like "Only My Railgun" check out this mashup ua-cam.com/video/v9cY7A-o1Gw/v-deo.html
@@Gibinhafilho Much agreed
Accelerator is one of the most well written characters I’ve ever seen
the most interesting character development i've ever seen
One of the best anime characters for sure.
He is the third protag
Imagine if Index actually had a good adaptation it'd be even better than it is now (except season 3) but Railgun and Accelerator have great adaptions so there's that
w8 is seasom 3 out? what the fk
@@accelerator2071 index season 3 aired in 2018 untill halfway through 2019, Accelerator manga got an adaption in July 2019 and Railgun T (3rd season) is airing right now though it was in break because covid but starts airing again this Friday
@@attackcrash655 okay thx for replying
accelerator the show is honestly quite bad, however accelerator the character is top tier.
@@remixedmelody I'd read the novels if you already haven't already it's a good read, but ik some ppl aren't up for novels which is fine but honestly now that I've read more I'd say that in my opinion I've grown to like Touma more than Accelerator, more so in the sequel to Index called New Testament than what the anime has adapted. But also I would recommend the original volumes aswell, not just Touma that's better but even Accelerator and specifically Hamazura is better in them since Hamazura had alot of content cut from the anime since season 3 adapted 9 novel volumes in 26 episodes plus skipped the 10 volume that never even got adapted
The real name should have been:
"A certain magical world with a certain scientific academy city".
Lmfao yes
Ah, I see. You're a modern LN title fan.
nah it should of been accelerator is best boi XD owo
That'd be the name for a moe spin off. Lucky star with rail guns.
@@puffsoup7028 actually that's pretty short for a modern LN name
"hard series to get into"
*scoffs and laughs in fate series*
Nah, Fate is an incredibly easy to get into. All you need to do is have access to any site that hosts hentai manga and just search for Fate doujin. That's 90% of their appeal right there, without having to watch any shitty anime from 2006, or shitty spinoffs
Le fucking mao
LMAO Fate Seroes is rather simplistic. It literally just - "each new anime adaptation is a different route, view it as if the other fates don't exist because it is a self contained story unto itself."
Toaru Series - everything is connected and intertwined, and ALL current anime events take place within less than 6 months timeframe... e.g. - Railgun and Railgun S starts as a prequel to Index S1, then runs parallel to index S1 and finishes halfway through Index S2.
For reference, with no spoilers;
*May/June - Start of Railgun anime.
*June 17 - Mikoto meets Kamijou Touma for the first time.
#*July 20 - Touma meets Index. Start of Index anime.
#*August 30 - Silent party arc (STUDY). Railgun anime season 2 ends here.
#September 30 - The Academy City Invasion Arc occurs. End of Index Season 2.
#First week of October - Document of Constantine Arc occurs. (Episodes 1 - 3 of index, Season 3)
So there's no confusion;
# - indicates within Index anime timeline.
* - indicates within Railgun anime timeline.
And now that Accelerator is getting his own anime next year, it very well may be a semi-prequel origin story just as Railgun was. We may see the Sisters Arc (Level 6 Shift Project) again, but from his perspective as the antagonist... It is one of the best story arcs in the series, but I'm personally hoping that they take his current condition and timeline in Index S3 and run from there - with references to Sisters Arc and origins in flashbacks only.
I honestly think getting into Raildex is harder. See, with Fate, you can just tell someone to read the VN. And while that's kind of a meme at this point, it IS the best way to get into the series. From there, people can watch Fate/Zero and pretty much anything else they want after.
Index though, is a bit more tricky. Again, you can just tell someone to read the LN, but the LNs aren't nearly as straightforward as the Fate/Stay Night VN routes. You need to know what order to read the main series, when to read the side stories, when to read Railgun, etc. The problem with Raildex is that the author not only writes practically everything in it, but also references events from spin-offs in the main series and vice versa. You kinda have to read the companion stories to fully understand the main series. With Fate, you don't.
Raildex is an interconnected world while Fate is an interconnected set of worlds. This makes it much easier to deal with, as separate continuities mostly exist within their own universes. Index, on the otherhand, loves to jump from storylines in one spin-off to another.
Nice name
“How grounded every ability is in real life science and physics” then there’s Gunha in Railgun T
Gunha be like: Haha rainbow explosion go boom
I mean its sorta explained I guess?
He has a very fucked Personal Reality and some other personality disorder.
He's a gemstone meaning a naturally formed esper but explaining that further is a spoiler
I remember watching this video back in January of this year and while I didn't immediately start Toaru at that time, it put it on my radar and when I did decide to give it a go around April of this year I ended up falling in love with the series. I wasn't super into it at first when I started with the Index anime, but I absolutely loved the first season of Railgun and was surprised at how compelling the characters were. Since then I've watched all of the Railgun and Accelerator anime, caught up on all of the manga and just recently finished New Testament volume 14 of Index. New Testament 9 was miles ahead of the rest of Toaru and is easily one of my favorite books/pieces of storytelling media of all time, which is praise I don't give lightly. I probably would have never started the series if not for this video so I came back to leave a comment and a like and say thank you for this recommendation.
These comments always put a smile on my face 👌 wish more people would acknowledge how much of a masterpiece this entire series (and specially novel) has always been
I love your comment ! This is exactly how I feel about this franchise. And yes NT9 is a masterpiece
"Touma's ability is so boring compared to everything else"
*laughs in light novels*
Imagine breaker is nor specially great but it isnt bad either (If you want amazing powers just go to our boy Gunha), but what is under Imagine breaker is so neat and so hype that if it wasnt because both Misaka and Accel also got buffed up to hyper hype levels they would look boring in comparison (Even when Accel has been buffed 3 times and nerfed once, and even the buff Misaka got being the only one Misaka has ever got)
That's like saying Saitama has the most boring power in his universe
till this day i don't even know the origins of Touma's power
*laughs in accelerator*
@@juaquinfuentesjara7352 imagine breaker is not his power. It is a seal to his powers, which are mystery till now. And speaking of his real powers, I don't think Lovecraftian shit is boring...
Biribiri is love, Biribiri is life.
Saten Ruiko is the Real Waifu!
Preach the word, brother
I'm one of those shitposters who keep shipping telepoorting lesbian with touma ironically
@@KnightGunny No heresy pls
KnightGunny ah I see you are a man of culture as well
I started watching this franchise because of this video and damn I’m so glad I did, it’s such an amazing series that I haven’t finished yet
And there’s 26 light novels that’s not in anime yet
Same. Also I am currently on 10 volume of New Testament.
So glad I still follow you, as I got Index recommended all the time (and Railgun is on Netflix right now), but I didn't have a grasp on what it actually is. Your video from forever ago is a good introduction into this. Thank you.
Yes, yes. Accelerator is *BEST BOI*
I fully despised Accelerator, not because he was badly written, but because he was such a villain. But this latest round of Touma punching some sense into him gives me hope and I might even be able to forgive him. (I really do think he was brilliantly written.)
@@Adonteon21 ya he was the author of the novels really gave him some good ass charter development same for touma but the anime dose not do him justice like the books do.
@@Adonteon21 Wait wasnt touma the bad written one?
@@mightyshady1016 I say more plainly written one. He has a job and he does it. He getting better. Now index the character has only gotten worse
Even better when you watch the specials
What's this? Gigguk praised an anime and he's not being sarcastic!?
rarer than diamond I say
what about widowmaker?
justa randomperson Im already widowmaker
I wanna be Bastian
*THIS IS IT CHIEF*
I always found the magic side to be a lot more interesting than the "science" side. Most of the magic side outclass the espers anyways, and usually have a greater effect on the world.
Ironically the show portrayed the "science vs magic" theme to it's very own fanbase lol
I do like both, even if the science side do struggles to catch up since it's still limited to the real world physics (apart for some ESP's) but actually both have great affect in the world
Ah yes the "I don't care about good story, I only care care about power levels"
Out of curiosity, the way the magic system works is more scientific than the way the Esper system works. That was the author's idea, to make the science side more magical than the magic side itself.
You seem to have missed one important point.
All of the openings are fucking bangers
Underated
@@Betroid Some are, but you can say that
I didn't like it at first.
Couple of years later... Biribiri is bae, Touma is GAR and Accelerator is pleasantly unhinged.
Man I love this franchise.
I was literally like this when I started to watch it 1 month ago. I was like meh let's watch 1 seasons and drop and but boy I want more and more
@@binitrupakheti4246
It really reminds me of the JoJo fandom in that sense. Once you're in it, there's no coming back.
@@onedoesnotsimply7375 I wanna get into JoJo's but don't have time but I have like a one month break coming up might try it then.
@@binitrupakheti4246 it's super hard to get into but fuck, its the best franchise ever
I thought GAR meant gay and retarded lmao
3 reasons y I like index.
Touma
Accelerator
MISAKA MIKOTO
All i gonna say is: YES
You forgot Saten 👌👌👌
Where is my sweet honey bee girl?
Press F for Frenda dear waifu of all.
Correct
If you read the Light Novels, you are going to love Kamijou, for sure!!! 😊
"Touma is generic"
Ahahah.. yes mate.. whatever you said.. :v
in the anime he is, a lot
Accelerator got his voice actor a prestigious award. Accelerator is also exactly how you write a great redemptive asshole character, *not* freakin' Bakugo from Hero Academia. They also have same VA.
Accelerator's voice actor is my favourite one. I never cared about voice actors before I met him in the Railgun series
@@niky_peixoto same
The thing about bakugou is that his character is not consistent he keep screaming and keep being a jerk
I Agree
@@terrancekling2270 which means he's perfectly constant with his douchiness
Just something about this franchise...
Best boi: Accelerator
Best girl: Misaka Mikoto
And no, I don't ship them. It's just that they are amazing and their scenes compensate all the boring episodes, besides, we can see their character development and the use of their lvl5 abilities truly gets us amazed and hooked up for more. I was only able to go through the anime because of them. I don't regret it one bit.
...Misaka may have Been Best girl But she is ONLY best girl A Goddess hath Descended during the New Testament Odin hath Given her word and the world Hath thus obeyed
@@craytherlaygaming2852 So being a goddess makes her the best? I've got nothing against Othinus but I didn't feel a connection with her the way I felt with Mikoto or Accelerator, that had their stories and personality built up since the beginning (or at least not long after). Othinus appeared out of nowhere and became Touma's understander after killing him 10.000 times (won't talk about the other-girls-also-put-him-in-danger discussion, since I don't care much about romance), okay, we start liking her after but "divine blessing" and the "goddess" thing don't indicate who is the best character or things like this (at least for me). Of course, if we're talking about power it's a whole other discussion. And please understand I do like her.
Edit: She may be a goddess, but it's still a girl and...Best girl is Misaka Mikoto 😆😅
@@mariabeatriz5622 Eh everyone has their own opinion but Mikoto is forced into the story throughout NT and Really never Does anything to help Touma and in fact impedes him whines about "Falling behind" gets upset that he tries to get help from people that actually know the shit he's dealing with just because they are a girl She had her Chance and she threw it when she failed to give him the ring Othinus sticks with Touma only reprimands him when he does something stupid, saves him multiple times, nothing she does after NT9-10 causes Touma any harm and in fact helps him Misaka? just piratically stalks him around the world and gets possessive over him she's better than Index but she's nowhere near the best Othinus at least doesn't zap/ bite / other physical bodily harm to Touma cause he happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time Othinus is the MOST Reasonable out of all the girls and proves her worth something Mikoto never does
@@craytherlaygaming2852 I thought I just said I didn't care about romance...? Of course it goes from everyone's opinion, I'm sorry if I offended you in any way. My answer to it is that "ending up with the protagonist (Touma)" does not define a character to be the best. And yes, she ends up appearing in important situations and may even annoy everyone, but it's not like she knows the magnitude of what is happening and causes trouble on purpose, she's just inserted in some scenarios without an explanation for everything that is happening. From an observer's point of view her actions are quite reasonable given the circumstances. I can't say much about NT since I've practically just started reading the LN, but from what I've seen so far, I find most of the things she did somehow excusable
Edit: Grammar Errors
@@mariabeatriz5622 Sorry Sorry Ow... whoops i didn't mean to be rude and honestly i Do like Mikoto she's just not my top 3 she would have been had she not been forced into the story later on as you'll see she's still an amazing character i just end up liking Othinus more if you've read NT9 i'll point this out... the between the lines are talking about Othinus herself she starts as a monster but more you learn about her and the longer she's around the better of a character she becomes I really don't like making people who aren't bad people mad at me Misaka Mikoto is an amazing character and i agree im not a "Deserves X character person" so.. Sorry
railgun is really worth watching very popular in asia
so i dont even know how i came across this video recently, but i did, and im towards the end of index 1 now.
you made it sound like it was going to be a chore to sit through but i've actually been enjoying it. a lot actually.
the world building and the characters powers (more so on the science side of things) are really interesting.
if it only gets better from here, then i can't wait to start railgun and accelerator.
thanks for turning me on to this series.
welcome
I'm assuming you liked railgun the most since you seem to find the science side of things more interesting
my favourite part in this video was when he yelled about accelerator for like 5 minutes
Why would he not want to have a moment to talk about our lord and savior accelerator
Im catholic so I can say that
@@superminer1993 You have problems...
@@1mol831 you're not wrong and what I said was not something you'd hear most catholics say but its not like god doesnt want us to have fun.
Waaaah a 19 min Gigguk vid we've been blessed
Christmas came early :D
I honestly didn't notice it was almost 20 minutes until he talked about it lol
Amd only 5min of that is ads too
@@MrRishik123 literally
Mr Rishi The Cookie 100%😂
I love this series to death but the thing i hate the most is those only accelerator fanboy.
They will goes shitting on every Touma scene in every youtube video like: "hur hur plot armor", "why someone doesn't just shot him in the head?", "why Accelerator doesn't just go all out?", but no only accelerator fanboy, no fucking one even read the source material or the LN to understand both of them and when someone argues with them, they will start butthurting type their keyboard really fucking fast just to insult you and fuck your source material
@karim benyoucef dude, with a reflect that can dodge a Railgun at 1030 m/s, you think a gun would do shit to him?
@@weebweird8332 I feel you
I stuck around solely to see how you explained Accelerator
As a LN reader and huge fan of Kamachi's work I have to say it is bringing me sad to read all the comments about how Accelerator is a better character than Touma because how fucking interesting Touma really is in the novel (same for hamazura)
I know guys you won't probably read the many books of index to see it, but y'all can give a try on the index manga which is better than the anime
Shame on Nishikiori for making such an amazing novel series into an average anime
TOUMA IS THE FUCKING MAN. THE BEST ALPHA!
Even if i have to make the ENTIRE world my Enemy... I WILL SAVE YOU OTHINUS!!!
Take that all other anime protags did You do this?
For anime only watcher, accel is easy become likeable char, because first he is edgy, op, villain that become antivillain, have psycho laughter but all of that deep down he is good person, in general his character more understable than touman. But yeah thats when you anime watch only, it different if you read ln.
@@alamsyah999 Yeah when i Read the LN's i was utterly Appalled by what the Anime had done and saw how much they Ruined Touma In the LN's the Dude is the MAN and is Very Fucking cool
This dude just got Diavolo treatment and survives , moreover he also literally take on the whole world to protect a girl.
Absolute madman
After reading the comments I feel really bad for Touma lmao. Welp since the anime removed like 90% of his inner thoughts It’s really hard for people to get into his character, but instead they only get a gist of him.
Yeah
I read one volume and i get what you mean
Can you give an example. I actually liked his character in the anime. Simple and good-natured. Sounds like I might like the manga.
Even if that weren't the case, I hate the fact that he is and comes off as just another black haired MC that never backs down and blah blah blah. Railgun was the first time I got into this world and I don't think I will ever watch index due to touma alone. Railgun is an amazing series until touma shows up.
@@armsofzeus He sure was good natured but he wasn't such a generic mc in the novel. He reminds me of Araragi, in that he isn't as dense and pure as most stereotypical protagonist. He was more fleshed out is what I'm saying. He's also a lot more badass in the novel, and I learned that when he fought with the dummy Aureolus which wasn't in the anime or even the manga.
the only thing I'll argue is that Toma early on doesn't want to engage in conflict and the power to cancel any supernatural and esper ability is only in the focus in his right hand(which the anime sort of forgets at points in terms of animating) so he is CONSTANTLY having to react or compensate when he's either forced(wrong place wrong time) to act or needs to fight(someone has gone too far, the suffering of others, asked to help save someone the is important to someone else) as anything that's not a physical object(lightning, a manipulated vector, a chant of fire, a cast of gust) he needs to ensure his right hand is the first thing that hits it, if its not or the thing is something tangable in reality(a sword, knife, bullets, concrete falling down) he needs to move and think of a alternate way to deal with it PLUS he is the guy that is able to make opponents who rely so much of their strength on their magic/powers/abilities to fight on a level playing field as him. the only real bad thing about him that I can think of is that his "bad luck" is a excuse for comically timed fanservice
thank you for reading this minor blip
When you see touma,accelerator and hamazura together. You know something BIG is coming
13:35 That's only half right. Originally, he could do everything without the computer, even hacking computers by manually hacking the vectors sending signals. During one of the arcs, in which the small Misaka is introduced, he takes a bullet to the brain, which heavily damaged his computational ability, to the point that when the battery runs out, he becomes a jabbering lunatic. They manage to save him by using the "Misaka Network," just around ten thousand clones of Misaka linked telepathically, and they patched him into it, saving him. Due to that, the complexity of his manipulations have gone down, and he is limited to thirty minutes of using his powers per charge.
Also, Touma's ability is easily the most complicated ability in the show. The ability to cancel all powers that make contact with his right hand, which in itself is one of the worst handicaps in the show, is a by-product of his ability existing, not the ability itself.
Julian Skilton The imagine breaker is the right mix of simplistic and complicated that make it just boring.
@@devmin_dot_exe6551 How is it boring?
I'm still confused how the dragon works . Apparently it only appears when Touma's hand is cut off , right ?
If anything , how powerful is it ? How much potential it has ? Does there any limits to that thing besides he needs to get his arm chopped to activate it ?
@@zapperil We still don't know exactly how it works, but It tanked a planet busting attack and ripped apart a near level 6 and has "grown" more since then. Later Touma tries to use while his hand is still attached, and it seems like he almost succeeds.
@@zapperil Well, Touma seems to three distinct powers that encompass the "Imagine Breaker." The first is its ability to erase anything abnormality. It is the weakest of his powers, but it appears to be able to erase high level angels, evident by the fact that Gabriel was afraid of it. The second power, a seven headed dragon, is so powerful that it made Fiamma of the right's Holy Right, an ability with the power of the original miracles stated in the bible(Miquel's ability to cast Lucifer out and Jesus's ability to heal the sick) look insignificant, and it can rival the power of the magic gods. These powers come directly from whatever is squatting within his hand. As Fiamma stated, these powers only exist in the right hand as long as the right hand is connected to Touma's right shoulder. The power is also sentient, reattaching itself whenever his arm is cut off, or growing a new arm and transferring to said new arm if reattachment is impossible. Apparently, Touma's right hand is a perfect vessel for said power. The final part of Touma's power is his own inherent power, which can overpower the dragon and contain it. Also, due to some discrepancies in power-scaling(Another similar but weaker power, world rejector, can defeat magic gods, but Touma's power was crushed by one magic god) has led Touma to suspect there is more then one entity within his right hand.
Confused yet?
This was the second anime I ever watched.
7 years later, and it still remains one of my favorites despite how mediocre so many episodes were. I agree with you on practically every point, particularly the deep intricacies of the powers and Accelerator being the *best. character. ever.* I remember when I first watched it, it hooked me because, despite all the light ecchi stuff and the weird structure of the various arcs, it felt.. intelligent. The explanations of the magic and science worlds absolutely fascinated me, especially in the Touma/Accelerator fight, and even though the fandom was small and almost non-existent at the time, I was glad to be in it.
Seeing that they ARE planning to continue the series with S3 and ACSA-which, I think I ruptured a spleen when I heard about it-I can genuinely say almost no other anime or show has held my excitement and hype this long, and I'm SINCERELY happy they didn't decide to drop it like a hot potato.
TL;DR: TAMNI and ACSR were some of my first anime and I still love them to this day. And I agree with Gigguk on pretty much every point.
Edit: *chokes on water* 281 likes?? Dear doodlebob!
TheCartoonKitty probably my 4th anime to watch
Lol. It was one of my first animes too. That and fmab. Man it's weird seeing index talked about.
Acecelerator is bae
Funnily enough, the show failed me the moment they started explaining the power of Accelerator: "He can manipulate the direction of vectors *such as heat, electricity...* "
Those are energies.
They're scalars not vectors goddamnit.
@@zorororonoa1810 Too Long; Didn't Read
Having dragon's power and a fucking invisible dark power how is it boring WTF!
Anime onlys: Only cares about Accelerator
LN readers: World building
I mean, Accelerator is the only character the main Index anime actually did justice, for the most part. You can’t blame anime onlies for liking him best.
@@hiddentiger73 That’s very true. Same goes for the Railgun anime, doing all those arcs justice. And Index anime has almost no arcs done justice proper justice and while some can be good in the anime, Touma is still scuffed
The world building is exactly what got me to read the LNs. Before I started reading the LNs I liked Accelerator more than Touma. But I actually missed out the huge character development in Touma during WW3 arc where he is having a dilemma about if it's ok for him to keep pretending he didn't lost his memories. And NT1 is just fire.
@@user-st4rf4et2z don't forget that the anime didn't show touma true ability(not the dragon) when fighting accelarator in ww3.
I want to read the light novel where should i read it wich website and what read order pls
One of us, one of us...
gooble gobble gooble gobble
Please daddy don't stop talking about electrical engineering and physics.
Joe Blow I‘d love to have a mini series of Gigguk explaining physical phenomena
if gigguk became a maths/physics channel I might actually subscribe
@@attitudes745 anime physics
And i bet it has anime boob physics
What brought me to watch Railgun was an internet article, mentioning:
- Misaka Mikoto's diligence and playing a violin,
- a cute lesbian friend and fanservice in a school shower room (some memes put as an illustration),
- "Akuserereita desu, youroshiku" - memes sith Accelerator's self introduction to Misaka,
- TO ARU KAGAKU NO RAILGUN OP1 "ONLY MY RAILGUN", the way Misaka transitions from shades of gray to full colour by using her electricity ability... Instant hype!
I don't see what's so bad about wind turbines CGI. Since ACTUAL REAL LIFE WIND TURBINES AREN'T MORE DETAILED OR SOMETHING
Your bias to Accelerator and the Science side is showing! But you did mention the appeal of the magic side so I'll give you a pass. I feel like the science side is naturally more appealing to people with an exposure to science, but anyone with familiarity with folklore, mythology, religion and occultism, the Magic side can be just as if not more compelling IMO. And I really, really feel like Touma gets a bad wrap, but a lot of that may just be due to how the anime fails in capturing his charm.
But hey, I am so so happy that you gave this series a chance and gave it the shoutout it deserves! Major props. There's like, no Anitubers talking about this, so I'm super happy to see Toaru getting this treatment!
especially with the diversity of magic types, the Aztec shape shifting magic gives me the creeps though
@@StormHawksHD Just wait til you see Marian's human modification...
@npc #149524620798 Same friend, same.
I agree so much! People don't find the magic side and its intricacies interesting are basically because they don't have exposure or knowledge about the myth behind it at all !
Thats why Im excited to see the GREMLIN arc adapted in the future as Norse myth are more accessible in our popular culture now especially so since many other shows and games already went through it.
After the latest volume i legit wanted to check some golden dawn occultist books. Yates when?
"Basically Pikachu as a tsundere anime girl".
Huh. Pokemon Let's Go just came out, and i named my Pikachu Misaka. Coincidence.
Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu is the worst game ever made.
Pokemon Let's Go Eevee on the other hand! MASTAPIECE!!
I once named my Grubbin Misaka in my Moon playthrough, because it's a bug-zapper.
Now name your Eevee Touma if you got a male Eevee
Accelerator and sisters ark is what attracted me to watch Index
I just jumped straight into it without thinking and I fell in love.
Honestly, back when it was airing I only watched it because "look ecchi scenes" but when Index activated her John Pen mode to summon an angel for a healing ritual, I got sucked in.
So basically:
1. Watch episodes 1-6 of Index S1
2. Watch episodes 1-14 of Railgun
3. Watch episodes 1-16 of Railgun S
to get into it. Then, to actually finish it,
4. Finish Index S1
5. Finish Railgun
6. Finish Railgun S
7. Watch Accelerator
8. Finish Index S2
9. Watch Index S3
I'll do that right now! :3
EDIT: So Accelerator started this season and it seems to set off shortly after Railgun S in the story, so I sorted that in as 7. for the time being. (Oh yeah, I watched all of Raildex by now btw.)
This has turned into a Haruhi situation...
@@DionGolston well haruhi is not that complicated,index/railgun is
So...much...many...
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
Bufido do I have to watch in order I’m watching index s1 right now
Questionable on whether you want to watch index or read index, considering the LN is the most optimal experience, you aren't getting the index experience if you watch the anime.
I really feel bad for Touma in the anime. You barely see what his character actually is in the anime. In the LN, I'm confident to say that Touma's character is on par with Accelerator, if not better.
jcstaff truly breaks fanbase' hearts... really.
His luck is so bad, even the studio adapting his character hires mediocrity
Being as I have only started, after being put off by Index a year ago, but having binged all seasons of Railgun in a way I haven't binged in years, I am about to start Index, then Accelerator.
You are about the seventh comment that claims the LN is really good, better than anime for Index. Not having yet seen Index, this is not a lot to go by. But, as someone who is planning to buy light novels like they are going out of fashion, you convinced me to spend a few paychecks on this little thing called Index.
I thank you now, and I hope to return with another thanks in a year when I have binged all content of this new hobby of mine.
@@bencetary6094 you know you can read the LNs for free, right?
@@thesophist3909 No, I didn't knew that. But I want to support the writer, the story is good enough.
(Though, I would appreciate a link... just for a sneak peak.)
12:13 and your master degree part are my fav parts lol
Accelarator is best boi
Lol, stole my name
He's the best character.