Toaru Kagaku no Railgun - A Review

MAN! I should just convert my entire blog into a rambling anime-game-and-everything-in-between review site! For the past few posts, I've been posting up 5% worth of my life stories and 95% worth of nothing to do with my life ramblings. WOW!

(And before I comment about this random new anime that I found, I'm gonna add here that Final Fantasy Dissidia is mind-blowing!! WHOA!! The battle system is strange, and the concept doesn't appeal much to me at all, but WHAT THE HECK?!?!?! Where else do you get to see SQUALL vs. SEPHIROTH?!?!?! OMG! Where else do you see TIDUS FIGHT ALONGSIDE ZIDANE?!?!?! OMG! The beautiful villians all brought back to life!! However, I don't quite see Jecht's relevance in this. Sure, he's Sin and all but... seeing Jecht is so anticlimatic. I'd rather see the other cute-villian from FFX: Seymour. Ahahaha. Imagine my shock seeing Edea come back to life and Kuja too. XD)

My Eyes are Chasing: To Aru Kagaku no Railgun!!!

Okay, so about this show To Aru Kagaku no Railgun. A very strange English title, which after translation reads as A Certain Scientific Railgun. Yeah. Doesn't make sense? XD The series ended just last month!! Pretty new, I guess~ XD Though... I'm really kinda proud to have found it, because it's the least ECHHI/HENTAI thing that I've watched for the past few months. And it actually possesses some SUBSTANCE. THANK GOD!

(If you need an example of recent anime I've watched which were... IMMODEST, yeah, titles include Seikon no Qwaser - breasts... *sighs* and Dance in the Vampire Bund - about stripping vampires *sighs*. AND I'm surprised that even GINTAMA has strangely dirty jokes. I thought the target audience were kids?!?!?! Apparently not. Jokes which were all extremely funny, though. HAHAHAHA XD)

(What more watching all that Junjou Romantica and Iroku Irokoi Romantan... Ahahahaha XD)

So YEAH, To Aru Kagaku no Railgun. Interesting fictional places, well-thought out plots, great storyline... but the only setback? ...Girl-girl relationships! Ain't exactly my cup of tea (at all, I might add... you know I prefer boy-boy stuff XD) but I'm proud to say that it doesn't spoil the action too much. Yeeeeee-hawwww!

ANYWAY, the story revolves around students in a city called Academy City where technology is 10X greater than technology in any other city in the world. And the pull here in this city is not just the level of education or how safe the city is for students (which you will see later on that security is actually the biggest flaw... *sweatdrops*) but students who enroll here: can cultivate supernatural powers. Majority of students, though - but not all.

Each student's abilities are measured by LEVELS, from 0 up to 5, which is the highest. Level 0 students are normal students who do not possess abilities. AND in the whole city, there are only 7 Level 5 users who can exhibit CRAZY powers - and we are lucky enough that the 3rd ranked Level 5 user in Academy City is our lead character, Misaka Mikoto! She is the ultimate Electromaster manipulating electricity. XD

Misaka Mikoto: She has a strange charm about her that draws the audience to her.

She puts up a tough front, but is actually into childish kiddy stuff. And unlike boastful high leveled ability users, she's MODEST. Her powers are nothing to belittle either. She is a genius of hard work, rather than a natural. Pretty smart for a 2nd year middle-schooler too. The perfect kinda bishie if she were one. BOOOOOO!!!!!!

Her nickname by the way is 'The Railgun'. Which is why the title has the word Railgun, I guess?

You know what? Things would be MUCH, MUCH better if Misaka were a boy instead. GAHHHH. Cos there's this girl called Shirai who's all lesbian-y over Misaka. Disgusting :( (Let me add that Shirai tends to act all hentai-ish in front of Misaka.)

Misaka and Shirai.
Shirai really spoils the whole show with her INTENSE AFFECTION for Misaka.

DARNNNNNNN! Just when you THOUGHT you found a good anime, a girl shows up and destroys everything!

An example of a light ecchi moment would be like this:

Misaka kicking Shirai out of her bathroom.

To explain things... Shirai oftens misuses her Level 4 Teleporting abilities to sneak up on Misaka. Annoying! Thank goodness Misaka rejects her with a whack to the head or a good electric shock to her brain. GAHHHHHHH.

. . .

IT SPOILS THE SHOWWWWWWWWW!!! *cries*

Ahem! Still enjoyable despite the girl-girl nonsense... XD

The Level Upper arc in this series really caught my attention because of this professor.

A genius! A real genius!

Look at her eyes!! I was so caught up in this arc because...



... HER EYES REMINDED ME OF LELOUCH LAMPEROUGE WHOM I MISS SO MUCH FROM CODE GEASS. One day, I'm gonna get the entire Code Geass R2 series. God knows why I do not have it! GRRRRRR.

This anime also has some degree of erm... intelligence in it which requires some complex computer-ing stuff. It all feels believable, ya know? The fighting scenes should be lauded, because the girls fight with brains rather than brawns. Which is interesting.

Now that I think of it, this anime kinda reminds me of Darker than Black!! Ability users, fighting for what they believe in and awkward justice! YEAHHHH. To Aru Kagaku no Railgun features this group of people known as Judgment, whose job is to protect peace in a city full of ability users.

All in all, fuse in School Rumble, Girls' High, Ichigo 100%, Darker than Black and a tinge of Code Geass = To Aru Kagaku no Railgun. Interesting and watchable! Bishounen hunters should severely avoid this series though. You're all gonna get seriously disappointed. AHAHAHAHAHA XD

My ratings? 6.5/10
However... If Misaka were a boy? 9/10