Last Raildex thread died before I could ask this question after I reread a bunch of novels and mango chapters

Last Raildex thread died before I could ask this question after I reread a bunch of novels and mango chapters.

Is Kamachi only pretending that these two don't get along? It's extremely suspicious how he has to constantly explicitly affirm that they'll never be friends even though their actions contradict the exposition. It's as if he wants to convince us of something he didn't write that way and he accidentally made them too chummy like regular schoolgirl friends.

Misaki is pretty much the only one Mikoto has spoken honestly to about her problems and who gets it as a fellow level 5. No matter how close Kuroko is to her, she still keeps her tightly in her "have to protect"-zone so she never involves her in anything serious that judgement couldn't handle. Ironically that's the same thing Touma does to her.
They only act like petty assholes to each other on the surface but I can't see it as any sort of fundamental disagreement between them like Kamachi keeps insisting. Railgun had more of this when Misaki said she could never trust someone whose minds she can't read but then turns around and trusts her for multiple essential tasks and readily works together with her for the Dream Ranker business.
Mikoto also couldn't have removed her subconscious defense against Mental Out if she didn't trust her a lot to not fuck with her brain. The excuse that they're only doing it for Touma's sake also feels pretty shallow and forced to me if he has to explicitly repeat it over and over.

Does Kamachi just not want to write them as friends or at least trustworthy allies because their powers combined would just be way too OP for any purpose that isn't high tier magic fuckery?

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They’re rivals and not so much friends. Think of the relationship between Kuroko and Kongou.

I don't think Kongou and Kuroko would feed each other fries while discussing life and death matters.

They probably would if they were forced to work together the same way Mikoto and Misaki were. Misaki and Kongou are fabulous that way.

Kongou is so high class and out of touch with others in a way compared to how grounded Kuroko is I bet Kongou would try and feed her fries thinking it’s normal and Kuroko would just look at her like she’s crazy.

Friendly rivals, I guess.

Misaka and Misaki are situational comrades and rivals. Railgun will show their progression into trustworthy situational comrades but not necessarily friends as of yet.

They aren't friends and I'm not going to be surprised if one of them throws the other under a bus before the series is over. It will likely be Misaki fucking Mikoto over, but I could definitely see it going the other way around, as well. No matter who fucks over who, I imagine the whole situation coming with heavy implications/an outright confirmation that the fucked over girl would have done the same thing if the roles had been reversed. Also, I don't think this "fucking over" thing is going to equal death

You think Kamachi would write something that interesting?

Will Kawada Mami ever be relevant again?

Railgun season 3 when?

I think its precisely what he's setting up, actually

They just need to fuck.

>Think of the relationship between Kuroko and Kongou.
What the hell are y-
Oh yeah, almost forgot Nagai kongou

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You just need to die. Fuck off.

> Is Kamachi only pretending that these two don't get along? It's extremely suspicious how he has to constantly explicitly affirm that they'll never be friends even though their actions contradict the exposition. It's as if he wants to convince us of something he didn't write that way and he accidentally made them too chummy like regular schoolgirl friends.
He is just shit at writing. Thats the reason.

Why so angry?

I think that’s the difference between a friend and a rival. They may work together and be friendly at times but in the end they’re competitive more than supportive. The level of trust isn’t the same as with a natural friend. Kind of how like Mikoto trusted a memory wiped Kuroko to save her moms life with no hesitation.

The "friendliness" doesn't even seem real to me. I imagine that if either one of them could get something they wanted out of throwing the other girl under the bus, they'd either do it without hesitation or only refrain because their precious Touma would be angry. Meaning their refrain has nothing to do with the other girl

Did JS06 translate the preview?
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Not only do I agree with you but I don’t even think it would be weird.

No one cares.

>No one cares.
7 got translated, one guy.

leave her, She currently busy with her blog and kawakami

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Is there any interviews with Kamachi that haven’t been translated? I don’t even really know what he thinks about his own series and characters.

I could somewhat see Misaki doing that but isn't Mikoto still too much of a moralfag for that? I don't think she would intentionally throw an (ex-)comrade under the bus if it was something dangerous even if she would profit from that. Imagine if Touma did that. And she's already becoming a Touma tier moralfag, unless she really goes completely bonkers as a result of AAA.

This is why "its most likely Misaki betraying Mikoto" was said. However, I could see her becoming so blinded by her feelings for Touma she does some really shitty things. Hell, she's already let new clone experiments slide because of rings when just a month or so before she put on the cap at the mere suggestion they could be experimented on again.

Izzard and Stiyl defeat Touma and win the Indexbowl soon

>Mikoto legitimately becoming morally ambiguous or even evil for Touma in a way that is not played for comedy or immediately rectified
I wish Kamachi would do that. He's been dangling this plot point for a while now but never fully went through with it by having her do truly awful shit.

>Etzali jumped the boarder to China
Joking aside I can't believe they're really advertising the dating system offline.

I mean, I think the fact she didn't seem to care in the slightest that a new clone showed up and said "I was made under your nose. Project's cancelled, though" definitely pointing in the direction of morally inconsistent. Still not "I intentionally put someone in harm's way to get something I want"

I'm willing to chalk that up to poor writing for the sake of comedy but not on the tier of intentionally making her seem like she's losing it.

It carries some dark implications though. But of course, unless he actually has her go crazy, it will likely be glossed over/poorly retconned

Will Season 3 retcon/expand upon something?

How much damage do you guys think Junko could do with a punch?

Depends on if you want her to still keep her arm afterwards or not

Not enough to break her arm

We need to see 100% Rampage Dress yet.

Shes gonna need a loli healer backpack

This is crazy, where are the tokiwadai student council to stop these crazy bitches?

He's most likely setting them up to become actual friends that still piss eachother off from time to time by the end of it all. We just have to see how the Touma situation is handled between them and what Misaki plans to do now that Gosht-chan kept telling her to use her power for her own benefits and basically hinting that she might have to betray Mikoto if she did.

They are controlled by Misaki.

Misaki is probably somewhat jealous of Mikoto for actually being to talk to Touma, which is why she messes with her so much.

She's also probably angry at her for the whole Dolly situation. Or at the very least pity her for being ignorant of what AC would do to her DNA leading to Dolly and eventually the Sisters, (seeing her younger more naive self in her)

Yeah, I don't think she was angry at Mikoto about the clones. AC tricks literally every character in the series at one point or another, it's a city run by tricky lying bastards.

The whole thing about blaming Mikoto for the clones is kind of stupid. She was a little kid then and even if she said no they would've got her DNA somehow anyway since it's part of Aleister's keikaku.

Go away, Misaka.

I never really understood the whole "need to ask her for her DNA" thing. I assume they'd taken plenty of blood samples at that point. She was already an Esper. Did they need bone marrow or something?

Kamachi a baka!

They needed a reason for mikoto to blame herself. I'm pretty sure that would have been her parents decision at that age.

They might as well get permission first. If she said no they’d do it anyways but since she said yes Mikoto can’t even legally do anything. I bet they asked Misaki as well when they did her.

what if it was actually seria she was worried about.

I mean technically all of this stuff should still be their parent's decision at the ripe old age of 14. I don't think AC gives a shit.

Consent doesn't count when you get it from a five year old. Legally it's all bullshit. Crowley might have just done it that way to fuck with her head.

How in the dark in Misaki in terms of Touma? She seems to know his habit of saving people. But how much does she know about IB, ww3, Othinus, magic side in general, the accel stuff. crowley, ect. We know Seria keeps tabs on Touma but somehow is still in the dark.

Hello hungry skeleton

AC is an entirely different place and since her mom wasn’t around I’m guessing they had to have her fill out paperwork and she had to sign.

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Misaki's boobs steal nutrients from the rest of her body. That is the real reason she has such poor stamina.

I think Misaki holds a secret about somebody that will surprise everybody.

Does anyone understand shit about what nogi is ranting about?

Or the fact that she doesn'd excercice at all.

Nah she never looked in Touma's brain.

It's probably MP talking about the number 6.

I don't think she know much. If she knew he was in the dangerous then she would have already tried to help him. Also she didn't even know about magic

Kids don't consent. If the parent isn't available in any way you just make all the decisions for them. Trust me, i'm an EMT, a kid's consent is worth garbage. It legally doesn't exist. I'm assuming Japan is the same way.

Of course Mikoto has parents who are a phone call away, AC just doesn't care.

I'm a 'sitting in front of the pc all day' skinny neet and I think I have more stamina than her.

>If she said no they’d do it anyways but since she said yes Mikoto can’t even legally do anything
Mfw legally. Whatever answer she gave wouldn't change anything. Most likely it was just to fuck with her head. Isn't that something a Kihara would do?

Well Misaki does know who the number six is. Maybe she will be the one to reveal it?

> Shokuhou Misaki, noticing him, claims that he is pretending to be the Number Six Level 5, and therefore has no connection to her, indicating that she probably knows the real Etsu

Misaki did help those girls out by erasing the minds of people who found out about them on the last episode of Railgun.

They’d probably the type to take in a powerful esper with no family sent directly to them for experimentation. I don’t think they’d care about being legal.

What if she just checked his mind and knew that he was pretending?

If she had to read his mind that would imply she doesn’t know who the sixth is and she wouldn’t need to add the part about having a connection to the sixth.

She’d simply just say you’re not who you say you are or something.

I meant for fucking with Misaka "just because."
There is no real reason to pretend to *need* to trick her to get their hands on her DNA.
I mean I guess Kamachi wanted to make her seem tragic in vol3.

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Well it’s either a plot hole or she had to sign something and they couldn’t forge her signature. Scientists or not they have to have some kind of proof that she agreed because Judgment and Anti-Skill don’t work for the scientists of AC and they don’t deal directly with Aleister himself. If they found out about something like that from Mikoto and the scientists didn’t have paperwork showing she agreed that could mean big trouble.

>implying judgement or anti-skill can touch projects backed by the board of directors.

I’m sure they would have taken it anyways but having Mikoto or her parents agree is just an easy step to cover their ass if word ever got out.

Actually if it’s illegal they can. They’re the law in that city. If they have proof the law is being broken they can get involved.

What big trouble? Consent or not, cloning itself is illegal to begin with. And that's even before we get to the part of killing 20000 human lives or having a highschooler do all that killing.

I just like to think a Kihara did it because why the fuck not.

We don’t know if cloning is illegal in AC do we? Did they say that?

Yes and board of directors control them so it doesn't matter.

No they can't
>everyone who knows or wants to get involved gets reorganized into a different squad, fired or silenced, evidence is removed
Easy, now the others don't want anything to do with it even if they know

Read the bridge scene in OT3 again.
Or idk watch it in Index anime (not Railgun).

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Doesn’t matter. If the chief of police breaks the law and a regular officer under him has proof they can get involved. Nobody is above the law. They could probably stop them behind the scenes but if they outright stopped them from doing their job in public and they had proof the law was being broken that would make news because reporters will do anything for a story and it would hurt the reputation of AC and bring tons of unwanted publicity to the board. It could be a huge thing so why don’t just get Mikoto or her mom to sign a paper? Literally what is there to lose just by asking?

Yea Anti-skill couldn’t get involved because they had no proof did they? Judgment kind of jumped the gun but when the case was blown up and exposed Anti-skill got involved real quick.

Law is only a farce in AC. They don't give a shit and control all information.

Aleister has the ability to manipulate the media and what rumors get spread. There's no way word is getting out. Even IRL if you have power you're essentially above the law. That goes double for Raildexverse.

Why even bother to go that high up in the chain and cause problems when you can just get them to sign a damn paper? Like I said I’m sure they’d take it anyways but there’s literally nothing to be lost by just getting proof that they agree to what’s being done.

Wut.
I'm talking about Touma's suggestion to expose the cloning, as it is against international law. Misaka said it's futile because the board already knows and they are likely supporting it, so exposing it won't do shit.

Signing the paper means jackshit when you're still breaking the law.
That's like saying it's okay to murder someone in their house because they willingly gave you the keys.

No it’s not. People are actively scared of judgment and Anti-skill and it’s a huge problem for people compared to if there was just no law at all. There is a law and there’s good people who work for both organizations that don’t care about the dark side and do what’s right.

Literally no one relevant gives any shit about Judgement or Anti-skill. The fuck you're smoking?

Oh I though you were talking about something completely different. I didn’t know cloning was illegal.

So you think people would have it just as easy if there was no kind of police force at all in AC? Wouldn’t make a difference at all?

Frienemies. Misaki wishes they were just friends though.