Monday, August 5, 2013

Anime: A Certain Scientific Railgun S: Ep 17: Study Group


The Sisters are safe and Misaka returns to a much more normal life.  She still checks up on them with the help of her favorite frog faced doctor, but even with the sad news that their lives are shorter than a normal humans, they should get a portion of it back to enjoy as much as any walking Railguns can do.

Saten is hosting a study group, while officially such, she plans to try and entice Misaka to explain who the home baked cookies were for.

We see a quite hilarious flashback of Saten and Misaka baking the cookies Toma never quite received.  Misaka also seems to show a welcome return to her everyday life and Kuroko will no longer be eating alone it seems either.

Of course with the return to a more normal life we see a much lighter cross section, with Kuroko having a small side adventure to a pet shop (and thinking turtle of all things being good for the study group!).  We also see Uriharu being defeated by a book report while ensnaring high grade hackers to a trap server.

All in all there are many smiles and good feels throughout the episode.  We do get an awesome clash of Level 5s and their less than stable sidekicks at a restaurant, I was in tears.  There is a hint that Uriharu's living situation is not as happy as it once was, but for once Magical Index does not give us a clear road of what that may be.

After the dark and traumatic twists of Accelerator vs the Sisters, this was a welcome breath of fresh air.  Hope abounds and smiles seem likely to return to all the friends of Misaka.  Of course if you have followed Magical Index, you know there is more to come for the Railgun and her friends, and Accelerator is not done with the Sisters either.

I look forward to the new portions and maybe we will finally know some things from Misaka's POV that in Toma's we were denied!

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