天下制覇

All arcs should end in eye-gouging.

Impressions:

Pretty much exactly what was expected, so there’s not a ton to say. Just a short one episode introuctory arc where Touma lists his power, someone who wasn’t even important enough to have a name tries to hack into Index’s library (must keep innuendos to a minimum…), and Sphinx continues to show that it’s the most magical being in the Index-iverse by continuously morphing to different sizes during the entire thing. Touma gets to hit all his high points, complaining about his luck, giving a valiant speech, making Misaka blush, etc etc. About the only thing they missed was Index gnawing on his spikey head.

A lot of the BGM from the first season returns, which is annoying, but at least the production continues to look decent. Worlds beyond Railgun at any rate. This episode was a bit disappointing on the action front, particularly because Juan Pedro Valliere de Sade simply gave up after Touma’s generic heroic speech about living life. Hopefully the upcoming Nuns on The Run arc will do better in that department. The important thing is that we’re moving right along. There was some crappy exposition about touching Index in her Dewey Decimal, but at least it was brief. We’ll see if JCStaff actually learned from the last season though or if they just wanted to keep this to a one episode arc and had to cut the magical expo.

Anyway, it seems about the same as before, and I did enjoy the first season for the most part. It had a couple rough arcs in the later going, but it was a decently solid action show. For all the crap people give it about its exposition, I find Jump action shows eight thousand times more insufferable.  I really wouldn’t suggest starting with this season, but it gives you pretty much all that you need to know in this episode plus a quick overview of the main characters with cameos for most of the rest of the tertiary cast. Fridays are packed, but at the moment, I’m more inclined to cover more than less. We’ll see if my sanity gives way before my drive.

Preview:

Nuns and spinning maids.