Let me say this straight: Railgun was a pretty poor show. Behind the facade of gorgeous graphics, fun characters and an intriguing setting lies a hellish mix of half-assed planning, half-baked production and nonexistent ambition. All in all it didn’t do much better than its predecessor A Certain Magical Index, although its failure was pretty much a reversed case of what plagued Index.
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Pretty accurate depiction of how I feel right now. Damn ouzo.
I thought about this backlog matter and it turned out that new episodes were pouring out before I even had the chance to clear the old ones. So I might as well crank out a pre-finale post and be done with it. I’m sorry for the recent silence. The reason is that graduation is looming right around the corner and I’m really starting to feel the pressure here. As such, blogging has to be a lower priority for the time being.
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HNNNNNNNGG-
As the season has reached its midpoint, I suppose it’s time to have a look at how the shows have been doing so far. This season has provided us with a few positive surprises and at least in comparison to what it was last year I can’t say it has been all that bad. Anyway, on with the current power levels…
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I think onee-chan is pretty cool guy. eh eats imoutos and doesn’t afraid of anything.
I suppose it’s about time to crank one of these posts out. I got some nice specimen piled up for another image site rage, but let me get over and done with this first. Your usual initial ranking of shows running this season plus a few words I may have to say about each.
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Mikoto is too cool for this series.
Since not too many shows survived on my fall 2009 watchlist, I might as well dedicate a post to each of those that did. First up is of course JC Staff’s Railgun.
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My procurement logistics plan face. But on to the business at hand…
The fall season is finally approaching its conclusion and since my schedule was totally messed up after three weeks of traveling, I thought it would be best to clear things a bit for both my readers and myself. Also, I’m supposed to be studying procurement logistics and doing assignments that make me RAGE, so this is a good way to escape it all and curse over later when I don’t know worth a shit in the exam. In the end I didn’t manage to keep following all that many shows although it was an improvement over the summer season, back when I dropped everything but Bakemonogatari and Zetsubou Sensei. I originally thought utilizing the tier-system throughout this season but right now it all seems unnecessary trouble. After all there are only two classes: Those that by some virtue remained on my schedule and those that did not. No middle ground here kids.
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Sorry for the recent silence, been rather busy and tired.
So yeah, I suppose it’s time for me to take a break from hitting F5 on OEG and fart out a mid-season evaluation. You pretty much know the drill, first some spreadsheets and then the verbal rambling. Oh, and I’ve heard people complain I don’t post enough pics nowadays so this time I decided to throw anything semi-relevant I could find in between the paragraphs.
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I was really hoping for Railgun 4 to be another fillertastic piece of lesbian fanservice so I could flame it six ways to India but damn JC Staff put one over on me. The fourth episode is rather filler-ish as well but I can already recognize events from the manga kicking in and the Level Upper-arc finally getting started (although as Shance pointed out, technically it already began in the very first episode).
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I’m sorry for posting this much! Forgive me!
From such a barrage of posts here you can really tell that I’ve been quite bored recently. But I’ve long since learned not to resist when an inspiration strikes, so here we are with a little update to my view on the Fall 2009 season. Now I understand reading through my text is tiresome, so I will be brief (really!) and postan pics.
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That time of the season again? OHSHI-
Now that I have completed writing on all the shows I felt deserving their own posts and most have proceeded onto the second episode, it’s time to wrap things up. My expectations for the season weren’t all that high after Bakemonogatari was kicking butt and taking names in the summer. And maybe that was a good thing.
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