とある科学の超電磁砲（レールガン）/Toaru Kagaku no Railgun
A Sure Scientific Railgun Vol. 15 (manga overview)
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Man, I’m actually glad I bought A Sure Scientific Railgun Vol. 15 slightly over two years in the past, even when I’m solely simply now studying it. It isn’t really easy to seek out in print kind any extra, a part of a rising development by manga publishers who’d favor you get it digitally. 😑
NOTICE!!! Within the curiosity of full disclosure, I ought to point out that I’m the adapter for the official English translation of the True Tenchi Muyo! novels, that are additionally printed by Seven Seas.
The Story, in Temporary
Saten raises an alarm when Uiharu disappears. Mikoto finds the car, so Kuroko teleports to find the kidnapped Uiharu. The ninja lady, Tsurigane, engages Kuroko. Nevertheless, Mikoto stops the car. Kimi emerges to truth Mikoto, summoning one of many dragons that Touma beforehand summoned. The dragon knocks Mikoto out, forcing Kuroko to teleport her to security. The individuals who took Uiharu cut up up with two autos.
Mikoto tracks one, however comes up empty. Raifu, who’d been enjoying a sufferer, decides to battle Mikoto. Additional, she begins fires in order that unmanned navy craft come to analyze, permitting her to make use of their weapons in opposition to Mikoto. After a prolonged battle, Mikoto triumphs, and decides she’ll hear Raifu out, because the “fool” would.
Elsewhere, Kuroko tracks the second car. Once more, Tsurigane battles Kuroko. Through the combat, the ninja lets out how she was saved as a toddler by the Kouga ninja clan. Her mission was to infiltrate Academy Metropolis as a Baby Error to see what expertise may very well be utilized by the Kouga. Regardless of taking a wound from Tsurigane, Kuroko ultimately manages to win.
In the meantime, Saten allowed herself to get arrested for the broken brought on by the Angel Dragon. As anticipated, she’s taken to the jail for interrogation, the place Kuroko suspects Uiharu is perhaps at. Because the holding cells are full, she’s put in a low safety space, permitting her to flee. Saten then finds a guard uniform to hunt for Uiharu.
Mikoto’s Fights
Mikoto’s first combat in A Sure Scientific Railgun Vol. 15 proved that the dragon summoned by Kimi was in truth one in every of Touma’s dragons. I nonetheless don’t perceive how any of that labored, however hopefully, we’ll be taught by this arc. Regardless, the dragon made simple work of Mikoto, clearly establishing a rematch down the highway with larger stakes.
For her second combat, I laughed at how issues received began. Mikoto isn’t there to combat. She’s there to see if the primary automotive carried her kidnapped good friend. She was simply going to depart, regardless of the very fact some Mohawk-haired punk had the helpless wanting Raifu. What I like about Mikoto is her analytical skill. With every combat, she will get higher at it, which is barely pure. So she realized that Raiful wasn’t a sufferer and was prepared to maneuver on.
Ah, however battles are required in a shounen manga sequence. And whereas Raifu’s gravity manipulation powers show a problem for Mikoto, it wasn’t her most difficult combat. Frankly, I admire that ’trigger it helps cease energy creep. As a substitute, Mikoto has to make use of her thoughts to beat the challenges Raifu presents.
On the finish, Mikoto’s maturity comes ahead. She acknowledges her personal limitations, and in her thoughts, she’s no hero. Touma is extra the hero to her. Since she took a web page from Touma’s e book to supply to listen to out Raifu, I’m hoping Raifu provides extra backstory for her group.
Kuroko’s Fights
For each of Kuroko’s fights in A Sure Scientific Railgun Vol. 15, she has to combat the identical individual. The primary combat wasn’t a lot of 1, since Kimi and Mikoto quickly took over middle stage, even when briefly. Nevertheless, the second combat was extra of a survival factor for Kuroko. All all through, Tsurigane had a bonus. Not solely did she have her ninja abilities, however her esper talents to have the ability to predict the place Kuroko would teleport to gave her an enormous edge.
What’s attention-grabbing is that Tsurigane was able to combat Mikoto. Her solely actual mistake was underestimating Kuroko, who’s additionally a “fight veteran” (each within the Railgun and Index sequence). Kuroko has all the time been a quick thinker, and she or he too has a really analytical thoughts. Nevertheless, to me, she appears to behave extra on intuition than say Mikoto. Little doubt, that’s as a result of as a teleporter, she’s sturdy, however she’s not anyplace close to as sturdy as Mikoto. Nevertheless, that wit simply barely allowed Kuroko to outlive and squeak out a win.
What’s jacked up about this combat is that Tsurigane is considerably insane. Her obvious dream is to be beheaded. Then within the moments her head would possibly nonetheless be alive, her last sight could be her headless physique. Like many in Academy Metropolis, plainly no matter this Darkish Might Venture was, it precipitated her to be this manner. It’s unhappy because the Kouga rescued her from wild canines as a toddler. Now, the clan chief Oumi has to desert her for turning on the clan.
Saten’s Problem
As a lot as I like Saten, her half within the journey is the weakest one in A Sure Scientific Railgun Vol. 15. Conveniently, Kamachi-sensei withholds details about the plan with Saten till the tip of the amount, despite the fact that she received arrested early within the quantity. There’s a logic in having Kuroko and Mikoto go after the automobiles, in case Uiharu have been captive in one in every of them. Nevertheless, there’s plot comfort that Kuroko observed the punks got here from the Second Reformatory, the place they’d completed the jailbreak testing within the earlier quantity.
I suppose Saten’s plan was to stall till the busses stop operating, then the jail could be pressured to maintain her in a single day? Aside from mendacity to Anti-Ability, Saten dedicated no crime. Nevertheless, plot comfort means all of the holding cells are crammed, so Saten will get stashed within the evening obligation nap room. Thus she’s simply capable of escape, because of extra plot contrivance. Then we get a minor retcon, whereby Saten has leaping skill, because of an Indian Poker card. Isn’t that handy.
Ah, however it doesn’t cease there. Safety is extremely lax within the areas of the jail Saten must get to. Not solely that, however her big, wall-sticking, cat paws are in a field, in an unguarded part of stuff from the jailbreak take a look at. Sorry, however all this plot contrivance simply takes me proper out of the story.
Lastly, Saten will get a safety guard uniform. Conveniently, the guards put on masks! We’ve already been right here and completed that when Mikoto helped Misaki out in quantity 9 of the manga. She too placed on a guard’s uniform to disguise herself. It sucks that this was the one solution to make Saten related to the story.
Omake
There’s a visitor artwork of Saten together with a observe from another manga artists that Seven Seas didn’t trouble to determine. 😓 Then there’s two pages of character design work for Kimi. That’s it.
Remaining Ideas and Conclusion
Ultimately, A Sure Scientific Railgun Vol. 15 is generally fairly good. Saten’s “journey” within the jail is the weak level because the writing conveniently permits her to luck her manner by.
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