Yeah, I don’t get why Railgun is on there. I mean, I …

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Comment on Top 10 Fantasy Anime by Yamato:

yeah, I don’t get why Railgun is on there. I mean, I get that it takes place in the same world as Index, which definitely contains some fantasy elements, but Railgun focuses solely on the sci-fi aspects of that world. Though, maybe this was just an error: I’m going to assume several of the voters (and whoever runs the poll, for that matter) treated Index and its spin-off interchangeably, and Railgun was just more popular out of the two.

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  (sorry for the double-post, wasn’t able to edit my previous one) Say, I just remembered: technically, shouldn’t Fullmetal count as a sci-fi? I mean, the world may seem like a fantasy at first glance, but whenever it comes to how the series’ token super powers actually work, Arakawa seems to know her chemistry. Though, I guess there is some “magic” of sorts involved (the ability to manipulate elements in the first place, for one), but I’d argue that it featured it no more than Outlaw Star did …

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