The 6th episode of To Aru Majutsu no Index II abandons the nun service pre-eminent in earlier episodes, instead adopting Railgun-esque saucy Mikoto/Kuroko bathing scenes thanks to the onset of an arc starring Tokiwadai Middle School’s Mikoto and Kuroko.
Six episodes in, the show has now roughly hit the full-quarter mark of the expected 2 cour-length season, and with that much time left a reasonable expectation for future episodes would be something about four episodes for this new arc, followed by some of To Aru Majutsu’s plentiful filler-ish minor side plots before returning to another major arc.
Sphinx in the above shot displays a facial expression close to what a real-life staredown from a hungry pet cat happens to look like.
Touma and Index take a rest from most of this episode.
Tokiwadai’s luxurious student bathing facilities.
Mikoto:
Unfortunately, the fog runs thick in the TV broadcast version.
Kuroko:
A handy Japanese word to know: 谷間 / tanima, meaning “valley”, “ravine” or even “cleavage”, referring specifically to the valley-like depths so integral to much late-night anime.
Mikoto and Kuroko probably aren’t the ideal models to show off the “valley,” but they still make for a interesting example:
Kuroko almost looks too big from this side angle…
Several of these shots could’ve easily been fogged to be reserved for the eventual home releases, so it’s a good thing that Index II’s censorship has been as lax as it has been so far.
“U.S. Space Shuttle Launch Successful”
The use of the kanji 米 / bei, or “rice”, for the Untied States above has an interesting concept behind it; the Japanese system of ateji, the use of kanji purely for their sounds rather than what the character actually means, assigned many foreign countries’ names haphazard kanji prior to the 20th century.
As odd as an Oriental country naming any Western country after “rice” is, there are even odder ones – the kanji for France is 仏, or “Buddha.”
Kuroko shopping for for even more lingerie.
Awaki Musujime, the show’s appealingly attired latest introduction.
Awaki is voiced by 櫻井浩美 / Harumi Sakurai, a relative rookie seiyuu with a very sparse history, but with the distinction of having done the significant role of Angel Beat’s SSS-dan chief, Yuri (aka Yurippe).
Last Order makes an appearance too, accompanied in the same bathroom by her guardian Accelerator:
This bathroom scene (the episode’s third so far by the 14:00 mark) goes on for a huge amount of screentime (over three minutes!), so there’s literally several dozen shots of charmingly flat Kuroko lovingly depicted.
The railgun effects are a step-up from most of To Aru Kagaku’s, and certainly the first Index season’s, and are animated quite beautifully.
The above pose had a blurry/glare effect running down the screen, so this is actually one of the clearest views of the electro effects available with just a screenshot.
As is typical for the first episode of a new arc in this series, this episode actually had a relatively small amount of action.
An imouto appears!
Luckily, the imouto seem to provide service much more readily than their primogenitor:
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never watched index, i feel ashamed but i will soon.
love the bathroom scene. delicous skin yummmy :)
In my opinion, Index and Railgun are not different from others J.C. Staff works based on Light Novels.
Pic #10 - My Kuroko can't be this big! ^_^
girl is still growing...
her DFC is a lie!
Pretty sure the big part is her elbow. The rest of it is as expected.
I'm not fan of such skinny bodies but the bondage gear as quite appeal.
i feel ashamed i missed rail gun and started in index i need to start from rail gun... someone smack me
eh you actually did it right.. its true thta railgun starts before index in the timeline, but its a mere side story so theres really no probloem with watching them in this order, like i also did. railgun alos has a lot of stuff that leaves an impression when you watched index I , like index's and toumas random appearances or that you know how touma and mikotos story is going to be and that he los his memory at some point and stuff
Just happy to see them again ^^
I bet that creepy otaku that destroyed his Index collection has gone to hang himself or something =)
Heheh. Naked Kuroko, Biribiri, Imouto and Last Order all in one glorious episode. :3
Too bad it's (a bit) censored. I wonder, is it a new fad in Japan to enter the bath tub with a towel?
Don't forget naked Accelerator... oh wait...
at least us girls get some fan service in normal non-bishounen anime lol not that it really matters
i wonder why people rated that girl down now. just because she stated that. at leats it didnt fail like kuroshitsuji II. in order to include fanservice for male audience like me, they totally overused that especially with hannah, she got so dammn annoying with that and it felt so unnaturally. also if they wanted to bring fanservice for us male audience there why only one charactre for that, alos with thta ridicilously big boobs? shouldve included a loli for that at least.
I'll watch this episode just for them.
Bring back Railgun II and forget that Index crap.
Same here, I just like the science side. FOR SCIENCE!!! You monster.
@Yoshii-kun He'll be trying to stick the DVDs back together.
I'm trying to work out whether the "Untied States" above is a typo or not...
Also work on if his 'voiced by 櫻井浩美 / Harumi Sakurai, a relative rookie seiyuu' is sarcasm or not...
風音, a rookie???
Not a typo. Japanese people use that "kome" symbol to represent America because America is written as "beikoku" which can be literally seen as "rice country" in English (though I don't see much rice here >.> <.<). So it's correct in saying "American Spaceshuttle launches".
i think you missed his point. :)
but here's more random facts related to the topic:
most kanji country names are derived phonetically, though the choice of the specific characters might be distinctly related. another example: portugal - 葡 - ブ - wild grape
here are a few more (in their complete forms): http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/countrynames.html
Exactly what I was gonna post. 櫻井浩美 / Harumi Sakurai is rookie ANIME seiyuu, but she is NOT a rookie seiyuu at all.
She as 風音/kazane is a VERY well-known and experienced seiyuu...just not in the anime industry...
Well, if it was Artefact posting, I would have concluded that fact was left out intentionally.
But since the author of this post is Quen, and considering his/her scratched record of having less-than-sufficient knowledge in this field...
...Kazane is NOT a rookie seiyuu...
Sakurai Harumi A.K.A. Kazane is not a rookie,although the scarce line-up of her anime roles make her seem like one,try checking out her hentai/eroge roles...
I was aware of her substantial game roles, but I did mean to say she was fairly inexperienced in TV/Movie/non-ero OVA roles.
I should've been clearer.
If it is a typo it is on JCStaff's end, the translation is correct. I could see the US getting commissioned to repair/replace a weather satellite.
It is not a typo because those States are no longer tied together!
I'll assume it was another typo of mine, and I will not scroll up to check out of shame!
I like the "Untied States". ^_^
The Untied States are really coming apart these days...
So what happened? U.S. Civil War part II? ^_^
Finally some Kuroko and Mikoto action in a shower bath scene :3
Wait there's a trap... Accelerator in shower action with Kuroko/Mikoto ? OMG
Nah, that's loli action with Last Order and Accelerator. A threesome would certainly be nice to watch, though. :3
Poor Touma, how would he react to that?
Oh well, he's too busy with index though :D
It's a banquet of DFC...
Is it wrong for me to follow the legendary "Internet is for porn" theme? Because if it is... too late.
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ikr.....too much awesomeness hahaha i will re-watch this show for few more times hehehe
Bullshit.
This is exactly what I avoided Railgun for, and they're putting it in my Index?
Take it back to Railgun dammit.
Be glad half of the first episode of Railgun should be on this episode, then again :P Kuroko got a beating, way to go Aiwaki.
be glad misaka mikoto was naked in three different flavors entire ep . Loli, imouto and original. mmmmmm....good
That would be a hell of a selfcest threesome. :3
If there would be an almighty being within this Universe, I'd bet all it would do would be having sex with limitless copies of itself.
There, Christians, I found the reason why your god doesn't talk to you. :D
That Awaki bitch dare lay a hand on Kuroko?!
I'll kill her!
Huh she's voiced by kazane?
Well shit, now I dunno who to root for -____-
i noticed, when she was bandaged later, did her wound change places? just a bit, but im sure it wasnt in the armpit before but a way deeper down, at the side...
Yeah, suuuure. Like Index's first season didn't have any of this. Admit it, you avoided Railgun because it lacks Accelerator's fanservice.
An Imouto appears.
Imouto uses Disrobe.
It's super effective!
Gotta catch them all! :3
porque los perros tienen pulgas , las pulgas tienen pulgitas
@Anon 16:16
What are you talking about ? Please use proper English
i could translate thta if i just knew what pulgas and pulgitas meant...
he said "because the dogs have fleas, the fleas have little fleas"
okay i translated after looking up pulga.. not sure if he means really small fleas or flea-children with "pulgitas" though.. dunno maybe its a saying? im german so im not that perfect with spanish...
LOS LOCOS KICK YOUR ASS
LOS LOCOS KICK YOUR FACE
LOS LOCOS KICK YOUR BALLS
TO OUTER SPACE
No thank you i prefer to stay home an watch Lolis.
*comments Last Order watching with kitty*
WTF was I typing there?
*proceeds Last Order watching with kitty*
Oh Schrobby you silly billy. ^_^
Shush. Have some fish. ^_^
Johnny 5 is aliiiiiive!