Xebek’s Blog

So this has been a pretty good series to follow for the first arc. There was quite a bit of talking going on, but was fairly necessary to explain motivations for people. Sadly there is only so much time in the episode and choices have to be made on what they are going to put in. Besides moving from a light novel to an anime means there is quite a bit of dialogue that is going to be put into the anime. Did take that into account though wouldn’t have minded a bit more actions for the first arc overall. But let’s not confuse that for there not being any action at all. The second episode especially was great for that side of things. He handled Stiyl quite well in the second episode because his attacks were almost all just shooting fire. Of course he almost won and if Touma hadn’t used the sprinkler system to wash away the ink runes it would have been over.

Overall I like the series in how it handles magic and science. Both sides clearly dislike the other with the esper students not really believing in magic. But the magic especially has done a good job explaining its roots. Magic being of the regular human is kind of funny when I think about it. They created special powers for themselves because of fear/jealousy of those who were simply born with the powers. Of course a school created to help students develop those abilities proves it’s not as simple as just having power.

Index brought up a question of what living is. Is it alright to live a fully year and then lose all the memories from that year? Kind of makes me think of Chihiro from Ef. But in that case it’s not quite the same. Chihiro only had 13 hours of memory, but there was continuity there. Unless of course she slept more than 13 hours, then she would be in a difficult spot. Index would lose a years memory no matter what and would have no way of remembering someone she met during that year. Her body would grow, but she could never move forward. Luckily we find out the Church was behind it and Touma was able to destroy the seals that were hurting Index. But I guess you have to think about Kaori and Stiyl’s decision. What would you do if your friend was going to lose their memory of you no matter what? Honestly I can’t agree with almost punishing Index by chasing her as enemies. Even if she will lose those memories is it right to leave her alone and then scare her?

I’m just glad we found some solution to this situation. But in the end Touma was the one to lose memories. He was a good actor pretending he didn’t and giving Index some relief. But I don’t think he can keep up the fact he lost all those memories for that long.