{"id":3532,"date":"2009-10-02T21:35:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T04:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikoto.wordpress.com\/?p=3532"},"modified":"2009-10-02T21:35:05","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T04:35:05","slug":"the-greatest-anime-of-all-time-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/the-greatest-anime-of-all-time-01\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Anime of All Time 01"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3535\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/snapshot20091002170123.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3535\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3535\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/snapshot20091002170123.jpg?resize=450%2C256\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3535\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I can&#39;t get enough of this face.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve read my blog before, you probably already guessed that I wouldn&#8217;t let Omni one-up me on blogging The Greatest Anime of All Time (some less faithful souls might call it &#8220;To Aru Kagaku no Railgun&#8221; or &#8220;A Certain Scientific Railgun&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Thus I will be blogging this series from start to finish, trying to be as unbiased as possible and not letting my &#8220;must spam pictures of goddess&#8221; instincts get the better of me.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/snapshot20091002164917.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3536\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/snapshot20091002164917.jpg?resize=500%2C284\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Let&#8217;s start with the cons of this first episode:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kuroko is too close to Mikoto<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.seiha.org\/2009\/10\/a-certain-scientific-railgun-01-sexual-harassment\/\">No plot<\/a><\/li>\n<li>I am jealous<\/li>\n<li>Shitty internet connection made my first leecher status into 600th seeder status (in other words, it took me two painful hours to torrent this)<\/li>\n<li>Nothing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So in other words, I really liked this first episode. \u00a0Sure, the yuri themes were coming on strong throughout the entire thing, but as a slice of life introductory episode, it&#8217;s top notch (what&#8217;s better, this or &#8220;chocolate cornets&#8221;?).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">This episode really reminds me of the first episode of Natsu no Arashi (or if you haven&#8217;t seen that, Yokuwakaru Gendaimahou&#8230; but if you haven&#8217;t seen that either, just think of &#8220;anime with very non-sequitur first episode), except that it&#8217;s actually good. \u00a0The problem with NnA was that nothing really happened. \u00a0The first episode was a bore because everything was so slice-of-life without any plot that they might as well have titled that episode &#8220;confusion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">However, this episode (re-)introduced us to Mikoto and Kuroko, and the new characters, Ruiko and Kazari, in a better timeframe. \u00a0Instead of going completely slice-of-life (where everything literally is a normal day in their lives &#8211; they all know each other and their backgrounds are never explained), To Aru Kagaku no Railgun&#8217;s first episode introduces us to the characters and explains their backgrounds in the context of a &#8220;normal&#8221; school day &#8211; which really isn&#8217;t, since the characters first meet each other in the episode.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/snapshot20091002165738.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3539\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/snapshot20091002165738.jpg?resize=500%2C284\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">In other news, the new characters are really interesting. \u00a0I&#8217;m really curious as to how a level 1 got into Judgment, and what she and her level 0 friend can add to this anime. \u00a0So far, we haven&#8217;t seen a true level 0 in the To Aru world, and I&#8217;m really intrigued. \u00a0Maybe she&#8217;ll try to make up for her lack of powers with random acts of &#8220;cool&#8221;ness like the one we&#8217;ve seen in this episode?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">However, these new characters might be somewhat of a liability. \u00a0Their low-level powers might set the stage for a slice-of-life anime (obviously, I haven&#8217;t read the manga, so I have no idea what&#8217;s going to happen) instead of a more plot\/action-oriented one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">But if you really want what to hear what I want to say,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><a style=\"text-decoration:none;\" href=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/snapshot20091002165524.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3538\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/snapshot20091002165524.jpg?resize=500%2C284\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">This is the best anime of all time, and you all know it. \u00a0Don&#8217;t deny it. \u00a0You know anime can&#8217;t get better than this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve read my blog before, you probably already guessed that I wouldn&#8217;t let Omni one-up me on blogging The Greatest Anime of All Time (some less faithful souls might call it &#8220;To Aru Kagaku no Railgun&#8221; 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