QUOTE (AccipiterF1 @ Jul 19 2013, 06:58 PM) A good person would have walked away at that point and not have killed the first. So no, I don't feel for him at all. I hate that guy, and nothing he ever does will make up for what he's done. It drives me nuts that he has such a fan base.
Anyway.... Am I REALLY hoping we don't have to re-watch the whole Touma vs. Accelerator fight again. Not just because it's repetitive, but because I'm annoyed at the idea of having to see Touma white knight for Biribiri in her own series. Seeing him do it in Index is fine, because that's what the show is about, him saving super-powered damsels in distress. But here, it defeats the whole point of having a Railgun spin-off series in the first place. You know, showing how awesome she and her friends are. And speaking of friends, I need more Saten and Uiharu! So the sooner we get through this whole Accelerator thing, the happier I'll be.
I wouldn't say Accelerator is a "good" person, but having known more about his past I suppose I'm more forgiving. I know when I saw this arc in Index I hated his guts, but then we learned about how he was experimented on as a child because the scientists could not figure out his powers. People feared him and also wanted to kill him. The fact that he had gone through all that at a young age, it's not surprising that he's messed up.
Don't get me wrong, I don't condone his actions here at all, and it's still despicable to me that he's doing this only to become the "strongest" (which he already is....), but I don't view his character in black and white.
He does redeem himself when he protects Last Order. I also remember that she said something along the lines of him not wanting to actually kill the clones, and the clones knew that. Of course my memory is very vague when it comes to the past Index series ;p
I also agree with you about how wrong it is for Touma to be the white knight in Bibiri's own series. However, that's how it went down and nothing is going to change
I also remember what Marine said early in this thread:
QUOTE (Marine-RX179)I really hope J.C.Staff would do the Touma vs Accelerator part justice, as originally I seen that fight in Index first (also by J.C. Staff)...and it was like "meh Imagine-cheater
", but when I saw that same fight in the railgun manga, it felt really fired up, and Touma's manliness was at like 200% comparing to the Index anime counterpart. This is probably somewhat to do with fights in railgun manga are generally much more violence and brutal, which somewhat is lost when transferred to the anime platform. The Touma stopping Mikoto from going to Accelerator bridge part in the railgun manga also felt much more intense, and that the emotional exchange between the two was far stronger than in the Index anime. Anyway, as I said really hope J.C.Staff get it right this time.
Marine was right about the emotional exchange between Touma and Biribiri on the bridge being really intense. So I'm hoping that J.C Staff will pull through with the fight between Touma and Accelerator, making it more like the Railgun manga so we get to see something different and not the exact same animation.