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Nov 15 2009 11:02 AM
Basically it was a form of projection. Where he couldn't stand up to people that were stronger than him, so he picked on people that were weaker than him, and then went right into attacking certain Judgement members because he hald a grudge when Miss Biribiri was an acting Judgement if you will.

Also, dchaos-san kind of explained my reasoning aout what's going on. Until we get up to the one episode where Touma is running from the thougs that were pestering Miss Biribiri in a family restaurant and come to the bridge scene we are just before the Index storyline. After that episode it'll be considered a parallell storyline. That is if they manage to go that far if I remeber the manga correctly.

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Nov 15 2009 09:46 AM

If it was you, you are probably right about doing that instead. But the guy in question was clearly a coward and even with the power he processed, he was STILL afraid of (confronting) those guys that bullies him...which was exactly the (twisted) reason why he executed his revenge on the Judgement instead of the bullies.

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Nov 15 2009 12:16 AM

All of this is happening before Touma lost his memories, and before he even met Index. Currently, it's all before the first episode of Majutsu no Index, so it's not going on in between anything. It is kind of like a prequel - from the perspective of Railgun - which will later run parallel to the Index storyline.

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Nov 14 2009 11:45 PM

can i ask for some clarification... the time lines make little sense to me... even on RL

Q: so all of this is happening before touma lost his memories?

if yes then was at some point explained how could all this stuff happen in between fights for index memories?

on to aru majutsu no index there was not a real mention of the level upper... and it covers only until about volume 6 of the light novels... so i don't know if it was somehow discussed in the novels...

well misplaced anger is the most common way to channel it. after all isn't that why mailmans used to have a pour reputation in some places... Some of the worst most heinous crimes are commited by people who suffered abuse and find release on misplacing or re-enacting the trauma...

People whom's situation changed in a very short time frame are more likely to loose balance over it (E.G. people that were very poor and win the lotto are much more likelly to blow away the money in a stupid fashion than people that were in a better situation or people that were accustomed to have money)

what i mean is that it makes sense.

Mod note: Posts merged. Please don't double post. Use the Edit button if you want to make changes after you make the original post.

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Nov 14 2009 06:00 PM
So in the end the evil guy was just a bullied weakling who wanted to show the power he gained. But if I would be him I wouldve targeted the people who are bullying (is the word right?) me and not Judgement. I mean it should be clear that they cant be everywhere. And its not like the police isnt always late too ^^

The end with Misaka getting annoyed of Touma was great too ^^

I wonder if Saten someday gets the Level Upper and gets stronger just to become evil or something. It would fit.

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Nov 14 2009 11:44 AM
And so with episode 6 they are finally getting into the Level Uper Arc fully now. Also, I really liked of Touma made a guest appearance in this and showed off his power once again. Not only that but the vending machine scene about why Touma is actually a badass even before he lost his memories in the Index storyline.

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Nov 9 2009 01:40 AM
Just because Judgment does some more menial labor doesn't mean they're a joke...
I mean, even police and other such people do things like that (such as firefighters, etc).
Police sometimes have to do traffic direction, crowd control (keeping people back from an area), cleanup after accidents, etc. These aren't really jobs that most people would want to do nor that people would consider cool, honorable, or etc.
Firefighters don't just put out fires. They occasionally get called for much more menial things (Getting cats out of trees DOES actually happen on occasion, believe it or not).

Judgment do a lot of things. They do some more menial, minor things like cleanup, but that doesn't mean they don't also do more important things like catching/stopping bad guys. I mean, we've obviously seen several cases where Judgement has been involved in stopping robberies, catching bad guys, etc.

The way I figure it, Judgment are equivalent to police. Antiskill are called in for the really big/dangerous things, equivalent to SWAT, bomb-squad, etc.

Don't judge them from ONE thing they had to do, judge from the overall picture.

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Nov 9 2009 01:29 AM

Yea. Judgement is kinda like police, but with wider range of responsibility and lesser jirisdiction. Whereas Antiskill...they are more like the equivalent of SWAT.

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Nov 8 2009 09:40 AM
Indeed the Judgement are actually the Public Safety and somewhat along the line of Public Relatons as well. Meaing they do odd jobs if it is nessessary for the betterment of the city. The ones that are enforcers of the city are really called Antiskill. Those are the ones that are a bit higher on the chain of command within the city for public safety and whatnot.

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Nov 8 2009 09:13 AM
After watching ep 6 I can say Jugdement is really a joke. Having a great name and then only doing some kind of kindergarden work. I thought its more like a police or something. Really disappointing.

Misaka was great again, especially her fear of insects. Didnt see that coming, but after all a lot of really strong anime-characters are fearing something lousy like that.

@Marine: Yeah I only knew there was another scene after the ED because I saw it on Random Curiosity.