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[Orange Wizard]

It's like, blue, but, eh, perfect, you know?

I see!

[Andres]

Magical Index was bad (fucking romance crap). Scientific Railgun was slightly worse (fucking molester/date rapist Teleporter). Magical Index was just barely good (fucking abusive Index). Gonna watch Railgun S next.

[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

Eh, I like Touma, the fact hat his only power has only defensive uses and can literally be rendered null by using anything not magical, plus the inherent balls it requires to run up to a lightning spewing superhero and just punch her kinda makes me admire him.

[Andres]

i don't understand how anyone could like index more than railgun

i don't understand how anyone could like or even tolerate touma or index

It had more technobabble and Index wasn't as bad in her original series as she was in her sequel. Also, it had more plot and Angel Fall was pretty decent.

The Ice Ship arc of Index 2 was boring. Also, that blonde nun with the wheel's character had no progression from "I'm going to kill you because no one's looking!" to "Oh hey, you're here. I guess we should leave the ship." Also kind of annoyed how they made the Roman Orthodox Church such an uninteresting villain. No motive or characterisation besides "We're always good and everyone else is always evil and science is REALLY evil!"

Eh, I like Touma, the fact hat his only power has only defensive uses

Except when he uses it to break barriers, weapons, etc.

can literally be rendered null by using anything not magical

But rarely ever is. Seriously, if the Vatican wanted to kill him so much all they had to do was send an awesome person who could use a gun, but they never do.

plus the inherent balls it requires to run up to a lightning spewing superhero and just punch her kinda makes me admire him.

Except it's not balls that lets him beat up lightning people, it's the fact that he's a protagonist so bland that he just can't feel any emotions that show he's being challenged. When I see him beating lightning people, all I see is Touma doing a thing.

[Puzzlemaker]

"Demon" is wrong, but for the opposite reason you're implying:

In the original Greek, "demon" just means "spirits" in general without any connotation of evil whatsoever. So its original meaning is less evil in intent than "Yokai". Early Christian writers twisted the word around: classic case of turning the previous religion's gods into the bad guys. So you could in fact write fiction where the demons have been given a bad rap and they're not actually evil. The exact same way you can do for witches.

The way I see it, Daemon is the old fashioned term "spirit".  Heck, it's still used that way these days, see the computer Daemon and the book series "His Dark Materials". 

Demon refers to the christian evil demon things, which is pretty culterally set.

Then you have things like the Fae, which refer to more "Blue and Orange morality" type stuff.  See http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlueAndOrangeMorality

That being said, Yokai would translate best to the christian Demon.  Kami would translate as Fae, but they would both be a type of Daemon. 

My two cents.

[Twinwolf]

PTW

[i2amroy]

i don't understand how anyone could like index more than railgun

i don't understand how anyone could like or even tolerate touma or index

Indeed, though personally I'm pretty good with them both. Of course the real reason I like the shows so much is that I find they strike just the right point for me where I find the contrast between happy slice-of-life stuff and "oh, we just killed people and it's horrifying and emotional" simply exquisite. Both Index and Railgun hit that contrast, I find, but the greater emotional content of the Sisters and some of the other arcs in Railgun beat out the same emotional contrasts that show up in the Index series.

Honestly that aspect of "happy sometimes and horrifying others" is probably my biggest factor in determining what anime I like. I like things like SAO, Index, Railgun, and Fate/Stay Night not because they are all happy or all horrifying, but because they manage to hit a wonderful flip flop where the happy stuff makes the bad stuff worse, and the bad stuff makes the happy stuff more so, all without making me ever feel like I'm watching two different shows that just happen to have the same name and characters. It's the constant tension and release, combined with the huge contrast within the shows, that make me like them much more than any one particular character or plot device the shows contain.

[GreatJustice]

The first Railgun is kinda boring because Misaka is too OP compared to everyone she comes across. The second Index, meanwhile, has a few sections focused on Accelerator, one of the greatest pseudo-protagonists ever.

[Andres]

Railgun was boring because Misaka just didn't do much, especially compared to Teleporter.

But yeah, Accelerator is awesome. Watching him beat the crap out of Evil Teleporter and absolutely slaughter Hound Dog were the best parts of Index 2. He also has a really great voice actor. I heard the Japanese one by accident and he wasn't as good as the English one.

[Furtuka]

Spoiler: So guess what's getting a plamo (click to show/hide)

Also new PV out for Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans

[JoshuaFH]

I started up the new show "Shimoneta".

I love it, it's great. So damn fun and stupid.

[Furtuka]

Spoiler: So guess what's getting a plamo (click to show/hide)

Also new PV out for Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans

Spoiler: New mobile suit art from the website (click to show/hide)

A)Graze Commander: antenna on head, performance isn't that different from standard one.
B)Graze Kai: improvement of the torso and head, rear large booster grants better propulsion.
C)TK-53 CGS Mobile Worker: unlike MS these exist great in numbers for each power. This is one is obsolete and greatly lacks firepower and performance compared to other MW.
D)EB-05S Schwalbe Graze(McGillis Unit): improvement of the Graze prototype, custom machine with high mobility. Boosters were added to waist and shoulder.
E)EB-05S Schwalbe Graze(Gaelio Unit): same type as McGillis Unit, color is different and it carries a custom Lance Unit on the right arm.

[Neonivek]

Hmmm I am trying to think of how many types of Mobile suits there are in Gundam...

Right now I kind of got my count of 4 major denominations... but I'd probably include 5 due to those bird things.

Since there are Mobile Suits, Gundams, Guntanks, and Gunguns

[Furtuka]

Gunguns

...wat

[Orange Wizard]

Gunguns

...wat

A gun that shoots guns, obviously.