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「屍喰部隊(スカベンジャー)」 (Sukabenjaa)
“Scavenger”
With the likes of Kimetsu no Yaiba and Vinland Saga going full bore visual ecstasy of late it’s a little hard for the lesser of summer’s offerings to make their mark, but Accelerator certainly is one up to make a challenge. While production and buckets of cash infused animation will never be the Index-verse’s strong suit, there is plenty of room to make the most of a streamlined process, and oh boy did we get that this week. Gentleman, the villain has properly returned.
Whether down to making up for the disaster of Index III or not, it’s hard denying Accelerator has gone out of its way to really lay on the eye candy. We got everything from punches to explosions and all manner of crazy faces in between, plus the satisfaction of it lasting damn near the entire episode. Sure, it’s easy to highlight some of the weaknesses of the production here (looking at you 3D CGI), but when compared against the usual J.C. Staff treatment of all things Index? Yeah, I’m not going to turn my nose up anytime soon. Accelerator just keeps on doing a fantastic job with its material, and keeping it a pace which helps reinforce the degree of entertainment derived from the experience (at least for yours truly). When a 30 minute episode winds up feeling like 5, you know you’re doing something right.
For all the fun of watching cackling villain doing cackling villain things however, the real sense of satisfaction will come from finally getting some answers, and Accelerator will certainly have to start building up to it eventually. Scavenger, for all the tomboy glory that is Naru, really felt like a sideshow than point of development, a set of secondary but largely unique characters existing just to help give a reason to bring back our man of the moment. An absolute joy to watch definitely (particularly that face of utter despair), but something not really linking back to the central element of Last Order based shenanigans at first glance. I imagine we will get to that side of things soon enough now that DA has been gutted and competing roadblocks expunged, but considering the Index-verse’s love of going off onto various different side character tangents it’s hard denying a little doubt exists when it comes to keeping this story entirely on the rails with only six confirmed episodes to go.
Not that I envision Accelerator going the way of Chomper and her loyal Fist of Justice anytime soon mind you, but we’ll just have to see how well the second half of this show matches up to the success shown thus far.
Preview
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A new teacher is in town, and he is offering free lectures on
“true meaning of pain”
“why you suck as villains”
and
“there is always bigger fish”
It scared me how much of a thrill I got watching Accelerator come in and beat on these smug teens. Your chuunibyou means nothing to this moving train.
Indeed
Nothing is as satisfying as watching a true antihero go to work on some half rate villains 😛
question, why didnt he just kill them off? those 4 were pretty annoying tbh
Likely no real need to, none of them were of any particular threat to either Accelerator or everyone else involved (after Accelerator showed up), so he probably saw no reason to exert the extra effort lol.
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That is exactly how i imagine someone looks after getting raped
Accelerator is a true believer of gender equality alongside Kamijou Touma
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About that…….
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You’re…not wrong (see what he did to Awaki from Index II), but that *might* not be the best example…
It’s not really anything plot relevant and I don’t think it ever comes up in Accelerator itself, but Show Spoiler ▼
@75chaosflare, Veltharis
That’s kind of funny, I was thinking either Leader or Yakumaru would wind up being that, not Seike.
And I just read about that spoiler on the Index wiki yesterday.
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Bur bur…
Those legs
That feminine look
That school girl uniform
THAT CAN’T BE A GUY!!!
She’s too pretty to be a guy
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https://randomc.net/image/To%20Aru%20Kagaku%20no%20Accelerator/To%20Aru%20Kagaku%20no%20Accelerator%20-%2006%20-%20Large%2016.jpg
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When the protagonist is the one giving villainy lessons to the bad guys, they’re definitely, definitely screwed. Those Scavengers are Diet Coke-level of evil. 😛
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So, are they supposed to be middle-schoolers or something?
https://randomc.net/image/To%20Aru%20Kagaku%20no%20Accelerator/To%20Aru%20Kagaku%20no%20Accelerator%20-%2006%20-%20Large%2018.jpg
Jeez, and I was under the impression that Hasami/Huoutou’s hands just got reduced to bloody gibs. I’m not sure if that will help Esther when the time comes for Hasami’s soul to pass into the afterlife (and give Hasami’s body a proper funeral).
Poor Accelerator though, he didn’t get as much fun out of the experience as he would’ve wanted. (“Blue-balled,” to put it another way.) Perhaps getting to the head honcho of Scavenger would give him all the fun he could ask for.
https://randomc.net/image/To%20Aru%20Kagaku%20no%20Accelerator/To%20Aru%20Kagaku%20no%20Accelerator%20-%2006%20-%20Large%2001.jpg
While this woman looks sexy, cause she easily broke her pen, either that pen was cheaply made or that woman is dangerously fit. Pretty sure most women, in this anime, are dangerous
Stares at Misaka Mikoto, Shizuri Meguri and Konori Mii….
Esther and her pet golem do qualify too…
Does this floorboard of a character even have an original trait? Just one?
Beating up bitches is taken by the original pontificating retard already, and sad attempts at maniacal laughter don’t count.
That paper ability kind of remind me of old anime, “R.O.D”. Yomiko Readman, anyone remember her ?
Concept was cool, characters were shit.