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Summary:
Introducing herself as Kanzaki Kaori, the girl with the sword doesn’t want to reveal her magic name if she doesn’t have to. She claims to want to take Index into custody, but Touma refuses, so Kaori demonstrates her sword skill by cutting the blade off a wind turbine that’s a long distance away. She claims that her Nanasen ability allows her to kill seven times in an instant and that it’s a guaranteed kill. Right as Touma is thinking about using his right hand, Kaori reveals that she knows about it from Stiyl. Touma, however, still tries to charge at her and attack with it. She keeps him away with her Nanasen ability, and after a second failed attempt, Touma realizes that Kaori has super-thin wires deployed all around. Kaori explains that her katana isn’t for decoration and that getting past Nanasen would bring a technique called Yuisen. She then goes back to how she doesn’t want him to make her say her magic name, and despite his now injured right arm, Touma still tries to run at her. Kaori responds by hitting him in the gut with her sword sheath before kicking him to the ground.
Kaori doesn’t think that Touma has any reason to try this hard for Index, but Touma then questions why she hasn’t killed him yet. He recognizes how much power she has and feels that she can protect or save whatever she wants, so he doesn’t understand why she’s doing all this. Backing off a little, Kaori admits that she’s not doing this because she likes to, and she explains that she belongs to Necessarius, just like Index. In fact, Kaori calls Index a dear friend and claims that she didn’t intend to hurt Index – she only wanted to secure Index so that Index can live. The reason for all this is Index’s perfect memory ability. Kaori explains that the capacity of human brains are small, but forgetting unneeded memories is part of organizing the brain. Index can’t do that, so her memory is quickly filled with trivial stuff. With 85% of her memory devoted to the 103,000 magic volumes, the other 15% fills up quickly and needs to be erased or else Index will die. They do this every year, and there are only three more days before it needs to happen again.
Kaori then asks Touma once again to hand Index over and claims that helping Index has no benefit for Touma since she will just forget him. Touma, however, refuses to accept this and doesn’t care if Index remembers him because he still considers himself her friend. What he doesn’t understand is why Kaori doesn’t explain everything and clear up the misunderstanding with Index, and he thinks that she’s disregarding Index’s feelings. This pisses Kaori off greatly, and she lashes out on how Touma doesn’t understand how she and Stiyl feel. She channels her anger into attacks against Touma, and as she beats up on him, she claims that they did their best creating memories with Index and trying to keep her from forgetting, but it was no good. They got to the point where they couldn’t endure it, and they couldn’t bear to see her smile anymore. Touma’s reaction to all this is anger because he feels that Kaori and Stiyl weren’t considerate of Index. He feels that if they give her even happier memories in the next year, and if they can let her know that there’s happiness waiting for her such that she won’t be afraid of losing her memories, then there’s no need to run away anymore. Touma then tries to make Kaori realize that she became strong because she had something she wanted to protect, and before he loses consciousness, he questions who she wanted to protect.
Three days later, Touma wakes back up in Komoe’s apartment with Index watching over him. When he finds out how long he’s been asleep, he remembers what Kaori had said about three days, but since Index still knows who he is, her memory must still be intact. Touma is glad about this, but Index then expresses her feelings over how she didn’t know that he was fighting and couldn’t help him – Komoe was the one who had brought him back. In the subsequent conversation about his bandage, the topic of magic comes up, and Touma feels that not using magic is fine. He doesn’t want to see Index talking magic, and that causes her to realize that she woke up again. She’s not fond of her unconscious voice, and she’s scared that she’s becoming a cold machine. Index then tries to feed Touma, but she ends up spilling the food on his head. This all is interrupted by the arrival of Kaori and Stiyl at the apartment, but Index tries to make them go away and attempts to protect Touma by saying that she’ll do whatever they want.
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So this was technically an action episode – and certainly from a production perspective the fighting looked quite good – but a lot of the excitement got sucked out of it by how much continued explanation/dialogue there was on how Kaori and Stiyl are part of Necessarius (i.e. they’re really not the bad guys) and on Touma trying to make Kaori realize that she became strong because she had something to protect. In fact, it felt like every individual clash between Touma and Kaori was separated by a successively longer piece of dialogue, and that really killed the flow of the episode. Having said that, I also understand that most of this was actually from the original novel story, so I can’t really fault J.C.Staff on this. I just hope that the pacing picks up a bit and that future fights are more like the fight with Stiyl than this one.
Anyway, I’m very curious to see how they get around the problem of having to wipe Index’s memories. I just don’t see how Touma’s arm can help in that case. Maybe he could take on the burden of some of the magic volumes in her head, but he doesn’t have her memory abilities, so that probably won’t be how it happens. I do assume though that after all he said to Kaori about bringing happiness for Index, Touma will be the one to do something next episode to change the cycle of memory erasing.
looks good i want to see
Busty samurai chicks are always full of win. 🙂
The art still looks good even after a few episodes. I wonder who the real bad guys are? 😀
Well without spoiling anything, that will happen next episode anyway
THOSE TWO aren’t the bad guys…but still sad thing happen for touma and index
The animation quality is simply amazing – and taking into account how the fighting scenes look, I’m not surprised that they couldn’t go all-out on this level for more minutes. I haven’t seen any show this season which comes even close (and I’ve seen ALOT)
5th
AHH I WANT TO WATCH IT AHHHHH
man..except for kanzaki…the episode wasnt worth seeing much. cant wait for next episode
4th episode and the animation quality still seem quite excellent!!! This is absolutely blissful.
even though this episode didn’t really kick ass, I really like the direction they’re taking where you’re not too sure which side is right or wrong
Need moar railgun loli girl!!!
sugoi… yea. kool. that’s it
Why must shounen always have so much dialogue in-between fights? Do kids really like all that chatting with their fighting? I’d think kids would get bored of it. Now all they are missing is the staring and flash-backs. Can’t wait. Other than that I enjoy Toaru immensely.
nani kore?
NEXT EP will be good
Well the next episode more likely “RESET” for him.
Shounen is starting to bug me a lot!!
http://worldofanimemusic.blogspot.com
3 minutes of action & 20 mins of talking…but atleast the info was a bit more than useful toward the plot. I guess they needed to slow this stuff down in one way or another.
We’re at the end of the second volume( at least from manga) already? =O
Hint: What they said was based on magic… but what does science says?
@Rydin: Science says that you have no brain? no worry, this little chip over here can store than 9999999 TB of data. There is also life tiem warrant for it and it is plug and play so no worries about downloading software. I just have to make that joke xd.
But yeah, if magic doesnt work then there has to be science since they purposely make a clear line between magic and espers power in this anime afterall.
I guarantee cuz i watch the manga XD
wow i love the katanas and the figth
In anime, anything is possible. But given the premises of the story revealed so far, the most logical course of action is to have Touma use his right hand to erase the library from the memory of Index.
Kanzaki Kaori was hot and all, but the show’s excitement has dropped considerably for me so far. If things keep on going on in this pace, I might even stop watching this show.
she’s hot, but her logic is completely retarded. if she’s an antagonist later, do give her some beating J.C. Staff, she needs some humility. at least touma’s cheesy dialogue was worth something.
It has to be science tt’s the answer to index’s cycles of losing precious memories since magic are unexplained circumstances and they can be politically motivated *hint hint*.
Really the only solution I can see for Index is somehow having Touma’s right hand cancelling out her ability to memorize everything. The issue really is her brain being unable to store all the information she is picking up. Really its hard since the story has to go somewhere. Just having her memory being wiped doesn’t solve it since she’ll just forget Touma. Also no reason for her to stay in that city and have the series continue.
Guess we’ll see how it all turns out. Too bad they had to talk for so much, but really with how the fight was set up it would only have been more of Touma getting his ass kicked.
Agree need some more of the middle school shocker :).
That total lack of pacing made me nauseous. I couldn’t take more than one episode that filled with emo dialogue.
>Anyway, I’m very curious to see how they get around the problem of having to wipe Index’s memories
Damn, you Necessarius idiots, let the white marshmallow kid on her own devices and go buy a couple of large Hard Disks… how many TB would you need to store 103k books of crap when a single CD stores an entire encyclopedia? 😛
The fight with Stiyl was much more exciting than Kaori’s fight.
not a fan of big busts but kaori is made of pure win. her legs are awesome to boot
Hmm… I find that both logic from Touma and Kaori made sense. I mean both Kaori and Stiyl gave up which was a bad thing to do but at the same time it shows how sometime we lose our own sense of what we try to accomplish. To me, it seems that what Touma did in this episode was pretty much reminding them of their true goal, the goal that they had forgotten.
https://randomc.net/image/To%20Aru%20Majutsu%20no%20Index/To%20Aru%20Majutsu%20no%20Index%20-%2004%20-%20Large%2006.jpg
ZOMG this chick is hawt. I haven’t been following any new shows since Soul Eater, but I may be coerced into watching this for the hawtness. Is it good?
Sorry for the double-post, but I watched most of ep 4 online out of curiosity, and while the chick was hawt, the bg music was abysmal and there actually wasn’t really much action at all. I will admit that the OP was awesome.