I admit I was curious to watch the battle between Mikoto and ITEM. And I have a few thoughts. Spoilers, below the fold.

First, Frenda. She must have spent a week setting up that building, what with all the primer cord and shaped charges she laid all over the place, not to mention several thousand explosive dolls.

I have to admit I liked Mikoto's "I can use these" line. But then they took it to ridiculous extremes. When she fought Melt Downer she must have used upwards of a hundred of those dolls. How did she have time to find them all and rig them all with embedded pieces of metal? That would have taken hours, and it doesn't seem to have been more than a few minutes.

Finally, Mugino (Melt Downer): I think it's been noted before, but the one thing that is particularly distinctive about Mikoto is that she's the only level 5 who doesn't come off as a sociopath. All the others seem to be viciously crazy. Mugino certainly is as vicious as all the others we've met. She eventually kills Frenda, for instance.

So far we've met #1 (Accelerator), #4 (Melt Downer), and #5 (The Queen). I just looked it up in the Wiki. #6 has never appeared in the series, and #7 doesn't seem to be a lunatic, but #2 sure is. Meanwhile, #3 (Railgun) is sweet and kind and loving and caring. I wonder how she dodged the bullet?

Is it really true that Mikoto is still #3, late in the canon? #2 died, and came back -- sort of, kind of. #1 took a bullet in the head and his power, actually his control, is substantially reduced. I wonder if Mikoto effectively became #1 by default?

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Engineer's Disease at 04:55 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
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