To Aru Kagaku no Railgun Episode 4

Today I wished I lived in C.A. I don’t often wish that (or to live anywhere else for that matter). But today I am jealous of all who live in/near LA. They had the opportunity to go to go to the Three Apples Hello Kitty event. They get an exclusive look at special Hello Kitty fan art, take part in many cool Hello Kitty events, and have access to special 35th anniversary Hello Kitty merchandise.

I AM JEALOUS!

What does this have to do with To Aru Kagaku no Railgun? Well I tried to make my own Hello Kitty kind of day by going to a shop that sells a lot of Sanrio products (always at least 25 percent off too) and go on a little spree. I put off watching this episode because I wanted to go shopping and really I didn’t have a lot of faith in it based on the last three meh episodes.

HELLLLLLLL KITTY!!!!!!!!

I was wrong. I should have watched this episode first. Because it rocked! It is back to the show I thought it was going to be. I am sorry I had such little faith and put my desire of spending cash on useless but awesome stuff first. Next week I will actually watch this episode as soon as possible instead of finding something else to do.

Now on to fangirling and general happiness.

Dramatic moment is special...and dramatic.

The episode starts off with the girls hiding under a blanket in a café. They are attempting to tell scary stories to each other but apparently Saten missed the memo on what a scary story is. She tells the girls about the urban legend of….The Undressing Woman! She is convinced that this is a great scary story but the other girls aren’t so sure. :( My poor Saten. I get what you were trying to sell. Sometimes scary isn’t Jigsaw (MOG I will not see that movie!) or a random psychopath in a mask carrying a knife. Sometimes scary is someone you think is normal doing something freaky. You get points for trying my misunderstood silly.

Only powers that make sense can exit DUH!

Uiharu tries to defend her friend by pulling up the urban legend website. Kuroko thinks they are above all this nonsense since they are in Academy City and should know what is real from fake. Like obviously something that would increase your ability is fake right? I mean having an ability makes total sense but something that can increase said ability is crazy talk. Oh and someone having an ability that stops every other ability is INSANE. Total nonsense. Right everyone?

Could this be true....let me ponder that on close up!

Cue Misaka making a FACE. She tells the girls that haha, having an ability that stops other abilities is just crazy talk. Controlling electricity and teleport make sense but not stopping electricity and teleporting! But the next day Misaka is browsing in a store and she spots an urban legend magazine. She then has a flashback. And this time the flashback is actually welcomed and makes sense to the plot!

How dare you try to save me!

We get to see why Misaka hates Touma so much! This is the moment I have dreamed of. Okay that is a little bit dramatic but I always wanted to know why she has such hatred towards him. Now it all makes sense. At least Misaka sense. You see she was being harassed by a group of thugs (MOG thugs!!!). There were a few passer byers but none of them stopped to help and Misaka understood why they couldn’t help her. Enter Touma to come rescue what he thinks is an innocent and helpless girl. XD Yay for Touma.

You ain't even worth attacking man!

I really loved Touma’s rescue approach. He really isn’t a confrontational person. He rather slip in and not cause a scene. He had his “I know you and let me take you out of this situation” smooth technique. But Misaka was unimpressed by his hero technique. I love how she called him out on being the wanna be cool guy and I love how he got all bent out of shape over her inability to accept help.

I must be embarrassed when you are not suffering!

So Misaka is more upset at her would be rescue than her would be sexual harassers. Interesting logical. She decides to unleash her powers upon all the men as she declares them scum. Only Touma uses his ability and is left unharmed. Thus a love hate relationship is born. Yay for answers! XD

Touma is always wrong. He needs to learn this already.

Misaka still tries to convince herself that Touma is not the urban legend boy with the magical ability. No, he must have some other ability that makes perfect sense. Cue Misaka running into Touma and an older lady. Misaka starts yelling but Touma manages to keep his cool and pawn off the older lady into Misaka’s care. Not before the woman starts taking off her clothes (are we seeing a pattern with the urban legends).

What? Were you saying something important?

Touma runs off before he is labeled a pervert. A little bit too late and Misaka is twice as mad at Touma now. She is suckered with helping this lady find her car. She turns out to be a hot shot researcher but she can’t seem to locate her own car. How special is that. Oh and her research is on the AIM fields that the ability users sorta leek out of their system. Misaka is more concerned with the choice of drinks than the conversation at hand. Which you know might have been important and all but that would be crazy thinking that people should focus on such topics.

Good thing no one is overreacting!

Elsewhere Saten, Kuroko, and Uiharu are having another little get together and call up Misaka to have her join in on the fun. When Misaka informs the group she is with a crazy person who strips the girls think she is with The Undressing Woman. And Kuroko goes insane and has a mental meltdown. It is a good episode.

Don't say that word! NO LABELS!

Back to Misaka and her not listening to the important AIM stuff the woman is talking about. No she rather talk about the Imagine Breaker and how it is too absurd to be true. The woman tries to make sense of what his ability could be but then there is some random ice cream accident and she is force to strip again. Both stripping events might be slightly perverted but I am not bent out of shape about them. XD Classy perverted behavior I guess.

The man just lost his eggs, show a little compassion!

Misaka takes the woman to a bathroom so she can clean her skirt in privacy. There the woman says that Misaka is acting like she likes this boy. Misaka turns all red and must deny the entire thing. She ends up finding the woman’s car and goes on her way. And by on her way I mean she runs into Touma who has dropped his precious eggs. The woman’s words keep repeating in her mind and in an effort to deny she has feelings for Touma she decides she wants to fight him. Yes, beat the love out of him!

This epic fight takes place in a field to minimize damage. Good thinking Touma. Misaka certainly pulls out all the stops on her attacks. She doesn’t use just her electrical attacks. No she makes a weapon out of sand. She created a whirlwind out of this rock like dirt. She is really serious about proving she doesn’t like Touma.

WTF is this?!

Only none of her attacks work which make her more and more upset as the battle rages on. Near the end Touma raises her hand against her and she flinches. X_X Starts to cry. Seriously Misaka? You were just sad because you were losing right? You weren’t really scared about being slapped right? But in any event Touma pretends to be injured so Misaka won’t cry. Only that makes Misaka RAGE and try to blow him up harder. Ah true love.

At least Touma tries to acknowledge he will always be wrong...

There is a random scene with Kuroko trying to cure Misaka with a pair of underwear. Cure her from catching the Undressing Woman disease. I try to ignore Kuroko so let’s move on.

Misaka should wear a name tag...

The spacey woman is hard at work being a researcher (shocker). Turns out she knew who Misaka was all along and is very interested in her. Ah snap are things about to get real?!

So there we have it…an actual episode that made me happy. YAY FOR HAPPINESS! XD Hopefully it keeps up this pace and adds a bit of seriousness to the series. Not that there was much seriousness in this episode but it laid the ground work for some not so nice times. And while I love that there was a lot of Touma in this episode he doesn’t have to be in every episode. I want Misaka to shine with minor glimpses of Touma suffering. As it should be. So….yeah. Next week should be awesome. Because I said so.