[dniv]

Originally Posted by OH&S

Please elaborate, dniv. I don't want to hate this arc but no one has successfully convinced me otherwise.

Sure, for one, this is obviously a parallel to GT3 because it has Uiharu questioning justice and she even goes well what if something bad happened and Misaka goes, well nothing bad happened this time around so it's fine to call it a day. I mean look at the timing when it came out, pretty much right around when and after GT 3 came out. I think the timing isn't a coincidence.

I think that GT3 showed what happened when the adults are gone and the normal safety net isn't there in place.

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I mean literally anti-skill basically went extinct. Uiharu wanted to protect Saten so much she did something bad. And Misaka didn't really have a good answer. And then Kuroko was the one in GT 3, it's a very obvious parallel. I think that Uiharu pretty much set up fertile ground for how what she's feeling now will be relevant after the destruction of anti-skill and how judgment is going to be more relevant now. Hell, I wouldn't be entirely surprised if we got something like the reason Uiharu was able to do what she did is because of Aihana Etsu. Kamachi also showed Uiharu without her flowers for once.

Personally, I think that Uiharu is lying to the audience about what she did. And I think that she's downplaying what's really going on because it isn't the right time to bring it up right now. I don't think that Railgun usually leaves things hanging. Like Gensei was behind all the main incidents, and they had him come up later, and resolved things nicely with him in T. I think it's really likely that this is just setup for later. I guess you could say it's not fully certain, but knowing Kamachi, I think he'll make it relevant later either in the main novel or in Railgun.

I think it's fine if it's not fully explained in the novel right now. It's not like the coins in GT 3 are fully explained either, but I'm not knocking that. You just have to take it for what it is. Whatever Uiharu has or is, it's not entirely clear if it's an esper power or something else or how she did it. I think there may be more to this than meets the eye and it just isn't relevant to this arc and that it'll be relevant later. Kamachi clearly aligns his arcs and plans them out to have specific elements at the proper times, so I think it's super unlikely that he backed himself into a corner or resorted into a one time plot armor. That seems incredibly unlikely. I'm almost certain it'll be relevant again since he introduced it now to the story. I'm just curious as to what it is.

I'm still also super curious about the flashback in the latest chapter with Mikoto and those two girls. What was that? Am I missing something about who they were or do you not know either? The timing with how she got interrupted during it gave me weird vibes especially with the thematic timing of her talking to Uiharu just before.