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創約 とある魔術の禁書目録 [Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index] #2
創約 とある魔術の禁書目録 2 [Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index 2]
気づけば上条当麻は病院にいた。 魔術結社『薔薇十字』アンナ＝シュプレンゲルと口づけを交わしたところまでは記憶があるのだが……。
しかし待って欲しい。
思春期まっただ中の健康な男子高校生、上条当麻が謎の美女とファーストキス――。
時は経て現在。彼が担ぎ込まれた病院には御坂美琴やインデックス、そして別行動の蜂蜜色の少女までやってきていた！ 科学と魔術が交差する恐怖の糾弾大会が始まる――と思いきや、なぜか美少女たちによる看護ラッシュに移行して!?
アンナの思惑を察知した美琴と食蜂。犬猿の二人は同じ目的のために手を組んだ。ここに最強の超能力者（レベル５）コンビが誕生する!!
しかし待って欲しい。
思春期まっただ中の健康な男子高校生、上条当麻が謎の美女とファーストキス――。
時は経て現在。彼が担ぎ込まれた病院には御坂美琴やインデックス、そして別行動の蜂蜜色の少女までやってきていた！ 科学と魔術が交差する恐怖の糾弾大会が始まる――と思いきや、なぜか美少女たちによる看護ラッシュに移行して!?
アンナの思惑を察知した美琴と食蜂。犬猿の二人は同じ目的のために手を組んだ。ここに最強の超能力者（レベル５）コンビが誕生する!!
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360 pages, Paperback
First published July 10, 2020
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Kazuma Kamachi
240 books153 followersKamachi Kazuma (鎌池和馬) is a Japanese-born light novel author and the original creator of the Toaru Majutsu no Index light novel series and Toaru Kagaku no Railgun, its spin-off manga series.
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January 25, 2022
A nice fact about Index is the reconciliation with the status quo. It's like Kamachii is a husband fighting with his wife, status quo, but they always end up reconciling and bringing everything back to normal, but with different circumstances.
As much as the configurative essence seems to act in the same way, there are other gears at work that form a different and solid volume. It can be between narrative exchange, either by location or character, but there will be several settings that expand the world and characters. Still, make no mistake, the status quo will always recover no matter how absurd the world is, but that doesn't mean the characters won't be developing and working towards a new goal. It's like leveling up in an rpg where enemies will always respawn and come back to the same place, but the player's xp will keep working and he will return to space stronger and stronger.
It's knowing how to balance this crazy status that shows the clear division between good writers who want their work to continue persisting against time and mediocre writers that gave up about it. GT2 shows us this well, making the absurdity of the world expand to the point of affecting the characters once again and they have to act, with some very unexpected alliances.... Seriously, Kamachii used a good magic setup here to destroy certain limitations and open gates to other arenas
This volume starts with a good and relaxing slice of life, with a comedy that got me some great laughs (I BELIEVE IN AOGAMI SUPREMACY!!!) until it triggers for another step. NT22R explored who Kamijou Touma really was and GT2 has the setting of exposing with the world itself and people around him who he is. It's to show how strong are the bonds that Kamijou Touma built around his journey and that academic city that could lead to its own illusion and destruction (something like Kamisato?)
So in this volume we have yet another confrontation about the hypocrite and clown Kamijou Touma, but it was all along his path that allowed him to respond to his own hypocrisy and say he wasn't really a hero... It was things like TN9, TN13 ( with his great dialogue with God Magic), NT18 and NT22R that allowed the boy to keep fighting, to evolve and regress who he was, to change his arguments when it was convenient. He's an egoist and a hypocrite, but he's still a human who can decide what to do with his own life... This is the tale of the unbreakable Imagine Breaker.
While GT1 worked with politics and its plans, GT2 seems to work with the masses that have the power to destroy politics (democracy?), thus, the means by which Kamachii decided to deal with these masses were even more absurd and functional. , as they honored human complexity and the configuration of the academic city in the midst of a new problematic group. If you really stop to analyze some of the arguments and narratives in this volume, you will probably find a very pleasant path.
Finally, the triggering of the magical origin takes over once again and, as in NT12, the teachings of the past come back to act in the present. It wasn't just another normal boy clenching his fist, but two wills that perpetuated in the same body. The essence of Touma and a mage who slept there react and create a future as bright as the reflection of the diamond in the moonlight and speaking of moonlight, it was time for the two to rest indefinitely...
(This was an amazing volume that led to a nice well-explained fan-service that fans always wanted, but... Man, how were those girls protected by the plot, no? I understand Hamazura since his luck was rightfully created for your character's purpose, but Misaka and Shokuhou!? Well, this served much more as a funny parody of the two of them messing up and miraculously surviving, which was a good comic move by the author, but honestly it pissed me off a bit about the transaction of this comedy with the action, but it was still appreciable overall, as it's not a botched thing, but interesting given the current settings between the villain's status quo and the whole situation)
As much as the configurative essence seems to act in the same way, there are other gears at work that form a different and solid volume. It can be between narrative exchange, either by location or character, but there will be several settings that expand the world and characters. Still, make no mistake, the status quo will always recover no matter how absurd the world is, but that doesn't mean the characters won't be developing and working towards a new goal. It's like leveling up in an rpg where enemies will always respawn and come back to the same place, but the player's xp will keep working and he will return to space stronger and stronger.
It's knowing how to balance this crazy status that shows the clear division between good writers who want their work to continue persisting against time and mediocre writers that gave up about it. GT2 shows us this well, making the absurdity of the world expand to the point of affecting the characters once again and they have to act, with some very unexpected alliances.... Seriously, Kamachii used a good magic setup here to destroy certain limitations and open gates to other arenas
This volume starts with a good and relaxing slice of life, with a comedy that got me some great laughs (I BELIEVE IN AOGAMI SUPREMACY!!!) until it triggers for another step. NT22R explored who Kamijou Touma really was and GT2 has the setting of exposing with the world itself and people around him who he is. It's to show how strong are the bonds that Kamijou Touma built around his journey and that academic city that could lead to its own illusion and destruction (something like Kamisato?)
So in this volume we have yet another confrontation about the hypocrite and clown Kamijou Touma, but it was all along his path that allowed him to respond to his own hypocrisy and say he wasn't really a hero... It was things like TN9, TN13 ( with his great dialogue with God Magic), NT18 and NT22R that allowed the boy to keep fighting, to evolve and regress who he was, to change his arguments when it was convenient. He's an egoist and a hypocrite, but he's still a human who can decide what to do with his own life... This is the tale of the unbreakable Imagine Breaker.
While GT1 worked with politics and its plans, GT2 seems to work with the masses that have the power to destroy politics (democracy?), thus, the means by which Kamachii decided to deal with these masses were even more absurd and functional. , as they honored human complexity and the configuration of the academic city in the midst of a new problematic group. If you really stop to analyze some of the arguments and narratives in this volume, you will probably find a very pleasant path.
Finally, the triggering of the magical origin takes over once again and, as in NT12, the teachings of the past come back to act in the present. It wasn't just another normal boy clenching his fist, but two wills that perpetuated in the same body. The essence of Touma and a mage who slept there react and create a future as bright as the reflection of the diamond in the moonlight and speaking of moonlight, it was time for the two to rest indefinitely...
(This was an amazing volume that led to a nice well-explained fan-service that fans always wanted, but... Man, how were those girls protected by the plot, no? I understand Hamazura since his luck was rightfully created for your character's purpose, but Misaka and Shokuhou!? Well, this served much more as a funny parody of the two of them messing up and miraculously surviving, which was a good comic move by the author, but honestly it pissed me off a bit about the transaction of this comedy with the action, but it was still appreciable overall, as it's not a botched thing, but interesting given the current settings between the villain's status quo and the whole situation)
May 31, 2023
Not bad but not that great either
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