Moe Era: To Aru Majutsu no Index II 07

Accelerator is back!

The closing of the Railgun arc.

An episode full of action and very powerful moments. Awaki (the teleport girl) has just escaped from Misaka using human shields and she has confront Kuroko again. Kuroko is now much more motivated and with a surprise attack inflicts Awaki the same wounds she has. The two come to a full out battle and after Kuroko is hit she can't use her ability for a small moment, enough to be overcome by a pile of tables and chairs sent over her. The Awaki tries to convince Kuroko to join her. She is afraid of her ability and wants to understand why she got it and if only humans can have abilities. To do that she joined an external (to Academy City) organization with the purpose of restoring the Tree Diagram (the orbiting supercomputer accidentally destroyed by Index in the first season).

The sisters start to move. Number 10032 finds Touma and asks for his help, while Chibi Misaka, participating in the network discussion, thinks loud and lets Accelerator get an idea of what is going on.
Meanwhile the discussion between Kuroko and the Awaki goes on and Kuroko rages disagreeing with her motivation. She stands and picks a long lamp to hit Awaki but in return she shoots her with a gun! Kuroko is left on the ground bleeding, while the Awaki leaves and starts to destroy the building.

Climax of the episode, Misaka picks up a coin which had previously fallen from a broken window of that building and uses it to open a huge hole in it. Touma runs in jumping on the falling rubble, he stops the destruction with his imagine breaker and saves Kuroko. Very well executed and animated :)

And then, Accelerator is back! He finds Awaki wandering in the streets with her big trolley containing the Remnant and confronts her. She is afraid of him at the beginning but then tries to convince herself that he lost his power after the incident with Touma. Indeed, Accelerator confirms he suffered brain damage and now cannot make all the computations he did before. That's why he now uses an external device to help him do that! He shows his huge power, suddenly destroying most of the road and he is even able to fly by producing vorteces of air which look like four insect wings. He breaks the trolley and punches her in the face most probably breaking her nose. She falls uncounshous and he leaves saying that even if he should quit being the strongest in Academy City he won't because he wants to be it in front of Last Order (Chibi Misaka).

Accelerator is really a badass. He is incredibly powerful and he fights with an insane look on his face. He is one of my favorite characters and this was the best part of the episode for me. Don't take me wrong, I still love the parts with Misaka and the Railgun characters and Touma, Index and the others. Yet, Accelerator did not receive much screen time and I hope he will take the stage more in the future.

The episode ends with some fanservice. Touma got a big slap on his face from Kuroko for entering her hospital room at the wrong moment (while she was changing of course). And then he also found the sister 10032 naked in a sort of healing machine. "Fukou da!".

There were not big dedicated fanservice moments in this episode. Well if we exclude Awaki who is basically naked and even manages to shorten her miniskirt during the fight with Kuroko :)

The external organization was destroyed and all ended well... for now. Next episode is the Daihaseisai festival of ability users, with new magicians infiltrating Academy City and the start of a new arc. Is that Misaka's mother in the previews !?!