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ITEM's Character Designs Across the Toaru Series. Which one is your favorite?😳

ITEM's look has changed quite a bit across the Toaru franchise, and it follows the story's timeline from their past in Toaru Anbu no Item to their appearances in Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S and Toaru Majutsu no Index III. Mugino swaps her long formal coat in Anbu no Item for a loose purple mini dress with a wide belt in the later series, which feels more relaxed but still intimidating. Frenda trades her bright sailor-style beret for her iconic black one, and Railgun S adds a small braid on the side of her hair. Takitsubo goes from a sporty tracksuit jacket to a school uniform and then a casual white tee, with her eyes looking more tired in Index III. Kinuhata sticks with her oversized orange hoodie throughout, but in Index III she pulls the hood up more often, which fits the darker tone of that season. 🔥

Anime:

•Toaru Anbu no Item / A Certain Dark Item

•Toaru Majutsu no Index III / A Certain Magical Index III

•Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S / A Certain Scientific Railgun S

Credit: Nanimedesu

Para celebrar el estreno del anime ITEM voy a abriri el debate que creo muchos se llevan preguntando desde OT15: Si Mugino Shizuri conociera a Kamijou Touma, se enamoraría de el?. Vamos a ser claros, esto es una serie Harem, nos guste o no, todos los nivel 5 no solo conocen a Touma sino tienen una relación con el, positiva en la mayoría de los casos, de hecho, si el los convocara para pedir ayuda 5 de 7 dirían que si. Mugino solo por que no lo conoce.

Mi pregunta es: si convivieran en un tomo o dos, como protagonistas y cruzaran caminos, Mugino terminaría en el harem/facción Kamijou?

Si me preguntan yo digo que si, considerando que hasta Accel y Kakine ya han peleado de su lado.

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Toaru Dark ITEM Chapter 10

https://x.com/OneWhoPurifies/status/2110794447311306909

Discuss on the Megathread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Toaru/s/tv3Bn8mWMe

I wrote an old fanfic where Index chose to stay in England after NTR22.

I'm not too happy with the writing anymore 😂 but I still think that final scene of Touma opening a letter from England from Index, Stiyl and Kanzaki is bittersweet.

It's a full circle moment where our hero finally says goodbye to the heroine, even if she's gone they still have a powerful bond and Kanzaki appreciates him for all he's done and Stiyl begrudgingly respects him for saving Index.

https://x.com/amegasuki12/status/2110697050568540353

https://x.com/OneWhoPurifies/status/2110796355136344200

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https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/144422576

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Made by me, yours truly

In short: It's Touma.

I ultimately cannot get behind everyone being inspired and changed solely by Touma as that crushes agency in a lot of characters, characters (especially females) should have their own motivations for becoming better people, if Touma is always at the center it feels like the Touma Show and like the world bends over to give him a sloppy toppy.

There are more reasons for why I detest Sprengel, Aradia and Aleister's character change but if there's a main reason it's ultimately that I'll always prefer Toaru as a story where characters have their own individual paths created by themselves and don't abandon their motivations because good boy Touma wanted them to fight for him.

This is why I don't like some Toaru females as they ultimately feel like complimentary pieces to the males, Hamazura and Accelerator tend to do this to the girls around them as well.

For a character like Alice that sort of development is fine and endearing even because a child being guided by an older figure that genuinely cares for them is completely natural, when the person is either a grown ass man like Aleister or a grown ass woman like Aradia and Sprengel then they're characters just aren't doing much of value.

I'd prefer Sprengel if she stayed a villain that perceived Touma as boring for his hero gimmick and already saw his spectacle when Jesus Christ was alive and the absolute closest I got to liking Aradia was when she made a flower for a sick child at a hospital because the moment had nothing to do with Touma. That was a return to form to the Aradia we saw in GT6 that wanted to protect people who were rejected from society like witches.

Sprengel's talk about looking for a King that will basically make her happy just reads like bad wish fulfilment, you're supposed to be your own person. That's called strength and its what Kamijou Touma does for himself.

Aleister's character was better off retired after Coronzon arc in my opinion as not only is his redemption just not a good idea on principle (4th hero rivals Naruto calling Obito a cool guy) but it being done through Touma is utterly painful to read through. This man Kamijou Touma is the center of the goddamn universe and a character like Aleister who once fought for himself now only does what Touma wants, that's just disheartening.

Kamijou Touma at his best is a very helpful figure that ultimately has people he can't reach like Terra and Acqua and characters like Acqua end up becoming better on their own through their own will. It's why I enjoyed Trismegistus in the Transcendent arc as he went through an arc of rejecting his Transcendent mentality all by himself and deciding to finally help Touma save Alice instead of falling head over heels for Touma and becoming a better person because of him.

Touma is awesome, I wouldn't make him my namesake if I didn't love him to death but he genuinely ruins a lot of characters that should be independent actors.

The most that Touma should effect people is how CRC was beaten by Touma in GT11, as he fell Anna Kingsford confessed to him that she loved his teachings, that even though they were false she based her entire life on them so he should too, living to serve someone is a good ideology, in that moment CRC was influenced by both Kingsford and Touma and it was a character that wasn't Touma that finally made him change his heart.

Likewise the warm moment between Aleister and Kingsford was actually quite nice in GT10. The way that characters who are redeemed should be acting is building a network of connections with people who uplift them together, not just Touma since one character shouldn't do so much, it becomes bothersome at that point.

Accelerator changed because of his growing family, Last Order, Yomikawa, Yoshikawa, Misaka Worst and Qliphah Puzzle 545, Hamazura changed because he finally found something to protect in these ITEM girls, they both started by learning from Kamijou Touma but eventually realized what it meant to be the main character of their own lives.

That's what GT Aleister, Sprengel and Aradia lack which is the main reason (apart from some other things) I will never like these characters.

The haven't given up on adapting the entire series! Clearly, they just want to catch up on the spinoffs (ALL of the spinoffs) and then save NT and GT all for one big push!

See, once they finish adapting ITEM, they'll surely move onto Mental Out, and then Astral Buddy and Dark Matter! Once they do that, they'll reveal the start of an NT anime that'll get four 24 episode seasons and it'll be fantastic!

It's only been like 7 years, there's still plenty of time! The heat death of the universe is like... REALLY long from now, so they'll get to it.

#Railgun #MisakaMikoto Original VS alt version (Taito Crane Exclusive)

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