House of KoMOE with KoMOE leaving the house.

In Episode Five of the Index anime, our overly hotheaded hero has to cool his head a bit to figure out a way to save his newfound friend from certain… Memory Wipe. He has until a little after midnight to complete this Mission Impossible. Will he succeed or fail? (Oh, who am I kidding.) Will Index ever wear that pink bunny suit again? Will Kaori finally overcome her plushie addiction? Okay, so not all of these are even true statements in the first place, and we ain’t got all the answers, but… Ooh, shiny! *Distracted*

I'll make you an offer you cant refuse.

Touma seems to be spending a lot of his remaining time sitting in a corner wondering what to do, but Kaori calls Touma up to remind him of his deadlines. See, Touma, that chick is nice enough to tell you that you’ve got no time to waste. Go take her out for dinner or something sometime.

Darned prank calls. I'll tell mom next time.

In a sudden stroke of genius, Touma grabs the phonebook and starts calling every hospital and/or neurology research center he knows. Of course, he should’ve called earlier because they’re all closed. He finally managed to get someone, only to realize that it’s already midnight… Geez, doesn’t time fly, eh boy?

Footsteps tell Touma that Index’s retainers have arrived for her midnight dissection. Or whatever they’re going to do to her. Maybe something like what Franken Stein does to Maka’s dad. At night. On the bed.

OkayI’llstopnow.

Guess the carat, win your prize.

Touma, still in Good Guy Justice Mode, attempts to convince Stiyl and co. not to carry out the mindwipe. This completely pisses off Stiyl who grabs Touma and berates him for not understanding the weight of the situation. He even challeges Touma to dispell the cross used for the ritual, but Touma isn’t able to bring himself to destroy the most certain chance they have. As they proceed with the ritual however, Kaori takes pity on the tearful Touma and lets him have ten minutes to say his goodbyes.

Proof that teaching in a towel is possible.

Touma later realizes that something is suspicious about the numbers he heard. He finally is able to call up Komoe-sensei who informs him about the basic functions of the human brain and that it’s improbable for a brain to over-exert itself to self-destruction. (I know that many night-cramming students would like to disagree with her. Keke.)

Just examinin' th' goods, ma'am.

Armed with his newfound knowledge, he prepares to go in deep. Like, reaaaal deep.

BOOYAKA!!

Unfortunately, this causes Index’s AI to go berserk. Analyzing the situation, it declares Touma a target for annihilation and prepares St. George’s Sanctuary in preparation to eliminate him.

Intruders Will Be Shot On Sight. Hint: You're all intruders.

Thoughts: Well, much of the episode was spent with watching Touma mope around trying to figure out some way to save Index, while much of the good stuff happened in the last half or so. I can’t say that it phased me much, since I sat through stuff like .hack//SIGN (AKA one of the most draggy of anime in the entire world).

I find it a little amusing how Touma trusts his sensei’s answer so much while not taking a second to compare the circumstances between normal people and someone with possible magically-enhanced memory or something to that effect, but I guess that’s a byproduct of shonen and hotheaded protagonists = Shoot first, ask questions later, and may a lucky roll kick in to help us all.

On another hand, looks like JC staff is pretty intent on being faithful to the original novel, so I guess that alone in itself is a reason to be happy.

Overall, I still found this episode rather enjoyable on the whole, especially with the bit at the end where Index turns into some kind of zombie Artificial Intelligence thing. It was actually pretty awesome and scary, probably made better by the music, but zombie posessed Index was certainly very ominous.

And now for something else altogether: A what-if situation in the form of…

Index Episode 5: Chobits Style.

It will blow your mind!

P.S.: Still, it kinda amuses me how many people were like zomg 15% memoree eez BS. Yes, so are Espers and Magicians. Honestly people. Why so serious?

Which part of This Is A Fictional Universe don’t you understand? (Though I was also amused at the same time since I was spoiled about the 15% being fake beforehand, so it was funny to see all these people going zomg dis eez ridonkuluz.) It’s like how people argue that “if you can see an attack, it’s not light speed” and other attempts to say “This suckz becuz it don’t follow realistic scientific conventions”. Well he-llloooo, but in fiction SPACE HAS SOUND so shaddup. =P</Endrant.>

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