Talk:Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 09/@comment-1460085-20140129172957/@comment-1460085-20140131053947

@Kingwizard Dude he is the "weakest". That's his label and with good reason, the only thing he's good at is brawling, and then somehow that makes him capable of evading a blow at the speed of sound if not superior with power to demolish everything in one swing without getting ANY harm whatsoever? Seriously no matter how many battles he has been in, his body is still within NORMAL human boundaries, it is freaking unrealistic that his "instinct" somehow makes his body MATCH that and evade a blow accordingly. Also the same is true when Othinus pulled the Crossbow, and here you have a giant contradiction, Touma "learned" her patterns, but then it was stated that he learned her patterns when "she used the lance" but not so when she used the "fairy spell" which caused him to get hit by the tenth blow, but then he evades the other 9? And if his instincts were so "sharp" how come the 10th arrow hit? Seriously the more you try to defend Touma, the more holes you will find, simply because Touma is FULL of holes, and wins only because he is Kamijou Touma, period.

Now if you perhaps stopped for a brief moment, and instead READ me, as you claim you read the novels, you would actually find and understand my reasonment instead of just trying to post whatever fanboyism thoughts cross your head around. I made a very simple and straightforward critic based on everything I know about Kamijou Touma.

Some things changed? Yeah, sure as hell they did, him fighting for himself for a change was one of them and I'm freaking glad he manned up to do that for once in his life. Others remain equal, and that is Touma's absurd ways to fight and win. No matter how much experience he has or how animalistic/keen his instinct or sense of precognition is. He for all matters remains a NORMAL high school boy, with no defining trait except Imagine Breaker, which in itself was USELESS, and wins out of understanding Othinus, which was not even guaranteed to "win". So here we have another contradiction, he was fighting for "himself" yet he tried to understand Othinus, so who was he fighting for, him or her? And then he fights for Othinus vs the world, the freaking entire world, ask yourselves how he's gonna fight "the world" all by himself and triumph.

I liked how the volume played a lot on Touma's character and psyche, that itself was very well played and finally gave him some deep sense of conflict that even made him contemplate suicide. But sadly the battle and the end of it, were nothing short of insatisfactory. Even if the author justified each action with some logics that give it sense, does not mean it makes it any better, in fact I'd dare say that the fact the author justifies with the logics used here, the way Touma wins his battle, is his way to force us the idea he could do it because "yeah logics exist". Try applying those logics and see if they work for real, you will see it won't work "just like that".

Plot Armor + Logics to make it sound reasonable = Touma's ability to triumph. That's all there is to it, it is simple, plain, bland and unappealing. What is so wrong with me feeling about that? Even a lot of you recognize Touma has Plot Armor, and I just happen to find it excessively thick. Nothing to exaggerated or far fetched is it?