User blog comment:Inept Wiki User/Scary Stuff/@comment-17714224-20140906061403

For me the most terrifying thing about the To Aru Franchise is the Universe it takes place. It's not something that is very apparent unless you truly think about it but let me explain.

First of all, let's cover political state of the world; Academy City has had a political, economical, technological monopoly over the world since at least like the Vietnam War. Academy City could completely eradicate an entire country on whim, and proudly boasts this fact as some form of sick and twisted media and political campaign with a tagline being "Don't Fuck With Us." Imagine living in a country outside of Academy City underneath their thumb like that and praying to god that your leader doesn't accidently piss off one the Board of Directors during an ambassadorial meeting otherwise you might not live to see a tomorrow. And that's just the well-known public knowledge of what it's like to live as normal person.

What they don't realize is that the odds are your government is secretly being run by a religious organization that has become so twisted by their political manipulations that they are more like a drug-crazed hedonistic cult, than benevolent theology. These 'leaders' have the power and completely exercise the power to do things like, mind wash entire cities into crazy cult like rioters, erase your city from existence, forcefully convert an entire country to their own fucked up ways, destroy half the planet if not all of it, and actively instigate World Wars for no other reason than their personal gain.

Then you have people like Stiyl who is 14-year-old fire mage of one of the highest levels which by admittance takes years of absolute dedication to master the knowledge needed to do what he does. And he uses his magic to be a professional assassin where he burns people alive for a living for a fucked up cult that he doesn't even really like being a part that's also being run by sadistic leader who holds the people he cares about at ransom if he doesn’t obey her every word. How fucked up do you think his life must have been growing up like that and the only reason he had gotten caught up in this shit is because something terrible happened to him in the past that he wanted to correct. W hich by the way the basic back-story and life for almost any sorcerer or magician. And all these magicians and sorcerers are being theologically brainwashed into believing that science and technology are the equivalent of being Satan's work and is a sin of highest level.



Then you have the life of a student of Academy City. Students of Academy City to have their own form of prejudice against those of lower levels, you have high-level espers constantly harassing and looking down upon lower level espers. Low level epser forced to be academically bad because of the nature of the curriculum which will lead to problems in the future for when they are adults trying to get jobs. Not to mention the fact that their life provisions and money is judged by how high their levels are, so level 0s are barely able to be able to feed themselves and these actions that are practically encouraged by the government. Just to get a clear idea of what the government thinks about low level espers their prisons and cemeteries is located in the same district as majority of where the level 0s live, not to mention that the only reason they are level 0s is because the government decided them to be. Then you have the fact in order to become a high-level esper you basically have to give up your own sanity, since epser abilities are basically created by making delusions of the reality around you. Which basically leads to all of the Level 5s being Homicidal Sociopaths. And how many parents do you think know that when they shipped their kids off to a proper education they were basically sending them to concentration camp ran by mad scientists who force them through multiple brain surgeries, constantly exposing them to untested drugs and maybe even do a vivisection or two solely so they can convert them into sociopathic super powered child soldiers. Let's not forget that Academy City actively seeks out parents who can't afford the school or parents who can't afford their kids so they can become child errors which AC the ability to perform inhumane experiments on them without complaints.



And I'm not even going to go into the fact that this isn't even the original universe. It's just one the millions that has been created over the years which suggests that original universe was probably ours and in the near future we are all going to die once the universe is destroyed by some power-hungry jerk off who ascended to a higher plane.

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