Thread:KingWizard/@comment-25040720-20140810070639

 KingWizard wrote:  No, it is not portrayed as a "perfecty okay/good thing". Neither the Magic nor the Science side are portrayed as entirely good or evil. Both sides do very shady things behind public eye. And lol at "universe bends backwards".

1. This is a city in which 80% of its population are minors. To do any kind of military action against it would bring the ire of of the rest of the world to the faulty nation.

2. The Level 5s, whose level is explicitely stated to mean "can fight on equal terms with military forces".

3. Look at Avignon and Baggage City. Anyy attempt to challenge their technologically based hegemony ranges from mind control and extortion to wholesale slaughter. Hell, look at Liberal Arts City; when Mikoto infiltrates Liberal Arts City and proceeds to flatten any and all resistance in her attempt to expose the US's attempt to create its own Esper program, Olive Holiday, the resident CIA agent is prevented from taking any action due to the fact that Aleister Crowley threatens to declare war on the United States if they attempt any further research.

4. As stated, if AC was destroyed, the Kiharas would be let loose upon the world.

People need to realize that ToAru is a light dystopian world.



 KingWizard wrote:  No, it is not portrayed as a "perfecty okay/good thing". Neither the Magic nor the Science side are portrayed as entirely good or evil. Both sides do very shady things behind public eye. And lol at "universe bends backwards".

1. This is a city in which 80% of its population are minors.

The figure that 80% of its population are minors is one I haven't heard. Is this justified somehow? It's hard to see such an age group as the center of science. I get that the 80% are guinea pigs to the 20%, but... mostly moe?

 3. Look at Avignon and Baggage City. Anyy attempt to challenge their technologically based hegemony ranges from mind control and extortion to wholesale slaughter. Hell, look at Liberal Arts City; when Mikoto infiltrates Liberal Arts City and proceeds to flatten any and all resistance in her attempt to expose the US's attempt to create its own Esper program, Olive Holiday, the resident CIA agent is prevented from taking any action due to the fact that Aleister Crowley threatens to declare war on the United States if they attempt any further research.

I haven't read this arc, but why can't the US have it's own esper program? and why was Mikoto against it?  