Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-24516349-20140208174350/@comment-25238518-20140909023458

Going off what everyone else is saying, both Science and Magic are mostly driven by academics/reasoning, so saying espers are simply genetically modified for their power or magicians are just superstitious coots isn't accurate.

While many of my favourite characters belong to the Science side (Mugino), I'd definitely choose Magic. Most magicians seem to be more responsible ability-users, and magic seems to allow more room for improvisation/thinking on your feet than esper power, which is heavily specialized and, even at higher levels, can be somewhat meat-headed in its application.

Additionally, medieval architecture is great, and Academy City seems like a scary, confusing place to live.

Taking the topic further, if I had to join a faction within each respective side, Necessarius would be an obvious choice, though Annihilatus also seems incredible. As for the Science Side, ITEM seems great, before it was "disbanded".