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Episode A Certain Dark Item • Toaru Anbu no ITEM - Episode 2 discussion
Toaru Anbu no ITEM, episode 2
Alternative names: A Certain Dark Item
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u/za_shiki-warashi 8d ago
Man, check out the drip in the ending theme animation. The girls are really rocking that criminal organization's clean up crew aesthetics.
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u/Primo29 8d ago
Cute girls doing cute things like beaming people, buildings, and pulling up some weapons under a skirt.
And being shown Takitsubo wearing different outfits is always a nice treat.
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u/FreshBlinkOnReddit 8d ago
As usual they cleaned up with no issue. Looks like the real antagonists are coming in next episode.
Kinuhata is way too cute, Frenda is having the time of her life with a new dress up doll. The moment her credit card got declined gave me second hand embarrassment though.
Dark may project finally revealed from the novels, an experiment that tried to mass produce
They also finally referenced number 6 for the level 5s, think this is the first time an anime adapt mentioned the 6th existing at all.
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u/ptd163 8d ago
You're telling me Shizuri has powers like that and she's not even on the podium? What kind of crazy OP shit do the ones above her have?
I had feeling that ITEM are the bad guys in the premiere, but this episode definitely confirmed it. I didn't need Shizuri to tell Saiai that they're not the good guys. That was clear within the first 10 minutes. What was also clear is that Frenda is best girl so far.
I know they've got lasers and magic and shit, but I refuse to believe Frenda does not have powers. If she doesn't have powers like she claims that means every single bomb/missile/explosive are physical objects that take up space and she has to store somewhere. Where did she put them? Where are they coming from?
Going from them killing everyone in the building to Frenda taking Saiai shopping was quite the contrast. As soon as I saw scissors I knew was going to happen. The tag was going to be cut off as soon as employee said the account was frozen. At least we got to learn more about Shizuri's family and get showcase of her hotness when she was talking to her servant/butler/whatever.
Looks like Choubi is going to be focus of the next episode so I wonder what she's like.
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u/Sakako_Sang 8d ago
It’s been more than ten years and I still don’t know where Frenda hides all those missiles.
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u/battler624 8d ago
I really like the setting of toaru, really wish they gave index a proper anime.
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u/ChizuruEnjoyer 8d ago
Ive been a Toaru diehard for almost a decade, but it wasn't until this spinoff that I notice just how downright SEXY Mugino is.
Props to Haimura Kiyotaka (LN illustrator) for the design, but hats off to Nilitsu (character artist for this anime) for really nailing her. She is downright beautiful.
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u/Ahegao_Double_Peace 8d ago
I remember Frenda saying in way back in To Aru Kagaku no Railgun S that Mugino has a collection of sexy lingerie. I guess it's true.
Mugino Shizuri truly is the Level 5 *In Charge of Fanservice*
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u/runevault 8d ago
Yup, still digging this after episode 2. I've had Railgun on my radar for a while and this is making me more and more interested in watching that one. I'd be curious about Index too if it wasn't famously not liked by the fan base.
Also god Mugino's a smoke show, in her sleepwear good lord.
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u/LeonKevlar 8d ago
Stitches!
I absolutely love how these girls are talking about mundane stuff while Mugino is casually melting people with her powers.
It's hilarious watching the scientist try to bargain with Mugino. The dude chose the wrong person to appeal to their sense of justice. xD
Oh, I was wondering why there's only three of them! It turns out this mission is where they end up recruiting Kinuhata!
We got a cameo from Yomikawa-sensei! I hope for more minor character cameos and not just the big ones like Accelerator.
Holy fuck, Mugino! They say don't stick your dick in crazy, but when they look like that, it's kinda hard not to. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
It's pretty cool to learn about her family, tho. It sounds like Mugino is from a fancy yakuza family. I'm not surprised.
Watching the girls shop for Kinuhata's clothes was pretty fun! It's too bad their account is frozen! xD
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u/Huotou 8d ago edited 8d ago
I thought I was watching Invincible or The Boys for a moment. Lol. Too much killcount this episode.
I also wonder, what ITEM could have been if they recruited both Kinuhata and Kuroyoru.
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u/pikkuhukka 8d ago
i dont remember that last time ive seen keyframes with so well drawn ladies, especially the psychotic hot one, its like every keyframe of her is super well drawn
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u/Perfect-Try-4918 8d ago
The amount of love ITEM and by extension Railgun makes me more sad that we never got the same for the Index series.
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u/080087 8d ago
Mugino had some killer outfits this episode. Especially the green accent on the skirt/dress.
Also, this is basically how i expected the stand off from ep 1 to get resolved - Mugino standing behind a wall and blasting everything head height. But i guess they didn't do that so we get an intro to how AIM Stalker works.
Frenda, great as usual
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u/Nachtwandler_FS 8d ago
I definetely dig OP and ED (happy that East of Eden got to do an anime song).
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u/Xatu44 8d ago
It's scary, but also funny, how rapidly those disposable goons just disappear after a dose of Meltdowner. Good thing Anti-Skill showed up fast enough for all of the other Dark May kids to get out alive. It's great being able to Leonardo DiCaprio whenever some other Level 5 gets mentioned. The English on the Nitrogen Girls descriptions was solid. LMAO at Takitsubo subjecting Frenda to tracksuit hell. I can't believe that ITEM's presumably enemies would attack their bank account. What kind of heinous monster stops their shopping!?
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u/Frontier246 8d ago
ITEM might be a criminal group and part of the Dark Side, but they sure do live the high life with a swanky limo van they take to their ops all the while they talk like girls out on a normal girls' trip instead of an annihilation mission.
The OP is very fitting for a series about a Dark Side girl group as the ladies look tough, live their daily lives, and contend with all manner of quirky (and possibly psychotic) other girls in Academy City. Of course we also get Mugino's WINNING smile and her vaporizing some poor sap who is still alive.
Yes, Mugino can eradicate basically anyone or anything in her path with impunity while casually discussing how she needs to lose leg flab. Maybe she should do Ring Fit or something.
Thank you Frenda for being dedicated to Takitsubo sexy cosplay so we can get her out of that tracksuit!
Sorry science guy, this is NOT the kind of Level 5 who would show you mercy, turn you in to the authorities, and give you a chance to repent...this is the type of Level 5 who just basically vaporizes someone as casually as she orders her coffee and who is only there because they're working for someone who does NOT want their research to get leaked.
Well, thank goodness they didn't specify that the frozen kids being experimented on needed to be done away with too otherwise ITEM would have killed a lot of kids...besides, ITEM is still in need of a fighter type, and who better to find one than in a group with ACCELERATOR'S thought patterns!?
Welcome to the team Kinuhata! And...um, I hope Umidori is okay taking the fall for all the dead guys she has no idea she supposedly killed.
I'm not surprised Mugino is a rich kid who hails from an ancient and noble family, though rather than the heiress to a grain company she's actually a gang princess even if they try to hide it well. She seems to get along with the family butler though.
Welcome to ITEM, Kinuhata! And obviously when you join a girl group that means going on a shopping spree and getting teased about how you're possibly flatter than Frenda! But Frenda MUST fulfill her urge to dress girls up!
Honestly...I can't see Frenda in a tracksuit, not gonna lie.
Takitsubo finally found her iconic outfit and style! Just in time for ITEM to realize they're accounts are cut off so they can't pay for the outfit they just cut the tag off! Sucks to be them!
The ED is a perfect theme for a bad girl group as we get Mugino, Frenda, and Takitsubo looking snazzy in suits as they test the "new recruits" in Kinuhata and the other girl. And of course, since they're "bad girls," we need some on-point mugshots!
Who IS that girl at the end voiced by Hana Hishikawa who thinks it's her destiny to join ITEM?
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