とある魔術のいんでっくすたん/Toaru Majutsu no Index-tan
A Certain Magical Index-tan – 02

Episode 2 (SPOILERS)

Touma again finds Index-tan draped on his balcony rail, only this time, she avoids the crow that swoops down. In her “Baka! Baka!” celebration, she’s snagged by a cat.

Accelerator goes for a finishing move on Touma, only to have his hand slapped away, whereby he appears to develop feelings for Touma.

Touma hears a ghost story about a driverless car, then sees it, not realizing it is Komoe-sensei driving.

Sherry happily uses chalk to draw a massive piece of childish sidewalk art.

Touma goes to the arcade, looking for Index-tan, and hears her and others humming a copyrighted song.

Misha activates a spell…for a really big fish.

Index-tan visits Touma in the hospital, carried by a long, pink haired person in a black veil and robes. After Index-tan enjoys hotdogs on Touma’s head and gets angry with him for scolding her over crumbs, they start discussing Toumo’s seiyuu hugging a pillow on his website.

Mikoto wants the sister clones to help her as Accelerator’s seiyuu has the character celebrate winning a voice award.

Mikoto lines up the sister clones to announce the A Certain Scientific Railgun series.

Thoughts/Review:

Heh! The first skit with Index-tan on the railing made me think, “Did I screw up and start watching the first episode again?  However, when she dodged the bird and started taunting it in celebration, I laughed out loud, as I continued to do when the cat snagged her. Unexpected moments are always the funniest.

I’m guessing the person in black with the pink hair was Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière from The Familiar of Zero series, who is voiced by Kugimiya-san, whom for some reason I keep thinking is Index’s seiyuu. ^_^;;; I think that may be because the various cameo appearances of characters are all by Kugimiya-san’s seiyuu — Taiga (Toradora!), Shana-tan (Shakugan no Shana/Shakugan no Shana-tan), and now, apparently Louise. ^_^;;;

The other skits were amusing, but nothing really funny.  I do get a kick out of the times when the seiyuu drop out of character and begin speaking as normal, whereby something in real life is discussed.

The skit where Mikoto and the sister clones start by saying the main series title, Toaru Majutsu no Index, and then with each one speaking, slightly modifies it so that it sound similar, but actually says something else, would have been more humorous to me were I a lot more fluent in Japanese.

The interludes, featuring Himegami getting cut off, weren’t funny to me at all.

Still, I do enjoy these Index-tan parody pieces, even if they don’t have me laughing out loud.