A Certain Scientific Railgun T is an Anime I'm loving more each time I rewatch it. Railgun S as a complete work of Art is still the greatest Masterpiece of the Raildex franchise. But Railgun T being a bit less intense and more episodic is perhaps proving to be more rewatchable.
The Daihasei Festival Arc was perfect, and most of the Dream Ranker Arc very fun, lots of cool one offs that expand the universe, and for the most part even what it's main plot winds up being is very interesting. But I have one thing against it.
And that problem is a Spoiler so don't read ahead if you don't want to be spoiled.
The fact that the show does in fact declare the Doppleganger to not have a Soul really really bugs me. And honestly it makes me wonder if anyone anymore knows what that word even means.
The Soul is not actually something the existence of which is debatable, what's debatable is if it's immortal or not, yet it's clear many writers of modern fiction think it's definition is the thing certain religions say still lives when the Body dies, but it's not. The Greek word translated Soul is Psyche. Even the most Hyper-materialist ancient Greeks like the Epicureans did not dispute the Psyche existed, what they argued about was if it's immortal or not.
Anything that has a Psyche has a Soul, anything that has Self Awareness has a Soul. Most important of all though, only a being with a soul could ever be suicidal. A life form running on pure animal instinct or AI programing could never develop a desire to end it's own existence.
The concept of an AI wanting to die but being unable to act on that directly because of it's self preservation programing is an interesting idea for Sci-Fi to explore. But to then turn around and proclaim that entity doesn't have a Soul is absurd.
And to top it all off the Doppelganger's Psyche even proves to be immortal still existing after it's body dies. So I honestly am baffled and have no idea what definition of the word Soul this Anime was possibly using.
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