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EP. REVIEW: A Certain Magical Index III

Was that Frenda (I think that's the name of the blonde ITEM member with a verbal tic) getting stomped on at the end there? It was a bit hard to tell.

The fact that a lot of people reading this are now asking themselves, "who the heck is Baba Yoshio?" suggests to me that they should have just cut him out of the adaptation completely if they weren't going to include any reason to care about who he was or what happened to him in this episode.

The first two episodes at least made some modicum of sense but now it is just a battle royale with guys coming out of nowhere massacring everyone in sight without a hint of what's going on.

Well, the current arc is called the Battle Royale arc, so. . .

Key wrote:

Well, the current arc is called the Battle Royale arc, so. . .

I really think that, with the amount of stuff they cut out in the anime, the least they could have done was end every episode with the graphic that the author used to indicate who was still standing at the end of each chapter and which faction they belonged to. It would have gone a long way to making this feel more like a multi-sided battle and less like a free-for-all.

is this "Misaka Misaka" thing for Last Order how it always went?

Episode five unfortunately stumbles in the fight between Musujime and Teshio of BLOCK, leaving out about a page worth of very interesting conversation concerning BLOCK's true objective and spoiler[the nature of the Windowless Building.]

I would honestly suggest to any anime watcher that has at least some interest in this arc to read the light novel version like I did, if you truly want a full experience. Even with the tight schedule the anime is running on I believe this arc should at least have 2 more episodes and from the looks of it everything might wrap next episode.

micah007 wrote:

I would honestly suggest to any anime watcher that has at least some interest in this arc to read the light novel version like I did, if you truly want a full experience. Even with the tight schedule the anime is running on I believe this arc should at least have 2 more episodes and from the looks of it everything might wrap next episode.

Yeah and that concerns me

If the production staff is rushing this much through the arcs, I feel that the show's characters and story will suffer greatly

Granted, i will be the first to argue that the characters and story aren't great but man, this doesn't help

Izanagi009 wrote:

micah007 wrote: I would honestly suggest to any anime watcher that has at least some interest in this arc to read the light novel version like I did, if you truly want a full experience. Even with the tight schedule the anime is running on I believe this arc should at least have 2 more episodes and from the looks of it everything might wrap next episode. Yeah and that concerns me If the production staff is rushing this much through the arcs, I feel that the show's characters and story will suffer greatly Granted, i will be the first to argue that the characters and story aren't great but man, this doesn't help

It really doesn't help. This series is very detailed. Wanted or unnecessarily detailed is another debate but we can all agree VERY detailed. For the most part I've thought that so far the anime has done a decent job of adapting the bare essentials of the narrative in a coherent enough manner that anime only watchers wouldn't complain, but only so much detail can be summarized, altered, or ignored before things become a mess.

I'm still hopeful Accelerator vs Kakine is well adapted, but given most of that fights enjoyment comes from the physics defying details (none of which you can really brush over without confusion) I worry.