Toaru Majutsu no Index III (A Certain Magical Index III)

Touma Kamijou can't catch a break. After the invasion of Academy City, political tensions continue to rise as both the science and magic factions collide head on. It appears that Academy City intends to declare war against the Roman Catholic Church, consequently plunging the whole world into global warfare. Touma soon finds himself on the front lines once again, striving to protect his friends and allies.

Toaru Majutsu no Index III serves as the last installment of the original franchise as Touma, Accelerator, and the true Level 0 Shiage Hamazura continue their separate journeys, leading up to the final act of the original light novel series.

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Toaru Majutsu no Index III adapts novels 14 to 22 of Kazuma Kamachi's light novel series of the same title.

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Adaptation:	Toaru Majutsu no Index
Prequel:	Toaru Majutsu no Index II
Spin-off:	Toaru Majutsu no Index-tan III

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Accelerator

Main

Okamoto, Nobuhiko
Japanese

Kamijou, Touma

Main

Abe, Atsushi
Japanese

Hamazura, Shiage

Main

Hino, Satoshi
Japanese

Misaka, Mikoto

Supporting

Satou, Rina
Japanese

Shirai, Kuroko

Supporting

Arai, Satomi
Japanese

Last Order

Supporting

Hidaka, Rina
Japanese

Index Librorum Prohibitorum

Supporting

Iguchi, Yuka
Japanese

Kanzaki, Kaori

Supporting

Itou, Shizuka
Japanese

Uiharu, Kazari

Supporting

Toyosaki, Aki
Japanese

Tsuchimikado, Motoharu

Supporting

Katsu, Anri
Japanese

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Cook, Justin

Producer

Kananiwa, Kozue

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Shiji, Yuuichirou

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Kimura, Yasutaka

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Opening Theme

	1: "Gravitation" by Maon Kurosaki (eps 1-5, 7-8, 10-13, 15)
	2: "ROAR" by Maon Kurosaki (eps 18-20, 22-23, 25)

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Ending Theme

	1: "Kakumei Zenya (革命前夜)" by Yuka Iguchi (eps 1-8, 10-12, 14-15)
	2: "Owaranai Uta (終わらない歌)" by Yuka Iguchi (eps 16, 18-20, 23)

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Nov 5, 2021

robert788

Recommended

Toaru Majutsu no Index III (2018-2019)

I know it is normally unheard of but this really needed like 32 episodes or perhaps even a season 4 or a part 1 and part 2 because they really did rush it towards the end. I mean the final episode crammed so much in you don't even get the happy return to the normal scene you normally expect in Academy City.
That said the season is absolutely watchable and great in many aspects, just it did let the team down with being so crammed.

Notably good things:

- Misaka sisters and the way they speak in phenomenal still.
- Imagine ...

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Jul 29, 2021

UnorthoDon

Mixed Feelings

**REVIEW MIGHT CONTAIN SPOILERS; CONTINUE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION**

A Certain Magical Index III was a major letdown from its predecessors. It was promising at first but as the season went on, it starts to get more and more confusing to the point to where I almost forgot what I was watching. Now, with my personnel experience out of the way, let's get into an actual review

Story: 4
The story overall was interesting at first. As we got more and more into the show, the story becomes a confusing mess. However, it is not because of plot holes, or at least from what I can tell. ... No, it is because of the lack of explanation of what is happening in the plot that makes it confusing and at times, unwatchable. With other anime, you make the plot confusing and still have it be a good anime. But Magical Index is not that kind of show. You need to understand what is going on in the scene first, but this season hardly does any of that. That is a shame since all of the arcs seemed very interesting, but completely flopped because of the execution of them.

Art: 5
Now the art is a wild one. In order to talk about this I am gonna split into two parts: the animation and everything else...
-Animation: The animation was all over the place in this season. There were some points were superb and absolutely amazing and other times, it would seem lazy and pretty choppy (there were huge points of time where the "animation" was literally a frame of that character that was moving from left to right... so annoying). A good way to understand this is by looking at the two OPs of this season. The first OP had some good animation but at times it was super choppy at times. However, the second OP was abosolutely beautiful. It was crisp and clean and the coloring was... WOW! But seriously, consistent animation is better than incosistent animation almost 99.9% of the time. One of my favorite animation failures was when Touma just watched on his allies fall from a pretty high height and his face looked as if he was annoyed rather than scared for his ally that she fell high enough to kill anyone.
-Everything else: The CGI in this season was par to all of the other seasons. Nothing say about that. But what really shines is the amount of detail that went into the backgrounds! Every fricken background in this show is absolutely STUNNING! There was obviously so much time and care that went into everything single bit of each and every background. Whoever did the backgrounds deserves a massive pay raise or something because it was just that amazing!

Sound: 9
The sound was absolutely amazing. Music and voice acting were really good. Both of the OPs slap. EDs are fine; not great just fine. There is nothing to really say about the sound other than that though.

Character: 5
Here is where is starts to go down hill quite a bit. In this season, a lot of side characters from both A Certain Magical Index and A Certain Scientific Railgun come back into play with bigger parts for the overall arching story. The probably is that there wasn't enough time in the season to flesh out all of the side characters and even some of the main characters. A lot of growth for characters were rushed feeling pretty jarring. However, I did like there was an arc involving a pretty insignificant character. It was a very nice character arc that suprisingly liked.

Enjoyment: 3
This show really didn't entertain me. It was so confusing with a lot of what is happening not being explained. It seemed like they did this at the last minute. I found out later that they were trying to catch up with light novel since they were behind quite a bit. They tried to put too much into one season and I hate it.

Overall: 5
What saved this show from being rated less was literally the sound and the backgrounds, both of which were amazing. Other than that, everything was wildly inconsistent with me being confused from more than 3/4 of the season. It was way more confusing than like 90% of ACTUAL mystery series. Such a big letdown. If you wanted to get the full picture, read the light novel. I haven't read it yet, but from what I heard, it is better than the show. However, I am still looking forward to the next season. It better be good.

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Oct 8, 2022

Versateq

Not Recommended

I recommend the series to anyone that hates themselves. It's so bad that you will overcome any hateful feelings you harbor towards yourself and channel all your hate towards this anime.

I will be brief:

- Rushed season, too much content for 26 eps
- Nothing makes sense
- Everyone is a bad guy till they are our best friend
- Trash characters take up a lot of screen time. When i say trash characters that certainly includes the protagonist.
- I give the series minus 3 out of 10 and accelerator as a character a solid 7/10, so let's agree on 4/10

Holy guacamole I lost so many hours ...

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