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| This shit must be a joke. If this didnt have To aru in the title it would be just as bad as that Imouto series that everyone laughs at this season. |
Otaku__Life said: Skyguardian said: did they confirm that. The pacing is insanely fast.This Anime will end with OT volume 22. No NT. Because this is how Anime works. NT won't get animated and we should be grateful. I still disagree with the constant bitching of some people here, who apparently only have this show in their lifes but okay. |
| Man... never thought I'd say this but yeah.. the quality is horrible compared to its previous seasons, To aru fights most of the time looked good, we barely had anything resembling an actual sakuga in this season... this was one of my most anticipated shows this season but now watching it feels like a damn chore. |
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| "Those testaments to mammality, which is to say, oppai!" Greatest quote ever. Ever. Nice episode, pacing did not feel to bad - if you dont care about the church stuff that is. And touma likely forgot his conversation with best girl railgun. Yare yare daze.. PS: Wahhh! W-w-w-waaaahhh! Why did we not see her after she put it on? @Otaku_Life it is not our fault that both of yoz dont have standards. |
| "This emotion is mine alone. It is for Madoka alone." - Homura or how I would descripe Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica. |
| teamwork defeated Acqua on that one that leader of the right seat of God is overpowered it seems |
| Good and enjoyable episode! Mikasa finally reveals that she knows about Touma lost of memory, and was a meaningful conversation, and i think it was important, she was cute while finally telling him a litle how she feel, and seems taht she finally understand how she fell about him! Kanzaki fight against Acqua was really intense, was cool when she surpased her lack of confidence for her followers from Amakusa! Really cool when she ask for help for them! Cute part between Itsuka and Touma! Wow! Fiamma of the right has showen up and fought against pope with no mercy, he looks to much powerfull! Btw, nice to see Vento! |
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allenjke said: I kinda have to disagree there. I really don't see how the last two episodes were any improvement, things were still happening too fast, characters still fell flat, lots of exposition was still cut, etc etc.And after 2 episodes which were somewhat giving signals of life this was just very sad I'd say they were actually worse due to having more QUALITY than previous arcs. |
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| The end of the arc was a little on the rushed side, again. At least it was still enjoyable, though. I really liked the scene with Touma and Misaka, where she tells him that she now knows about Touma having amnesia. Despite that, he goes on his merry way, while Misaka stands there, being unsure whether to help him or not. The character art quality looks better during the comedy scenes compared to the action scenes, which is a little annoying. It reminds me of Persona 5 Animations visual quality during its run earlier this year, with one scene having some good art quality, the the next scene the quality jumps off a cliff. =/ Either way, I'm still looking forward to the next episode. =) |
| As other people have said, this episode is definitely rushed. I can't complain too much since I haven't read the novels (yet), but this week left me feeling kind of disappointed. I also really missed the OP since it gets me hyped, but I understood why they skipped it. I have high hopes that next week will be better. |
Xerxes126Nov 30, 2018 2:53 PM
    "Ehehehe.....I did my best!" - Pururut |
Botato said: allenjke said: I kinda have to disagree there. I really don't see how the last two episodes were any improvement, things were still happening too fast, characters still fell flat, lots of exposition was still cut, etc etc.And after 2 episodes which were somewhat giving signals of life this was just very sad I'd say they were actually worse due to having more QUALITY than previous arcs. I liked 2 previous episodes, you have to expect cutting-off some stuff so those 2 episodes were covering decently the arc. In this conclusion the whole atmosphere were killed, Touma just appeared out nowhere and used IB, i thought it looked so stupid ... Well and again if talking about animation this time it was beyond awful. I'm not all saying that animation is all for the work, but this is just pathetic. And well i want to defend Index for something, but there isn't just anything. |
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| WTF Misaka?!?! Like..."Well my friend Touma is clearly incapable of even walking a straight line but I'll let him go off to a potential life or death battle without an argument." I don't care about her realization that she obviously loves him. Her choice was flat out stupid/insane. Plus it wasn't in character. She loves to fight! Otherwise I am so totally done with this season. I'm watching it as a chore, not from enjoyment. What a waste. |
ssjokg said: This shit must be a joke. If this didnt have To aru in the title it would be just as bad as that Imouto series that everyone laughs at this season. Couldn't have said it better. Funny how it's okay to criticize Imouto but if we criticize Index because we should be "grateful" for a 3 season, suddenly we are ingrates... |
| Ugh, this quality, I currently switched to the mentality of watching a doujin anime, a really really expensive doujin anime. Oh, well, after 2 month, I can't even get enough energy to get mad at it now. |
| "You had no free will, you chased your vices along the same path as all of the others." - Shikieiki Yamaxanadu, Diamond in the rough |
| Misaka was great. Everything else was just so badly handled. |
| so Aleister can control Touma IB? |
revyHOLiC said: so Aleister can control Touma IB? No, he controls Touma's life and action, at least 98% of it. He have monitors set up that spies on Touma 24/7. Where Touma goes, how he thinks, what kind of underwear he wears on that day, its all catalogued. Because of this, he controls Touma's life. Think Truman Show, only a lot more creepy and sinister. |
| "You had no free will, you chased your vices along the same path as all of the others." - Shikieiki Yamaxanadu, Diamond in the rough |
| Fiamma was awesome |
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| Touma and Misaka moments were nice and really loved it. But Touma didn't mention that he remembers the sisters and Misaka. |
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ap1001 said: Did he control Fiamma too?revyHOLiC said: so Aleister can control Touma IB? No, he controls Touma's life and action, at least 98% of it. He have monitors set up that spies on Touma 24/7. Where Touma goes, how he thinks, what kind of underwear he wears on that day, its all catalogued. Because of this, he controls Touma's life. Think Truman Show, only a lot more creepy and sinister. |
revyHOLiC said: ap1001 said: Did he control Fiamma too?No, he controls Touma's life and action, at least 98% of it. He have monitors set up that spies on Touma 24/7. Where Touma goes, how he thinks, what kind of underwear he wears on that day, its all catalogued. Because of this, he controls Touma's life. Think Truman Show, only a lot more creepy and sinister. No. -------------------------- Fucking character limit.... |
WilliamOrwell said: Shit...I forgot his big the world is. After the shit pacing of Battle royale arc the pacing is getting good enough but still some people are criticizing the show. The show was made in a hurry.Be grateful that you got this show.Else you would have jumped straight to the New testament and couldn't understand a thing. Critics everywhere. For me after the be arc the site is coming to life. This is still a weak foundation for NT, I swear even if they animate NT, 90% anime only would still have no idea who is who nor understand thelema. |
| "You had no free will, you chased your vices along the same path as all of the others." - Shikieiki Yamaxanadu, Diamond in the rough |
WilliamOrwell said: Why the fuck should we accept a less than mediocre adaptation?Shit...I forgot his big the world is. After the shit pacing of Battle royale arc the pacing is getting good enough but still some people are criticizing the show. The show was made in a hurry.Be grateful that you got this show.Else you would have jumped straight to the New testament and couldn't understand a thing. Critics everywhere. For me after the be arc the site is coming to life. No I am not grateful for getting a series that has grown worse instead of getting better, I am not gratefull for them ruining every great moment with non pause dialogue and awkward direction, ruining powers, ruining characterization, putting focus on the fanservice and comedy scenes instead of anything else. I wasnt waiting for an adaptation of the rest of OT just to get this shit.Just animating scenes of the novels means nothing to me if everything in those scenes is worse than adaptations of FSN 2006 and Umineko. At least those had the excuse that one had to deal with multiple routes and bad endings and the other had an overly complicated and unfinished source material. Here we have to deal with a totally incompetent director and a studio that is using this season as a cash grab and will ruin the other two adaptations as well. Honestly, if THIS is the prelude to NT then it is no different from ONLY adapting NT. |
ssjokgDec 1, 2018 8:46 AM
ssjokg said: WilliamOrwell said: Why the fuck should we accept a less than mediocre adaptation?Shit...I forgot his big the world is. After the shit pacing of Battle royale arc the pacing is getting good enough but still some people are criticizing the show. The show was made in a hurry.Be grateful that you got this show.Else you would have jumped straight to the New testament and couldn't understand a thing. Critics everywhere. For me after the be arc the site is coming to life. No I am not grateful for getting a series that has grown worse instead of getting better, I am not grate full for them ruining every great moment with non pause dialogue and awkward direction, ruining powers, ruining characterization, putting focus on the fanservice and comedy scenes instead of anything else. I wasnt waiting for an adaptation of the rest of OT just to get this shit.Just animating scenes of the novels means nothing to me if everything in those scenes is worse than adaptations of FSN 2006 and Umineko. At least them had the excuse that one had to deal with multiple routes and bad endings and the other had an overly complicated and unfinished source material. Here we have to deal with a totally incompetent director and a studio that i sing this season as a cash grab and will ruin the other two adaptations as well. Honestly, if THIS is the prelude to NT then it is no different from ONLY adapting NT. Pretty much this, I don't understand how comes people still able to defend this? Just because Acqua arc's pacing was somewhat decent is hardly an improvement as a adaptation if the other arcs is still handled poorly (I'm looking at you, Battle Royale arc). According to that logic, I should be grateful on how Negima!/UQ Holder! series getting an anime adaptations despite how the studios has been butchered that anime series for over 10 years. |
MahiaErebeaNegiDec 1, 2018 8:48 AM
| Now THIS is what I like to see, teamwork instead of having one person beat the bad guy. Also I love every moment with Kanzaki and Tsuchimakado xDDDD (Also please let Best Girl Misaka fight now TwT That moment between her and Touma was too cute) |
TokoyaDec 1, 2018 10:15 AM
Somecallme_kj said: I mean sure, I do recognize some people don't mind it being cut or just flat out hate it, but in this franchise it doesn't work because it's built on excessive exposition. BR was fun? Sure, to me it was a giant mess of an arc with little to no logic to wtf was going on.Botato said: I kinda have to disagree there. I really don't see how the last two episodes were any improvement, things were still happening too fast, characters still fell flat, lots of exposition was still cut, etc etc. I'd say they were actually worse due to having more QUALITY than previous arcs. exposition getting cut out sounds like a good thing. I mean alot of it you can kinda just figure out by context. like i just watched the battle royale arc and it was fast paced but fun. |
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| Finally more Touma and Misaka moments, I love these moments a lot. Aqua vs Kanzaki continutes and damn that was quite the fight. Kanzaki took some really heavy hits during that fight, Aqua is so god damn OP!! Itsuwa got a reality check on how much difference there is in power when it comes to the whole Amakusa group and Kanzaki fighting against Aqua solo. Touma just casually walking in on the fight, cancelling out Aqua's attack. Really nice (yet a bit predictable) end to the fight. Kanzaki is so adorable being teased like that! One crazy strong foe defeated and another one shows up! |
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| Was this stupid or was this very stupid Misaka saws Touma and just let him go to face Acqua and didn't even bother to assist him in baeting Acqua, Touma can't actually beat Acqua with some team work from others, so why the fuck didn't they do that before?????? And we didn't even see Kanzaki fully wearing that maid outfit. |
| Hopefully we dont get another Battle Royale arc in the remaining arcs because this is where the world and plot of Index starts to unravel. And if we get NT animated, it's important to put care into adapting the next arcs(especially the last science side arc). |
Tiau said: Shouldn't someone say the opposite though, OT14 and OT16 is fine, part of OT15 is cut, still overall a improvement than what we used to have in S1 and S2. It's pretty easy to see why someone would defend this, considering that overall it isn't really nearly as bad as people say it is Which part is the "improvement" that you referring may I ask? I think you should already aware one of the remaining 3 arcs (Most likely either British Royal Arc or DRAGON Arc) will be butchered as they have no enough episodes to adapt the things on it (If we follow the "3 episodes=1 volume" logic), I doubt they will adapt WW3 in less than 9 episodes. |
Tiau said: MahiaErebeaNegi said: Pretty much this, I don't understand how comes people still able to defend this? Just because Acqua arc's pacing was somewhat decent is hardly an improvement as a adaptation if the other arcs is still handled poorly (I'm looking at you, Battle Royale arc). According to that logic, I should be grateful on how Negima!/UQ Holder! series getting an anime adaptations despite how the studios has been butchered that anime series for over 10 years. Shouldn't someone say the opposite though, OT14 and OT16 is fine, part of OT15 is cut, still overall a improvement than what we used to have in S1 and S2. It's pretty easy to see why someone would defend this, considering that overall it isn't really nearly as bad as people say it is Are you fucking serious? S1 and S2 may not have been perfect adaptations but at least they were fun.Characters didnt have mouth diarrhea that made absolutely no sense, and the power effects had nice visuals. Touma's IB powers didnt do asspulls, character's thoughts made sense and fights werent stupid merry go arounds with re used 3 sec animation. Accel vs Touma may had been butchered but at least it had a nice flow. Hell if any anime only actually understood why Acqua survived the first the first Saint destroyer, or why the Amakusa were even able to pull that off. Did Knight Leader's words even make sense?We had no context and we are supposed to assume he is close with Aqua? Oh btw, Acqua still looks like a skinny bitch,dont even know how you think he looks buffed compared to S2. The Pope should be removed from the anime.We have no clear reason why he suddenly is opposing God's right seat, we dont know if he loves the people and to what extent the people love him. Oh but we have time for Fallen Angel costume.I am sure this is great for character and story development. |
| To be completely fair I didn't have a lot of problem with the animation in this episode What I did have a problem with was the transitions, especially Touma when he used Imagine breaker. He was supposed to come out of nowhere when every one thought it was lost and all but J. C just made it feel weird and flat. Also will anime onlys even understand the whole William Orwell thingy? I don't understand why they included the scene with him and the princess if they decided to skip the rest of his scenes because it doesn't make sense now. Overall even though it's disappointing, I don't think that this is the worst show of all time like half of this forum is implying. It's a mess but seeing the OT animated in this case is all I'm out after. If they do this to the NT though... Then we've got a problem |
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| I have a few problems with this episode: Touma casually walking in the middle to cancel Acqua’s attack without him realising. What is this garbage writing? Misaka seeing Touma and letting him go fight Acqua. She can see the condition he’s in, but didn't even bother to assist him in the fight. It’s just like Touma Vs Accelerator all over again. What the hell was Acqua’s goal? Who was the people in his backstory? I don’t really care. Every girl has to turn into some useless damsel in distress so the mighty Touma can save the day (except best girl Kanzaki ofc). Index is still as useless as ever. Easily one of the worst heroine in anime This arc was better than the trainwreck that was the last arc, but that’s not saying much since the bar was so low. I’d give this arc a 4/10. |
FlexstyleDec 2, 2018 5:20 AM
ssjokg said: Tiau said: Shouldn't someone say the opposite though, OT14 and OT16 is fine, part of OT15 is cut, still overall a improvement than what we used to have in S1 and S2. It's pretty easy to see why someone would defend this, considering that overall it isn't really nearly as bad as people say it is Are you fucking serious? I think he's pretty much serious at all. I'm still wonder which part of S3 is a "improvement" that he referring, if he said pacing was better than the previous two seasons then I have no idea what should I said anymore. ssjokg said: Touma's IB powers didnt do asspulls. Wait isn't most anime-only viewers are bitching at Touma being asspull during S2 running time? Well at least based on MAL discussion threads. ssjokg said: Oh btw, Acqua still looks like a skinny bitch,dont even know how you think he looks buffed compared to S2. Which I find it funny because Tanaka basically just reuses Acqua's character street from previous season and yet the anime somehow make him look even more skinny than he actually is in EP8&9 lol. To adds that, why the fuck Knight Leader look so young here (Not in flashback but in EP10 preview) when he's suppose to be around the same age as Acqua? ssjokg said: Oh but we have time for Fallen Angel costume.I am sure this is great for character and story development. Yeah this is indeed a "great" character development they has done. Instead of focusing on the Pope's character, they went off with the fan-service s**t and they don't even bother to shows up Kanzaki's face at the end. Fuck J.C and Nishikiori... seriously...... |
MahiaErebeaNegi said: Wait isn't most people are bitching at Touma being asspull during S2 running time? Well at least based on MAL discussion threads. I am referring to the part where Touma is holding, with one arm, Acqua's mace and Acqua together.All that weight.Because as we all know IB gives him supernatural strength. He even slightly pushes it up. He continues to hold them both till Itsuwa finishes him. And before any delusional fan rushes to say "that happens in the LN too", no you fucktard.In the LN he stops the attack and then falls back before Kanzaki restrains Acqua. Nishikiori took a metaphorical line and actually animated it. An extended version even. |
| i mean the fight between kanzaki and acqua was decent but im kinda confuse in the story in this particular ep |
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