Toaru Majutsu no Index Gaiden: Toaru Kagaku no Dark Matter

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This is my first time writing a review, and because no one else wrote one yet, i thought of writing one myself. I'm writing this review for the current 3 chapters translated available to me at the moment and might update this review as more translated chapters are released.

So far, so good.

There hasn't been much information brought to us about Academy City's number 2 esper: Kakine, Teitoku (In the animes at least); and to see a manga about him is quite exciting. Having this series start not too long ago (August of 2019) and the first volume just released in March 26 of this ... year, it makes sense how its not well known yet. But so far, its good. There hasn't been enough English chapters released yet to give much info on the story but i can tell that it has similar elements to the accelerator manga. Also, please keep in mind that you have to have at least watched a season of index or a season of railgun to know whats going on just like the accelerator anime/manga.

*Minor spoilers*

I won't go too far into the depth of the story because it'll be much easier to read the 3 chapters for yourself, but so far the chapters released are interesting. Like accelerator, Kakine is cold hearted (Or WAS for accelerator) and now is taking care of a mysterious loli named Yuzuriha, Ringo. Seeing the fragments of Kakine's past is by far the most interesting part of the story and witnessing the loli's character and her backstory is also worth mentioning. The art for this manga is quite superb and is far better than that of accelerator's and railgun's manga. The art has more details and shading which fits the mood of the manga. Not much has been said about the other members of SCHOOL but Kakine's and the loli's past is enough to persuade me to read on at least. Overall it's interesting and i think you should give it a try. And yes, its after Accelerator has been shot but takes place before the battle royale arc.

Elegant, surprisingly short, with gorgeous art, well written; all this things combine together to create a beautiful experience of dread, sadness, melancholy, suspense and platonic love in the dark corners of a city where unheard evils occur to the most innocent, kids.

This story not only create a very unique and new atmosphere to a formula before used in the Toaru series, but enriches and complexes its universe through coherence in its characters and plot lines.

It's like a well made clock, the start is highly interesting and visually compelling. Its end allow us to think that this isn't over.
But the most important thing for me, ... this story is a tragedy in a world full of fantasy. The question here is ineludible, what is the price that this world have to pay for its fantasy? The answer lies in the broken minds of its young inhabitants, being left alone in the hands of corrupted men and their corrupt means.

A short but nonetheless masterpiece tragedy. Like a well Hollywood movie, has its start, has its end.