Toaru Majutsu no Index III

if you're confused on how to watch Toaru franchise, here's probably the best order that I can think of

This series is recommended to be watched in release order.

My interpretation of the Toaru Series Watch Order.

A comprehensive watch order of the Toaru Series series, which includes every entry of the Toaru Series franchise.
Original Guide: https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1867550

Release Order

Follow the items list order.

Chronological Order

According to the Index wiki, the chronological order for the series is as followed:
(version with links in the original guide thread comments)

Level Upper Arc
Railgun episodes 1-14.
Railgun OVA episode 1.

Index Arc
Index episodes 1-6.

Big Spider Arc
Railgun episodes 15-16.

Deep Blood Arc
Index episodes 7-9.

Poltergeist Arc
Railgun episodes 17-24.

Sisters Arc
Railgun S episodes 1-9.
Index episodes 10-14.
Railgun S episodes 10-16.

Silent Party Arc and Angel Fall Arc
Railgun S episodes 17-20.
Index episodes 15-17.
Railgun S episodes 21-24.

Three Stories Arc
Index episode 18.
Index II episode 1.
Index episodes 19-20.

Kazakiri Hyouka Arc
Index episodes 21-24.

Necromancer Arc
Accelerator episodes 1-12.

Orsola Aquinas Rescue Arc
Index II episodes 2-5.

Toaru Majutsu to Kagaku no Ensemble
Visual Novel for the PSP (optional).

Tree Diagram Remnant Arc
Index II episodes 6-7.

Toaru Majutsu no Index Movie
Index Movie: Endymion no Kiseki

Daihasei Festival Arc
Railgun T episodes 1-3.
Index II episodes 8-13.
Railgun T episodes 4-15.

La Regina del Mare Adriatico Arc
Index II episodes 14-16.

Dream Ranker Arc (Introduction)
Railgun T episodes 16-17, 19.

Academy City Invasion Arc
Index II episodes 17-23.

Skill-Out Uprising
Index II episodes 23-24.

Dream Ranker Arc (Indian Poker)
Railgun T episodes 17-20.

Document of Constantine Arc
Index III episodes 1-3.

Battle Royale Arc
Index III episodes 4-6.

Dream Ranker Arc (Doppelganger)
Railgun T episodes 21-25.

Acqua of the Back Arc
Index III episodes 7-9.

British Royal Family Arc
Index III episodes 10-14.

DRAGON Arc
Index III episodes 15-17.

World War III Arc
Index III episodes 18-25.

Note: The Dream Ranker Arc is split into 2 entries because it covers multiple time periods. You can ignore Dream Ranker Arc (Introduction) and view Dream Ranker Arc (Indian Poker) as episodes 16-20 if you'd like.

AEGC Interest Stack index: https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=2017008

Sequels that had a considerably worse reception than the first/previous seasons.

The most common causes is continuing a story that fans considered completed or a bad/rushed adaptation.

Not including reboots/remakes/alternative versions.
Not including airing seasons nor seasons from less than 2 seasons old after airing.
Not adding sequels that had a score higher than its direct prequel, no matter if its score is lower than the first season, for example:

S1: 8.5 S2: 7.4 S3: 7.6
In this case I won't add the third season.
Not adding inter-season OVAs either but adding sequel specials meant as finale.

This is NOT based on my personal opinion although I might leave it here but it won't have any influence on the scale.
This list is MAL's score-based.
With "best" season I refer to the season with the highest score.
Difference must be more than 0.50 points unless next season of a previous one that was put here has a lower score of more than 0.1

The world of Index is a fascinating one where the main conflict is between science & development and magic & religion. The main storyline is covered within the 3 seasons of Index. It's perfectly fine to just stick with that, but you can also add in several side stories and spinoffs (that are arguably better) to really expand the world and it's lore. But that does often bring up the question, which order to watch them all in? Do you watch all of index first before touching the spinoffs, or do you go for Railgun instead as it is widely considered the superior series? And what about Accelerator?
Don't worry, I got you.

I recommend the (simplified) chronological order over the release order

(watching by the actual chronology means switching series every few episodes... sorry, I'm too lazy for that)

Anime with outrageous/awesome depiction of Catholicism or catholic clergy.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AnimeCatholicism

Anime series that covers all of its original source they're based on, with some notes.

Part 1: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/16812
Part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/19939
Part 3: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/20122
Part 4: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/20258
Part 5: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/20709
Part 6: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/20940
Part 8: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/21523
Part 9: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/29835
Part 10: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/35847
Part 11: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/39870
Part 12: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/41719
Part 13: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/42460
Part 14: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/46685

Release order. Excluding OVAs + specials at the moment.

If you watched these please read the source material.

If you are planning on watching any of these please read the source material instead.

Only anime that I have seen the source of is listed here (with a few expectations).

The Broadcast Order to watch the A Certain Magical Index, A Certain Scientific Railgun & A Certain Scientific Accelerator

Sequels to animes that took years to release. This list is informative and is not intended to be critical of these anime.

Thanks to the users eblf2013 and Andrewapps for collaborating.

These anime have no time to lose and try to cram the most they can in the least amount of time possible, maybe forgetting one detail or two among the way. Blink and you miss it. Secondary effects might include: Feeling like you watched more chapters than you actually watched.

As with the slow paced stack, some of these are tagged as such in AniDB, some others are from my experience watching them.

I am only adding the first season/entry of each franchise, unless a particular entry is fast paced like Fairy Tail's final part

For people scared of speed here is the slow version https://myanimelist.net/stacks/33443

From memory as an avid watcher. Aired either in ABS-CBN, HeroTV, or TV5. Some of these Tagalog Dubbed animes/OVAs may be lost media.

#LostMedia
#FilipinoLostMedia

These are the worst anime I've ever watched. Just made this for fun lol.