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May 1, 2022 1:36 PM
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Just gonna start it right now, i really hated index 3 so is this season the same disaster ? Just worse than season 1 and 2 or really that bad?

Edit: watched half of the 3rd season and holy sheeesh that's so confusing, tho i liked the 2nd season more than the first

Edit 2: so the first half of the 3rd season was a 4/10 but the last arc was way better and the end was amazing, so it's a 6/10 for me
SpinStudiosMay 8, 2022 5:36 AM
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May 1, 2022 1:53 PM
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I haven't watched Index S3 because I hated the first season, but I can tell you that Shana S3 is really fucking bad...
May 1, 2022 2:29 PM
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It's not as terrible as Index III, but both suffer from the exact same problems
May 1, 2022 2:47 PM
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both will exhaust you cause of how fast they move through the story, but like this one doesn't have 4 different protagonists all doing their own thing in separate areas of the story. also this one does have a good ending and doesn't have the annoying touma. so it's better, I would say atleast the rating is somewhat accurate to how I feel, index 3 was not that
May 1, 2022 2:51 PM
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index 3 is even worse
May 1, 2022 7:00 PM
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Shana just kept getting worse as it went on but never reached the lows of Index III
May 4, 2022 8:23 AM
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SpinStudios said:
Just gonna start it right now, i really hated index 3 so is this season the same disaster ? Just worse than season 1 and 2 or really that bad?

IMO, S 1 and 2 is p good, comparing to index series s1 and 2, i think its preference difference

but s3 of Shana is p bad, though the edit and the fight scenes is p good

it irritates me that neither yuuji or the god tried to explain what they were doing up until near the end

s3 of index is just chaos, its all over the place
i couldnt believe that was index series where s1 was that good

but again, this is only my opinion
May 15, 2022 12:02 AM
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Season 3 is easily the best season and best adaptation of the novels, it just suffers from problems caused by the first two seasons' poor adaptation or parts of the novels not being adapted prior.
*Bal Masque were made to be Team Rocket-esque doing random stuff, when their goal was always to free Snake of the Festival. Both seasons' final arcs and Fumina Konoe stuff are all anime original.
*No foreshadowing and development of Yuuji's character to lead up to. His traits of pragmatism removed.
*The whole thing with Yuuji's disappearance at the start is impossible without Zarovee/Bifrons/Sabrac attacking on Christmas Eve, which was pushed forward in season 2. Yuuji disappears in the exact same way Sabrac managed to survive the fight, which Season 2 never explained. The whole reason Sabrac fought them was to make Yuuji's disappearance possible.

It also has far better color direction, where most people have their correct flame color. And far less things that are canon-breakingly silly.


Season 3 had only 24 episodes to tell its own story while amending missing information from the first two seasons. Three instances from the top of my head where it did this:
*Yuuji's conversation with Snake of the Festival in episode 1, should have been in the first season.
*The flashback between Shana and Merihim, obviously should've been in the first season.
*Khamsin telling Yoshida about his past, first season.


The arguments used against Season 3 are usually ones in which the viewer didn't understand the setting properly.




Could it be better? Of course. Background Denizens are not meant to all look the same. Could it use more episodes to slow down the pace? Maybe.

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