A Certain Magical Index (light novel)
| Well, folks, our time has finally arrived. Season III is happening and after such an immense wait time, I am feeling very nostalgic. So I want to know: how did everyone discover this franchise and become invested in it? For me, it was back when Animefreak was the go to website for illegal anime streams, and I had just recently become an official anime nerd. Looking for a fresh series to dive in to, I genre searched for something random and landed on a show titled 'Toaru Kagaku no Railgun'. I tried out the first episode, but fled the scene when a certain twin-tailed lesbian delivered possibly the most ecchi moment I had seen up to that point by groping the main heroine in the showers. However, despite having run away, something about the show's initial 8 minutes had just grabbed onto me and I cautiously looked deeper into it a couple weeks later, and realized that Railgun was in fact a spin-off of the main story 'Toaru Majutsu no Index'. Hopeful but wary, I checked it out, and through finding Index's fanservice moment to be far more bearable than Kuroko's was in Railgun, decided to keep on trucking, eventually leading to the completion of both Index seasons, and a return to Railgun upon discovering it was in fact canon to the storyline with a greater tolerance for the fanservice. And so, here I am today, proud Toaru franchise fanatic currently in possession of physical copies of Index Light Novel 1-10, Railgun Manga 1-11 and both anime seasons, Accelerator Manga 1 and 2, as well as doing my best to keep up to date on the latest translations for New Testament on Baka-Tsuki. |
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| I was searching animes in the "T" letter four years ago, (in that time railgun S was releasing), after wacthing index i watched railgun, i even marathoned the final episodes of S. |
lucio54Sep 7, 2023 7:47 AM
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| I saw people keep posting it in forum and boards (back when I used to browse 4chan) and I just picked it up from here. The manga and Railgun side were great too. |
| It began when I was in a site [beastanime (.) tv] and began watching a few series in there and on 2012 set myself to try and watch all the ecchi series that where there, that lead me to tumblr seached for series that I had watch and began following some that had interesting things, while browsing the content of some of the people I followed I came across a gif of Saten flipping Uiharu's skirt and got interested in that and while trying to find out from what anime it was from came across an image of Misaka, that's where I really got interested and after finding out the name of the series I began watching it, before I finished watching the first season of Railgun I found out that it was part of the Index series so I watched them all by the time I had watched both Index series and the first Railgun series the second season of Railgun came out and ever since been waiting for season 3 of either one of them. |
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| I think one FB friend rec it to me so I watched it back in my "early" days of watching anime.After that, I read the fan translated LNs and now I am collecting the Index LN and Railgun manga.I may get the Accel manga as well if I like it enough. |
| It was among the first series I started marathoning back in 2009/10. However I started reading the LN after the second season. |
| It was recommended to me by a classmate back in 2009 when I just randomly walk in his house to hang out. Though I only watched it a year later and 4 years more that I finished the 2nd season and it's movie. After knowing Heavy Object was written by the same author of Index and it was actually Kamachi''s trademark novel, I decided to re-watch both seasons again and check his other works as well and got me impressed by Railgun manga and just like that, I arrive at Index new testament and now patiently sitting for the upcoming 3rd season. |
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| Well i just kinda started it, but dropped it after 2 episodes, then after half a year i tried it again, and i fell in love, when i finished the anime i instantly went too the books read all of them in a few days and loved this series even more, dropping this in the beginning is one of the biggest mistakes ive ever made. |
| Someone recommended it to me so, like most recommendations I'll add it to my PTW . Eventually I finally got to watching it |
| See Touman image in 2009 about Gender Equality, I got curious and decide to check out the anime. |
| Because we're stupid that we love to have fun |
| i got into it 2 yrs ago, i am a huge fripside fan and i looked at the anime linked to only my railgun and sisters noise and said i am watching this. Than i asked my friends and they said i should watch this and told me to start with index. |
| I jumped in when Railgun S first started coming out, watched the 1st season, Railgun S, then caught up on Index... Put it out of my mind that a season 3 would ever happen... I bought a lot of Railgun S merch shortly after it was done airing, some of it is quite rare now so im glad to see some new interest being stirred up for the series. |
| It was accelerator. I love psychopath/crazy sociopath characters. So i immediately got my eyes onto him. And then i started watching. And the part with touma cracking up into evil cackles after his freaking arm got cut off and blood spurting everywhere got me instantly in love with this anime. Seriously though, touma did a really good job immitating accelerator lol these two can be best bros |
| I had just watched Shakugan no Shana for the first time on Gogoanime I believe and it was the best thing that had ever graced my eyes So I did what any other person would. I searched for something as good or better and came across the show and saw it was by J.C. STAFF which also did Shana, Tsukaima, Hayate and lots of other shows I found to be favourites at the time so I watched it expecting to love it as much as any of the other shows by them |
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| Back when I was a noob, circa late 2012, I was making a list of animes I wanted to watch (I didn't knew MAL existed in those times, so I just made a list in a Word document to keep track on all the stuff I watched), then I saw in some site an image of Toaru Majutsu no Index and, looking for the synopsis (since the character designs looked good), it sounded interesting enough to made me thought it would be a good series to watch. Some time passed and, after some friend of mine told me it was a good series, I gave it a try and, after finishing both seasons, I fell in love with the franchise. I think it was one of the first 50 animes I watched, and that was in early 2013... I was still in highschool. I can't believe how much time has passed since that. |
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| Founded it in my brother's hard-disk during 2013 and watch it for being nothing to do and feel boring. |
| It's quite popular in Asia, so it's actually one of the few anime I knew before diving into 2D |
| Dunno maybe it was the time when I had lots of free time and marathoned a lot of anime in 2008 - 2011. |
"When you made this thread, I cried and screamed" -Swagernator 2017 |
| i started watching but found it boring for awhile and dropped it for some time but then i came back and decided to give it another chance and man was i glad i did i absolutely love the series (including railgun) but my favorite character is accelerator by a mile. Touma is cool and stuff but i liked accelerator right from the start. |
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| 2015 i started watching this so for me a 2 years wait lol ? i would went crazy if i waited for 6 years xD i guess it was because of shana, and i saw who made shana, it's staff and it lead to index and railgun. |
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| I am rather enjoying the number of people who had similar 'watched - dropped - watched again - loved' stories as I did. It's nice to know it wasn't just me that had an awkward start with this series. |
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| hentai This has taken so long I no longer care about the plot. I'll be watching just to see how the girls' clothes come off. |
| There was I time I really was into pettanko, futa, (ugly bastard) and rape doujins. I usually don't bother to go for translated ones, like honestly why would I? So there was one girl who showed up over and over again, especially in the futa category and she kinda grew on me. After a while I decided to find out if she's from an actual franchize or just an h doujin thing. Since I am not able to read japanese, I just reverse googled one of the panels from the doujins (obviously one of the few you could actually make out her face) and she turned out to be Mikoto Misaka. Gave Index a shot, was alright. Then tried my luck with Railgun, wish I skipped that one and finally found myself enjoying Railgun S. |
| I found A Certain Scientific Railgun first when I was using an anime app and searched for supernatural. After I finished it, I found Index and watched the rest of the anime series :) Railgun was actually my first anime series that I completed. I am hyped to see Touma again! |
| "Just who the hell do you think I am?"- Kamina |
| For a while, seemingly every Two Best Friends Play / Super Best Friends Play video on YouTube would have a top comment from an account called Mikoto Misaka, so I looked up the character. After a couple of years, in late 2015, they played Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax, which has her in it. One of the top comments was from that guy: "Me." It was like the climax of a YouTube comment arc. The account retired after that. |
| Saw the first season after it was done airing. I was checking things to watch and since Eclipse was a well known fansub at the time I took a look at it's series. One of them was Index so I gave it a go. And here I am, after 2 seasons, 1 movie and 40+ LN. |
| Saw some peeps talk about this franchise in Fate/Stay Night threads back in late 2013/early 2014, and I got curious. I intended to read the source first because I was told the anime adaptations were bad but the sheer amount of it all was pretty intimidating. Fast forward to 2017, I decided to finally give it a shot (before S3 announcement) and caught up in about 6 months. I had a lot of free time. |
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