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Oct 19, 2018 6:19 AM
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I have to give Itsuwa some credit this episode. Even though she's outmatched against someone like Terra, she doesn't give in. Not a fan of Terra but I think they protrayed his personality pretty well this episode.

Tsuchimikado also showed up during that fight so it added a more interesting twist.


Got to see a lot more of the science side which I think is a plus so far this season. Accelerator is back too baby. Terra totally deserved that punch in the face by Touma. Glad they animated the scene of Accelerator standing in the fire. Itsuwa's reaction of fear is very legit. I'd be scared too if I saw someone stand in flames like that.
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And this concludes OT14. Earth blade looks quite good. And we have our first Touma punch in this season (The one with Tsuchi doesn't count).

Battle Royale next ! This arc is gonna make or break this season so pls don't fuck it up any more JC Staff.

Oct 19, 2018 6:35 AM
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"You had no free will, you chased your vices along the same path as all of the others." - Shikieiki Yamaxanadu, Diamond in the rough
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Most LN readers already know


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loli_a_ravioli said:
ap1001 said:


Most LN readers already know




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So Mikoto finally knows about the memory loss and she got some other information as well the question is what is she going to do with that information.
And Accelerator was disappointing in this episode.
Terra didn't last long either...
Oct 19, 2018 7:12 AM
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ap1001 said:
loli_a_ravioli said:


Most LN readers already know




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Oct 19, 2018 7:21 AM
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That was decent i guess, not liking Terra's design in anime at all, he just looks so weird. Mikoto's bath scene ... should i be happy or not, whatever. Touma is back at punching faces.
Love the track for the God's Right seat, was it like that in novel how Terra died.
BR arc next, i believe, but Kakine's design in the preview ...
Oct 19, 2018 8:16 AM
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Hmm the precedence ability is quite the troublesome ability. The academy sure spared no expense in the forces they sent to secure the document. Terra's ability sure was tricky but once the trick was determined he fell quickly. Seems the church is planning a much serious strike on the city assisted by their new russian allies. Itsuwa sure was the star this episode with her determination to fight against Terra despite being outmatched being the highlight.
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the animation quality is so sad damn

Terra is about to reveal what Imagine Breaker really is but he got interrupted by Accelerator what shitty timing that was, and RIP Terra

now Misaka knows Touma got amnesia

lets see what this saint class Acqua guy can do like he is gonna fight the whole of Japan with the help of the Russians it seems
Oct 19, 2018 8:34 AM
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Good solid episode!

Kamijou, or “Above God”, has really piqued my curiosity and I wonder if it has anything to do with our main character. Meanwhile, Misaka was listening to the conversation between Terra and Touma and I’m looking forward to see how she responds to this. I hope we get to know more about this ‘Amnesia’ and the hidden facts beneath it all in due time.
Japan, or Science Academy City, surely went all guns blazing with the sudden attack. I was expecting Accelerator to cause some more havoc but I guess more than enough damage had already been inflicted, it’s good to see Last Order in next week’s preview so we’re most likely going to see more of Accelerator too. Terra of the Left’s power sure was a tough nut to crack but once exposed, it didn’t take long for Touma to gain the upper hand. It was surprising to see Acqua take him down so easily, an Op character incoming and looks like Russia and Catholic v Japan is soon to come! Itsuwa giving it her all against Terra even though her defeat was inevitable was a great highlight of the episode! I’m looking forward to seeing more of Itsuwa in the coming episodes!
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man, 3 episode already airing, but the animation quality is still bad, the previous season is still better animated than this
Oct 19, 2018 9:01 AM

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So Terra is dead.
Misaka knows about Touma's amnesia now. Lot of stuffs happened.
Let's see what happens next week.
Oct 19, 2018 9:13 AM

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was pretty disappointed with how Terra was put down

at least we get some food for thought regarding the truth of Imagine Breaker and how Touma's memory loss is no longer remaining a secret.
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maybe the animation is not the best guys but it is still batter than nothing .
Oct 19, 2018 9:34 AM

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Eh yeah figured as much. Confirmation for the nth time that this adaptation is doomed.

loli_a_ravioli said:
Most LN readers already know since the 1st episode that the staffs don't really care about this arc. Knowing this somehow made me less mad.
Why do people actually believe this. Even if it's true it's not like anything will change in the other arcs with the brilliant 9-volumes-in-26-episodes pace.
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Battle scene is dissapointment, story pace is fine tho. They should be combine battle scene with conversation instead. I still dissapoint that no close up view during touma last punch or heavy magical effect like they usually does. Eventhough this arc is weakest in term of action, they actually could make touma vs terra more interesting. But touma last punch isnt as impactful as before.

Next episode is battle royale arc, I hope no more dissapointment since that arc considered as best arc before Ww3.
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The transition of Terra being blasted by the blade of Academy City to him appearing in the Vatican was very weird. Like, if it looked like he died in Avignon, then he suddenly appeared fine and in one piece with Acqua (he still looks as badass as last season). The only think I didn't like of the episode, since that could've be done better.
It's a pity too they got rid of Terra that soon, he had a cool, smooth voice.

Accelerator appeared, but he didn't do much. Oh, well, he has an arc for himself next week, so it's all okay.
Seeing Touma punching people and saying his iconic line again was gold. Even if the visuals could've been better, was still satisfying. Also loved Abe's voice acting during the Touma vs Terra, Touma sounded really angry in that moment.

Lidvia's Italian was nice to hear, for a Japanese voice actress, didn't sound bad at all.
And Mikoto finally knows the truth about Touma's lost memeories. What she will do about that? Curious to know it.

Also:

List of people punched by the Touman:
-Episode 01: Tsuchimikado (1 time)
-Episode 03: Terra (2 times)
Oct 19, 2018 9:55 AM
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TouMAN has amnesia O_O Now I'm extra curious to find out about who he is and the truth behind his ability

RIP Terra though, that Accqua guy doesn't mess around lol and also it was nice to see best boy Accelerator and best girl Misaka have more a presence in this episode

Hopefully they'll be shown more in the coming eps :D Good ep and good fight overall
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Very interesting episode, especially in regards of Toumas state.

Acqua seems like a badass, can't wait to see more of him, also of Accelerator.

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So now Mikasa listened by phone that Touma get memory loss, and she listened everything! What will she do with that information?

Terra were about revealing what is and how work imagine break, but Accelarator interrupted in time! I am really curious too see how it work!

I really want to know what have Touma related to what she said to Styl, "Kami Jou" means above god, and Touma also is a Kamijou, i am really curious about this mistery!
Oct 19, 2018 10:35 AM

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Lowkey the author of Index sure loves amnesia
Not only after saving Index but now its implied he had it earlier too before that
Oct 19, 2018 11:07 AM

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Accelerator was cool as always.
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I really liked this episode, but I wish people would STOP WHINING ABOUT ANIMATION QUALITY! It's well made we don't need blow your head off quality just a good story and proper voice acting. And the pace is good it covers the important facts in the arc. If you truly love anime then then stuff like quality shouldn't mean anything.
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but I wish people would STOP WHINING ABOUT ANIMATION QUALITY!
To ask fans that care about animation quality to not heavily focus on that is like asking people to all agree on best girl
its just not going to happen sadly
Oct 19, 2018 11:17 AM
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animeruler1 said:
I really liked this episode, but I wish people would STOP WHINING ABOUT ANIMATION QUALITY! It's well made we don't need blow your head off quality just a good story and proper voice acting. And the pace is good it covers the important facts in the arc. If you truly love anime then then stuff like quality shouldn't mean anything.
Im not complain with animation quality, its still considered very good. But actually JC can improve battle scene better than this.

Aside battle scene, this is very good episode. Fast pace without content cut.
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That was boring. The animation wasn't as bad as people here make it out to be, but it's just, average. The pacing was fine but the story still feels lackluster to me so far.
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animeruler1 said:
but I wish people would STOP WHINING ABOUT ANIMATION QUALITY!
To ask fans that care about animation quality to not heavily focus on that is like asking people to all agree on best girl
its just not going to happen sadly

True but if if people just looked past quality and see how good the story is then it really wouldn't matter the level of quality. I just hate how people would rather an anime look "pretty" than show a great story which index does
Oct 19, 2018 11:23 AM

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That was boring. The animation wasn't as bad as people here make it out to be, but it's just, average. The pacing was fine but the story still feels lackluster to me so far.

Well it was only the first arc of season 3 so you shouldn't expect top quality right off the bat, let the series build that's what I've learned through years of watching anime
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animeruler1 said:
Deknijff said:
To ask fans that care about animation quality to not heavily focus on that is like asking people to all agree on best girl
its just not going to happen sadly
True but if if people just looked past quality and see how good the story is then it really wouldn't matter the level of quality. I just hate how people would rather an anime look "pretty" than show a great story which index does
I feel your pain man
its such a shame really
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animeruler1 said:
True but if if people just looked past quality and see how good the story is then it really wouldn't matter the level of quality. I just hate how people would rather an anime look "pretty" than show a great story which index does
I feel your pain man
its such a shame really

I know, it feels like people a missing the point of anime, it's to truly bring the story to life to feel the emotion of the characters through wonderful voice actors that's what anime is to me.
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I really liked this episode, but I wish people would STOP WHINING ABOUT ANIMATION QUALITY! It's well made we don't need blow your head off quality just a good story and proper voice acting. And the pace is good it covers the important facts in the arc. If you truly love anime then then stuff like quality shouldn't mean anything.


its an action show so of course i expect good animation quality on the action scenes at least, the previous seasons do not have awesome sakuga action scenes but they are good enough if i remember right
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animeruler1 said:
Deknijff said:
I feel your pain man
its such a shame really
I know, it feels like people a missing the point of anime, it's to truly bring the story to life to feel the emotion of the characters through wonderful voice actors that's what anime is to me.
Well anime isn't just one thing like animation and voice acting
its both of those along with art style, music, story and characters along with other things
We shouldn't say its only one thing
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Deknijff said:
animeruler1 said:
I know, it feels like people a missing the point of anime, it's to truly bring the story to life to feel the emotion of the characters through wonderful voice actors that's what anime is to me.
Well anime isn't just one thing like animation and voice acting
its both of those along with art style, music, story and characters along with other things
We shouldn't say its only one thing

That's true, all of those are critical parts for a good anime. But it's like everyone now just obsses on the quality of animation alone and the rest is irrelevant they are missing out on good series just cause they think the animation quality is bad
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animeruler1 said:
Deknijff said:
Well anime isn't just one thing like animation and voice acting
its both of those along with art style, music, story and characters along with other things
We shouldn't say its only one thing
That's true, all of those are critical parts for a good anime. But it's like everyone now just obsses on the quality of animation alone and the rest is irrelevant they are missing out on good series just cause they think the animation quality is bad
true
man the frustration of the people who wont watch a good show because its old
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deg said:
animeruler1 said:
I really liked this episode, but I wish people would STOP WHINING ABOUT ANIMATION QUALITY! It's well made we don't need blow your head off quality just a good story and proper voice acting. And the pace is good it covers the important facts in the arc. If you truly love anime then then stuff like quality shouldn't mean anything.


its an action show so of course i expect good animation quality on the action scenes at least, the previous seasons do not have awesome sakuga action scenes but they are good enough if i remember right

While that is true, high quality is not what makes a good action anime. It's in the deliverance of the action how they show it cause action has high emotion quality is only one small part
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Makes me wonder, why people says one piece & black clover are good anime eventhough their animation & battle scene isnt great

But when comes to index which has better animation quality, every tiny mistakes become huge complaints -_-

Both index & one piece has solid world building, but they got different treatment
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Deknijff said:
animeruler1 said:
That's true, all of those are critical parts for a good anime. But it's like everyone now just obsses on the quality of animation alone and the rest is irrelevant they are missing out on good series just cause they think the animation quality is bad
true
man the frustration of the people who wont watch a good show because its old

I know it's ridiculous I still watch cowboy bebop and that's old yet it's still great because of the deliverance I've personally never cared much for quality level, so long as the story is good and covers what matters most in the arc and not to mention the emotional deliverance
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animeruler1 said:
deg said:


its an action show so of course i expect good animation quality on the action scenes at least, the previous seasons do not have awesome sakuga action scenes but they are good enough if i remember right

While that is true, high quality is not what makes a good action anime. It's in the deliverance of the action how they show it cause action has high emotion quality is only one small part


i do not even expect high quality animation lol i just want a good animation on the action scenes like from previous seasons
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deg said:
animeruler1 said:

While that is true, high quality is not what makes a good action anime. It's in the deliverance of the action how they show it cause action has high emotion quality is only one small part


i do not even expect high quality animation lol i just want a good animation on the action scenes like from previous seasons

I watched both season like a week before a s3 started the quality is the same in my opinion in fact s3 quality slightly better. Plus this is only the third ep it's best not to prejudice when your not even half way through a series
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animeruler1 said:
deg said:


i do not even expect high quality animation lol i just want a good animation on the action scenes like from previous seasons

I watched both season like a week before a s3 started the quality is the same in my opinion in fact s3 quality slightly better. Plus this is only the third ep it's best not to prejudice when your not even half way through a series


its been a long time since i have seen the previous seasons but this guy on the other thread agrees with me https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1746698#msg56010723

and nope anime usually have good to high quality animation in the first few episodes then as the show goes to the middle the quality of the animation drops because of tightening production time
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deg said:
animeruler1 said:

While that is true, high quality is not what makes a good action anime. It's in the deliverance of the action how they show it cause action has high emotion quality is only one small part


i do not even expect high quality animation lol i just want a good animation on the action scenes like from previous seasons
See this is what confuses me. Previous seasons didn't look better. You sure you're not thinking of Railgun?

I would agree there's merit in being disappointed that after 8 whole years the animation quality is still the same with no improvement, but that's not what people are complaining about at all here is it.
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deg said:


i do not even expect high quality animation lol i just want a good animation on the action scenes like from previous seasons
See this is what confuses me. Previous seasons didn't look better. You sure you're not thinking of Railgun?

I would agree there's merit in being disappointed that after 8 whole years the animation quality is still the same with no improvement, but that's not what people are complaining about at all here is it.

I know which anime I'm talking about, the quality looks the same and that's fine all I care about is the deliverance of a good story. QUALITY matters the least to me if it's all you care about is the quality of something then stuck with the novel is manga
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Botato said:
deg said:


i do not even expect high quality animation lol i just want a good animation on the action scenes like from previous seasons
See this is what confuses me. Previous seasons didn't look better. You sure you're not thinking of Railgun?

I would agree there's merit in being disappointed that after 8 whole years the animation quality is still the same with no improvement, but that's not what people are complaining about at all here is it.


here is an example its not even high quality sakuga too

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deg said:
animeruler1 said:

I watched both season like a week before a s3 started the quality is the same in my opinion in fact s3 quality slightly better. Plus this is only the third ep it's best not to prejudice when your not even half way through a series


its been a long time since i have seen the previous seasons but this guy on the other thread agrees with me https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1746698#msg56010723

and nope anime usually have good to high quality animation in the first few episodes then as the show goes to the middle the quality of the animation drops because of tightening production time

That's not what I saw with the last two season the quality was quite good in my opinion throughout and I think it'll be the same here
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The infamous Toma Punch never gets old and is always satisfying when it hits its target. Terra got it in his face twice and boy did I like it! =D

The conclusion to this arc was pretty good and just seeing Accelerator again, even if for a short amount of screentime, still got me hyped. Things are looking pretty interesting now that Misaka finally finds out about Toma's amnesia. It does make me wonder just how her next interaction with him will go.

And, to be honest, the animation and visual quality was a step-up from the last episode, which is good. Can J.C. Staff do better? Of course they can, but in no way does the animation and visual look really shoddy like certain people are saying. If you want that, then direct yourself to Tokyo Ghoul:Re 2nd season immediately. -__-
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animeruler1 said:
deg said:


its been a long time since i have seen the previous seasons but this guy on the other thread agrees with me https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1746698#msg56010723

and nope anime usually have good to high quality animation in the first few episodes then as the show goes to the middle the quality of the animation drops because of tightening production time

That's not what I saw with the last two season the quality was quite good in my opinion throughout and I think it'll be the same here


thats our point the quality of the previous seasons are good throughout meanwhile this new season has bad animation on the action scenes

i posted a youtube video example of an action scene on previous season just earlier
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deg said:
Botato said:
See this is what confuses me. Previous seasons didn't look better. You sure you're not thinking of Railgun?

I would agree there's merit in being disappointed that after 8 whole years the animation quality is still the same with no improvement, but that's not what people are complaining about at all here is it.


here is an example its not even high quality sakuga too

This doesn't look better than what we got in ep2 for example :wut:

animeruler1 said:
Botato said:
See this is what confuses me. Previous seasons didn't look better. You sure you're not thinking of Railgun?

I would agree there's merit in being disappointed that after 8 whole years the animation quality is still the same with no improvement, but that's not what people are complaining about at all here is it.

I know which anime I'm talking about, the quality looks the same and that's fine all I care about is the deliverance of a good story. QUALITY matters the least to me if it's all you care about is the quality of something then stuck with the novel is manga
Somehow I feel there's a misunderstanding here. I wasn't talking about you.
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deg said:


here is an example its not even high quality sakuga too

This doesn't look better than what we got in ep2 for example :wut:


you got to be joking there lol and even if that is the case then what can you say about episode 3's action scenes
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deg said:
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This doesn't look better than what we got in ep2 for example :wut:


you got to be joking there lol and even if that is the case then what can you say about episode 3's action scenes
They looked exactly like I expected them to look for an Index anime adaptation. This is standard stuff, disappointing yes, but you should be used to it by now.

Actually pls go back to S2 and watch Tsuchimikado's short fight with Oriana it looked like utter shit.
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