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Story: 7/10. The story CONCEPT is really cool. The execution.... heh. We'll get to that later.

Art: 5/10. I'll admit that I'm no expert on anime artwork. But even I could tell that this seemed.... a bit lackluster? And others appear to have agreed.

Sound: 7/10. I'm actually not as peeved about the sound as some other people are. I thought it was fine, and had some good moments.

Character: 4/10. Oh boy. Here we go. Look, the main characters who we ACTUALLY care about are lovely. Touma, Index, Mikoto, Accelerator, Hamazura, Kanzaki, Itsuwa, Stiyl, Tsuchimikado, Kuroko, Uhiharu, Last Order, ... Miguno, Misaka Worst, Fiamma, Crowley,.... And I'm sure that I'm still missing some others. Now, you might be thinking, "Wow! That's a LOT of characters! Surely, they can make a compelling story from that alone!" Hah. Yes, maybe in the first two seasons, that was somewhat the case. But in Index III, there are tons of new characters introduced in very quick intervals, and many of them hardly get any explanation or are killed off almost as soon as they show up. By the end, your head is spinning trying to keep track of who's who and who's fighting for which side and what the motivations are. And that leads me to.....

Enjoyment: 5/10. This is going to seem more like a continuation of the 'character' category, but there's a reason for that. The storyline is enjoyable in concept, and would have probably gotten at least a 7 or an 8 out of 10 from me, if not higher. But its *execution* with its characters is just.... yuck. I already mentioned how this show likes to throw more characters at you than you're able to shake a stick at. But furthermore, half of their motivations are hardly even explored. Now, this might not be the end of the world, except for one teensy little problem. This anime has made a staple out of bad guys being redeemed as good guys CONSTANTLY. Well, it's not very enjoyable when a bad guy just suddenly does a 180 degree turn and starts fighting for the good guys for no real descernable reason. When there is little to no exploration as to WHY the bad guy's motivations have changed for the better, it just comes off as confusing and cheap. Plus, people like Touma are always just punching people and giving them little pep- talks which seem to change everything in the course of 30 seconds or less. The first two seasons seemed to just barely keep this in a reasonable balance which kept it right below the threshold of absurdity. But this 3rd season just blew the freaking lid off.

Overall: 5/10. I still love this franchise. And for that, I'll rate it as 'average' instead of anything below average. But I'm sure as hell not going to put it above average either. This season was so unbelieveably rushed, with so many characters and arcs flashing before your eys faster than you can even comprehend what's supposed to be going on. Many folks seemed to have been fairly lost this season, me included. Add to that the fact that even our beloved staple characters, let alone the side characters, seem to just be doing random stuff all the time and switching between good guys and bad guys at the drop of a dime, with no real explanation of WHY their motivations have suddenly done a 180 turn in 30 seconds.... yeah. No.