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Before getting started I just want to make it clear how much I love Railgun, and how indifferent I am to this.
I watched the first season of Index. Dropped. Second Season. Dropped. Then decided I wouldn't bother with the third... But then in Railgun T it's kinda sorta implied something might've happened to a MINOR character, which made me decide to watch this.

Now for the review

[SPOILERS FOR THIS AND RAILGUN S]

So basically when I watched this I couldn't help but compare it to Railgun, the pacing is so much worse, the character development is quite a bit worse, and even the animation is worse. I ... do love the premise around all the magic and stuff, but when everything else is so much worse it's hard to give Index much credit.
Now take into account the death of one of the sister's in Railgun S, I almost cried. It showed how despicable Accelerator truly was and made you immediately care about saving the clones... Meanwhile in the sister's arc of the first season Accelerator is barely shown and the scene showing Touma's trauma isn't touched upon all that much.
Anyway back to this season, the thing I completed the season for was solely Frenda's death, and damn Railgun made me more sad by her not responding to a text than this made me. Railgun had her I the spotlight for ONE EPISODE and I cared about her. Meanwhile this show kills her and carries on (literally, a police officer saw her body and ignored it) without batting an eye. That goes to show that terrible pacing I was talking about😪

So in summary having magic in this world is cool, and the show itself isn't the worst... it's just terrible compared to Railgun. Sorry that my first review on MAL was just complaining about how much worse this is compared to Railgun, but I really wanted to tell someone how I felt.

(oh and yes i decided not to finish this)