Jul 29, 2021
**REVIEW MIGHT CONTAIN SPOILERS; CONTINUE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION**
A Certain Magical Index III was a major letdown from its predecessors. It was promising at first but as the season went on, it starts to get more and more confusing to the point to where I almost forgot what I was watching. Now, with my personnel experience out of the way, let's get into an actual review
Story: 4
The story overall was interesting at first. As we got more and more into the show, the story becomes a confusing mess. However, it is not because of plot holes, or at least from what I can tell.
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No, it is because of the lack of explanation of what is happening in the plot that makes it confusing and at times, unwatchable. With other anime, you make the plot confusing and still have it be a good anime. But Magical Index is not that kind of show. You need to understand what is going on in the scene first, but this season hardly does any of that. That is a shame since all of the arcs seemed very interesting, but completely flopped because of the execution of them.
Art: 5
Now the art is a wild one. In order to talk about this I am gonna split into two parts: the animation and everything else...
-Animation: The animation was all over the place in this season. There were some points were superb and absolutely amazing and other times, it would seem lazy and pretty choppy (there were huge points of time where the "animation" was literally a frame of that character that was moving from left to right... so annoying). A good way to understand this is by looking at the two OPs of this season. The first OP had some good animation but at times it was super choppy at times. However, the second OP was abosolutely beautiful. It was crisp and clean and the coloring was... WOW! But seriously, consistent animation is better than incosistent animation almost 99.9% of the time. One of my favorite animation failures was when Touma just watched on his allies fall from a pretty high height and his face looked as if he was annoyed rather than scared for his ally that she fell high enough to kill anyone.
-Everything else: The CGI in this season was par to all of the other seasons. Nothing say about that. But what really shines is the amount of detail that went into the backgrounds! Every fricken background in this show is absolutely STUNNING! There was obviously so much time and care that went into everything single bit of each and every background. Whoever did the backgrounds deserves a massive pay raise or something because it was just that amazing!
Sound: 9
The sound was absolutely amazing. Music and voice acting were really good. Both of the OPs slap. EDs are fine; not great just fine. There is nothing to really say about the sound other than that though.
Character: 5
Here is where is starts to go down hill quite a bit. In this season, a lot of side characters from both A Certain Magical Index and A Certain Scientific Railgun come back into play with bigger parts for the overall arching story. The probably is that there wasn't enough time in the season to flesh out all of the side characters and even some of the main characters. A lot of growth for characters were rushed feeling pretty jarring. However, I did like there was an arc involving a pretty insignificant character. It was a very nice character arc that suprisingly liked.
Enjoyment: 3
This show really didn't entertain me. It was so confusing with a lot of what is happening not being explained. It seemed like they did this at the last minute. I found out later that they were trying to catch up with light novel since they were behind quite a bit. They tried to put too much into one season and I hate it.
Overall: 5
What saved this show from being rated less was literally the sound and the backgrounds, both of which were amazing. Other than that, everything was wildly inconsistent with me being confused from more than 3/4 of the season. It was way more confusing than like 90% of ACTUAL mystery series. Such a big letdown. If you wanted to get the full picture, read the light novel. I haven't read it yet, but from what I heard, it is better than the show. However, I am still looking forward to the next season. It better be good.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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