Well, it’s back-to-school time again, and this year we’re going to be looking at one of the biggest schools in Anime, Academy City.
In terms of what’s got shows, Academy City is the setting for three separate shows with seven seasons of material between them: three seasons of A Certain Magical Index, three seasons of A Certain Scientific Railgun, and one season of A Certain Scientific Accelerator. The series as a whole is typically referred to either as RailDex (after Railgun and Index) or Toaru (after the common word translated as “A Certain” in the titles), but it’s also easy to think of them by their common setting.
So, what is the setting and, for A Certain Magical Index, what is the story?
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