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Antihero Testament – A Certain Scientific Accelerator Spoiler Review

A Certain Scientific Accelerator is, to an extent, the black sheep of the shows set in Academy City. It’s only 12 episodes, and it consists of only a single arc. The character designs are a little different, and the tone is a good deal darker – not that more bad things happen here (Index and Railgun have their fair share of losses), but the emotions evoked are typically more bleak. What’s more, A Certain Scientific Accelerator stars, of course, Accelerator. And Accelerator is a character who, after his first encounter with Last Order, still qualifies as an antihero at best, compared to Railgun and especially Toma who are fairly straightforward heroic characters.

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