An American Writer's Thoughts on Japanese Animation

Rushed Testament – A Certain Magical Index III Spoiler Review

Now we come to the (chronologically) last entry in Academy City’s anime run. I left this one for last not because of its place in the timeline, though, but rather because it has some critical differences with its predecessors, and those show in a big way.

On the surface, Index III shares the structure of I and II. It’s a two-cour show and can be fairly easily broken down into a set of arcs, each of which deals with a new crisis, to a greater or lesser degree. However, it’s adapted from a good deal more source material than the previous seasons, and it’s done by compression.

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