To Aru Majutsu no Index

[Rafflesiac]

His other light novels. So far I've seen Waltraute, Zashiki Warashi, A Simple Survey, and The Killer Queen and Deep End referenced.

[Rafflesiac]

A. O. Francisca... I really should've seen that coming.

[eddyak]

Phew. I thought that child was gonna be another mimic.

[ballinamon]

I have to wonder, why didn't the leader of the Science side, the guy who literally seeks to wipe magic from the world, use non-magical methods and actually bother to fight Touma? I mean, yes, he's always been a magician, but literally anything he could've prepared, from a gun, to a taser, to a featherweight wrestling champ, to a sturdy wooden fence between him and Touma, could've ensured he complete his plan. For all the nano-nonsense he seems to have floating about Academy city, for all the quasi-magical-quasi-scientific AAA sets, and autonomous robots, and technological reproductions of Level 5 Espers, he could've literally just had a grown adult sit on Touma instead of going "lol wand combat" "lol angel attacks that can be slightly deflected by Imagine Breaker". But maybe that was part of the plan, I dunno.

This. For all wank of Aleister in this years, I was a little underwhelming? I remeber a similar case in Saint Seiya and the lame battle with Hades.

[All fictions]

So was it mentioned a third season has been greenlit? It's the end of the memes.

[Altima of the Gates]

So was it mentioned a third season has been greenlit? It's the end of the memes.

Don't jinx it. We have to see it actually air first. But since we got Kizu, Dragonball got its revitalization, and then franchise after franchise has been making a comeback, it's not surprising.

[Rafflesiac]

Orsola ;_;

[LJ3]

What happened

[Rafflesiac]

NT20,

Spoiler:

[Aleister invaded England with a horde of monsters, so the higher ups sent the irregular units like the Amakusas and the Roman Catholic nuns to the frontlines to die. There was a demon that was stirring up everyone's wartime panic and stress, but Aleister killed it. Killed it too late though, since Orsola was worried enough about not being to help fight that she touched a superweapon that fuses you with two gods without a lot of care given for maintaining your self or being undoable.

Though it is Kamachi, so who knows, maybe everything ends up fine after all.]

[LJ3]

Welp

id bet gacha money that she’ll end up fine

[Altima of the Gates]

She'll be fine

Spoiler:

We'll get a Touma lecture and ship tease that will go NOWHERE, because Kamachi wants to take this strange Othinus/Touma ship to the end, but Orsola will be fine.

[eddyak]

There is nothing strange about Othinus.

Ignore the fact that literally everything about her is strange.

[LJ3]

Honestly should have passed away at the end of her arc

[Daneel Rush]

Yes, Othinus dying would have been a powerful, poignant event, and it probably would have made a better story.

But she's great and I like her, so I have no problems with her being alive.

[Rafflesiac]

Othinus is cute.

[eddyak]

Honestly should have passed away at the end of her arc

From a story perspective, I can see where you're coming from, but from my perspective I'm making rude gestures at my screen that you can't see.

If anyone's gonna die, it should be the character the author himself said he doesn't know what to do with. Like, what the hell is Index even doing at this point.

[Altima of the Gates]

If he was trying to keep her in the background for balancing purposes, I don't see why since Magic Gods greatly outstripped the OP scale.

So I think it's just that he mistakenly just gave Othinus and Aleister her job as the explainer, even with her getting some of that Thoth grimoire inside as a database update.
But it's not like he doesn't just sideline a bunch of people for no reason, Kanzaki is made to job all the time, Misaki has all types of things he writes that keep her in the background and he destroyed Exterior so she got nerfed, and the list goes on.

[Rue]

Othinus is way cuter & currently far more portable & easier to bring around than Index.

[R.Lock]

Yep, no reason to keep Index around when the only reason Kamachi had to keep Index and Touma from working together is no longer legit in NT. And Touma's now got much more knowledgable magic users to fill the blanks in his knowledge.

And, hmm, Orsola is the second...no, the third girl Touma didn't hit with gender equality fist. Huh.

[Rafflesiac]

Touma took enough levels in Talk no jutsu, sugoi. I wonder what stinger the epilogue's going to have.

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And, hmm, Orsola is the second...no, the third girl Touma didn't hit with gender equality fist. Huh.

Index being 1 and Misaka being 2?