Audience reviews
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Nezarin
i would rate this a 2 if it werent for the connection to to aru
if you dont like or have never watch to aru this isnt for you
even if you like dumb schlock this is not for you
the animation in the first half is so jarring and only get passable in the second half
even the connection to to aru is flimsy at best, last order barely shows up and barely does anything of consequence, accelerator is weirdly passive even for being his nerfed version
this season should've been called "a certain magical necromancer"
almost everything as based around esther and her drama which to be fair is quite interesting its just too little too late and so much time is wasted on showing accelerator
cackling in surprisingly bad animation for to aru and being very unimaginative with his powers
just rewatch railgun a…
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Quick take: Storyline is great and for the first time in the Magical Index universe, feels properly paced. Characters are a bit lacking as interactions feel a bit less natural than previous installments.
The storyline to Accelerator feels well paced, something I feel had been missed in many of the other Magical Index/Railgun installments. It's also intriguing, bringing a mix of magic and science to direct competition. It kept me engaged the entire time and constantly coming back for more.
Art is on par with much of the other installments, feeling quite unpolished. It's disappointing to say the least. Sound is good and voices (English) are well acted. All the fan service that was missed in Railgun S will be found squeezed into this short season, but none of it feels out of place or force…
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Short Review:
They had to ruin the most interesting character, and probably my favorite in the entire Raildex franchise. Thankfully this isn't as long as Index III, because if it were, I could see this being close to a 2.
I gave this a better score because I did actually enjoy the first couple of episodes and had my eye on a score of 7 at around episode 3, but it got so bad so quick I was amazed. The story kept getting more and more dull and uninteresting as I neared the end, as well as really predictable and overall trash.
Animation also was a downgrade from Index/Railgun. Even though it wasn't that much of a bother to me, I still kept it in mind when rating this. In summary, thank god this was only 12 episodes and not more.
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Toaru Kagaku no Accelerator, or in english, A Certain Scientific Accelerator has a complete focus on one of my favorite antagonists of the Toaru Raildex series, an antagonist who is becoming to learn good via Touyma.
This season takes place between seasons one and two of a certain magical index. A Certain Scientific Accelerator has a focus on something the other series never touched on, that being necromancy. Basically this series main villain used necromancy to achieve his goal, but that had a twist to it near the end of the series.
This season features two amazing main characters which originated from the original story, a certain magical index.
In the end, I gave A Certain Scientific Accelerator an 8 out of 10.
For a more detailed review, refer to this video:
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There are 4 gems brought to the World by the Toaru series: Misaka, Kuroko, Accelerator and Last Order so I was super happy to watch this, despite the massive trainwreck that Toaru Majutsu no Index III was.
Animation:
1) the visuals are pleasant to look at but I expected the action scenes to be animated differently, with more fluidity and more spectacular moments like many other action animes do.
2) dialog and characters' animation aren't always in sync.
3) I don't like CGI because it breaks immersion for me.
4) there a few scenes where there's no visual continuity. This is best explained with an example: in the 1st episode, Kidera Minori is concerned and we get to see a close up of her while she voices those worries. Once the close up is over, her facial expression is the same as thi…
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The story overall is good, but I somewhat miss all of the deeper meanings and character development surrounding Accelerator from Toaru Majutsu no Index.
However regarding the character development due to Accelerator being the main character his development has to be more subtle than it was in Index. Overall I am pretty glad they made this series, Accelerator is one of my favorite characters from the Index series.
However, the most underappreciated character is most likely the Misaka clones. After introduced and freed from the project each of the Misaka clones developed more and more individuality to the point where they are expanding their range of emotions and relying less of the Misaka network to dictate what to do. Perhaps the Railgun series goes more in depth about their character d…
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Academy city is in danger once again and Misaka isn't here to do it. Now it is the time for Academy City's greatest esper Accelerator to show how it is done. This took a slight turn from the original Index/Railgun series. This is more dark and gory that the other shows. Why is that? Because Accelerator is as brutal as he is powerful. We aren't technically following a hero like Misaka since Accelerator is more of an Anti-Hero. He doesn't do good deeds all the time but he does them from time to time. Like he didn't massacre the first actual enemies he had. But when it was time to get angry shit hit the fan real hard. Ain't nobody want to go against the angry Accelerator unless your name is Touma Kamijou.
Story: This is some time after Railgun s2 because in that season the Misaka Clone expe…
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I am one of those people who have not watched the other anime said to be related to this one, nor have I read the manga. So basically, this is an opinion from someone who just clicked on this anime and decided to watch it and give it a try. And I have watched all the episodes of this anime. Just clearing that up so that ya’ll know what to expect when reading my review.
Anyways, this anime was pretty good in my opinion. Not awesome, but good. The main character is honestly a little weird to me. His laugh is annoying and screechy and he laughs A LOT (or at least, it feels like to me he does).
The plot isn’t all that deep in my opinion. They don’t really go into the main character’s past that much like I was hoping. I mean they do a little, but that’s it. They honestly put more focus on oth…
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Great story. I love brutal MC and he is better that THE MC of this anime series. Accelerator is the coolest MC I think and this anime should have season 2.
For the character, if you enjoy watching Accelerator you will enjoy the characters in this show as the show is largely focused on Accelerator. Outside of that, Last Order is as cute as ever, the Academy City students got some screen time with Uiharu and Saten, the side characters like Estelle and her corpse doll were fun to watch and misaka clones are always hilarious.
Some weaknesses however were the villains, all of them were idiots and quite cringey to watch, cant even blame JC Staff on the characterization here, the antagonists were also delusional idiots in the manga as well. Some cops with a completely detached from reality vie…
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Accelerator is a good dad. Judging by this line "If nothing else...if there's a chance that it might reach her...I'll have to do this as ugly as it takes!" Accelerator said this while defusing an explosion that might destroy the city and possibly destroy Last Order/Misaka 20001
The story: There is this organisation called DA or Disciplinary Action that is like false Antiskill. They say they bring real justice, even though it is not. They use necromancy to bring dead bodies back alive and boost their level and shove them into coffins to create esper robots. Thanks to Esther Rosenthal they are able to use necromancy, and were able to create "level 6/god" and of course it is Accelerators job to destroy this organisation even though he doesn't want to, but he is roped into it after their atte…
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Ok, this is by far my favourite To Aru series character since i saw him. I was super happy, and still am that he got his anime adaptation BUT. Story arc is kinda meh to be honest, animations are also very mediocre and action sequences arent really connected, art itself is good. Accelerator as character is super intersting and fun to watch so for me at least he brings this whole anime up. I really dont understand why they didnt animate this masterfully since its anime about new character and it should have made people hook up with the show, find this guy super intersting and they continue watching whole series, but too bad i guess. Hopefully they make another season or show.
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It's pretty important to watch the previous Index entries before this one.
Great buildup. New characters are fairly weak in development and personality, while old characters are still sort of strong.
The story is believable and the motivations are ok
The art was nice, as always.
The music was pretty good.
The voice acting was great, as always. In anime, I usually dislike the main character being super-extremely overpowered, but I enjoyed this anime.
I like that Accelerator does not have any hint of romance as his motivations. He has flaws and trust issues that probably befit someone who went through such unknown and numerous abuses in his earlier years.
Still disappointed there is no explanation as to why he can use magic (his black wings) and his esper powers without major conseque…
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A certain Scientific Accelerator finally gave us fans exactly what we wanted. An anime featuring best boy accelerator as the MC.
UNFORTUNATELY due to there being very little source material from the accelerator manga, and that same material is pretty bad, the story takes a HUGE hit.
The story:
focus's around the Necormancer Arc. It's got a decent premise with extremely flawed execution. It starts from accelerators point of view after the sisters arc. There were things I personally was hoping to see that we only get tiny glimpses of, and things I just wish I hadn't scene (the ending).
If the necromancer arc had been given 3-5 episodes, I would have been much happier. Instead, with 11 of the 12 episodes being dedicated to it, it ends up feeling drawn out way too long, and with a very diss…
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TL;DR Review
I think giving it a 4 maybe giving it too much credit. There are many problems that I just can not see past while watching this anime. One big one is the animation. They say that a picture holds a thousand words, so I don't see why it wouldn't count in anime too. Unfortunate, Toaru Kaguku no Accelerator takes the lazy rout and most of the mechs are CGI. The thing is it's not even good CGI; it's horrible CGI. Another irritating problem I have with this anime is that the main character (Accelerator), his laugh is just so unnatural and cringe worthy. I mean if you really have nothing to do and enjoy watching paint dry, this is the anime for you.
- Spacecraft555 UwU
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The premise of a darker and more shady story with so much death in it in the same universe as a usually pretty light series in the main story of index was a great concept. I loved the art style change at the end there to put emphasis on how brutal what was going on actually was. They kept Accelerators personality dedicated to the way he was. The ost was great. The only gripe I would have with it would be the lack of character development in the title character. But I guess the development of Ester was done well too.
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I love the Toaru series, I love Accelerator and I love Last Order. However this particular spinoff had kind of a weak source material, as an adaptation I think it was done well, at least when compared to the filth that is Index 3. I did enjoy it, but I simply cannot give it a stronger scoring, it was on the weaker side, especially when compared to Railgun, which is in my view the best adaptation of the Toaru series in general.
I do wish that we got more Accelerator-centric stories, that involve Last Order more, because the interactions between him and her are always fun.
Accelerator has the coolest power in all of Index IMO, but it rarely utilized to it's fullest potential storywise, and is often left at "I just redirect things" which this show did a lot. I'd love more deeper exploration…
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Reaaally great Spin-Off
After Index III was o so disappointing this really hits the spot
The story was pretty exceptional as expected for a Toaru series. And of course if we're talking about accelerator, the characters- no, the villains need to be completely crazy and insane. Such twisted mind sh** and sorta psychological drama is just what I expected from this.
It focused pretty much on fights tho as there was some fight alnost every episode and some even taking a whole episode. Basically just showcasing how OP Accelerator is, except for the final fight, in which he rather played the role of an OP sidekick
Music was outstanding ofc and animations were pretty sick too. Esther was a pretty nice addition too for this, the whole story resolved around her after all.
And it had pretty much…
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Toaru Kagaku no Accelerator, the next chapter in the Toaru world/series, was a spin off, or side story, focusing on Accelerator. As someone who's seen all of Index, and Railgun, I can say, I don't entirely know where this falls into the overall story line of the universe. It's obvious that it comes after he receives his gunshot wound, by the flashbacks, the walking cane, and battery powered power regulator. But, I don't think there's any clear sign as to where exactly this fits in. Considering the scale of the incident, you'd have to think it would have been prevalent in Index in some way shape or form, if it happened during the 2nd or 3rd season of Index.
At the same time (slight spoilers ahead, if you plan to watch Index and haven't yet, maybe stop reading here.)
He still has his vill…
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...TIME FOR THE ANTI-HERO's main story!
Accelerator getting his own story set before Index III?..Sign LA up! and guess what it's GREAT...seriously why does To aru spinoffs seems much better than the main line Index anime series?
So what's the plot to To aru Kagaku Accelerator?...well Accelerator become embroiled in a conspiracy with the Antiskill renegades with the DA who have connections to the higher ups of Academy City, where one of the higher ups being a researcher finding his own way of making Level 6 Espers using robots and the dead, it's not until Esther Rosenthal voiced by Yurika Kubo wants Accelerator's help in stopping this where he comes in...and we see a harem forming because of course.
For what's it's worth it feels like what the main villain is wanting to achieve is what…
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The ever expansive Index franchise has led to numerous adaptations in the form of full seasons, spinoffs, OVAs, and even movies. Accelerator, the strongest level 5 Esper in Academy City, should be no stranger to anyone who is familiar with the franchise. Yet, spinoffs can be risky to pull off. Considering a character like Accelerator, that really is no understatement.
Written by the brainchild of the Index franchise, Kazuma Kamachi made this piece of work as an original spinoff. Its emphasis revolves around the dark side of Academy City. Unlike Railgun, the show takes on a darker storytelling route although the overall style will feel familiar. Be aware that if you plan to watch this, it is recommended to at watch Index season 1 or at least the episodes dealing with Accelerator’s role and…
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