To Aru Majutsu no Index - Anime General Discussion [NO SPOILERS]

[dniv]

Originally Posted by ACertainStark

Just a friendly reminder that these are not my words, so I can't counter anything.

Oh yeah... lol. I figured that only the quote was your friends' words.

Well... it makes sense if the analogy was his/her idea.

But sheesh, if season 3 comes out I'll be excited, especially considering we might get as nice animation as in Railgun S or as in the movie... or better.

[Hiss13]

Honestly, the main issue with season 2 was its pacing. Everything else, barring the animation quality of the Daihaseisai and the unplanned (due to the earthquake) quality drop in episodes 23-24, like the OST was brilliantly done.
Don't forget that it could have been worse. From the PVs, it was evident that JC Staff was ready to have Season 2 go up to Volume 16. That's 10.5 volumes right there. The pacing there would have been catastrophic. Luckily, it was only seven but I feel like JC Staff should just stick to just <=6 Volumes per season.

[Miraluka]

Originally Posted by Hiss13

Honestly, the main issue with season 2 was its pacing. Everything else, barring the animation quality of the Daihaseisai and the unplanned (due to the earthquake) quality drop in episodes 23-24, like the OST was brilliantly done.
Don't forget that it could have been worse. From the PVs, it was evident that JC Staff was ready to have Season 2 go up to Volume 16. That's 10.5 volumes right there. The pacing there would have been catastrophic. Luckily, it was only seven but I feel like JC Staff should just stick to just <=6 Volumes per season.

That was just a teaser man, isn't the first time the studio does that.

[Hiss13]

Originally Posted by Miraluka

That was just a teaser man, isn't the first time the studio does that.

Even so, it does mean they at least had some animation from those arcs ready. Honestly, I'm glad it wasn't in Index II. Whatever the reasons for putting those parts in the teaser (hype, obviously), not including them in the season was a decent decision.

[ACertainStark]

Originally Posted by Miraluka

Do you think Itsuten is bad? Densetsu Yuusha no Densetsu is a fine piece of butchering if you want to make a 24 episode series comparison.

Reply:

DenYuuDen as I understand it, still followed the set up of the source. Itsuten as I understand it, completely screwed over the original.

It's kinda hard for me to think up of epic failures, considering by nature we tend to pretend they don't exist and forget them, but also it's 3am here =_=

Originally Posted by dniv

I feel like the problem with that reasoning is that you're just saying it isn't that bad. It doesn't mean it's that good either. It really could have been much better if the people who were working on multiple shows at once were more responsible.

Reply:

More like it isn't that bad, so stop thinking it's the worst thing evar Every Anime in the world "could have been much better if..." so that's moot, the point I'm trying to make is to stop being for negative about it just because it isn't as good as you wanted it to be.

A little positive attitude goes a long way- If even the hardcore fans thinks something sucks, then why should other people care about it?

[Requiem-x]

Originally Posted by Goldzero

no i knew he was well liked in japan(and even more so then before) but i was never 100% sure. in the western area hes sadly diverse.

It's even weirder since action series' fans in Japan usually tend to favor the overpowered/perfect type of character, at least from what I've seen. Definetly not complaining, though

Oh, so you didn't like s2 that much. Yeah, I can understand that, more than a few things went a bit wrong there, especially in the daihaiseisai arc and the final episode.

@miraluka
Heroes was really that bad? It was a pretty good anime to me.

[dniv]

Originally Posted by ACertainStark

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Wait. I don't think it sucks. I'm just annoyed because I think if it was done better then it could have made Index mega-popular--at least in my opinion.

Either way, if Index II looked like SNK and had SAO's visuals, I would have been very happy... I mean it could have even looked like the first 1/2 of Railgun S and I would have been satisfied.

I don't think it's bad at all, I just don't think it was near as good as it could have been, like one of the best seasons out so far.

Though I feel like season 3's material is going to beat season 2 hands down anyway so whatever... it's just that to watch season 3, you have to watch seasons 1 and 2 first...


Also, I don't remember a quality drop in episodes 23, 24. I thought those were pretty well done... Though I never knew the earthquake affected the quality when it aired, because I wasn't following it then...

I better look at the PV's, because I never saw the PV's for Index II...

Edit: fixed I saw the PV... Yeah. I can't wait to see the rest of the characters in the PV animated...

[AbZeroNow]

Funimation licenses the 2nd season and the Movie:
http://www.funimation.com/blog/?p=3147

[WiliamZ0]

I dunno where to put this, but I think this is the right place



Anyway, this is what I get from a certain community of mine :

I have some BAD NEWS everyone...
This was translated by js06:
>After the movie and Railgun S, the anime will stop for the time being.
>"In the original manga, the Daihaseisai episode is still ongoing and the To Aru series itself is still growing. The anime will stop for the time being, but if you support the series in the other media, I think another possibility could arise. You just need to patiently stick with the series."

so that means it be a long time before we get Index season 3..


Again, I don't know if this news already old or new one

[dniv]

Originally Posted by WiliamZ0

I dunno where to put this, but I think this is the right place



Anyway, this is what I get from a certain community of mine :

I have some BAD NEWS everyone...
This was translated by js06:
>After the movie and Railgun S, the anime will stop for the time being.
>"In the original manga, the Daihaseisai episode is still ongoing and the To Aru series itself is still growing. The anime will stop for the time being, but if you support the series in the other media, I think another possibility could arise. You just need to patiently stick with the series."

so that means it be a long time before we get Index season 3..


Again, I don't know if this news already old or new one

No, this sucks!!!... at least they said something though...

[WiliamZ0]

Originally Posted by dniv

No, this sucks!!!... at least they said something though...

I know it, it rather surprising. since TAMnI is one of JC Staff's 'cash cow'.

Maybe they had difficultly to animate the 3rd Season. Not budget lol, I think they already got plenty of that

[dniv]

Originally Posted by WiliamZ0

I know it, it rather surprising. since TAMnI is one of JC Staff's 'cash cow'.

Maybe they had difficultly to animate the 3rd Season. Not budget lol, I think they already got plenty of that

Either way, I'm sure that if the light novels continue being popular and we buy what's already out, then things might change soon enough.

I'm optimistic anyway. As long as it happens at some point, which is something I'm hoping for, which would be nice given how popular the series is... then it'll have much better animation in the future when it comes out and it'll probably be in 4000P ....

So I guess there's some plusses and minuses. It doesn't matter too much. As long as Kamachi's things keep on selling well, I'm sure it'll happen eventually.

Also, they might just be taking a break and waiting a bit with this and working on other series... it's also possible that they didn't want to make something half-assed soon and just wanted to let everyone know that they are taking a while/break before they do anything because it's probably hard to coordinate... I'm also wondering if they're just going to wait a bit until the Accel manga gets further ahead... and until the Index manga finally gets to some new material not in season 2... I'm sure at that point anyway, there will be larger interest in a season 3...

I'm familiar with the fact that season 4 of FMP didn't happen because people didn't support it as much and kinda gave up... so I think I'm going to strongly follow this so things end up better

[Kenju of the Right]

The JC Staff hate has intensified

[dniv]

Originally Posted by Kenju of the Right

The JC Staff hate has intensified

Why doesn't geneon just pick up Index? Couldn't they do it much better? If they did Index and Railgun... or they could just do NT and skip season 3 and 4 ?...

There are definitely studios out there that could do better... and not put in any frilly stuff...

[Kenju of the Right]

it seems the series itself shares the same luck as Touma

[Hiss13]

Originally Posted by WiliamZ0

I dunno where to put this, but I think this is the right place
This was translated by js06:
>After the movie and Railgun S, the anime will stop for the time being.
>"In the original manga, the Daihaseisai episode is still ongoing and the To Aru series itself is still growing. The anime will stop for the time being, but if you support the series in the other media, I think another possibility could arise. You just need to patiently stick with the series."

I kinda saw this coming...but still...quite the shock here...
Especially since To Aru is JC Staff's cash cow...

Originally Posted by dniv

Why doesn't geneon just pick up Index? Couldn't they do it much better? If they did Index and Railgun... or they could just do NT and skip season 3 and 4 ?...

There are definitely studios out there that could do better... and not put in any frilly stuff...

Geneon is a distributor...not a studio.
What we really need...is for ufotable to pick to Index and let JC Staff keep Railgun. Keep the same Seiyuus and OST Composer for both, though...

[Chaos2Frozen]

*facepalm* I'll probably save ultimatemegax the trouble of coming here and set this straight

First of all get it out of your heads that JC Staff has ANY say in this- The ones calling the shots are Ascii Media Works and as was mentioned by ultimatemegax before even with the movie selling good, the sales of the books have not increased so there is less incentive to spend that money on Animation which may or may not recoup it's losses. Why did you think they throw in that cheeky "but if you support the series in the other media, I think another possibility could arise. You just need to patiently stick with the series." at the end?

Second of all... Seriously, Ufotable? You mean the guys that could only do one Anime a year and is already bogged down with working for Type Moon and Namco Bandai's Tales series?

[Hiss13]

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

First of all get it out of your heads that JC Staff has ANY say in this- The ones calling the shots are Ascii Media Works and as was mentioned by ultimatemegax before even with the movies, the sales of the books have not increased so there is less incentive to spend that money on Animation which may or may not recoup it's losses. Why did you think they throw in that cheeky "but if you support the series in the other media, I think another possibility could arise. You just need to patiently stick with the series." at the end?

Fair point. I actually didn't really think that through...

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

Second of all... Seriously, Ufotable? You mean the guys that could only do one Anime a year and is already bogged down with working for Type Moon and Namco Bandai's Tales series?

To be honest, I just named the first studio that I could think of that I liked.
Just me messing around.

[OH&S]

Originally Posted by WiliamZ0

Anyway, this is what I get from a certain community of mine :

I have some BAD NEWS everyone...
This was translated by js06:
>After the movie and Railgun S, the anime will stop for the time being.
>"In the original manga, the Daihaseisai episode is still ongoing and the To Aru series itself is still growing. The anime will stop for the time being, but if you support the series in the other media, I think another possibility could arise. You just need to patiently stick with the series."

so that means it be a long time before we get Index season 3..


Again, I don't know if this news already old or new one

^My feelings in that order.

I was somewhat prepared due to ultimatemegax's earlier post somewhere in the forum as well as Index-tan: the movie, but it still hurts; like the final nail in the coffin.

Unless the rest of the light novels that are released this year are met with a similar reception to NT8 and NT9 or Ascii have some money to spare, this may very well be it...

[WiliamZ0]

Originally Posted by OH&S

^My feelings in that order.

I was somewhat prepared due to ultimatemegax's earlier post somewhere in the forum as well as Index-tan: the movie, but it still hurts; like the final nail in the coffin.

Unless the rest of the light novels that are released this year are met with a similar reception to NT8 and NT9 or Ascii have some money to spare, this may very well be it...

NOW I really feel bad for bringing such heart-breaking news