To Aru Majutsu no Index III - Episode 2 Discussion / Poll

[Kairin]

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[Stark700]

Stiyl is back! Same with Itsuwa! Definitely some familiar faces from the past although I would say that Itsuwa's meeting with Touma is kinda awkward.

Tsuchimikado is back too. Glad to see the show focusing a lot more on storytelling now as it even gives an overview of some of the world events. Terra of the Left makes his appearance! One of the strangest looking characters I've seen but very dangerous as a member of the God's Right Seat.

This turned into a pretty eventful episode.

I hope they pour more budget into the season as there's some low quality scenes from this week.

[Hiss13]

Have an album of Itsuwa being unabashedly the best girl.

That being said, I'm having a lot of gripes with the translation. Index seems to have gotten the short end of the stick with its official translations, huh.

[SilverGlavenus]

As expected of Index, I'm having a hard time following the story.

[belatkuro]

Feels like an outsourced episode as it's plagued with bad and awkward animation. And that Imagine Breaker sound effect. Why did they have to change it?

[Tenzen12]

Originally Posted by Hiss13

Have an album of Itsuwa being unabashedly the best girl.

That being said, I'm having a lot of gripes with the translation. Index seems to have gotten the short end of the stick with its official translations, huh.

Itsuwa isn't even in top10. Let's see who all is better girl (not in this order) Kanzaki, Misaka, Shokuhou, Komoe, Misuzu, Mugino, Frenda, Oriana, Fukyose, Yomikawa, Oyafune, Vento, Awaki, Saten, Cromwell, Kongou, Konori, Wanai, Agness.

Hmm, if we don't include characters from spoiler territory Itsuwa barely fit top20.

[Wandering Soul]

So Terra has made his appearance. Even for a franchise like Raildex, I always did feel like he was one of the strangest looking characters.

There are some weird translation choices here, like translating leyline to pipeline. I guess we should be prepared for more.

RIP original IB sound effect.

Originally Posted by Hiss13

Have an album of Itsuwa being unabashedly the best girl.

You're doing heavenly work, Hiss.

[Side-streetdog]

Terra still look weak compare to others god right seat
I'm had hard time understand when read this part in LN
Anime should be understand more easily

[Wandering Soul]

Originally Posted by SilverGlavenus

As expected of Index, I'm having a hard time following the story.

What's tripping you up so far?

[Callum18]

Loved the episode again! 10/10 Touma and Itsuwa was great!

[The One Above God]

That was great. I thought they would cram more into the episode so I was pleasantly surprised to see them end it where it did. Definitely looking forward to the next episodes more now.

[monir]

Oh no! Hide your daughters. The lolly-puncher is back!!!!

[OH&S]

The animation was disappointing and sometimes lazy. The rioters were actually threatening in both the novel and the manga adaptation. Did they put all their budget into the backgrounds or something? At least the sound and background music was fine.

The scripting is also a bit weird, something I noticed in the first episode as well. There are these strange pauses in the script which are filled with either nods or some grunt of acknowledgement. They could potentially fill in some more crucial dialogue in them.

And lastly, the Terra encounter. It felt weird. Terra should have been destroying those buildings but his attacks simply phase through them. I'm glad I have the manga adaptation of this arc to read over.

But the next episode should be the first true test for this series as the action ramps up and we'll see just how much is going to be squeezed in this season.

For the record, I blame Nishikiori for any issues I see.

And lastly, what the fuck is a geoduct? They're supposed to be ley lines goddammit! How could they screw with the translation this much!? Is that an artefact from the Yen Press translation or the English dub? Have the translators not read the series or the wiki?

[monir]

Originally Posted by OH&S

And lastly, what the fuck is a geoduct? They're supposed to be ley lines goddammit! How could they screw with the translation this much!? Is that an artefact from the Yen Press translation or the English dub? Have the translators not read the series or the wiki?

Well, that made me laugh...

[OH&S]

Originally Posted by monir

Well, that made me laugh...

I mean, really. Index is a series where the details are super important.

One of the reasons that the Index adaptations are inferior to the Railgun adaptations (among many other things) is that details that help explain what's going on are lost in the adaptation (As opposed to Railgun where mostly everything is kept in tact). This is due to the nature of what's being adapted; but I also lay blame to the directors and script writers (and arguably budget) for not necessarily making the most optimal adaptation decisions.

So given that there's already a layer of confusion on what's happening on screen (we've already had people mentioning they had no idea what's going on in the previous episode thread), it'll be a nightmare when a second layer of confusion is added with the wonky translation of key terms.

Two layers of confusion in a series where the details matter more than in SAO.

[Shinji103]

Originally Posted by Hiss13

Have an album of Itsuwa being unabashedly the best girl.

Times like these I miss the Reputation feature. +50 to you, sir.

[SMT]

That green hair dude had some weird animaton frames sometimes.
Cool ending though. Other than that not a lot happened this episode somehow. Well let's see.

Wish the borderline ecchi stuff would stop but I guess it will never...

[Chaos2Frozen]

So the details are a bit thick but the gist of the situation can easily be summarized as - "God's Right Seat, an organization within the Catholic Church, is using an artifact known as the Document of Constantine, aka. Document of C, to change public perception against Academy City hostile."

Like most if not all of Index's material are based on real world history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donation_of_Constantine

The Donation of Constantine (Latin: Donatio Constantini) is a forged Roman imperial decree by which the 4th-century emperor Constantine the Great supposedly transferred authority over Rome and the western part of the Roman Empire to the Pope. Composed probably in the 8th century, it was used, especially in the 13th century, in support of claims of political authority by the papacy.

As for the episode, I actually like it better now that they're getting into the thick of things, even the hi-jinks have been toned down. Although it's been awhile since I've seen this particular story but it does seem like it's progressing quite fast. Also we're finally seeing the global trotting aspect of the series since they first visited Chioggia in Italy last season. One of my favorite parts of Index is how global the conflict gets.

Looking forwards to the "Fires of Science" next week.

[Kuroageha]

Originally Posted by belatkuro

Feels like an outsourced episode as it's plagued with bad and awkward animation. And that Imagine Breaker sound effect. Why did they have to change it?

Ehhh, sounds like a fart IMO

Originally Posted by Hiss13

Have an album of Itsuwa being unabashedly the best girl. .

My man, your work is appreciated.

[bakato]

Episode 2 and this totally sucks. Never mind the awkward frames, the terrible ost that once sent chills down my spine in previous serious it totally gone.