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Old 2017-01-13, 06:43   Link #641
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Question I got on the Windowless Building in District 7. Is it visible to the public?
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Old 2017-01-13, 13:51   Link #642
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Question I got on the Windowless Building in District 7. Is it visible to the public?
Yes, it's a major landmark.
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Old 2017-01-19, 06:20   Link #643
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TY for the answer.
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Old 2017-07-04, 22:22   Link #644
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So I know this section is dead and all, but...

Can anyone explain what happened in this Virtual On crossover?

http://gematsu.com/2017/03/certain-m...ed-ps4-ps-vita
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Sega has announced a A Certain Magical Virtual-On for PlayStation 4 and PS Vita, a crossover between Dengeki Bunko’s A Certain Magical Index light novel series and Sega’s Cyber Troopers Virtual-On action game series stemming from a crossover light novel published in May 2016. It is a high-speed battle action game with online support due out in Japan in 2018.
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Old 2017-07-05, 01:31   Link #645
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We already have a thread for that. Also the novel is completely translated.

Its a good standalone Index novel; at least good enough that the success of the novel itself inadvertently caused the crossover game to be green-lit to the surprise of both Kamachi and Watari (V-O producer).
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Old 2017-08-07, 12:47   Link #646
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Not exactly Index question exactly, but I don't think there is any better place to ask. I noticed Kamachi has habit of putting sort of cross references in his novels. In Beatrice there were IntelVille and I believe in Index there was HO tv show and probably several others. Could you help me get it together somehow?
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Old 2017-08-08, 12:56   Link #647
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In the Index novels you have the HO movie that's referenced twice (Touma talking about a recent remake is likely referencing the anime series), the Zashiki Warashi show Misaki watches in NT11 and I think there has been novel covers for HO and Blood Sign in the background of some color illustrations.

All the HO mangas have cameos of other Kamachi characters as part of the 37th Battalion. It started with Index characters (particularly Uiharu, Tsuchimikado and Misaka Imouto making repeated appearances) but Shinobu and Yukari from Zashiki Warashi and Kyousuke + White Queen from Blood Sign have also made cameos in the newest manga.

Zashiki Warashi has a HO LN cover as the cover of a PSP Dragon Hunter-like game about humans fighting giant rampaging machines. Mai Hishigami's outfit in vol 3 might be a reference to Index's Oriana Thomson's first outfit in the Daihaseisai arc.

Boo Boo has the reference to Zashiki Warashi with a police drama with Hayabusa and Enbi. Preview of vol 5 might have a reference to his Vampire/Zombie webnovel, but then again Maxwell is a cliche name for AIs/supercomputers. It also has a succubus with the exact same name as a demon in Zashiki Warashi, which Kamachi claims it's a coincidence.

Vampire/Zombie webnovel has a bunny girl announcer working for the evil bad guys named Karen, just like in A Simple Series. It also references Boo Boo via Ayumi's camisole, though you can only see this in the character designs due to lack of illustrations and no description of the design in the text, so that might be just Mahaya.
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Old 2018-06-02, 13:46   Link #648
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Here's a question, at the end of NT14 when Kamisato blasted off Touma's hand, where do you guys think IB went before it returned to Touma? Did it travel back from the new world, or did it basically wander off briefly but still in 'this world' the moment the hand was gone, then came back when it was reattached?
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Old 2018-07-10, 20:56   Link #649
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(Note: I am asking this as a person who has only read up until NT vol. 2, so no spoilers, please, unless it's necessary information to answer my question)

This has always bothered me, but is there any specific reason why the author uses those cringy random english words as names of various Academy City organisations? ITEM, STUDY, GROUP or whatever strange words I have seen in the main story or spin-offs. They sound so damn weird!

And yes, I am aware that Japanese often use "engrish" words because they supposedly sound "cool" from a Japanese POV, but this case seems a bit too extreme IMO and also feels kind of immersion breaking, since it's actually supposed to take place in a future Japan and I assume most in-universe characters who think up those names, scientists and ESPers, should be cabable of speaking English. I cannot believe that anyone capable of using English would use such names for organisations unless it's some kind of tradition or custom to name things like that in Academy City.

Did the author give any information about that in a Q&A or something?
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Old 2018-07-10, 22:44   Link #650
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My guess is the current culture in Japan now/has included English words into their culture probably has an effect on the author's sci-fi future Japan.

Due to the fact that American values semi merged into Japanese culture which gave them their constitution and imported American values, which Japan adopted and later became a eco-Japan versus an Imperialistic Japan.

But all in all I haven't heard of any type of Q&A about the author's style of righting, maybe because most of the readers don't care too much about English words, mind that the series started off Christian background of the plot that later builded up to cult or other religions versus the Science side... so this series is bound to have English words in it's plot.

I'll bring up American/Western influence and Western religions as the main reasons that is to why that the author incorporates so many English words in his light novels. Though in the end this is all my speculation and my theory of why we see English words in the light novels
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Old 2018-07-10, 23:07   Link #651
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The author doesn't. It really is for rule of cool.
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Old 2018-07-11, 22:16   Link #652
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The author doesn't. It really is for rule of cool.
I second this. I recommend just ignoring them, you get used to it.
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Old 2018-07-12, 16:51   Link #653
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Its better when you ignore stuff like this, not only do you get used to it, it shouldn't detract from the actual story and isn't that bad.
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