"Teleporting Lesbian" and "Pikachu Tsundere-Girl" that is the most accurate explanation of those two

Gigguk: Without noticing....I became a fan Index Fandom: Gentleman...We got him

Accelerator is the reason no one asked me the "if you could have one superpower.." question anymore.

"Accelerator has to do the calculations in real-time" *oh god not the matrices anything but the matrices*

I have no direction in life so accelerator can't control it

Gigguk: goes into a 20 minute detailed explanation about why it’s good Me: Accelerator

"Pikachu as a tsundere anime girl." Yup, that's my Onee-sama.

The fact that Gigguk didn't mention how good the openings are like AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Gigguk: "...basically Pikachu as a tsundere anime girl" Pikachi in 1998: "Am I a joke to you?"

"The deeper you go, the more rewarding the experience becomes as a whole" -Gigguk 2018.

"Mom, can I have money for electrical engineering degree?" "To be electrical engineer?" "Yesssssss" *Actually becomes ani-tuber like a boss* "Disappointment time"

fate fans: "how do i get into index?" index fans: "ti's but the same method yer used for yer own franchise mate"

Nobody: Gigguk: *HERE'S MY MASTER'S IN ELECTRONICS AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING*

Gigguk: "Magic is supposed to be unexplainable through scientific reasoning" Accelerator in Index III: Literally comes up with his own fucking formula derived from a spell and calculates its parameters

And best boy accelerator is getting his own show

*spoiler* actually, Accelerator's limitation was getting shot in the head. He was perfectly able to do all the calculations by himself before getting shot

Jesus in Index is a Magic User Jesus in Jojo is a Stand User Jesus and Buddha becoming roommates Jesus Christ that's a lot of roles

Gigguk doing a Video about Toaru?? Truly the right timeline

"A unique world that blend fantasy and science in a way I had never seen before" There it is. There's the reason that drew me into raildex.

I have never been so simultaneously excited about reading a series while also bored out of my mind. I don't know how it manages this but Index has literally everything I want from a series yet reading it is like a grim trudge. It's so good.

Raildex is one of my absolute favorites and deserves to be more popular~ ty gigguky

"Solving every problem by punching it in the face" I wonder how many people would love that😂

"And characters you absolutely love... which, let's be honest, is going to be Accelerator because Accelerator is best boy..." A man of culture has shown himself to me.

After watching this I just realized... Index was literally a book walker.

The Railgun and Accelerator “side story’s” are really what’s holding the Index anime together for any potential future. It’s not just the bad pacing, the Index anime at times butchers whole arcs, especially Index 3.

"This black cat will be called "Dog" declares MISAKA. A cat, yet "Dog"....hehehe....."

"control electricity and shrug off teleporting lesbians" Gigguk 2018 I bet you 5 pounds that you never thought you'd say those two things in one sentance!!! brilliant!!

It is so nice seeing that comments about Touma. I totally realized how much LN readers that were defending Touma were right after the reading LN. Anime adaptation ruined him. No, not even like that. THEY FUCKING RUINED HIS CHARACTER !!! Yeah, now it is more accurate.

Pretty sure Gigguk's made this video so he can show of his *MASTER DEGREE*

Touma DESTROYS magic users with FACTS and LOGIC

Thank god more people are finally seeing the light

What fascinates me about this world is how everything makes sense. No matter how you put it, everything stays in what would normally happen in the world: the actions follow a logical procedure and it is really well thought. The powers have their own limitations like Index or Accelerator and there is a huge analogy between science and magic powers. If there is something convenient in science like phones, there is something which serves the same function in the magic side, like the communication spells. Kazuma also has the story really well thought as concepts of magic return to define other spells making it feel like studying science; and the foreshadowing is in a whole other level. It might scare people to get into, specially further the anime since there are more than 70 LN, and that's why it has not been doing as good as it did 10 years before. However, it is very rewarding. Just as a reminder, it will be the series anniversary the April 10th, making Magical Index one of the few 20th year long series.

Yeah but can we talk about how the most consistent thing in all the Index/Railgun anime seasons is how banging the OPs are?

Waaaah a 19 min Gigguk vid we've been blessed

Joke’s on you, I'm a new anime fan! I've never been exposed to cliches, so all cliches I see are new to me. HAHAHAHAHAHHA I'm watching this anime.

Giggly explaining vectors Me: “Sir, you have my respects”

Shout out to the weebs like me who watched index and railgun before and watched this video because none of their friends had seen it and wanted someone to share opinions with.

"I became a fan" *plays Only My Railgun* Dayum he ain't lying

Thanks for explaining vectors better than my teachers

If you ever want to be part of the community, remember this: Make sure you know what you're saying and read the novels, you'll get a storm of corrections if you don't.

"a tsundere Pikachu" I'm convinced

I didn't like it at first. Couple of years later... Biribiri is bae, Touma is GAR and Accelerator is pleasantly unhinged. Man I love this franchise.

This was the second anime I ever watched. 7 years later, and it still remains one of my favorites despite how mediocre so many episodes were. I agree with you on practically every point, particularly the deep intricacies of the powers and Accelerator being the *best. character. ever.* I remember when I first watched it, it hooked me because, despite all the light ecchi stuff and the weird structure of the various arcs, it felt.. intelligent. The explanations of the magic and science worlds absolutely fascinated me, especially in the Touma/Accelerator fight, and even though the fandom was small and almost non-existent at the time, I was glad to be in it. Seeing that they ARE planning to continue the series with S3 and ACSA-which, I think I ruptured a spleen when I heard about it-I can genuinely say almost no other anime or show has held my excitement and hype this long, and I'm SINCERELY happy they didn't decide to drop it like a hot potato. TL;DR: TAMNI and ACSR were some of my first anime and I still love them to this day. And I agree with Gigguk on pretty much every point. Edit: *chokes on water* 281 likes?? Dear doodlebob!

Touma is him, he's the MAN, the TouMAN. Let me share you guys the greatness of TouMAN, The one who purify god and slays demon, the right hand user, Imagine breaker, God of Pestilence, Kamijou (above god). TouMAN, the gender equality god: - If you are a villain, prepare, even Joker can be save if it's TouMAN. BE WOMAN, BE MAN, BE CHILDREN, BE THE OLD, BE PREGNANT, BE HOMO, you won't escape the punch if you're a villain that need their mind fixed with a punch in the face, TOUMAN, the chad of all chad, the gigachad before gigachad was even a thing, will come and say: "do you need to have a reason to save someone?" further escalated to "Hero? Villain? Stop kidding around! Can't you save someone if you're not standing at that spot?! In front of your eyes are people that don't wish to cry that are crying!". A gigachad that doesn't shout out I want to be a hero, a gigachad that doesn't shout out because I am this and that, I have to save them, he just save them as they need his help. He will save you: - Be his enemy, be his friend, be a stranger, be a killer, be killing him billion of times, be torturing him endlessly, if you can be saved, TouMAN will save you, even if he need to face the whole world. He won't follow you into your hell, because it would be very suffering for the two, instead, he drag you out of it. A chad with a taste: - Touman cares about no girls, he flushes like other man, he loves Onee-san types, but he never loves anyone romantically nor wasting time for it, he isn't a simp, he doesn't fap, he's a healthy boy with a healthy right arm that he only use to save people who need his help, the very hand who people say brought him unfortunate, he said that thanks to that very hand, he was able to save people. A chad that deemed himself as normal: - "I'm just a normal high school boy you could find anywhere". A normal highschool boy who worries about a family member of him everyday, though struggling with life at times, complaining about his unfortunate, he never meant to complain his very life even once. A gigachad with a mental of a gigachad: - I'll take revenge? I can't do this no more? It's suffering? Reject all of that, the normal highschool boy himself will survives through an endless hell of death loop mix toturments and will safe the one who did that to him. A strong will to the point that he could endure all of that and end up broken, but saved with just a person that care about him, he just need to express his emotions and all that hell was left behind like it's nothing. A gigachad with eggs priority. -he need food, help this man, though he survived without a need of a help, what a chad. A chad where in conversations, you don't talk about how ridiculously strong of a character this chad is in fiction, but how chad TouMAN is. A chad that is original: - As a chad, he's original, his power is originally uninteresting turned originally interesting and unique. His character is too well built to be replicated by anyone. His power, his characteristic and the way he's developed is the original, the unique, he's one true best of the best of all protagonists to ever exists, only rivalled by Accelerator the god himself and the other one that spoiler spoiler. Over all, Kamijou TouMAN is the chad, the humble, the Gender Equality, the Self-called normal chad.

Yes, yes. Accelerator is *BEST BOI*

Biribiri is love, Biribiri is life.

Just something about this franchise... Best boi: Accelerator Best girl: Misaka Mikoto And no, I don't ship them. It's just that they are amazing and their scenes compensate all the boring episodes, besides, we can see their character development and the use of their lvl5 abilities truly gets us amazed and hooked up for more. I was only able to go through the anime because of them. I don't regret it one bit.

"Accelerator is our best boy", yeah i do agree about that 😂

One of us, one of us...

"hard series to get into" *scoffs and laughs in fate series*

>When your favourite anime KZfaqr changes his mind about your favourite anime and releases a video just to talk about how good it is Christmas came early

Before I couldn't really get into LNs because I preferred manga and anime. After this video I decided to read the LN for this and I don't regret it one bit. I should've read it sooner, I've been reading fan translations and thinking of saving up to get the official translations to support Kamachi Kazuma.

As a LN reader and huge fan of Kamachi's work I have to say it is bringing me sad to read all the comments about how Accelerator is a better character than Touma because how fucking interesting Touma really is in the novel (same for hamazura) I know guys you won't probably read the many books of index to see it, but y'all can give a try on the index manga which is better than the anime Shame on Nishikiori for making such an amazing novel series into an average anime

So basically: 1. Watch episodes 1-6 of Index S1 2. Watch episodes 1-14 of Railgun 3. Watch episodes 1-16 of Railgun S to get into it. Then, to actually finish it, 4. Finish Index S1 5. Finish Railgun 6. Finish Railgun S 7. Watch Accelerator 8. Finish Index S2 9. Watch Index S3 I'll do that right now! :3 EDIT: So Accelerator started this season and it seems to set off shortly after Railgun S in the story, so I sorted that in as 7. for the time being. (Oh yeah, I watched all of Raildex by now btw.)

3 reasons y I like index. Touma Accelerator MISAKA MIKOTO

Kamachi Kazuma is one of the authors I admire the most. His speed in writing multiple novels are the best. His world building and connecting multiple events are good. It feels like he can write quality novels and pump out words nonstop. If there is one downside from him that I can think of, then that would be the slow pace of his novels.

The real name should have been: "A certain magical world with a certain scientific academy city".

Your bias to Accelerator and the Science side is showing! But you did mention the appeal of the magic side so I'll give you a pass. I feel like the science side is naturally more appealing to people with an exposure to science, but anyone with familiarity with folklore, mythology, religion and occultism, the Magic side can be just as if not more compelling IMO. And I really, really feel like Touma gets a bad wrap, but a lot of that may just be due to how the anime fails in capturing his charm. But hey, I am so so happy that you gave this series a chance and gave it the shoutout it deserves! Major props. There's like, no Anitubers talking about this, so I'm super happy to see Toaru getting this treatment!

What I like about index is that everything, no matter how small has an impact on future events. Like, there are near no lose threads or plot points. For instance, in the first arc, index in John Penn mode shoots a light beam which Kaori redirect upwards. Well some episodes later you start hearing how the weather report in the city used to be perfect (and now it isn’t), the in Railgun you discover a satellite called three diagram (which is a super computer) was destroyed. Well it was destroyed by index in the first episode which more or less unfolds a lot of the events in Railgun and ww3 (one of the reasons why academy city needs to raise funds. Or like index telling accelerator that his power resembles high amount of Telesma. Ffs this show is awesome!!!

This is a series you can't fully enjoy unless you put in some time or effort to do some research. However once you start unraveling every tiny nook and cranny about the universe, everything about this series becomes infinitely better.

Accelerator got his voice actor a prestigious award. Accelerator is also exactly how you write a great redemptive asshole character, *not* freakin' Bakugo from Hero Academia. They also have same VA.

Let me tell you the way i see it: 'To aru'(and it's spinoffs) is the franchise that TRULY deserved the cult following that SAO has now or had a few years back. This franchise actually does give a whole lotta fck about continuity and sense in a story, and I appreciate it for that.

After reading the comments I feel really bad for Touma lmao. Welp since the anime removed like 90% of his inner thoughts It’s really hard for people to get into his character, but instead they only get a gist of him.

I actually like Toma's Imagine Breaker, both in what it does and as a concept. In the world of Index, it's a power that can't be explained by magic or science, it's a power that others might undoubtably have, mysterious super powers that can't be explained by magic, which has it's place in lore and mythology. It also can't be explained by science, the superpowers of human physics and science. It's a power of imagination, it honestly reminds me of Bungo Stray Dogs' skills, the supernatural abilities that people can be born with and are unexplainable. It's a power that an ordinary person could have without knowing it. The other reason I like Toma's ability is because of reasons I like the abilities of the likes of Osamu Dazai, Shota Aizawa, and even Asta from Black Clover to an extent. Their abilities that make supernatural powers stop, it forces people to fight as an ordinary person, with kicks and punches and being really strong as a normal human. Make it so they have a fight scene that's all about hand to hand combat or have the opponent realize that they are nothing with their powers. Or another way to fight this nullification of abilities is to work around it's limitations to use their superpowers. Dazai's 'No Longer Human' skill only works on other skills and with physical contact, so you could just shoot him or be a more skilled fighter that him, though I feel Aizawa was the one who truly embodies and has had happen to him in the 'work around the limitations of his ability in this part. Aizawa's quirk manifests in his line of sight, so how did the villains work around his limitation? By waiting for him to blink, that's when he's vulnerable and you can use their quirks against him, or by using a superiorly physical being, the Nomu. The blinking and eyesight limitation was what the Momo and Todoroki used during the end of the year exam, when he has his eyes closed, they can use their quirks, and Aizawa's quirk also had a secondary and much less important limitation that was exploited in the form of "the effects after the use of a quirk are not negated", which is how Momo was able to use her creations even though Aizawa was using his quirk on them. All to say, I like abilities that negate abilities, I also like the characters that have these abilities. Edit:I just realized this a bit after commenting, but it also gives a chance to interact with people with powers that are uncontrollable or would just kill a person with a single touch, or both.

Hot damn, you nailed it! You actually nailed 95% of everything we have been trying to tell people! You even gotten the appeal of the Magic side when so many other people glossed over it! Only two things I would like to add, 1) Don't sell short the INDEX MANGA as well. In terms of all three media the manga for INDEX is by far what I think is the best paced of them. 2) Don't sell Touma short either, I realize these days LN protags are dime a dozen but there is something about him that stands out from the crowd too. Before My Hero Academia, Touma was my favorite embodiment of the themes of being a hero.

Gigguk is talking raildex... This is a great day, that Index will get some recognition amongst the big anime youtubers.

What's this? Gigguk praised an anime and he's not being sarcastic!?

I was hoping that Gigguk do some justice for Touman....

Touma's upcoming moment in this current season of Railgun will lowkey be an advertisement for Index: New Testament. Also Railgun onlies will get to see a portion of Touma's true power.

13:35 That's only half right. Originally, he could do everything without the computer, even hacking computers by manually hacking the vectors sending signals. During one of the arcs, in which the small Misaka is introduced, he takes a bullet to the brain, which heavily damaged his computational ability, to the point that when the battery runs out, he becomes a jabbering lunatic. They manage to save him by using the "Misaka Network," just around ten thousand clones of Misaka linked telepathically, and they patched him into it, saving him. Due to that, the complexity of his manipulations have gone down, and he is limited to thirty minutes of using his powers per charge. Also, Touma's ability is easily the most complicated ability in the show. The ability to cancel all powers that make contact with his right hand, which in itself is one of the worst handicaps in the show, is a by-product of his ability existing, not the ability itself.

my favourite part in this video was when he yelled about accelerator for like 5 minutes

I remember watching this video back in January of this year and while I didn't immediately start Toaru at that time, it put it on my radar and when I did decide to give it a go around April of this year I ended up falling in love with the series. I wasn't super into it at first when I started with the Index anime, but I absolutely loved the first season of Railgun and was surprised at how compelling the characters were. Since then I've watched all of the Railgun and Accelerator anime, caught up on all of the manga and just recently finished New Testament volume 14 of Index. New Testament 9 was miles ahead of the rest of Toaru and is easily one of my favorite books/pieces of storytelling media of all time, which is praise I don't give lightly. I probably would have never started the series if not for this video so I came back to leave a comment and a like and say thank you for this recommendation.

"Touma's ability is so boring compared to everything else" *laughs in light novels*

1:25 That was enough for me to start watching

One of us. One of us.

Accelerator doesn't need to calculate everything that comes his way, since his reflective barrier is mostly passive, as explained by Kakine. Accelerator doesn't calculate everything in real time. He sets his vector reflection to avoid most of the harmful things that come his way, and allows everything else to come through. It's a whitelist, so he only needs to set the vectors that he wants to get through, meaning less calculations. So it doesn't really matter how fast you are, it's not going to get past as long as the passive barrier identifies the vectors coming at his way as harmful. (Or something like that, haven't read Index for a while now) It doesn't cover everything of course. If you could identify the specific vectors that Accelerator uses to defend himself, you could use that against him.

"Basically Pikachu as a tsundere anime girl". Huh. Pokemon Let's Go just came out, and i named my Pikachu Misaka. Coincidence.

Love the franchise. It was such a big thing 7 years ago. Nowadays most modern anime fans don't even know it anymore. However the light novels are much better. If you don't mind reading - just go and read them!

The thing that convinced me this was not ordinary fantasy harem garbage is when everyone had been taking "Index's brain will explode if she creates too many memories" at face value, then Kamijo is like "wait, that doesn't seem right." So he calls an actual neuroscientist who is all "lol no, that's ridiculous." Almost every other show expects you to accept their absurd premises, and Index is going to have theirs, too, but they're telling you here that it's going to do the work.

I started watching this franchise because of this video and damn I’m so glad I did, it’s such an amazing series that I haven’t finished yet

There is a problem that Touma cant take care of with a punch! Its called... School Attendance Record. Toumas Arch-Enemy along with homework.

Yeah, Index got a bad adaptation over all, especially Touman, he was screwed to be a too generic shonen character in anime. Railgun in other hand has been treated well. New Testament Index should be good though, unless anime adaptation ruin it again. Personally waiting for "big bad" Corry to screw up "upside down man's" plans.

in defense of kamijou touma as a character he is the perfect protagonist of this show. Cause how i see is that his character is build not to entice you on his story but rather on to teach you on how the world around him works and grows further in the story. Touma's backstory is really just simple that you don't see in many animes nowadays but because of that he is a perfect medium for the world of to aru since he is a character in between the two sides of power since he isn't considered an esper cause his power cannot be scientifically explained but is considered an esper since he was born with the power. He's also not a magician since he's power negates things that are unnatural like magic but going back that his power is unexplainable to scientific calculations just like magic. With this type of character is just the perfect blend for this type of story. also to further in i really like his personality he isn't stupid but not highly intelligent he can understand the basics of many things but going further beyond that is impossible for him, again this just ties up on how his character is a medium for the viewer of the story and how he is very dense to other people's feelings for him is explained is something that you don't see in many animes.

Girl in Academy City: *dresses like a stripper and does evil* Touma/Accelerator: "The Hammer of Justice is Unisex."

Gigguk please read the light novel, I'm glad you have given the series a second chance but the anime is simply outclassed by the novel. It's why it's my favourite series for a reason.

Just to clarify, the computer thingy that helps Accelerator make calculations was not something he needed at first, it's thanks to him getting brain damage in A Certain Circumstance of Plot (get it? eh). He was so overpowered the author had to nerf him.

How do you get into Index? You ask her nicely.

if you read the light novel，you will see Touma is the best character ever

Please daddy don't stop talking about electrical engineering and physics.

I really feel bad for Touma in the anime. You barely see what his character actually is in the anime. In the LN, I'm confident to say that Touma's character is on par with Accelerator, if not better.

Gigguk: "accelerator is best boi " Me: "he sure is "

Top 10 characters in MAL 1 - Mikoto Misaka 2 - Accelerator 3 - Touma Kamijou 4 - Kuroko Shirai 5 - Last Order 6 - Misaki Shokuhou 7 - Ruiko Saten 8 - Misaka 10032 9 - Gunha Sogiita 10 - Othinus

Also this made me remember of the arc where people traded bodies without realizing and Touma turns on the TV and finds out Kuroko (the aforementioned teleporting lesbian) is now Barack Obama (She literally goes "Yes! We! Can!"). That scene KILLED me.

watching Railgun T right now. I like this franchise I know its kinda boring at first but it will became good later. And for the others who said that index anime is bad well yeah but if you read its Light Novel you will know that its have more to it and its really good. For anime I will said that Railgun>Index=Accelerator For Light Novel and Manga Index>Railgun>Accelerator And Misaka is my fav character

Finally someone said it, you have my sub. dem Index is so underrated I wish more people would watch this anime and also the light novels

Imagine if Index actually had a good adaptation it'd be even better than it is now (except season 3) but Railgun and Accelerator have great adaptions so there's that

Academy city is best girl

TFW you're in the fanbase for Index, Jojo, Monogatari AND Fate.

This video, because of this video I watched the anime, then read the light novel (All of it, the over 50 light novels in like 3 or 4 months), and then railgun and astral buddy This is probably the anime/novel I have spent this amount of time enjoying and the only case in which I do not regret even a little spending soo much time in a single thing just for the value it has for me (Hell I even refuse to fully watch naruto, to rewatch Dragon Ball and to read One piece, and the only reason I dont regret spending like a full week watching fairy tail is because it was the thing that made me want to watch even more anime) For making this video and making me enter the Index fandom I wanted to thank you, I send my regards and my hopes that if they animate new testament they do a better job that what they did with Index III for fucks sake

I still like Touma in the anime because his VA is really good and he gets a lot of funny lines, but he's a lot weaker than his original light novel version. One of his strongest traits is decisive thinking, and it elaborates on his thought processes to stop a bad guy or help a friend, whereas in the anime he'll just run at them and do a Terry Bogard Power Dunk