Thread:Valeth/@comment-30314236-20181006182108/@comment-34364075-20181113094747

Well, it goes like this birdie..

Toaru Majutsu no Index is a long-running novel (22 volumes now, IIRC) which was adapted into anime years ago. Now, the last of the anime adaptation, which was season 2 came out abour 8 years ago. Which means there's an 8 year gap between seasons; most non-dedicated viewers would have forgotten what the series was even about.

The usual courtesy for the few years gap between seasons is a few refresher (or recap) episodes. But, the latest season did not give any recap, even though it would be helluva confusing to jump straight into season 3 without rewatching the previous seasons (unlike shounen titles such as Fairy Tails, the plot in this anime keeps building upon one another). This was what Valeth mentioned about.

My gripe is slightly different, in that the third season jammed so much materials from the novels into few episodes while skipping a lot of contents. For example, sometimes I find myself wondering why character A and character B who were friends in episode 3 suddenly started killing each other the next episode.