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REVIEW: A Certain Magical Index II BD+DVD [2015-01-23]

Croce di Pietro (which translates to “Stone Cross”)

The story, on the other hand, feels like it makes a bit of a jump from the conclusion of that storyline into the abrupt start of the Italy arc, a writing issue which also appears in the final two episodes of the season. It is a bigger issue there, with episode twenty-four in particular feeling like it skips a lot of content in order to compress the story into twenty-four minutes,...

Vento's role seems to be to highlight the conflict of science and religion, with Academy City to her (and, it is implied, the Church) standing in for man's hubris in thinking that he could do God's job.

Interestingly enough, through the use of the terrorist group Zero Skill, this cycle also explores the caste system some people clearly feel Academy City employs, ranking those with higher power levels above everyone else.

Although this is the end of A Certain Magical Index II, it does not feel particularly conclusive. Granted, this could be because so many more novels exist after this point, but it does take away from the experience of watching it.

If there was, as of this writing, an Index III looming on the horizon, that might make the ending seem better.

− Touma is the least interesting character in this half.

Index isn't strictly a harem show, but the joke is well-done enough that makes us look at the preceding episodes in a different way and allows us to laugh at the fact that they contain a few very tired tropes.

and according to my priest in my church since i am a roman catholic, its actually translated as the Disciple's Cross which is Saint Peter who was a well known loyal disciple of Jesus Christ, which is why its mainly known as the cross of peter. its possible that the author have a different kanji for the translation,but this is what my priest told me what the meaning of the crocee di pietro is.

regardless its a decent series, though those diehard LN fans and railgun fans have been griping on the timing of the archs. there are those say that the liberty arts city arc was supposed to take place first, then the testament arc afterwards. and of course fans of railgun are griping over the whole daihasei festival arc since the crocee di pietro story would contradict and conflict with vol 9 of the railgun manga since both events took place at the last day of the festival.

and since there haven't been any news on when the manga start again,its been a back and forth BS in forums here in the US. hopefully the LN and manga will eventually reach that arc soon so people will know which arc came first.

I'm not sure if terrorist is the right word to use to describe the group. Also, Zero Skill? Is that what the dub called them? That group is referred to as Skill Out in Japanese.

unfortunately there haven't been any new toaru news ever since the movie which doesnt bode well of any chances for a season three for both railgun and index.

jr0904 wrote:

and according to my priest in my church since i am a roman catholic, its actually translated as the Disciple's Cross which is Saint Peter who was a well known loyal disciple of Jesus Christ, which is why its mainly known as the cross of peter. its possible that the author have a different kanji for the translation,but this is what my priest told me what the meaning of the crocee di pietro is.

You're right actually. I remembered the details wrong.

jr0904 wrote:

regardless its a decent series, though those diehard LN fans and railgun fans have been griping on the timing of the archs. there are those say that the liberty arts city arc was supposed to take place first, then the testament arc afterwards. and of course fans of railgun are griping over the whole daihasei festival arc since the crocee di pietro story would contradict and conflict with vol 9 of the railgun manga since both events took place at the last day of the festival. and since there haven't been any news on when the manga start again,its been a back and forth BS in forums here in the US. hopefully the LN and manga will eventually reach that arc soon so people will know which arc came first.

Actually, nothing is contradicted. The Railgun events are certainly something akin to a retcon but timeline-wise, everything fits. The Index Daihasei Festival Arc takes place on the first day and concludes on the morning of the second. The Railgun Daihasei Festival Arc also starts on the first day (dances around the Index events) and then continues onto the second day where the majority of the events in the arc happen. The arc ends just before the Venice Arc.

There's actually a calendar for this.

then there was during the forums when part 1 of index II and part two of railgun S was reviewed where some people said that the liberty arts city arc was supposed to have taken place before the testament arc.

at least the LN are here so US fans can be sure which arc goes where cause to be frank there are some of us that don't trust fan sites like baka tsuki.

jr0904 wrote:

then there was during the forums when part 1 of index II and part two of railgun S was reviewed where some people said that the liberty arts city arc was supposed to have taken place before the testament arc.

Testament Arc? ...In the hypothetical Railgun Season 3, Liberal Arts City would be the first thing covered. Originally it was Railgun SS novel given out to people who bought the Special Editions of the Index Season 1 DVD/BDs. It gets annoying because both the main novels and Railgun manga have direct references to it and it is key to certain events playing out the way they do. e.g. Railgun Volume 9 with Saten.