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NEWS: Seven Seas Licenses A Certain Scientific Accelerator Manga

I remember that Kamachi Kazuma said in an interview that he considers all the spin-off material and adaptations as canon - for example, the Febri Arc in To Aru Kagaku no Railgun S.

Really excited to start reading this. I freakin' love Accelerator.

Never read that interview but all original fillers in Railgun go against established rules he made in the Novels and Manga(like spoiler[Misaka not being able to beata single Power Suit( but then obliterating hundreds of them),surviving in space etc]).

Also he never made references to events and characters that appear in them in even tho the events could be considered major ones.Only Therestina Kihara was mentioned by other Kihara's and only by name.
Kongou's introduction was changed in the manga as well.

infamoustakai wrote:

Really excited to start reading this. I freakin' love Accelerator.

Hate to crush your dreams, but this should really be called A Certain Missing Accelerator.

ssjokg wrote:

Never read that interview but all original fillers in Railgun go against established rules he made in the Novels and Manga(like spoiler[Misaka not being able to beata single Power Suit( but then obliterating hundreds of them),surviving in space etc]). Also he never made references to events and characters that appear in them in even tho the events could be considered major ones.Only Therestina Kihara was mentioned by other Kihara's and only by name. Kongou's introduction was changed in the manga as well.

The only point you have there is Kongou's introduction happened at different times. Given that Kamachi has used the material, it is a better assumption that it is canon than that it isn't.

None of those spoilers contradict anything either. spoiler[She had trouble with that one power suit because she doesn't kill. She could have easily demolished it, but she had no idea it wasn't manned (and it was a manned model). She didn't survive in space. That was just upper atmosphere. ] If your suspension of disbelief for Raildex stops at her spoiler[staying in the upper atmosphere long enough to railgun a robot...] how did you ever get past episode 1 (or LN 1) of Index or ep 1 of railgun? You do realize that a coin traveling mach 3 won't demolish concrete or flip a car right?

I also know that all of the abilities don't make sense due to physics(creation of vectors out of nothing,electricity etc)but the author gets past that with RMs.But that wouldnt be a problem even without proper explanation. spoiler[Surviving in in "upper atmosphere" is a feat only for Saints and those whose body isnt human anymore(#2).Upper atmosphere?Check the visuals again.Misaka was fine for no reason in an environment that should at very least sent you at hospital.Remember Vol.22 of Index, Star of Bethlehem ?That was at 10km and they were afraid of doing anything.If you think that in Railgun S it was less than 10km then you should check your eyes.Also teleportation in Raildex conserves momentum.Kuroko should have crashed into the ground=instadeath.But lets not go that far.Saten is a pilot prodigy that learned to pilot a mecha in one night?Random kids with no powers can beat/stall Power suits with sticks?Yomikawa lets kids fight because of "rules"?Uiharu is reduced into a web search engine?Academy City as a whole fails to notice a random group of nobodies?Yeah lets ignore everything we knew about Index and its characters.
Oh and Misaka has a couple of ways to make a Power suit unable to fight without hurting the pilot in case they exist,like destroying the legs.]

ssjokg wrote:

I also know that all of the abilities don't make sense due to physics(creation of vectors out of nothing,electricity etc)but the author gets past that with RMs.But that wouldnt be a problem even without proper explanation. spoiler[Surviving in in "upper atmosphere" is a feat only for Saints and those whose body isnt human anymore(#2).Upper atmosphere?Check the visuals again.Misaka was fine for no reason in an environment that should at very least sent you at hospital.Remember Vol.22 of Index, Star of Bethlehem ?That was at 10km and they were afraid of doing anything.If you think that in Railgun S it was less than 10km then you should check your eyes.Also teleportation in Raildex conserves momentum.Kuroko should have crashed into the ground=instadeath.But lets not go that far.Saten is a pilot prodigy that learned to pilot a mecha in one night?Random kids with no powers can beat/stall Power suits with sticks?Yomikawa lets kids fight because of "rules"?Uiharu is reduced into a web search engine?Academy City as a whole fails to notice a random group of nobodies?Yeah lets ignore everything we knew about Index and its characters. Oh and Misaka has a couple of ways to make a Power suit unable to fight without hurting the pilot in case they exist,like destroying the legs.]

spoiler[Kanzaki was way further out and that needed special mention because she was actually staying out to do stuff. The Star scene still makes sense. The issues for her being there would be temperature and breathing. For the time she was there in S she could hold her breath. We also know she can create heat indirectly through her powers. She likely could not do that in Vol 22 because she would have fried their plane. It isn't really that far out there considering the other physics bending you admit to.

The only issue with Kuroko is the visual. Her being up there and teleporting back to the ground is just fine. The anime bent that rule in Index 2 as well. That doesn't invalidate the plot.

Hamazura learned to pilot the dragon rider with absolutely no prior knowledge of it. Saten figuring out how to swing it around to crush stuff with a night to study is somehow far fetched?

Yomikawa let Touma fight against the golem.

Who said Academy City failed to notice? Kamachi let Misaka clean up problems for them in both Railgun SS novels.

It is a humanoid suit not much bigger than grown adult. Decent chance there is a human leg in the suit's leg when piloted. Just blowing it away knowing if there was the person would certainly die isn't how Misaka does stuff.]

But what I really want to know is: When is the anime going to get made? The manga is only so-so, but the manga adaptation of Railgun was also only so-so.