>This time an (ojou-sama) school's full student body is mobilized? Protect the sanctuary from Element! >Three days have passed since Kamisato Kakeru disappeared. Kamijou has moved onto the next battle, but there he finds Tokiwadai Middle School (Heaven) filled with Shokuhou Misaki, Misakai Mikoto, and other ojou-samas in swimsuits? >It is winter. It is December in Academy City, and yet the temperature is above 50 degrees. As the unexplained heat wave brings Academy City's infrastructure to a halt, an unpredictable threat arrives. >Element. They are bizarre monsters that crawl through the scorching hell. They prefer darkness and violently attack student after student during Academy City's blackout. With the only right hand that can oppose them, Kamijou gets help from Fukiyose and Index to reach the scene of the battle, but he is outnumbered. And in that crisis, a girl surrounded by a bizarre machine known as the Anti-Art Attachment appears? >As Shokuhou Misaki leads the ojou-sama school's full student body, Kamijou approaches the identity of the mastermind behind the heat wave and Element!
Why is Misaki rubbing her tits on Mikoto and not Touma?
Angel Edwards
Misaki a best.
John Murphy
>Element Not Elements plural? >a girl surrounded by a bizarre machine known as the Anti-Art Attachment appears? Is this Mikoto again or someone else using it?
That cover tho >p-p-please buy ;_; look! it has Mikoto AND Misaki
Carter Stewart
ARRRGGGHHH KANZAKI HELP ME, IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN
Matthew Powell
Shit Cover. Obvious baiting.
Aaron Sanchez
KANZAKI ARE YOU SEEING THIS
Robert Rodriguez
just like NT7.
Benjamin Torres
>Three days have passed since Kamisato Kakeru disappeared. So 3 days after NT15?
John Rodriguez
Mikoto looks delicious here.
Owen Price
Are the sales for the LN tanking or something? Why is Kamachi doing this?
Ian Adams
Cover is complete disgusting dogshit as expected but the lengthy summary seems to point towards the "Mikoto no sells the status quo" theory being close to correct, especially if she is the one using AAA.
Leo Perry
So he is going to forget Misaki every 5 minutes he doesn't see her? This sounds retarded.
Liam Hill
I only like this cover for Mikoto and Touma's face
Isaac Myers
>Are the sales for the LN tanking or something? Yes. They've been falling every volume. >b-b-but they still sell a lot! Lots more than the average LN! At this rate it's going to be eclipsed by other popular LNs until it dips to moderate sales.
>Mikoto no sells the status quo What did you mean by this?
Nolan Carter
Most likely he'll see her once. The summary implies the group splits up
Anthony Jenkins
Looks like garbage. See you guys when NT17 drops.
Wyatt Gutierrez
Precisely. To be honest, after seeing the short summary last month, the cover was really predictable.
Looks like he did get a break.
You just answered your question.
It looks like Kamachi is starting to cross out the list from that one parody story.
Asher Walker
Sales has been going down for index for a long time. Especially since the Index anniversary incident.
Austin Martinez
Hopefully,
James Bailey
>Another Mikoto volume >AAA reappears BASED Kamachi.
Adam Martin
Nice more salt in the wounds. I hope the sell decline continues.
Joseph Clark
>They've been falling every volume. I bet they're waiting for the tipping point then they'll finally do Index III. It's all apart of Miki's master plan.
Caleb Reed
>Especially since the Index anniversary incident. Is that were they announced Heavy Object instead of season 3?
Carter Stewart
There was a theory that this was going to be a set up as a fanservice volume that returns everything to the status quo- except not really. It was going to show that Mikoto really has changed and the status quo is truly broken
John Smith
Yes
Anthony Cruz
Didn't Yuiitsu dispose of all the AAAs? And the 3-day gap lets her tie up any loose ends. I don't know who else is capable of using the AAA besides Mikoto though, perhaps a cyborg?
Hunter Sanchez
Yup. There's also the milking of SAO with the movie and other Dengeki series getting anime adaptations.
William White
Yup that's the one. Since then sells has been dropping. It's doesn't help that Index doesn't seem to have a clear goal on where it is heading right now. It feels like Kamachi is just putting out filler novels to make as much money out of the series as he can before he eventually has to end it.
Joshua Diaz
>a girl surrounded by a bizarre machine known as the Anti-Art Attachment appears? Middle school girl by day, but electric terrorist Biribiri in disguised by night?
Dylan Myers
Mikoto's AAA was broken after using it, so it can't be her...yet.
Austin Williams
Was that ever stated? I can't remember. I seem to remember it all being very vague
Easton Diaz
>Is this Mikoto again or someone else using it? I was wondering the same thing
Robert Green
>we could have gotten AAA Mikoto on the cover >or Touma with Fukiyose >or Touma grappling with Element So we can fap to the girls in swimsuits. Wheee. As if we couldn't from the doujins and fan art. I wonder if Haimura had this in mind or Kamachi told him what to draw.
Lincoln Ramirez
It's possible she could locate another one. There's nobody else it could be
Adrian Watson
>Touma with Fukiyose
What
Ryan Clark
Yuuitsu was looking for all possible locations for where the AAAs were stored, but still eluded some places.
Possibly Mikoto, but Touma doesn't seem to recognize the user based on the summary.
Liam Perry
>(Damn, I missed one. You’re telling me there was an entire spare storage warehouse for Sensei’s Anti-Art Attachment left over!?) >That golden retriever had stored his equipment in all twenty-three districts of Academy City. As his aide, Kihara Yuiitsu had been aware of Kihara Noukan’s “possessions” to a certain extent, but her knowledge had not been perfect.
I don't think she'd make the same mistake twice. That has to be someone other than Mikoto.
Matthew Brooks
>Index doesn't seem to have a clear goal on where it is heading right now
as if that hasn't been clear 50 volumes ago
Samuel Richardson
>SAO being Dengeki's money maker Good. Raildex should be BTFO over and over. It was the king for a while and the main rival to SAO in popularity but that time is past. Yahari is ending too. Let the reign of SAO continue until the editors finally decide to break out another Index anime.
Jason Robinson
Look at Touma >it's hot >who is this titty monster and why she smells so familiar? >biribiri is being creepy again >is that a mecha suit from Infinite Stratos? >I just want to punch magicians and tell them they're not living their life correctly >my feet hurt >this cover sucks
Xavier Bailey
>This Volumen When I was 50 I asked my dad what he would do if Godzilla came to town and started rampaging. He said, "I'll drink a cup of coffee." I didn't get his response at the time. Why wouldn't you run or hide? I thought he was just giving me a cop out answer because it would never happen. Later I realized that if Godzilla really did come to town, running or hiding will be of no use. Godzilla will destroy the entire city and you can't get away from that. When confronted with finality, humans will simply stick to routine. So. What will people do when This Volumen comes? I think they'll all drink a cup of coffee.
Ayden Gonzalez
Are you saying that this summary is based on Touma's POV?
Nolan Gonzalez
Its probably the AAA from the end of NT15, it wasn't stated that it got destroyed or broke >Metal crashed heavily to the ground. >The sound spread as Misaka Mikoto wandered through the dark streets. >The Anti-Art Attachment was actually several weapons and they were detaching from her body now that their role was complete. It just fell to the ground
Kevin Lopez
Touman's expressions lately are stuck on Dead inside.
Nicholas Ortiz
This. It's 99% likely it's Mikoto and Touma can't see her. Even if the one she used in NT15 was destroyed and Yuiitsu destroyed most of the other ones, as long as Yuiitsu missed one Mikoto could find it easier than Yuiitsu
Oliver Perry
>When I was 50 Pretty sure the original pasta said 5
Aaron Hernandez
>It was the king for a while and the main rival to SAO in popularity but that time is past. NT fucking ruined it.
Matthew Barnes
It seems from the summary that most of the time, it's Touma's POV. We're not sure but it looks like we'll be getting Misaki and Misaka's POV too.
Caleb Edwards
GRS was cool and gave end game vibes.
Jaxon Ramirez
If this is true, it's 100% Mikoto using the AAA and Touma doesn't recognize her.
Gavin Gray
Beforehand it did seem like it knew where it was going. The Magic Gods arc being suddenly introduce was surprising but I felt that after it was done we would get to Aleister and Laura. Yet so far we are being getting more filler villains and throw-away arcs that don't really contribute much to the story.
Gabriel Butler
>obligatory summer swimsuit volume >gotta squeeze it in even though it's december in the series I can tell that Kamachi is being forced to do this. This is what I'd like to think.
Caleb Smith
>doesn't help that Index doesn't seem to have a clear goal on where it is heading right now Maybe Kamachi realized that he has brought in far too many characters to work with coherently and became paralyzed with indecision. Each new group or character introduced adds to the weight of Kamachi's failure.
>some Raildexfags will still defend this
Isaiah Lee
Gotta squeeze every last penny out of the series before a third season is needed, if it's ever needed at all.
John Davis
>Kamachi is a Kubo
Asher Gray
>Three days have passed since Kamisato Kakeru disappeared.
Oh boy I wonder what the faggot is up to now
Jose Harris
>Element. They are bizarre monsters that crawl through the scorching hell The "bizarre monsters" part makes it sounds like they don't even have human form
Sebastian Reed
True. Even if Yuuitsu found some use of the scraps from NT11-NT14, those volumes were still useless for the overall plot.
Looks like he'll replace Kubo since Bleach is finally ending in 19 chapters.
Nathaniel Anderson
>19 chapters Isn't it 4-5?
Tyler Collins
I suppose he's trying to fix it. After what he said in the last volume, Hamazura and the entirety of Item and co. aren't really needed until end-game which is where I assume AIM Stalker will become relevant.
Charles Nelson
Fuck this shit. Give me more Accelerator.
Jason Myers
Think there'll be any hint towards Touma remembering Misaki?
Jaxson Sanders
...
Brayden Garcia
This.
Caleb Cooper
That's also another problem I have with Kamachi in regards to him creating too many characters and not doing much with a lot of them. As soon as you get attached to the new characters they are soon thrown away for another arc with more new characters coming in.
It's gotten more ridiculous over time to the point that old characters are always shove in the background even newly recent ones that was push for while are also reduce to the same fate like the old characters because of the new set.
Mason Reyes
>19 Chapters Oh boy...
Mason Thompson
Are you fucking retarded. You realize that Kamachi completely shut that down by spending an entire volume explaining how he has permanent irreversible brain damage and that he cannot retain any thoughts about her ————specifically————
Joseph Barnes
We don't want more shit.
Hudson Young
No. But we do wish he remembers.
The only thing I'm interested to read in this pile of shit. Speaking of, any news on Accel 25?
Logan Martin
>According to Miki, Kamachi just writes whatever the hell he wants and doesn't try to pander to what he thinks the fans want. If Kamachi doesn't think there's any reason to put something in the novel, it doesn't matter how many meetings they have about it, he just won't put it in.
How believable is this?
Blake Reed
Fuck off shitposter
Tyler Davis
The only positive I see in this is Mikoto continuing to be relevant and actually doing something other than shiptease shenanigans. My dream is to see her go full terrorist again in the LNs like back in the Sisters arc.
Carson Kelly
>Misaki shipping Please no.
Eli Bell
It's Miki talking, not Kamachi.
Mason Nelson
Yeah only retards would get caught on this bait. Misaki will have a short scene and that's it.
Jaxson Jones
How old is this? Might've been true once upon a time.
Logan Gutierrez
It seems like the end of the novel is going to be her with the AAA again. It's entirely possible she will lose her shit even worse than NT15
Accelerator and Hamazura are finished. Weren't their stupid roles in NT10 and NT12 enough reminders?
Owen Long
>forcing Misaki in again Fucking why? NT11 eliminated any chance of her being directly relevant to the overarching plot and she's good enough in the Railgun manga, just leave her out for fuck's sake. Or limit her appearance to cameos.
Ryder Ross
>Kamachi just writes whatever the hell he wants
Yes, the complete lack of any kind of editorial control in this series is glaring.
Sebastian Powell
I hope not. it'll make this volume even worse
Josiah Clark
>js06's translation and Miki's quoting Kamachi Why not? Kamachi doesn't seem like the type to bow down to editors anyways. He's the guy who does whatever he wants and can get away with it. HO is a testament of that.
Bentley Martin
Not trying to bait or shitpost, it's a genuine question. Where does Misaki's character have to go besides Touma eventually somehow remembering her? And I'm not saying it will end in some stupid relationship, it's just I don't see what else Kamachi can do with her.
Liam Brown
Because Misaki is Mikoto's best buddy.
Aaron Kelly
Thank you. here's mine.
William Hall
Sex objects sell
Lucas Reed
Fuck off shitposter
Joshua Foster
I don't know but it is fucking disgusting.
Chase Hall
>NT7 May 10-22 146,213 (12,184/day)
>NT8 September 10-22 135,661 (11,305/day)
>NT9 January 10-19 117,639 (13,071/day)
>NT10 May 10-18 115,978 (14,387/day)
>NT11 October 10-19 115,099 (12,788/day)
>NT12 March 10-22 114,317 (9,526/day)
>NT13 July 10-19 83,179 (9,242/day)
>NT14 November 10-22 86,382 (7,198/day)
>NT15 April 9-17 64,993 (8,124/day)
Sales steadily declined after NT10 and went up for the first time again with NT15.
Jose Perry
Mikoto failed to bait more sales in NT13, Kamachi needs the blonde bimbo for cowtitfags bucks.
Ian Nelson
>Miki's book "Anything Goes If It's Fun: A Certain Editor's Life Work" is named after the Index series >has SAO on the cover kek >those low reviews on Amazon double kek
Lucas Rivera
Maybe Misaki is here because of Mikoto. She must've noticed she's slowly slipping down the slope of insanity.
Cooper Thompson
>failed to bait more sales Bullshit.
Cooper Cook
This is why I don't trust Miki.
Ryan Campbell
>Mikoto failed to bait more sales in NT13 I think people just lost interest in the series overall and Mikoto wasn't enough to bring them back. What would bringing Misaki in accomplish if the readers aren't invested in the series itself?
Angel Gutierrez
I guess Kuroko's role as Misaka's partner got thrown out entirely.