There are no elections and the public has no say whatsoever in government. Everything is controlled by a board of directors who themselves are expendable.
There is extremely little real privacy. Hidden cameras cover every street and when leaving the city, students are tracked by a microchip every second. Despite this crime is widesread and is committed daily by students. Murderers walk around in broad daylight and destruction of private property and buildings by students is common.
The most pressing issue is ethics, of which there are basically none. Far from questioning the morality of it, scientists send thousands of human clones to die in gruesome ways without batting an eye. In this city, there are no people, just test subjects. But it's not just scientists who are the villains here, the students range from apathetic to psychotic, with the more powerful students falling moreso into the latter category. To this end, several students are complete trainwrecks. Shokuhou Misaki regularly takes away the free will of other students and citizens, possessing them so she can become more popular. This behaviour is not frowned upon but rather encouraged with scientists attempting to make the ability even more powerful.
Academy City is a house of glass with students running amok and stroking their egos while scientists watch them, reducing them down to a factor and probability in their inhumane experiments.
Because the man who controls memes runs the city. You literally can't say no to that.
Jaxson Jackson
AAARRRGGGHHH NOUKAN HELP ME!
Jayden Torres
AC probably has advanced VR.
Josiah Peterson
I can imagine half of the kids risking death every day in that hellhole for high quality VR porn.
Jaxon Morales
Tell me user, if someone offered to developed your latent superpowers, would you say no? If he said, that you are going to live in supermodern science/student city, with comfortable stipend away from parents? Of course he is not going to say those things you said. They maybe obvious to us, but I imagine( imagine , I don't remember how tight is leash on the press in Academic City) they don't know ...darker details.
And if you suddenly want to go back to mommy? I guess you signed so much fine print, you can't legally do it( remember you are precious research object)
Josiah Morgan
All he ever does is get assblasted when his evil plans are foiled by those darn meddling kids and their stupid Imagine Breaker
Brandon Martinez
>14. *6,583 *,*58,320 Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Vol.17
Ded?
Jeremiah Bailey
Isn't that a little higher than last novel?
Carson Robinson
>Imagine Breaker Always part of his keikaku. Hamazura on the other hand is another story.
Logan Adams
No. Japan's Weekly Light Novel Rankings for Aug 22 - 28 15. *7,273 *74,944 Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Vol.16 myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1548176
Adam Evans
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA MIKI GREENLIGHT S3
Henry Evans
Aren't there hundreds of light novel series in Japan though? Isn't #14 pretty good?
Ethan Wilson
You make Academy City sound far more interesting than it actually is.
Ian Campbell
It is. It's just bad for the series.
The problem is that the series has been advertised like shit for the last few years and its old. In other words, nothing can stop it from declining now except a new season.
Brody Ross
Who cares, you get super powers.
Aiden Taylor
Season 3 is unlikely to happen unfortunately.
Julian Smith
For the year of 2016: >19. **,281,195 Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index
Miki wants to see this franchise burn.
Bentley Sanchez
>Get shitty level 1 superpower >Die in random incident
great deal
Chase Lee
>Implying it's a sure thing 60% of the student population are level 0 fuckups
Charles Turner
>Live in AC somewhat peacefully, there was a terrorist attack but other than that its fine >Suddenly windows fucking burst >Next day a giant mantis appears and starts killing everyone >Then suddenly its over 40°C >What the fuck is happening, oh shit is that a godzilla next door >Have to survive like this 3 days >Turns out the ojous were living in a paradise, so we get our fair share >Heat wave stops and so do the giant bugs >Everyone starts panicking because apparently an ice age is coming >Suddenly we get bombarded with pressured water >Then some spiky haired douchebag half-chokes my gf and throws it at me as if it was a ragdoll, what the fuck was his problem? >Then the "sanest" Level 5, the Railgun, railguns the elevated highway for no reason >Turns out it was all VR Crazy stuff, huh
Jayden James
I believe if I life long enough in that city enough I will get level upgrade by Hamazura's girlfriend finally.
Levi Morales
What makes that so different than our current world? I'd still go there for the benefit of its technology
Charles Foster
>What makes that so different In the real world we have democracy and the people have a say.
In AC they do not. Don't like what happens in the city? Fuck you, you can't change any of it.
Hunter Torres
>The induction of the paranormal using adolescent minds and drugs was taken from the Temple of Thelema AC espers confirmed magic
Jordan Perry
>implying that there is anything wrong with being level 0 Literally all you need is a handgun and common sense, with that every esper besides half the level 5s and like two level 4s become irrelevant. You also wouldn't need powers to score top tier cute girls like Kuriba for instance.
Tyler Davis
It's pretty fucking shitty, any authoritarian wank fantasy cities usually are. But there's nothing wrong with being apathetic.
Adam Mitchell
>In the real world we have democracy and the people have a say.
Camden Ortiz
Magic > Science
Jackson Turner
I would definitely throw in the towel if I saw a crusty ass, pimped out mummy running 30+ miles an hour after a spikey haired kid and the city's poster child/walking EMP. All while throwing buildings around like wadded up paper.
Dominic Sullivan
That didn't stop Hamazura
Jacob Wilson
>turns out it was all VR
What?
Austin Martinez
>In the real world we have democracy and the people have a say. Oh boy, nice democratic (((electors))) we have. Don't ever question the fact that you can't actually leave this type of society at all and every inch of the damn planet is in it's firm grip.
Gabriel Smith
In Asian countries you need to go to a good school if you want a decent job, and that city has the best schools.
Kevin Cox
>There are no elections and the public has no say whatsoever in government. And?
Nathaniel Powell
>Dude you can never fight the man just resign yourself to being ruled Your garbage argument was curbstomped in the November election.
Benjamin Young
Is that what seriously happened? Is was all a dream?
Grayson Garcia
It was a reference to the counter shitposting to Maya's shitposting
>And third, the heat wave and Elements never actually existed. They were all a largescale virtual reality project run by Academy City’s leaders.
>“What have we here…?”
>Maya focused on that last rumor as she shook her long black hair and toyed with the radish stick between her lips like it was a cigarette or a chocolate covered snack.
I would never resign myself to being ruled, and I'll be the first to join a rebellion, but don't think that buffoon winning will change anything. Trump, Hillary, it doesn't matter. They're all under control. Anyone who is heavily invested in a capitalist economy like Trump certainly can't be too eager to destroy the establishment.
Cooper Bailey
It's a wild place where everyone can improve themselves. Yes, you have to become someone's guinea pig, but you're getting something back in exchange.
Try not to think too deep about Railgun, please. Remember the thing about the normal human who beat up Accelerator just by "pulling back on the punches just before they connected"?
Cooper Ortiz
Yet the establishment survives.
Lucas Thompson
Reverse punch is so old, Yuiitsu is the new hotness.
Levi Anderson
>Kihara Amata >Normal human
I'd sooner pick a fight with a level 5 than just about any of the Kiharas. At least I'd die faster.
Isaac Foster
>Remember the thing about the normal human who beat up Accelerator just by "pulling back on the punches just before they connected"? That weakness only exists because it was intentionally programmed in. Kihara needed a fail-safe.
What's really stupid is Accelerator destroying the glove instead of his whole hand.
Leo Miller
Japan's Yearly Manga & Light Novel Rankings for 2015 *9. *,405,666 Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index
Hudson Mitchell
Kamachi lurks the threads, ghost shitposting (among many other memes) became real.
Austin Howard
Be in a completely one-sided attraction with Frenda
Joseph Cook
This. Accelerator could easily widen their distance and just throw rocks and poles at him but he didn't do it, just like how he didn't do it when he fought Touma
Blake Lee
>just like how he didn't do it when he fought Touma Except he did, only Touma somehow avoided those things.
Dylan Parker
I wonder who is behind this post.
Brayden Scott
We always say, "just chuck shit at him," but has that ever actually worked outside of Othinus? His dodging game is fucking ridiculous.
Colton Perez
He just won't die
Ayden Gutierrez
Crap, that is a new low for this series
Benjamin Murphy
>but has that ever actually worked outside of Othinus And didn't even that stop working near the end?
Julian Thompson
Archetype Controller does exactly what the name says, that's why.
Owen Butler
He's fast
Xavier Lopez
I couldn't care less if he has a dick or not at this point
William Adams
If Accelerator drops something really big, like an aircraft carrier, on Touma I'm pretty sure he'll die
Julian Nelson
Othinus fucking pulverized his lower half and he was still alive and making a speech. He's as resistant as a normal highschool boy.
James Moore
Nah, he'll probably survive in a hole or something. People tried to drop a 40km? diameter castle on him and it didn't work.
Ryder Robinson
The students tend to have been sent to live there when very young.
And as the series established early on, they don't really have anywhere else to go as organizations all over the world are happy to kidnap and dissect even level 0s to try to reverse engineer what academy city did.
The real question is why their parents basically gave them all up and sent them there.
The amusing part is that most of the main characters live there and slowly come to understand that they live in a pretty evil place, but have no choice but to keep fighting against the outside forces that keep trying to destroy the only home they've got.
Jaxon Williams
>…The ninth shot ignored the concept of numbers.
>The arrows that fell from above colored the night sky like fireworks and glittered like stars covering the heavens. Every single one of them was fatal, but Kamijou did not freeze up. No matter how torrentially they rained down, there was always a safe space left to step in.
I'd be more surprised if it did hit him.
Ayden Martin
Accel should just shoot him.
Sebastian Murphy
sasuga normal highschool boy
Nolan Torres
No one gives a fuck in Detroit anymore.
t. someone who lives in the state
Chase Gonzalez
Are you a melanin enriched gentleman of nubian origin?
Hudson James
>Gender unknown >Likes cosplaying You aren't fooling anyone Kamachi
Owen Bell
I wonder how Kamachi feels about this.
The author usually doesn't have much say when it comes to coroporate decisions like promotional material. He can write something better than NT9 and WW3 combined and it would still sell less than the previous volume.
That's got to fucking suck.
Aiden Powell
>corporate* Fuck you keyboard.
Austin Phillips
Considering he writes 4+ novels at once I don't think he cares too much, especially since two characters from one of his newer works hit top 10 in one of the bigger polls.
Jeremiah Wilson
I mean, he's writing shit for free on his website. I can't even see Kamachi doing anything with his money anyway, he'd probably be fine making a living and getting to keep writing.
Tyler Torres
If Code Geass can get a sequel, If CCS can get a sequel, then s-surely Index can get a sequel too right?
Levi Campbell
He would probably dodge the bullet
Christopher Evans
Because Misaka lives there.
Elijah Clark
Etzali please
Hunter James
Any time now
Ryder Torres
One would think that after fucking WWIII Kamachi would keep at least some level of quality but NT so far has been a rollercoaster of highs and lows isn't even funny.
Not when your series is this long for fucks sake. Was he trying to experiment with his writing because compared to his other series like ZW or HO that objectively got better NT writing quality pales in comparison.
And it pains me but even fucking Blood Sign got better and I hate his MC.
Aiden Harris
RIP Kuroko.
Nolan Scott
The quality has nothing to do with sales.
Evan Collins
Index is stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Can a season of OT really help NT when it's probably ending soon-ish?
Seeing as this likely won't be the endgame arc, and having a LN go past volume 30 is foolish, there probably will be a third series.
So do you adapt the rest of OT near the end of NT to get people interested in NT?
The medium of light novels itself is fucking over the series now. Since the series is absurdly long and releases are spaced out, people don't want to buy all these volumes to buy them. Index would've been better off as a manga in the long run.
Jace Martinez
>Etzali actually went and stayed in AC for Misaka
Asher Diaz
I don't necessarily agree with this.
NT seems like it's been all over the place but in reality, Kamachi's style is to make shit go down during major arcs, like WW3 and Othinus arc.
NT11-17 was the OT1-13 of NT, as in it was just a bunch of set up. Maybe he would've been better off just doing consecutive big arcs, instead of the set up volumes in between.
Joshua Scott
Anyone know how many lolis Index has? I think someone counted them all up before.
Eli Ross
Haven't seen the show, but if the city is really that horrible, the creators would do better to actually show that.
From that picture, it looks like any other nice, pseudo futuristic city that's very well taken care of.
Ethan Williams
>There are no elections and the public has no say whatsoever in government. Why should students have a say in how the school is run? Why should employees have a say in how the business is run?
The real concern is that even if you don't like it, you can't leave, plus the roving rape gangs of level 0s everywhere.
James Sanchez
>From that picture, it looks like any other nice, pseudo futuristic city that's very well taken care of. That's called having a good PR and information manipulation team, which is indeed a plot point.
Anthony Thompson
That's the point. The dark side of the city being exposed later on was supposed to feel like a huge tonal shift.
Also they can't have it looking like shit if they're trying to convince parents to send their kids.
Matthew Taylor
The heavily militarized police are actually very good at keeping order and forcing any delinquency into the back alleys where nobody can see them. The incidence of rape gangs is overrepresented in the story itself because they're apparently the only way Nagai knows how to present any kind of threat to Saten.
Carter Cooper
If only Saten would stop going to those back alleys.
Liam Lewis
I want to throatfuck Mugino~
Nathaniel Smith
This is your Kihara for the night
Nathaniel Garcia
>Maybe he would've been better off just doing consecutive big arcs, instead of the set up volumes in between. The fact you van see why it didn't work shows the flaws of the writing.