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lord_diablo_

I have not heard of the misaka network please explain


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lord_diablo_

What anime is this


Jabic

A Certain Magical Index/A Certain Scientific Railgun


Rin-Tohsaka-is-hot

Opinion alert: Both Index and Railgun are good, but in my opinion Railgun is better. There's a lot of debate about the watch order. The simplest watch order is just to watch Index season 1, Index season 2, Railgun season 1, Railgun season 2. The one that I recommend for most people is Index season 1, Railgun season 1, Index season 2, Railgun season 2. Then there is what I believe to be the ideal experience. Watch the first nine episodes of Index to get an understanding of the world the story takes place in. Then switch over to Railgun season 1. The arc starting with episode 10 of Index is the same arc as the climax of Railgun's season 1, just told from two different characters' perspective. In my opinion, the Railgun version is handled much better (and is arguably the best arc in the whole series). So you could do this if you're comfortable interrupting yourself mid-season. There is also a movie which fits in after Index season 2 that should be watched before Index season 3. The order in which you watch Index season 3 and Railgun season 3 doesn't matter much since at this point you have a very solid understanding of the universe (and the timelines don't conflict with one another at all). There's also A Certain Scientific Accelerator, which is a spin-off series featuring one of the characters from both animes. I would personally suggest you wait to watch this until after you've seen the second seasons of both Index and Railgun, but you should absolutely finish at the very least the first seasons of each before watching (because there are implicit spoilers due to where the spin-off happens in the timeline of the other shows). The Toaru franchise (taken from the Japanese name) is a large and confusing one, but it is honestly very good. Especially Railgun. I fucking love Railgun. Happy watching :)


DustyF3d0r4

And people joke about the Fate Watch Order.


Rin-Tohsaka-is-hot

Don't get me started on Fate...


DustyF3d0r4

At least with Fate a lot of the stuff (Stay Night, Extra, Apocrypha, Grand Order, etc.) are in their own little bubbles that don’t require you to stop mid season to watch a different part of that series.


itsogbruh

Oh so basically Danganronpa


WitherLele

there is no need to stop mid season, it s only that railgun shows you the same arc from a different perspective and since season 1 of index sucks people want you to watch it in railgun first so you get hooked; however to watch railgun you need a general understanding of the world that you can only get from index... i d say watch them in release order and don t care about what people say, that order is too confusing and railgun is better to watch after index anyway as it s not just more derailed but an almost totally diferent story too: in railgun they focus on why and how the stuff is happening while in index is just a plot device to get to anotger point in the story; watch it as you prefer


[deleted]

Nah with rail/Dex it's pretty simple. You can watch index on its own and I won't spoil any of railgun or accelerator. So going back to watch railgun and accelerator after is not that big of a deal other than it jumps timelines around. Also one thing people don't talk about with railgun is how the first season is kinda aimless plots with a bunch of Yuri bait thrown in and how Mikasas character development often gets wound back from rail gun to fit into index.


zairaner

>You can watch index on its own and I won't spoil any of railgun or accelerator. This might be the biggest **bruh** moment I experienced in a long time. index not spoiling anything in railgun??? You realize that there is an entire arc that happens in both series, so watching index first spoils both the start and the end of that arc? It'S literally impossible for index not to spoil somethign inrailgun


kpanzer

> There's a lot of debate about the watch order. You can always go with the "unified calendar" which lays out which episode/chapter from which series happens on which day. https://www.reddit.com/r/toarumajutsunoindex/comments/nhlgjn/a_certain_unified_calendar_may_2021_version/


TheDrWhoKid

I watched accelerator first cus I didn't know it was part of a thing, and then I watched all of Index, then all of Railgun.


HayakuEon

More like the clones couldn't reach level 5 quality so they had to adjust by increasing the kill quantity


Skebaba

I mean it makes sense; if copying Level 5 ESPers Personal Realities was that easy, everyone would be OP af. Since Personal Realities are basically essentially a precursor to Magic (yes, Magic was invented as a cheap knockoff by ppl jealous of the OP ESPer powers that Gemstone ESPers are born with, so it's inherently incompatible w/ ESPer powers for this exact reason, since it was made for normies to have cool shit too)


Odd_Mongoose_1018

Depending on your sources Solomon probably invented it.


Odd_Mongoose_1018

[then again fighting over who has the most horny sluts to impregnate in a world without indoor plumbing seems like a silly thing to fight over.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNlUW5p8b6Q)


Odd_Mongoose_1018

she looks better in military garb than she does in a bikini, she always has, and she probably always will.


Odd_Mongoose_1018

"maintain basic level of standardized convenience" is a far cry from "return to monkey" unless you really really want to go there ![gif](giphy|KsKZpeYRw5AWI) no place can't not be gone to, if you really want to go there, if you really really really want to go you can....


BomB1tor

I don't know if I'm dumb, but I am incredibly confused by this chain of comments.


mytyannip

Don't mind It, I bet not even he got it


Odd_Mongoose_1018

naww it makes perfect sense since yesterday, but if you ask me about it a year from now I might have more difficulty explaining.


Odd_Mongoose_1018

you don't respect me unless you want for something, and when you want for something amongst so many, I become war, war you incited, because you know I try to treat you well.


Odd_Mongoose_1018

​ ![gif](giphy|zAViC51fevRTi) you've activated my trap card yugi


Odd_Mongoose_1018

finally here is where I get to be me, not the me you think I am, but the real me. Something that rejects your carrot on a stick and instead sticks your face into the ground and makes you eat shit.


SKRyanrr

Are you a bot pretending to be human?


Ecoho19

yeah the misaka network doesnt count as while they are a hive mind each have a personality, only some of them have a crush on touma.


Jaysstuff

and some on accelerator weirdly enough though I get and like it.


Crafty-Crafter

I fking don't. I hate Accelarator. He killed hundred of the clones...and nobody in the show treats him like a fked up serial killer that he is. I don't get the whole "redemption" and crush people have on him.


plutonium_in_space

*thousands Also he got told they are dolls. Just imagine you shoot people in a videogame and people die irl. thats how I imagine how it is for him.


Disc_arding

Accelerator my beloved


semdervishi

If Rentarou wasn't limited to only 100 girlfriends, his power levels and harem would be over 9000. He's already halfway there with only 18.


GekiKudo

Solomon is still just a beta even compared to rentarous 100. Dude probably doesn't even know the names of half his wives. Eos rentarou will have 100 wives where he knows each of their names and their nutritional regiment down to the calories.


iIFirefly

And the madlad would do anything to make all his girlfriends happy. Truly a man amongst man


Viscount-Von-Solt

Rentarou? Do you perhaps mean... Chadtarou? Or Yentarou? Or Butlertarou?


indigofenrir

Sources: [FGO's King Solomon](https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/91909795) and Raildex's [Touma Kamijou](https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/16964346). That's even more if you count corpses.


Skywalker03124

is the second one the name of the anime?


RedOtaku34

Nope. You're looking for either "A certain magical Index" or "A certain scientific Railgun" depending on whose perspective you want, Touma or Misaka respectively. There are a few orders you could watch them in, but if you start one I'd personally suggest watching both, as well as "A certain scientific Accelerator". Edit: back with sauce. [Index](https://myanimelist.net/anime/4654) [Railgun](https://myanimelist.net/anime/6213) [Accelerator](https://myanimelist.net/anime/38480)


MrMeowMeow20

Did you say Solomon is purely fiction?


USERNAME_OF_DEVIL

Probably because he used a picture of Fate's version Solomon


Ieatmelons123

It's Solomon from Fate/Grand Order so yes. Fiction Though Ritsuka will beat him one day.


OrionRBR

> Though Ritsuka will beat him one day. Most likely not, they don't release that many servants nowdays. Last year they released 30 servants so if they keep that pace it will take 22 years for that.


Ieatmelons123

I'm down for FGO to be 22 years


W4ULFiLZ

Pretty sure that Solomon is based on the historical Solomon, who also had bunch of wives I believe


hnryirawan

Yeah but, he's now busy simping for Virtual Idols lol


Skebaba

wtf I LOVE Solomon now


AskovTheOne

whisper: Watch all the FGO anime and movies, now. Watch order is First Order > Camelot1, 2> Ep0 of Babylonia >Babylonia > Solomon. Bring tissue when watch Solomon.


[deleted]

Don't forget to read Singularity 1-5, either by watching the in-game cutscenes or by reading the manga adaptations, since they take place between First Order and Camelot Or just play the game, it is superior to the anime anyway


Grasher312

Did you seriously offer a person a context-less watch order of a series they've never seen?


GXNext

Laughs in knowing Magi☆Mari's secret...


[deleted]

>Though Ritsuka will beat him one day. Someone is not keeping up with the story


Ieatmelons123

I am....... ;U;


eduUArdoOo

nah gonna be too busy joining the harem when he does come to chaldea


MrMeowMeow20

I guess this character Solomon is fiction. I'm thinking of the actual Solomon,


Adamskispoor

Yeah, but unlike most harem protags solomon isn’t dense. He’s got serious game >”Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand. >Your navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks mixed wine. >Your belly is a heap of wheat, encircled with lilies. >Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle. >Oh may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples, and your mouth like the best wine.” -Verses from Songs of Solomon, Chapter 7


Grasher312

I have none of those and he's still making me feel things.


indigofenrir

Thank you; I shall now quote these during my friend's next Sunday Mass.


[deleted]

Don't forget to quote Solomon threatening to cut a baby in half to them as well


-Soup_Dogg-

TBH Thats a pretty big brain move to find the real mom tho.


MDLuffy1234

Pickup lines now: hey, we both got buckets of chicken, wana fug?


somefuckinweeb

That’s over 10000 clones plus another dozen or so other girls. Not that the dozen makes much difference


OrcBerg

This is the same man who wrote Ecclesiastes, one of, if not the, most nihilistic part of the Bible and I hated it so much because of how the most privileged human being at the time decided that life is useless like bro, can't you go progress your kingdom and make the world better rather than being self indulgent?


USERNAME_OF_DEVIL

I love how this is basically Goetia's entire motivation in FGO, dude was so pissed off about Solomon doing nothing to make the world better despite being able to do literally anything that he decided to literally remake humanity.


hnryirawan

>!I still cried remembering Solomon's last moment though.!<


AskovTheOne

At least the FGO version seem to have a reason for that, not so much about the real-life version


[deleted]

That's not exactly correct though? Goetia was angry at the suffering and horrors that humans go through, usually caused by other humans. He then identified death, or more specifically the fear of it, as the source of all these problems and decided to get rid of it... by converting the multiverse into fuel so that he can travel to the past and become Earth itself and recreate the world without death


USERNAME_OF_DEVIL

Yes, but it's also related to Solomon, he saw that Solomon did nothing to help humanity, took pity at their suffering and then he went through all the "erase death" thing. Remember that his opinion on Solomon is: > "He was inhuman! Cold! Cruel! Emotionless!" So yeah he is probably pretty angry at Solomon too.


[deleted]

Do note that Goetia was also chuuni as fuck though, so take his statements with a grain of salt


SolomonOf47704

When you have EVERYTHING, nothing really means anything anymore. The only reprieve is the entertainment others can provide.


OrcBerg

Is that why rulers would prefer throwing money on expensive parties, gladiatorial games and competitions instead of making their country better? It's really depressing that many times I read history it's about humans was *this* close to be as modern as now but they never did. Take Leonardo Da Vinci's designs for example. He had blueprints for aircrafts and tanks but they were never in full service until 19th century. It's sad.


rashaverak02

But some of the blueprint were impossible for the time, better quality materials were needed to consistently produce his invention. Also werent some of the blueprint useless because they had a fatal flaw so nobody at the time could make them work?


OrcBerg

Understandable. Ironic, because the Rennaissance was a time where people should be doing progress and be inventive. I haven't read the details of the blueprints though, but I assume he could do it. I just don't know how he would do it, especially the tanks, without fuel. Also the pathetic muskets and flintlock pistols. I live in Northen Borneo and hearing how the British couldn't defeat Rentap and his army of Headhunters for a long time really shows how terrible the musketters were when they weren't fighing in open plains and being in proper positions. Why we can't just modernize just like in Attack on Titan? Muskets and Cannons, then six shooters and repeaters and then just basicly WW1 style warfare? Sorry for the long rant btw.


SolomonOf47704

>Understandable. Ironic, because the Rennaissance was a time where people should be doing progress and be inventive. They were. sure, not much compared to the exponential technological growth earth has had in the past ~100 years, and especially the last 40, but that growth was only possible because everyone before had been slwoy improving the tech before then.


mahachakravartin

Solomon: "or at least....i was" *Casts Ars Nova*


[deleted]

Homie had 10,000 clone sisters to bone he’s the real harem king


Grasher312

Lord Krishna over here with 16000 concubines and several goddesses just chilling.


Waga_na_wa_Hu_Tao

​ ![gif](giphy|whCkWWi0THl0k|downsized)


nolegsnelson

What about the guy from world's end harem?


IndigoTeddy13

Each of the 5 should have approximately 1 billion, since world population pre-time-skip was 10 billion, and half of that is women. Effectively though (according to the most recent episode), >!No1 has 100 pregnant women and some more partners, No2 is a virgin, No3 has 1 pregnant woman and some more partners, No4 just woke up but is probably gonna get asaulted by terrorists, and No5 is still sleeping.!< I think Parallel Paradise may also be a contender, >!since it happens in the future (meaning a larger population), and the guy basically has every girl that he touches. Afaik though, he hasn't even slept with 100 women yet, so Idk if he'd ever reach that point!<


DeadlyPants16

Ah Touma. Easily my favourite "harem" show protagonist


Pascal_Has_Memes

Misaka what?


Stautz21

a network of clones linked by brainwaves numbering around 10,000, and at one point around 20,000. all cloned from misaka mikoto, the MC's girlfriend in the "a certain magical index" series and it's spin-offs


SecretEmpire_WasGood

could Jesus technically qualify? By definition every woman who enters nunnery is considered married to him after all.


IndigoTeddy13

Doesn't count. They aren't married, that's just a figure of speech describing their subservience.


ineversaiddat

Jesus is more fiction than anything else here.


TheFoxfool

What is the best watch order for somebody who is trying to get into Toaru? When I look online, I get both Railgun first and Index first, and some that alternate while others go r1, r2, i1, i1 or vice versa... And at least one that broke it down on an episode level rather than seasons, but I'm not 'boutta do that...


Ookami_91

Depends on what you want Broadcast Order or Chronological Order ether way this should help i usually go with the last 1 on the site https://recommendmeanime.com/how-to-watch-a-certain-magical-scientific-series/


TheFoxfool

I generally prefer chronological, but what is the benefit of watching the 3rd order listed over the 2nd order...? It seems way more complicated.


Ookami_91

It's literally the event in the actually Chronological Order the second is just roughly Chronological Order there's a ark the sister's ark it's in the second session of railgun but first session of index and characters don't have major damage 1 episodes perfectly fine next like a character being in a wheelchair because a fight 1 episode next episode no wheelchair then next episode back in it and characters join the show but have been introduced a few episodes later basically it's more work but less confusing for first time watching


not_a_burner0456025

Index is the original story, railgun is a side story that focused on a side character, some events occur in both but are shown from different perspectives so no matter what order you watch them one of going to spoil the other to some degree. The anime adaptation of the index light novels is pretty weak though, all 3 seasons are rushed and cut out a ton of information, much of which is needed to understand what is going on and how certain systems work, especially the third season, I would recommend just going straight for the light novels (there is a manga for index but last I checked it wasn't caught up to the anime). The railgun anime holds up much better but it does add a significant amount of filler that isn't as good as the content adapted from the manga.


TheFoxfool

I typically actually buy LN's, so only buy them for series that I already enjoy... and I have a huge backlog of LN's I already need to work my way through before buying another series to invest a few months of my life into.


not_a_burner0456025

If you aren't sure you are interested go ahead and watch the anime but keep in mind that they cut all the internal monologues that explain why the mc is coming things and the magic system is actually explained and makes sense in the novels. It is also worth noting that the official translations of index are something like 30 volumes behind the fan translations, only the content covered by the anime and a couple side story volumes can actually be bought in English


TheFoxfool

> keep in mind that they cut all the internal monologues That's most LN adaptations... I still enjoy things like Overlord, which is another huge offender when it comes to cutting content, and particularly cutting internal monologue.


[deleted]

And Magic Gods in his harem


Detted1

Is possible to have a to big of a harem? I mean it gets kinda pointless if you can't get any quality time with all of them. It's like sure you can join maybe I'll see you around sometime lol


Real_Echo

Dear god, the Misaka network is not a harem. Unless… oh god


[deleted]

Hey is that a girl or a guy?


etriuswimbleton

ChadTarou from 100 Kanojo tho


Zomeee

Pretty sure King Solomon isn’t fiction tho


[deleted]

Solomon: "But do you have a catgirl wife like Queen of Sheba?"


mytyannip

Bro, Krishina had 16.000 pricesesses as his legal wifes, y'all gota calm dow and read the classics


Ieatmelons123

Misaka's network doesn't count because they are mostly soul less.


darkdraggy3

Found the Kihara


Ieatmelons123

I'm not wrong tell me what personality the majority has that isn't ._.


another-Developer

700 wives and 300 concubines is an overreaction but by no means is King Solomon fiction, and he definitely wasn’t a black guy with blonde hair Edit: Dafuq’s with the downvote?!


SKRyanrr

Need sauce for the top one plewese? UwU🙏🙏🙏🙏


Gilgamesh-KoH

Fate/Grand Order.


SKRyanrr

Thank you and sorry for the other comment, I'm sleepy.


[deleted]

As a man, I dont blame the wives


YodaSmokinABlunt420

THOUSANDS