A Certain Magical Index

Alexey Skobkin (books) reviewed A Certain Magical Index by Kazuma Kamachi (A Certain Magical Index, #1)

Well... This is a bit better than an animated series...

3 stars

... in some parts, but I'm still reading this to reach other chapters where new characters are and non-magical part of this universe are being present. I didn't like this character pair of Toma and Index in the animated series and still can't get myself to like them in the light novel version. Maybe something will change in next volumes, but now I'm still waiting for other plot arcs.

ospalh reviewed A Certain Magical Index by Kazuma Kamachi (A Certain Magical Index, #1)

Exoticism about the Catholic church.

3 stars

Content warning About the end

This is what exoticism looks like from the recieving end. The author either didn’t know anitihng about the Roman Catholic church or didn’t care about what they knew. Yes, fiction, but when yu want to use a powerful religious institution like the one in the book, maybe don’t name it like a real one it has nothing to do with?

Also, the end, the »Final Chapter« reads very much like a re-write. The book had a perfectly fitting ending on page 200, the end of chapter 4. But no, the publisher probably wanted to turn this into a series. So we get a change much like Heinlein’s Podykayne of Mars (don’t bother reading that) got a second version.

Oh, and i did complain about the tipografy on my main fediverse account while i red this. It’s, well, i ges it’s at light novel level.

Ant

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Dec. 30, 2020

vanirax

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Jan. 1, 2022

Alexey Skobkin (books)

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May 31