Am I Sleeping On This Anime?!?! All Toaru Series Openings Reaction 

RIP singer Maon Kurosaki she passed away this February, her death was truly shocking. She sang both openings of season 3 of Index and for me opening 2 of season 3 that she sang is arguably the one of the best anime openings ever. She will be missed...

this is one of the only anime i've seen mixing science and magic while actually pulling it off.

The fights in Railgun, Index, and Accelerator are AMAZING. Especially the final fight in Railgun T. The budget was through the roof for it.

The Toaru series is so deep and well written. Such a large universe to learn about and get hooked on. The light novels and mangas are incredible and the anime got me hooked originally. Very much love to see reactions to the openings!

THANK YOU, this show is very populair especially in japan because of it's light novel being the best selling light novel for a long time. it's like the mcu of anime

this series is AMAZING but the original novels are the best way to go imo

It's been a while since I watched To Aru series and this just brings me a lot of nostalgia. Also, if I still remember it correctly "Railgun" is about the science-side of the anime, while "Index" is more focused on the magic side. The male MC is someone who's involved in both sides so you kinda see him in both. "Accelerator" is about a notable character in the series whom have also wandered of on both the magic and science side of the story.

The To Aru franchise (excluding index season 3) and especially Railgun are some of my favorite shows of all time. It’s just really well executed.

I love seeing you react exactly how I do every time I listen to these openings. it's actually my favorite anime series of all time and I'm so glad people are still getting into it to this day.

My favorite character of the Toaru series is definitely Touma Kamijou. He’s really like the most virtuous person and he always seeks to help the most fallen people in all forms that would change their life

11:46 The white hair upside down person is the aizen but better. His name is Aleister Crowley,he is OP AF.......bro is one of the great character in this series

This series is one of my favorite of all time and 'm watching anime for 20 yrs. This series is so unique the power system, plot and characters 👌🏻 If you have time checked the light novel and manga too

Toaru series is the best anime series I've ever watched, and I watched it 2 years ago. It's truly amazing. It's also about to be the first time ever I rewatch an anime (This video made me a bit nostalgic) Edit: "This opening alone makes me want to watch the series" BRO SAME, "masterpiece" by Mami Kawada was the only reason I picked up this anime, it's so fire

Toaru Openings go absolutely CRAZY

Honestly did not think they got Othinus from New Testament in the OP 2 of Imaginary Fest. I know that they are in-game characters alongside Thor and others from the magic side but did not know they made an OP with them in it. Pretty dope tho to see a moving animation of Othinus.

The Toaru is probably one of my favorite anime series just because of how its structured let alone how good the actual story itself and the characters.

He loved my favorite OP ,the S2, until the Maon Kurosaki's opus magnum in S3. I can't believe she's gone. She was one of the legends from my earlier anime days along side Kotoko, Mami Kawada, Mayn', Fripside, Altima, Nano and many more.

Good choice bro, Toaru series opening's and ending's on top 💪💪 Been listening to them for the past 2 years, it seems as if they never get boring

You can watch each series on it's own, by release date (what the opening playlist did) or in a chronological order. All of them work fine, with chronological order being the easiest to follow, but also the most annoying since you'll have to constantly switch between episodes of index and railgun mid arcs. If you're not too invested in the franchise yet I suggest just picking index or railgun season 1 without thinking too much about it.

index s3 op2 is one of the best ops i've ever seen in my life dawg that shit is so fire. the sad part is that season kinda blows but the LN content is definitely fucking straight fire especially for that arc. they definitely show more love to railgun which is kinda sad but idm it too much since i love the mc a lot

Hooboi this is a very very long series in the light novels(a type of novel in Japan) spanning 53 volumes on the Index side alone with the latest one being released this month and is still continuing. The 3 seasons of anime covered 22 volumes with the latter part being rushed. Basically how this works is each series is following a main character in the one side of the story(The magic side and the science side) though Index delves into both. Certain Magical Index follows Touma(spiky hair dude) and Index(the Nun in white) Certain Scientific Railgun follows Misaka(short haired girl with brown color) Certain Scientific Accelerator follow Accelerator(white haired dude) If you want to watch this it's best to do it on release order, you can also only watch Index series alone or Railgun series alone but the Accelerator one wants you to watch either or both first before diving into it. If you want to watch this in chronological order you can go A certain Scientific Railgun A certain Scientific Railgun S(2nd season) A certain Magical Index I A certain Scientific Accelerator A certain Magical Index II A certain Scientific Railgun T(3rd season) after this point it's better to read it instead because the adaptation is so messy/rushed it's hard to understand what's going on. A certain Magical Index III

The Toaru series is a franchise that happen in the same universe. -Index follow Touma (a unluck Guy with the souly Black hair) and Index (the little nun with bluish hair); -Railgun is a spin-off that follow Misaka one of the (kind of) homies of Touma and her friends, also it shows certain Events for her perspective and more stuff that we only know by name that happen in Index; -in Accelerator, we follow a Guy called Acellerator. He's kind like the Vegeta of Touma, friend/enemy/rival of Touma. His spin-off Works almost like Railgun. It shows Events in the dark side of the universe more often and Accelerator and the fell ones he's closed with facing it.

In "Toaru" there is magic and churches fight against mages and each other in secret. At the same time there is the academic city where students with science are given Esper powers. These powers are classefied in levels according to strength: from level 0, failure, no power, to level 5, unstoppable. Index is about a student who is level 0 but secretly has the power to neutralise anything supernatural. He meets Index, a girl who cannot cast magic but has hundreds of powerfull magic books sealed inside her. Railgun is about the third strongest level 5 Esper. She can control electrons and can use them to create lightning, magnetism, hack computers and fire metal objects like a railgun. Her friend can teleport and works for a kind of city guard. Excelerator is about the strongest Esper. He can change the direction of anything that moves and touches him. Since he is the strongest, he is constantly challenged, so he tries to defeat them as brutally as possible so that he is not harassed further. "Toaru" is mostly about mages attacking the city or index or scientists trying unethical experiments.

Please do a reaction to this entire series. It's my all time favourite!

To Aru is a pretty interesting franchise, my personal fav is Railgun, the focus in it is just right up my alley.

Many of the OP's for Railgun were sung by Yoshino Nanjō as a member of a Electro House/Dance duo called Fripside, but she's best known as the VA of Eli Ayase from the original LoveLive School Idol project

The pink hair lady is a teacher, and yes I said lady because she has dwarfism and is at time mistaken for a child. It's played off as a laugh but I don't think everyone would agree. There are two reasons why, but I go with the scientific reason why and not the Twitter reason why. 😂

Its a great franchise. Its 3 main storie lines all centered in 1 cirty. Index follows magic users, Railgun focuses on on Mikoto Misaki and her friends on the esper(scientific power) side of things, and Accelerator is aplot following one of the villans in Railgun(also follows esper)

The fights are crazy good, lots of characters in a shared world between the three different series. In fact Index and Railgun go over a certain event from two different viewpoints. Consistent characters between the three series. Most certainly worth a watch. Start with Index 1 to see if you like the style and then Railgun 1. Slightly different feels but overall consistant and worth watching.

Around 10 years ago, my playlist was full of songs from Fripside (Railgun) & Kawada Mami ( Index + Shakugan no Shana OST)

It's an amazing series. While there is a chronological order you can do, watching in release order won't hurt at all. Although there will be points in Index and Railgun where they share the same arc, but we get different perspectives.

yeah railgun is about the coin girl because they call her railgun. the white hair dude is called accelerator and the mc from index isn't named index but touma. index is the name of the nun that goes around with him. this show is magic and science combined and mostly about the city they are in which combines those 2 things. index is like the main show and storyline and the mc of index is the mc of all the shows combined so the timeline is about him with sort of side stories about the other main characters and him showing up in their shows as well and the other main characters showing up in each others stories as well. if you watch index alone you won't miss much because that's the main story but i reccomend watching accelerator and railgun along with it

Railgun and Accelerator are coprotagonists of Index and their series are spinoffs from the main story that's leaded by the pointed hair boy, Imaginary Festa is a mobile game, but they love so much this Toaru franchise that they even made that last opening

yeah i remember seeing that video it was on top 5i'm pretty sure and i recommended reacting to this at the time

You mentioned the animation quality a few times, especially during the later openings. Index and Railgun both had a seven-year gap between their second and third seasons, so there's a very noticeable jump in the animation.

Season 1 of Railgun and Index are parallel views of the same events, though they progress at different rates through them not lining up episode numbers with each other. Much of the rest of the series is independent, though they do occasionally tie in major events for some of the characters who cross over between the various main plotlines.

This series overall is decent (at least anime, maybe light novels are better), but I still love it. I would say the strongest side of this anime are characters, while there is a lot medioker characters, there is also a bunch of really great ones, and... Accelerator (the white hair guy) is imo one of the best characters I have seen in anime and my top1 favourite. At first he is just your edgy teen that hates the world, but the more you get to know him, why he is like that and how he slowly changes later in the series makes him really great. Ah also about the series itself, it's based on a light novel series that has 50+ volumes and is still releasing. Main series Index is a dark urban fantasy based directly on a light novel. Then you have Railgun which is everyones favourite, it is more lighthearted and gives a new light to more important arcs from Index and ofc gives new content, it's based on a spinoff manga. Then you have Accelerator spinoff that is also based on a other spinoff manga, a lot of people not like this spinoff, but I enjoyed it. If you want to start with this series I would say Railgun is probably the best choice, while Index has a lot darker tone, Railgun is just better and season 2 of this series gives much more of a impact about certain arc than Index also has.

Toaru's... I don't know how to feel about Toaru. It rotates between "this is the coolest shit I've ever seen" and "...well that was dumb." Even moreso when you get into the novels and manga the anime is based on and you get the additional question "wait why did the anime cut that bit, that seemed really important-" Still, it gets massive points from me for having one of its main protagonists be an electricity wielder because it's easily one of the coolest powers to see in action in anything.

I never understand how could this series not famous in the west…

Best light novel ive ever read, what a goated franchise overall. Good to see more people getting to know this series :) regardless of the mid adaptation index sadly got

Just watch it in production order. The series is about the underground world of the occult vs a super advanced city of future technology thst has a program to give people Esper Powers and how the MC gets tangeled up in it. Railgun and Accelerator are spin off stories in the same universe following the side characters.

I really like the to aru series so getting someone new to watch would be great. And yes the fight scenes are pretty fire. Not all of them of course but most of them go hard

Oh lord, he is finally awake. u late king

17:55 Yep they fight each other and its not just one time but 3 time later in the series.......the fight honestly really brutal.......

Fun fact: all of the 'Railgun' openings were done by Fripside.

Nice reactions and commentary.

I need to go finish this anime. The lore and the fights had me hooked. Magic vs science, who will win? 🤣

The white hair guy solos Goku and Satiama at the same time.

I believe there is a way to watch the series. I know that index season 1 and 2 came out before Railgun but Railgun season 1 and 2 occur before Index season one. Some seasons of later Railgun take place at the same time as Index. Believe Railgun season 3 is during season one of index. You would have to look up a watching guide to know the chronological order.

I 12,000% percent recommed these series, if you want a looong, complex, complicated, cute, giant cast anime with wild ass fight scenes. The cute is super kawaii. The violence can be mega violent. The dark shite will make you feel blind. The inspirational shite will have you smiling huge. There's a couple of scenes that WILL haunt you. It's great.

we index fans love to see the series getting hype

19:52 it looks tough cuz its a world war 3 magic vs science, magic side is basically the nuns and those that arent japanese, the science part is those students including the white haired dude and the black hair

You have to catch up, Bro! The opening of Railgun is by fripSide. The To Aru series is excellent. Start with Magical Index. Out of all of these characters my favorites are Misaka and Accelerator! Gotta watch !

10:39 Hearing someone acknowledge the existence of Absolute Duo after so long felt like taking a punch to the face, fucking hell

From the reaction I can tell you would probably enjoy it the most if you watched the whole Index first, then you can decide if you want to give railgun a watch later on, Accelerator is short but interesting too, you probably would have a good time with that one too.

I love the kind of big elongated eyes style 😂

Its science vs magic. A conflict between 2 factions. There are people with abilities developed through scientific means like Espers/ESP and such and those who can actually use magic as well as people who can manifest gods power and miracle. Majutsu no index is the main story. Railgun and Accelerator are side stories. Railgun features misaka mikoto. One of the few lvl5 Espers of the academy city and also the 2nd heroine in the main story. Accelerator on the other hand is the antagonist of the sisters arc in both the index and railgun stories.

fights are lit

i love how the to aru series basically spoils us with the misaka clones but at the same time they don't? Coz you'd assume it's just misaka herself and not sum other person that looks like her lol

Basically in the toaru series there's 2 sides. Magic side (index) and science side (railgun). In the index, we follow the male MC adventure getting involved with mages and all their problem and occasionally solving some problem in the science side. In the railgun, we follow the female MC encountering problems that involved the espers in the academy city and occasionally brushed with the magic side. The science side didn't know the existance of mages but the magic side know of espers because academy city (the city of espers) is well known as the forefront of scientific advancement and knowledge while the mages are hiding themself from public eyes.

Nice reaction 💪

Yeeess a New reaction to toaru series op

I'm a bit biased but Index is my favorite anime of all time ❤

Edit: Gigguk and MrHunteru have good vids describing the series. You can decide to watch afterwards.

If you are going to watch this series, I recommend Railgun, as it is the most enjoyable anime of all the others. Apparently this one has the best staff between Accelerator and Index

you can basically watch the anime seasons in the same order you watched the Ops

it has been 10 years but railgun inspired me so much and i'm sad people are now just watching it. Younger generation is really missing out.

you do need to watch raildex! its one of the best sci-fi/fantasy animes out there like you guess there are factions , the story is about a city that is embroiled in a cold war between the major factions of science and magic with both sides having heros and villans in it , and there is an internal time line its luckily all written by the same person so that helps with the major sagas and keeping track of all the moving pieces for watch order heres my thought as railgun is written as a spin off and assumes you know Index stuff , watch index S1, railgun S1, Index 2 and 3, railgun S2 and S3, ignore the accelerator spin off , and wait for index S4 or read the light novels starting at index NT

18:55 he just described season 3 of index perfectly.

Index is the main story while the others are spin off's the stories is basically a mix between Fantasy magic and Science fiction highly recommend it.

Index is the main line series, rail gun and Accelerator are cutoffs from the main line but, like a marvel movie all the stories are intertwined at certain points so really...you can start with any of the three but its best to start with Index.

I wouldnt say theres a stricts watch order but the events from some of the arcs overlap throughout the different series (Mostly Index with Railgun)

Toaru series is so complex so tight so well written, with so good characters, there is a very few animes I can say the same. And I fcking love Misaka.

23:44 with the birds....

15:05 Both show run concurrently. Indew MC and Railgun MC have always known each other. Index is more focused on magic, Railgun is more science and human experimentation. Railgun, her power is electrical force. Sidekick girl is clearly teleporting. Most everyone has very different abilities.

5:38 There's 3 series; Index, Railgun, and Accelerator. The watch order is weird, and you won't necessarily like all 3 of them. Index is the original and fallows the black haired MC in the white shirt, Railgun follows the the brown haired girl, and Accelerator follows the white haired dude.

some people recommend the watch order to be how they aired being index first etc I personally would recommend this, then again I have read the light novels so yea lol. A Certain Scientific Railgun A Certain Scientific Railgun S A Certain Magical Index A Certain Magical Index II A Certain Scientific Accelerator A Certain Magical Index: The Movie - The Miracle of Endymion A Certain Scientific Railgun T A Certain Magical Index III

I love this anime so much!!!

The first two Index seasons were pretty good animation for fight scenes I heard that the third Index season was much worse. Honestly I watched the first season and then transferred to the novels which were even better. What I liked about the series is that everyone had their own objectives and usually I am used to when it conflicts with the MC's current objective they will give up their own but here they often followed their own objective even if it puts them in conflict. The series has two well fleshed out power structures for both Magic and Science and its interesting to see how they interact.

The entirety of the Toaru franchise is Top-tier with Railgun being my personal favorite.

Funny seeing you confused about the main girl o railgun. (was that her, no maybe im seeing things) lol.

A Certain Magical Index is Touma's story A Certain Scientific Railgun is Misaka's story A Certain Scientific Accelerator is Tauru's story The story line of each story's seasons overlap meaning you can either watch it all in order of release or you can find an episode order list fans have created.

Accelerator and Railgun are both fantastic series... the og magic index is kinda eh till like mid season 2 (kinda hard to make turning of powers interesting). Highly recommend giving em a read/watch

22:44 everyone’s reaction to Kongou Mitsuko

There's nothing crazy about the toaru songs but they manage to carry it anyways, the actual show was pretty good too, my personal favourite was Accelerator spin-off

If you plan to watch this franchise, I do recommend an order to watch it. I'll try to explain it as well as I can. The Index seasons usually have 5 or 6 shorter stories, while the Railgun seasons have 2 longer stories with some episodes of padding. They cover mostly the same time period, just from different perspectives because of the different protagonists. The problem is a story line called "sisters" which is the first one in Railgun season 2, the protagonist of Index only gets involved for the last 10 or so percent. However the same story also gets covered in the first season of Index, so watching that first will spoil both the ending, and a plot twist. So my recommendation to watch it is the first 2 seasons of Railgun, then the first 2 seasons of Index. Accelerator and the Railgun OVA comes next, if I remember correctly, then Railgun season 3 and Index season 3. I think this is how the parallel timelines spoil the least.

Recommend reacting to the Shakugan no Shana OPs. They are amazing as well. Nice reaction.

Touma (the Index protag) Is the absolute King of Game. Absolute beast of an MC.

If you're wonder whether the main dude and the white haired dude are friends or enemies, the answer is yes.

I would reccomend the chronological watch order

I recommend watching "Railgun" first, at least through the Sisters/Accelerator arc of season 2. The same arc happens in "Index" but it's way shorter and not as good and you don't need to have seen "Index" to understand "Railgun". Even though they are connected shows the stories are written in such a way to make them independent shows. Also, I think "Railgun" is the better show and "Accelerator" comes after season 2 of "Railgun".

Index has an impossibly huge appetite and constantly is eating Kamijo Touma out of house and home. also she likes to bite his head. Accelerator has a huge amount of character development. even more if you read the light novels. he's the white haired albino boy. The little girl with him is one of the many clones of Railgun, but she did not finish the artificial aging process, also she is kind of a special clone as she is a control tower for them all. Fan girl Kongou Mitsuko is indeed from a wealthy family, but she's a pretty good person. Also Sogita Gunha is just awesome. because guts.

You should definitely watch this

Still waiting patiently for new season of Index and followed up by new season of Railgun T

This is my first time seeing this channel but I just dropped by to say, "yes, yes you are. The manga is better for the later seasons, but yes this is a classic sleeper."

Did Matt forget to finish the parasyte series?

if you wana watch this series, follow the release order is the best.

there are people who cloned the railgun girl so you might see a lot of people that look like her lmao

Imo, the series is better experienced in the in-universe chronological order rather than the release order, so Railgun 1, Railgun 2, Index 1, Accelerator, Index 2, Railgun 3, Index 3, it just enhances the experiences as the misteries unveil slowly, though railgun 1 unlike 2 and 3 has a lot of filler and starts quite slowly.

This is my favorite series the anime is fine but index light novels and railgun manga are the best way to experience it. I still wish for a new testament anime would happen but its doubtful...