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To Aru Majutsu no Index III – 12

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“Mercenaries”

(Youhei)

Sorry for the delays! Christmas Eve till Boxing Day Ive been spending with my family, and the few days before that were spent furiously compiling HTML codes for a certain project. A late Christmas present, if you must, and Im sure youll all appreciate it when the time comes. Anyway, I hope everyone had a merry Christmas! I know I did. But enough with pleasantries. Let’s get on with examining the latest events in Raildex’s take on Glorious Britannia!

Royal Rebellion

What I thought was sisterly affection between Carissa and Villian turned out to be a faade. Having deposed her mother Elizard as the UKs ruler, Carissa immediately seeks to kill off her family — including poor Villian — to consolidate her newfound power. The knights take to the frontlines across the kingdom, clashing with the witches and suppressing the nuns in what could only be described as an all-out rebellion. And their venerable leader steps to the plate, happy to dirty his hands with the blood of a completely innocent girl. Fortunately, Acqua turns up to save the day. His timely arrival, which isn’t a surprise considering what flashbacks alluded to, prevents Villian from meeting a cruel fate. Unlike the Puritanical faction that abandoned her, William Orwell seeks to stand by her side even if it means taking on every British knight by himself. Unfortunately, it doesnt look like hes recovered from his battle with the Amakusa Church and Hrunting also seems to be one heck of a special sword. I have a feeling we didnt get to see everything Acqua could do, so I will be excited to see how he will tackle this seemingly disadvantageous situation. Or maybe he sacrifices himself for Villian’s sake? Hard to say, but I hope it doesnt just end in one sided defeat.

Knight Leader’s Dilemma

Id considered Knight Leader to be a man of integrity and worth. However, he answers to Carissas despicable tyranny and has no qualms with carrying out morally repugnant deeds. And hes extremely strong as well, seeing how he easily defeated Kanzaki Kaori. Which makes me question why he isnt trying to actively challenge destiny? His justification that its simply the best course of action for the country rings somewhat hollow, following his display of remarkable power. Aren’t there other ways of going about British interest which won’t result in so much short term instability, bloodshed and sacrifice? Maybe that’s a nave outlook on the situation, because there’s nothing wrong with being confident in your ideals and beliefs. Also, that’s an arrogant assumption on my part that Knight Leader didn’t put much sincere thought into considering his various options, before settling with this particularly austere course of action. When fed up with an undesirable status quo, it makes sense to try something else in the hopes of changing things up. Additionally, we might know that Fiamma is up to something suspicious and could be pulling some strings. But that doesn’t mean anybody else within the Raildex universe does!

Concluding Thoughts

Now, although Im quite fond of our Royal family, Im not a hugely political person when it comes to the monarchy. There are arguments to be made for both the benefits they bring or the lack thereof. Anyhow, Id like to talk about the Queens Christmas Speech. Say whatever you want about her Christmas message. But it impresses me how the Queen shows a propensity for dispensing greater wisdom in a single short speech than anything our prime ministers seem to manage within a year. Anyway, Im not sure Elizard herself is wise. It seems odd that shes heading straight back to London, instead of consolidating the ability to resist the rebellion through Necessarius and other factions e.g. Amakusa Church. However, Im willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. There must have been a reason why shes so desperate to head back.Let me clarify one last thing. Coverage of Index is going to be handed down to better hands at some point around these couple of episodes. However, we both ended up being extremely busy for various reasons. Ill be covering this episode, possibly the next. But the worst case scenario is that well see a week being skipped. Im sorry it turned out this way, especially with how delayed this post became. But it couldnt be helped, apologies. And Im quite sure youd all prefer to see the Winter 2019 Preview come out earlier, right? Anyway, thats about everything I wanted to discuss. As always, thanks for reading my post and hope to see you next time!Preview

11 Comments

  1. FVA
    December 26, 2018,

    The British Police promoting Brexit through chivalry!!

    • Providence
      December 27, 2018,

      It will merely be a repeat of what happened to him against Acqua of the Back. What one should wonder is where the rest of the Amakusa are as they work the best together, especially with their saint.

    • RenaSayers
      December 27, 2018,

      What can I say, fighting nuns are hip.

      • Chris hall
        December 28, 2018,

        I agree Agnese is badass Leader of the Battle Nuns

  4. boingman
    December 27, 2018,

    Not a bad episode, but the Archbishop’s failed hitch-hiking attempt must have been my favorite Index III scene so far.

  7. Worldwidedepp
    December 28, 2018,

    So in the end, the England Arc is about some Children can not wait to become Queen and want to force it? an Regicide? or she want to take by force the “Queen items” to declare herself as Queen?

  8. Incognito
    December 28, 2018,

    https://images.randomc.net/To%20Aru%20Majutsu%20no%20Index/To%20Aru%20Majutsu%20no%20Index%20III%20-%2012%20-%20Large%2003.jpgI wonder if Carissa and her knights could handle an invasion of Nazi vampires? (Not like they have an equivalent of the Hellsing Organization in this ‘verse, much less a powerful real effing vampire under their control.)https://images.randomc.net/To%20Aru%20Majutsu%20no%20Index/To%20Aru%20Majutsu%20no%20Index%20III%20-%2012%20-%20Large%2004.jpgOK, with how rapid the pacing is with the past few episodes, I’m starting to have a hard time trying to keep track of the many, many groups and people involved in this civil war. In this case, all I know is that they’re witches from the Coven Compass, but if not for this civil war, what exactly is their role?https://images.randomc.net/To%20Aru%20Majutsu%20no%20Index/To%20Aru%20Majutsu%20no%20Index%20III%20-%2012%20-%20Large%2027.jpgAnd I had to read through the Index character pages over on TV Tropes to find out who this New Light member is. Her name is Floris (voiced by Minori Suzuki, who previously voiced Freyja Wion from Macross Delta).And one last thing, I could swear the Knight Leader–voiced by the ubiquitous Takehito Koyasu–was using some form of time stop when he was fighting Kanzaki. (ZA WARUDO!)

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