The pacing is brutally compressed, cramming six arcs into 26 episodes until the final arc feels like it's running out of air. Watch it anyway. The moments that land hit harder than anything the franchise has done: Kakine versus Accelerator isn't just animation flex, it's two philosophical impossibilities colliding at terminal velocity. Index III knows exactly what its long-time fans came for, and when it decides to deliver, nothing else on TV moves like this.

Tōma Kamijo's life has never been simple, and it grows harder as tensions between the worlds of science and magic keep rising. After the invasion of Academy City, the two factions clash openly, and Academy City appears ready to declare war on the Roman Catholic Church, threatening to pull the whole world into conflict. Tōma, who must work harder than ever to keep Index safe, soon ends up on the front lines again, fighting to protect his friends and allies. Accelerator and the Level 0 Shiage Hamazura follow their own separate paths as the story builds toward the final act of the original light novels. The third season is an action series mixing science fiction and the supernatural.