They do run side by side pretty much. This would have all been happening while Touma was busy with the Alchemist arc about a week and a half before he faces Accelorator in the main story. The manga dates all the chapters.
Since RAWR seems to be in the know, how close are the manga and the books? As in does the manga cut out or add anything? From what I can tell the anime has made a bunch of shit up that’s not canon but I haven’t read the books, so I can’t say for certain.
Sorry to say, but I haven’t read the Magical Index light novels. So I’m not sure how to answer that, and I’m not aware of the Railgun ones either. I just know of the Manga.
As far as faithfulness goes, I know the Railgun anime isn’t a 100 percent faithful edition of what occurred in the manga, they’ve padded a few things out and done a few things out of order. But as far as key events go. The Level Upper stuff, the Bombing stuff and the way some characters were introduced in the manga, it was all there in the first season. Just a little different in places.
From what I can remember anyway. I’m alright with this adaption anyway.
That’s why I brought it up since the second half of the 1st season was filler not in the manga. I thought Railgun was a manga original by the book author, but some post I saw recently made me think it was actually light novel originally. The 2nd half of the 1st season seemed like filler to me though. It was rather boring compared to the rest.
It makes the Sisters arc more interesting anyway, as you see that Toma caught the tail end of Misakas actions and was there pretty much when he was needed..
It also explains Misakas determination and anger on the bridge in Index lol.
Sunday 28th April 2013 
6:29 PM 
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More Railgun! \o/
Thankyou for this 🙂
Also not long till the battle that took up an entire books worth of content lol
iam confused….is this before index? i thought railgun and index ran next to each other timeline wise….
It’s a side story.
They do run side by side pretty much. This would have all been happening while Touma was busy with the Alchemist arc about a week and a half before he faces Accelorator in the main story. The manga dates all the chapters.
This is the adaption of Book 4 of the Railgun Manga onwards and the Accelerator stuff starts August 10th. Introduces ITEM too lol
Since RAWR seems to be in the know, how close are the manga and the books? As in does the manga cut out or add anything? From what I can tell the anime has made a bunch of shit up that’s not canon but I haven’t read the books, so I can’t say for certain.
Sorry to say, but I haven’t read the Magical Index light novels. So I’m not sure how to answer that, and I’m not aware of the Railgun ones either. I just know of the Manga.
As far as faithfulness goes, I know the Railgun anime isn’t a 100 percent faithful edition of what occurred in the manga, they’ve padded a few things out and done a few things out of order. But as far as key events go. The Level Upper stuff, the Bombing stuff and the way some characters were introduced in the manga, it was all there in the first season. Just a little different in places.
From what I can remember anyway. I’m alright with this adaption anyway.
That’s why I brought it up since the second half of the 1st season was filler not in the manga. I thought Railgun was a manga original by the book author, but some post I saw recently made me think it was actually light novel originally. The 2nd half of the 1st season seemed like filler to me though. It was rather boring compared to the rest.
I don’t recognize the material from the 2nd half of Season 1 from the manga. Which was mostly why I didn’t mention.
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Nice! That’s quite helpful, thanks! ^^
It makes the Sisters arc more interesting anyway, as you see that Toma caught the tail end of Misakas actions and was there pretty much when he was needed..
It also explains Misakas determination and anger on the bridge in Index lol.
Wow, that’s a really great chart! Dunno it I’ll ever watch/read more of this series but SAVED because it helps me put things together in my head.