Talk:Toaru Kagaku no Railgun SS: Liberal Arts City/@comment-24.90.40.177-20140614171800/@comment-25431873-20190310140301

^That's a good question honestly, anon. Starting with Liberal Arts City instead of Daihaseisei right away would at least make the foreshadowing mention of it at the end of Railgun S not go to waste. But this is Nagai we are talking about, would a Beach Episode (with a magic component to it) really satisfy his need to stuff the Railgun anime with pointless fanservice and cute girl doing cute things filler?

Basically I see three possibilities:
 * LAC is adapted because of the foreshadowing, satisfy Nagai's tendencies with a beach episode, and to capitalize on the previously aired Index III and feel connected to it by having some characters from it (Xochitl and Tochtli at the end) feature. Considering Xochitl also shows up during the festival and her friendship with Saten as well as its cause is referenced, it would only make sense.
 * The Sports Festival starts Railgun III right away and the Dream Ranker Arc is adapted instead of LAC, in the second half. Nagai might do yet another anime original (with mixed results), but this arc also fits neatly his tastes. Especially if Saten meeting and befriending Frenda is adapted, to not only, again, capitalize on Index III, but considering Nagai's favoritism of Saten and how the previous anime original arcs tended to serve as a "response" to the canonical arc preceding it (Polteirgest having the powerless Saten of Level Upper saving the day, Silent Party having the darkness defeated by Mikoto using the power of friendship), Nagai might really want to show Frenda alive and kicking asses after she got brutally killed in Index III. Yumiya was also briefly mentionned, so that mention would pay off there with a first appearance.
 * LAC, Daihaseisei, and Frenda's Dream Ranker arc are all adapted. Not sure how many episodes each arcs need and how it would fit, but I can see LAC taking 4-5 episodes and the festival 10-12 episodes, and Dream Ranker, being kinda disjointed, might get cut to mostly Frenda's stuff and possibly the precognitive kid. Hard to tell at this point so I'm only speculating.