User blog comment:RemidoDosol/Subjective Standpoints: The Raildex Animes/@comment-17714224-20140516155009/@comment-17714224-20140516190657

^ That's mostly conclusion I came too but with additional expaination of the reverse being that those who enjoyed the Index story better despite not reading the LN's were those who were capable of picking up on the smaller details signalling the fact that there is much more going than what appears onscreent. Let;s be honest the animation style does nothing to make you think you are getting into series that has a riduclously complicated and well thought plot. It practically screams standard shounan. But that in it of itself was a problem for many people most of the most important elemetns to the plot were never "signaled" as being important, generally when something majorly important to the overalll plot happens you should be able to recognize that it might be important but majority of it in Index only gets recognized as being important much further down the line and that is only if you are paying very close atttention to detail becouse when it does they still won't signal its importance they just finally gave you all the information needed to come to that conlcusion yourself. When when I first watched Index I hadn't read any of the LN's I thought the first season was good but was riddled with overly contrived coincidences and plotholes so big you drive a truck through the only thing of merit when it came to the story was that there was atleast to me obviosly more going then what was being focused on but I am an extremely detailed oriented person caught to a lot of stuff right away. But It literally wasn't until the Academy Invasion Arc where I was sitting down thinking about it aftewords that I had realized that one arc logically explained a large amount of the first season. It was infact that revelation of how well thought out the writing was even going as far as purposefully writing in plotholes and contrived coinicidences that will only make sense later but still leaving it up to the viewer logically piece it together was what got me into reading the LN's later on I appreciated the writing style relies more on the logical intelegince of the viewer over the need of explaining things.