Category talk:Story Arcs

List of Arcs
These are the list of seemingly agreed upon (as in nobody complained about them yet) names of the story arcs in Toaru Kagaku no Railgun and Toaru Majutsu no Index. If you want to have complaints regarding them feel free to make a new section in this page regarding the arc or discussed it's name on a pre-existing section, where we will discuss it shortly. The list below will be updated whenever we have agreed upon the names of the arcs. ---TheGreatEye 09:12, October 18, 2010 (UTC)

Railgun
 * Level Upper Arc
 * Big Spider Arc
 * Poltergeist Arc
 * Sisters Arc

Index
 * Index Arc
 * Deep Blood Arc
 * Sisters Arc
 * Angel Fall Arc
 * Three Stories Arc
 * Kazakiri Hyouka Arc
 * Orsola Aquinas Rescue Arc
 * Tree Diagram Remnant Arc
 * Daihasei Festival Arc
 * La Regina del Mare Adriatico Arc
 * Academy City Invasion Arc (poll result)

Arc naming section
This is the section where we name arcs. Post the Light Novel Volume(s) and we will discuss on what the name of the arc should be.-TheGreatEye 09:12, October 18, 2010 (UTC)

Archives
Glorious debates and suggestions for arcs from ages past, archived for your perusal.---TheGreatEye 03:52, November 11, 2010 (UTC)

SS1 Naming
So, JC Staff apparently decided to pull our pants down and apparently decided to animate the Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume SS this season, with this urgency I have no idea on how we should name the arc.

The arc features the formation of GROUP, an uprising by Skill-Out, an attempt on Misaka Misuzu's life, the introduction of Hamazura Shiage and Magic side hijinks. So, any suggestions regarding the name of this arc? Please refer to the archives on how the wiki metes out arc names---TheGreatEye 16:41, February 24, 2011 (UTC)


 * Thats a tough one, there is 4 chapter with very differents situations but with somthing in common:


 * 1. Touma worrying about the war between A.C. and the Catholic Church.


 * 2. Accelerator and how GROUP do the things, we have Skill Out too. My analysis on this chapter is how the tension about the war inside Academy City became the advantage for other underground organizations against Academy City. It can been as a foreshadowing to the events from Vol. 15.


 * 3. I see the foreshadowing about the alliance between the Catholic and the Ortodox Church. It also shows the tension between the organizations who can be dragged into the war and the view from the characters from the magic side on this.


 * 4. This has more relation with how Touma and Accelerator deals with their own troubles and also shows how contrast each other. It also finally introduces Hamazura Shiage from Skill Out, his character and former personality before the events from the Vol. 15. I see more foreshawing.


 * How could be named? The calm or tension before the War. Is my guess for now.Lero 19:31, February 24, 2011 (UTC)
 * -- To be honest is really hard to encapsule all of the events with a single name. Maybe a clever name including "Skill Out" or Academy City Drop outs or something, but I really can't think of anything that sounds really good..... Since everything (seems) to happen in the very same day, naming the arcs after that day shouldn't actually solve something?
 * My suggestion is too vague, actually. It's "Antebellum", for "before the war". heraldofmeridian♣ 01:35, February 25, 2011 (UTC)
 * How about Side Story Arc? It's pretty much the first thought of the majority of fans regarding the volume and the events that unfold during in it.---TheGreatEye 04:10, February 25, 2011 (UTC)
 * Why not "A certain women's dorm/Skill-Out arc" or just "Skill-Out arc" ? The only action scenes of the SS1 features the Skill-Out members so I think the animation will concentrate on them (sorry for my bad English).---An anonymous French fan 17:53, February 25,2011 (UTC)
 * Whilst Skill-Out may have a large focus in the arc, we cannot simply ignore the other stories as well. I'd like to have the name of this arc at least encompass all of it's stories.-TheGreatEye 18:01, February 25, 2011 (UTC)
 * UPDATE: Okay, some editor added a link to the next arc and named it as Skill-Out Arc. Though now that I have thought about it, indeed, that Skill-Out is the primary focus of the arc and the Necessarius dorm antics are simply an afterthought.
 * What are your thoughts regarding this?---TheGreatEye 20:44, February 27, 2011 (UTC)
 * --- To be honest, Antebellum is a great name and all, but it's hard to relate to the actual arc. For example if I read "level upper arc" then It's easy to get the gist of it all. Using that example for this arc a good name should be something like that, but things like "Misuzu & Skill Out" or "Shiage, Komaba & the Skill Out" don't really sound right in my head. This is hard :P
 * Well, does it need an arc name? Or rather, applying an arc name to this volume doesn't make sense as it's not just one story but a collection of stories compiled into one book. It would be like trying to name SS2 a specific arc. I'd suggest seperating the stories, rather than naming the entire book an arc. -- Suzuku 00:51, March 7, 2011 (UTC)
 * Well now that I have prepared a template for BOTH arcs and events, in regards to your suggestion, I would klike to separate both the Skill-Out events and the magic side hijinks as separate events and can easily reference each other through the Concurrent Events section of the template. As such I propose naming the Skill-Out related parts as Skill-Out Uprising. I have yet to read the SS though, so any suggestions for the magic-side related parts and criticism for the title of the Skill-Out event, would be highly appreciated.---TheGreatEye 16:07, March 8, 2011 (UTC)
 * There seems to be no objection towards this, so now I'll be calling the Science side events of Volume SS as Skill-Out Uprising and the magic science events of Volume SS as Necessarius-Annihilatus War Meeting (I assume that's what happens in the novels).---TheGreatEye 21:02, March 13, 2011 (UTC)
 * The second name needs a more catchy name :P something like "Female Dorms : Before war", btw it's not "Annihilatus" but Sasha alone on her own.
 * It would be really better though to have a much more easier to search for name, and a name that describes what is happening in the event.---TheGreatEye 05:44, March 14, 2011 (UTC)
 * -- Why not simply "Invasion aftermath" or "War premises" then?
 * Because the aftermath is a long lasting effect and is not isolated in a single event, and using premises would imply that the premise or introduction of the war actually started on a single event, which would be incorrect since a series of events triggered the war in the first place before and after SS 1.---TheGreatEye 20:43, March 15, 2011 (UTC)
 * It would be really better though to have a much more easier to search for name, and a name that describes what is happening in the event.---TheGreatEye 05:44, March 14, 2011 (UTC)
 * -- Why not simply "Invasion aftermath" or "War premises" then?
 * Because the aftermath is a long lasting effect and is not isolated in a single event, and using premises would imply that the premise or introduction of the war actually started on a single event, which would be incorrect since a series of events triggered the war in the first place before and after SS 1.---TheGreatEye 20:43, March 15, 2011 (UTC)