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This is an endearing if fundamentally flawed show which allows its premise to overpower its content. The human tension between the girl who can't distinguish the game from reality and the boy she loves who needs the two to be rigdly separate is a really fun idea that (at times) this show plays with in genuinely fulfilling ways. The problem comes, as in the story arc of the season finale, when that human drama (dosed heavily with comedy) gets lost in the premise of  world in which hot high school girls play online games with the same vigor as socially inept high school boys. I can understand why a... See full review

I enjoyed A Certain Scientific Railgun, so I muddled through the much less entertaining A Certain Magical Index just so I could pick up the necessary context.  It turned out it was worth it just to get in on the inside jokes in these shorts.  They were hilarious.  There's no story or anything like that.  It's just a bunch of rapid fire gags, but they are the best shorts I've watched thus far.  Unfortunately, you need to watch Index to get them. It's probably worth it