The stock will be stored in “Volume 20”
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The biggest bottleneck in the fourth season of Railgun is the stock.
Unlike the first and second seasons, the third season spent all of two cool seasons on episodes from the original story, visualizing the Daihasseisai and Dream Ranker sections.
This means that we have consumed up to 13 volumes of comics.
Therefore, the current stock is only the Jail Breaker Arc, which is depicted in volumes 14-16.
The Jail Breaker Arc has not been completed yet, so the stock for the fourth season has not been accumulated yet. …… Jail Breaker Arc has already reached its climax, and it is expected that the stock for one cool season will be accumulated in the near future.
However, considering the past broadcast format, it is unlikely that the fourth season will be broadcasted in one school year.
If only the jail opening chapter is to be consumed, it will probably be in the form of an original episode for the second cool like the first and second seasons.
However, since they broke that form once in the third season, it would be hard to imagine returning to it in the fourth season.
In recent years, people want TV anime to be faithful to the original story, and if they are going to do original episodes, it would be easier for the fans to accept them if they are done in the movie version like in the case of Forbidden Books.
The most reasonable way to do this would be the same way as the third season, which is to visualize two full-length episodes in a two-course format.
It has been stated that the series will continue even after the prison gate opening chapter is over, so it is most realistic to broadcast the next episode as the fourth season.
Since each full-length episode of electromagnetic cannon is summarized in three to four volumes, it is expected that the prison gate opening chapter will run until the middle of volume 17 and the next episode until volume 20.
If this is the case, and since books of electromagnetic guns are released at the rate of one per year, it will be 2024 before volume 20 is released and enough stock is accumulated for two courses.
The main reason for the fourth season broadcast timing is the “20th anniversary
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If the same pattern is used for the third season, and the two full-length works are to be visualized in the fourth season, it will be broadcast in 2024 at the earliest.
If the next to the last episode is the one after the prison gate opening, it is possible that the completion of the original work and the fourth season of the anime (the final episode) will be in the same year, so 2024 should be feasible.
In fact, 2024 will be a special year for the Toaru series.
The first volume of “Toaru Majutsu no Index” was released in 2004, so this year marks the 20th anniversary.
Many projects related to “Toaru Majutsu Index” will probably be moving in the background for the 20th anniversary, and it is highly likely that the 4th season of “Railgun” will be one of the highlights.
Of course, it is conceivable that only the prison gate opening chapter will be filmed in the fourth season.
However, I still think that the most likely scenario is that the fourth season of Forbidden Books and Electromagnetic Gun will be part of the 20th anniversary project.
Summary
The broadcasting schedule for the third season was unstable due to the new Corona, but even so, many fans tuned in, showing that the show is still popular!
With such a high demand, there seems to be a very high possibility that a sequel will still be made.
It may not be in the near future, but we should be able to hear the big news about a fourth season of both Forbidden Books!
