From the Bookshelf: A Certain Magical Index 1

It doesn't happen quite as often in these modern days, but anime series I only seem to pick up on by noticing how interested other people have become in them aren't yet just old memories. There's even a subcategory of shows I pick up on the interest without quite getting just what it's supposed to be about, which can make the wait for them to be officially available over here a bit more piquant. For the series A Certain Magical Index, though, it seemed a wait of uncommon length for it to be available over here; I gather that had something to do with the tangled circumstances of Geneon giving up on directly distributing anime over here and Funimation eventually picking up some of the titles it had or might have had. When the wait ended, though, all of a sudden some of the people whose interest had first caught my attention seemed offended the show was only available on DVD, all the way to criticising the general story setup. I wound up taking my own time getting around to watching it, and for all that I'd thought I had braced myself against the criticisms something else about the series (which I soon understood at last as one with lots of characters in a setting like a "superhero universe almost without the costumes") sort of crept up on me.
( A certain prosy issue )