The episodes of the Japanese animated television series Toaru Majutsu no Index (とある魔術の禁書目録 Toaru Majutsu no Indekkusu, lit. A Certain Magical Index) are based on the light novel series of the same name written by Kazuma Kamachi and illustrated by Kiyotaka Haimura. The plot of the episodes follows the life of Tōma Kamijō, a high school student with a unique power in his right hand, who resides in a scientifically advanced city, and his interactions with other psychic and magic users after he meets Index, a young nun whose mind has been implanted with the 103,000 magical texts of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.
The anime is a production of J.C.Staff directed by Hiroshi Nishikiori, series composition by Masanao Akahoshi, music by Maiko Iuchi, character design by Yuichi Tanaka and art and sound direction by Yasunori Ebina respectively. The anime adaptation was confirmed on June 3, 2008 in the sixteenth volume of Toaru Majutsu no Index,[1] and the official website began to stream promotional videos on July 7, 2008.[2] The episodes began airing on October 4, 2008 on Mainichi Broadcasting System, Chiba TV, and TV Kanagawa. They were also broadcast at later dates on Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting and TV Saitama. Eight DVD compilations, each containing three episodes and a mini Toaru Kagaku no Railgun novel written by Kazuma Kamachi and art by Motoi Fuyukawa, were released between January 23, 2009 and August 21, 2009 by Geneon Entertainment.[3][4]
Four pieces of theme music are used for the episodes: two opening and two ending themes. The first opening theme is "PSI-Missing" by Mami Kawada, used from episodes 1 to 16 (corrected in the DVD version to episode 14). From episode 17 (episode 15 in the DVD version) onwards, a second opening theme, "Masterpiece" by Mami Kawada, was used. The first ending theme is "Rimless ~Fuchinashi no Sekai~" (Rimless 〜フチナシノセカイ〜 Rimless ~Rimless World~) by Iku. From episode 20 onwards, a second ending theme called "Chikaigoto ~Sukoshi Dake Mō Ichido~" (誓い言 〜スコシだけもう一度〜 Oath ~Just a Little Once More~), also by Iku, was used.[5]
A second season, titled Toaru Majutsu no Index II, aired in Japan between October 8, 2010 and April 1, 2011.[6] The opening theme music of Index II, which aired from episode 1 to 16, is "No Buts!" by Mami Kawada and was released on November 3, 2010.[7] The first ending theme music of Index II which aired from episode 1 to 13 is "Magic∞world" by Maon Kurosaki and the single was released on November 24, 2010.[8] The second ending theme music which aired from episode 14 is "Memories Last" (メモリーズ・ラスト Memorīzu Rasuto) by Maon Kurosaki and will be released on March 2, 2011.[9] The second opening theme starting from episode 17 onwards is "See Visions" by Mami Kawada, released on February 16, 2011.
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| # | Episode title | Original air date on MBS |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | "Academy City" "Gakuen Toshi" (学園都市) |
October 4, 2008 |
| Tōma Kamijō, a Level 0 student living in Academy City, has a unique ability that allows him to nullify psychic, magical, and divine powers, but it also negates his own good luck. Said power allows him to survive a reluctant duel against Mikoto Misaka, a powerful Level 5 psychic capable of controlling and generating electricity, ending with Mikoto causing a citywide blackout. The next morning, Tōma wakes up to find a young nun from the Church of England hanging off his balcony. Introducing herself as Index, she reveals that she is being chased by magicians because she 'has' 103,000 grimoires. The two become friends after an embarrassing incident (involving Index proving the existence of magic and Tōma proving the power of his right hand) and they part ways. However, when he returns home, Tōma finds Index laying on the ground bleeding and, behind him, a man who calls himself a magician. | ||
| 02 | "The Witch Hunting King (Innocentius)" "Majo-Gari no Ō (Inokentiusu)" (魔女狩りの王 (イノケンティウス)) |
October 11, 2008 |
| The magician introduces himself as Stiyl Magnus and explains that his partner Kaori unintentionally hurt Index as her magical garb was supposed to stop the blow. His mission was actually to 'protect' Index (actually the Index-Librorum-Prohibitorum, the 103,000 books implanted in her mind) as she possesses photographic memory. Angered by Stiyl's ill treatment of Index, Tōma attacks him, to which Stiyl responds by using fire magic and is surprised when Tōma nullifies the spell. To stop Tōma, Stiyl summons a fire creature known as Innocentius; when Tōma finds himself unable to negate the creature, Index's Johann's Pen mode reveals it is because Innocentius' power comes from runes placed around the building. Tōma defeats Stiyl and Innocentius by setting off sprinklers to wash away the runes and rescues Index. However, because of Index's wounds and Tōma's inability to use magic (due to him being an esper), he brings Index to the only non-esper he knows: his teacher, Komoe Tsukuyomi. | ||
| 03 | "The Church of Necessary Evil (Necessarius)" "Hitsuyōaku no Kyōkai (Nesesariusu)" (必要悪の教会 (ネセサリウス)) |
October 18, 2008 |
| Komoe successfully helps Index heal her wounds using an ancient magic ritual but asks Tōma the next morning who she is. When he lies that she is his sister, Komoe spots the fib immediately but decides not to press the issue since she believes it is something he must solve on his own. While Komoe is out, Tōma learns about Necessarius (the organization that Index belongs to) and that the Index-Librorum-Prohibitorum was implanted into Index's mind so that she would be a living library for the church, since reading the originals would curse and taint people. Meanwhile, Stiyl and Kaori Kanzaki continue to watch Index and comment on how her happiness will be short-lived. When Tōma and Index get into a fight and separate, Tōma finds himself in an empty street and meets a girl wielding a nodachi: Kaori Kanzaki. | ||
| 04 | "Perfect Memorization" "Kanzen Kioku Nōryoku" (完全記憶能力) |
October 25, 2008 |
| Kaori demands that Tōma hand over Index; when he refuses, she beats him easily and reveals that she is also a member of Necessarius. She goes on to say that Index is a dear friend and that she hadn't intended to hurt her during her earlier attempt to secure Index as she was unaware of the damage Tōma made to Index's magical garb. Since the entire Index-Librorum-Prohibitorum takes up 85% of Index's memory, the remaining 15% needs to be regularly erased each year to save Index from straining her mind with unnecessary memories. With only three days left before the limit is reached, Kaori again demands Tōma to hand Index over since she won't recall him. Tōma refuses, instead asking Kaori why she doesn't explain everything to Index. However, the question enrages Kaori, who reveals how she and Stiyl tried everything to ensure Index would remember them, but with each successive failure, it became unbearable to see her smile. Tōma criticizes them for not considering Index's own feelings each time her memories were erased and questions why Kaori became strong and who she wishes to protect. Tōma wakes up three days later in Komoe's apartment in the care of Index; when Stiyl and Kaori arrive, Index tries to protect Tōma by promising to do as they ask. | ||
| 05 | "Midnight (Limit)" "Jūni-ji (Rimitto)" (十二時 (リミット)) |
November 01, 2008 |
| Tōma learns that Stiyl and Kaori will come at exactly midnight to perform the spell to erase Index's memory. Despite Tōma's attempts to find another way to save Index, midnight arrives and he is helpless as Stiyl and Kaori arrive to prepare the spell. The duo give him time to say good-bye to Index; in this time, Tōma becomes suspicious of Kaori's statement that Index's memory only has 15% for daily life in a year. Calling up Komoe, he learns that humans can never suffer or die from being overloaded with information and realizes that the Church regularly erased Index's memory to ensure her loyalty to them and lied to Stiyl and Kaori. Determined to save Index, Tōma tries to dispel a magical rune in her throat, only to activate Index's Johann's Pen mode. Unable to analyze and devise a means of countering Tōma's ability, Johann's Pen activates "St. George's Sanctuary", a spell it has determined as the most effective way of eliminating Tōma. | ||
| 06 | "Fantasy Killer (Imagine Breaker)" "Gensō-Goroshi (Imajin Bureikā)" (幻想殺し (イマジンブレイカー)) |
November 11, 2008 |
| Tōma struggles to stop the St. George's Sanctuary spell activated by Index (which destroys an Academy City satellite) and reveals to Stiyl and Kaori, who are stunned to see Index using magic when she supposedly doesn't know how, that Necessarius lied to them concerning Index's condition. Convincing them that destroying the magic responsible for Index's pain will allow her to live a normal life, Tōma is able to disable Index's Johann's Pen mode with help from Kaori and Stiyl. However, St. George's Sanctuary remains in effect and Tōma is rendered unconscious when a feather from the spell touches his head. At the hospital, Index learns that Necessarius will leave her alone for now since Kaori and Stiyl are now questioning why the Church lied about her condition. More troubling to Index, she learns from a doctor that Tōma's memories have been destroyed since the spell destroyed his brain cells. When she goes to see him, he fails to recognize her, but brushes it off as a joke and explains that he canceled the spell with his right hand's ability, now called "Imagine Breaker". After Index leaves, Tōma and the doctor converse, revealing that Tōma actually recalled nothing at all but did not want to burden Index and other people with his condition and feels that his memories still remain in his heart. Two weeks later, Stiyl meets the ruler of Academy City, Aleister Crowley, and to keep the Status quo of non-interference between Science and Magic, Aleister "lends" Tōma to Stiyl for an assignment to rescue "Deep Blood", someone capable of killing vampires, from a magician in Academy City. | ||
| 07 | "Misawa Cram School (Cult of Science)" "Misawa-juku (Kagaku Sūhai)" (三沢塾 (かがくすうはい)) |
November 15, 2008 |
| Tōma continues to keep his memory loss a secret and ends up upsetting Index when he meets with his two friends, Motoharu Tsuchimikado and Pierce Aogami, who both inadvertently insult her. Forced to buy them all lunch, they go to a fast food restaurant, where Index gets into an argument with a girl dressed like a miko who claims to be a magician and leaves before Index can get any answers concerning which magical organization the girl belongs to. On the way home, Index chases after a kitten she names Sphinx and is separated from Tōma, who then runs into Stiyl. Stiyl needs Tōma to rescue Aisa Himegami, a girl codenamed "Deep Blood", from Aureolus Izzard, an alchemist leading a secret science-worshiping cult at the Misawa Cram School after three years in hiding; when Tōma refuses, Stiyl coerces him with threats that Necessarius will take Index away. When they arrive at the cram school, Tōma is surprised to learn that "Deep Blood" is the girl he met earlier and finds a dead corpse in a suit of armor. | ||
| 08 | "Alchemy of Gold (Ars Magna)" "Ōgon Rensei (Arusu Maguna)" (黄金練成 (アルス＝マグナ)) |
November 22, 2008 |
| Stiyl explains the dead knight was from the 13 Knights of the Roman Catholic Church and that a magical barrier is concealing all magical occurrences inside the school from the public. Tōma and Stiyl are forced to separate when the students, under the control of a spell, cast an imitation of Gregorio's Choir to attack. When Stiyl destroys the spell's source, he finds Aureolus Izzard while Tōma runs into Aisa Himegami. Aisa reveals that she came to Aureolus willingly because the Misawa Cram School is able to repel vampires; her blood attracts and kills vampires, who- save their need to drink blood- are otherwise ordinary people. Tired of the implications of her powers, she came to Academy City and met Aureolus, who agreed to help her with her powers if she used them to lure vampires to Misawa in order to save someone important to him. When Aureolus finds them, Aisa confronts him about his objectives and threatens to leave if he continues to kill people. He agrees to stop but seals Tōma and Stiyl's memories, and they awaken outside the school without any recollection of their mission until Tōma uses his Imagine Breaker to nullify the spell. Meanwhile, Index has followed Stiyl's mana trail to the school and is put to sleep and captured by Aureolus. The remaining 13 Knights attack the school with a true version of Gregorio's Choir, but it is restored by Aureolus's true power: Ars Magna. Tōma finds Sphinx outside with Index's habit and realizes that Index is now inside the school. | ||
| 09 | "Vampire Killer (Deep Blood)" "Kyūketsu-Goroshi (Dīpu Buraddo)" (吸血殺し (ディープブラッド)) |
November 29, 2008 |
| Tōma and Stiyl arrive at Aureolus's office where Izzard, Aisa, and a sleeping Index greet them. Stiyl reveals that Aureolus was Index's partner three years ago and was devastated that her memory needed to be erased. He subsequently went into hiding for betraying the Catholic Church to perfect his power, Ars Magna, which he intends to use with Aisa's powers to save Index by turning her into a vampire, which will overcome Index's one-year life expectancy. Realizing that Aureolus is unaware that Index has already been saved, Stiyl reveals Aureolus's plan as pointless since Tōma had already succeeded using his Imagine Breaker. Outraged with the revelation, Aureolus turns his Ars Magna against Tōma, Stiyl, and Aisa; however, Aureolus's reality-distorting magic finds itself useless against Tōma's Imagine Breaker. When Tōma realizes that Aureolus's ability cannot alter reality, but make Aureolus's thoughts come into it, he manipulates Aureolus into changing him into a monster to end the fight. Tōma winds up in the hospital again to have his right arm reattached after the battle with Stiyl visiting him and explaining Aureolus's fate. He disappears when Index and Aisa come to visit, and Index reveals the Church (as in Index herself) will now take care of Aisa. When Aisa learns why Tōma saved her life, she smiles at him. | ||
| 10 | "Big Sister (Mikoto Misaka)" "Onee-sama (Misaka Mikoto)" (お姉様 (みさかみこと)) |
December 6, 2008 |
| A girl resembling Mikoto Misaka wearing military goggles uses a sniper rifle to shoot a teenager called "Accelerator", only for the shots to be reflected back and her to wind up face-to-face with Accelerator. Tōma runs into Mikoto Misaka and, after learning of how he defeated her, expects the worst until she is caught off guard by Kuroko Shirai, Mikoto's kohai who soon teleports away, and then by another girl who looks exactly like Mikoto and identifies herself as Mikoto's younger sister, referring to herself as simply Misaka. Frustrated, Mikoto leads Misaka away despite Misaka’s objections, though Misaka approaches Tōma later that day and helps him carry tin cans. At summer class the next day, Tōma, Tsuchimikado, and Aogami learn that Mikoto became the third most powerful esper in Academy City from Level 1 to 5 through hard work and effort while Mikoto later tells Tōma how she dislikes Tree Diagram, a powerful supercomputer on a space satellite that monitors Academy City. As soon as Mikoto leaves, Tōma runs into Misaka again, who wants to care for a black cat. As Tōma leaves her to find books on caring for cats, Misaka senses Accelerator nearby and a fight ensue in a back alley. | ||
| 11 | "Sisters" "Imōtotachi (Shisutāzu)" (妹達 (シスターズ)) |
December 13, 2008 |
| Despite Misaka's best efforts, all her attacks are immediately stopped and redirected at her by Accelerator's power, the ability to change the vectors of everything (such as momentum, heat, and electrical charge) by touch. When Tōma returns from the bookstore, he finds Misaka's dead body in a dark alley and calls the police. When they arrive to find the body, it is gone. Confused, Tōma continues to search the alley and is relieved to find Misaka alive. However, he is horrified to see that she is carrying a body bag containing the body he had seen in the alley; dozens of identical girls resembling Misaka then appear, revealing that they are all part of a confidential experiment and are mass-produced military-use somatic cell clones of Mikoto Misaka called "The Sisters". The Misaka that he's been encountering all this time is Number 10032, currently the one carrying the body bag. Remembering how Mikoto had treated Misaka earlier, Tōma realizes that Mikoto had known about all this and goes to her dormitory to learn the truth. Instead of finding Mikoto, Tōma ends up waiting for her alongside Mikoto's roommate, the very protective Kuroko, and is forced to hide under Mikoto's bed when the dorm master comes by for inspection. Tōma finds and reads a report about Tree Diagram's calculated methods for how Accelerator, the most powerful Level 5 esper in Academy City, can evolve to Level 6 by fighting "The Sisters" at special battlefields where he will gain experience from combat and finds a map with several red X's marked on it. Now aware of the truth, Tōma goes to confront Mikoto. | ||
| 12 | "Absolute Power (Level 6)" "Zettai Nōryoku (Reberu 6)" (絶対能力 (レベル6)) |
December 20, 2008 |
| Komoe explains to Index and Aisa what psychic ability is about using Schrödinger Theory with a chocolate box. Mikoto contemplates her past, when she attracted a group of doctors who told her that her ability may help people with muscle paralysis, only to later learn about her DNA being used to create clones for the military in Academy City and was horrified to witness how her sisters were used to fight Accelerator. Tōma confronts Mikoto about the experiment, where 20,000 clones of Mikoto would be used in lieu of 128 exact duplicates of her to fight against Accelerator in specific locations to advance him to Level 6. Mikoto reveals that she wanted to stop the experiment but felt helpless since every time she destroyed a research center related to the project, another would take over (the red X's on her map). When even Academy City had turned a blind eye against it, Mikoto came to believe sacrificing herself is the best solution to save the Sisters because the scientists no longer have Tree Diagram (which Index had destroyed) to recalculate the values for the experiment. Frustrated that Tōma will not let her have her way, she shocks him over and over again as he convinces her to live because dying won't save her sisters. When Tōma is able to get up again after she thinks she's killed him, Mikoto is moved to tears as Tōma passes out while trying to think of alternatives toward ending the experiment. | ||
| 13 | "One-Way Road (Accelerator)" "Ippōtsūkō (Akuserarēta)" (一方通行 (アクセラレータ)) |
December 27, 2008 |
| Misaka 10032 arrives at a Goods station, where she prepares for the upcoming battle with Accelerator, and wonders why is she thinking about Tōma during this time. Meanwhile, Komoe continues to tell Index and Aisa about how psychics acquire their powers by separating them from proper reality and making their own reality and that Academy City's purpose is to facilitate this process, though Level 0s like Tōma indicate the process has not yet been perfected. Tōma reawakens after his battle with Mikoto and tells her his solution to ending the experiment: as the weakest Level 0, he needs to defeat Accelerator, the strongest esper, to prove the experiment's underlying purpose as wrong. Despite Mikoto's attempts to make him reconsider (particularly in light of his injuries), Tōma leaves to find Misaka and Accelerator. Accelerator and Misaka begin their battle after a short conversation and Misaka is quickly defeated. Tōma arrives to save her, much to her confusion over why he wants to do that, and Accelerator is impressed that Tōma does not fear his power. Accelerator overpowers Tōma but is shocked and enraged when his power is unexpectedly canceled by Tōma's right hand. When the fight causes several containers to release huge quantities of flour into the air, Tōma is forced to run as Accelerator sets off a dust explosion. | ||
| 14 | "Strongest vs. Weakest" "Saikyō vs Saijaku" (最強 VS 最弱) |
January 8, 2009[10] |
| Having survived the explosion, Tōma is found by Accelerator, who is impressed that Tōma has managed to actually bring him so close to death. Tōma lands a hit on Accelerator, realizes his Imagine Breaker is able to nullify the latter's powers, and continues to physically beat the esper up with his right hand. Accelerator breaks away and begins to manipulate the air to launch projectiles at Tōma, who is saved when Mikoto arrives. However, she realizes that Accelerator is creating a plasma attack by controlling the direction of the wind and condensing it into one place. Finding the injured Misaka 10032, she convinces her to tell the other Sisters to increase the city's wind turbines to disrupt the wind Accelerator needs for his attack. Unable to form his plasma storm, Accelerator tries to make a final lunge at Tōma, who knocks him out with a punch before fainting. When Tōma wakes up, he is in the hospital with Misaka, who explains that the experiment has been halted and that all the surviving Sisters will be sent away to be treated for their shortened life-spans but promises to meet him again someday. In the morning, he is visited by Mikoto, who thanks him for saving the Sisters, and then by a worried and annoyed Index, who wants him to come to her for help next time. | ||
| 15 | "Angel Fall" "Otsukai Oroshi (Enzeru Fōru)" (御使堕し (エンゼルフォール)) |
January 15, 2009 |
| Because of Tōma's interference with the Level 6 experiment, Komoe sends Tōma (with Index tagging along) off to a beachside hotel until things calm down with Academy City's superiors. Tōma is anxious about the trip, as his parents will be coming to see him for the first time since his memories were destroyed, but is relieved to see his father, Touya. However, when his cousin Otohime looks like Mikoto and his mother, Shiina, resembles Index, Tōma is convinced they are playing a trick on him. He becomes increasingly confused when he sees the towns people and people on TV appearances have been changed, even some to those he knew and he apparently is the only one who notices the difference. When Tōma encounters a strange blonde girl and believes she is one of his past acquaintances, she holds a saw to his neck until Tsuchimikado and Kaori arrive and explain that Tōma is not responsible for a spell known as "Angel Fall". The girl, Misha Kruezhev, a magician from Annihilatus of the Russian Orthodox Church, and the group explain to Tōma that, because he was unaffected, he is at the center of Angel Fall, which has changed everyone's appearances and can be ended only by defeating the caster or destroying the ritual site. When Tōma demands to know why Tsuchimikado is involved with magic and knows about Tōma's powers, the latter calmly responds that he is a spy for Necessarius. | ||
| 16 | "Father (Tōya Kamijō)" "Chichioya (Kamijō Tōya)" (父親 (かみじょうとうや)) |
January 22, 2009 |
| Since Tōma is unaffected by Angel Fall, Kaori and Tsuchimikado suggest the caster must be someone close to Tōma. To investigate the source of the spell, the three magicians join Tōma at the hotel with Index and Tōma's family. However, though Tsuchimikado and Kaori were able to cast a counter-spell against Angel Fall, they remain affected, as Tsuchimikado appears to others as a famous pop singer and Kaori resembles Stiyl. Tsuchimikado reveals he used to be an Onmyōji before becoming a psychic and Kaori is a Catholic Saint who can use "Stigma", the ability to temporarily use God's powers, and was formerly the leader and priestess of a group of Japanese Catholics called the Amakusa Catholics. However, she left the group because she resented that her fate since birth was to become their leader and has since despised the concept of luck and fortune. The next day, suspicious arises on Misha when Tōma reveals to the other two on how she was afraid to touch his right hand and knows a lot more about Angel Fall firsthand. Tōma and Tsuchimikado decides to chase after Tōma's mother and Misha when Shiina insists on returning home (as she forgot to lock the door). Upon inspecting the contents of Tōma's house, Tsuchimikado realizes a spell is in effect and Tōma realizes that his father's appearance has not changed from Angel Fall upon seeing his family photos. Racing back to the hotel, Tōma confronts his father, the caster of the spell. | ||
| 17 | "Archangel (Divine Power)" "Daitenshi (Kami no Chikara)" (大天使 (かみのちから)) |
January 29, 2009 |
| Tōma confronts his father about casting Angel Fall but discovers he absolutely knows nothing about it. When Misha appears to them, Kaori reveals that Misha is an imposter taking advantage of her appearance as Sasha Kruezhev, a member of Annihilatus. Misha subsequently reveals herself to be one known as "Power of God", Archangel Gabriel, the Angel who fell as a result of Angel Fall being cast, and uses her power to complete a spell to destroy the world so that she may return to Heaven. Kaori sends Tōma and his father to destroy the ritual site while she holds off the Angel. Tsuchimikado reveals that the ritual site is actually the Kamijōs' new residence and that Tōma's father accidentally cast the spell from coincidentally arranging occult souvenirs around the house in a particular way. When Tsuchimikado reveals that he's going to destroy the source of Angel Fall, Tōma tries to stop him from killing his father, but he knocks out Tōma's father and beats up Tōma so that he is unable to move. In a sudden twist, Tsuchimikado decides to sacrifices himself to cast a spell to destroy the ritual site (despite knowing he will die using magic), which causes Misha/Gabriel to return to Heaven. When Tōma returns to the hospital again in Academy City, he finds Tsuchimikado alive and well despite using magic after becoming an esper (much to his surprise), thanks to his psychic healing ability, Auto Rebirth. Tsuchimikado also reveals that he is not only a spy for Necessarius but also a freelancer for Academy City and other organizations. As an apology, he brings Tōma's parents to visit him, but Tōma is outraged to learn that his family's new house was completely destroyed by Tsuchimikado's spell and then must suffer Index's wrath for being mistreated by Tōma while she was under the spell. | ||
| 18 | "Fake (Replica)" "Nisemono (Repurika)" (偽者 (レプリカ)) |
February 5, 2009 |
| Mikoto's trying to enjoy her last day of summer vacation, but she is being stalked by Mitsuki Unabara, the Tokiwadai Middle School principal's grandson who's been chasing her since last week. In an attempt to make him give up, she pretends to go on a date with Tōma. During their fake date, Tōma learns that only 10 of the Sisters remain at Academy City while the rest went overseas for treatment. Tōma converses with Unabara but is surprised to see another person who looks exactly like the latter running into a restaurant that Mikoto has entered. As the second and injured Unabara warns Mikoto about an approaching danger, Tōma realizes that he is conversing with an imposter when the latter tries to hit him from behind. As Tōma flees, Index reveals by phone that the imposter is using the magic of Aztec priests to disguise himself with another person's skin and wields an obsidian spearhead as a replica of the lance of Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli. When Tōma is forced to fight him, the imposter reveals that he had been sent to become close to Tōma's friends (such as Mikoto) to prevent the formation of the "Kamijō Faction", a group of mages and espers led by Tōma which both the magic and science sides fear will destroy the truce between them. Since the imposter had fallen in love with Mikoto, he decided to protect her by killing Tōma, but, now defeated and severely injured, he asks Tōma to promise him to protect her since they'll be others like him after Tōma and his friends. Unknown to both of them, Mikoto is listening nearby and is embarrassed to hear Tōma's answer. | ||
| 19 | "The End (Last Order)" "Uchidome (Rasuto Ōdā)" (打ち止め (ラストオーダー)) |
February 12, 2009 |
| Since his defeat, Accelerator is no longer feared by others, though he remains powerful enough to get rid of troublemakers. During the last day of summer vacation, he is approached by a younger Misaka clone capable of showing emotions, who introduces herself as "Last Order" and begins to follow him around, much to his annoyance. Because she is hungry, Accelerator takes Last Order to a restaurant and sees Ao Amai, a former researcher for "The Sisters" project, but does not pursue him. As Last Order eats, she converses with Accelerator on the Sisters and how she believes that Accelerator was an unwilling participant of the Level 6 Shift project. Tired of her comments, Accelerator leaves her at the restaurant to confront Yoshikawa, a researcher in charge of the Level 6 Shift project. She informs him that Last Order was not created for the Sisters project but for administrating the Misaka Network and that Ao Amai injected a virus into Last Order, which could spread to the other Misakas and cause them to go berserk and attack humans. To stop the virus, she gives Accelerator the choice of finding Ao Amai to explain how to stop the virus or returning Last Order to her incubator. Accelerator chooses the latter. | ||
| 20 | "Last Signal (Virus Code)" "Saishū Shingō (Wirusu Kōdo)" (最終信号 (ウィルスコード)) |
February 19, 2009 |
| Accelerator returns to the diner only to find that Last Order has been kidnapped by Ao Amai. Accelerator manages to track down Ao Amai and knocks him out before he can escape with Last Order. However, the virus in Last Order activates earlier than expected and Yoshikawa is still en route with Last Order's incubator. To stop the virus, Accelerator uses his powers and a clean copy of Last Order's data to remove the virus. However, nearing the end of the process, Amai awakens and shoots Accelerator in the head; Accelerator is unable to fully stop the bullet, having chosen to finish removing the virus instead of protecting himself, and collapses afterward. Amai tries to finish him off but is shot by Yoshikawa who has arrived to put Last Order into her incubator. After discussing their roles as researchers and her dream of wanting to become a teacher, she and Amai shoot each other. When Yoshikawa awakens in the hospital, she learns from Heaven Canceller, who is none other than Tōma's frog-faced doctor, that Accelerator saved her but suffers from brain damage from the shot he took while saving Last Order and needs rehabilitation. | ||
| 21 | "Unknown Entity (Counter Stop)" "Shōtai Fumei (Kauntā Sutoppu)" (正体不明 (カウンターストップ)) |
February 26, 2009 |
| Tōma returns to school after summer break but is followed by Index, who thinks she won't have anything to eat for lunch while he's away at school. Arriving at school, he learns that Komoe is doing research on AIM (An Involuntary Movement), the field of power that psychics emit. When Index arrives in class, Komoe sends her away and then introduces Aisa as the new transfer student. Instead of leaving, Index runs into another transfer student, Hyōka Kazakiri, and befriends her. When Tōma finds them later, Komoe catches Tōma skipping the opening ceremony and Hyōka mysteriously vanishes. Aisa becomes suspicious of Hyōka, recalling her as the top student at her old school but was never seen, and warns Tōma and Komoe about her. Meanwhile, Tsuchimikado meets with Aleister concerning the illegal arrival of a Necessarius mage named Sherry Cromwell in Academy City and, despite Tsuchimikado's offer to take care of Sherry discreetly to preserve the peace between Necessarius and Academy City, Aleister wants Tōma to defeat her, as his involvement will help the "key" to the Sector i - Five Elements Institution. As Tōma, Index, and Hyōka head to an underground mall for lunch, Kuroko finds Sherry and attacks her unsuccessfully when the latter summons a Golem. Though Kuroko is saved by Mikoto, Sherry escapes and casts a spell to send eyeballs throughout the city. | ||
| 22 | "Statue (Golem)" "Sekizō (Gōremu)" (石像 (ゴーレム)) |
March 5, 2009 |
| Sherry Cromwell begins her assault on Academy City to start a war between it and Necessarius. As a result, Tōma, Index, and Hyōka are locked in an underground shopping complex before they can be evacuated with everyone else. Mikoto and Kuroko find them and Kuroko teleports Mikoto and Index, who both become suspicious of the other's relationship with Tōma, away first. When Tōma hears an explosion, he goes to confront Sherry, who has defeated the Anti-skills led by one of his school teachers, Aiho Yomikawa, and leaves Hyōka to wait for Kuroko to return. As he tries to fight Sherry's Golem Ellis, Hyōka arrives but is hurt, and Tōma ends up seeing a prism-like object in her head. When she flees, Sherry decides to pursue her, while Tōma gets a call from Komoe, who explains that Hyōka's is an artificial being created from the city's psychics' AIM dispersion fields. Meanwhile, Hyōka manages to regenerate her face, but Sherry, who knows Hyōka isn't human (much like her golems), insults her by calling her a monster and is about to crush her when Tōma appears and saves her. | ||
| 23 | "Hyōka Kazakiri (Friend)" "Kazakiri Hyōka (Tomodachi)" (風斬氷華 (トモダチ)) |
March 12, 2009 |
| Tōma stops and successfully destroys Sherry's golem with Imagine Breaker. When she summons another one, Tōma coordinates with the Anti-skills to put her on the defensive. However, when Sherry suddenly decides to flee, Tōma realizes that her target is not Hyōka specifically but anyone valuable enough to trigger a war between Necessarius and Academy City, including himself and Index- now Sherry's intended target. Hyōka, acknowledging how she came into being, chooses to save Index and escapes the underground mall without Tōma. Meanwhile, Index separates from Mikoto in order to pursue a runaway Sphinx and is attacked by Golem Ellis. Though Index is able to hold her own against Ellis by interfering with its remote-control mechanism, the tables are turned against her when it is switched to automated control and she is about to be crushed when something unexpected happens. | ||
| 24 | "Sector i: Five Elements Institution" "Kyosū Gakku · Gogyō Kikan" (虚数学区・五行機関) |
March 19, 2009 |
| Tōma pursues Hyōka but encounters Sherry instead and is forced to fight her. He learns Sherry once had a friend named Ellis who was an Esper who was involved in a experiment between Necessarius and Academy City to create the first Esper/Magician Hybrid but suffered from the experiment and was killed by Knights as the experiment was a violations of the truce between science and magic; to prevent this tragedy from occurring again, Sherry intends to divide both sides forever through conflict. Outraged that Sherry does not believe that people who are different like Index and Hyōka could be friends, Tōma successfully defeats Sherry. However, doing so results in Golem Ellis above ground losing control, and Index is cornered until Hyōka suddenly appears and destroys the Golem each time it reforms. After Tōma arrives to deliver the finishing blow, Index and Hyōka reconcile just as Hyōka fades away to the Imaginary Number Sector. Meanwhile, Tsuchimikado confronts Aleister upon realizing the later was behind the whole incident all this time to test the Imaginary Numbers Sector and warns him that Tōma will be his enemy if he keeps using him. As each of the characters settle back into their daily lives, Stiyl meets with the Archbishop of Necessarius, Laura Stuart, who decides that Necessarius will need Index and Tōma's help for an upcoming problem as Kaori is missing in Japan after the events of the Angel Fall. | ||
| # | Episode title | Original air date on AT-X |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | "August 31st (The Last Day)" "Hachigatsu Sanjūichi-Nichi (Saigo no Hi)" (8月31日 (さいごのひ)) |
October 8, 2010 |
| Following the fake date incident with Mikoto, Tōma still hasn't finished his summer homework and Index isn't helping much. While Tōma takes Index to a restaurant for a change of location, they are attacked by magician named Ōma Yamisaka who kidnaps Index and runs off. As Tōma tries to find her, running into Mikoto along the way, Ōma prepares a ceremony that will allow him to access the grimoires inside Index's head in order to find a cure for a curse inflicted on a woman he has fallen in love with. As the ceremony begins, Ōma's body and mind is put through excruciating pain trying to access the grimoires. Thanks to Index using her new cellphone, Tōma is able to find her and stop the ceremony. Tōma gets Ōma to snap out his depression and offers to cure the woman's curse using his Imagine Breaker. Meanwhile, Kaori is seen fighting the Knights of England in Japan. | ||
| 02 | "The Book of the Law" "Hō no Sho" (法の書) |
October 15, 2010 |
| Archbishop Laura informs Stiyl that the Liber AL vel Legis has been stolen by the Amakusa Catholics and sends him to Japan along with a group of Catholic battle nuns known as the Agnese Forces, to search for the grimoire and Orsola Aquinas, the only one who can decode it who was also kidnapped by the Amakusas. In order to get Tōma's assistance, Stiyl pretends to kidnap Index. While Tōma coincidentally runs into Orsola on the way to save Index, the Amakusas appear and abduct her via a hole in the ground. After determining that the Amakusa's goal is to use a special teleport magic to escape with Orsola before midnight, Tōma, Index, Stiyl and the Agnese Forces set up camp at the required location, where Tōma gets into a lot of awkward situations with the group's leader, Agnese Sanctis. Because Kaori was once an Amakusa Catholic, Stiyl knows he may have to fight her if necessary. Meanwhile, the Amakusas prepare to make their move. | ||
| 03 | "Amakusa Style" "Amakusa-shiki" (天草式) |
October 22, 2010 |
| The Agnese Forces face off against the Amakusas as a diversion while Tōma, Stiyl and Index sneak inside the amusement park. While escaping from some Amakusa warriors, Tōma manages to find Orsola and gives her a crucifix that Styil gave him earlier. The two are reunited with Stiyl and Index, who are facing against the leader of the Amakusas, Saiji Tatemiya. Working together, Tōma and Stiyl defeat Saiji and the rest of the Amakusas are captured by Agnese's battle nuns. However, the captured Saiji reveals to Tōma and Index that the Amakusas have never stolen the Liber AL vel Legis, as the real reason the Catholic Church wanted Orsola was to kill her to prevent the secrets of the grimoire from being abused. The Amakusas only got involved as Orsola sought them for protection but ran away as she didn't trust them. Troubled by this revelation, Tōma asks two of the Battle Nuns, Lucia and Angelene to see Orsola again but he accidentally angers Lucia who tries to kill him, Index and Saiji. However, she and Angelene are forced to retreat when Index uses spell interception on Angelene's magic and counters Lucia's attack. | ||
| 04 | "Voice of the Demon Killer (Sheol Fear)" "Mametsu no Koe (Sheōru Fia)" (魔滅の声 (シェオールフィア)) |
October 29, 2010 |
| Stiyl explains that the Catholics won't kill Orsola until they can prove her to be a heretic. As Saiji leaves to free his comrades, Stiyl tells Tōma and Index to go home, since they have no further stake in this matter. Tōma, however, goes by himself to where Orsola is being held and tortured by Agnese's battle nuns, who reveal they deceived Necessarius to assist them. He is later joined by Stiyl, who reveals the crucifix Tōma gave to Orsola means she is under protection of the Church of England, followed by Index and the Amasukas. While Tōma is put in charge in protecting Orsola, the others fend off the battle nuns, with Index utilizing the power "Sheol Fear", to deafen and paralyze some of the battle nuns. However, Lucia brings another force of battle nuns who willingly stab their ears to protect themselves from Sheol Fear. | ||
| 05 | "Lotus Wand" "Hasu no Tsue (Rōtasu Wando)" (蓮の杖 (ロータスワンド)) |
November 5, 2010 |
| As Tōma, Index, Stiyl, Saiji and Orsola barricade themselves from the battle nuns, Tōma and Index come up with an idea that Orsola could help them decipher the Liber AL vel Legis in Index's head to their advantage. When Orsola mentions her deciphering method, Index reveals her translations is a fake, revealing Orsola was never able to really decode the grimoire all along. While the others fend off against the battle nuns, Tōma confronts Agnese who attacks him with her Lotus Wand. However, Tōma manages to learn its attack patterns and land a hit on Agnese. As Agnese tries to bluff that Tōma sacrificed his friends as decoys, they arrive with Innocentius, who Stiyl managed to summon thanks to the Amasukas. Her confidence broken, Agnese is knocked out by Tōma, breaking the battle nuns morale, before Tōma himself falls unconscious. Waking up in a hospital in Academy City, Tōma is greeted and taken care by Kaori, who thanks him for helping and tells him that Orsola and the Amasukas are now under the protection of the Church of England. Meanwhile, back in London, Laura reveals to Stiyl that the true reason she got involved with the Orsola incident was to get the Amakusa Catholics under her control and use them as leverage to ensure Kaori's loyalty to Necessarius. | ||
| 06 | "Wreckage (Remnant)" "Zangai (Remunanto)" (残骸 (レムナント)) |
November 12, 2010 |
| Kuroko's day of shopping with Mikoto is interrupted by reports by her partner, Kazari Uiharu, about robbers stealing an aerospace carrycase. Kuroko subdues the thieves but is then attacked and wounded by their leader, another teleporter named Awaki Musujime. She reveals to Kuroko about Tree Diagram's destruction and how various factions are gathering of its remnants, the contents of the carrycase being one of them. Kuroko manages to escape, but becomes concerned over what Awaki had told her, particularly concerning how Mikoto had been trying to stop them for reasons she had kept from her, (namely being that if Tree Diagram were rebuilt, the Level 6 Shift experiment would start over again). As Mikoto goes out that night to confront Awaki, Kuroko decides to follow her and overhears their conversation before Awaki escapes. As Kuroko decides to take matters into her own hands, Misaka 10032 decides to take action. | ||
| 07 | "Coordinate Movement (Move Point)" "Zahyō Idō (Mūbu Pointo)" (座標移動 (ムーブポイント)) |
November 19, 2010 |
| Kuroko finds Awaki at a nearby building and uses the latter's trauma of self-teleportion to make the first strike but during their battle, her injuries make her unable to concentrate on teleporting and she is trapped under a pile of furniture. Awaki explains to Kuroko that she and her organization, the Science Syndicate, plan to build a new Tree Diagram in order to create other species of espers. Awaki tries to persuade Kuroko to join her, believing her powers is a curse that caused her to become how she is. Kuroko rejects her offer, verbally abuses Awaki for making excuses for her own behavior, breaks loose and tries to attack Awaki, but is shot by her. After a brief traumatic loss of control over her powers, Awaki attempts to kill Kuroko by dropping the building on top of her, but she is saved by Mikoto and Tōma, who came to rescue her after he was alerted by Misaka 10032. As the Anti-Skill's stop the Science Syndicate, Awaki tries to escape but is confronted by Accelerator, who uses the Misaka Network to utilise his powers in order to defeat her and destroy the Tree Diagram remnant. As everyone recovers, Mikoto gives her thanks to Kuroko. | ||
| 08 | "Grand Champion Star Festival" "Daihaseisai" (大覇星祭) |
November 26, 2010 |
| Academy City is hosting the Grand Champion Star Festival, a sports competition between the various schools of the city, during which visitors from outside the city are allowed entry. While Tōma's parents, Tōya and Shiina, as well as Misuzu, a relative of Mikoto's, get to know each other, Tōma and Mikoto decide to make a bet in which the loser does anything the winner wants. Meanwhile, Laura contacts Aleister to inform him that magicians have infiltrated Academy City in order to make a transaction with a magical weapon called the Stab Sword, which has the power to kill a Saint. Meanwhile, Tōma has several troubles with a hungry Index and awkward situations with the class representative, Seiri Fukiyose. Later, Tōma runs into Stiyl and Tsuchimikado, who tell him about the intruding magicians and asks him not to get Index involved. While getting scolded by Seiri after an awkward incident with Index and Komoe, Tōma runs into a woman named Oriana Thomson. When his Imagine Breaker reacts to her, he realizes she is one of the magicians in question and starts to follow her. | ||
| 09 | "Tracking Seal (Route Disturb)" "Tsuiseki Fūji (Rūto Disutābu)" (追跡封じ (ルートディスターブ)) |
December 3, 2010 |
| As Oriana realizes she's being followed and runs away, Tōma, Stiyl and Tsuchimikado chase her through a bus station filled with booby traps, but she manages to escape and uses a counter magic called Short Hand to avoid being traced. Despite Tōma's objections, Tsuchimikado and Stiyl undergo a painful magical spell in order to locate the Short Hand spell, which happens to be right in the center of a middle school ball throwing tournament. With the competitors in danger of being hurt by the spell if they touch it, Tōma and Tsuchimikado infiltrate the match as contestants in order to find it, only to find the opposing team is Mikoto's school. Tōma tries to protect Mikoto from one of the basket poles which he believes has the Short Hand, only for Seiri to end up touching the real one and gets hit by magic and falls unconscious before Tōma destroys the spell. As Seiri is taken to the hospital, Tōma vows to make Oriana pay for what she did. | ||
| 10 | "Shorthand Original (Shorthand)" "Sokki Genten (Shōtohando)" (速記原典 (ショートハンド)) |
December 10, 2010 |
| While Heaven Canceler attends to Seiri, Stiyl manages to lead Tōma and Tsuchimikado to Oriana's location. Oriana inflicts a curse on Tsuchimikado and gives Tōma trouble with her variety of spells, yet Tōma's determination allows him to land a hit on her. Oriana escapes but leaves behind her cargo, which is later revealed to be a decoy. Laura soon learns that the Stab Sword is actually St. Peter's Cross, which she fears the Catholic Church will use to put Academy City under their control if the trade goes through. After Tōma, Stiyl and Tsuchimikado are informed of this, Tōma has lunch with Index, his parents, Mikoto and Misuzu, and is surprise to learn Misuzu is Mikoto's mother. | ||
| 11 | "Piercing Antisword (Stab Sword)" "Shitotsu Kōken (Sutabu Sōdo)" (刺突抗剣 (スタブソード)) |
December 17, 2010 |
| After Tōma has some women trouble with Index, Mikoto and Kuroko following lunch, Tsuchimikado manages to find Oriana's location and instructs him and Stiyl to go there. However, while Tsuchikimado tries to track Oriana, she goes straight to him and attacks him. She defeats Tsuchikimado and destroys his search spell, but he manages to bluff that he has summoned reinforcements to trick her into running away before she finishes him off. Meanwhile, Aisa becomes worried about Tōma, with Komoe suggesting she should invite him to a night parade at the end of the festival. However, when they bump into Oriana as she makes her escape, she sees Aisa's magic Celtic Cross and mistakes her for a Necessarius magician, attacking her with a vicious spell which leaves her brutally wounded. As Tōma falls into despair upon witnessing her state, Komoe recalls the healing spell she performed on Index, so Stiyl stays to help her perform it while Tōma chases after Oriana. | ||
| 12 | "Astronomical Observatory (Belvedere)" "Tenmondai (Beruvedēre)" (天文台 (ベルヴェデーレ)) |
December 24, 2010 |
| After losing track of Oriana, Tōma and Tsuchikimado realizes Oriana is actually scouting the city to find the perfect location to use St. Peter's Cross. Thanks to the information provided by Orsola, they learn the Cross can only be activated in a large open area where the constellations can be seen at sundown. Tsuchikimado figures out the Academy City airport located at the 23rd district is the perfect area to activate the cross so he, Tōma and Stiyl heads there quickly as sundown is approaching. By the time they've arrived, Lidvia Lorenzetti, the Catholic nun that Oriana is working with, has brought St. Peter's Cross and starts activating it's magic while Oriana defends her from the trio, defeating both Tsuchikimado and Stiyl, with Tōma the only one left standing. | ||
| 13 | "Disciple's Cross (Croce di Pietro)" "Shito Jūji (Kurōche di Pietoro)" (使徒十字 (クローチェ ディ ピエトロ)) |
January 7, 2011 |
| As Oriana and Tōma continue to battle, Stiyl recovers and summons Innocentius to help him. Refusing to give up, Oriana uses her full powers to defeat Stiyl and all of her spells on Tōma. As he is about to lose conscious, Tōma remember his promises to his friends and recuperate himself to finally defeat Oriana. However, Lidvia contacts them and reveals that she and St. Peter's Cross are outside the city and there's nothing they can do to stop her from activating the spell. Luckily, the Night Parade, the festival's fireworks event has started which blocks out the stars and prevents the cross from activating. As Tōma is checked into the hospital, he is visited by Index, Kuroko and Mikoto which the latter informs he has lost their bet. Meanwhile, Lidvia escapes by a private jet but is tracked down by Laura via Stiyl's rune cards and has her ejected out of the plane. Despite Laura offering to save her if she surrenders, Lidvia refuses and chooses to fall to her death while protecting the cross. At the same time, Aleister decides to take action personally due to these recent events. The next morning, Aisa is visited by Index and later, to her joy, Tōma. | ||
| 14 | "City of Water" "Mizu no Miyako" (水の都) |
January 14, 2011 |
| Despite a chain of bad luck with his female companions during the festival, Tōma gets lucky on the last day when he wins a lottery for a one week trip to Chioggia, Italy. After he and Index arrive at Chioggia, Tōma tries to find Index after she gets lost but is found by Orsola who manages to find Index. Later, Orsola explains to them that she and the Amakusas are here at Chioggia to help move and pack her belongings to London. After helping them, Tōma and Index are about to go to their hotel when two assassins try to kill Orsola but their attempts are thwarted by Tōma and Index. One of the assassins escapes by summoning a Sailing ship made of Ice in the canal where Tōma and Orsola accidentally board it. As they hide from their pursuers inside the ship, both of them realize the assassins were from the Catholic church and there is a fleet of Ice ships heading towards the Adriatic Sea. When someone tries to enter the room in which they're hiding, Tōma prepares himself and is surprised to find out it's Agnese. | ||
| 15 | "The Queen Fleet" "Joō Kantai" (女王艦隊) |
January 21, 2011 |
| Agnese explains they are on a fleet of magic ships called The Queen's Fleet where she and her Battle nuns are being punished. She agrees to let Tōma and Orsola escape in exchange for rescuing Lucia and Angelene, who are at risk of having their brains restructured to prevent them from casting a spell that would allow them to escape. As Agnese goes to the fleet's flagship to confront the Commander of the fleet, Bishop Biagio, Tōma and Orsola manage to find and rescue Lucia and Angelene, who tell him that Agnese is in danger of being used for a spell that would destroy her brain. Just then, the other ships start shooting at them, causing them to fall into the sea, but they are rescued by Index and the Amakusas using an magical submersible boat. After learning that the spell Biagio intends to use Agnese for has the power to destroy cities and erase their culture, the Amakusas agree to help Tōma and co. rescue Agnese. They launch an attack on the fleet, where Tōma and his group face up against the Battle nuns. But when the other ships try to sink the ship where both Tōma's group and the Battle nuns are, Angeline gets injured saving one of the nuns. | ||
| 16 | "Rosary of the Appointed Time" "Kokugen no Rozario" (刻限のロザリオ) |
January 28, 2011 |
| Lucia and the Amasukas hold off the battle nuns while Tōma, Index and Orsola continue onwards to the flagship. While Tōma distracts an army of ice golems, he soon encounters Biagio, who uses his magic enlarging crosses and gravity magic to defeat him. Meanwhile, Orsola manages to finds Agnese but is soon found by Biagio who reveals he needs Agnese so he can use the Fleet's powers to destroy Academy City. As Biagio subdues them, Tōma arrives and knocks him down. With his plans foiled, Biagio activates the Fleet's self destruction spell that will cause a large explosion. Tōma orders Orsola to escape with Agnese and the others while he fights Biagio one more time, finally defeating him and stopping the spell despite the flagship sinking. As Tōma wakes up in a hospital, he gets a call from Heaven Canceler who informs him that he is being flown back to Academy City and reminds him of Mikoto's bet for him. In London, Kaori is informed of the recent events by Motoharu and greets Orsola, who has returned with Agnese. Meanwhile in the Vatican, a nun with a pierced face from God's Right Seat forces the Pope to sign an order to investigate Tōma and eliminate him if he is seen as an enemy. | ||
| 17 | "Penalty Game" "Batsu Gēmu" (罰ゲーム) |
February 4, 2011 |
| Autumn arrives at Academy City and the city's students change into their winter uniforms. Accelerator, Last Order and Kikyō move out of the hospital into Aiho's apartment, while Misaka 10032 and three other Sisters begin rehabilitation in the city. Meanwhile as promised in their bet, Mikoto has Tōma do whatever she wants, dragging him to a mobile phone shop which is offering a Gekota phone strap for those who take out a couples plan. However, in order to qualify for the offer, they have to take a photo of themselves as a loving couple, which is ruined when a jealous Kuroko intervenes. Elsewhere, Last Order gets herself locked out of the apartment which leads to Misaka 10032 making fun of her situation. Last Order is jealous that she is the only Misaka clone which doesn't have goggles, so Last Order steals and run off with Misaka 10032's goggles, which she doesn't take too kindly. | ||
| 18 | "Specimen Number (Serial Number)" "Kentai Bangō (Shiriaru Nanbā)" (検体番号 (シリアルナンバー)) |
February 11, 2011 |
| In London, the ladies of Necessarius try to learn to use a new washing machine. Back at Academy City, Mikoto finally claims her phone straps, while Tōma encounters Misaka 10032, who is searching for Last Order, and buys her a necklace so he can distinguish her from Mikoto. As Mikoto rejoins them, Misaka 10032 starts teasing her and clinging onto Tōma, attracting the attention of Last Order before Misaka 10032 chases after her again. Elsewhere, Hyōka appears from the Imaginary District and is apprehended by AntiSkill. Accelerator heads to the underground mall to look for Last Order and ends up encountering Index, who decides to help search for her after he treats her to a meal. Meanwhile, Last Order approaches Tōma to thank him for stopping the Level 6 Shift experiment, mentioning how she hopes to protect Accelerator. Tōma and Last Order soon part ways and join up with Index and Accelerator respectively, though Tōma and Accelerator don't actually see each other, and start making their way home. | ||
| 19 | "Amata Kihara (Researcher)" "Kihara Amata (Kenkyūsha)" (木原数多 (けんきゅうしゃ)) |
February 18, 2011 |
| In Russia, Sasha Kruezhev tries to learn the side effects of her body after Archangel Gabriel possessed her but is harass by her superior Vassilisa. As Accelerator walks Last Order back home, she trips and scrapes her knees so he goes to buy her some bandages. However, he is soon attacked by a group of armed soldiers called the Hound Dogs led by his old mentor, Amata Kihara. While Accelerator easily deals with his men, Amata, who had helped Accelerator learn his powers, knows all the tricks to negate his ability and brutally beats him up. When the Hound Dogs attempt to kidnap Last Order, Accelerator manages to muster up enough strength to blow her away to safety, before Index, who wanted to return a tissue package to him appears on the scene. Meanwhile, Tōma goes looking for Index after she went off but witnesses a group of Anti-Skill officers mysteriously falling unconscious before running into Last Order, who asks for his help. At the same time, a magician from God's Right Seat named Vento of the Front has entered Academy City and contacts Aleister that she has neutralize the Anti-Skill and Judgment forces, killed three of his Board of Directors and is planning to kill him and everyone else in Academy City. Unfazed by her threats, Aleister orders Amata to deploy "FUSE=Kazakiri" and capture Last Order to eliminate Vento. | ||
| 20 | "Hunting Dog Unit (Hound Dog)" "Ryōken Butai (Haundo Doggu)" (猟犬部隊 (ハウンドドッグ)) |
February 25, 2011 |
| Accelerator uses Index's presence as a distraction to force a driver to get him and Index away from the Hound Dogs. Before Amata can go after them, Vento appears and takes care of his men as he pursues after Accelerator. Meanwhile, as Tōma and Last Order search for Accelerator, they escape from the Hound Dogs chasing after her by hiding in a restaurant where everyone is also unconscious. Accelerator leaves Index in the care of Heaven Canceller, who informs him about Last Order's situation. In an attempt to take out the Hound Dogs hunting him, he lures them into a railway factory and kills them off one by one. As Tōma and Last Order continue to hide, they are confronted by Vento, whose image has caused several people, including Aiho and Kazari, to fall unconscious. Tōma defends the unconscious patrons of the restaurant from Vento's attacks and tells Last Order to run as Vento is after him but she soon starts coughing up blood and is forced to flee. Accelerator finally kills the last Hound Dog soldier hunting him but his actions have been witness by an Anti-Skill patrol unit, putting him as a wanted murder suspect. Meanwhile, Tsuchimikado is investigating Vento's actions, and comes across a white spectral being. | ||
| 21 | "Teaching Device (Testament)" "Gakushū Sōchi (Tesutamento)" (学習装置 (テスタメント)) |
March 4, 2011 |
| As Tsuchimikado battles against the spectral being who is working with Vento to kill the unconscious residents of Academy City, Tōma calls Accelerator from Last Order's cellphone to update him on her status. Accelerator soon learns that Amata has managed to capture Last Order, though is keeping her alive for some reason. Aleister then uses Testament, with Last Order's authorization, to summon an angel to appear in the city to target those who use magic. As Tōma, Mikoto and Index head towards where the angel is, Index realizes the angel is actually Hyōka. As Mikoto holds off the Hound Dogs, Index explains the nature of Vento's Divine Punishment, which targets anyone who experiences a certain emotion towards her and how Hyōka isn't an ordinary angel. Tōma tells her to work with Mikoto to combine their knowledge of magic and science to figure out how to help her. Meanwhile, Accelerator breaks into the Hound Dog's headquarters and confronts Amata. As Tōma witnesses Hyōka's controlled state and feels helpless, since using his right hand would kill her, Vento appears before him again, threatening to kill them both, so Tōma stands to defend Hyōka. | ||
| 22 | "Divine Punishment Spell" "Tenbatsu Jutsushiki" (天罰術式) |
March 11, 2011 |
| Accelerator starts to fight Amata, but the battery for his link to the Misaka Network runs out, leaving him paralyzed and defenseless. However, he begins to move again by force of will and starts to come after Amata. Meanwhile, Tōma fights against Vento, who continues to be weakened by Testament, while Hyōka makes snow appear over the city, protecting the unconscious civilians. Vento reveals her hatred towards science because both she and her little brother got into accident at an amusement park that was supposed to be the safest and the hospital only had enough blood to save her alone. Tōma argues against her reasoning for her actions and manages to punch and knock her out. Index appears in Amata's HQ and, thanks to Mikoto's knowledge of science, learns that Last Order is being used as a container to create the angel. She sings a song in order to sever the shackles controlling Last Order, which in turn resonates with Accelerator who awakens as a result and blasts Amata into the sky. In the end, Acqua of the Back from God's Right Seat appears and gives Tōma Vento's cross as her Divine Punishment has been dispelled before warning Tōma not to fight him as he is a Saint and leaves with Vento. | ||
| 23 | "Before the War" "Kaisenmae" (開戦前) |
March 25, 2011[11] |
| Thanks to Index, Hyōka returns to normal and, despite blaming herself for the chaos she caused, Tōma assures her that she also protected the city's populace. As Acqua retreats with Vento and the rest of her men from Academy City, Accelerator is captured by the City's security forces. As the city recovers from Vento's attack, Tsuchimikado and Tōma's class have dinner at a sukiyaki restaurant where they later talk about how a war will be coming to Academy City. Meanwhile, the City's Board of Directors punishes Accelerator for his actions by making him join a special Team called GROUP which compose of Tsuchimikado, Awaki and the mage who disguised himself as Mitsuki Unabara. After increasing the time limit of Accelerator's powers, GROUP first mission is to neutralize the threat pose by the Skill-Outs, gangs of Level 0s lead by Ritoku Komaba, who are taking advantage of the lack security in the city after the Anti-Skills are forced to defend the city's outskirts to prepare themselves for more attacks by the Catholic church. As Accelerator and Awaki begin their attack at the Skill-Out's home turf, Awaki comes across Ritoku. | ||
| 24 | "Armed Group (Skill-Out)" "Busō Shūdan (Sukiru-Auto)" (武装集団 (スキルアウト)) |
April 1, 2011 |
| Despite her abilities, Awaki finds herself at a disadvantage as Ritoku is using stolen military weapons including an exo-suit called 'Hard Taping' which gives him incredible speed and strength. After defeating her, Ritoku then confronts Accelerator, using a chaff grenade to interfere with his Misaka Network link. However, Accelerator manages to use a pistol to clear the air and land a shot on him, thanks to Awaki's assistance. After killing Ritoku, Accelerator decides to do some overtime and encounters a drunk Misuzu, who is searching for the Dangai University database center for a report. After sending her off in a taxi, where she exchanges numbers with Tōma, Accelerator is contacted by GROUP's mysterious head, who reveals that they have hired the Skill-Outs to kill Misuzu as she is the Parent-Student representative who are attempting to take their children out of Academy City before the impending war. When they cut off his powers after he refuses to help the Skill-Outs, Accelerator decides to head to Dangai University to rescue Misuzu despite spotting Tōma, who also goes there to save Misuzu after she called him for help. Thanks to Accelerator's unseen aid, Tōma is able to escape with Misuzu from the Skill-Outs, only to confront by one of them named Shiage Hamazura. Shiage is desperate to kill to Misuzu as the City's higher-ups will exterminate the Skill-Outs if they fail but Tōma berates Shiage's ideals of trampling over other lives and knocks him out. As Tōma is admitted into hospital, Mizusu admits she came to take Mikoto home, but feels safe knowing there are people like him to protect her. Accelerator later meets with the rest of GROUP who reveals the order on Misuzu's life has been canceled and the four of them decide to work together so they may one day take on the higher-ups. As each of the characters spend the night in their own ways, Hyōka and Index visit the injured Tōma. | ||
Some of the DVD releases feature an extra short entitled Toaru Majutsu no Index-tan, which is a parody of a similar segment from the Shakugan no Shana series. It features various outtake moments from the series, as well as a chibified Index.
| # | Title | Original sale date | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | "A Certain Magical Index-tan" "Toaru Majutsu no Index-tan" (とある魔術のいんでっくすたん) |
January 23, 2009 | ||
| Tōma meets a chibified Index, Tsuchimikado hosts some teleshopping and Mikoto advises people to conserve electricity. | ||||
| 02 | "A Certain Magical Index-tan 2" "Toaru Majutsu no Index-tan 2" (とある魔術のいんでっくすたん 2) |
June 26, 2009 | ||
| Aisa spills her thoughts, Index-tan confronts Tōma about 'his' blog and Mikoto and the sisters announce the anime adaptation of Toaru Kagaku no Railgun. | ||||
| 03 | "A Certain Magical Index-tan 3" "Toaru Majutsu no Index-tan 3" (とある魔術のいんでっくすたん 3) |
January 26, 2011 | ||
| Index-tan behaves like a certain squid girl, a chibified Agnese argues with Index-tan, and Ruiko Saten enjoys a quiet evening away from the action. | ||||
| 04 | "A Certain Magical Index-tan 4" "Toaru Majutsu no Index-tan 4" (とある魔術のいんでっくすたん 4) |
June 22, 2011 | ||
| Tōma gives Index-tan some payback, Accelerator celebrates his voice actor awards and the Misaka sisters play some 'imouto' games. | ||||
The first Blu-ray and DVD compilation for the series was released on January 23, 2009, with one scheduled for each month until all episodes were collected into eight volumes. Each volume contains 3 episodes. A DVD Box Set of the first season of Index was released on December 22, 2010 containing the first twelve episodes of the season, with a second Box Set scheduled to be released on March 9, 2011 containing the rest of the season. The first Blu-ray and DVD compilation of the second season of Index is scheduled to be released on January 26, 2011, following the same model as the first season's Blu-ray and DVD release schedule.
| Volume | Date | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| Volume 1 | January 23, 2009[12] | 1-3 |
| Volume 2 | February 25, 2009[13] | 4-6 |
| Volume 3 | March 25, 2009[14] | 7-9 |
| Volume 4 | April 24, 2009[15] | 10-12 |
| Volume 5 | May 29, 2009[16] | 13-15 |
| Volume 6 | June 26, 2009[17] | 16-18 |
| Volume 7 | July 24, 2009[18] | 19-21 |
| Volume 8 | August 21, 2009[19] | 22-24 |
| Box Set | Date | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| Set 1 | December 17, 2010[20] | 1-12 |
| Set 2 | March 9, 2011 | 13-24 |
| Volume | Date | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| Volume 1 | January 26, 2011[21] | 1-3 |
| Volume 2 | February 23, 2011[22] | 4-6 |
| Volume 3 | April 6, 2011[23] | 7-9 |
| Volume 4 | May 25, 2011[24] | 10-12 |
| Volume 5 | June 22, 2011[25] | 13-15 |
| Volume 6 | July 27, 2011[26] | 16-18 |
| Volume 7 | August 24, 2011[27] | 19-21 |
| Volume 8 | September 22, 2011[28] | 22-24 |
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