To Aru Majutsu no Index

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To Aru Majutsu no Index

To Aru Majutsu no Index light novel volume 1 cover.

とある魔術の禁書目録
(A Certain Magical Index)

Genre

Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Science fiction

Light novel

Author

Kazuma Kamachi

Illustrator

Kiyotaka Haimura

Publisher

Dengeki Bunko

Other publishers:
Daewon C&I Kadokawa Media

Demographic

Male

Published

April 2004 – ongoing

Volumes

Manga: To Aru Kagaku no Railgun

Author

Kazuma Kamachi

Illustrator

Motoi Huyukawa

Publisher

ASCII Media Works

Demographic

Shōnen

Magazine

Dengeki Daioh

Original run

May 2007 – ongoing

Volumes

Manga

Author

Kazuma Kamachi

Illustrator

Chuya Kogino

Publisher

Square Enix

Demographic

Shōnen

Magazine

Monthly Shōnen Gangan

Original run

June 2007 – ongoing

Volumes

TV anime

Director

Hiroshi Nishikiori

Studio

J.C.Staff

To Aru Majutsu no Index (とある魔術の禁書目録, To Aru Majutsu no Indekkusu^?, "A Certain Magical Index") is a Japanese light novel series by Kazuma Kamachi, published by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Bunko label. Set in a city of scientifically advanced superhuman students, but in a world where magic is also real. Toma Kamijo's right hand, the Imagine Breaker, will negate all magic, psychic, or divine powers, but not his own bad luck. One day he finds a young girl hanging on his balcony railing. She turns out to be a nun from the Church of England, and her mind has been implanted with the Index-Librorum-Prohibitorum - all the magical texts the Church has removed from circulation. The series will be made into an anime.^[1]

1 Characters
2 Media
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Characters

Tōma Kamijō (上条当麻, Kamijō Tōma^?): Voiced by: Atsushi Abe; Series' protagonist, a psychic. He has the lowest psychic rank possible at Level 0—largely because the people testing psychic abilities can't detect or classifying his abilities. His power is Imagine Breaker (幻想殺し, Gensō Goroshi^?, "Imagine Killer"), a power which negates all magic, psychic, or divine powers but also his own good luck. In order to save Index from the need of memory reset, he had activated her self-protection system and losing all of his past memories, including everything about Index, by coming in contact with Feather of Light (光の羽, Hikari no Hane^?). This remains a secret to everyone except himself and the doctor that takes care of him.

Index (インデックス, Indekkusu^?): Voiced by: Yuka Iguchi; Series' main heroine, a young nun from Necessarius (必要悪の教会, Hitsuyōaku no Kyōkai^?, "Church of Necessary Evil"), a Church of England. Her mind has been implanted with the 103,000 magical texts of the Index-Librorum-Prohibitorum at the cost of her own memories, or so the church authorities say. Her sorcery name is Dedicatus545. She is said to have 15% of memory space left to use in daily activities, which allows her to live normally for less than a year. However, all of this are the church's plan to make her unable to betray, by "maintenance" her once the memory has come to its limit. When she's being invaded by outsiders, her self-protection system will activated and allows her to use magic. As a last resort, her self-protection system will use a Feather of Light (光の羽, Hikari no Hane^?) to force reset Index's own memory.

Stiyl Magnus (ステイル＝マグヌス, Suteiru Magunusu^?): A sorcerer from Necessarius. His sorcery name is Fortis931. He's an extremely heavy smoker - he claims a world without nicotine would be hell. He specializes in using flames and is able to use a flame sword or summon a 3000 degree Celsius fire called Innocens (魔女狩りの王, Majokari no Ō^?, "King of Witch Hunter") to battle his enemies.

Kaori Kanzaki (神裂火織, Kanzaki Kaori^?): A sorcerer from Necessarius. Her sorcery name is Salvere000. She use a 2 meter long katana as her weapon. She has a special attack called Nanasen (七閃, Nanasen^? "Seven Flash") that uses her katana and some wires.

Mikoto Misaka (御坂美琴, Misaka Mikoto^?): Voiced by: Rina Satō; A psychic user of the Academy City, she is the main protagonist of To Aru Kagaku no Railgun, a side story to To Aru Majutsu no Index. She is Level 5, one of the seven most powerful psychic users. Her power is to generate electricity; she is powerful enough to blackout the city, and make instant railguns by using coins as projectiles.

Misaka (ミサカ, Misaka^?): Mikoto's clones; they're being used in an experiment designed to create the first Level 6 psychic ("Level 6 Shift"). There are 20,000 clones in total but all clones below No. 10032 are already dead, killed during the earlier stages of the experiment. All Misakas' minds are connected together using a special psychic ability called Radio Noise (欠陥電気, Kekkan Denki^?, "Flawed Electric"), an ability which lets their brainwaves become electric signals, which allows them to share memories; their communication network, a.k.a. Misaka Network, uses the Radio Noise to a great extent and works like the Internet, sharing information.; Being rapidly manufactured clones, they don't change their facial expression much, as they didn't learn how to. Toma first meets No. 10032, which he calls Misaka's Sister (御坂妹, Misaka Imouto^?).

Accelerator (一方通行, Ippō Tsūkō^?, "One Way"): The most powerful Psychic in the Academy City. A boy about the same age as Toma, he has white hair and red eyes, because his abilities block all ultraviolet radiation and his body never began to manufacture melanin. His ability is to change the vector values of anything; he can simply kill a person just by reversing the flow of blood inside one's body, or can choose to greatly uplift the velocity of wind around him, causing a massive plasma storm. He has to consciously allow gravity to affect him, and can block out all sound.; This great ability made him the subject of an experiment attempting to create the first Level 6 Psychic; according to the City's best supercomputer, this feat could only be achieved by killing 20,000 skilled psychics without a single failure, in this case, the Misaka clones. The fact that it failed due to the abrupt interference of Toma (who defeated him with a few good punches) shows his only weakness; lack of actual physical power because he has always relied on his abilities.; After his defeat in Vol.3, he reappears in Vol.5, and has slowly taken a more heroic role protecting a girl known as Last Order.

Last Order (打ち止め, Uchidome^?, "The End"): Misaka's clone No. 20001, she's the administrator of Misaka Network and a fail safe mechanism in case the Misakas go out of control. She was never designed to function independently, cannot survive long outside a culture container, and appears to be only about ten years old.

Komoe Tsukuyomi (月詠小萌, Tsukuyomi Komoe^?): Toma's class teacher, despite her childish appearance - she's only 135 cm tall.^[2] This irony means she is often regarded as one of the seven great mysteries of the Academy City. She has major interest in studying Pyrokinesis.

Heaven Canceler (冥土帰し, Meido Gaeshi^?, Afterlife Returner): Often mentioned as "the Frog-Faced Doctor" by Toma, the only things that this benevolent man was impossibe to heal are the Imagine-Breaking boy's destroyed memories, and Accelerator's brain damage received while the white-haired boy tried to save Last Order from a mental self-destruction program(however, the doc managed to mend it so that he can still use his powers if provided with extra help from the Misaka clones). This genius of a physician also managed the life extension devices for the ruler of the Academy City, Aleister Crowley, while also helping the foundation of the city itself.

Aleister Crowley (アレイスター・クロウリー, Areisutā Kurourī^?): Once the greatest magician in modern magic history, more than a half of all modern magicians are affected by this man's established theories, and two fifth of them are direct followers of his ways. Having furthered the bounds of sorcery farther than the advance made in the last few millenia alone, and had written many top-class spellbooks like The Book of the Law, it was no surprise that many mages were outraged when this eccentric genius literally "dumped" all his magic abilities and decided to ace it in the field of science, thus establishing the Academy City and becoming its hidden monarch.; When he dumped his magics and was running for life from a hoard of enraged stalker magicians, he met the Heaven Canceler, who eventually helped him found the Academy City in the far eastern island of Japan, and also providing help in the ex-magician's new goal; to extend his lifespan as far as he can by having all but consciousness rely upon the power of machines.

[edit] Media

[edit] Light novels

The light novels have been published by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Bunko label since April 2004. As of June 2008, there are sixteen novels and one short story collection.^[3]

#	Title	ISBN	Release date
1	To Aru Majutsu no Index 1 (とある魔術の禁書目録 1, To Aru Majutsu no Indekkusu 1^?)	ISBN 484022658X	April 2004
Tōma finds a young nun draped on his balcony, pursued by agents of the Church of England. Her mind is filled with the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, and the spell administering this knowledge deletes her memory at regular intervals. Tōma decides the best way to save Index is to free her from that spell.
2	To Aru Majutsu no Index 2 (とある魔術の禁書目録 2, To Aru Majutsu no Indekkusu 2^?)	ISBN 4840227012	June 2004
Magnus asks Tōma to help him defeat an evil alchemist who has kidnapped a miko with the power to kill vampires.
3	To Aru Majutsu no Index 3 (とある魔術の禁書目録 3, To Aru Majutsu no Indekkusu 3^?)	ISBN 4840227853	September 2004
Tōma is surprised to discover that Misaka has a sister, and even more than her sister is a clone, and there are ten thousand of them, created for an experiment designed to raise Accelerator to level 6.
4	To Aru Majutsu no Index 4 (とある魔術の禁書目録 4, To Aru Majutsu no Indekkusu 4^?)	ISBN 4840228582	December 2004
A family vacation at the beach becomes extremely confusing when everyone appears to switch bodies.
5	To Aru Majutsu no Index 5 (とある魔術の禁書目録 5, To Aru Majutsu no Indekkusu 5^?)	ISBN 4840230250	April 2005
Accelerator struggles to save the 10,001st Misato clone, who has escaped the lab where she was created.
6	To Aru Majutsu no Index 6 (とある魔術の禁書目録 6, To Aru Majutsu no Indekkusu 6^?)	ISBN 4840229732	July 2005

7	To Aru Majutsu no Index 7 (とある魔術の禁書目録 7, To Aru Majutsu no Indekkusu 7^?)	ISBN 4840232059	November 2005

8	To Aru Majutsu no Index 8 (とある魔術の禁書目録 8, To Aru Majutsu no Indekkusu 8^?)	ISBN 4840232695	January 2006

9	To Aru Majutsu no Index 9 (とある魔術の禁書目録 9, To Aru Majutsu no Indekkusu 9^?)	ISBN 4840233853	April 2006

10	To Aru Majutsu no Index 10 (とある魔術の禁書目録 10, To Aru Majutsu no Indekkusu 10^?)	ISBN 4840234280	May 2006

11	To Aru Majutsu no Index 11 (とある魔術の禁書目録 11, To Aru Majutsu no Indekkusu 11^?)	ISBN 4840235813	October 2006

12	To Aru Majutsu no Index 12 (とある魔術の禁書目録 12, To Aru Majutsu no Indekkusu 12^?)	ISBN 9784840236836	January 2007

13	To Aru Majutsu no Index 13 (とある魔術の禁書目録 13, To Aru Majutsu no Indekkusu 13^?)	ISBN 9784840238014	April 2007

SS	To Aru Majutsu no Index SS (とある魔術の禁書目録 SS, To Aru Majutsu no Indekkusu SS^?)	ISBN 9784840239127	July 2007

14	To Aru Majutsu no Index 14 (とある魔術の禁書目録 14, To Aru Majutsu no Indekkusu 14^?)	ISBN 9784840240628	November 2007

15	To Aru Majutsu no Index 15 (とある魔術の禁書目録 15, To Aru Majutsu no Indekkusu 15^?)	ISBN 9784840241458	January 2008

16	To Aru Majutsu no Index 16 (とある魔術の禁書目録 16, To Aru Majutsu no Indekkusu 16^?)	ISBN 9784048670869	June 2008

[edit] Drama CD

A drama CD was released as a mail-in order of Dengeki hp volume 48^[4] and was released later in November 2007. There are two parts of story, the first part originally aired as a radio drama in Dengeki Taishō^[3] starts with an encounter with mysterious self-proclaimed "former" magician by Tōma Kamijō and Index in the family restaurant after Misaka decide to go back due to urgent business. The second part involves around Mikoto Misaka and Kuroko Shirai with their "urgent business", and a duel request by a Level 3 Psychic girl from Tokiwadai.^[5]

[edit] Manga

The series has been adapted into two manga. The one which follows the novel's storyline started serialization in Monthly Shōnen Gangan^[3] in June 2007. The first bound volume of both series was released on November 10, 2007. The side story entitled To Aru Kagaku no Railgun (とある科学の超電磁砲, A Certain Scientific Railgun^?) started serialization in Dengeki Daioh^[3] in May 2007. The story involves around Mikoto Misaka and her task as a member of public moral committee, Judgment. The story starts with an investigation of strange occurrences which allow psychics to temporarily "level up" for a short time.

[edit] Anime

An anime adaption of To Aru Majutsu no Index has been announced.^[1] The anime series will be directed by Hiroshi Nishikiori and produced by J.C.Staff.^[6]