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A Certain Magical Index
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Atsushi Abe
Touma Kamijou (voice)
74 eps
Yuka Iguchi
Index (voice)
74 eps
Rina Sato
Mikoto Misaka (voice)
74 eps
Shizuka Itoh
Kaori Kanzaki (voice)
55 eps
Anri Katsu
Motoharu Tsuchimikado (voice)
55 eps
Kana Asumi
Hyouka Kazakiri (voice)
7 eps
Satomi Arai
Kuroko Shirai (voice)
50 eps
Nobuhiko Okamoto
Accelerator (voice)
74 eps
Aki Toyosaki
Kazari Uiharu (voice)
8 eps
Misato Fukuen
Maika Tsuchimikado (voice)
9 eps
Ayumi Fujimura
Seiri Fukiyose (voice)
10 eps
Yuhko Kaida
Aiho Yomikawa (voice)
16 eps
Yuka Terasaki
Sasha Kreutzev (voice)
4 eps
Yumi Touma
Kikyou Yoshikawa (voice)
7 eps
Satoshi Hino
Shiage Hamazura (voice)
27 eps
Kisho Taniyama
Stiyl Magnus (voice)
53 eps
Kimiko Koyama
Komoe (voice)
49 eps
Nozomi Sasaki
Misaka 10032 (voice)
10 eps
Yoshihisa Kawahara
Blue Haired-Earrings (voice)
22 eps
Yutaka Nakano
Frog-Faced Doctor (voice)
13 eps
Toshihiko Seki
Aleister Crowley (voice)
9 eps
Toratarō
Sphynx (voice)
17 eps
Kenji Nomura
Touya Kamijou (voice)
7 eps
Kikuko Inoue
Shiina Kamijou (voice)
5 eps
Daisuke Kishio
Mitsuki Unabara (voice)
6 eps
Rina Hidaka
Last Order (voice)
13 eps
Ayako Kawasumi
Laura Stuart (voice)
11 eps
Mamiko Noto
Aisa Himegami (voice)
19 eps
Aya Endo
Orsola Aquinas (voice)
12 eps
Rie Kugimiya
Agnese Sanctis (voice)
11 eps
Mariya Ise
Lucia (voice)
8 eps
Azusa Enoki
Angelene (voice)
7 eps
Mai Fuchigami
Waitress (voice)
4 eps
Kohsuke Toriumi
Saiji Tatemiya (voice)
12 eps
Harumi Sakurai
Awaki Musujime (voice)
7 eps
Ryoka Yuzuki
Oriana Thomson (voice)
8 eps
Rei Sakuma
Lidvia Lorenzetti (voice)
7 eps
Emi Shinohara
Misuzu Misaka (voice)
5 eps
Shohei Yamaguchi
Male Student (voice)
3 eps
Ai Kayano
Itsuwa (voice)
21 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How A Certain Magical Index actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
A Certain Magical Index reads strongest on World Building, Spectacle and Bingeability.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The story
What it's about
Touma Kamijou is a student living in Academy City, a highly advanced place in terms of technology. Despite being gauged as a level zero esper (no powers), he possesses on his right hand the Imagine Breaker, an ability that negates any power whatsoever.
Touma finds a young girl named Index who is trying to run away from Necessarius, a powerful magic organization that she is member of. Blessed with the skill of memorizing any sort of information, she holds 103,000 forbidden magical books within her head.
As science and magic cross paths, Touma must face several dangers amid espers and magicians who appear in the exciting scientific town.
The run
Seasons
3 seasons · 74 episodes.
Season 0 · Complete
Specials
20096 episodes
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
200824 episodes
6.9IMDbSet in a city of scientifically advanced superhuman students, but in a world where magic is also real. Touma Kamijou’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.
Best episode · S01E09 Deep Blood (Vampire Killer)
Season 2 · Complete
Season 2
201024 episodes
4.9IMDbIndex is still a fugitive, and many powerful magical organizations and individuals want to take her to use the books in her memory, eliminating her in the process. War between those organizations is also starting to emerge. Index can only rely on her friend Touma, who has always protected her, along with Misaka and other friends from the Academy.
Best episode · S02E09 Route Disturb (Pursuit Inhibited)
Season 3 · Complete
Season 3
201826 episodes
6.5IMDbAfter their deadly struggle against the Catholic Church and the pending war between magic and science, Kamijo must work harder to protect Index. But with tensions high all around, what new adventures await them in this next chapter?
Best episode · S03E01 Unrest
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E09
Deep Blood (Vampire Killer)
Touma confronts Ars Magna in a dangerous battle to rescue both Index and Deep Blood.
- Directed by Hiroshi Nishikiori
S01E03
Necessarius (The Church of Necessary Evil)
While Komoe helps Index in healing her wounds using magic, Toma meets Stiyl's partner, Kaori Kanzaki and learns from her why they are hunting Index and the organization, Necessarius, The Church of Necessary Evil.
- Directed by Hiroshi Nishikiori
S01E02
Innocentius (The Witch Hunter King)
Kamijo tangles with Stiyl, upset with the magician’s rough behavior toward Index. When quick thinking allows Kamijo and Index to escape, they head to the one person that might be able to help them.
S01E05
Limit (12 o'clock)
Touma tries desperately to save Index's memories before it is too late.
- Directed by Hiroshi Nishikiori
S01E06
Imagine Breaker
Following the events of last episode and the activation of Index's defense mechanism Touma struggles to hide his amnesia from Index.
- Directed by Hiroshi Nishikiori
S01E01
Academy City
Kamijo meets Index, who is on the run from a magic society that wants the library of forbidden knowledge stored in her memory. Later, Kamijo is shocked to find Index at his house – bleeding and accompanied by a strange man.
- Written by Masanao Akahoshi
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Kozue KananiwaProducer
- Kentaro HattoriProducer
- Yuichiro ShijiProducer
- Nobuhiro NakayamaProducer
- Michihisa AbeProducer
- Noritomo IsogaiProducer
Writing
- Seishi MinakamiWriter
- Masanao AkahoshiWriter
- Satoru NishizonoWriter
- Hiroyuki YoshinoWriter
- Kiyotaka HaimuraWriter
- Akira TanizakiWriter
Direction
- Shigeki AwaiDirector
- Tamaki NakatsuDirector
- Hideki TachibanaDirector
- Yuki MoritaDirector
- Hiroshi NishikioriDirector
- Daisuke TakashimaDirector
Cinematography
- Shingo FukuyoDirector of Photography
Music
- Maiko IuchiOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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