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A Certain Magical Index

2008TV-143 seasons7.5 / 10

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.

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Checked Jul 22, 2026

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Synopsis

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.

Season 1 episodes

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Episode 1

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.

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Episode 2

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.

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Episode 3

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.

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Episode 6

Imagine Breaker

Following the events of last episode and the activation of Index's defense mechanism Touma struggles to hide his amnesia from Index.

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Episode 8

Ars Magna (Golden Transmutation)

Touma encounters Ars Magna the leader of Misawa Cram School and a man with his own connection to Index.

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Episode 15

Angel Fall (Angel Fall)

Touma and Index head to the beach to avoid the fallout from Touma's fight with Accelerator. They also plan to meet Touma's Family but when they arrive they aren't quite what Touma was expecting.

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Episode 16

Toya Kamijo (Father)

The Angel Fall spell remains in effect with only Toma, Kanzaki, Misha and Tsuchimikado relatively unaffected. However, the person responsible for casting the spell remains a mystery. Misha quickly becomes the prime suspect after a strange conversation with Toma. But when Toma follows up on his hunch he discovers that the real culprit is not Misha but his own father. As such he hurries to reach his father before Misha and the other mages can confront him.

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Episode 17

The Power of God (Archangel)

After figuring out the truth of Misha’s real identity, Kanzaki sends Kamijo and Toya to destroy the ritual spot. When Tsuchimikado suggests that Toya must die for the spell to end, a violent – and seemingly fatal – encounter ensues.

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Episode 18

Replica (Impostor)

In order to shake off the unwanted attention she’s getting from Unabara, Misaka asks Kamijo to pretend to be her boyfriend. Things get complicated when the faux-couple discovers that Unabara is hiding a magical secret.

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Episode 19

Last Order (The End)

Accelerator meets the last of Misaka’s clones – Last Order – who explains the special role she played in the Sister experiment. Later, Accelerator learns what steps he’ll have to take to keep Last Order safe.

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Episode 20

Virus Code (Final Signal)

After Accelerator frees Last Order of the virus infecting her brain, he’s attacked by gun-wielding Amai. Just as all appears lost for Accelerator, Yoshikawa arrives to help – but Amai isn’t going down without a fight.

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Episode 21

Counter Stop (Identity Unknown)

School’s back in session and that means new transfer students – one of which is Index! In class, Komoe offers more insight into the realities of life as an esper – and a powerful new magical presence is detected in Academy City.

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Episode 22

Golem (Stone Figure)

Panic ensues in Academy City upon the arrival of the sorcerer Sherry Cromwell, who makes no secret of her plans to destroy Kazakiri! Kamijo steps up to ruin Sherry’s plot – but the situation is more complex than he knows.

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Episode 23

Friends (Hyoka Kazakiri)

Kamijo chases Sherry away only to discover the sorcerer now has designs on Index! Meanwhile, with her secret revealed, Kazakiri takes advantage of her new situation and sets out to fight Ellis.

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Episode 24

Imaginary Number School District - Five-Element Agency

Kamijo, Index and Kazakiri join forces to take on Ellis. When the battle ends, and with the support of Index, Kazakiri returns to the place of her origin. Later, Tsuchimikado ponders Aleister’s role in recent events.

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Episode information updated Jul 22, 2026

More about A Certain Magical Index

Cast

Atsushi AbeTouma Kamijou (voice)
Yuka IguchiIndex (voice)
Rina SatoMikoto Misaka (voice)
Shizuka ItohKaori Kanzaki (voice)
Anri KatsuMotoharu Tsuchimikado (voice)
Satomi AraiKuroko Shirai (voice)
Nobuhiko OkamotoAccelerator (voice)
Aki ToyosakiKazari Uiharu (voice)

Credits

Written by
Kiyotaka Haimura, Hiroyuki Yoshino, Masanao Akahoshi, Satoru Nishizono, Seishi Minakami, Akira Tanizaki, Masanao Akahoshi, Kazuma Kamachi

Production details

Status
Ended
Series type
Scripted
Episodes
74
Original language
Japanese
Original title
とある魔術の禁書目録

Networks & production

  • MBSJapan
  • J.C.STAFFJapan
  • Geneon EntertainmentJapan
  • ASCII Media WorksJapan
  • Square EnixJapan
  • AT-XJapan

Themes

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