English: A Certain Magical Index
Original (Japanese): ã¨ã‚ã‚‹é”è¡“ã®ç¦æ›¸ç›®éŒ²
Homepage: Project-Index
Publisher: J.C. Staff
Genre: Action, Magic
Original: Manga by Square Enix
Info urls: AniDB, AnimeNFO, ANN, Wikipedia (en), mangaupdates
Bloggers: Random Curiosity, Kookun, Moetron
Videos: OP, ED, promo, Streaming
Manga: Offline, Online (scanlators Hidoi)
Images: E-shuushuu
Plot
In a world full of espers and supernatural powers, magical powers are still out of question. However, soon our here Touma will discover the existence of magic. He is the who finds Index. Index, a little girl drooping on Touma’s balcony fence. This girl got a perfect memorization, which allows her to remember every single drop of rain that falls, any leaves on trees and all faces she sees.
This remarkable ability is misused by her society , the church. They forced her to learn 103,000 forbidden grimoirs. Grimoirs are forbidden books containing powerful spells. At the end, the church burned all copies, making Index the last library to the forbidden grimoirs.
Remembering those 103,000 forbidden books makes her a potent target for all who seek power.
Index, however, is optimistic and has powerful will to survive. Realized she will destroy any lives she contacts with, she decides to almost life in seclusion.
When Touma discovers the fact he cannot accept her fate and starts to make a life with Index. Using his own rare ability to dismantle esper and magic powers, he will be her guardian. As he learns of her deceivement he is willing to put his life to risk and safe her. Will it be enough, to safe Index, or is there more?
First Impression *The first impression covers a bit of the first episode, don’t read if you don’t want to be spoiled*
In the first few minutes we find our hero running away from a mob screaming ’such misfortune’. It reminded me of Keichi from “Ah My Goddess!” a bit, who held such misfortune as well. At any case, the boy, Kamijou Touma, had found these bunch of guys harassing a girl. Actually he attempted to warn to boys to do not provoke hér, but they didn’t get the his hint and thinks he’s just a troublemaker.
Rushing through the traffic our pal gets until the bridge when he suddenly doesn’t hear any of his pursuers. Instead the harassed girl appears, straight back walking in a straight line to him. Furious of him being meddled with she’s did not come to thank him.
Then they have a slight conversation which ends up the girl channeling her power and uses a ‘railgun’. A shocking lighting beam strikes a feet ahead of Tomou. Wow, magic, was what I thought, but in this world it’s called ‘esper ability‘. Magic in the world of Tomou is completely nonsense until he meets Index.
The first episode I watched was on Veoh. I didn’t thought the anime was that great, but Square Enix never fails to surprise me. Later on I subscribed and an episode later I found myself a decent To Aru Majutsu no Index Fansub. I chose ‘Eclipse’, since their quality never lack. You probably need to download the CCCP (codec pack) or use vlc player instead.
Videos
I found some video sources for you. At first we always have the OP, ED and promo on youtube. As I mentioned before, I watched the first episode streaming on Veoh. Excellent quality, but you need a Veoh client to get the real quality 
. The web based version isn’t quite that great (but way better than youtube).
Music
You ought to watch the OP just for once, it’s great! I bet you fall in love with the OP theme as well, which is sung by Kawada Mami. Kawada Mami did so many anime songs, you should know her by now.
The opening scene and theme are excellent. I love the flashy face of Index, which gives the expression of mystery around her.
The ED on the other side is a total different approach. I did not find it really interested to mention. Instead the mysteries screens you know get clear screens.
Overal the music is a real background music. At the moment, I don’t find any bad or good things to say about.
To Aru Majutsu no Index ~ OP Single, Kawada Mami – PSI-missing torrent.
To Aru Majutsu no Index ~ ED Single, ???
Manga
Most anime derives from manga. The first volume of this manga is published on April 10, 2004. I did not read the manga ‘yet?’ but I read it follow up the manga quite well. The first minutes of the anime, running from the dirks, is literary a follow up, running along the fight on the bridge and the finding of Index. Some manga images are literary translated in the anime.
If you are looking for a decent Manga scanlator, I recommend Sakurahana, (see mangaupdates for more).
I did not find Index in my shops yet, but I eagerly await it’s arrival. It will be a great addition to my collection (as will the series)
