To Aru Majutsu no Index

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To Aru Majutsu no Index
Original title と あ る 魔術 の 禁書 目録
transcription To Aru Majutsu no Indekkusu
To aru majutsu no index logo.svg
genre Action , adventure, fantasy , science fiction
Light novel
country JapanJapan Japan
author Kazuma Kamachi
illustrator Kiyotaka Haimura
publishing company Media Works → ASCII Media Works
First publication April 10, 2004
expenditure 44+
Manga
country JapanJapan Japan
author Kazuma Kamachi
Illustrator Chuya Kogino
publishing company Square Enix
magazine Monthly Shōnen Gangan
First publication May 2007 - ...
expenditure 20th
Anime television series
title To Aru Majutsu no Index
To Aru Majutsu no Index II
Original title と あ る 魔術 の 禁書 目録
と あ る 魔術 の 禁書 目録 II
transcription To Aru Majutsu no Indekkusu
To Aru Majutsu no Indekkusu II
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Year (s) 2008-2011
Studio JCStaff
length 24 minutes
Episodes 74 in 3 seasons
Director Hiroshi Nishikiori
music I've / Maiko Iuchi
First broadcast October 5, 2008 - April 1, 2011 on Chiba TV (Season 1), AT-X (Season 1/2)
synchronization
Manga / Anime
► To Aru Kagaku no Railgun (2007–)

To Aru Majutsu no Index ( Japanese と あ る 魔術 の禁書 目録（イ ン デ ッ ク ス）, To Aru Majutsu no Indekkusu , dt. "A certain magical index ") is a light novel series written by Kazuma Kamachi and illustrated by Kiyotaka Haimura . The first edition was published on April 10, 2004. The series was adapted through various media. This includes two manga series, a radio play, various music publications and an adaptation as an anime television series by JCStaff .

action

In the world of To Aru Majutsu no Index both people with supernatural abilities and magic exist. The city of Academy City , in which the student Tōma Kamijō lives, is used to research these skills. Almost all people have special skills and are divided into levels according to their military usability. Level 0 people have almost no special skills; with level 5 strong skills are indicated. Tōma Kamijō himself is classified at level 0, but has the greatly underestimated ability to negate magical and psychic powers with his right hand. This passive ability, called Imagine Breaker , does not give him any attack advantages, so he would have to use his fists to defend himself in close combat.

On a normal school day, Tōma returns to his apartment and there meets the completely exhausted Index hanging on his balcony railing. It turns out that she is a nun of the Church of England and that magical texts of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum were stored in her mind , which the Church wanted to remove from free circulation. Since her head is crammed with so much information and she is a walking library, she has many enemies interested in the knowledge. When Tōma takes her in, he also makes many enemies and from now on has to defend his life and that of Index in a world full of crazy scientific ideas and magic. At the same time, he makes new friends who will support him, and he gradually discovers the secrets of Academy City and Index.

Origin and publications

The light novel series is written by Kazuma Kamachi and illustrated by Kiyotaka Haimura and is published by the publisher ASCII Media Works under the label Dengeki Bunko . The first edition was published on April 10, 2004. A total of 22 volumes of the first main series were published by October 10, 2010, with a publication rate of one volume every 3½ months, with the second volume, for example, with more than 300 pages being written within 17 days. Since March 10, 2011 this has been continued by the new series Shin'yaku: To Aru Majutsu no Index ( 新 約 と あ る 魔術 の 禁書 目録 , "The New Testament: ~"), from which (as of October 2017) 19 Volumes appeared.

In addition, three special editions with short stories were published, which are side stories of the actual plot.

Main series


Continuation - Shin'yaku: To Aru Majutsu no Index

Special editions

By the end of 2012, 14 million copies of the series had been sold.

Thus, of Shin'yaku: A Certain Magical Index from November 2011 to November 2012 690,000 copies were sold, making it the best-selling light novel series of the year reached # 5th By November 2013, another 650,000 had been added, which put it in 6th place. There were also 160,000 more copies in the first row (30th place).

The main series has been published in English by Yen Press since November 2014 .

Adaptations

radio play

Based on the light novel scenario, a radio play was published in November 2007. After purchasing the 48th edition of Dengeki hp , the CD could already be purchased in advance by letter request. The plot is divided into two parts. The first part was originally broadcast as a radio broadcast by Dengeki Taishō and is about a meeting between a self-proclaimed "former" magician with Tōma Kamijō and Index. The second part focuses on an urgent concern of Mikoto Misaka and Kuroko Shirai, in the course of which they are confronted with a psychotic level 3 girl from Tokiwadai .

Manga

The book series was adapted by Chuya Kogino as the manga series of the same name and tells the story as it was written by Kazuma Kamachi . The still ongoing manga appears since June 2007 within the magazine Monthly Shōnen Gangan . Beginning on November 10, 2007, the individual chapters on Tankōbon issues were combined. 20 of them have been published so far.

Building on the series of novels, a spin-off with the title To Aru Kagaku no Railgun ( と と る 科学 の超 電磁砲（レ ー ル ガ ン）, To Aru Kagaku no Rērugan , dt. "A certain scientific railgun "), which focuses especially on Mikoto Misaka, her roommate and her friends and is located before and during the main series. In 2009 the manga was adapted as an independent anime television series with the same title and in 2010 as OVA . A second series entitled To Aru Kagaku no Railgun S was started in April 2013 .

In August 2013, another spin-off called To Aru Kagaku no Accelerator ( と あ る 科学 の 一方 通行 （ア ク セ ラ レ ー タ） , To Aru Kagaku no Akuserarēta , dt. "A certain scientific accelerator") was announced. The manga, written and drawn by Arata Yamaji, is scheduled to start on December 27, 2013 in the February issue of the manga magazine Comic Dengeki Daiō .

Anime

The anime implementation was announced for the first time on June 3, 2008 within the 16th edition of the light novel series. The first trailers have been shown on the official website since July 7, 2008. The animation studio JCStaff produced a 24-part anime television series under the direction of Hiroshi Nishikiori . The first broadcast was on October 5, 2008 shortly after midnight (and thus on the previous television day ) on Chiba TV , with TV Kanagawa and MBS following within two hours . AT-X overtook these channels, so that the last episode was broadcast there on March 19, 2009, but the aforementioned only on March 22. Other stations that broadcast around the same time were TV Saitama and CBC , as well as streaming on Movie Gate and Bandai Channel .

The episodes 1 to 6 correspond to volume 1, the episodes 7 to 9 to volume 2, the episodes 10 to 14 to volume 3, the episodes 15 to 17 to volume 4, the episodes 18 to 20 to the first three chapters of volume 5 and the episodes 21 to 24 volume 6.

Within Japan, the series appeared on eight DVDs and Blu-Rays, each of which contained three episodes. They were released by Geneon Entertainment from January 23 to August 21, 2009 .

The sequel To Aru Majutsu no Index II was first broadcast on AT-X on Japanese television from October 8, 2010 to April 1, 2011, but also on Tokyo MX , TV Saitama, Chiba TV, MBS, TV Kanagawa, CBC, as well Streaming on Nico Nico Channel and ShowTime. Here, too, eight DVDs and Blu-Rays were released from January 26 to September 22, 2011.

Episode 1 corresponds to the last chapter of volume 5, episodes 2 to 5, volume 7, episodes 6 to 7, volume 8, episodes 8 to 10, volume 9, episodes 10 to 13, volume 10, and episodes 14 to 16, volume 11, episodes 17 to 23 volume 13 and episodes 23 to 24 volume SS1.

On February 23, 2013, the movie To Aru Majutsu no Index - Endymion no Kiseki ( 劇場版 と あ る 魔術 の 禁書 目録 - エ ン デ ュ ミ オ ン の 奇蹟 - , Gekijōban To Aru Majutsu no Indekkusu - Endyumiōn no Kiseki ) was released in Japan. This grossed 101 million yen in the 30 theaters on the opening weekend, making it the third most successful.

synchronization

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū )
Tōma Kamijō Atsushi Abe
index Yuka Iguchi
Mikoto Misaka Rina Sato
Kuroko Shirai Satomi Arai
Kazari Uiharu Aki Toyosaki
Aisa Himegami Mamiko Noto
Misaka Imōto / # 10032 Nozomi Sasaki
Maika Tsuchimikado Misato Fukuen
Accelerator Nobuhiko Okamoto
Komoe Tsukuyomi Kimiko Koyama
Stiyl Magnus Kishō Taniyama
Kaori Kanzaki Shizuka Itō
Sherry Cromwell Akeno Watanabe
Laura Stuart Ayako Kawasumi
Agnese Sanctis Rie Kugimiya

music

The music for the anime was produced by Maiko Iuchi from I've Sound . In the anime, four different titles were used for the opening and closing credits. The first opening credits were PSI-missing by Mami Kawada and were used within the first 16 episodes. The second opening credits were Masterpiece and were also interpreted by Mami Kawada. The first credits with the title Rimless - Fuchinashi no Sekai ( Rimless 〜 フ チ ナ シ ノ セ カ イ 〜 ) from IKU and used in the first 19 episodes. The second credits were Chikaigoto - Sukoshi Dake Mō Ichido ( 誓 い 言 ～ ス コ シ だ け も う 一度 ～ ), which was interpreted by the same singer. The two opening titles were released as singles of the same name on October 29, 2008 and February 4, 2009. Both end credits were also published on November 26, 2008 and February 25, 2009.

The anime also produced two soundtrack albums. These were To Aru Majutsu no Index Original Soundtrack 1 - ELECTROMASTER ( と あ る 魔術 の 禁書 目録 Original Soundtrack 1 - ELECTROMASTER , January 23, 2009) and To Aru Majutsu no Index Original Soundtrack 2 - Dedicatus545 ( と あ る 魔術 の 禁書 目録 Original Soundtrack 2 - Dedicatus545 , April 24, 2009).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ と あ る 魔術 の 禁書 目録 . ASCII Media Works, accessed January 10, 2011 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ Epilogue, Volume 2
  3. ↑ A Certain Magical Index Books Have 14 Million in Circulation. Anime News Network, January 6, 2013, accessed January 8, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Top-Selling Light Novels in Japan by Series: 2012. In: Anime News Network. December 2, 2012, accessed April 6, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Top-Selling Light Novels in Japan by Series: 2013. In: Anime News Network. December 1, 2013, accessed April 6, 2014 .
  6. ↑ A CERTAIN MAGICAL INDEX by Kazuma Kamachi, illustration by Kiyotaka Haimura. Yen Press, accessed March 7, 2015 .
  7. ↑ 2007-10-04 本家 に 書 き 込 み し た ら メ ン テ ナ ン ス 中 と 表示 . Retrieved October 4, 2009 (Japanese).
  8. ↑ a b 作品 紹 介 （小説 ・ コ ミ ッ ク） . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 5, 2008 ; Retrieved October 4, 2009 (Japanese).
  9. ↑ ド ラ マ ＣＤ 情報 . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 16, 2008 ; Retrieved October 4, 2009 (Japanese).
  10. ↑ Toaru Majutsu no Index's Accelerator Gets His Own Manga. In: Anime News Network . August 26, 2013, accessed August 27, 2013 .
  11. ^ A Certain Magical Index Film Sets Record at Tokyo Theater. In: Anime News Network. March 7, 2013, accessed March 20, 2013 .

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