“Zero-ranked esper Touma protects grimoire girl Index from magicians in scientifically advanced Academy City.”
A Certain Magical Index
とある魔術の禁書目録
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Synopsis
Zero-ranked esper Touma protects grimoire girl Index from magicians in scientifically advanced Academy City.
Academy City, Japan, is at the forefront of science. Besides being 30 years ahead of the world technologically, more than three-fourths of this peculiar city's population consists of students developing their psychic abilities as espers in various institutions. Among these students is Touma Kamijou, a high school boy with the lowest psychic rank of zero, but with a mysterious power no scientist can understand: "Imagine Breaker," which allows him to negate other supernatural abilities. This, however, doesn't affect Kamijou's life in the least as he plays his role as a regular teenager; that is, until he meets the strange Index Librorum Prohibitorum, a young girl who has memorized the entirety of the forbidden grimoires, and now a dangerous organization is hunting Index down. With several magicians looking to harm the girl, Kamijou will defend his new companion at all costs as he discovers a strange new realm of the supernatural.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 101 sampled reviews
What 101 viewers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.70 · some divergence
4.4 pts
Recommenders 7.9 · others 3.6
↑ 1.71
Running avg · Jan 2009 → Aug 2025
- 8 “I loved the idea of science and religion battling it out for control of the world - it was a unique idea which I hadn't seen before. The plots were easy to follow, and the characters were...”
- 7 “The story and dynamic between the characters keeps me interested, but there are some loopholes and slow progressions in the story that makes me not want to continue the series. For example, there...”
- 8 “A Certain Magical Index is quite an admirable concept based on Scientific Fiction and Magical Fantasy collaborated together to create an exceptional blend of ideas, stories and characters and thus...”
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- Format 24 × 23′ eps × min
- Total runtime 9h 12m all episodes
- Aired Oct 2008 – Mar 2009 Fall 2008
- Source Tv media type
- Rated R 17+ (violence & profanity)
- Ref. BS-3748 catalog
Produced by
- Square Enix Producer
- AT-X Producer
- ASCII Media Works Producer
- Kadokawa Contents Gate Producer
- Geneon Entertainment Producer
Licensed by
- Funimation Licensor