Review of A Certain Magical Index

Story - 7 The plot is set in Academy city in which studies the effects of scientifically advanced supernatural students with psychic or esper powers. One of those students is Touma who is a lvl 0 psychic or esper, but even though his lvl is zero he has his right arm which has the power to negate all supernatural powers like magic and other esper powers. And then one day he meets a girl named Index who has 103 000 magical books sealed inside her brains and people from magical society wants to gain the important knowledge she has in her memory. Touma being a typicalprotagonist does everything to protect her with his right arm. And this was the best part of this anime as for the story. It was interesting and exciting and I didn't have a clue what would happen. But after this beginning arc ends comes few more mini arcs which you could change places with each other, because the story has no continuity after the beginning arc. It's really no surprise that the story took a small, but noticeable nose dive and only got 7 in the end.

Art - 9
Crisp and clear, nice colouring, great character designs and no noticeable animation flaws. Off course it could be a bit better, but you know if somebody would call art in this anime bad I would doubt his vision or his sanity.

Sound - 7
First opening was great, but the second one was annoying. To be honest the second opening wasn't bad, but personally it really annoyed me because it kinda sounded like radio which had static between the channels.

Characters - 7
Touma and Index had cliche personality's and that's a bad thing, because they are the main characters. But thank god support characters make up for this cliche and did a pretty good job. Only problem none of them don't get enough air time, except Accelerator who gets 2 episodes dedicated to him. As for the character development it is only really noticeable in Misaka and Accelerator and all other characters had a small development in the beginning arc.

Enjoyment - 7
Truth be said I expected more from this anime then it gave. I'm a fan of scientific stuff so you could see were the expectations came from. For me this seemed like a magic based anime more than science based anime, because when I heard all the jargon in this anime it seemed that they were doing magic, because the jargon that was used in this anime was never really explained.

Overall - 7
Great art, not so great music, interesting storyline which was screwed up by poor story continuity. As for the characters there really need to be more character development.
So I would say that this anime in somewhere between entertaining and watchable and there is a good chance that you will like it, so give it shot.