Today's pick in the Daily Anime Pick-Series where I pick one anime each day that I think is worth watching is Toaru Majutsu no Index!
This anime is the counterpart to Toaru Kagaku no Railgun. Instead of Mikoto Misaka the story is told from Touma Kamijou's perspective. The universe is the same but the stories of the characters is not the same. Instead of science it will focus on the magic side of the world. It explores Touma's mysterious ability to cancel out other's abilities with his right hand.
It doesn't really matter in which order you watch Toaru Majutsu no Index and Toaru Kagaku no Railgun. They both work as a standalone. The story lines differ but also converge at some point, nonetheless you'll get two completely different experiences so it is worth to watch both.
Description
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 entire 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.
[Written by MAL Rewrite]
Studios
J.C.Staff
Genres
Action, Magic, Sci-Fi, Super Power
Season & Length & Source
- Fall 2008 (Oct 5, 2008 to Mar 19, 2009)
- 24 Episodes
- Light novel
Franchise
- Toaru Majutsu no Index
- Toaru Majutsu no Index-tan (Spin-off)
- Toaru Majutsu no Index II (Sequel)
- Toaru Majutsu no Index 10th Anniversary PV (Character)
- Toaru Majutsu no Index-tan II (Spin-off)
- Toaru Majutsu no Index: Endymion no Kiseki (Side story)
- Toaru Majutsu no Index III (Sequel)
