
A Certain Magical Index is a Japanese light novel series written by Kazuma Kamachi and illustrated by Kiyotaka Haimura. The first volume of the series was published in Japan by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Bunko imprint on April 10, 2004,[1] and the twenty-second and final volume was released on October 10, 2010.[2] Two short stories for the series, titled A Certain Magical Index SS, were published in Japan on July 10, 2007,[3] and on November 10, 2008.[4] The series was licensed by Yen Press for English publication in North America on April 19, 2014,[5] with the first volume published on November 18[6] and the final volume on March 24, 2020.[7]
A sequel to the series, titled A Certain Magical Index: New Testament, published its first volume in Japan on March 10, 2011,[8] and concluded with its twenty-third volume on July 10, 2019.[9] The third sequel, titled A Certain Magical Index: Genesis Testament, published its first volume in Japan on February 7, 2020.[10] As of December 8, 2023, a total of nine volumes have been published for Genesis Testament.[11]
Main series
A Certain Magical Index (2004–2010)
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01 | April 10, 2004[1] | 978-4-04-866304-5 | November 18, 2014[6] | 978-0-316-33912-4 | |
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Toma Kamijo, a student of Academy City in Japan with the power of Imagine Breaker in his right hand, finds Index, a young nun from the Anglican Church, hanging on his balcony. Index is being pursued by magicians who seek the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, a collection of 103,000 grimoires within her mind. As he tries to protect her, Kamijo soon learns there is more to Index's pursuers than meets the eye and a secret about her of which he is unaware. | |||||
02 | June 10, 2004[12] | 978-4-04-866515-5 | February 24, 2015[13] | 978-0-316-25942-2 | |
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Stiyl Magnus asks Kamijo to help him defeat a powerful alchemist named Aureolus Izzard, who kidnaps a miko with the power to kill vampires. Things are not what they appear to be when Kamijo meets the miko herself named Aisa Himegami and learns the alchemist's true goal. | |||||
03 | September 10, 2004[14] | 978-4-04-866432-5 | May 19, 2015[15] | 978-0-316-34054-0 | |
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Kamijo is surprised to discover that Mikoto Misaka has a twin sister, but he learns the latter is actually her clone and there is more of them involved in an experiment involving Accelerator, the most powerful Level 5 esper in Academy City. | |||||
04 | December 10, 2004[16] | 978-4-04-866516-2 | August 18, 2015[17] | 978-0-316-34056-4 | |
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Kamijo goes on vacation to a seaside hotel with Index and his family. Things get weird (except for himself) when everyone in town appears to have switched appearances and nobody notices the change. He joins forces with a Saint named Kaori Kanzaki, his classmate named Motoharu Tsuchimikado, and a Russian magician named Misha Kreutzev, all of whom manage to keep their original appearance, to investigate the cause of this incident and learns somebody is keeping secrets. | |||||
05 | April 10, 2005[18] | 978-4-04-866631-2 | November 17, 2015[19] | 978-0-316-34059-5 | |
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Three stories are set on August 31: Misaka is asked out on a date by the grandson of the principal of her school, Tokiwadai Middle School, but she goes out with Kamijo instead; a suited man armed with a magical crossbow seeks a book from Index's mind; and Accelerator struggles to save the 20,001st Misaka clone named Last Order, who has escaped the laboratory. | |||||
06 | July 10, 2005[20] | 978-4-04-866770-8 | February 23, 2016[21] | 978-0-316-34060-1 | |
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On the first day of the new semester, Kamijo meets Hyōka Kazakiri, a strange new transfer student at his school who befriends Index. Meanwhile, a rogue magician from the Anglican Church's Necessarius named Sherry Cromwell infiltrates Academy City to incite a war between magic and science sides. | |||||
07 | November 10, 2005[22] | 978-4-04-866517-9 | June 28, 2016[23] | 978-0-316-27223-0 | |
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The Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Church send a joint team to rescue Orsola Aquinas, a Roman Catholic nun who possesses knowledge of decoding a powerful grimoire, from the Amakusa-Style Remix of Church, with Kamijo accidentally getting involved. | |||||
08 | January 10, 2006[24] | 978-4-04-866518-6 | August 23, 2016[25] | 978-0-316-35992-4 | |
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Kuroko Shirai, a student of Tokiwadai Middle School and member of Judgment, is in charge of investigating a case of theft, but she soon realizes this is no ordinary theft when Misaka, her beloved onē-sama, and Awaki Musujime, another teleportation esper more powerful than her, get involved. | |||||
09 | April 10, 2006[26] | 978-4-04-866632-9 | November 15, 2016[27] | 978-0-316-35996-2 | |
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The Academy City's sports festival called "Daihaseisai" is officially opened. Kamijo deals with the arrival of his parents and Misaka's mother named Misuzu, while also finding himself in another desperate situation when another magician sneaks into the city. | |||||
10 | May 10, 2006[28] | 978-4-04-866519-3 | February 21, 2017[29] | 978-0-316-35998-6 | |
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Kamijo must stop Oriana Thomson and Lidvia Lorenzetti from using the magical artifact Croce di Pietro to take over Academy City and ruin the sports festival while he deals with his parents, Index, his classmates, and Misaka and her mother at the same time. | |||||
11 | October 10, 2006[30] | 978-4-04-869395-0 | May 23, 2017[31] | 978-0-316-36000-5 | |
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Kamijo wins a trip to the distant island of Chioggia in northern Italy, but he gets caught in the middle of the Adriatic Sea while Roman Catholic Bishop Biagio Busoni's plan to destroy Academy City using the Queen's Fleet flagship The Queen of the Adriatic Sea is underway. | |||||
12 | January 10, 2007[32] | 978-4-04-866633-6 | August 22, 2017[33] | 978-0-316-36002-9 | |
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Kamijo and Misaka go on a date as promised in a bet they made during Daihaseisai, but hilarity ensues when Shirai stalks Misaka. Misaka #10032 is tricked by Last Order for her goggles and later takes Kamijo away. Meanwhile, Index meets Accelerator for the first time as they try to find their friends, the nuns at Necessarius try to figure out how to use a new Academy City-made washing machine, and Magnus tries to handle Archbishop of Canterbury Laura Stuart's bathing as her favorite pastime. | |||||
13 | April 10, 2007[34] | 978-4-04-866634-3 | November 14, 2017[35] | 978-0-316-44267-1 | |
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A member of God's Right Seat of the Roman Catholic Church named Vento of the Front invades Academy City to kill Kamijo. She defeats the city's security forces with ease and causes havoc, pushing the Board of Directors to release a secret experimental weapon to stop her. Meanwhile, Accelerator faces off against the black ops group called "Hound Dog" led by his former "master" named Amata Kihara. | |||||
14 | November 10, 2007[36] | 978-4-04-866433-2 | February 20, 2018[37] | 978-0-316-44270-1 | |
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Kamijo and Tsuchimikado go on a secret mission in Avignon, France to deal with anti-Academy City riots caused by the magical artifact Document of Constantine. Kamijo meets Itsuwa of the Amakusa-Style Remix of Church as she investigates the artifact as well. The trio encounters a member of God's Right Seat named Terra of the Left, who holds the secrets to Kamijo's power. Meanwhile, a special forces group sent by Academy City invades the city. | |||||
15 | January 10, 2008[38] | 978-4-04-866434-9 | May 22, 2018[39] | 978-0-316-44272-5 | |
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Chaos breaks out in Academy City when the city's dark side organizations battle each other, with one of them attempting to kill the Board Chairman. But for some, it is the time when old grudges and rivalries will finally come to an end. | |||||
16 | June 10, 2008[40] | 978-4-04-867086-9 | August 21, 2018[41] | 978-0-316-44274-9 | |
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Itsuwa is tasked to protect Kamijo by becoming his bodyguard and caretaker, resulting in their relationship becoming closer and causing Index to become jealous. Misaka finally realizes her feelings for Kamijo after confronting him about his memory loss. When another member of the God's Right Seat named Acqua of the Back arrives in Academy City to deal with Kamijo's Imagine Breaker, the members of Amakusa-Style Remix of Church, Kanzaki, and Kamijo try to defeat the powerful enemy. | |||||
17 | March 10, 2009[42] | 978-4-04-867591-8 | November 13, 2018[43] | 978-0-316-47454-2 | |
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Index is summoned by the British royal family to return to the United Kingdom and investigate the mysterious explosion at Eurotunnel. At first, the incident seems to be caused by a group of magicians called "New Light", but Index, Kanzaki, and Itsuwa soon find themselves caught in a power struggle between Necessarius, the royal family, and the Knights of England. | |||||
18 | July 10, 2009[44] | 978-4-04-867897-1 | February 19, 2019[45] | 978-0-316-47456-6 | |
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The coup d'état in the United Kingdom known as "British Halloween" continues between the Knights of England under Princess Carissa's leadership and Necessarius with Princess Villian's support. Kamijo goes to face the leaders of the rebels himself, but he gets help from an unexpected ally. | |||||
19 | November 10, 2009[46] | 978-4-04-868137-7 | June 18, 2019[47] | 978-1-9753-5756-6 | |
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Academy City's dark side organization GROUP finds themselves caught in a conspiracy involving Board Chairman Aleister Crowley with the mysterious DRAGON. A massive hunt is launched throughout the city to assassinate Shiage Hamazura, who is seen as a threat to Crowley's plans. | |||||
20 | March 10, 2010[48] | 978-4-04-868393-7 | October 1, 2019[49] | 978-1-9753-3124-5 | |
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Russia declares war against Academy City, resulting in the city and its allied nations preparing to invade the country. As the world braces for World War III, Kamijo and Lessar head to Moscow to stop the leader of God's Right Seat named Fiamma of the Right, who has finally gained control of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum and seeks Sasha Kreutzev next as part of his goals. At the same time, Accelerator (with Last Order in tow), Hamazura, and Rikō Takitsubo escape from the forces of Academy City and go to Russia, where Accelerator seeks Index in hopes of obtaining the knowledge to cure Last Order. | |||||
21 | August 10, 2010[50] | 978-4-04-868762-1 | December 17, 2019[51] | 978-1-9753-3126-9 | |
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Fiamma gains Archangel Gabriel's powers and summons the Star of Bethlehem. To prevent Gabriel from destroying Russia, Accelerator, Acqua, and Kazakiri join forces to stop the archangel. Meanwhile, Mikoto, Misaka #10707, and Hamazura try to stop a nuclear attack from Russia. | |||||
22 | October 10, 2010[2] | 978-4-04-868972-4 | March 24, 2020[7] | 978-1-9753-3128-3 | |
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With the war coming to a close, Hamazura must now face a vengeful Shizuri Mugino. Accelerator learns how to cure Last Order, which comes with a "price", and Kamijo faces Fiamma on the Star of Bethlehem to free Index from his control and stop his plans of destroying the world. |
A Certain Magical Index: New Testament (2011–2019)
No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN | |
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01 | March 10, 2011[8] | 978-4-04-870319-2 | December 12, 2023[52] | 978-1-9753-8065-6 | |
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Accelerator and Shiage Hamazura safely return to Academy City and must join forces to rescue the little sister of late Frenda Seivelun named Fremea from the city's new dark side organization called "Freshmen". As they face the Freshmen operative with Bomber Lance ability named Umidori Kuroyoru, Accelerator and Hamazura receive unexpected help from someone thought to be dead after World War III. | |||||
02 | August 10, 2011[53] | 978-4-04-870738-1 | — | — | |
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After the rescue of Fremea from Freshmen, Toma Kamijo invites Accelerator and Hamazura to his dormitory, where the two are introduced to magic by the leader of the Dawn-colored Sunlight magic cabal named Leivinia Birdway, who saved Kamijo at the end of World War III. Elsewhere, Kaori Kanzaki and Necessarius investigate the appearance of a giant floating fortress known as Radiosonde Castle. | |||||
03 | December 10, 2011[54] | 978-4-04-886240-0 | — | — | |
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Birdway leads a group composed of Kamijo, Mikoto Misaka, Accelerator, Hamazura, Misaka Worst, and Kuroyoru to Hawaii to investigate GREMLIN, an organization that aims for the destruction of Academy City and its espers. Upon their arrival at New Honolulu International Airport, the group is attacked by GREMLIN members, but they receive unexpected help from the president of the United States Roberto Katze. | |||||
04 | March 10, 2012[55] | 978-4-04-886373-5 | — | — | |
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Anti-Academy City forces hold a tournament called "Natural Selector" at Baggage City located in Eastern Europe with the purpose of finding a magic power more superior than esper powers. Aided by GREMLIN, they hope to use that power to destroy Academy City. In response, Academy City sends three members of the Kihara family to stop them. Meanwhile, the little sister of Seria Kumokawa named Maria arrives in Baggage City to look for her missing beloved teacher. | |||||
05 | October 10, 2012[56] | 978-4-04-886978-2 | — | — | |
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Ollerus and Fiamma of the Right return Kamijo to Academy City after his brutal defeat at the hands of Othinus. Every school in the city is preparing for a big cultural festival known as Ichihanaransai. A member of GREMLIN named Thor infiltrates the city and asks for Kamijo's help to rescue Fräulein Kreutune from the mysterious Windowless Building. | |||||
06 | January 10, 2013[57] | 978-4-04-891253-2 | — | — | |
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On the day of Ichihanaransai, Ollerus' forces and GREMLIN are on the verge of a clash in Academy City over Kreutune, causing a great amount of chaos. Kamijo and Thor attempt to find ways to stop the conflict. Adding to the chaos is the return of the once dead second-most powerful Level 5 esper Teitoku Kakine, who is rampaging throughout the city to seek vengeance on Accelerator. | |||||
07 | May 10, 2013[58] | 978-4-04-891604-2 | — | — | |
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Kamijo wakes up in a mysterious small black space, which turns out to be a box, and finds himself in the School Garden located in Tokiwadai Middle School after Motoharu Tsuchimikado sent him to stop a magician named Yūga Umezaki from using the highly destructive homa altar known as the Altar of the Wisdom King inside the area. Meanwhile, Tsuchimikado is going on a rampage after the supposed death of his stepsister Maika while also investigating the mysterious Agitate Halation Project. The project involves Fremea and can supposedly create a world without heroes. | |||||
08 | September 10, 2013[59] | 978-4-04-891904-3 | — | — | |
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Ollerus disguises as Thor and infiltrates GREMLIN to stop Othinus from becoming a complete Magic God. Kamijo, Index, Misaka, Birdway, Lessar, and Maria travel to Tokyo to find the GREMLIN base known as Sargasso. The group is separated after their plane got destroyed. GREMLIN ends up attacking Tokyo, creating chaos throughout the city. During this chaos, the Norse fertility goddess named Freyja attacks Kamijo, who is trying to locate his friends and reach Tokyo Bay. | |||||
09 | January 10, 2014[60] | 978-4-04-866222-2 | — | — | |
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Othinus becomes a complete Magic God and destroys the world, leaving only herself and Kamijo. She desires to isolate the power of his Imagine Breaker by breaking his spirit. Kamijo must now survive an infinite number of worlds she created specifically to break him. | |||||
10 | May 10, 2014[61] | 978-4-04-866532-2 | — | — | |
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Othinus decides to return Kamijo to his original world. Due to her actions, the whole world wants Othinus dead and is hunting her down. To make the situation worse, Ollerus' fairy spell is slowly killing her from the inside. Despite everything the Magic God has done, Kamijo decides to become the enemy of the entire world and helps her to retrieve her right eye from the spring of Mímir in Denmark. If the eye is reattached to Othinus then she will return to being a human, which is the only solution to both of their problems. Unfortunately, Kamijo is pitied by many of his friends and former enemies. | |||||
11 | October 10, 2014[62] | 978-4-04-866938-2 | — | — | |
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Misaki Shokuhou's past with Kamijo comes into question when she notices major changes in the landmark they spent time together. She decides to investigate and seek help from Seria. Shokuhou eventually runs into someone thought to be dead who wants revenge on her for more than one reason. | |||||
12 | March 10, 2015[63] | 978-4-04-869333-2 | — | — | |
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Kamijo, Index, and Othinus (now stands at 15 centimeters) arrive in the commercial building complex known as Dianoid at Academy City's District 15 to buy the latter a dollhouse where she can hide from Sphynx. Afterward, all of the doors in Dianoid lock and trap them inside, along with ITEM members and other visitors. Even worse, a magician named St. Germain, who claims to be a Magic God, is inside the building and has a strange interest in a boy pretending to be the sixth-most powerful Level 5 esper Etsu Aihana. | |||||
13 | July 10, 2015[64] | 978-4-04-865244-5 | — | — | |
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Kamijo refuses High Priest's offer to become a scorer, causing the Magic God to go on a rampage throughout Academy City. He must escape while riding one of the new hi-tech Acrobikes with an uninformed Misaka by his side. | |||||
14 | November 10, 2015[65] | 978-4-04-865507-1 | — | — | |
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Kakeru Kamisato wields a power opposite to Imagine Breaker called "World Rejecter" in his right hand, which can banish anyone with conflicting desires (or anything created by someone with conflicting desires) to a "new world". With this power, he has banished every Magic God in existence except for Othinus. Kamisato confronts Kamijo, but they soon get involved in an even bigger conflict between the Birdway sisters about the virus known as Sample Shoggoth. | |||||
15 | April 9, 2016[66] | 978-4-04-865884-3 | — | — | |
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Kamijo and his classmates temporarily attend a different high school after their facility got destroyed by the High Priest's rampage. He finds Kamisato transferring to this new school. To make matters worse, Kamisato's non-biological sister named Salome infiltrates Academy City to kill members of the Kamijo Faction. Meanwhile, Yuītsu Kihara plots her revenge against Kamisato for killing her sensei. | |||||
16 | August 10, 2016[67] | 978-4-04-892251-7 | — | — | |
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A mysterious 55 °C (131 °F) heat wave has overtaken Academy City during the December chill. Everyone is forced to stay in shelters and find ways to get water. Making the situation way worse is the appearance of the Elements, large creatures that resemble either plants or animals and have elemental powers controlled by their cores. Kamijo and his classmates venture outside to hunt for water. He gets separated from the group after the Elements attacked them, but he is saved by Misaka and is brought to Tokiwadai Middle School's School Garden to plot their counterattack. | |||||
17 | November 10, 2016[68] | 978-4-04-892486-3 | — | — | |
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Yuītsu manages to wield World Rejecter via Kamisato's severed right hand and banishes him to the "new world". The Kamisato Faction is forcibly placed under her control, except for the UFO girl named Fran Karasuma who sides with Kamijo as they search for a way to rescue Kamisato to free the Kamisato Faction from Yuītsu. The problem is aside from being chased by 100 girls of the faction, a unit that will restore Academy City called "Useful Spider" brands them as criminals.
"Using Final Bosses to Determine a Sociological Threat": Kuroko Shirai and Kazari Uiharu visit the Board of Directors Library to learn how final bosses of video games predict real-life scenarios. | |||||
18 | May 10, 2017[69] | 978-4-04-892893-9 | — | — | |
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Karasuma and Motoharu are being hunted down by Academy City's Board Chairman Aleister Crowley. The two decide to flee the city, but a curse is placed on Maika. Kamijo, Index, Othinus, the Tsuchimikado siblings, and Karasuma raid the Windowless Building to find a way to remove the curse. As they ascend the building, Kamijo is forced to hallucinate flashbacks at the leisure of a black cat witch named Mina Mathers and Crowley himself, whose plan is on the verge of completion due to Kamijo's presence.
Bonus short story: Kamijo and Index play a game called "1st Never-Leaving-the-Kotatsu Championship", during which they find clever ways to make the other leave the kotatsu. | |||||
19 | October 7, 2017[70] | 978-4-04-893405-3 | — | — | |
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Crowley's plan, the very purpose behind Academy City's creation and his sole goal for centuries, has failed by the efforts of Kamijo and his friends. Archbishop of Canterbury Laura Stuart makes her move and kills Crowley with the Sword of Damocles, revealing herself to be the Great Demon Coronzon. Crowley diffuses the many alternate possibilities of himself to survive and takes a young female possibility named Aleis-tan. She allies with Kamijo and launches the Windowless Building with Coronzon inside into space to buy some time. The two must reunite with Kamijo's friends and find a way to stop Coronzon. Meanwhile, Hamazura finds himself wearing the powerful Processor Suit and learns he is being framed for a crime he didn't commit. He later finds an abandoned baby named Lilith while on the run from the true criminal and Accelerator and decides to take her with him to protect her.
"Thus Spoke the Kumokawa Sisters": Maria visits Seria as she saddens about Maika leaving their school. | |||||
20 | June 9, 2018[71] | 978-4-04-893871-6 | — | — | |
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Aleis-tan sends her unique possibilities dubbed as "Crowley's Hazards" to attack all traces of Coronzon throughout the Commonwealth of Nations to ease her defeat. She leads a group consisting of Kamijo, Index, Othinus, Accelerator, Hamazura, Rikō Takitsubo, and Karasuma to attack London, where Crowley's former home and Coronzon's base are located. They find themselves facing the Anglican Church and the Knights of England, both being possessed by the Madness of War. As she stages their attack, Aleis-tan infects Academy City with a virus to protect its cutting-edge technology from Coronzon, forcing an evacuation of its students to various places around the world.
Bonus short story: Misaka and Shokuhou discuss what country their class can visit to relax while Academy City ceases to function. | |||||
21 | October 10, 2018[72] | 978-4-04-912025-7 | — | — | |
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Aleis-tan, Kamijo, and Accelerator search for the remains of Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers in the graveyard of Westminster Abbey for them to control Coronzon due to her past contract with him. They find the body fake and somehow, the supposed-to-be-dead members of Golden Dawn appear to hunt them down. The trio takes a detour in their plans against Coronzon to ward off the powerful magic cabal and defend the British royal family against them. Meanwhile, Heaven Canceller arrives in Egypt along with Nōkan Kihara to help Mina prepare a body for Lilith, who turns out to be Crowley's daughter. Hamazura, Takitsubo, and the Magic Gods Nephthys and Niang-Niang encounter a Golden Dawn magician named Dion Fortune. Misaka and Shokuhou travel to the United Kingdom after learning from the former's father of Kamijo's presence in the country. Orsola Aquinas and Kanzaki aid Index and Karasuma to make up their actions when they were previously possessed by the Divine Mixture Isis-Demeter and the Madness of War. | |||||
22 | March 9, 2019[73] | 978-4-04-912385-2 | — | — | |
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Coronzon is finally free of the contract and begins her plan to hijack the United Kingdom using the Honors of Scotland. While a fatally-wounded Aleis-tan and right-hand-less Kamijo recover in Edinburgh Castle, Accelerator makes full use of his contract with an artificial demon named Qliphah Puzzle 545 to fight Coronzon separate from the British forces. However, things get complicated even further when Hamazura sides with Coronzon to seek her help in returning Fortune to life, leading him to uncover her true nature and deadly scheme. The current chaos attracts the attention of Anna Sprengel, a fabled woman supposedly responsible for the creation of the Golden Dawn, and draws all involved towards a final battle onboard the weaponized ship known as Queen Britannia. | |||||
22R | July 10, 2019[9] | 978-4-04-912667-9 | — | — | |
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After the defeat of Coronzon, Kamijo, Index, Misaka, and Shokuhou attend a party at Windsor Castle to celebrate the victory when a massive dragon appears. The dragon transforms itself into the real Kamijo, revealing the other one to be the doppelgänger that got separated from him at the end of the battle with Coronzon. Kamijo must face his other self and save the worlds of magic and science from the conflict. |
A Certain Magical Index: Genesis Testament (2020–present)
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01 | February 7, 2020[10] | 978-4-04-912809-3 | |
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Toma Kamijo, Index, and Mikoto Misaka celebrate Christmas ahead on Christmas Eve when a member of the Board of Directors instructs a Level 4 telekinetic esper to abduct Last Order to use her as a bargaining chip for the Academy City's new Board Chairman Accelerator, who plans to eliminate the city's dark side. | |||
02 | July 10, 2020[74] | 978-4-04-913321-9 | |
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Kamijo is infected with the St. Germain microbe by Anna Sprengel and is confined in the Academy City's District 7 hospital on Christmas Day. Index, Misaka, and Misaki Shokuhou visit him to take care of him. After finding out that Kamijo has few days left to live, the third and fifth-most powerful Level 5 espers join forces to confront the leader of the Rosicrucian Order and C.E.O. of R&C Occultics for a cure. | |||
03 | November 10, 2020[75] | 978-4-04-913500-8 | |
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On Christmas Day, Operation Handcuffs is in effect to eliminate Academy City's dark side. Being a member of Judgment, Kuroko Shirai joins the Anti-Skill and encounters different members of the dark side. Meanwhile, Shiage Hamazura and Rikō Takitsubo, being hunted by the Anti-Skill for their involvement in the dark side, must learn the secrets of the Greatest Taboo to escape the city with the aid of the Coin of Nicholas, a magical item that grants the user's wishes. | |||
04 | May 8, 2021[76] | 978-4-04-913730-9 | |
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Kamijo joins Index, Stiyl Magnus, and Kaori Kanzaki in their mission to investigate the disappearance of 30 million residents of Los Angeles, California and finds the sole survivor named Helcalia Grocery as they learn the truth behind the cause and the involvement of R&C Occultics in the broken relationship between the survivor and her mother. | |||
05 | December 10, 2021[77] | 978-4-04-914135-1 | |
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06 | April 8, 2022[78] | 978-4-04-914350-8 | |
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07 | September 9, 2022[79] | 978-4-04-914585-4 | |
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08 | May 10, 2023[80] | 978-4-04-915010-0 | |
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09 | December 8, 2023[11] | 978-4-04-915384-2 |
Short stories
A Certain Magical Index SS (2007–2008)
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1 | July 10, 2007[3] | 978-4-8402-3912-7 | November 17, 2020[81] | 978-1-9753-1797-3 | |
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A series of short stories set before the events of the fourteenth volume of A Certain Magical Index light novel series, including the formation of Academy City's dark side organization GROUP and the assassination attempt on Misuzu Misaka. | |||||
2 | November 10, 2008[4] | 978-4-04-867342-6 | March 2, 2021[82] | 978-1-9753-1799-7 | |
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A series of short stories involving magic and science sides, which takes place on various Fridays: Shiage Hamazura, Ritoku Komaba, and Hanzō Hattori are pursued by Aiho Yomikawa after they stole an ATM; Kaori Kanzaki meets the self-proclaimed Valkyrie called the Jeans Slasher; Tōya Kamijo travels to Italy and plans to purchase good luck charms for his son when he meets Lidvia Lorenzetti; Gunha Sogīta saves a young man from Skill-Out members; Tabigake Misaka meets a young Latin girl named Ines while on his business trip in Brazil; Kuroko Shirai visits the hair salon designated by the Tokiwadai Middle School; Ollerus saves 100 children from human trafficking and returns home with them in the apartment he shared with Sylvia; Hamazura meets Kuruwa, who is looking for Hattori, and they discuss the latter's connection to ninja; a cyber hacker is caught by Anti-Skill after he got traced by the legendary hacker known as "Goalkeeper", who turns out to be Kazari Uiharu; Tōya and Tabigake drink beers together in a bar at London; Seria Kumokawa and Tsugutoshi Kaizumi discuss the situation of Gemstones around the world; and Ollerus defeats some of Misaka clones and then encounters Sogīta while looking for Gemstones in Academy City. |
A Certain Magical Index SP (2011)
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1 | August 10, 2011[83] | 978-4-04-870775-6 | |
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A collection of four previously released short stories, each based around different characters: Stiyl Magnus, Mark Space, Toma Kamijo, and Kazari Uiharu. |
A Certain Magical Index: Apocrypha Archive (2020)
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01 | June 10, 2020[84] | 978-4-04-913201-4 | |
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Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Kanzaki Kaori: Kaori Kanzaki goes on seemingly unrelated missions for Necessarius. However, the missions all end up relating to a Saint and Valkyrie named Brunhild Eiktobel who tries to construct the Gungnir as means of saving a seemingly helpless boy.
Toaru Majutsu no Index: Road to Endymion: A prequel to A Certain Magical Index: The Movie – The Miracle of Endymion. The novel entails Tōma Kamijō, Index, and Stiyl Magnus battling a magic cabal with deadly plans after they infiltrated Academy City. However, not everything is as it seems. Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Necessarius Special Admission Test: The Amakusas take a test to become official members of Necessarius. However, a conspiracy begins building around them and brands them as traitors. Now, the group must fight for their innocence and to foil the plans of the true enemy behind the conspiracy. | |||
02 | August 7, 2020[85] | 978-4-04-913202-1 | |
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Toaru Kagaku no Railgun SS: Liberal Arts City: Academy City launches a student exchange program that allows its students to be sent to the outside world from September 3rd to 10th. Mikoto Misaka, Kuroko Shirai, Kazari Uiharu, and Ruiko Saten are in Liberal Arts City, an artificial island off the west coast of the United States, when an Aztec magic cabal called "Return of the Winged One" arrives.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun SS2: Ability Demonstration Trip: Academy City sends Mikoto to a shopping mall in Russia for an ability demonstration, where she meets a member of the New Light magic cabal named Lessar. Toaru Kagaku no Railgun: Cold Game: Mikoto, Kuroko, Kazari, and Ruiko become involved in the Cold Sleep Murder Case, a case that involves a serial killer abducting a small girl and placing her below an ice skating rink using cold sleep methods, during their trip to an Anti-Skill station |
Short stories bundled in Blu-ray and DVD release
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Toaru Kagaku no Railgun SS3 とある科学の超電磁砲SS(3) | December 26, 2018–July 31, 2019 (in parts) | — | ||
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Mikoto Misaka and Kuroko Shirai accept a violin challenge from Yuri Sakibasu, a member of Misaki Shokuhō's clique. They seek help from Kazari Uiharu and Ruiko Saten to unveil the secrets of Stativarius (a pun to the actual string instrument). | ||||
Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Biohacker とある魔術の禁書目録SS -バイオハッカー編- | October 30, 2019–February 28, 2020 (in parts) | — | ||
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In his third-year middle school days, Tōma Kamijō meets Ayu Mitsuari, a student from Tokiwadai Middle School with an ability called "Mental Stinger", and Seria Kumokawa, a high school student who could control people's minds without any power. Tōma must protect the girls as they get involved in Academy City's deep darkness. | ||||
Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Agnese's Magic Side Work Experience とある魔術の禁書目録SS -アニェーゼの魔術サイドお仕事体験編- | October 30, 2019–February 28, 2020 (in parts) | — | ||
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Agnese Sanctis and members of Agnese Forces have joined the Church of England. They must do some odd jobs given by Stiyl, such as holding a mass, proselyting and even doing cleanup after a magic battle, to prove their place even as freeloaders. |
Spin-off
A Certain ITEM of Dark Side
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1 | March 10, 2023[86] | 978-4-04-914939-5 | |
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2 | August 10, 2023[87] | 978-4-04-915081-0 |
Crossover
A Certain Magical Index × Cyber Troopers Virtual-On: A Certain Magical Virtual-On
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1 | May 10, 2016[88] | 978-4-04-865945-1 | |
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A game known as Virtual On, about giant "Virtualoid" robots who do battle, takes Academy City by storm. When he is introduced to the game by Index, Tōma Kamijō soon gets caught up in a conspiracy surrounding the game and a girl named Ririn Furashina, which threatens Academy City and the lives of all the students in it. |
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External links
- Toaru Majutsu no Index official website (in Japanese)