A Certain Magical Index season 1

The first season of the Japanese animated television series A Certain Magical Index, based on the light novel series of the same name written by Kazuma Kamachi and illustrated by Kiyotaka Haimura, follows the first meeting between Toma Kamijo, a high school student in the scientific-advanced Academy City whose right hand contains a unique power, and Index, a young nun from the Church of England whose mind has been implanted with 103,000 grimoires of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. Produced by J.C.Staff, the season saw Hiroshi Nishikiori and Masanao Akahoshi respectively serving as director and series composition writer.

Atsushi Abe, Yuka Iguchi, Rina Satō, and Satomi Arai reprise their audio drama roles and are joined by voice cast members Shizuka Itō, Kishō Taniyama, Anri Katsu, Kimiko Koyama, and Nobuhiko Okamoto. The anime adaptation of the light novels was confirmed in June 2008 and adapts its first six volumes.

The first season consists of 24 episodes and ran on Chiba TV and AT-X from October 5, 2008, to March 19, 2009, with several other networks following hours or days later. A second season was announced in June 2010.[1]

Production

Development and writing

In June 2008, an anime television adaptation of Kazuma Kamachi's A Certain Magical Index was confirmed through a promotional sleeve wrapper of the light novel's 16th volume.[20] J.C.Staff was announced to be producing the series, while Hiroshi Nishikiori, who previously worked on Angelic Layer: Mobile Angel, Masanao Akahoshi, who wrote several episodes of Sky Girls, and Yuichi Tanaka were confirmed as director, series composition writer, and character animation designer, respectively.[21] Kazuma Miki, the light novel editor, wanted to make changes during the process of adapting the light novel into anime but felt a "double-edged sword" when thinking how to bring "Kamachi's color" to it and what fans would find interesting. Nishikiori laid out the concept of "following the original story" instead and aimed to have the viewers say so as well.[22] The series adapted the first to the sixth volume of the light novel.[23]

Casting

Atsushi Abe, Yuka Iguchi, Rina Satō, and Satomi Arai reprise their respective roles from the drama CD of the series, which was released in 2007,[24] as Toma Kamijo, Index, Mikoto Misaka, and Kuroko Shirai.[25] The main cast also includes Shizuka Itō as Kaori Kanzaki, Kishō Taniyama as Stiyl Magnus, Anri Katsu as Motoharu Tsuchimikado, Kimiko Koyama as Komoe Tsukuyomi, and Nobuhiko Okamoto as Accelerator.[26]

On August 25, 2012, Funimation announced the English dub cast for the series. These include Micah Solusod as Kamijo, Monica Rial as Index, Brittney Karbowski

Music

I've Sound was selected to compose the music for the series due to Nishikiori's desire to have a "trance-like" soundtrack.[25] Mami Kawada performed the first opening theme music, which was used from episodes 1 to 16 (the DVD release updated the final use of it to episode 14), titled "PSI-Missing"[28] and the second one, which was used from episode 17 (episode 15 in the DVD release) onwards, titled "Masterpiece".[29] Iku performed the first ending theme music titled "Rimless ~Rimless World~" (Rimless 〜フチナシノセカイ〜)[28] and the second one, which was used from episode 20 onwards, titled "Oath ~Just a Little Once More~" (誓い言〜スコシだけもう一度〜).[30]

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starring	Atsushi Abe Yuka Iguchi Rina Satō Shizuka Itō Kishō Taniyama Anri Katsu Kimiko Koyama Satomi Arai Nobuhiko Okamoto
num episodes	24
network	Chiba TV (#1–13) AT-X (#14–24)
first aired	October 5, 2008
last aired	March 19, 2009

A Certain Magical Index season 1

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