Oct 5, 2008 · 25m
Kamijo meets Index, who is on the run from a magic society that wants the library of forbidden knowledge stored in her memory. Later, Kamijo is shocked to find Index at his house – bleeding and accompanied by a strange man.


Touma Kamijou is a student living in Academy City, a highly advanced place in terms of technology. Despite being gauged as a level zero esper (no powers), he possesses on his right hand the Imagine Breaker, an ability that negates any power whatsoever. Touma finds a young girl named Index who is trying to run away from Necessarius, a powerful magic organization that she is member of. Blessed with the skill of memorizing any sort of information, she holds 103,000 forbidden magical books within her head. As science and magic cross paths, Touma must face several dangers amid espers and magicians who appear in the exciting scientific town.
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Oct 5, 2008 · 25m
Kamijo meets Index, who is on the run from a magic society that wants the library of forbidden knowledge stored in her memory. Later, Kamijo is shocked to find Index at his house – bleeding and accompanied by a strange man.
Oct 12, 2008 · 25m
Kamijo tangles with Stiyl, upset with the magician’s rough behavior toward Index. When quick thinking allows Kamijo and Index to escape, they head to the one person that might be able to help them.
Oct 19, 2008 · 25m
While Komoe helps Index in healing her wounds using magic, Toma meets Stiyl's partner, Kaori Kanzaki and learns from her why they are hunting Index and the organization, Necessarius, The Church of Necessary Evil.
Oct 26, 2008 · 25m
Touma learns the truth about Index's perfect memorization and her loss of memories.
Nov 2, 2008 · 25m
Touma tries desperately to save Index's memories before it is too late.
Nov 9, 2008 · 25m
Following the events of last episode and the activation of Index's defense mechanism Touma struggles to hide his amnesia from Index.
Nov 16, 2008 · 25m
Stiyl and Touma join forces to investigate the mysterious Misawa Cram School.
Nov 23, 2008 · 25m
Touma encounters Ars Magna the leader of Misawa Cram School and a man with his own connection to Index.
Nov 30, 2008 · 25m
Touma confronts Ars Magna in a dangerous battle to rescue both Index and Deep Blood.
Dec 7, 2008 · 25m
Touma spends some time with Misaka Mikoto and makes a strange discovery.
Dec 14, 2008 · 25m
Touma goes in search of Misaka to investigate the clone experiment.
Dec 21, 2008 · 25m
Touma discovers the reason behind the experiment and appears to grow closer to Misaka.
Dec 28, 2008 · 25m
Misaka and Touma hatch a plan to defeat Accelerator and end the experiment.
Jan 8, 2009 · 25m
Touma faces off against Accelerator for the sake of Misaka and her 'sisters'.
Jan 15, 2009 · 25m
Touma and Index head to the beach to avoid the fallout from Touma's fight with Accelerator. They also plan to meet Touma's Family but when they arrive they aren't quite what Touma was expecting.
Jan 22, 2009 · 25m
The Angel Fall spell remains in effect with only Toma, Kanzaki, Misha and Tsuchimikado relatively unaffected. However, the person responsible for casting the spell remains a mystery. Misha quickly becomes the prime suspect after a strange conversation with Toma. But when Toma follows up on his hunch he discovers that the real culprit is not Misha but his own father. As such he hurries to reach his father before Misha and the other mages can confront him.
Jan 29, 2009 · 25m
After figuring out the truth of Misha’s real identity, Kanzaki sends Kamijo and Toya to destroy the ritual spot. When Tsuchimikado suggests that Toya must die for the spell to end, a violent – and seemingly fatal – encounter ensues.
Feb 5, 2009 · 25m
In order to shake off the unwanted attention she’s getting from Unabara, Misaka asks Kamijo to pretend to be her boyfriend. Things get complicated when the faux-couple discovers that Unabara is hiding a magical secret.
Feb 12, 2009 · 25m
Accelerator meets the last of Misaka’s clones – Last Order – who explains the special role she played in the Sister experiment. Later, Accelerator learns what steps he’ll have to take to keep Last Order safe.
Feb 19, 2009 · 25m
After Accelerator frees Last Order of the virus infecting her brain, he’s attacked by gun-wielding Amai. Just as all appears lost for Accelerator, Yoshikawa arrives to help – but Amai isn’t going down without a fight.
Feb 26, 2009 · 25m
School’s back in session and that means new transfer students – one of which is Index! In class, Komoe offers more insight into the realities of life as an esper – and a powerful new magical presence is detected in Academy City.
Mar 5, 2009 · 25m
Panic ensues in Academy City upon the arrival of the sorcerer Sherry Cromwell, who makes no secret of her plans to destroy Kazakiri! Kamijo steps up to ruin Sherry’s plot – but the situation is more complex than he knows.
Mar 12, 2009 · 25m
Kamijo chases Sherry away only to discover the sorcerer now has designs on Index! Meanwhile, with her secret revealed, Kazakiri takes advantage of her new situation and sets out to fight Ellis.
Mar 19, 2009 · 25m
Kamijo, Index and Kazakiri join forces to take on Ellis. When the battle ends, and with the support of Index, Kazakiri returns to the place of her origin. Later, Tsuchimikado ponders Aleister’s role in recent events.
Quick answers about this season's release timeline and episode lineup.
A Certain Magical Index Season 1 premiered on October 5, 2008.
A Certain Magical Index Season 1 has 24 episodes.
The season opens with Season 1 Episode 1, "Academy City". It aired on October 5, 2008.
Go to Season 1 Episode 1