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A Certain Magical Index Season 1 Episode release dates & where to watch

Premiered

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Ended: Thursday, March 19, 2009

When does A Certain Magical Index Season 1 come out?

A Certain Magical Index Season 1 premiered Sunday, October 5, 2008 on MBS and ended Thursday, March 19, 2009. The season has 24 episodes.

Set in a city of scientifically advanced superhuman students, but in a world where magic is also real. Touma Kamijou’s right hand, the Imagine Breaker, will negate all magic, psychic, or divine powers, but not his own bad luck. One day he finds a young girl hanging on his balcony railing. She turns out to be a nun from the Church of England, and her mind has been implanted with the Index-Librorum-Prohibitorum - all the magical texts the Church has removed from circulation.

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A Certain Magical Index Season 1 release schedule

A Certain Magical Index Season 1 episode release dates
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1. Academy City

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.

Sunday · 18 years ago

2. Innocentius (The Witch Hunter King)

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.

Sunday · 18 years ago

3. Necessarius (The Church of Necessary Evil)

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.

Sunday · 18 years ago

4. Perfect Memory Ability

Touma learns the truth about Index's perfect memorization and her loss of memories.

Sunday · 18 years ago

5. Limit (12 o'clock)

Touma tries desperately to save Index's memories before it is too late.

Sunday · 18 years ago

6. Imagine Breaker

Following the events of last episode and the activation of Index's defense mechanism Touma struggles to hide his amnesia from Index.

Sunday · 18 years ago

7. The Science Cult (Misawa Cram School)

Stiyl and Touma join forces to investigate the mysterious Misawa Cram School.

Sunday · 17 years ago

8. Ars Magna (Golden Transmutation)

Touma encounters Ars Magna the leader of Misawa Cram School and a man with his own connection to Index.

Sunday · 17 years ago

9. Deep Blood (Vampire Killer)

Touma confronts Ars Magna in a dangerous battle to rescue both Index and Deep Blood.

Sunday · 17 years ago

10. Mikoto Misaka (Sissy)

Touma spends some time with Misaka Mikoto and makes a strange discovery.

Sunday · 17 years ago

11. Sisters (Sisters)

Touma goes in search of Misaka to investigate the clone experiment.

Sunday · 17 years ago

12. Level 6 (Absolute Ability)

Touma discovers the reason behind the experiment and appears to grow closer to Misaka.

Sunday · 17 years ago

13. Accelerator (One Way)

Misaka and Touma hatch a plan to defeat Accelerator and end the experiment.

Sunday · 17 years ago

14. Weakest vs. Strongest (Strongest vs. Weakest)

Touma faces off against Accelerator for the sake of Misaka and her 'sisters'.

Thursday · 17 years ago

15. Angel Fall (Angel Fall)

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.

Thursday · 17 years ago

16. Toya Kamijo (Father)

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.

Thursday · 17 years ago

17. The Power of God (Archangel)

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.

Thursday · 17 years ago

18. Replica (Impostor)

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.

Thursday · 17 years ago

19. Last Order (The End)

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.

Thursday · 17 years ago

20. Virus Code (Final Signal)

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.

Thursday · 17 years ago

21. Counter Stop (Identity Unknown)

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.

Thursday · 17 years ago

22. Golem (Stone Figure)

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.

Thursday · 17 years ago

23. Friends (Hyoka Kazakiri)

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.

Thursday · 17 years ago

24. Imaginary Number School District - Five-Element Agency Finale

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.

Thursday · 17 years ago

A Certain Magical Index Season 1 guest stars

  • Kana Asumi

    Kana Asumi

    Hyouka Kazakiri (voice)

  • Yoshihisa Kawahara

    Yoshihisa Kawahara

    Blue Haired-Earrings (voice)

  • Misato Fukuen

    Misato Fukuen

    Maika Tsuchimikado (voice)

  • Yuhko Kaida

    Yuhko Kaida

    Aiho Yomikawa (voice)

  • Nozomi Sasaki

    Nozomi Sasaki

    Misaka Sisters (voice)

  • Yuka Terasaki

    Yuka Terasaki

    Sasha Kreutzev (voice)

  • Yumi Touma

    Yumi Touma

    Kikyou Yoshikawa (voice)

  • Ryusuke Fujimoto

    Delinquent (voice)

  • Ao Takahashi

    Researcher (voice)

  • Yutaka Nakano

    Yutaka Nakano

    Frog-Faced Doctor (voice)

  • Toshihiko Seki

    Toshihiko Seki

    Aleister Crowley (voice)

  • Yuuka Nakatsukasa

    Yuuka Nakatsukasa

    Female Announcer (voice)

  • Toratarō

    Sphynx (voice)

  • Tomokazu Sugita

    Tomokazu Sugita

    Aureolus Izzard (voice)

  • Ai Ikeda

    Female Student (voice)

  • Megumi Takamoto

    Megumi Takamoto

    Female Student (voice)

A Certain Magical Index Season 1 FAQ

When does A Certain Magical Index Season 1 come out?

A Certain Magical Index Season 1 premiered Sunday, October 5, 2008 on MBS.

How many episodes are in A Certain Magical Index Season 1?

A Certain Magical Index Season 1 has 24 episodes.

Are new episodes of A Certain Magical Index Season 1 released weekly?

New episodes are released weekly.

When is the A Certain Magical Index Season 1 finale?

The A Certain Magical Index Season 1 finale (Episode 24) aired Thursday, March 19, 2009.

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