That’s right, before any other yukan writer tries to claim ownership over blogging this show, I did! This show weaves together some of my favorite things: fantasy, sci-fi, and magic. Sure it’s lacking in the romance and shoujo area, which I personally enjoy, but this is a great show through and through. I have described it to my friend as having just the right amount of everything.

It’s about Kamijou Touma, a boy who lives in a technologically advanced city that is populated with people with psychic powers. He, in fact, attends a school that revolves around those very powers. However, Touma seems to be lacking in the supernatural power realm due to an odd ability of his own.

Summary:

So the show starts off with Touma trying to save a girl in a cafe from some delinquents. His strategy: insult then run like hell! He tires himself out on a bridge but feels safe that he has lost them. But to his surprise, the girl from the cafe is standing before him. Turns out he wasn’t trying to protect the girl, he was trying to lure to gangsters away from her for their own protection. She Misaka Mikoto and is labeled as a level 5 psychic at Touma’s school and after defeating the gangsters she decided to go after Touma for trying to ruin her fun. He tries to explain to her that he is a level 0 psychic and that there is no way it is fair, but she doesn’t stop. She uses her electrical powers to fire off a large blast at Touma, but he stands there with his hand extended and no harm done. So her anger escalates and her psychic lightning increases.

The next morning, Touma wakes up to find that Mikoto’s electricity caused power outages, meaning his air conditioner went out and his fridge stopped working. So he decides to hang his mattress over the veranda to air out, but to his surprise a young girl is hanging over his banister. She claims she is hungry so he decides to feed her the spoiled food. After a while of her saying how kind he is, he feels bad and decides to punish himself by eating the food too. They have a nice time acquainting themselves and they talk about their powers.

To his surprise this girl, Index, is a mage and she has 103 thousand forbidden magical books in her possession. He tells her how his right hand nullifies all supernatural powers and she doesn’t believe it. He doesn’t believe her that she has magical powers so they decide to test it. She can’t prove her magic because she can’t cast spells and he can’t prove his psychic powers cause he nullifies all powers. So they decide to show both their powers by having Touma touch her magically enchanted robes. So one decisive touch later, she is standing before him naked.

This proves both their powers and they believe one another, and after she fixes her robes they part ways. He heads to his supplementary classes and she continues her path to flee the people chasing her for the forbidden texts.

He goes to school and nothing really special happens except that we see his teacher and she is a tiny, pink-haired loli that looks like she is about 8, but she is the teacher nonetheless.

So he heads back home and is confronted by Mikoto once again who claims they are tied in their fight since neither could harm the other. This doesn’t interest him, so he heads home. But to his surprise, Index is lying wounded on his doorstep with cleaning robots around her. Her attacker walks slowly up behind Touma and claims he too is a mage.

Thoughts:

I love this show because, like I said “It had the right amount of everything.” It’s very action packed, mysterious, and funny. I get pulled into the show’s fantasy world and its completely logical actions. At this point I have seen episodes 1 and 2, and will post episode 2 later. I just can’t get enough of it. I’m curious to find out more about Touma’s nullifying right hand and how exactly he can use it to his benefit more often.