7.5/1031 votesLoading...#1 - The Governing Board
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/25/2019
Hamazura desperately tries to rescue Takitsubo when the building she is in falls under terrorist attack. Stephanie hunts down Kinuhata to exact revenge for Sunazara. Accelerator seeks out assistance from an unlikely benefactor.
Director: N/A
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7.4/1034 votesLoading...#2 - Dark Matter
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 11/2/2018
While Kazari takes a lost Last Order home, Accelerator arrives at his location and faces Saraku, a teleporter of MEMBER and defeats him after realizing Saraku can only teleport behind his opponents. Elsewhere, MEMBER's leader "The Professor" confronts Teitoku only to be killed by the latter after using his power, Dark Matter. Meanwhile, BLOCK starts their real goal, to shut down the city's surveillance system and help 5000 mercenaries invade the city. However, one of their members is actually Etzali in disguise, who alerts the city's drone helicopters to head to their location and stop the mercenaries. Despite their heavy loses, the remaining BLOCK members, Saku Tatsuhiko and Megumi Teshio, continues their next part of the plan, bringing the mercenaries to Academy City's detention facility and kidnap Awaki's gang to use as leverage to make her help them enter the Windowless building and kill Aleister. GROUP heads to the detention facility where Accelerator stays back to hold off the remaining mercenaries while Etzali faces off against Xochitl, a MEMBER agent and his colleague from the Aztec organization who has come to Academy City to kill Etzali for treason. Tsuchimikado and Awaki confronts Saku and Megumi trying to free Awaki's gang but Megumi kills Saku for endangering the hostages and decides to forcefully get the information from Awaki instead. Despite Megumi knocking out Tsuchimikado, Awaki is able to defeat Megumi after getting over her trauma of teleporting herself. With the hostages safe and Etzali saving Xochitl's life from the grimoire she was using, GROUP heads back home. However, Teitoku arrives at ITEM's apartment after torturing Frenda for information.
Director: N/A
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7.2/1034 votesLoading...#3 - Super-espers
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/9/2018
While Hamazura is out running errands for Mugino, SCHOOL stages an attack on ITEM. When Mugino runs from Kakine, Takitsubo offers to protect Hamazura, but ends up needing his help instead. Kakine issues a challenge to Accelerator.
Director: N/A
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7.2/1029 votesLoading...#4 - Curtana Original
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/28/2018
Acqua and Knight Leader continue their fateful showdown in the forest. Princess Carissa reveals a devastating new technique using Curtana Original. When Kamijo and Index's lives are endangered, an unexpected ally comes to their rescue.
Director: Yuki Morita
Writer: N/A
7.2/1030 votesLoading...#5 - Spark Signal
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/18/2019
Accelerator and the other members of GROUP are assigned to eliminate the members of Spark Signal, a terrorist group which has taken hostages. Hamazura and Kinuhata find themselves on the run when they defy the city's higher-ups.
Director: N/A
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7.2/1031 votesLoading...#6 - DRAGON
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/1/2019
Técpatl and Unabara square off in Shiokishi's chambers, while Accelerator and Sugitani face each other in the hallway outside. Kinuhata discovers the true reason for the current assault against herself, Takitsubo, and Hamazura.
Director: N/A
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7.2/1030 votesLoading...#7 - Misaka Worst
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/15/2019
After dealing with the sorcerers at the Russian airbase, Accelerator has a Misaka clone skydive down to confront him. Vento challenges Fiamma while Kamijo and the others watch on. Hamazura gets some disturbing news from Digurv.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.1/1040 votesLoading...#8 - Stab Sword
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/17/2010
Tsuchimikado’s location spell backfires and leads Oriana straight to him, resulting an epic showdown. But he’s not the only one exposed to Oriana’s magic: Himegami feels the force of the spell caster’s power, and may not survive.
Director: Hiroshi Nishikiori
Writer: N/A
7.1/1036 votesLoading...#9 - The Third Level
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/16/2018
Itsuwa reveals to Tōma she has come to Academy City as his bodyguard to protect him from Acqua, who is now targeting him for ruining God's Right Seat plans. While Itsuwa's Amakusa comrades watch from afar and plan to have she and Touma to get close and be a couple, Mikoto is still dealing with the revelation of Tōma's amnesia. Tōma brings Itsuwa to his home, where Index accidentally destroys the bathroom, which Itsuwa decides to bring Tōma and Index to a spa located in 22th District's underground city. After an awkward meeting between Itsuwa, Index and Mikoto in the spa, Tōma and Itsuwa takes a walk at a park. However, Acqua appears, having defeated the rest of the Amakusas, demands Tōma hand over his right arm which contains Imagine Breaker. Tōma and Itsuwa tries to fight back but are unable to hit him due to Acqua's Saint powers. After beating Tōma to a pulp, Acqua gives him one more day before he gets his right arm while Itsuwa feels guilty for failing her mission.
Director: N/A
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7.1/1032 votesLoading...#10 - Saint Breakout
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/23/2018
With Kamijo unconscious, Itsuwa is guilt-ridden, and receives a pep talk from Tatemiya. As Orsola researches Acqua's past, the Amakusa Church members make their stand against Acqua, at which Itsuwa reveals their new secret weapon.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.1/1035 votesLoading...#11 - Holy Mother Veneration
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/30/2018
Kanzaki battles Acqua under Academy City, but finds herself overpowered by his might. Mikoto runs into Kamijo after he sneaks out of his hospital room. Kanzaki works with the Amakusa Church members to find a way to beat Acqua.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.1/1029 votesLoading...#12 - Mercenaries
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/21/2018
As the coup continues, even the sisters of the puritan church are targeted, while the queen and princesses find their lives in danger. Index analyzes the evidence of the Eurotunnel blast. Knight Leader is confronted by a former colleague.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.1/1031 votesLoading...#13 - A Reason to Protect
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 2/22/2019
Kamijo begins second-guessing himself after Fiamma's rebuke. Hamazura fights to protect the village from privateers. The fighting between Britain and France ramps up. Accelerator lashes out at Kamijo over Last Order's condition.
Director: N/A
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7.0/1066 votesLoading...#14 - Friends (Hyoka Kazakiri)
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/12/2009
Tōma stops and successfully destroys Sherry's golem with Imagine Breaker. When she summons another one,Tōma coordinates with the Anti-Skills to put her on the defensive. Sherry attempts a simultaneous summoning of Ellis, destroying the ground beneath her and escaping. Wondering why Sherry would turn to escape so quickly when her target, Hyōka, was right in front of her causes Tōma to realize that her true target was Index all along. Chasing after a runaway Sphinx, Index is attacked by Ellis. At first she is able to hold her own against the remote controlled Ellis by interfering with the control mechanism, when Ellis switches to automated control things turn worse. Index can only call Tōma's name as Ellis prepares to crush her.
Director: Hiroshi Nishikiori
Writer: N/A
7.0/1044 votesLoading...#15 - Route Disturb (Pursuit Inhibited)
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/3/2010
As Toma and his group try to track down Oriana, they discover that a “Shorthand”—a specialized spell that operates on its own once being cast—is shorting out their magic. But before they can deactivate it, an incident happens at the middle school.
Director: Hiroshi Nishikiori
Writer: N/A
7.0/1039 votesLoading...#16 - The Researcher (Amata Kihara)
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/18/2011
Accelerator attempts to make amends for his past by doing a few good deeds, but ends up attacked by a group led by someone from his past. Meanwhile, Toma discovers strange goings-ons in the police force and overhears talk of an intruder in Academy City.
Director: Hiroshi Nishikiori
Writer: N/A
7.0/1034 votesLoading...#17 - The Dark Side of Academy City
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/26/2018
Team GROUP captures a blackmarketter for questioning who is later killed by an esper wearing a steel helmet. Etzali investigates the blackmarketter's home but a black ops team arrives. Etzali disguises himself as one of the operators but not before leaving some clues to his team. GROUP learns the blackmarketter sold a weapon to a sniper named Sunazara whose target is Monaka and Accelerator stops the assassination attempt after Awaki teleport him to Monaka's location. GROUP soon learns the assassination attempt was a distraction for another darkside team named SCHOOL, lead by the 2nd Level 5, Teitoku Kakine, and their real target was the particle engineering laboratory. To further complicate matters, the other teams like MEMBER, BLOCK and ITEM are getting involved as well. Meanwhile, the former Skill-Out Shiage is now working with Team ITEM, led by the 4th Level 5, Shizuri Mugino and her teammates, Rikō Takitsubo, Saiai Kinuhata and Frenda Seivelun, who treat Shiage with no respect. Learning about Monaka's assassination attempt, ITEM reazlies SCHOOL's real goal and heads to the particle engineering laboratory only to fight with the steel helmet esper. Despite killing the esper, Teitoku escapes with the device he stole, forcing ITEM to split up while Shiage runs away from SCHOOL's Pink dressed Assassin. Elsewhere, GROUP learns Team BLOCK is planning to steal Biological weapons from the city's virus vault but Etzali reveals the vault is a decoy as their real target is Satellite control center which controls the Hikoboshi 2 orbital laser weapon in space. Accelerator heads to the Satellite control center alone to fool BLOCK that they are falling for their trick.
Director: N/A
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7.0/1030 votesLoading...#18 - Heroes
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/11/2019
Kamijo, Kanzaki, Index, and Vilian head toward Buckingham Palace to stop Carissa. The palace is bombarded from the floating fortress Coven Compass, and others join the battle when Carissa calls in her own cruise missile strike.
Director: Shigenori Awai
Writer: N/A
7.0/1029 votesLoading...#19 - Angel Power (Gabriel)
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 3/8/2019
Kamijo runs into Sasha Kruezhev, and he continues to formulate a plan to stop Fiamma. Hamazura and Takitsubo discover an imminent threat to Digurv's village. The archangel Gabriel rains havoc upon the Russian and Academy City forces.
Director: N/A
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6.9/1076 votesLoading...#20 - Limit (12 o'clock)
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/2/2008
Touma tries desperately to save Index's memories before it is too late.
Director: Hiroshi Nishikiori
Writer: N/A
6.9/1077 votesLoading...#21 - Imagine Breaker
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/9/2008
Following the events of last episode and the activation of Index's defense mechanism Touma struggles to hide his amnesia from Index.
Director: Hiroshi Nishikiori
Writer: N/A
6.9/1079 votesLoading...#22 - Mikoto Misaka (Sissy)
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/7/2008
Touma spends some time with Misaka Mikoto and makes a strange discovery.
Director: Hiroshi Nishikiori
Writer: N/A
6.9/1074 votesLoading...#23 - Sisters (Sisters)
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/14/2008
Touma goes in search of Misaka to investigate the clone experiment.
Director: Hiroshi Nishikiori
Writer: N/A
6.9/1069 votesLoading...#24 - Level 6 (Absolute Ability)
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/21/2008
Touma discovers the reason behind the experiment and appears to grow closer to Misaka.
Director: Hiroshi Nishikiori
Writer: N/A
6.9/1066 votesLoading...#25 - Replica (Impostor)
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/5/2009
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.
Director: Hiroshi Nishikiori
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of A Certain Magical Index
Every episode of A Certain Magical Index ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of A Certain Magical Index!
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Best Episodes Summary
"The Governing Board" is the best rated episode of "A Certain Magical Index". It scored 7.5/10 based on 31 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/25/2019. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Dark Matter".