User blog comment:Koosha/Light Novels/@comment-1967894-20130313150721

I know not of the Chinese language, only that they remove furigana and all nuances of the Japanese language that Kamachi loves doing in the novels. If problems arise, there is always this wiki, wikipedia, or the fan translations on Baka-Tsuki to compare the translations to.

Moreover, Toaru Majutsu no Index is a franchise that has always presented itself as something that must be read instead of simply viewed. Many things are lost in transition to different mediums. The anime is much closer, but many things are cut to fit in with the episodes, and this is not more egregrious than in the Deep Blood Arc (volume 2) and the Angel Fall Arc (volume 4). The manga suffer this treatment, utterly removing Deep Blood Arc and Angel Fall's adaptation from the adaptation, and as a consequence to this, Touma has only met Stiyl again recently, and several things that are to be used in later arcs are not introduced, which one would assume the mangaka would be forced later on his own.

As you can see from the thousands of articles that make up this wiki, there is more to Toaru Majutsu no Index than the anime.