Toaru Majutsu no Index Wiki:Featured articles/This month's featured article/2013

Openers for articles that have been featured monthly in 2013.

January

 * Perhaps due to all the hubbub with the New Year, the featured article for the month took 10 days to create.

The Amakusa-Style Remix of Church is sect of Christianity which initially followed the teachings of Roman Catholicism up until Christianity was banned from Japan, which forced the sect to go underground.

The Church is a pragmatic religious organization, taking in several aspects of other religions, eventually evolving into a unique amalgam of beliefs, that is all together different from the core beliefs of the religions that has influenced them. This pragmatism later proves to be useful against the powerful opponents the sect faces after aligning with the Church of England in the course of the Toaru Majutsu no Index.(Learn more...)

Recently featured: Church of England

February
Orsola Aquinas is a nun formerly under the Roman Catholic Church. She is known as having preached to three pagan countries, to the point of having Church constructed oin her honor, as well as skill in decoding magical texts, the latter getting her into trouble with her own Church after she attempts to decipher to the Book of the Law.

After getting under the protection of the Church of England, she begins working for Necessarius, and becomes instrumental in helping her allies in their various missions. A somewhat airheaded girl whose mind can change a topic in a blink of an eye, her kind eyes and placid demeanor belies her intelligent and wise nature.(Learn more...)

Recently featured: Amakusa-Style Remix of Church

March
Requiring a being that is neither touched by magic or science and can survive modification to become a holistic esper, Othinus sets her sight on Academy City's Windowless Building, where Fräulein Kreutune is kept.

Imprisoned because she was a threat of to Aleister Crowley's plans, she is a being that is nigh-invulnerable and has an unquenchable desire for information. However, as she mimics humans, she too, has come to mimic their desire to love and be loved back. She is the core of the entirety of the conflict that is set up in the Ichihanaran Festival Arc.(Learn more...)

Recently featured: Orsola Aquinas

April
Taken out of her incubation tank in May of the current timeline, she is the 9982nd Sister to be produced for the Level 6 Shift. However, more importantly, Misaka 9982 is the first Sister to ever come in direct contact with Misaka Mikoto, her "older sister."

During the course of Toaru Kagaku no Railgun's Sisters Arc, her interaction with her as well as her inevitable fate leaves Mikoto with a lasting impression on her which catapults her into the much darker side of Academy City and its denizens.(Learn more...)

Recently featured: Fräulein Kreutune

May
The Ability Body Crystal is a creation of Kihara Gensei. It was created using the crystallized essences of espers that have been overloaded, those who have lost control of their powers. With these sacrifices, Gensei hoped to create the Level 6 and reach SYSTEM.

The crystal allows users to temporarily boost their powers, but at the cost of overloading their abilities, being unable to use it without the aid of the crystal, and continued deterioration of the body through prolonged used. The crystal defined the lives of several characters in the Toaru Majutsu no Index universe, specifically Takitsubo Rikou.(Learn more...)

Recently featured: Misaka 9982

June
Angels are immensely powerful beings with very volatile existences in the Toaru Majutsu no Index universe. They can be beings of either divine origin, such as the Archangels Gabriel and Michael of Christian doctrine, or artificial existences consisting of masses of highly concentrated AIM fields built-up from the thousands of espers within Academy City.

Most Western magic is derived from the alignment of the magician's magic to its corresponding angel. Moreover, several plot points in the story revolve around angels whether to understand God or go beyond.(Learn more...)

Recently featured: Ability Body Crystal

July
Let us not forget of far away days in the past. The Index Arc is the very story arc featured in the Toaru Majutsu no Index universe. It shows all the classic and famed characters of the frachise such as Kamijou Touma, Misaka Mikoto, Tsukuyomi Komoe, Aogami Pierce, Kanzaki Kaori, Stiyl Magnus, and of course, Index. It also features one of the classic story arc formula that would change little for several volumes.

The story opens with Touma's running into Misaka Mikoto the 3rd ranked Level 5, which includes cryptic foreshadowings of many elements in the future of Toaru Majutsu no Index. Their meeting ends with Mikoto attacking completely, though not landing a single scratch on him. The next day, needing a change of pace from the summer heat that Touma could not avoid due to Mikoto frying the power out, as well as his misfortune, Touma goes out to his balcony, commenting: "The sky is so blue yet my future is so dark," aptly describing the path he will lead from now on. There, he meets a hungry white nun, Index, who will change his life forever...(Learn more...)

Recently featured: Angel

August
Although the origin of her magic may be unusual, magic based on the Cinderella fairy tale, Cendrillon is an expert magician. She is a character introduced as one of the members of GREMLIN. Despite being one of the most formidable and pragmatic magicians Kamijou Touma ever had to face, needing the intervention of Leivinia Birdway herself to defeat, she is quickly tossed aside by her comrades, who reveal to her that she is nothing more than a pawn, and is later suffer a horrible fate as consequence, her body modified beyond recognition as a table by Marian Slingeneyer.

After later being freed, she later seeks revenge with GREMLIN and allies with herself with Touma, or more specifically, uses him to get back at them, but is inadvertently caught in one of his plans to save a certain woman...(Learn more...)

Recently featured: Index Arc

September
With her starlighted eyes, Shokuhou Misaki, the 5th-ranked Level 5 and a student of the Tokiwadai Middle School with the largest clique, shines bright. Initially, a mysterious character referenced in passing by Kamijou Touma in the first volume of Toaru Majutsu no Index, it took a long count of years and several small hints before she finally made her debut in the Toaru Kagaku no Railgun manga, and soon after, a proper debut in the novels.

Her cheerful and playful demeanor does not fully demonstrate the many facets of her character, such as those from her powers, Mental Out, her mysterious past, and the relationship she has with other characters such as that of Misaka Mikoto and Kamijou Touma. Her appearance also leads to some doubt, leading to Mikoto to question if she really is a middle schooler and the strange appearance of her eyes. Her striking contrast both in personality and appearance with the much more prominent Misaka Mikoto makes them the perfect foil for each other in the many tales of this world.

Shokuhou Misaki, the Queen of Tokiwadai, the Mental Out, and a self-proclaimed person with a pure personality, let her be the summer star that shines as bright as a comet, as she is featured for this month...(Learn more...)

Recently featured: Cendrillon

October
The Toaru Majutsu no Index Movie: Miracle of Endymion is the first movie ever produced for the Toaru Majutsu no Index franchise.

The story details around the mysterious Meigo Arisa and her strange connection with Shutaura Sequenzia. Arisa is an aspiring idol who meets Kamijou Touma and Index after being enamored by her singing on the streets, they are later involved in a struggle between the magic and science sides as the day of the opening of Endymion, the space elevator built by the Orbit Portal Company under the helm of the enigmatic Ladylee Tangleroad, draws near.

Originally announced on October 2, 2011, the movie became a surprise hit in the box office on February 23, 2013. Filled with several beloved characters of the franchise, the movie is pure fanservice for the franchise, and opened up the realization that retcons can now occur in the world of Toaru Majutsu no Index. Now it has become the featured article for this month...(Learn more...)

Recently featured: Shokuhou Misaki

November
Not only is Othinus the leader of GREMLIN but she is also a Magic God, a title that she had taken from Ollerus.

At first being a cryptic character mentioned in the sidelines, she later makes her debut in a big way, confronting Kamijou Touma himself and easily defeating him. A powerful being whose appearance is modeled off Odin of Norse mythology, her goal is to change the world after Academy City's victory in World War III. To achieve this she sets off in motion several events in the beginning of Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index that not only strains Kamijou Touma's body also his will.

Powerful and cunning, she is also merciless and manipulative, both to her enemies and allies, a fact that Touma discovers firsthand...(Learn more...)

Recently featured: Toaru Majutsu no Index Movie: Miracle of Endymion

December
Hot off the heels of Othinus, let us not forget her masterstroke. The Lance of Gungnir Arc currently refers to the contents to 8th Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index light novel volume, where GREMLIN finally makes their move in the construction of Gungnir and the forces antagonistic to them make separate moves on their own to take down.

Much of the storyline focuses on Kamijou Touma's and his allies attempts to reach Tokyo Bay where Sargasso, GREMLIN's base is located. However, it also shows the struggle of the various powers against GREMLIN and its effects on the world at large. Moreover, it shows the cunning of GREMLIN, as they spread chaos across the world, getting comparisons with their methods with Fiamma of the Right and World War III.

The arc continues the theme of Touma failing to to thwart GREMLIN completely, culminating in Othinus defeating Ollerus and Fiamma of the Right, and making Gugnir itself and destroying the world before Touma's very eyes...(Learn more...)

Recently featured: Othinus