Thread:Kamina lowell/@comment-66.209.249.244-20150523061141/@comment-5230978-20150523111521

Like you said, the manga skips two arcs of great importance and as a  result some events are modified (e.g. the first meeting between Touma and Stiyl after the first's memory loss), so if it is you first reading of Index, you should not read that but the novel instead, even because the manga has some spoiler cameos. Plus, the drawing is terrible. Anyway, the manga has its pros too. for example there are some seeimingly canon extra contents (e.g. a flashback of Index, Stiyl, and Kanzaki before Index's memory was erased), or some scenes that are only narrated in the novel and are absent in the anime are depicted there (e.g. Awaki's traumatic incident). Some volumes also have a drawing of Haimura. Obviously, these are minor stuff that can be found on the wiki or reading the manga online and these alone may be not be worth the purchase to you. If you want to buy the manga, do it only for the sake of collecting, but remember to read it only after the novels and the spin-off mangas.