Toaru Majutsu no Index Episode 22

"Golem" is the twenty-second episode of the Toaru Majutsu no Index anime series. It was first broadcast on March 8, 2009, and was directed Tsuruta Hiroshi, storyboarded by Nihei Yuuichi, and the script written by Akahoshi Masanao.

After school, Touma and Index go the Underground Shopping Center with their new friend Kazakiri Hyouka. Three people, enjoying cosplays, meals, and games, to which Index concludes must be the essence of "school life". Suddenly, they are stopped by a Judgment girl, who tells them that Academy City has been infiltrated by a terrorist and that they must leave the Underground Shopping Center before the dividing walls close. As the people evacuate the mall, the three of them find something strange—an eye of a golem stuck to a wall. A killing intent came from the eye, and it speaks that it has found its target. Touma tells Index and Hyouka to leave. However, before comes Misaka Mikoto and her underclassman Shirai Kuroko, to make sure the evacuation goes smoothly. There, however, Mikoto and Index seems getting ready to fight with Touma as the center!?

Adapted From

 * Chapter 2 Parts 4 & 6-9 & Chapter 3 Parts 1-4

Major Events

 * Sherry Cromwell, who is deemed as a terrorist, attacks the Underground Mall.
 * Misaka Mikoto and Shirai Kuroko meet Index and Kazakiri Hyouka for the first time.
 * Kazakiri Hyouka discovers that she is not human.

Characters

 * Index
 * Kazakiri Hyouka
 * Kamijou Touma
 * Sherry Cromwell
 * Shirai Kuroko
 * Misaka Mikoto
 * Yomikawa Aiho
 * Tsukuyomi Komoe

Abilities

 * Imagine Breaker - Kamijou Touma
 * Perfect Memory - Index
 * Electromaster (Railgun-variant) - Misaka Mikoto, Level 5
 * Teleport - Shirai Kuroko, Level 4
 * Golem Ellis - Pratical Kabbalah, Sherry Cromwell

New Abilities

 * Telepathy - Judgment girl, Level unknown
 * Counter Stop - Kazakiri Hyouka

Locations

 * Academy City
 * District 7
 * District 7 Underground Shopping Center

Trivia

 * It took 22 episodes for the two titular heroines of the series, Index of Toaru Majutsu no Index, and Misaka Mikoto of Toaru Kagaku no Railgun, to meet.
 * The episode confirms that Telepathy has no effect on Touma.

Referbacks

 * Touma references the incident last episode where he sees both Hyouka and Index changing clothes in the nurse's room of his school.
 * Index mentions Touma saving her life back in episode 6, though Touma has no memory of this. Mikoto also references Touma helping her from episode 10 to 14.

Cultural References

 * The firearms used by Anti-Skill in the episode is a.
 * The Anti-Skill uses a inside a tunnel. Despite having an injury radius of 15 meters, the Anti-Skill, specifically Aiho, Touma, and even Sherry, gets out relatively fine after the explosion.

Animation Trivia

 * The video games that appear in the arcade, also appear in episode 15.
 * Mikoto has always been depicted as visibly taller than Kuroko, however, during the part where Kuroko decides to teleport both Index and Mikoto, she is shown to be just as tall as her.