Toaru Majutsu no Index III Episode 05

"Dark Matter" (未元物質 (ダークマター) ) is the fifth episode of the third season of the Toaru Majutsu no Index anime series. It was broadcast on November 3rd 2018, and was directed by Kobayashi Takashi, was storyboard by Ochi Kojin, and the script written by Kingetsu Ryunosuke.

Adapted From

 * Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 15 Chapter 2 Parts 10, 12, & 14, Between the Lines 2 & Chapter 3

Major Events

 * Operatives of MEMBER clash with Accelerator and Kakine Teitoku, and are quickly defeated.
 * BLOCK attempt to take advantage of the loss of communications with the Hikoboshi II and a security rotation interval to get 5000 external mercenaries into the city. Due to the intervention of Etzali, the alarm is raised and the majority of their mercenaries are decimated by a trio of HsAFH-11s.
 * The survivors attempt a raid on the Reformatory, targeting Move Point's associates to gain leverage against her, in order to sneak explosives into the Windowless Building to destroy it and assassinate Aleister. They are defeated by GROUP. During this time, Etzali faces Xochitl, a magician from his cabal who infiltrated MEMBER in order to find and eliminate Etzali for his betrayal.

Characters
By order of appearance:
 * Last Order
 * Uiharu Kazari
 * Accelerator
 * Kakine Teitoku
 * Etzali (as Yamate and Unabara Mitsuki)
 * Tsuchimikado Motoharu
 * Musujime Awaki
 * Frenda Seivelun
 * Takitsubo Rikou
 * Kinuhata Saiai
 * Mugino Shizuri

New Characters

 * Saraku
 * Baba Yoshio
 * Professor
 * Saku Tatsuhiko
 * Teshio Megumi
 * Tetsumou
 * Xochitl

Abilities

 * Accelerator (ability) - Accelerator, Level 5
 * Spear of Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli - Etzali
 * Move Point - Musujime Awaki, Level 4

New Abilities

 * Dark Matter - Kakine Teitoku, Level 5
 * Kill Point - Saraku, Level 3
 * Macuahuitl - Xochitl
 * Time related to Life and Death - Xochitl

Locations

 * Academy City
 * School District 23

New Locations

 * School District 10
 * Reformatory
 * School District 22
 * Summer Resort
 * School District 23
 * Air Superiority Preservation Control Center

Trivia

 * The voice actor of unnamed taxi driver is Sahara Makoto.
 * Etzali's real name is finally revealed.

Referbacks

 * Musujime Awaki's previous role as guide to the Windowless Building is referred to, being a key part of BLOCK's plan to assassinate Aleister, with her allies from the Tree Diagram Remnant Arc, imprisoned in the Reformatory, being targeted by BLOCK in an attempt to force her to cooperate.

Differences in Adaptation

 * Because the scene where Tetsumou is tasked in rooting out the traitors in BLOCK was cut, Tetsumou's Skill Polygraph is never featured. Instead of having her fingers blown off as the result of Etzali's actions, she is instead caught in the Six Wings attack. Her fate is unknown.
 * An original scene is added in the episode where Frenda is shown being beaten up by Kakine.
 * In the novel, Musujime Awaki tells Teshio Megumi that the Windowless Building is actually not a building, implying that she doesn't know the true nature of it.
 * The nature and the purpose of the device which Awaki has torn off her back (and even the fact it's the same device which was shown on her neck in the episode 24 of the previous season) was never explained in the anime.

Unanswered Questions

 * What is the organization mentioned by Xochitl?