Toaru Majutsu no Index Wiki:Featured articles/This month's featured article/2015

Openers for articles that have been featured monthly in 2015.

January
Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Necessarius Special Admission Test is an eight-part story released in the limited editions of the Blu-ray and DVD of the Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S anime. The story was written by Kamachi Kazuma and was released between July 24, 2013 to February 24, 2014.

The story revolves around the test underwent by the Amakusa-Style Remix of Church to become part of the Church of England. After the rescue of Orsola Aquinas, the Amakusa Christians are eager to join the Anglican Church, and fall under their protection from the Roman Catholic Church. After being briefed of the rules and goals of the Necessarius Special Admission Test by supervisor Freadia Strikers, they begin their test in Necessarius' Underground Labyrinth. Part way though the test, communication lines between them are intercepted by a group impersonating the Amakusa Christians to obtain free passes to Necessarius' facilities.

After escaping the Labyrinth, knowing that only they can hunt down the fakes and clear their names, the Amakusas become involved in conspiracy after conspiracy, forcing them to not only clear their name, but to aid in stopping the various conspiracies happening around them...(Learn more...)

Recently featured: Matthai Reese

Febuary
Laura Stuart is the Archbishop of the Church of England and the head of its 0th Parish, Necessarius. As the leader of an entire Christian denomination and the head of its secret anti-magic organization, she is one of the most politically powerful characters in the series. This, combined with her cunning personality, allows her to manipulate the political intrigue between the various Christian denominations, the powers within the England, as well as of those outside, specifically, Academy City. Despite her position she prefers to work behind the scenes if possible, and let others like Kanzaki Kaori or Stiyl Magnus deal with meeting with other factions face-to-face.

Though she does as many good things as she does evil things, where she’s keeping an intricate balance so that it balances out to the point where it's impossible to tell whether she's good or evil. Due to this villainous nature of hers, she is at odds with other characters despite being allies. An example of this is that she is the one who had ordered putting the Collar on Index, and deceived Stiyl and Kaori into thinking that Index required having annual memory erasures, inorder to keep her from dying. In spite of her villainous qualities she usually displays a lighter side, more befitting her two-faced nature. Where she has a casualy jokes when speaking towards equals like Aleister Crowley and Queen Elizard during serious discussions over the course of the series...(Learn more...)

Recently featured: Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Necessarius Special Admission Test

March
Windowless Building: is a tall building that is literally windowless; located in the 7th School District, it is the main base and stronghold of the General Chairman of Academy City, Aleister Crowley. The Windowless Building is located around the middle of the city, and is at the center of School District 7. As its name suggests, the Windowless building contains no windows, corridors, stairs, air ducts and no sign of a visible entryway, nor is accessible to the general public in any way as there are no entrances into the building a teleporter is required as a guide into the building. The imitate area around the building is constantly protected by strict security, despite this security the buildings ultimate defense comes from the protection of the Calculate Fortress that it is is composed of.

As the base of the infamous magician and chairman of the city, Aleister Crowley, the building has formidable capabilities that serves its purpose in protecting its main occupant. The building probably allows him to connect to UNDER_LINE as well as other monitoring devices that go well beyond that of Academy City, such as those that allow him to monitor the Sisters' status across the globe.While manly servicing as the base of operations of Aleister Crowley that also prevents him from being detected by the various magic side organizations, but at the same time is the prison of the immortal Fräulein Kreutune...(Learn more...)

Recently featured: Laura Stuart

April


Gungnir: is the legendary weapon of in Norse mythology, that also signifies his power, meaning someone wielding Gungnir wields the power of Odin and could draw out the spear’s true power and would be able to freely use the great power that made Odin a god. In the world of Toaru Majutsu no Index it is an incredibly powerfull spiritual item a replica alone, even with only 70% of its power is enough to overwhelm a Saint, by one simply existing would threatened the balance between the magic and the science side.

Brunhild Eiktobel in "Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Kanzaki" sucessded in making an imperfect replical of Gungnir capible of making natural disasters and calamities her queast to save. Later the plans to make it are stolen by Gremlin in order to make the spear themselves as it was the key to their plans to move the Majin Othinus to remove the 50/50 restriction that prevents her fully using her powers as a Magic God. This was done with the prorpse where she could make their various wishes come true by her remaking the world. Despite the efforts of Touma, Ollerus and others she did indeed acquire the spear, and uses it to destroy the world....(Learn more...)

Recently featured: Windowless Building

May


Mitsuari Ayu: Level 3 esper with the ability Mental Stinger, she bears an immense grudge against Shokuhou Misaki, who found by Tree Diagram to both have the possibility of reaching Level 5, and possessing abilities with a near identical basic theory and scope, though they would plateau at Level 3 under standard curriculum. The higher-ups following the Parameter List they chose to focus on Shokuhou Misaki, with Mitsuari Ayu being kept as a back-up in the event of her death. These circumstances later drove her to consider suicide, though she truly wanted to be saved by Kamijou Touma.

Though that did not happen due to accident by caused by Misaki, after surviving she now resents her represents a contrast to both Misaki's situation and character. After delving into the darkness of Academy City she gathered both personnel and equipment in order to seek revenge on Misaki. Using a FIVE_Over Modelcase_"MENTAL_OUT" she made Misaki begin questioning the truth of her memories concerning her and Touma trying to make her erase her own memories...(Learn more...)

Recently featured: Gungnir

June


British Halloween: refers to the events that occurred in the hours between midnight and early morning of October 18 of the current year of the timeline, where second Princess Carissa of the United Kingdom with the aid of the Knights of England lunched a coup d'etat, seizing control of the country from her mother Queen Regnant Elizard.

The events refer not only to the fighting between Carissa's faction and Anglican Church, but also includes the hostile actions perpetrated by Carissa's control of the armed forces against French forces in the channel. Whom she perceived as a threat against the country as they were being used as pawns by Fiamma of the Right and the Roman Catholic Church to further his plans, including having them destroy the Eurotunnel to weaken the United Kingdom.

Despite the considerable gains of her coup in the early hours of October 18, the resistance forces led by the Anglican Church and with the aid of various other people including her sister third Princess Villian, Kamijou Touma, and Acqua of the Back, pushed Carissa back and the knights to London, where the resistance made one final push against her culminating in the Battle of Buckingham Palace, where the people of London rallied under the banner of the Union Jack held by the Queen to stop Carissa...(Learn more...)

Recently featured: Mitsuari Ayu

October


Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax: is a 2D arcade fighting game developed by Ecole Software and French Bread and published by Sega, which brings together selected characters from different light novel series published under the Dengeki Bunko imprint. The project was a collaboration between Sega and Dengeki Bunko as part of the 20th year anniversary of the light novel imprint.

The roster consists of characters from light novel series under the Dengeki Bunko imprint. Although most characters come in pairs, some series included in the roster are exclusively assist characters. Special mention goes to Sword Art Online and Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei, with each series having two characters being playable. While Toaru Majutsu no Index has Misaka Mikoto as a playable character with Kamijou Touma and Accelerator as assist characters.

The arcade game was later released for both the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita in Japan on November 13, 2014, with a western version set for release set for release on October 6, 2015 in both North America and Europe. An updated version Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax Ignition was launched on July 28, 2015, bringing in additional characters and more balanced gameplay...(Learn more...)

Recently featured: British Halloween