TAMnI Light Novel Series To Become October Anime

A Moon Phase comment has said that an anime adaption of the light novel series To Aru Majutsu no Index (A Certain Magical Index) was confirmed in the 16th volume’s promo sleeve, according to ANN. (Moetron’s post about this news has a picture of an in-store display and a link to a MAD opening.)

The basic plot involves Touma Kajimou, a high school boy who possesses a large psychic power called “Imagine Breaker” that can cancel magic but also causes him horrible luck. He finds a Church of England nun, Index, hanging over his railing whose memories have been forcibly replaced by over 100,000 forbidden magic texts of the Church. Look for TAMnI (tam-ni?) to hit Japanese TV screens this October as yet another light novel-to-anime adaptation – spring 2008 anime Spice and Wolf and Wagaya no Oinari-sama originated as light novels.

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To give you a sense of the series’ comic tone, I put the first portion of the first radio drama episode above (ripped from NicoNicoDouga). It takes place in a family restaurant and involves Touma, Index, and Touma’s schoolmate Mikoto Misaka. The voice actors for the anime will likely not be the same as the radio drama but the voice actress for Misaka has previously given voice to Negi in both Negima series, Haruka in Minami-ke, and Satori in Bamboo Blade so there’s a good chance she’ll have a role in this upcoming adaptation. (There’s already a fan-made voice speculation/suggestion video on Nico [link] – I might try to decipher it later but I wouldn’t mind if someone else did.)

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