NBC Universal Japan is looking to get the franchise for A Certain Magical Index out there again as the show is getting a pair of priced down Japanese Blu-ray releases. The two seasons, which ran for twenty-four episodes each, came out recently as two box sets that are Blu-ray only on October 25th, 2017. With them out now we have some larger sized artwork to look at for them both that includes the set as a whole, which is definitely pretty sweet and I personally like them a lot more than the past few releases we’ve seen both in Japan and in North America.
They’re priced the same at 15,000 yen which for the market, even after this many years, is still a steal for that amount of content. This does look like just a re-release as both sets are mirroring the 2013 set but without the soundtrack.
Originally airing in 2008, the series was directed by Hiroshi Nishikori based on the series composition by Masanao Akahoshi. Character designs were done by Yuichi Tanaka based on the original designs by Kiyotaka Haimura that were done for the light novels written by Kazuma Kamachi. The series was animated by JC Staff.
The Japanese cast includes Atsushi Abe as Toma Kamijo, Yuka Iguchi as Index, Akeno Watanabe as Sherry Cromwell, Anri Katsu as Motoharu Tsuchimikado, Kana Asumi as Hyouka Kazakiri, Kimiko Koyama as Komoe Tsukuyomi, Kishō Taniyama as Stiyl Magnus, Mamiko Noto as Aisa Himegami, Misato Fukuen as Maika Tsuchimikado, Nobuhiko Okamoto as Accelerator, Nozomi Sasaki as Misaka’s Younger Sister, Rina Hidaka as Last Order, Rina Satou as Mikoto Misaka, Satomi Arai as Kuroko Shirai, Shizuka Itou as Kaori Kanzaki, Tomokazu Sugita as Aureolus Izzard, Yuka Terasaki as Misha=Kruschschev and Yuko Kaida as Aiho Yomikawa.
Plot concept: Kamijo is a student in Academy City, where people use science to develop supernatural abilities. The guy’s got a lot of heart – luckily for a young nun named Index. She’s on the run from a sorcery society that covets the astonishing 103,000 volumes of magical knowledge stored in her memory. When Index stumbles into Kamijo’s life, she find a faithful friend and protector, and while Kamijo’s easily the weakest kid in Academy City, he’s got something else going for him: the Imagine Breaker, an unexplainable power stored in his right hand that negates the powers of others.
[Source: A Certain Magical Index]
