Toaru Majutsu no Index

Volume 15, Afterword

To those who have bought the books one at a time: Welcome back.

To those that have bought them all at once: Welcome.

This is Kamachi Kazuma.

Volume 15 was all out science. The seven Level 5s, an agricultural building, nanodevices, unmanned attack helicopters, a satellite, computer viruses, Skill-Out... It feels like all of the science side keywords that had appeared bit by bit throughout the series all came at once. n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

This volume’s theme was “the dark side of Academy City” and “emotionless story”. Also, Accelerator’s villainous trip down the path of evil was an important point. I call him evil, but the aftertaste he leaves you with isn’t so bad. I was going for a refreshing feeling regarding him once you had flipped through all of the pages. I wonder if I succeeded.

I think this volume had the most new characters introduced in a single volume (if you don’t count the Sisters) so far. But the circle of characters didn’t end up expanding. I suppose that’s one of the differences between Kamijou Touma and Accelerator.

Many thanks to my illustrator Haimura-san and the one in charge of the project, Miki-san. It ended up being a rather messy story, but I thank you for sticking with it to the end.

I would also like to thank all the readers. As usual, I’ve digressed quite a bit, but I truly thank you for flipping through all the pages this far.

And now you will be closing the pages.

I pray that you will open the pages of the next volume.

And I will lay my pen down for now.

...It feels like you could call the white one a chivalrous thief or something.

-Kamachi Kazuma