Toaru Majutsu no Index Volume 15, Afterword

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.

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