とある魔術のいんでっくすたん/Toaru Majutsu no Index-tan
A Certain Magical Index-tan – 01

Episode 1 (SPOILERS)

Touma meets Index-tan, who’s draped on his balcony rail, until a bird carries her off.

Index-tan enjoys numerous hotdogs on Touma’s head and gets frustrated at his remarks when she encourages folks to buy the Shakugan no Shana DVD’s.

Himegami finds the cat Taiga and wonders why.

Index-tan walks Komoe-sensei through the process of summoning a cute angel.

Questions with Kanzaki-senpei, who has pretty much the same, angry answer to all, except when her seiyuu is challenged about getting drunk at a party.

Touma accidentally causes Index-tan to puke.

Touma tells Stiyl and Kanzaki to stop being side characters.

Tsuchimikado and another of Touma’s classmates host a shopping show with the janitor robot for sale and get Kanzaki to repeatedly say the price of the item, which sounds like her main attack.

Shana-tan scarfs rice, while Tomoe-sensei hogs all the meat in the yakiniku set she purchased, leaving the vegetables and fruit for Himegami.

Index-tan rides Touma’s head to a public bath, while Stiyl observes from behind a pole.

Thoughts/Review:

Heh!heh! Well, since Shakugan no Shana-tan Revenge had Index-tan make a guest appearance, I’m not surprised that the crossover humor remains.  So, Shana-tan gets channeled here (Shakugan no Shana), and Taiga from Toradora also got a cameo here via her mascot cat.  Those moments were the funniest to me, considering how I’ve watched them both.  Naturally, Index-tan channeling Shana-tan was the funniest moment of all.

Much like the Shana-tan franchise, this first Index-tan episode parodies moments in the anime to varying degrees of humor.  I was amused by the apparently true story of Kanzaki’s seiyuu, ITOU Shizuka, getting drunk at the series launch party.  Nice to know she can have fun with it.

The hogging of meat in a yakiniku meal, or in a nabe meal, is an old joke. The interesting twist this time was after having Komoe-sensei tell Himegami when the various, traditional yakiniku vegetables were done, to announce things like the grilled pumpkin and melon were done. *lol* Sounds nasty.

Overall, an amusing episode.