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(57) [Summary] [PROBLEMS] To provide excellent fluidity, no image contamination due to scattering even under severe use conditions, to obtain a stable image with little decrease in halftone homogeneity due to burying of toner external additives, and to obtain a uniform charge distribution. A sharp image is obtained with less dust of fine dots, less dependency on the environment, and even when used in an image forming method or an image forming method incorporating a toner recycling system, there is no failure such as black spots in the image, Provided is a toner for developing an electrostatic image, which does not cause a decrease in toner fluidity or fluctuation in chargeability, and thus has a high image density and no fog. SOLUTION: In an electrostatic latent image developing toner obtained by adding an external additive to colored particles composed of at least a binder resin and a colorant, the external additive has a chain shape of 6 to 500 fine particles. A toner for developing an electrostatic latent image, wherein the toner is an inorganic particle having a branched shape and the bond being a covalent bond. |