Blew the head of Mugino’s Grandfather smoove off right in front of her. Savage. Got 2 level 5s wrapped around her finger despite not even being an esper.

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🏙️━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🌙 TV Anime 『Toaru Anbu no ITEM / A Certain Dark ITEM』 Advance Sales Fair with Exclusive Bonuses Announced!! 🌙━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🏙️

Brand-new illustrations featuring the characters in cyberpunk outfits have been revealed for the first time! 💥

The fair is scheduled to take place at select Animega × Sofmap stores, so please stay tuned for more details! ✨

#ACertainDarkITEM #ITEM #Toaru

https://x.com/OneWhoPurifies/status/2113185283592053119

https://x.com/EDITH_official_/status/2113178552287875205

Discuss on the MEGATHREAD https://www.reddit.com/r/Toaru/s/utqg0MDdhi

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/74248063

My cope is Hamazura will return to AC and Aihana will confront him🙏🙏

https://x.com/xLz4CZbc5Q61089/status/2112096754745458882

/⋰ “Kinuhata, would you have preferred to be on that side?” \\⋱

Today is #AnimeDay! 📺 Let's watch 『Toaru Anbu no ITEM / A Certain Dark ITEM』! 🏙️🌙

Currently airing every Friday at 24:30 (12:30 AM Saturday) on TOKYO MX, BS11, ABEMA, and more! .ᐟ

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https://x.com/toaru_project/status/2113208742007194054

So, I have seen:

Railgun S1+S2

Index S1, currently on s2 ep 9-10

And I recently read the first volume of the Index light novel.

Railgun is where I started

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Mikoto's lore???

So, I am a huge Mikoto simp. But the way they describe her backstory (which I haven't actually seen much of yet) seems a little strange to me.

Various characters including Mikoto herself have said "You have no idea how hard she had to work and struggle to become as powerful as she is!"

But, from what I've seen, Mikoto is a relatively healthy girl with a strong self esteem, strong friendships, strong work ethic, wealthy kind parents who love her, etc etc.

Further thoughts appeared in my head once I started the light novel. I'm not sure if this was even said in the Index anime *at all*, but right out of the gate it says espers are made by basically giving kids a bunch of crack and drugs and experiments 😭 You're considered talented and special if your body responds well to it (if you still end up level 0 after all that, you just kinda suck).

Although I have no doubt that the students have to work hard to improve their abilities, it tells us loud and clear that they are not born with any powers, and they are largely given to them by somebody else

So what I'm saying is, how hard did she really have to struggle? And this whole idea of everyone cramming drugs down students' throats and worse (Mikoto describes getting electrodes stabbed into your ears??) is... a big deal! One that most people in the city oddly don't consider to be a big deal nor does it really reflect in the characters.

we've seen plenty of how academy city is kind of a terrible place and also excellent at covering things up like a dystopian society, but the curriculum isn't a secret whatsoever, and everyone's ok with it.

so do we kinda get more elaboration on this or mikoto's past

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general things bugging me a little rn

I kind of have to imagine Railgun and Mikoto fans have a snobby reputation in the fanbase 😭 and so, this might end up sounding like something a billion others have said but.

this recent arc with kuroko vs the enemy teleporter who was trying to recreate the tree diagram bothered me. it was good but I'm really tired of Mikoto hiding stuff even though she has seemingly learned the lesson not to do that multiple times by now. and it flat out feels like in Index she hardly cares about her friends compared to Touma. She's instantly swooned when Touma shows up to help, but KUROKO GOING OFF AND ALMOST DYING ON HER OWN TRYING TO HELP HER??? She gets a "Thanks bro." and a fake "Everything's okay!" smile, STILL not being open or vulnerable with her. Her reactions to Touma makes her seem like a super lonely person who has never had a loving friend in her life, but she clearly does! All her friends would die for her, if they were given the opportunity to by actually knowing what is happening! The whole "Omg, someone is coming to save me!" thing, when it is clear other people are willing to sacrifice themselves for her, is just blah

Btw, I'm not a Kuroko x Mikoto shipper so it is not that that bothers me. Mikoto's crush on Touma has kind of become weirder with time, like with her purposefully giving him something she drank out of, or being ok with the thought of him tackling her onto the ground and kissing her. It seemed like a cute innocent crush tsundere trope, but it is skirting into territory that feels like stuff no normal girl would do. I've seen and loved stories where a character is practically throwing themselves at their unrequited love interests and pushing past their comfort zones for it, but those characters are always incredibly lonely, sad people, but Mikoto isn't that, so it just feels off.

I guess I am just a little disappointed I suppose. It's not like I am throwing this character in the trash or anything, but in railgun s1 and s2 I really felt like she was one of the most badass and strong female characters I've seen. here she feels kinda. dumbed down, and i kinda have to put away my copium at some point and accept this is just how the character is written.

(another disclaimer: I absolutely am the kind of degenerate anime fan that waifu shows appeal to, and I'm not going to act like all my favorite characters are entirely realistic and not written to appeal to people like me)

I am extremely bored so f*ck it I'm posting my shower thoughts to get them out of my head.

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In the beginning there was the pure world where the talented became gemstones and the rest were out of luck, but at some point they discovered magic, essentially a bug in the system, and distorted the world beyond repair, creating imagine breaker in the process as a last ditch contingency.

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Around 100 years before the main story Aleister receives visions from Aiwass (a being from the pure world) and later lays the foundation for academy city via the Abbey of Thelema and creates the first artificial esper around 40 years later. Using magic, specifically his own new religion of Thelema, he corrects fate by awakening the powers of those who had their growth "stunted" by the world. Wether or not he's aware of that doesn't really matter.

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Around 16 years before the main story Kamijou Touma, Accelerator, and Hamazura Shiage are born around the same time.

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Around 10 years before the main story imagine breaker accidentally creates/births Kazakiri Hyouka (a production line for Aiwass and an anti-magic weapon).

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In the main story our protagonists get involved in the magic side, face progressively stronger enemies at shorter and shorter intervals. Science somehow manages to keep up with magic despite the glaring power gap and advances at an ever growing pace (the clonoth, fuse=kazakiri etc.).

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The distortion of the 4 elements gets fixed, the magic gods lose most of their power, special right hands pop out of nowhere, the science side makes its own world Tree to "kill" a major demon, and whatever it is that hides inside imagine breaker grows in power.

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The magic side is becoming unstable at an increasing rate with no real signs of stopping.

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Now my theory: the pure world was distorted to the point where the people intended to be espers did not awaken their powers, and that fate has been trying to correct itself the entire time. With Aleisters esper program and it's consequences serving as the largest breakthrough to that goal yet. Essentially Fate is using magic to destroy magic.

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Edit: maybe that's Aleister is the 4th hero? I just re-read this whole thing and he sounds more and more like an unwilling prophet, which make his motivations even more hilarious. No matter what he's really never free.

https://x.com/996luv/status/2112872778269646868

I had to lower the volume during this scene:😳

Otherwise, someone would think I was watching Hentai:💀

She;s barely in toaru plus there's only like 8 of us , when is esther gonna show up to give me some new material , bruh..... Its hard out here man.

Made by me, yours truly

It says in the title, surprise me.

It can be at any level and any skill level.

Yes, you can't join Gemstone, it's something that awakens on its own...but ignore that!

Among the Espers we have, is there one you think would have been in the top 3 if they had reached LV5?

https://x.com/railguncomicfan/status/2112742258273661399

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/148001086

After Toaru no Item release i decide to watch Toaru series from railgun, and really like railgun series particularly about how complicated misaka feeling during sisters arc.

Right now I'm in few episode of magical index but the MC, kamijo's character and dialogue are so cringe i need to pause few times. Need 2 hour to finish 1 episode. Mc too much of an idealist and every word coming out of his mouth during battle doesn't make sense. But for some reason dialogue when he is thinking is good

That's all my complaint, the story is still good but i wish the MC shut up more often