Is this what the board chairman has been doing while AC is under crisis?
AH BABY
>>288476033Would be funny if full tuning is just a better Mikoto in every way due to being experimented on.
We're long overdue for an Accel volume
>>288475741>Full tuning better have a big reveal to it after almost 2 decades of foreshadowing.My personal crack fan idea. They kidnapped Mikoto like 5 years ago, stuffed her in a lab and used her to create the network. Full Tuning was given a copy of all her memories, sent out into the world, treated secretly for hormone issues through medicine added to her school food and is the current Misaka Mikoto. The real Misaka Mikoto is still in a lab under ground.It would be one hell of a story if Kamijou rescues a half insane / vengeful Misaka Mikoto from a hellish lab that performed surgery and experiments on her for years. Now he has her in his apartment and has to think of what to say to this Mikoto who doesn't know she's been replaced and to the Mikoto he knows and her family.
>no WORST found near Accel in new volumeWhat is Kamachi doing?
>>288476328Your crack theory is, undercooked. I would rather have full tuning think she’s the real Mikoto, believe that the real one took her place, and try to kill her to regain her place from an imposter.
There will be Raildex anime news at Anime Expo on July 4th
>>288476435I want to know more about his Misaka maid.
>>288476868>on July 4thIts a sign, we're going back to America again
>>288476106slut
Strongest to weakest ranking. Dragon Strike Touma, Inner Alice, CRC, Anna Kingsford, Coronzon/Aiwass, Full power true MGs, everyone else. I feel this is the most accurate.
>>288475955Accelerator and WORST being a thing is sort of canon thing? Or just fan bullshit?>Imagine fucking a clone of your pseudo adopted daughter
>>288475955I only care about Science Side. Magic is awful, or at least has awful reputation from bad anime.
>>288475955>>288476106>the mid JCs became sluts as JKsHeresy. NO!
>>288476205Yeah imagine if Full Tuning was sent out to various international collaborative institutions and ended up becoming surprisingly worldly and charismatic as a result. She's not a whiny tsundere, not a blank-minded imouto, not a shit-stirring WORST-alike, she's just a cool as hell chick who immediately mogs Mikoto into the dirt the moment they meet. Also her boobs are bigger somehow despite being Mikoto's bio age. She'd be a better combo of Misuzu's and Tabigake's best traits than Mikoto is.
>>288477721I legitimately think full power magic gods are still the strongest or around Dragon King Touma but would still get slaughtered by every one else on the list because they mostly just throw their weight around.
>>288476868mugino owes me sex
>>288477725>Accelerator and WORST being a thing is sort of canon thing? Or just fan bullshit?A thing, no. Worst probably has a crush on him though.>pseudo adopted daughterLast Order definitely has a crush on him.
>>288476205All the Sisters are Level 2 or 3 and Worst is Level 4 so I want Full Tuning to be Level 5
>>288477881magic side has better girls
>>288476106my heart
Last Order is essentially grooming AccelThis hasn’t been said enoughAccel gets the lolicon joke but the dangerous one is Last Order
>>288479263Mugino vs Takitsubo doing rails off Frenda's tits, that's what raildex means to me.
>>288480058Accelerator is the one that started it
>>288475955Why did the little girl under his care became a gyaru?
>>288480889other clones influenced her while he spent his time brooding behind the bars
>>288480889It's in her genes.
I miss Misaka Worst
I'm late but thanks to the anon that posted the link to the updated novels.
Fivehead
I guess Mental Out will be the new main science side spin-off
>>288482578as if Seria would ever have the guts to pull this shit.
>>288482724She didn't mean to send it
>>288482724>>288482578The Potential Haremette
>>288482821She's going to seethe like hell if Touma gets held back a year
>>288478311Ehhh, GT13 had Niang Niang basically get buffed into becoming her full power self, then she got off screened by Coronzon(who was technically suppressed due to using Adikala which doesn’t allow her to use her stronger spells). Same Coronzon that Aleister used, while being buffed by Aiwass, that couldn’t even react and got one shotted by CRC being extremely casual.
>>288482672Already have Misaka and Kuroko in it, only need Uiharu
FUCK MISAKI
>>288479499 LOL are all the clones tuned to want Accelerator dick?Maybe the true way to raise his Psychic level wasnt killing but fucking all the clones all along.
>>288484428With pleasure
Fine. I'm reading the LNs. Happy now, anon?
>>288483264Their massive power aside, the nature of their best ability is what puts them at or near the top in a pure output standpoint. It's also kind of cheating since Othinus revealed it's a butterfly effect and not them stamping the new phase down. Although that was inferred by NT9 since Othinus just could not make her world the exact way she remembered it. Either way, Coronzon obliterated Niang with a trap because she literally bulldozed straight into it. MGs just hurl themselves at shit. Add on people like CRC who can apparently also make phases and have crazy ass offensive spells or the other ways these guys can protect themselves and the MGs are elephants barreling at spec ops equipped with anti materiel rifles.
Why is it so hard for people to spell “Aleister” correctly? I’ve seen so many people misspell his name as “Aliester” and “Alister” that, hypothetically, some might think that there are actually characters called by those misspelled names.
>>288486128>Why is it so hard for people to spell “Aleister” correctly?Aside from typo's, it is just not a common spelling of Alister, in fact Crowley is basically the only notable person with that spelling. The proper spelling of Crowley's name is even listed as a mistake in spell check. With Japanese names you commit the spelling to your head because it is new but with Western names it is easy to assume you know the correct spelling is Alister or you remember there is an unusual e in there but then place it wrong.
>>288486608crowley is the only person named aleister I've ever heard of. I've only seen "alister" as part of "mcalister."
>>288485294See you in 3 years when you finally catch up
Choose the new Toaru spin-off to be made
>>288487366New Light or Oriana for long running. Noukan or Kamisato for short.
>>288486128Apparently it's just been anglicised a bunch of different ways
>>288487366
>>288487366Kihara family
>>288487366Gunha is said to be next, if mental out gets an anime.
>>288487366railgun girl SoL/4koma seriesClones SoLKuroko Crime fighting
>>288488995>Kuroko Crime fightingLet's just make it a Judgment spin-off
>>288489145That's fine, but we both know she'll be the main character.
>>288489145>>288489221I still don't understand if Kuroko and Uiharu work in the same place
index is best girl followed by last order
>>288479605Would be immensely funny if Misaka loses to full tuning if they ever fight.
>>288486608>>288486998This feels like an Altria situation, but irl. The official spelling is retarded. Aleister looks and sounds much better.
>>288490320She will have long hair like Dolly and shot a dozen railgun at once
>>288490879Forgot image
>>288490879Dolly still makes my heart beat after all this time
>>288486998>crowley is the only person named aleister I've ever heard ofI knew someone that went by "Al" who's full name was Aleister back when I worked in a restaurant a decade ago. He was super southern and obsessed with his truck though.
>>288489745>index is best girlLiterally nobody that actually follows the series in any capacity says this
>>288475955It's obnoxious how much favoritism there is for magic side. Even the strongest science character is nothing but fodder for even the most mid magic character and any time science competes at all it's by using loopholes for magic since everything's so retardedly one-sided. Waste of an interesting premise.
>>288491609They established long ago that magic was made to cope against gemstonesscience side espers are just cheap copycats of gemstones. Of course they can’t compete.
>>288491952Magic and some of the modern espers have far surpassed known gemstones. Which makes sense when you have 10s of thousands of years to polish something vs nature shitting out weirdos from time to time. Even modern espers are built on ancient magic and science.
>>288491952And I'm saying that's lame and a complete waste of what could've been an interesting premise
>>288492058Not him, but the hard science dominates most magic. WW3 was one sided from scientific air superiority alone until Gabriel got dropped in. There's just no missile or super jet that's going to square up with an arch angel. The interesting bits now are how each side uses the other to boost themselves. Something I thought would be more prevalent in NT but is really only finding ground in GT.
>>288489723Each school has an attached Judgement branch made up of students of that school, Sakugawa's is the 177th branch and Tokiwadai's is the 3rd branch. That means that Shirai, Uiharu and Konori do not work at the same branch despite being paired off frequently in canon. There really isn't a concrete explanation of the command structure and where joint op missions come from from.In the Railgun anime they introduced this stand alone building(picrel) as the 177th Branch which was led by highschooler Konori Mii as chief in which Shirai Kuroko and Uiharu Kazari work. This contradicts its status as Sakugawa's branch. This helped reframe Judgment as a proper investigative agency instead of empowered hall monitors that sometimes work together as pseudo-cops. Since 90% of Railgun season 1 was original storylines not found in the manga, this gave Judgement more of a buddy cop show feel.After this we started to see the anime bleed through. This stand alone office branch was seen in later Railgun manga arcs and even appeared in the Index manga. Astral Buddy returned 177th to Sakugawa but kept the spacious office design from the stand alone building. Shirai and Uiharu started working with Konori more. Either the anime is its own thing that vaguely intersects with the novel and manga canon or>Aihana Etsu 6th ranked Level 5: ITEM volume 5.>“Two Wings.”>The voice was quiet. But it seemed to pierce deep into a distortion of the world.>“Did an attack helicopter by that name exist? You can’t just let this slide. Look back further in the past to a conversation with a black market doctor. At the very least, Mugino Shizuri had already mentioned the Six Wings name in this same timeline. Before the Two Wings was ever mentioned.”I bet the differences between Toaru mediums are being used for the Number #6's storyline.Perhaps Judgement 177th Branch is at the center of it... for some reason.++++(' v ')
>>288492265>Not him, but the hard science dominates most magic. WW3 was one sided from scientific air superiority alone until Gabriel got dropped in.I mean respectfully you're contradicting yourself.>There's just no missile or super jet that's going to square up with an arch angel.Yes and that's a problem. The equivalent strongest esper is nothing but garbage.>The interesting bits now are how each side uses the other to boost themselves.Except no, that's still lame since science NEEDS magic but magic doesn't need science.
>>288492265>The interesting bits now are how each side uses the other to boost themselves. Something I thought would be more prevalent in NT but is really only finding ground in GT.Weren't there supposed to be rules eaely in the series that this doesn't work specifically to prevent excessive hybridization wanking? I hate this.
>>288492304Summoning a whole ass arch angel isn't most magic. Most magic is Agnese forces and other people that would get obliterated by a 6 wings helicopter. The top dogs are definitely magic, but the other magicians are using science to leap frog upwards. Stiyl did it by just using a copy machine. Aleister used magic to reproduce espers that use scientific principles. Even the process of people figuring out magic was scientific hypothesize and experiment. I know some people were looking for a magic vs science hard line, but it's a spectrum in this series. Part of imagine breaker's existence was to hint it by how weird it was that it worked on both magic and science.
>>288492637>Summoning a whole ass arch angel isn't most magic.Irrelevant. The point is top of magic is so far above top of science it isn't even remotely a contest. That's lame and a lack of fulfilling potential with the implied premise. It sucks. It's lame.
>>288491609OT did a good enough job balancing the sides but Gremlin, the Golden Dawn, Transcendence and general power creep tilted the scales in too steeply. They kept introducing what were essentially "everything proof" baddies who can take major hits so consistently that Kamachi stopped bothering to explain it. If a sudden Railgun or and orbital strike happens, we can just expect as a matter of course the Magician to just be standing in the smoke unharmed and because of that, I am now no longer impressed but rolling my eyes. They just effortlessly shrug off too much now. I'd prefer it if most magicians had to set up very specific or situational defenses that required planning and intelligence on their part that could go wrong if people caught on. Less finding the one chink in their armor and more realizing that you've been manipulated into shooting the one armored spot this whole time.
>>288491609A big part of that is that Kamachi doesn't actually know any science so most of the esper abilities are extremely underutilized. I wish Kamachi would at least attend the railgun conference that's in japan every few years to keep up with the current state of the technology
>>288492838I mean the premise is technically magic meets science, not magic vs science. At least that's what kept getting repeated in the anime and they spent 90% of the first set of novels trying to prevent wars from breaking out. I don't really need the power level of science to somehow match the top gods outright. I enjoy shit like them raining down thousands of missiles and magicians on a great demon or a witch flying a tank.
I don’t know why people are complaining when in OT1, John’s pen shot a satellite out of space and OT2 had someone who could warp reality with their thoughts. Ever since OT1, magic was always shown as superior.Touma in OT1 treats misaka like a child having a tantrum, and sees Stiyl as a genuine threat. Accelerator in OT3 could destroy the world, Gabriel could control the solar system with a thought and control stars to destroy the world in OT4.>>288492838Touma is literally the answer. IB can negate powers and have the fight go to a battle of the physical.>>288491609>>288492058Magic was always the focus of the main series. Kamachi came up with it first, then made Academy City as the background to reflect the magic.
>>288492892Kamachi knows he doesn't need to try with scienceSee the current big popularity of science spin-off?Sciencefags would eat up any sci-fi content that runs on rules of cool.It's better for Kamachi to just research occults to make more magic stories
>>288492993>OT2 had someone who could warp reality with their thoughtsIzzard was so wasted, I tell you.I feel the guy could compete with even transcendents.
>Aleister>magician>Accel>dabbled in magic shitboard chairmen of science side btw
>>288492993OT was funny for the power level roller coaster. OT1 had a saint and john's pen, OT2 had full on reality warping, OT3 had the strongest esper, OT4 had an angel about to blow up the planet, then OT5 had scientist #504, wind crossbow man, and Etzali's mexican simp ass.
>>288492996Perhaps people like science more because it's not as wanky. Ever consider that?
>>288493228>OT4 had an angel about to blow up the planetI still couldn't believe how this came to be.Causing a fucking worldwide spell with pure luck? Really?
>>288493318It was a comical coincidence, but it also shouldn't have been possible at all and had Fiamma start to move. Touma's dad started WW3.
>>288493310>not as wanky>when science spin-off was all about fighting, pseudo lv5s, former lv5s getting portrayed as almost almighty (within the small pond that is AC, of course)If anything, science got wanked way more and that often give secondaries who only see anime and manga the wrong impression of their power level
You know what the real problem is. The Science side gets boring whenever it comes to dealing with magicians. Read any science side story and see all the intricate weapons and devices they come up with. Gensai vs Misaki's duel in Exterior for instance.There is a whole city full of crazy ass weapons and when dealing with a Magician it is like>did you try shooting them with a projectile that moves really fast?>did you try blowing them up?>did you try shooting them with a projectile that moves even faster?>fuck okay, guess I am all out of ideas.It's like the creativity drops from 100% to 15% when it should be pushed to 200% to try and figure out a way past their defenses. It's a city full tens of thousands of different abilities and is dedicated to replicating said abilities and the best we get when Magicians come town is what if gun but bigger. No shit people are exasperated. If a magician is going to overcome Academy Cities defenses, I don't want them to just face tank basic shit that is US military tier, I want them to be actually threatened by all the weird shit they can bring to bear but also outsmart said defenses with their genius so it still ends with a good ol fashion Touma vs baddie duel.
>Let's defeat the likes of CRC and Coronzon!>with our glorious science!
>>288493486A particle accelerator cannon is by far the most creative example of big bang shooty gun I have seen in a long time. Most magicians were operating under the down low. The people that were goose stepping through AC were Anna with Aiwass in tow and CRC. Anna was during the handcuffs prep and what the fuck did you want them to throw at CRC exactly?
>>288493387All weaker than the most mid magicians thougheverbeit. I don't see the validity of your argument.
>>288493947Depends on their preptime.
>>288487366I want Scavenger so much
>>288493591>and what the fuck did you want them to throw at CRC exactly?Well.>Audio attacks at ultra high frequency. >Hallucinogenic mold spores. >Flesh eating nanobots.>Graviton phase devices that fuse to you.>Cryo-bombs that drop the surrounding to near absolute zero. >Directed radiation emitters that give a massive lethal dose. >A chemical that changes all the oxygen in the surrounding area into something the body can't use. >Audio / visual cognate hazards played over screens and speakers.>Microwave bombardment.>Swarms of mind controlled roaches.>Synesthesia based attacks that forcibly realign your brainwaves to a network so that viruses can be uploaded to your brain.>Deploy Esper teams with unique powers like Remote Murder or Mind Anaphylaxes.>Custom made diseases with a biological killswitch to prevent a pandemic.>Kidnap a Kihara and drop them on him out the back of an airplane, like 50% chance they figure something out.Like once we establish that kinetic attacks don't work, I expect them to try something else besides kinetic attack but harder if for no other reason then it is interesting. Like what is the point of writing a magician taking on Academy City when Academy City is being so one note that it is not even funny? Basically it is not any one core battle I have a problem with. It is the general trend in actions and dialog of Academy City being written as helpless while also not unleashing anything interesting beyond "hit them". That list I made is something I could come up with, a look at what Academy City has hiding under the rug should be terrifying. Right about now they should be developing some crazy anti-magic weapons too. I would imagine there are thousands of researchers looking into magic whether they have approval or not. Would not be surprised if a few magicians have even gone missing.I hope Academy City gets its teeth back soon.
Whatever happened to magic and science not being able to mix why tf everyone multiclassing now
>>288494342That's a lot of things to eat up pages that won't work anyway. The man was standing in fallout and straight ignored the strongest mental esper. He was also on the move and obliterated the last line of defense from miles away.
>>288494370Archetype Controller, it's a psychological spell of Aleister Crowley's that drew an arbitrary line between between the concepts of science and magic urging magicians to not incorporate cutting edge discoveries into their spells while forbidding researchers from putting magic under the microscope. Said spell is now gone and what is left of the Magic Science Treaty is basically running on sheer momentum at this point.
>>288494370Define magic and define science.Either way, they mix just fine, the problem is that (at least artificial) espers contain the knockback of spell use inside of their bodies. Some espers just can tank it (regeneration, cybernetic prosthetics, etc).
>>288494469That's incredibly lame.
>>288494469And guys like this >>288493387 insist science side is more wanked. Ridiculous.
>>288494469>That's a lot of things to eat up pages that won't work anyway. The man was standing in fallout and straight ignored the strongest mental esper. He was also on the move and obliterated the last line of defense from miles away.Do you think I want another 20 pages of him effortlessly face tanking cooler stuff when my two complaints of current Toaru in general are I am tired of mages that face tank literally everything and Academy City being barely more creative than the US army. It is not just that fight, it is the vibe of this in general.I want the main baddie magician to theoretically be in danger but tricky enough to avoid it, misdirect them, buy time to complete his plan. I want other magicians, even powerful ones to understand that this city is a trap that can close in a lot of weird ways if they don't step carefully.
>>288494764>I want other magicians, even powerful ones to understand that this city is a trap that can close in a lot of weird ways if they don't step carefully.I think the point is, that it's not.
>>288494879Yeah, no shit, when their only response is gun.
>>288494667He could have been walking through London or some other magical bastion with the same result. He was beating everyone's asses on both sides. It did end up with one of the coolest fights with stuff like encrypting magic and messing with air pressure to generate storms inside of buildings.>>288494908>this repurposed cannon built on a system used to understand the foundation of our universe hits so hard it changes the air around you and blinds you if even look at it like a nuke>that didn't work. Better try my super cockroaches
>>288491609Power levels don’t matter, the overall narrative of the series is that magic is bad
>>288495003>that didn't work. Better try my super cockroachesYou'd suck against magicians. Their defenses are often incredibly specific, a magician using a spell to block gunshots might fall to a thrown rock. That is why if something doesn't work, you should not just rely on doing it again but with more umph.>He could have been walking through London or some other magical bastion with the same result.Which is lame.
I need a brown Index from France ...
>>288495141That blast does half the things listed >>288494342 in one. If that doesn't work then I'm certain nothing less than intervention of god would stop this guy. Shit, most of the darkside got deleted by a ghost like a week ago, and I'm counting on them? Fuck that shit. It's time to go.
No idea why people are bitching about power levels when the science side is a modern thing compared to magic which has thousands of years of legacy behind it. Of course magic is going to have a higher ceiling. Fucking hell, there are magic gods, but there isn't even a single Level 6 yet. The whole thing with science is pushing the limits of reality while magic twists reality as a whole. Faggots obsessed with power levels fail to understand the actual dichotomy between the two sides.
>>288495486>magic gods>actual god levelHeh.
>>288495486>Fucking hell, there are magic gods, but there isn't even a single Level 6 yet.We already saw a Level 6 gone wild and it instantly jobbed to basic bitch dragon strike.
>>288495889That was 5.3. Level 6 would be more of a novelty than a game changer at this point. I'd still like to see one though. Throw Kakine one last bone.
Been a week since chapter 36 was translated, still hasn’t been typesetted.
>>288492266Nah Kamachi isn't gonna retcon years of Aihana setup just to suck Nagai's dick.Everything Kamachi writes is designed to be consistent with itself. Everything animated is meant to be consistent with itself (except small ignorable shit like possibly subjective POV differences between Index/Railgun (especially in Sisters) or little errors like Uiharu's arm)Kamachi lets a little bit of Nagaispace into canon as a treat so long as it doesn't fuck with Kamachispace. If it would fuck with canon, then it's assumed to have happened differently.It's just the reality of adaptation. You don't need Aihana Etsu to swoop in to go "um um actually it all makes sense because it was me Barry" when anyone reading at that point hasn't seen an Index anime season in almost a decade and doesn't give a fuck and would have a conniption over Kamachi wasting the Aihana reveal over fucking bullshit nobody cared about.
>>288496526>Aihana has their own storyline involving manipulating timelines.>storyline explains every discrepancy between adaptations without ever having to directly mention them.There you go. Also Aihana is Uiharu anyway so all the distortions around the Railgang make sense just by proximity.
>>288496591So how exactly does Kongou fit into all this?
>>288496991She's their friend. Brings along two other cute friends.
>>288496591I disagree with this theory on the fundamental level that anyone still reading Index at this point doesn't give a fuck about why the Railgun anime is ever-so-slightly different.It's probably the most ass-baffling way that Kamachi could waste Aihana.Almost every anime adaptation has differences to its source material. Raildex gets it rough because it's been a multimedia franchise running multiple series on a single timeline from the get-go so the little discrepancies between versions get fed back into other media causing them to become more noticeable.While Aihana=Uiharu is probably true, I'm still of the opinion that Aihana's power is primarily branching precognition, not direct timeline fuckery. Aihana sees what needs changing in order to secure the good timeline, and then she grants heroes the placebo power that they feel they need in order to take the required action.
>>288497068I will admit her friends are very cute (she is too).
I heard Accel is confirmed gay for Touma nowIs it true?
>>288497123With that said, Railgun anime's quality is top-tier while Index got fucked to oblivion. It might not be fair but it's true.
>>288497148Nah you clearly didn't read NT23 the Last Order Pregnancy Scare Arc. Shit was wild. Reading it had me (edging) on the edge of my seat.
>>288497164It's just an unfortunate reality of anime production. Bureaucracy and money fucking with artistic intent is a tale as old as time. It's almost miraculous that it got this far, but that also means that there's 0 chance of trying again.
>>288497123It would be funny if Touma had a "wait, I punched Uiharu in the face" moment at some point after the reveal. Like kicking a kitten, doesn't matter if it is a dangerous kitten, it is still a kitten.
>>288497241>It's almost miraculous that it got this far, but that also means that there's 0 chance of trying again.And if they did, that just means we are stuck in OT for at least another 10 years. At this point just do NT and Othinus.
>>288497392Then she try doing some dumb shit to the city and Touma immediately go "Time to punch Uiharu in the face many times"
>>288497409Nyo. I'm in the reboot camp.
>>288497420
>>288497392I don't think Touma even recognises who Uiharu is. He knows that Shirai's unseen Judgment teammate is someone called Uiharu, and he's seen some flower-headed girl hanging around in that friend group, but I don't think he's actually put two and two together yet. I don't think he's ever directly interacted with her even once - probably because Aihana wants to stay away from Kamijou and having Uiharu hanging out with him would be DEFCON 1 for Aihana.
>>288497666He knows Saten-san though!
>>288496591>>288497123>Aihana=UiharuHaven't read the LNs in years. When has this been a thing? Wasn't he just some guy?
>>288497392Touma would beat up his own pet cat, if it was doing some kind of huge mess-up plan
>>288497148>nowAlways has beenAlways in the Top 5 of the "wants to fuck Touma" ranking from the start
>>288497752He's barely in the top 10000
>>288497423Unless they redo the first three seasons in record time I would rather just get season 4 with good animation
>>288497148he literally awoke from a coma just from hearing about him
>>288497717He knows the whole Railgang personally except Uiharu, which makes it feel odder as to why they've never interacted even once.>>288497730Aihana info drops have become much more frequent since ITEM spinoff began, so Aihana theories now have a lot more to work with, resulting in a big reshuffling of the prime candidates from just a few years ago. The biggest bit of info that knocked down a few candidates is the confirmation that Aihana is more than likely the youngest level-5 (who seemingly had a huge growth spurt around the same time frame that Uiharu had hers. hmmm). The days of Aogami=Aihana are now behind us (except to a stubborn few).
>>288498021Eh is that so?
>>288498021>Aogami=AihanaAogami is actually the real recorder that High Priest was joking about, that's why he always knows everything
>>288497730>When has this been a thing? Wasn't he just some guy?They never gave a gender. There was a common theory that it was Aogami Pierce but that was more a "wouldn't it be cool" thing. The Uiharu theory comes from more recent stuff like Aihana being a described as a small child last year but not this year. That they appear as a shadowy figure similar to dark Uiharu's appearance Jailbreaker and the fact that she altered her own power to become a sort of ideal Uiharu. Aihana being the Darkside's Bane would need a source of information to fight the darkness like being a Judgement member / hacker. Aihana is currently being hunted and thus probably uses an assumed identity. Aihana was taken out in one punch by a 90% dead Touma, they use polite speech, their name is linked to flowers and their power can effect memories.So the basic theory is that the Uiharu we know is version of Aihana that never became a Level 5, perhaps she is an ideal self Aihana wishes to be. Uiharu is being used as Aihana's cover identity in a Judgement Jekyll and #6 Hyde situation, both of which fight crime. The more vicious Aihana threated to bleed through while Saten was dying but then Uiharu used Aihana's number #6 ability to make an ideal Uiharu to defeat the Angel Dragon.
Maybe Uiharu has tits now.
>>288498062Aogami is already HIM. He doesn't need some desiccated chud jokingly acting like he's some cosmological curiosity. Aogami's just a regular guy, and that's what makes him interesting.Hell, Aogami's chad status has really grown a lot in the recent novels to the point that saying that he's actually that loser Aihana is kinda just offensive to Aogami at this point.
You know. We are getting an ITEM anime and whether it is single or double cour, we are getting the Shadow Aihana / Mugino confrontation. Then within a year or two we are getting Railgun F and will have Shadow Uiharu on screen. We are just assuming that right after Shadow Uiharu we are jumping into a flashback arc, but Railgun is famous for original arcs, what if the back 12 episodes of Railgun F is the Aihana arc. There will also be a few Index and a few ITEM novels before then that could further address the Number 6. This could be an "It's all coming together" situation.Wishful thinking... maybe.
>>288498127To constantly thwart the dark side, Aihana's hacking skills are at least on par with Uiharu's, and Uiharu probably got them from Aihana.Also, the ideal self stuff is kinda interesting. Aihana can see all possible futures + their activation conditions, and took upon herself the colossal responsibility of going rogue from AC's destructive and short-sighted wishes to make sure the world doesn't enter a doomed timeline. We've had no indication that Aihana enjoys doing this in the slightest. It seems she has no choice because she's the only one who can counter future disasters way in advance. She appears in person more often in ITEM, but by the time of Index she's always acting through her elevated proxy heroes. She's taken a step back because she hates doing it, but she threw her life away to stop the world collapsing in exchange for absolutely zero gratitude, and she can't go back anymore. She created the independent persona of Uiharu to act as her daylight alias, but also to live vicariously through. Uiharu gets to live the life that Aihana cannot, and thus Aihana is extremely protective of her (also because if you die in Uiharu you die in real life), but has to keep her distance to ensure Uiharu's safety and happiness. The only exception is when Uiharu is in serious trouble and Aihana has to make a move and break through the barrier between them to save her (like giving Uiharu the only viable solution to stop the Angel Dragon and save Saten).
>>288498160>Aihana couldn't get Touma to do shit and got told to fuck off>Touma actually takes Aogami's advice seriously and even gets inspired by his usual lolicon self while in dragon rape modeActually true, Aihana wishes he could be half as good as Aogami
>>288498254Janie and Febri returns arc
>>288498254Railgun Aihana arc would be peak. Uiharu gets suspicious as to why she was suddenly able to do that bullshit in Jailbreaker and starts uncovering a bread crumb trail that leads her towards discovering Aihana's activities and figuring out who is behind them. Hell, after that, just retread the plot of Fight Club a bit and you've already got the best Railgun filler arc. End it either with a heartwarming moment of Aihana and Uiharu accepting each other, or have Uiharu come just short of uncovering the truth and go "oh well", and then in the final scene reveal a shadowy Uiharu without the flowers saying "I can't let you see this side of me. I created you so that you wouldn't have to live my life. I'm the 6th level 5, not you." or some sappy shit like that.The fact that Aihana's still active in NT and GT means that you can't change the status quo too much with them but having Uiharu coming close to figuring it out only to reveal all to the audience would make for a great fun arc.Jailbreaker dropped the plot so abruptly only for it to never get picked up again, so I definitely felt that there was some teasing of a future Uiharu-centric arc going on. Jailbreaker was partially a Saten arc, after all, so getting an Uiharu arc after that would have been natural if Fuyukawa didn't go off the deep end with 1st year and then have to abruptly end the manga in order to not die.
>>288498490They could also drop the reveal early. Uiharu gets taken (again) to a Darkside lab so they can figure out what she pulled at the prison. The Railgang come to the rescue, break in, capture a scientist to lead them in, but there are no defenses, just bodies. They come across Uiharu in the center, not a drop of blood on her, flower crown in her hand muttering about lying to you all.>Do you think I was in that post office by chance when it was robbed Shirai-san.>Do you think it was dumb luck that the 3rd ranked Level 5 became my friend Misaka-san.>Don't you find it strange, how often those rumors turn out to be right Saten.Flowerless Uiharu turns to face them, shadows slowly envelope her. The captured scientist begins to freak out, "It-it can't be! The Darksides Bane" before being bisected.>Uiharu is no longer needed so I cast her identity off. Number 3, it is nice to finally meet you as myself. I am Academy Cities 6th ranked Level 5 Esper, Aihana Etsu.The rest of the season is the Railgang trying to bring back Uiharu and ends with Aihana willingly putting on the crown. Hell, maybe current Uiharu knows to some extent, not like we have a PoV for her past her saving Last Order (who set off no flags despite being an Electromaster, who looks like her friend and says Misaka like 50 times) by delaying Kakine juuust long enough for the #1 to show up.
>>288498783That plot sounds fun, but you'd need a really good reason why lvl5 precog Aihana would allow Uiharu to get captured and compromised to the point where she has to abandon her alias for no good reason, especially since we know that Aihana hasn't done that by NT or GT.I'm beginning to think that Aihana needs Uiharu and the illusion of a normal life to continue existing in order to remain sane. She's predicting catastrophic disasters day after day, while suffering from the pressure of being the only one who can do anything about it. "Man I'm fucking tired saving the fucking world time to watch some CGDCT on the Uiharu channel and unwind a bit."
>>288498956>would allow Uiharu to get captured and compromised to the point where she has to abandon her alias for no good reasonIn true Toaru fashion it would be horrible guilt. Saying the words that would make her friends hate her the most. Giving up on that least shred of a normal life to enact some grand and terrible plan, totally convinced that this is the only path forward. Maybe Shirai's 11th dimensional ability to screw with precogs comes back or maybe Shaei returns to give the gang an edge. Somehow they convince her there is more than the paths she sees and they don't turn their back on her despite seeing her true face. They put the flowers back on the girl.>"Man I'm fucking tired saving the fucking world time to watch some CGDCT on the Uiharu channel and unwind a bit."The anime has more CGDCT than the manga, way more. Uiharu, what have you done!? Time is not your plaything Uiharu!
>>288498783>>288498956If the Railgang were already on their way to come save her, then Aihana has no reason to get involved in the first place. Uiharu's gonna be scared, but she'll be fine. No reason to take the wheel and blow her cover.The only way to properly capture Aihana is to set up a situation that Aihana either can't foresee (like Touma did without trying in GT2) or can't do shit about once she can foresee it - only Aleister could potentially do that. Aihana couldn't do anything to Aleister directly, but she knew she didn't need to because she foresaw Aleister's future downfall by third parties anyway.
>>288499129CGDCT on the Uiharu channel doesn't necessarily mean the shit we saw in the anime. Uiharu's whole social life is CGDCT, because Uiharu is cute and she does cute things. Aihana designed Uiharu's personality to be as happy and cute as possible because Aihana needs that daily hit of happiness (Etsu) or she'll lose it.
>>288499156Thickness overload. If she tried to read my mind, she would get hit by an unlimited void of impure thoughts.
>>288498021>The days of Aogami=Aihana are now behind usAogami being Aihana is bait Kamachi has throwing out so hard most people don't buy it because it feels too obvious. The other reasons are usually because they think Aihana is a prick and don't want that to be Aogami or have some other agenda. Uiharu being Aogami is a wild swing in the other direction on the level of sphinx being a magic god. We have so little information on the guy that is sounds stupid as hell, but all you can say is ok sure.
>>288498154How much time have passed from Jailbreak arc to GT15?
>>288500461Jailbreaker is mid-late October or thereabouts.GT15 is early January.She could have theoretically grown but don't count on Haimura drawing any of it.
>>288500487>two months and a halfLot of stuff she could have done since then
>>288500116She would look at your facr and know what you are thinking, she's never going to Mental Out you
>still no Mental Out translation
How do I prevent Saten from raping me?
