Toaru Kagaku no Railgun T - Episode 11 - 10 Second Anime

Misaka's friends try to rescue her from Kihara and Mtiori's plot to use her for their own agendas.

#11 - "Joining the Battle"

Hmm.

I had barely seen Gunha, the mysteriously powered Level 5 psychic, anywhere else in the Index Universe, so I was curious to see whether we would get any hints about how his power works in the Railgun T anime. Uh, not really? It still looks to me that he's a chuunibyou powered by guts! That may not be far off the mark, since we've heard Accelerator and Aiwass talk about how "powers" come from a person's "image," which is why those who are aware of Touma's right hand call it Imagine Breaker.

So, I had much fun watching Gunha and Touma work together. Both have their own masculine code of ethics and it was satisfying to see each of them reconcile the other's viewpoint to conclude that they're nakama. The mutual respect was strong! Touma has guts! Gunha wants to save a pretty girl in trouble (so she can show her guts! again). It was beautiful.

Something not so beautiful to see, or hear, is how similarly both Mitori and Misaki talk. That lilting, condescending uptalk has "mean girl" written all over it. What's even worse for these "mean girls" is that it looks like each of them have noble goals in mind, but they don't know how to go about accomplishing them without being little bitches. Mitori wants to punish Academy City for mistreating clones and human experimentation. Superficially, at least. Misaki wanted to prevent other people from misusing her Mental Out skill through Exterior distributing a psychic power to the highest bidder, even though she uses it for her own selfish means. So, there's some good in each of these mean girls, but man, they're mean girl talk is so annoying. It's simply better to watch Touma and Gunha go full otoko and yell about guts!

Heh.

Touma heard the name of Mikoto Misaka and came running. If she ever found that out, she would be happy and frustrated at the same time. The scooby gang is on the case too. Kuroko will come, uh, teleporting.

Hoh. Mitori can use Exterior too. Manipulating Mikoto into destroying the Governing Board to revenge the clones. Well, that didn't work. Strong lightning rods in Academy City. She's only 2% to Level 6? What will happen to the Misaka Network? Oh? The head of Anti-Skill came under the control of Misaki. For their own safety, of course.

Oh ho! Touma is Misaki's prince in shining armor! He shows up for all his harem girls right on time. He probably doesn't remember her though. She knows all about him and his right hand. Nice. Saten did get her good luck charm back from Touma. What a guy.

Ooh. It's going to be Mitori versus Kuroko. Who loves their Onee-sama more? The fight always ends up being about that topic, right? Misaki's Mental Out skill is rather good for instantaneous thought transfer. She should do all the plot summaries for the Index Universe, so we can save all that episode time.

Oh hoh. The Index Universe version of One Punch Man wants to see whose guts! are leaking out all over the place.

Interesting. Mikoto could feel Imagine Breaker coming closer. When is Touma going to believe his right hand can block physical attacks too? Much later, I suppose. Until then, misfortune!

Yeah! Touma and Gunha, together at last! The biggest fists in the whole Index Universe! Slapping away lightning. Canceling out lightning. Hey, that other guy has plenty of guts! Har. Gunha thinks the lady with horns just lost her way a little bit and needs some sense pounded back into her. Touma somehow reasoned with Gunha. He's like the first one to do that in Railgun.

Kuroko needs to deal with Mitori. I'm sure they'll have an interesting conversation about Onee-sama. Twintail vs Twintail, let's go!

Gunha just headbutted an I-Beam… See? Touma cancelled an iron sand attack, so why can't he… ah, never mind. He'll figure it out when the author wants him to. Chuunibyou Power, activate! Ha! Throw Touma right at her! Oh no. The Level Upper quickly regenerated. Touma is just going to have to kiss her while hugging her, right? I mean, that's how you would short circuit the emotional part of Mikoto's nervous system. Oh good. Gunha caught Touma. This is going to be a longer fight, just in time for the midseason finale.