Toaru Kagaku no Railgun T - Episode 13 - 10 Second Anime

Kuroko and Misaki's battles conclude, while Touma and Gunha still need to stop Mikoto's out of control power surge.

#13 - "SYSTEM (Those Who Arrive at Heaven's Will in an Only Human Body)"

Meh.

What a hodge-podge of an episode. It's clear there was going to be a Railgun T special recap between the resolution of this Mikoto arc and the story J.C. STAFF wanted to tell in the spring season. Wuhan coronavirus put a stop to that, but parts of the recap had already gone to production, like Kurooko's voiceover. The other sound mixing had not been done, since we can clearly hear the underlying dialogue underneath Kuroko's amnesiac version of meeting The Railgun.

It also sounded like they hadn't recorded the musical score properly either. The sound engineers usually record the background music along with a display of the partial and completed animation to give a conductor or musical artist the necessary beats for tempo and volume variations. Two pieces of music in the episode felt clumsily overlaid on top of the action. Quarantine and lockdown are wreaking havoc on the collaborative arts.

Finally, the producers recycled a lot of footage from earlier episodes with the voice actors talking over them. Was this done to pad time for missing animation or to stretch completed work over scheduled time slots? I think Railgun T should have pulled the plug on the rest of this Mikoto arc after the 12th episode, because that was a nice cliffhanger, and wait until the summer season. Instead, we're getting this arc in episodes every two weeks and the quality is subpar.

Heh.

Kuroko is still looking for Mitori, but she's not in the building and those little black motion sensor stickers aren't picking her up either. Oh. Mitori is looking at Kuroko from other cameras. Obviously not the one that Kuroko already destroyed that hung around her metal puppet's neck. Saten and Uiharu figured out something strange about those sports festival camera drones. Since Mitori is using those cameras, that means she doesn't have to be in the building! Kuroko knows where.

Mitori calls her puppet Liquid Shadow. Uiharu is going to set a trap for her with those cameras! Did Mitori get Kuroko? Or is that a still image that Uiharu planted? We know which one it is.

Oh, Mitori is happy about something. Gunha, not so much. Mikoto's head is full of stars. It's time for Kihara to think he's won, only to find Misaki fooled herself into changing the code for Exterior. But first, Kuroko needs to take out the Mitori girl. Forget about tactics, this is a straight up brawl. Yeah, Kuroko's Scooby Gang is way better than your Scooby Gang, Mitori. And that's that. Kuroko ruined her dream of vengeance for Dolly with a double kick to the head.

And Kihara got some bad news with that code. Well-played, Misaki. Oops. That big brain just fell apart. Did he get brain damage too? I suppose we'll find out later. Oh good. Misaki's starry eyes came back. Let's flashback to how she convinced herself to give up Exterior, replace the unlock code with the self-destruct code, and then erase her memory of it. That gamble, that she would lose to wily old Kihara, worked out. Key fact — damage to Exterior bounces back to the Mental Out user, so when Kihara uses the code, he's going to get whatever is coming to him. This background music sounds terrible and paid for.

So, Mikoto will have to run amok on her own power, but her conscious self can't break out. Touma's got a solution for that now that the Exterior power boost is gone. Smack that Angel bitch up, Touma!

Har har! Touma did the preview and he used his Index tagline! Gunha called him out for bringing science and magic together in Railgun! Ah, that's good stuff.