Toaru Kagaku no Mental Out - Vol. 3 Ch. 16

[MangaDex]

 

[TestAddress]

I'll bet this is about Touma's 16 years of existence erased.

 

[BobBob]

Lol, the Touma hallucination.

Wild how box girl's eyes were contacts all along. What a twist.

 

[IlsaTilsaKilsaMilsa]

Lmao the Touma hallucination. She was about to go on cloud 9 right there.

Lol, the Touma hallucination.

Wild how box girl's eyes were contacts all along. What a twist.

I guess the Misakis of the world is quite rare. I wonder what is the rarer between a saint or someone with weird eyes like Misaki's.

 

[larcek]

to be fair, Misaki and Touma do have a history together, but it has only recently (in the novel) been revealed officially.

 

[zips]

Touma: accidentally touches Misaki thigh
Touma: oh no my bad luuuuuuuck!!!!

 

[OHandS]

to be fair, Misaki and Touma do have a history together, but it has only recently (in the novel) been revealed officially.

Recently!? It's been over 8 years since it was revealed.

 

[rluka]

That cube knows what a CRT is.
Would rocks if it starts doing impersonation of dial up modem

 

[Amiles]

so this is the story after touma save misaka from her lv6 shift project huh. and for this story, the main character is our beloved lv5 mental out misaki shoukou. i see


but poor her kamijou never has a chances to save her.

 

[Degy]

Lmao the Touma hallucination. She was about to go on cloud 9 right there.


I guess the Misakis of the world is quite rare. I wonder what is the rarer between a saint or someone with weird eyes like Misaki's.

Shokuhou's whole appearance is a mystery in general, not just her looking highly mature for her age.
She's blonde but it's never stated that she dyes her hair (which would be against Tokiwadai's ban on cosmetics) or that she isn't Asian, which the novels typically do when establishing hair or eye color (Hamazura, Tsuchimikado, Aogami Pierce, and Kakine's hair are all described as dyed, for example). You can't apply the anime logic of Japanese characters having strange hair colors for artistic purposes since she's consistently and repeatedly referred to as honey blonde throughout the novels (in a constrasting example, Komoe-sensei is drawn with pink hair but the narrative never refers to her having pink hair). The logic of her being a European given a Japanese name possibly due to being a Child Error doesn't really apply because they would have brought up her not being ethnically Japanese. Though to be fair, Hokaze is consistently referred to as a platinum blonde, however she's most likely mixed-race since her father is a wealthy international businessman. Shokuhou's family is never brought up, and one thing that really stood out to me in Biohacker SS is that Mitsuari, a character that is a dark reflection of Shokuhou, talks about her parents multiple times, which feels like a deliberate and direct narrative constrast with Shokuhou. Shokuhou never gives the impression of coming from a wealth like most Tokiwadai students as well. I do find the idea of all three female Level 5s being rich girls funny though.
Despite her probably being the Level 5 which we've the most information regarding her past shown, she's still very mysterious in terms of who exactly she is.
Shokuhou's eye stars seems to be related to Mental Out despite her saying in one line in the Railgun manga that she's had eyes like that since birth, which just makes it more confusing, since she wasn't born with Mental Out. These eye stars are never actually referred to in the text of the novels, afaik. Mitsuari Ayu notably has a similar eye effect in the Astral Buddy manga however it is many tiny stars instead of a singular one in each eye, probably a reference to their powers being originally identical.
Science-side characters as a general rule have fairly grounded designs which contrast with the utterly ridiculous and alien appearance of Magic-Side characters, and when a Science-side character is unusual-looking, like in the case of Accelerator, it's meant to be significant. Which is why Shokuhou's flashy and bizarre appearance is so strange. Oh, and I also forgot about her weird unexplained verbal tick of calling everything an ability.
It should be noted that originally Shokuhou's design was going to be much more mundane looking. She was supposed to look like a girl you could easily miss in a crowd (a trait Shokuhou still has despite that btw). This design later got reused to become Mitsuari Ayu, which thematically matches the idea of Mitsuari being someone who failed to become Shoukuhou.

so this is the story after touma save misaka from her lv6 shift project huh. and for this story, the main character is our beloved lv5 mental out misaki shoukou. i see


but poor her kamijou never has a chances to save her.

Shokuhou quite seriously sees Kamijou as her personal savior. Weirdly enough she's most similar to Accelerator in how she reveres Kamijou as some sort of exceptional hero that transcends reason and will selflessly save others, which is exactly the sort of thing Kamijou dislikes being seen as. It would also damage a lot of the weight of the Mental Out Arc in Volume NT11 if he were save her at this point in the timeline.

 

[IlsaTilsaKilsaMilsa]

Shokuhou's whole appearance is a mystery in general, not just her looking highly mature for her age.
She's blonde but it's never stated that she dyes her hair (which would be against Tokiwadai's ban on cosmetics) or that she isn't Asian, which the novels typically do when establishing hair or eye color (Hamazura, Tsuchimikado, Aogami Pierce, and Kakine's hair are all described as dyed, for example). You can't apply the anime logic of Japanese characters having strange hair colors for artistic purposes since she's consistently and repeatedly referred to as honey blonde throughout the novels (in a constrasting example, Komoe-sensei is drawn with pink hair but the narrative never refers to her having pink hair). The logic of her being a European given a Japanese name possibly due to being a Child Error doesn't really apply because they would have brought up her not being ethnically Japanese. Though to be fair, Hokaze is consistently referred to as a platinum blonde, however she's most likely mixed-race since her father is a wealthy international businessman. Shokuhou's family is never brought up, and one thing that really stood out to me in Biohacker SS is that Mitsuari, a character that is a dark reflection of Shokuhou, talks about her parents multiple times, which feels like a deliberate and direct narrative constrast with Shokuhou. Shokuhou never gives the impression of coming from a wealth like most Tokiwadai students as well. I do find the idea of all three female Level 5s being rich girls funny though.
Despite her probably being the Level 5 which we've the most information regarding her past shown, she's still very mysterious in terms of who exactly she is.
Shokuhou's eye stars seems to be related to Mental Out despite her saying in one line in the Railgun manga that she's had eyes like that since birth, which just makes it more confusing, since she wasn't born with Mental Out. These eye stars are never actually referred to in the text of the novels, afaik. Mitsuari Ayu notably has a similar eye effect in the Astral Buddy manga however it is many tiny stars instead of a singular one in each eye, probably a reference to their powers being originally identical.
Science-side characters as a general rule have fairly grounded designs which contrast with the utterly ridiculous and alien appearance of Magic-Side characters, and when a Science-side character is unusual-looking, like in the case of Accelerator, it's meant to be significant. Which is why Shokuhou's flashy and bizarre appearance is so strange. Oh, and I also forgot about her weird unexplained verbal tick of calling everything an ability.
It should be noted that originally Shokuhou's design was going to be much more mundane looking. She was supposed to look like a girl you could easily miss in a crowd (a trait Shokuhou still has despite that btw). This design later got reused to become Mitsuari Ayu, which thematically matches the idea of Mitsuari being someone who failed to become Shoukuhou.

Shokuhou quite seriously sees Kamijou as her personal savior. Weirdly enough she's most similar to Accelerator in how she reveres Kamijou as some sort of exceptional hero that transcends reason and will selflessly save others, which is exactly the sort of thing Kamijou dislikes being seen as. It would also damage a lot of the weight of the Mental Out Arc in Volume NT11 if he were save her at this point in the timeline.

Another thing to note is that eyes have been noted before in the franchise. Like people who have potential to become Magic Gods all have green eyes right?

 

[Degy]

Another thing to note is that eyes have been noted before in the franchise. Like people who have potential to become Magic Gods all have green eyes right?

I've never heard anything like that. It is weird that Othinus, Ollerus, Aliester, Nephthys, Niang-Niang, Index, and High Priest all have green eyes (or eye in Nephthys' and Othinus' cases). I think it's just a coincidence though. Most foreign characters in Index have blue or green eyes. Though the way magic-side characters are designed is a whole different animal than the science-side.