Toaru Majutsu no Index Gaiden - Toaru Kagaku no Mental Out - Ch. 36.1

[MangaDex]

 

[raineight]

What's going on with the hands in the "tactless meathead" panel on page 14? At first it looks like Railgun with her hands out, and someone else's hand on Misaki's shoulder. But the hand out can't be Railgun's left hand, it's a right hand. So I think it's supposed to be Misaki's right hand below, and Railgun's left hand on Misaki's shoulder, like in some awkward dance, but the lines and angles don't suggest that at all.

 

[miyto]

What's going on with the hands in the "tactless meathead" panel on page 14? At first it looks like Railgun with her hands out, and someone else's hand on Misaki's shoulder. But the hand out can't be Railgun's left hand, it's a right hand. So I think it's supposed to be Misaki's right hand below, and Railgun's left hand on Misaki's shoulder, like in some awkward dance, but the lines and angles don't suggest that at all.

Looking at the clothing lines and thumb positions Railguns left shoulder and arm are behind Misaki with Railgun's left hand on Misaki's shoulder. As for Misaki, her arms are in this position _/o\/
it does look rather off in large part due to them being at 90⁰ angles from each other yet both facing the same direction. For a hot minute I thought the recleaner used an AI tool to touch up things after removing text or something, but nah the angles are just rather odd.

 

[raineight]

Oh, I guess I can see a line that makes the center arm Misaki's. Problem is that there's still a line that totally makes it Railgun's, too, it's a bit like one of those rabbit-duck illusions.

 

[miyto]

Yeah, that threw me for a loop, after reading your post I had to reread the chapter a few times to look at what kind of sleeves their clothing had at various angles to sort out that rabbit-duck illusion, and recount the thumbs each time 😅

 

[raineight]

The posing is weird as hell. Could make sense as a snapshot in the middle of a dance, but then it would help if we'd been more clearly shown them actually dancing. Though I'm guessing they are when we first see them, back to back and grousing about an edge. But later Misaki is off by herself.