Toaru Kagaku no Railgun


A Certain Scientific Railgun

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Synonyms: Toaru Kagaku no Choudenjihou
Japanese: とある科学の超電磁砲
English: A Certain Scientific Railgun
German: A Certain Scientific Railgun
Spanish: A Certain Scientific Railgun
French: A Certain Scientific Railgun
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Type: TV
Episodes: 24
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Oct 3, 2009 to Mar 20, 2010
Premiered: Fall 2009
Broadcast: Saturdays at 01:30 (JST)
Licensors: Funimation
Studios: J.C.Staff
Source: Manga
Genres: ActionAction, FantasyFantasy, Sci-FiSci-Fi
Themes: Super PowerSuper Power, Urban FantasyUrban Fantasy
Duration: 24 min. per ep.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 7.651 (scored by 297217297,217 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #14362
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #370
Members: 633,778
Favorites: 6,059

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Synopsis

The student-filled Academy City is at the forefront of scientific advancement and home to the esper development program. The seven "Level 5" espers are the most powerful in Academy City, and ranked third among them is middle schooler Mikoto Misaka, an electricity manipulator known as "The Railgun."

When strange incidents begin occurring throughout the city, she finds each crime to be connected to the elusive "Level Upper," a legendary device that allegedly increases the esper level of its user. As the situation escalates, it becomes apparent that there is more to the Level Upper than meets the eye, and that Academy City may be a far more twisted place than the glamorous utopia it appears to be.

Toaru Kagaku no Railgun focuses on Mikoto and her friends—and the dangerous situations they find themselves in—as they get caught up in the matter of the Level Upper. As Mikoto says, "There's never a dull moment in this city."

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1: "only my railgun" by fripSide (eps 2-14)
2: "LEVEL 5 -judgelight-" by fripSide (eps 15-23)
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Ending Theme

1: "only my railgun" by fripSide (eps 1)
2: "Dear My Friend -Mada Minu Mirai he-" by ELISA (eps 2-11, 13-14, 24)
3: "Smile -You and Me-" by ELISA (eps 12)
4: "Real Force" by ELISA (eps 15-23)

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Feb 7, 2025
What do you get when you mix the cute girls of Lycoris Recoil, the action and powers of Jujutsu Kaisen, and the complexity, emotional gut-punches, and plot twists of Made in Abyss? You get Toaru Kagaku no Railgun—a criminally underrated anime that stands as the best spin-off saga I’ve ever seen. Set in the Index universe, this series focuses on Academy City’s best tsundere, Misaka Mikoto: a student at the prestigious Tokiwadai Middle School and the third-most powerful Level 5 esper in the city.

Misaka, an electromaster with the ability to manipulate electricity (a power that’s both awe-inspiring and borderline broken), shines not just ...
Apr 21, 2025
Mixed Feelings
This would have been a world better in a world of 13 epiosde anime season where it was forced to cut all the fluff.

This should be the Misaka show with her sidekick roommate and it just isn't. Misaka is a borderline a side character at points, particularly in the latter part of the series. And while the roommate has her moments but no one else does or is interesting and they effectively become the main characters.

Ditto the way they focus on the wrong bits of the world really frustrates as well. There's some good stuff in here but the latter half barring a ...
May 6, 2020
how should i put this? the show is anything but what you'd expect considering its about the railgun... for starters there's quite a few episodes where shes shown for less then 60 seconds for the entire episode... shirai almost has more screen time to be honest and to top it off most episodes are bland at best. not to mention we keep getting the same mood ruining scene over and over where shirai tries to fondle or show affection to misaka who wants nothing to do with it, usually just in time to ruin a serious scene for the show. probably the worst is the ...

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