A Certain Scientific Railgun T
A Certain Scientific Railgun T is the third season of the A Certain Scientific Railgun television anime series produced by J.C.Staff and directed by Tatsuyuki Nagai, based on the manga of the same name, which in itself is a spin-off of Kazuma Kamachi's A Certain Magical Index series. The season aired in Japan from January 10 to September 25, 2020 and was simulcast by Crunchyroll.[1][2] Several episodes were delayed due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, causing the season to end in September instead of June.[3]
| A Certain Scientific Railgun | |
|---|---|
| Season 3 | |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| No. of episodes | 25 |
| Release | |
| Original network | Tokyo MX |
| Original release | January 10 – September 25, 2020 |
| Season chronology | |
The third season uses four pieces of theme music, one opening theme and one ending theme. From episode one onwards, the first opening theme is "final phase" by fripSide, the first ending theme is "nameless story" by Kishida Kyoudan & The Akeboshi Rockets, the second opening theme is "dual existence" by fripSide, and the second ending theme is "aoarashi no ato de" by Sanjou no Hana.[4][5]
Episode list
| No. overall | No. in season | Title [lower-alpha 1] | Original airdate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 49 | 1 | "Super-powered (Level 5)" Transcription: "Chō-nōryoku-sha (Reberu Faibu)" (Japanese: | January 10, 2020 | |
| In the run-up to the Daihasei Sports Festival, Mikoto Misaka, along with other Level 5 espers, is approached with the offer of giving the athlete's pledge during the festival's opening ceremony. Meanwhile, when a fight breaks out between cheer squads over the use of the main stage, Kazari Uiharu steps in to try and stop them. This attracts the attention of the seventh-ranked Level 5 esper, Gunha Sogiita, who ends up causing more harm than good with his powerful yet unknown ability. As Kazari and Ruiko Saten try to save the civilians, Mikoto steps in to protect them from falling wreckage. In the end, as the offer are declined by Accelerator, Teitoku Kakine (the second-ranked Level 5 esper), Shizuri Mugino, and Mikoto, the representative roles are given to Gunha and Misaki Shokuhō, the latter of which shows an interest in the Sisters. | ||||
| 50 | 2 | "The Daihasei Festival" Transcription: "Daihaseisai" (Japanese: 大覇星祭) | January 17, 2020 | |
| Following some explosive improv from Gunha, the Daihasei Festival begins with a three-legged race, with Mitsuko Kongō pairing up with Mikoto in place of the injured Kuroko Shirai. While Mikoto goes to change her outfit after winning her race, Misaka #10032 is mistaken for Mikoto and brought to take part in Tokiwadai's next event, Balloon Hunter, where someone has his sights set on her. | ||||
| 51 | 3 | "Balloon Hunter" Transcription: "Barūn Hantā" (Japanese: バルーンハンター) | January 24, 2020 | |
| Tokiwadai begins the Balloon Hunter event against the opposing school, who gains an early lead due to intel on Tokiwadai's espers provided by MEMBER operative Yoshio Baba. Believing Misaka #10032 to be Mikoto, Yoshio sends his teammates to gang up on her while he sends a robotic mosquito to inject her with a nanodevice. After the event ends in Tokiwadai's defeat, Mikoto goes to have lunch with her mother Misuzu Misaka, having a run in with Tōma Kamijō and Misaki while getting drinks, while Ruiko and Kazari decide to search for a rumored metal known as Shadow Metal. Meanwhile, Misaka #10032 collapses from the nanodevice, at which point she is discovered by Misaki. | ||||
| 52 | 4 | "Tampering" Transcription: "Kaizan" (Japanese: 改竄) | January 31, 2020 | |
| Mikoto rushes in to rescue Ruiko from some suited people as she searches one of the unused grounds for Shadow Metal, only to discover they were simply security officers doing their job. Meanwhile, Kazari uses her hacking skills to discover the site that Ruiko got the rumor about Shadow Metal from, keeping what she learned to herself. The next day, Mikoto discovers that Misaka #10032 has gone missing, learning that she was taken away by an ambulance whose drivers were being manipulated by Misaki. After failing to get any answers out of the drivers, Mikoto finds herself being placed under the guard of Misaki's clique before discovering that Kuroko, Ruiko, and Kazari have all had their memories of her stolen from them by Misaki. | ||||
| 53 | 5 | "Trust" Transcription: "Shinrai" (Japanese: 信頼) | February 7, 2020 | |
| Mitsuko, who was able to recognise Misaka #10032 as a different person, learns from Mikoto about Misaki's wrongdoings and decides to search for Misaka #10032 in her stead. Finding a cat at the scene of Misaka #10032's disappearance, Mitsuko learns that it belonged to the sister from Kinuho Wannai, who goes to fetch another esper who can help understand animals. This attracts the attention of Yoshio, who lures Mitsuko away and sends a group of robotic dogs to attack her. Yoshio manages to hit Mitsuko with a disabling nanodevice, but she is saved by the arrival of Kinuho and Maaya Awatsuki, who ask Ruiko to look after Mitsuko and the cat while they face off against him. | ||||
| 54 | 6 | "The Battle Begins" Transcription: "Kaisen" (Japanese: 開戦) | February 14, 2020 | |
| Yoshio uses the lure of the nanomachine, which could potentially be used to help Mitsuko, in order to split up Kinuho and Maaya. Meanwhile, Ruiko brings Mitsuko to the hospital, where Mikoto discovers her condition and angrily breaks away from Misaki's clique. Yoshio tries to overwhelm Kinuho by taking her away from the water source so she can't use her Hydro Hand ability, but she takes advantage of the water she carried through an underground drain in order to defeat him. He attempts to use the nanomachine mosquito against Kinuho but is thwarted by Maaya's ability to manipulate buoyancy. Yoshio runs off and brings out his most powerful robot, but it is easily destroyed by Mikoto, who threatens him to never approach her friends ever again. | ||||
| 55 | 7 | "Auribus oculi fideliores sunt. (The eyes are more trustworthy than the ears)" Transcription: "Auribus oculi fideliores sunt. (Miru koto wa kiku koto yori mo shinzuru ni ataisuru.)" (Japanese: Auribus oculi fideliores sunt. 見ることは聞くことよりも信ずるに値する.) | February 28, 2020[6][7] | |
| With the help of an esper, Kinuho, Maaya, and Ruiko learn some of the circumstances of Misaka #10032's disappearance from the cat. Just as Mikoto receives this information from Ruiko, she is approached by a girl named Mitori Kōzaku, who has taken both Kazari and Misuzu hostage. As Kuroko arrives to help Mikoto rescue both hostages, they discover Mitori's partner is a mass of liquid metal controlled by her ability. After getting Kazari and Misuzu to safety, Ruiko explains that something Misaki mentioned in the cat's memories relates to the urban legend site she looked at before. Realizing that Kazari must've investigated it, Mikoto reconstructs the site's data, revealing information about Misaki. | ||||
| 56 | 8 | "Railgun x Mental Out" Transcription: "Rērugan x Mentaru Auto" (Japanese: | March 20, 2020 | |
| Mikoto tracks down Misaki, who reveals she had hid Misaka #10032 to keep her safe from the group pursuing the Sisters in order to access the Misaka Network. She further reveals that the man behind it is Gensei Kihara, who was the advocate of the Level 6 Shift Project. As the two of them head towards a conference building where Gensei awaits, Kuroko, Kazari, and Ruiko look for information about Mitori. | ||||
| 57 | 9 | "Kozaku Mitori" Transcription: "Kōzaku Mitori" (Japanese: 警策 看取) | March 27, 2020 | |
| While Mikoto and Misaki take their own approaches in infiltrating Gensei's headquarters, Kuroko and Kazari head to the Bank Control Center to look for more information about Mitori. They find out that she is declared dead 2 years ago. Meanwhile, Ruiko lends her good luck charm to Tōma for a scavenger hunt, after which she spots an abandoned factory that once produced the liquid metal Mitori controlled, finding it is still in use. Ruiko is caught by Mitori's liquid metal clone but is rescued by MEMBER affiliate Xochitl, who realised Mitori had been using her and Yoshio. Mikoto and Misaki allegedly find Gensei, only to discover it to be a decoy in disguise to distract them while forces are sent to attack the building where Misaka #10032 is being kept. | ||||
| 58 | 10 | "Clone Dolly" Transcription: "Kurōn Dorī" (Japanese: | April 3, 2020 | |
| As Misaki is forced to use a power booster called Exterior to push her abilities to the limits and get through a traffic jam, she recalls her time in a training facility. Here, she was asked by scientists to use her powers to have a clone named Dolly recognise her as her friend Mi. After Dolly suddenly died, Misaki learned that the scientists were planning to use the Exterior Project to allow anyone to use Mental Out, leading her to brainwash the entire personnel to keep it under control. As Mikoto and Misaki arrive at the facility, where it is revealed Exterior is formed from a piece of Misaki's brain, Gensei manages to attune his waves to Exterior in order to undo the protection on Misaka #10032 and plant a virus into the Misaka Network. It is then that Gensei commences his true experiment, using the energy formed from the virus to forcibly attempt to turn Mikoto into a Level 6 esper. | ||||
| 59 | 11 | "Joining the Battle" Transcription: "Sansen" (Japanese: 参戦) | April 10, 2020 | |
| Tōma, having learned about the situation from Xochitl, is given instructions from Misaki on how to deal with Mikoto, who is manipulated by Mitori's usage of Misaki's powers into attacking the governing board building. After Kuroko arrives and gets Misaka #10032 to safety, she is tasked with finding Mitori in order to stop her control on Mikoto, facing up against her metal puppet along the way. As Gunha arrives on the scene to assist Tōma in stopping Mikoto, Misaki goes to confront Gensei himself. | ||||
| 60 | 12 | "Exterior" Transcription: "Ekusuteria" (Japanese: | April 17, 2020 | |
| Realising Gensei is trying to obtain the limiter unlock code for Exterior from her to control Mikoto further, Misaki attempts to trap him only to discover he possesses Multiskill, allowing him to us multiple abilities. Meanwhile, Kuroko begins to close in on Mitori, facing tougher opposition from the puppet. Misaki sets up a multi-phase trap to try and stop Gensei, but he manages to see through every step, ultimately managing to get past Misaki's mental defenses and obtain the code. | ||||
| 61 | 13 | "SYSTEM (Those Who Arrive at Heaven's Will in an Only Human Body)" Transcription: "SYSTEM Kaminaranumi de Tenjō no Ishi ni Tadoritsuku Mono" (Japanese: SYSTEM 神ならぬ身で天上の意思にたどり着くもの) | May 1, 2020[8] | |
| After Kazari discovers that Mitori had hijacked an Anti-Skill camera drone to help control her liquid metal clone, she hijacks the camera herself to fake Kuroko's death, allowing the real Kuroko to find Mitori hiding in the sewers and take her down. Meanwhile, Gensei discovers too late that the input code he got from Misaki was actually Exterior's self-destruct code, which Misaki had tricked him into using by rewriting her own memory. With Exterior destroyed, Mikoto regains her senses but is still unable to stop her power from going out of control. | ||||
| 62 | 14 | "Dragon Strike (Jaw of the Dragon King)" Transcription: "Doragon Sutoraiku" (Japanese: | May 15, 2020[9][10] | |
| Working along Gunha, Tōma uses the power that lies beyond Imagine Breaker, finally stopping Mikoto's rampage and returning her to normal. Afterwards, Mikoto goes to visit Mitsuko, who feels happy upon hearing that Kinuho and Maaya came to her aid. After restoring the memories of Kuroko and the others, while rewriting others pertaining to the whole incident to appear like a terrorist attack, Misaki approaches Mitori. As the Daihasei Festival comes to a close without further incident, Ruiko arranges for Mikoto to dance with Tōma. | ||||
| 63 | 15 | "Promise" Transcription: "Yakusoku" (Japanese: やくそく) | May 22, 2020 | |
| Mitori recalls her time in a facility where she ended up being befriended by Dolly, prior to her meeting with Misaki. After discovering that Dolly was a clone that was being fed experimental drugs, she was caught and confined for several months, leading to a building hatred towards the governing board. Back in the present, Misaki brings Mitori to meet Dolly's "little sister" that has inherited her memories, leading to a touching reunion between the three of them. | ||||
| 64 | 16 | "Dream Ranker" Transcription: "Dorīmu Rankā" (Japanese: | July 24, 2020[11] | |
| Junko Hokaze, a member of Misaki's clique, gives Mikoto an Indian Poker card that allegedly lets people experience other people's dreams. Trying out the card for herself, Mikoto experiences Junko's dream, which turns out to be less pleasant than she originally expected. The next day, Junko tries holding a tea party to help Mikoto and Misaki get along, but they become angered after overhearing a certain blue-haired boy giving out cards based on his dubious fantasies of them. Meanwhile, Kuroko and Kazari look into an app that allegedly shows the location of accidents before they happen. Scouting out the location of one of these future accidents, Kuroko saves someone from a traffic accident at that very location. Kuroko then confronts a precognative esper boy named Shaei Miyama, who states that he created the app so he could find an esper that can prevent these accidents from happening. | ||||
| 65 | 17 | "Precognition" Transcription: "Yochi" (Japanese: 予知) | July 31, 2020 | |
| Working together, Kuroko manages to use her teleportation to prevent more accidents predicted by Shaei's precognitions. As Judgment takes countermeasures to prevent multiple potential accidents predicted to happen in close proximity with each other at the park, Shaei collapses as a result of overusing his ability. At the predicted time, cherry blossom trees suddenly set ablaze, which Kuroko deduces is due to a chemical that was injected into them to bloom all-year round. As Kuroko works to save civilians, Shaei desperately asks Kuroko to save a stray dog named Perro, which she manages to do. After learning that the ones who created the chemical learned it from Indian Poker, Kuroko encourages Shaei to approach her again once he has better control of his ability. | ||||
| 66 | 18 | "Bust Upper" Transcription: "Basuto Appā" (Japanese: | August 7, 2020 | |
| Coming across an Indian Poker trader on the street, Saiai Kinuhata, one of ITEM's members with a complex about her figure, fights with Mikoto over a card relating to something called the "Bust Upper". After their fight causes all the cards to become mixed up, Mikoto and Saiai, realising they have the same goal, purchase all the cards and try them out one by one in search of the Bust Upper. Despite trying out all the cards, including one that gives Mikoto a rather foreboding dream, the pair are unable to find the Bust Upper, as it is stolen by a crow during their sleep and falls into the hands of another girl. | ||||
| 67 | 19 | "Strange Coincidence" Transcription: "Kien" (Japanese: 奇縁) | August 14, 2020 | |
| After Ruiko ends up buying the last cans of mackerel she wanted to buy, Frenda Seivelun tries to get some off of her and ends up having dinner with her, leading the two of them to become friends. Some time later, as Ruiko buys herself another Indian Poker card, a group called SCHOOL looking for a card pertaining to something called Tweezers arrange for her to be kidnapped, prompting Frenda to go and rescue her. After the kidnap attempt is foiled, SCHOOL calls upon the sniper Rakko Yumiya to hunt down Ruiko and Frenda. | ||||
| 68 | 20 | "Ha det bra" | August 21, 2020 | |
| Despite dealing multiple shots to Frenda as she pursues them into a shopping mall, Yumiya falls for a trap by Frenda and Ruiko, exposing herself as their pursuer. While Ruiko escapes with the other customers, Frenda faces off against Yumiya in a one-on-one duel, winning against her using her bombs. As SCHOOL, led by Teitoku, plan their next move regarding the tweezers, Ruiko never hears from Frenda again. | ||||
| 69 | 21 | "Doppelganger" Transcription: "Dopperugengā" (Japanese: ドッペルゲンガー) | August 28, 2020 | |
| Misaki looks into Ryōko Kuriba, who allegedly came up with the plans for Indian Poker. She learns that Ryōko was part of her experiment to use cyborg technology to turn her into two people before being rejoined to determine if a soul could be created. As Mikoto is sent by Misaki to investigate the results of the experiments, the cyborg Doppelganger of Ryōko left after the experiment, who believed herself to be human, experiences an identity crisis and breaks out of her facility. Mikoto and Misaki then confront the original Ryōko about the threat Doppelganger poses, while another underground group known as Scavenger is dispatched to hunt down Doppelganger. | ||||
| 70 | 22 | "Scavenger" Transcription: "Sukabenjā" (Japanese: | September 4, 2020 | |
| Ryōko states that she believes destroying Dopperlganger's body could cause calamity to befall Academy City, leading her to invent Indian Poker as a means to crowdsource a solution. Later on, Ryōko is confronted by Doppelganger, before Scavenger show up to try and detain Doppelganger. As the other members struggle again Doppelganger's power, Ryōko is pursued by Tarōmaru Seike but is rescued by Mikoto after she learns that Ryōko created Doppelganger as a means to save her mother. Upon receiving heavy damage to her body, Doppelganger begins to absorb other forms of matter to repair herself and become more powerful, at which point Mikoto, having just defeated Tarōmaru, confronts the other Scavenger members. | ||||
| 71 | 23 | "Possession" Transcription: "Hyōi" (Japanese: 憑依) | September 11, 2020 | |
| Wanting to avoid a fight, Scavenger leader Rita Īzumi somehow manages to convince Mikoto that she's a member of Judgment sent to recover Doppelganger. While Mikoto pursues Doppelganger, who is targeting an airship filled with secret information, Rita guides them towards the facility the Scavengers were supposed to deliver Doppelganger to so they can sign off their job and escape. Facing off against Mikoto, Dopperlganger continues to absorb more matter to grow to an enormous size. | ||||
| 72 | 24 | "Diffusion" Transcription: "Kakusan" (Japanese: 拡散) | September 18, 2020 | |
| Mikoto uses her ability to create her own giant out of iron sand, using its properties to fire off a powerful electrical that can cut through Dopperlganger's body. Doppelganger responds by forcing Mikoto to shoot down fuel tanks to protect civilians, exposing the airship in the process. As Ryōko tries to reason with Doppelganger to let her find a way to eliminate her own soul, she attempts to jump to her death but is saved by the Scavengers. Learning from Misaki and Rita that Doppelganger's ability is actually a form of artificial muscle, which Doppelganger intends to use to set off a citywide explosion, Mikoto confronts her aboard the airship with Rita's assistance. | ||||
| 73 | 25 | "My Dear Friends" Transcription: "Watashi no, Taisetsu na Tomodachi" (Japanese: 私の, 大切な友達) | September 25, 2020 | |
| Learning that Doppelganger's objective was to end her life and destroy the data that could rebuild her, Mikoto respects her wishes and destroys the airship. Before Mikoto can finish off Doppelganger, one of the scientists attempts to take Ryōko hostage to stop her, accidentally shooting her in the process. In her final moments, Doppelganger asks Mikoto to use what's left of her cyborg body to save Ryōko. Later, the Scavengers increase their rank in exchange for not getting paid for their mission while Mitsuko is formally introduced to Misaka #10032. Meanwhile, Doppelganger appears in Ryōko's dream, suggesting that she now coexists inside her body. | ||||
Notes
- English titles taken from Crunchyroll.
References
- "A Certain Scientific Railgun Anime Season 3 Premieres in January 2020". Anime News Network. September 27, 2019. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
- "A Certain Scientific Railgun Anime Season 3 Reveals January 10 Premiere, Ending Song Title". November 3, 2019. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
- "A Certain Scientific Railgun T Anime Delays Episode 13 Due to COVID-19". Anime News Network. April 17, 2020. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
- "A Certain Scientific Railgun Anime Season 3 Reveals Ad, Theme Song Artists, More Staff". Anime News Network. September 27, 2019. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
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External links
- とある科学の超電磁砲T アニメ公式サイト (in Japanese)
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