Mikoto Misaka (A Certain Magical Index)
Mikoto Misaka is a female anime and manga character who features in To Aru Majutsu No Index.
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Biography
Mikoto Misaka (Japanese, 御坂 美琴, English: Misaka Mikoto) was a female human born in the modern age where she was the daughter of Misaka Misuzu and Misaka Tabigake. At elementary school age, she entered into Academy City where she distinguished herself as a child prodigy and showed a talent for being an Esper where she started as Level 1 and quickly climbed her way to Level 5. Around this time, she was approached by the Sisters Project where they believed her a perfect candidate for the experiment. The young Misaka was told that her participation would help people who suffered from fatal diseases such as muscular dystrophy with her willingly giving a DNA sample to the researchers of the project.
Mikoto is being hit on by delinquents, and Kamijou Touma tries to save the delinquents from her. This eventually causes her to confront Touma — even unleashing her most powerful attack, the Railgun, at him. Mikoto eventually caused a massive blackout throughout Academy City because of this.
Sometime later, she decides to hack into Academy City's database to find out more about Touma. However, she is surprised by a heavily intoxicated Touma who gives her a box of sushi. Touma then begins to leave, along with the many other girls that appeared with him, and she ends up following him to his dorm. Mikoto and the other girls are persuaded to leave but not before Mikoto forcefully obtains a promise to explain everything. She later catches up with him on a bridge after the excitement dies down and returns his phone strap, telling him not to lose it since their match. He states that the reason he can't stand still is due to the impending chaos that is about to befall Academy City. She then tells him that she will not stop him because she knows he won't listen to her anyway, but just as he is about to leave, she grabs his hand and states that this time he is not alone.
Mikoto is in despair and thinks that all the deaths of over 10,000 Misaka clones is her fault, which were used for a project to help Accelerator achieve Level 6. One night, when she quietly calls for help, Touma arrives with the Sisters project document that he found in her room, demanding to know what she is doing. Mikoto reveals that she has been taking out research facilities in an attempt to stop the experiment and save her sisters, but she failed at her task, because new facilities kept coming out. She is also unable to kill Accelerator and she states that she is going to be quickly killed by him in order to save the remaining Sisters. Touma stands in Mikoto's way to prevent her from killing herself, but refuses to fight her. Mikoto attacks him until he passes out. When she finally clears her mind, she tells Touma the location of the next fight scheduled for Accelerator, while she waits on the bridge for him to return. But after a few minutes, she runs after Touma, to the battle site, trying to save him even though she knows she could not win. When she arrives, Mikoto prepares to fire her Railgun, but she pauses when she realizes that Accelerator is preparing a plasma attack by controlling the direction of the wind and collecting it in one place. She figures out that she can counter it by controlling the wind. With the desire to protect Touma, she wakes up Misaka 10032, who Accelerator knocked out earlier, and she gets the remaining clones across the city to change the direction of the wind by controlling the wind turbines. This prevents Accelerator from finishing his attack, and when he approaches Mikoto and Misaka 10032 in order to kill them, Touma stops him and gives him his 'weakest attack'. After everything is over, Mikoto is seen at the hospital visiting Touma to thank him.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Mikoto Misaka was a female human with chestnut hair and was often seen wearing a small hair clip. Due to her abilities, she came to be known by a nickname of Railgun (超電磁砲 (レールガン) Rērugan, lit. "Super Electromagnetic Cannon"). Due to her skill and consistently high grades she came to be referred to as Tokiwadai's Ace (トキワダイエース, Tokiwadaiēsu). Kamijou Touma came to give her the nickname Biri-Biri (ビリビリ?) on account of her electrical abilities. Sometimes, she was known to hide her identity by pulling up her hair into a cap with this leading to some mistaking her for a boy.
She was shown to be a short-tempered and prideful person with some slight tomboyish tendencies that was used to hide her insecurities.
Despite that, she was generally friendly and an easy-going person.
Unlike other Level 5's, she did not look down on lower-level Espers at all.
Misaka had a keen sense of justice which was often demonstrated by her frequent involvement in crime-fighting.
Mikoto had a fondness for cute things even if they seemed to be childish such as Gekota and Kill Bear merchandise.
She had a very irrational and unexplained fear of bugs.
Powers and abilities
As an Esper, she had the ability to generate and control electricity along with being able to see beyond the visible electromagnetic spectrum which classed her as a Level 1 Electromaster (電撃使い (エレクトロマスター) Erekutoromasutā, lit. "Electricity User"). This gave her the ability to use electricity in various ways such as shooting it and electromagnetism. Mikoto was capable of generating and manipulating electricity, as well as phenomena connected to electricity, including electromagnetism, Lorentz force, and more. Originally, she was a Level 1 Esper who became a Level 5 Esper through hard work. She was ranked third of the seven level five most powerful Espers in Academy City. Her maximum output was known to be 1 billion volts. Being the strongest Electromaster and a Level 5 esper, she has a high degree of power, and she also has a high degree of precise control over that power. As such, she can utilize applications of her ability that weaker Electromasters would not be capable of, with a high degree of versatility. Mikoto uses her ability in many ways. Besides simply discharging electricity, she can use magnetism to move objects made of or containing metal in her surroundings (including large amounts of iron sand), easily hack electronic devices and networks, sense and emit electromagnetic waves (utilizing them for a personal radar), and even call down lightning and thunderclouds, as well as firing metal objects at supersonic speeds using Lorentz force (the Railgun that is the source of her epithet and ability name), among other things.
She was able to launch these attacks in a directed form with it being described as a lightning spear (雷撃の槍 Raigeki no Yari?, lit. "Lightning attack spear").
Her signature ability was Railgun (超電磁砲レールガン Chō-Denjihō (Rērugan)?, lit. "Super Electromagnetic Cannon") whereby she operated as a living super electromagnetic gun. This was an application of Fleming's Momentum theory allowing her to launch projectiles with a extra strength.
Notes
- Mikoto Misaka was created by Kazuma Kamachi and illustrated by Kiyotaka Haimura where she featured in the setting of To Aru Majutsu No Index.
- The character made a cameo appearance in the anime series Okami-san and Her Seven Companions where she was presented as a potential candidate to be married to the young millionaire Nezumi Chūtaro.
In other media
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Appearances
- To Aru Majutsu No Index:
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