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The dark side of Academy City is the collective term for the seedier elements of the city that cannot be officially endorsed, but are still part of backstage manipulations on the part of higher-ups. Members of the dark side are uniformly amoral, and at best manage to be anti-heroes. The fifteenth novel revolves around the actions of five groups: GROUP, SCHOOL, ITEM, BLOCK and MEMBER, but there are also characters of ambiguous allegiance.
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GROUP

    Motoharu Tsuchimikado 

Motoharu Tsuchimikado

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Voiced by: Anri Katsu (Japanese) and Newton Pittman (English)

A friend and classmate of Touma, as well as his next-door neighbor at their dormitory. He's also a skilled sorcerer; however, undergoing the Power Development Curriculum causes his magic use to become fatal. His ability, Level 0 Auto-Regeneration, counteracts this, though imperfectly. He is a freelance spy for several organizations, including Necessarius, Academy City, and GROUP. The leaders are aware of this and let him be for the time being.


  • Anime Hair: He has very spiky hair.
  • Almighty Janitor: Like Touma, he's labeled as a Level 0 for his ability. This doesn't diminish his effectiveness as a spy or a fighter in the least.
  • Brother–Sister Incest: Has feelings for his step-sister.
  • Book Dumb: He has poor grades but he's pretty smart outside the esper curriculum. And despite his bad reputation in school, he's also a highly-skilled onmyoji and an excellent spy.
  • Bunny-Ears Lawyer: A shameless siscon guy with weird fetishes [i.e. flat-chested bunny girls] who happens to be a spy for Academy City, Necessarius, and a member of GROUP, but still gets the job done.
  • Code Name: Fallere825
  • Cool Shades: Is never seen without them.
  • Embarrassing Nickname: "Siscon Sergeant". Yet he's proud of it.
  • Fake Defector: Will very often pretend to betray his comrades, and often doesn't let them in on his plan.
  • Fights Like a Normal: Because he can't rely much on his magic due to being a Magician-Esper Hybrid.
    • His combat style is known as "Deadly Thrust Killing Slash", which incorporates a whole slew of martial arts styles and allows him to wipe the floor with just about anybody in close combat.
  • Faking the Dead: As of New Testament 7, he is now believed to be dead apart from Seria, who helped to smuggle him out of the city.
  • Foil: Similar to Touma, he consistently involves himself in both Magic and Science side affairs due to being a freelance spy. However, he generally has to tackle larger affairs compared to Touma's individual heroics.
  • The Gadfly: Acts very annoying to everyone because it amuses him.
  • Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist: Subverted. He's not a tourist but is often seen wearing a Hawaiian shirt and sunglasses.
  • Healing Factor: His Esper power, Level 0 Auto-Rebirth.
  • Heart Is an Awesome Power: Downplayed. His Auto-Rebirth ability can counteract life-threatening injuries caused by his unique status but is too weak to fully work and could fail at any time.
  • He Knows Too Much: Inverts this trope as his main method of self-preservation. He knows just enough that he's too valuable to lose and too dangerous to kill.
  • Heroic BSoD: Goes into one in New Testament Volume 7 after hearing a false report that Maika had been murdered. It was so bad that he lashes out at Touma, who beats him unconscious with ridiculous ease and comments that there's no way it could have been that easy.
  • Heroic RRoD: Since he's a sorcerer-turned-esper, should he ever use magic it can kill him. Luckily, his self-regeneration esper powers mitigate that. Sadly, he also mentions that his ability is imperfect (being a Level 0) and could fail anytime. He estimates he only has 5 or 6 "lifelines" left.
  • Hidden Heart of Gold: He often says some really scary and unempathetic things while on the job, but is also repeatedly shown to be a good guy beyond that.
  • Pragmatic Hero: As a member of the Dark Side of Academy City, he's not afraid to get his hands dirty.
  • Not Blood Siblings: An excuse for why he has feelings for Maika.
  • Pretentious Latin Motto: "The Backstabbing Blade"
  • Regular Caller: Since Volume 14, he's been dragging Touma for European missions, which comes to a head in Volume 17, where he uses knockout gas to bring him to London. Which makes this a rather literal case of "The Call Knows Where You Live".
  • Self-Proclaimed Liar: He takes pride in it, and gets annoyed when people don't believe that he is.
  • Single-Target Sexuality: Despite his perversion and Casanova tendencies, he really only has eyes for Maika.
  • Shipper on Deck: For Touma and Kaori Kanzaki.
  • Tears of Blood: When he uses his powers, in addition to Blood from the Mouth.
  • Those Two Guys: If he's with Pierce, expect humorous antics from them.
  • The Trickster: As he works for many sides, he tricks them into believing he's an ally and isn't above betraying and deceiving them if it benefits him.
  • Verbal Tic: Nya!
  • Weak, but Skilled: He's overshadowed by most of the mages and espers in the series in terms of sheer power on account of both his power set (focused around fung shui) and being a sorcerer-turned-esper, but he's an extremely deadly combatant nonetheless who can hold his own with them.
  • Wild Card: Works as a freelance spy for seemingly all the different factions at once, making him a Double Reverse Quadruple Agent. So far his straight loyalties only lie with his stepsister Maika.
  • Worf Had the Flu: He effortlessly defeats Touma in their first fight, the former remarking that he hadn't been hit by him. So when Touma starts to curbstomp him, he knows something is wrong...

    Accelerator 

Accelerator

    Awaki Musujime 

Awaki Musujime

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Voiced by: Harumi Sakurai (Japanese), Bryn Apprill (English)

She is the guide to the windowless building where Aleister Crowley resides and is a member of GROUP, forced to join when the city's Board of Directors captured her close friends and blackmailed her. Her ability is "Move Point", a ramped-up version of Kuroko's power in that she doesn't need to touch objects to teleport them. She is living with Tsukuyomi Komoe after losing to Accelerator in the Tree Diagram 'Remnant' incident.


  • Achilles' Heel: Her teleportation is three seconds slower than Kuroko's, and she'll start coughing up blood from the strain if she teleports herself too many times in a row.
  • Arc Villain: Tree Diagram Remnant Arc.
  • Awesomeness by Analysis: Teleporters have to make calculations on factors like mass, volume, vector, etc. Normal scientists don't want to have to deal with it due to the 11th dimension coordinates involved.
  • Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Accelerator. They even mockingly call each other husband and wife.
  • Coat Cape: She wears the Kirigaoka Girls' Academy uniform's coat over her shoulders like a cape.
  • Combat Pragmatist: She just shoots Kuroko after the Villainous Breakdown.
  • Comedic Shotacon: When she notes with amusement that all the guys in GROUP seem to have a thing for little girls, Accelerator simply replies back she's the one into little boys, which both Motoharu and Etzali answer in the affirmative to. Her chance meeting with Shaei Miyama in Railgun dispels any doubt.
  • Evil Counterpart: To Kuroko. Both are teleporters with similar twintail hairstyles and are involved in contrasting jobs (Kuroko with Judgment, Awaki with the Dark Side). Awaki is later revealed to be a shotacon, no different from Kuroko's intense feelings for Mikoto.
  • Evil Vegetarian: She's a strict vegetarian and tells her teammates that they're "killing themselves" with their meat diet.
  • Girlish Pigtails: She has two long pigtails.
  • Heel–Face Turn: She mellows out after being "adopted" by Komoe-sensei.
  • Magic Feather: Although not strictly necessary, she shines a flashlight on the spot she wants to teleport to to help her concentrate.
  • Ms. Fanservice: Her outfit shows off a lot of skin.
  • Never My Fault: She believes that abilities are scary in and of themselves for being able to harm others, but Kuroko points out that espers can use their powers for good, and Musujime is merely deflecting responsibility for her own life choices.
  • No Shirt, Long Jacket: She rarely wears shirts, so her top consists of a Sarashi to cover her breasts and her school uniform's jacket that she wears as a Coat Cape.
  • Pragmatic Hero: Post Heel–Face Turn, she's a member of the dark organization GROUP, which is a group largely dedicated to keeping the peace through rather questionable methods.
  • Sarashi: Most of the time, she only wears bandages to cover her breasts instead of wearing a proper top.
  • The Smurfette Principle: She's the only female member of GROUP.
  • Superpower Lottery: The strongest Level 4 Esper shown so far, according to Word of God. She can teleport objects without even touching them and has more than twice the range and more than twenty times the haul load Kuroko does. She would have reached Level 5 had she not had... an unfortunate accident.
  • Teleportation Sickness: She coughs up blood and suffers from fatigue whenever she teleports too many times in a row.
  • Teleportation: Her ability, Move Point, is basically Kuroko's power ramped up.
  • Teleporter Accident:
    • She teleported herself partially into a wall when she was younger and tried to pull herself out. The results were messy.
    • She does it again while fighting Megumi during the Battle Royale arc thanks to AIM Jammers messing with her powers and ends up teleporting her feet into the ground. This time, however, she forces herself through the pain, shock, and fear and takes Megumi out regardless even as she rips them again.
  • Trauma Button: Two years before the story began, she got her leg stuck in a wall during a teleport, and tore off skin while freeing herself. She became terrified of teleporting herself ever since, so she wastes 2-3 crucial extra seconds working up the willpower when she absolutely can't just leave on foot, and feels nauseous afterwards.
  • Villainous Breakdown: Kuroko points out Awaki's hypocrisy in trying to give powers to non-human animals: Awaki herself is the problem, not her powers. The point is compounded even further when Kuroko tries to hurt her without her abilities.

    "Mitsuki Unabara" 

Etzali

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Voiced by: Daisuke Kishio (Japanese), Justin Pate (English)

An Aztec magician who was originally a member of Return of the Winged One. He was sent into Academy City to destabilize the growing Kamijou Faction by sowing distrust into its members. He is later defeated by Touma Kamijou himself, and later joins GROUP. He is usually referred to as "Unabara Mitsuki" because he has not told anyone in Academy City his real name.


  • Badass in a Nice Suit: He's always wearing a suit in his true form and knows how to fight well, like when he blocked Xochitl's blade with a single bare arm and defeated her by slamming his foot into her guts.
  • Crazy Jealous Guy: He attacked Touma, seeing him as a rival for Mikoto's affections.
  • The Dandy: It was initially part of his disguise as Unabara. After failing his mission, it's implied that he continues to wear Unabara's face and keep up the act to hide himself from his fellow magicians despite the real one having survived his kidnapping.
  • Deliberate Injury Gambit: He blocks Xochitl's Macuahuitl weapon with his arm, which gives him the opening he needs to defeat her.
  • Energy Weapon: By reflecting the light of Venus off the blade.
  • Face Stealer: His primary power. While he only needs to steal a bit of skin to effectively take on a person's appearance, killing them to prevent them from running around at the same time has its advantages.
  • Heel–Face Turn: Well, if you can consider GROUP to be good guys, anyway.
  • In Love with the Mark: He was assigned to seduce and kill Mikoto, but he failed to seduce her and ended up falling in love with her.
  • Master of Disguise: Since his ability allows him to change his appearance into others, he excels at it and goes as far as studying their behavior for a week or so before impersonating them. So far he has disguised as Unabara Mitsuki, Yamate, and Oyafune Monaka.
  • Meaningful Name: Derived from "eztli", meaning "blood".
  • Not Himself: Not him personally, but when an assassin from his old organization comes after him he's shocked at how differently she's acting.
  • Tome of Eldritch Lore: First he took Xochitl's to save her from dissolving, and later he outsmarted an opponent using the basic trait that the grimoires want to have their knowledge spread. So then he contracted with a second grimoire to help the first girl's friend.
  • Unscrupulous Hero: After joining GROUP. He casually kills someone in order to copy his appearance (as in, ripped off part of his skin and put it on), and when a telepath is rooting out spies like him he uses plastic explosives to make someone else look like a spy and injure the telepath so that she couldn't check him. In his defense, the first was trying to kill him, and he did feel bad about the second one.
  • Wild Card: He won a proposed wager by Tecpatl for control over the Aztec organization. By the end of New Testament, he has yet to make use of it.


ITEM

    Shizuri Mugino 

Shizuri Mugino

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Voiced by: Ami Koshimizu (Japanese), Lydia Mackay (English)

The fourth Level 5 esper, and the leader of ITEM. Her power, Meltdowner, converts electrons into a highly destructive form of matter that exists somewhere between particles and waves. While kind and gentle to her friends, she has an unpleasant personality once angered.


  • Action Girl: While reliant on her powers most of the time, she is quite tough and versed in hand-to-hand combat.
  • Artificial Limbs: Replaces her missing arm and eye with masses of pure energy and later, literal Artificial Limbs.
  • Ax-Crazy: She's calm and casual most of the time, but when angry she lets forth a truly vicious temper.
    Mugino: Gya ha ha!! Oh, now where to start burning her? Maybe I should roast that little face of hers. Or maybe I should press against her pink *** and burn it pitch black!! Hey, what do you think, Hamazura? You'd better come out, cause I'm gonna burn her into a black mummy! Or can you still get off to fucking a hole like that!?
    Mugino: "I'll count to three. If you don't come out, I'll burn Takitsubo's *** as punishment. Of course, if you'd rather just abandon her, then you can just sit there masturbating to the stench of her virginity being burned away."
  • Barrier Warrior: She can make shields of energy that are tough enough to withstand Mikoto's electric attacks.
  • Big Damn Heroes: Saves Accelerator in NT Vol 6 when he almost falls victim to Kakine's Shape Shifter Guilt Trip.
  • Blood Knight: Battle-hungry? Check. Unnerving temper? Check. Obsesses over Shiage after their fight? Huge check.
  • Buxom Beauty Standard: She has a well-endowed chest, and is considered to be the most attractive of the ITEM girls In-Universe due to it. Frenda even brags about Mugino's chest size when trying to argue that she's 'superior' to Mikoto.
  • By the Hair: Grabs Takitsubo by her hair and mocks her helplessness as part of her revenge on Hamazura.
  • Character Development: Was once The Social Darwinist who looked down on Level 0's, later accepts Shiage as the better fighter even though he doesn't have powers because he beat her. Becomes much calmer and friendlier in New Testament. Case in point, when Last Order teases her because she can see her panties, Mugino simply laughs and walks away, while the old Mugino would have probably killed her on the spot. She also starts learning how to cook in an effort to be more normal. When a naked Cendrillon appears in her apartment, she takes the whole thing in stride... well, until she loses her temper after Cendrillon teases her about her feelings for Shiage.
  • Comedic Sociopathy:
    • "I'm the girl who killed your sister. Nice to meet you." She casually says this to Frenda's little sister.
    • Mugino is pretty good at this, such as this little exchange when she was giving Shiage a countdown to come out before she roasted Takitsubo. Mugino did not give a nice, slow count, as was usual. Instead...
    Mugino: Three-two-one-go!
    Shiage: FUCK!
  • Continuity Cameo: Along with the rest of ITEM, in Episode 12 of Railgun. In the manga version of that scene, there was a completely irrelevant conversation that had nothing to do with the plot.
  • Cool Big Sis: To her fellow teammates, which goes well with her position as a leader.
  • Cyborg: As of New Testament, she has one electronic eye and a cybernetic left arm. Her eye can also be linked into security cameras with some wires..
  • Defusing the Tyke-Bomb: Shiage beats her twice, learning more about her state of mind in the process. She attacks a third time in what is intended to be a suicide attack by taking Body Crystal, causing her power to cause a sphere of destruction around her temporarily. After this, Shiage considers shooting her but decides not to, opting instead to at least try calming her down. It works.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: Her form of payback.
    • When Mikoto knocks her out in their fight, she wakes up a few minutes later, pissed about the headache.
    • In the Febri arc of the second season of '"Railgun'', she shows up unexpectedly to blow up STUDY's robots simply because they tried to mechanically replicate her abilities.
    • She kills Frenda after she gives up ITEM's base of operations to SCHOOL, despite clearly seeing that she was tortured into giving up said location. And then when Shiage decides to leave ITEM and take Takitsubo with him, her response to that is to try and murder him too.
  • Do Not Go Gentle: When she teams with Accelerator against Kakine in NT Vol. 6, she says that maybe Kakine is right that she and Accelerator cannot be redeemed and will still go to Hell no matter what they do. Even so, they shouldn't just give up and die, they might as well kick some ass before they go.
  • Don't You Dare Pity Me!: When she succumbs to the Body Crystal's side effects before she can kill Hamazura, she starts screaming at him for giving a pitiful look.
  • Effortless Amazonian Lift: Despite being a skinny teenage girl, she can Neck Lift grown men and throw them across the room.
  • Energy Weapon: Her entire method of attack revolves around these, hence the name "Meltdowner". By manipulating the state of electrons she's able to generate incredibly powerful and destructive laser beams. Among the other things she has been shown to be capable of doing with creative applications of her powers are:
    • Beam Spam: Carries special silicon cards to facilitate this effect.
    • Convection, Schmonvection: Averted. Her beams are incredibly hot, and being near them can fry you.
    • Mundane Utility: She can make a ball of energy to light her path.
    • Recoil Boost: She can cushion her fall or launch herself through the air by firing downwards.
    • Sphere of Destruction: Surrounds herself with one in a last-ditch effort to finally defeat Shiage. He stalls until her energy runs out.
    • Stuff Blowing Up: The end result of her power.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: She is sickened and horrified when she sees Fraulein Kreutune apparently eating someone, and remarks that she would have had the same reaction even if she were her old, evil self.
  • Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: In Volume 22, she says it doesn't make any sense when Shiage spares her life after defeating her for the third time. Shiage says that even after everything she's done to him and Takitsubo, he still cares about her. She calls him an idiot, but agrees to come with him.
  • Evil Counterpart: Her power shares the same general domain as Mikoto's (the fight between them shows them sensing each other's ability), and she's implied to be a backup plan if Mikoto turns out unviable, just like Kakine being Accelerator's backup plan.
  • Evil Laugh: "Gya-ha-ha!!"
  • Eye Scream: Hamazura rams the edge of Takitsubo's body crystal case into her eye so hard he ruptures it.
  • Fatal Flaw: She has a dual one in Wrath and Pride. Her pride leads her to take risks she doesn't need to, and having her pride hurt causes her to descend into rage that clouds her judgement and leaves her vulnerable to being blindsided. It's because of both of these that Mikoto survived their battle during the Sisters Arc, as well as what leads to ITEM's downfall and her death/defeat by Shiage during the Battle Royale Arc since she couldn't just Know When to Fold 'Em.
  • Faux Affably Evil: She's warm and friendly, but it's mostly an act. She's completely okay with murdering her "friends" if they get in her way. In NT, she makes a sort-of Heel–Face Turn and is still basically a crazy murderer, but values her friends more.
  • Foil: She specializes in destruction while Kakine specializes in creation. Pointed out in NT Vol 6.
  • Glowing Eyes of Doom: Her right eye, after she loses it in Volume 15 and before she gets an artificial one in New Testament.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: It doesn't take much to piss her off.
  • Heel–Face Turn: Towards the end of volume 22, when she agrees to help reform ITEM. An assassin thinks this has made her soft. She corrects him quite thoroughly after he steps on one of her berserk buttons. He'll live, though, since Academy City has very good medicine.
  • Heroic RRoD: Eventually, she pushes herself so far trying to kill Hamazura that she needs to start taking Body Crystals just to keep up with the stress and damage her body's maintained. Finally, right when she's going for a sure-fire kill, her body just crashes on her and her beams disperse, leaving her barely able to move, much less use her ability.
  • He Is Not My Boyfriend: Gets very embarrassed and loses her temper when Cendrillon teases her about her feelings for Shiage.
  • Hoist by Their Own Petard: What ultimately defeats Shizuri in her first battle against Shiage is her own power blowing her left arm off.
  • Implacable Woman. Seems to be the Level 5 most fond of this, especially during her first fight with Shiage. This backfires when Shiage proves she's Not So Invincible After All.
  • It's Personal: In NT Vol 6, The reason why she decides to help Accelerator fight Kakine.
    And it isn't like I don't have my own reasons to be here. I was attacked by a false Frenda last night. You were the biggest factor of the darkness active at that time and the interest in playing with the dead was the same. I don't know what your purpose in that was, but I'm going to make you pay for disturbing her grave, you piece of shit.
  • I Was Just Passing Through: In the final episode of Railgun S, she saves Mikoto from STUDY's robots. She had no idea Mikoto was there. She was just pissed at STUDY using her as a lab rat.
  • Know When to Fold 'Em: She might be technically more powerful than Mikoto and therefore want to kill her and take her place, but she's not stupid enough to actually think she can beat Kakine, who is on par with Accelerator. Later subverted when she decides she wants payback, to the point of endangering Takitsubo's life to track down SCHOOL, even though she can't come up with a good response when Shiage points out that she ran away from Kakine twice.
  • Lack of Empathy: Cheerfully greets the family of those she has murdered by introducing herself as the murderer. The weird thing is she actually meant well. That's as good as she gets when it comes to attempting to take responsibility for her actions.
  • Lady Swears-a-Lot: Her mouth is NOT as beautiful as the rest of her face.
  • Laser-Guided Tyke-Bomb: Over the course of numerous fights with Shiage, he comes to the realization that Mugino used to be a mostly normal girl who actually cared about her friends. Academy City just decided she's much more useful as their own personal assassin/enforcer.
  • Locked Out of the Loop: Does not know about the Magic side.
  • Love Redeems: Played with. Her yandere fixation on Shiage makes her even more dangerous at first, but after he reaches out to her and tries to make amends she reforms at least enough to avoid disappointing him.
  • Made of Iron: Her pain threshold is staggering. When fighting Mikoto in Railgun she is only knocked out briefly by a heavy metal doll ramming her head at high speed and actually uses her beams as recoil to survive a fatal fall, wanting to continue the fight despite her obvious heavy injuries. When fighting Hamazura in Volume 15, she endures her eye being ruptured, accidentally blowing off her own arm, and multiple gunshots to her upper body while consumed in rage, only going down with a punch to the face to knock her out.
  • Mafia Princess: The ITEM spinoff reveals that she's essentially a criminal Ojou. The Mugino family is among the five wealthiest in the world, making their fortune in wheat on the surface, but also as The Syndicate. Unlike many, she wasn't forced to join the dark side, but was born into it.
  • Minor Injury Overreaction: Once went completely berserk after Mikoto gave her a small cut on her temple while battling her.
  • Modesty Shorts: She only wears these occasionally.
  • Ms. Fanservice: In NT2 she says that she's the level 5 in charge of sex appeal so she wears see through underwear.
  • Morality Chain: She acts like a good guy around Hamazura and isn't quite as sadistic and murderous even when he isn't around after her Heel–Face Turn, but it's mostly just because she doesn't want him to hate her.
  • Morality Pet: She's grown protective of Fremea after killing her older sister.
  • Murder the Hypotenuse: While trying to get revenge on Shiage, she tried to kill his girlfriend, because Mugino hates and loves Shiage at the same time. After her Heel–Face Turn, she seems to have accepted being #2 in Shiage's harem.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: Despite her merciless personality and initial Never My Fault attitude, she still feels remorse for killing Frenda and even visits her grave.
  • Names to Run Away from Really Fast: She's a Level 5 esper with an ability dubbed "Meltdowner"...
  • Never My Fault: While suffering from the Body Crystal's aftermath, she screams at Hamazura that he's responsible for her life going haywire. Her team falling apart is largely her own fault for outright killing Frenda (for selling out their location to SCHOOL) and hunting down Hamazura for the Body Crystal to make Takitsubo's searching ability go into overdrive with no regard for what happen to her body afterwards.
  • Nominal Hero: She is, in theory, an ally in the NT volumes, but she's apathetic, cruel and totally okay with being a brutal killer so long as Hamazura doesn't know about it. She figures that even if he does, he'll forgive her, but does her best not to test that.
  • Not Quite Dead: Volume 19 reveals that she survived her battle with Shiage Hamazura in Volume 15, and she's become even more psycho and unstable than before, with an obsessive crush on him.
  • Oh, Crap!: In New Testament 5, when Frenda seemingly comes back to life and says she wants revenge for Mugino killing her back in Volume 15.
  • The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Towards Mikoto and later Shiage.
    Mugino: Don't let pitiful bastards like that take your life. The one who's going to rip you to pieces is me!!
  • The Perfectionist: She always has to be the best and do things perfectly, but when it's clearly impossible she instantly changes her goals to something else to hold up her pride.
  • Personality Powers: Her power produces heat and explosions, and she has a very explosive temper.
  • Power Incontinence: Her inability to control her own power is what led to her losing her left arm. If she had better control, she'd be the ranked as the third Level 5 instead of the fourth.
  • The Power of Love: In NT Vol 6, she declares that she's now running on her love for Shiage instead of her anger and pride, and that she's now stronger than ever.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives one to Kakine while pointing out his Fatal Flaw.
  • Sanity Has Advantages: If she wasn't so insane, she would have crushed Shiage easily without him being able to do the slightest thing about it, never have ended up fighting him, or even never have made an enemy of him in the first place.
  • Say My Name: Once she becomes obsessed with Hamazura, she starts to shout his name in a threatening Punctuated! For! Emphasis! manner ("Ha.ma.zu.ra!").
  • Shock and Awe: Has a very limited control over electricity due to how her power affects electrons, to the extent that she can make Mikoto's electric attacks turn away from her.
  • Shut Up, Hannibal!: In New Testament Volume 6 when an enemy assumed that her love for Shiage and her guilt over killing Frenda would weaken her. Bonus points for her admitting without shame that she loves him.
    Mugino: As long as I have Hamazura, this is fine. I'll get into trouble and into fights. There will even be deadly fights. But it will all work out in the end. No matter how many people I kill and how much I destroy, everything will be resolved in the end somehow and we can all be happy. All my past experiences have shown that to be true. That's how it was during the fight between ITEM and SCHOOL. That's how it was when we fought underground in District 23. That's how it was when we met during the fierce fighting of World War 3. And so I know it will be fine as long as I have Hamazura. No matter what happens, he will forgive me in the end.
  • Slasher Smile: Though she is quite fond of Kubrick Stares, Psychotic Smirks, and combinations of the three where applicable.
  • The Social Darwinist: Played straight until Volume 22, where she subverts this by lashing out at Academy City's "Parameter List", a cost-control mechanism that restricts funds to unworthy (read: Level 0) students (read: Hamazura) and allocates those funds to more powerful and promising espers.
  • Sore Loser: Being defeated by Shiage soured her immensely, especially since she's a level 5 while he's a level 0.
  • Stronger Than They Look: Strong enough to incapacitate her foes with a single kick, knock out a tiger in one punch, and ragdoll grown men around with little effort despite being just a slim teenaged girl.
  • Super-Reflexes: She's fast enough to escape a bomb going off in her face, and to move away when somebody aims a gun at her.
  • Unskilled, but Strong: She's actually better than the #3 Level 5 Misaka in regards to raw firepower, but the latter's abilities provide a wide array of applications while she just has a straightforward laser generator that can (and does) harm her if she isn't careful.
  • Villain Ball: It's frequently noted by the novels and Shiage himself that she could easily kill him with one shot of her high-speed, high-power lasers, yet chooses to drag out his suffering for as long as possible, eventually giving him a window to turn the tables on her. This ends up screwing her over in their last battle, as by that point she could easily destroy him, but she's so far gone mentally and determined to drag it out that she starts firing off beams haphazardly and when she goes for the sure-fire kill, her body gives out on her.
  • We Have Reserves: How she makes an enemy of Shiage, coupled with the fact that her "expendable" henchman had just tried a You Shall Not Pass! for his sake.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: Delivers one to Accelerator, saying that his Death Seeker attitude when it comes to atoning for his sins is just him taking the coward's way out. He takes it to heart, now determined to live to continue protecting his loved ones.
  • When All You Have Is a Hammer…: Mikoto makes very good use of the many possible applications of magnetism and electricity. Mugino doesn't. All she has is beams. You'd be surprised how many problems a portable laser cannon can solve.
  • Willfully Weak: In terms of direct attacks, she's actually quite a bit more powerful than Mikoto. However, she lacks immunity to her own power and can't handle the recoil from the full use of her ability. If she truly went all-out with an attack, the recoil would kill her.
  • Yandere: Towards Shiage, after he defeats her the first time. It turns into genuine affection (not that she would ever admit it to his face) once she undergoes a Heel–Face Turn.
  • You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: When she learns about the Level 6 Shift project, she laughs and says it has to be one of the most ridiculous things she has ever heard.

    Saiai Kinuhata 

Saiai Kinuhata

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Voiced by: Chinatsu Akasaki (Japanese), Apphia Yu (English)

Second in command of ITEM. Her ability, Offense Armor, allows her to compress and solidify nitrogen in the atmosphere to act as a barrier and is ranked Level 4.


  • A-Cup Angst: She was devastated that she has the smallest cup size in ITEM, even smaller than Frenda's, and when she misinterprets Shiage's reason for Musashino milk for her, she tries to kill him. In chapter 78 (Railgun T, Episode 18), she fights Mikoto over an Indian Poker that was supposed to hold the secret to increase breast size.
  • Adaptational Modesty: Her attire in Railgun, compare to her appearance in Index. At least, until Railgun's Dream Ranker arc, which takes place around the Battle Royale arc.
  • Affably Evil: She's less sadistic than Mugino and generally professional, but she's completely unfazed by the idea of killing people or watching Mugino torture them.
  • Attack Reflector: She can use her nitrogen barriers as a limited version since she graduated from the Dark May Project which studied Accelerator's powers.
  • Barrier Warrior: Her ability, Offense Armor, is mostly defensive.
  • Blow You Away: Nitrogen makes up 70% of the air, so she can generate small air currents by controlling the nitrogen.
  • Buffy Speak: Talks like this almost all the time, especially with her habit of inserting "ultra" into every sentence.
  • Child Prodigy: The "honor student" of the Dark May Project.
  • Cute Bruiser: It is Offense Armor after all. Her fighting style involves tanking hits, punching people, and throwing cars.
  • Evil Counterpart: She has one in Umidori Kuroyoru, her kouhai from the Dark May Project, who first appears in New Testament 1. They have practically the same power, with Umidori's focusing on offense and Saiai's on defense.
  • Gosh Darn It to Heck!: Has a habit to say "super" ("ultra" in the dub) in all of her conversations, when she tries to add an expletive. This is due to her past as a subject to the Dark May Project, in which the researchers added some of Accelerator's speech patterns into her mind.
  • Immune to Bullets: Her Offense Armor lets her block bullets, which she does with no expression. Afterward, though, it becomes clear that it still really hurts, and sufficiently high-powered shots can stagger her even with a successful block.
  • The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort: Her Offense Armor is so durable that she's completely nonchalant about getting threatened by guns.
  • Locked Out of the Loop: Does not know about the magic side.
  • Meaningful Name: Her full name translates to "Beloved Silk Flag".
  • Never My Fault: Played for Laughs. She tries to beat up Hamazura for seeing her panties, despite teasing him earlier by playfully pulling her sweater up but accidentally flipped it up.
  • Signature Sound Effect: In the anime, her ability has the same sound effect with Accelerator's. This foreshadows her being part of the Dark May Project, an experiment done to replicate Accelerator's powers.
  • Super-Strength: Subverted. To those unaware of her powers, it looks like her power is this, but all she's doing is controlling super-compressed nitrogen gas a few centimeters from her body.
  • The Tease: Loves to tease Shiage with her body, then calling him a pervert afterward.
  • Tyke Bomb: She's twelve years old, and a remnant of the Dark May Project designed to replicate Accelerator's powers. Despite this, however, she's actually pretty mentally stable, especially compared to her kouhai Umidori and even amongst the rest of ITEM.
  • Unabashed B-Movie Fan: Loves watching B-movies.
  • Verbal Tic: "Chou!"note 
  • You Shall Not Pass!: Holds the line when Hisako Yukami attacks her and Shiage with man-eating cockroaches.

    Rikou Takitsubo 

Rikou Takitsubo

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Voiced by: Aya Suzaki (Japanese), Megan Shipman (English)

A member of ITEM. Her ability, ranked at Level 4, is AIM Stalker, which allows her to trace the AIM fields of other Espers.


  • Amplifier Artifact: Body Crystal, a powdery substance that temporarily amplifies the user's abilities.
  • Casual Sports Jersey: She wears the same pink tracksuit and pants all the time.
  • Clingy Jealous Girl: Has been developing this as of New Testament, due to the increasing number of girls Hamazura finds himself surrounded by.
  • Damsel in Distress: Thanks to the damage to her body by Body Crystal, this is basically her entire role in the plot. Lampshaded by Mugino, who tells her to drop the "tragic heroine" act and asks her if she's a mere "helpless princess".
  • Living MacGuffin: After being healed from Body Crystal's damage, she gets hunted by Academy City because her power can now basically render the entire Power Development Curriculum obsolete.
  • Locked Out of the Loop: Does not know about the Magic side.
  • Magical Sensory Effect: Later volumes show that her power is not limited to sensing esper powers, but can somehow sense some magical stuff, such as the auras of the Battle Aura of the members of the Golden Dawn and Anna Sprengel. Nepththys and Niang-Niang even compares her to a spirit medium and warn her to be careful of what she is channeling.
  • Miscarriage of Justice: The ITEM novel reveals that her reason for joining ITEM was because she was once victim of a Frame-Up by a lab after her power, hoping to make her disappear while she's in jail. Mugino saved her by managing to have the case against her dismissed, and subsequently recruited her.
  • Nice Girl: She puts Hamazura's safety before hers and has no problem using herself as bait to lure out enemies so her friends can escape.
  • Official Couple: With Hamazura.
  • Phlebotinum Overdose: Overuse of Body Crystal causes ill effects on the user's abilities, which forces them to use even more of the substance in order to use their powers properly.
  • Power Copying: Implied to be how her power is supposed to work after being healed; she can use her ability to replicate the abilities of other espers by controlling their AIM fields.
  • Power Incontinence: Her power's weakness is that she has to let it go berserk on its own through the Applied Phlebotinum for it to be useful.
  • Rescue Romance: She and Hamazura fall in love after he saves her.
  • Satellite Love Interest: Is Hamazura's girlfriend. Apart from that, not much is shown regarding herself as a character.
  • Sensor Character: The primary use of her power.
  • Sleepyhead: Often seen dozing off and can also sleep with her eyes open!
  • Spanner in the Works: Her power unknowingly caused the defeat of Teitoku Kakine in NT Vol. 6.
  • The Stoic: Rarely shows emotion and maintains a static expression more often than not.
  • Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Hardly ever shows emotion, even to her boyfriend, but she's still affectionate towards him and constantly worries about him as she cries and rushes to hug him when he makes it out of his second fight with Mugino alive.
  • Super Drowning Skills: Being sickly with poor stamina, she is a poor swimmer. When ITEM relaxes at a pool, she just does the Dead Man's Float.
  • Superpower Lottery: After she is healed, it's heavily implied she can now reach Level 5. This would allow her to control the AIM Fields of other Espers. The possibilities of this are pretty much endless.
  • Token Good Teammate: She doesn't really want to hurt anyone as she's only a part of ITEM so she can have a place to belong to. She's the only member of the group apart from Hamazura to actually show any concern for anyone else.

    Frenda Seivelun 

Frenda Seivelun

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Voiced by: Maaya Uchida (Japanese), Leah Clark (English)

One of the main combatants of ITEM, she has a knack for explosives and exceptional hand-to-hand capabilities.


  • Adaptation Expansion: Receives almost no development in the Index storyline as Mugino killed her off fairly quickly after her debut in the novels, but Volume 5 of the Railgun manga rectifies this. Later on, she has an 'appearance' of sorts in NT 6 and is involved in the storyline of NT 12. Her little sister also becomes a recurring character.
  • Adaptational Heroism: In the original light novel, all we're told is that she betrays ITEM to SCHOOL out of fear, then goes into hiding until Mugino finds and kills her. In the anime, however, it's shown that Kakine actually tortures the information out of her (possibly with the help of some Mind Rape by Measure Heart), which makes her considerably more sympathetic (and her death that much sadder).
  • Ascended Extra: She was a minor character who gets quickly killed off after being introduced in Volume 15. Popularity among the fans gives her more prominent development in the Railgun storyline and events that were influenced by her in New Testament.
  • Badass Normal: The only one of the four who doesn't have esper abilities, instead she uses a combination of explosives and hand-to-hand combat to fight.
  • Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted. The anime shows Frenda getting kicked in the face with bruises by Kakine during her interrogation, and they're still present when Mugino finds her. Even before that event, her fight against Yumiya in the Dream Ranker arc shows her losing half of her left ear and getting injured from being shot.
  • Big Sister Worship: A non-blood-related example to Mugino, even bragging to Kuroko of the former's superiority over Mikoto.
  • Blood Knight: A mild example.
  • Call-Forward: Her appearance in Railgun is this in a horrific manner. When fighting against Mikoto after nearly getting her legs blown off, she notes that they are her best feature, and when interrogated, she couldn't spill the beans due to her tongue being paralyzed, and in the final episode of the Railgun S anime, shows a camera shot of only her lower body when relaxing with her teammates by the pool. Now with all of these clues, you can pretty much guess what happens when the events of the Battle Royal Arc comes rolling in.
    • A popular Japanese meme is putting slashes or spaces in her name to memorate this.
  • Came Back Wrong: In NT 5th volume. Subverted, when it turned out to be a man trying to defeat Mugino with a Shape Shifter Guilt Trip, which failed.
  • Cold-Blooded Torture: The anime shows her being casually roughed up by Kakine before she breaks and gives up the info on ITEM.
  • Combat Pragmatist: Justified. She'll set traps, use explosives, and anything it would take to win a fight against espers.
  • Cool Big Sis: To her little sister Fremea and Shinka Kanou.
  • Cute and Psycho: In battle.
    "I said earlier that the target's life is of no interest, but I get a special feeling whenever I end them. That instant when you pluck a life, it feels like I've conquered their destiny. In the end...It's like they were born just to be killed by me."
  • D-Cup Distress: Downplayed. She admits that having a bigger breast size is annoying as she'll have to buy new bras instead of things she likes.
  • Dies Wide Open: Her eyes are wide-open and blankly staring when Mugino drops what's left of her in front of Hamazura.
  • Dirty Coward: Implied in her first appearance in the light novels, where she was willing to sell out her team if her life was threatened. This would turn out to be her Fatal Flaw. This trope doesn't apply so much in other media, where she's shown to be brave and enthusiastic in a fight (and the "selling out" thing was more a case of Cold-Blooded Torture).
  • Doomed by Canon: Regardless of her development in Railgun, she still dies by the events of Volume 15 in the Index storyline.
  • Ear Ache: Loses half of her left ear against Yumiya in the Dream Ranker arc, but her hair manages to neatly cover it afterward (or perhaps it was repaired by Academy City medicine).
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She loved her younger sister and made sure to keep Fremea away from the morally dubious and shady nature of the Dark Side. She also has a close sibling-like bond with Shinka Kanou and many acquaintances outside of the Dark Side. Furthermore, while she has no problems with betraying them to save herself when having her life threatened, she does care about her teammates in ITEM.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: While she will betray those around her in order to survive, even close friends, it's shown that she doesn't really like it. It's best shown during her fight against Yumiya, where both she and Ruiko is running away from the SCHOOL sniper.
  • Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Her bombs take the form of stuffed animals.
  • Gone Horribly Right: Frenda herself is an example on a meta level. When he wrote volume 15, Kamachi told his character designer to make her "cute" so people wouldn't anticipate her getting killed off. As he admits in the afterword to New Testament 12, this backfired by causing her to become incredibly popular among fans.
  • Gratuitous Foreign Language:
    • Subverted in her fight against Mikoto. When Frenda is on the losing end, she starts to sing in a language of which the latter couldn't understand despite being trilingual, only for her to explain that it's completely made up before turning the tables.
    • Played straight after The Reveal of her heritage as Norwegian; speaking the words ha det branote  and deilignote .
  • Groin Attack: Performs one on an innocent bystander whom she mistakes for an enemy sniper.
  • Half the Man He Used to Be: Mugino's expressions of displeasure are very direct. Frenda is very, very unlikely to repeat the mistake of betraying ITEM.
  • Hidden Buxom: Downplayed. It's not really noticeable, but chapter 78 of Railgun (Episode 18 of Railgun T) shows Frenda being a bit more endowed after her shower. This leaves Saiai in awe and envy of her own smaller chest.
  • Hidden Depths: New Testament 12 reveals that she held a very personal space in the top area of the Dianoid in District 15, where she collected birthday gifts for everyone she knows; even ITEM didn't know where it was. This is where Touma finds the MacGuffin necessary to overthrow St. Germain's machinations on Shinka Kanou.
  • Hoist by Her Own Petard: Drops one of the devices she used to ignite the explosive strips after she filled the room with an "explosive mist", screwing over her entire bluff.
  • I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!: One episode of Railgun T depicts her love of mackerel as an outright addiction. Not only is she willing to go to great lengths to get it, but she claims that if deprived of it she gets the shakes and starts to hallucinate.
  • Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Although she did rather well in her fight against Mikoto. Later averted in her appearance in Railgun's Dream Ranker arc.
  • Kick Chick: In the Railgun S animated adaptation at least, she seems to be a Tae-Kwondo practitioner who focuses almost exclusively on kicking in combat, including her preferred Coup De Grace with a bladed shoe.
  • Leg Focus: She loves to flaunt her legs by exclusively using them in combat.
  • Mundane Utility: She uses her explosives to open canned food.
  • Never Got to Say Goodbye: Justified as Frenda was killed by Mugino during the Battle Royal arc, thus leaving her younger sister, Kanou, Saten, and many other close acquaintances either in grief or not knowing what happened to her.
  • Non-Specifically Foreign: Due to her blonde hair and blue eyes, it's quite apparent that Frenda isn't of Japanese birth, but for the longest time, the series doesn't specify her true nationality. Ruiko also take note of this In-Universe, wondering what country Frenda is from. It's eventually revealed by the Railgun editor, Ogino Kentarou, that Frenda and her younger sister are of Norwegian descent.
  • Odd Friendship: She forms a quick one with Ruiko Saten in the Dream Ranker Arc; the latter is also a Level 0 but has Undying Loyalty to her friends.
  • Phenotype Stereotype: She's a caucasian girl of Norwegian descent with blonde hair and blue-eyes.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: In the anime version of the Dream Ranker Arc, her eyes briefly flashes this color right before giving a Dynamic Entry to Yumiya.
  • Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Killed by Mugino for making a deal with rival organization SCHOOL, albeit under threat, during the Battle Royale Arc. Alluded to in a bit of dark humour in Railgun, where she tries to give up ITEM's identity to Mikoto during the Sisters Arc — but can't when she discovers her tongue is paralyzed, preventing her from speaking.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: In regard to the main story; she's introduced and killed off in a single volume, but Mugino later becomes highly protective of her little sister to atone for her murder.
  • Stuff Blowing Up: Her specialty.
  • Team Normal: Before Shiage join the team, Frenda was the only member of ITEM to not have esper abilities.
  • Tears of Fear: In the anime as she's on her knees facing Mugino, who's getting ready to execute her for her betrayal.
  • Token Minority: One of the only non-Japanese characters from the Science Side, as she's of Norwegian descent.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Canned mackerel, and later on, mackerel curry.
  • Trap Master: She doesn't seem to have any ability, so she relies on setting up explosive dolls and flammable strips against her opponents. In a direct fight, her abilities are only mediocre at best, but by using trickery she can maintain an advantage over those who should stomp her into the pavement.
  • Undying Loyalty: Horribly averted. When she couldn't confess to Mikoto when being interrogated, the latter assumes this trope but the readers are already aware that it really isn't.
  • Verbal Tic: Kekkyokunote 
  • Worf Had the Flu: She basically owns Yumiya in hand-to-hand combat, but her previous wounds end up impeding her movements to where the latter is able to incapacitate her.

    Shiage Hamazura 

Shiage Hamazura

He Who Defies Finality

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Voiced by: Satoshi Hino (Japanese), Clifford Chapin (English)

A Level 0 and former Skill-Out gangster. As a former lackey, grunt, chaffeur, and informant of Team ITEM, he delved into Academy City's Dark Side and turned into an anomaly that made a habit of spectacularly derailing carefully-planned schemes, including Aleister's, which made him a wanted man. It must suck to be him.


  • Action Survivor: Compared to Touma, he has no superpowers, so he relies on guile, weapons, and luck to win and survive.
  • Always Someone Better: Poor guy feels this way about both Accelerator and Touma.
  • Anti-Hero: While he's not quite as...cavalier about killing as Accelerator, Shiage has absolutely no qualms executing people in cold blood if he perceives them to be a threat for even a second. Likewise, he has zero issues torturing for information. Anyone from sent from Academy City to hunt him down and kill him finds this out the hard way.
  • Awesomeness by Analysis: He uses his intelligence to his advantage to outsmart higher level espers who underestimate him or rely heavily on their powers. He also is shown to be a great tactician.
  • Badass Biker: Hopping onto the Dragon Rider qualifies him. But, that thing is so technologically advanced that just about anyone can kick ass with it.
  • Badass Driver: Most of what he does when with allied with high level espers. Its one of his few real skills and since he is very good at stealing cars as well he is able to employ his driving talents quite often.
  • Badass Normal: Unlike Touma, he's a true Level 0 with absolutely no powers or abilities, yet still manages to take down a Level 5 more than once. Also, unlike Touma, that was without anyone's help.
  • Badass on Paper: One look at him and most people would dismiss him as nothing but an ordinary delinquent with a fetish for bunny girls. Who managed beat a Level 5 all by himself, at the same time unintentionally flushing Crowley's plans along the drain. But alas, he has his limits (see Can't Catch Up below).
  • Because You Were Nice to Me: Rikou was the only member of ITEM who didn't just treat him as an errand boy, spurring him to help her when she begins suffering the side effects of Body Crystal, even confronting the #4 Level 5 Mugino for her sake. Mugino once scoffed that he's quite egocentric to judge the quality of others' character by on how they treat him specifically.
  • Book Dumb: He’s a Level 0 dropout, but that doesn't mean he's stupid in fights.
  • Butt-Monkey: He gets his ass kicked by Accelerator, who succeeds in killing his boss. He then took over as leader of one of the biggest Skill-Out gangs in Academy city... only to be beaten up by Touma and Accelerator on his first day! Then he became an informant/errand boy for ITEM, who treats him with no respect. Then, when he finally manned up, he is forced to run away with his girlfriend after pissing off Aleister and a psychotic Mugino! Boy is he unlucky.
  • Can't Catch Up: Being a Badass Normal has its limits, especially if you hang out with exceptionally skilled and powerful people. In NT Vol 7, when they are attacked by a swarm of man-eating cockroaches, Saiai says he is useless in this situation and orders him to run while she holds them off, much to his chagrin.
  • Combat Pragmatist: Esper powers? Magic? Screw that! He's got a gun.
  • Cool Bike: The Dragon Rider in New Testament Volume 1.
  • Cooldown Hug: Gives one to none other than Mugino. It works, and she joins his harem.
  • David Versus Goliath: A completely powerless individual, and still he manages to beat down the opposition.
  • Defeating the Undefeatable: He can't claim to win against someone with a Superpower Lottery like Touma (in fact, he did lose to Touma in a straight-up fight), but he still beat a Level 5 three times. Then he sends all of Aleister's plans down the drain.
  • Delinquents: A former Skill-Out.
  • Determinator: Another reason why he is called "He Who Defies Finality".
    "Everyone has things I don’t. No matter how much I struggle, I just can't obtain them and yet I still have a final goal that I want to grab no matter what."
  • Do Not Go Gentle: In Volume 21, the injured, powerless Acqua of the Back tells him to leave him be to die so Shiage can proceed with his objective. His response...
    "...what about the person who is waiting for you at home? You've managed to survive such situations for a long time. That time you saved me and my friends, it didn't seem like anything special to you, as that was the path you walked. So a guy like you will never be alone. Even if you don't think about it, there are several people relying on you. What will happen to them? To die for the sake of the world, to die to protect others, who would accept such stupid excuses?! They are unacceptable! The reason you fight is not to let those waiting for you to not be able to do anything other than cry! Stand up, hero! Stand up!
  • The Everyman: Initially a random Skill-out thug who turned over a new leaf, gained a girlfriend, newfound friends (one of them tried to kill him), and now goes on to take on odd jobs to help out ITEM.
  • Fetish: Has one for bunny girls, shown when he forwards a porn video to his ITEM teammates. It becomes his staple for the following volumes. He's so much into it that just having Saiai stick a bunny behind Rikou (thus making it look like she is wearing bunny-ears) is enough to give him a nosebleed.
  • Fighter, Mage, Thief: The Thief to Touma's Fighter and Accelerator's Mage.
  • Fighting Your Friend: In comparison to their first fight, Touma and Shiage's second clash in New Testament 12 is completely without malice and is instead about what to do about St. Germain. Shiage wants to challenge him because in order to protect ITEM, while Touma wants to avoid any interaction with St. Germain because he thinks St. Germain's claim of being on par with the Magic Gods means he is capable of recreating the world just like Othinus, which understandably freaks Touma out. Shiage wins, but Touma at least manages to take out his Power Lifter before he does.
  • From Nobody to Nightmare: He was just a completely unremarkable Level 0. Then he sent all of Aleister's plans crashing down.
  • Good Is Not Soft: He’s normally a kind, humble guy (as shown in Volume 15), but when push comes to shove he's willing to fight.
  • Guile Hero: Even to a much greater extent than Touma.
  • The Gunslinger: He isn't just skilled in the use of pistols, but is also quite proficient in high-power automatic rifles and spaz-shotguns.
  • Heel–Face Turn: It can be easy to forget that this guy tried to murder Mikoto's mother in his first appearance before he was defeated and turned over a new leaf.
  • Heroic Bystander: Became one to save Rikou in Volume 15.
  • Homage: To Kamen Rider in New Testament Volume 1.
  • Hollywood Hacking: He can break into a full-on Academy City security system with nothing but a cellphone. A system which, no doubt, Aleister had a hand in creating.
  • I Just Want to Be Special: Like most members of Skill-Out, he was resentful and insecure about not having an esper ability. In New Testament, when he learns about magic, he jumps at the chance to learn it, only for Levinia Birdway to tell him he won't be able to use it, much to his disappointment.
  • Improv Fu: His usual method of fighting higher level opponents, which works surprisingly often.
  • Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Mess with his girl, and he will make you talk...
  • The Kirk: Between Touma's McCoy and Accelerator's Spock.
  • Last Episode, New Character: Of Season 2.
  • Love Redeems: Used to be a criminal delinquent while in Skill-Out before meeting Rikou.
  • MacGyvering: Especially evident in New Testament Volume 3.
  • Made of Iron: Like many a protagonist, he's taken some serious damage and kept on coming, like getting shrapnel in his back and then a screwdriver in his ear.
  • My Greatest Failure: He regards failing to stop Mugino from killing Frenda as this.
  • My Hero, Zero: Mocked as a Level 0, total ass-kicker.
  • Mundanger: A rare heroic version. His determination to protect Takitsubo from an Ax-Crazy Mugino led to him defeating her all on his own, which made Aleister Crowley, for the first time in his Long-Lived life, completely panic.
  • Nice Guy: Even if his bosses are bitchy, demanding girls.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: You just made Mugino even more unstable, and for that Aleister and his goons want you and everyone you care about dead.
  • Ninja Log: Once replaced himself with a stack of cardboard boxes. Mugino even asked if he was a ninja.
  • Odd Friendship: With Acqua of the Back in Volume 21, as well as Misaka WORST in New Testament Volume 3.
  • Official Couple: With Rikou.
  • The Power of Love: He will protect his girl from anyone who seeks to harm her, even if that person is Accelerator!
  • Powered Armor: As of New Testament, he seems to have this as his niche whenever he has to hold his own in a fight alongside other heavy hitters like the others in ITEM or Touma or Accelerator. See the Dragon Rider in New Testament 1, the Power Lifter in New Testament 12, and the Processor Suit.
  • Punch-Clock Villain: He's not a real bad guy, but his affiliations with Skill-Out and ITEM means he's taken plenty of unscrupulous jobs. Hell, his very first appearance involves him attempting to assassinate Mikoto's mother. All said and done, he's more or less The Heart of whatever respective group he's a part of.
  • Pragmatic Hero: No esper powers, no sorcery, no magical items, no real noteworthy skills. He has to rely entirely on his wits to stay ahead, which at times leads him to be ruthless.
  • Protectorate: Despite the circumstances, he would protect ITEM, especially Rikou from all dangers including itself.
  • Psychotic Love Triangle: Played for Laughs, with Misaka WORST and Umidori in New Testament Volume 3.
  • Screams Like a Little Girl: At the beginning of New Testament volume 3 when Kuroyoru points out that he's alone with her.
  • Smoking Is Cool: He lights up a cigarette in Volume 15. Notably, after falling in love with Rikou he's never shown doing it again, implying that he dropped the habit altogether; considering what the pair went through to fix her body during the last arc of OT and their guardianship of Fremea from NT onwards, it's probably for the best.
  • Spanner in the Works: He was a complete nobody who somehow managed to screw over Aleister's plans time and time again, with the first act being defeating Mugino. The fact that he was capable of undermining such plans by his mere presence becomes discussed in the Coronzon Arc.
    Accelerator: While that board chairman was working on her godawful plan, there was someone she tried to have killed because he was a dangerous and unpredictable element. I know he came to England, but I want you to figure out if he ever made it to London. You can do that since all sorts of information finds its way to the capital, right? Now that I’ve experienced it for myself, I can tell. It’s a kind of stealth. His presence just disappeared. …So why does he exist? He barely has any presence at all, but at times like this, you never know when he’ll introduce a glitch onto the game board and make it all freeze up. He’s completely hidden. It’s the same uneasy feeling as noticing a mistake in the source code only to never find it again when you scroll back up. It shouldn’t matter, but if you ignore it, it could develop into a critical error.
  • Spell My Name With An S: His name is officially Hamadura, but is pronounced Hamazura.
  • The Unchosen One: As far as everyone was concerned, he was a nothing but a powerless loser with no future. Then, all through his determination to survive and protect his loved ones, he becomes a major player whom Aiwass considers equally important to Touma and Accelerator.
  • Undying Loyalty: To ITEM. Even after the team breaks up, his constant determination in keeping all the members alive results in Mugino's turn.
  • Unwanted Harem: As of Volume 22 he's officially a member of ITEM, who they refer to as "lackey".
  • Weak, but Skilled: While he has no supernatural power, he knows how to use a gun, is skilled in hand-to-hand combat, and is actually quite intelligent.
  • Would Hit a Girl: Don't mess with his girl, even if you're a girl.
    • Also, he was secretly recruited by the Dark Side to whack off Misaka's mom for trying to snoop in Academy City.


SCHOOL

    Teitoku Kakine 

Teitoku Kakine

The One Who Has Touched the Territory of God

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Voiced by: Masaya Matsukaze (Japanese), Daman Mills (English)

Academy City's second most powerful Level 5 esper, and the leader of SCHOOL. His ability, Dark Matter, allows him to create entirely new forms of matter that aren't bound by the laws of physics. Kakine's power is hinted to be related to Accelerator's in some way, and he is the only other esper with the potential to become a Level 6. He has a rather one-sided rivalry with Accelerator, with his fondest wish being to defeat him.


  • Absurdly Sharp Blade: The tips of the wings.
  • Attack Reflector: His Dark Matter can be made to even reflect attacks Accelerator throws at him.
  • Affably Evil: Provided you don't directly oppose or hinder his objectives, he's actually a half-decent guy.
  • Always Someone Better: Despite his immense power, Accelerator is number 1 and he's number 2. This gets rammed home when they both "Awaken" during their first battle, yet Kakine still loses despite fully mastering his power and Accelerator being reduced to an unthinking Unstoppable Rage.
  • And I Must Scream: His brain is preserved and forced to create a constant stream of Dark Matter after his "death" by Accelerator. Happens again in New Testament 8 when he his compressed into a ball, and noted to still be alive in this state. He was later left to sink into the ocean with the Sargasso base.
  • Arc Villain: For the Battle Royale Arc overall, a position he technically shares with Saku Tatsuhiko (Tatsuhiko is attempting a full-on rebellion to take over Academy City, while Kakine is the most powerful villainous threat whose own goals are mutually exclusive but more personal towards the other members of the cast).
  • Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: He's incredibly confident in his own power, looks down on everyone else, and hates the fact that Accelerator is stronger than him.
  • Asshole Victim: He deserved everything Accelerator did to him.
  • Awesomeness by Analysis: He can read past events in a given location by examining the impressions left in the surrounding area. He compares this to how a CD stores sound and images by having tracks etched in it. This was how he was able to imitate the Misaka Sisters for his Shape Shifter Guilt Trip.
  • Badass Boast: Delivers a lot.
    Kakine: Are you making fun of me? Cause it sounds to me like you want to become a nice corpse.
    Kakine: This is a difference in the freedom our powers give us. And that difference is insurmountable for you. I need not even do anything. I do not simply have an infinite supply of Dark Matter. My inspiration also knows no bounds. No matter how many cards you gather in your hand, I can push it back with brute force as numbers means nothing to me. Nothing you do will ever even reach me. To reach me, you first need to climb over the wall of infinity that continues on eternally.
    Kakine: I don't care who you are. It doesn't matter what you've built up. I'm not interested in what you'll give to the world. Good and evil? Kindness and malice? Gain and loss? Positive and negative? We can let historians decide that a hundred years from now. All I know is what fate you deserve for trying to use me as a tool!!
  • Berserk Button:
    • When he's told his ability — more specifically, his white wings — would have appeal to kids for a demonstration during the Daihaseisai, he wrecks SCHOOL's hideout. Considering his one-sided rivalry with Accelerator, being told you have appeal to kids is the ego equivalent of a kick to the balls. Toaru Kagaku no Dark Matter manga later reveals that this is actually a fresh wound - Ringo Yuzuriha, young girl whom Teitoku recently failed to save, absolutely adored his wings, and this argument reminded him about her death. Ringo's death also reminded Kakine of the death of his childhood friend several years prior, who also similarly adored his wings. In general, comments about his wings is a touchy subject, though he later on brushes off Accelerator insulting his wings twice.
    • Kakine is absolutely furious when Accelerator actually shows him mercy after defeating him thanks to Yomikawa. He's unable to understand how someone like Accelerator was able to escape the Dark Side and goes into a hate filled rant while torturing Yomikawa intent on taking everything important away from Accelerator.
  • Be the Ball: Othinus crushes him into a ball.
  • Big Creepy-Crawlies: Post-ressurection, he seems to have taken an interest in creating an army of car-sized bugs.
  • Black Eyes of Crazy: After his resurrection.
  • Brain in a Jar: After his "dismemberment" by Accelerator, both his brain and body are preserved and stored separately. He eventually made a new body out of Dark Matter and was released. His original flesh and blood body was captured by GREMLIN at the end of NT Vol. 6. They use a device to force it to create Dark Matter that they can mold into the sacred spear Gungnir.
  • Brilliant, but Lazy: One may even say "Brilliant AND Lazy" in Volume 6 after his resurrection. Both he and Accelerator spend most of the volume trying to read each other's moves and plan accordingly. Kakine even goes as far as to choose specific locations and screws with Accelerator's mental state, forcing his Reflection to become useless. However, once he directly faces off against Accelerator and Mugino, Kakine's regeneration and infinite Dark Matter essentially allows him to take everything the two Level 5's have and regenerate from it. The novel makes the point that Accelerator, even with his Black Wings and Mugino simply do not have the power and/or energy to fully destroy him and that Kakine can basically be lazy and outlast them until they either make a mistake and/or run out of energy.
  • Came Back Strong: Zig-Zagged example. He took a final level in badass during the last leg of the fight with Accelerator, but it did nothing to save him from his now-berserk opponent tearing him apart. After reviving in New Testament, however, his time as a Brain in a Jar and mastering that newly awakened power to re-create his body allows him to overpower Accelerator and Mugino working together thanks figuring out how to clone himself and regenerate constantly. In the end, he only loses again due to quite-literal internal sabotage.
  • Combat Pragmatist: Intended to take Last Order hostage as "insurance" against Accelerator, though the latter intercepted him as he was interrogating Uiharu for Last Order's whereabouts, admitting that a fair fight with Accelerator was troublesome (though he still proceeded to fight Accelerator head on). It's revealed in Toaru Kagaku no Dark Matter that Kakine spent a month gathering and analyzing data on Accelerator's calculation patterns in preparation for their eventual fight. In New Testament 6, Dark Matter Kakine's strategy was to stall Accelerator via Zerg Rush and his new immortality until his battery ran out before finishing him off.
  • Combo Platter Powers: His ability, Dark Matter, allows him to create and control matter that does not exist in this universe and defies the laws of physics of everything it makes contact with, allowing him to give various new properties to normal matter.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: He spent Volume 15 one-shotting everyone he went up against without getting a scratch, until he went up against Accelerator.
  • Death of Personality: Beetle 05 basically erased him and took his place. He later comes back in his old flesh and blood body, only to be stopped by Othinus.
  • Determinator: Even being impaled with his own wings by Accelerator is only enough to incapacitate him for a few minutes.
  • Equivalent Exchange: Completely averted like a great big middle finger to physics. Dark Matter is explicitly a form of matter that doesn't exist in this universe outside of what Kakine makes with his ability, and the only limit on how much he can make or even what properties it has at any time seems to be his own stamina and imagination.
  • Evil Counterpart: He's Accelerator with less standards.
  • Evil Sounds Raspy: In Japanese, he has a raspy, soft and malicious tone.
  • Fatal Flaw: In NT Vol 6, Mugino points out that, despite his immense power, he always loses in the end because he overestimates himself and doesn't know how to quit while he is ahead.
  • Fighting a Shadow: If his body is destroyed, he will recreate himself using Dark Matter and return to create even more of it. It's also noted that even the Kakine that Accelerator and Mugino fight in Volume 6 is merely just a portion of the entire system that makes up Kakine Teitoku as a whole. Near the end of New Testament it's revealed that both the 'Kakine' that appeared in New Testament 5 and 6 and Beetle 05 were actually the Dark Matter ability itself becoming sentient, with parts of the original Kakine's personality imprinted on them, being directly compared to the Emanation of Touma.
  • Foil: To Accelerator. Where Accelerator excels at destruction, Kakine's entire ability revolves around creation. This is actually lampshaded in NT Volume 5. In NT Volume 6, he is compared to Mugino the same way.
  • Friend to All Children: After the protective side of him takes over (with Takitsubo's help) in New Testament 6 a rumor spreads which says that any child who is in trouble just needs to call for him and he will show up.
  • From a Single Cell: He can recreate his body as long as there is even the tiniest particle of Dark Matter.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: It eventually leads to his downfall.
  • Heel–Face Turn: After Beetle 05 takes control of him.
  • Heroic Self-Deprecation: A villainous example. He openly refers to himself as a scumbag and a mongrel twice in Volume 15. He also believes he is unable to protect anyone.
    Kakine: In the end, you're the same as me, unable to protect anyone. And after this, many more will die, killed by a mongrel like me.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard:
    • In Volume 15, Accelerator uses his own Dark Matter against him to finish him off, having learned how to redirect it even before Awakening.
    • In NT Vol 6, he spreads his consciousness too thin, allowing one of the rhinoceros beetles he created to develop free will and then take him over.
  • Humanoid Abomination: After his resurrection.
  • Imagination-Based Superpower: Since Kakine can give just about any properties he wants, he can merge his Dark Matter with mundane objects (such as air) to create all sorts of effects, including Attack Reflector, Intangibility, brainwashing, firing radiation, Nigh-Invulnerability and Flight.
  • Immortal Life Is Cheap: Gets his body repeatedly destroyed by Mugino and Accelerator during their fight, and it doesn't hinder him in the least.
  • Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: When Uiharu wouldn't tell him the location of Last Order, he tries to get the information out of her by stomping on her shoulder, dislocating it, and continuing to put pressure on it. In the anime, this is also how he 'persuades' Frenda to reveal the location of ITEM's hideout.
  • Jerkass: Even worse than Accelerator.
  • Lack of Empathy: Just as much as, if not more than, Accelerator.
  • Light Is Not Good: Despite his angelic appearance and using weaponized light as his main attack, Kakine isn't a very nice person.
  • Meaningful Name: His name can roughly be translated as "Emperor of the Front Fence."
  • "Not So Different" Remark: At least that's what he thought, and before Accelerator met Touma and Last Order, he might have even been right. Volume 15 heavily implies that much like Accelerator, Kakine too went through something difficult that turned him into the bitter person he is today. His own spinoff manga finally sheds light on it and reveals Kakine is effectively an Accelerator that failed to save the people he cared about.
  • Not Worth Killing: He has absolutely no compassion or remorse, but he will sometimes leave his opponents alive if they are completely helpless or already dying, just because he thinks it would be beneath him to waste energy on them. Such is the case when he realizes Takitsubo is dying from Body Crystal overuse and Shiage can't do anything to hurt him, so he just leaves the ITEM base despite his original goal being to kill Takitsubo due to her AIM Stalker ability.
  • Obviously Evil: He wears a dark maroon suit and most of the time has an evil grin on his face, so it makes you clear that he isn't a nice guy at all even if he's pretending to be.
  • The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Toward Accelerator.
  • Our Angels Are Different: He's the only other Esper aside from Accelerator who has the potential to "Awaken" and reach Level 6 naturally, while Mikoto only did so through outside means. Despite this, his "complete" Awakening still loses to Accelerator's uncontrolled one.
  • Our Dark Matter Is Mysterious: His "Dark Matter" isn't really what science knows as dark matter (which theoretically should exist). He defines it as matter that just plain doesn't exist outside of his power (The correct scientific term for it would be Exotic matter).
    Kakine: The Dark Matter that I produce is a substance that does not exist in this world. I don't mean it hasn't been discovered, but that it should theoretically exist; I mean, it actually does not exist. Matter that doesn't exist operates under laws which don't exist. Like say, turning the light from the sun into rays that can kill a man.
  • Person of Mass Destruction: If not for Othinus' intervention, he likely would have destroyed the entire island-sized Sargasso along with the remaining GREMLIN members in a fit of rage.
  • Pet the Dog: His interactions with Ringo Yuzuriha in Toaru Kagaku no Dark Matter.
  • Pitiful Worms: Uses this line on Accelerator at one point.
    Kakine: Be crushed by the symbol of your own sins and die, you worm.
  • Phlebotinum-Handling Equipment/Tricked-Out Gloves: Wields the Pincet Glove aka Tweezers, which allow the wearer to pick up and manipulate microscopic things like nanobots. The Pincet Glove used to be a very bulky and impractical device, but Kakine modified it to comfortably fit on his hand.
  • Power Gives You Wings: He prefers to manifest his Dark Matter as six white angel-like wings coming out of his back, which Accelerator mocks by calling him a "fairy." When he "awakens", the wings' composition changes slightly, though it's not seen exactly what effects they would have because he gets trashed by Accelerator shortly afterwards.
  • The Power of Creation: Once again, his esper ability lets him create material that can not only defy the laws of the universe, but also give it specific or even mutually-conflicting properties to make whatever he wants out of it.
  • Protectorate: Beetle 05 has vowed to protect Fremea Seivelun.
  • Punch-Clock Villain: When he's not hired for something, he's somewhat normal.
  • The Resenter: Toward Accelerator.
  • Redemption Demotion: After the Split-Personality Takeover, he does not actively use Self-Duplication to prevent his previous personality from taking over.
  • Reduced to Dust: How he kills Souji Kihara in the Toaru Kagaku no Dark Matter manga.
  • Satellite Character: His entire character is defined by his relationship with, and inferiority to, Accelerator.
  • Self-Duplication: When he succeeded in recreating his body, nothing prevented him from using this power to create a never-ending army of his copies to overrun Accelerator with numbers.
  • Shape Shifter Guilt Trip: In NT Vol 6, after Accelerator effortlessly destroys his army of copies, he then makes an army of copies that look, sound, and act like the Misaka Sisters. Accelerator falls into despair, unable to harm them, and is almost killed until Mugino steps in and reminds him that they aren't actually the Misaka Sisters, just extensions of Kakine. This restores Accelerator's will to fight.
  • Split-Personality Takeover: In NT Vol 6, one of the rhinoceros beetles he created, Beetle 05, develops free will. Not wanting to harm anyone, it gains the strength to take control over all of Kakine's creations. It disintegrates them, then transforms into Kakine and declares he is now him. Accelerator and Mugino muse that this beetle must have held the part of Kakine's personality that actually cared about others, buried deep down.
  • Superpower Lottery: Being able to create a form of matter that does not exist in our universe and can give new properties to mundane things and lets you create human flesh certainly counts. His Dark Matter is one of the few things that can actually break through Accelerator's reflection and in NT Volume 6, it is heavily implied that with time, he could even create and implement entire Personal Realities. Indeed in Volume 8, he ends up producing a holistic Esper.
  • Voluntary Shapeshifting: He is said to inherit Byouri's ability to change into several forms based on cryptids. He doesn't use it until his resurrection, though.
  • Unobtanium: After becoming a Brain in a Jar, the Dark Matter it continuously produces was used as the basis for combat masks equipped on certain Academy City soldiers to create Elite Mooks.
  • Ungrateful Bastard: Stabs Yomikawa just after she saves his life from Accelerator.
  • Unknown Rival: Accelerator didn't really care about him until he made it personal by hurting Yomikawa.
  • Unwitting Pawn: His hatred and envy of Accelerator was nurtured and encouraged by Crowley. He was also intended to act as a spare part in Crowley's plan, in case Accelerator failed to live up to his expectations.
  • Villain Ball: Stabbing Yomikawa just to piss off Accelerator.
  • The Worf Effect: As soon as the original Kakine comes back to life, Othinus crushes him.
  • Would Hit a Girl: Let's see: He fights with and defeats Mugino, beats the shit out of Frenda (only in the anime) to get the information he wants, attacks both Saiai and Takitsubo and leaves them for dead, nearly kills Uiharu, wanted to use the innocent and adorable Last Order as bait so he could have a glorified pissing match with Accelerator, and then stabs Yomikawa after she saves his ass from Accelerator.
  • Zerg Rush: His strategy to fight Accelerator in New Testament Volume 6, sending his never-ending army of copies against him.

    Kaibi Gokusai 

Kaibi Gokusai

Girl in the dress

Measure Heart

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Voiced by: Shiori Izawa (Japanese), Marti Etheridge (English)

A member of SCHOOL, and the only one to survive intact after the events of the Battle Royale arc. Her ability is "Measure Heart", the ability to regulate the distance between peoples' minds (hearts).


  • Charm Person: This is basically her power. Measure Heart allows her to manipulate the emotional distance between her and her targets, allowing her to dictate how her targets feel about her.
  • Cloud Cuckoolander: While mostly composed, her legitimate question to Kakine about if Hamazura could possibly have disguised himself as a young mother or a baby can raise some eyebrows.
  • Combat Pragmatist: Attempts to kill Hamazura, Takitsubo, and Mugino with a wrecking ball while they're driving in their van and unprepared, and gets really close to succeeding.
  • Family Theme Naming: Kaibi's younger sister is named Amazora and her older sister is named Rikuri. Their names contain the Japanese words for Sea, Sky, and Land, respectively.
  • Fights Like a Normal: Her esper power, while more useful than at a glance, isn't very offensive-based, but she makes up for it with proficiency in firearms and being fit enough she could keep pace with a running Shiage with seemingly no effort.
  • Glowing Eyes of Doom: Her eyes glow a faint pink when she's using her powers on someone, a fitting color for a Charm Person.
  • Gold Digger: Somewhat. She scams money out of lonely workers by comforting them, but she stops before anything more happens between them. Basically it is Compensated Dating on her terms.
  • Grenade Launcher: A 40 mm one to be exact, and it's small enough to be wielded like a pistol!
  • The Gunslinger: Wields a handgun and a small 40mm grenade launcher.
  • No Name Given: She was unnamed for a long time, only referred to as "the girl in a dress" or "Measure Heart". It was not until late 2019, when the side story novel released in the limited editions of the Accelerator anime DVDs that not only her name was revealed, but that she also has both a younger and an older sister who are fellow assassins.
  • Soft-Spoken Sadist: She normally speaks in a gentle tone when she is calm in order to fake warmth and kindness.
  • Telepathy: Since her power involves mental manipulation, it's a kind of applied telepathy.
  • What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Her ability regulates the distance between peoples' hearts...
    • Heart Is an Awesome Power: ...which she can use to confuse enemies by making her distance identical to someone else's. For example, when Shiage points a gun at her, she makes her heart identical to Takitsubo's, causing Shiage to hesitate to pull the trigger. Objectively, Shiage knows Measure Heart is different from Takitsubo, but his heart is telling him he's targeting Takitsubo. On the other hand, she notes that some targets will go berserk and attack you harder because seeing a loved one as an enemy result in a betrayal response. This is why she does not go with Kakine to help against Accelerator: She reasonably enough thinks he might be that type. Her power is so dangerous that Mugino is wary of fighting her.
    • Emotion Bomb: Again, she makes people feel like she is their loved one.
    • Shape Shifter Guilt Trip: Minus the shapeshifting.

    Banka Yobou 

Banka Yobou

Boy with goggles

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Voiced by: Yūya Hirose (Japanese), Blake McNamara (English)

An agent for SCHOOL, he was the first member of the unit to be killed in action. He's always seen in action with a pair of metallic goggles that is placed over his head like the rings of Saturn, powered with a machine on his back. Banka's a Level 4 Psychokinesist.


  • Amplifier Artifact: Besides being able to interface with computers to extract and analyze data, his weird goggles can amplify his esper power and give him more applications like creating fire, turning invisible, erasing noise, manipulating electronics, etc.
  • Killed Offscreen: Killed by Mugino, who throws his bloodied googles to Hamazura as proof of his death. His death is briefly seen in the manga adaptation of the arc, which shows the end of his fight with Mugino.
  • Mind over Matter: His esper power is Level 4 Psychokinesis, and he is powerful enough to slice a van in half with a wave of his hand.
  • No Name Given: Was simply referred to as the Boy with goggles in the novel, with his real name revealed years after in Railgun.
  • The Quiet One: Doesn't talk in the anime adaptation of his debut arc, while in the novel he only had three short lines. He gets more lines in Railgun manga, however, which is also kept in the anime adaptation this time.
  • Trauma Button: In the past Banka tried to defeat Kakine in a fight to earn the title of Level 5, as he was confident his versatile and powerful ability made him an equal to them. He was soundly beaten and now he gets nauseous when he sees Kakine get angry.

    Rakko Yumiya 

Rakko Yumiya

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Voiced By: Sayumi Suzushiro (Japanese), Emi Lo (English)

The group's main sniper before she got killed in action, she's known to be a student of the Private Shidarezakura Academy.


  • Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Despite her desire to have friends, she believes that true friendship is merely superficial. This leads her into believing that Frenda had no problems with collateral damage along with abandoning Ruiko after they escape from her pursuit. Unknown to her, Frenda does have reservations against involving citizens and Ruiko volunteer to become a decoy which ends with Yumiya getting defeated by the former.
  • Eye Scream: Loses her left eye after surviving from being blown up by Frenda.
  • Facial Horror: After getting three small explosives shoved her mouth along with a couple of other doll bombs detonating around her by Frenda, she has to wear a neck brace that covers half of her face (coupled with a voice box prosthesis) from the neck up. She also loses her ability to track her targets through scent.
  • Foregone Conclusion: Her appearance in Railgun takes place before the Battle Royale arc, before she was killed by ITEM.
  • Hidden Depths: She admits (and shown through an Indian Poker Card that belongs to her) that she aspires to be an idol.
  • Hidden in Plain Sight: Unlike other snipers, Yumiya can hide within a crowd and shoots her target without being spotted by anyone, partially thanks to her silenced Hidden Weapons, but mostly because she acts completely natural when on the job and doesn't break character from how a person minding their own business would. It's only when she outs herself by reacting to Saten carrying around (dummy) doll explosives that Frenda is able to find her.
  • Hidden Weapons: She has a collapsible sniper rifle hidden within her long sleeves, which fires bullets via the force of compressed carbon dioxide gas to make them silenced, not emit a muzzle flash, or heat up the barrels that would hurt her from exposure.
  • Killed Offscreen: Apparently killed by ITEM prior to the Battle Royal arc.
  • Mad Eye: Her single working eye after her defeat by Frenda shows her notably unhinged mind.
  • Near-Villain Victory: She almost manages to kill Frenda and Ruiko without having to be seen, but her brief distraction of seeing her classmates walking by allows the duo to plan against her.
  • No One Could Survive That!: In Railgun, Frenda defeated her by putting bombs into her mouth and pushing her off a building. And to top it off, she throws several more bombs at her. Somehow, she survives this encounter due to being saved by Yobou. She is later reported to been have killed offscreen by ITEM shortly before the Battle Royale arc, although no details are given.
  • "Not So Different" Remark: Frenda notes that Yumiya's method of hunting (the type that takes delight in making their prey withe in pain while flaunting their skills) is not much different from hers.
  • The Nose Knows: She can smell her prey from a distance.
  • Oh, Crap!: She gets this reaction two times in her battle against Frenda. The first one is where she believes that Frenda is setting up a massive bombing in order to kill the one pursuing her, only to realize that it was a decoy in order to draw her out by "reacting" to it. The next one is where she thinks that Frenda made a miscalculation of not predicting a broken window after using her bombs to deprive the area of air to prevent the former from using her nose, leading to Yumiya to get near the crack to breathe and gets three miniature bombs shoved into her mouth; followed by a kick out the window and falling down many stories high with more bombs falling down with her and being blown up for good measure.
  • It's Personal: She has it out for Frenda after her crippling defeat.
  • Sanity Slippage: After her defeat by Frenda, she becomes notably unhinged.
  • Scarily Competent Tracker: She freaks out Frenda so much because she's able to track her down in a crowd.
  • Scars are Forever: Subverted. Despite having her beautiful face messed up from Frenda's explosives, the Academy City can restore it through a regenerative treatment.
  • Shrinking Violet: At school, Yumiya is a shy girl who easily stutters whenever someone tries to converse with her.
  • Villain with Good Publicity: Yumiya's known to be a Shidarezakura Academy student, and she's considered a School Idol among her classmates. Ironically, because of her shyness and poor social skills, she has no friends among her peers.
  • Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: It should be noted that Yumiya could've easily killed both Frenda and Ruiko thanks to her Hidden Weapons and her ability to hide in the crowd, but her sadism in hunting her targets leads her to unnecessarily drag out their suffering in a game of cat and mouse, which gives the duo a chance to escape her pursuit and turn the tables against her.

    Chimitsu Sunazara 

Chimitsu Sunazara

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Voiced by: Tarou Kiuchi (Japanese), Phil Parsons (English)

A replacement sniper hired by SCHOOL after their previous sniper was killed by ITEM. He is known to be a mentor figure to Stephanie Gorgeouspalace.


  • Big Brother Mentor: To Stephanie Gorgeouspalace.
  • Cold Sniper: In contrast to Stephanie Gorgeouspalace.
  • Hired Guns: He was recruited by ITEM to serve as their sniper.
    • In Uiharu's SS, Anti-Skill recruited him to assist their snipers in disabling a hijacked truck.
  • Mentor Occupational Hazard: Subverted. He survives the explosion, but he is grievously wounded and kept by Thomas Platinaburg as a bargaining chip to hire Stephanie.
  • Tempting Fate: He once said that he'll never be killed in an explosion no matter what. Cue Saiai bringing in an anti-tank warhead.


BLOCK

    Saku Tatsuhiko 

Saku Tatsuhiko

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Voiced by: Ken Mizukoshi (Japanese), Chris Rager (English)

The leader of BLOCK. He is responsible for getting the group involved in the Battle Royale Arc by hiring mercenaries as part of boosting the group's manpower.


  • Arc Villain: For the Battle Royale Arc overall with his intent to try and take over the city with his mercenaries and kill Aleister, a position he technically shares with Kakine (who has his own agenda mutually exclusive from Saku).
  • Bad Boss: He'd dispose of anyone who doesn't provide anything useful to BLOCK. This eventually earns him a brutal take-down from his Number Two.
  • Big Bad Wannabe: When the fight with GROUP goes down, Megumi has enough of his shit and takes him out herself before fighting Motoharu and Awaki while he lays unconscious in a pool of his own blood. So much for being the man who would take down Aleister.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red Oni to Teshio's Blue Oni. He's aggressive and unhinged in contrast to her calm and level-headed behavior.
  • We Have Reserves: Saku was able to recruit a lot of mercenaries to help take control of Academy City... Until most of them were taken out early thanks to Etzali.
  • Would Hurt a Child: Has no problems with potentially killing some of their planned esper hostages (who are usually around at most teenagers) in using explosives to break them out, stating that since there are 38, one or two dead isn't that big a loss.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: In the light novel, Tetsumou losing the fingers on her hand and being unable to use her ability to read minds has him order his men to take care of her and stating they don't have time to find a replacement, though he doesn't actually have her killed and just removed.

    Megumi Teshio 

Megumi Teshio

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Voiced by: Chitose Morinaga (Japanese), Jeannie Tirado (English)

An ex-Anti-Skill officer, she was acquainted with Tatsuhiko prior to her recruitment to BLOCK. She serves as the second-in-command of the group and was involved in the attacks on the city after the 0930 Incident.


  • Action Girl: She was a skilled female Anti-Skill officer, who's good enough at hand-to-hand combat that she can defeat Motoharu.
  • Amazonian Beauty: She's described as an attractive woman who has hard and chiseled muscles. This is not as apparent in her anime design, where her body is only slender.
  • Badass Normal: As an ex-Anti-Skill, she is trained in martial arts enough to neutralize espers. She's able to wipe the floor with both Awaki and Motoharu and only loses thanks to Awaki taking massive risks in using her Move Point powers on herself while AIM Jammers are active.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: She experienced a tragedy while she was a member of Anti-Skill, which is what drives her to meet with and try to kill Aleister, as she wants to ask him if he is responsible for said incident. The specifics of the tragedy are unknown, but when Tetsumou reads her during a security check she is left quite unnerved by what she sees in her past, and Megumi warns her of looking into it.
    Megumi: ...You don’t have to read that far. Why that kid has no parents and can’t speak isn’t an enjoyable past to see.
  • Expy: The artist said she's one of Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Subverted. It looks like Awaki stabbed her in the gut with her stake/nails in order to defeat her, but she actually used the flat end of her weapon for a painful (but bloodless) gut blow to incapacitate her.
  • Never Hurt an Innocent: A code she likely carried over from her Anti-Skill days, as she protests at the thought of harming the hostages BLOCK takes to try and force Awaki into helping them (and only agreed to hostages in the first place because she thought it necessary to get Awaki to the table). When Saku tries to force the issue, she takes him out herself.
  • Number Two: She was Saku's second-in-command in BLOCK before it was eventually disbanded.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue Oni to Saku's Red Oni. She's calm and level-headed in contrast to Saku's aggressive and unhinged behavior.
  • Statuesque Stunner: She's at least 180 cm tall with an Amazonian Beauty body.
  • The Stoic: She has a no-nonsense and level-headed demeanor, or as she describes it, she acts "professionally".

    Yamate 

Yamate

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A BLOCK agent and one of the members responsible for planning their operations against Crowley alongside Tatsuhiko.


  • Kill and Replace: Etzali does this to him to infiltrate BLOCK during the Battle Royale Arc.

    Tetsumou 

Tetsumou

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Voiced by: Tomoko Tsuzuki (Japanese), Sarah Wiedenheft (English)

A BLOCK esper agent, she specializes in weeding out potential moles and double agents within the ranks of BLOCK with the help of her skill "Skill Polygraph".


  • Fingore: To keep her from seeing through his disguise in the light novel, Etzali tricks a Mook into rubbing an explosive onto his hand so that, when she tries to read his mind before Etzali's, the explosion tears off some of her fingers.
  • Spared by the Adaptation: Zig-Zagged. In the anime, she doesn't get her fingers blown off (presumably since she wasn't ordered to start reading minds to weed out traitors) but she does get shot at by a Six Wings attack helicopter when Etzali ruins the attempt to let the mercenaries in and gets caught in an explosion that sends her flying and knocks her out.
  • Telepathy: Tetsumou uses this to determine if a BLOCK agent is a mole/double agent or not, which she does by touching hands with her target.


MEMBER

    Professor 

Professor

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Voiced by: Ryo Sugisaki (Japanese), Ben Bryant (English)

The elderly, unnamed leader of MEMBER.


  • Einstein Hair: His hair is messy like Einstein's and he's a scientist.
  • Evil Gloating: He goes on a monologue about what the Mimosa are to Kakine and his love of mathematical formulas over art...but then Kakine gets impatient (complete with sigh!) and proceeds to break through the Mimosa surrounding him and just attack with his Dark Matter. This happens only in the anime, though, where he decides to confront Kakine face to face. In the novel he sends the Mimosa after Kakine and his driver from outside the building, and the monologue about formulas is instead a talk he has with Baba Yoshio while assuming Kakine has already been killed by the weapon.
  • Measuring the Marigolds: Whenever he looks at art, a landmark, or a natural wonder, he sees not its natural beauty, but its inherent mathematical formulas. He considers those to be beautiful.
  • Nanomachines: Kakine initially identifies Professor's weapon, Mimosa, to be these. However, Professor explains that they are not, as they lack circuitry and power. Mimosa are merely microscopic bits of reflective alloy that can be deployed via microorganisms in the air and controlled with various frequencies to enter people and tear them apart from the inside out one cell at a time. Unfortunately for him, Kakine had the means to detect them and used his ability to fend them off before killing the Professor.
  • No Name Given: He is only referred to as the Professor.
  • Secret-Keeper: The only member of MEMBER who knew that Xochitl was from the magic side.
  • Smug Snake: He believed Mimosa was all he would need to kill Kakine. Boy, was he wrong, and he paid for it with his life.
  • Undying Loyalty: To Aleister and Academy City. He goes after Kakine specifically because Kakine is going out his way to try and subvert Aleister by stealing the Tweezers and using them to break into the UNDER_LINE.

    Baba Yoshio 

Baba Yoshio

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Voiced by: Daichi Hayashi (Japanese), Dallas Reid (English)

A hacker who works for MEMBER. He supports the professor from a shelter known as "Summer Resort" with his remote controlled animal robots. He also appears in the Railgun Daihaseisai Arc when he tries to capture a SISTER clone.


  • Awesomeness by Analysis: Analyzes and develops counters to an esper's abilities.
  • Call-Forward: During the Daihaseisai arc in Railgun, he suffers a near-drowning and a verbal lashing by Wannai Kinuho. This references his situation at the end of Volume 15: trapped in a submerged bunker and Left for Dead.
    Kinuho: If you do not accept your comrades and try to meet them halfway, no one will save you.
  • Combat Pragmatist: Attacks people from a distance with his robots.
  • The Cracker: Part of what he does as Mission Control.
  • Dirty Coward: Acts smug and condescending towards his enemies so long as he thinks he has the upper hand, but the moment he's proven wrong, he'll resort to using underhanded tactics such as attacking a defenseless kitten to make Kongou Mitsuko vulnerable to his robotic mosquito, then kick her while she's unable to fight back. Once he's out of ideas, he's ends up panicking and begging for mercy.
  • Fat Bastard: He's got noticeable chub, and it both denotes his Non-Action Guy status and how he's a Smug Snake Jerkass.
  • Freudian Excuse: He was bullied and people wouldn't trust him, so he doesn't trust anyone and likes to make people suffer.
  • Jerkass: Looks down on and insults everybody.
  • Kick Them While They're Down: After managing to paralyze Kongou, Baba kicks Kongou when she defends Mikoto's name, seeing it as a sign of her looking down on him, and calls her trash when Saten Ruiko angrily demands to know if he was the one who harmed her. This act of cruelty enrages not only Saten, but also Wannai Kinuho and Awatsuki Maaya, who proceed to destroy his robots and leave him panicking.
  • Left for Dead: The last time we see him in Volume 15, the hermetically sealed underground shelter he in is flooded on the outside, presumably by SCHOOL, trapping him. By this point the Professor is dead, Saraku either dead or incapacitated, and Xochitl basically tells him when he calls her that he's expendable and she doesn't have time to clean up his mess before abandoning him. His communication lines are cut shortly afterwards, so he can't even call their subordinate groups to get him. This leaves him trapped with no method of escape, causing him a mental breakdown. However, the narrative notes that he actually has enough food and air to last a full year, even though he's too panicked to realize it.
  • Mission Control: Often assumes this role, most because he's useless himself in a straight fight.
  • Non-Action Guy: He doesn't seem to be in shape physically and lacks any apparent esper ability, so he relies on robots and his mind to fight for him. When those are gone or prove inadequate, he completely soils himself.
  • Robot Master: Uses robotic Great Danes to fight for him, and robotic mosquitoes for more covert actions. He also has an unwieldy robotic praying mantis if he really needs the extra firepower.
  • Smug Snake:
    • Is a bit too overconfident, both in his robots and in MEMBER as a whole, thinking their members have a chance at beating the top 2 Level 5s in the city with cheap tricks and robots. He's basically pissing himself as things quickly go to hell for them.
    • Railgun shows he wasn't much better before that point. He's all talk until Mikoto's friends deal with his robots, and then he's left pissing himself when a calm yet furious Mikoto comes after his giant praying mantis robot and tears it apart, grabbing the communication lines and telling him in no uncertain terms that if she wasn't busy trying to find the kidnapped Misaka Imouto and didn't have reason to suspect him as Misaki's brainwashed pawn, she'd hunt him down and make him suffer (and adding that she will if she ever catches a whiff of any of his robots coming near her or her friends again).
  • Sore Loser: When he's bested by Kinuho and Awatsuki in Railgun and allowed to flee after just a slap to his face and a verbal lashing, he's so enraged by the loss that he considers beating them bloody, capturing them, making them "regret being born as girls", uploading their humiliation on the internet, and finally waiting for them to come crying and begging for him to kill them.

    Xochitl 

Xochitl

The Corpse Specialist

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Voiced by: Hitomi Ohwada (Japanese), Jill Harris (English)

A sorcerer from the Aztec organization Return of the Winged One, punished by being ordered to infiltrate Academy City and kill Etzali (the fake Unabara Mitsuki), joining MEMBER in the process. The Professor seems to be aware that she is a sorcerer. She was also a protagonist in Railgun SS.


    Mitori Kouzaku 

Mitori Kouzaku

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Voiced by: Miyu Tomita (Japanese), Rachel Thompson (English)

A girl who acts as a liaison between MEMBER and the Board of Directors. She first appears in the Railgun version of the Daihaseisai Arc. She's a level 4 with the ability Liquid Shadow, which allows her to control liquids with a gravity of 20 or higher; her preferences being liquid metal.


  • Absurd Cutting Power: Her puppet can easily slice through metal.
  • Affectionate Nickname: She was the original "Mi-chan", the friend of Misaka's clone Dolly, before the researchers replaced Mitori with Misaki after the former threatened to expose the lab for their inhumane research.
  • Combat Tentacles: She typically have her puppet form bladed whips from its limbs or fire them from its body for a surprise attack.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: As a child, she was Dolly's best friend Mi-chan, who stopped visiting her after she was horrified by Dolly's life-support implants. She tried to have Dolly rescued from the facility by arranging a terrorist attack, but failed and was locked up in the Reformatory (juvenile hall). It was here that she was recruited into the Dark Side.
  • Death Faked for You: This occurred when she was recruited from the Reformatory.
  • Double Agent: Despite ostensibly being a liaison between MEMBER and the Board of the Directors, the Professor discovers she's been faking orders to use MEMBER's resources for herself for some time now. This is what prompts Xochitl to disobey her orders to kill Saten.
  • Extra-ore-dinary: Her power involves being able to manipulate a mass of liquid metal to the point she can make it act like a Body Double and Remote Body.
  • Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Remarks that she thinks people who live peaceful lives are "oddities".
  • Expy: Her liquid metal clone is an obvious nod to the liquid metal terminator.
  • Far East Asian Terrorists: Was convicted of conducting terrorist activities in Academy City before she got locked up in the Reformatory.
  • Genki Girl: She acts eternally cheerful because she has been in the Dark Side so long she has become desensitized to it.
  • Girlish Pigtails: As seen in the picture. She started wearing them to honor Dolly because she loved brushing Mitori's hair into that shape.
  • Heel–Face Turn: After Misaki shows Dolly's current location and reunited with her, she became an informant to Misaki.
  • Logical Weakness: Since her puppet is made of metal, it doesn't any functional eyes or noses for detecting enemies. Mitori compensates for this by having the puppet wear a camera in its skull pendant, while the puppet itself can sense vibrations so sensitively it can accurately detect heartbeats from at least several meters away. Kuroko takes advantage of this by first destroying the camera to deprive it of sight, and then activating an anti-eavesdropping device made for Judgement members that emits a powerful sonic hum to overwhelm the puppet's senses and cause it to flail about blindly, leaving it unable to detect her teleporting away to confront Mitori herself before it can find and destroy the device. The second time she does it the puppet manages to attack her regardless, but Kuroko deduces from the way it attacked that it only managed this because Mitori herself saw Kuroko with her own eyes, meaning she's right where she wants her for a confrontation anyways.
  • Ms. Fanservice: Everytime she appears. Her first appearance in A Certain Scientific Railgun has her wearing a Naughty Nurse Outfit seemingly just because she can. In A Certain Scientific Mental Out, she spends several chapters wearing a skintight Spy Catsuit, which she doesn't bother to fully zip up. And in A Certain Dark Side Item, she uses her power to make herself devil horns, wings, and tail. Word of God from the editor of Railgun is that Cosplay is simply her hobby. She also leaves her shirt unbuttoned in her regular clothes and school uniform, and it doesn't look like she's wearing a bra.
  • Only Friend: Dolly, the only person who could make her truly smile.
  • Out-Gambitted: Twice by Kuroko. The first time was when she realized too late that the cameras she hacked into to give her visual output after Kuroko destroyed her puppet's pendant camera and used the sonic vibrations to deal with its hearing were in turn hacked by Uiharu to give false imaging. The second time is when Kuroko undergoes a Deliberate Injury Gambit to get stabbed through the hand rather than teleporting like expected and thus being vulnerable to the real killing blow, making Mitori hesitate in shock for the valuable seconds Kuroko needed to close the distance and take her out.
  • Remote Body: Her ability allows her to make and control one from a kind of liquid metal. At her level, she is even capable of camouflaging its body to look exactly like her, minus the hair, which she substitutes with a wig. It reverts to a puddle if she gets too far away from it. She can hear but not see through the puppet, but compensates by having the puppet carry a video camera.
  • Revenge Before Reason: Her main goal is to kill Aleister Crowley for his role in what happened to Dolly. Unfortunately for her, Aleister is so far above her he might as well be an untouchable god, and the reason she joined forces with Gensei is because she wanted to use the burgeoning Level 6 Mikoto to destroy the Windowless Building and Aleister. She considers the deaths of everyone else in Academy City as acceptable sacrifices to achieve this.
  • Shapeshifter Weapon: Her liquid metal clone can form knives and other weapons from its mass.
  • Skeletons in the Coat Closet: She and her puppet wear skull chokers. They're actually cameras for her to direct her puppet from afar.
  • Stepford Smiler: As a child, she acted cheerful even though she could not stand the researchers because it made them trust and underestimate her. It was only around Dolly did those smiles become genuine.
  • Unperson: After her recruitment to the Dark Side, her records were expunged and she was officially declared dead. This helped conceal her location and the nature of her ability.
  • Used to Be a Sweet Kid: She really was a kind person in her youth, even if she at least partially aware of how little personal care the Academy City researchers had for espers. Learning the Awful Truth about Dolly, the Radio Noise project, the fact it was all signed off by the Board of Directors, and that ultimately to most researchers clones and espers are just research fodder is what made her go off the deep end.
  • Villainous Breakdown: She has a pretty hard one when cornered by Kuroko and realizing that despite her precautions she's about to lose. When Misaki encounters her later, she's all but unresponsive and can't even muster the will to escape her own handcuffs, and it's only the hope of meeting the clone of Dolly that gets her back into action.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: She particularly objects to those who know about the injustices of Academy City but choose to live normal lives.
  • What Beautiful Eyes!: Gensei Kihara said this about her, because her eyes were full of hatred.

    Saraku 

Saraku

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Voiced by: Daisuke Takahashi (Japanese), Alejandro Saab (English)

A MEMBER operative with a Level 3 teleportation ability.


  • All Men Are Perverts: He has a cameo in Railgun's "Dream Ranker" arc, where he buys special cards from Pierce Aogami that allow him to experience Erotic Dreams with various celebrity women.
  • Combat Pragmatist: He will do anything to gain the advantage, including threatening civilians and using them as shields.
  • Crippling Overspecialization: His teleportation ability only lets him appear behind a person, and only those in his line of sight. Once his opponent can predict him and block his attempts to stab them in the back, his ability becomes relatively useless, and even worse, if there isn't someone in his line of sight farther away, he can't even try to beat a hasty retreat.
  • Death by Adaptation: Implied. Accelerator shoots him multiple times, but in the light novels the Professor notes that he was only heavily incapacitated, not killed, and wanted Yoshio to retrieve him if they had time. In the anime, however, it cuts away after Accelerator shoots him one last time, and the Professor is killed fighting Kakine shortly afterwards and no more mention is made of him, leaving Saraku's fate an Uncertain Doom at best.
  • In-Series Nickname: Accelerator nicknames him Kill Point for his ability. Afterwards, the Professor uses it too.
  • In the Back: Since he can only teleport directly behind people, this is his primary fighting style.
  • Logical Weakness: Since he can only teleport directly behind people, the fewer people are in an area, the fewer his options are, and he becomes predictable.
  • Smug Snake: He seems to think his ability makes him unbeatable. Once Accelerator proves this is not true, he quickly panics, trying desperately to escape as Accelerator pumps rounds into his body.
  • Teleportation: However, since he lacks the expertise in 11th dimensional calculations, he can only teleport using other people as a reference, and he can only materialize directly behind them.


STUDY

    Haruki Aritomi 

    Shunichi Kosako 

Shunichi Kosako

A member of STUDY, he acts as the group's second-in-command alongside Haruki whenever he's not present. He's a known expert in the field of development biology. He is familiar with piloting mechs when needed in a combat situation alongside Kenji.


  • Badass Bookworm: Pilots a mech to take out Judgement officers.
  • Far East Asian Terrorists: Becomes one in STUDY when he joins in the revolt against the city's board of directors (and to an extent, to Crowley).
  • Would Hit a Girl: Has no qualms killing female Judgement officers if it helps in their revolt.

    Hirotada Sekimura 

Hirotada Sekimura

A member of STUDY, he mostly stays inside their headquarters to oversee the group's plans.


  • Cowardly Lion: He freaks out when he realizes that Aritomi would kill his colleagues as part of his plan to go down fighting.
  • Far East Asian Terrorists: Becomes one in STUDY when he joins in the revolt against the city's board of directors (and to an extent, to Crowley).

    Kenji Madarame 

Kenji Madarame

A member of STUDY, he specializes in the field of Chemical Android R&D. He is familiar with piloting mechs when needed in a combat situation alongside Shunichi.


  • Badass Bookworm: Pilots a mech to take out Judgement officers.
  • Far East Asian Terrorists: Becomes one in STUDY when he joins in the revolt against the city's board of directors (and to an extent, to Crowley).
  • Would Hit a Girl: Has no qualms killing female Judgement officers if it helps in their revolt.

    Jun Sakurai 

Jun Sakurai

The only female member of STUDY (That is, before Shinobu was "recruited"), she specializes in the field of molecular biology. She is very close to Haruki. Like Hirotada, she usually stays in their headquarters to oversee the group's plans.


  • Far East Asian Terrorists: Becomes one in STUDY when she joins in the revolt against the city's board of directors (and to an extent, to Crowley).

    Shinobu Nunotaba 


Freshmen

    Umidori Kuroyoru 

Umidori Kuroyoru

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Umidori Kuroyoru is a sadistic girl and a remnant of the Dark May project who leads the mysterious Freshmen.


  • Abusive Parents: Played for laughs, Misaka Worst "adopted" her. And what does she do first? She constantly loves taking control of her like some puppet master, and makes her cry. Yeah...some mother of the year.
  • Awesomeness by Analysis: Uses Kihara Amata's vector values and inputs them into her nitrogen lances, making Accelerator's vector shield useless. Unfortunately for her, it doesn't mean much when Accelerator just dodges them entirely.
  • Ax-Crazy: Oh yeah, big time.
  • Blow You Away: Her power allows her to control nitrogen just like her fellow "classmate" Kinuhata. However, in contrast to Kinuhata's nitrogen shield, Umidori instead creates nitrogen lances from the palms of her hands which she then fire at her enemies.
  • Break the Haughty: Misaka Worst torments her so hard she cries.
  • Brick Joke: Touma invokes the possibility of her having cyborg cat ears underneath the raincoat she always wears. She denies this. Cue Misaka Worst barging in later on, saying she found "optional parts," specifically cat ears and cat paws gloves. Kuroyoru screeches when she hears this.
  • Cat Girl: New Testament Volume 2 foreshadowed this heavily.
    Umidori: There isn’t going to be some strange development where it turns out I always wear my hood in order to hide cat ears!!
    Later...
    Misaka Worst: Heeeyyyy!! Misaka attacked a few Freshmen strongholds and found some fun optional parts! Let’s have some fun remodeling that cool narcissistic girl with these cat ears and cat paw gloves!!
    • The inevitable happened in New Testament Volume 3: Misaka Worst has "adopted" her and calls her Kuronyan.
    Umidori: Gyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!?
  • Card-Carrying Villain: At any chance she gets, she insists that she's a villain that loves the darkness and destruction that's out to destroy the Graduates (Accelerator, ITEM, Hamazura to name a few).
  • Couldn't Find a Pen: After she gets curb-stomped by Rensa and is barely able to talk, she writes in her own blood to tell Shiage about Rensa.
  • Curious Qualms of Conscience: While under the effects of Agitate Halation, she finds herself unable to abandon Fremea.
  • Cyborg: She uses this to augment her power. Since "Bomber Lance" is fired from palms, she attaches hundreds of mini-arms to her back. She can also detach pieces of her body like her arms. Apparently the yearly surgeries to maintain this ain't worth it, according to her. And it doesn't help that Misaka Worst is an electromaster that can completely dominate her because of this.
  • Dark Action Girl: Just look at her. Nothing is left to be said.
  • Emotionless Girl: When she's not being AxCrazy or a Jerkass, she seems to be this. Shiage can't seem to understand why she and Misaka Worst were so bored when their lives (as well as the people) were in danger.
  • Enfant Terrible: Merely 12, and she's indulges in death and destruction. Most likely due to adapting to Accelerator's thought patterns.
  • Evil Counterpart: To Saiai.
  • Evil Feels Good: She gives Accelerator a small speech about it too.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Invoked. In her own words, after being locked up in Touma's bathroom:
    Umidori: And even as a member of the darkness, confining a twelve-year-old kid in the bathroom and removing both her arms seems really fucking twisted to me!!
  • Glass Cannon: Since her powers and strategy concentrate so much on offense, she has weak defense.
  • Meaningful Name: "Kuroyoru" can be roughly translated as "Black Night", and "Umidori" can be translated as "dolphin". Roughly, her name means "Dolphin of the Dark Night".
  • Mood Whiplash: Gets this hard when she goes on a hurtful tirade and tries to kill Touma, only to have him casually dismiss her and start talking about cyborg cat ears!]]
  • Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Her power allows her to project lances of compressed nitrogen from her palms. Because she only has two palms, normally she can only produce two lances. The solution to the problem...modify herself with cyborg arms to give herself lots of palms. Problem solved.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: When fighting Rensa, Umidori thinks that Shiage is preparing to betray her and thus doesn't follow through on his plan. This results in him nearly getting killed when she didn't follow through. This, combined with the lack of blame causes her to have a bit of breakdown.
  • "Not So Different" Remark: Accelerator gets a little creeped out by the fact that she's a mirror image of his old self.
    • Literally, as a product of the Dark May project, she has Accelerator's offensive cognitive patterns in her brain. Kuroyoru happily lets her psyche be affected by the old Accelerator's thought patterns — unlike Saiai, who more or less controls herself.
    Misaka Worst: How about we join forces as the villain girl combo?
  • Pay Evil unto Evil: The Dark May researchers performed inhuman and vicious experiments on her and her classmates in order to try and turn them into copies of Accelerator. So in return, she slaugther every last one of them and bankrupted the entire project.
  • Precision F-Strike: Her first meeting with Accelerator.
    Umidori: There was something I wanted to ask you if I ever met you. I had actually completely forgotten about it, but I remembered it when I saw your face. So I guess I’ll ask you now.
    Accelerator: ...
    Umidori: …Do you really fucking think everyone in the world can just get along?
  • Suspiciously Specific Denial: She does not have cyborg cat ears! STOP ASKING!
  • Taking You with Me: Tries to kill Fremea in a last ditch effort. Thankfully, a certain someone stops her. It's Touma.
  • There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Her cyborg arms allow her to spam her ability.
  • Villain Ball: She thinks just like the reckless, prideful, and over-confident Accelerator from Volume 3. When she fights Accelerator, the simple fact that he sidesteps her attack — completely diverting from his original self who would've stood head-on, and thus what Kuroyoru thinks — ends up completely bewildering her, leading to her defeat.
  • Yin-Yang Bomb: After listening to Leivinia Birdway's lesson about magic, she develops a technique where she channels AIM into her cyborg parts, then attempts to cast a simple spell. The AIM and mana react and trigger an explosion and mini-earthquake. Doing this damages her cyborg parts, but leaves the rest of her relatively intact.

    Silvercross Alpha 

Silvercross Alpha

An esper and a cyborg agent of Freshmen, he's known to have a large collection of at least ten Powered Suits. He is also proficient in handling them. Silvercross worked with Umidori in their plans to assassinate Accelerator and Shiage.


  • The Collector: Has at ten Powered Suits, usually used in his Freshmen job.


Disciplinary Action

    Nishio 

Nishio

Basset Hound

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A DA officer, he was responsible for leading an operation to capture Esther Rosenthal before she could make contact with friendles. He gets tangled up with Accelerator in the early parts of his story.

In the anime, his DA codename is Basset Hound.


    Mitsuhiko Hishigata 

Mitsuhiko Hishigata

Dachshund

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Voiced by: Ryōta Ōsaka (Japanese), Adam Gibbs (English)

A DA scientist, he's responsible for ensuring the upkeep of the group's mechs.

In the anime, his DA codename is Dachshund.


  • For Science!: The reason why he has no qualms in using humans for his research.
  • Justice Will Prevail: Shares this view with Nishio and the other members of DA.
  • Know When to Fold 'Em: Hishigata's ready to be more truthful when the situation is really bad. Unlike Nishio.
  • Oral Fixation: Always seen with a sucker in his mouth.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After the Scavengers begin to take out DA operators, he decides that it may be time to leave the group with Hirumi.
  • Taking the Bullet: Allowed himself to get stabbed by Esther before she can take out the Taowu on Hirumi's corpse.
  • Verbal Tic: Yeah.
  • Would Hit a Girl: Or precisely, he doesn't have problems using Last Order for DA.

    Hirumi (Unmarked Spoilers

Hirumi Hishigata

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Voiced by: Ayumi Mano (Japanese), Kate Bristol (English)

A woman working with Hishigata aiming to acquire the "perfect mind and body".


  • Arc Villainess: She's the villainess of the Necromancy arc. Or rather, the spirit possessing her corpse is.
  • Batman Gambit: Further emphasized on the anime when it turns out she killed herself and stole Esther's Taowu charm to help with the experiment. Isaac hijacked her body subsequently and forced her to cooperate or she'll kill more civilians.
  • Dead All Along: She's been dead since before the start of the Necromancer Arc. The Hirumi currently moving around is actually her reanimated corpse.
  • Delicate and Sickly: She is a cute and pretty high school girl, but she is seen coughing heavily a few times, at one point coughing blood, and being prone to exhaustion. Her first scene alive also shows her in a hospital gown, as well as implied statements that her illness makes it so that she isn't going to make it for long.
  • Dressing to Die: Subverted, as she is seen dead in a preservation tank only in her bra and underwear. This is even Lampshaded by herself and merely states it is embarrassing.
  • Face Death with Dignity: Her posthumous video right before she died shows she didn't even care she would pass away and merely smiled at the thought of it.
  • Living on Borrowed Time: She is often shown on life support. The machines are likely preserving her body from rotting as she is essentially a zombie at this point and also to upload data into her to power her up.
  • Nice Girl: In life, she was a good girl. Her death and subsequent revival gave her personality a 180 flip.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: She leaves DA with Hishigata when the Scavengers begin taking them out.
  • Purpose-Driven Immortality. Zigzagged. Although she believes the Level 6 experiment conducted by her brother would have made her become immortal, the effective research of 2 years makes it impossible so she commits suicide and asks that her corpse be used to make her "immortal".
  • Walking Spoiler: Talking about her in any way would spoil things such as the fact that she's dead by the time the Accelerator manga started and the person we see is actually her possessed corpse.

    Souji Kihara 

  • Arc Villain: His own arc in Toaru Kagaku no Dark Matter when he leads a unit in DA called DA Arouse to kidnap Ringo Yuzuriha.


Scavenger

    General 

Team Scavenger

A Dark Side team who specialize in Clean Up Crew jobs for the city's Board of Directors.


  • Berserk Button: All of them except Seike utterly despise teachers.
  • Clean Up Crew: They're usually employed by the Board of Directors to swoop in after battles and terminate stragglers and witnesses.
  • Creepy Child: They don't appear to be older than their early teens at most! Yet, they're all remorseless killers who do their jobs with brutal efficiency.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: Their hatred of teachers, honor students, and being teenage killers in general, heavily implies this about the four of them.
  • Fun with Acronyms: Averted and lampshaded by Naru, who wonders that if they successfully pull off the Doppelganger job in Railgun, part of their reward will be the opportunity to get a name like ITEM.
  • Getaway Driver: Like most things they do, getaways are a collaberative effort for Scavenger. Naru provides the actual vehicles with her powers, Seike presumably uses her powers to make their vehicles faster by reducing friction, and Yakumaru provides the propellant.
  • Human Popsicle: The four apparently sleep or are placed in stasis inside cryogenic pods in between missions.
  • Informed Attribute: They are noted to be a feared organization on the Dark Side, and are quite competent at their work. Unfortunately, we only get to see them dispose of mooks before getting their asses handed to them by the sheer luck of running into opponents far beyond their league, i.e. Accelerator, Misaka, and the Doppelganger.
  • Villainous Friendship: Unlike most Dark Side groups who are held together by Teeth-Clenched Teamwork or filled with members who would kill their own if pushed, these four have genuine bonds with each other.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: The group believes their targets are scum that corrupt the city, and that they're making the world a better place by killing them.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: By the time of their appearance in Railgun, their utter failure against Accelerator in his spinoff manga has put them on thin ice with the Board of Directors, with it being noted that if they screw up the Doppelganger job, their group could be disbanded and themselves suffering "accidents". It's the reason why Leader is so insistent on getting signed off for the job.

    Leader 

Rita Iizumi

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Voiced by: Akane Fujita (Japanese), Felecia Angelle (English)

The leader of Scavenger, often seen wearing a flu mask. Her Level 3 esper power, Predator, allows her to locate her target by projecting multiple imaginary eyes in the sky. It works better during the night.


  • Achilles' Heel: Her ability needs her cover one of her eyes to activate and it's weaker during the day.
  • Because You Were Nice to Me: Because Mikoto shows concern and kindness to her while she was pretending to be a Judgement member, she decides to aid Mikoto after Scavenger gets signed off for their job by saving Ryoko's life and helping Mikoto in her final battle against the Doppelganger.
  • Big Bad Wannabe: Her ultimate goal is to take down the principal of Academy City (Aleister Crowley) but her team is small fry compared to other Dark Side organizations like BLOCK, who share a similar goal.
  • Bring My Brown Pants: Accelerator scares her so much that she wets herself before losing consciousness. In Railgun, she wets herself again (a little) from stress when attempting to convince Mikoto she and Scavenger are actually associated with Judgement.
  • Bullying a Dragon: She realizes too late that the white-haired boy that they are fighting is actually the strongest Level 5 esper.
  • Child Hater: Inverted. She's a child who hates teachers.
  • Crazy-Prepared: She carries a fake Judgment armband on her person in order to pose as a Judgment officer when needed.
  • Creepy Child: Her Predator power and her murderous vendetta against all teachers make her quite unsettling.
  • Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Her teammates call her Leader. Her full name is eventually revealed in a magazine.
  • Exact Words: She managed to get the cyborg research lab to sign off on their mission's completion through this and a bit of force by her teammates.
  • Fiery Redhead: Subverted. She's normally one of the calmer and least likely to jump into a fight of all of Scavenger thanks to being a Support Party Member, and when she gets emotional it's because she's panicking out of her mind.
  • Freudian Excuse: Her reason for hating teachers and honor students/teacher's pets was because she was abused by one in the past and instead of helping her, her classmates all mocked her.
  • Hypocritical Humor: Like most people in Academy City, Leader doesn't follow horoscopes but she does know a little about Urban Legends, namely about a certain Level 0 having the misfortune of meeting more than half of the Level 5 Espers.
  • Impersonating an Officer: Played with. Judgement is technically a volunteer-staffed disciplinary committee assigned to aid Anti-Skill, but she still plays up herself and Scavenger as Judgement members (with Seike being a civilian contracted for difficult missions) to Mikoto.
  • Irony: She hates all teachers to the point of wanting to wipe them out. Without her mask however, she strongly resembles Komoe Tsukuyomi, who's one of the kindest and most caring teachers in the series.
  • Malevolent Masked Woman: Is almost always seen wearing a white flu mask with two crossed purple hands over it, and is the leader of a Dark Side group. Downplayed in that she's more of an Anti-Hero just doing her job than truly malicious.
  • Oh, Crap!: Her reaction to encountering Accelerator and Mikoto.
  • Only Six Faces: The out-of-universe reason for her always wearing her mask seems to be because she has a very uncanny resemblance to Komoe Tsukuyomi, just with red hair and eyes rather than Komoe's pink.
  • Seers: Her ability, Predator, grants her a bird's eye view across a vast radius and is seemingly adjustable as she could focus her vision on her targets to make out specific details of their current location and actions. The only downside is that she needs to cover one of her eyes before she can activate it and it's less effective during the day.
  • The Smart Girl: She's Scavenger's main strategist and brainpower, and she was able to spin a decent narrative about Scavenger being Judgement members to a disbelieving Mikoto and covering for any point it looks like the lie is about to come undone. She was also able to accurately track the falling Kuriba Ryouko when the latter tried to kill herself to apprease her doppelganger, noting the minute changes in her trajectory as she guide Seike and Naru toward Ryouko's ccordinates during their Villainous Rescue.
  • Support Party Member: She serves as the brains and spotter of her group but has little role in combat.
  • Tempting Fate: In Railgun, she believes that their previous encounter with Accelerator was just a coincidence and that it would be unlikely they will ever meet another Level 5 esper again. Scavenger's next assignment has them meeting Mikoto and by proxy, Misaki, the third and fifth-ranked Level 5 respectively.
  • Underestimating Badassery: After a relatively quick skirmish with the Doppelganger that resulted in an apparently easy capture, she sends Seike after Ryoko Kuriba and mocks the Doppelganger a bit, only to be utterly blindsided when the Doppelganger reveals Naru's paper restraints don't actually work on her and proceeds to break Leader's arm and thrash the rest of Scavenger.
  • Villainous Breakdown: Upon learning that they just picked a fight with Accelerator, Leader loses her usual calmness and freeze in place, unable to come up with any strategy against the strongest Esper.

    Seike 

Taroumaru Seike

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Voiced by: Yuka Nukui (Japanese), Rachel Glass (English)

One of the most normal-looking members of Scavenger, she is nonetheless a remorseless killer. Her esper power, Stick Slip, gives her control over friction. In Railgun, it is suggested that Seike may be a boy wearing a girl's uniform and his/her true gender is unknown.


  • Ambiguous Gender: When she is confronted by Mikoto, whom she had mistaken for a boy due to her disguise, Seike claims that she and Mikoto "have the same thing", possibly implying that Seike is actually male. The cover page for the next chapter even states that her hobby is crossdressing and her true gender is unknown. It's also emphasized when Naru decides to strip Seike in order to determine what color would suit her hypothetical toku uniform; while the clothes do indeed go flying off, Seike isn't shown fully on-screen, and she's covering her front and crotch in the aftermath. On the other hand, Naru doesn't act like she saw anything "unusual" after the stripping, only commenting that Seike would be "more Blue than Black."
  • Ambiguously Evil: The cover page for Railgun Chapter 90 states that Seike doesn't share the same hatred for teachers like her teammates and pretends to agree with their views to not disturb the team's harmony.
  • Blood Knight: While less excitable than Naru, Seike definitely likes fighting people and doesn't need much incentive to pick a fight. Leader is forced to spin Seike as a civilian contracted to Judgement for special cases that has a bad habit of picking fights to get her Judgement membership lie past Mikoto.
  • Bullying a Dragon: After her unfortunate encounter with Accelerator, she finds out too late that she decided to pick a fight with Mikoto in Railgun.
  • Butt-Monkey: Has the reputation of becoming the first member of Scavenger to be defeated by Accelerator and Mikoto in their respective series. And then there's the part where she gets stripped and fondled by Naru.
  • Cool Down: She has a limit of 3 minutes per continuous power usage, so she needs to rest in between uses.
  • Foreshadowing: When Scavenger first appear in Railgun, Seike is the only person who isn't in the washroom with her team mates. Though the logic assumption is that she doesn't need to use it, an alternative explanation may be that she doesn't go in because she's a boy.
  • Harmless Electrocution: Subverted. Seike is electrocuted not once, but twice in her encounters with both Accelerator and Misaka. Misaka simply blasted her with enough power to knock her out, while Accelerator, being, well, Accelerator, turned her own body's bioelectricity against her, essentially making her electrocute herself. The screaming makes it clear the experience was agony.
  • Hour of Power: Can only use her powers for 3 minutes at a time.
  • Kick the Dog: Roughs up Ryoko Kuriba in order to see her bleed and make sure she wasn't the Doppelganger per orders, and then muses to herself on whether or not she should let her go. Then, however, she picks a fight with Mikoto for no other reason than overconfidence.
  • Logical Weakness:
    • Because she can control friction, she can use it defensively by making physical projectiles burn up before hitting her by turning the friction up...but she can't do anything about energy-based attacks like lightning, forcing her to rely on other weaknesses like creating grounding from metal wreckage to compensate.
    • Also, while she can reduce or increase friction at will, she can't do both at the same time. This gets her into trouble with Naru when she uses her ability to reduce friction so her paper can't touch her, but when she needs to escape the room upon realizing Naru intends to run the Cool Down off she has to lower her ability in order to properly grab onto the door handle, which lets Naru catch her anyways.
  • Maniac Tongue: Tends to stick her tattooed tongue out, usually to identify her team to their would-be targets.
  • Neck Snap: She can break a full grown man's neck with her bare hands.
  • Person of Mass Destruction: She can make an entire construction project fall apart just by casually walking pass it while her power is active.
  • Recoil Boost: After reducing the friction between her feet and the ground, she can fire a gun in one direction so that she will slide in the opposite direction really fast. She comments that she doesn't like doing it often because it hurts and is dangerous.
  • Sailor Fuku: Her outfit.
  • Super Power Lottery: She has control over all friction within a 1 meter radius of her. By reducing friction, she can make things slide out of control. By increasing friction, movement is restricted. A 120 ton mecha couldn't move and projectiles like bullets burn up in the air before they can reach her, rendering her practically invulnerable to most forms of direct attack...for three minutes, at least.
  • Super Sliding: Seike's Esper ability, "Stick Slip", enables her to manipulate the friction coefficient of anything she's touching. She can use this to get around by reducing the friction of the ground to zero while shooting a Hand Cannon behind her for a Recoil Boost, propelling her at high speeds as there's nothing to slow her down.
  • Tattooed Crook: Has a skull with horns and chains on her tongue.
  • This Is Gonna Suck: She has this realize when she finally realizes who Mikoto is and she's about to get flattened.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: Downplayed. Her Railgun bio states that she doesn't share the view that teachers are evil, but goes with the flow so as to avoid causing friction within the group.

    Naru 

Naruha Sakuragi

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Voiced by: Aoi Koga (Japanese), Sarah Wiedenheft (English)

A childish, but no less ruthless, member of Scavenger. Her Level 3 Psychokinesis, Perfect Paper, as the name suggests, gives her control over paper.


  • Animal Motifs: Bunnies, as in the Killer Rabbit kind.
  • Beware the Silly Ones: Despite being the ditz of her group, she serves as Scavenger's main fighter and her teammates state her combat skills makes her equivalent to a Level 4 esper. She also gets pissed when the Doppelganger hurts Leader and threatens to kill Yakumaru, with her going on the warpath with the full intent to break her to pieces. Which of course was the Doppelganger's goal. She's also smart enough to take full advantage of her teammate's abilities, like when she intentionally forces Seike to continuously use her powers so that she can strip her without issue.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: Lets just say she is not the sharpest tool in the shed when it comes to intelligence.
  • Dark Action Girl: She is skilled at close quarters combat and can easily take out full grown thugs.
  • Expy: A dark flip of Anita.
  • Hidden Depths: Likes visiting art museums, particularly enjoying three-dimensional exhibits.
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Both on the delivering and receiving end of this.
  • Killer Rabbit: Her battle armor takes the form of one.
  • Mind over Matter: Naru is a psychokinetic that uses paper as a medium.
  • Oh, Crap!: Freaks out when the Doppelganger assimilates her paper and uses it against her and Scavenger.
  • Paper Master: She can use Psychokinesis to turn paper into bombs, cushions, and fully functioning complex weapons (like drills). All of her clothing is made of paper. She can make it as soft as silk or stronger than steel. Even when the Doppelganger assimilates her paper, she able to restrain her through sheer force of will, though not actually attack her.
  • Shameless Fanservice Girl: She doesn't care about being exposed, and seems confused about why other people would have issues suddenly stripping naked.
  • Tattooed Crook: Has a skull under her left eye.
  • Transformation Sequence: Her donning her rabbit battle armor have an eerie resemblance to a typical magical transformation sequence of a magical girl.

    Yakumaru 

Itsuki Yakumaru

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Voiced by: Nozomi Nishida (Japanese), Julie Shields (English)

Nicknamed Ya-kun, a Scavenger member slightly more serious than Naru, but also a hardened killer. Her esper power, Mix Master, allows her to separate liquids by manipulating their specific gravity. She then mixes up these liquids and other chemicals to produce various effects.


  • Beautiful All Along: Her usual manner of dress makes her look very boyish. However, during the fight with the Doppelganger she loses her cap and hair clip, resulting in Letting Her Hair Down, and gives up her shirt to the now-naked Naru, revealing she wears a black sports bra underneath combined with her black shorts, and suddenly it makes a lot of sense about why she usually dresses how she does to avoid getting hit on and scouted as a model.
  • Chemistry Can Do Anything: Yakumaru's utility belt holds many different chemicals. When use in conjuction with her powers, she can create various mixtures which include restraining foam, freezing gas, liquid thermite, explosives and healing spray.
  • Clothing Damage: She loses her cap and hair clip while fighting the Doppelganger in Railgun, which lets her hair loose.
  • Compressed Hair: Her cap and the way she ties up her hair hides the fact she actually has some pretty long hair.
  • Kill It with Ice: She has a special coolant that she can spray on her targets that can freeze and kill a person almost instantly. She makes it herself.
  • Literally Shattered Lives: Made possible by the above and the sheer force of Naru's attacks.
  • Master Actor: All it takes for her to fool the Skill-Out thugs (and Naru) is some dirt on her clothes and person and putting on an adorable yet vulnerable face and sob story.
  • Only Six Faces: Before her hair color was confirmed, her hairstyle makes her look strikingly similar to Index (at least in greyscale).
  • Stuff Blowing Up: She carries at least a few explosives on her person in the event her chemicals aren't enough.

Other Organizations

    Hound Dog 

Hound Dog

Known Members: Nancy, Vera, Orson, Rod, Caines, Dennis, Mike, Olaf, and Lulu

A Black Ops unit headed by Amata Kirihara. After Amata’s death, their remnants are reorganized under the girl in a red dress.For tropes relating to Amata Kirihara, see here.
  • Bullying a Dragon: They take on Accelerator. Appropriately enough, he kills almost every one he encounters.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: Accelerator deliberately does this to several of them, in order to render them terrified and off-balance. The most disturbing example is Nancy — first he shoots her in the side with a shotgun; then, when she’s on the ground, he blasts off her jaw. Not finished with her yet, he kicks her off the ledge and tries to crush her under a hydraulic press. Vera arrives and manages to stop the press before it completely crushes her but it's unclear whether Nancy survived.
  • Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: One member almost escapes the slaughter at the Third Resource Recycling Processing Facility, but pauses to taunt Accelerator, claiming Last Order is doomed. All that’s shown after Accelerator’s through with him is a bloody smear.
  • Killed Offscreen: Implied to have happened to Vera, Rod, Caines, Dennis, and Mike.
  • Known Only by Their Nickname: Excluding their leaders, all members are known only by their codenames.
  • Stress Vomit: Vera throws up when she finds Nancy’s blood and brain matter on the button to the hydraulic press.
  • Uncertain Doom: The last we see or hear of Vera, she's trapped in the dark with an Ax-Crazy Accelerator. It's implied later on in the novel that Accelerator didn't actually kill all of them, since at one point he briefly considers trying to interrogate the survivors.

    Full Course 

Head Chef

The leader of team Full Course and the Head-Chef of the Escoffier's kitchen. An esper with the ability, Material Insect, which allows him to control metals, typically in the form of wires.
  • Bad Boss: He tries to slice open Tao's head and serve his brain because he didn't properly explain his thoughts to him.
  • Extra Oredinary: His ability, Material Insect, allows him to control metals, such as the wires he keeps on his person and shapes them into animal constructs.

Tao

The sous-chef and The Dragon to the Head Chef of Full Course. He's an esper with the ability called Aqua Navigator, which allows him to control the flow of liquids.
  • Ambiguously Gay: He constantly fawn over the Head Chef and does everything he ask with absolute joy.
  • Making a Splash: His ability Aqua Navigator allows him to essentially control water and shape them into constructs, typically eastern dragons, to attack with. He can also coat his body with a thin layer of water to act as a buffer against attacks and surround himself and at least one other person in a torrent of water as a mode of high speed transportation.
  • Not So Stoic: He visibly and audibly panics when the Head Chef threatens to “extract his nectar.”
  • Pet the Dog: He has at least enough awareness to tell Mami to hold her breathe before he surround them both with a torrent of water in order to escape Accelerator.
  • The Stoic: He barely emotes, especially when lost in his work. As the event of the Nectar Arc wears on, he begins to show more and more erratic and extreme emotions as the whole situation collapses around Full Course.

Mami Tobio

Yumi Tobio’s long-lost twin sister and newly recruited member of Full Course. Her share the same esper ability as her sister, Eruption Sphere, which allows her to gather and compress air currents into spheres in the palm of her hands.
  • Delicate and Sickly: As a little girl, she developed a rare disease.
  • Eye Scream: Her left eye is a black pit. When the Head Chef is “extracting her nectar,” there are worms squirming in the empty socket.
  • Meaningful Name: Her title in Full Course's kitchen is Aperitif, which is a type of drink served before a meal in order to stimulate a person's appetite. This makes sense as she's a source of Nectar/Liquid Body Crystal.

Baggage City Assault

    Byouri 

Byouri Kihara

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One of the three Kiharas sent to attack Baggage City.


  • Badass Transplant: She has Equ.DarkMatter implants, made using Kakine Teitoku's ability, that allow her to use powers despite not being an esper.
  • Evil Cripple: A wheelchair-bound woman who is just as immoral as a Kihara can get.
  • Evil Is Not a Toy: Since Kakine's consciousness inhabits every part of his Dark Matter, he threatens to take her over and she has to keep them sealed up and rely on an authorization code held by Enshuu for safekeeping to avoid losing herself.
  • Healing Factor: She can easily heal from nearly any injury.
  • Off with Her Head!: Kagan Kihara slashes her head with his sword, then rips it off with his bare hands.
  • Meaningful Name: Her given name means "Pathology".
  • Super Wheelchair: It is armed to the teeth with weapons, and can transform into a spider-like mecha.
  • Voluntary Shapeshifting: She can change into several forms based on cryptids like: the Skyfish, the Yeti, one of The Greys, and the Loch Ness Monster.
  • Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Often pretends to be a kind, helpless woman to make people drop their guard.

    Ransuu 

Ransuu Kihara

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One of the three Kiharas sent to attack Baggage City. He uses various chemicals, developed from the Mental Out Five OVER project, to produce illusions.


  • Honor Before Reason: Part of it is sadism, but he prefers to toy with an opponent with his illusions before killing them, because killing someone right away is too boring.
  • Master of Illusion: His skill with creating illusions with chemicals is roughly equal with Útgarða-Loki's skill with creating illusions with magic.
  • Meaningful Name: His given name means "Random Number".
  • Morton's Fork: Gives one to one of the Science Guardian leaders for his own amusement. The man's wife, daughter, son-in-law, and two grandsons were rigged with guns. The man had to pick one to be shot, and Ransuu claimed only one gun was loaded, when in reality they all were. The man picked his son-in-law, but fortunately, his entire family was rescued from under Ransuu's nose.
  • Sealed Evil in a Duel: He and Útgarða-Loki manage to catch each other in their illusions, forcing a stalemate.

    Enshuu 

Enshuu Kihara

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One of the three Kiharas sent to attack Baggage City. She is capable of mimicking other peoples' thought patterns.


  • Awesomeness by Analysis: In her captivity, she learned advanced science by observing everything in her room.
  • Book Dumb: She doesn't know basic math or how to write katatana because she has never been taught these things. She is still a super genius.
  • Combat Pragmatist: Uses numerous gadgets and improvised weapons, including toxic mold.
  • Fashionable Asymmetry: Her boots don't match. Also, her stockings are torn up randomly.
  • In the Blood: When she was very young, some rivals of the Kihara family kidnapped her and kept her in isolation. Despite no basic education, she still became a scientific genius with no regard for the victims of scientific research. She eventually escaped and rejoined her family.
  • Little Miss Badass: This middle schooler had the highest body count during the Baggage City assault.
  • Meaningful Name: Her given name means "Circumference".
  • Power Copying: She doesn't actually gain their powers, and she can only use them one at a time, but by mimicking other people's thought patterns, she gains access to their skills. She has access to over 5,000 people's thought patterns.

    Kagun 

    Yuiitsu 

Yuiitsu Kihara

Opposing Axis

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A Kihara sent to negotiate with the leaders of the Science Guardians after the events in Baggage City.


  • All Your Powers Combined: When she finally steps up as a major villain, she doesn't pull any punches. She uses Ayu's FIVE_OVER Outsider, allowing her to disguise herself as someone else. She infects herself with an attenuated strain of the St Germain virus, allowing her to use magic (especially magic that creates animalistic constructs). She also infects herself with modified Sample Shoggoth, giving herself a potent Healing Factor. Sample Shoggoth allows her to sever Kakeru's right hand and connect it to her own arm, while the St Germain virus lets her rewrite her own brain to fool World Rejector into accepting her as its user. Finally, in NT Volume 16 she creates her own version of the Anti-Art Attachment.
  • Ambition Is Evil: Alongside revenge for Noukan's near-death, she also swears to surpass him to honor his final wishes.
  • Arc Villain: For the 15th to 17th New Testament novels, where she seeks to avenge Noukan, who was beaten to near-death by Kamisato.
  • Ascended Extra: Introduced in a rather minor role during New Testament, quickly rises in prominence as The Man Behind the Man of Hisako Yakumi and finally becomes an Arc Villain.
  • Batman Gambit: Part of her plan to defeat Kakeru involves forcing him to use World Rejector's power to save his comrades while he himself holds conflicting desires, thus banishing him as well. Then, by reclaiming and grafting World Rejector to herself, she forces the Kamisato Faction to follow her as she wields seemingly the only way to save him.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She really does care about Noukan Kihara beyond their master-student relationship and his near-death at the hands of Kamisato is what triggers her Roaring Rampage of Revenge against him.
  • Fan Disservice: At one point, she's running around wearing nothing but her lab coat and a bikini, which shows her body's pretty easy on the eyes. It can get a little hard to fully enjoy it with how at one point during this time she's wielding a "biological" version of the Anti-Art Attachment that makes vein-like growths appear all over her body. Plus, there's the fact "her" right hand is actually Kakeru's World Rejector and right hand stitched on in her original's place.
  • For Science!: She released Kakine into Academy City following his revival, not caring that he would cause untold destruction, because she was curious and wanted to observe what he would do.
  • Meaningful Name: Her given name can mean "Single", "Sole", "Only", or "Unique".
  • Mr. Exposition: Reveals the truth about the Kiharas to one of the Science Guardian leaders: without Academy City to keep them in check, the Kiharas would likely spread across and destroy the world.
  • Uncertain Doom: The last we see of her is her surrounded by the girls of the Kamisato Faction who had just learned that Kakeru was saved by Touma and they no longer had any reason to follow her. Whether or not they kill her is left unknown and in the Afterword Kamachi even says he hopes fans will debate her fate.

Operation Handcuffs

    Hoshimi Maidono 

Hoshimi Maidono

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A dark side esper who tries to forestall Operation Handcuffs before it starts. Her power is a form of telekinesis which only works on inanimate objects. While technically Level 4, her ability has been artificially boosted to give her the destructive power of a Level 5, to the point where she can lift and throw entire buildings. However, the procedure came at a cost of severe damage to her manual dexterity, which she resents. The name "Hoshimi Maidono" is implied to be an alias; if so, her real name is unknown.
  • Freudian Excuse: Her enhancements have left her unable to perform simple manual tasks like use chopsticks. She claims this has left her so incapable of fitting in to normal society that the dark side is the only place for her.
  • Heel–Face Turn: Becomes considerably nicer after Touma applies his usual therapy approach.
  • Sexy Santa Dress: Wears one of these to blend in with the Christmas crowd.
  • Suspiciously Similar Substitute: In terms of both ability and personality, she's extremely similar to Hinadori Hanakawa (Riot), except older and more powerful.
  • Wig, Dress, Accent: Wears a long blonde wig as a disguise, along with tinted contact lenses. Her real hair is eventually revealed to be a dark bob cut.

    Kaai Hanatsuyu & Youen Hanatsuyu 

Kaai Hanatsuyu & Youen Hanatsuyu

Decomposer & Carrier

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Twin girls who work in the depths of the dark side, specializing in biological warfare. Kaai, a.k.a. 'Decomposer' turns enzymes and biological compounds directly into weapons; Youen, a.k.a. 'Carrier', uses chemicals and pheromones to control vermin.
  • Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: In a weird and horrifying way, as Kaai ends up dissolving herself into a puddle of sentient goo, which apparently makes her functionally immortal.
  • Ax-Crazy: Kaai in particular seems to take a gleeful joy in causing maximum carnage. Youen is more apathetic about killing, but goes along with her sister.
  • Badass Normal: They're both Level 0, but their skills and weapons make them as deadly as the highest-level espers.
  • Body Horror: See Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence above.
  • Cute and Psycho: Cute young girls they may be, but they spend most of GT volume 3 committing murder and mayhem on a horrific scale.
  • Enfant Terrible: They're supposedly 10 years old. They're also deranged mass murderers with a body count higher than almost any other named character besides Accelerator.
  • Fan Disservice: The narrative repeatedly describes how huge their breasts are — frequently while they're engaged in activities like melting people alive or infecting them with lethal bioweapons. Then there's Kaai trying to live-stream herself taking a nude bath... in a mixture of enzymes implied to have been made from the corpses of people she's killed. Also, they're 10 years old.
  • Improbable Age: The narrative claims they're about 10, but virtually everything about them — their extraordinary scientific expertise, their brutally homicidal nature, their ability to out-fight trained and experienced adults, and their giant boobs — belies this.
  • Nightmare Fetishist: Kaai constantly expresses the desire to defile and degrade herself, claiming it's her role as "Decomposer" to absorb the filth that other people find disgusting. She apparently dabbles in exhibitionism for the same reason, making a habit of taking her clothes off in public places in order to humilate both herself and others. Youen, being her identical twin, is understandably less than thrilled about this latter habit.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: After she's separated from the more depraved Kaai, Youen becomes more sympathetic, even helping Touma after he protects her during the Handcuffs aftermath.

    Hasuu Kihara 

Hasuu Kihara

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An elderly scientist who researches the creation of humanoid robots. Creator of the female-type android Ladybird.
  • Covert Pervert: He makes a show of acting uncomfortable whenever Ladybird undresses in front of him... but as she herself points out, he deliberately built her as an attractive (and anatomically accurate) woman who has to undress in order for him to do maintenance on her.
  • Evil Counterpart: He's reminiscent of the Professor from MEMBER — being likewise an elderly dark side scientist specializing in robotics — but is vastly more cruel and depraved.
  • Evil Old Folks: He's a murderous old man with absolutely zero conscience or remorse.
  • Lab Coat Of Science And Medicine: Always seen wearing one, even as a ghost.
  • Mad Scientist: Like all members of the Kihara family.
  • Would Hurt a Child: Cheerfully asks Drencher if he can have a couple of orphans for his (lethal) experiments. Being a Kihara, this should come as no surprise.

    Benizome Jellyfish 

Benizome Jellyfish

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An enthusiastic papparazo who works on the dark side.
  • Affably Evil: She's quite friendly when she isn't killing people.
  • Ax-Crazy: Her favourite type of scoop is capturing the reactions when someone in a group of people is suddenly and violently killed. She's more than happy to do the killing herself.
  • Camera Sniper: And also an actual sniper.
  • Friendly Sniper: Played with. She is friendly, cheerful and outgoing... but she's also a murderous sociopath who will happily gun down anyone if she thinks it'll get her a great photo.
  • Immoral Journalist: She'll do anything to get scoop-worthy photos, up to and including casual murder.
  • Paparazzi: Her main schtick, besides the whole homicidal lunatic thing.

    Vivana Oniguma 

Vivana Oniguma

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A young researcher who studies the theory and history of Japanese torture. She has unruly silver hair with tufts that resemble horns, wears a Japanese hakama, and is usually encountered carrying a multitude of books, research materials, and torture implements.
  • Combat Medic: Her field of research gives her in-depth knowledge of anatomy, and she's an expert in moxibustion, acupuncture, and traditional Chinese medicine. She can perform homeopathic treatments on people in an emergency — and does so for Rikou Takitsubo — but she notes that it's no substitute for hospital care.
  • Dark Is Not Evil: She's an expert in torture techniques, and carries various torture and BDSM implements around with her. She's also one of the sweetest, most inoffensive people in Academy City note .
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Is mortally injured saving a young girl from a crazed Anti-Skill Aggressor.
  • Hero with Bad Publicity: It doesn't matter how kind and helpful she is, people always assume she's evil because of her hobby of studying torture and BDSM. In fact, social aversion to her field of research is the only reason she's classified as "dark side" in the first place — she's actually innocent of any crime or wrongdoing.
  • Kimono Is Traditional: She wears a Japanese hakama as part of her fondness for tradition and history note . Subverted in that she wears bondage tape underneath it.
  • Meaningful Name: According to Kamachi, "Oniguma" is a play on the word "enigma", which highlights the apparent contradictions in her character. Her hair also resembles the horns of an oni.
  • Shrinking Violet: She's rather timid and awkward.

    Drencher Kihara Repatri 

Drencher Kihara Repatri

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An enigmatic young man who created the artificial ghost known as Frillsand #G. He keeps a large number of Child Errors under his care in an abandoned part of the city.
  • Affably Evil: He's genuinely polite and friendly. He also won't hesitate to kill people who threatens his goals.
  • Anti-Villain: Technically this, although the narrative treats him, especially posthumously, as an Anti-Hero. Generally acts helpful, and in fact his goal is to rescue and protect the Child Errors who fell into the clutches of the dark side. However, he's quite ruthless about his methods in achieving that goal, and is more than willing to slaughter anyone who interferes — dark side and Anti-Skill alike. He has Frillsand #G massacre hundreds of dark side refugees trying to flee the city simply in order to prevent them from interfering; between the two of them, they arguably have the highest body count of anyone in Operation Handcuffs besides the Hanatsuyu twins.
  • Token Good Teammate: Subverted. He seems to be a rare beneficial member of the Kihara family. In truth, however, he isn't actually a Kihara at all — he assumed the name solely in order to cash in on its reputation.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: Wants to save the children under his care. To that end, he's quite willing to do anything up to and including mass murder.

Other

    Stephanie Gorgeouspalace 

Stephanie Gorgeouspalace

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Voiced by: Mao Ichimichi (Japanese), Dani Chambers (English)

A mercenary hired by Thomas Platinaburg in order to dispose of Accelerator. A close friend of Sunazara Chimitsu, which doesn't bode well for Platinaburg when he tries to use him as a bargaining chip for her cooperation.


  • Awesomeness by Analysis: Her time in Anti-Skill training allows her to analyze esper powers and their workings.
  • Badass Normal: Takes on Kinuhata Saiai without using any powers. Being a former Anti-Skill trainee, she knows how to suppress espers without using lethal force.
  • Boxed Crook: She is eventually released from prison in exchange for helping Anti-Skill.
  • "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: She herself states that if Platinaburg hadn't tried to force her cooperation with threatening Sunazara's life, she would have been happy to be his pawn and wouldn't have killed him.
  • Friendly Sniper: In contrast to Sunazara, who says that her tactics are an outrage to assassins.
  • Gatling Good: She is skilled enough to incapacitate someone with a gatling gun without killing them. This is when her preferred bullets are powerful enough to turn an armored vehicle into scrap metal in seconds and pierce Saiai's nitrogen bubble with a few rounds.
  • Ms. Fanservice: She's pretty good-looking, and it's commented upon In-Universe that she has the looks of an actress or model. It's also pointed out by Sunazara that her looks can be a bit of a hassle in her occupation as an assassin, as they make her stand out when she needs to be hidden.
  • Revenge: Platinburg originally assumes she wants revenge on ITEM (and Saiai in particular) for their role in putting Sunazara in the hospital. As she tells him right before she kills him, what she actually wants is revenge on Academy City itself for what happened to Sunazara, starting with the man who put a transmitter meant to kill Sunazara inside him if she refused to cooperate (i.e. Platinaburg himself).
  • Technical Pacifist: Her fighting style is designed so that she can apply only the necessary amount of force without being lethal.
  • There Is No Kill Like Overkill: She originally thought it was best to use a missile launcher than a sniper rifle to assassinate. Proven otherwise because such overkill make harder to prove the death.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: She only became a mercenary in order to protect the peace that she used to live in.

    Sugitani 

Sugitani

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Voiced by: Matsuda Kenichirou (Japanese), Brandon Potter (English)

An assassin and bodyguard working for Shiokishi. Sugitani is also a ninja descendant of the Kouga.


  • Awesomeness by Analysis: Managed to partially reproduce Amata Kihara's technique to bypass Accelerator's passive vector redirection by observing it. He still hurt his hand when punching Accelerator so it wasn't complete, but Accelerator notes even that is a sign of Sugitani's top skills.
  • Badass Normal: Takes on a Level 4 and a Level 5 esper armed only with hidden weapons and martial art skills. He's also pretty good with a pistol, accurately taking down the Spark Signal terrorists by shooting each of them once, either in the head or in the center of the abdomen, killing them all instantly.
  • Badass in a Nice Suit: Wears a black suit, black gloves, and a red tie, much like his inspiration does.
  • Combat Pragmatist: When faced with Awaki Musujime and Accelerator he uses a hidden weapon to immediately take down Musujime, who can bypass all physical defenses of Shiokishi's base with her Teleport power. After realizing his copy of Amata Kihara's technique is imperfect he decides to take down Accelerator by simply shutting down his collar and thus his access to the Misaka Network.
  • Expy: The artist' notes indicate that Sugitani's design was based on Agent 47.
  • Highly-Visible Ninja: Averted, Sugitani dresses more like a professional hitman. The only reason we even know he's a ninja is that he reveals himself as one to Accelerator.
  • This Banana is Armed: Sugitani carries several lighters that can shoot one small anesthetic bullet using high-pressure gas as a sneak attack while pretending to light a cigarette. What's more, he can release the gas of several lighters thrown at the enemy and use a lit cigarette to cause an explosion.
  • Uncertain Doom: Sugitani is shot multiple times by Accelerator, but the narration notes that, though unconscious, he is still breathing heavily, implying Accelerator has spared his life.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: Sugitani views himself as 'Good' because all the contemptible things he does are for the sake of justice, aiming to bring order to Academy City by eliminating 'Evil'. After defeating him Accelerator refutes this, stating there's no difference between them, both use the same methods so Sugitani is also an 'exceptional villain'.
    Sugitani: "This is my 'Good'. This is the method of a man who lives in a world of despicable people yet still follows justice."

    Rensa 

Rensa

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Number 28
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Number 29

A new Cyborg developed by Academy City to match up with the Level 5 Espers; serves Yakumi Hisako.


  • Ax-Crazy: Number 29.
  • All Your Powers Combined: Can replicate the 1st through 6th level 5 esper powers and also any other esper within 200 meters. She can only use one power at a time.
  • Brain in a Jar: More specifically a hypothalamus in a jar, the one part of a human body that cannot yet be replicated by Academy City. After her body is destroyed, Touma salvages 40 of the brains and puts them in cold storage until something can be done about them.
  • Confusion Fu: Her facial expression doesn't change, she barely has any body language, and her involuntary muscle movements like blinking and breathing are completely regular. This makes it very difficult to predict her in battle. Ultimately, she can't keep it up forever, especially if she gets upset.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: Invoked by Number 29 to explain why she chose to become a cyborg. She assumes Number 28 had a similar experience.
  • Dramatic Irony: In her speech to Touma, she seems to regard him as a complete greenhorn at heroism and unaware of the dark side, claiming that he never been in a situation where he couldn't save everyone before, and noting that he still has all his limbs and organs intact. This to a man who has saved the world several times, battled the dark side of Academy City and the magic factions, and lost his right arm four times.
  • Emotionless Girl: Number 28.
  • Expy: Artist notes indicate that Number 29's design is based on Envy from Fullmetal Alchemist.
  • Feel No Pain: As a cyborg, she can shut off her pain receptors.
  • Frame-Up: Part of her plan involves murdering Fremea and pinning the act on Umidori. Fortunately, she is foiled.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Dies in order to protect Hisako Yakumi.
  • Hospital Hottie: Number 28 has a day job as a nurse.
  • The Nicknamer: Number 28 tends to call people by descriptions instead of their names, like "Fatty", "Wrinkly", or "Mr. Psychedelic".
  • Pretender Diss: As Touma notes during his fight with her, while she might have the powers of the Level 5s, she's no Level 5 herself and can't use their powers as effectively.
  • Power Copying: Can copy the power of any esper in a 200 meter radius. However, she couldn't copy Gunha Sogiita's powers because his powers are not understood by anyone. She cannot use a power as well as the original, especially if it requires vast computational powers like the Level 5s' powers. If an esper dies, she cannot copy his or her power anymore. When she tries to copy Imagine Breaker, it blows up her arm.
  • Power Gives You Wings: During the final battle Touma and Beetle 05/Kakine, Rensa defaults to using Accelerator's power set, attempting to take advantage of the fact Accelerator sprouts black wings for a power-up when in a desperate situation. She succeeds in doing so, and at the end of the fight even manages to manifest the white wings in a final effort to defeat Touma.
  • Sexy Backless Outfit: Has one in her nurse uniform, which is meant to let the AIM receptor (which looks like a giant flower) that allows her to perform her Power Copying unfold out of her back without tearing her clothes.
  • Transformation Is a Free Action: Averted, she as a .7 second delay between powers. Of course, making use of it is hard.
  • Underestimating Badassery: She had never heard of Touma before, so she dismisses him as some street punk, only to be shocked when he battles her with ease thanks to Imagine Breaker.
  • Undying Loyalty: To Yakumi, to the point of willing to try and die for her. Sadly, Yakumi doesn't reciprocate such loyalty.
  • You Are Number 6: Rensa is actually a single body with multiple different brains that can be uploaded into her. Each brain is referred to as a number.

    Ayu Mitsuari 

Ayu Mitsuari

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Voiced by: Yumiri Hanamori

A Level 3 with the ability Mental Stinger, which gives her mental powers similar to Misaki Shokuhou.


  • Always Second Best: Part of her resentment for Misaki is that Ayu feels she simply an inferior version of Misaki and that people will always compare her to Misaki, seeing her as nothing more than a cheap knockoff of Mental Out. What she doesn't know is that she and Misaki actually possesses near-identical potentials, Ayu's simply not as powerful as Misaki due to the fact that the researchers were sabotaging her development in order to keep her at a certain level, in case they ever needed a replacement for Misaki.
  • Animal Motifs: Her last name means "honeypot ant". She describes herself as an ant that wants to be a bee (Misaki's Animal Motif), and her Five Over OS (Outsider) - Modelcase Mental Out device looks like a bloated honeypot ant.
  • Arc Villain: Serves as this in the 11th New Testament novel, going against Misaki. She was also revealed to be the second villain involved in the Astral Buddy manga, which takes place during Railgun's Dream Ranker arc.
  • Break the Cutie: The Biohacker novel basically spends the entire story progressively doing this to her.
  • Bungled Suicide: After being passed over in favor of Misaki and failing to contact Touma, she tried to kill herself, but failed. She then devoted her life to getting revenge on Misaki.
  • Clingy Jealous Girl: She really has it out for Misaki, which leads to their conflict in NT 11. In the Biohacker side-story, she gets jealous whenever Kumokawa gets close to Touma.
  • Combat Pragmatist: Since her powers are not as strong as Misaki's, she utilizes several devices to even the score. She even pretends to be affected by Misaki's powers, then attacks her when she drops her guard.
  • Cool Big Sis: She played this role to the Yumiya sisters during her time in the Ideal laboratory, which was part of the Clone Dolly project.
  • Decomposite Character: Her character appearance is an early rejected concept art of Misaki. The fact that it was pushed aside for Misaki's final design and being reused for Ayu's own appearance in NT 11 only adds to her contrast with Misaki.
  • A Day in the Limelight: The Biohacker side-story included in the Accelerator DVDs explains how she and Seria Kumokawa first met Touma when she was targeted by the Dark Side of Academy City. It also reveals how her self-worth was shattered by the arc villain, with the side-story ending on her suicide attempt.
  • Don't Look At Me: Despite her failed suicide, she never saw Touma from then on to let him know that she was alive because she didn't want him to see her covered in the "filth of pitch-black hatred".
  • Doomed by Canon: As seen in the Biohacker side-story, Ayu eventually tries to drown herself after Touma failed to answer her calls at the end, leading to the events of NT 11.
  • Driven by Envy: Ayu's entire character motivation is driven by her inferiority complex towards Misaki and Ayu's perception is that Misaki twisted her entire life despite the two of them never meeting. Among the things that Ayu perceived is that Misaki stole her position as a Level 5 Esper and her relationship with Touma.
  • Evil Plan: She was responsible for the distribution of Indian Poker cards that held Ideal lab technologies, which linked their users to Senya's AIM ghost form in order to create another composite power storm.
  • Evil Counterpart: In the past, she and Misaki were roughly equal in power and potential. However, the higher-ups of Academy City decided to devote more resources to Misaki's development and essentially kicked her to the curb. Full of despair, she decided to commit suicide. Just before doing it, she tried to contact Touma but he never came to save her because he had lost his cellphone in his first meeting with Misaki. This made her completely lose hope and try to drown herself. After the failed suicide attempt she discovered why Touma hadn't come, filling her with hatred towards Misaki, who not only had received better treatment, unknowingly and indirectly made Touma unable to help her but also was saved by Touma.
  • Fat Suit: When she wears the artificial fat Five Over OS (Outsider) - Modelcase Mental Out as a suit, it forms a body that weighs around 300kg and makes her look like an enormous Misaki.
  • I Just Want to Be You: Her ultimate plan was to drain Misaki's memories into herself, leaving her a vegetable, so that she could have her happy life and past friendship with Touma. When Misaki manages to resist, she aborts the plan and just tries to kill her.
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: In a sense. If the name of her ability didn't tip you off, her mental intrusion apparently feels like wires shooting into your brain as described by Misaki.
  • Ironic Name: Ayu means "love" and "joy", which does not describe her at all. At least, not her current self. During her time at Ideal, her name was Played Straight as she was a complete Nice Girl.
  • Leg Focus: Her Leotard of Power makes no effort to hide how shapely her thigh and legs are in NT 11, and it only serves as a bit of a comedic moment with her miniskirt in the Biohacker side-story. In Astral Buddy, she gets plenty of scenes of her legs posed in rather suggestive ways.
  • The Lost Lenore: A non-romantic example of Touma's end. She's the first girl who Touma grew close to and failed to save prior to his meeting with Misaki. According to Seria, this left him with strong regret that he could never get over. Subverted since she was still alive due to her suicide failing, but never saw Touma afterward because she wanted him to remember her fondly as the girl he was once close to and to not see her as the "utterly-changed ruins of that person".
  • Magic Feather: Similar to how Misaki focuses her powers using remotes, she focuses her powers by pointing cameras or her fingers at her target.
  • Mind Manipulation: Mental Stinger works by manipulating moisture, controlling the distribution of fluids, and the secretion of chemicals in the target's brain.
  • Murder the Hypotenuse: While Ayu originally planned to steal Misaki's memories and leave her a vegetable, upon hearing Misaki's proclamation that Touma will save her despite losing his memories, Ayu attempts to murder Misaki in a blind rage, abandoning her original plan.
  • The Resenter: Hates Misaki for becoming the #5 Level 5 instead of her and for being saved by Touma instead of her.
  • Sinister Surveillance: She's been monitoring Touma and Misaki for a long while before the start of the setting in Volume 1.
  • Used to Be a Sweet Kid: When she first met Touma, she was a genuinely kind and sweet girl, if a bit lacking in confidence. Then she had a very, very bad day...
  • Villainous Breakdown: When she is about to kill Misaki and gloats that there is no hope for her, Touma arrives to save the day. Ayu goes crazy, complaining that it is not fair that he'd save Misaki even though he never received any message from her and it is practically impossible for him to learn about her murder attempt while he didn't save Ayu back then due to a similar lack of information.
    • She has another one when her plans in the Astral Buddy arc begins to crumble around her.
  • Walking Wasteland: During bouts of extreme emotion, she can cause the area around her to suffer a freeze-drying effect. Living beings are drained of water and crumble apart.
  • Xanatos Speed Chess: She's both the victim and perpetrator of such plans:
    • As a victim, Ayu is unaware that she's actually a contingency plan, in case Misaki is ever killed or disposed of. Both girls were noted to have similar potentials and powers, even now, and if Misaki is ever removed from the equation, the researchers have deemed Ayu as a suitable replacement for her.

    Noukan Kihara 

Noukan Kihara

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A golden retriever made a Kihara by expanding the canine's brain, giving him human-like intelligence and lifespan. First mentioned in passing in the 4th New Testament volume, he properly appears at the end of the 7th volume. Not much is known about him, but recent novels have been gradually revealing more.


  • Affably Evil: A calm and polite gentle(dog) who has an appreciation for combining mecha, drills, and pile bunkers. He hates unnecessary waste, violence, and sacrifice, but will murder anyone who happens to oppose the Kiharas if he thinks it's necessary. He's also aware of how terrible of a person this makes him, but he does so anyway out of sheer loyalty to his creators' visions.
  • Almost Dead Guy: He's beaten to near death by Kamisato. In order to save him, Yuiitsu freezes him.In the final arcs of New Testament, he has recovered no worse for the wear thanks to Heaven Canceller.
  • Blue-and-Orange Morality: Shares his creators' mentality of For Science!, and thus his distaste for wanton destruction and waste has to do with likes and dislikes rather than morality.
  • The Dragon: Seems to be one to Aleister, as he has direct contact with him and is more aware of his plans than most other characters in the series so far.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He was especially fond of his dead master, and seems to truly care for the safety of Yuiitsu Kihara.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Unlike most Kiharas, he has a code of ethics and dislikes unnecessary destruction, though it's more about what he likes and dislikes rather than the actual morality behind it.
  • Kill the God: New Testament 12 shows hints that Aleister has equipped him with enough capability to take on Magic Gods. He personally states that he specializes in cases like Fraulein Kreutune and Aiwass as well. Whether he actually can do so has yet to be seen.
  • Know When to Fold 'Em: While talking with Yuiitsu, he shoots down her suggestive ploy to turn against Aleister. Noukan explicitly tells her that they can't even dream of defeating or outwitting him.
  • Meaningful Name: His given name means "Brainstem".
  • Mentor Occupational Hazard: He advises Yuiitsu as an almost fatherly figure with Yuiitsu adoring him in turn. Of course, he gets beaten near to death by Kamisato and has to be put in cryogenic stasis to preserve his life.
  • Older Than They Look: His human speech is described as sounding like the voice of a man in the prime of his life, but he is actually 80 years old, far beyond a normal dog's lifespan.
  • Otaku: He's a mecha fan, particularly that of the combining mecha genre, and will disregard profits and gains just to make cooler drills and pile bunkers.
  • Science Destroys Magic: His Anti-Art Attachment Powered Suits were created with the express purpose of fighting magical threats. Using them, he managed to easily beat a Magic God.
  • Smoking Is Cool: Frequently smokes cigars in his appearances.
  • Talking Animal: He is described as having the voice of a man who seems to be in the prime of his life.
  • Undying Loyalty: He's so devoted to the Kiharas' mission that Kamisato's World Rejecter cannot affect him.
    Noukan: It’s true my weapons might not be of any use. If I think about the path taken by the one who made and uses them, I do have to wonder if he wholeheartedly wishes for an entirely perfect plan. Between good and bad, it’s a foolishly bad, but between like and dislike, I foolishly like it. But, if you asked me, and the things that give me form, whether I wanted a new world, the answer would be no. Boy, I have intelligence. I know the original seven who gave it to me. I understand their wills and I have attempted to follow in their footsteps. So my thoughts and my personality would never stray from the path and would never hold conflicting desires when faced with the kind of salvation presented by someone who can only rely on the supernatural. I will live and die in this world. Whatever result that brings, I will face it, I will confirm the answer of the Kiharas that it leads me to, and I will complete the task the original seven began.
  • Uplifted Animal: Capable of speech, he was at first a normal golden retriever before being given intelligence by one of the first Kiharas.

    Youko Takada 

Youko Takada

Voiced by: Ayaka Asai (Japanese), Madeleine Morris (English)

Leader of a three-man team targeting Accelerator to secure DNA samples. She uses the Ultra-high Pressure Water Cutter stolen from a raid on secret research facility.

  • Canon Foreigner: Created for the anime version of A Certain Scientific Accelerator.
  • Catchphrase: Has a tendency to mention how "radical" things are constantly. Accelerator mentions how annoying this is as soon as he sees her.
  • Cool Sword: Literally. Her main weapon is a set of pressurized liquid nitrogen blades that can cut through armor and bone.
  • Hot-Blooded: Youko wants to fight with Accelerator to get his genetic sample.
  • Powered Armor: Her Ultra-high Pressure Water Cutter functions as this, covering her arms, legs, and back.

    Minori Kidera 

Minori Kidera

Voiced by: Miyuri Shimabukuro (Japanese), Kasi Hollowell (English)

Second girl of a three-man team targeting Accelerator to secure DNA samples. Shes uses a skill Accelerator calls Aero Separator.

  • Canon Foreigner: Created for the anime version of A Certain Scientific Accelerator.
  • The Stoic: She doesn't talk much even when they target Accelerator.
  • Token Super: The only apparent Esper in the trio.

    Hiromi Nakahara 

Hiromi Nakahara

Voiced by: Taito Ban (Japanese), Hunter Scott (English)

The only guy in the three-man going after Accelerator. He has no ESPer skills, but is a muscular man who serves as the muscle when a fight is about to start. Hiromi also lugs ammo for Youko's Ultra-high Pressure Water Cutter.

  • Canon Foreigner: Created for the anime version of A Certain Scientific Accelerator.
  • The Big Guy: In the three-man cell when they storm the hospital Accelerator is staying in.

    Hinadori Hanakawa 

Hinadori Hanakawa

Riot

A young esper who works as an agent/assassin for the secret external organization Blue Blood. Around 10-12 years old with blonde hair, she's a powerful telekineticist but can only affect non-living matter.
  • Awful Truth: She warns Mikoto and her friends about this when they ask her for the Big Bad's identity. She gives it to them when they insist, resulting in Yuri Sakibasu suffering a Heroic BSoD due to the revelation that it's her own mother.
  • Do Not Call Me "Paul": Even after her real name is revealed, she insists on being addressed as Riot, her underworld nickname. This is because she hates her real name, feeling it's embarrassing and doesn't suit her.
  • Embarrassing First Name: Hinadori means "baby bird", which she hates — pointing out that it'll sound ridiculous by the time she's 40.
  • Heel–Face Turn: When Maeda, the Anti-Skill officer who arrests her, does a Heroic Sacrifice to protect her, she's completely floored. She then desperately promises to help the heroes on condition that they save his life.
  • Master of Disguise: Manages to convincingly disguise herself as an old man when she first appears in person.
  • Ms. Exposition: She's the one who reveals Blue Blood's existence, their plans, and the identity of their chief agent, to Mikoto and her friends.
  • Weaksauce Weakness: Her telekinesis doesn't work on living cells, meaning it can be blocked by large amounts of organic matter — such as trees, a swarm of insects, or a storeroom of fresh fruit.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Once she's captured, Blue Blood tries to have her assassinated to prevent her from revealing any secrets. Not only does the attempt fail, the would-be assassin ends up getting captured as well.

    Acid & Counselor 

Acid & Counselor

Twin sisters who work for Blue Blood's representative in Academy City. They are both Level 4 espers with the ability to manipulate oxygen in the air. Acid can instantly combine oxygen with other gases to create various substances, including the acid which is her signature attack. Counselor can read people's thoughts from the oxygen emitted by their bodies through cutaneous respiration. Whichever of them is currently using her ability always holds a stick of lip balm in her mouth; it's unclear if this is actually necessary, or merely an affectation. They have silver hair and are of unspecified age (though implied to be either junior or senior high school).
  • Dustbin School: They used to attend one of these, which contrived to trap them there by falsifying their records to claim they were hardcore delinquents. Unsurprisingly, this ended badly for the school.
  • Identical Twins: This becomes a plot point when Mikoto deduces that, because they are genetically identical, their powers must operate on similar principles.
  • Malicious Slander: The school they went to was a bottom-rung institute for hopeless cases, and should never have produced a Level 4 esper (much less two). Consequently, the staff were so desperate for the prestige brought by having them as students that they contrived to make sure the pair could never be transferred anywhere else. They did this by spreading rumours and falsifying records to claim Acid and Counsellor were violent, immoral delinquents. As a result, the two girls became pariahs with no hope of being accepted anywhere else.
  • No Name Given: Their real names are never revealed.
  • Stripperific: Their outfits consist of nothing but oversized dress shirts and leather boots. This is apparently because Acid's eponymous power can eat through clothing to the skin, so they have to be able to strip quickly. They also undress and inspect themselves after every battle to make sure no acid has got onto them.
  • Swiss-Army Superpower: Acid's ability in particular is incredibly versatile. Things she can do with it include:
    • Combine oxygen with hydrogen ions and moisture to create a powerful oxyacid literally out of thin air;
    • Combine and condense gases into solid blocks of oxides, which she can use to create instant stairs;
    • Bend light through the air, fooling people's vision and aim (similar to the ability Trick Art);
    • Simulate pyrokinesis by igniting oxygen (not actually shown but referenced in their backstory);
    • Increase the flow of oxygen to her cells, boosting their output to create an effect similar to Junko Hokaze's Rampage Dress.
  • The Dividual: They do everything as a pair and are never seen apart. In combat, their coordination is so in-sync that they're practically a single opponent.
  • The Dog Bites Back: They ultimately got revenge on their school for ruining their lives by burning it to the ground. The school had such a bad reputation that its staff were basically unemployable afterwards.
  • Then Let Me Be Evil: Once their school destroyed their reputations and convinced everyone they were criminal delinquents, Ryouu Sakibasu approached them and pointed out that they had nothing to lose — and a great deal of freedom to gain — by becoming exactly that.


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