...guest starring Touma!!!Story time is over!Mikoto is unhappy that Touma is driving away her admirers.Summary:Mikoto and the gang are at a restaurant sharing urban legends with each other, in particular one about a woman who strips in public and one about a guy who can cancel out all powers. Mikoto is bit curious about the second story, because she remembers that Touma was able to avoid her shocks. Touma and Mikoto first met when Mikoto was surrounded by a bunch of hooligans trying to get her to go party with them. Most people avoided the hooligans, but Touma actually stepped in to help Mikoto. In his effort to get Mikoto away from the hooligans, Touma ended up calling Mikoto a little immature girl, and Mikoto got pissed off and fried everyone except Touma.Mikoto to Touma: You are supposed to be looking at me! ME!Back to the present, after parting with her friends Mikoto walks on the streets and spots Touma trying to help a woman find a parking lot. Mikoto wants to have a fight with Touma, but Touma manages to push the responsibility of helping the lost woman to Mikoto. Suddenly, the woman takes off her blouse for no reason, causing Touma to run away (for fears of being labeled a pervert) and leaving Mikoto to take care of the situation. After getting the woman to put her shirt back on, Mikoto accompanies the woman to an outdoor seating area where the woman goes to buy drinks for herself and Mikoto. Mikoto gets a phone call from Kuroko who is with Ruiko and Kazari, and all three of them become excited when Mikoto reports that she's with the woman who strips in public. Mikoto ends up having to shut off her phone to avoid Ruiko and Kazari's questions. After the woman returns with drinks, Mikoto chats with the woman and discovers that she is a researcher specializing in AIM fields. Suddenly a little kid drops an ice cream cone on the woman's skirt. The woman doesn't mind and is about take off her skirt in public but she is stopped by Mikoto. Meanwhile, Kuroko, Kazari, and Ruiko are looking up more info on the legend of the stripping woman, and Kuroko becomes very concerned when she discovers that the public stripping could be passed on.Isn't a stripping-prone Mikoto a good thing from Kuroko's standpoint?A scientist driving a Lamborghini? Only in Academy City.Mikoto accepts Touma's proposal with the broken eggs.Mikoto takes the researcher to a washroom so Mikoto can clean the researcher's skirt. After getting back her skirt, the researcher asks Mikoto to thank Touma and inadvertently teases Mikoto about her relationship with Touma, calling Mikoto a "tsundere". Mikoto causes surge that shuts off the lights in the washroom and has to quickly leave with the researcher. After a long day, Mikoto finally leads the researcher to her parked car. After parting with the researcher, Mikoto runs into Touma who has dropped his bag of grocery. Mikoto demands that Touma fight with her and the two go off to an empty area near the bridge. Mikoto uses several attacks including electric shocks and using controlling the iron in the sand, but Touma is able to cancel out all of them with his right hand. Mikoto then tries grabbing Touma's right hand to shock him, but it doesn't work and she cowers when it looks like Touma is about to punch her. Seeing Mikoto cowering, Touma pretends to be defeated, but Mikoto is unsatisfied and continues to chase Touma.Mikoto tries to whip Touma into shape.OMG! Touma is going to punch a girl (again)!?Mikoto and Touma are setting good examples by going out and getting exercise.After losing Touma in a long chase, Mikoto returns to her dorm and is attacked by Kuroko who is concerned with Mikoto contracting the "stripping disease". Mikoto is eventually able to get some sleep after gagging and tying up Kuroko. In an office somewhere, the female researcher is looking up info on Mikoto.Didn't know this relationship has progressed to bondage and gagging.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The real plot finally starts! Sure took long enough for the show to reach this point. This was easily the most enjoyable episode of Railgun thus far, and this is mostly thanks to the interactions between Mikoto and Touma. I have mentioned in my previous posts that this show needed more Touma cameos, and this episode used Touma's screen time to very good effect. Touma's "I'm so unlucky/Please don't bother me/I'm a freakin' hero" attitude + Biri-biri's "Tsundere/I'm gonna fry you" attitude = automatic hilarity lol. It's a much better combination than Mikoto and Kuroko's crazy lesbian tendencies, although in this episode Kuroko was mildly amusing since her antics weren't overplayed. I realize this show is mostly about Mikoto's 4koma group, but this episode once again demonstrated that some Touma screen time can be beneficial to the comedic part of the series.I noticed that Railgun seems to have retconned the first meeting between Mikoto and Touma since in Index Mikoto was in a restaurant instead of standing on the streets and Touma got chased across town by the hooligans. I'm not sure why they bothered to do this, since it's probably not that important to the ongoing story.The fight between Mikoto and Touma was pretty decent, with Mikoto showing up some new abilities other than just shocks and railgun coins. It seems that Mikoto has the ability control (ferromagnetic) metals a la Magneto, but the it's not that easy to defeat Touma with abilities alone. It's much easier to beat Touma with martial arts or an old fashioned weapon (like a gun), so if Touma was serious Mikoto wouldn't be able to beat him without using some ingenuity. It's funny that Mikoto has no qualms whatsoever about using potentially lethal level of force on Touma though.Now that we are on to the real story, the next couple of episode should be pretty decent.
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