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In this theory, Aiwass doesn't actually think anything of humans, contrary to what it claims. It would therefore ultimately be defeated thanks to the efforts of humans (to add further insult to injury, completely normal humans like Shiage would play an important role in this).
- While this theory was technically Jossed, it was recently revealed that Aiwass' true master was Anna Sprengel all along, and she is the one that seems primed to become the new Big Bad.
In that case, what exactly are these powers? Given that both of them apparently choose their possessors, they are probably sapient beings. Imagine Breaker may be the white dragon that has occasionally appeared when the right hand is severed (this assumes that it is a separate entity from the "Invisible Thing"). World Rejector may actually be a demon. Coronzon, another demon, is the first to know about the power's existence (as suggested at the end of NT Volume 12) and manipulates Kakeru via Fran.
It's harder to explain Aleister's understanding of the situation. My theory is that he's not nearly as knowledgeable as he thinks, as shown when he was unaware of Lola being his daughter, possessed by Coronzon. He heard the name "The One Who Purifies Gods and Slays Demons", but didn't know much else aside from them being capable of defeating gods. He inscribed the name on the Anti-Art Attachment, perhaps considering it a lucky charm for his anti-god weapon, while Dramatically Missing the Point about the original person.
In this theory, the dragon that appeared in Volume 2 and in Chapter 69 of A Certain Scientific Railgun is a separate entity, possibly the source of Imagine Breaker (given that the ability is apparently intelligent and chooses its wielder).
The final arc of the series will begin when Touma realizes the truth and regains his original personality and memories. He'll then become the final boss, but without any dramatic shifts in his personality, making the final battle a case of Good Versus Good.
- The only reason Sogita Gunha don’t go to the same school is because he is one of the only two level five who is not a sociopath, murderer or outright insane so they have to showcase him in a school with a higher budget
- This is a fairly plausible idea. We can also throw in: someone who is frequently theorised to be the #6 Level 5 who no one knows anything about; a mysterious headband-wearing girl who keeps showing up in illustrations; a brain of one of the Board of Directors who can influence people's minds without an esper ability; an Anti-Skill member who takes on espers with a shield; the daughter of one of the Board of Directors.
Think of it. The arm seals 'something' within it, and of times we can see 'that' out it looks like a Dragon (in Mikoto's case, EIGHT-HEADED DRAGON). Izzard's imagination or otherwise, that poses a great question: why a dragon?
Now, let's review what we know about Purgatory first, based on legends and what can we get from Bible. Purgatory, or Hell, is where souls of dead, sinned people was cast into the undying flames to be cleansed of its 'filth', which is sin. It seals a 'great snake', which is often translated into Dragon BESIDE the ten-horned, seven-headed beast. And what's the connection of this with Touma?
Magicians are told in the past to get their magic by contracting with a devil; their 'magic' are borrowed power from the Devil, which tainted the world with their presence. Purgatory, being the special place in which Devil is sealed of course hold power to cancel the magic. But what about esper powers? Why can Imagine Breaker cancel that too? Because it represents 'Reality'. Purgatory was not only created from an idea of moral lesson or scary bedtime stories, but it holds the reality that every life will end sometime-an endpoint. Nothing is eternal, everything in the end will return to the void. Even light can be extinguished after it spent the potential energy that fuels it. Not only that; there'll be no one above any other in there-this idea, this thought, which has been rooted for so many years in human history, essentially became a subconscious part in humanity's thinking logic. Even if you don't have a religion to follow, the 'fear' of getting 'judged' limits your ability to act, causing it to grow real, just like Idol Theory. Imagine Breaker literally invoked this principle and brought down everyone to normal, magicians or esper, to the level that they can talk eye-to-eye, heart-to-heart (and sometimes with fists).
For the second spoiler, you'd better be reading the NT14 first. Really.
We've seen multiple examples on the "science side" of Espers connecting to a network and boasting their abilities and that their abilities can be boosted or otherwise effected by being on this network. (As well as their personalities) This can be seen the level upper arc in Railgun, Accelerator's collar in Index, the network in the "hero arc" in the New Testament that cause a bunch of esper's to go berserk, Mikoto's level 6 shift in railgun again. Which leads me too my point...If Accelerator at the end of the series becomes a level 6, what if in order to boast their powers he uses the Misaka network to share his calculating power with the sisters and they connect to Mikoto who uses her electricity to mimic mind control and establish a network with other espers.(Assuming Accelerator doesn't use his abilities to create his own network seeing as his power could do that with enough practice and as a level 6.) Mugino could send data by manipulating electrons. (Maybe when she levels up she can control all particles more fluently other then just laser beams) Misaki with Mind Control I could see her making a network, and applying the level upper logic change people's perceptions and "insert" memories of Esper's getting more experience practicing their powers, even changing personal realities by changing their person itself.(At a high enough level) Since a huge part of esper powers in this series seems to rely on perception and sense of self. Kakine with his abilities of creation could create an efficient form of wireless communication that could connect to people. (Not to mention in time create his own personal realities.) Takitsubo, though not a Level 5 (yet), potentially could do so if she can control AIM fields later. With this in mind the level 5s could all become 6's and maybe even connect all of Academy cities espers and Gemstones into one giant network and share their collective calculating power, AIM Fields, and even edit and alter each other's powers. Like multiple cells in one body.
As for the Magic side, it's said that Index has the potential to be a Magic God in the latest novel, and it's shown she can "feed" people knowledge like with Levina Birdway in Vs the World. Not to mention with the power of belief and people reciting magic together. (Such as with a Latin Chorus and the Pope drawing power from believers) Maybe if the Magic side can find the "common roots" of all these various religions and beliefs they can also unite their powers, as to be a Magic side compliment to the Science side networks. Where everyone's magic get's stronger and we get some major characters becoming magic gods, with items to reduce the 50/50.
And Maybe there could be some middle man.(Maybe Accelerator by redirecting damage to his body, Kakine repairing himself, or Tsuchimikado after leveling up his Healing to the point where he heals faster then he can be damaged by the backlash could unite both of this giant Gaian hypothesis like network into on giant unified body. It'd be neat to see a bunch of people and factions that were divided for a long time, to be united for a common goal.
- No WWIII
- Misaka Clone Sisters are all alive, employed in public functions
- No Fre/nda incident
- Hound Dog Unit members are more "normal" SWATs chosen from the Antiskill
- Liberal Arts City still functional
Teitoku can already control the Nuclear Forces in order to create elementary particle combinations which are naturally impossible, to create new matter. Accelerator can already manipulate Gravity as a vector, and as a Level 6, might be able to manipulate space-time itself. Mikoto and Shizuri would have Electromagnetism. The former can already observe a wide spectrum of EM waves, and create a strong magnetic field for her railgun attack with her electricity; the latter uses Electromagnetism to direct electrons into strong lasers.
This Troper thinks that Gunha already has the power of space-time manipulation but doesn't know how to use it besides using it subconsciously, evident by his OHKO punches, which accelerate to twice the speed of sound in a short time made possible by compressing space-time around his fist so that his fist can accelerate more per unit distance.
Misaki's mind control ability is vaguely Electromagnetism, since she probably manipulates the electrochemical pulses in brains for mind control? Or maybe she's not an esper ansd actually a magician, evident by the time when she completely believes Touma about magic?
- NT 11 reveals that her ability actually manipulates moisture in the brain. However, it can be used with incredible preciseness which allows her to perform VERY delicate operations with it.
The 6th Level 5 might control magnetism, similar to Magneto.
- A good thing, too. Could you imagine a counterpart to the Imagine Breaker that has the opposite effect of destroying anything not supernatural? Human beings, vehicles, buildings, the Earth...
- What if the two met?
- Since the Imagine Breaker itself is supernatural, it would trump the other.
- Or maybe it's just that Imagine Breaker is fulfilling Touma's inner desire for the world to 100% normal. No magic, no espers, just normality all around. Touma's power isn't dispel magic or an equivalent, it's actually forcing everyone else to conform to Touma's subconscious beliefs in how the universe should work. Esper powers are explained as the result of someone having their own internal reality being radically different from the "real" reality. The "real world" has espers with supernatural powers. That's normal for them. Being out of sync with that particular side of reality would likely result in a "dispel" ability, as in the case of Touma. His power extends to his luck, as he believes him having bad luck is completely normal for him. Even the plot of the show might spring from his powers, as running into women requiring help is pretty much a normal thing for Touma. Hell, Touma could be a powerful high level esper with a very sneaky ability that he has never consciously used. The exact nature of Touma's power is simply too complex to be a mere "dispel."
- So that would mean like, example: A reality that is normal is 0, no gods, espers or magic. An esper or magician affects reality so that's either -/+ 1 to reality. Touma's power reverts reality to 0 even if it's on -/+50. Touma is so badass.
- ... so basically Touma is the anti-Haruhi?
- What if the two met?
- Actually, this is possible! In Vol. 14 of the light novel it´s hinted if Touma´s ability should become at full power, he also could erase natural magic like the ley lines of the earth or the life energy of a person... Some people even think, then he would be able to DESTROY THE ENTIRE WORLD JUST BY ONE TOUCH!
- Wouldn't he also destroy himself?
- This Troper thinks that the Imagine Breaker works by forcing anything which comes into contact with it to obey the laws of the universe, thus cancelling any supernatural effects. Life is obviously created according to the laws of the universe, so it's safe. Haruhi, on the other hand...
- Where are all the Flame Haze when you need them?
- You might be looking for Dengeki Gakuen RPG: Cross of Venus, that's where you'll see the most famous Flame Haze step foot in Touma's world alongside other people. Like that mere mortal girl who happens to be similar to her.
- If the spoilers for New Testament 8 are anything to go by, this is partly true: the world has apparently begun to collapse due to a number of reasons. One, humanity’s “recognition” aka the “era” has repeatedly destroyed and remade the world. As a result, the layer realm and foundation supporting the world have grown distorted, however, magic, which is drawn from a different layer than the natural Gemstones, was enough to rapidly change the world, but the AIM fields of Academy City’s artificial espers advanced the damage even further. In that world that is distorted by the thoughts of those viewing it, if Academy City’s many espers continue to stimulate it with their Personal Realities, the reality of the espers bringing changes from the microscopic world into the macroscopic world will erode the world.
By: Raja Hafiz
- If that is really the case then why does it work when Touma doesn't even know that there is a power at work to begin with?
- So does that mean Level Upper is just a recording of Kamina yelling "Who the Hell do you think I am?!"
- And on that note, wouldn't that mean Accelerator is this world's Kamina?
- This Troper seen it more like Kamina->Touma, Simon->Accelerator
- Exactly, both Kamina and Touma can stop a mental breakdown with a punch to the face.
- Also, just before Touma gives Accelerator a fist to the face, he says "Grit those teeth, strongest!", similar to how Kamina says "Let's see you grit those teeth!" before throwing Gurren's fist at Simon.
- The Human Eradication System of the To Aru planet will be triggered when an esper reaches Level 6. Yet another reason for him to stop the Sisters project.
Have any of you read a Xanth book? My theory is based greatly on Bink's talent. Basically, the theory goes that the Imagine Breaker doesn't actually negate luck, but does it in a roundabout way. It constantly puts Touma in precarious positions in order to strengthen him, without having to do actual training that might attract the attention from powerful people.
It's main objective is to gather as many as possible strong and varied mating candidates to pass on Touma's genes and extend his bloodline using a roundabout way that will cause them to fall in love.
If Imagine Breaker really does negate luck, Touma should've been dead a long time ago. Instead he's got a growing harem of people from various fields. He's got a magical library, one of the strongest psychics in the world, 10k of her clones, a saint, several nuns-in-training, a teacher with possible anti-aging genes, another melee-based mage, and a loli bondage lover.
Actually the 'loli bondage lover' is forced to wear that by her bondage-loving superiors, according to a more recent light novel. And she's not in the harem.
- Overall, nice hypothesis, that'd make the whole plot of Index make a lot more sense, but what then is your understanding of what Touma's power actually is? Because it's hard to see what it's 'dispelling' in your version of events. So how do you think it works?
- Correction: several HUNDRED nuns-in-training.
- As a counterpoint, I feel this could actually be his misfortune working smarter, not harder. Compare his current misfortune potential to his previous potential: Past Touma falls in love, gets dumped. Current Touma falls in love, gets tortured in hilarious ways by his overpowered and massive harem. Or, Past Touma could get in a car crash, current Touma could die from an Eldritch Abomination (including ones he's on good terms with). Plus, his misery and suffering levels have risen drastically since meeting Index, just look at the number of hospital visits he has. (Having his entire right arm sliced off comes to mind).
- Inverse of that - If Mikoto taps into the Sisters Network and downloads all of her memories and experience, all the sisters immediately gets boosted to level 4 or 5!
- Accelerator only got half of his original processing power back due to the MISAKA Network. Even when he majorly powers up TWICE in the series so far, becoming even more insanely powerful and rule-breaking than he was originally, he's still not a Level 6 yet. Even if Mikoto connects to the MISAKA Network, I doubt that she'd even be able to surpass the second ranked Level 5, since he and Accelerator are on a completely different level than Mikoto and everyone ranked below her. Remember, a the definition of a Level 6 is "one who is not a deity that reaches the senses of the Heavens", meaning it that it is a godlike level of power that is far beyond Mikoto's reach even with the help of the MISAKA Network.
- Couldn't it be a case of compatibility though? Certainly accelerator only gain half his original processing power back, but that could be because they process information differently according to their power, if the original Misaka connects herself to the SISTERs network, it is likely that she would be able to utilize their processing power more efficiently than Accelerator can
- The next couple chapters of the Railgun Manga will provide the answers. Mikoto's awakened at least.
- I wouldn't say that she's awakened. "Demon Mikoto" is something that was forced upon her, not something she obtained by herself.
- As of Railgun Ch 64, confirmed with caveats. Using a similar set up to what was used on Hyouka, Mikoto can get just over halfway there. Exterior's full power is needed to keep her stable until she reaches Level 6.
- According to Gensei, it is possible using this method. However, she will be completely destroyed as an individual by the time she reaches it. Accelerator is the only one who can reach Level 6 and still remain stable.
- Sure, Accelerator is the strongest. But he is also incredibly unstable. And any gamer will tell you that grinding low level mooks (sorry Misaka Imouto) is a less efficient way to level up than to fight a boss. The Level 6 project as we know it was a smoke-screen. The goal was to have the Sisters get stronger, to test the limits of their powers, and to gain real world combat experience. Then, once that point was reached, 'leak' the existence of the project to the Railgun. Eventually, she would intervene, and when all other routes failed, she would confront Accelerator. During the fight link her into the Radio Wave Sisters network, and have her download all of the Sisters' XP and skill points, and as per the Level Up experiment, tap into the network to boost her own power. That alone might not be enough to level her up, but combined with the fight against Accelerator, it would push her past the turning point. And while she might have gone after Accelerator intending to die, Human survival instincts, plus having a Sister sacrifice herself to protect Misaka would have been enough to push her to fight for real.
- The real purpose of the sisters experiment later and it has nothing to do with anyone reaching level six. It's actually intended to fail so that Aliester can send the sisters all over the world and thereby expand the Misaka Network all over the world.
- The experiment finished without a hitch? Cool, SYSTEM reached (as per Tree Diagram's prediction), Right Seat of God, eat your heart out; the experiment somehow stopped (as per canon)? Cool, use the SISTERs' condition as an excuse to spread them all over the world, thus expanding the Misaka Network (and the associated AIM Dispersion Field) across the globe, allowing the deployment of an artificial angel worldwide. This WMG could very well be yet another layer of failsafe for Aleister.
- The real purpose of the sisters experiment later and it has nothing to do with anyone reaching level six. It's actually intended to fail so that Aliester can send the sisters all over the world and thereby expand the Misaka Network all over the world.
- While it may not have been part of Aleister's plans, it's definitely in Kihara's plan as of the current events in the Railgun manga.
- The fact that Mikoto is described as "Aleister's favorite" implies that yes, this was the plan the entire time.
- Actually, looking at the original text, Gensei is using Misaka's body to trigger the awakening of a sleeping power that is a/the favorite of the General Superintendent which hides in the shadows of the "main plan". Basically, Mikoto is nothing but a tool in order for Gensei to achieve whatever he is trying to achieve.
- Yes—to create a Level 6 and apply the same effect to Aleister. It's been known for a long time that that is the true purpose of any Level 6 Shift project.
- Actually, Vol.22 points out who... what is important to Aleister.
- Yes and no. Mikoto can reach Level 6 with the Network's support (see above as to how), but anyone but Accelerator reaching Level 6 will become unstable and lose control, wiping out the city.
And then things turned out to be the reverse when he still hangs on to that perception of his... any observing fans can notice that the majority of his Harem are made of human extraordinaire.
Chances a rising with the height difference.
Touma's esper powers are clearly unique, even for a level zero. This is commented on numerous times by people like Crowley and Fiamma, and his right hand apparently isn't the extent of his powers, at least according to Terra. The reason? Touma is actually a Level 6.
- Similar then to Louise being ranked zero just because her magical element being mythical no-one knew how to measure it.
- Alternatively, given how his powers seem to work — by "resetting" the changes an esper or magician makes to reality — he may actually be negative level esper.
- That fits my theory about what a Level 6 is, namely someone whose Personal Reality is so powerful that it goes beyond them personally and actually overwrites reality including the personal realities of others to create a sort of Super-Reality that is manipulated according to their will, essentially becoming God (which is the kind of power that Level 6 is rumored to be). In this case, since the majority of Touma's power is currently being used to restrain the Invisible Thing inside his body, the remainder of his power is exercised through contact with his right hand. That power is exercised by being automatically attuned to basic reality (you typical normal reality) and the effect of the power being to "reset all abnormal values to zero." So when his hand contacts these abnormal values in the form of various supernatural powers both, esper and magical, their values are reset to zero, which nullifies them, aka Imagine Breaker.
- If that would be truth, then we can't be sure that the "reality" we see now is the original reality of "To Aru-Verse". He may reset the changes, and even normal world, to his idea of "Normal world".
- If Touma really is a Level 6, that could also explain why the System Scan consequently fails to detect any powers in him. Academy City has never had a Level 6, so they naturally have no real idea of just how powerful they are, and thus the System Scan can only measure up to Level 5. Touma is so powerful that his power goes beyond the scale, which System Scan misinterprets as him being a Level 0
- He probably had some smaller adventures in the past, but I doubt he had anything to do with magicians. Right from the very start, Touma did not believe in magicians until Styil came. To him, breaking Index's Walking Church only convinced him that the clothes were not normal, not that magicians existed. Unless he lost his memory before meeting Index, there's no way he would have been so stubborn on magic not existing.
- As of NT 7 we know that he had some things happening with Kumokawa Seria and Shokuhou Misaki before but we still don't know what exactly.
- The precedent post is actually a common misconception. Hints to a past relationship between Kumokawa Seria and pre-memory loss Kamijou Touma are actually first shown in SS 2, and implied even heavier in the Love Letter SS.
- NT Volume 11 explains Touma's past with Misaki.
- Biohacker explains his past with Seria and Ayu.
- Current theory (though not particularly serious) is that he is the Sixth Level 5, and is hiding his identity for some reason.
- I can see a plot arc where Touma learns the name of the sixth Level 5 and tries his best to find him, getting into a whole lot of trouble along the way, only to find out in the end that it was Pierce Aogami. And cue Touma facepalming.
- He may not be explicitly hiding his identity, but just not mentioning it though. Fans have scanned through the books and noted that the author has never stated Pierce Aogami's actual level - people just assume him to be a Level 0 because he's grouped together with the other two. There hasn't actually been an occasion for him to refer to the fact that he's a Level 5. I'm really hoping this theory comes true, though I'm going to miss his name...
- Let's not forget that the three consist of : one level 0, who is also a Double Agent; one level 0 who is..., not really technically a level 0, and is involved in global conflicts; and the last one is a student of undefined level and undefined identity, he's either the only normal guy out of the three (so normal you wouldn't need to know anything about him : normal, full stop), or is hiding a secret at least as big as the other two
- I can see this happening. Touma will ask Tsuchimikado if he knew, and why he didn't tell him. Tsuchimikado and Aogami will simply say "You didn't ask".
- Or Touma used to know about Aogami Pierce's power but since he lost his memory......
- Aogami Pierce is not even a real name. He has blue hair, and he is pierced. Aogami Pierce = Blue haired pierced. So, if his identity is fake, there is fat chance, that he is not level 0.
- By NT 7, we see someone that's referred to as #6, although by no means affirmed, since Misaki seems to imply that it's just someone putting on an act, if Aogami is indeed #6, it could be that his power is something that makes him the ideal spy, and him being part of the Idiot Trio could very well be part of Aleister's (or perhaps just Academy City's Dark Side) observation on Touma.
- A strike against Aogami as #6 is that at the end of NT 12, someone who works for #6 calls him "You damn intellectual." That doesn't seem like a word ANYONE would use with Aogami.
- What if Pierce Aogami was deliberately sent by Aleister to keep an eye on Touma and make sure Touma didn't get involved with the dark side of Academy City? Memory manipulation doesn't work on Touma because of Imagine Breaker, so to ensure Touma doesn't interfere with anything the best way would be to stop him from coming into contact with such dark elements. Aogami was meant to act as this limiter, but when Index fell onto his balcony and everything started to unravel, Aogami's role becomes obsolete. So he just keeps hanging around as a friend of Touma's.
- Actually i think Touma already knows who it is cuz there is a chapter where he reads the list of level 5
- I'm currently rewatching the series and there's a scene when Touma meets Tsuchimikado and Aogami for the first time after he lost his memory, so he doesn't remember them. One of the FIRST things Aogami says when he doesn't recognize them right away is to suggest that Touma lost his memory out of heat.
- This was pretty much confirmed in Vol. 22. Imagine Breaker seals "The Invisible Thing" aka the dragon head that appeared when Aureolus Izzard chopped off Touma's arm. The dragon reemerges when Fiamma of the Right chops off Touma's arm.
- This dragon was most likely a hallucination of Izzard, he couldn't believe, that Touma pwnt him, so he went ape-shit and started seeing things, that's more or less what Stiyl confirmed at the end.
- But isn't it confirmed that Izzard's power is to make his thoughts reality? After all, Touma was laughing after having his arm cut off, and it's pretty obvious that he was terrified of Touma BEFORE the dragon judging by the reflection in his eyes.
- You're both missing the point/forgetting the part where the dragon COMES BACK ON ITS OWN. Izzard was present when it first appeared and it would make logical sense to write this off as an effect of his magic ability. But then it appears again during the fight with Fiamma of the Right, as mentioned above, and again when Touma fights Misaka during the Level 6 Shift attempt on her in the Railgun manga. Izzard didn't make the dragon. It comes out every time Touma gets his right arm cut off. Also his arm will grow back just to seal it.
- To correct the above, the dragon is only confirmed to appear on two specific occasions: once in Index OT Volume 2, and once in Railgun Chapter 67 (this time with seven friends). On all other occasions Touma's right arm is cut off, the Invisible Thing comes out.
- This dragon was most likely a hallucination of Izzard, he couldn't believe, that Touma pwnt him, so he went ape-shit and started seeing things, that's more or less what Stiyl confirmed at the end.
- Sorta confirmed in NT.
- Note that in every series but the manga, Touma has never flat-out blocked Misaka's Railgun. This would be a good explanation of how he could, though.
- Actually he blocked it in the very first volume
- Nope, it missed.
- It mentions that he blocked it off screen later in the story.
- Touma being able to actually block Mikoto's Railgun is very questionable; as far as I know that one panel from the manga shouldn't count as canon and a short off-screen mention is dubious and may be a mis-translation. In actual scenes we have seen, Mikoto has never actually aimed her Railgun to hit Touma which fits with her characterization of holding back and trying not to really hurt anyone for the most part. She has smacked him with electricity but thus far there does not seem to be an instance of Mikoto using her Railgun for anything but scaring him.
- So Imagine Breaker is actually Gold Experience Requiem? Well, a nerfed version of it since he actually has to make contact for it to work. Perhaps Touma has a Stand but doesn't know how to properly call it forth yet...
- The biggest piece of possible evidence is Mikoto's Sisters. Esper powers shown in other characters are something that needs to be developed through Curriculum and serious training, starting as a Level 0 and working your way up as you hone your personal reality. The Sisters seem to defy this in two ways. 1) They seem to have their powers innately, as Testament only taught them essential things about the outside world they would have to have had their powers just by being created in direct contrast to how espers are supposed to be formed. 2) Prior to Touma putting a stop to the Level 6 Shift Project the Sisters basically treated themselves like expendable drones and shouldn't have had individual, personal realities defined enough to form espers powers until afterward; alternatively they did have the differentiation and some level of individualism but couldn't express it which instead should mean that they all would have different powers.
- Since the Sisters did did have powers right off the bat and were identical to Mikoto's in all but level, this could mean that there is a genetic component to being a Gemstone esper or to the powers granted by personal realities. Then again, there's also evidence that what we've been told about personal realities so far is either not entirely true or completely fabricated...
- Erm, okay. One, lots of misassumptions about Misaka Tabigake. His work has nothing to do with Gemstones, but with "finding flaws and correct them". Him knowing about them isn't weird since they aren't exactly a secret (if they were, how did the hairdresser knew as well?). Nothing in his conversation with Aleister indicates that they work together either. Second, and most biggest reason, Gunha is explicitely called the only Level 5 Gemstone, as such Mikoto can't be one as well. There is also their fight, in which she should have recognized Guhna as a fellow Gemstone if she were. While the references to Mikoto passing the PPC are too numerous, a recent "interview" do tell us about when and why she went to Academy City (questions 28 and 29). Also, Gemstones typically have weird powers not reproduced by anyone else in the city, and Mikoto's Railgun is simply the highest form of Electromaster, a common power in Academy City. There is also how Kuroko doesn't believe in the existence of Gemstones, which would be weird if she lived with one. Finally, the Sisters getting the same powers as Mikoto (albeit weaker) isn't that weird. We have exemples of esper powers produced without the Curriculum in the android Rensa and the Five_Overs.
- Which brings me to my new point. It has been foreshadowed as early as OT Volume 8note , lampshaded in NT Volume 7 by the existence of Rensa herself, and explicitely spelled out in the recent NT 11note : brain may not be the only component in creating esper powers. Coupled with the existence of the Parameter List, this looks like it could actually be a really important piece of the puzzle.
- Since the Sisters did did have powers right off the bat and were identical to Mikoto's in all but level, this could mean that there is a genetic component to being a Gemstone esper or to the powers granted by personal realities. Then again, there's also evidence that what we've been told about personal realities so far is either not entirely true or completely fabricated...
Nah, Saten's skirt flipping is only reserved for Uiharu. Angelene only flips someone's skirt to draw attention away from an argument.
- From around Volume 18, a dragon is associated with a fallen angel stained with evil. When Touma's arm got chopped off the first time by Aureolus, a dragon emerged.
- Remember that Touma was laughing after having his arm sliced off and that Izzard was terrified before the dragon, and also what Ars Magna does: it makes thoughts real. Think about it. This is all essentially confirmed when you look closely at Izzards eyes.
- Maybe Touma's the Anti-Chirst. Seriously, he's the rep. of the Aeon of Horus that supposed to overtake the Aeon of Osiris (Christianity's age). Plus, Touma is pretty popular. You know where this is going...
- Why would Touma be a reincarnated king of babylon? Lucifer isn't actually a fallen angel. In the original text the only time the term "Lucifer" is used is to refer to one of the kings of Babylon. The OP means Satan here, not Lucifer.
- Debunked thoroughly by the following three points.
- Whatever the Hell Touma or what's inside his arm is, it's not a Christian figure of any kind, good or evil. The man he was fighting, Fiamma, possessed an amped-up version of the same power that threw Lucifer out of Heaven in the first place. As well, Fiamma was so learned in Christian lore, he schooled the Roman Catholic Pope on it. If it was merely Lucifer, he would not have lost his cool and would have just used the Holy Right to suppress it.
- Another point against this is Aleister Crowley's lecture to Fiamma. According to Crowley, Fiamma's mistake which undid his plan was trying to interpret Touma, Imagine Breaker, and what was inside Touma's arm within the framework of Christianity. It's much more likely that the thing residing in Touma's arm is a figure from Crowley's own religion of Thelema.
- Finally, there was a noncanonical (but still supervised by Kamachi) audio drama in which Touma encountered Lucifer... or rather, an incomplete form of it summoned by a magician trying to use her little sister as Lucifer's vessel. The summoning backfired, with the older sister becoming the vessel. Touma saved her by touching her and breaking the summon. Nowhere was it implied that Imagine Breaker would have reacted any differently than if it was some other magical figure attempting to cross planes.
- Fiamma: "[...]An angel that cannot be explained by the Bible or theology is also the symbol of an element that is inside this world created by god and also outside of the hands of god. It is the beginning of the destruction of the fate established by god."
I know the theory of the Invisible Thing being Lucifer has circulated around, but I doubt it. First, he couldn't beat Fiamma's One Above God powers: let's remember the Holy Right kicked Lucifer's ass in the past, plus Lucifer isn't above God power-wise (from what we know, can assume); second, Kamijou Touma is the One that cleanses God and exorcises the Devil, so I doubt the Invisible Thing is from Heaven or Hell; third, Touma has a third power that trumps the Invisible Thing and seals it back in. Fiamma was literally squirming from the Invisible Thing outdoing everything he had after reaching his One Above God status. So I doubt that the Invisible Thing is Lucifer's powers manifesting. But I can see why people would think that. If Kamachi says more about Lucifer and we learn new things about his Toaru history and his rebellion against God, then it might be a good/decent theory.
- From the way Aiwass talked in Volume 20, even it didn't know exactly what Touma's right hand was (and beyond, we can assume), but found him interesting nonetheless.
- It seems only Aleister knows the real secret of Imagine Breaker and the Invisible Thing as of yet, but with Fiamma supposedly being able to understand from his Osiris knowledge, that'll change in New Testament.
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- Jossed by NT Volume 18, which reveals that Coronzon is possessing Lola Stuart. It's still unknown what the entity inside Touma is.
- No. Saten went through Esper development and is therefore an Esper who will suffer serious harm if she tries to use magic. Level Upper is only a boost, and even with that taken away she still counts as an Esper.
- In that way, she's not much different than Tsuchimikado Motoharu.
- Still, considering how limited her Esper abilities are deprogramming 'might' be able to work, if the esper state is something that is imposed more than innate in the first place, unlikely but possible.
- Given how it is frequently mentioned in the early volumes, that Academy City's Esper Power Development Curriculum causes physical change to the students' bodies, it is highly improbable that deprogramming would work.
- No. Saten went through Esper development and is therefore an Esper who will suffer serious harm if she tries to use magic. Level Upper is only a boost, and even with that taken away she still counts as an Esper.
- Confirmed I'm pretty sure she uses a bat to take down a giant robot at some point
- He will come back as Cyber Kakine.
- Given the revelation in New Testament Volume 4 that Dark Matter can make flesh, this seems confirmed.
- Confirmed! He's Back!~
- Considering she let Touma borrow it (who made sure not to touch it with his right hand), and it gave him luck, yeah, I say confirmed.
- But the Alchemist Aureolus Izzard has a spell to invoke his personal reality and alter it according to his thoughts. Does he count?
- Foreshadowing. Basically Aureolus was set up to serve as a Call-Back when the concept is revealed to be possible. Basically, someone will go "Didn't Aureolus Izzard use magic to do something like this?" which will be met with the main characters going "Oh, that's right." After all, the Deep Bood Arc introduced another bit of foreshadowing when Touma's arm was cut off.
- Accelerator may be getting there. The second time he uses magic, he sweats profusely instead of bursting his blood vessels.
- And now that's as broken as he can go. It would be such an absurdity to fight an Angel-class esper-mage hybrid like that.
- Or Touma never knew what the hell his Imagine Breaker was to begin with, so there would be nothing to forget either time.
- Except that then there would be no reason for Terra to jump from "oh he doesn't know about it," straight to "you've lost your memories." This implies that there's at least something about Imagine Breaker that Touma should have known before his memories were erased in Volume 1 and yet apparently didn't even then.
- Confirmed by New Testament Volume 11, though not in the way suggested above. He has retrograde and anterograde amnesia specifically pertaining to Misaki, but not to anyone or anything else.
- It goes with the fact that Level Five Number 6 has not yet been located so far.
- This troper thinks that once he creates one kind of Dark Matter and set the laws of physics that govern that kind of Dark Matter, he can create it indefinitely without the high mental demand for subsequent use. Like, he creates Dark Matter A, sets its laws of physics, then boom. He creates Dark Matter B, sets its laws of physics, and boom. Suppose he wants to create Dark Matter A again. Because he already knows the laws of physics of Dark Matter A, all he has to do is create it again, he doesn't have to set its laws of physics again. But it still requires vast amounts of AIM and mental power to pull it off. So of course, if you place your bets on the Superpower Lottery, you would want Vector Redirection since all you have to do is to simply "change the positive sign to negative", so to speak.
- Part of this is revealed by the way that Kakine doesn't use one or two different modes of attack throughout the novel. This may be reaching a little (since most of Kakine's battles except the one with Accelerator) take place off screen, but Kakine doesn't seem to have much variety to his fighting style. The main weakness of his Ability is that the whole concept of coming up with a new set of universal laws isn't the kind of thing that Kakine can do on the fly. So he has consider beforehand all the potential uses of the matter he creates along with how it interferes with the regular world. And that's not even considering how much time he must have spent trying and discarding products that didn't work or prove useful. For all that Kakine was able to do in his battle with Accelerator, there was probably a ton of prep work he had to do beforehand.
- A decent theory, but there are a couple major drawbacks. The first is that Kakine never showed any kind of mental strain using his abilities. The second, and probably most important, is Accelerator himself, who, after minimal exposure, during battle, while protecting everyone around them from stray damage and in less than a minute, completely calculated and understood all the Dark Matter Kakine created, utterly shocking him. Kakine's ability is indeed powerful, but compared to Accelerator's power that can usurp control of Dark Matter easily, it really is only deserving of second best. Put another way, Kakine can create matter and control that matter. Accelerator can control normal matter, and with a little effort, Dark Matter too.
- This doesn't hold up primarily because while Accelerator can figure out the rules governing Dark Matter, that doesn't count as the same thing as being able to create those rules and the universe behind them in the first place. Also, the primary basis for my theory is not that Kakine's Dark Matter is taxing to create. It's the rules that govern it. It isn't a matter of effort, but time. Those wings of Kakine's probably represent untold numbers of hours working behind the scenes to come up with a useable form of Dark Matter that would suit his needs. I don't think he even creates it on the spot, given how when he's pinning down Kazari, the author calls attention to how much weight he's able to bring to bear (I may not be correct in this as I don't know how easy or hard it is to dislocate a shoulder with one's foot). The impression that I was left with was that Kakine was actually carrying a lot of extra mass on his person. In other words, those wings of his are probably folded down and compacted so that they can be stored underneath his clothes when he's not using them. Even the strange explosions that Kakine caused in previous conflicts could potentially be him striking out with his wings and retracting them before they can be seen, while only fully extending them in his fight with Accelerator.
- Yes, but he does fully comprehend those rules in a matter of seconds. The way Accelerator beat Kakine wasn't just by fighting him. It was by completely and utterly figuring out Dark Matter to the very last mathematical detail. With half his normal intelligence or thereabout. With apparent ease, utterly shocking Kakine. Accelerator showed himself to be much smarter than Kakine. So basically, while Kakine was limited to Dark Matter and the potential therein, Accelerator was limited by... well, pretty much nothing. If it exists, Accelerator, given enough time, can learn to control it.
- This doesn't hold up primarily because while Accelerator can figure out the rules governing Dark Matter, that doesn't count as the same thing as being able to create those rules and the universe behind them in the first place. Also, the primary basis for my theory is not that Kakine's Dark Matter is taxing to create. It's the rules that govern it. It isn't a matter of effort, but time. Those wings of Kakine's probably represent untold numbers of hours working behind the scenes to come up with a useable form of Dark Matter that would suit his needs. I don't think he even creates it on the spot, given how when he's pinning down Kazari, the author calls attention to how much weight he's able to bring to bear (I may not be correct in this as I don't know how easy or hard it is to dislocate a shoulder with one's foot). The impression that I was left with was that Kakine was actually carrying a lot of extra mass on his person. In other words, those wings of his are probably folded down and compacted so that they can be stored underneath his clothes when he's not using them. Even the strange explosions that Kakine caused in previous conflicts could potentially be him striking out with his wings and retracting them before they can be seen, while only fully extending them in his fight with Accelerator.
- Touma has shown attraction to girls' bodies, like Kaori and Oriana. It's just that he's blind to romantic attraction. It doesn't help that he sees Mikoto and Index as children.
- Not a wolf, but Index's pet calico cat, Sphinx.
- Except it is stated that only children are subjected to the Esper Power Development Curriculum, and both of the dorm supervisors are adults. If adults could become Espers too, it would make more sense to let someone like Yomikawa, who is against hurting students, become an Esper, than letting a dorm supervisor get that kind of powers.
- A (rather crack) fanfic explores the possibility. Hilarity Ensues.
- The "Laura Stuart" part of this has been Jossed by New Testament Volume 18, which also revealed that her name is more accurately translated as "Lola". She's actually Aleister's daughter, Lola Zaza Crowley, though she's been possessed by Coronzon for the entire series.
This is likely to be Jossed or Confirmed very soon, but at the very least it seems like The Queen knows about Touma, for reasons independant of Mikoto. Either she got to know him through the Dark Side of Academy city, or perhaps they were Childhood Friends or couples before he lost his memories.
- Combining this with the theory above saying "The end of volume one is not the first time Touma's memories were erased", maybe Misaki Shokuhou was the one who erased them! By the orders of Aleister! Who decided that Touma knowing something about his Imagine Breaker would be disadvantageous to his plans, and so ordered Misaki to remove that knowledge from him!
- Touma could have removed Misaki's Mental Out ability by simply touching his own head. Mental Out is not known to kill any brain cells as it's effect.
- That doesn't mean the theory about him having amnesia before is wrong, however. In fact, (as seen in that first link) Misaki caught on very quickly, instead of just going "Touma, we know each other. What are you playing at?" If we assume they knew each and he's had amnesia before, then what little of her expression we can see is saying "Oh no...it's happened again."
- Heavily, heavily hinted in NT 7 that Misaki knew Touma from before his memory loss, and as a result of her introduction to him in Railgun, must also know he has amnesia.
- In Railgun chapter 62, not only does Misaki know that Touma's right hand can help fight off a rampaging level 6, she also knows that she can't establish a telepathic link with him, but is able to find a loophole by giving him a burst transmission of sorts (which starts with a warning that it will be disrupted if he touches his head). That's a hell of a lot of knowledge of someone Academy City treats as beyond top secret.
- Combining this with the theory above saying "The end of volume one is not the first time Touma's memories were erased", maybe Misaki Shokuhou was the one who erased them! By the orders of Aleister! Who decided that Touma knowing something about his Imagine Breaker would be disadvantageous to his plans, and so ordered Misaki to remove that knowledge from him!
- Just remembered: We all know that Misaki is almost certainly not a middle-schooler, and might actually be an adult. If she grew up with Touma, that would make her something of an older sister to him. What's Touma's fetish? Cool Big Sis types.
- The whole NT 11 is basically this WMG, The Novel.
- To expand on it, it turns out that they DO have a past together... but it ended with Misaki using her power on Touma to stop him from feeling pain during an emergency treatment and accidentally making him permanently unable to remember her no matter how many times they meet.
- And with that a ship has sunk
- To expand on it, it turns out that they DO have a past together... but it ended with Misaki using her power on Touma to stop him from feeling pain during an emergency treatment and accidentally making him permanently unable to remember her no matter how many times they meet.
- I am pretty sure this was even lampshaded by Kuuko in her own 'verse, when she was on a fake date with Mahiro. She told Mahiro that they should have a child named Kuroko, and that if he's a boy, they'll have him play basketball and if it's a girl, to send her to Academy City.
- As for the other two protagonists, I see Touma losing Imagine Breaker somehow, regaining his memories and getting a normal life. He ends up with one of the girls, most likely Mikoto. Shiage I am not so sure about.
- Shiage will probably end up in some kind of polygamy relationship with (in order of precedence) Takitsubo, Mugino and Kinuhata. Possibly Fremea at some later date, thought that's less likely. So basically what's going on now, but with more sex.
- This is not a spell per se; and some individuals are not effected this way; but a good many are.
- Except he doesn't use any items. Pretty much all magic needs magical items to work.
- Who's to say his clothes aren't magical? His armbands or bandana could easily be infused with magic power of some obscure variety, similar to how Index' robe was a Walking Church until Touma destroyed it.
- Touma is so much of an Ideal Hero that it seems almost ridiculous. He thinks ONLY of the welfare of others and bringing them is the only thing that makes him happy.
- He is also a complete Chaste Hero. Maybe there is some program installed in him that prevents him from entering a relationship...?
- We know almost nothing of his past. What exactly happened there?
- The same goes for the time between TAMNI and NT.
- And don't get me even started on all the WMG about Imagine Breaker. But by the way, does breaking Imaginations / destroying Illusions as he calls it himself mean, he can alter reality back to the way it is as we anticipate it? Will he break all miracles on the world? Return the world to place without esper and magic powers...?
- Warring ideologues
- Potentially harmful superpowers in a bottle/syringe (Level Upper on the streets in lieu of the plasmids)
- The city as false/failed utopia
- The violent revolt of an abused underclass, etc.
- That's every single esper that exists. They believe that they have the power that they posses and believes it strong enough that they manifest in actual reality instead of just their own personal reality.
- Then perhaps Gunha, a Gemstone, was brought up without ever learning about ordinary laws of physics and his powers are result of Achievements in Ignorance.
- 1. it is fundamentally impossible to have two powers at once, even via copying an identical one. Yes, Level Upper appears to violate this, but that can be readily explained by assuming the powers were used by bodies of the original owners and projected via the AIM field. This also conflicts with the discussion about using AIM Stalker to give people multiple powers, but as of yet there's no proof that actually works, only that at least one board member thinks it might.
- 2. It's totally possible, with the right configuration of AIM fields, and this is exactly what's happening in Railgun chapter 61.
- This crack theory has got to be the funniest thing I have ever read.
- NT Volume 18 debunks this. It (1) confirms that her name is actually "Lola" instead of "Laura" and (2) reveals that she is Aleister Crowley's daughter and possessed by the demon Coronzon.
- A level 2 gelman
- His name. This idea was born from the meaningful names section, where it gets a mention that Kamijou Touma can mean "The Person Superior To God", "Invisible Demon", and "He Who Purifies God And Exorcises The Devil." Touma is kind of hacking into the world and hooking himself up to these things. His Imagine Breaker is actually the exorcism and purification abilities mentioned, the Invisible Thing is actually the Invisible Demon portion and the part where he sucks it back in is the Superior bit. And as for the bad luck thing, well, let's just say that Fate is pissed.
Bonus points if the author writes a scene where "someone" is established to be the final boss, referring to him in extremely vague terms, revealing that it's Touma in the most epic Wham Line ever in the history of TAMNI, and that novel ends there.
He is, little by little, learning to be more "selfish" and manipulative and should be turning rogue. Accelerator has been learning, little by little, how to become good since making a Heel–Face Turn.
...Just a blue-haired pierced guy. Because everyone has a Meaningful Name to describe or foreshadow their characters and I don't think this one's an exception.
I mean, sure, it sounds like a fake name, but is it really one? It may be a case of Shaped Like Itself, that's his actual name and Kamijo has no idea. Besides Himegami also has a last name related to her hairstyle, and nobody's accusing her of being anything more than she's shown to be. The author might be trolling the fanbase by being deliberately obtuse about Aogami, and then laughing his ass off as he reads the extremely bizarre theories that spawn around him.
Esper powers are vulnerable to Imagine Breaker, so Esper powers are supernatural. That means that they are truly not formed purely out of To Aru-verse Science, or at least, not the science of the Pure World...
So... it looks like Science vs. Magic, but, is more Magic vs. Other Magic...
My guess on what AIM is, is Aleister somehow making a method of altering the Lifeforce circuits in people, to have them always be converting Lifeforce into AIM, which is unlike Magicians, who just make Mana from their Lifeforce on the fly...
That Fung Shui is the cause of Angel Fall, calling down an Angel aligned primarily with Water, but also with Fire, due to the Distortion of Worldly Laws...
The Fung Shui Circle could be why Touma's misfortune stopped spreading even though it did in the past, because IB had to counter the Fung Shui Luck? Although, that might not be a possible explanation, 'cause if there was constant magic around Touma, Index would sense it?
That Fung Shui might also explain Touma's harem, 'cause Fire is connected to Romantic Luck in Fung Shui, so the Fung Shui Circle would have invoked it. Since the color of Fire is Red, it could affected the Red Strings of Fate for the girls around Touma and starting his harem... But either his misfortune stops the romantic luck from actually giving him a full-time girlfriend, or the girls need to be the ones making the next step, because Love is not all Luck....?
- First, Feng shui. Second, I'm pretty sure the reason Angel Fall happened was a combination of all the different talismans from different magical traditions, not just because there was Feng shui.
Accelerator is Sloth (makes sense once you see how he lives), Kakine is Envy, Mikoto is Pride, Mugino is Greed, Misaki is Gluttony, #6 (thought by many to be Aogami Pierce) is Lust, and Guhna is Wrath.
Let's come up with a Mirror Universe
- Accelerator is dating Mikoto. They met because he saved her sister from a car accident.
- Superpowers didn't exist until Touma came in where he has the power to give people super-powers. He used the alias DISCORD online and he's obessed with causing choas. He's also Born Lucky.
- Aiwass is the guardian of the world that predates magic and it has a connection with Dragons to the point of even referring to itself as Dragon. Aiwass' original form may very well have been a dragon, with dragons being the original inhabitants of the Earth. Imagine Breaker is the part of Aiwass' power that allows it to revert the world back to its natural state. A natural state that predates humanity and everything associated with it, even its gods. This is why whenever Touma loses his hand, Aiwass' power manifests itself in its most primal state as a dragon. The reason Touma has bad luck because of Imagine Breaker is because he's the host to a piece of Aiwass, a being who predates the current world and thus is being subconsciously rejected by it. And unlike Aiwass itself, Touma isn't powerful enough to handle it, hence his bad luck.
- Tying in to the above WMG, Aiwass' true identity is the legendary eight-headed dragon Orochi. That's why when Touma lost his right arm at one point in Railgun it unleashed eight dragon heads.
- It's unlikely that the eight dragons are Yamata no Orochi as they all look different. Moreover, as revealed in a later chapter of Railgun, one of the dragons has seemingly been captured by an esper (though another theory is that the esper's ability lets her create a copy of the dragon), further showing that the dragons aren't part of the same entity.
- That is, the A.A.A. is an attempt to use technology to recreate and improve on Touma's ability to defeat gods, just as the FIVE_Overs are attempts to recreate the Level 5s' powers using technology. One piece of evidence for this is Mikoto getting "The One Who Purifies Gods and Slays Demons", Touma's epithet, when she analyses the A.A.A.. The reason the A.A.A. is a combination of both magic and technology is because Imagine Breaker (and the things it apparently seals) can't be explained with either magic or science alone. Its name, if following the convention of the FIVE_Overs, would be something like "ZERO_Over Modelcase_"The_One_Who_Purifies_Gods_and_Slays_Demons". Like the FIVE_Overs, the Anti-Art Attachment is actually a failure to properly recreate its model. It's effective at fighting magic and Magic Gods, but it's not immune to esper abilities (as shown when Mikoto hacks it) and, arguably more importantly, its entire purpose is against the intended purpose of The One Who Purifies Gods and Slays Demons (to understand the Magic Gods, according to themselves). This is why Aleister keeps Touma around despite having the A.A.A..
- Back in the first volume/episode 4 of the first series, Touma's teacher explains to Index that espers can essentially manipulate probability to force their desired result.
- This works on magic and divine powers as well because they also alter reality.