A Certain Scientific Railgun Mikoto Misaka Birthday Lottery Announced

Japanese retailer Kujibikido has announced that they are hosting a special lottery to celebrate the birthday of Mikoto Misaka, the protagonist of A Certain Scientific Railgun and a major recurring character in A Certain Magical Index.

The details of this collaboration are listed below, translated by our team’s Ryuji:

• Lottery price: ¥770/ticket
• Lottery period: Until May 30, 2023
• Prize shipment: August 2023

Prize Lineup:

• S Prize: Large-Sized Tapestry (3 designs; can be chosen by the winner)
• A Prize: B2 Tapestry
• B Prize: Acrylic Figure Standee
• C Prize: Chibi Acrylic Figure
• D Prize: 75mm Pin Badge

Bonus Prize: Mikoto Misaka Handwritten Letter (3 types)*

*To obtain the Bonus Prize, one must buy the set that will give you 10 random prizes for ¥7700. The type of the letter and its contents will be randomized.

Some of the displayed artwork for these products is viewable via our gallery below:

Despite being a spinoff of the franchise’s origin point and still ongoing light novel series, A Certain Magical Index, A Certain Scientific Railgun is immeasurably more popular. Its anime adaption blew up, and its three seasons have been met with generally favorable acclaim, unlike Index and Accelerator.

This series follows Mikoto Misaka, the third-ranked Level 5 Esper of Academy City, alongside her close friends, Shirai Kuroko, Saten Ruiko, and Uiharu Kazari. The group finds themselves dealing with several issues plaguing the world’s Science side, as its title suggests.

• Every Opening for the A Certain Magical Index Anime Adaption
• Every Opening for the A Certain Scientific Railgun Anime Adaption
• Every Opening for the A Certain Scientific Accelerator Anime Adaption
• An Omnibus by Yen Press containing the 24 light novel volumes of A Certain Magical Index’s Old Testament series is launching later this year.
• The Full Vocal Song Collection for the first two Seasons of the Magical Index anime has been officially uploaded.

Chronologically speaking, the first season of Railgun occurs before the first season of Index, leading to intriguing encounters with that entry’s primary protagonist, Touma Kamijou, if one is aware of what particular plight his character faces.

The second season of Railgun runs roughly parallel to Index’s first season, with a certain arc even being told from two differing perspectives. Lastly, the third and most recent season, Railgun T, takes place somewhat parallel to Index’s second season, also depicting an Index arc from a new side.