Toaru Kagaku no Mental Out Manga Chapter 015

The fifteenth chapter of the Toaru Kagaku no Mental Out manga was released on January 31st 2023 in Comic Newtype.

Characters
By order of appearance:
 * Shokuhou Misaki
 * Nenohi Wakana
 * Tatsuki Mirei
 * Gaouin Tsukasa
 * Kokuchou Mayui
 * Kouzaku Mitori
 * Misaka Mikoto
 * Iori Mashiro

Abilities

 * Electromaster (Railgun-variant) - Misaka Mikoto, Level 5
 * Mental Out - Shokuhou Misaki, Level 5
 * - Tatsuki Mirei
 * - Iori Mashiro
 * Synthesize Grid - Kokuchou Mayui's Relic
 * Absolute Leaf - Kouzaku Mitori's Relic

Locations

 * Academy City
 * Tokiwadai Middle

Trivia

 * Shokuhou's pose when allowing her hand to be stabbed by the ice spears and her power to run wild is similar to the one which Kamijou Touma has when he later arrives to save her from Mitsuari Ayu and negate the latter's similarly out-of-control power.
 * According to Nogi Yasuhito, the scenery glimpsed through the spatial warp from the clashing Relics is that of the Imaginary Number District.
 * Although the circular space is reminiscent of how the Vanishing Tunnel has been described,  Nogi claimed not to know if it was the actual one or something similar.

Referbacks

 * The depiction of the metaphorical chains associated with Mental Out's potential had briefly been shown when Shokuhou Misaki managed to seize Iori Mashiro's water balls after Gaouin Tsukasa was injured.

Cultural References

 * When observing the freezing phenomena caused by Synthesize Grid, Shokuhou briefly considers the possibility of a water ability utilizing the Peltier effect. The (named after, the French physicist who discovered it in 1834) is a type of thermoelectric effect which occurs when an electric current passes through the circuit of a thermocouple, with heat being generated at one junction and absorbed at the other. The Peltier effect is the presence of heating or cooling at an electrified junction of two different conductors, and is utilized in thermoelectric heat pumps and thermoelectric cooling devices.