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Pre-Preview Notes
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 * Due for release in March 2023 (listed on Dengeki Bunko March release schedule)
 * Temporary Redirects in place (going to LN section on Index LN page for now): Toaru Anbu no Item, Toaru Anbu no ITEM (currently planning to have the former eventually become the article after an overall assessment of the circumstances)
 * Update (13/02/2023): Article now implemented.
 * Written by Kamachi, illustrated by Danmachi: Familia Chronicle's Nilitsu.
 * Light novel
 * Toarusyosetsu (Youtube)
 * Toarusyosetsu (Youtube)
 * Planned date for a new volume-type plan post, if at all, is February 24th at the earliest (given the possibility of a preview) or March 3rd (to coincide with other stuff)
 * Standard new volume protocol will be applied.
 * Preview emerged on 24th. Didn't remember at the time of noting above, but the two above coincide with 2 and 1 week to go dates before release respectively.
 * Preview emerged on 24th. Didn't remember at the time of noting above, but the two above coincide with 2 and 1 week to go dates before release respectively.

Backburner task note:
 * Inept has for a very long time been considering a decapitalization of the V15 dark side group quintet following a consideration of overall circumstances, but had it on the backburner due to potential cascade problems if the subject was handled hastily/rashly/poorly, more important tasks at the time, and not having thoughts on the matter in the right words to convey them properly.
 * Had been trying to find the likely origin of the capitalization.
 * Have been unable to 100% confirm JCE, RMC or proximity tendency origin theories but definitely pre-2013, given anime and elsewhere.
 * Planning potential bulk shift around when volume processing is complete and our work on the wiki is implemented. Note that this will be done using the bot, NOT by manual standard user edits.


 * New female (?) character between Takitsubo and Mugino?


 * V1 Synopsis:

In Academy City, where esper abilities have been recognized as a general science. Behind the peace, there is a dark side organization that undertakes missions that cannot be made public.

"ITEM" is an elite unit consisting of four girls. Takitsubo Rikou is able to read and track the weak power emitted by those with abilities. Frenda Seivelun, who excels in combat using explosives and traps. Kinuhata Saiai, who can manipulate nitrogen at will and plays a defensive role. And one of the 7 espers that Academy City is proud of: Mugino Shizuri. They live freely in the darkness of the Academy City, and quietly set their sights on their target...!

This is a story of encounter, friendship, and darkness that eventually leads to a 'terrible incident'!


 * Chapter list


 * Prologue: Feminine Dangerous Bright
 * Chapter 1: The Fifth Girl
 * Chapter 2: >>Colosseum.
 * Chapter 3: A Certain Courage, A Secret Reward
 * Chapter 4: Level 5 Roars
 * Epilogue: A Road that Leads to Somewhere Someday


 * Dialogue


 * Kinuhata: ....what super am I supposed to?
 * Hanano: Huh? Dress-up hell!! Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
 * Takitsubo: The south-southwest is noisy.
 * Mugino: Hmm. It's working well.
 * Frenda: In the end, bikinis are more fashionable this year.


 * New Character: Hanano Choubi (華野超美)

Post-Release

 * 1) REDIRECT Toaru Anbu no Item Light Novel Volume 01

Pre-Separation
{{Spoiler block|Summer City Flood Prevention Program|
 * Ch1: Frenda/Fremea (before 'nya')
 * Giant Croc Hell Dungeon, life-size escape game, solve puzzles in sunken underground mall and escape to surface
 * Frenda/Fremea, 14th at 2PM, Fremea got over summer cold, classes ended after 4th period, gone here for afternoon, mystery why older sister could join to play.
 * Underground labyrinth into pool - disaster response training, urban flooding response program, largescape stress test in case flash flood happen to fill underground mall, for most students - might well have been temporary pools, excitement of playing in water - particularly in summer
 * Also provide business opportunities - Frenda's tablet, view area around through camera, augment scene, provide quiz-like codes/hints to search out/find
 * Code about cutting right wire, AR best feature - different services can coexist at same location, service use locations but not occupy, couple pass by viewing single screen enjoy mountain stream trivia game, four elementary boys each have game forming adventure party to explore depths of underwater cave
 * Can't get thick rubber harppon until get past electric lock on box, next solve transformer puzzle/restore power, no - won't work, electrocute selves and get game over if electrify flooded section while in it, entire area on hold, some way to drain or plastic diving suit to protect from shock
 * Splash/swim, not particularly interested, where buy suit, mental carbonation run out? - one who wanted to do limited-time croc escape, Frenda mostly doing as practical test of summer eyeliner claimed not to run when wet but keeping secret as Fremea would bear to wear makeup if mentioned, swimsuit
 * Feel chilly, head up - plenty hot, playing escape game - move around on own but can save location to pause game and leave, larger demographic can enjoy game with ease, program lasts more than one day.
 * Drink/sugar, hot sweets - pancake/chocolate fondue? French, dessert, fuss, hanetsuki taiyaki, 'classy grownup' rather than childish to cheer up
 * Thick waterproof shuters shut before flooding, all shops closed, vending machines shut off to prevent short circuit, have to go to surface to buy drink - flaw
 * Pin in map, finish save progress, attach tablet to hook on side of bikini bottom, grab and drag inner tube cord
 * Buy latest swimsuit but still too preoccupied

Separated, for elsewhere:
 * Swimsuit - random, bought at District 15 shop, Shocking Beach, latest product from Mystery Beach, bikinis replace one piece as 'in' thing that year, normal bikini over decorative thng, cat one piece on Fremea, on sale only few thousand yen at ordinary department store, not about price tag, but Fremea displeased (brand name).
 * Smile/wiggle, remind of toy wiggle dance responding to sound, Takitsubo habit of visiting general store in rundown District 19, tastes predictably unusual.

Extract for Processing {{Nihongo|Summer City Flood Prevention Program|夏期都市水害防止プログラム|Kaki Toshi Suigai Bōshi Puroguramu}} is a large-scale disaster prevention program conducted in Academy City in order to test underground passageways' effectiveness during a flood.

Principles
Apparently only used in places that has underground streets and passageways like in School District 7, though it also takes place in the entire city and can includes some above-ground roads, the program has the underground deliberately flooded for a time by guiding river water into them after passing it through water purification equipment in order to test the underground's drainage equipment and emergency shutters. This, however, essentially turns all the city's shortcuts into flowing pools. The program apparently allows for people to swim in the pools.

The only known time this program took place was in the summer one year before the main story, the same one where Kamijou Touma and Shokuhou Misaki finally told their names to one another.

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Colosseum/Enemy Item-related
Enemy Item: 2-7 - BTL3

Colosseum: 1/2

Nightjar: 3-4/6/7/9

Kouzaku Mitori
References: (Ch3Pt4)

Abilities
{{Spoiler block|Abilities| Abilities aspects: Use of ability on human body, volume/cloud control, liquid metal origin
 * Assuming "ドローンナイフ" for drone knives - verify in source text
 * LIQUID METAL
 * Liquid metal - original product of high-level cushioning research, too heavy for practical use but good for power
 * Not use just water/metal, unusual liquid metal - power only control very limited range, product of high-level research, not catch on due to relative density of 20 too heavy, bet can only control specific metal molecule made in factory, all need to do - generous injection of electrons to change molecular structure, ion manipulation not difficult, mix in impurities on microscopic level - make metal lighter,
 * Draft Segment: The liquid metal which Kouzaku uses was originally created as a product of high-level cushioning research, but was abandoned as too heavy for practical use. (Weight/Changes in state)
 * CLOUD/AERIAL BOMBING
 * 10,000s of metal arrows stabbing pavement lose shape, gather together, dolls rise up, at least 50 looking like Kouzaku - easiest to control
 * Metal in liquid form, enough of clue, silly to think could carry around 100s of kg or tens of metal with greater relative density than water, if can freely alter shape - simple solution, no so much mist as cloud, fill with plenty of air - park at high altitude, can condense and pour down when needed, if surprise aerial bombing not do it, army of soldiers
 * "Raindrop", silver downpour, metal arrows bit longer than pencil, fall from >10km, enough force to tear through overpass and pierce bulletproof car armor, spiral junction overpass collapse in blocks, cars crash down with it, highway running above - ordinary vehicles not spared as road collapses below
 * SAMs explode, blasts/steel pieces scatter, barrages collide, distribution of deadly rain thrown off - small holes/safe zones, not even multiple microwave/IR short-range surface-to-air missiles can shoot down 10,000s raindrops, nitrogen barrier deflects
 * Draft: During her past encounter with Item, Kouzaku...
 * HORNS/WINGS/TAIL
 * Silver horns on side of head, bat wings on back, pointy tail at back of hips
 * Worst come to worst, could use wings as shield, only specialized to create/control doll under special conditions - but use own body as base of calculations to create metal wings/tail as extension of altering dolls details, if mess up control - could tear away large pieces of body with own metal
 * Tail aim for ground to crumble road below Kinuhata
 * Scattered silver arrows, through dust cloud, fly horizontally, evade/fire, nowhere to find beyond dust cloud, sacrificed wings/tail to create scattershot, detonate own stuff to create opportunity for escape
 * DOLLS
 * Sudden knock to side, silver doll kick in side, relative density of ~20 while human body 1, heavyweight hit
 * Probably can't defeat KS but could immobilize by having dolls gang up, release shape and trap in block of metal, then capture track suit
 * Dolls collapse as control severed

Current/Revised:

Abilities
INTRO Kouzaku is a Level 4 esper, with the ability Liquid Shadow, which gives her free control over liquids with a of 20 or greater, which in her case, she prefers the use of liquid metal. The ability gives her high combat ability and she can remotely control the liquid from even several hundred kilometers away.

LIQUID METAL

DOLLS She uses her ability on liquid metal to make and shape forms out of it. She however has shown that she uses it form and control a copy of herself. This puppet is capable of manipulating its body parts to create weapons which can be as sharp and agile as a butterfly knife, and can withstand electric attacks and having objects teleported into it. However, it appears that the puppet dematerializes into a puddle when Kouzaku goes too far away from it.

SENSES Kouzaku is unable to see through her puppet, instead using a form of echolocation to detect heartbeats within a few dozen meters of her puppet and a skull shaped camera worn around it's neck. She can also see using several Homing Cameras after the skull shaped camera is damaged, though depending on the angle of the Homing Camera she has to spread out the attack and even then not generated to hit the target properly.

HOLD The puppet can also hold objects inside its body and can propel them outside, as when Kouzaku made it throw a knife hidden inside it to give Kuroko a lethal blow.

SENSES The "Liquid Shadow" only has the senses of hearing and touch, which compensates by having a puppet wear a collar with a camera on it.

BODY CONTROL She also has some difficulty with precise body control if it does not have the same volume and shape as her own body.

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Equipment
Kouzaku carries knives with her for emergencies, including a throwing knife and a ballistic knife. She is proficient with using and throwing knives.

She also carries a black tablet, with the image of a dark-pink broken heart on its back, used for communication and directing electronic equipment, such as the drones she used during the Jailbreak Trial.


 * KNIVES
 * Equal number of knives thrown by tail, stab into grenades - hover for moment, timed fuse detonate, throw through dust cloud - same throwing knives that stopped grenades - should have lost speed/momentum, not fly along straight lines - unnatural curve paths, stab into arm/side drone knives
 * Frenda focus on evasive action over stop/remove knives, knives stop 3mm from ground and change directions, base flame: spin round and blast flames from pommel to pursue anew, fly on own to gut, Frenda apply small explosive quantity to knives and detonate to forcibly propel out, if not - drone knives spin round while stabbed into her, rockets through air, Kouzaku detonate explosive of own earlier kicked under black car to roll over vehicle as shield
 * Feel that knives not work against nitrogen armor

Kouzaku is proficient with using and throwing knives, carrying some with her for emergencies, including a throwing knife and a ballistic knife. During her past clash with Item, besides a pair of thick disposable knives, Kouzaku made use of drone knives, which use three small jets from their base (in a Y-shape, creating something like a guard for the blade) to propel themselves. This allows the drone knives to move again after losing the speed and momentum from their initial throw, fly along non-straight paths, stop themselves mid-flight and change direction, and spin themselves around after stabbing into a target to gut them.

She also carries a black tablet, with the image of a dark-pink broken heart on its back, used for communication, receiving visual feeds from cameras (such as the standard skull-shaped cameras worn on her puppet's collar and the Daihaseisai Homing Camera she took control of during her battle with Kuroko),  and directing electronic equipment, such as the drones she used during the Jailbreak Trial. }}

Unsorted

 * 1-3
 * Palmprint reader next to elevator buttons, spray palm with special powder to bypass lockout, color contact to deal with eye-scanner
 * 2-2
 * Large outdoor space, lined with something like long shipping containers, actually model rooms for variety of styles of studio apartment, HC's studio in one sample room (not clear which construction company have lock key)
 * Remove long hair, eyebrows/eyelashes
 * Notes/data on subject, quality depend on amount of data, week - confident - same fingerprints, teeth shape, eyes, blood type, scent, in disguise not even parents/police dog notice amiss, sex/age no obstacle, makeup
 * Age, sex, hair (color/grease/greying), skin, eyes, skin - light tan, minor dust mite allergy symptoms, language (Aichi accent hint), dry eyes/symptoms of neck/shoulder stiffness, weight on right leg when standing, dislike people stand on left side, chopsticks held wrong, mouth breaths when lose cool, handwriting, angular but sloppy, confusing of words
 * Voice lower/deeper, weight/body type transformed, technology - no supernatural power
 * 2-4 (quick disguise)
 * Flip luxury suit inside out - like stage magician handkerchief, wipe hands on face makeup to rearrange, transform into muscular young man on security team - mere seconds, only prepare one emergency costume change - standard option, security guard or firefighter depending on infiltration target

She is an expert in disguise and infiltration, capable of a variety of highly convincing guises and impersonations through skill (, equipment?) and technology.
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 * Makeup

At the extreme end of her disguises, she can completely change her apparent age, weight, body type and gender.

Appearance
She is a short woman and without any of her removable disguise parts, her base face is smooth like an incomplete doll, without hair, eyebrows or eyelashes. Her original appearance, which can be reapplied through a premade set, is of a woman in her mid-20s with shoulder-length flaxen hair.

While in disguise as "Hanano Choubi", she appeared as a young girl of around 15, with a doglike vibe and an impression of a wet chihuahua. She had long black hair, split into three and only tied at the very ends. She also wore a short-sleeved black sailor uniform with white and (green) trimming(?).

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 * Base
 * Disguise

Abilities
She is an expert in disguise and infiltration, capable of a variety of highly convincing guises and impersonations through skill (, equipment) and technology.
 * Acting/voice skills, equipment (basic to extreme), capacity

The quality of her impersonations depends on the amount of data she has on a subject. In the case of the insurance manager, having had a week to study him and gather information, she was confident she could replicate his fingerprints, teeth shape, eyes, blood type and scent, enough to fool his parents or a police dog. Factors she took into account included age, sex, the color and condition of the hair and skin, eyes, weight and body type, symptoms of physical conditions (e.g. dry eyes, neck and shoulder stiffness), posture, voice, language, behavioral traits and idiosyncracies, and handwriting.

A studio which Hanano used for her disguises (located in an outdoor space in School District 7, among a variety of 3D-printed model rooms), contained a wall-sized mirrors, lightning, an industrial dryer and piles of plastic clothing cases. Among the numerous items for disguises were wigs, hair extensions, color contacts, false eyelashes, double eyelid gels, mouthpieces and foundation. They were also items which would need surgery to use, such as implants, artificial bones and silicone artificial breast bags. The back of the studio had a tanning machine and hyperbaric oxygen capsules to manipulate blood oxygen and alter skin swelling.
 * Approach not finalized. Paragraph rather than Note.

For some of her infiltrations, she has a secondary disguise which she can switch to in an emergency. As she can only prepare one costume change in advance, she usually goes with a security guard or firefighter depending on her infiltration target. In the case of the insurance company infiltration, she switched from the elderly general manager to a young security man in seconds, flipping the luxury suit inside out like a stage magician's kandkerchief and rearranging her facial makeup by wiping her face with her hands.

At a non-extensive level, she can easily slip in color contacts to deal with eye scanners and spray special powder on her palm to bypass a palm reader. As part of the foundation of her disguises, she has removed much of her original appearance, and set things up so she can easily remove her hair, eyebrows and eyelashes in preparation for applying a new disguise. Besides changing her voice by herself, she also has voice changers which she uses in her position over the phone.

Chapter Framework
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 * chapter = Prologue
 * title-kanji =
 * title-eng =
 * prev-vol = N/A
 * cur-vol = Item Volume 1
 * next-vol = N/A
 * prev-chap = N/A
 * cur-chap = Prologue
 * next-chap = Chapter 1}}

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Youtube Shorts

 * On March 16th 2023, three Youtube shorts were uploaded in Dengeki Bunko Youtube Channel, titled "Fried Mackerel Bento!?" (「焼きサバ弁当！？」), "Item" (「アイテム」), and "Frenda" (「フレンダ」).

Manga Notes

 * The artwork will be done by strelka.
 * strelka's previous and debut work was Hinowa ga CRUSH! (2017-2022) (written by Takahiro, serialized in Monthly Big Gangan)
 * hh_strelka (Twitter)

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