Toaru Majutsu no Index Wiki:Featured articles/This month's featured article/2020

Openers for articles that have been featured in 2020.

May
After several delays, Railgun T ' s adaptation of the Daihasei Festival Arc has reached its conclusion. As such, it is only appropriate that the Featured Article this time around is for the festival itself, the Daihaseisai (the overhaul for which has experienced similar delays).

Occurring between from September 19th to September 26th, the Daihaseisai is Academy City's annual large-scale sports festival, involving students from every school in the city. It is built around a city-wide, inter-school sporting competition, which has students take part in a wide variety of athletic events, with the use of esper abilities not only allowed but actively encouraged.

Aside from the sports, the festival also has numerous stalls, non-athletic events and attractions to be enjoyed. During the seven days of the festival, Academy City is open to outside visitors, and packed with tourists and student families. It is also broadcast worldwide, with potential ratings comparable to events such as the World Cup due to the unique draw of its esper showdowns. As such, the Daihaseisai is an important promotional tool for Academy City.

The Daihaseisai is a notable milestone in the stories of both Toaru Majutsu no Index and Toaru Kagaku no Railgun, with both having story arcs set during the festival, both of which have now been animated.

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August
We are now nearly half-way into Railgun T ' s adaptation of the Dream Ranker Arc and nearing the arc's main dish. As such, the Featured Article this time around is for the trending technology at the heart of the arc's events so far - Indian Poker.

Handmade by combining pieces of various toys based on instructions and designs released online, Indian Poker allows people to experience another's dream and share their own dreams with others. By sleeping while attached to a card dispenser, a person's dream is recorded onto an Indian Poker card. By sleeping with the card placed on one's forehead after peeling off the film, a person can experience the dream recorded on it, reproduced through enclosed aromatic elements and electrical signals stimulating the sleeper's brain.

Aside from experiencing a good dream, Indian Poker can also be used for sleep-learning - through the dreams of people skilled in a particular area, users can acquire skills as they sleep. There are various colors and ranks of card, which can be obtained through exchanges with friends or purchases from traders, with people who can consistently produce great dreams for others being known as Dream Rankers.

Although Indian Poker appears relatively innocuous with fun and interesting potential, the cards have a number of risks and repercussions, which are demonstrated in various incidents arising from their distribution and usage...

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October
It has been a few weeks since the conclusion of the anime adaptation of the Dream Ranker Arc and Toaru Kagaku no Railgun T as a whole. As such, the Featured Article this time around is for the experiment which is the cause of the arc's events, particularly those of its second half - the Total Human Cyborg Replacement Project.

The project was an extreme cyborg experiment carried out by a certain research institution in Academy City. The test subject was cyborg researcher Kuriba Ryouko, who was working to develop a cybernetic treatment for her ill mother and volunteered to gather the extensive data she would need to save her in the short time she had left.

In the experiment, Kuriba's body was cut into pieces and the separated organic parts combined with machinery (including technology devised by Kuriba herself) to produce two cyborgs. The two Kuribas then lived separately for one year, with data being gathered throughout this time. After a year had passed, the two Kuribas were recombined into one person with the cybernetics removed.

Although the main goal of the experiment was to test and gather data for cybernetics, unknown to Kuriba the other researchers hoped to observe a side-effect - the creation of a soul. The result was the Doppelganger, a mechanical duplicate made from the removed cybernetics who believed herself to be the original Kuriba Ryouko. After finding out about the Doppelganger and with her colleagues too absorbed in their apparent success to consider the potential risks, Kuriba disseminated Indian Poker as a way to find a solution to the problem while working to finish the cybernetics to save her mother.

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Recently featured: Indian Poker