Toaru Kagaku no Railgun T Episode 17

Precognition (予知) is the 17th episode of Toaru Kagaku no Railgun T. It was broadcast on July 31st 2020.

Characters

 * Shirai Kuroko
 * Uiharu Kazari
 * Miyama Shaei
 * Konori Mii
 * Yanagisako Aomi
 * Heaven Canceller

New Characters

 * Chisa
 * Maki
 * Ta-kun
 * Ookawachi Megumi
 * Pero

Abilities

 * Teleport - Shirai Kuroko, Level 4
 * Clairvoyance - Konori Mii, Level 3

New Abilities

 * Unnamed ability with similarities to both Precognition and Thoughtography - Miyama Shaei

Locations

 * Academy City
 * School District 7
 * Judgment 177 Branch Office
 * Heaven Canceller's Hospital

Trivia

 * Throughout the first half of the episode, Kuroko and Uiharu change their summer uniforms for their winter ones, indicating that the timeline of this arc is now after September 30, where the change of uniforms are shown for the first time.
 * This episode marks the first physical appearance of Sakugawa Middle School winter uniform in Toaru Kagaku no Railgun anime adaptation, only previously seen via flashback in .
 * Some Judgment members seen from  appeared in this episode as cameo apperances.

Referbacks

 * A scene where Kuroko saves a student from a supposed accident from  is used as flashback when she remembered on how she stop the said accident that Miyama predicted.
 * Kuroko and Shaei hear news regarding the "group comas" of the other day, referencing the events of September 30 where Vento of the Front's Divine Punishment incapacitated many of Academy City's inhabitants.
 * Also, due to those events having passed later in the episode, this indicates that the events of September 30 has been resolved.

Cultural References

 * The name of Shaei's dog, "Pero" is just a Spanish word for "dog".

Differences in Adaptation

 * In this episode, Shaei states that the future is normally unchangeable. Originally in the manga, after he said that, a flashback of him trying to avert them.
 * The scene where the firefighters are helping to stop the spread of fire at the park is cut.
 * The scene after the fire incident greatly differs between the manga and the adaptation. While in the manga, Kuroko and Uiharu's investigation of the cause of the said incident was done while they are walking in the streets, in the adaptation, that was done inside the 177 Judgment branch instead.
 * Also, as the result of the alteration of the scene mentioned above and due to time constraints, only Kuroko meets Shaei at the end of the episode. Originally, in the manga, Uiharu and Kuroko meet Shaei after their investigation and the scene in the chapter is much longer than the adapted episode.

Animation Trivia

 * There are inconsistencies in the apperance of the map of the park in this episode, as when Shaei pulls out his phone to see the map, it is not matched to the one seen in his flashback and neither matched to the map Uiharu creates via sattelite imagery.