Toaru Kagaku no Railgun Manga Chapter 144

Assessment (品評) is the 144th chapter of the Toaru Kagaku no Railgun manga series, released on March 27th 2023 in Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh.

Major Events

 * In October, following a certain incident in which she was made aware there were things she could not truly protect on her own, Shokuhou Misaki considers making her own clique and as part of her preparations, goes over information on the top three cliques with Hokaze Junko.
 * Mikagami Nagisa is approached by a couple of her clique members who are regretting the modifications they asked of her.
 * For her art appreciation elective, Shokuhou (along with other Tokiwadai students, including some from the Mikagami and Hasekura cliques) visits an academic theatre in School District 9 to watch commedia dell'arte. During the performance, a fire starts backstage due to overloaded wiring, with the manager ordering the power to be kept on until the end of the performance so as not to embarrass themselves before their rich guests and lose their backing, with the students eventually finding out on their way out.

Characters
By order of appearance:
 * Hokaze Junko
 * Shokuhou Misaki
 * Kamijou Touma
 * Sukezawa Sena
 * Mikagami Nagisa
 * Kazan'in Tsukasa
 * Asato Kisa
 * Enjou Kasumi

Locations

 * Academy City
 * Tokiwadai Middle School

New Locations

 * School District 9
 * Academic theatre

Trivia

 * This chapter takes place in October of the year before the main story, several months after the last chapter. As such, Tokiwadai's students are back in their winter uniforms.
 * This chapter also takes place after Shokuhou Misaki's time with Kamijou Touma in the summer, which concluded with the Deadlock incident (briefly glimpsed in this chapter) and his subsequent inability to remember her.

Referbacks

 * As she had promised when announcing the truce with Hasekura, Mikagami gave everyone in her clique beauty treatments after the clique conflict was brought to an end, though a number of them are now regretting their choices.

Cultural References

 *  is a theatrical form characterized by improvised dialogue and a cast of colorful masked stock characters that emerged in northern Italy in the fifteenth century and rapidly gained popularity throughout Europe.