Toaru Kagaku no Mental Out Manga Chapter 019.5

Chapter 19.5 is a special chapter after of the Toaru Kagaku no Mental Out manga, released on July 25th 2023 in Comic Newtype.

Characters
By order of appearance:
 * Kamijou Touma
 * Shokuhou Misaki

Locations

 * Academy City

Trivia

 * Shokuhou's situation with the possibility of an inadvertent indirect kiss with Touma via the tea, is somewhat similar to the case with Misaka Mikoto via sandwiches on August 31st a year later.
 * Shokuhou's favorite and the effects of scent on memory, described by Shokuhou here, would subsequently be involved in the revelation of the trick used to frame Hokaze Junko in the present.

Cultural References

 * The Prouse effect (プルースト効果) is named after French writer, who coined the term in his novel À la recherche du temps perdu ( or Remembrance of Things Past), in which the protagonist eats a tea soaked madeleine and recalls a long-forgotten childhood memory of eating tea soaked madeleine with his aunt, and from it recalls the childhood home and the town, the start of a running theme with sensations reminding him of previous experiences.