Future gazer

future gazer is the opening theme of the first Toaru Kagaku no Railgun OVA. The song is also used as one of the insert songs in Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S Episode 24.

Opening Credits
The opening theme of the OVA shows Mikoto, Kuroko, Kazari and Ruiko filming some of their activities with an old camera; these includes the four girls pose together for filming; Kazari caps the other three girls with the flower band that is usually unique to her; the four girls exchange uniforms (Mikoto and Kuroko in Sakugawa's, and Kazari and Ruiko in Tokiwadai's). It also shows Mikoto manually browsing, splicing and editing the film.

Promotional Video
The video for the song is shot in several locations, notably the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt and the nearby city of Cairo. In the promotional video, the two members of fripSide are depicted as travelers who are looking for something that is described in Arabic by a slip of paper they hold on to during their journey. Not knowing that they are followed by a figure wearing a black cloak and a silver mask, they roam the streets of Cairo to ask for the meaning of the letter, eventually reaching the Great Pyramids after an elderly man points them to the landmark. As they approach their destination, the masked man emerges and reveals his true identity as an archaeologist on the search of a golden spiral-shaped object inside.

Tracklist
The single was released on October 13, 2010, two weeks before the release of the OVA. Performed by fripSide, the song was written by Satoshi Yaginuma and Yuki-Ka, with music and arrangement managed by Satoshi Yaginuma. This marks the third single the band released after departure of their previous vocalist.

The single release features the full version of the song.
 * 1) "future gazer" – 4:08
 * 2) "fortissimo -the ultimate crisis-" – 4:56
 * 3) "future gazer" -instrumental- – 4:08
 * 4) "fortissimo -the ultimate crisis-" -instrumental- – 4:56

Characters
By appearance
 * Misaka Mikoto
 * Saten Ruiko
 * Uiharu Kazari
 * Shirai Kuroko

Trivia

 * Misaka Mikoto breaks the fourth wall by holding the title card.
 * The cameras that Mikoto and her friends use in the opening are, specifically the Fujica Single-8 P300 camera. They record to the Super 8mm film format, which are essentially magnetic film stripes and are seen in the closing moments of the opening where Mikoto edits the videos she took from the camera on film. The cameras, created in 1965, used to record home movies until they are replaced by digital cameras, although amatuer film directors and artists still use them to this day.