Misaka 10032 (ミサカ10032号 Misaka Ichiman Sanjūni-gō?) is the 10032nd Misaka Mikoto clone, she was first introduced in Toaru Majutsu no Index and plays a relatively small role in Toaru Kagaku no Railgun. Originally supposed to be killed in the 10032 experiment against Accelerator as part of the Level 6 Shift, she becomes the most prominent clone in the series after being rescued by Kamijou Touma, and is referred as Misaka Imouto (御坂妹 Misaka Imōto?, lit. "Misaka's little sister") whenever they meet.
Appearance
She looks the same as Mikoto, although for emphasis, her eyes are drawn in a different way. Like all Sisters, Misaka 10032 wears goggles and blue-striped panties. At first, these are the only ways that Touma can tell a clone apart from Mikoto, who wears shorts under her skirt.
In addition, she wears a necklace with a heart accessory that Touma bought for her during volume 12 of the light novels.
She is normally accompanied with a small black cat which does not appear to mind the electromagnetic fields produced by her body.
Personality
Like all the Sisters, she showed little emotion and never considered herself to be a living being until Touma saved her. She later develops an attachment to life, even protecting chocolate chicks from being eaten. She has fallen in love with Touma, even getting territorial with him whenever Misaka Mikoto is around, teasing her for not being honest with her feelings towards Touma.
Her detailed "study" about society through shoujo manga has led her to believe that if a male puts a ring on a females ring finger, absolutely every "problem" that female is facing up to that point will mysteriously vanish into thin air and she will begin a very happy existence. Thanks to this misconception, she harbors a hidden aspiration of having Touma endow her with a ring.
She is usually described by people as a cool beauty, a character archetype that applies to girls that aren't easily moved nor easily experience feelings when subjected to normal situations; instead they always show themselves as an elegant and level-headed person.
Background
Not much is known about her, though as a clone she was most likely produced a few months prior to her introduction in the story.
Chronology
Toaru Majutsu no Index
Sisters Arc
- Main article: Sisters Arc
She first appears before Touma while he was carrying the canned beverages he had gotten from a certain vending machine. After he trips on a tennis ball, she helps him pick them up and bring them to his dormitory. Touma confuses her for Misaka 10031 whom Mikoto took away to talk with, but she corrects him, saying she came from another direction.
After arriving at the Kamijou Residence, she discovers that Touma is living with Index and Himegami Aisa. She is suspicious at first, referring to it as a hobby, but he denies her accusations. Before leaving, Misaka 10032 helps Touma get rid of the fleas on Sphynx by electrocuting them and also advises Touma on how to get rid of the remaining fleas in his room.[1]
The next day, Touma sees Misaka 10032 attempting to care for a cat, and she convinces him to carry the cat because animals don't like the electromagnetic fields produced by her body. During their walk, Touma has Misaka 10032 name to the cat, but he rejects all of the ridiculous names she comes up with. They stop by a bookstore to buy a reference book about taking care of cats. Touma, realizing that he can't bring the cat into the bookstore, throws the cat to Misaka 10032, telling her that true friendship is born if they surpass barriers (such as her electromagnetic field). She waits outside, but she senses Accelerator and is forced to leave the cat on the sidewalk for an experiment.
After leaving the store and finding her missing, Touma discovers the dead body of Misaka 10031 and mistakes her for Misaka 10032. However, when he returns to the scene after alerting police, he sees her carrying the dead clone in a body bag. He discovers that there are many clones of Mikoto, but is not told any information about the experiment.[2]
10032 and her feline companion
The next evening, Misaka 10032 faces-off against Accelerator in the 10032nd experiment, and finds her thoughts wandering to her encounters with Touma. In the battle, she tries to take advantage of the windless night to suffocate Accelerator with ozone, but, he soon realizes this and counterattacks. However, Kamijou Touma stops Accelerator from finishing her off. She protests that she is merely a clone that can be created with a push of a button, but Touma tells her that she is the only Misaka 10032 in the world.[3][4]
Touma is at first outclassed in the fight, but discovers that Accelerator is physically weak, and uses his street fighting abilities to attack him. However, Accelerator uses his powers to compress air into a plasma. Misaka Mikoto arrives on this scene, and realizes that disturbing the wind could disrupt the plasma ball. Mikoto begs Misaka 10032 to help protect "Touma's dream" of ending the experiment without anyone having to die. Misaka 10032 doesn't understand why Mikoto's words resonate strongly with her, but she agrees. Using the Misaka Network, she contacts the other Misaka clones in the city to spin the wind turbines, creating enough wind to disrupt Accelerator's attack. Thanks to their help, Touma is able to defeat Accelerator.[5]
Misaka 10032 later visits Touma's ward where she touches his hand to her chest to measure his vital signs. To Touma's disappointment, he wasn't able to feel her breast because of his anesthesia. She tells Touma that the clones need special treatment to extend their lifespans, as their bodies were only supposed to last until their battles, but assures him that she and Touma will meet again. In the anime Misaka 10032 leaves before Mikoto's arrival and is last seen taking care of the black cat, but in the manga adaptation she is taken away by Mikoto after she discovers that she is willingly allowing Touma to touch her chest.[5]
Three Stories Arc
- Main article: Three Stories Arc
Mikoto reveals that only 10 of the clones remain in the city and the others were sent out all over the world for their treatment. After Accelerator is shot in the head and is taken to a certain hospital, Misaka 10032 arrives to look out after Last Order. Heaven Canceler uses the Misaka Network as a way to compensate for Accelerator's lost brainpower after being shot, though only half of it could be replicated using the Misaka Network.
Tree Diagram Remnant Arc
- Main article: Tree Diagram Remnant Arc
Misaka 10032 is later seen going to Touma's dormitory to ask for his help, despite her weakening health, after discovering that the experiment could be restarted again if Tree Diagram gets repaired. She gets him to the scene where Musujime Awaki is battling Shirai Kuroko. However, Touma only manages to save Kuroko, because Accelerator destroys the Remnant first. In their discussions over the Misaka Network, the clones seem unaware that Last Order is with Accelerator.[6]
After the conflict, Touma sees her naked in an oval cylinder filled with liquid recuperating. She doesn't get angry and just covers the lower part of the body, but Index flies into a rage and bites Touma after hearing it.[6]
Academy City Invasion Arc
- Main article:Academy City Invasion Arc
The morning before Vento of the Front's attack on Academy City, Heaven Canceler is seen talking with the sisters regarding separate measurements for them, Misaka 10032, Misaka 13577, and Misaka 10039 agree that they only need to take one set of measurements since they share the same genes. However, they discover that Misaka 19090 has been dieting in secret, due to Heaven Canceler's suggestion that men, and possibly a certain high school boy, like slender women. Misaka 19090 attempts to get away, but the other clones jump on her.
Misaka 10032 later meets Last Order, who was locked out of Yomikawa Aiho's house. Last Order is envious of Misaka 10032's goggles so she steals them and runs off. Misaka 10032 responds by pursuing her with a submachine gun with rubber bullets.
In her chase for Last Order, Misaka 10032 accidentally bumps into Shirai Kuroko who mistakes her for Mikoto. She later meets Touma in the underground mall. After he confirms that she is a clone, Touma buys her a necklace to differentiate her from the other clones as well as Mikoto. Though at first upset that Touma didn't buy a ring for her (the Misaka Network recently discovered the significance of a ring on the left ring finger), she eventually accepted Touma's gift. Touma then feeds Misaka 10032, a reflex he adopted to placate Index, in a store that sells food modeled after animals. Touma buys a pack of food modeled after chicks, which Misaka 10032 mistakes to contain living animals. To her horror, Touma tries to eat one of them, so she electrocutes him.
Their scuffle is soon interrupted when Mikoto, who just finished her and Touma's cellphone registration, arrives. Mikoto wants to see the chicks that Misaka 10032 was holding, but Misaka 10032 tells her to have Touma buy some for her. After Mikoto argues with Touma and tries to electrocute him, Misaka 10032 asks Mikoto what she was doing in the mall. Mikoto answers that Touma lost a penalty game with her, and she has been dragging him around. However, Misaka 10032 concludes that Mikoto is not being honest to herself about her feelings for Touma. Misaka 10032 then hugs Touma's arm and shows Mikoto the gift she got in order to make her jealous. Then, Last Order suddenly shows up and latches on to Touma's other arm.
Misaka 10032 hands over her pack of chick-shaped food and orders Touma to take good care of it lest she beat him to death, before leaving in pursuit of Last Order again.
Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index
Ichihanaran Festival Arc
- Main article:Ichihanaran Festival Arc
Misaka 10032 debuts in New Testament during this arc, enjoying the festival on her own way with her cat. and as she rested upon a bench, she removed her shoes. However, the black cat took a liking for it and proceeded to enter and not leave.[7]
She later leaves, carrying her the shoe with the cat still inside it. She later comes upon Kuroyoru Umidori and Misaka Worst, the latter harassing Umidori for compantionship. Upon her arrival, Umidori quickly then points out that she now has a friend for her, to which Misaka Worst says that she hates clean people without that nasty look in their eye like her. Umidori comments on how everything she does tells her that she has no intention of being her friend, to which she ignores. Misaka Worst then tries to open a conversation with Misaka 10032, regarding of her current actions. Misaka 10032 states that she removed her shoes to rest her feet while she took a break on a bench, but a black cat climb inside one. Still now, the cat remains inside her shoe. Seeing this, Misaka Worst suggests that she should drag it out with an iron claw, to which Misaka 10032 does not take lightly.[7]
Misaka Worst states that three is not enough, and asks if there are others with nothing to do. Coincidentally, Saiai manages to pass by and forms a disgusted expression after coming them, especially at Umidori. Misaka Worst, seeing her, agrees that she has that nasty look on her face, seeing at they are ken to the ways of the dark side. Seeing them all, Saiai then asks if they are a bunch of villains trying to create their own faction. Misaka Worst comments on how with dark people like them around, she could enjoy the Ichihanaransai honestly without holding back.[7]
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun
Daihasei Fesitval Arc (Railgun)
- Main article:Daihasei Fesitval Arc (Railgun)
Misaka 10032 reappears after the Railgun take of the Sisters Arc during the Daihaseisai, lamenting the fact that she could not participate in any competition as she does not have a proper school. She is later taken away by Wannai Kinuho, mistaking her for Mikoto, and is thrown into the midst of a competition. She is later left behind, as the opposing school lures Tokiwadai Middle School, although, she tries to remind them not to scatter.
Abilities
Like all Sisters, she is an electromaster.
- Electricity: Being a copy of Misaka Mikoto, she has the same abilities but only 1/20000 of the original, bringing her to level 2 or 3. However, as Touma stated, 1/20000 of 1 billion volts is still 50000 volts.
- Radio Noise: A form of telepathy between the sisters, it links her up to the "Misaka Network". This allows them to share memories and experiences.
- Weapons & Gear: She wears a special set of goggles that enables her to see electron beams and magnetic field lines, because like all Sisters she can't perceive without aid. She is also trained in use of a sniper rifle and used a submachine gun while chasing Last Order in Volume 12.
- Military training: Included in the information that was transfered with the Testament machines, the imoutos are proficient in combat methods such as the previously mentioned use of specific weapons, being able to trace targets and being able to shake of pursuers. Her ability in that field is such that in one oportunity 10032 met Shirai Kuroko in an alleyway, Kuroko obviously mistook her identity and Misaka was able to shake of the tenacious pursuit by evaluating the best escape routes and making use of warning shots loaded rubber bullets; while the scene was played in a comical manner it has been noted that not many people can shake off a teleporter, much less someone like Kuroko who is known in Judgement as someone that never misses a target. All in all, the sisters are considered part of the military trained personel of Academy city. It is revealed that they don't use live ammo but instead they use blanks strong enough to knock out a human being.
A consequence of the Radio Noise ability is that every Misaka clone actually improves their performance with every battle, initially the clones couldn't go above level 2 with their electric ability; however after repeated usage of their abilities and the toughness of life or death combat situations allowed them to be ranked as level 3 from the roll out phase. Scientists stated that by the end of the experiment, the repeated usage of their abilities and the repeated combat experience might allow the clones to give even Accelerator a tough fight.
Other Appearances
Other Mangas
You can also find Misaka 10032 or atleast one of the sisters in "My Little Sister Can't Be This Cute" Volume 2 Chapter 12 Page 6 she is a character in the game "Real Imouto Battle Siscalypse"
Video game appearances
Toaru Majutsu no Index (PSP game)
- Main article:Toaru Majutsu no Index (PSP game)
Misaka 10032 is a playable character in the Toaru Majutsu no Index video game. Most of her moves involve attacking in synchro with other sisters clones.
Lunatia
While she is not featured in the game, her goggles are an equipable item in the korean MMROPG Lunatia.
Character Art Designs
Design evolution
The clone's design has remained static throughout all their appearances, barring characters such as Misaka 10032, and clones that are forced to wear different clothes due to weather.
Their designs are based off Mikoto's design, though they do not retain the light in the eyes, and blush, as it is apparent often in Mikoto's design. Haimura thought his first draft with goggles were lame, and as such, changed it before drawing the illustrations. Their looks were deliberate so the reader will not get confused when the clones are next to Mikoto.
By volume 12, Misaka 10032 becomes affected by deformed artstyle that Haimura has for the characters.
Gallery
References
- ↑ Toaru Majutsu no Index Episode 10
- ↑ Toaru Majutsu no Index Episode 11
- ↑ Toaru Majutsu no Index Episode 12
- ↑ Toaru Majutsu no Index Episode 13
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Toaru Majutsu no Index Episode 14
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Toaru Majutsu no Index II Episode 07
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 06 Chapter 5 Part 7
