Toaru Kagaku no Mental Out: The Queen's Play

Toaru Kagaku no Mental Out:The Queen's Play
Volume Info
Pages	93
Release Date	January 10, 2024
On Cover	Shokuhou Misaki and Misaka Mikoto

Toaru Kagaku no Mental Out: The Queen's Play (とある科学の心理掌握（メンタルアウト） 『じょおうのおしばい』, Toaru Kagaku no Mentaru Auto: Jo'ō no Oshibai^?) is a short light novel written by Kamachi Kazuma and illustrated by Nogi Yasuhito for the third manga volume of Toaru Kagaku no Mental Out, released on January 10th 2024.

Publisher's Summary

Short Summary

A newly written novel, a must-have for fans, is included! It is a memory of a holiday she spent. A special edition of the book comes with a 100-page novel booklet containing a gem of a newly written episode by Kamachi Kazuma!

Full Summary

In a joint class at Tokiwadai Middle School, Shokuhou Misaki is assigned to perform Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream with Misaka Mikoto. In order to learn about the psychology of men, she approached a boy with spiky hair.....

This 100-page special edition is a must-read for fans of the Toaru series. Please pay attention to it together with the main story of the manga where the number of intrigues deepens!

Major Events

• Shokuhou Misaki and Misaka Mikoto are put in the same group during a joint drama class for Tokiwadai's second years. Their group is assigned to perform Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, with Shokuhou to play Oberon and Mikoto to play Titania.
• With the excuse of learning how the male mind thinks for her masculine role, Shokuhou decides to visit a certain boy, though her clique expresses consternation at the idea of seeing a boy. Cornered by Kobayashi Satori, Shokuhou agrees to let Kobayashi disguise herself as her for the meeting, testing a slim possibility regarding Kamijou Touma's memory loss (with Kobayashi made to forget about it afterwards).
• Otonari Hibiku, a health committee member whose has been causing incidents of ability-induced internal bleeding in a misguided effort to relieve her victim's stress, targets Shokuhou based on her own assumptions, and ends up falling for the decoy. In the ensuing clash of Telepathy, Kobayashi and Otonari bring each other down, while Otonari's final attack towards Shokuhou is neutralized by the oblivious Touma's Imagine Breaker.

Characters

By order of appearance:

• Shokuhou Misaki
• Kamijou Touma
• Kobayashi Satori
• Misaka Mikoto
• Makigami Komaki
• Shirai Kuroko
• Mibuki Kazan
• Hokaze Junko

New Characters

• Otonari Hibiku
• Matsuzai Shouko (松材祥子, Matsuzai Shouko^?)
• Yanagisakiin Rondo (柳崎院輪舞, Yanagisakiin Rondo^?)
• Kinoshita Hagoromo (木下羽衣, Kinoshita Hagoromo^?)

Abilities

• Mental Out - Shokuhou Misaki, Level 5
• Electromaster (Railgun-variant) - Misaka Mikoto, Level 5
• Telepathy - Kobayashi Satori, Level 3
• Imagine Breaker - Kamijou Touma

New Abilities

• Mind Anaphylaxis - Otonari Hibiku, Level 4

Locations

• Academy City
  • School District 7
    • School Garden
      • Tokiwadai Middle School

Trivia

• Although their performance in costume isn't actually depicted in the story itself (which ends shortly before costume fitting), the cover picture of Shokuhou Misaki and Misaka Mikoto presumably has them in costume as Fairy King Oberon and Fairy Queen Titania respectively.
• When Kobayashi Satori intercepted the verbalized surface-level thoughts of everyone within her Telepathy's range and forcibly transmitted them into Otonari Hibiku's mind, some of the thoughts implied that certain known characters were nearby, including Accelerator, Last Order, Takitsubo Rikou, Kinuhata Saiai, Saten Ruiko and Uiharu Kazari.

Referbacks

This section requires expansion Multiple cases

• When Otonari's final attack against Shokuhou is stopped by the oblivious Touma's Imagine Breaker, something she is familiar with and was confident in, the past case where Touma suffered brain damage that prevents him from remembering her is once again referenced.

Cultural References

This section requires expansion Shakespeare (General expansion - A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth and Hamlet) Other (Frankenstein, Vampires etc)

• Shokuhou and Mikoto's group are assigned William Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream to perform.
• While pouting about the comedic play they were assigned, Shokuhou mentions two of Shakespeare's tragedies, Hamlet and Macbeth, which would have had the opportunity to dramatically kill Mikoto on stage.

Unanswered Questions

No unanswered questions currently recorded for this chapter/episode.