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A Certain Scientific Railgun (manga)

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©KAZUMA KAMACHI / MOTOI FUYUKAWA / ASCII MEDIA WORKS

Alternative title:
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun (Japanese)
とある科学の超電磁砲（レールガン） (Japanese)
魔法禁書目錄外傳 科學超電磁砲 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: To Aru no Railgun takes place in city called Academy City that is mainly made up of students with a population of 2.3 million. The technology they have in the city is thirty to forty years far more advanced than anywhere else in the world. The main focus or study in the city is on esper or telekinetic powers and rates the students based on their abilities from level zero to level five, of course level five being the strongest possible, so powerful that only seven students even register at this level and our main fourteen-year-old female lead Misaka Mikoto is ranked number three out the seven registered within the city.
User Ratings: 73 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 7 votes (Eng:3, sub:3, others:1
1 Spanish
)
 Excellent: 25 votes (Eng:22, sub:2, raw:1)
 Very good: 21 votes (Eng:14, sub:5, dub:1, others:1
1 French
)
 Good: 12 votes (Eng:11, sub:1)
 Decent: 4 votes (sub:2, Eng:2)
 So-so: 1 vote (Eng:1)
 Not really good: 1 vote (Eng:1)
 Weak: 2 votes (Eng:2)
 Bad: -
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 188 users, rank: #470 (of 6865)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 8.027 (Very good), std. dev.: 1.4616, rank: #810 (of 7714)
Weighted mean: 7.983 (Very good), rank: #1450 (of 7714) (seen all: 8.26 / seen some: 8.11 / won't finish: 5.21)
Bayesian estimate: 7.967 (Very good), rank: #507 (of 3518)
Chapter titles: We have 166
Vintage: 2007-02-25 (serialized in Comic Dengeki Daioh)
Release dates: We have 43
Review:
A Certain Scientific Railgun GN 1 (Jul 30, 2011)
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Graphic novel
    A Certain Scientific Railgun (GN 1) 2011-06-07 (from $9.41)
    A Certain Scientific Railgun (GN 2) 2011-09-27 (from $2.75)
    A Certain Scientific Railgun (GN 3) 2012-02-14 (from $10.99)
    A Certain Scientific Railgun (GN 4) 2012-05-08 (from $9.99)
    A Certain Scientific Railgun (GN 5) 2012-08-07 (from $10.99)
    A Certain Scientific Railgun (GN 6) 2012-12-11 (from $5.99)
    A Certain Scientific Railgun (GN 7) 2013-04-02 (from $7.18)
    A Certain Scientific Railgun (GN 8) 2013-08-06 (from $10.99)
    A Certain Scientific Railgun (GN 9) 2014-04-15 (from $12.99)
    A Certain Scientific Railgun (GN 10) 2015-04-21 (from $9.99)
    A Certain Scientific Railgun (GN 11) 2016-06-28 (from $10.98)
    A Certain Scientific Railgun (GN 12) 2017-07-25 (from $20.89)
    A Certain Scientific Railgun (GN 13) 2018-05-29
    A Certain Scientific Railgun (GN 14) 2019-08-20 (from $3.22)
    A Certain Scientific Railgun (GN 15) 2020-07-07 (from $12.99)
    A Certain Scientific Railgun (GN 16) 2021-06-08 (from $12.99)
    A Certain Scientific Railgun (GN 17) 2022-12-20 (from $11.00)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Story & Art: Motoi Fuyukawa
Story: Kazuma Kamachi
Original creator: Kazuma Kamachi
Original Character Design: Kiyotaka Haimura
Art: Motoi Fuyukawa
(none)
Japanese companies
Design: Bee-Pee
Publisher:
ASCII Media Works
MediaWorks
English staff
English cast
Translation:
Andrew Cunningham (vol 1-2)
Nan Rymer (vol 3-)

Adaptation:
Janet Houck (vol. 1-5)
Maggie Danger (vol. 6-)
Copy Editing: Shanti Whitesides (vol. 1-7)
Cover Design: Nicky Lim
Editing: Adam Arnold (vol. 1-8)
Editing Assistant:
Jenn Grunigen (vol. 12)
Maggie Danger (vol. 4)
Editor-in-Chief: Adam Arnold (vol. 11-)
Layout: Bambi Eloriaga-Amago
Lettering: Roland Amago
Managing Editor: Adam Arnold (vol. 9-10)
Production Assistant: CK Russell (vol. 12)
Production manager: Lissa Pattillo (vol. 11-)
Proofreader:
Janet Houck (vol. 8-)
Lee Otter (vol. 10)
Shanti Whitesides (vol. 8-)
Publisher: Jason DeAngelis
Retouch: Roland Amago (vol. 1)
(none)
English companies
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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