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Caution: While the simple question asked here itself is ok, thanks to
[@ShayminGratitude](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/19307)'s answer and
some further research I did, I have found that the premises on which the
deeper curiosities this question was prodding at were two _wrong_ assumptions:
One- that Misaka affects wind turbines by her machine-control ability (it's
actually her EM wave ability), and two- that the wind turbine begins turning
due to that ability (I later found that it was likely due to coincidental
wind). Please enjoy this display of my analytical foolishness.

In the Railgun anime's second season, episode 16, starting at 19:20, Misaka is
visiting Touma with homemade cookies in appreciation for saving her sisters by
defeating Accelerator. After some classic tsundere-style failure to
communicate, when Touma is about to leave (at 20:14), saying " _Jaa na,
Biribiri_ " ("See you later, Sparky"), Misaka asks him to remember her name,
to which he responds by saying " _Matana, Misaka_ " ("See you later, Misaka"\-
presumably the first time in the anime that she _hears_ him call her by name).
At that moment when he says that, the screen just shows a nearby wind turbine,
and after he finishes saying it, for a split second, shows the wind turbine
beginning to turn.

The implication (I'm 90% sure) is that Touma calling her by name made her
heart flutter a bit, which caused the nearby turbine to begin moving, which
**sort of** (more on this later) makes sense, since Misaka [has the ability to
take control of
machines](https://toarumajutsunoindex.fandom.com/wiki/Misaka_Mikoto/Abilities#Hacking).
I thought it was a neat/cute artistic, visual detail.

### My Question

Does this little visual detail also happen in the light novel and/or the manga
adaptation of the light novel?

I haven't read the light novels or the manga adaptation. I imagine it's easy
to do in two panels in a manga (one panel of stationary turbine, and one of a
turbine turning with some motion lines), but that something so visual would be
difficult to convey "naturally" to the same effect in a novel without being an
awkward distraction (I feel like it would be an awkward / unnatural reading
experience to suddenly read "at that moment, a nearby wind turbine which was
stationary began to turn" (or maybe I just can't imagine an elegant execution
because I have no writing background)).

### The deeper reason for my curiosity: "In-universe"-reality-checking the
anime's faithfulness to the canonical limitations of Misaka's machine-control
abilities

There's a somewhat deeper reason I'm asking this to do with Misaka's
abilities. Bear with me because it'll seem like I'm overanalyzing, but I'm
genuinely interested in these things, and I think it has significance in the
universe of A Certain Scientific Railgun where my experience has been that the
fictional, but science-based mechanics are quite self-consistent, and that the
author cares about that self-consistency.

The reason I'm asking this is because I want to know how canonical it is- how
faithful it is to Kazuma Kamachi (the author of the light novels)'s design of
Misaka's abilities and their limitations.

In the anime, Misaka's non-magnetism-based machine-control ability
demonstrations are (to my memory) always at close-range- either she is already
touching the machine / one part of the connected system / a device that can
communicate with the target system, or she is close enough that reaching out
her hand a little further would allow her to touch it / one part of the
connected system. I think you can see how that would at least make me as a
viewer _think_ that for her to be able to control a machine electrically, she
needs to be within _physical reaching distance_ of it or a device that can
communicate with it.

Some examples: From season 2: ep3 at 6:48, ep3 at 17:17, ep7 0:00, ep10 at
18:26, ep10 at 18:40, ep12 at 20:14, (the same applies to the sisters) ep16 at
0:28-1:17. Some from season 3: ep1 at 0:47, ep4 at 11:28, etc.

The wind turbine is on the _other side_ of the bridge she's standing on at
that moment (see timestamp 20:54), and I'm not aware of her carrying or
interacting with any device at that time that would allow her to remotely
communicate with the turbine or its controlling system.

That's why I'm wondering if this was a "non-canonical" (where "canon" here
refers to Kazuma Kamachi's design of Misaka's abilities and their
limitations), artistic decision made by the manga adaptors or the anime
producers that wasn't designed with the canonical limitations of Misaka's
abilities in mind.

Note: I guess that if this long-distance machine control were found to not be
canonical, one might be able to explain this with "the power of love and
friendship"™, but if that's really the explanation, I'd expect it to be backed
up with the same level of in-universe "rigour" as it was when that reason was
given in season 2 ep24 at 16:04 when Febri wakes up Janie (emphasis added):

> Nunotaba: We need Febri to release Jani from the runaway system. She's not
> taking any inputs from the outside, but _because they share the same
> biological base_ , strong emotions from Febri just might reach her.
>
> Saten: Naruhodo. So basically, the power of love?
>
> Nunotaba: *blushes* Huh? I... I guess.


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Does Misaka's heart-flutter when Touma calls her by name also cause a nearby wind turbine to begin turning in the light novel and/or manga adaptation?


## What can we learn from the _Index_ light novels and _Railgun_ manga about
this scene?

In short: nothing.

This appears to be a scene that only appears in _A Certain Scientific
Railgun_. Both the light novels and manga for _A Certain Magical Index_
conclude the arc after the hospital scenes (with the last one being with
Index). This is volume 3 of the light novel and volume 4 of the manga.

Thinking on it closely, it shouldn't have surprised me that the scene is not
in the light novels. Mikoto Misaka is only able to make the homemade cookies
with Saten's help, and Saten is a character not found in the light novels, but
was made for the _Railgun_ manga.

Thus, we move on to the manga for _A Certain Scientific Railgun_ , which is,
as we'd expect, the source material for the anime. The corresponding volume is
7, and the chapter is 39, at the very end in the section labeled "An Iron
Bridge Is A Signal For Romance" (this might denote a special chapter,
particularly as it does seem separate from the rest of the chapter).

A windmill is not shown at any point during this scene in the manga. During
the moment in question when Touma calls Misaka by name, the panels show the
sky and the bridge without any buildings in the background. This windmill
component of the scene must have been made for the anime.

## In the scene in question, is the windmill actually just being moved by
wind?

Given the timing of the windmill moving, and all the electromagnetic induced
windmill turning that's happened in this arc, it isn't unreasonable to think a
change in Misaka's emotions is what causes the windmill to move. However,
could it be this isn't what the anime is trying to imply, and the windmill
turning is actually just for visual appeal?

According to user [starball](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/70615/),

> It turns out the volume I watch at is too low for me to be able to hear the
> ambient environment noise. With volume turned up, at 19:20, I can hear what
> sounds like water and/or light wind. At 20:14, all ambient noise is silenced
> (probably for artistic effect to complement Misaka's feelings at that moment
> like-"everything else went quiet"), and in the zoomed-out scene showing the
> turbine (20:54), once the volume is high enough, I can easily and definitely
> hear the sound of wind. In fact, I can even hear some clear wind sounds at
> 20:50.

I rewatched it myself, and I did indeed hear some wind noises too. It is
highly likely that the windmill is being moved by wind, not Misaka's
electricity.

## Is moving the windmills something Misaka can actually do at a distance?

Misaka has actually caused wind turbines to spin without touching them.
[starball](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/70615/) tipped me off again
since in the anime Touma is able to find Misaka in the first place by
following wind turbines. This is also in the third light novel in chapter 2,
part 9:

> A wind generator's propellers were spinning in the distance. _I can't feel
> any wind right now,_ thought Kamijou, when suddenly he slammed on the
> brakes.
>
> Its propellers were rotating in the abscence of wind.
>
> Just that one turbine, about a hundred meters away, was slowly gyrating.
> [...]
>
> The word _turbine_ or _generator_ really just refers to a motor. [...] In
> addition, a person can get the motor to turn by pouring specific
> electromagnetic waves into it. That's how the microwave generators on the
> cutting edge of Academy City tech worked.
>
> The propeller--the motor-- [...] was reacting to invisible electromagnetic
> waves. [...]
>
> He didn't even know whether it was spinning in the first place. The wind's
> generator's propeller had only been swaying very slightly. [...] Beyond this
> spinning propeller was another propeller, turning just a teensy bit faster
> than the first, and beyond that one was a propeller spinning faster still.
>
> It was like he was steadily drawing closer to some invisible explosive
> epicenter.


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