Shinobu Nunotaba

Nunotaba Shinobu is a third year student in Academy City character that was introduced in the Toaru Kagaku no Railgun sidestory, and she is a main character of Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S. She is a child prodigy and, was the one who supervised the operation of Testament machines for use in the Sisters Project. Shinobu is the first person Mikoto meets that is directly involved with the project, and her discovery set-off a chain reaction of events that constituted the Sisters Arc. She is a girl with an average looking build, although she would prove to be stronger than she looks when subduing a hired thug later on. Her most prominent features are her unkempt hair and her wide open eyes, dubbed “fish-eyes” by Misaka Mikoto. She seems to adhere to gothic lolita clothes, when she is not wearing her uniform or lab coat. In the Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S anime, Shinobu is depicted without her trademark fish-eyes. Not much is known about her, though she seems to exude an air of aloofness. She is calm, as shown during an attack by a group of Outs. She tends to think of things in a highly objective manner, as seen after lecturing Mikoto on how the scientists in the experiments do not see anything wrong with using clones as test subjects. Her aloof nature makes her hard to approach and can be seen as advantage for her to intimidate opponents, along with her appearance. She has the habit of speaking sentences partially in English and partially in Japanese. She, however, shows care for people. During Kinuhata Saiai’s attack on her, she refused to hit her vital spots using a gun and even tried her best not to shoot it. This care for people is shown greatly towards the clones, and after perceiving them as humans she tries in her own way to stop them from being used for experiments any longer. In addition, in the Silent Party arc she comes to care for Janie and Febrie, who were created based on a paper she wrote in her younger days.