Daily pick · October 5, 2026
A Certain Scientific Railgun T
A school sports festival opens Academy City's gates, and the trouble comes in with the crowds.
This is the third season of the Railgun series, so it rewards people who already know Academy City and its cast. Newcomers should start earlier in the franchise. Returning viewers get a festival setting that puts a prestigious all-girls' middle school on the field and lets its students compete, with the Ace of Tokiwadai among them.
The genres are Action and Sci-Fi, and the tags point to a super power story with a big ensemble, a mostly female cast and a few tsundere flourishes. Expect a blend of school-day lightness and darker material. The season is described as going deeper into the shadowy side of the city, with terrorist attacks and ruthless underground projects, so the mood shifts as the festival goes on.
At 25 episodes from J.C.STAFF, it is a moderate commitment for fans of the earlier seasons. The community score is 81 out of 100, and more than 70,000 AniList users have it on a list, which suggests that people who stay with the franchise tend to like where it goes. If you enjoy urban fantasy with powers, clones and memory manipulation in the mix, this season fits. You can watch it on Crunchyroll and Bilibili TV.

At a glance
- Format
- TV · 2020
- Episodes
- 25
- Studio
- J.C.STAFF
- Genres
- Action, Sci-Fi
- AniList score
- 8.1 / 10
- Streams on
- Crunchyroll, Bilibili TV
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