At Chizumatic, Steven remarks in the comments,
“The potential present in the premise about Index is intriguing, but if it were fully developed she’d be too strong, too overwhelming.”
Indeed. In The Dresden Files, (series) the author takes the concept and runs with it in one book. With a small girl, no less. (I wonder if he was reading the manga….) And yes, she’s insanely powerful; she holds off three major demons with ridiculous ease. They only defeated her by luring her into a trap that cut off the flow of magic; once she exhausted her innate supply, she was vulnerable.
(Posted this bit of nothing here, since Steven doesn’t like sidetracks)
In any case, I’m downloading the season, and will give it a second chance; apparently it finishes strongly with an arc about the Railgun. Which I’m still following that series, and Kampfer. Don’t ask me why I’m still following Kampfer.
The Railgun arc is halfway through the series. Eps 10-14 of 26.
Ah, I’d forgotten it was 26 episodes. Now I remember why I bailed: “Twenty more episodes of this? LET ME OUT! LET ME OUT!”
And now for something almost related: Railgun completes test firing.
I was wrong. 24 eps. And they’re variable.
Should be through downloading. I probably won’t get time to really hit it until the weekend. My other hobby is keeping me quite busy…