Are you joking? Mikoto is awesome. But her being the main character doesn't help a shitty show. Going full moe gay shit in the middle of serious missions or fights, that didn't happen to her in the other show, is already an insult. And this goes for the entire cast of Railgun, even the damn police force. They didn't even try to keep an interesting story or world going for Railgun, and it doesn't take power levels to make good villains or fights. Instead we still get panty stealing, school girl raping, booby bouncing filler crap instead of anything even mildly interesting.
FYI i have no quarrels with any genre or type of show, Railgun just fails in every aspect of every version it tried to do.
It's almost sexist. Because Touma is the main character, Mikoto in Index is a hardass powerhouse that's behind some of the major plots behind what's going on. Sure she's still a chick and playing the tsundere role for Touma, but she still has broader scope and reason behind her. In Railgun, now that she's the main, suddenly she has to be in a show about upskirt shots and sexual harassment like so many other girl roles in anime these days. No matter what the actual plot was behind any of Railgun, it was ruined in it's entirety from the start, hell even before the start when they decided it was a good idea to go that route.
Im also no activist for any kind of inequality.
Also my stance on this is a "im right and you're wrong, end of story" stance, this isn't an arguemtn it's me hating on what is wrong with JC Staff