As of the end of ep 9 it's beginning to look a lot like harem territory. Aisu, the one who wears the miko costume, seems to have moved in, though I'm not positive about that.

And in the mean time, it looks like we've reached the part of the series where Railgun becomes a major character. She's shown up briefly a couple of times before, but the beginning of ep 10 is the first time Touma has seen her

Mikoto seems to have some doppelgangers. I'm pretty sure there's at least two, but I could be convinced that there were three of them (to begin with). At this point I'm wondering if they're robots, given how strange they seem to be as soon as they start talking.

The one up on the top of the stairs is the strange one. She looks and dresses exactly the same as the original. If they don't speak, then this is the way you tell them apart: NSFW the doppelganger wears shimapan.

UPDATE: I've been watching a 1280*720 version, but a couple of days ago I downloaded the full series at 1920*1080, and discovered after it was complete that it wasn't subbed. Which is why I'm watching the smaller one.

I'm not sure if the big one is a BD rip or a broadcast version or is upscaled. Probably it isn't BD; it's a bit soon for the whole series to be out on BD since it only ran last spring.

UPDATE: OK, major geek points for this joke. Alt-Mikoto has found a cat and wants to adopt it. Touma is carrying it for her because she produces a low level magnetic field which causes discomfort to animals. He asks her what she wants to name it, and she says Inu ("dog") and he says the name should be more majestic.

So she says "Tokugawa Ieyasu". That's too majestic. Here's her next choice:

UPDATE: Unfortunately, shortly after this the story gets stupid again. Where did she get that gun from?

UPDATE: End of ep 12. For a series called To Aru Majutsu no Index Index isn't really a very big part of the story. It's Touma's series, and it looks like Index may not be involved in Railgun's story arc at all.

Or she may end up being a deus ex machina. I sure hope not.

Railgun's situation really is amazing. No wonder she's got a tortured soul.

UPDATE: End of ep 14, and that resolves Railgun's story arc. And Index wasn't part of it, which suits me fine.

The titular character is even less important in this series than was the case in the first two Nanoha series. I tell you true.

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