Which is fitting, since that's kind of what I did with the show. As noted in the archived thread linked above, I gave A Certain Magical Index a shot a few years ago, but couldn't quite decide whether I liked it. I got six or eight episodes in and never came to a conclusion, and then I got distracted by other matters and didn't come back to it.

In the old thread, a few people mentioned that the side series (which I guess is actually a prequel?), A Certain Scientific Railgun, tends to make a bit more sense, so I'm giving that one a go this time.

I've only seen the first two episodes thus far, so I'm kind of in the same situation as before at the moment, but it does look like, even in a still-hypothetical worst case, it'll be one of those shows where I like the characters and bits of the worldbuilding but can't get with the plotting. So I might as well put this post here, since one way or another, Mikoto is likely to turn up somewhere one of these days.

I think I'm liable to get tired of Kuroko pretty quick, though, I will say that. Two episodes in, and her shtick is already feeling overdone, possibly because it's so wildly exaggerated. I dunno, maybe I'm just getting old; I know it's supposed to be the comic relief, but the relationship between her and Mikoto is sort of just... criminally abusive in both directions, which is kind of distracting.

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