LOL that little *DING* moment between Uiharu and Saten when they realized Touma was the one Mikasa had a crush on was just great. Also Saten is such a hammy actress.
He is a great character in toaru majutsu no index. He gets nice development later in the sequel. Trust me, you haven't seen the real broken and unbalanced characters yet.
I would say he is one of the more balanced characters. I mean in the first arc he can't defeat the fire monster because its repeatedly coming back so he needs to get around with other stuff than just his Imagine Breaker and in his the second fight he gets his ass beaten because his opponent doesn't even use magic. Most of the time he won his fights because he beats his opponents ideologically.
Don't you love how Railgun is the one that elaborates the good Misaka moments that Index just glosses over? Many reasons why I prefer Railgun ^^ And it makes it even better that Saten is the true supporter for Misaka (also Uiharu~) Also because they don't focus Misaka too much on Index as much as Railgun (because she's main character) I feel that because of Railgun that she grew so popular and not just a tsundere that's 'always' with Touma. She has much more depth and a great life outside of just what Index shows. Heck, even Misaka Imouto feels much deeper with this franchise and I'm still looking forward to more moments of Misaka and Misaka Imouto through what only Railgun seems to give :/
@1234muse what womanizer he didn't asked the girl's to fall for him people like you complain about nonsense shit and go watch Ecchi, You'll never understand how great Touma is just stick to Railgun and miss what kind of mind blowing things are happening in Light Novel, Noob there are reasons why Touma wins Anine only should stay quite and Touma has lost more times than he won see that's why Anime only should stay quite we Source readers know more and how Touma got butchered in Anime