Talk:Index Librorum Prohibitorum/@comment-69.35.216.247-20150615055053/@comment-4419516-20150622090434

^ If you are reading this series you should already know that the cover don't always represent the biggest part of the volume. Unfortunately, in LNs there's always a bias towards putting the heroines in the cover. If you are lucky you also get the protagonist, normally with a heroine. This is because the cover is merely an ad for the novel, made to grab people's attention. Index is actually pretty good about its covers and illustrations, it could be much worse (like putting the main heroine in all covers or only using the illustrations for the heroines and fanservice scenes).

Putting Touma and Mikoto in the cover is an obvious selling tactic that has already been used in NT3 and we know how that novel went about that. A similar thing happened with NT7's cover but that at least had the excuse that it was misleading both Touma and the readers. Mikoto usually gets illustrations even for small scenes when she's not really important to the plot of the volume like in NT12 because she's the second main heroine. Hopefully she actually gets a big role, but the smart thing to do is wait until we can read the novel, especially since NT3's previous volume also had a 'Mikoto joins the fight!' line to hype the readers.