Talk:Misaka Mikoto/@comment-124.106.114.210-20160209062345/@comment-121.54.54.188-20160401013314

To be frank, no. Rankings are mostly based on light novels and not on anime. Sure being in anime will increase your popularity, but Misaka's followers and popularity will increase million-fold times. Not to mention that she is present in both Index and Railgun, and the boost of railgun for being more popular than index is a proof of major boost for Misaka-san. Othinus' achievement for entering the female character rankings is nowhere to Misaka's achievement  of being popular just after the 1st volume of Index. Othinus needed like 3-4 volumes of being a relevant character in the story to be included in the ranking while Misaka who just appeared in a short time (more likely a singe bridge scene) in the 1st novel immediately acquired sheer popularity, thus in the third volume of index she was made as the Main Heroine of the story and together with it is the release of To Aru Kagaku no Railgun Manga.