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What you said make sense. However just because to aru majutsu no index is a harem series does not mean that it is an ecchi series. I search on google for the meaning of ecchi and I deduce that ecchi is actually a very mild hentai series and is used to refer to softcore or playful sexuality in contradistinction to the word 'hentai' which connotes perversion or fetishism. For ecchi, sexual themes are hinted at, and is considered a type of fan service that can be found in shonen seinen and harem anime. Harem means that there are a lot of lovers surrounding a particular person. Although ecchi is commonly found in harem anime, not every harem anime is ecchi. For example: nisekoi. This series only has half an episode which is one chapter of the manga on hot spring and the rest of the series have little sensitive scenes. Another example is Naruto which is a shounen series having little sensitive scenes. Just by having little sensitive scenes but does not mean that it is ecchi. Therefore, to aru majutsu no index might just fall under the category of harem but not ecchi.

I must admitt that the evidence I provide to prove that to aru kagaku no railgun is not ecchi is indeed not very reliable. But as you said if you know the features of a genre, you can tell by yourself in what genres a series falls under. There are times when the internet might be wrong too, as a lot of sources said that it is seinen. For me I think the anime that focuses on fan service is an ecchi anime. For example, Fairy Tail. This anime focuses on the body curves a lot unlike to aru which did not focus on that. Fairy Tail is not considered ecchi for some people but I think it is like you said is one of the less daring ecchi(which is one of the important reasons I dropped it -___-). To aru just simply gives us scenes of misaka wearing shorts(boxers) under her skirt, I don't think that an ecchi anime will simply give us scenes of shorts(boxers) and is more likely to portray a female wearing something more daring. Although to aru indeed have some sensitive scenes, they did not focus on it and they did change the angle of what we see and also censored properly so that we did not see things that we are not supposed to see. Of course this is from my point of view and I might not be accurate.

Please don't be mistaken, I like the to aru series. The sensitive scenes which I don't like does not affect the things I liked about to aru. By the way thanks for the tips to avoid ecchi anime and manga, it will be useful to me in the near future. If there is anything I said which sounds offensive to you, please forgive me. I mean no offense.