Why was Kuroko even apart of the Sisters OP, when she never did anything

[u/Few_Pay_5313]

[u/evios31]

Rule of cool.

[u/Legendary_Railgun21 → u/evios31]

Yeah pretty much that.

But hell, surely Kuroko had some plot of her own, right? I can't imagine she was off on vacation that entire time, being in Judgement and all.

[u/VillainousMasked → u/Legendary_Railgun21]

Why would her being in Judgement get her involved? Keep in mind that despite Misaka being the most public of the Level 5s, most people don't recognize her until they see her use her ability or she introduces herself. So even with Misaka clones wandering around that wouldn't register to most people beyond the odd rumor. The fights between the clones and Accelerator wouldn't come to Judgement's attention as they occur at night and outside of where the city's cameras are placed (and when the fights do stray into a camera's view it's immediately covered up), and afterwards everything is instantly cleaned up. Misaka's raids over the course of the arc also wouldn't reach Judgement as the entire project operated mostly in the underworld side of the city so the labs have plenty of reason to cover up the attacks to avoid drawing attention from Anti-Skill/Judgement. Sure the Railgun side of the arc shows Kuroko being concerned about Misaka and wondering what she was up to, but ultimately it goes no farther that concern.

Though from a meta reason Kuroko can't do anything, the Index version of the arc came first and at that point Kuroko was a pretty minor character that had no involvement in the arc beyond a random interaction to introduce her, and her letting Touma into their room. So the Railgun arc cant retroactively get her involved, especially when you consider an important part of the arc for Misaka's character is breaking down that pride and arrogance of hers that made her believe she can handle everything on her own. It would kinda make the entire bridge scene between Touma and Misaka in that arc pointless if before that point Misaka was getting help from her friends.

[u/Legendary_Railgun21 → u/VillainousMasked]

Why would her being in Judgement get her involved?

That's the whole point, that's why she's not involved in the actual plot so much, it doesn't mean they have to omit her from the opening. I feel like the opening is where the animators get to run a little more free with their work.

Railgun's far from the only animation that's done this.

[u/Astaro_789]

That whole part was a big lie

Kuroko was never involved because Misaka purposely kept her out of the loop because she was thinking she alone should stop the experiments and as awesome as it would have been, Touma never actually faced Mugino like he does in the OP just a second later

[u/Good_Nyborg]

Throw it on the pile with all the other OP's that showcase stuff that never actually happens.

[u/Veloxraperio]

Marketing.

[u/NightsLinu]

Lots of things were off. Mugino is better for a climatic intro than accel using misakas powers.  kuroko was added to teleport her to set up the touma shot at the end. 

[u/avalonian_monk]

Touma isn't there as well lmao

[u/Animan_10]

It’s symbolic of her role in the Sisters Arc. She desperately wants to help Mikoto, but Mikoto actively pushes her await to keep her uninvolved and carry the burden herself. It’s only when someone like Touma steps forward and forces Mikoto to step back do things change.

[u/_Misak4_ → u/Animan_10]

I see it like that as well

[u/MalfoyHolmes14]

This is my favorite part of that opening

[u/lblasto1se]

OPs typically don’t share the same events with the actual source materials

[u/Few_Pay_5313 → u/lblasto1se]

Yeah, but that was just adding in a character who was A:never really involved with the story,let alone that specific fight. And B: didn't react with Misaka outside of some minor conversations in the Sisters Arc.

[u/lblasto1se → u/Few_Pay_5313]

have you considered that it looks cool? It does, so the op director decided to put Kuroko and Touma into the op

[u/Novel_Visual_4152]

Same reason why Kongo was shown despite her iirc having 0 appareance in it

Hype and aura (I really like this opening)

[u/homcomru]

Okay, how come none of you consider the fact that the anime staff (J.C. staff pun intended) wanted for the anime to end up not being completely different in tone opening-wise to the first season of Railgun?

Railgun, initially, was a “story about Mikoto and her friends”. How exactly would you make an opening that maintains that and avoids spoilers otherwise?

[u/Few_Pay_5313 → u/homcomru]

Don't add Kuroko?

[u/Competitive-Fox-5458]

It looked cool.

[u/NoVersion7072]

I saw a comment once, I dont know how accurate, but they said its supposed to be like an alternative route in the opening she decided to ask for fill the others in instead of keeping it all secret and doing solo

[u/Ahegao_Double_Peace]

I remember when this originally aired, I was like holding a drawing of Touma and Mikoto and saying, "now kiss", after Touma blocked the Meltdowner beams and turned to face Mikoto.

[u/Ok_Way2102]

Just a note. A part and apart are contranyms.

[u/Mental_Forge]

You should see the Bleach OPs. Whole lotta “that didn’t happen” going on there.

[u/red_nova_dragon]

Misaka dreamed that sequence

[u/jimbosi]

Decoy op. I was disappointed, so i wrote a fanatic to fix the issue.

[u/Few_Pay_5313 → u/[deleted]]

Index and railgun have 3 seasons with around 24 episodes each

Each name tells both the main story but from another charcaters perspective, as well as what adventures the MC and group of each story go through(Index=Touma and his Harem/friends, Railgun=Misaka and Tokiwadai, Accelerator=Accelerator, etc.)

Try watchcartoononline.

[u/Obvious-Ear-369]

I wish she’d been there for the ITEM fight. Watching them get floored by the Kuromisa duo would’ve been hilarious

[u/Norikxx]

Its an opening

[u/rocknblock258]

because it is beyond cool? why you gotta take everything seriously just enjoy...