As for my opinion, Touma is a character that i can keep watching, EXCEPT for 2 things - first one are his long, anoying, predictable speeches during every fight, which i always skip in videaoplayer. Seriously, if i had an RPG game and always when i start shooting, the game pauses and my char will start a monologue with the enemy, i will run back to the market to take my money back. The second one, despite my huge
Suspension of disbelief, is that he literally got a girl to live in his house, then he adds another girls to his harem and occasionally manages to see them naked and always finishes it with "such misfortune". I never in my life met a guy who would consider himself unlucky for that, either Touma is some sort of damned gay, or i dont know.
Well you have a point here, i also dont understand what the autor is thinking, no matter how good an arc is, he cant just redraw story that has been already done and call it a day. This is a MONTHLY magazine, not some weekly shounen jump. If he would do this in a weekly magazine and waste one week to recap the entire fight, i would just say, oh ok. But from the looks of it this will have at least 5 parts - chapter 35 - talk with mikoto on bridge, ch 36 - start of fight, ch 37 - fight till part with plasma, ch 38 - finishing fight after convincing clones to help, ch 39 - conclusion after fight + mikoto feeling for touma, shirai investigating the destruction in that area and finding Mikoto's coin.
5 completly wasted moths, that could have been done in 1.