Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-71.160.120.109-20140705021259/@comment-24993958-20140709183032

That’s where the tournament arc comes in; you bypass the need to give characters a real introduction and backstory and simply have their personality shine during the fight.

 Once the tournaments over the characters will either disappear for a while (Suns team going back home), will become background characters (likely Cardins teammates) or are setup to be explored in a later volume (possibly Velvet).

The amount of work they actually have to put in their backstory is deceptively smaller then the numbers suggest, and would even hinder them in the long run...I swear if I see someone having a 50 minute flashback during a fight again while the other dude patiently waits for him to snap out of it I’m going to facepalm so hard I’ll make a hole in my head…figuratively speaking.