Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170918133425/@comment-25936766-20171006041924

KingFubuki92 wrote:

While I agree we have alot of characters, its so far nowhere near as bad as it could be. Imagine if we DID have to worry about the 20 minor characters aswell! The problem is that it goes hand in hand. They introduce multiple characters, instead of developing the ones that are already present, main or no.

If there was a not-particularly-important scene and you had to choose between developing CFVY, and introducing another minor team, which one would be the logical choice? Developing CFVY.

But Miles and Kerry instead choose to introduce more and more characters.

As a result, aside from the Main characters, most characters are underdeveloped while more and more get introduced. And those who are introduced often take years, if ever, to be developed.

With CFVY, Fox is barely a character, and the only one with any "depth" is Velvet, all others are basically cool-looking boxes with little inside.

With SSSN, Neptune has barely shown development in the 2 years we've seen him, while Sage and Scarlet are literally so insignificant that many people even missed their first appearance in Vol.2.

With CRDL, the only one who could be called a character is Cardin, and he's nothing more than a rarely-used comic relief whose very personality is just being an asshole.

With the teachers, we know little about Port beyond his hamminess and that he captures Grimm and brings them to class. And Peach is a ghost.

With Salem's lot, Hazel barely did anything in an entire Volume, and Watts literally did nothing. Merc and Emerald did some stuff in V1-3, but aside from short scenes in V3, nothing that really develops them aside from "Emerald was a hobo" and "Merc had a shitty dad". And in V4, they did little more than Hazel.

And then they just keep introducing more and more and more characters. Ilia, Whitley, Klein, the Albains, Sienna, and the list goes on.

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There's this thing called "Quality over Quantity", which Miles and Kerry think it's stupid because they have no idea how to write basic anime.

The result: You get a thousand characters, 95% of them having little depth to them, and some of them barely even passing the minimum standard for Character.

Preferably, one would, instead of adding more and more characters, stick to the ones already present and develop them, flesh them out. But nooooo, "let's add 5 more dudes that won't do anything relevant the entire Volume instead".