User blog comment:Varzan Deodinm Beldinm/The "meh" factor of this show has finally gotten to me. ( please read, then judge.)/@comment-3387274-20131013142836/@comment-24047001-20131013152120

On your first point: Conflicting characters are forced to work together in stories all the time. Han Solo didn't get along with Luke or Leia for the majority of A New Hope. In no way is a school necessary to bring those characters together.

On your second point: You never have to reveal everythign about a character in the first season of a series. This point is even more ridiculous when you consider that we're up to 85ish minutes of content. The length of a short feature film now. Character dramas can exist and mold characters for years. Look at Breaking Bad, Walter White and Jesse Pinkman both evolve considerably over the run of that show.

Hiding character backstory for a long time isn't something that is solely achieved by ignoring characters during the narrative.

I've got nothing for your 3rd point though, becuase I don't know enough about anime to be able to call an anime trope an anime rope... or even know what a tsundere is.