Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-173.88.225.104-20140402220410/@comment-3146930-20140402222326

I don't mind the blacked-out people. It keeps the focus on those that are important and may lead to hints about important characters later in the series. If they did stick real people in, they would probably have to make a "Random Face Generator" and start making a bunch of character and putting them in places. However eventually you'll run into characters that look a lot like the main cast.

As far as the longer episodes go, there are going to be longer episodes, but from what I hear there will only be 12. Going by that, there is only about 20 minutes of runtime more then the original Volume, so maybe about the same amount of mistakes.