Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32346149-20190606062554/@comment-32346149-20190606175223

You all are taking too simplistic an approach to evaluating character development. Time spent developing, and the number of characters developed does NOT speak to the total amount of development achieved. The factor that you're failing to take into account is the quality of the character development, which has been utterly abysmal. I would argue that the only characters that have gotten quality character development since Volume 3 are Salem and Ilia. Everybody else has been developed haphazardly at best.

Here's an analogy to make it crystal clear. Imagine that the characters in this show are all potatoes. Imagine that the act of baking the potato is equivalent to developing the character. You can bake 40 potates for 2 hours, but if you're only baking them at a measly 150 degrees, then they're going to be fucking raw by the time you put them on the plate. That's what Volume 4-6 did. They spent a bunch of time undercooking a bunch of potatoes. Whoop-de-doo.