User blog comment:ChishioKunrin/Why the introduction of ABRN is not a bad thing/@comment-25555436-20150825143237

Honestly, I can see why most people would reach that conclusion regarding the second half of Kerry's answer. We have too many characters, the ones already in place are underdeveloped for the most part and instead of being developed more they just keep making more characters.

I can understand why they would freak out. But that depends on whether ABRN actually ends up being more important than necesary, like with Velvet. Made for just a single scene to "show faunus discrimination", ends up part of a team later on because most teenage kids these days apparently like weak women that they can white knight and popularity overruled reason at RT with her.

If they are there just for the tournament, it's perfect. We can't just have like 4 Vale teams and only 1-2 foreign teams in an international tournament. Seriously, it would be worse if they didn't make ABRN. It would destroy any sense of logic if an international competition only had teams from 1 single nation, with 1 exception. It would be like the World Olympics with only American countries.

However, if ABRN ever goes through the same as Velvet, get a purpose beyond their original reason to exist without a good reason, there better be backlash.