User blog comment:ChocolateSquirrel/Ice Trail Chapter 3 Review/@comment-24257713-20140918085539/@comment-7418318-20140918123552

Just as Carry said.

If I remember correctly of all the stories that were ever published in the magazine FT comes out in, Fairy Tail is the one with the most characters.

The Fairy Tail guild alone already has 54 characters of whom the name is known, plus several no-names. In the character category of this very wiki you'll find 368 entries. 368! And that's just one of several manga that Hiro Mashima drew.

I don't think it's possible to create a character that doesn't share at least a few characteristics with one of the plentitude that Hiro Mashima created in the past.