User blog comment:B214/Chapter 496: Forward/@comment-173.25.176.90-20160802142825/@comment-25395791-20160802145050

I agree with this point. At the beginning, I liked the introduction of new characters, and what they could have in store for us. But right now, 400 chapters later, they seem as thought they were long forgotten. I only assume there's just too many of them for all of them to gain some spotlight and have at least decent development. But regardless, we were left with major characters doing all the important stuff, while others usually just take care of the fodder, if even that. So yeee, more like tools used at this point.