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I feel the same.

Then again, depends on what degree of support, Lucy and Wendy are central characters now and were important in every major arc they were in. Bleach made the move of making the Soul Reapers from antagonists we just met, into support characters necessary for plot progression so that is one big mess. The core of the series was lost a long time ago.

Naruto is.... well.... similar in how it turned from a one team focus into a global scale where we get viewpoints of multiple even random characters and most cases for a very short time before Naruto steals the limelight again cause he is the MC and child of destiny and what-not. Well technically that works for telling the stories of various characters but yes, having Naruto being the shinobi alliance's only real hope of survival till Sasuke arrived is too much.

But all in all, you have to take it in a writer's perspective. It is REALLY difficult and I mean really, to organize all this. I myself have so many events in my head I don't know how to place them in the story. You want to do one thing, but that one thing is difficult to pull off. Besides this goes two ways. Since this is an action shounen, it is kinda expected for the MC to take the stage and surpass all others and the shounen audience likes it that way. Fleshing out other characters can seem tedious for some especially since they only like a particular set of characters and not all, allowing the author to kill off some characters but not others.

Besides, the anime made me disgusted with focus on support characters. Naruto isn't even there but the characters are made to be super weak and slow. That's bullshit.