This is one the many things wrong with granlaggan, it has so many characters but yet they mostly serve as nothing more then background wallpaper.they have little to no effect on the story while simon is the most important person in it's universe and most of the rest exist to artificial fill the room.
The rest wallpaper at best.
I'm not a fan of the modern "Shonen shows introduce characters because they suck at developing the ones they have!" mentality, but I never got this feel from GL. The whole show isn't just about 1 main protagonist, but at humanity fighting against the Gunmen / Beastmen, and how that effects them. You actually NEED such a large cast in this case, to make it feel as if this is something that's a world-scale, or at least country scale issue, rather than the goings-ons of 3 golden-children from a handful of villages.
I feel like it's closer to the praise One Piece gets for always referencing it's backstory, and respecting all details. If you want to make me feel like a world is fully developed and worth being in for loads of story, introducing the "texture" or the world through a large variety of characters that all know their place in the tale, is a good way. Personally, I like the way GL does it better than OP, but that's just how I feel, possibly strongly due to being an Anime-Only fan of the series.
I will say, up to the current point, I don't really think highly of Yoko. So far all she has contributed really is the introduction to the surface world and to Simon's funk in recent episodes. Otherwise, it seems she tags along for the simple reason that gunmen are bad and need to be stopped, and she had a crush on Kamina.
Obviously I haven't seen the series in whole so this is subject to change.
I can't take Yoko that lightly. I actually like the fact she's a decently effective footsoldier, which pretty much no one in the show is right now. She also was very nice to have around a few episodes back, while Kamina and Simon are so amazingly ignorant of the overworld. Something akin to playing through 2 hours of tutorial in a game sequel, only for the game to act as if you need to start over with it's world from square one. Having her to push us along felt good, and helped balance out their strong (but swiftly overcame) ignorance of simple things like "stars" or "basic animals".
She also sets up a nice foil for any upcoming females in the series. Our main men show us the more showy, and more meek sides of their races. Would we appreciate Nia or Adinae (however her name is spelled) if our only female contact in the series before them was, say, the Black Siblings?
Just watched the Smash live-stream.
I've really enjoyed Nintendo's recent streaming stuff. They've got personality, they have fun with their info, and they have worthwhile stuff to say. Considering my brother and I used to take turns going through all the "Single Player" content in older Smash, all the "Now it's 2 player!" stuff felt SO good to see.
Any DLC outrage is also funny to me. "We just spent a jam packed 30 min telling your of all this great awesome stuff, but what you'll mostly take away is your disagreement with DLC policies!" (-_-
The only thing I was "mad" about... was that we'll have to wait until the spring to add MewTwo to the Roster, heh heh.
