Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25034020-20191022161652/@comment-386913-20191025163313

Big casts are a crapshoot for the franchise. Yes! 5 sort of made it work...but in reality Urara (and maybe Milk/Kurumi) are the only characters whose arcs felt like they took two seasons to complete competently. The sacrifice: Rin and Komachi only get focus in Yes! 5 proper, Karen at the tale end of Yes! 5 and more in GoGo, and Nozomi...sometimes you forget her dream amidst it all but most of her developments are done by the end of season 1.

Smile sort of worked but it was so light and fluffy that it worked to it's advantage.

And currently going through KiraKira and...while some of it works, I sort of agree most of it is less development and more other angles of what we find out at the beginning. (only up to 16 so luckily not up to Ciel adding more yet)