User blog comment:B214/Question & Answers 5/@comment-4547267-20160131031707/@comment-1359322-20160131054226

First use the EX blog. Second none. They're all not decently exposed enough for me to even like any of them, to me there's nothing interesting about them at all.


 * Ex - Too bratty at times, father issues make zero sense for me.
 * Kurenai - He didn't even get sufficient screen time for me to feel anything for him. And i thought i might like him because he's the one who created Ex's Artificial BG, so he could've been the Azazel for the group. Alas his lack of screentime made me feel nothing about him.
 * Zen - Okay probably he's one of the better ones to me. He clearly differs from his mother in swordsmanship and is more similar to Kiba which is good cause 1) We know how the Holy Sword will evolve in the future. 2) We can see a different usage of Durandal from Xenovia. But even that changed when Airi and Shin got introduced and Zen became nothing but another part of the Church Trio sequel groupies, which in return leads me to.
 * Airi - The Asia 2.0 with fighting skills, while i didn't mind at first, it didn't take long for me to dislike her and was even bothered at the fact that Ishibumi introduce her cause once she got introduced Zen turned into nothing but a sidekick. Congratulations to Ishibumi on killing perhaps the potential best character in the EX story.
 * Shirayuki & Kuroibara - Again don't know much about them and i seriously didn't care whether they exist or not.
 * Shin - He's another one that didn't leave much of an impact on me, i don't remember much on him and would wish that he was never there from the start.
 * Helmweige, Robertina & Erneste - Did they even do anything worthy of mention cause seriously they're just there because Ishibumi wanted to introduce them only. Not necessary to the story at all and should've been scapped

For a 6 part novel EX seriously suffers from having too many future characters, to me it would me much much better if Ishibumi just stick to the first 3 sons introduced in Part One for the entire story cause he tried to introduced as many as possible that it ended up being redundant, as a result i ended up not caring or interested for all of the children here.

I know i sound sour but i'm the type of guy that prefers more character expansion over more character introduction. So to me Ishibumi failed by forcefully placing all 10 kids in EX when 5/6 would've worked and as a result he made the children forgettable and to an extent, unlikable.