Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1430834-20150716032845/@comment-25364614-20150716134040

I think the criticism of the loss of focus on characters other than Kamijou is fair and one that I fully agree with. While I'm perfectly fine with Kamijou's character growth (because out of all of the cast, he needed it), Kamachi needs to use it to move the entire story as a whole forward along with the rest of the cast. It is only through interaction and comparison/contrasting with the rest of the already established characters can Kamachi drive the character growth home for the reader. This is why I personally rate the WW3 arc, NT10 and NT12 so highly (even though NT10 was very divisive and NT12 was thought by many to be boring). Bring back the rest of the characters now.

As for Kakeru...I refuse to form a subjective opinion of him until I read it for myself. I will say two things:

1. My head also turned on its side when I first read it.

2. I already envisioned a rival or anti-thesis of sorts to Kamijou long before but I expected him to come from Kamijou's past (the series biggest Pandora's Box) and be a Kihara for good measure. :) Not that Kamisato IS Kamijou's antithesis. I know nothing of his personality; just a vague description of his ability. I don't believe that he will turn out to be an anti-thesis (a rival for sure); it doesn't make sense to me as all of Kamijou's opponents in the series have been an anti-thesis of sorts to him. Recall the OT22 afterword.

I will say more after the LN has been translated because from what little I've spoiled myself on, I'm not particularly worried.......yet. It may change when I actually read it. Who knows.