So what's the cutoff/criteria for how many characters an anime/manga can have before the cast is considered "bloated"?
67
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>>288488334Sooo... 21 then?
When you have more characters than episodes to develop them. So My Hero Academia.
Cast bloat is more the result of if the cast is large to the extent that the writing can't properly utilize them.A roster of 100 characters across a 50 episode series is fine, if most of them are background characters or one-offs. A cast of 20 would feel bloated if there's supposed to be like, a core group of 6 and then 10 more side characters but they only focus on like three of them (Yu-Gi-Oh GX).
Max is whatever number Baccano had. It juggled it's huge cast pretty well for the most part though I'm only going off anime, never read the LN's.
A hundred, maybe more.
>>288488787Stupid
>>288488260it has to be relative to the number of volumes/chapters/episodes. A 1-cour 12-13 episode anime should have maybe 2-5 focused characters at most, about the same number of supporting/side characters, and whatever cameo/one scene backgrounds as necessary for the story/world-building.
>>288488787Retard
>>288488260It's all down to how they're written. GuP has like 100 characters and it feels huge but still not bloated. Meanwhile there are some comedies with 5 characters that didn't need the fifth.
