Maybe the author didn't know how to get rid of the characters. Is it better than Battle Angel Alita and has it got a better ending than 20th Century Boys? I don't know how to feel about having so many characters. I mean Legend of Galactic Heroes had a lot of characters but really it focused on a few of them from the beginning to the end. I don't like stories that chage characters too much, are the main characters in every arc the same characters or do the characters change in every arc? One thing I didn't like about Alita is how while the protagonist remained the same character the charcters around her kept changing every arc... Alita was pretty much a one man show. On a totally unrelated note I really liked the old artstyle of battle angel alita(how does the artstyle in this manga compare with that?).