Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20140918010005/@comment-6192846-20141226171824

67.67.8.132 wrote: See, most of the people on my Tumblr also think he was the obvious choice. As one friend put it, "He's on the freaking album cover, for crying out loud." Not to mention he seems to be Mothy's favorite character, and DoE has a ton more media than any other part of the series.

Like, it's great it's interesting on lore, but it feels like a huge waste that could have been spent developing other characters who haven't had a chance at the spotlight like Allen has. Fair enough. I was expecting him to be the major plot device at most, hence his cover appearance. But yeah, I can see how it'd be obvious to others, given the subject matter.

But I disagree on it being a waste. We got a huge synopsis of the gods' backstory to go along with this and Allen's now allegedly mothy's tool for us to get to meet each of the seven vessel owners individually after their demise (interesting to see how Banica and Margarita work out).

It's not like this is a story just about Allen. We're getting a lot of interaction and expansion for characters other than him. The only disappointment I can imagine is that we didn't get a focus on characters from OSS/CL or new chars entirely. We know light novels are releasing for SDS so I don't mind waiting for them to get their elaboration.