Talk:Kichimura Washuu/@comment-90.192.209.96-20160221162624/@comment-26940038-20160222053715

That's not what I meant.

He was always of importance in-universe but he just started to become important for the readers recently. Until now we didn't know what Furuta did in the past so most people just started to care about him when the story started to focus him.

When he appeared in TG nobody knew who he was nor what his job was, so it's not that big of a deal that some people feel like he is a "fairly new character", at least in my opinion.