Talk:Re: Chapter 74/@comment-26940038-20160423183640/@comment-27247962-20160424075334

^There is one simple difference.

Main characters are known to be more important to the story and in affecting the other characters, they also have the biggest plot armor. That's how I presume is the definition of popular main characters.

But I don't limit myself in grabbing on to that certainty and almost common rule in all manga. For me every character is equal, with the exception of Kaneki, who's a tad higher because of his protagonist status. Ishida can discard any character at any point in time & I wouldn't bat an eye if the build-up to that character's death, is logical and well explained.

There is also no necessity for "main characters" to stay "main characters" & even halfway your story a new "main character" can pop up. Or "side character" becomes a "main character".

Writer's just tend to keep to certain rules, like no changing main character, because if they do change them, It'll become very hard for the reader to get into the characters and sympathize with them.

Ishida on the other hand, has given the reader insight in every character to a certain extent & could do the unthinkable by changing "main characters", in this by killing the recent main characters off & focusing on some new characters, which become the main characters eventually.

It's just not done so much, because it's a big risk, but I think Ishida might be one of the few who might pull it off.

They might be popular to the fans, but he can just make other characters popular.

(I feel like I need to write an essay about this to make it clear, because these few sentences are probably not enough to follow my way of thinking.)