Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25787298-20170117230439/@comment-27247962-20170118113115

Hehe

obscene right, Advocate. xD  'Being right' is more important to most people, so you get that type of ridiculousness where the 'right' answer is actually stupid as well, but they can at least comfort themselves by saying they were right about it. I'm no different, ofcourse.

If I follow my intutition it'll lead to Amon being alive, but since i'm reading this for my enjoyment and not the enjoyment of predicting and being right, it falls extremely short for me.

Ishida started out fresh, very original, creative and promising, but along the way it seems he stopped progressing his methods and better them. He just let himself fall into habits that worked magnificently at the start, but lost their touch by now. Since i'm spoiled, that kind of repetitive writing won't do it for me anymore.

My thought-train goes as follows:

Ishida has been building-up the backgrounds of many characters very nicely, which gives those characters a lot of options. The issue that arises though, is that he can't seem to find the right time to squeeze them all in and progress on their characters/side-stories/issues even more. Let alone find the time for the dozens of characters he has these options with.

This notorious 'Unknown' status is just too convenient and it has only been increasing in characters. Partially the fandom is to blame for putting almost everyone in that category for barely any good reason, but it still proves Ishida's lack of clarification and preventing doubts about certain statuses of characters. He doesn't clarify bigger story points + the smaller ones are becoming a garbage belt of unclarified details left in his wake of writing. Fandom is left to grovel around in that garbage and connect the missing links. It would all be great if we were blessed with the mind of a writer, but it's clear many only have that notion of themselves, which gets us to the ridiculous reasonings we often hear being thrown around.

The fandom can only become as ridiculous, through what they're given by the writer, which doesn't mean i'm exclusively laying blame with Ishida.

BUT that doesn't mean it's impossible to write himself out of this doomed cycle. He should pick out the characters he definitily wants back in the story, the ones who's story are that important to share with us. Then throw every other character with unknown status away. He needs to create structure again, by decreasing his workload on the big amount of different characters he can utilize. Amon being dead might waste some possibilities, but it'll create more freedom to develop other characters or clarify stuff about them. Trying to equally progress the amount of promising characters we still have, would be a pretty damn amazing feat, which i'm quite skeptical about looking at certain decisions Ishida makes.

What's certain is that if he's not willing to lose any characters and stay persistent about how glorious it'll be if he manages to implement it all, then he'll grace us with the biggest trash to this point.

Be it arrogant as it may, this prediction trumps every other prediction yet made.

Even now with every chapter coming out, I can't help but feel as if Ishida is in a pinch. Constantly stalling by pushing the side-characters & side-stuff to later dates. The moment this story reaches the climax-point it'll be too late for him to start clearing up things and we're getting awfully close. I do hope he'll be able to let go and not go as far as pathetic attempts to still give him the personal feeling/satisfaction of having succeeded in implementing everything he wants.