Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25787298-20170117230439/@comment-27247962-20170118132819

One year = 52 chapters, minus 3-7 maybe more due to festivities or something else. Roughly 45 chapters to get deeper into Touka's, Yoriko's, Takeomi's, Shinohara's, Yoshimura's, Eto's, Amon's, Marude's, Kurona's, Ui's, Uta's, Souta's, Nico's, Shikorae's, Kiyoko's, Shinsapei's, Mutsuki's, Urie's, Matsuri's, Rize, ... possibilities. I've summed up 20 characters who can be utilized as side-story material. One year won't be nearly enough to have them all worked out.

I don't like that characters fall in this grab bag for an unknown amount of time. I won't just yet go as far as to say characters like Hide, Rize, Eto & Amon are sitting in Ishida's plot armory. To be used whenever he's in a pinch and needs a convenient way out of a tough situation he wrote himself in.

To write a story with dead character is more difficult then writing one where they practically stay alive constantly, that's a simple fact, so I can understand his reluctance to kill characters, but with his amount of unsolved situations it might be getting difficult for the exact opposite reason, too much to handle and no idea where to start with either character.

I wished Ishida would use flashbacks a bit more or thought bubbles, so it doesn't have to take up a lot of place. It's weird to think :re where the connections he was talking about.