[ElConvoy]

The Problem with Shinnosuke is that he hasnt any conflict in the show. He is just Shinnosuke. He had all of his character development in the first few episodes with him loosing his drive to go forward after what happened during the global freeze and him not willing to accept a new Partner after what happened. He already had his opportunity for change and he took it. He moved on, accepted Kiriko as his new partner and is just fighting the Roidmudes now. He has no conflict beyond that.

All of the other characters have the reverse problem. Gou and Chase have alot of conflict in the show but the show itself doesnt do anything with it. We get hints at Gou struggling with the Mach system and his hatred for the Roidmudes but the show never devlops that beyond some hints here and there. Same with Chase. Chase has an interesting situation with him being a Roidmude whose base programming was protecting humans but got in conflict with his new programming to kill those same humans he got programmed to protect. But yet again the show never went anywhere with it and Chase himself never did anything interesting. Besides being Roadblock, fighting Drive ( and ultimately running away), holding his head a whole bunch and talking in a deep voice the character has done absolutely nothing in the show to make him an interesting or layered character.

Drive is a show with alot of potential in its characters and how they could interact but never takes any of those chances to actually do something with them beyond soem standard plots that ultimately just get us back to statsu quo after every two episodes.