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Originally Posted by Locke

Plus Whenever it feels like Ryou is starting to move towards being an interesting protagonist, the very nature of his powers mean he is once again benched and even the non violence stuff is usually solved more by Hana than it is Ryou, Ryou just seems a bit useless.

I'm not sure that was the original plan, but it's pretty obvious that from early on the Taros really started stealing the show, leaving Ryotaro to act primarily as their physical form. You'll notice that in the first few episodes, Ryotaro actually did all of Momo's lines when he was possessed, but that was quickly replaced with the voice actor dubbing over him. If I had to guess, I'd say that the voice actors weren't meant to be as prominent, but that changed fairly early on in production. Probably didn't help that they had some really high profile voice actors.