[Aoi Kurenai]

Reading your reviews of the episodes, I've got to ask: why do you expect character development in every single episode? Or rather, why do your posts make it seem as if a lack of it in every episode is a bad thing?

Character development is the progression of a character through any given arc. In a year long series, you're often going to need to pad out the major events and growth your characters go through. I think that as long as an episode furthers either the development or the plot, it's fine. It's when you get to those episodes where neither happens that you run into the so-called "filler" territory. With a show that runs so long, you don't want to exhaust all of the territory your characters can cover within a short span of time. If your show does that, you'll eventually hit that area where either nothing happens or the central story doesn't actually matter because it's not impacting anyone.

Granted, one of my biggest complaints with Agito is that you can do the show in 26~39 episodes and have it be written much tighter, but with the reality of what's going on, it's difficult to craft a show that can sustain itself with something new and important happening in every single episode. Once the mysteries start being uncovered it becomes a fantastic show, but due to its nature of running for a year, you do need to move things along at a slower pace. (this is why sometimes I have to roll my eyes at the episodic nature of the Garo shows, even the third series, which I loved)