[Mesnick]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

It was a bold choice to make Ace a side character at the start of the show and focus more on Keiwa and Neon instead. I don't think it really worked, though, as I never got much of a sense of who Ace was as a character, Neon got sidelined in a way that looks really sad sandwiched between Sakura and Rinne, and Keiwa just plain sucks.

I would argue that Ace remained a side character, performing purely technical functions of the MC: get the most forms, be the strongest, defeat the main threat. In most dramatic conflicts, he always managed to find himself out of work.