>>281695205 (OP)
Sandro loves his Asura characters, so much so that it can get in the way of proper fights and manageable narratives. It's why Gaolang's fight with Carlos and Lihito's fight with Falcon are so shit, Sandro needs us to take Purgatory seriously but he can't let his Asura characters lose in a meaningful way so Gaolang gets a ringout after getting lost in the sauce of rearranging Carlos's face or Lihito getting his mojo back but still losing anyway cuz poison. What also doesn't help Purgatory is that half their team are just infiltrators anyway and a guest taking a spot while Kengan had one guy sorta related to the Worms but he never does anything so who cares lmao
This behavior even extends to Omega characters like Shen and by extension Yan, two leaders of a international terrorist organization but are written to be funny wholesome chungus guys that the main characters kind of get a long with because it's funny. Narrative-wise this makes no sense given what we know of the main characters so to remedy this Sandro creates Luohan and drops all of Shen's baggage onto him, to which the main characters respond in kindness by calling Luohan a bastard only after a first and only interaction so far. This doesn't do anything to fix the problem and almost Ohma look like an idiot villain who's only out for his own personal interests
Then you have characters like Akoya and Setsuna who should be dead but aren't, Tiger Niko who exists to do nothing because Sandro gave his entire goal to Shen instead, Mukaku who's entire character is a good argument against subversion and Raian who's personality is no different from the 100 other knife-wielding jobbers but he gets a free pass anyway to Yumi who's the same but gets humiliated in every appearance he's made but gets to live
