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In retrospective presentation of the main crew in ch45 to just then discard them afterwards was one of the weirdest and tone deaf decisions Hokazono has ever made.
It almost feels like he didn't even realize he emphasized on how they are mainstays bearing significant fanbase power in that chapter.
Any competent writer would have build on top of that, and he just let them all disappear and brought in very boring replacements (Masumi, Iori).
Such a stupid decision and it absolutely hamstrung popularity growth of the series along with the sales.