Board Thread:New Chapter/Episode Discussion/@comment-5916303-20161222112427/@comment-30839112-20161224191334

NewGenTV wrote: Her development cycle is average compared to everyone, she's downplayed as a support character after her very first battle in the series, even though she was build up to be this destructive and very dangerous individual. My idea for this is made pretty clear in my first and following post. The sister arc is obviously the climax for her story, this makes sense. However, she also serves as a easy plot point for Akame's hesitation and rather obvious conclusion. Again, I'm not saying she's a bad character, but not fleshed out enough.

How is her development cycle (whatever that means) average when the rest hasn't got any development at all? (Or if some happened to had any, those were much more average like Tatsumi's textbook coming of age, for instance.) And no, less screentime =/= side character syndrome. Keep in mind whenever she was on-screen she always got impactful scenes, enjoyed significant writer's attention, as well as lots of little details here and there which formed her development well. You say it's predictable. Maybe, but everything else had been predictable in this manga.

Also, the drugs (and Chelsea's attack) drastically weakened her after the Jaegers fight, so it's obvious she lost most of the "threatening villain" aspect of hers, yet starting to develop as a character.