>Y-y-y-y-y-you NEED CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT for the characters and by extension the entire series for them to be good!
>You aren't allowed to have characters stay true to themselves from start to end!
Why?
Character Development
Ryder Jenkins
Blake Anderson
It's a dumb meme by """critics""" who need some way to make themselves feel smarter than they really are so they come up with arbitrary rules for writing that don't make sense
Brody Wood
Character development is a meme spread by weak-minded people who want to see their heroes develop when they don't get better themselves.
Tyler Parker
>n-no but that guy who had a very generic turn of character is much better than that other unique character because d-development
Austin Johnson
I like anime girl private parts.
Jonathan Edwards
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Austin Hall
If we take the term "character development" in a more broader stroke, it can simply mean fleshing out your character.
Dylan Gonzalez
You need character development or else you will end up with MC like Giorno or Kirito.
Bentley Flores
Isaiah Gonzalez
not for every character, but certainly at least for the main character it's necessary: if there's no development, there's no change. If there's no change, there's no arc, and the lingering feeling is that whatever happened in the story didn't really matter that much or impact the characters in a significant way. A plot that doesn't impact the characters is a boring plot, generally speaking.
This can be fine in certain types of story (I don't mind if, say, an episodic sentai has no character development), but pretty much any story with any aspirations to be more than set dressing will need some character development.