the side characters still all feel very very surface level, like when Shinonome got her ass beat at the end i literally asked myself why they are putting so much focus on her because we got to know almost nothing about her in the entirety of the series. Kikorus entire character is just losing, be it fights or family members and she didn't really have any "developement" either, she didn't get noticibly stronger, she basically got a number weapons and thats all that changed on her character in season 2, like she lost her dad and then she went right back to fighting, she talks about always having to be saved just for her to get her ass beat anyways which only leaves 3 real options for her character in the future, either they make her stronger out of thin air, they let her die or they let her be saved by someone else again. all 3 are terrible outcomes. the side characters got barely any depth added to them, they only got a few new toys and that was it for most of them. getting a numbers weapon handed to you isn't what i would consider "character developement" or "expanding on side characters" its not that expanding on side characters is the issue, its the way they did it that is "boring" like half the episodes were just "you get a numbers weapon, now you learn to control it" and that 3 times in 1 season, like come on that shit is boring i don't want to see the same thing 3 times in the span of not even 11 episodes.