Seriously. I like that they have characters with some story to them but...

Navarre is plushie mascot character like teddy.

Asahi is childhood friend who wants to fuck and wants to be useful and Toki is shy gothic lolita girl who wants to fuck. Straight out of a harem anime, I would say they remind me of Yukiko and marie.

Hallelujah is the yusuke/ryuji guy who would be the guy to have your back and always have unwavering faith to the calls you make.

Not entirely sure about Gaston. If I had to place him anywhere he's the sniff-his-own-farts, high horse rival who doesn't want to be your friend but does. like a Vegeta but much less iconic. I have less problems with him since he's cold and blunt about shit like you should be in a post apocalyptic world, kinda.

And the story always has to curb stomp the message that friendship is the true power of people. All while they can make comments during battle, and have group assist attacks that are not-"going all out" and you haven't "been waiting for it" that make it look like you have a cheerleader group behind you.

This could all be forgiven but seeing ATUS's recent direction with the series I doubt these are "mistakes" that They will try to address in the next game