>>36585088Well, the second half of that was 'or to find ways to include them into future narratives'. No, each character doesn't deserve a farewell, but again, if you do it like Bleach and Naruto does you basically hand disposable characters who aren't worth your time at all.
Hell, the current arc of Bleach is such a beautifully abhorrent snoozefest because it's hyping the shit out of a character we've never seen, never heard of, or know anything about, currently kicking the main villain's ass up and down the floor like a total badass. This, in a series where the protagonist is always, ALWAYS the one who gets to face the final boss, and every character besides the protagonist has been treated as a disposable hand towel for the past decade or more, only serves to make for a boring, plodding 'get on with it, we know he loses' case of bad writing designed to hype up the main character when he starts to beat up the big bad.
In contrast to this, Oda actually handles his characters really well. Hell, the dude now works with having eight main cast members as the crew, plus any extra allies he introduces, and he does an alarmingly good job of giving them all screen-time and development.
