Yea they balance out the story telling. Everyone gets their spotlight... well, not everyone. Borma... but upon reading a wiki to remember names, it appears some others that I was about to put here may just get an episode or something. Good Character development. Reminds me of Heras husband Scott. He would love the shit out of this show. When he drew, he had alot of story for the individual and even more visual detail. Guns, grenades, knives, clips, pins, phones, radios, sunglasses, cigarette packs, etc. Thats what this show is like. I can see ALOT of work... an EXTREME amount of work put into this. Visually/Esthetics and story/intellectual. This show gets it done... by a land slide. It's so rare to have an anime (manga) thats good, but this damn good?! Unheard of. It totally owns most everything else. It is the bar.