Who are the main characters and what is the plot of the story Stranger in the Mirror by Lynn Beach in series Phantom Valley?

Mr. Aoyama has had to come up with a whopping 613 new characters! Or to put it differently, after creating 400 new characters he had to invent over 200 more! That is not only it.

Over 800 chapters. Around 5 characters for each chapter. You have yourself over 3000+ characters who never get mentioned again and that is without counting the police dept.

, the forensics guy, the main cast, the detective boys, the Black organization, and a crapload of other recurring characters. Koihime†Musou inherited most of the cast from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms novel. This finally comes to its conclusion in Otome Tairan, which does nothing in its title sequences but getting all the characters in.

Axis Powers Hetalia is a series consisting of people that represent countries. It goes without saying that there are a lot of characters. Over 50 nations, micronations, provinces, and supernational coalitions given canon face now, with any of the aforementioned that exists now or has ever existed as a candidate for characterization.

Important historical figures like Jeanne D'Arc, Maria Theresa, Friedrich II, Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler. And cats, and mochis who DO appear in actual plot lines sometimes. And Parallel world.

And God knows what else. Not-fans are complaining Kaori'd just come up with new characters when she doesn't know what to write... with about 30 REALLY important characters and at least the same amount of minors that'd mean she sucks as an author. Oh, Baccano, where do we even start with you?

How about the fact that the OP alone names seventeen main characters. Or maybe that it doesn't even cover all of the prominent players in the series. Lampshaded by Carol at the beginning of the anime, when she is trying to figure out who the main character is.

Its "sequel" Durarara! Also has a sizable recurring cast, all of whom are integral to the story. The Prince of Tennis features one school's tennis team as the main characters.

Each team they play has somewhere between seven to nine members, several of whom will show up at random times despite not being the opponent of the week; some teams show up in their entirety multiple times. Throw in the coaches, family members, friends, and random extras, and you have a character list spanning over 100 characters, a good 40-50 of whom show up often enough to be considered to be of some importance. Fortunately, they all have their school tennis uniforms.

This trope is especially evident in 20th Century Boys where the story is still introducing new characters with backstories well into the manga's conclusion. Even the first volume is overloaded with characters. While Pokémon is comparatively manageable, repeatedly rotating humans and Pokémon alike from the recurring roster, as of Best Wishes!

There's over 100 human characters alone, and apart from the Orange Islands each new area introduces to the heroes' teams (and writes out or puts on buses) a lot of new Pokémon (theoretically up to 18 at a time for Ash and his friends and 12 for Team Rocket, though Jessie and James generally only have two each, plus Meowth). Factor in the one-shot characters (usually multiple per episode), and you're easily reaching thousands. Pokémon Special certainly has its fair share of characters.

Never mind the fact that there are 3 or 4 Pokédex Holders with each generation (a total of 17 so far), but there's also their Pokémon, most of the eight Gym Leaders of every generation is a recurring character, then when you factor in each professor, the Elite Four, both Battle Frontiers' Frontier Brains, the separate villains and their important members, and the recurring side characters, you've got quite the extensive character sheet. Giant Robo has a huge number of characters despite being only 7 episodes long. Which isn't much of a surprise, given that most of the cast were taken from Misuteru Yokoyama's manga adaptations of Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin, both of which are on this page.

Shin Mazinger has a cast of 35 characters and all of them bar a few were introduced in the first episode, in a series of Big Damn Heroes moments. It's no wonder it left some people confused, at least, before they started explaining things. Hunter × Hunter to a certain extent.

Though the story is almost always focused on the exploits of its main character, Gon, and/or the three friends who make up the rest of his Nakama team, they somehow manage to share storyarc time with almost every member of the Phantom Troupe, Killua's family, powerful Chimera Ants, a number of the more successful Hunter Examinees and a handful of random people they just happen to meet along the way. This example is comparable to the One Piece example above, except for the "random forgotten character becomes important three thousand chapters later". There's four "main" characters (one of whom we haven't seen in ages).

Gon has been in every arc thus far and Killua comes close, but even the other two main characters get pushed aside in some arcs. The plot goes all over the place and one has to one it's going anywhere at all. At least it's awesome.

Houshin Engi, being an adaptation of Fenshen Yanyi, has a huge cast of regulars.