They rolled out a new character mid-season, Konoha, a younger sister of Miss Dried Seaweed. One thing immediately jumped out at me: her character design appears to be significantly more elaborate than Desu-desu's, who is even in the OP sequence.

Somehow it reminded me about a letter where J.R.R.Tolkien wrote: "A new character has come on the scene (I am sure I did not invent him, I did not even want him, though I like him, but there he came walking into the woods of Ithilien): Faramir, the brother of Boromir ...".

Really would like to hear what Tensho Sato and Masami Saito have to say about it.