Oh, no problem. The thing is, I purposely made Teppei out to be a bit of comic relief because I knew he would be annoying otherwise; Katsuharu in-canon had grown past being a bully, but Teppei seemed to still have his bad habits. Having it fail on him was the best way to temper that while he grew into a more mature person.

Irma doesn't seem to be contributing much to the comic's storyline lately. She's there to eat and make bad jokes. Sure, she'll fight, but where she can be helpful in a fight she's not as helpful in the overall plot. And I feel like the oneshot nature of the current arc has really made things suffer. It's become a slice-of-life plot, which as you can see with this season's reviews, I'm not particularly fond of.

I enjoy things changing in adaptations. Seriously, it's one of the things I praised in the original Fullmetal Alchemist anime and cringed at in the closer-to-source Brotherhood, and I frequently complain about the "constraints" of the Shinkenger footage holding back Power Rangers Samurai (among various other complaints). But it also has to be handled by someone who really knows what they're doing, like Greg Weisman. Possibly one of the best examples at Doing It Right vs. Doing It Wrong is Weisman's interpretation of Matt against the comics version, where he was suddenly important to the plot and had been lying about being uninvolved and was actually from Kandrakar the whole time...only for the writers to completely forget that aspect of his characterization one arc later, and they now treat him as nothing more than an ordinary guy.