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How can this movie possibly hope to develop six characters in such a short running time when the anime can't even develop six characters over the course of a full series? 63 episodes in and everyone except Ash, Lillie, and ocassionally Kiawe is pretty much irrelevant.
It's near guaranteed to turn into another SM case where only one or two characters are relevant most of the time and the rest are just filler.