>>55342993Main cast: Liko, Roy, Dot, Friede.
That's only 4 characters. The previous anime has also had 4 people in the main cast multiple times without issue.
The side cast has 4 people: Oria, Murdock, Mollie, Ludlow. Again, that's not a whole lot, DP had at least 5: Conway, Kenny, Nando, Zoey, Barry.
Antagonistic cast is also not particularly bloated. Horizons has 9: Amethio, his 2 goons, Sango, Spinel, Hamber, Agate, Onyx, and their mysterious leader. Using DP as an example again, it had 9 in this category: Paul, Saturn, Mars, Cyrus, Jupiter, Charon, Jessie, James, and Meowth.
DP had a list of character as bloated as Horizons, and yet DP is considered by many to be the peak of the Ashime.