Keeping a cast of dozens of main characters fresh in everyone’s minds is an incredibly difficult task. In order to succeed they’ve been doing lots of chapters that cram as many characters in them as possible, and I feel like that’s making it harder for them to do really interesting stories. It’s also slowed the rate at which new girlfriends are introduced; I think it’s about 1 per volume now. This doesn’t bode well for the goal of actually hitting 100, but we’ll see what happens.