User blog comment:ShonenChicoBoy/Shonen's Regimen and Tonic: January 2016/@comment-3030647-20160116063146/@comment-18812574-20160116064400

Where did that pic go... *shuffles through file box*



Yes well anyway. As to the static vs. dynamic thing: please don't misunderstand me. A character can definitely experience development and conflict throughout the course of the story, what makes them static is if, in the end, when all is said and done, they are still essentially the same character. Ichigo is a prime example, mainly because he suffers from being a shounen protagonist but, if you think about it, he never really changes character-wise, he just gains more power. That doesn't mean he doesn't get his fair amount of struggles and crises (Ulquiorra, the Fullbringer arc)/"development," but when the curtain draws he's the same guy, fundamentally, that he was at the beginning of the series.

Ichigo is a bad example though, because he was never really presented with a chance to change, or a clear-cut chance to reject that change. I could be wrong on this point, but mainly I am talking about where a character's personal story arc goes from point A, all the way through the entire story... and they end up back at point A.