Gotta love SIU, "sorry about the breaks I already took...my wrist is falling off, so I'm taking a 6 week break but I'ma try to get back earlier" type ish he types out. I let myself fall behind in the Gamer so that I'd have something to fall back on and I could always catch up with Toriko...but there's nothing like ToG, so it's gonna be a painful run.
So Emile is an ignition weapon that thinks she's a human. I wonder if something similar to the Colorless December driving Eurasia nuts could happen again. It supposedly only drives you crazy if you're not the right owner, so that could explain why Cassano brought the Traveler who has a good relationship with Emile already.
The train is being billed as damn near impossible to survive (and I'm assuming that'll be the next major arc), so we could be in for some insanity. I think the mass of characters now will leave room for deaths, injuries and drop outs moving forward (Goseng staying with Teddy is a good example). The other thing about the massive number of characters is that even some of the uninteresting characters have some characteristics that might relate them to important families and groups...Going back to Goseng, she's got glasses which made me think about that one family which wore them to enhance their observation skills (could just be an image thing, but you never know). Laure's sleeping thing is another connector.