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>>37076722
Ludvico and Odaiba are in the weird position where fans love them and the Last Bullet devs are clearly happy to add them at the first opportunity, but it isn't especially profitable for Bushimo and/or Bushiroad Media because most (all?) of their merch so far, and presumably in the future, has been produced by Azone and Pius. I honestly can't recall whether the characters from these two schools who appeared in LoG and TFG had any merch other than the obligatory pamphlet appearances. There might also be some office politics involved where Bushiroad can only market Yurigaoka/Kanba/Herensuge; the recent non-game developments in the series don't have Bushiroad's name or "Assault Lily Project" in the credits.

Then again, it also wouldn't surprise me if some decision-maker wants to do a Granblue and make characters like Himari and Shenlin playable since their actresses are already voicing other characters in the game, so they can record lines for multiple characters in one trip to the studio. As it were, I'm surprised it hasn't happened for Bushiroad's games with big casts and they went down the path of casting many of the same people across different projects, but that's another topic for another time.