If you want to maintain your current progress across different characters (Like Arata's relationship with Shino) then just do it if we decide to reboot. Like we said, you can pretty much keep modified versions of your characters. A lot of these characters are well done and are starting to see some good development.
Maintaining the role-play as it currently is would just be ... strange. Playing someone else's characters would be very, very awkward for us over a long period of time.
Additionally, we've had other concerns voiced by the players:
-WTF is going on?/Pace of the Roleplay.
This roleplay frequently has things occurring days apart IC right next to eachother as posts. One of my ideas was to have a pre-arranged time where everyone hops on the collab, does it, then hops off. If you can't show up, then you simply didn't do anything for that part of the day. But at the active points of this roleplay people have sat around for hours, making sure they weren't falling behind so this could actually save time in the long run. We'd run multiple scenes at once, which would also make it easier for a newer player to hop into one. Then when we posted it, it would be 'everything that occurred in the afternoon of day X' We've been running lots of collabs anyways, so this could finalize it and just run this that way.
EDIT: If we decided to do this, it would probably be pretty late at night. You also wouldn't be expected to show up for every session.
EDIT 2: If there have been any other major complaints about the way we've run this, PM me and I'll try to correct them.