We study the orthogonal
quantum groups satisfying the “easiness” assumption axiomatized in our previous
paper, with the construction of some new examples and with some partial
classification results. The conjectural conclusion is that the easy quantum groups
consist of the previously known 14 examples, plus a hypothetical multiparameter
“hyperoctahedral series”, related to the complex reflection groups Hns= ℤs≀Sn. We
also discuss the general structure and the computation of asymptotic laws of
characters for the new quantum groups that we construct.