~The art. I agree totally, the art takes on a different style here. I don't know many other shonen series to compare it with, but I did remark that the older characters in HnG are also drawn more 'realistically' than the younger ones. I find the go salon owner Shuu particularly well done: he shows the reader so much on his face without saying anything. Sai seems less ethereal in this chapter, more masculine too and, possibly, a bit younger. In fact Sai and Hikaru start to resemble one another more and more as the story goes on.
Does anyone know whether Obata's drawings are solo work or the work of his team?
~Sai and Mitani: I enjoyed rediscovering a part I'd forgotten here in the manga, where Sai is very positive about getting Mitani to change his ways ("above all because he's still a child"). I remembered Sai being harsher (perhaps he was harsher in the anime) because of his own experience with a cheater.
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Date: 2010-05-30 08:32 pm (UTC)Does anyone know whether Obata's drawings are solo work or the work of his team?
~Sai and Mitani: I enjoyed rediscovering a part I'd forgotten here in the manga, where Sai is very positive about getting Mitani to change his ways ("above all because he's still a child"). I remembered Sai being harsher (perhaps he was harsher in the anime) because of his own experience with a cheater.