Fr girl, I get what you're saying, he's slowly becoming a twink I know the artstyle changes though the years but I was hoping for them to look more mature...
I think you more or less hit the nail on the head with the new style. At first I was wondering why I was less appealed by it bcuz honestly there's lot's of modern manga with this art style that I love, but I think the issue why this new style is so jarring is bcuz with the old style, the characters actually looked thier age for the most part, but this new style makes them look so much younger, drastically younger even. I have no problems with the new art style, but I think the author needs to adjust to make them look older in this art style imo.
Yeah, it's totally fine she improved or changed, with time these things happen and ofc you want to evolve your projects, but this is too much for me. Takano was always one of the characters that felt unique to me, and now he looks like a character anyone could have drawn T_T
I would be fine with changes too if they wouldn't all look way too young. Kisa was always someone who looked young for being 30, but the others? It's just weird. I actually watched the anime again before coming back to the manga and I remember these flashbacks of Takano's and Onodera's school time and the moment I saw Takano I thought "this is literally him in the manga now, but it has been over 10 years. This is awkward". Volume 18 came out in Germany last year and I am really debating if I wanna keep buying the manga or not T_T
As many I started reading this when I was a teen, recently I got more into manga again and wanted to buy the volumes I missed since back then and noticed the new style. Am I the only one disliking it? I just looked into one of the newer chapters and Takano looks like a teen. They all look way younger, less sexy and more towards a cute drawing style. If you had shown me the new chapters without telling me what manga this is, I wouldn't have known this is Nakamura Shungiku work.. The style was old but just had its own feeling to it. I really wish it wouldn't have changed into this new modern design..