Kotonoba Drive Chapter 12 Discussion

Yakuri said:

Thank you for expressing that, I was wondering why this manga bothered me. It's just like you said, it doesn't seem to have an entity of its own. Also something that severely lacks (also from that other manga of his with the pilots) is the absence of his past super detailed backgrounds. YKK's atmosphere was really its own thing, and half of that was due to the attention to detail given to the world through the art. Sometimes there was no dialogue, just the character and the background. After that manga, his art became really simplistic and rough (to put it nicely), and there's practically no backgrounds. His style of story-telling through the comic medium is just not as effective without that eye for detailed artwork. Also, like you said, little by little we knew more and more about YKK's world, either by small comments, flashbacks, Kokone's research... KD just doesn't have the same appeal even though he's trying to, because he's not putting any effort into making us identify the world the characters live in, and how it plays with Suu's imagination/psychic powers/whatever she has. Really wish he either continued YKK or tried to make KD its own thing.