Wtf what's up with Akihito's body??? I haven't been here in along time and I just finished...

Aki's body is rather small sized compared to Asami and kirishima. He has a slender body not one with muscles and it looks appropriately drawn. Looks good to me.
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Aki look exactly the way he supposed to cause what he went through mental and physically throughout this chapters are enormous .he has no one to turn to or talk to about his issues that alone intent to have him lose weight. Maybe that where sensei is going with aki art work now. Just an idea.

This debate has come up a number of times already with this most recent chapter. You're not the only one to notice that Akihito is being drawn differently, OP. Akihito has gone from a slim but still manly build to the body of a ten-year-old boy. He used to have broader, defined shoulders. And no, you can't explain it away by saying he's losing weight for whatever ridiculous reason. He still had a manly look while he was tied up by Sudou. This is still the same night, so he couldn't have lost weight that fast. The weird thing is that Asami still looks the same. It's just the drawing for Akihito that is different.

I agree so much.

So basically what you are saying is just that it's inconsistent. Which is normal in basically any manga. Akihito is the most frequently appearing character if you had noticed so it's not surprising sometimes he is not as well drawn. Can you get over it? Do you expect every page to be a masterpiece?

It's not about every page being a masterpiece. It's about expecting the characters to look like themselves. And this is something different than inconsistency. If we had seen Akihito's character design go back and forth from adult man to ten-year-old child throughout all eight volumes, yeah, then it wouldn't be so noticeable. But this is a change in the way Akihito is drawn that has not been seen before. If it's an evolution of the character design, then it's an evolution in the wrong direction because it makes Akihito look childish and helpless.

My 2 cents. Takaba is used my the artist to express emotion. Her drawing style is not static. She uses Takaba to indicate the emotion of what is happening in the story. Asami's size changes also. In relation to Takaba esp. if they are in a dangerous situation he gets bigger. remember the story is abt. Takaba. Takaba has to be seen as small and in need of saving. thats my take,

It's a nice theory but if you look back over the earlier volumes at the instances where Akihito is imperiled or being rescued, you'll find it isn't true that he is made to look smaller than at other times (not counting the chibi frames of course--that's not what we're talking about here.) He is always shorter than Asami but he still looks like a man with broad, defined shoulders and chest and not like a ten-year-old boy. If that's what the artist is doing now, it is new and hasn't been consistently employed over the course of the series.

And while Akihito gets into situations he can't always get himself out of, he isn't completely helpless. In the last couple of chapters, he's saved Asami's ass twice. He's known to be athletic, takes daring physical risks for his job--and--y'know--look at his bod in the sex scenes. There's a huge difference between this little boy of chapter 53 and the slender but toned young man in those scenes.

Firstly, Akihito's design fluctuates from chapter to chapter, that's inconsistency. Also, he does not look like how he did from volume 1-3, that's because sensei's style changed. For better or worse, this is now how her art style is and it will never ever go back to how it was before so what's the point of nagging at it again and again. To you it may look worse but to me i prefer her softer style of drawing Akihito (it looks cleaner) so it's basically all down to opinion. If you had noticed, it's been this design for many years now. If it bothers you so much, just stop reading. Not like you pay for it anyways.

This is at least the third thread on this issue for this chapter and for each thread, quite a few people agree, so obviously, it's not just one or two picky readers who have noticed a difference and find it to be negative. Yes, the style has changed over eight volumes but once again, this has been a dramatic shift in just these last two chapters. That's not an evolution in style. That's a sharply noticeable abrupt change.

And just because someone is posting here doesn't mean they aren't buying the print versions. This just happens to be the most active open community for this manga. So that dog won't hunt.

I see what you mean about aki artwork. A lot have changed compare then and now. it look like the pencil drawing,texture and tone are slowly fading away. His thinner physically and bit girly looking to me. In art drawing it sometime hard to be perfect and consistent keep that in mind. it is what is, we have to go with it.

This is my favourite manga and one of my favourite authors among all those out there she is an amazing talented one so I always expect the best from her and when my favourite character seems off it makes sense that I'll question it,you're saying that her style has changed obviously that's true the new style is neat and they all have become extra attractive but why Akihito is the only one who's turned to the worse? his figures gone awfully bad! not only his body even his expressions are not like before if sensei's style has has turned down it should be all not only one character that seems weird and questionable to me,and you saying to stop reading 'cuz we don't have the right to discuss/complain about it is what bothers me now.

I can't speak for sensei why aki drawing is the way it is now, all I can say is what I think might be the reasons. For one she has too much on her place which may resort on time struggle to be unperfect with his drawing, image she has to draw asami, Kirishima, Arona, Sudou, Mikhail and the pervert man, create storyline ect, it could be lack of motivation, tiredness or combination all three . Next I'm not saying don't read the manga, my point is if u can't handle certain things that character do that make u angry or defensive the manga is not for that individual. Yes u do have right to discuss /complain but it become annoying when is repeatedly over and over .

You do know that this concept of not reading something that upsets or--y'know--annoys you also applies to comments on this page, right? Save yourself the heartache. Skip these threads.

If you actually bought the print versions you would know that sometimes the magazine chapters are rushed out and incomplete/not as well drawn but the print versions are touched up and look better. Looks like you don't know for obvious reasons but since you claim to buy them how bout you wait for the print version to judge since that one you would actually have to pay for and not judging based on something free you read in an online website.
This is not the first nor last topic about this but don't put too much stock into the discerning opinions of the average mangago reader. I've seen so many topics about how the chapters are getting shorter each time a chapter releases when it's been this length for a long time. Selective memory, heard of it?
Lastly I went and have a look back at the older volumes (5 and after) and basically the drawing style has been consistent to that time. Just that there are some chapters not as well drawn as others so basically it's the same as now.

Gosh - so many complaints. I agree with you completely. As for the chapters, I went and counted the pages a while back and found out that the average amount of pagers per chapter (which includes cover pages and scan team credit pages) is 23.6 so people who also whine about the chapter lengths need a reality check. Seriously, all this complaining is just making the fandom look bad - juvenile and picky.
And the newest chapters will get the proper drawings when the tankouban comes out I am sure.

Oops - just noticed my typo - pages not pagers

Just a thought, but sensei only has two helpers for all the manga she is creating and she still needs to produce a chapter for her serial magazine mangas every month with in an alotted time. The magazine chapters though aren't the finished product. If you look at the raws she is going to be taking a few months off for adding things to the chapters and redrawing before the manga actually comes out. Perhaps Aki's appearance will be more consistent after she redraws what she feels needs redrawing. Just a thought.

we see the changes in this chapters so as fans, we need to adapt with this changes as well as in real life and be patience. I love commenting about this Manga and reading them . Now is more about drawing the characters without storyline and fans has to interpret what art saying or present. Sometimes what I thought it mean and reading what others interpretation about it that make more sense than what I thought it was. Thank you, very helpful.

We're not talking about the unfinished sketch frames here. (And yes, I have seen those. Your assumption based arguments are weak.) In fact, in the last two chapters there haven't been any of those drawings. All of the drawings of the characters have been complete. So once again, put that dog back in the kennel.

Don't muddy the waters with the chapter length thing. That's a completely different issue.

So you went back and the drawing style is consistent over the last few volumes. That is the problem. The drawing style overall has not changed. That's why the change in the way Akihito's body is drawn is so marked and why the argument that this is an evolution in the artist's style is invalid. If the overall style of the art has remained unchanged, then there's a problem if just one character is being drawn differently.

The point has been made that the art serves specific purposes and that is the key issue here. If the art tells as much of the story as the text and is used to elicit response in the reader, the fact that the art for Akihito is eliciting a negative response is an important issue. The way he is drawn now makes him appear weak and insignificant next to the other characters when he is not.

If you're fine with that, good for you. Like another anon said above, don't read these threads then. Because the thing is that when an artist makes their work public, they do so in full awareness that the work will be open for criticism. The audience is not a baby, being spoon-fed mashed peas. Once the work is handed over to the audience, they become a participant in the story and are entitled to their own thoughts, feelings and opinions. That's how creative exchange works, particularly when commerce is involved.

But since you urge me not to put too much stock in the opinions of the average mangago reader, then I am free to discount yours.