No, it didn't.... It's always been this way...? So I'm confused...?
I totally have a very similar feeling. Like sensei never thought she would be this popluar and long running. It's kind of annoying. I miss the horrible and cruel charas and development! The moral questions I was forced to ask myself!
But it has been so long since then.
I’m not sure why people think it’s so different now. Sensei knew where she was going with this since the first volume, which is why there are hints of twins from back then. Undertaker as a shinigami was always planned too. Nothing has changed and so far there are no plot holes...so yeah, I don’t get what people are talking about.
This manga really just become 2 different kinds of manga! What ever happened to the beginning is so different to what it is now... I've always wonder, is this really meant to be or the mangaka just write the story as it progress... hhmmm