
Hatoya-sen's style *has* been changing since their first ever series.
It happens. It especially happens with long-winded series like this one that apparently has 6 volumes with only 3 of them translated so far.
Either shut up and read or leave. Ya'll are annoying with all your whining in the comments about how Ai looks "younger" when literally everyone is steadily becoming rounder and have more chibi panels. I'm tired of ya'll screaming "pedo, pedo!" like you're some sort of Pokémon. Jfc.
After rereading this years later I have come to realize that this could have been a fairly decent story if the plot actually went somewhere.
There was a potential murder-mystery involving military power struggles and two characters seemingly tied together through fate and a semi-common goal.
This had the potential to be gut-wrenching and actually satisfying, but it just falls flat on its face within seconds. Even the reveal of who Shiohira is to the two protags was lackluster. I remember my first reaction, and it was literally just "ohhhhhh... ok." LOL
Idek. It's just disappointing.