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The artistry and technical merits in this second volume are still the weakest aspects of the series, though I have upgraded my opinion of them since reviewing the first volume. Nanoka is well-detailed, realistically proportioned (she's small but not delicate), and by far the most visually appealing character. Although she is drawn younger than she's supposed to be (the birthday she has during this volume should make her 16 years old), she is also portrayed as being on the cusp between cuteness and pure beauty, a not uncommon look for girls of that age. Koshiro, by comparison, is almost distractingly square-jawed and rough-edged. The level of artistic merit on the supporting characters varies, but all are distinctive and only Koshiro's lecherous co-worker Odagiri is stereotypical. The quality of rendering on all of the characters varies greatly between close-up shots and views at any distance; in the former case detail is quite good, but it suffers in any shots where the characters are more than a few feet from the theoretical camera. Background art, while not bad, usually looks like pencil sketches. As a result, it starkly contrasts with the digitally-colored characters. The animation quality continues to be inconsistent; it looks quite good in select scenes but takes shortcuts in other places, leaving the impression that the producers focused most of the animation budget on a few key scenes. Thankfully lacking, though, are most of the exaggerated reactions seen in many anime romances. For all the artistic and technical faults of the series, it does handle quite well some details that are often overlooked, such as how natural Nanoka looks while sleeping in one scene or how convincingly mussed up her hair looks when she wakes up. This volume also gives Nanoka a wide range of wardrobe and hairdos, something that a lot of anime series focusing on a teenage character often skimp on.


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