YMMV / Kokou no Hito

• Awesome Art: Considered to have some of the best art in the industry post Art Evolution.
• Growing the Beard: Most readers agree that the series got substantially better after Buntarou's kindly instructor Ounishi dies, a completely unexpected development which marks the transition of the manga from merely a decent sports manga like many others in the genre, into a denser and more psychological story, with increasingly better art from then on as well. This change is due to Shinichi Sakamoto's two collaborators (Yoshiro Nabeda and Hiroshi Takano) leaving after the end of volume 2 and 4 respectively, leaving Sakamoto in charge of writing the story.
• Nightmare Fuel: Many of the symbolic scenes detailing Buntarou's state of mind and perceptions are quite frightening.

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