Discussion Manga / KoiKaze

I have removed the Author Appeal example:

• Author Appeal: The manga could only have been drawn by someone who knows how to do technical drawings because it looks like it was drawn in the exact same way that Architects and Engineers used to do design drawings—ink on linen—before any shortcuts were available. It really seems like the artist wanted to show off as many extreme high and low perspective angles as she possibly could, given the number that show up in the manga.
  • It's not the high and low angles. It's the near complete lack of greyscale and how she did shading that screams of "I'm a professionally trained draftsperson" in ways that only someone who is professionaly trained and who has looked at ink-on-linen design drawings would even notice.

Author Appeal is defined as "A single gimmick or philosophy is unusually central and widespread, per the author's tastes." A drawing style that may have been influenced by someone's background in architecture doesn't seem to fit. Is that even the author's background? I can find very little on her. Maybe it's out there, but just inaccessible to me since I can't read Japanese.

This was previously listed as an example under Comic-Book Time:

• Koshiro's last words in both the anime and manga, said with an emotional expression that contrasts jarringly with his numbness at the series's beginning: "Love you.... I love you."

It doesn't seem to fit that trope at all, but it feels like it belongs somewhere. I just don't know what trope this is.