ArtemisFlow said:
WAIT WHAT? They just revealed his name like that out of the blue?
And not even kidding, literally one page before it I was thinking if they're going to reveal it one of these days. Then it just happens.
Wow.
Grandma Kowai is the first character that actually is in the position to prefer his given name. Every other character either doesn't know the name(Fuuka-tachi), have no contact to another Kowai or are Yotsuba. It's just natural.
RhapsodyinBlue said:
Maybe it's the art? The art style's been shifting for a while (eg. compare first chapter to saw few chapters ago). This chapter doesn't look particularly different from recent chapters to me.
Yeah, Azumas Art is always developing(compare this chapter to his early doujins), but normally he's improving his style. This felt like a small step backwards, or more like drawn in a hurry. There are even some panels where there's incorrectly applied Screentones! That's a beginners mistake.