Curz said:
Is it just me has the artwork kind of declined?
It could be a couple of things.
1). I guess it has to do with the Scanlation group. the quality of the scans by Strays is much higher than the more recent releases (the grays are much cleaner in the scans by Strays, IMO).
2). Inoue-sensei used the pastel art style in the 70 vs. 1 battle of the Yoshioka school and Musashi. since then, well, not so much of that.