I'd probably like this more if it was drawn better, had any ounce of originality with any of the characters, or if there was any sign that the author had given any thought to their worldbuilding.
Unfortunately it's just making me want to re-read Stray Little Devil.
What are you talking about? It's clearly drawn well.
Not to anyone that's ever taken a life drawing class, or is at least passingly familiar with actual human - particularly female - proportions. Figures are also drawn inconsistently. It's difficult to tell if these are simply errors on the artist's part or intentional stylistic choices to eroticize the characters; I can't agree with them either way.
The paneling is a bit scattershot. At times it works, other times it seems overdone and breaks pacing, a few times I had trouble identifying the flow of the page. However, it's largely serviceable and isn't as big of an issue to me as the anatomy.
Composition and layouts suffer from being too busy at times. The backgrounds are drawn very well - one of the things I actually like - but sometimes overpopulate the panels and draw away from the subjects.
Speaking of the subjects, on mid- and wide-shots they fail to come across as integrated into the background. It feels like the characters and their environment were laid on top of each other without making sure they occupy the same space. Characters just kind of float in front of the background, rather than being placed within it.
It's not horrible work. There's lots of detailing and the effort put into it is evident, but I can't get excited about it.
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