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>>737084 >>737092 With Minekura, you can tell that she hasn't just studied and practiced how to draw manga-style people. She's trained herself from the human body, and she pays special attention to skeletal and muscular structure and its behavior. It makes her art real and alive. When someone in Wild Adapter gets their arm broken and twisted, man, you can /feel/ the wrenching and the crack.
And as for her characters looking the same, THEY'RE ALL ASIAN. And as others pointed out, you can tell them apart if you pay attention. The distinction of Minekura's style is that instead of using different hairstyle and color, or eye color and size, to differentiate between characters, she creates characters of such striking personality that you can tell them visually apart by expression, posture and mannerism.
I suspect that she consciously gives her most simple character designs to her most complex characters in order to avoid drawing attention away from what's important, into distractions like gravity-defying hair and oddly-futuristic dangly earrings. Before you read the manga, you see character art of Kubota, you'll think he looks like Hakkai and Ukoku Sanzo. After you read the manga, you'll never get them mixed up; you can pick them apart with a glance and at a distance. You look at the emptiness in young Kubota's eyes and it is of an entirely /different/ nature than the emptiness of Kenyuu's eyes--bored to the point of true despair, different also from the emptiness in Cho Gonou's eyes--so broken by the loss of his lover and twin sister that he slaughters thousands.
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