>>280121049
Compare this random girl in a doujin, so without the economic backing of a publisher/magazine
to the penultimate chapter of the 10 year story
https://comick.io/comic/00-kekkon-yubiwa-monogatari/1I1jkDTL-chapter-85-en#page=1

To me she still looks better and is not because of a age thing.

Maybe wasted 10 years doing Tales of the Wedding Ring, which despite the premise took its sweet time and was full of un-necessary awkward moments and the art was worse than his doujins.

It was baffling to me, Dusk Maiden of Amnesia by comparison took 4 years and looked much better.
>pic related with an older doujin