Somewhere I'd gotten the idea that she draws excessively 'bi' bishounen, of the long-lashed heavy blue lidded smouldering glance variety. Not that Takeda is any slouch in the heavy-eyed department herself. But it's different . Illo 1 is from a work published in 1986. Illo 2 was twelve years later.
Tastes vary, of course.
While I have a fondness for trad shounen-ai style simply because it's so awfully romantically overdone, I have to say I rather like the later style better. The book itself is kind of hard to classify, which I gather is typical of most of Motohashi's work. Somewhere along the line I seemed to hear echoes of the same vein Motoni Modoru was working in Detective Bluecat, whatever that may be. The two mangakas' sensibilities seem to be rather close to each other's. At any rate, we have a journalist and newscaster, Suzuki Toranosuke, who hasn't worked in a while.