The art work is really something else. If you've ever seen Kakinouchi's color works, there is no denying that they are simply gorgeous. This wonderful technique does carry over into the manga, but it is sort of transformed once it is put into the base black and white form of Japanese manga. If you show your "average" American comic book collector an issue of Vampire Miyu, they would probably laugh at you for paying so much for pencil sketches. While the manga is above the level of pencil sketches, the lack of details such as... backgrounds for instance, makes it seem much like it is simply a collection of scetchwork. This doesn't really mean that it's bad either. I enjoy the artwork from a Vampire Miyu manga as much as most other comics which I also used to collect for cool artwork. It is much like appreciating abstract art. I think of it as de-emphasizing the petty details and accentuating the lines that count. This however sort of gets tiresome at times too. It can be distracting how swervy lines adorn pages in such a way that it's almost hard to tell what's going on. I guess if I were to describe her artwork in one simple way, it would be this: if artwork were judged with how much you could get done, with the least amount of pen ink used, Narumi Kakinouchi would certainly be the undisputed queen.