[Okashira]

Originally Posted by SoloPanda

I wonder if he doesnt want to take it off because:

Spoiler for Etzali:

He's being eaten away at by the grimoires and you can see it if he takes his outter skin off

Unabara's face probably symbolizes his "desire" to stay in Academy City and the science side, which would also explain why Xochitl hates it.

Spoiler:

Also being eaten by the grimoire means losing your sanity; if you are thinking of Xochitl, well; had her "will" "eaten" by the grimoire and lost control of herself, with that she "sliced her own skin off", but that was because the grimoire needed her body for it's magic; not because the grimore eating her for breakfast. Xochitl herself stated that Etzali had more control over the book and thus that wasn't going to happen to him

About that talk about how the story lost tragedy and such; you know, I always thought that in the first volumes, when the drawing was more adult like, Kamachi was appealing to a more mature fanbase; but when the point got that the story already got a big fanbase Kamachi had to "tone down" the story in that point in order to adequate to the characteristics (age focus) of the fanbase; that also meant having Kiyotaka change to a more SDish drawing style.