The art style in the 4-koma themselves have changed over the 5 volumes released, much like any comic artist kind of evolves his style over time.
The strips themselves are purely verbal humor -- the characterizations and personalities are pretty much the same as the anime. But they really are slice-o-life humor chopped into 4 panel gags.
The chapter titlepage art and random sidepage art has a lot of cuteness and some variety in the way characters are drawn (some of the pages even present a character in the various styles over time in several frames as well as the anime-style version).
If I can scan a few without damaging the books, I'll post them in the Image thread tonight.
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