The title image must be the light novel cover. Idk why the manga artists decided to make the female lead so much less pretty than the original character design. Maybe they were concerned the plot wasn't sufficiently mid on its own?
If you don't know anything about developmental cognition, you really shouldn't be having an opinion on matters of developmental cognition. I'm sure you're familiar with the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
A good example of how parents fuck up their kids is how around the ages of 8~14 months, babies...
Holy shit this art is way too fucking detailed. I mean, it's incredible, but way too incredible. I genuinely hope they tune it down so they can slow the pace down. A slow pace is absolutely necessary for LotM. It's a victorian eldritch noire, after all.
I'm excited as fuck though. I need to...