Moreover, with focusing on the facial expression of Prince Umayado that changes unsteadily, he said that its changes "are one of the biggest fruit of the stories of transformation (man turns into woman and woman turn into man, or a person turns into a different person) that has been throbbing through Japanese manga since Osamu TEZUKA."
また不安定に変化する厩戸王子の表情に注目し、その変貌を「手塚治虫以来日本のマンガに脈うつ男女変身譚および異人変身譚の最大の収穫のひとつだろう」と語っている。