Can ZUN draw a mature/adult-looking character?

[Shionne Imeris]

Yeah, that has to be a bigger change. They almost look like completely different characters once making the transition from PC-98 to the Windows era. As if the whole series got rebooted or something... Is that why people suppose the two of them were age 10 at the time of EoSD (or was that during the PC-98 canon era)?

i feel like this, yeah although most of the 98 era canon is much less cohesive and often MUCH less detailed than any of windows era
there's a lot of fanon theories why this and why that though but barely any info about 98 era is confirmed by ZUN
although first thing is 98 games were much more brutal than windows games because spell cards rules didn't exist back then so i suppose lot of fights were to death or severe injuries
second: lot of 98 characters were specific to their game only and made appearance only once and never again (this is especially true about whole HRtP cast aside from Mima)
i heard a lot of fanon theories that after events from MS and young alice fight (essentialy last fight in the era since shes extra stage boss) she opened/used her grimoire somehow which caused some kind of catastrophe, space rift or whatever which only Alice, Marisa, Reimu and Yuuka survived (especially considering windows alice does hold a grimoire that's never supposed to be opened which iirc marisa tried to do/ask about once)

Reimu in 98 era is also smaller (i think) and so is Marisa and Yuuka also changed (hairstyle and eyes color)

also remember that HRtP bad ending was literally whole planed exploding (both endings with slight differences iirc) and one of SoEW bad endings was marisa literally crucifying reimu as part of her "training" 

 

[Nekoko]

Reimu in Touhou 1 doesn't looks like a kid, she seems more like a 19 year old girl...   (ZUN made her looking like a kid since Touhou 2 though...)

I think that Kongara (the black haired woman) looks kinda mature, no? Since her eyes are not taking the half of her face and that she has adult proportions

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[CountVonNumenor]

Reimu in Touhou 1 doesn't looks like a kid, she seems more like a 19 year old girl...   (ZUN made her looking like a kid since Touhou 2 though...) I think that Konngara (the black haired woman) looks kinda mature, no? Since her eyes are not taking the half of her face and that she has adult proportions

Yes, you have made a very good point. Most, if not all of the characters from Touhou 1 that makes them look as if they were older. Which is weird, given the sudden turn starting with Touhou 2, and then continued into the Windows era. 

The cover art for HRtP is a bit of an exception on that part though. But like you pointed out, the other character at for Reimu has her more aged up. 

First time I remarked a character looked rather mature in that game was with Sariel though. I was also impressed about the effect of her dress moving in what looked like wind, as if there were clothing physics (which for reasons disappeared with the following games)