Hmmmm...what to say that I haven't said yet...gotta start in comfortable territory,
sorry (-er...I mean..you're welcome...? Am I doing this right, Annon-kun?)
I love the hair. Side by side with the monochrome, it is simply something else. I would never have known how good it could look with those little darkening and light spots. Sooo so pretty.
I am fine with either way for the black hole. There's something eerie about this utter darkness idea and you can see 3-4 shades of "dark" in the uncolored....and then you look at how you colored it, and you represent that idea still with that part in the "off-middle" that's still black and the purple spilling out in a way that actually looks similar to the original as well. It looks like you had maintained the counter-clockwise nature of the colors coming in and I'd be curious what it would look like if it was increased only slightly. But either way, I am still a fan.
Two random sidenotes; I didn't think you could actually finish the game without Kasumi. Looking at the pictures to do my side compare I was actually a bit surprised to see them without her. Ooooh, I had a curious thought for the second part of this scene. I don't recall, is that second picture used where everything goes black? If so, my brain image thinks it would be cool if, when things get darker in that second image, even they have their colors muted, or seeing shadows spill through the character models. Might be something that looks cooler in my head.
Second thing, it's funny to me that Yui doesn't seem to be looking at the gate.
PS. I am equally parts excited and feeling overwhelmed for you in regards to the 1.4.x DLC. Did Inusuku say it was about 700 extra drawings they're thinking would be added, or...would that include things like the clothing and expressions you've been having to deal with in Hscenes?