6 — Communication systems and language design

作品は詩的で象徴的なイメージを多用し、静謐（せいひつ）でやや夢幻的なトーンが中心となる。会話シーンが少なく、描写や行動を通じて感情が伝わるため、読者は登場人物の内面を想像で埋める余地がある。

One famous double-page spread in Chapter 28 shows Alice standing on a mountain of dead playing-card soldiers. She is covered in blood, but her shadow on the ground is the silhouette of a small, crying girl. Kamiya uses shadow not as absence of light, but as the truth of the character.