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>>46838393
>I think the issue boils down to the artistic portrayal of her ability
Yeah that's what I've been thinking. I guess they're trying to make her ability impactful by giving it a clear notice of when it's being used instead of just letting the audience assume she's doing it all the time passively, and since the story is told in all third person we don't really get satori's internal monologue to react over what she read. Take the page >>46838393 posted, a significant portion is just being flashy about her ability and leading the reader on with the assumed importance of what Satori read.
It could also be that either ZUN or the artist doesn't think the audience is clever enough to understand Satori's ability without being explicitly told when it's being used. Like everytime it is used there's a big red flag saying "Satori is doing her thing now!"
A bit unrelated, but there's a bit in chapter 14 where Satori collapses and says that reading human minds too much makes her feel ill.

>>46480074
It's a back and forth on how ZUN actually feels about her. TH19 and PCB shows her as a character that remembers her past and makes conscious decisions but ZUN has this insistence of comparing her to a deterministic AI which got brought up again in the recent CoLA chapter.
>>46480203
Like talking to a wall.