i love the new perspective, it has a stronger effect. although, there seems to be too high a concentration of wires in the distance. I tend to like the effect of having more negative space between them.
and i agree on the figure. it's still too cartoonish, frankly it looks a bit adolescent.
http://manga.clone-army.org/this guy does some interesting work drawing anime girls, and some of his picture have a sort of similar feel. I personally like how he treats the forms of the girls, so that they're merely suggested in some pictures.
(i'd pick out examples, but i can't actually access the site through this school's filter)