Hiya. Had some time to kill and the board's been totally dead lately so I thought I'd make some biggies out of scans from Omnipresence in the Wired and throw 'em up here. Enjoy.

Skipping no. 3 because the file came out too big.

Last one. What I'd really like is an art book full of full color, full page ABe art in all its uh, fullness. Or full sized prints for individual pieces. Either way would be crazy costly I'd imagine, but do such things exist?

>>13
Not in the US, but yeah, both exist; GoFA did two sets of ABe prints, and Wani has published at least one general ABe artbook. And you're right, both of them go for a pretty penny, from what I've seen.

Why weren't those sketches in the (US) Omnipresence book? Were they published in a new version, or were they Japanese-exclusive or something?

I also liked the original cover way more than the US one, but that's another story.

>>17

They're there - check right around the middle of the book, under the section labeled "Diary on Game." They're a little small, but they were CGs for a PlayStation game.

Unless you have the original American release and they're not there? In which case, I have no clue.

disinformatics.com/lain.html

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The image is from the "Form Code" artbook.

is dat sum Nemu thread?

nosebleed

I love Rakka, but a Nemu is fine too.

>>4

Rakka is perfect, only to young.
I wish she was older

Nemu is a classy lady.

>>5
There's no such thing as "too young", my boy!

Giggity.

love rakka really

it´s false, i know. but she is the most perfect girl in the world

>>8
She's not perfect, i heard she dyes her wings!

>>9
it´s ok... i make it the same with my hairs

i love her warm-hearted character and beautiful appearance, so it´s perfect for me. found no other womens with the same attributes

I like Kana more than Rakka. Although when i saw her first i thought she was a boy. I'm just into reverse traps and i am perfectly normal. I am normal. Am i normal?

No, there's no English edition of Gaisokyu yet.

I'd love to continue working on this, but the translation notes kind of got farked over when the old board went down; I can't tell which pages they were referring to. Would be happy to get the pages back up on the thingy and get down to business, if anybody's up for polishing off the translation, though!

I'm curious, why is ABe permanently stuck on the adolescent wavelength?

Lain was 13 or 14, Niea is around 19, Haibane is up to 20, Texh just sucked major ass. Maybe ABe doesn't have the life experience to understand the experience of older persons? And why always introverted teenage girls?

>>13

>>And why always introverted teenage girls?

Why not?

>> Maybe ABe doesn't have the life experience to understand the experience of older persons?

By this logic, somebody like Miyazaki makes films with young female leads because he doesn't have enough "life experience". Yeah, right.

There aren't any creators in Japan who do things other than introverted teenage girls. At least he isn't Key.

>>15 here

12 here.

Miyazaki's girls don't seem like young girls; the way they're young girls is in a sort of symbolic way. The psychological insight is general, not specific, whereas ABe's girls seem to draw on ABe's own experience.

If you've seen Wasteland inside the Robot anthology, however, ABe seems to be branching out. Ran is a particularly interesting Texhnolyze character, but for the first time, men, like Ichise, Yoshii, and Kano, seem to have meaning beyond their relationship to the main female lead. On the other hand, Texhnolyze sucked for characterizations, and Wasteland was somewhat disappointing.

Bumping because I'm wondering what the hell happened to this.

The translation Thingy linked up there links in all of its pictures. The pictures got moved or removed, so suddenly I'm left with a bunch of translations all out of order. I also don't think all the pages ever got finished.

Still got the cleaned files and a bit more than you see here edited in... but that's at home, which is about four weeks away for me right now.

It's a BLAST FROM THE PAST!

Well, six months.

Um... sure?

Lain and haibane hentai are just... wrong.

you can search on aerisdies but i don't think there are any.

I think he's just asking whether ABe himself has done hentai.

Which I can answer with an absolute maybe.

No, he´s a Man and makes sexy Art... But officially no more

The Abe Yoshitoshi mega-torrent has some "ecchi" nude drawings, but doesn't a fully blown hentai doujin...

Meh. Both Rakka and Lain are shown completely naked in their respective series. Nudity =/= hentai.

There are some old, old drawings which are debatably 'hentai' in nature, but nothing as grand as a full doujin book.

I spent most of my time watching Haibane masturbating, and most of my time watching Lain sleeping.

for the better understanding:

nudity: naked girls
ecchi: girls with sexy attributes (pantyshot, cameltoe and other)
hentai: girls where have sex

what we see in hr und sel is no more than nudity, but never hentai or ecchi. and abe makes no hentai

>>8

facepalm.jpg

Part of the rumor probably stems from places he's published in...

>>10

Huh. I woulda thought those were a Glie-specific fish.... frog... lizard... thingy...

Omg... nosebleed

But he make to many nemu/kana pics and to few rakka. Want to see more from her :/

>>13

Want to see more Midori/ Kuu pics. But looks like artist is stuck up on Nemu (like some time ago he was stuck up on Hikari)

some more nosebleeding.Strangely many Kana pics are "on edge".

it looks like its a lizard that swallowed a banana...

I wonder why he (she?) posts all his (her?) artwork with the same background...

>>17

It´s his style... he makes the picture relevant to his blogs. Other Picture made he in the past, but it was a long time ago

I wonder more about the german name and link

The creature is an early amphibian called Diplocaulus and lived in the Devonian period.

>>10

I thought those things went extinct.

Millions of years ago.

It's an amphibian, right?

what´s this ? a sea mine ?

??

White Rain?

Range Murata + Last Exile = YAY!

Wraith at the OHBB has info:

http://cff.ssw.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=2374

>>4
Despite never having been to that site before, my IP is apparently permabanned. Here's the relevant text:

>For those who haven't heard, there's a new artbook coming out in Japan from ABe. It's titled Kaira, and should include a lot of doujinshi art as well as the story that's been running in Robot.

Interesting. I know about this artbook but, WTF IS THIS ANIME CAPTURE!? I'M THE ONLY ONE HAVE SEEN IT!? It's about White Rain?

Bye all :D

>>6

It's Last Exile, and it has nothing to do with White Rain.

That said, the artbook may be connected to White Rain... there were hints that the Robot comics were going to tie into White Rain, at least thematically. Haven't got my hands on the more recent ones.

ummm... 10 years. as years go by

but gw lain !

>>2 but gw lain !
"Gain weight, Lain!"?

1O_O!

gone wired, got wired?
game win, game won?
god waiting, good waiting?

good work

i think i win

lol... fail all

it´s simply a german slang who means "glückwunsch" or, in english, congratulations (lain). not more

>>1

i wanted to draw Rakka in nevada style but my skill sucks.

>>2

Yeah. My skill sucks too. Rakka-nevada is awesome.