I'd like to think that there's more to Lain than what we've seen, seeing as how ABe did mangas and/or doujins for both NieA_7 and Haibane Renmei.

(These having not been localized yet is a crime against humanity.)

>>4
/sign

There's a game though.
I heard some rumours on mebious.co.uk about it getting translated. Any info on this?

>>6

That was literally years ago. Just watch the clips online.

It's more of a visual novel than anything, and NOT canon.

SPOILERS

It ends with Lain shooting herself, and included a random shower scene for no reason at all.

I've seen the clips. I'm more interested in actually playing the "game." I got the game from some torrent a while ago. Most of the text is in english, but I'd like transcripts for all the audio recordings as well.

From what I understand, you're really not missing much. It's basically a psych profile game.

Still, if you can share the torrent, I wouldn't mind trying it. Maybe I'll figure some of it out beyond what I've heard.

There is this project and they allways look for some help.

>>10
That's what we referred to.

"Current translation progress is: 15.39% (52 minutes and 23 seconds out of 340 minutes and 22 seconds). "

Yeah, good luck with that.

>>7

> Lain--

> "random shower scene for no reason at all"--

---That's plenty enough reason for me : P

>wish you had said something yesterday.

>10/07/10(Sat)01:06 No.1
>10/07/10(Sat)11:35 No.2

It was the same day actually.

You know, there is not much to talk about related to the topic of this board. News about ABe work are appearing pretty sparsely, all his completed works, regardless of how awesome they are, have already been discussed a numerous times all throughout the internets.

Still, personally I visit this board every day anyway, just to make sure nothing notable happened. You know, if you just feeling lonely I can keep you company.

Here, take this Reki.

uwaaaaaa~

..

ehhh? a new thread?

Have a cookie.

>>4

Where are these slowpoke/Lain Pics coming from!? >_<

Also who is the other chick in >>11 ?

>>12

>Where are the Slowpoke/Lain pics coming from

iichan.ru, and I can't trace any further back.

>Who is the other chick

She was famous on /x/ and /b/ when I started coming to four-chan. I don't know exactly who she is, but I could look her up.

>>13

> I don't know exactly who she is, but I could look her up.

This is Leslie from "Bridge to Terabithia".

Why do you want to kill?

>>11
The title is a bit misleading maybe. It's not so much about killing, it's about getting killed ... and living with it, every day.

Now we'll just have to see how much the Hollywood adaptation will suck...

Wait.....'Japanese version'?
You mean this was translated and brought over here? When did this happen?!
It upsets me that it doesn't have his illustrations in it but if he thought it was good enough to have them in there it must be a good book, I might have to pick it up soon.

Just finished reading it.
I'm agreeing with what it says on the cover, it reads fast and is action packed, I highly reccomend it for the SciFi enthusiast. Too bad there's no illustrations by ABe in it though...

Aye karamba! They are working on it for the whole year now, maybe even more, not knowing if they are working on anime? If I'm not mistaken it was said that they are making anime in parallel to serializing novel.

I read it more as, when we have the money it'll go to animation.

He mentions at a different part financial issues with mistakes others make, such as paying out 1m yen for prints, and the prints didn't make it to him in time for comiket...

If you can wait a whole year, I'm sure you can wait a little longer.

(One good anime a year is enough for me for now, since most of it is junk now)

If it remains a story, we should get some kind of trabslation project up.

hugs everyone

Damn, beat me to it. News of the year. And I was just about to lay out $80 on the HR boxset. Actually, I might go ahead and get the original and the Blu-Rays just to be an otaku like that

>>6
So learn it and buy one :)

WHY CANT THEY DO A BLU RAY OF HAIBANE RENMEIIII

Now with production blog:
http://blog.geneon-ent.co.jp/graphid/

>>8

HR's master quality is terrible and I don't think they can fix it. I can barely fix some parts in avisynth.

(…i did reencode all of it mostly fixed, but wanted to write new subtitles first and never did that. oops)

>>9

SEL's quality isn't better, it's more concerning the popularity. SEL is more renowned than HR.

>>11

> SEL's quality isn't better.

…yes it is. But it's not old/new enough, anyway.

>>9
good fine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p68-gQk1rjY

0:54 "Oh jesus someone get me the f* out of here..."

Wow, that is NICE looking. Day 1 if it gets localized(again).

You're in the same BD region. And it might have English subtitles…

Of course, it's probably just an upscale.

We'll get it in Russia! ^_^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db6O92FZUKI

>>4

>23000 ¥

damn region codes....

An hero.

do you want more of these?

>>2
yes please

your wish is my command:
http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p191/roham_2006/aaaaaaaaaa9.jpg?t=1276591092

I'm not sure if this is totally uncreased, but the broom handle looks good at least. I got this from the Guri no machi book scans at CodeArtStudio.