It can regrow itself

And that's all.

I've found it; forgive me. Have another Lain.

try lain.ru

>>1 http://www.nyaatorrents.org/?page=torrentinfo&tid=96098

download it at lain.ru!!!1111elf

bakabt usually is a good place for anime soundtrack torrents

You might also be interested in this --> http://3x6x.com/discography.html
There are some samples there. Got it from doujincore today (thanks doujincore) and I just love it.

http://www.mediafire.com/?lw51fjzdgew

testing

#2 is doodles2009winter, a 32pg A4 sketchbook, b+w

Anyone get scans?

I'm begging for scans ;___;

You know, if he wasn't into anime, ABe'd probably make a killing in the fashion industry...

>>5
Range Murata, another great char. designer used to be a fashion designer, IIRC.

>>6
How can he be a character designer if he only makes the same two characters all the time?

>>7
That's not a very nice or true thing to say.

>>1
Book titles please? Also, which doujin shops are they available?

Tripper+ is good for making words in tripcodes.
It's also quite a bit faster than finding them by accident.

Actually got it from a JS trip app.

http://pastebin.com/f3b73d29b

Nice ^^

Nice. Does the original artwork exist?

That image was in an ABe (miscellaneous) artbook, so yeah, it definitely does.

I'd guess this has been discussed before, but - yeah, the scene where Rakka finds the halo isn't in the series proper. The series was written free-form, not full planned in advance. Assuming the trailer was made before all the episodes were done (which seems safe, everything else is from the first episode or two), it's possible that they animated this and then decided against that plot development in the show.

Alternatively, one could possibly interpret that scene as a post-script for the show, though it doesn't quite seem to have the right mood in light of the ending.

The cool thing about these extra scenes, however, is that there's no inbetweening in the frames. Meaning that at the very least, they were all done by the art director; who at the time was Akira Takata. They're also very high quality, I mean literally blu-ray quality. Unfortunately they're actually a higher-quality than the show itself was, so don't get your hopes up for a blu-ray release anytime soon.

You can actually see some resemblance between his work in this trailer and the one he did for Karas the Prophecy as well, especially near the beginning;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5V2qwYOiNo

why are they so chibi?

Wow! I can recognized some of those characters from different anime series in the first image, are they all in common with writers, artists, character design, producers, directors, etc? I'm a fan of Abe's works so Lain, Haibane Renmei, Texhnolyze are in there. Plus some I recognize: Now and Then, Here and There, Saikano, Jigoku Shojo, NHK ni Youkoso!, Key the Metal Idol, and is that Bokurano on the far right?

Non-color image are all Abe-designed characters from the series he worked on. Thanks for the images!

In the first pic: also Higurashi, Elfen Lied, at least one Key show (Shuffle? never watched it), Narutaru, Welcome to the NHK, Saikano...

For most of these characters, the only connection I can see is that they done got Problems with a capital P. Except for Shuu, whose only real psychological issue is a terminal case of optimism.

It occurs that ABe did cover artwork for the NHK books, at least. He's also done artwork for a Key game-music album cover, I think.

Key (the character) is definitely a predecessor to Lain in a lot of ways, and you could maybe kinda see Chise as a successor. Bokurano and Narutaru, not sure... Kitoh's lineart feels a little similar to ABe's at times, although they've clearly got distinct styles.

images from animage has been posted here
http://hr.deadgods.net/hr/kareha.pl/1244323420/

I got mine on eBay; it's possible you could get it cheaper from a dealer if they didn't know what they had...

From eBay too - had to fight for it pretty hard :o

If you're in the USA, you can order it from Kinokuniya's (unless they've stopped publishing new ones, in which case you'll have to find a used copy somewhere). The retail price is around $50, I believe, but if it's out of print, it'll be more.

Kinokuniya and Amazon are the best suggestions I can make.

Don't forget Yahoo Auctions Japan.

Most sellers won't ship outside of Japan, but you can get a deputy service to act as a go-between for you.

The advantage of this method is that you can find items that are rarely seen on English language sites, and the prices tend to be lower as well. Even after paying for international shipping and the deputy fee, chances are you'll still save money compared to Ebay or US dealers.

Might just put in a bid on this. I always did want that artbook.

>>2 I'd appreciate that^^ I threw in a free promotional DVD of the first vol of Texhnolyze too. It ends in about a day.

Gonna need a functioning eBay account first! I hope the damned thing wasn't tied to my college email address.

...it was. No big loss. Registered a new account and placed my bid.

DAMNIT I MISSED THIS ARGH

Bagel, congrats on your new ...niwa de! Very, very beautiful, I've already fought for mine :)

It arrived! Thanks, fynoda - it's in great condition, and I'll take good care of it.