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.

>>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 ?

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.

>>5 I think it works. :-)

It certainly does.

I was going to do that too, but I opted to get two tails on the sides and then chop one off when they got long enough to just have one. Then the old chinese lady who cut my hair put the tails BEHIND my ears for some reason, so uh....looks like I have to wait another year to grow out the right part of my hair. ;_;

i would post pics but i had it cut off a week ago if i can find an older pic ill post it later

>>9 here sorry i ment to say i was >>2

>>2

cracky?

>>11

Do want.

>>5
This should go on ED

endpapers (with majorly visible page curl, oops)

>>26

/r/ translation. Script will be fine, I can photoshop it myself.

>>7 here,

>>27 Heh, now you have an impromptu scanlation going :)

>>8 Thanks for posting the rest. Are there any places online to buy/download Lain manga in general, though? It seems quite rare.

>>17 Yes, Jon Postel (especially like in the comic) would be scarier than Vannevar Bush. Those comics were... something, but I'm not sure what. Cheesy? Scary? Smart concepts but dumb presentation? I agree with their principles, but that is just propaganda-ish. Ironically, only someone already converted would have the patience to read the whole thing.

I would love to see a translation for this.

bump for script ;__;

WTF is this? Sauce please.

It's a self-styled "guidebook" to the doujin music scene in Japan. The cover art was clearly made by ABe, although I wonder if he made anything for the interior (or the reverse side)...

>>3
Does anyone have the whole thing? I want to know more about the doujin music scene.

>>4
Well, if you want, you can always buy it here

http://www.paletweb.com/selectpage.asp?code=80000036

Paletweb are a good business, I've gotten lots of touhou stuff from them.

You risk going there?

>>2
hey, it moves faster than this place..

Admittedly, this is the first anime I've fallen in love with O.O

>>4

Mine was Haibane Renmei. So far It's still the best.

>>5

Agreed.

Love all the Work from ABe, but HR is the best

>>3
Man, I would KILL for some flapjacks right about now.

There is an English translation project, but it's rather slow going.
http://psx.lain.pl/doku.php
Still your best bet, I think.

I have the Jp version sitting in rom form....
Its a little confusing to play, its more like sifting through Lain's memories, sound recordings and videos in order to understand her better...
I got around pretty far, but didn't understand a single thing XD

Good to see a translation of it though...
If you want I can upload it somewhere and give you a link to it...

>>3
Yeah,that would be good ^^; even if im trying to help the project (by translating as much i can) they wont give anyone a copy of the game (meaning you'll have to get it yourself) >_< quite a problem for me

Do you have a preference for a file host?
I'm going to have to split up the .rar file considering its very large >_<

>>5
btw there's a torrent of this available
http://www.mininova.org/tor/203463
i havn't tried this one (i downloaded a different one a while ago)

I found somebody who uploaded it on megaupload...
http://www.snesorama.us/board/showthread.php?t=11128