Better version here:

http://shii.oppresstheweak.com/hr/kareha.pl/1161729041/20

I'm going to make a wild guess and say this topic has nothing to do with a certain thread on the OHBB's Art's & Crafts forum. Nothing at all.

This thread has spanned BOTH of the Haibane fan artists!

Just the normal paranoia that everyone has in this universe these days.

Hrumph. Appeal denied, too.

Is anything in there actually properly licensed any more? I know DMP did the Lain artbook, but I have said artbook - it's different from the original Omnipresence in Wired in a lot of ways. Other than that, Robot is back to licensing limbo, Tokyopop has shown no sign of touching NieA_7 in a good five or six years, and of course Fanboy Entertainment, with licenses on the "Essence" artbook and the never-released White Rain, are totally defunct.

Honest question - if a show is licensed, is all related material licensed with the show?

tell me what your ip is and i'll fix it

or i just do it myself

I've had my computer running 24 hours a day since Monday morning just to get this, and damned if it wasn't worth the wait.

>>23

Glad you think so.

(oh, and don't worry about the /t/ ban thingum, I don't have any time to waste there or much of anywhere else for the next two weeks.)

too late I already did it

and I think rk finished translating whatever it was

Hwah? Did he? rk, if you did, and you're about to read this, fire off the script to my cleverly disguised email address!

http://wakaba.c3.cx/notes/notes.pl

might not be complete

I'm terribly sorry for the massive necro, but can anyone reupload and seed the megatorrent? I recently had a hard drive crash, and like a fool, I didn't have my image folder backed up.

I will give details on it once it arrives in the mail. (Ughh EMS)

The blurb on the Amazon listing says something about an English translation and "worldwide release". Has anyone heard more about this?

>>10

Someone doesn't have a complete Unicode font!

Having received this in the mail, I can say without second thought that this is the best art book I own.

>>13

I'd consider it a "PG-13" book at worst, although that might mean "R" if you're a bit prudish. A few drawings come close to full frontal nudity, but that's as bad as it gets.

>>18

QFT.

>>19
Yeah, that answers my question. Ah well, I can just wait for a)scans or b) an English release.

ABe was at AnimeFest this past weekend, and said it should be out in English pretty soon. There's not a lot of text, so the translation should go quickly.

Just got this at Kinokuniya (the Japanese version, not the english translation). There isn't much writing at all, mainly the timeline and index in the back but there's a few lines here and there. Probably around a dozen pages of text.
Total including tax was $67, but the list price is 4800yen or ~$42, so $20 extra, not too bad.
The book itself is slightly larger (maybe 5mm in each direction) than my copy of the DMP release of the Lain artbook (which barely fits on my shelf as it is), so with the box on it doesn't fit on my shelf :( Oh well.

The store also had the Japanese release of Robot #5-8. I just wish I could read them.
Pic not related.

Some thoughts:

Yay, return of pointy ears !

Finally, aBe is doing something. We've waited too long, and Texhnolyze was too depressing.

A question for those who have read the story:

Is it worth animating ? Haruhi Suzumiya has practically filled up the void left by aBe after Haibane Renmei (I consider that his best work), and I really long for another anime involving him.

HLJ has this for $57 USD after SAL shipping.

I bought it so fast.

Small and blurry text is small and blurry.

it's pretty small in the english version too.
from left to right:
{top line}
Loser Lain (I'm not) (a loser)
Modding Lain
Tangled Up Lain (Waaah)
GLain (Ahoo?) {too small, can't read}
{bottom line}
GOLAIN (thump) (Oh I get it)
??? (next??) (om bee you?) {too small, can't read}

Brilliant thankyou - didn't realise there was an English version available!
Still very mysterious...

This similar one is huge and mysterious...

>>5
(3 here)

starting from the top left at 1 (12 frames total)
1-4 (?? not in the book, or not on this page)
5: "the weather" "is broken?"
6: "weather-" "break"
7: ??
8: "rain and" "ignorance"
9: ??
10: "the Iwakuras" "up there on the second floor, who knows what goes on?" "I wonder about my daughters, yes. But I'm more worried about the navi"
11: "High Seas (again)"
12: title: "Let's! WEATHER BREAK! Break!!" text: "Please be aware that the following info may possibly be tomorrow's, or perhaps yesterday's, weather." text under sign: "just kidding"

pic unrelated

>>4
oh yeah here's the book on amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Yoshitoshi-Abe-Lain-Illustrations/dp/1569708991

It was a great Reki cosplay. I saw her at Anime North 2007.

Her wings are too big.

well, your spoon is too big

And I like it that way, bitch.

>>3
Remember Rakka's "wings-out" scene?

Yeah.

>>6
Well, it's also the fact that her wings turn downward, unlike your standard Haibane art work, where the wings stick straight out. That contributes to their oversized nature.

>>7
True. However, I always thought it was odd that the Haibane walk around with their wings like that...no creature with wings holds its wings out like that. It'd be like holding your arms out all the time.

Remember that they have almost no control over their wings beyond basic twitching, though.

I think you've got all the art books that I know about. Unless you can manage to get your hands on a copy of ABe's contributions to the Gallery of Fantastic Art, Portfolios A and B, in which case you must GIEF.

Oh, but yeah, as for other sources...the next best thing, I think, are his doujinshi.

That's the only Marimite page. The others are a NieA_7 crossover

Crud. I was hoping there were more Marimite pages, and I just didn't have them. :P

>>2
And a Lain crossover