This was the picture that got me to hunt down Haibane-Renmei back in the day, except that it was shoehorned into a really terrible wallpaper plastered with "LAKKA" all over the place.

Too bad she never actually wears that skirt in the anime. It would've looked pretty cute.

Just got me a copy of volume four of the robot anthology, and ABe made a comment about Lain Box art, so they might be planning something, though the book isn't exactly a recent release (vol 10 in .jp) so, he could have been reminiscing or a re release in japan... Be a good time for me to finally get the DVDs if they do do aniversary release though...

>>12
Same as offensive /b/tard-style poster here... I like the atmosphere of Wakachan; while I do think the overall human quality is lower here than it is in 4chon, this is a pleasant place with helpful people, and the pictures are generally higher quality than 4chon. So, I bet this sort of asinine trollwob isn't tolerated here?

Now, after the introduction... are we ever going to have a spiritual sequel to Lain? Texh didn't make the cut; it was too pretentious and self-indulgent. Sure, you could give it lenient treatment over the first 4 episodes, but the slow pace and coquettish exposition lead up to nothing; a city we didn't care about was destroyed, and we were supposed to take on a tragic feeling.

>>12 You are also wrong and please pay attention in philosophy 101 next time 'round.

>>13 "a city we didn't care about was destroyed, and we were supposed to take on a tragic feeling."

Probably because the motivations or all the protagonists, including the city's, were either of the lowest kind or else impossible to fathom. And then their will to life got totally redshifted. A Lynchesque visit to a Petri dish.

>>14

It IS Hegel. Read Philosophy of History. And don't accuse me of failing a course I never took.

Further, the motivations of most of the Texhnolyze characters are crystal clear. Ask me who you don't understand, I could give you a plausible interpretation. Kano was a megalomaniac, and a sort of counterpart to Ran in post-humanity. (That was why he kept on calling Ran his sister. And as a point of humor, he kept on harassing Ran for cybersex over the psychic internet.) Ran didn't do jack because she had perfect precognition, her predictions were always right. Yoshii was an anarchist, who hoped Lukuss would break the decadence of the surface world and create a new and vital universe. Who's mysterious in their motivations?

What failed it was that the characters were all flat, and that there wasn't enough running time. There were, what, 20 or more major characters in 22 episodes, in a series that depends on having compelling and complex characters? How does that work?

If Wikipedia is right, there is wrongosity here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesis%2C_antithesis%2C_synthesis

>>16

zoomj wikipedia self-contradicts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_history

>> 17

Well, Film at Eleven. Wikipedia is the end result of Chinese Whispers.

So we have to go to the source:

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/8phnm10.txt

Unfortunately the olde Hegel is extremely obscure. Quite difficult to make sense of anything he writes. But after having looked over the text for half an hour, Hegel does not seem to say anything about "the motor of history". At all. Which is normal - this is about the Phenomenology of the Mind, not of History.

The origin of "dialectics" in Hegel is still an Unproven Assumption!

>>1 Well I'm cosplaying Masami Eiri (including a plushie Lain for fondl- cough cinematic enactment) at Supanova this year in celebration.

I really hope there is something released.

Just for the record, Lain > Everything

Punchy

start by posting your cellphone's screen resolution. Then, maybe will be able to help you.

http://www.nyaatorrents.org/?page=torrentinfo&tid=5311
my own scans

i got a couple more..
1/2

2/2 was too big (1.6M).
here: http://kei.iichan.net/ph/res/4632.html

this one? creamish somewhat washed out version

i have this it may helps........

Indeed. Got the NieA_7 boxset for Christmas. Guess I'll have to watch that at some point over break.

I already have everything! But I rewatched HR anyway.

PS: http://yasunon01.sakura.ne.jp/gall/gall.htm

Is there anymore haibane-related Christmas fan art out there?

not strictly Christmas related, but eh.

not strictly Christmas related, but eh.

just found on 4chan

There's this one that, uh, I made

Lots of Murata influence in this one. Given the name, I take it that it's an artbook/sketch collection?

B5, (unknown), color (maybe "inked"?) 22 pages, monochrome 50 pages
ComicMarket73
2007.12.31 Circle Name "Mutekei Fire/Romance"
(unknown) 10a,b

yaaaaaaaay

Please correct/improve this translation of OP.
Thanks!

Damn I want this so bad. Is there anyway to buy stuff online from comiket? I wish I could be there in person but not such luck

There's the Comiket Service website, eBay, and Yahoo Japan auctions. Also a variety of enthusiast sites, like Mandarake (although a bunch of these charge stupidly high prices).

拍子カラー might be the name of a printer?

間に合ったー！！
　冬コミ2冊目の新刊『宇宙人ですが質問です02』です。

表紙カラー、本文モノクロ、トータル24ページです。

>>4

Will do as soon as somebody gives me a script.

Also: anybody up for translating "I'm an Alien, and I have a question"? I mean, I removed the text from the raws and everything. It's just waiting to go! And I have three weeks free here!

...this reminds me, I should get on the whole ABe megatorrent thing, no?

rk is translating uchuujin desuga, or will be

Sweet. I just did text removal on Pochiyama 2, too. rk, if you're reading this, and if you do translate uchuujin desuga, I'd be happy to put it all together and release via torrent and such.

I'l let you guys know that i'll be the first to download once you guys translate it.

: D

Comiket goodness

"Pen Drawings" -- never heard of that one...does it have good stuff in it? Could you take some pics of the inside?

Also, I still think "Tsukihime" when I see that font...

someone kind enough to upload the font? also if anyone know where to download another unique japanesse font, please tell me

>>11
Sorry, the pic was snarfed from a YJ auction listing. I've won a copy on YJ, but it'll be a while until it arrives.

>>13
We can wait.

[C72] Mutekei Romance (ABe Yoshitoshi) - Pen Drawings
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=USTO0XZX
[C72] Mutekei Romance (ABe Yoshitoshi) - Pochiyama at the Pharmacy the Third
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DX8D2KFJ

If you can't make it to Comiket, your best bet is whatever the Japanese equivalent of eBay is. Other than that, you might get lucky and find a dealer at a convention with ABe doujins, but that's a long shot at best.