lain is the best :)

http://s-clb4.smilevideo.jp/smile?v=515967.91446 OH MY GOD

>>3
Bricks were nearly shat. That's CGI ain't too shabby...

>>3
Got any more info on that sweet movie?

>>3
It wont play for me.

>>5

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm515967

You need an account, though.

>>3
So, any idea how this was made?

>>8
I think it uses footage from that "Idolmaster" game

>>8
It's made using Idolmaster. Someone made an idol to look like that and then recorded the shows.

>>12
But you're not telling me it isn't allowed! And you'd be a meanie if you did. :'(

Well, there's already one of those boards on iichan. (note that I arbitrarily declare Rakka to be against 4chan global rules 3 and 8)

Also it goes against the whole message more than normal really.

>>14
While I understand where you're coming from, I think it's worth saying that simply because there's a different imageboard dedicated to all manner of girl-girl images doesn't make it wrong to post ABe-related shoujo-ai in this one. There's no reason a shoujo-ai image can't also be an image related to ABe's work. Were I to post an image of Nemu sleeping blissfully, would you tell me to take it to the "Sleepy" imageboard instead? All sorts of fanart gets posted here already without complaint, so why say that we shouldn't post shoujo-ai fanart in particular? Arguing your personal taste is one thing, but you're suggesting that Haibane Renmei shoujo-ai shouldn't be posted here on principle. As far as I can tell, though, the only rule regarding the content of images posted on this imageboard is that they must be safe for work and related in some way to ABe. Under that interpretation, I see no reason why non-explicit ABe-related shoujo-ai would be disallowed.

Your other argument, that images of Reki and Rakka being affectionate with each other shouldn't be posted on this imageboard because they go against the whole message of Haibane Renmei, is no more valid than arguing that images of Asuka and Rei being affectionate with each other shouldn't be posted on an Evangelion imageboard because it goes against the whole message of Evangelion. In fact, neither argument is valid because in both cases, whether or not an image contradicts canon material is of no importance in determining whether or not it's suitable for that particular imageboard -- unless, of course, one of the rules states that images must represent canon material. However, no such rule exists here, and again I see no reason why non-explicit ABe-related shoujo-ai would be disallowed.

Well, some of these aren't quite work-safe, also the part where they have sex with each other is against the innocence/non-human part, you know.

The ones that aren't that are okay, I guess, but they're still really weird since they're certainly not canon or something ABe would do. I think he's only sexually attracted to new computers.

>>16
In any case, the amount of ABe-related shoujo-ai seems to be in short supply, so I don't think you need to worry.

>>1

This is beautiful. Really beautiful. Thanks.

>>16 also the part where they have sex with each other is against the innocence/non-human part, you know.

o_ò I'm not ashamed to say that i'm interested in that. After all, i never saw anything explicit about Haibane Renmei, and now the curiosity is killing me.

Definitely noticed some similarities in the character design there, yeah.

And here comes Lain

It is necessary that I post this.

Artists in this thread are Yasunoん (http://yasunon01.sakura.ne.jp/) and R Kampfgruppe (http://www3.famille.ne.jp/~hirobe/Frame01.html).

Check out http://yasunon01.sakura.ne.jp/guri/guristan01.htm

I've got a bunch of NieA_7 stuff. Watch for the megatorrent in a few weeks.

I lol'd. The artwork is ABe's, without a doubt, but I don't know the source. Anyone else?

Comiket 65
Journal Tokimeki-Shitsumon Bako - 5nd Edition

I don't know how it titled.

This manga have second page, do you have it in english too?

arigato, for more info about AB's dojinsi look this: http://cas.animesource.ru/Collections/AB/AB_manga_ENG.htm

>>6
"Unko-chan"?

Unko menas poop...

ABe's collaborated with another guy called "Kuso-san" (which means "shit," from what little I know of Japanese) on a few doujins, IIRC. They have what I can only assume to be a running gag revolving around shit.

Unko-chan is a recurring ABe character in his work for the Mutekei Fire doujinshi.

Why does Unko remind me of Kaoru Mori?

Well heaven and hell do exist in Japanese religious beliefs, though they arent the exactly the same as western heaven and hell - the Japanese just dont have angels in their religious myths like westerners do (I believe). :)

As for angels having wings... in the bible Im not sure they actually say that angels have wings, the only one who are written as having them are the seraphim - so I guess they just expanded on the idea and said angels do too. ^_^

heh, this is the last pic (i think) in my Haibane Renmei artbook... XD

btw, his first name is Yoshitoshi, a male name. ABe is his last/family name. An honest mistake though, since by Japanese addressing, his name would be "ABe Yoshitoshi". (first name last, last name first, for those who didn't know.)

And some of us prefer to call him by what in Japanese, as you pointed out, is considered to be his *first* name (i.e., some of us prefer to call him ABe and not Yoshitoshi because of the fact that, for all intents and purposes, ABe *is* his first name in Japanese culture).

Also according to Japanese culture, if you were to call him by his first name (ie Yoshitoshi), youd be considered impolite... In fact, I believe that its more proper to call artists and authors and the like sensei. :)

It's only a pen name anyway.

(His real name is Yoshiwara Abe)

Erm never thougth about his pen name and what would be his first or last. In general I refer to him as "ABe" because thats the handle he used early on on bbs and on his site. Before all this lain business and what not he was part of a EARLY CG group. Quite accessable to. Sadly shortly after the PSX release of lain the site stopped getting regular updates and much of the work was removed due to request from poineer. -_-;' If memeory serves His name was listed as Yoshitoshi ABe so go figure if that JP style or ENG style. lol Either way I loved his style then and still do.

early CG? like this?

There's been a set of his older artwork floating around on WinNY forever... I don't think it's remotely comprehensive, but here's a sample, anyhow.

I *really* like that picture.

Abe, the one time I caught him at a con said that it was largely a personal story for him and that it wasn't intended to evoke any particular religion at all. it was about something that happened in his own life that he couched in some metaphors.

Nice. I've only ever seen the DJ and the school one. I didn't know any others existed.

>>2

there are 5 total:
school uniform
street clothes
with guitar
dj
bear pajamas

ABe only did five pages for it. (I believe the images are around on one of the older pages) The rest of the doujin is very adult.. dealing with the usual cruddy underage lolicon content.. abe's stuff is really out of place in it in my opinion.

I don't suppose anyone has scans of his contribution?

I'd post it here, but the board is whining that it's already up somewhere. Will be back with link-age momentarily...

And here it is:
http://shii.oppresstheweak.com/hr/res/29.html
We either need to do spring cleaning or get some kind of search function, badly.

yeah, I bought this sight and immediately regretted so upon opening it up. couldn't even sell the damn thing on ebay, so I tossed it.

Well. Lots of stuff. He does full-blown manga, occasionally (see: NieA_7 manga, his contributions to Robot), as well as lots of independent doujinshi work (like White Rain or the Pochiyama stories). He's done character designs for several anime shows (including Serial Experiments Lain and Texhnolyze), and he's also done writing and directing for others (including Haibane-Renmei and NieA_7).

Also he just does art and design - lots of the doujins he releases are artbook/sketchbook type deals. His art is influenced by his experience with traditional Japanese painting, and he's got a fairly distinctive style, in part because he doesn't use a straight-edge in any of his drawings.

Aaand that's pretty much ABe in a nutshell. Cool art style, has worked on lots of pretty awesome and reasonably intellectual series. Unfortunately his (drawn, not animated) work isn't easy to get outside of Japan, but that's slowly changing, with nice people like DMP mirroring Wani's artbook/anthology releases in the US.

He is also the president of Japan. True story.

http://www.s-abe.or.jp/abe_top.jpg

Whatever happened to this? I remember it being slated for US publication at one point, and then it vanished.

Tokyopop had the license, and... well, they're sitting on it, it seems. I'm pretty sure that I even saw it listed under their "coming soon" titles in a copy of Planetes or GTO at some point (though unfortunately I don't have either on hand to check with).

If you don't mind it being in Japanese, it's in the uber-torrent.

>>3

I think you mean Prime Minister. Japan doesn't have a president in their government.

>>7
no, I think they know. it's a joke. I'd say "lurk moar" but it would sound lame on this board.

>>1
ABE-CHAN! STOP BROWSING THE INTERNET AND GET BACK TO WORK!

>>6

Actually, because of some problems on the Japanese (publishers going under or something like that,) NieA's in licensing hell. TPOP would like to publish it (they were actually in the middle of doing typesetting on the first volume when they found out their was a licensing problem,) but they can't. Noone can it seems for the moment.