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.

At least one of the PAL editions came with some really nice stuff - over on Naimoka, someone posted pics of some postcards included with their set (including at least one piece of exclusive artwork). I'm not sure if that extends to the German version, but I'll check their forums to see which version was on display.

...no go, it seems to have been wiped from their forums. or my search-fu is off today.

>>2
It's the french edition.

Sorry, I can't help you for the german one. If you get nothing here, ask the publisher directly!

>>5
Thanks. I bought the collectors edition and it's exactly the same as the one in the image you posted.

>>6
Not sure if that's the same as the postcards that came with the individual DVDs in the US, but that box is a lot nicer. I just have a box that holds all four individuals; nothing fold-out like that.
The postcards are gorgeous though.

Wikipedia has him credited for doing "sketches and wallpaint" in that episode. The paintings are very important in that episode, by the way, if you haven't seen that series.

Here is the scan http://kei.iichan.net/ph/res/4031.html

How come the max file size here is set to just 1000 KB?

I thought it was changed to something bigger, but apparently not.

Up to translating anything? I got someone to look at Pochiyama 2 and it frightened him.

>>3
thank you :)

Day saved.

http://www.cronos.ne.jp/~tazim/top/b/kitune/kitunemen-top.HTML

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/104-3831547-5963926?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=robot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_%28manga%29

she does have a Sadistic charm about her :)

well in the PSX version she does

>>3

Got any pics to back that up?

>>4

i would post a pic but it might spoil the PSX game for ppl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_75cz29noE

a AMV of lain from PSX i found a while ago . you will need a youtube account since it contains blood :)

enjoy

There's a certain softness to his style.

I can't quite put it right, but the way he draws his characters is less sharp than most other character designs.

It's because of not using a straightedge, or something.

The beautiful way he draws his lines and colors what's inbetween. See here: http://shii.oppresstheweak.com/hr/src/1161733927498.jpg

>>5
Add to that: the sketchiness of his artwork.

OP:

also like how he puts a lot of detail in the BG aswell.
also his choice of his character clothing is very nice :D

It's from the new Lain artbook - "yoshitoshi ABe lain illustrations" - published by DMP Manga in the US. There's a few other new images in it, too; overall quality is similar to their Robot releases, which I've been pretty happy with.

(Man, I'd kill for them to release the Haibane artbook in the US)

Step 1: convention
Step 2: Sasuga Books

http://www.animenation.com/4048536540.html

This is not a Lain book, but a Haibane Renmei one - but thank you for the link, I have brosed through the whole ebay for exactly this one, without success.

>>5
HLJ has it as well, though it seems to be out of stock at the moment.

http://www.hlj.com/product/KDK53654