chieko-tan \^o^/

In the two color pictures, is the funky discolored line through the middle part of the artwork, or is it a scanning artifact?

I noticed that, too. The line is in almost every picture; it seems to not show up only on the stark black and white scans. It must be an artifact of the scanner.

It's a scanner artifact. The line at the edge is from the different way I tried to scan without debinding it, but I don't know why there would be one in the middle.

The image you posted here (http://shii.oppresstheweak.com/hr/thumb/1140658289967s.jpg) is also here, actually:

http://shii.oppresstheweak.com/hr/19.html

(Look toward the bottom of the page)

For some reason, (http://shii.oppresstheweak.com/hr/src/1140661458372.png) makes me think of a pre-Haibane Rakka...

Well, I'd hope so, that's what I scanned it for.

Also I just noticed yesterday that this was in one of Novastar's old torrents. But mine are bigger!

the FRONT looks like this.
I want the back!

The artbook's called "Visual Experiments Lain," and it has mostly non-ABe art from the series in it. I think Nova has a copy, so he might be able to scan it for you.

(incidentally, it's often confused with the other, ABe-centric Lain artbook, "An Omnipresence in Wired," which has frequently been distributed labelled as Visual Experiments on the internets. be wary.)

ahhh,
I see. thank you for the info.

I do own this.. I'll try to have it scanned for you over the weekend. (i'm way too busy during the week working full time and going to school full time)

Thank you very very much Novastar!

Here you go. Hope this works for you, the book is slightly larger than my scanner so a bit to the left got cut off.. but I can probably reattach it after scanning it again if you need me to.

Speaking of which I was snooping around ebay some today and noticed this was selling from someone in japan for 130 dollars or so. I strongly recommend no one pay more than 20 dollars for this book, as it's mostly just screenshots and japanese text, I was really expecting more ABe artwork in it and was rather disappointed. Maybe I should put it up on ebay myself...

higher quality image of the front please?

yes!

Thanks! :D

when is there gonna be an artbook containing his texhnolyze artwork? I've only watched the fansubs, but I want to support the series with my money somehow.

I'm still waiting for the box-set... :/

Ran is one of the coolest character designs i've ever seen. she deserved a better anime than this, imo.

>>9

wtf? Texhno was great. I understand why it didn't get mainstream-popular like lain, though. Not enough loli fap material. :[

lol i have boxset

>>10
don't talk about my wife like that

Her name's Karna.

I always thought she was sort of cute. >_>

There were a few good links on the Megatokyo forums of old - I'll see if I can scrounge them up...

Okay, here's one shop that might sell a few ABe doujins: http://www.alohaanime.com/ . That is, if they're not sold out, and if I don't get to them first, and if I can ever get their broken webpage working to see which ones they're selling (it was pretty much the whole Haibane set, plus a few others, as I remember from gazing at it wistfully when I had no means of purchase).

http://www.alohaanime.com/doujinshi_yoshitoshiabe.html

Hard to tell what they have when their images aren't there...

I'm hoping to run across some of ABe's work at SakuraCon this year.

Yeah. Emailed them about that. Got an out-of-the-office-till-next-week message. Anyhow, I don't recall them having any amazingly rare items - just the (original, not script collection) Haibane series and maybe some other things like Not Found.

Is it even worth hoping that ABe stuff might be up for grabs at Otakon?

Okay. Update on what's available from them (different from last time, they're now sure of what's in stock). They have multiple copies of the three story-centric Haibane doujins (no Lifestyle Diary), Not Found, and White Rain. They've also got one copy of their tarame paradise doujin, too, if anyone wants that. Sadly, no Ryuu Tai - that one's out of stock now.

bagels - if you request the hen da ne guys (ttp://www.hendane.com/) they can probably get some for you. Most larger doujin shops have at least a few ABe doujins around, and I think (from talking to them a little bit) these guys know what they're doing.

there's also a tiny chance that I'll be at otakon with ABe doujins to sell.

FYI, if Aloha Anime still has the doujinshi in stock, I can vouch for their quality. I purchased the reprint edition of "White Rain", as well as originals of "The Haibane of Old Home", "The Haibane of Old Home vol. 2", and "The Haibane of Old Home Extra Edition". They are all in superb condition.

Anybody know what the title says? I'm guessing that it's a "year's best science fiction" anthology or something along those lines... but is it for manga or writing?

This is monthly magazine about American SF, Japanese SF and others.
The title is "S-F magazine"

So, does anybody has it in higher quality already? I like this pic very much, but bigger quality would be better : D~~~

At dpis that can kill. All 600 except for this first one.

My favorite OST artwork.

Anyway. The images originally posted by "Anonymous" actually come from this website: http://per.hedbor.org/lain/images.html

I downloaded all the stuff he has on that site a long time ago...it's been up for a while. I figured I'd share it here, though, so he wouldn't have to worry as much about bandwidth problems or anything like that. Now you can get the images from either place. :)

Note that there are 78 (SEVENTY-EIGHT) images hidden in this thread that you won't see unless you hit "reply."

Interestingly enough, from what i've found the omnipresence scans from that site are missing some pages.. i think the original book is something like 128 pages. Also the new book has even more content.

That's true. I never said it was complete...I noticed myself that they were missing some scans, but you have to take what you can get, I suppose. What *is* there is scanned at excellent quality.

I own the new one anyway...so I'm not missing out on much anything. ;D

Oh, dont get me wrong i'm not complaining at all, just clarifying really. Actually, I own several artbooks that I am unwilling to scan (due to possibly damaging them) that i'm still looking for scans for, for the purposes of expanding a digital archive, plus you can do all sorts of neat stuff with them like make wallpapers. :P

I saw rebuild an omnipresence in wired for sale the other day, but I'm waiting for the English release.

Well I just bit the bullet and decided to import the new version of omniprescense, and I must say there's alot more content added than I thought there would be.. the scans really dont do it justice.. it leaves alot out, makes me glad I imported it. I also got range murata's form code.. which is really great (but expensive) I might consider it to be my new favorite. I highly recommend both though. :)

Oooh. Lovely big wallpapers. I made this Haibane one from the sketchwork Novastar found quite a while back. It looks rather like that first one of yours, truth be told.

Nice! I might use that one for a while. I like blue color schemes, if you couldn't tell.

Not much more than simply fitting a pretty image on my screen.

Also, it's come to my attention that I've mistakenly said "1920x1600" when I meant to say "1920x1200." Go me.

These are wonderful WP's but would you mind making fullscreen versions of these please?

For me, these are fullscreen. :D But if you mean "standard" resolution, i.e. 4:3 aspect ratio, then I might be able to do that to some of them. Others, like the one with "lain" written on the left side, would be difficult to convert to 4:3 while keeping the same feel.

If I have time, I might do it. Check back in a while.

Ok, thank you!

As per request, at 1600x1200. Gotta run to physics lab now though, but should I find myself with more free time, I might resize/rearrange the others.

Wonderful thanks!

Just an FYI: I decided not to try and resize or rearrange the other ones. I'm glad you like those two, though!

(close-up of a White Rain image)

(Colored-in pencilwork from Comickers Magazine)

(One from "GRID.")

(aand one from Faces)

(and that's all for now, folks. first one up there was an illustration for "All You Need is Kill", btw)

Nice: http://shii.oppresstheweak.com/hr/src/1144689984969.jpg

This reminds me that I should make some time to read through the hardcopy of White Rain I got recently. Mmmmm.