I saw this keychain before. Is it just me or her eyes are bit mad?

I've purchased this Rakka keychain several days ago on eBay
It should come to me soon.
Here eyes is unusual..

I've had mine for a couple years now (always with my keys =D) and I don't think her face is that odd looking, it's different but the eyes look a lot softer up close.

The Lain statue is awesome.

The Rakka keychain... I'd get tested for excessive lead paint. ( Sorry, I just dislike GE Entertainment products. :P )

Closeup of keychain, with Claus (Last Exile) keychain for comparison.
>>4
At least the eyeshine/pupils are pointing the same direction, and not all AIIIIR.
>>5
Heh. I know what you mean, I've got their lain plush and it's pretty much the crap of the crap.
Oh well, at least it was cheap compared to most of my other figures and didn't require $hipping from Japan.

Closeup of keychain, with Claus (Last Exile) keychain for comparison.
>>4
At least the eyeshine/pupils are pointing the same direction, and not all AIIIIR.
>>5
Heh. I know what you mean, I've got their lain plush and it's pretty much the crap of the crap.
Oh well, at least it was cheap compared to most of my other figures and didn't require $hipping from Japan.

/abe/ has been pwned by OHBB.

I want this on a shirt

>>3

I found a shirt on Ebay with the entire title logo.

He was working on an anime version of Pochiyama at the Pharmacy with Ueda, but that's been shelved in favor of some other unknown project. He's supposed to write the complete story in novel form first, and if the novel's good, it'll be published to complement the anime. (Spinning Haibane Renmei on the fly was a huge headache that the production crew would like to avoid this time around.)

Details in this thread:
http://cff.ssw.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2182

Which post? I only see the usual forum noise in that thread.

That is interesting, though... I don't think NieA_7 turned out that well, but it's the right genre for these days and if anyone can de-moe it it's ABe.

>>3

My mistake, I linked to the wrong thread:

http://cff.ssw.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2189

Yes.

I think it could still use some work (the line of her sleeve is smudged and fades into the background a bit), but at this point making random changes makes it worse.

Trying to mask it so I can apply much darker, uh, darkening/warpsharp to the characters only would be interesting. I'm mostly allergic to sharpening, though.

updated to handle the falling scene at the beginning of 1; it's still tough to compress if you know less about x264 than me (ie, you are a fansubber), but ehhh

DirectShowSource("d:\hr1_big.avi", fps=29.97, convertfps=true)

function HeavyGradient(clip clip)
{
last=clip
Repair(AA(), clip, mode=3)
grainoptimizer(last, gradfun2db().fluxsmoothst())
prescale = last
LimitedSharpenFaster(dest_x=856, Lmode=3)
Repair(last, prescale.Spline36Resize(856,472), mode=1)

vmToon(sharpen=false, thinning=15)

return last
}

function OrdinaryHR(clip clip)
{
last=clip
Overlay(clip, Invert().YLevelsS(gamma=1.5, output_high=240).Invert(), mode="Darken")

Repair(AA(), last, mode=3)

FluxSmoothST(spatial_threshold=0, temporal_threshold=7)

prescale = last
LimitedSharpenFaster(dest_x=856, Lmode=3, strength=110, undershoot=1)
Repair(last, prescale.Spline36Resize(856,472), mode=1)

vmToon(sharpen=false, thinning=15, strength=48, threshold=4)
return last
}

function PreviewFile()
{
DirectShowSource("d:\hr_previews.avi", fps=29.97, convertfps=true)
Trim(0, 448)
#AA(edge=true)
AAA()
#Overlay(last, Invert().YLevelsS(gamma=1.5, output_high=240).Invert(), mode="Darken")
Crop(0, 4, 0, -4)
Spline36Resize(856, 472)
return last
}

Trim(0,2370).HeavyGradient() ++ Trim(2371, last.framecount).OrdinaryHR() ++ PreviewFile()

When's Geneon going out of business so I can recreate the whole DVD set?

>>5

Apparently they went out of business on about September 28, 2007. Their site is held by squatters now.

...fuck. Who has the licenses to their shows now, then? They had loads of good stuff.

Currently going insane trying to suppress flickering noise in their hair. I don't want to run that filter chain again (it's far too slow) so I hope --nr in x264 is safe.

And even after complaining that the DVDs are way too blurry, I haven't really sharpened them... it does look much better, though.

I am so done.

DirectShowSource("d:\hr1_big.avi", fps=29.97, convertfps=true)

function HeavyGradient(clip clip)
{
last=clip
Repair(AA(), clip, mode=3)

fluxsmoothst(0, 7)
grainoptimizer(last, gradfun2db().ttempsmooth(), tdist=10)

prescale = last
LimitedSharpenFaster(dest_x=856, Lmode=3)
Repair(last, prescale.Spline36Resize(856,472), mode=1)

vmToon(sharpen=false, thinning=15)
awarpsharp(8,cm=1)

return last
}

function OrdinaryHR(clip clip)
{
last=clip

Repair(AA(), last, mode=3)
Overlay(last, Invert().YLevelsS(gamma=1.5, output_high=240).Invert(), mode="Darken")

prescale = last

LimitedSharpenFaster(dest_x=856, Lmode=3, strength=110, undershoot=1)
Repair(last, prescale.Spline36Resize(856,472), mode=1)

vmToon(sharpen=false, thinning=15, strength=48, threshold=4)

ttempsmooth(maxr=5)
fluxsmoothst(4, 7)

awarpsharp(5,3,cm=0)

return last
}

function PreviewFile()
{
DirectShowSource("d:\hr_previews.avi", fps=29.97, convertfps=true)
Trim(0, 448)
#AA(edge=true)
AAA()
#Overlay(last, Invert().YLevelsS(gamma=1.5, output_high=240).Invert(), mode="Darken")
Crop(0, 4, 0, -4)
Spline36Resize(856, 472)
return last
}

Trim(0,2370).HeavyGradient() ++ Trim(2371, last.framecount).OrdinaryHR() ++ PreviewFile()

>>8

HOLY SHIT

That is brilliant!

How do you apply these scripts? The changes are quite magnificent.

It's still under development and will be until I test it on every episode; I've already rewritten it entirely from that one. I guess I should find somewhere else to post it.

Look for a DVD+AVISynth encoding guide, anyway. HR is 30fps so you don't need to worry about ivtc. I'll figure out which plugins I'm using sometime.

Currently wondering how they messed up ep 2 like this...

http://pastebin.com/f70225015
You'd want to replace the Source lines with something else, and get rid of preview file/hikariaemon since those aren't available.

done now, I guess, but staring at every frame for a month leads you to the uncomfortable realization that ep 4/9 are the only ones with good character art...

Is that supposed to be RekixMidori?

http://cff.ssw.net/forum/

Thank you, and have a nice day.

" I thought it was one of the most beautiful things I've seen. "

That's true!

>>1
>>3
3rded

>>4
It's 灰羽連盟, not 灰羽盟連.

This is like reverse Engrish.

You're asking about the Haibane Renmei Scenario Collections, which are basically scripts of the TV episodes annotated by ABe with line drawings added for flavor. They're damn near impossible to find short of going to Japan and hunting for them at stores selling doujins and dropping by Comiket.

>>2

I was hoping that they'd have sketches of everyday items in Glie. I'm collecting them, similar to Reki's imco lighter.

Fuck it. I don't care if they're just kanji books. I'm just going to buy them all. I can't stop myself.

If you have lots of money to blow, you can buy 1 through 5 from Mandarake for $32.73 apiece:

http://ekizo.mandarake.co.jp/shop/en/search.do?searchStrategy=keyword&action=keyword&doujin=all&keyword=yoshitoshi+ABe

That website has fucking incredible selection.Now I just need the cash to afford it.

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