Tripper+ is good for making words in tripcodes.
It's also quite a bit faster than finding them by accident.

Actually got it from a JS trip app.

http://pastebin.com/f3b73d29b

Nice ^^

Nice. Does the original artwork exist?

That image was in an ABe (miscellaneous) artbook, so yeah, it definitely does.

I'd guess this has been discussed before, but - yeah, the scene where Rakka finds the halo isn't in the series proper. The series was written free-form, not full planned in advance. Assuming the trailer was made before all the episodes were done (which seems safe, everything else is from the first episode or two), it's possible that they animated this and then decided against that plot development in the show.

Alternatively, one could possibly interpret that scene as a post-script for the show, though it doesn't quite seem to have the right mood in light of the ending.

The cool thing about these extra scenes, however, is that there's no inbetweening in the frames. Meaning that at the very least, they were all done by the art director; who at the time was Akira Takata. They're also very high quality, I mean literally blu-ray quality. Unfortunately they're actually a higher-quality than the show itself was, so don't get your hopes up for a blu-ray release anytime soon.

You can actually see some resemblance between his work in this trailer and the one he did for Karas the Prophecy as well, especially near the beginning;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5V2qwYOiNo

why are they so chibi?

Wow! I can recognized some of those characters from different anime series in the first image, are they all in common with writers, artists, character design, producers, directors, etc? I'm a fan of Abe's works so Lain, Haibane Renmei, Texhnolyze are in there. Plus some I recognize: Now and Then, Here and There, Saikano, Jigoku Shojo, NHK ni Youkoso!, Key the Metal Idol, and is that Bokurano on the far right?

Non-color image are all Abe-designed characters from the series he worked on. Thanks for the images!

In the first pic: also Higurashi, Elfen Lied, at least one Key show (Shuffle? never watched it), Narutaru, Welcome to the NHK, Saikano...

For most of these characters, the only connection I can see is that they done got Problems with a capital P. Except for Shuu, whose only real psychological issue is a terminal case of optimism.

It occurs that ABe did cover artwork for the NHK books, at least. He's also done artwork for a Key game-music album cover, I think.

Key (the character) is definitely a predecessor to Lain in a lot of ways, and you could maybe kinda see Chise as a successor. Bokurano and Narutaru, not sure... Kitoh's lineart feels a little similar to ABe's at times, although they've clearly got distinct styles.

images from animage has been posted here
http://hr.deadgods.net/hr/kareha.pl/1244323420/

I got mine on eBay; it's possible you could get it cheaper from a dealer if they didn't know what they had...

From eBay too - had to fight for it pretty hard :o

If you're in the USA, you can order it from Kinokuniya's (unless they've stopped publishing new ones, in which case you'll have to find a used copy somewhere). The retail price is around $50, I believe, but if it's out of print, it'll be more.

Kinokuniya and Amazon are the best suggestions I can make.

Don't forget Yahoo Auctions Japan.

Most sellers won't ship outside of Japan, but you can get a deputy service to act as a go-between for you.

The advantage of this method is that you can find items that are rarely seen on English language sites, and the prices tend to be lower as well. Even after paying for international shipping and the deputy fee, chances are you'll still save money compared to Ebay or US dealers.

Might just put in a bid on this. I always did want that artbook.

>>2 I'd appreciate that^^ I threw in a free promotional DVD of the first vol of Texhnolyze too. It ends in about a day.

Gonna need a functioning eBay account first! I hope the damned thing wasn't tied to my college email address.

...it was. No big loss. Registered a new account and placed my bid.

DAMNIT I MISSED THIS ARGH

Bagel, congrats on your new ...niwa de! Very, very beautiful, I've already fought for mine :)

It arrived! Thanks, fynoda - it's in great condition, and I'll take good care of it.

>>3
Did you watch a happy cute moeblob show after Texhnolyze to shoo the depression away?

I did.

I watched the alternate outtakes on the DVD, to make me laugh after being bummed out. :)
"Cherry Pie"

Did the word "Theoria" appear anywhere in the show before the last two episodes? Maybe it would've made any sense at all if I'd remembered it, but I don't…

I don't remember, anybody mentioning Theoria except Kano. But Kano was so screwed up in the head. After all, wasn't he was like the result of at least 3 generations of incest?

Theoria is more of a title than a name (and more of a verb than a title).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoria
Wikipedia should help, but the gist is that Kano is referring to Ran's role as seer; as to why he insists she's his sister, it may be more of a symbolic gesture. He's broken into the realm of consciousness she's always inhabited, they are the only ones able to access that state, so he sees her as his "sister" in the sense that any group of people united under anything can be "brothers" and "sisters."

Anyway, I love Texhnolyze. It's a shame there isn't a whole lot of animation anywhere that matches it in depth and style.

> Wikipedia should help, but the gist is that Kano is referring to Ran's role as seer; as to why he insists she's his sister, it may be more of a symbolic gesture.

The show similarly referred to the doctor as Ichise's mother, and it was unclear if it was figurative or not after a while. Wizzu's translator suggested the entire show was meant to be a dream sequence. I'm not sure I disagree.

There are a number of clues that would suggest that (the scrambled text, Ichise meeting his father on the surface... the whole surface in general). I think some aspects of Texhnolyze work better interpreted literally and others work better symbolically, but the two overlap and the whole is both literal and allegorical. That's what I like about it. It's literary animation.

Freud would wet his pants with that show. It gave me unquiet sleeps, but at least something survives in the end. Also, the opening is beast.

Спасибо

Wow! I'm not the only russian man here!

also try iichan.ru/a

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iichan.ru/aa

>>3
Of course you are not. (Кстати, я ошибаюсь, или мод доски сам из Советской России?)

"Ryusuke Narai - Source Kokuryo of a genealogy dragon of God"
should be
"Ryuusuke Narai - The Genealogy of Gods / The Origin of Dragons, Goguryeo"
on that page.