This might be a good place. What would You like to start discussing?
My preference would be "Reki is hot", but I hardly believe that might be relevant to you.

Could try these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haibane_renmei
http://sweet-akari.net/haibane/
Plus there are lots of discussions on meaning elsewhere on this board

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

they ran out of material to discuss last year and so they've probably all eaten each other like the donner party but it's pretty complete now

There was an in-depth discussion on the Anime News Network forums a while ago (one of the few intelligent discussions I've seen there). I don't have a link for it off-hand, though.

ANN maintains a sticky with all the major discussion threads on various titles; these are the ones they have listed:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=13009--HR-and-the-end-of-the-world
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=24287-Rakkas-sin
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=13750--Am-disappointed
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9454--Reki-and-dreams

No. 4 is right, that forum has a lot of good posts...but it also has a lot of pointless posts, especially within the past year. If you look, you might be able to find some pretty good discussion, though.

lol texhnolyze

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACKT

Don't bother, the cyberia remix isn't as good as the original version of Duvet.

Have you tried demoniod?? I think thats where I got mine

>>2
Cyberia Mix is a CD, not a song.

I have all three soundtracks. ^_^. You should be able to google it. I could probably make my own. I'm not sure

http://mininova.org/tor/787080

Cyberia Mix is worth hearing just for Speed and Professed Intention and Real Intention.

Better version here:

http://shii.oppresstheweak.com/hr/kareha.pl/1161729041/20

I'm going to make a wild guess and say this topic has nothing to do with a certain thread on the OHBB's Art's & Crafts forum. Nothing at all.

This thread has spanned BOTH of the Haibane fan artists!

...Huh. And I was temp-banned from /t/ for posting that - "at least half of the stuff you're torrenting is licensed. " Maybe the mod thought I was posting DVD-rips or something?

This is something like the third or fourth year in a row that I've posted this there, and the content has barely changed, outside of two or three new doujins (which are definitely absolutely not licensed). What gives?

Just the normal paranoia that everyone has in this universe these days.

Hrumph. Appeal denied, too.

Is anything in there actually properly licensed any more? I know DMP did the Lain artbook, but I have said artbook - it's different from the original Omnipresence in Wired in a lot of ways. Other than that, Robot is back to licensing limbo, Tokyopop has shown no sign of touching NieA_7 in a good five or six years, and of course Fanboy Entertainment, with licenses on the "Essence" artbook and the never-released White Rain, are totally defunct.

Honest question - if a show is licensed, is all related material licensed with the show?

tell me what your ip is and i'll fix it

or i just do it myself

I've had my computer running 24 hours a day since Monday morning just to get this, and damned if it wasn't worth the wait.

>>23

Glad you think so.

(oh, and don't worry about the /t/ ban thingum, I don't have any time to waste there or much of anywhere else for the next two weeks.)

too late I already did it

and I think rk finished translating whatever it was

Hwah? Did he? rk, if you did, and you're about to read this, fire off the script to my cleverly disguised email address!

http://wakaba.c3.cx/notes/notes.pl

might not be complete

I will give details on it once it arrives in the mail. (Ughh EMS)

The blurb on the Amazon listing says something about an English translation and "worldwide release". Has anyone heard more about this?

>>10

Someone doesn't have a complete Unicode font!

Having received this in the mail, I can say without second thought that this is the best art book I own.

>>13

I'd consider it a "PG-13" book at worst, although that might mean "R" if you're a bit prudish. A few drawings come close to full frontal nudity, but that's as bad as it gets.

>>18

QFT.

>>19
Yeah, that answers my question. Ah well, I can just wait for a)scans or b) an English release.

ABe was at AnimeFest this past weekend, and said it should be out in English pretty soon. There's not a lot of text, so the translation should go quickly.

Just got this at Kinokuniya (the Japanese version, not the english translation). There isn't much writing at all, mainly the timeline and index in the back but there's a few lines here and there. Probably around a dozen pages of text.
Total including tax was $67, but the list price is 4800yen or ~$42, so $20 extra, not too bad.
The book itself is slightly larger (maybe 5mm in each direction) than my copy of the DMP release of the Lain artbook (which barely fits on my shelf as it is), so with the box on it doesn't fit on my shelf :( Oh well.

The store also had the Japanese release of Robot #5-8. I just wish I could read them.
Pic not related.

Some thoughts:

Yay, return of pointy ears !

Finally, aBe is doing something. We've waited too long, and Texhnolyze was too depressing.

A question for those who have read the story:

Is it worth animating ? Haruhi Suzumiya has practically filled up the void left by aBe after Haibane Renmei (I consider that his best work), and I really long for another anime involving him.

HLJ has this for $57 USD after SAL shipping.

I bought it so fast.

Small and blurry text is small and blurry.

it's pretty small in the english version too.
from left to right:
{top line}
Loser Lain (I'm not) (a loser)
Modding Lain
Tangled Up Lain (Waaah)
GLain (Ahoo?) {too small, can't read}
{bottom line}
GOLAIN (thump) (Oh I get it)
??? (next??) (om bee you?) {too small, can't read}

Brilliant thankyou - didn't realise there was an English version available!
Still very mysterious...

This similar one is huge and mysterious...

>>5
(3 here)

starting from the top left at 1 (12 frames total)
1-4 (?? not in the book, or not on this page)
5: "the weather" "is broken?"
6: "weather-" "break"
7: ??
8: "rain and" "ignorance"
9: ??
10: "the Iwakuras" "up there on the second floor, who knows what goes on?" "I wonder about my daughters, yes. But I'm more worried about the navi"
11: "High Seas (again)"
12: title: "Let's! WEATHER BREAK! Break!!" text: "Please be aware that the following info may possibly be tomorrow's, or perhaps yesterday's, weather." text under sign: "just kidding"

pic unrelated

>>4
oh yeah here's the book on amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Yoshitoshi-Abe-Lain-Illustrations/dp/1569708991

It was a great Reki cosplay. I saw her at Anime North 2007.

Her wings are too big.

well, your spoon is too big

And I like it that way, bitch.

>>3
Remember Rakka's "wings-out" scene?

Yeah.

>>6
Well, it's also the fact that her wings turn downward, unlike your standard Haibane art work, where the wings stick straight out. That contributes to their oversized nature.

>>7
True. However, I always thought it was odd that the Haibane walk around with their wings like that...no creature with wings holds its wings out like that. It'd be like holding your arms out all the time.

Remember that they have almost no control over their wings beyond basic twitching, though.