I find myself both confused and highly aroused.

You know, I was perfectly happy with my 2½-year old 5G iPod, even though the battery life is crap (something easily fixed with an external battery pack.) Now I have a pressing need to buy an iPod Touch.

Damn, the guy knows how to lure money back to Apple.

Crap. I do not have an iPhone/iPod Touch. And I probably won't, at least not until the latter comes down in price to match the former.

Actually, it looks like more of an Engrish translation...
http://onosendai.jp/iphone/pochiyama.html

Well, rules are rules.

...That halfway tempts me to hop on his blog and offer the scanlation/script we came up with for a "software update". Only halfway, though. It would probably end badly :-/ . (also, it's not really my work to offer)

http://www.amazon.com/alien-question-Graphic-Novel-ebook/dp/B003B66J50/ref=pd_rhf_p_img_116:53

Uchuujin desuga shitsumon desu is also licensed and translated and I deleted it too. However I haven't seen this one.

Awesome. Keep up the good work, dudes.

And here is part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtLG-Fc8cpk

I will finish part 3 on Tuesday/Wednesday.

just finished part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B02AAtjgDb0

Thanks man, this is really interesting. I'm looking forward to the next part.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHMuTpTo7PU

Here is part 4 and im just working at part 5.^^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPRHlJIl3gc&feature=related

part 5. thats it. i really enjoyed to translate and to sub this great interview. And again thanks to AFyHEW for spell/grammar checking.

HoaX? Haha! Just noticed that it's you translating/subbing that interview. Thanks for your work =3

dont you speak german? Oo

Lapskaus? Sure is sailing in here.

Whatever happened to this?

http://pastebin.com/fdc2b1d3

That's the final script, I figure two years is enough time to work on it.

But it's pretty hard to get all that running, and I consider it no longer licensed, so I'm just going to resub the whole thing. ep1-2 should be done in a week or two.

Deleted post 8 because it took up so much space on the page.

>>6

Geneon is still around, they're just not in the distribution business any more. They've set up a deal (deals?) with Funimation to have the latter ditribute a number of titles they licensed (e.g. Kamichu, Higurashi, Nanoha, etc.), but they didn't do anything for any ABe anime. As far as I know, either Geneon still has a license for North American distribution for Haibane Renmei and simply isn't using it for anything, or the license has lapsed and no longer exists.

http://raspberryheaven.net/~adtrw/torrents/Haibane_1_ADTRW.torrent

Ep 2 will take a little longer. I'd forgotten ther character art was so poor in that one.

Looking good. I thought I saw a very slight film-grain effect in the first episode; is that just compression artifacts, or something you added?

I added some static film grain to counteract blurring, yeah (using SeeSaw). It works better than sharpening to recover apparent detail loss.

Looks like I forgot chapters to episode 1, oops.

http://raspberryheaven.net/~adtrw/torrents/Haibane_2_ADTRW.torrent

The video (and animation quality) is twice as bad in this one, so it's only half-fixed.
Also, I'm not sure what floor Reki's studio is on…

http://raspberryheaven.net/~adtrw/torrents/Haibane_3_ADTRW.torrent

I forgot to do chapters again…

It can regrow itself

And that's all.

I've found it; forgive me. Have another Lain.

try lain.ru

>>1 http://www.nyaatorrents.org/?page=torrentinfo&tid=96098

download it at lain.ru!!!1111elf

bakabt usually is a good place for anime soundtrack torrents

You might also be interested in this --> http://3x6x.com/discography.html
There are some samples there. Got it from doujincore today (thanks doujincore) and I just love it.

http://www.mediafire.com/?lw51fjzdgew

testing

#2 is doodles2009winter, a 32pg A4 sketchbook, b+w

Anyone get scans?

I'm begging for scans ;___;

You know, if he wasn't into anime, ABe'd probably make a killing in the fashion industry...

>>5
Range Murata, another great char. designer used to be a fashion designer, IIRC.

>>6
How can he be a character designer if he only makes the same two characters all the time?

>>7
That's not a very nice or true thing to say.

>>1
Book titles please? Also, which doujin shops are they available?

test

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.