(this one's 5)

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!