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− | ''Looker'' was a monthly anime magazine launched in August 1998 with its October issue. It ceased publication after 8 issues. [http://www.geocities.jp/mamamamarchan2010/DATA/book3_anime.html] | + | ''Looker'' was a monthly anime magazine launched in August 1998 with the October issue. It ceased publication after only 8 issues. [http://www.geocities.jp/mamamamarchan2010/DATA/book3_anime.html] |
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| == List of ''Looker'' illustrations == | | == List of ''Looker'' illustrations == |
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| |style="text-align:center;"| 98/9 | | |style="text-align:center;"| 98/9 |
− | | | + | |Lain squats in front of a goldfish-scooping tank wearing a bear-print kimono. Text reads "Goldfish... scary." |
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| |B | | |B |
| |style="text-align:center;"| 98/11 | | |style="text-align:center;"| 98/11 |
− | | | + | |Title: "Birth! No-good experiments." |
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| + | [[Lain]] sits at her old NAVI and sneezes, "Hekuchin!" The NAVI responds, "So your name is Hekuchin?" |
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| + | A note from ABe reads: "If I had drawn something like this from the start... I shudder at the thought." |
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| |C | | |C |
| |style="text-align:center;"| 98/12 | | |style="text-align:center;"| 98/12 |
− | | | + | |[[Alice]] teases a cat with her scarf. Lain stands in the far background, peeking out from behind a utility pole. |
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| + | The text is too small and my eyes hurt from squinting, so I'll translate this one later. |
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| |D | | |D |
| |style="text-align:center;"| 99/01 | | |style="text-align:center;"| 99/01 |
− | | | + | |Title: Lain's manners lecture |
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| + | [[Greyn]] peeks around a door. Alice holds a pointer, indicating a poster that reads, "Properly ''atozeki''!" |
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| + | A note from ABe reads: "I heard that ''atozeki'' is the term in Kumamoto dialect for when you remember to close a door after opening it. Amazing. Do people in Kumamoto never shut their doors?" |
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| |E | | |E |
| |style="text-align:center;"| 99/05 | | |style="text-align:center;"| 99/05 |
− | | | + | | Lain in her [[bear suit]] with the hood down looks at the viewer and waves. Text reads "Thanks for everything -Abe" "See you later" |
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| |F | | |F |
| |style="text-align:center;"|Unpublished | | |style="text-align:center;"|Unpublished |
− | | | + | | Title: "This thing called fear" |
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| + | Lain reaches for a roach motel with a pair of chopsticks. The roach motel reads "Serial Motel." The roaches are saying "Lain... Lain..." and one of them is saying, "my leg tore off." Lain is saying, "something's moving..." |
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| + | Text in the background says, "they're in there they're in there they're in there [etc]... in droves." (That last part is a pun because if you say ''iru iru'' enough times it will begin to sound like ''rui rui''.) |
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| |G | | |G |
| |style="text-align:center;"|Unpublished | | |style="text-align:center;"|Unpublished |
− | | | + | | Alice is in the foreground looking at the viewer. In the background is Greyn peeking out from behind a UFO. I think the text says something similar to that of C. |
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