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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]
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''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]
== List of ''Looker'' illustrations ==
== List of ''Looker'' illustrations ==
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|style="text-align:center;"| 98/9
|style="text-align:center;"| 98/9
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|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
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|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
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|[[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
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|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
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| 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
|style="text-align:center;"|Unpublished
|style="text-align:center;"|Unpublished
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| 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
|style="text-align:center;"|Unpublished
|style="text-align:center;"|Unpublished
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| 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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