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NieA_7
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Falling getween Yoshitoshi ABe’s two masterpieces, Serial Experiments Lain (1998) and Haibane Renmei (2002) this interesting 13-episode series, made in 2000, is based on a short manga by the same artist. It combines a slice-of-life approach with ABe’s whimsical fantasy humor by combining two stories. One focuses on Chigasaki Mayuko, an empoverished student struggling in a painfully realistic way to earn money for rent and tuition, and the other deals with NieA_7 (“Knee-ya under seven”), an lower-caste alien child from a crashed UFO who has taken up residence in Mayuko’s closet. The two are incompatible in every way, yet develop an awkward friendship.
Production art seems very scarce for this early CGI series: among other RS galleries, I found a few sketches owned by Just a few cels and by Distorted Gallery. Most interesting, however, are the three production backgrounds from the series owned by The Lonely Mountain, including the crater formed when NieA’s UFO crashed.
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