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NieA_7: Episode 01-08
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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, and yet they develop an awkward friendship.
Production art was initially quite scarce for this early CGI series, but in recent years a wider variety of sketch sets have appeared on the market. As my collection has grown, I've divided this section into three galleries, the first covering episodes 1-8, the second, 9-12, and the third my especially rich collection of Ep. 13 art.
Among other RS galleries, I located other NieA galleries in Just a few cels and in Cenbe's Cel & Sketch Gallery (at present the largest and most comprehensive). There are also individual sketches and sets in Doug’s Cels and in Hoodies and Raindrops Cel 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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