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[flemmings]

ETA: Ha! So that's what the invert function is in photoshop. Look here to see inverted Tenpou and inverted Kenren. And Kanzeon being uhh well Kanzeon, from the back pages of vol 2.

FWIW the Kenren frontispiece is the same in both editions of Gaiden 1, just has thinner lines in the new version. The colour pages that start the book have more colour in them- Nataku appears against a blood red background- and a tendency to the browns she's shown so much love of in her art books. Goujun now looks like yellow ivory, Kanzeon is yellow-brown rather than peach. I'm not quite the fan of it myself.

Have my new Gaidens courtesy of shiny_monkey. If I may ask the Chinese here present about this picture-- I looked at it and said Zhuge Liang and then said no wait didn't he have a horsetail fan? So who's Tenpou being in this pic?

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[luxetumbra.livejournal.com]

Those are great scans, thank you. Gah, why did she invert those two sketches in the first place? White on black is so much harder to take in. Unless she was expecting people to scan them in and invert them. Hmmm... >_> <_<

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

She was being arteestic. Or her editors were. Chapter end pages in black with white script: ghostly, fantastic, maybe a bit ominous. It does work actually- instead of just 'Oh A/U Kenren' it's Oh that classical Chinese soldier is *Kenren*!

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Oh er while you're here (and I am too, since I seem to vanish between Monday morning and Friday afternoon these days) whenyou have time to get to the PO I would very much like to see the FF7 DVD you uhh mentioned a week ago in my comments, thank you for the offer and sorry for the delay. ^^;