Soul Eater Scanspam, Spring Cleaning Edition

[nenena]

Finally, some new things to scan!





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Last year's GanGan Art Collection print by Atsushi Ohkubo. (Yes, I found someone willing to sell me theirs for cheaper than the ridiculous actual price.) Anywhoo, this thing is printed on fuzzy, fuzzy paper, and you can see the fuzziness quite clearly in the high-res version. I apologize for that. BTW, does anybody know what this year's Ohkubo print looks like? I haven't seen any advertisements for it anywhere, but I know that one was made. Usually these things are previewed in the December issue of GanGan, but I didn't see 2009's December issue so I don't know.







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Magnets by GE. I love the fact that GE licensed the Animate character designs to use on their merchandise, because now I can finally make a high-res scan of them! Previously the largest item with these character designs that I was able to scan was that sheet of tiny, tiny stickers from Japan. But now I can finally make a glorious high-res scan of these cuties. Aren't they adorable?!







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Maka by Yoshiyuki Ito, the character designer for the anime series. This scan is from the storyboard book that was printed as a bonus gift for people who pre-ordered the limited edition of DVD vol.1 in Japan. I apologize for the binding blur on the top of the image.







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Another bonus illustration from the same book. Now the animators are just being silly.







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Souls!! I know that we've seen these before, but it's nice to have them all lined up in a row like that. Another scan from the same storyboard book.







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Advertisement for manga vol. 15. PLEASE EXCUSE THE EPIC BLEEDTHROUGH. I love love love these ridiculously awesome-looking advertisements that GanGan runs for each volume of the Soul Eater manga. I just wish that GanGan didn't print said advertisements on such thin paper that's impossible to scan without also capturing epic bleedthrough!







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Advertisement for manga vol. 16. Once again, PLEASE EXCUSE THE EPIC BLEEDTHROUGH. I really dig the lovely green colors on this one, though. I just wish that bleedthrough didn't ruin it. Argh.

By the way, I've scanned and posted the adverts for volumes 12, 13, and 14 previously in this journal. Just use the tags to find them.







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Bootleg merchandise ahoy! This pillowcase was too shiny, slippery, and wrinkled for me to scan properly, so here, have a photograph instead. I know that it's a bootleg and that probably somebody's stolen fanart is printed on it, but it's just so cute that I couldn't resist buying it. So hey, um, does anybody happen to recognize the source of this fanart? I would like to know, if only to satisfy my own curiosity. I've seen plenty of bootleg merchandise using fanart that I recognized before, but this is the first time that I haven't been able to peg the source of the fanart right away.

EDITED TO ADD: I found the fanart source! It's by Holly! Awesome!







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Pillowcase with pillow inside. Yep, still cute. Yep, still a bootleg. Yep, still worth it.






Mmm, that's all for this time. I'm still in the process of cleaning out my junk-from-Japan collection, so maybe I will have more pretty things to scanspam y'all with later!

Comments

[alice-rm.livejournal.com]

AGHGDFSD ♥ Thank you so much for posting this >) I loved the advertisements! that green of the S/M/B one is lovely and the pillow is too cute for words ♥

PS: uh, also! 999 entries! =D

[nenena.livejournal.com]

Oh dear Lord. You're right!

Also, now that I'm checking my own profile, I see that I've gotten snowflake cookies that I never thanked people for. Wow, I'm a douche. But why didn't I get any notifications for these things? (*glares at livejournal*)

By the way, thank you for the snowflake cookie! And I'm sorry for being four months late about saying that. ORZ

[alice-rm.livejournal.com]

Oh! ajaja xD don't worry! You're welcome ;)

[renren-1.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing! Those were all incredible and the storyboard book scan of Maka is now my desktop background XD

[devours.livejournal.com]

Thank you for sharing! :D

I love that storyboard image of Maka <3 That pillow case is adorable, I want to know who the original artist is, too!

[kouriko.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing these! ♥

I especially loved that first one. I just couldn't stop staring at it...

[lefthandpenguin.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the scans! They're so cool! :D

[anitheanimaniac.livejournal.com]

Awesome stuff. I especially love that pillow case. It's too cute for words~

[darlingfox.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much for sharing! :D

[aiwatan.livejournal.com]

Thanks you a lot for scanning and posting!!
HQ version of last years print makes my life happier. And the pillow case chibis are too cute for words <3

Concerning this year print I was searching around all Gangan web from December to January and I think he just used the art book cover illustration. Not sure though.

[nenena.livejournal.com]

That would be disappointing if he did. I was hoping for an original piece.

I've seen people post the preview pics of this year's Pandora Hearts and Kuroshitsuji prints, and they were both original pieces. But alas! Nobody scanned or shared the Soul Eater preview. And if Ohkubo did recycle the Soul Art cover for his print this year, then he's just being a slacker compared to the other GanGan artists. ;)

[aiwatan.livejournal.com]

I was hoping for another awesome rare art like last year's, so yeah, it would be really disappointing.
It's weird nobody posted it, neither there was some advertisement on Gangan.

From the illustrations I saw at the web FMA's (which got two) and Umineko's were new art, couldn't assure anything for the others since I don't follow them.

[nenena.livejournal.com]

Argh, you were right:

http://www.animate-onlineshop.jp/products/detail.php?product_id=64417

[aiwatan.livejournal.com]

Why do I have to be right when it's about bad things ;;

Ohkubo was inexcusably lazy here, by that time even the anime was finished and he didn't had to draw a color illustration per month =w=

I wonder who paid the high quantity it cost for a picture you can have in good quality as cover in the artbook.

[(Anonymous)]

Omg!! i loved those magnets and the advertisements. Thanks for sharing!

BTW: You can try fixing those bleedthroughs with Photoshop. It's not too hard, you just have to adjust the levels.
I could do it for you if you want to. Is the least I can do for thanking your amazing recaps and scanspams ^^

[nenena.livejournal.com]

Believe it or not, I did already correct some of the bleedthrough by adjusting the levels in PSP. The scans looked far, far worse when they came fresh off the scanner. But adjusting the levels any further would have meant sacrificing the actual colors of the scans, and I didn't want to do that.

But maybe Photoshop can do things PSP can't, I dunno. If you want to give it a whirl, go ahead!

The other option for correcting bleedthrough is to go through and painstakingly erase all of the bleedthrough bits manually, which I have done for color manga scans in the past. But it usually takes me hours to do a full color page properly, and today I just didn't have the time to do it. ^^;; Sorry about that.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, you don't need to be sorry. I should be glad that you scans those things just for us.

But adjusting the levels any further would have meant sacrificing the actual colors of the scans, and I didn't want to do that.

Yeah, it happens all the time. It works pretty good with manga scans, but I have to say I never really tried doing it with color images.
I'll give it a try and if it works I'll give you the link.
Let's pray it will work!

[nenena.livejournal.com]

Yep, I use levels adjustment to clean B&W doujinshi scans, so I know it's super-easy to use with B&W images. Color images, however, a whoooole other story. But hey, you never know! Maybe Photoshop can work some magic.

Good luck! And thank you for taking the time to try to edit these scans. Whether it works out or not, I still appreciate the help!

[(Anonymous)]

I tryed to adjust the levels with PS... and you were totally right. I did change the original color, so in Kid's scan I had to do it by hand. I think it turned out pretty well.
Now, with Maka's, it's a little bit harder than I expected.
And, if you look close enough, you can see that some bleedthroughs are on purpose (those white kanji from the background are overlapped in Maka's and Soul's outfits, changing to green). Shall I remove those too?

[nenena.livejournal.com]

Wow, you fixed the Kid scan by hand? Thank you!! I know exactly how time-consuming that is, so I really appreciate it.

As for the Soul/Maka scan, I don't count the kanji overlapping on Soul's leg as "bleedthrough" - it's part of the graphic design, like you said - so please don't edit that out!

And thank you again for going to all of this trouble!

[mangaholic.livejournal.com]

Oh WOW, I love the picture of Shinigami & Kid *_* It's awesome!

I can't wait for a next Artbook!

[darksyx.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the scans.

[vega-jd.livejournal.com]

Asdfgfdsa thank you so very much for this!!! These scans totally made my day!! I feel like hugging the ads *w* and like coloring that pic of Maka and scythe!Soul XD

[(Anonymous)]

This is not just bootlegging - this is bootlegging with misplaced apostrophes. Still cute though!

[angelbott.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for scanning them ^^

[meni-tan.livejournal.com]

love them!!!!
lol kid looks like he's wearing a black straitjacket!

[annepackrat.livejournal.com]

I know it's late, but THANK YOU SO F-ING MUCH FOR THIS. This is the first color reference I've found of Soul's Spartoi jacket. Now to make the bloody thing...

[nenena.livejournal.com]

If you want a color reference for Soul's jacket, I'd recommend checking out this post (http://community.livejournal.com/shibusen/690413.html) because it has digital renders of Soul's jacket straight from Ohkubo's computer, which convey the colors much better than any scans ever could.

Good luck!

[annepackrat.livejournal.com]

But I can't download that file for some reason. :/

[nenena.livejournal.com]

Did you try the mirror uploads in the comments?

[annepackrat.livejournal.com]

No, I did not. I will do so now, thank you.

[annepackrat.livejournal.com]

Yes! Mediafire, worked thank you! Now to find time to actually make the damn thing... Between making Bowser and finishing Lavi, poor Spartoi Soul's on the back burner....