#despera

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Abe girls

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Despera (ですぺら)

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DESPERA!

Illustrations from the Light-novel, Despera! A 14-year-old Ain constructs devices despite lacking scientific foundation. Set in 1922 Taisho-era Tokyo, a year before the Great Kanto Earthquake.

Featuring character designs by Yoshitoshi ABe from the creators of Serial Experiments Lain. Writer of the Light-novel Chiaki J. Konaka confirmed that the anime production is starting THIS YEAR and is expected to conclude in 2027!

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Can you really miss an anime that never happened?

From the Despera (Animage Scans) of the anime that was never made; Illustrations by Yoshitoshi Abe but also participating in the project Chiaki J. Konaka and, before his death, Ryutaro Nakamura.

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"Serial Experiments Lain" writer Chiaki J. Konaka clarified that "Despera" is NOT a Sequel to Lain.

Note: This is the only update we got. Everything else recently surfaced online is all very old info.

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Quick sketches of Charlotte and Despera~

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despite everything i'm pretty excited that despera, the spiritual successor to lain from konaka and abe, might be leaving its decade long production hell this year. i read a crappy fantranslation of the book and yeah there's a lot of lain in there, it's almost a prequel