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Shin Taimasenki is a table talk RPG produced by Cosmo Engineering. You should have already read this name before since it is quoted inside Intron Depot 2 "Blades" (YOU haven't it!?) at pages 071 and 072. The pictures shown there have been drawn on September 1997, but Shirow also said: "As of September 1998, this "warding-off-evil" series was still continuing, and it's a tad unfortunate that I couldn't include all the illustrations in the series in this collection. Still, waiting until the story is completed would have diminished the value of this collection as a record of my work. I guess collections that claim to be complete records of everything an artist does in a particular category have to wait until the artist dies...."
The series was really going on since at least another episode of this series has been released on August 1998. Unlike the previous, this time it should be a mail talk RPG and it looks to be connected to the Taima Keisatsu novel published by Cosmo Engineering again. In fact its two main male characters appear in a corner of an image drawn for the game and the police as the same name (S.M.A.P.) and uniforms (look ID 2 from page 073 to 083).
Shirow has also used again the technique to draw the characters on different layers and then place one upon the other. At least he did the same for the cover of the Yamatotakeru (a mail talk RPG) first manual: "I usually don't create background layers that'll be hidden by foreground elements, because it's a waste of time and leads to terrible inefficiencies in my work. This time I did, however, because I foresaw the need to make some subtle adjustments to the character's positions." (from Intron Depot 2; page 070). |