Anyone else think these are fake?

[Silvrdrago]

From the moment i looked at this auction, it just screemed fake

https://ekizo.mandarake.co.jp/auc_e/ite ... 4720100003

I could be wroung of course.....but they just don't feel right


not on studio paper, low quality drawing, all portrait shots, no cut numbers, too clean looking

and i've seen real douga before.....and they don't look anything like this drawing style....teterosas hairs is offten a seperate layer

just wondering what others thought


-Chris

[EternityOfPain]

I have to say they look fairly legit to me. I have seen several rough genga's that look similar to this. Granted these are fairly sharp but after seeing countless thousands of genga lol. I have to say they look fairly real to me. But who knows.

EDIT: I just looked at chidori's hair.. that does look a bit to sharp.. So now I am second guessing myself heh.

[Cloud]

And. Only the Shadow knows.

[sensei]

not on studio paper, low quality drawing, all portrait shots, no cut numbers, too clean looking

and i've seen real douga before.....and they don't look anything like this drawing style....teterosas hairs is offten a seperate layer

just wondering what others thought

They look genuine to me. They are represented as "rough genga" rather than douga, and that can mean lots of things. Sometimes roughs can be really, really rough, no more than an outline of the figure with eggs for heads. And while sometimes roughs are done on studio paper, most time they're on whatever the artist has to hand. (I have roughs that were done on the back of discarded paper from a completely different studio from the one that did the series in question.) Sometimes the cut numbers are indicated, mostly they're not. And as working drafts they can sometimes get pretty wrinkled and smudged.

The first one in the lot seems a pretty typical working draft, with the head close to finished but work still being done on the torso and hands. It probably would be cleaned up in the next drawing stage. The second one actually looks pretty clean as is and might be a finished genga. Or it could be a rejected one that was done over. The last one is an oddity: outlines as if it were a douga, but blank eyes, which would suggest a second layer with the pupils and highlights (perhaps a "glimmer" effect).

I've gotten a miscellaneous batch of sketches from Sasami: Magical Girl Club that included a similar mixed bag, ranging from rough work-up drawings to fairly finished gengas to (I'd guess) discarded or rejected dougas. So I'd say this lot was genuine, too.

[teggacat]

I always felt that Mandarake was one of the safest places to buy from, they seem to be pretty fussy/legit with what they offer.

[kira]

they look legit to me.

plus i second that mandarake's stuff is the real thing unless they say in the description that it isnt.

[Silvrdrago]

hmm.....well good to hear what others think.....still nosure

i know mandrake has had some issues with some items in the past not being real so......i always wonder when it just dosn't feel right....this show has not been on the market.......so any item that shows up is suspect

-Chris

[miz ducky]

actually i've tried for a few sets like this on mandarake. i always lose, but they've been out a few times.

[Silvrdrago]

so their have been other full metal panice sets on mandrake? that would make me feel differently.

i'd never seen any.....if this was the first thats mostly what makes me look for reasons to question it

[majinuub]

Here's a link to the one that ended recently:

https://ekizo.mandarake.co.jp/auc_e/ite ... 4720100001

Looks like the real deal here.

[Silvrdrago]

i think that clears it up then.....that link definently shows real ones.....they look like the dougas i've seen


thanks


-Chris

[Keropi]

You know...it never fails to amaze me how many times I keep running across better and more efficent ways of searching for auction items. Every year I stumble onto something else.

It makes me kick myself since I should have been using it from the very start. I wonder how much stuff I've missed when it was really hanging right under my nose. I just discovered something else last week.

**sigh**