Pinup Gallery You knew this had to be the heart of the shrine *^.^* Here's where we all get to gawp and drool at pictures of Allen looking lovely. I take no credit for any of these images - I downloaded them all from other websites. Please do not waste my bandwidth by direct-linking them into your own webpages - however, you are welcome to save them onto your own computer and do whatever you like with them. There are no thumbnails, just text links, because I enjoy giving a descriptive comment on each picture and I get bored making thumbnails anyway. **Let's start with a little dream-sequence - Hitomi's early (and erroneous) vision of Allen sprouting angelic wings. One * Two * Three * Four * Five * Six * Seven. Thanks to the Lunar Archivist for the screencaptures! **In an abrupt theme shift, here's a special artbook picture of Allen in a basketball game with Van and Dilandau. I get the impression he's not playing hugely well, but he looks way cute in a black tank-top so we'll let it pass. **From the same artbook, Allen in classical fencing gear, looking very smooth. I owe thanks for both these pictures to Planet Gaea. **Simply a big, beautiful portrait of Allen, with his hair (and skirty thingy) blowing in the wind. **The only time I can ever remember seeing Allen with mucky gloves - I believe they're stained with Van's blood. (Soak them in cold water quick before it sets.) **Allen, with red roses, on the cover of one of the Escaflowne video volumes - actually, I did scan this one, from my little friend Kevin's tapes. I love this picture. **Slicing and dicing a pink daisy in a montage from the opening theme sequence. Some major Hair Action in the first frame. **This picture is pretty small but I like it because it shows Allen and Amano back to back. I think it's the cover art from one of the Esca novelisations, of which I really wish I had decent scans. **You've got to love The Hair. In this group picture it becomes a major design element. **Proving that he was always cute, here's a sunset-gold image of Allen as a little boy - at the end of the golden weather, in fact, just to work in a New Zealand drama reference. **A nice picture of Allen with Natal, his owl, which I carved out of a group picture (hence the bit of Van visible at the bottom). **This picture has the filename it does ('ohbehave.jpg') because really, even Austin Powers would be embarrassed to look at a schoolgirl like that. (But he would like Allen's clothes.) Another cropped group-shot. **Allen looking worried with Gadeth in the background, sort of peering round The Hair. **Allen being helped to stand while injured - he's lucky to have two sturdy girls like Millerna and Hitomi to look after him. (Not to mention stitch him up.) **Imaginary kiss between Allen and Hitomi, from the end-credits sequence. What I find most beautiful is the way his hand cradles the back of her neck. **Allen looking resolute, on a nicely faded background of... Allen looking resolute. And quite yummy. ** A picture of Allen looking nice. I know, I know, redundant *^.^* **Allen, with Hitomi and Van in the background with Escaflowne - in this one, he actually looks ready to kick some ass. **The infamous picture of Allen kissing Hitomi on the cheek, where it looks like his pointy nose could poke her in the eye. Maybe she thinks so too and that's why she's flinching? **More thanks to Planet Gaea for this scan of a Newtype filmbook cover. The way Hitomi's looking at Allen is almost coquettish. **I always think that in this one he looks like he's up to no good. Natal appears unimpressed. I do like how Allen can look like that, and angelic too. He's got range. **Another picture where Allen shows a gentlemanly concern for Hitomi, while Van languishes in the background. Being fifteen and competing with a twenty-one-year-old Apollo-type sucks. **Van wants Allen to be helpful. Allen wants to make snitty faces. Oddly, I almost find him cuter like this. **Allen standing there like a post while his lost love Marlene hugs him from behind. There is no excuse for this sort of rigidity unless you have tetanus, even if it is only a flashback. **A lovely coloured-pencilly picture of Allen, in tones of yellow (plus Hitomi in tones of red). **A group shot with a mystical tarot card background which I like, again, because Allen's looking all pouty and grumpy. If he were my boyfriend I'd spend a lot of time deliberately annoying him for fun. Of course, then I suppose he wouldn't be my boyfriend for long. **More sulky faces - here he's just too gorgeous for words. I think I like this one because he actually looks quite the little delinquent - shades of teenage-bandit Allen, perhaps. **Another crop from a group picture, in which Allen looks very lovely and a little smug. **Dramatic shady shot of Allen while Hitomi is reading his tarot cards to prove she's not a charlatan. **Calling the Knights of Heaven to attention at Millerna's wedding, I believe. **As I said when I used this picture in my Van Fanel gallery (see Here Be Dragons), there are times when you feel Allen may be a little too aware of how hot he is, and this is one of them. Damn' fine sword poses, nevertheless. **Taking care of a feverish Hitomi, with his sleeves looking much too puffy, even by Allen Standards. **I think I had this picture on the cover of my Nineteenth Century Women Novelists notebook at university last year. Allen with Millerna and Hitomi. Kept me sane even when I had to read Villette, a novel with whose heroine I think Princess Eries would identify like mad. **I love black and white character design sketches. Here's a very spiffy one of Allen with his owl, from an insert in an Escaflowne LD case, I think. Props to Amber Anime Archive. Can anyone read all that Japanese writing? I love how his hair's wafting in the air, and he's smiling. **And here are more sketchies, showing you Scherazade and a grab-bag of Allens. These are very helpful if you want to draw him yourself, I find. Well, I suppose that's what they're designed for, only to help professional animators, not doodling fangirls. **One more segment of that insert picture (I chopped it up for you), showing you Allen and his little sister Serena in childhood, plus a nice portrait of his mother, the unfortunate Encia. **A scan from the Memory of Gaea artbook, kindly provided by my friend Kevin - more of young Allen and Serena, with an incredibly cute hug. ** Allen as an adolescent bandit. I actually scanned this, and the next two, 'cause Kevin lent me his book. I like these pictures, not just because he looks all cute and snotty, but because in the headshots of him looking angry, I think I can discern a faint 'family resemblance' to Dilandau. ** Sixteen-year-old Allen with Princess Marlene. Now, this is a very interesting picture to me, because of the expression on Allen's face, so cocky and proud. I think he was feeling quite the studmuffin for a while there, before everything turned to custard. ** One of my favourite pictures from a mentally-undressing-Allen point of view. No, I'm not just being disgusting, I am interested in how his uniform holds together, and here you can clearly see not only the 'bib overalls' construction, but also how it undoes down the front. What a shame he had to get hideously wounded to give me this view... Included at no extra cost is Allen in his Freidian pajama-y robe thingy - not dissimilar to traditional Japanese men's nightclothes. ** Another picture showing details of the uniform, this time contributed by the kickass Syrena Doné of Dilandau's Lair. This picture always makes me giggle, because clearly Allen has taken off his overskirt thingy, you can see it lying on the ground behind him. Now, why has he taken it off, and why is he now standing there looking off into the distance? I can never help thinking things like that. It's weird any way you look at it. **Home