86: Eighty Six

86: Eighty Six
Name	86: Eighty Six
AKA	86－エイティシックス－
Description	A community based around the light novel, manga and anime "86: Eighty Six".
Subreddit	EightySix
Discord	https://discord.com/invite/XzERqemn2T
Website	https://anime-86.com/
Twitter	@anime_eightysix
Artwork	86: Eighty Six artworks

What is 86: Eighty Six

86: Eighty Six is a light novel written by Asato Asato, with the character design made by Shirabi and the mechanical design by I-IV, the production of the light novel started in 2017 and is still ongoing today. The light novel won the Grand Prize at the 23rd "Dengeki Novel Prize" award in 2016.¹ It also ranked second in 2018 in Takarajimasha's annual light novel guide book "Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi!" in the bunkobon category,² it ranked fifth in 2019.³

In 2018 this got adapted in to a manga made by Yoshihara Motoki which is also still ongoing (with weekly releases).

In 2021 this got adapted in to an anime by the studio A-1 Pictures, the anime exist out of 1 season with 2 cours, season 1 of the anime finished airing in March 2022 with a total of 23 episodes and it reaching the top 50 in all time rating on both MyAnimeList and AniList.

The 86: Eighty Six r/Place 2022 team

The 86: Eighty Six r/Place 2022 team (which existed out of people from the official subreddit and the official Discord) managed to make 3 "art pieces" on the canvas.

It all started with the Reddit user u/Elevatorisbest (who also goes by u/Orleniscool) who made a post in the r/EightySix subreddit a couple days before the start of r/Place 2022 about the fact that all the people in the subreddit should unite and try to make 86: Eighty Six a part of it.⁴

A couple hours after the start u/TsuyoshiHaruka made a post in the r/EightySix subreddit about the fact that he added "86" on to the canvas.⁵ Quickly Discord users made a thread to discuss the plans for the "art", and that thread became the base for what we finally ended up with.

r/place 2022

Artwork

See also: 86: Eighty Six artworks

Art 1

This is a clean version of "Art 1".

See also: 86: Eighty six Art 1

This first entry depicts the series title and 4 characters/robots from the series, (L to R: Fido, Shin's reginleif, Lena, Shin). The Japanese characters are a famous line from the series, meaning 'We won't forget.' With thanks to r/placeNL for assisting with maintenance.

Art 2

This is a clean version of "Art 2".

See also: 86: Eighty six Art 2

This second entry depicts notable scenes from the 86 anime series. Left: episode 23; right: episode 22. Attached to collaboration with r/initialD, hence the red 6 to match the Initial D logo colour scheme.

Art 3

This is a clean version of "Art 3".

See also: 86: Eighty six Art 3

This third entry depicts the female protagonist of the series, Lena. Original artist credit: @pk60225 on Twitter.

References

1: Hodgkins, Crystalyn (March 22, 2020). "'86' Sci-Fi Battle Anime Reveals Cast, Staff, 2020 Premiere". Anime News Network. Retrieved March 22, 2020.

2: Pineda, Rafael Antonio (November 24, 2017). "Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! Reveals 2018 Series Ranking". Anime News Network. Retrieved March 15, 2020.

3: Pineda, Rafael Antonio (November 23, 2018). "Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! Reveals 2019 Series Ranking". Anime News Network. Retrieved March 15, 2020.

4: u/Orleniscool (March ,2022). "Reddit will soon bring back r/place. Let's unite the entire subreddit and make Eighty Six be part of it!". Reddit. Retrieved April 11, 2022.

5: u/TsuyoshiHaruka (April 1, 2022). "86 is on r/place". Reddit. Retrieved April 11, 2022.