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List of fanworks based on Serial Experiments Lain

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==Related Websites==
===English===
* [https://arisuchan.jp/ arisuchan] anonymous lain-themed cyberpunk imageboard with a dedicated /lain/ board
* [http://asphyxia.su/ asphyxia.su] Collection of every background image from mebious, going back over a year.
* [http://www.cjas.org/~leng/lain.htm Thought Experiments Lain] ([[Thought Experiments Lain|article]]) is owned by Lawrence Eng aka Lawmune. It includes, among other things, a review, fanart contest and glossary. It is perhaps best known for the [http://www.cjas.org/~leng/apple-lain.htm list of Apple references in Lain].
* [https://lainzine.org lainzine]: a lain-themed online magazine about hacking, art, culture, and related topics.
* [http://lain.angelic-trust.net/ Omnipresence] is full of information about SEL and includes episode transcripts, screencaps, a fanlisting and a very outdated list of links. It is impossible to navigate. Content is [http://lain.angelic-trust.net/wired.html here].
* [http://www.mebious.co.uk/ Mebious.co.uk] ([[Mebious.co.uk|article]]) comes from a URL that appears briefly on a pressure gauge. Sometimes called "Mebi" or "Mebby". Allows anonymous text or image posting. The most recent 10 lines of text are displayed.
* [https://mebious.neocities.org wired.entry.neocities] Fansite under constant occasional development.
* [https://re.wire.zone/ re:wire] Originally created in Discord, centers around technology, glitching and cyberpunk. Has it's own anonymous imageboard called Wirechan.
* [https://initiate.space/ initiate.space] Spiritual successor to systemspace. Themed around Lain, has an anonymous imageboard and discord server.

===Japanese===
*[http://www.konaka.com/alice6/lain/ Serial Experiments Lain], a site by [[Chiaki Konaka|Chiaki J. Konaka]], has interviews, information about [[Books|books]], and links related to Lain, as well as a font that was used in the anime.
*[http://www.geocities.jp/zatugakubeya/lain/index.html Deep Researches Lain] has a glossary of terms from the anime and a quiz game.
*[http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/grifonsgarden/garenwarehouse.htm Grifon's Garden] has pictures and descriptions of at least 6 homemade Lain figurines.
*[http://page.freett.com/boondock/lain/ LAINてんぷら] is a website used to start Lain threads on the 2channel BBS. Has links to many Lain threads on 2ch and many other obscure and edifying Lain-related links. てんぷら (tempura) is slang for template.
*[http://page.freett.com/m_utsumi/ Protocol of lain's world] has lots of great and rare info, but mostly in Japanese, because the English portion of the site is unfinished. (Click lain's face to access the content.)
===Russian===
*[http://boards.haruhiism.net/abe/ Old Home], an image board that is primarily for discussions related to [[Yoshitoshi ABe| ABe]].
*[http://lain.xq3.ru/ lain game] contains files from the Serial Experiments Lain [[Game|PSX game]], extracted using jPSXdec.
*[http://lain.ru/index.php lain.ru]
===Spanish===
*[https://wired-7.org wired-7] Spanish speaking, lain themed imageboard
==Past Related Websites==
* [[Thewired.info]]
* [http://per.hedbor.org/lain/ Serial Experiments Lain: Root] ([[Serial Experiments Lain: Root|article]]) had a collection of Lain media for download, including cover scans and soundtracks.
* [http://misslain.homestead.com/index.html Lain - Alive in Cyberspace] included reviews, screencaps, poetry, and a rather intriguing [http://misslain.homestead.com/cyberqs.html dialogue] on Lain. Site has been disabled.
*[http://hr.deadgods.net/hr/index/ Wakachan's ABe board], R.I.P.
* [http://cerealexperiments.com cerealexperiments.com] Website that had an imageboard that was barely Lain-related.
*[http://easterncalcul.us/ ahania's boards] are available intermittently. /ec/ is for general discussion and /l/ is for all things Lain. Feel free to start or join in a discussion.
*[http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Gulf/9755/ serial experiments lain - Unnoficial Homepage in the Wired]
* [http://www.mebious.mobi/ Mebious.mobi] ([[Mebious.mobi|article]]), sometimes called "Mobi", is inspired by Mebious and notably includes features such as music upload and auto-refresh. (defunct as of May 10th 2015)
* [https://mebio.us Mebio.us] was another clone of the original .co.uk site, created after the closure of Mobi.
* [[VisualWired]]
* [https://systemspace.link/ systemspace.link] Religion lightly themed around SEL. Has an anonymous imageboard named TSUKICHAN and a Rocket.Chat server.

==Essays==
* [[VKK 320: Decoding Virtual Culture in the Media - a case-study of Serial Experiments Lain]]
* [[Serial Experiments: Lain as a Reflection of Modern Japanese Anxieties in the Digital Era]]
* [[The role of technology in modern society according to Serial Experiments: Lain]]
* [[The Problem of Existence in Japanese Animation]]
* [[The Sight of Your God Disturbs Me: Questioning the Post-Christian Bodies of Buffy, Lain, and George]]
* [[Give some examples of cybernetic systems at play in specific visual texts. What metaphors of the body in contemporary society do they suggest? And to what commodity end are they marketed?]]
* [[To what commodity end are concepts of the ‘post-human’ and the ‘cyborg’ marketed? Give screen and theoretical examples of each.]]
* [[The Real Verses the Virtual]] [sic]
* [[All I Ever Needed To Know In This Fragile Layer Of Existence We Call The Real World I Learned From Serial Experiments Lain]]

==Scholarly articles and books==
*"Topologies of Identity in Serial Experiments Lain" by Craig Jackson, published in ''Mechademia'', Volume 7, 2012, pp. 191-201 [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/mec/summary/v007/7.jackson01.html]
*"The Signal of Noise" (manga) by Adèle-Elise Prévost and MUSEbasement, published in ''Mechademia'', Volume 3, 2008, pp. 173-188 [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/mec/summary/v003/3.prevost.html]
*"When the Machines Stop: Fantasy, Reality, and Terminal Identity in Neon Genesis Evangelion and Serial Experiments Lain" by Susan J. Napier, published in ''Science Fiction Studies'' vol.29, No. 3, Japanese Science Fiction (Nov. 2002) pp. 418-435 [http://www.jstor.org/stable/4241108]
*"The Problem of Existence in Japanese Animation" by Susan J. Napier, published in ''Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society'', Vol. 149, No. 1 (Mar., 2005), pp.72-79 [http://www.jstor.org/stable/4598910]
*"Screening Anime" by Steven T. Brown, an essay published in the 2006 book ''Cinema Anime'', a collection of essays by various authors, edited by Brown. [http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781403970602]
*''Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture'' by Steven T. Brown. This time the whole book is by Brown. [http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9780230103597]

==Games==
* [[Lain visual novel project]], a project to create a Serial Experiments Lain visual novel, started on [[mebious.co.uk]] and worked on here.

==Analysis==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjaG8gqE7uY&feature=g-u-u Youtube video] Analyzing exactly what happened in the anime.

==Fanfiction==
===English===
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2196634/1/Stopped Stopped], a short story that concisely captures the essence of Serial Experiments Lain.
"Lain's watch stopped..."
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6974007/1/The_Gods_Themselves The Gods Themselves], an odd crossover between SEL and Puella Magi Madoka Magica in which Lain and Madokami are indistinguishable and [[Alice]] discusses [[God]] with Homura.
""Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.*" Lain. Madoka. Homura. Arisu. I am uncertain what genre to classify this under."
(*Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.)
===Japanese===
*[http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=14756418 せりあｌ　えｘぺりめんｔｓ　ぁいｎ], a manga by Gomennasai on Pixiv, probably inspired by [[Chibi Chibi Lain]].
* [http://ifs.nog.cc/i25127.at.infoseek.co.jp/281/rakkatan.html Ganbare Rakka-tan], a Lain/NieA/Haibane crossover manga in the style of Abe, drawn by a user of the 2channel board "hankaku nijigen ita" who went by the name ''281''.
*[http://elephant.2chblog.jp/archives/52044575.html One], [http://elephant.2chblog.jp/archives/52064879.html two], [http://elephant.2chblog.jp/archives/52067572.html three] threads archived from news4vip at 2ch.

==Music==
*[https://archive.org/details/keif_mesa_earth_brain_waves Earth Brain Waves], A concept album. The theme imaged the world of the network by the Schumann resonance in serial experiments lain.
*[http://3x6x.com/discography.html SUBHUMAN], serial experiments lain image album
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Serial Experiments Lain Collector's Edition

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Serial experiments lain collector's edition is a special edition of the anime series released in Spain<ref>https://en.todocoleccion.net/cinema-films-dvd/lain-serial-experiments-ed-coleccionista-limitada-serie-completa~x150877190</ref> by Selecta Visión and France. Only 1500 editions were made. including 5 DVDs featuring the 13 layers, American release of [[Serial Experiments Lain: Cyberia Mix|Cyberia Mix]] and and extra content: upgrades for tv and cd, opening and ending without text and interview with the staff, a copy of The Nightmare of Fabrication, a 'CoplandOS manual' which includes illustrations and layers guide.
[[File:Lain_Collector's_Edition.jpg|thumb|Collector's edition box]]
[[File:Lain_Collector's_Edition_contents.jpg|thumb|Contents]]
[[File:Lain_Collector's_Edition_booklet.jpg|thumb|CoplandOS manual]]
[[File:Lain_Collector's_Edition_poster.jpg|thumb|Lain poster]]
== External Links ==
[https://qorg11.net/vid/Lain%20Upgrades%20for%20CD.webm Lain Upgrades for CD]

[https://qorg11.net/vid/Lain%20Upgrades%20for%20TV.webm Lain Upgrades for TV]
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Serial Experiments Lain Collector's Edition

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Serial experiments lain collector's edition is a special edition of the anime series released in Spain<ref>https://en.todocoleccion.net/cinema-films-dvd/lain-serial-experiments-ed-coleccionista-limitada-serie-completa~x150877190</ref> by Selecta Visión and France. Only 1500 editions were made. including 5 DVDs featuring the 13 layers, American release of [[Serial Experiments Lain: Cyberia Mix|Cyberia Mix]] and and extra content: upgrades for tv and cd, opening and ending without text and interview with the staff, a copy of The Nightmare of Fabrication, a 'CoplandOS manual' which includes illustrations and layers guide.
[[File:Lain_Collector's_Edition.jpg|thumb|Collector's edition box]]
[[File:Lain_Collector's_Edition_contents.jpg|thumb|Contents]]
[[File:Lain_Collector's_Edition_booklet.jpg|thumb|CoplandOS manual]]
[[File:Lain_Collector's_Edition_poster.jpg|thumb|Lain poster]]
== External Links ==
[https://qorg11.net/vid/Lain Upgrades for CD.webm|Lain Upgrades for CD]
[https://qorg11.net/vid/Lain Upgrades for TV.webm|Lain Upgrades for TV]
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Lain poster that comes with OST cd

Serial Experiments Lain OST

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The '''Serial Experiments Lain OST''' is the official soundtrack for the [[Serial Experiments Lain (anime)|anime]]. It includes the [[Tooi Sakebi|closing theme]] by [[Reichi Nakaido]]. However, this track was removed in the US release. The other songs, which appeared as inserts and background music in the anime, were also written by Nakaido.

== Track list ==

# Lain's Theme (Lainのテーマ; "Lain no Theme") – 3:08
# Pulse Beat (パルス・ビート) – 2:48
# Inner Vision (インナー・ビジョン) – 2:54
# Strange Dimension Of Mist (霧の異次元 "Kiri no i jigen") – 3:38
# Free Zone (フリー・ゾーン) – 2:00
# Working Man's Theme (Working Manのテーマ; "Working Man no Theme") – 4:00
# Like a Lizard… (トカゲのように…; "Tokage no you ni…") – 3:01
# Albatross' Ballad (阿呆鳥のバラード; "Ahoudori no Ballad") – 3:24
# Theme for Slope (坂道のテーマ; "Sakamichi no Theme") – 3:11
# [[Tooi Sakebi|Cry in the Distance ~End Theme~]] (遠い叫び〜エンディング・テーマ〜; "Toui sakebi ~Ending Theme~") – 4:53 (Not present in the US edition)
# Lonely Signal ~Image Song~ (孤独のシグナル〜イメージソング〜; "Kodoku no Signal ~Image Song~") – 6:27
# Lain's Theme (Reprise)(Lainのテーマ (Reprise); "Lain no Theme (Reprise)") – 1:05
# Space-Time Wind (時空の風; "Jikuu no kaze") – 5:24
# Family Portrait (家族の肖像; "Kazoku no shouzou") – 3:26
[[File:Lain OST Poster.jpg|thumb|Lain poster that comes with the CD]]
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Lain poster that comes with OST cd