Visual Experiments Lain
Visual Experiments Lain is a Serial Experiments Lain anime artbook. It mostly includes screencaps, concept art, some illustrations and information in Japanese. The layout is highly experimental.
It was originally published in 1999. There was a reissue in 2013. Whether the contents were altered or not in the 2013 version is unconfirmed.
Contents
Taken verbatim from the front flap of the book jacket, except for the description field.
| Page No. | Contents | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | What is " lain " ....? | Various staff members' comments on what Lain means to them. |
| 04 | story & data | Credits and synopses for each episode. |
| image of each layer & the making of the layers | ||
| 08 | layer:01 WEIRD | wire, life, layout, NAVI series, weird, profile |
| 12 | layer:02 GIRLS | Accela, cyberia, handyNAVI, bear-wear, horror, GIRLS |
| 16 | layer:03 PSYCHE | Psyche, home, friends, newNAVI, men in black, KIDS |
| 20 | layer:04 RELIGION | hardware, PHANTOMa, boy meets girl, friends, family, design |
| 24 | layer:05 DISTORTION | SHIBUYA, direction, memory, profile |
| 30 | layer:06 KIDS | KIDS, inner side of WIRED, kids, friend, sound effect, design |
| 34 | layer:07 SOCIETY | Knights, Nezumi's POV, NetNews, Shou's flight simulator, NAVIoldtype, Typographics, from玲音toレイン, friends, design |
| 40 | layer:08 RUMORS | eye, school, HandyNAVI interface, Tarou's 3D game, layout, lain duplication, Alice with T., adult sight on wired, 玲音、レイン、lain |
| 44 | layer:09 PROTOCOL | history of network, expanding NAVI, broken girl, family, kiss, レイン of the Wired, design of creature |
| 48 | layer:10 LOVE | deus, virtual window, guruguru lain, "wind," love, world without her, design |
| 54 | layer:11 INFORNOGRAPHY | lain?, inforno, Typographic, chisa, Alice's NAVI, image, design |
| 58 | layer:12 LANDSCAPE | alice and lain, friends, layout & conte, home, men in black, "let's all love lain," TARO, Gun type NAVI, expanding machine |
| 64 | layer:13 EGO | |
| 68 | device# (kaori shimizu) | opening, Eiri's fall, All RESET, life without lain, dining table, after story, "れいん", pedestrian bridge, "lain" |
| interviews | ||
| 02 | What is "lain"? (chiaki j. konaka / ueda yasuyuki) | |
| 24 | digital effects & "NAVI" system (junji nakahara & tomokazu tokoro) | |
| 72 | opening & ending themes (boa / CHABO) | |
| 74 | sound direction,effects, & design
(youta tsurouka, kouji kasamatsu, & akira takemoto) |
|
| 76 | film direction & design (ryutaro nakamura & takahiro kishida) | |
| special image graphics (original illustration/CG) | ||
| cover
01 02,03 62-63 |
takahiro kishida | |
| 38-39 | ueda yasuyuki | |
| 52-53 | hidenori matsuhara | |
| 78-79 | ryutaro nakamura (text: chiaki j. konaka) | |
Staff
Producer: Acura Honda
Editors/Writers: Acura Honda, Shunsuke Kishi, Motohisa Tanaka, Kaori Yamamoto
Translator: Akiko Matsumoto
Proof Readers: Cathy Fishman, Scott Shifrel
Photographer: Hisashi Maruyama
Hair and Makeup: Tomoko Ebisawa
Photo & CG works (cover pages of layer): Makoto Abe
Art director/designer: Atsushi Doi
designers: Mayumi Matsukura, Yuji Satoh