Bike-chan

Bike (びけ Bike), Bike-chan is a toy dog owned by Iwakura Lain that is unsuccessfully automated by her an unknown number of times. It appears in the manga and the game. Lain has reportedly owned it since birth, although there is no way of knowing how many incarnations it has had.

Trivia

• A stuffed toy dog closely resembling Bike-chan appears in the anime; it is dropped at Lain's feet by a young girl in Shibuya.

• In the official translation of the manga, its name is written as "Bikeh" as an aid to proper pronunciation.

• In Alice in Cyberland, a PlayStation game of which Chiaki Konaka wrote the scenarios, there is a holographic cat of the same name.