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* [https://arisuchan.jp/ arisuchan] anonymous lain-themed cyberpunk imageboard with a dedicated /lain/ board, it has since been archived.
 
 
* [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].
 
* [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.
 
* [https://lainzine.org lainzine]: a lain-themed online magazine about hacking, art, culture, and related topics.
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* [https://lovelain.net lovelain.net] Another clone of ([[Mebious|article]]), written using Common Lisp.  
 
* [https://lovelain.net lovelain.net] Another clone of ([[Mebious|article]]), written using Common Lisp.  
 
* [https://mebious.neocities.org wired.entry.neocities] Fansite under constant occasional development.
 
* [https://mebious.neocities.org wired.entry.neocities] Fansite under constant occasional development.
* [https://lainchan.org/lain/ lainchan] Anonymous lain-themed imageboard that mainly focuses on programing, technology, and other things. It has a lain board that isn't as active and mainly uses the lain name to attract people interested in technology and coding.
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* [https://lainchan.org lainchan] Anonymous lain-themed imageboard that mainly focuses on programing, technology, and other things. It has a lain board that isn't as active and mainly uses the lain name to attract people interested in technology and coding.
 
* [https://wirechan.org/ wirechan] Anonymous lain-themed imageboard centered around technology, with its own mebious instance.
 
* [https://wirechan.org/ wirechan] Anonymous lain-themed imageboard centered around technology, with its own mebious instance.
 
* [https://initiate.space/ initiate.space] Spiritual successor to systemspace. Themed around Lain, has an anonymous imageboard and discord server.
 
* [https://initiate.space/ initiate.space] Spiritual successor to systemspace. Themed around Lain, has an anonymous imageboard and discord server.
 
* [https://discord.com/invite/JGnEyhD6ah lainland] Currently biggest lain discord server.
 
* [https://discord.com/invite/JGnEyhD6ah lainland] Currently biggest lain discord server.
* [http://www.konaka.com/alice6/indexe.html konaka.com] the english version of a site made by [[Chiaki Konaka|Chiaki J. Konaka]]. It has interview, info, links, and images about the show. You could also download the font used in the anime.
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* [http://www.konaka.com/ konaka.com] the english version of a site made by [[Chiaki Konaka|Chiaki J. Konaka]]. It has interview, info, links, and images about the show. You could also download the font used in the anime.
 
* [https://fauux.neocities.org/ fauux] fan website
 
* [https://fauux.neocities.org/ fauux] fan website
 
* [https://blackwings.neocities.org/ blackwings] fan website, inspired heavily by fauux
 
* [https://blackwings.neocities.org/ blackwings] fan website, inspired heavily by fauux
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* [https://mebio.us Mebio.us] ([[Mebious.us|article]]) was another clone of the original .co.uk site, created after the closure of Mobi.
 
* [https://mebio.us Mebio.us] ([[Mebious.us|article]]) was another clone of the original .co.uk site, created after the closure of Mobi.
 
* [[VisualWired]]
 
* [[VisualWired]]
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* [https://arisuchan.jp/ arisuchan] anonymous lain-themed cyberpunk imageboard with a dedicated /lain/ board, it has since been archived.
 
* [https://systemspace.link/ systemspace.link] Religion lightly themed around SEL. Has an anonymous imageboard named TSUKICHAN and a Rocket.Chat server.
 
* [https://systemspace.link/ systemspace.link] Religion lightly themed around SEL. Has an anonymous imageboard named TSUKICHAN and a Rocket.Chat server.
 
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061208075509/http://www.cyberia-anime.com/ cyberia-anime] Cyberia
 
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061208075509/http://www.cyberia-anime.com/ cyberia-anime] Cyberia

Revision as of 22:34, 19 December 2021

Related Websites

English

  • 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 list of Apple references in Lain.
  • lainzine: a lain-themed online magazine about hacking, art, culture, and related topics.
  • 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 here.
  • asphyxia.su Collection of every background image from mebious, going back over a year.
  • Wirechan Mebious (article) clone hosted on wirechan website.
  • lovelain.net Another clone of (article), written using Common Lisp.
  • wired.entry.neocities Fansite under constant occasional development.
  • lainchan Anonymous lain-themed imageboard that mainly focuses on programing, technology, and other things. It has a lain board that isn't as active and mainly uses the lain name to attract people interested in technology and coding.
  • wirechan Anonymous lain-themed imageboard centered around technology, with its own mebious instance.
  • initiate.space Spiritual successor to systemspace. Themed around Lain, has an anonymous imageboard and discord server.
  • lainland Currently biggest lain discord server.
  • konaka.com the english version of a site made by Chiaki J. Konaka. It has interview, info, links, and images about the show. You could also download the font used in the anime.
  • fauux fan website
  • blackwings fan website, inspired heavily by fauux
  • lain.sk old website
  • lain.church services offered by lainchan users
  • lain.la - services offered by lainchan user
  • lainon.life lainchan radio with songs similar to that of serial experiments lain's OST
  • re.wire.zone wirechan group

Japanese

  • konaka.com, a site by Chiaki J. Konaka, has interviews, information about books, and links related to Lain, as well as a font that was used in the anime.
  • Deep Researches Lain has a glossary of terms from the anime and a quiz game.
  • Grifon's Garden has pictures and descriptions of at least 6 homemade Lain figurines.
  • 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.
  • 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

  • Old Home, an image board that is primarily for discussions related to ABe.
  • lain.ru
  • lain.in russian speaking, lain themed forum
  • lain.narod old website with lots of lain related information.

French

Spanish

  • wired-7 Spanish speaking, lain themed imageboard.
  • LaiÑ Spanish speaking, lain discord server.

Korean

  • lain.pe.ky Korean speaking, lain themed imageboard

Polish

Past Related Websites

Essays

Scholarly articles and books

  • "Topologies of Identity in Serial Experiments Lain" by Craig Jackson, published in Mechademia, Volume 7, 2012, pp. 191-201 [1]
  • "The Signal of Noise" (manga) by Adèle-Elise Prévost and MUSEbasement, published in Mechademia, Volume 3, 2008, pp. 173-188 [2]
  • "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 [3]
  • "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 [4]
  • "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. [5]
  • Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture by Steven T. Brown. This time the whole book is by Brown. [6]

Games

Analysis

Fanfiction

English

  • Stopped, a short story that concisely captures the essence of Serial Experiments Lain.

"Lain's watch stopped..."

  • 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

Music

  • Earth Brain Waves, A concept album. The theme imaged the world of the network by the Schumann resonance in serial experiments lain.
  • SUBHUMAN, serial experiments lain image album